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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1941.
CONTINUING PROBLEM
Too much optimism over the outlook
for reducing or eliminating unemploy
ment is unjustified. Some cheerful
ness is warranted but unfortunately
there's nothing in sight as yet that
promises to solve the unemployment
problem.
This view is supported by the Amer
ican Federation of Labor research de
partment, in outlining the progress
that has been made in putting the idle
to work under the defense program
The federation concludes that we may
have six to six and a half million
workers still unemployed at the end
of 1941. That represents progress over
the eight million estimated to have
been unemployed at the end of 1940,
it is true. But there is still a long way
to go before the unemployed are all
put to work.
The federation points out that the
increase in employment has not been
as rapid as was originally expected
from the defense program. "As de
fense work continues, the increase in
employment will be at a faster rate,
but probably not as fast as some of
the most hopeful estimates indicate,"
the federation says.
One trouble with the defense pro
gram as a solution of unemployment
is that gains under it are not distrib
uted evenly over the nation and it can
not be expected to end unemployment
in all localities.
There will still remain an unemploy
ment problem, and need for providing
public work for jobless workers in
many places.
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CONSTRUCTIVE DECISIONS
There seems to be a disposition
among critics of organized labor to
hail the recent Supreme Court deci
sions on picketing as setbacks to
unionism. As a matter of fact, they
are nothing of the sort.
One decision held that state courts
have a right to issue injunctions in
cases of picketing involving violence.
This should not be of any material
harm to labor. Unions that are careful
to keep clear of violence and the vast
majority are, will suffer no damage.
It will put them on their guard against
violence, by members or sympathizers,
which in the long run is detrimental
to the interests of labor.
The other decision upheld the right
of unions to picket plants in which
they have no members, as a means of
organizing. This right has been under
fire and the Supreme Court decision
would seem to settle it once and for
all. It will open the way to wider and
broader organization activities and
should be of decided help to union
progress.
o
Edgar K. Wagner
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Every Friday Night
THE SPOT FOR REAL ENJOYMENT
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At 8:45 P. M.
DEMOCRATIC DEFENSE
The first line of defense of a de
mocracy is education because the
first attack is directed at the heads
and hearts of the people. While the
forces of the mind resist and repel the
disruptive aggression of anti-demo
cratic propaganda, the economic and
military defenses can be made strong
for the second line of defense. The
schools, colleges, the press, radio and
motion pictures, the civic, cultural and
educational organizations constitute
the forces of our first line of defense.
—United States Office of Education.
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WHAT NEXT?
The Hotel New Yorker, New York
City, has a new machine, the Pro
tecto-Ray, for making bathrooms san
itary. The device has ultra-violet ray
equipment which kills all the germs
in sight when it is wheeled around the
bathroom. It is used after every guest
leaves and then the bathroom is sealed
with cellophane until the next guest
arrives.
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WISDOM
The one sensible thing to do with a
disappointment is to put it out of your
mind and think of something cheerful.
—Mark Twain.
UNEMPLOYMENT TO
BE CUT TO 6 MILLION
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Unem
ployment in the United States will be
reduced to six and a half or six mil
lions before the end of this year, the
research department of the American
Federation of Labor predicts. Unem
ployment in December was 7,906,000,
it is estimated.
"The increase in employment has
not been as rapid to date as was orig
inally expected from the defense pro
gram," the federation pointed out.
"There were almost two million more
people employed in December, 1940,
than in December, 1939. As the de
fense work continues, the increase in
employment will be at a faster rate,
but probably not as fast as some of
the most hopeful estimates indicate.
"There were some eight million per
sons unemployed at the end of 1940.
If the Army takes nearly one million,
and private industry two or two and a
half million persons during 1941, the
unemployment would be reduced to
four and a half or five million if no
new workers came into the labor mar
ket.
"However, if we may anticipate at
least half a million normal increases
and perhaps a million abnormal in
crease in workers looking for jobs,
adding these to the unemployed, we
may have six or six and a half million
job-hunters still unemployed at the
end of 1941."
PARTY
Hamilton, Ohio
Tips
Hints
Helps
rid YOU KNOW? ....
Dr. Ernst Berl, chemist, is develop
ing synthetic power to turn the wheels
of industry when nature's coal and oil
resources have been exhausted. Hav
ing studied the formation of coal and
oil deposits for the past thirteen years
Dr. Berl claims to have solved the
process by which nature produced and
stored away fuel reserves. The way
is now open to manufacture fuel from
common carbohydrates, such as cellu
lose and sugars of corn, sea weed, mo
lasses and cotton.
A new flour is being perfected by
government experts which will restore
vitamin to the "staff of life." The
defense program has speeded up nu
trition experiments as well as produc
tion of guns, munitions and war equip
ment. The new flour is still unnamed
and will not be compulsory but the
public will be urged to use it because
it has been proven that vitamins are
no longer a fad, but a daily necessity
to insure health.
It is now considered smart for the
bride-to-be to mark her linens with
the initial of her future husband. Of
course making them with the bride's
present initial is equally good, still it
seems so foolish going through life
with linens marked with an initial not
now your own, as if you might have
bought them at a bargain sale.
Glamour
He recommends a brew for dieting
made as follows: Cut 8 grapefruit in
half and boil slowly for an hour with
a tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda
added. Three glasses a day, one be
fore each meal, are sure to eliminate
inches from the waistline, if one can
take the bitter flavor. This exerciser
of jockeys says that "Reducing is 99
per cent patience, and women are
fickle—it takes jockeys to prove what
can be done."
Evening sweaters are a high style
and prove just as popular this season
as last. Gold and silver embroideries
in a plume design on chenile are prov
ing very popular.
Some of the smartest sport jackets
have hand-knit sleeves and back with
duvetyn or velveteen fronts.
For Better Homemaking
Modern trend in furniture to this
country was first introduced about
1925 and since that time has become
very popular. The difference between
modern or contemporary furniture
and the so-called modernistic style is
in the way the modern furniture com
bines the best features of the old pe
riod pieces with new up-to-date
styling. From these original designs
a new trend of graceful, liveable fur
niture has been launched.
If you make your own slipcovers,
cut squares of the same material, tak
ing care to match the pattern, to place
on the arms and where the head rests.
Bind the edges of these squares with
the same materials that binds the
slipcovers. YouH find this will save
much lauadearing and wear on your
slipcovers,
Baby Talk
There is nearly as much, on human
relationships and good manners for
adults as for children in Emily Post's
new book, "Children Are People."
Since imitation is the child's earliest
why then, asks Mrs, Pout,
FOR
WOMEN
By Mary Moore
Permanent waving has now been
improved so that the wave may look
as natural as that of the girl who was
born with wavy hair, BUT every op
erator, and every solution, will not
produce this natural curl. If, by
chance you've come out with a wave
that got too much heat and your hair
is dry and brittle, try combing a mix
ture of one teaspoon of castor oil in
three ounces of alcohol into the hair.
Let it stay on over night and you'll be
rewarded with even a plain shampoo.
Two or three treatments like this will
bring back your hair to a soft natural
luster.
Keep on hand an atomizer filled with
brilliantine or hair oil and spray the
hair each time before combing. The
locks will look smooth and stay in
place much longer.
A well-known reducer and exerciser
of jockeys who presides over the very
latest type of reducing equipment, in
cluding an electric magnecoil blanket
containing three miles of wires that
is used to follow up the treatments
in an electric sweating cabinet, be
lieves that the key to reducing is de
hydration—the elimination of mois
ture from the body—so he applies this
principle consistently, taking care to
preserve the strength of the jockeys
by counterbalancing the treatments
with a diet rich in calcium and vege
tables, and lots of sleep and con
structive exercise.
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Keeping
Ahead of
Hie Times
shouldn't parents provide opportunity
for imitation of good speech, good
manners, and good breeding in all the
forms? The book is informally writ
ten and most enjoyable.
Women
For the women who cannot knit or
make bandages but who would like to
give aid to Bundles for Britain, it is
suggested that the saving and gath
ering of tinfoil and foil of aluminum
can be useful. This foil is not used
in any way to manufacture war ma
terials, but is sold here in America and
the money used to purchase medical
supplies and surgical instruments.
Blankets made of squares of woolen
tweed sewn together and lined with
outing flannel are as useful and warm
as knitted afghans, so if you cannot
sew or knit, you can cut woolen ma
terials into squares and send them to
the nearest sewing room of Bundles
for Britain where workers will utilize
them in making blankets. The blan
kets usually measure 45 by 60 inches
so you can work out your own pro
portions in cutting squares.
Pantry Palaver
Chef's Hints: Have you tried add
ing a half cupful of roasted peanuts
to about two cupfuls of creamed car
rots for an added interest. The chil
dren will love the flavor.
For party dessert make sponge cake
in a tube pan. Tint butter cream icing
with pale green and flavor with mint.
When ready to serve fill center with
vanilla ice cream and pour over a
fudge sauce.
Cream cheese flavored with a sug
gestion of garlic and beaten to the
consistency of whipped cream is de
licious for party snacks served on
toasted crackers, or spread between
two slices of tomato for a salad.
Chopped ripe olives, added to mush
rooms steamed in butter, and that left
over lamb minced, make a delicious
meal if creamed together and flavored
with sherry.
The U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, Bureau of Home Economics,
thinks a good cook can be a fairy god
mother to the modest prune. There
are a good many things to recommend
prunes. They are plentiful, cheap and
contain a good supply of calcium and
iron, some Vitamin B1 and some vita
min A.
Serve them hot with a little spice
with meats. Chop them and cook with
the breakfast cereal. Cook them and
remove seed and fill opening with
cream cheese, nuts, or peanut butter
and use with other fruits for salad.
Grind them and mix with raw apples,
chopped nuts or other dried fruits for
sandwich filling. Then there's the
Prune Betty in place of the old-fash
ioned Apple Betty use them in upside
down cake mix prune pulp with stiffly
beaten egg whites or whipped cream
and you have a fluffy fruit whip. The
bureau even suggests prune bread. So
you see there's magic in the lowly
prune.
Have you ever cooked pork chops in
wine? Bread them and brown in a
small amount of fat. Remove all fat
when well browned and add cup
table wine, cup water, salt and pep
per and cook very slowly. They will
be tender, thoroughly cooked and have
a delicious flavor.
New York Factory
Employment Is High
Albany, N. Y. (ILNS).—The num
ber of workers employed in January
by New York state factories remained
unchanged from the high December
level, Industrial Commissioner Miller
reports. Total factory payrolls rose
0.4 per cent in the month. When it is
considered that the average changes
from December to January over the
past 26 years have been losses of 1.7
per cent in forces and of 2.7 per cent
in payrolls, the changes this January
appear distinctly favorable. Seasonal
losses in many industries are to be
expected in January. Although such
losses did occur this year, further
gains in the defense industries were
sufficient to offset them.
SANCTITY OF
CONTRACTS
(From the Shoe Workers' Journal)
The Boot and Shoe Workers' Union
has been in existence over forty-five
years and we are very proud of our
record for keeping inviolate contracts
which are entered into between our
union and shoe manufacturers, and
with but few exceptions the member
ship of our union has maintained a
policy of strict adherence to local
agreements as well as the regular
union stomp arbitration contract.
i And if at Kny time or place we find
some of our jaaembers causing a stop
page of or striking in violation
of contract, we as officers of your
union must take appropriate disci
plinary action against those who may
wilfully violate not only the contract
but their obligation as members of the
union.
We realize that at times some of
our members become impatient and
demand immediate action however,
our contracts are very specific, and in
the event of failure to mutually agree
on any matter in dispute, provisions
are made for arbitration. While arbi
tration may seem slow it has proven
to be more advantageous to employer
and employee than resorting to the
strike method of settling disputes.
Strikes are costly and dangerous—the
employees never recover the lost
wages, and it is also true that manu
facturers in many instances lose good
accounts during strikes and try as
they may, they never are able to get
them back. Thus, as in all strikes,
both sides lose.
Marooned Fisherman
Battles Sudden Flood
GOOD
Wilbur M.
Mosley
fisher­
man's luck al­
most turned into
tragedy for Wil
bur M. Mosley, of
Mount Airy, N. C.
Ignoring a heavy
rainstorm, he got
i s a k e a n
went late in the
afternoon to a fa
vorite spot on the
Ararat River.
He fished from
a sandbar in the
middle of the river. The bites were
coming fast and he soon forgot the
passage of time. When darkness fell,
with the rain still pouring down, he
continued his sport.
Three hours later Mosley gath
ered up his equipment and catch and
prepared to wade ashore. He found
he was trapped. The violent rain
storm had flooded the entire section.
On either side of his "island" raced
a swirling, boiling current a hun
dred yards wide.
The sand bar on which he stood
had shrunk, he discovered, to a small
strip. The water was rising so fast
he knew he could not stay there. He
had a flashlight in which he had put
fresh batteries just before he set
out. With this, he found a long, stout
pole. Armed with light and pole, he
started out into the current, taking
a chance on getting to shore.
He gripped his pole and held to
his light, trying to brace himself
against the flood. Only desperate
maneuvering enabled him to make
any progress. Several times he went
completely under water.
"Every few yards I thought it was
all over," Mosley said. "Each time
I managed to keep on my feet and
hang to my pole. I could do that only
because my bright light showed
every whirlpool and rock. I worked
along, actually foot by foot, through
the whole hundred yards of current.
When I got where there was solid
ground under my feet once more, I
was so cold I was almost helpless."
Mosley found a house near the
river where he got thawed out and
dried his clothes. The flood com
pletely submerged his "island"
shortly after he got ashore.
$375,000,000 More Urged
For Federal Work Relief
Washington, D. C.—The Appropria
tions Committee reported to the House
of Representatives a bill appropriat
ing $375,000,000 to continue federal
work relief through the last four
months of the current fiscal year end
ing June 30, to be administered
through the Work Projects Adminis
tration.
The relief requests increased to $1,
350,650,000 the cost of the program
for 1941 and provided enough funds to
continue operations from March
through June with 1,750,000 cases on
the rolls. By June 30 the list is ex
pected to be reduced to 1,300,000
largely through increased industrial
activities resulting fronj the defense
program.
LABOR DEPT. TO
MAKE FIRE PROBE
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Secre
tary of Labor Frances Perkins has be
gun an inquiry into the causes of the
fire in the plant of the New Haven
Quilt and Pad Company, which cost
the lives of ten workers and resulted
in serious injuries to three others. The
factory was making army blankets.
She has asked Lewis E. MacBrayne,
general manager of the Massachusetts
Safety Council to investigate and re­
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port his findings to the United Stated
Department of Labor. MacBrayne ii
the regional representative for New
England on the National Committee
for Conservation of Manpower in De
fense Industries named by Secretary
Perkins last July.
Seven other outstanding safety ex
perts in different sections of the coun
try were appointed at that time to
keep a check on plants engaged in de
fense orders so as to prevent injury
or death of skilled workers, to prevent
loss of worktime through sickness, ac
cident or occupational disease, to pre
vent delays to production schedules
which follow accidents and to control,
as far as possible, factors making
workers physically unfit.
Apprenticeship Standards
Approved By Employers
New York City (ILNS).—National
apprenticeship standards covering a
wide range of trades in the plastering
and lathing industry became official
when the Contracting Plasterers' In
ternational Association unanimously
approved these standards at its re
cent annual convention. The labor or
ganizations involved had led the way
by previously taking similar action.
These standards were prepared by
the National Joint Plastering and
Lathing Apprenticeship Committee, in
co-operation with the Federal Com
mittee on Apprenticeship, and were
approved by the Operative Plaster
ers' and Cement Finishers' Interna
tional Association and the Wood, Wire
and Metal Lathers' International
Union.
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