Evening star. [volume], December 11, 1939, Page A-11, Image 11

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

Image provided by: Library of Congress, Washington, DC

                
Wage Law
Held Costly
To Workers
Seen as Obstacle
To Creators of Jobs;
Inquiry Forecast
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
An inquiry of transcendent im
portance began today—the investi
gation of the labor board and th<
Wagner Act by a special committee
of the House of
Kepresent
atives—but it is
only one of a
number of sur
veys that may be
started soon by
Congress to ex
pose to view the
actual operation
of various so
called reform
laws.
With the pub
lic debt growing
larger and larger
and unemploy- '
ment rolls being David Lawrence,
diminished only slightly, the big
question before the country is what
are the obstacles to employment and
who is interfering with the men in
America who create jobs.
A striking instance of job preven
tion came to this correspondent over
the week end. An employer whose
plants employ in the neighborhood
of 50.000 men was talking about the
pre-Christmas rush for his product
and he sc id he wished he could have
worked his plants on two successive
Saturdays before Christmas. He has
the 5-day week and if he works his
men on Saturdays he must pay time
and a half for every hour. He said
that even the time and a half pro
vision was not a preventive where
it concerned manual labor, but when
he came to figure out what it would
cost him to pay time and a half
for his office force of several thou
sand persons, the total cost was
prohibitive.
SI.300.000 Pay Roll.
Thus approximately $1,300,000 of
pay roll was taken away from the
manual employes by a Federal law
which made impossible the exten
sion for only two days of a manu
facturing operation that would have
created job hours for thousands of
people.
This correspondent inquired
whether the situation would have
been better under an amendment to
the Federal wage and hour law which
was killed by the C. I. O. at the
last session of Congress and which
provided that all employes with sal
aries of $200 a month or over should
be exempted from the provisions of
the law. The answer was that 80
per cent of the office staff received
salaries in excess of $200 a month
and that if such a provision had
been incorporated in the law last
year, the company would have found
it economically possible to work the
plants in the two days in question.
There are other instances through
out the country in which employ
ment is actually being retarded and
the creation of jobs prevented be
cause of the provisions of the wage
and hour law. There is little com
plaint about the minimum w'age pro
visions, but the arbitrary imposition
of a time and a half clause for over
time, blanketing all industries and
all conditions without regard to sea
sonal problems, especially in the
handling of piece workers, is work
ing to the detriment of American
labor.
A congressional investigation of
the operations of the wage and hour
law would doubtless reveal many in
equities which have interfered with
business expansion but about which
the public as a whole has little
knowledge. The mere fact that
the C. I. O. could successfully lobby
against the $200-a-month provision
indicates that even members of
Congress are aware of the way in
which the wage and hour law is
hurting the workers of the country
by keeping them from getting extra
work.
Law Prevents Volunteers.
There are many white collar
workers who receive vacation with
pay and sick leave ancj, other bene
fits and who do not really mind
working a few' hours extra now and
then, especially when it is the means
of creating work for their fellow
men who are less fortunate in in
come. But the existing law prevents
an office worker from volunteering
his services. The statute is a strait
jacket which deprives the individual
of his right to contribute his services
for a few extra hours A week if he
bo desires.
The investigation of the labor
board and the labor act has come
after three years of agitation and
complaints with respect to the
operations of the Wagner Act. The
wage and hour law is only a little
more than a year old but already it
is apparent that an adamant posi
tion is being taken against any
amendments, and the administration
which at first supported some
amendments has apparently lost
interest in them and there are no
Indications that any fight will be
made to get them adopted.
The history of legislation in
America reveals that when an un
compromising position is taken by
the sponsors of a law' and when
after actual operation it is revealed
to be unfair, the clamor for revision
grows more and more intense until
finally a public sentiment for com
plete repeal develops and many of
the worth while features of a reform
law' are swept into the discard on a
tide of public resentment. The
wage and hour law' had many
friends when it was passed but it is
beginning to lose them in accord
ance as the administrators of the
law' and the sponsors in Congress
refuse to put the full weight of
their support behind changes which
have been found necessary so as to
| help increase employment in
America.
Some day there will be a congres
; sional inquiry devoted to one subject
—who are the selfish individuals at
the head of selfish organizations
in America who keep re-employment
from being realized and business 1
from being expanded so that tax :
receipts sufficient to balance the
budget can be collected? It would ;
be an inquiry of inquires.
U. S. Surgeons Discover
New Skin Disease
By the Associated Press.
Discovery of a skin disease, over
looked in the past because of re
semblance to pellagra and beri-beri.
was reported yesterday by two
United States Public Health Serv
ice officials.
Dr. W. H. Sebrell and Dr. R. E.
Butler said the disease, which they
called “ariboflavinosis,” caused a
breakdown of the skin about the
nose and mouth and deep cracks in
the skin of the face.
Experiments by the surgeons |
showed the disease was caused by .
deficiency of vitamin B-2. or ribofla
vin. Administration of synthetic
riboflavin cleared up the skin dis
order in about a month, the physi
cians said.
Dieting Spoils Temper
Of Hippopotamus
By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 11.—Cleo, the
hippopotamus, lost only 5 pounds in
10 days of dieting, so she’s going
back on full rations. The diet
spoiled her temper, too.
“We'd rather see Cleo playing in
the water and wiggling her ears at
us than have her temperamental as
an opera singer,” said Tex Clark,
Swope Park Zoo director.
“I didn't suppose she would take
| the diet so seriously. It showed me
1 nature intended her to be fat—and
fat she’s going to be.”
Mr. Clark started the diet for fear
excessive fat would shorten Cleo's
life. She's 14 and he predicted that,
streamlined, she'd live to be 40 or
thereabouts.
Health Insurance Bill
Drafted by Conferees
Bv the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11— A health
insurance bill, intended for Slate
legislatures and providing medical
and dental benefits to lower-income j
famjlies, has been drafted by repre
sentatives of Government agencies,
physicians, unions and civic groups
meeting under the auspices of the
American Association for Social Se
curity.
The service would be financed by
employers, employes and the State
with tax contributions based on a
sliding scale. A stamp plan is in
cluded to eliminate voluminous re
ports.
Parallel legislation calling for
Federal grants-in-aid for health in- !
surance also was planned by the
conferees.
The intended legislation would
limit the benefits to persons earn
ing less than $1,500 or $2,000 a year,
and their families.
Among those at the meeting were
Prof. J. Douglas Brown of Prince
ton University, chairman of the
Federal Advisory Council on Social
Security; Dr. Louis S. Reed of the
United States Public Health Serv
ice, Barker S. Sanders and Mari
anne Sakmann of the Social Se
curity Board.
The Capital Parade
Garner Tells Friends He'll Quit
Politics if He Is Not Nominated
By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
John Nance Garner is telling his friends that, If he is not nominated
for the presidency, he is through with politics. He will retire to his Uvalde
squirearchate, there to cultivate his acres, hunt for Texas deer and angle
for Texas fish after the manner of
a lusty Cincinnatus. Meanwhile, he
is a candidate for keeps. Such is the
final stage of the Garner candi
dacy, which has gone through a
curious transformation. The shrewd,
uiu vitc x-iesiueni unaouoiecuy
entered the race with the sole inten
tion of accumulating enough dele
gates to have a powerful say in the •
Democratic National Convention.
His mind was slowly changed by ' «->
evidence of unsuspected Garner sentiment in Democratic organizations
all over the country. Now a huge, well-heeled headquarters at Dallas is
running his campaign, and early in January, when he will go through
the formal ceremony of public disclosure of his ambition, he will be talking
in earnest.
Furthermore, word comes from circles extremely close to the White
House that the President himself regards Garner as the only conserva
tive Democrat w:ith a serious chance to capture the party nomination.
For the New Deal group, intent on their third-term plans, the firmly anti
third-term Garner is public threat No. 1.
Back to Normalcy
All this is perfectly sensible. It is pretty clear by now that, unless the
President intervenes. Jack Garner and his good friend, Jim Farley, will
control the Democratic Convention between them. They will have the
j delegates.
The Garner candidacy is customarily minimized, because it is said,
quite correctly, that the Negros and organized labor do not love him.
But. if the Negros and organized labor are unenthusiastic. Garner has
an immense compensating following among normally Republican voters
charmed by the impressive Garner build-up in the newspapers. Many
Republican leaders are finding disquieting truth in the White House gibe,
that "Jack Garner is the best Republican candidate we have.”
Moreover, Garner is a colorful as well as a potent political personality.
He authentically has the kind of rich regional flavor that Calvin Coolidge
used for scenery. His speech would be admirable dialogue for a "Down
East” of the cattle country. When he wants to tell the President to let
business alone, he says that the cattle ought to be allowed to rest and take
on fat instead of being "choused” around. Or, if he wants to boast of his
own fitness to walk 12 miles a day, he declares, “My legs are so hard that,
if a deer hunter took a pot-shot at me, the bullet would bounce right off.”
These echoes of an earlier America strike just the right engaging note
for a man who is essentially a “back to normalcy” candidate. Of such
stuff are political assets made.
Head-on Clash
In fact. Garner w-ould be an excellent bet if it were not for the
I President. The Garner forces take the line that, so long as Garner is
■ ready to support any Democrat the convention chooses, the President
i sr.c*. yy- Vv should be willing to do the same. But
A . *dK the President plainly is not willing
,* i 'W to do anything of the sort.
1 ' • Outw-ardly, amiable relations
.gj ‘•jy * have been maintained between tiie
dent somewhat unwillingly gave
Garner a free hand in managing re
vision of the Neutrality Act. In
earlier days, Garner steered much
New’ Deal legislation to passage, in
_ eluding, it is worth remembering,
the first great, $4,800,000,000 spending bill. But Garner's interludes of
independence have gravely offended Roosevelt. The offense does not find
expression in personal criticism, but in suggestions that Garner is reac
tionary in his associations. Currently, the White House is making much
of Garner s backing. E. B. Germany, Garner's campaign manager, is a
leading Texas oil man. Roy Miller, a powerful backer, is vice president of
Texas Gulf Sulphur Corp., and W H. Clark, jr., another backer, belongs
to a rich business law firm. Men like these, say the White House crowd,
are not fit sponsors for the successor of Franklin Roosevelt. These inti
mations are chiefly important as symptoms of a White House attitude,
i Sooner or later, this attitude and Garner's political power are going to
, come in conflict. Then there will be fireworks.
(Released by North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
CTHE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not
necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The
Star’s effort to give all sides of Questions of interest to its
readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s.
Synthetic Candidates
Term Wrongly Applied to McNutt
Unless Many Others Are Included
By CHARLES G. ROSS.
This column holds no brief for
Paul V. McNutt—or any other can
didate—but at least one of the dis
paraging adjectives that are being
t.hrftom him
by his oppo
nents ought to
be discarded. It
is said that the
security admin
istrator's candi
dacy is wholly
“synthetic,” the
implication be
ing always that
the candidacy of
the particular
Whoozis whom
the critic pre
fers is some
+ i v» rr ontirolir
different — the ch»r1** G- B®ss
product of a great popular demand.
In the sense in which the word
is applied to the aspirations of Mr.
McNutt, it means, the dictionary
says, “not genuine, artificial, facti
tious.” That is the meaning that
the public learned to attach to it
in the days of bathtub gin.
Mr. McNutt’s candidacy, granted,
Is synthetic. It is something that
is being assiduously built up by him
and his friends in Washington and
the State of Indiana. There is no
swelling national cry for the serv
ices of Mr. McNutt as President.
Biit wherein does the campaign,
for Mr. McNutt, in this respect,
differ so greatly from the booms
that are being nourished on be
half of the other candidates?
Unless it may be said that the
third-term efforts represents a
surge of popular sentiment for the
renomination of Mr. Roosevelt (and
this is a question that only time
can answer;, where is the man, on
either side, who has inspired such
a public clamor for his election as
President that the candidacy of Mr.
McNutt, by contrast, can be dis
missed as synthetic?
No Clarion Call From Public.
The answer is that neither among
the Democrats nor the Republicans
is there any such candidate—a fact
which accounts for the uncertain
state of affairs on both sides and
the third-term movement on the
Democratic.
Mr. Garner, Mr. Hull. Mr. Far
ley, Senator Wheeler. Gov. Stark
are all worthy men. all eminently
entitled on their records to aspire
to the presidency, but no clarion
call comes from the public for any
one of them. Tire candidacies, ac
tual or potential, of all these gentle
men are little if any less synthetic
than that of Mr. McNutt,
Among the Republicans the same
condition exists, with respect to
Senator Vandenberg, Senator Taft,
Mr. Dewey, Gov. Bricker and all the
rest, None of them is a standout,
Of none can it be said that he is
the genuine, blown-in-the-bottle
article demanded by the public in
place of something artificial and
factitious.
It is not to cry down any of the
men who have been named to say
that their claims are all very largely
of the same synthetic quality that
has been derided in the case of
Mr. McNutt. The truth is that this
quality, at least in the beginning,
has attached to the candidacy of
nearly every successful aspirant to
the presidential nomination of
either party in recent times.
Go back to 1920. If there was
ever any built-up candidate for
whom there was no popular clamor
it was Harding, the choice of a little
coterie of Republican moguls in the
famous smoke-filled room at Chi
cago. The winning race for the
nomination on the other side, by
Gov. Cox, had a similar artificial
flavor.
An exception must be made in the
case of Coolidge in 1924. He had 1
of ugly spots aided with the cleans
ing efficient Resinol treatment
had his buildup earlier. The nomi
nation of John W. Davis by the
Democrats in 1924 was another case
in point; such public demand as
existed in the Democratic rank and
file that year was for the two men,
A1 Smith and McAdoo, who killed
each other off.
A1 Smith an Exception.
Mr. Smith’s candidacy in 1928
was an exception to the rule, for
by that time he had acquired great
popular strength and so, also, to
some degree, was the winning effort
of Herbert Hoover to become the
Republican standard bearer, though
a lot of hard organization work,
including a roundup of Southern
delegates, went into his race.
The great strength of Mr. Roose
velt was gained after, not before,
his first nomination in 1932. Jim
Parley won that nomination for him
by the hardest kind of plugging.
It was not the result of a spon
taneous demand from the people.
And Mr. Roosevelt could have been
“stopped" at Chicago if the "allies”
against him had sunk their jeal
ousies and pooled their resources.
His candidacy in 1936, of course,
was of a different sort, but Mr.
Landon’s was not. He, too, was a
hot-house creation.
The whole point is that a presi
dential nomination, in the first in
stance, is likely to be won by an
intensive hunt for delegates or by
trading or both. Candidates, as a
rule, go out to get the presidential
office, they don't stand back and
wait for a summons. At the very
least, when events compel a wait
ing attitude, they nourish in un
obtrusive w’avs the tender plant of
public sentiment.
There are grounds for fair crit
icism of Mr. McNutt’s drive for the
presidency, but the fact that it is i
synthetic is not one of them. It
is not one, that is to say, unless you
want to tar a large array of can
didates. past and present, writh ex
actly the same stick.
Newspaper Has Birthday,
Employes Get Present
By the Associated Press.
AKRON. Ohio, Dec 11.—The
Akron Beacon Journals 350 em
ployes assembled at a banquet last
night to honor Editor John S.
Knight and Business Manager John
H. Barry on the newspaper's 100th |
anniversary—but the employes got |
the birthday gift.
The management announced it I
would give a bonus equaling two
weeks’ pay to each worker.
Mr. Knight and Mr. Barry re- ;
ceived silver plaques, presented by
H. B. '‘Doc’’ Kerr, veteran columnist,
in behalf of the employes. The
plaques bear a miniature of the
Beacon Journal's front page.
Cann Will Start Work
On Census Job
By the Associated Press.
The Census Bureau said last
night William Ferris Cann was
scheduled to begin work at Parkers
burg. W Va„ today as West Vir
ginia area manager for the 1940
census.
The task was originally assigned
to R. Mollohan of Parkersburg, who,
the bureau said, resigned.
Finns Frustrate
Helsinki Raid
With Old Cannon
By the Associated Press.
HELSINKI, Dec. 11.—A story of
how two elderly Finns of a coastal
village frustrated a mass bombing
attack on Helsinki with the aid of ,
a rusty cannon is being told here.
The two men. members of the
civilian defense organization, sight
ed 15 bombing planes en route to
the capital December 1, as the story I
goes. They ran to the gun and
fired at the planes.
The shot missed, but the squad- i
ron wheeled about, and a dozen of !
the planes emptied their bomb racks 1
on the rocky shore where the can- j
non stood. They nad to return to 1
their base. Only three planes went
on to Helsinki.
F. T. C. Bans '6 Per Cent'
In G. M., Ford Financing
By the Associated Press.
The Federal Trade Commission
has ruled that the term “six per
cent” can not be used in automobile
financing when charges actually ex
ceed a simple six per cent of the
balance unpaid after each install
ment.
It said that a purchase plan which
carried six per cent interest on the
balance unpaid at time of purchase
until the final payment was made
actually “resulted in a charge of
approximately 11per cent simple
interest.”
The commission order was direc
ted at General Motors Corp. and
subsidiaries and the Ford Motor Co.
Complaints against several others
were dismissed on agreement to
end the practice.
We, the People
U. S. Lacks Code Policy That Assures
Wiring of Confidential Information
By JAY FRANKLIN.
Behind the special trans-Atlantic flight of Ambassador Kennedy
from London, with information “too confidential to be cabled,” lies the
story of a major State Department failure—the failure of our foreign
office to develop a code policy which insures relative secrecy in wiring
confidential information between the department and its foreign missions.
The codes are under the jurisdiction of David A. Salmon, chief
of the Division of Communication and Records, and his assistant, Roger
S. Drissel. From time to time,-at great trouble and considerable ex
pense, this division prepares code
books which are henceforth regarded
as public monuments. For extra
special messages, there is a double
code chart, changed every month.
These charts are not distributed by
m ■ uim “K'-viai vaiucio, uut cue f/ui< m uiJJiu
w M jiVJf matic pouches which are carried in
I w the captains’ safes on foreign flag
_ _ - vessels.
There is nothing to prevent a
resourceful foreign government from
having the safe opened, the pouch forced and the code cards photostated
in the course of a voyage. Faking of seals, etc., is A. B. C. stuff in war
time and our Embassies are not equipped to detect skilled tampering
with its pouches.
Other Nations Decipher Codes
As a matter of fact, since the war, every belligerent and most of the
imporSnt “neutrals'’—such as Japan. Italy and Russia—decipher all of
our Embassy-coded cables. This is taken so much as a matter of course
that in at least one belligerent capital it is a commonplace experience for
Embassy secretaries to have government officials discuss with them
frankly the contents of “secret” coded messages sent by our Ambassador
to the State Department.
Now, it is quite true that our national safety does not exactly depend
on maintaining secrecy in our diplomatic communications. But even
in peacetime, a cable to London telling the Embassy to ask for $4.50 on
the pound in exchange stabilization but to go as high as $4.45 if the
British insist, when deciphered by the British would naturally lead to
the difference of 5 cents which would be injurious to our trade. And
if either of the belligerents requested our “good offices” in arranging an
armistice, to have our codes cracked by the other side would compromise
our fairness and integrity.
'Black Chamber' Set Up
In any case, the State Department spends a lot of money each year
on codes, cables, and code clerks throughout the world. What it gets for
its money is a system of “secret” , —
communications which can be stahti/h^ismt
cracked with a can opener by any ,T
foreign government which wishes to
know what we are doing. So we
witness the scandalous picture of ,t
our Ambassador at London being -
xuictu iu uy me miamic in order to
give the President information
which, if put in "secret code,” would
be the possession of the British In
telligence Branch in less than 12
hours.
At one time, when the famous Capt. Yardley of “The American
Black Chamber was operating, we had a code program as well as a code
policy. But the Hoover administration juniced Capt. Yardley's outfit, for
reasons which still stupefy—that it wras wrong for this Government to
decipher the messages of foreign governments. Since the outbreak of the
war, a “black chamber” has been set up in New York, under the jurisdic
tion of F. C. C„ in order to prevent abuse of our neutrality in coded
messages to foreign countries. But the State Department still limps along
with a code system which was already obsolete in 1914 and which has
become virtually as prehistoric as the Pig Latin—“Imlav inlay ithway
youlay”—with the passage of 25 years.
▼ XX--LX
Headline Folk
And What
They Do
Pan-European Union
First Visualized by
Austrian Count
By LEMUEL F. PARTON.
On the day the war broke out a
hostess up in our country town
started an interesting game. Each
of about 20 dinner guests wrote and
sealed a prophecy of the trend of the
war, to be opened in three months.
We opened them several nights ago.
We were all wrong on all counts.
All had foreseen a "blitzkrieg” and
nobody a stalemat*. None foresaw
the intensifying political war.
Extending the test a few years
back, world statesmen would have
been similarly embarrassed, judging
from their previous outgivings. A
conspicuous exception would be the
Austrian Count Coudenhove-Kalergi,
pioneering a European federation
for the last 16 years. He described
precisely in advance the breakdown
of the Kellogg treaty and all other
peace pacts, Russia's pull away from
the West and its ascendancy as a
sinister Asiatic power, the vacillat
ing opportunism of Italy and its
grand opera gesture of empire, and,
with a solemn warning of gloom and
doom, a war which would render
old political formulas merely aca
It was on March 13. 1938, that he
fled from Austria. He must have
had his suitcase packed. None had
foreseen so clairvoyantly what lay
ahead. In the gloomy old palace
of the Hapsburgs in Vienna, head
quarters of his Pan-European Union,
he left his slice of the all-Europe
dream. But only temporarily. Still
active in France, England and
Switzerland, he finds, within the
last month, a strong revival of the
plan for a federated Europe, and
this resurgence has brought for*
ward and validated much of hi*
work and recruited powerful and
effective leaders *behind an effort
to achieve continental economic
and cultural union.
A slender, poetic young man. with
ascetic and scholarly features, he
published his book. "Pan-Europe.”
in 1923. It was a penetrating study
of historical backgrounds and star
tlingly prophetic in charting the
years ahead. He then took the lead
in organizing the Pan-European
Union. He received surprising sup
port for what seemed at the time
a highly dubious proposal. Falling
in were Herriot of France. Strese
mann of Germany, Nitti of Italy and
other powerful leaders of European
political opinion. His plan was ad
vancing rapidly until 1932, when
Herriot angrily resigned from the
union because of a letter the count
had written him. In thus letter the
count warned against crushing the
German republic and predicted that
such treatment would provoke a
dangerous reaction in Germany.
The count was bom to be an in
ternationalist. His father was the
Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to
j Japan. His mother was Japanese
i and his grandmother was a Greek
j heiress. He was for several years
professor of philosophy at the Uni
versity of Vienna.
jig i,
m* kS il I tS ilii 4 ™
I Yes, I am worriedH
... and it's about!
your cold...do getB
Isome FATHER JOHN'S |
MEDICINE now...tteI
children need it too-1
RICH IN VITAMINS.. %U»dL 84 u I
—
A little buys a lot on the Challenger to California! Coach
passengers ride in deep-cushioned, reclining chair-seats,
with soft night lights, free pillows and porter service,
bleeping Car passengers save money on rail fare and
berth charges—enjoy the use of a smart, radio-equipped
Lounge Car. Helpful Registered Nurse-Stewardess
service, without cost, to all. The
i Challenger is your "best buy''—for
comfort at low cost! SflRpt]
Send for TREE Folder*
Full information about train travel to and from
California. Describe* service on the Stream
liners and Limited* as well as the Challengers
... with sample lares, meal prices, views ol
equipment and time schedules.
Union Pacific or c.(K W tv
*Mi National Prow Bldg. 723 Woodward Bldg.
Phone Republic 0600 Phone Republic 1M1
Washington, O. C.
M Btjttri-lmi Pacific
_1 h
• Extra long cord makes
it easy to reach every
corner of the room.
• Extra light weight
makes Eureka excep
tionally easy to handle.
• Wide adjustable noz
zle does a faster clean
ing job.
•Four easy gliding, soft,
rubber tired rollers.
V011 SIIUE *14.80!
Cash in on the greatest vacuum cleaner buy in 30 years! New low
price brings famous Eureka quality within the reach of everyone!
Bring new life and color to your rugs, draperies, upholstery and
furnishings with the clean-as-it-sweeps Eureka action. Eureka
actually removes that greasy, sooty “smudge” dirt you rarely hope
to get with ordinary cleaners. Cleans deep below the surface.
Works like a charm! Just a touch of the hand and Eureka sails
across the room ... the motor driven brush leaving a clean, fresh
rug behind! No more tiresome tugging and pushing.
Eureka’s sound engineering construction is built to withstand
many years of steady service.
At $29.95 it’s sensational! Enjoy Eureka in your home today. It’s
your chance for the greatest savings you can make for years to come.
Small Down Payment • Easy Terms • Come In and See Eureka on Display Today!
EUREKA VACUUM CLEANER CO.
791 llth STREET MW FREE f4ctory inspection given to ill H ..._,
inn ailICCI n.W. Avoid unauthorised agents. NAtiOMl 2700
f / J
EISEMAN’S
F ST. AT 7th
Men’s SUITS
TOPCOATS
and O’COATS
You men who
want Real
Values . . .
Here’s your
golden op
portunity.
The season’s
newest and
smartest
styles and
patterns . . .
all Eiseman’s
quality cloth
ing reduced
to rock - bot
tom.
CHARGE IT! PAY
AFTER CHRISTMAS
IN FOUR MONTHS.
NO INTEREST!
A