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Wednesday, February 13, i935
‘FORGOTTEN MAN’ STILL UNDER
DARK SKIES
Experts working for the Federal Emer
gency Relief Administration sat down not
long ago to try ta find out just who this
forgotten man we have been hearing so
much about really is.
Examining their records, they came to
the surface at last with the following de
scription:
He is between 45 and 65 years of age.
He makes up about 27 per cent of the em
ployable’* relief population; but there’s a
catch in the use of that adjective, because
his chances of re-entering private industry
are almost nil, 45 being accounted a sere
and yellow old age in employment offices
these days.
The forgotten man. further, has little
hope of cashing in under any unemploy
ment insurance scheme, and unless he is
getting very close to 65 no old-age pensions
will do him much good.
If the administration’s $4,800,000,000
work relief scheme goes through, it may
mean a job for him. but the job will be
only temporary, and it won’t pay him any
very princely sum.
All in all. he is plodding along under a
pretty dark sky, and there is little indica
tion that his sky is going to get much light
er. And his existence under such circums
tances is one of the most telling indict
ments imaginable against our whole social
t system.
Thf man who has passed 45 ought to be
just entering the age in which he can enjoy
the fruits of the society in which he lives.
The experience he has gained in his work
i ought to make him a valuable man in his
; job: his years of living ought to have rip
Iened his wisdom so that he could get more
human values out of his life than ever be
fore.
Instead, in all too many cases, passing
I on jnto middle age is apt to take him over
■tfie deadline beyond which there is no se
cure place for him. We seem to have ar
ranged things so that we have no use for
him.
u If he has a job, he must worry about
losing it: if he loses it. he is pitched into a
situation from which it is constantly be
coming more difficult for him to extricate
himself by his own exertions.
There is something both heartless and
silly about such a state of affairs. One of
the prime features of any proper “new
deal’* ought to be the discovery of some
i workable way to remedy it.
PROGRESS IN HEALTH
Sometimes one gets discouraged with
the progress of medicine.
One sees, despite modern knowledge
and facilities, the suffering of friends, the
all-too-wide prevalence of disease. And
one wonders just how great is this medical
progress in practical results.
Now and then comes an inconspicuous
answer which ought to be more general
ly known. For instance, the New York
State Department of Health reports that
not a single case of smallpox was reported
in that state in 1934.
In the “good old days’* of our fore
fathers. every second face was pitted by
the ravages of this disease. Now sanita
tion, preventive medicine, vaccination,
have all but conquered it.
In view of the comparative newness of
modem medicine as a science, progress
has really been a marvel. Sickness,
disease, death, may never be conquered,
but credit for the remarkable progress that
can be definitely shown ought to be giv
en freely.
Eyes Most Important
To Handicapped Child
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association,
and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine
About 80 per cent of impressions come to us
through our eyes.
As a result, conservation of the eye is of utmost
importance for every child. It is particularly im
portant for those children who happen to be handi
capped through loss of hearing, by crippling, or by
mental defect.
These must substitute their eyes for other senses.
Thus, the chUd who is hard of hearing must learn
to interpret movement of lips and facial muscles.
The cnppled child, being unable to move, lias to
use his eyes as a substitute for agile legs. Other
children run about; the eyes of the crippled child
must bring the world to him.
• • •
J To break through the cloud which obstruct* the
j intellect of the mental defective, the sense of vision
is exceedingly important.
Since most children come first to pu3!lc attention
in the classroom, teachers in schools bear a heavy !
responsbility for detecting eyestrain and visual de.
feet. The moment they observe any inflammation of
the eyes of the child, occurrence of frequent styes,
spasms of the eyelids, or twitching of the facial
muscles, they should call it to the attention of the
school physician, provided one is available.
In many cases, children who seem to be unable to
learn to read or write, or who seem to lack in con
centration, fail because of inadequate sight
• • •
Novadays there is a standard of eye hygiene. This
involves good natural lighting, adequately supple
mented by artificial lighting on dark days. It involves
desks which will not reflect the light from a shiny
desk top into the child s eyes. and. if possible, a flex
ible seating arrangement in classrooms so that no
child will face the source of light directly; and so
that no child will sit m its own shadow.
“Good lighting,” says a specialist, “and a conscious
ness of its lack; well-printed books; eye rest periods;
all the many factors which go to make up a program
of eye health in the classroom are of no avail, if they
do not become part of the child s own life.”
I venture the prediction that our present age. be
cause of its craze for the new* regardless of the true,
will be looked back upon with amazement and ridi
cule—Dr. Robert A. Millikan, famous scientist.
The munitions racket, one whose victim is all civ
ilization, has governments as its partners, uncon
sciously on the part of governments perhaps.—Sen
ator Gerald P. Nye.
The removal of war profits is a beautiful theory.—
Assistant Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring.
We did not make a revolution for the sake of a rev
olution.—Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
One trouble with our present civilization is that
many people today are educated beyond their intelli
gence.—Mrs. Lucy Jenkins Franklin, Boston University
dean of women.
I'm sure I’m stronger and more vigorous at the start
of my second century than I was at the first.—Mrs.
Mary Michaels. 103, of Punxsutawney, Pa.
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The World
At a Glance
BY LESLIE EIC'HLL
(Central Press Stall Writer)
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NEW YORK. Feb. 13.—While the
Roosevelt administration commits
itself to upholding the profit motive
in business. It is putting through
bills that make the government the
center of business. Both through
active participation and the control
and manipulation of credit.
In other words, the emergency
oi business continues. Private profit
is to be fostered when it is strong
enough—but when business cannot
carry it through, then the govern
ment enters business.
That, of course, has been the
theory throughout the last few years
of the depression.
But the question arises in men’s
minds, can the government stop at
a given line, and, say, beyond it shall
not go?
Can it virtually ‘manufacture"
billions in credit, can it undertake
vast public works, can it rehabilitate
the railroads, can it build houses,
go into the mortgage business, be
come the largest stockholder in
some insurance companies, in some
banks and make loans to industry
that virtually gives it control—and
stop there?
Can the government generate
electricity from wateroower and not
enter coal mines to generate elec
tricity irom coal power?
Con the government dictate the
management of the railroads—and
then let buses, steamships and
barge lines, and airplanes ‘ run wild’’
in competition?
Can the government dictate the
the price oi meat on the hoof and
then have nothing to do with the
packing houses?
And suppose the government
builds SOME houses for a small
sum per house? How much chance
will a private builder have against
it?
And suppose the government es
tablishes a co-operative marketing
agency ior some crops? How long
will it be until the government is
the only middle man?
All those questions are brought
up through a first-hand conversa
tion in a large bank. Said the
banker:
“I’m sorry we can’t pay more
than 2 per cent mterest now. The
government will not permit us to.
It desires to deflect aill the money
to government bonds. Anyway, our
surplus funds are piling up—and
that is costly to us."
In brief, private capital remains
stagnant—while government turn
over increases enormously. Much
the same is true in England.
We seem to be entering a new
economic era—a sort of in-between,
in which no one is satisfied. But out
oi this transition period something
is certain to develop that will be
different from what we have known.
In the meantime, bills being pass
ed by congress give the government
full power to go into virtually any
kind of business.
Some say it will lead to the
Fascist corporate state (which lib
erals dread) while others say it
will lead to a socialized state
(Which business dreads.) It proba
bly all depends on the government
in power, its wisdom and its integ
rity in upholding democratic in
stitutions, in fostering democratic
ideals.
At any rate, the Roosevelt admin
istration asks: “What else can be
done?”
The majority of alternatives either
are fantastic or absurdly ante
dated.
United States’ trade —and that
means the standard of living—is be
ing damaged more and more by
tariff and exchange barriers.
The United States cannot, for ex
ample. coasume ail the cotton or all
the wheat that It produces—nor can
it consume all the manufactured
products Its factories can turn out.
Nor can foreign nations pay in
money, for products they buy.
Thus the administration is draw
ing closer and closer to barter—a
harking back to the primitive meth
ods of trade in order to break down
the barriers with which a civilized
world has shut Itself up.
Actual starvation ol large masses
of people in many countries could
result if the strangulation of trade
were to continue.
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flecting the editors; policy at this
newspaper.
WASHINGTON
By George Durno
Strikes—Union officials reluctantly
have concluded their honeymoon
with the New Deal la over. The
worst of it is, they feel like a bride
who was deserted deliberately at
just the right time for the broom to
get all of the neighbors’ sympathy.
Well-informed quarters say the
president chose his time for the
spanking with all of the threatened
.spring strikes in mind. Trouble in
the auto, textile and other industries
will give recovery no push and FDR
is reported to be out to stop them
if possible by an appeal to public
opinion.
It will be a case of Mr. Roose
velts popularity versus the esteem in
which John Citizen generally holds
the union movement. Mr. Roosevelt
has a more effective publicity dep
artment than the A. F. of L.
*
Wages—Bill Green and his cohorts
hesitate to turn their guns directly
on the White House, and shots fired
at a shorter range haven’t proved a
very effective barrage.
The union boys have run to con
gress for help since FDR began
clipping at their wings but here
again their success is doubtful.
Senator Carter Glass’ appropria
tions committee wrote a ' prevailing
wage’' clause into the 84,880,000.000
workrelief bill, but after the White
House switchboard got busy it was
reconsidered. If it is brought up on
the floor chances are said by leaders
to be against its passage. FDR is
prepared to make a real issue of
this proposition if necessary because
he does not think emergency public
1 works should compete with private
payrolls. He is concerned only about
giving the needy unemployed a job
and bare living wage that will tide
1 them over until things pick up.
• • •
Dangerous — The building trades
are mo6t fearful of the administra
tion plan to pay relief workers only
850 a month. They have visions of
a general lowering of the union wage
scale through auto-suggestion.
On the other hand, NRA officials
are reporting privately that heavy
industry would start picking up if
only the thousands of unemployed
union building tradesmen would
work for a lower figure than existing
scales. As one official said to a
friend: “They are NOT working at
the rate of $12 a day and are refus
ing to aocept work at $8."
You probably won t see any such
statement made publicly, however.
It ii a little too dangerous all
around. But the problem is keeping
New Dealers replenishing the mid
night oil trying to find out whether
the chicken or the egg should come
tirst.
• • •
FRACAS—Meanwhile, government
agencies trying to stimulate cons
truction work arc eyeing closely the
internal scrap in the Building Trades
Department of the A. F. of L. which
went to court recently. It is a
question of control between 12
unions which feel they were booted
out with Bill Green’s connivance
and 7 unions, headed by the car
penters, bricklayers and electrical
workers, who are now recognized by
national headquarters. Bad blood is
running In every vein of these rival
groups.
Rumors are current among the
leaders of the 12 unions who lo6t
their control of the Building Trades
Department that a strong move will
be made at the next A. F. of L.
convention to unseat Green and his
associates.
How much strength they can
muster is some tiring else again. The
A. F. of L. ordinarily puts on a
steam-roller act at convention time
that would have made the old-time
political bosses blush.
• • •
Recovery—Pending the outcome of
controversies over the work-relief
bill congress Is passing much cons
tructive legislation at the behest of
the president. He is winning more
tricks than he loses. He is fond of
quoting Cousin Theodore: “If I’m
75 per cent right I’m doing pretty
*•
Changes In the Home Loan and
Housing systems are all to the good.
They provide means for helping
millions now staggering under too
heavy mortgage costs. Homes can
be saved and new homes acquired
at less cost. Apartment, office and
hotel buildings will be salvaged. Rail
roads will be saved. The RFC is al
ready saving them in many cases.
Mining operations are stimulated.
Contractors are perking up as build
ing operations are made feasible.
The aggregate of fresh business
under the new system of mortgage
.nsurance is becoming an important
item of recovery.
• • •
Swift—The day Senator Adams of
Colorado almost got over an amend
ment in committee which temporari
ly at least would have substituted
a $2 880.000.000 outright dole for the
presidents $4,880,000,000 work-relief
bill, 8enator McAdoo of California
was the administration s big rescue
man. Alter the amendment once
carried it was McAdoo's vote on a
hurried reconsideration which cre
ated a stalemating tie.
McAdoo had just returned from a
trip around the world that day.
When he came into committee meet
ing he announced he would not vote
because he was not sufficiently in
formed. Then came the Adams pro
posal and it carried by one vote.
Senator Jimmy Byrnes, of South
Carolina. White House spokesman in
the senate, rushed out to a phone,
came back for a huddle with Mc
Adoo. and the new vote followed—
all in the apace of a couple of min
utes.
"I never saw a man get so much
information In two minutes In all
my life,” observed Adams sarcas
tically after his committee putsch
was quelled.
* • •
PROOF—But White House pres
sure of this nature is indicative of
FDR's determination to get the
work-relief bill through substantial
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ly as he ordered It. He can't afford
not to, especially after the World
Court defeat. His prestige on Capitol
Hill would get a terrific wallop at a
time he needs it moat.
Senator Joe Robinson of Arkan
sas. the majority leader, has re
ported the measure can be jammed
through minus most of the opposi
tion curtailments.
If ever pressure can produce re
sults it will be demonstrated this
time.
• • •
Tough — Reports that plans are
afoot to unseat Comptroller J. R.
McCarl because of his latest decision
denying the right of the President
to raise pay in the federal emergency
agencies can be discounted.
McCarl was appointed by Warren
Harding for a 15-year term which
expires in May. 1936. He has been
railed against ever since 1921 because
of his numerous decisions, but best
White House information is that he
will serve out his term.
Several thousand temporary em
ployes last about $3,000,000 pay on
McCarl's last ruling but only sub
ordinate officials seem to be trying
to stir up trouble. Luther Steward,
president of the National Federation
of Federal Employes, says the fault
lies with congress. McCarl Bhould
be called in to pass on draft leglsla
tion before it becomes law.
FDR likes a good tough, honest
guy—and Mc€arl rates.
• • •
Notes—Believing that Ickes is
scheduled to dispense a lot of work
relief cash many members of con
gress are telling him they were only
fooling...The Republican bloc works
hard but hasn't yet found an issue
against FDR... Senator Jimmy
Byrnes is the most active man in
congress, rounding up democrats
who yearn to go astray .. Attaches
in the library of congress say you’d
be surprised to see the increased
number of readers of the constitu
tion...
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BEGIN HERE TODAY
GALE HENDERSON, pretty aad
S3. works la a silk mill. She aad
her ld-year-old brother. PH1I*
sappert their Invalid father.
STEVE MEYERS. whs alas
works la the mill, asks Gale Is
marry him. She promises to give
him an answer la a few days.
Gale goes skating. breaks
through the lee aad la rescued by
BRIAN WBSTMORB. whose fa
ther. now dead, ballt the mill.
Brian has come home after two
years Is Paris to eater the mill.
Gale disappears before he Inaras
her name. _
VICKY THATCHER, daughter
of ROBERT THATCHER, general
manager of the mill, schemes to
captivate Brian.
Gale goes on an errand for a
neighbor. MRS. O’CONNOR, which
takes her Into the country. It Is
a stormy night aad she misses the
return has. Brian comes along
aad takes her home. As she gets
oat of the car she turns nad faces
Stevo.
BOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XXIII
STEVE was not a dozen yarae
away. Even Brian recognised
the constraint in the situation. He
looked from Gale to the young man
and then back again at the girl.
"Oh." she said. "—hello, St ere.
This is Mr. Westmora Mr. West
mora Steve Meyers—"
"How do yon do." Steve’s voice
was too level, too cooL "Your
father’s been worried about yon."
be went on. to Gale. “I’ve Just been
around to see if the bus was held
up somewhere."
“I didn’t come on the bus," Gale
told him. "I missed it." She turned
to Brian. "I’d better go in." she
said. “Good night—and thank you
for bringing me homa"
"Good night." Brian answered
There was really nothing else he
could say. Who was this big sullen
eyed fellow anyhow? Brian won
dered about it as he slipped int<
the car and drove away. Was there
something between those two? Was
Gale Henderson in love with this—
what had she called him?—Steve?
Brian didn’t like the idea.
He drove on. wondering what to
do with the rest of the evening. It
had become suddenly distasteful to
him and he didn’t realise why.
Meanwhile Gale was saying.
"You’re going to come in. aren't
you. Steve?"
"Oh—for a few minutes, \ guess."
They went into the house. Tom
Henderson appeared tn the living
room doorway. "So Steve found
you." he said to Gala "I was afraid
something bad happened. Was the
bus late?"
Gale shook her bead. "1 didn't
come on the bus." she said. "I
missed ft Brian Weetmore brought
me homa"
"Brian Weetmore!"
"Tea He was coming along and
saw the bus pull away and leave
ma He stopped and said I could
ride with him. We had to drive
slowly because the road was so
bad—"
“You’re sure it was Brian West
more?"
“Why, yea I’ve seen him at the
mill. He’s working there now, you
know."
see
T*OM HENDERSON said. "Well,
I'm glad you got home safely. A
«etorm* like this Is liable to keep up
ail night." He moved toward the
window and looked out "It looks1
bad.” he continued. “Sit down.
Steve. Sit down and make yourself
comfortable. I’m going to lie down
for a while—”
He was gone then. Gale looked
at the young man across the room.
“Well." be said, “it certainly was
nice that your friend. Mr. West
more, came along Just when he did.
That car of his mast be a lot more
comfortable than the bua”
“Steve!"
"What?"
"Are we going to go through this
all over again?"
“I don't know what you’re talk
ing about"
“Yes. you da You know per
fectly welL But It happened ex
actly as I said it did. Honestly—"
"I don’t doubt that"
“Then why are you talking the
way you are?"
Steve got up and came over be
side her. "I didn’t mean It" he
said. “I don’t know what’s the mat
ter with me. Only when you see
the girl you think more of than
anyone else in the world with some
other fellow—a fellow who’s got
everything — it’s sort of hard to
take—"
She would have been defiant if
he had continued to storm. This
change of mood was different
T wish you’d understand.” Gale
said patiently. "Brian Westmore
isn’t interested in me.”
“Then be must be erasy. He
couldn't help it Gale. A girl like
you—*
She waved this aside. “But be
isn’t 1 tell you! All be talked
about tonight was the milt And
he’s not a bit like you think be is,
either. He's got ideas about mak
ing things better Tor the employee
and paying us higher wagfes. He
told me about a plan he’s worked
out—”
e e e
«rvn. did her A look of craft
'“Mness had come into Steve’s
face. “Talked about the mill, did
he? Listen. Gale. 1 should think
you’d see through that sort of talk
You’d better watch your step! If
Brian Westmore talked to you about
what’s going on at the mill he’s
trying to pump you. Get informs
tion so they can work us harder,
grind us down and make more
money for the company.”
“Ho wouldn’t—I”
“Wouldn’t, huh? Say. don't make
me laugh. If Brian Westmore
wants to make things easier for
employes and raise our pay. why
doesn’t be do It? What’s to stop
him? It's bis mill, isn’t ltr
“But he isn’t running the mill.
It’s Thatcher—”
•Then why doesn't be tire
Thatcher? He certainly could do
that. The whole thing’s a pack of
lies, a frame-up.”
Disbelief shone from the girl’s
eyes. "No. Steve.” she said. “I
don't believe it. I don't believe he'd
do anything like that.”
“Then you're in love with him.”
8be was on her feet, bead high.
"You mustn’t talk like that. Steve."
“I know.” Instantly he was con
trite. “I shouldn't have said 1L
Forget It—won’t you?"
“I will If you'll promise not to
say it again—not to even think it."
"All right. I’ll promise. But, Just
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the same, I want you to remember
what I*re told you. There’s lots
going on we don’t know anything
about and It’s risky trusting any*
ona"
Gale thought of Loots Boiler and
her talk of "secret meetings." Joale
was sure that Loots was a spy. But
Brian Weetmore—oh. no. that was
impossible
Gale smiled. "Ill remember,"
she said. "And 111 be careful. Come
on—let’s go orer to O’Connors'.
Mrs O’Connor will be anxious to
hear bow Mary likes her new
coat"
They had to knock twice at tbe
O'Connors' before anyone beard
them. Then It was Katie who
pulled the door opeu.
"It’s Gale!" she called. Katie
danced up and down with excite
ment "Come on In.” she said. "Pat’s
here and he’s playin’ the lorellest
music—"
'T'HERR were a dozen persons In
the room—little O'Connors curled
up on a worn-out sofa; Timothy,
their father. In a chair tilted
against the wall, smoking a pipe:
Pat Kelcy. young and dark-haired,
a relative, occupying the center of
the room, with the harmonica
railed to bis lips; his blond wife
watching, admiringly; Michael Din
widdle and Willie O’Connor scuf
fling in a corner.
The room was warm and smelled
of cooking but nobody seemed to
mind.
"Mary's fine.- Gale told Mrs.
O’Connor. “And she said the coat
was perfect She’s going to try to
get In and see yon before long."
The last words were lost in a
shriek from the scufTlera Timothy
O’Connor set the legs of bis chair
on the floor eonndly. “Pipe down—
you two!" he said loudly, and «
then tilted the chair back again.
“The Stars and Stripes Forever"
gave way to "Ramona," played with
long, plaintive notes. Mrs. O'Con
nor said. “Pat plays real nice,
doesn’t be? 1 wish my children
were musical—*
"I’m musical. Ma!" little Katie
shrieked. "I’m musical—look!" She
began beating time with a fork on
a chair back.
Her mother managed to silence
her. The O'Connors, as usual, wert
noisy and friendly and gay. Gale
and Steve stayed for half an hour
and then made their way across
the street At the door Steve eaid.
"It’s time for me to be getting
along. There’s a Wallace Beery
picture at the Strand tomorrow.
Would yon like to go?"
"Td love to," Gale told him. "but
I’d better wait until tomorrow to
let yon know for sure. I'll see yon
after work." , «i
"O. K. Good night Gale."
“Good night"
Half an boar later, lying in her
bed. Gale thought or what Steve
had said about Brian Westmore.
Bat of coarse Steve wss mistaken.
Brian wasn’t trying to get Infor
mation from her. He wouldn't use
what she told him to make things
harder for mill employes. No. of
course notl
Bat something wss to happen
next day that changed her mind.
(To Be Continued)
./.Jif , j.V . *■ ,