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FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1931
JUST CAN'T UNDERSTAND
Some senators and representatives
and some other people, too, can't
seem to see why the resources of the
entire nation should be mobilized in
fullest measure for unemployed re
lief. Yet if the unemployed were vie
tims of an earthquake, flood or other
natural disaster, instead of being vie
tims of business depression, these
same persons would raise no question
about the necessity of whole-hearted
government relief.
The millions of unemployed and
their families are suffering from the
bad management of American busi
ness. If business can't help them, and
it seems unable to do so, the people
as a whole, acting through their gov
ernment, have no alternative except
to shoulder the task. Let it not be
forgotten, though, where the blame
belongs, for consideration when
proper time comes.
Hunger is hunger, no matter how
caused, and common sense is not dis
posed to quibble about the necessity
of food for the foodless.
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THE TEACHERS' PAY
Of all the professions, there is not
one much more important than teach
ing, since on teaching and the edu
cational system depends juite largely
the capacity of the citizenship of the
future. It would seem, therefore, that
teachers should command pay that
would enlist the very highest type of
ability and training. May be the edu
cational system is getting that abil
ity and training, but if it is, it is not
paying adequately for it.
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APPLE AND ONION STUFFING FOR GOOSE OR DTTCK
6 medium-sized onions
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3 c. bread crumbs
2 apples
Salt, pepper and sage or thyme
Bake onions in skins for 16 minutes. Peel, chop fine, and' add
liver, bread crumbs, apples pared, cored, .and simmered in a little
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LET PUBLIC BE SERVED
The Lancashire weavers of Old
England smashed the first power
loom.
The first impulse of those damaged
by improved machinery has always
been to get rid of the new machine.
Now come the railroads in a simi
lar role—not altogether unfamiliar to
them.
They want the new auto busses put
out} of business.
They want the new barge lines on
the rivers and other waterways to be
held within bounds wherever they cut
in on the railway business.
And they are now asking that the
new big oil-pipe lines be compelled
to divest themselves of their $400,
000,000 equipment—just because it
cuts in on railway business.
For decades the railways have had
their way with the waterways of the
nation. They have held back the de-
i•]-uni nis of the -coastal canal
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DOES LABOR DESERVE MORE?
S&iployers of union labor have shown a disposition to quarrel with the
demand for the five-day week on the ground that such a reform, by reducing
production and increasing unit costs, would be prohibitive and defeat its own
ends. Many industrialists say they would interpose no strenuous opposition
if workers would work five days a week for five days' pay, but they cannot
see how industry can give six days*' pay for five days' work. Many are prone
to overlook the fact that higher average production, for which labor deserves
a large share of credit, was mainly responsible for America's unprecedented
era of prosperity in which we witnessed the phenomenon of a fill in prices
with a rise in real wages.
One of the hopeful signs of the times is the encouraging acceptance by
workers as well as employers of this conception of production as the chief
source of prosperity. If production is permitted to lag, prices must inevit
ably go up, and returns to employer, worker and public alike, must inevit
ably go down, because production is the sole source from which theser returns
an be derived. The success of the Ameiican workman, as Scretary Davis
recently pointed out, is due to large production of wealth, "made possible
through co-operation between worker and employer one striving to produce
to the utmost, and the other willing to
pay
ouptut."
Opponents of the five-day week are beginning to recognize that, despite
a reduction in the average hours of work in many lines, the standard of
living in the United States has risen to a degree that cannot be measured.
This is largely because the ratio of real wages has increased faster than
the ratio of the cost of living. Employers are learning that, no matter what
the plea or excuse, reduction of wages is bad business and worse economics.
It tends to kill the purchasing power of the greatest buyer, the worker, in
the market which provides us with all but a fraction of our national wealth
and prosperity. No low-wage country is prosperous, and no low-wage indus
try in the United States is prosperous.
sity of Michigan and the National
Federation of Business and Profes
sional Women's Clubs are illuminat
ing. They show that the chances of
teachers for high earnings are about
half as great as for women working
in commercial and manufacturing or
ganizations, and a much larger pro
portion of women in sales and pub
licity work than in clerical work or
teaching have high earnings. The
conclusions drawn are based on the
experience of more than 14,000. wom
en engaged in 20 types of work in
more than 700 cities and towns.
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Does it not seem reasonable that, along with an increase ill the pur
chasing power of the worker's income, should be coupled a continuing reduc
tion in the number of hours making up the working day and week Informed
economists are aware that American productive capacity, even now, is far
greater than can be utilized in the present state of markets. It must be
remembered that this is true not because we as a people cannot use all the
merchants we can produce, but because we lack the money to buy it. The
five-day week, by spreading opportunity so that all may earn steady incomes,
would increase the number of merchandise consumers. Efficiency would be
improved, just as the Saturday half-holiday and the eight-hour day have
improved efficiency in 80 per cent of the unionized industries. It is to be
hoped that as capital comes to a better understanding of problems on the
other side of the industrial fence, the five-day week will be recognized as
economically logical and generally advantageous. It is the workers' due.
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a just wage fo* this maximum
They have hindered the development
of the riverways.
But now they are being faced with
the fact that they cannot hold the
heavy freight business. The big steel
companies of Pittsburgh and central
Ohio are paying attention to the tre
mendous possibilities of the Ohio-and
Mississippi river water routes. The
cheapness of water transport has
been proven on the Monongahela
river—into Pittsburgh—which has
been called "the busiest river in the
world."
The facts bear out the statement
which has been made by competent
authority, that the railroads will
have their hands full of business of
their own kind, if they will leave the
heavy and slow freight to the water
ways where the waterways serve
best, and the relatively local express
traffic to the auto-busses where these
have the way opened up for them by
the development of the highways
That the busses should pay their
share of the highway expense is only
fair, and will not cripple them. But
this is not the age in which to talk
about holding back any kind of me
chanical development, or objecting to
its fullest use for the general public
good. What we want now in every
field is genuine service for the public
good. There has been enough jockey
ing "for position.
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FINE POLITICS
As Senator Norris points" out, in a
blistering criticism of the tactics of
Robert H.' Lucas in the Nebraska
campaign, Lucas or anyone else has
a perfect right to oppose him and
contribute money toward his defeat
"But," the fighting Nebraska sena
tor added, "the sin of Mr. Lucas is
that he made his attack in the dark
He concealed his identity. He was too
cowardly to fight in the open. The
weapons he used were indefensible."
Senator Norris stated the case
mildly. The tactics of Lucas execu
tive director of the republican nation
al committee, desertve the severest
condemnation. They constituted an
attack in the dark almost without
parallel in American politics for
sneaking unfairness.
When an attempt was made to de
feat Senator Norris in the primaries
by the running of another candidate
with the same name as his, it was
suspected that an absolutely unscrup
ulous campaign to "get" Norris was
under way. Recent revelations show
that not half the story was known
and that the opponents of Norris did
not hesitate to stoop to anything.
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JUST WAKING UP„TO
INJUNCTION
The American Civil Liberties Union
announces that it is "preparing ma
terial for a campaign against labor
injunctions," but it shows it hasn't
the ^lightest notion of what the in
juncibn is.
In seeking enough information to
wage a fight that must necessarily
be based on ignorance and bluff, the
A. C. L. U. makes this ridiculous
statement:
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
'There is very little material on
the subject. Nobody seems to know
why injunctions are so much feared
and why their effects are so much
more disastrous on atrikea than
troops or poliee.ffi»4-
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With the simplicity of a high school
girl in a civics c]&ss, the A. C. L. U.
asks^ "Why do you think injunctions
are such effective weapons in the
hands of employers and courts?"
This questionnaire may enlighten
well-meaning citizens who marvel
why trade unionists refuse to be
guided by so-called "libera li,1*
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THAT REAPPORTIONMENT
Many optimistic observers ^believe
reapportionment is about to be real
ized, but that there will be a fight
against it in congress is generally
acknowledged.
States losing congressmen are like
ly to object and representatives are
likely to battle against this outcome.
Against plain constitutional provi
sions congress has refused to perform
its duty of reapportionment since
1911.
No state was (willing to lose any
part of its representation, and such
a result could not be avoided if the
total number of representatives was
not increased. A hard battle was
conducted and a reapportionment law
was enacted in June, 1929, to be based
on the 1930 census.
Acting under this law the census
bureau has worked out reapportion
ment. Under the provisions Califor
nia will get nine more seats, Michi
gan four, Texas three, Ohio two and
four other states one each. Missouri
will lose three seats Pennsylvania
Georgia, Kentucky and Iowa, two
each, and 16 other states, largely ag
ricultural, one each.
It is quite likely the4 representatives
of the losing states will raise the
question of aliens and attempt to have
them excluded from the count. In
asmuch as the constitution bases rep
resentation simply on "persons," it is
doubtful if any such contention would
be sustained by any court.
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SENSE FROM CONGRESS
I repeat, it is folly, it is absurd, it
is hypocritical to talk about doing
anything for the relief of unemploy
ment in this country unless we under
stand and appreciate that such relief
will necessitate increased expendi
tures on the part of the government
and increased income taxes upon the
rich.—Senator David -I. Walsh, of
Massachusetts.
Of course democracy failed in pro
hibition, because it overreached itself
It went beyond the real purview of
temporal government. It essayed di
vinity and reached for the moon, and
all it obtained was moonshine.—Rep
resentative Loring M. Black, of New
York.
The Cherry
Where with ear
Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometime* pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.
Christmas—gone again.
1931—mystery!
Always the future is mystery.
Speculation upon the probabilities
of the future has led men to write
poetry—and hokum. More of hokum
than poetry.
There cannot bet any positive know!
edge about any man's future, for no
man is sure of any minute except tfle
present minute.
Christmas—and New Year's Day—
and another 12-month of future
stretching out Into the unknowable
hence.
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We go forward hoping, but never
knowing.
The hopefulness of the human race
is perhaps its most marvelous asset
All manner pf men go forward
hoping. There .are the millionaires
with dollar safety and who knows
what woes of mind. There are the
human leeches, grafters, skinners
crooks, tyrants. For what do they
hope? Maybe some hope for a chance
to for^ike their crooked game. May
be some just hope for better pickings
There are millions of workers, most
of t.hem hoping their jobs will con
tinue, miinons hoping a job will turn
up.
There are hurifery men and women
shivering little children, hoping. What
magnificence there is in a humanity
that can stand at the bottom point of
hopelessness and still hope!
Over the world there are men in
bondage, men in chains, men in ab
ject submission to cruel taskmas
ters, political and industrial. In the
breasts of many of these hope is so
battered in its struggle with defeat
that it has become a pain—a pain out
of which comes the cry that never
ceases.
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There are those that are doomed,
whose days are certainly numbered,
whose intelligence tells them hope is
useless. Yet there probably is no
normal human being that does not
continue to hope, even in the face of
hopelessness.
And at no time in the whole year
does hope rise so high as at this great
festival period—Ghriatmas apd w
Year's Day.
The world has been moved because
battered hands have hammered
against the hard walls of tradition
and greed and avarice and ignorance.
The world has been moved because
hearts have refused to give up their
hope in the face of the teaching of
the elders of the established order of
things.
The race has come its way from the
jungle hoping for better things and
putting its strength behind its hope.
At times it has torn at the walls of
injustice and bondage in a frenzy of
despair that was never quite despair
because the fight went on and at
times in the high elation of conquest
and victory.
Hope has led the race to battle.
Hope has led the brain to conjure up
devices and methods of winning
through to freedom
And today—even with the great
burden of misery that bears down
upon so many—the race stands nearer
the pinnacle than ever. Thus is hope
justified. Thus does hope continue.
The past is history. For the future
we hope—and so strive to msike good
the hope.
CHAIN STORES'
FIGHT IS ON
New York.—Where chain stores
control from 50 to 75 per cent of the
grocery- business of a community
they are fighting between themselves
says the Standard Statistics Com
pany. \.
This statistical organization, fol
lowing a review of the chains, points
out that competition is no longer
solely between grocery chain and in
dependent, but between chain sys
tems. This costly competition may re
sult in mergers or agreements, it is
predicted. Service, rather than price
cutting, features the new competition
"Competition in service rather than
in price may require finer buildings
more attractive equipment and better
grade and higher paid personnel. It
leads to advertising of an institution
al nature in the endeavor to build up
good will toward the indivdual sys
tem. In this type of competition the
personal factor will be of particular
importance.
"These developments, in the long
run, unless offset by further operating
economies in other directions, will re
suit in gradually rising costs of chain
store operation. Friendly agreements
or mergers and consolidations, may
check dangerous competition."
XMAS CHEER
Denied Strikers' Kiddies Bj
Welfare Commission
Greensboro, N.
C.—The
season
that brings joy to childhood does not
apply to strikers' kiddies in this
vicinity.
The public welfare commission an
nounced that no striker or his family
would receive any of the Xmas funds
Washington.—Textile interests that
oppose organized labor in Greens
boro, N. C., have gone to such ex
tremes that the local Xmas cheer
fund was affected, according to a re
port from an A. F. of L. organizer to
A. F. of L. headquarters. The or
ganizer said:
"The Ladies Auxiliary of the local
Typographical Union, working with
the Greensboro dentral body relief
committee to secure toys and Xmas
fund^ for children of workers dis
criminated against for joining the
Textile Union in Greensboro, N.
called upon the cheer fund commit
tee of this city to know if the chil
dren of these textile workers, who
were discharged for joining the union
would be cared for by this public
cheer committee.
"In the event that the committee
would treat the strikers' kiddies as
other children, the Ladies' Auxiliary
agreed to turn over to the committee
all toys and clothing they had col
lected.
"The Ladies' Auxiliary were in
formed that these children would not
receive anything fro#i this public
cheer fund."
CHANGES IN LABOR LAW
Boston.—Representative E. J. Kel
ley ,of the Massachusetts assembly
suggests that maximum weekly com
pensation to injured workers be in
creased from $18 to $20, and mini
mum weekly payments from $9
$10.
HISTORY'S
MYSTERIES
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The Lady of the Haystack
VARIOUS times throughout
history there have appeared wom
en of such transcendent mystery, such
inexplicable identity, that they have
succeeded in challenging even the In
vestigation of years and the re
searches of countless historians. Such,
for example, is the mysterious "Fe
male Stranger" buried beneath the
nameless tomb in the cemetery In Al
exandria, Va. the woman who occu
pies the grave marked only with the
number "88" in the burying ground at
Matteawan and the strange unaccount
able creature who Is known to Eng
lish history In general and in the an
nals of the town of Bristol In par
ticular as "The Lady of- the Hay
stack."
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It was In 1776 that this beautiful
young girl, endowed with all the
charm and grace which would have
enabled her to be successful in any
circle, stopped at Bourton, a village
near Bristol, and asked to be given
some bread and milk. After receiving
this, she wandered for a while around
the neighborhood and then took up
her abode in the center of a large
haystack on one of the farms whera
she remained for several days, accept
ing only food from Uie farm folks.
After a short time, believing that
she was an escaped inmate of some
nearby insane asylum, the country
folk had her transferred to St. Peter's
hospital, in Bristol, but the authori
ties there declared that the stranger
Was entirely sane, in spite of the fact
that she refused flatly to give any ac
count of herself or to allow even the
slightest clew as to her past to es
cape her. Accordingly, she was re-„
leased and, the instant the doors
closed behind her, she returned to the
haystack near Bristol, where she re
sumed her abode, living there during
the four years that followed her re
lease from the asylum.
While the food and clothing of the
"Lady of the Haystack," as siie be
came known, were supplied through
the kindness of charitable neighbors,
the stranger always refused to accept
any luxuries of any kind, either leav
ing the food untouched or hanging
the clothing on nearby bushes, as If
to Intimate that she wished only the
bare necessities of life. It is re
lated that she would talk unreserved*
ly to the children of the neighborhood,
telling them stories and giving them
presents that she had received, but
that she would never exchange words
with^any of the adults. The children,
however, declared that she spoke Eng
lish with a decidedly foreign accent
and upon one occasion, when ad
dressed in German, she burst into
tears and retired to the seclusion of
her strange home, from which she
did not emerge for several days after
wards.
After four years exposure to the
elements, without the shelter of a
roof, the "Lady of the Haystack"
was again removed to an Insane asy
lum, this time in Brltton, a village of
Gloucestershire, where she was well
cared for through popular subscrip
tion taken up among the people of
Bristol. Even here, however, she In
sisted upon only one thing—that she
be permitted to make her bed upon a
pile of straw, placed as close to the
window as possible—a favor which
was granted her both at Britton and
at the hospital at Southwark where
she was removed shortly before her
death In 1801.
It was hoped that the widespread
publicity which followed the death of
this strange personage would have
the effect of bringing forward some
one who could throw some light upon
the mystery of her past, but it was
not until 1810, nine years after her
death, that an anonymous French
writer came forward with what pur
ported to be a solution of the affair.
According to his statements, the king
of Spain had received a letter, sup
posedly from Emperor Joseph II of
Austria, asking him to care for a
young woman whose presence In Aus
trla was causing great distress to the
dowager empress because of the fact
that she was the natural daughter of
his late father, Francis I. When the
king of Spain wrote for further par
ticulars, he was amazed to learn that
the Austrian emperor had written n
such letter and that the document was
a very clever forgery, later traced to
a mysterious young woman known as
Mile. La Frulen.
Upon her arrest, this strange per
sonage told a queer but well sub
stantiated story of her royal parent
age and of her having been placed in
charge of the Austrian ambassador to
France, through whom she received
regular remittances. About the time
of the death of the Emperor Francis
I, these remittances ceased and sin
was thrown upon her own resources.
With a warning as to her future con
duct, Mile. La Frulen was release
by the French authorities and told
never to set foot in France again, th*
inference being drawn by the writei
of the pamphlet that she and th»
"Lady of the Haystack" were one and
the same.
Whether they were or not will prob
ably never be revealed, for the
Strang*
case of the woman who lived in
haystack near Bristol and the fat*
of the natural daughter of the Aus
trian emperor, whose birth Is well
authenticated, are both shrouded in
veil so impenetrable that even th
passage of more than century has
failed to tear it aside.
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OLD AGE PENSIONS
URGEDJN JERSEY
Trenton, N. J.—At a Rearing held
by the old age periston law commit
tee, created by the state legislature,
George Pelettieri charged that "old
people are being discarded and ir&«
prisoned in alms houses becaulp
American industry has no place for
men and women past middle age."
He said he was speaking for the
17,000 Mercer county residents who
vo.fced for him in the last election oij
a platform of pensions for the aged.
Assemblyman Joseph L. Thompson*
of Ocean county, declared that
The one opposing voice was former
State Senator Charles C. Pilgram,
speaking as counsel for the New Jer
sey Manufacturers' Association. The
pension plan held dangers of becom
ing a dole system, which would en
courage idleness and be an unjust
burden on taxpayers, he said.
UNIONISTS GIVEN
TWENTY DAYS
PAROLE
Raleigh, N. C.—Gov. Gardner pa
roled Lawrence Hogan, Dell Lewis
and Wes Fowler, convicted with Al
fred Hoffman, organizer United Tex
tile Workers, on frame up riotittg
charges in connection with the Ma
rion strike.
The sheriff and deputies who killed
several strikers were acquitted, but
the three men were sentenced to six
months in jail. They had 20 days
more to serve. Hoffman served a 30
day sentence and paid a fine.
The manner in which the four men
were convicted, together with the dis
charge of murderous peace officers,
was clearly intended to intimidate la
borers who dared to join a union or
suspend work.
FORDPLANTS~SHUT
DOWN
Detroit, Mich.—Ford plants in this
city ceased operations. The company
said the suspension "is in line with
the policy of closing at this season
of the year in order that an inventory
may be taken."
No one knows how long the plants
will be closed. The year-end inven
tory has formerly been two weeks.
The company has been operating on
three days a week for three months.
FASTER FREIGHT TRAINS
Washington.—Freight trains dur
ing October attained the highest
average speed for any corresponding
period on record, 13.7 miles per hour,
according to a report of the bureau
of railway economics.
Men Attention
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WALK-OVER
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CARRY THIS
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WORKERS UNION
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ON ALL SAVINGS
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state capable of increasing its salary
expenditures from $3,500,000 in 1917
to $18,000,000 in 1929 is surely able to
spend another million dollars to pro
vide for the aged."
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