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FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1938
THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL
John Russell Pope has designed a
monument for Thomas Jefferson which
is a virtual copy of the Roman Pan
theon—which means temple of "all
gods." It is not at all popular. The
fine arts commission of Washington
has just pointed out that it is not
a "fresh" design at all, since Pope
has used the same design in the ar
chives building and is going to use it
in the Mellon art gallery.
There is a better reason. Jefferson
and the Pantheon are not a bit alike
The Pantheon had a concrete dome
and Jefferson didn't he had the most
widely receptive and eager headpiece
of the time, save possibly that of Ben
Franklin. The Pantheon was devoted
to idols and Jefferson was devoted to
freedom, especially freedom of speech
The best suggestion yet made is to
build a Jefferson auditorium, with no
restriction on speeches. Let the talk
ers say that "de sun do move" or that
Hitler is a gentleman. No one will
believe either, and Jefferson would like
it if he could know.
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PICTURE SMUT
There has always been a market
for pictorial bawdiness and pornog
raphy, and there probably always will
be, but it has generally been furtive
and under cover. Now with the mad
scramble of the picture magazines
for circulation, involving the big ones
as well as their nasty little satellites
the business of purveying pictorial
salaciousness on a big scale has come
into the open.
We do not know the present num
ber of picture magazines on the mar
ket, since no one seems to be keeping
an hour-by-hour total, but the last
half-dozen we have looked through
reveals their editors tunnelling sweat
ily into the smut pile.
A few newspapers, perhaps think
ing there is a bonanza in this sort of
thing, have recently printed picture
features which are definitely out of
place in publications going into the
home.
Two facts in the situation are plain
V
Under an act passed in 1934, the
Philippines will become independent
on July 4, 1946. As the act stands,
all trade preferences between the
United States and the Philippines will
cease on that date. But the Filipinos
don't want this to happen. Their priv
ileges in the American market are
very valuable to them.
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
Manuel Queson has been negotiating
with Secretary Hull and conferring
with the pi*esident. Quezon's conten
tion is that the Philippines will not
be able to stand alone in an economic
sense by that time. President and Sec
rectary of state have agreed that some
of the trade privileges of the Philip
pines in our markets shall be continued
on a diminishing scale until 1960. Of
course the change will have to be pass
ed by congress before it can become
effective and there is no sort of hurry
about getting it through that body.
"No people in history, coming un
der a foreign flag, have ever been
treated so generously (as the Fili
pinos)." The words were spoken by
Manuel Quezon four years ago. They
have never been contradicted and
they seem truer than ever now.
A new Spanish cabinet, backed by
the Catalonian labor unions and com
posed partly of their representatives,
is preparing for a last ditch fight at
Barcelona and has appealed to France
and England for arms and munitions
By all the rules of fair play, they
to responsible publishers and editors:
First, that national advertisers
wouldn't be caught dead in 90 per
cent of these publications, as then
lack of copy attests
Second, that a firm groundwork is
being laid for insistent censorship
demands. The printed material al
ready is at hand which, if assembled,
would impress any legislative group.
The censorship implication is by
far the most important, not only to
the newspapers but to the picture
magazines themselves. Fx-om the
Editor and Publisher.
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A START ON HOUSING
The federal slum-clearance and
housing project is progressing at a
rapid pace through its first stage
that of ear-marking. Of the $500,000,
000 authorized for the first three
years, $167,710,000 has been ear
marked for 60 projects in 19 states
Three states—Michigan, Nebraska
and Louisiana, have only one project
each as yet Pennsylvania has 9 Ohio
8, and New York 6.
"These ear-markings," said Admin
istrator Straus, "do not indicate spe
cific projects. They indicate that we
are satisfied that the local authorities
in the cities are qualified and equipped
to do business,and aremaking an earn
est effort effort to meet the conditions
of the act. The ear-markings also in
cate that we are satisfied that there
is urgent need for re-housing slum
dwellers in these communities."
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BRITISH LABOR SPEAKS
All dispatches from England at the
time that Anthony Eden quit the
British cabinet because his colleagues
insisted on truckling to Hitler and
Mussolini reported that British labor
supported Eden and was intensely
dissatisfied with Prime Minister
Chamberlain. There is no longer any
question about this.
In the West Fulham "division" of
London—we should call it a district
which has not elected a labor candidate
to parliament since 1929, and where
the conservative candidate won the
last election by about 3,500 votes, the
labor candidate beat the conservative
at a bye-election by 1,421. The whole
campaign, all accounts agree, was
Chas. M.
Gordon
of
BROWN COUNTY
Announces his candidacy
for State Senator to rep
resent the Second and
Fourth Senatorial Dis
trict, composed of Brown,
Butler, Clermont and
Warren Counties, sub
ject to the decision of the
Democratic Voters at the
Primary, to be held Au
gust 9, 1938.
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
should have had all the arms and mu
nitions they wanted long ago. Musso
lini makes no secret of the fact that
at least 60,000 Italian troops are in
Franco's armies. Almost every dis
patch from the war area for weeks
has told of the German tanks, planes
and artillery which were overwhelm
ing the loyalists. Yet Germany and
Italy agreed to
non-intervention
in
Spain, along with France and Britain.
Why should an agreement, openly
flouted by one party, be kept by the
others
As far as the outcome of any war
can be predicted, the loyalists of Spain
are doomed. Only in an extremity can
France act without Britain, and the
tory government of Britain is con
cluding a "treaty of friendship" with
Mussolini.
Small wonder that British labor is
furious but there seems no way in
which it can get action at this time.
The prediction made months ago
that Japan's difficulties would increase
the farther she invaded China are be
ing fulfilled. The direct resistence
grows more and more stubborn one
Japanese army has been held almost
in its tracks for days and behind the
lines, Chinese irregulars have cut the
roads over which Japanese supplies
come again and again.
The Chinese are manifesting a
fighting spirit higher than they have
ever shown before in modern times.
waged on "Chamberlain's childlike
faith in the dictators—" Hitler and
Mussolini and the triumphant shout
of the laborites was "Chamberlain
mtist go!"
Incidentally, the successful caffdi
date was a woman, a mother and a
phygician. There will be 12 women
now in parliament. West Fulham is
reportdd to be a workers' district
leaning toward the conservative side
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WHAT NEXT?
India's Imperial Institute of Sugar
Research is reported to have discov
ered a means of hard-surfacing roads
with molasses mixed with coal tar and
asphalt plus acids. The mixture is
said to produce a ton of road-surfac
ing material that costs only one-third
as much as a ton of asphalt.
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As the word sterling, impresed on
an article of silver, is a hall-mark in
dicating that the silver piece is one
of highest quality, just so the union
label, impressed or printed on any
product is a hall-mark indicating the
true worth of that particular article
Matthew Woll.
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WISDOM
I neverlisten to calumnies because
if they are untrue, I run the risk of
being deceived and if they are true
of hating persons not worth thinking
about.—Montesquieu.
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Painters Cut Pay
To Aid Building
Clevelan (ILNS)—The Painters
Union here has voted to reduce
hourly pay rates by 20 cents and to
increase the work day from seven to
eight, in an effort to aid the "Build
America" program originated by
Cleveland building trades unions.
The wage reduction restores the
$1.30 rate in effect prior to January 1
of this year.
The union announces the lower pay
rates will be in effect until January 1
1940, if they "meet with public ap
proval."
"Build America" aims to promote
home building throughout the nation
It seeks to stabilize and lower costs
of building as one of the means of
aiding building.
Labor Man Named
To Tax Commission
Cincinnati (ILNS)—Thomas
Donnelly, secretary-treasurer of the
Ohio Federation of Labor, is one of
fourteen members of the special state
tax and revenue commission appointed
by Gov. Martin L. Davey.
The commission was established to
draft and recommend legislation for
a comprehensive and equitable tax
system for the state and its subdiyi
sions, counties, and cities. The com
mission is composed of state sena
tors, state representatives, business
men, and Mr. Donnelly.
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McCarthy: Did you protest against
the movie that represents the Irish
are disorderly?
Murphy: Did we? We wrecked
the place.
Subscribe for The Press.
Governor Earle Urges
Huge Spending Program
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Gov
ernor Earle, of Pennsylvania, urged
President Roosevelt to launch a $9,
000,000,000 spending program to "save
the American form of government."
"This is the only solution to pres
ent economic problems and if it is
not done we will have absolute col
lapse of our present system of gov
ernment," he said.
Earle, after conferring with Roose
velt, said he had obtained presidential
approval of a $24,000,000 allocation
to supplement state funds for a high
way between Harrisburg and Pitts
burgh. Pennsylvania, he said, will
provide $36,000,000.
Earle said he presented Roosevelt
a three-point program for expendi
ture of the $9,000,000,000 over a three
year period. He listed his objectives
as follows:
1. Low cost housing.
2. Broad superhighways.
3. Flood control, soil erosion and
rural electrification.
A. OF L.
Organizing Workers of The
WPA
Columbus (OLNS)—An intensive
organization drive among workers on
WPA projects has been launched by
the American Federation of Labor in
several areas in Ohio, principally
Cleveland and Toledo, with WPA of
ficials at Washington and Columbus
reaffirming their stand of non
intervention in union activity among
relief project workers.
Thomas Joyce, international organ
izer for the Laborers' Union with
headquarters in Cleveland, announc
ed that the drive would be made to
enroll in that union all those men
"who are going to be on WPA more
or less permanently," and who are
not now members of labor unions.
At the same time, the AFL will
conduct a vigorous campaign in
Washington to increase wages and
hours of WPA workers, with the im
mediate goal being an increase in
the wage rate from 60 cents an hour
to 89 cents, and a demand that the
workers be given more than 100 hours
employment a month.
More than 5,300 workers have been
enrolled in AFL unions in Lucas and
surrounding counties in the past few
weeks in the drive to organize WPA
workers in the Toledo room, accord
ing to John E. Curtin, secretary of
the Toledo Central Labor Union.
Butchers' Union To
Hold Regional Meet
Cleveland (OLNS) —Amalgamated
Meat Cutters' and Butcher Workers
Unions here plan to celebrate their
fourth anniversary with a joint re
gional meeting April 19 and 20 at
Swiss Hall.
Delegates from Akron, Youngs
town, Canton and Sandusky will be
invited to attend the conference by
U. G. Rich, international organizer
and business agent for the local un
ions, for the purpose of outlining a
program for closer co-operation.
Dennis Lane, Chicago, international
secretary of the union, will address the
joint meeting.
Union label buying is the only
method of the organized worker to
uphold his own wages and also the
wages of all American workers.
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about many things, sometimes pro
foundly. Sometimes flippantly,
s o e i e s e k e s s y
April brings memories of America's
entrance into the World War.
War was declared 21 years ago. The
millions in their 30's and over, re
member. »To many, remembrance
brings pain.
Propaganda, pro and con, whipped
national emotion to fever heat for
months before the war declaration.
We know now much of the
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propaganda, before, during and
after the war, was false. Much
was 100 per cent hokum.
All that has been exposed since then
by picture and text.
But exposure has not killed war
propaganda. IT IS STILL DOING
BUSINESS.
America has kept its head. The
nation is not war-minded and anti
war sentiment is almost universal.
How long will that state of mind
last?
War propagandists, here and
abroad, are busy. Old and new shib
boleths are heard.
The tug is on to swing national sen
timent.
A colored postcard comes to Inter
national Labor News Service from
Spain.
Uncle Sam, John Bull, France are
shown hand in hand witii that shin
ing exponent of democracy, Soviet
Russia.
'The union of the democratic na
tions will end war forever," says the
card in English, French and Spanish.
Yea, bo, that's what it says. No
fooling.
Strangely like that slogan of 21
years ago:
"The war to end war." Remember?
The intent of the card is plain.
Get America in the next world war
Undoubtedly, politicians abroad
would like to inveigle Uncle Sam into
lining ufc with Britain, France and
Russia in a "war for democracy."
The card is a sample of the propa
ganda with which we are likely to be
deluged, as the war clouds blacken
in Europe.
But America still remembers and is
keptical. "The burnt child dreads
the fire."
A reporter for a well known labor
paper was telling a group of his fel
low workers of incidents of his prop
aganda work with the American army
in France.
"It was damned good propaganda,"
he said.
"And some of it was true, too," he
added.
That brought resounding laugkter
from the crowd.
If the skeptical sentiment illustrat
ed by that laugh continues to pervade
the American people, there is hope
we may escape war and the ruin that
will follow.
Governmental red tape can be cut
New York's shewing the way.
A short cut procedure is being used
by the state department of labor to
break the log-jam of 60,000 claims
for re-checking of workers' previous
earning records.
As a result, checks for unemploy
ment insurance benefits are going out
without the delay that has been caus
ing hardship and suffering.
What New York is doing, others can
do. That goes for state, national and
local governments.
Ambulance Service
Phone 35
Red Jacket
Coal
Anthracite
Pocahontas
Semet Solvay Coke
Latest developments of science if
used, could save bill-payers $428,
000,000.
This is the estimate of the Pitts
burgh Testing Laboratory, which has
been testing materials and products
for American industries over a period
of 57 years.
Why are not consumers given the
opportunity to pocket these tremen
dous savings? Cfould the matter of
profits be a factor in denying them
the savings
Here's a fruitful field for inquiry
and study.
107,129 Aged Aided
Columbus (OLNS)—March report
of the Ohio division of aid for the
aged reveals that 107,129 needy aged
in the state were aided by payment
of assistance grants totalling $2,465,
634.21 during that month.
The quarterly 50 per cent share of
federal funds for the Ohio public as
sistance program was alloted last
week, and totalled $4,214,236, of which
$3,664,034 was for old age assistance.
The remainder is applied to aid for
dependent children and blind relief.
Co-Operative Farm
Reports Progress
New Orleans (ILNS)—"We still
pay a miserable wage of 11 cents an
hour minimum, but at that we offer
the tenant farmer security, and luxu
ries such as crude medical attention
and schools, which he never had be
fore," Elaine Treadway, director of
the Delta co-operative farm in Mis
sissippi, told a small group of Or
leanians at a gathering at the home
of F. A. Bultman, Jr.
ELECTION ORDERED
Lima (OLNS)—Se—veral hundred
employes of the Ohio Steel Foundry
here are preparing to vote their
choice between the American Federa
tion of Labor and the CIO as'their
collective bargaining agent, in an
election ordered by theNational La
bor Relations Board.
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