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THE POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF
August -0, 191S.
Park, Calif.
Now Jersey.
NATIONAL BROTHKRHOOD OF OPERATIVE POTTERS
-and
EAST LIVERPOOL TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL
Fabliahed every Thursday at East Liverpool, Ohio, by th« 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 for mailing at Special Rates of Postage
provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 18, 1917, authorized
General Office, N. B. of O. P. Building, W. 6th St., BELL PHONE 575
BARRY L. GILL. Editor and Business Manager
One Year to Any Part of the United States or Canada J2.0U
President—James M. Duffy, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool, Ohio.
First Vice President —E. L. heatlcy. Room 215, Broad Street National
Bank Building, Trenton, New Jersey.
Second Vice President—Frank Hull, 6111 Pacific Blvd., Huntington
Third Vice President—James Slaven, Cannons Mills, East Liverpool,
Ohio.
Fourth Vice President—Charles Zimmer, 1045 Ohio Avenue. Trenton,
Fifth Vice President—George Newbon, 847 Melrose Avenue, Trenton,
Now Jersey.
Sixth Vice President—George Turner, 400 Monroe Street, East Liver
pool, Ohio.
Seventh Vice President—Charles Jordan, 176 East Virginia Avenue,
Eighth Vice President—Joshua Chadwick, Grant Street, Newell, West
Virginia.
Becretary-Trensurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liver
pool, Ohio.
EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturer? A. (i. DALE. 1'UKl) SUTTEHMN, JAMES TURNER
Operatives, E. L. WHEATI.KY, WM. E. YOUM!. EDYVAKD SEYFIERT
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers M. J. LYNCH, ARTHUR WELLS
Operatives, JOHN McGILLIVRAY, LOUIS PIES LOCK, F. HAYNES
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers BEN D. HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, JOHN T. HA LI)
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers BEN D. JIAKI'KSTY, E. K. KOOS
Operatives, BERT CLAKK, H. R. 1IAISI.OP, JOHN McGILLIVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, ROBERT DIET/. SR., BERT HARKER, MARGARET
PARKER.
N. B. of O. P., JAMES SLAVEN, HUGO MILLER, ROLAND HORTON
KALTENKORN AND HIS "PEOPLE'S LOBBY"
AIOU DOES not charge that the newspaper
publishers, the radio commentators and the
demagogs,
in and out of Congress, who night and
day seek to divide Americans into hostile groups
and "muddy" public thinking until almost any
thing may happen, are on Hitler's payroll, but they
should be, for they are certainly doing his work.
Let it be emphasized at the outset that Labor
does not object to criticism of the Roosevelt ad
ministration, the labor movement, or of any indi
vidual or institution in the land.
Decent criticism, based on facts, will help, not
hurt. Hut Labor does condemn the flood of lies
and half-lies which continues to engulf the nation,
llitler certainly likes it every sane American
should abhor it.
For example, II. V. Kaltenborn blared over
the radio last Sunday afternoon:
"The people feel we are losing the war. They
believe the men in Washington who make our
laws and the men who administer them do not
measure up to the needs of the day. And the
people are doing something about it. Mass meet
ings are being held or announced in a hundred
^i pamtc communities to create what might be
called a 'people's lobby' to win the war."
If that statement was not "played up" on the
front page of every Nazi controlled newspaper in
the world, Hitler's publicity men were "asleep at
the switch."
Of course, Kaltenborn's claim was a brazen
lie. The people of the United States have not lost
faith in President Roosevelt or the Congress ol
the United States. Anyone who says they have
lost faith in their chosen representatives is either
a fool or a traitor. Kaltenborn may make his
choice.
It is true that some people believe what com
mentators like Kaltenborn say. They also take it
for granted that their local newspaper is tolling
them the truth. Those people may be "jittery,'
but the masses are calm and are proceeding about
the job of winning this war.
Kaltenborn unctuously declared that no ont
was organizing the "people's lobby." A few min
utes later lie let the cat out of the bag. He re
vealed he had been down in Oklahoma and had
discovered that the "Daily Oklahoman," a news
paper published in Oklahoma City, started the
campaign to bombard Congress with demands for
the outlawing of strikes and the setting aside of
the 10-hour work week on government work.
Other Southern papers took up the ballyhoo.
Sweatshop employers throughout that entire sec
tion printed postal cards carrying the "demands
and launched a drive to deluge members of Con
gress.
That's all there is to Kaltenborn's "people's
lobby.' Howard Hopson, once a powerful utility
magnate, did the same thing when President
Roosevelt was seeking the enactment of a law to
restrain the thievery of the men and corporations
who unloaded billions of worthless stock and bonds
on the American public, liopson was exposed and
is now in the penitentiary.
If a congressional committee will take the
trouble to investigate Kaltenborns "people's lob
by," it will discover the same nauseating situation.
WHAT MATTERS MOST
"lUli CANNOT take this war too seriously. We
cannot do too much. Until the war is won
and the Japs and ihe Nazis get the licking that is
coming to them, nothing else matters, nothing else
is important, nothing else is worth living for."
"What we have done so far is not enough.
Sustained morale is not enough. We must have
minds and hearts all-out in this war effort. The
people of America must rise to new heights of
determination. The spirit that makes for victory
must burn ever brighter until the day of our final
success. We are made of stern stuff. We can do it.
"The force of millions of determined Amer
icans, fired with the will to victory, is a force un
like anything else in the world. With all our petty
differences and personal prejudices we stand unit
ed today in our nations cause. Wo may not agree
on details but we are unanimous that this is a war
that America must and will win."
The differences and the details can wait. The
"•-job of every one of us is to get busy and do what
£ver we can to help turn out weapons. Then thing
lat matters most now is continuous and uninter
pted production for victory.
AUK. Jr., WM. OWEN
LABOR PRAISED BY ROOSEVELT
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has spoken. Those
intrusted with supervising the job of war pro
duction for the Army, the Navy and the Maritime
Commission also have spoken. They have spoken
with one voice.
They have declared in clear and unmistakable
language that labor is doing a fine job for Amer
ica, that there is no strike problem because there
are no strikes, that the forty-hour week should be
retained as a standard because it does not limit
working hours and that there is no reason why
time-and-a-half overtime should not be paid for
work in excess of forty hours a week.
They have not only presented these facts to the
American public. They have also stated flatly that
there is no justification for enacting compulsory
legislation restricting labor's rights and destroy
ing labor's standards.
Surely the views and recommendations of our
Commander-in-Chief and his trusted aides should
convince any honest American!
But the labor-haters in Congress and the press
are still continuing full-blast their vicious cam
paign to crush labor and shatter national unity.
The enemies of labor now claim support from
the people "back home." They point to the mys
terious flood of messages which has been pouring
into the offices of Senators and Congressmen de
claring that the signers will not vote to re-elect
members of Congress who do not vote for a law to
abolish strikes and the forty-hour week.
We call these messages "mysterious." That is
because they are all worded identically. They are
printed or mimeographed on various types and
colors of cards and paper to disguise the fact that
they have the same secret origin and sponsorship.
Certain cowardly and skulking interests which
do not dare to come out into the open are behind
this campaign. They are duping and deluding the
citizens who sign these messages. They are capi
talizing on the "public misinformation" which
they helped to create and which the President
himself is now trying to dispel. They are trying
to put the heat on Congress.
This secret and dastardly campaign should be
investigated and exposed by Congress itself.
J»ut meanwhile, the men and women of labor
have a glorious opportunity to help themselves, to
encourage their friends in Congress and to put the
fear of public wrath into their enemies in Con
gress.
The way to do this is for every union member
to write to his Congressman and Senators and tell
them what's what.
Write in your own words! Write from the
heart! Write the truth! But write immediately!
Delay will only hurt you and every othei
worker in America. Let the mighty voice of labor
speak!
DANGEROUS TREND
QllGANIZED LABOR and the "little man" gen
orally are face to face with a trend dangerous
in the extreme. This is no exaggeration. The
forces of reaction are in full cry, in Congress, in
the press and elsewhere, hellbent on destroying
many of the hard won gains won by the common
people through years of struggle. AfifqSbhis is
being done in the name of patriotism!
Representative Smith of Virginia, arch-enemy
of union labor, is leading the assault. Defeated in
initial attempts to kill all hour limitations in Fed
eral legislation, he has returned to the attack and
is pressing legislative proposals perhaps even more
vicious than anything he has advocated pre
viously.
President Roosevelt, War and Navy depart
ment chiefs, war production heads—all men who
know at first hand that progressive legislation is
not holding up the war ell'ort, are fighting the ef
fort to destroy the gains of decades. They have
boon given valiant support by Speaker Ray burn
of the House of Representatives, who has de
nounced current moves to destroy labor legisla
tion as providing valuable ammunition for the
Axis.
Hitting back at demands for banning strikes,
Rayburn pointed out that production stoppages
have been reduced to about zero "regardless of
what is said by some writers and speakers." On
March 17, he said, there were fewer than 100 of
some 7,000,000 war workers on strike.
Not content with seeking to kill labor laws, the
reactionary forces are striking blows at all legis
lation intended to help sharecroppers, tenant
farmers and others of the poor, the humble and
the disinherited.
Unless labor and all progressive and enlight
ened forces join in a mighty protest, there is real
danger that almost ii repai able harm may be done
to progress in this country.
SERVING THE NATION
'PHE MEN now under the Hag
of
merchant marine are adding a new luster to
their calling.
Daring sudden death from lurking Axis war
craft, these hard-bitten sons of the seven seas go
grimly about the task of keeping precious supplies
moving to the far-llung forces of the United Na
tions, asking 110 quarter and giving none as they
uphold in full measure the traditions of the
service.
True, they get gratuities for braving the dan
gers of war, but so do others in less hazardous
walks. Certainly it is more than the lure of a few
dollars that keeps one man at his post on a sinking
freighter, or that sends another back to the job
when his ship has been lost and comrades have
fallen in a hail of steel.
In every war, the American seaman has been a
proud figure. Once more this nation can take pride
in his accomplishments.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
()NE FAMILIAR description worthy of thought
concerns the struggle for efficiency in Wash
ington, and on this subject a famous writer says
"it is not a struggle between isolationists and in
terventionists, radicals, and conservatives, old
dealers and new dealers, capital and labor, the Ad
ministration or the public." But he finds the
struggle actually is between "energetic men" and
"passive men"—the struggle between live-wires
and the dead-wood. That's a very good analysis
of the situation in Washington, and undoubtedly
it may be extended to include all parts of the Unit
ed States.
the American
THE POTTERS HERALD
oco*tomio
cHifltlUfUU
National and International Problems
Inseparable from Local Welfare
'We are now shutting down. Good
bye until better times. Long live the
queen"'
These courageous, defiant words
were the last spoken to the world by
the official Dutch broadcasting station
at Bandoeng, the city which was
made headquarters for the Allied com
mand in the Netherlands East Indies,
afler lialavia was lost. At ,the time
they were spoken, the Japanese troops
were in the suburbs, and it was clear
thata Java, one of the most important
of Pacific positions, was now securely
in the harsh hands of Hiroliito's brown
legions. Another all-important area
had fallen to the enemy—an enemy
which, in only three months of war,
had made incredible progress. In those
three months, the United Nations had
taken major defeat after major de
feat. All they h:ll to comfort them
was the knowledge that the enemy
had paid a big price for his victories
in men, ships and materials of war.
The story of the loss of Java is the
old story—the story that is perfectly
expressed in the phrase, "too little
i nd too late." The Dutch defenders
fought extremely well. So did the hand
lid of Americans and An/.acs who
were with them. The United Nations'
naval and air units did all and more
than could be expected. The odds were
simply too great. The initial air su
premacay possessed by the defenders
.it the beginning of the action, was
soon lost—Japan is said to have
thrown 4,000 planes, tlie larger pnrt of
her entire air force, into battle. The
little Dutch fleet was almost entirely
destroyed in brave and daring opera
tions against a far larger, far more
towerful Jap fleet. On the ground, in
vader troops outnumbered the defend
ers tremendously, and their equipment
was far better. Japan landed seven
to ten divisions, of si bout lf,000 men
each, on the islsind. .Most importsint
of sill, the defenders received only a
lithe of the siid they expected irom
the United States.
Where will Jsipsin strike next? The
Ai^strsilians expect they will be invad
ed. as well subjected to air sittsick, and
ire prepsiring for a last ditch stsiud.
There sire rumors tlisit llitler is work
ing to persuade the .Isipsmesc to aid
him by sit tacking Russia through Aisin
churisi. Many sin authority is convinced
tlisit an attack on the West Coast of
Ihe U. S. is well up on the Jap inilitsiry
ciilendsir—an sittsick .thsit might even
assume tin* scope of sin sittempted in
vasion. Whiilever hsippens, it is clesir
that the United, .^alions wi 11^ suffer
more hard blows utiles and unfn it is
possible to send gigantic quantities of
planes, weapons, supulies and men to
the key points in thei'acific. The Isist
few months have provided a terrible
example of the futility and waste of
lighting battles with only "token"
forces.
Here in America, production is get
ting into high gear. Hut all the planes
and (sinks and guns in the world are
useless unless they can be se.nt to the
battlefronts. Thus, our wsir problem is
largely si shipping problem. It is clesir
tlisit ship output must he speeded up
fast. It must do more .than offset the
toll taken by enemy suhmsirincs and
surface raiders—it must far extend it.
Estimsiles say tlisit then tons of ma
terial of various kinds must be shipped
for every soldier in an expeditions!ry
force—and -10 tons must lie shipped
for every soldier in si completely mech
anized unit. Tlisit indicates the colos
sal ship-hiuhling job we have ahead.
In this conned ion, it is significsint
that the enemy is concentrating his
naval sitlsicks on tankers. It is ssiid
Imt troop ships have been deliberately
piissed by submarines on Ihe search
for the vessels which carry that basic
si new of wsir—oil. That is certainly
logical. Exported air and naval
strength must be siccompanied by limit
less qusiutitics of fuel, if it is to be
effective. Tanker losses so far have
been dsingerously high, and new pro
duction is not sidequate.
The lesson is clesir. We must have
more efficiency and less politics. There
must be hiirder, more productive work.
No one need doubt the qualLty of
United Nations' troops. They have
demons) rsi ted their valor time and
ana in. They simply hsiven't been given
the tools the job demands.
l!es| i less now is thilt the new
Treasury-proposed tax bill, which
would double income taxes in the mid
dle income brsicket, and Impose a long
ist of increases In commodity and
•xclse tsixes, will not pass in its origi
nsil form.
In the opinion of many, the bill does
not go far enough into lower-Income
brackets. In addition, sentiment for i
geueral sales tax. on everything ex
cept foods, is unquestionably growing.
This tsix, of course, would hit every
worker, every income group.
It is prohsihlc Ilisii some system will
be devised for collecting part of the in
dividusil income taxes on a w»»ekly or
monthly basis. This' can be done
ihrough a payroll tax. Ken son for it
is obvious: many taxpayers simply
don't have the money when annual tsix
bills fsill due. and that presents the
Treasury with :i dillicult and expensive
collection problem.
Don'I be surprised if some kind of
Ioreed savings system is also adopted
in time. Under it. everyone would be
required (o put si definite percentage of
their income in government bonds.
Ask for Union Labeled merchandise.
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR. MODESTUS
INDIA—
DOMINATED 1JY ENGLISH
GERMANY WANTS IT
JAPAN HAS 50-50 CHANCE
This India—
Dominated by Englishmen since
1701—
With 400 million people, of varying
races, religions, cultures—•
Having enormous natural wealth,
but thinly developed—
Who cannot agree on a common
form of government—
Moslems, 100 million "Untoucha
bles," 00 millions—
Gandhi-Nehru followers, other mil
lions—
Native princes, independent, but
vassals-
Some of these see small difference
between British or Japanese rule—
Buddhist priests planted everywhere
by Japan—
Ideal soil for dozens of fifth col
umns—
Now Britain sends Sir Stafford
Cripps—
Seeking unity among all this Chaos,
to be gained in three months—
Hut within three months, Japan may
have imposed another unity—
Three-fourths of British Empire's
subjects sire in India—
Czars coveted that treasure land
Gil-many wanted it—
Now Japsin claims it, in "Asia for
the Asisitics"—
And Japan has a 00-50 chance to
grab it.
Hut. China—
Another 44)0 million people—
With India, makes up two-thirds of
Asia's .populations—
Nationalist China, under Chiang
Kai-shek—
I'.eckons to India, and warns the
British Empire—
China: sold out by Britain, more
than once, to appease Japan—
Now sends armies to Burma,
to
save
Indisi—
Also to save China's life-line of mili
tary supplies-*-
If successful, will also save the Brit
ish E i up! re—
Hut will fail, unless American help
comes, in tin.
1.
Thsit God
In whom llitler does not believe—
May have been saving up this ltus
sisin winter—
For 140 years, for the express bene
fit of thte Nasiis-r
Whether the ftussfans believe in feim
or not
Hut whiit prophetic mind forecast
the need of munition plants—
East, of the Ural mountains, where
water-power wsiited?
Also, ran you imagine, what a walk
siwsiy Hitler would have had—
If Russian resources had been under
rule of the CzsirsY
You will have to look close, and
long
To find the pages of history which
are being repeated todsiy.
American vision—
Usui no traditions to obscure it
Such sis befuddled minds of French
men and Britishers—
No: we have but one overpowering
tradil ion—
Which is, tliat business success is
the mark of great mi mis—
That American progress had its
source in great individuals—
So now, we are looking for those
great minds to save the world—
While it is becoming sill too clear,
to the whole world—
That si lot of these great n^inds don't
care a damn—
Whether the world sit large is saved
or not
If only they can save their business,
st»H'l, aluminum, or chemicals—
"After the war"—
Until that type of mind gets its feet
off the desks
Unless fresh brains, informed sis to
whsit is hsippcning in the world
llsive a chance to bring American
resources and skills to bear—
There is very serious doubt, right
now—
Whether this old and famous "Amer
ican Way"—
Will be anywhere in sight on earth—
Within the next twelve months.
If we have any speed—
The time to show it is—
N-U-W.
W I S O
The peace of nations cannot be
secured without arms, nor arms
vithout pay, nor pay without
taxes.—Tacitus.
SWISS MARITIME HOI KS SET
Heme, Switzerland.—Believe it or
not, Switzerland hsis a merchant ma
rine and hsis issued a series of regula
tions for ships sailing under the Swiss
llag. Working hours in port are lixed
at eight hours daily with Saturday
afternoon work to be paid as overtime.
Working time for the filtering, sind
kitchen stall* is 10 hours daily on land
and sit sesi. The men are uulilled Xo a
six-day holiday after one year of con
tinuoub service.
COMMENT ON WORLD 1
EVENTS i
i
Social security is "one of the great
purposes of the nations fighting for
freedom and for a civilization based on
respect for human personality," says
an international survey entitled "Ap
proaches to Social Security," just is
sued by the International Labor Of
fice.
The study, which deals with recent
developments in the field of social se
curity, is preliminary to a series of
studies on different branches of social
security which sire being prepared by
the ILO for the next meeting of the
Inter-American Committee on Social
Security scheduled for Santiago de
Chile.
War and brutal aggression have
driven home recognition of the fact
that it is .the clear obligation of the
nations of the world to eliminate the
causes of socisil insecurity. Rational
economy of manpower is the essence
of social security. Prevention of time
lost in production and adequate medi
cal care for workers and their fami
lies represents a vital war measure, sis
it speeds up .the output of armaments
and the launching of ships.
In its current study, the ILO at
tempts to show what has been achieved
and what still must be done to insure
reasonable security for all who need
it. "The idea of social security springs
from the deep desire of men- to free
themselves from the fear of want. To
realize this idea, the causes of in
security must be removed wherever
possible and the individual must be sis
sured of tlisit protection sigsiinst the
common risks of life which his own
efforts do not avsiil to provide," the
ILO points out in its survey.
The study describes .the vsirious so
cial security schemes throughout the
world that have proved their practica
bility. In order to give it si brosid view
and stress the essentials, the exposition
hsis been highly condensed and simpli
fied. Guidance is afforded for imniedi
site action as well as for long-range
planning of post-war socisil economy.
The information, which includes the
most recent developments, in the field
of socisil security, is grouped under
three headings. First is taken up the
principal t.\pes of socisil assistance:
then conies socisil insurance, or com
pulsory mutusil siid. The brsinches of
social insurance—workmen's compen
sation, sickness insursmce, pension in
surance. unemployment, insurance—a re
considered with respect to their or
gsini/.sition, scope, benefits and tinsince.
Strong demands for the establish
ment of a minimum wsige for Hritish
l-siilrosid workers in view of the
steadily mounting cost of living have
been voiced by John Marchbank, gen
eral secretsiry of the Nsitional Union
of Uailwsiymeu and chuirmsiu of the
Msinsigeuient Committee of the Inter
uationsil Transport Workers' Federa
tion.
Appesuing before the Railway Staff
National Tribunal, Marchbank iointed
to the rise of 20 per cent in living costs
and added that wsige adjustments were
lagging behind. The rsiiiwsiy lsibor
spokesman urged a uniform minimum
wsige of .fl- per week and pressed for
equal pay for the Utt.000 women who
sire doing men's work on Hritish rail
roads.
The demand for a minimum wage
and equal psiy for women is also
strongly supported by the Railway
Clerks Association and other trans
port unions.
THOUSANDS OF WOMEN
AKE SEEN NEEDED IN
NEW ENGLAND WAR JOBS
Boston (ILNS).—The New Ehglsind
Council says that some 35 per cent of
more than (0,000 additional workers to
be employed in the New England stsites
through Juuc of this year must be
women.
A bulletin issued by .the council says
that selective service calls will take
out of factories sin incresising number
of "occupational deferments," lesiving
places that must be tilled by women,
by older men, by foreign-born and
aliens, by Negroes and by physically
handicapped persons.
At the ssime time production sched
ules will be stopped up to 24-hour, 7
day operation in many plants not at
present on 1hrce shifts.
Industrialists were urged in the bul
letin to "study production schedules in
order to determine the kinds and num
ber of workers necessary to meet such
new schedules.
JOBS FOB GARMENT WORKERS
SHOW INCREASE IN NEW YORK
Albany, N. Y. (ILNS).—Factory em
ploy ment in New York State increased
by more than two per cent between the
middle of January and the middle of
February, Industrisil Commissioner
1-lieda S. Miller reports. Tot si 1 pay
rolls atlvsinced by more than three per
cent. These increases were due pri
marily to seasonal activity in the sip
pa rel industries coupled with further
expansion of defense production. A
few industries adversely affected by
government restrictions on raw ma
terials reported fewer people at work
in February. Outstanding examples of
such industries are the sugar refineries
stud some of the rubber industries.
WOMEN SEEK WELDERS' JOBS
1'ort hind, Me.—In preparsilion for
filling ]daces of men going into mili
tary service, Port hind women liave
taken physical exaniinsitions for phtoes
in the Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding
CoriHratiou's welding and burning
school.
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Thursday, March 20, 1042,
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatched Out
The Truth
PENSIONS FOR CONGRESS
NOT ENTIRELY FORGOTTEN
HELPS POOR MAN
POWER OF THE PRESS
Well, well. Let's have a look at a
rather sore horse.
The matter of pensions for Con
gress.
There has been a lot of kidding
sibout this subject and the members of
Congress have been taken for a lot of
nice buggy rides.
Pensions for Congress—pay a dollar
sind get a pension for life.
So, Congress had to get itself back
together again and vote to repeal its
very much misunderstood plan for pen
sions.
For a time it looked as if Congress
didn't have a friend in the world—and
with elections coming on, too. It was a
pretty mess.
Even with the repeal the issue isn't
entirely forgotten.
And members are finding that it real
ly pays to explain the facts.
The truth is that the pension bill,
more properly csilled a retirement com
pensation bill, wasn't a looting measure
sit all. It wasn't a fancy scheme
cooked up to get pensions for men who
never made any proper payment.
What Congress needed at the outset
was a good public relations man to do
si right and proper job of explaining
the facts when the issue was new.
The truth probsibly never will catch
up now.
The bill was a retirement compen
sation bill, based on actuarial princi
ples. To ever get a retirement annuity
'ongressmen would have had to pay
five per cent of their salaries per year
—$"00—into the fund.
It wasn't a pension scheme. It was
si plan for built-up retirement annui
ties, earned by those who psiid in the
money.
The daily press just went haywire—
shamefully so.
Let us remember that .the President
signed the bill. Nobody poked any fun
at the President: for signing it, but by
doing tlisit he assumed joint responsi
bility.
The President has vetoed many bills
thsit were not sound, so it must be as
sumed that he considered this measure
sound. And it wsis.
Judges get retirement pay and they
don't contribute anything.
Army sind Navy officers get retire
ment psiy and they don't contribute
anything.
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Just about everyone in Fefleml servt
ice gets retirement pay.
But when Congressmen sought to set
up a system for contributions which
would create a retirement fund all hell
broke loose.
Some think the Social Security
Hoard had a finger in creating the
smudge that made all the smoke.
Brothers, it could be.
Congressmen didn't have to come
under the system. They could elect to
come under it.
As a msitter of fact the measure was
a help to the ioor man who goes to
Congress. He could build up a retire
ment annuity and look to the* future
with some assurance that he wouldn't
be tossed out on his ear into the bone
yard.
But somehow the daily papers, may
be tired of so much bad news from the
scenes of wsir, tore into the idea to
make si Roman holiday at the expense
of Congress.
And, being misinformed through the
dsiily papers, the people started writ
ing letters. The fsit wsis in the tire and
Congress hsid to retreat.
So, thsit's how it was. The press luis
given us si new example of its power!
What power—for what, kind of a pur
pose? You name it! CMW.
W A N E
Oats can now be prorcsscri into
stucco and plaster, says Forbes
Magazine. First the oats arc pul
verized, then mixed with water
(one pound of oats to .0 pounds of
water) and cooked until jellylike.
Sassafras oil is added to prevent
mold growth, old newspapers or
rags to give consistency. The fin
ished product can be applied like
stucco, or molded into boards or
bricks.
"SNIPING" AT LABOR ASSAILED
e o i e n o u n i n a a k s o n
labor, Geoi-ge Meany, American Fed
ersition of Lsibor secre.tsiry-treasurer,
ssiid here that if the nation is "to have
the full unity which is so essential, sill
this unwarranted sniping at labor on
the part of foolish or vicious men
should cease, for these baseless a Hacks
lisive one outstsmding effect, sind thsit
is to breed disunity, and he who pro
motes disunity is sin enemy of America,
whether he realizes it or not."
PLANT ADOPTS 'ATTACK' SLOGAN
Bristol. Pa.--Fleet wings, Inc., siero
nauticsil manufacturer, is no longer a
"defense" plant. Painters removed the
words from factory signs and inserted
"attack plant." The company president,
Frsmk de Gaiiu^l, explained: "Attack
is the order, of Hie day. .not defense.
We are. atr£ckhig production more
vigorously each day so that our armed
fortes cau attach fhe ,eneij»y qoou and
dycisivtrty:^ 4. V
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