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Congress
Aids Labor
Cliques
Court Confirms
Limitations on
Bargaining Units
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
The Supreme Court, in a unani
mous opinion, plainly tells the
country that management and
workers could be enjoying the hap
piest and most
satisfactory kind
o f relationship,
and yet, for
technical rea
sons, the Na
tional Labor Re
lations Board is
virtually com
pelled under the
Wagner law to
disturb such a
status.
The case in
question arose as
a result of two
efforts in 1936
and 1937 Of the David Lawrencf.
employes of the Newport News Ship
building & Drydock Co. to conform
to the Wagner law. A plan pre
viously in existence, which for years
had worked well between manage
ment and employes, was thought to
be subject to the charge of em
ployer “domination” for “inter
ference” under the Wagner Act.
The Supreme Court laconically re
cites the record:
"It is uncoutradicted that labor
disputes have been settled under the
plan; that since 1927 no labor dis
pute has caused cessation of activi
ties at the respondent’s (company’s)
plant; that overwhelming majorities
of the employes have participated in
the election of representatives; that
the company has never objected to
its employes Joining labor unions;
that no discrimination has been
practiced against them because of
their membership in outside unions,
and that neither officials nor su
perior employes not eligible to vote
in the election of employes’ repre
sentatives have interfered or at
tempted to interfere or use any in
fluence in connection with the elec
tion of representatives.
"The court below agreed with the
respondent (the company) that, as
the committee had operated to the
apparent satisfaction of the em
ployes, as serious labor disputes had
not occurred during its existence
and as the men at an election held
under the auspices of the committee
had signified their desire for its
continuance, it would be a proper
medium and one which the employer
might continue to recognize for the
adjustment of labor disputes.
Law Blocked Solution.
“The difficulty with the position
Is that the provisions of the statute
(the Wagner law) preclude such a
disposition of the case. • * •
"In applying the statutory test of
Independence, it is immaterial that
the plan had in fact not engendered,
or indeed had obviated, serious labor
disputes in the past, or that any
company interference in the admin
istration of the plan had been inci
dental rather than fundamental and
with good motives. It was for Con
gress to determine whether, as a
matter of policy, such a plan should
be permitted to continue in force.
We think the statute plainly evinces
a contrary purpose and that the
board's conclusions are in accord
with that purpose.’’
But did members of Congress who
voted in 1935 for the Wagner law
have in mind putting American
workers in such a straight jacket
that they could not possibly have
mutually satisfactory relations with
management in their own way? Did
any of those who voted for the Wag
ner law think it ever could be con
strued as it has been in the New
port News shipbuilding case?
Limits Bargaining Medium.
Plainly, the board interpreted the
law correctly and it cannot be con
tended persuasively now that the
board did anything but squeeze out
of the law what it saw there—an
open favoiitism for national unions
and a condemnation of independ
ently organized plant unions. In
other words, collective bargaining
now has been narrowed to mean
collective bargaining only by a par
ticular medium—national unions—
and the workers must necessarily in
certain cases place themselves at
the mercy of labor cliques and labor
leaders who really do not represent
the wishes of the workers at all.
The board, therefore, is immune
from attack in construing the law,
for the Supreme Court now has
affirmed the board’s view. Congress
ajone, as the representative of the
workers and management of the
country, has the problem of deciding
whether a strait jacket must be con
tinue to be Imposed hereafter or
real freedom of choice permitted.
Just as the prohibition problem
became in 1932 not a question of
temperance or moderateness in
drinking, but a crime condition
growing out of bootlegging, so that
the country finally repealed the
18th amendment, so today the Wag
ner law is headed for a reaction.
With all its beneficent purposes,
the labor relations law has been
twisted by its friends into a statute
which denies Instead of encourages
collective bargaining and true free
dom of choice of the workers.
(Reproduction Rlshts Reserved.)
Dr. J. R. Carr Lectures
On Christian Science
Last night in the Third Church
of Christ, Scientist, Dr. John R.
Carr of the Christian Science Board
of Lectureship spoke on “The Sci
ence of Christian Healing.”
Excerpts from his lecture follow:
"Christian Science, with its sci
entifically Christian system of mind
healing as taught and practiced
originally by Christ Jesus and in
this age by Mary Baker Eddy, is a
subject of supreme importance and
profound significance to the whole
world.”
“Christian Science is a science, a
philosophy and a religion, a three
fold mode of thought whereby truth
comes to the understanding.
Through Christian Science thought
is repented, reformed, regenerated,
purified and spiritualized—the hu
man yielding to the divine, and
through baptism or the submergence
of the human in the divine con
sciousness is exalted to the high
level of spiritual understanding.”
"This science offers to a sick and
sinning world a system of healing
which is scientific, Christian, abso
lute, exact, full and final; a system
which, when applied according to
the science stated in ‘Science and
Health With Key to the Scriptures,'
by Mary Baker Eddy, has healed,
is healing and will continue to heal
in an ever-increasing manner every
ill ‘that flesh is heir to.’ ”
“The principle, rule and proof of
this Christianly scientific system of
medicine are set forth in the writ
ings of Mrs. Eddy, which, together
with the King James version of the
Bible, form the texts of Christian
Science. Christian Science healing
is a system of therapeutics identical
with that taught and practiced by
Christ Jesus.”
“Health is a spiritually mental
state, not a physiological nor. an
anatomical one. Healing is a meta
physical or divinely mental process,
not a physical nor a pathological
one."
The Capital Parade
President Reported Considering Tax Boost Plea,
But May Abandon Idea to Keep Party Amity
By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
The next act of the annual tax comedy has downright cataclysmic
possibilities. It is learned on positive authority that the President Is
now favorably considering recommending severe tax increases to the
next session of Congress. If he lets the wish be father to the act, he will
ask for excess corporate profit taxes, higher personal income taxes in the
middle brackets, and minor revisions in the tax system to plug loopholes.
It is still an open question, however, whether the President will run
the risk of obeying his impulse. What he wants need be in doubt no
XUIXgCI . cut IAJ UU WilOW
he must ignore the wishes of A\
certain of the most influential
congressional tax leaders, and prob
ably even destroy his new accord tlX
with the conservative Democrats. It
is a distinct possibility that this last
and largest consideration will per
suade him to hold his hand. ^,1
The Treasury position has not -fjf
always been entirely plain. After
playing with the idea of a tax
program limited to removal of needless irritants to business, the Treasury
briefly decided to ask for no program of any sort. Secretary Henry
Morgenthau, jr., did not feel strongly in the matter, however, and was
open-minded to the social usefulness of taxes on munitions profits. Thus,
he will probably be ready to go along with the President.
Taxes for Defense
The Treasury is no longer talking about taxes. But, since the Presi
dent has openly stated his tax plans to others in his entourage, it seems
virtually certain that he has also confided them to Secretary Morgenthau
and his staff. The President is understood to have made ud his mind at
a rather recent date. but. if not before, he had the chance to talk to
Morgenthau at their regular lunch together on Monday.
Tax ideas similar to the President’s have lately been mentioned by
several others. Only a few days after the outbreak of the war. when the
business boom was just declaring itself, members of the New Deal group
discussed what they called "war profits taxes" among themselves. Later
their interest cooled, but it has now revived again Meanwhile, Chairman
Marriner S. Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, the Treasury's ancient
enemy, also spoke out for tax increases. And, at Warm Springs, the
President himself announced that “the people must decide" whether to
borrow or tax for national defense. His present state of mind may be
taken as a crystallization of the mental atmosphere in which the Warm
Springs announcement originated.
Whips and Scorpions
The pattern of 1936 deserves to be recalled. That year, the President
was firmly economizing, in order to present a better budgetary nicture
to the electorate. His conservative critics made fun of his economies,
whereat he answered them, “Very well, if you want a balanced budget. I
will give it to you with whips and scorpions." The result was the cele
brated undistributed surplus tax now no more. Exactly the same pattern
has lately been repeated, and. one must suppose, is having thfc same result.
As the President has only got as far as wanting new taxes, their exact
(nature cannot oe specinea oeyona
the broad categories already men
tioned. The excess corporate profits
a tax, if presented at all, will probably
be offered as a tax on wartime
profits. Higher personal income
taxes in the middle brackets—from
i around $10,000 tp $50,000 annually—
- are an old scheme contained in the
Roswell Magill tax memorandum,
which has been kicking round the
^—— -- a a vnoui j aui iiwu jcaio. n oouipic
loophole-plugging revision is one which would not permit the basic per
sonal exemptions to be applied in calculating surtaxes.
Politically speaking, the President's interest in new taxes must be
taken as a trend back toward the recently forsaken New Deal group of
advisers. Conversely, it is also a trend away from the conservative
Democrats. Anything like a repetition of the undistributed surplus tax
row would split the Democratic party from nave to chops. Conservative
Democrats are all for taxation, but not for taxation of the sort the
President wants. To repeat, this consideration may still move the
President to keep his tax plans in the small class of his suppressed desires.
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Hazen to Speak Saturday
At Sousa Bridge Rites
District Commissioner Melvin C. i
Hazen will deliver the principal ad
dress at the dedication ceremonies
opening the first half of the John
Philip Sousa Bridge over the Ana
costia River Saturday at 2:30 p.m.
Other District officials and civic
leaders anil participate in the brief
ceremonies. The United States Ma
rine Band, of which Sousa long was
the leader, will play.
Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director
of highways, will present the bridge,
which will be accepted by Col. David
McCoach, jr., Engineer Commis
sioner.
Others to take part include Adel
bert W. Lee. genera! chairman of
the Dedication Committee; William
A. Maio, president of the Southeast
Citizens’ Association; Orrin J. Davy,
president of the Southeast Confer
ence of Citizens’ Associations, and
Arthur J. Shaffer, president of the
Southeast Business Men's Associa
tion.
Nancy Lee, 9-year-old daughter of
the dedication chairman, will cut a
ribbon officially opening the struc
tuat. Invocation and benediction
will be by the Rev. Edward Gabler,
pastor of Christ Episcopal Church.
There will be a salute to Sousa by
Boy Scouts, with taps directed to
ward Sousa’s grave in Congres
sional Cemetery.
Health Group to Meet
The Health Committee of the First
Ward Neighborhood Council will
meet at 3:30 p.m. Friday in the Boys’
Club of Goodwill Industries, 1218
New Hampshire avenue N.W.
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Dewey Talk of Major Import
Address Tonight May Give Clue
To His Political Philosophy
By CHARLES G. ROSS.
District Attorney Thomas E.
Dewey of New York, whose candi
dacy for the Republican nomination
for President was formally an
nounced last
week, will make
a speech tonight
at Minneapolis
in which he will
start disclosing
his views on na
tional issues.
Because of Mr.
Dewey’s forward
position in the
presidential race
the event will be
of first-rate po
litical impor
tance.
The speech
will neither ch»n*. g. ko»».
make nor break Mr. Dewey as a
candidate, but, besides expressing
his opinions on a few concrete top
ics, it should give a good general
idea of the philosophy that will
shape his later addresses. One
thing is certain: It will be the re
sult. of the most painstaking prepa
ration.
So well aware was Mr. Dewey of
the importance of a 15-minute
speech he made at a Gridiron Club
dinner a year ago that he spent,
so he told a friend, many hours
in writing, polishing and rehearsing
it. The speech made such a fine
impression on the audience of writ
ers, politicians, business and pro
fessional men (an assembly, it
should be added, predominantly
from the upper income brackets)
that Mr. Dewey must have felt him
self well repaid for his labors.
By contrast, a speech delivered at
a Gridiron affair a few months later
by another presidential aspirant,
Senator Taft, fell painfully flat. Mr.
Dewey heard this speech and no
doubt again congratulated himself
on the pains he had taken with his
own. Others in the audience, felici
tated Mr. Dewey on the speech by
Mr. Taft, and some went so far as
to say that Mr. Taft had talked
himself out of the nomination.
This, of course, was grossly to over
estimate the Warwickian powers of
the guests, however Influential, at
the dinners of the Gridiron Club.
It is to be noted that Mr. Taft has
gone right on talking, both in the
Senate and on the stump, just as if
his unfortunate effort of last spring
had never been.
Candor Appealing.
Whether you agree with Mr. Taft
or not, there is something appealing i
in his candor and forthrightness. He !
has "stuck his neck out,-’ as the
saying goes, on every Issue that has
come before the Senate, where an
other man trying for the presidency
—a Harding, say—would have been
politically more circumspect. He is
no polished orator—no Roosevelt in
his use of words and tones—but he
is a much better speaker than his
Gridiron Club remarks may have
indicated. Also not only has Mr.
Taft been speaking over the country,
but his agents have been engaged in
the practical business of rounding
up delegates. He’s set to give Mr.
Dewey, and Senator Vandenberg as
well, a race.
To return to Dewey, his speech of
tonight, one can be sure, will have
been thought out to the last word
and syllable. Many days will have
gone into its making. Tor Mr. Dewey,
whose fight on racketeering has
caught the imagination of the people
and paved the way for a sympathetic
hearing of his claims to preferment,
faces now a supreme test.
Is he something more than a
highly successful prosecutor? Has
he the maturity of mind that a
President should have? What are
the great issues as he sees them?
To what extent would he discard
the work of the New Deal and to
what extend build upon it? How,
concretely, would he attack the
problem of putting the unemployed
back to work? How would he deal
with relief? What does he think
of spending for public works? Of
budget balancing? Of pensions?
What does he propose to do for the
farmers? What, in his view, should
be the foreign policy of the United
States in the light of the present
desperate state of world affairs?
Mr. Dewey cannot be expected to
answer all these questions of policy
tonight, but he will have to face
them all, and more, in the course of
the campaign.
Views on Foreign Affairs.
Advance notices indicate that he
will devote a portion of his speech
to foreign affairs. In this field it
will be possible to compare his views,
immediately, with those of his two
principal opponents for the Repub
lican nomination, for they are both
on record.
Senator Vandenberg joined the
isolationist group and helped to lead
the losing fight against repeal of
the arms embargo in the last session
of Congress. Senator Taft, break
ing with most of his Republican
colleagues of the House and Senate,
branded the arms embargo as wholly
illogical and voted with the admin
istration forces for repeal. Both of
them sought to protect the peace
of the United States, but they dif
fered sharply as to the right meth
ods to that end. Senator Taft, ad
vocating a greater degree of discre
tion for the President in the conduct
of foreign affairs than most of the
Republicans were willing to allow,
declared it was important that the
Republican party should not cry
“Wolf!” until a wolf appeared.
It will be especially interesting at
this time to see where Mr. Dewey s
thinking on foreign affairs has led
him.
Japanese General Threatened
Hara-kiri in Wu Pei-fu's Home
By the Associated Pres*.
PEIPING, Dec. 6—The death of Marshal Wu Pel-fu was preceded
by a fantastic Oriental intrigue in which the retired warlord drove a
Japanese general to the threat of hara-kari by stubbornly refusing to
help form a Japanese-controlled government for China, a highly reliable
source declared today.
Wu, known in his active years as "the only honest warlord in China,”
VAnHflV An frnntV* A ■ — ■ —
was announced as the cause of
death. *
The following story, related by a
source close to him, is substantiated
in many details by Japanese .Army
sources:
Several months ago, the Japanese
Army assigned Maj. Gen. Kawa
moto to the sole mission of persuad
ing Wu Pei-fu to participate in, or
at least to support, a Japanese
sponsored government for China.
Became Disciple of Wu.
Kawamoto is a pupil and subordi
nate of Japan's ace secret agent, Lt.
Gen. Kenji Doihara, who previously
had tried to win Wu’s aid, but had
succeeded only in buying off various
marshals of the Wu retinue.
Wu, for the past dozen years, had
devoted himself to a study of the
Buddhist classics, and, In an effort
to ingratiate himself, Kawamoto
became a disciple of Wu in the study
of Buddhism. Wu's answer re
mained an adamant “no.”
Wu previously repeatedly had
stalled off the Japanese by last
minute maneuvers and by present
ing exorbitant terms for his aid.
Three weeks ago, Kawamoto re
turned to Peiping from conferences
in Japan and Shanghai and in
formed Wu the Japanese government
and its Chinese collaborator, Wang
Ching-wei, were ready to accept
Wu’s demands.
These were that Wo would head
the proposed government, that he
must have his own sphere of in
fluence in Peiping .or Nanking, and
that he must be accorded real mili
tary and political powers.
Threatened Hara-kiri.
When Wu continued to temporize.
Kawamoto told him he (Kawamoto)
had lost enough "face” already, and
that unless Wu acted Immediately
he Intended to commit hara-kari In
Wu's home.
Wu said he must consult his god
before giving a final answer. He ac
cordingly ascended a sacred plat
form in his home, as he was accus
tomed to do twice weekly, and there
knelt befored an image of Buddha
and asked divine guidance in draw- j
ing his answer from a series of spe- j
cially-prepared lots.
It was said the altar attendants.1
in the pay of the Japanese, had
stacked the lots.
At any rate, Wu drew a reply
which advised: *
“Emerge and save your people;
otherwise you might meet unex
pected mishaps.”
Kawamoto and many prominent
Chinese witnessed the ceremony, but
Wu, in obvious anger, ignored them.
Striking a table with his fist, he
shouted, “Not only men compel me,
but god also!” That was 13 days
ago.
One day later, Wu contracted “a
political illness” and refused to see
Kawamoto.
Two days later, he was reported ;
stricken with a tooth Infection, and
last Monday he died.
When Wu became ill, Kawamoto
also was reported officially to have
entered a hospital, by coincidence or
perhaps as a result of his failure to i
lure the old marshal from retire- j
ment. He arose, however, in time to j
be at Wu's bedside when death
came.
Wu's long refusal to assist the
Japanese, sealed now by his death,
was admittedly a complicating fac- ,
tor in the Japanese program.
Wang Ching-wei, one-time Chi
nese Republican premier, frequently
has been mentioned as the probable
top figure in the government which
Japan hopes to establish, but in
formed persons believe the Japanese
Army of North China is cool toward
him. Hence, Wu's aid was much
*ought.
We, the People
Double Significance Seen in Norris' View
Roosevelt Should Delay Third-Term Statement
By JAT FRANKLIN.
Behind George Norris’ third-term statement of December 4 lies a
remarkable story.
The story is one of machine politicians in both parties trying to force
Mr. Roosevelt to commit himself one way or the other on his presidential
candidacy for 1940, without regard for the welfare of the country or the
will of the voters. m
Gamer and McNutt on the Democratic side and the host of would-be
Hardings on the G. O. P. side have been trying to force the issue. For
example, me uecemoer 3 issue 01
the Washington Post ran a signed
story, stating that “President Roose
velt is expected to disavow any per
' sonal aspirations for a third term
within a reasonable period. But for
reasons of his own, such statement
Is not looked for from him in ad
vance of the Jackson Day dinner
on January 8.”
, Prom another angle, the third
term pressure is growing among the
practical politicians oi tna ueirocrawc party, nuup w. rorter, uie pouu
cal reporter of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, commenting on the recent
McNutt rally in Cuyahoga County, remarked: ‘‘The only guy who can do
anything at all for the State and county ticket up here would be Roose
velt, if he should run for a third term. The local Democrats, split wide
open with factional rivalry for more than a year, have awful visions of
the Republicans sweeping the presidential election next fall against any
one but Roosevelt.”
The Independent Voter
But the independent voter is the man who decides American elections,
and until he is heard from there is little sense in political thimble-rigging
for the benefit of either set of machine politicians. His only recognized
national spokesman is Senator George W Norris of Nebraska, the grand
old man of progressivism and the outstanding disinterested figure in our
public life.
For some months the New Dealers have beer, hoping that Mr. Norris
would come out for a third term. He had written a letter last summer to
Senator Pepper of Florida, which they had wished to publicize, but the
outbreak of the European war intervened, and when the third-term issue
revived last month, the situation had changed. In any case, the Norris
letter to Pepper was too long for effective newspaper use.. Then, as the
pressure on the President became powerful and almost indecent in its dis
regard for the political confusion which would follow a final commitment
by Mr. Roosevelt, the New Dealers urged Senator Norris to issue a new
statement.
Norris Willing
They particularly wanted to forestall another announcement of Vice
President Gamer’s candidacy, rendered probable by the failure of the
Garner ‘'boom” to set Texas on fire. Mr. Norris was willing and Issued a
statement which is calculated to remind the politicians that the men
who decide elections—the independent liberals and progressives—see no
need to hurry the President into making a premature decision on this
vital national issue.
‘‘It would be a sad mistake if President Roosevelt acceded .to these
demands (that he announce himself on the 1940 election),” said Senator
Norris.
“Today, President Roosevelt is the ideal leader of the common man.
He represents the hopes and prayers of millions of progressive people.
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political horizon under whose ban
ner there can be such unanimity of
honest, progressive, patriotic citi
zens. • • •
“At this critical time, Mr. ^
Roosevelt should not eliminate him- H
self from the contest. It is a ques
tion much greater and broader than
his personal wishes. • • * No man
can tell what may happen in the
next several montns. but until the
clouds of doubt and obscurity are cleared away, he should remain in a
position where, if the patriotic spirit of the country demands it, he can
still be the leader of the liberal progressive thought of the Nation. The
welfare of our common country is far more important than the wishes or
ambitions of any man or group of men.”
This Norris statement has a double significance. It represents the
independent vote which decides national elections. It also represents the
considered belief of the White House group of New Deal administrators.
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Relief Troubles Beset
Gov. Bricker of Ohio,
1940 Aspirant
By LEMUEL F. PARTON.
In 1935, relief troubles boiled over
In Ohio and brought threats of im
peachment of Gov. Davey by At
torney General John W. Bricker.
• The row was
said to have
damaged the
State and na
tional Demo
cratic organiza
tions consider
ably. Last year,
Mr. Bricker was
elected the first
Republican gov
ernor of Ohio In
eight years and
is now having
even worse re
lief troubles
_ _ ,. than his prede
Gor. Bricker. cessor. The press
reports a desperate and dangerous
situation in Cleveland, with 16.000
persons without food in unheated
homes, as relief is cut off.
Through a long spyglass, without
close-up information, Gov. Bricker
would seem to be caught in one of
those “rotten borough" dead-ends,
which the late Dr. Paul Goode of
the University of Chicago once said
were the worst menace of tha
American political system. Gov.
Bricker, farm-born and reared and
deriving his support from rural dis
tricts. was elected by the vote of 77
out of Ohio’s 88 counties.
The rural districts have regarded
big city relief as an organized po
litical racket, this being particularly
emphasized in a national airing of
the issue last May, and Mr. Bricker’a
gubernatorial build-up was based
partly on his assault on the big
town relief set-up. He now has a
surplus of $6,000,000 for relief uses
and all indications are that it
would be political suicide for him
to use it.
Cleveland is ham-strung, relief
clients are cold and hungry, the
Legislature does not meet until Jan
uary 1, and all observers agree that
there is small hope of its voting ad
ditional funds. The unreconstruct
ed rural districts, holding their
power through the national custom
of refusing to reapportion electoral
districts, are expected to block any
legislative action. If there is "social
dynamite" on Cleveland's doorstep,
the farm districts are saying, in
effect, “It’s your dynamite,” and
letting it go at that.
Interest accrues in view of Gov.
Broker's recent advance toward
the 1940 Republican nomination.
When he trimmed the tree-man,
Mr. Davey, last year, on a platform
of pruning grafters and loafers from
the public pay roll, he acquired
political momentum which has been
augmented by a powerful organiza
tion and which has been making
him a national figure. Forty-five
years old, handsome and engaging,
with wavy, prematurely gray hair
worn somewhat en brosse, solid and
substantial and farm-reared, he has
decided electoral appeal. In 1932
and 1934. he was elected attorney
general of Ohio against heavy Dem
ocratic landslides. Previously, he
had been attorney for the Ohio
Public Utilities Commission. He is
married and has one son.
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One-Cent Rebate
CHARLOTTE, N. C . Dec. 6 (JP).—
Duke Power Co., Charlotte's largest
taxpayer, sent the city $60,428.06 for
taxes.
The city sent back to the utility
a 1-cent rebate, the smallest paid.
The refund was mailed in a 2-cent
envelope.
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Your Xmas
NORTH’S
GREAT
70th Anniversary Sale
of ISO New and Used Pianos
Delivers Your
Piano for Xmas
START EASY PAYMENTS
_ in JANUARY
Nationally•
Known Makos Including
LESTER BETSY ROSS SPINETS,
GRAND PIANOS AND STUDIOS
NOW Purchase your Christmas piano for as little
SPINETS as $3 down and start Easy Payments next
January/we will also trade in your present
C piano. Buy your new piano with confidence
^ I 7 ej under our PROTECTIVE CERTIFICATE and
UP ten year guarantee.
* 3**«5»3W3£ MAIL THIS COUPON RMMMnsy
GRANDS |F.A.NORTH PIANO," \
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rvES ■ Please Send List of Pianos and Prices
UNTIL 9 Na"".-. —
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You’ll feel at home at the Morris Plan
Bank, Betty .. they take such a friendly
interest and are always so glad to help.
You see, there are no hard and fast
rules here «. they actually go out of their
way to help people with their individual
problems. I guess that’s why the Morris
Plan Bank is known as the bank for
the individual
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TIE EM FOE TIE DWTIliL
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Accounts of Individuals
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Insurance Corporation