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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29,1935
PRISON GOODS LAW MUST BE
ENFORCED
Industry and labor groups which
have been fighting unfair competition
of prison-made goods have protested
the propriety of the Attorney Gen
eral's instructions to U. S. district at
torneys that NO further investigations
of violations of the Sumner-Ashurst
prison industries act be made until the
constitutionality of the Federel act
is definitely determined. While it is
since reported that the instructions
have been withdrawn, the principle
needs stressing that it is the business
of the executive departments to en
force the laws made by Congress un
til they are held invalid. A sharp
reprimand from Congress is entirely
in order if the Department of Justice
lies down on its job at the first sign
of objection to a law, especially from
prison contractors.
To balance the account it should be
entered on the record that consider
able credit for the success of U. S. At
torney Donnelly in obtaining an in
dictment against the Minerva Manu
facturing Company of New York is
due to the G-men of the Department
of Justice. State prosecutions of
prison industry law violation have
produced indifferent results. Donnelly
adopted a new procedure. Although
operating from Grand Rapids, Mich
igan, he called in the G-men to get
facts through them he got at the
books of the concern in New York
state lines were eliminated evasions,
legal and otherwise, were stopped.
But one such victory is not dhough.
After having once slowed down en
forcement of the Act, Attorney Gen
eral Cummings needs to do more than
adopt a do-nothing policy in order to
show his good faith. Unless he does
take a more aggressive position to
wards these lawbreakers, somebody
may charge that his heart is not in
the job of enforcing the act and that
he may be sympathetic toward the
system operating in his own state of
Connecticut, which ships large quan
tities of prison-made goods into other
states in ruinous competition with
free industry and with disastrous ef
fect upon labor standards.
State enforcement is not easy. Con
tractors for 25,000 wood tables from
the Ionia and 10,000 metal bridge ta
bles and' 40,000 metal chairs from
Jackson (Mich.) prisons were alleg
edly made after passage of the Mich
igan act prohibiting sale of prison
made goods in Michigan in competition
wth those manufactured by private
enterprises.
Labor wants Federal prosecution
and G-men cooperation continued as
already stated. Labor is anxious to
obtain enforcement of the Sumner-As
hurst and Hawes-Cooper acts and
does not want to have progress de
layed by either New Deal or regular
government agencies, some of which
seem to be working at cross purposes
and playing into the hands of prison
contractors. Industry, too, is watch
ing closely the moves of the Prison
Industries Reorganization Adminis
tration, which has funds for survey
ing the field. Is that to be just an
other boondoggle? Or is it to be
suspected as another deal to delay en
forcement of the laws for which labor
industry and the public fought for so
many years?
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HOME WORK MENACE
The U. S. Woman's Bureau finds
that women and children are working
in poverty-stricken homes at rates
which net as low as 3 cents an hour.
This is in making parts for arti
ficial flowers.
Chiselers who pay starvation rates
for industrial home work are reported
by the Woman's Bureau to be found
in every part of the country, though
most commonly in the industrial cities.
Every center of such "home industry"
is a deadly menace to decent wages.
WHAT NEXT?
The cotton picking machine invented
by John and Mack Rust was recently
given a successful test on a field of
irrigated cotton in Arizona. In less
than three hours, about 600 pounds of
cotton was harvested by the machine,
while hand pickers working in a near
by field could gather less than 30
pounds each in the same time. The
cost of machine picking was estimated
at about $1 an acre, or about one-fifth
as much as hand picking.
Mexico's Calendar Stone
Carved by Aztec Indians
Among the sights of Mexico City
is the famous Calendar stone. It was
cut from volcanic rock by Aztec In
dians, and the work was done more
than four centuries ago, during the
reign of the Aztec ruler, Montezuma
II, says a writer In the Detroit News.
Aztec tribes were in control of Mex
ico when it was invaded by the Span
iards. The present name of the coun
try is believed to have come from an
old Aztec war-god who was called
"Mexitle" or "Mexitli." It is easy to
see how his name could have been
changed to "Mexico."
The Calendar stone is on view in
a museum in Mexico City. On it Is
carved a great circular figure in the
shape of the sun and the width of
the figure is 12 feet.
The stone is composed of volcanic
rock, and weighs 20 tons as It exists
today. The rock appears to have been
obtained from a quarry several miles
from Mexico City and it is estimated
that before the carving was done, the
rough block weighed from 40 to 50
tons.
It may be that the block was cut
down before it was moved from the
quarry but, in any case, it wa» too
heavy for people to lift. There were
no oxen or other large beasts of bur
den in Mexico before the white men
came, so It must have been moved
with the help of rollers.
the center of the Calendar stone
ic a picture or symbol of the sun god
and with the rest of the carving, it
tells the Aztec story of "the world's
history."
The Aztecs declared that four suns
had existed before the one they law
in the sky. The first sun was sup
posed to have been destroyed by a
Jaguar, the second by a whirlwind, the
third by a rain of fire, and the fourth
by a flood. It was believed that the
fifth sun would be destroyed by an
earthquake.
Solids, Not Fat, Curd,
Complicated Chemically
The solids, not fat, or curd, in but
ter are still more complicated chemi
cally, Lime, phosphorus and sulphur
are some of Its constituent!.
The history of butter is Interesting
It is mentioned in the earliest records
of Asiatic peoples, and has since been
made and used by man wherever milk
prodniclng animals were available.
There are records of butter used as
food nearly 4,000 years ago. It was
also esteemed as ointment and for
the treatment of wounds. In the Bible
there are nine references to butter.
Honey and butter were brought to
David when he was hungry and weary,
and Job In his misery longed for his
better days when butter was plentiful.
In the Proverbs is the definite etate
ment that "the churning of milk bring
eth forth butter."
In early times in this country, farm
ers made butter merely for their own
use. Then, as herds increased, they
had a surplus for sale, and finally the
creamery was developed, where the
farmers in a neighborhood could have
the butter made in a central place,
and sold from there. It Is believed
that the first creamery in this coun
try was built in Orange county, N. T.,
In 1856.—Rural New Yorker.
BENT
THE BUTfcER COUNTY PRESS
Homarus
Americanus
By CAP'N TRUMAN ORDIORNE
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McClure Nt-wspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
SAUNDERS chugs into Skul
pln Cove in his lobster boat, puts
his day's catch aboard the skiff and
skulls ashore. A stranger at the land
ing hails him. "1 say, captain, I would
like a half dozen or so of your legal
size Homarus Americanus."
Bent straightens up and growls:
"What in 'ell you drivin' at?"
"I said I wished to purchase a half
dozen Homarus Americanus. I pre
sume you refer to them as lobsters."
"All engaged. None to spare," Bent
tells him.
When he gets home he asks his
daughter what Homarus Americanus
has got to do with lobsters. She tells
him It's Latin.
Sixty miles we will
go to
a
big city
where live Lydia Hawkins and her
widowed mother. Cap'n Abel Hawkins,
an old coastwise skipper, had left his
wife and daughter comfortably well
off. We find Lydia, at twenty-five, a
teacher of French In the high school.
For a year she had been running
around with a young man named
Knowles. He drew a fair to tnlddllng
salary with a big hardware concern,
and had kept an eye on the stock mar
ket. He had run a shoestring into a
bank roll and was some ten grand to
the good. So he and Lydia plan to
wed the next June.
Apple blossom time comes along
and grassy June is just over the hori
zon. Then one evening A. Benton
calls.
"Lydia," he said, "I have lost every
dollar I had In the world and this
morning I was given a month's notice
at the office. I give you back your
promise. I can't marry you now."
Lydia Hawkins liked A. Benton for
himself and didn't have the slightest
idea of heaving htm over Just because
he'd gone broke.
"Bent Knowles, you damn' lobster 1
You're squealln' like a stuck pig.
Where In h—1 are your guts?"
"No woman can talk to me like
that," he tells her. "I thought you
were a lady." He steps to the hall,
grabs his hat and Is gone.
A. Benton goes home to his room,
sits him down and considers. It was
all off so far as Lydia Hawkins was
concerned. He had heard that skip
per Abel had been a hard swearing,
bard driving master, and Lydia, in
spite of her college training, was like
ly to break out In the mouth any time
things didn't go to suit her. Next day
he boards a bus and turns up at his
Uncle Benton Saunders' cottage at
Skulpin Cove. After a good lobster
supper, pipes going. A. Benton tells
Uncle Bent his troubles.
"Benton," he says, "do you think
you can haul a lobster pot? We'll rig
forty more pots and I'll let you in on
shares."
Lydia Hawkins misses A. Benton
and
is
sorry she lit on him so hard.
She waits and waits but no word
comes from him. In the meantime, she
runs afoul of Prof. Alvin Barstow, who
teaches Latin. One night he asks her
to marry him. There Is a lot about
the professor that she likes. So she
tells him that she needs time to think
the matter over. But all the time
she's hoping to hear from A. Benton.
Professor Barstow Invites Lydia to
go for a day's outing to a place down
on the North Shore called Skulpin
Cove. There they can procure some
Homarus Americanus fresh from the
sea.
One morning they make aD early
trip to Skulpin Cove.
"What a day," says Lydia. "We've
got to go fishing!"
She hires a dory and drops her
kelek outside of the breakers on Rag
gy Neck. They have luck. They've
got half a dozen good sized rocklings
when Lydia notes the professor turn
log a mite green round the gills.
Lydia makes a move to haul Jn the
grab and row ashore with the profes
sor when she sees she has anchored
In too close to the point. Just then a
motherly old sea curls over, the dory
capsizes and Lydia and the professor
are hove out.
The dory is bottom up but the grab
holds. Lydia holds the professor by
the collar, swims the few strokes to
the dory, and hangs on. She has seen
a fisherman in a power boat headed
for the capsized dory, driving hard.
He shuts off, reverses to a standstill,
and helps the girl and the professor
aboard.
As Lydia straightens up she says:
"Gosh, Bent, your old boat stinks like
h—1!" Then she wraps her bedrag
gled self around that fisherman and
sobs for joy.
Bent Saunders, working in his fish
house, sees them coming up from the
landing. "Well, I'll be dod-diggered!"
says Bent. "It's old Homarus Ameri
canus J"
They dump the professor into his
car. Bent takes the wheel and streaks
It for his house. He strips the profes
sor, wraps him In blankets and tele
phones for old Doc White.
A. Benton and Lydia come home in
Bent's truck. What talk they have
is not set down.
Professor Barstow and Lydia Haw
kins drive back to the city next aft
ernoon. He leaves her at her door
and drives away without a word. He
never calls again.
That evening, tobacco burning free,
A. Benton tells Uncle Saunders the
story. "She's got the right stuff In
her," Saunders tells A. Benton. "Don't
let her git away ag'n."
There are more matches made and
mended 'long shore with the aid of
salt water than are made and mended
at country clubs with the aid of gin.
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A Costly Moth
The corn borer was unknown In
America until 1917, when It was dis
covered near Boston. In Europe, how
ever, It had been plaguing farmers for
many years before that. How did It
cross the Atlantic? It Is difficult to
say. But since the spread of shipping
and overseas trade no country Is safe
from Insect Invaders. America is a
particular victim of the unwanted vis
itors no Ellis island can keep at bay.
Out of 73 of her worst pests, 37 have
been natives of other lands. A few
years ago, a chemist brought a speci
men of a certain moth to his house in
America so that he could study its
habits. The moth escaped.—Answers
Magazine.
The Cherry
Where with aur
Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly
So many things go to the making
up of this sad and merry world that
a chronicle of a week's doings sounds
like nothing so much as an exhibit
of the contrariness of all things, in
cluding mankind. There are contra
dictions in nature and in most of the
things we humans do.
Thus, there are several things to
discuss this week—things that bear no
relation to each other whatsoever.
League of Nations members start
their boycott of Italy.
One press association says there are
52 nations in the boycott. Another
says there are 51. This column hasn't
counted them.
Mr. Mussolini is being punished—
plenty rightly—for*defying all de
cency.
But meanwhile Japan walks over
into China and coolly detaches five
provinces with a population of some
55 million people and there has been
thus far no talk of a boycott for that
gorgeous piece of downright aggres
sion.
Sir Samuel Hoare, speaking for
Britain, has said that those who sug
gest his country acted in the Italian
case out of self interest were all wet.
He hasn't said much yet about Japan
which, having taken Manchuria to
make a Japanese Manchukuo, takes
another territorial gobble to serve the
same purpose for which Mussolini
says he must have Ethiopia.
Anyone can take a look at that set
of circumstances and see what it re
sembles.
Incidentally, the device called sanc
tions is the newest and probably the
most potent thing in the world today
—unless some nation takes a run out.
It's a trick learned from labor—strike
and boycott.
Again comes the President's Birth
day Ball. It is a great joining cf ef
fort to beat infantile paralysis. This
is the third, piling up the sinews of
war against one of humanity's worse
enemies. As a result America prob
ably will be the first nation to find
the answer to the challenge of infan
tile paralysis.
Labor has played and will again
play a proud part in this great human
itarian effort. It is one thing in which
men of all creeds, faiths, races, polit
ical parties and occupations can join.
HO
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A Leader for
Death has just struck where it was
least expected and men and women
throughout organized labor are sad
dened.
The wife of Dr. Isador Lubin, chief
of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statis
tics, is no longer at the side of the
to admire and respect to an unusual
man whom labor men have learned
degree.
Between these two there was, after
many years, a continuing devotion, an
unflagging romance, a tenderness of
affection that was evident when either
spoke of the other.
Inexpressible sympathy goes to Isa­
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dor Lubin,man of courage and of deep
understanding.
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Man of vision is E. V. Sewell, of
Miami, member of the city commis
sion. He proposes a permanent Pan
American Exposition in Miami, where
South American will meet North
Arterican and exchange goods and
ideas. He is trying to interest Wash
ington. Maybe he will win, maybe
not. But anyway he has his vision
and it finds friendship among labor
men who often know more about com
merce and about international friend
ship than the politicos dream of.
Edgar K. Wagner
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
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