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Thursday, February 14. 1935
TRAINING MAY PRODUCE BETTER
CIVIL SERVICE
One of the quaint American beliefs is
that it takes specific ami supervised train
ing to be a barber or a plumber, but that
anyone at all who can get a certain num
ber of votes or wangle an appointment is
competent to administer the affairs of a
great city or run a federal or state gov
ernment bureau.
While there have been occasional cries
for better-trained public servants, it has
been like the weather—nobody really did
' anything about it.
Now a beginning is being made toward
doing something about it.
Harvard for some years has had a valu
able school of business administration.
Originally it had been intended as a
school of political science and administra
tion. Now. under Harvard’s new Presi
dent Conant. this school is being turned
into a school of “public and private busi
ness.”
It is planned to offer in the new school
• a thorough training not only for young
men who enter private business, but also
for those who aim to devote their energies
to the sort of great public enterprises that
are beginning to grow' in importance,
projects such as the Tennessee Valley
Authority, and public bodies such as the
Federal Trade Commission, Securities and
Exchange Commission, and a dozen oth-1
era.
Dean Wallace Brett Donham, who has
ably presided over the school w hile it was j
training promising young men for private
business, is thoroughly in sympathy with
the idea that important public business re-1
quires just as thorough training.
“It is impossible to improvise a first
class civil service,” the points out, and
cites the two examples of the World War
and the present crisis, when it was neces
sary to build great public organizations I
» quickly, and many a man put in an im
portant positon proved inadequately
trained and incompetent.
As more and more functions becomej
public (and quite regardless of your
opinion of that tendency, it’s there) the
need for competent, well-trained men to
fill those posts will increase. Several
schools for training diplomatic and con
sular service men already exist.
There are several city managers in the
country who have made that a life work,
moving up from small cities in w hich they
i have been successful to larger ones.
Why not? If there is any more com
plex job, requiring better training and i
higher ability than running the compli
cated affairs of a great city, it’s hard to
imagine what it is.
It is encouraging to note that the great
universities are not neglecting to do their
share toward building this better civil sen
ice. and are attacking the problem at the
source: that is, in the training of better
potential material for this increasingly
vital work.
LOVE, FOR LOVE ALONE
Roberta Nicholson, member of the In
diana legislature and daughter-in-law of
Novelist Meredith Nicholson, has intro
duced a bill which would *iake it a penal
offense for anyone in Indiana to file or
abet a damage suit for breach of promise
or alienation of affections: and the idea is
such an obvious bit o£ common sense that
one wishes that every state in the Union
might speedily copy it.
For lawsuits of this kind, in 99 cases
out of 100, are utterly indefensible ethic
ally. There is no property right in love.
For one who lows and suffers the loss,
there is no sum in human finance suffi
cient to ease the hurt.
The “heart balm” business is a disgrace
to the legal profession: in most cases it is
just a polite form of blackmail.
It is very hard to think of one good rea
son why Airs. Nicholson’s law should not
be passed in Indiana and in every other
state.
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Your Body in Danger
From Slow Gas Leak
By UIt MORRIS HSHBLIX
Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association,
and of Uygeia. tbe Health Magatine
You probably are well aware of the dangers of
monoxide gas poisoning, in the case of automobile
exhauit. But this gas is just as serious a hazard, if
not more no. .ight ms.de your home.
It is in the kitchen wht re the slightest leak of IL
luminating or cocking gas. to which you may be ex
posed unconsciouly day after day, will cause serious
disturbances in your system.
Exposure to large doses will result in severe poison
ing and not infrequently in death.
Importance oi checking regularly on gas leaks in
your home is brought out by an Investigation some
scientists In the physiology laboratory of Iowa State
College made recently with rats
They wanted to determine the effect of small
doses of Illuminating gas taken day after day, on
these animals.
The rats were exposed to varying percentage mix
tures of air and illuminating gas for various periods
of time. The daily exposure varied from 10 minutes
on the first day to one hour, at the most, in about
three weeks.
• • •
Tests were made particularly on the blood, since it
is known that carbon monoxide affects the blood
seriously and may bung about death through chang
ing the red blood cells
It has been found that when human beings are
exposed to carbon monoxide gas under various cir
cumstances, severe anenna.s may be produced, and in
some case* destruction of the red blood cells may be
followed by increases in the number of such cells,
called polycythemia.
One of the first factors observed in the new inves
tigations was the manner in which reproduction was
hindered among the rats. The female gave birth to
Inferior offspring, which usually died.
After prolonged gassing, the young were oorn dead.
After still more prolonged exposure the animals were
found to be incapable of reproduction.
• • •
Daily exposure to illuminating ga* proved to be
exceedmgly deleterious to the well-being of the ani
mals. Their body weight# were lowered, their ap
petites disappeared, the hair roughened and fell out.
The males seemed to suffer much worse than did the
females.
Mo>t significant was the manner In which the red
coloring matter of the blood increased in proportion
to total number of red blood cells. The red blood
cells were exceedingly fragile and broke up easily.
It has been found, from observation on human be
ing • who have been exposed to carbon monoxide
poisoning, that the effects are sometimes fairly per
manent in lo.vj of power to reproduce and, in some
instances, in destruction of sex desire.
The experiments on t lie rats confirmed these
isolated observations in human beings.
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The World
At a Glance
BY LESLIE EICHEL
• Central Press Staff Writer)
NEW YORK. Feb. 14. — Once
again wc speak of the theatre for a
concert manager we know, Charles |
L .Wagner, has brought it up. Mr
Wagner has produced plays as well
as directed the tours of great ar.
lists of the world of music.
Mr. Wagner has in mind the or
ganization of a permanent reper-1
tory company for the United States.
He would, in his own words, pre
sent stars of the theatre" as he pre
sents stars of the musical world, “by
putting them on a pedestal, and
build and build."
In brief. Mr Wagner would put
an aura of publicity behind the stars
of the stage, to make them as well
known to the people of the interior
as radio and sreen stars.
Many persons have tried, in the
past, to form a permanent repertory
company. Sothem and Marlowe
came closest to It
But the question now arises—if
such a company ever Is formed, will
it be composed of stage stars? I
believe ^not. The stars are more
likely to be snatched from the radio
and movie heavens.
The aura that makes a bright
world for artists of the music world
(and their managers! these days is
the radio The stage plays as a
sounding platform reverberates no
farther than New’ York and London.
It u not pleasant to make such a
statement, for the stage has reached
a higher sphere than any other
American art—except, perhaps, the
symphonic.
• • •
The Play
Permit a great play to spring from
the loins of America, and no reper
tory company will be needed—nor
will radio or screen overshadow it.
Such a play will have to come
soon, before the American loses the
amalgam that the flow of many
peoples made of his being.
Yet. it could not come until the
man had grown up. till the childish
ness and the extravagance* of the
youth coining of age had passed
Of America. New York know* lit
tle The play will come from the In
terior.
It may find birth on a Little
theater stage It never even may be
produced during the lifetime of Us
author. (Will that matter?! But its
an emotional epoch In American life
—such as a great economic or social
change, which will stir the creative
mind to achieve new’ heights.
Such an n>och seems to be on Its
way now.
• • •
What Is A Play?
One of the difficulties of the stage
is the dimensions it puts to a play.
The stage draws a pattern—and
says. ’ This is a play."
"The Green Pastures' overstepped
those dimensions and has toured
America for five years.
No truly great piay can stay with- ,
in bounds. Like a great symphony
It must reach to the heaven*; It
must achieve new imaginative
flights; it must be of a form too!
mighty to fit into any pattern. Its 1
spirit must rise to meet the sky
above Yet the play must have form, j
t cannot be shapeless Art demands |
new and mightier forms, not form
lessness. No mere revolutionist, for
revolt's sake, can create such a play.
The creator himself will be the rev
olution. w it h high talent driving him
on. giving him no surcease until he
creates.
In the years to com -, our land
may be swept by temfjmg forces
and counter-forces. The storm may
ioar and the sun may be dimmed
for many a year The plav—the play <
of America — will have to rise above
that, rise to heaven, a prayer for.
evermore of the American people.
• • •
President. Roosevelt may have to
oake another "fireside" talk to the
:roplr.
He may have to speak affirmative
ly of uls own plans in order to ne
gate the voices of such leaders of
the masses as Coughlin. Long.
Townsend.
The president's difficulty has been
in getting concrete plans together.
That, evidently, was why the World
Court was thrown into the senate
as a stop-gap.
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Opinions expressed are moss of
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should not be interpreted as re
flecting the editorial policy at tbis
lewspaper
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WASHINGTON
By George Dumo
Interest — Admtntstrationites may
have bum sleuths making the rounds
but they hear hopefully that the
American Legion might possibly be
persuaded to compromise on the
bonus.
National Commander Belgrano
probably will deny this vehemently
but medicine is being mixed on
Capitol Hill which requires Legion
support as an essential ingredient
of the prescription.
Cancellation of interest on bonus
loans to date is said to be the lure
held out as against immediate cash
payment. This would help all World
War veterans who have borrowed
up to the 50 per cent allowed, be
cause otherwise the Interest would
eat up most of their remaining mon
ey by 1045
• • •
Choice — Already the New Deal
has shoved one block under the
bonus Juggernaut. It Is almost cer
tain the Vinson bill, which directs
the Treasury to find ways and
means of raising the two billion
odd dollars necessary for Immediate
payment, will be reported out by the
House Ways and Means committee
Instead of the Patman bill, which
would pay off in printing-press
currency
If bad should come to worse—
from the White House view — and
Die Vinson bill paased. Secretary of
the Treasury Morgen thau could
promptly advise congress that the
only way the veterans draft could
be met would be through special
taxes. Congress hardly would dare
slap an extra 2 billion on the
country.
Representative Fred Vlnaon of
Kentucky is a member of the Ways
and Means committee while Repre
sentative Wright Patman of Texas
is not. which is one reason why Vin
son's bill probably will be the com
mittee choice.
• * •
Opiirrut*—Mr Roosevelt, getting
back to the reported compromise,
has slid he would oppose cancella-1
tion of interest on a public debt for
anv organized authority.
It will be up to him to change his
mind — assuming he has the oppor.
tunity — but some of his most in
terested advisers think he could
be persuaded.
The New Deal is out to beat cash
payment at all costs. Veteran poll- i
tlciaiu are of the opinion that the
impending bonus fight will be the
biggest one of all. If it Is beaten
they predict It will not be resurrect
ed for some time. It isn t the first
time that s been said.
• • •
Narrow — If a bonus bill rides j
through both houses despite every -1
thing the administration can do to
stop it. and President Roosevelt is
forced to use his veto power, the ad
ministration will then be up against
a very close count of noses
Senate leaders tell the White
House he could command a sure
margin of three votes to sustain a
veto, but that would be hewing too
close to the line for comfort and
he doesn t w ant to risk it.
A digest of the nation's newspa
pers. prepared in the U. S. Veterans’
Administration, shows about two
thirds of the papers to be against
the cash bonus editorially. That
doesn t stop many thousands of vet
erans from writing In to their sen
ators and congressmen demanding
favorable action.
• • •
Slow — Federal Housing Adminis
trator James Moffett is wondering
w ho has been Inspiring recent stories
lie was twitching to resign
8ome of his friends suspect offi
cials in other branches of the New
Deal but they haven't been able to
pick up any truly definite clues.
In private conversation, however,
they are willing to name four men.
They say each would like to see
Moffett out or be in his shoes but
they can t make up their minds
which one to pick as the villain.
Moffett insists he isn't going to
resign until he has made the hous
ing Job go. That's a big order which
would keep him around Washington
for many moons. Most optimistic
reports are that it will be Septem
ber before any new home.buildlng
of consequence starts under direc
tion of FHA — and If the bankers
generally continue to render only Up
service to the cause It will be iater
than that.
• * *
Sucre*. — If Moffett hasn’t been 1
able to set any records yet with new !
construction, he at least has sue-1
ceeded In getting business men en
thussia&uc about his modernization
and repair drive. Actual govern
ment loans for .such work are still a
bit short of $40,000.00 but the men
"ho make the assorted equipment
and material you put into a mod
rmiraticn job report they have done
about $225,000,000 additional busi
ness with folks able to pav cash
The section of the Housing Act I
permitting federal guarantee of re
novizing loans expires December 31
next, a movement already is afoot
among the industrialists to drive on
congress a little later for extenison
of thia section.
It isn’t thi business they get from
the government - guaranteed loans
that interests them so much. What
they want is to keep FHA pegging
away with publicity. The latter is
what has done the trick for them.
• • •
Vivisection — Manufacturers and
other employers arr putting their
head* together in the hope of beat
ing the proposed i*yroll tax to raise
an • -^employment insurance fund.
The question is raised whether this
tax is constitutional, the point be
ing that it is not for revenue pur
pose* but is a device to coerce the
states to enact social security legis
lation The Department of Justice
is looking into this queetlon at the
request of the House Ways and
Means committee.
Behind closed doors the commit
tee will thresh out the social securi. ,
ty bill and try to report it in ten I
A VALENTINE I> \V SENTIMENT
TO A LEGISLATOR
THIS IS A VERSE OF LOVC THATS PHONEY
A SONG OF WOMEN WHOSE HEARTS A«6 COLO .
OF BREACH -OF- PROMISE TESTIMONY
By Girls who /SRE OUT TO GET THE GOLD;
Ladies with tidy little packets
OF LETTERS LOADEP WITH PHRASES HOT —
letters employed in heart-balm Rackets
For putting boy-friends uf>on the spot.
THIS I* A CRY OF LOUP OBJECTION
AGAINST these ladies who fake their tears
Alienation of affection
And alimony-ous buccaneers/
Wretches who moan that love is fickle
— HERE IS THE POINT ABOUT THESE SQUAWS -
/None of them ought to get a nickel?
Curb this Cupid-itv! pass some laws!
days. Too many social reformers
are giving advice. Committee mem
bers are very hazy as to the details
of the legislation. Like the work-!
relief bill this measure stands a
chance of easy passage in the house
and vivisection in the senate.
• • •
Triangle — Senator Wheeler is
among the prophets who see a three-'
cornered fight for the presidency in
1936. He figures that Huey Long
will split off a big radical vote from
FDRs following while a phalanx of
republicans will stand pat at the
other corner. If Huey makes gams
at his present rate Wheeler will not
be surprised to see a republican In
augurated on Jan. 20, 1937.
The danger of a deadlock appears
whenever three strong candidates
contest for the presidency. The win
cner must have a majority, not
merely a plurality of electoral votes.
If the election should be thrown In
to the house that body would be
required to choose a president with
in a very few days — and yet Its
members probably would split three
ways, having been elected at the
polling that failed to produce a pres
i ident. Could Roosevelt. Long, or a
republican capture 25 states out of
the <8 in a house vote? To do so
would necessitate many members
deserting the standard-bearer they
supported during the campaign to
vote for one of his adversaries How
could they do this and rscajie pun
ishment from their constituents?
Ah. there s the rub!
© *033 ME A SE0VICC 'MO
BEGIN HEME TODAY
GALE HENDERSON, pretty *ad
23. work, la a .Ilk mill, She and
krr IB-year-old brother, I’HIE.
• upixirt tbelr Invalid father.
STEVE MYERS. "ho alio
works In tbe mill, noka Gale to
marry blm. She promloee to plve
him aa anawer la a few daya.
Gale poeo ohatlap. brvaka
tbrooch the Ice aad la reacned by
BRIAN WKSTMORE, who.e la
ther. aorr dead, ball! the mill
Brin a has come home after two
yrnra In Pirlt to eater the mill.
Gale disappear* before be learaa
her name. _
VICK Y THATCH El*, daughter
•f ROBERT THATCHER. «eaeral
maaager of the mill, aehemea to
captivate Brlna.
Gale *oea oa aa erraad for her
aeliihbor. MRS. O’CONNOR, which
lakrt her lato the eoaatry. H »
a atormy alpht aad ahr
retarn baa. Rrlaa
a.d takea her home. Steve la
there waltlap for her. Gale trlea
I;*,;.'. ."eve■.bat Brian "«*•••
Improve condllloa. »•* **• ’■I"
employe#. Sieve acoBa at thla.
NOW GO ON WITH THE SIORY
CHAPTER XXIV
IT was an hour aftar lunch time.
Slanting sunshine came through
the high windows into the great,
gray room where machines, row on
row. were pounding and roaring.
Spindles whirled and hands moved
up and down. Gala, heeling to
reach a bobbin, did not see Clyde
Fisher coming toward her.
She looked up quickly as she
heard his voice. "You're wanted up
front.” he told her. "Mias Groves.
Know where her office is?’
Gale said that she did.
“You can go now." Fisher told
her. "But see that you don’t waste
any time getting back.”
Gale walked down the long cor
ridor and turned.to the right. Miss
Groves was known as the "person
nel director." Gale knew Utile about
her except that the interviewed
new glrlH before they came to work
and asked them questions, some ol
them embarrassing. Miss Groves
had come to the mill since t.ale
started to work there and Gale
had never been in her office.
Suddenly the girl’s heart beat
faster. Her father! Could anything
have happened at home? No. she
wouldn't believe it—she wouldn't!
She walked more rapidly. If bar
father was suddenly worse—or any
thing had happened to Phil! There
were accidents in the mill some
tiroes. She'd seen Art Morin! taken
away with bis arm crushed so that
It had to be taken off. And there
was the Frasier boy—
Breathlessly Osle opened the door
of the personnel director's office. It
was an attractive office with a green
rug on the floor and cblntt curtains
over the Venetian blinds.
Tbe woman who sat at the desk
wore a blue dress with white at the
throat and ruffs. She was a trifle
stout and the way her hair was
fluffed out about her face seemed
a bit too young for bar. She had
a round face aud a high ridged nose
on which were perched spectacles
it wasn't a disagreeable face unless
you noticed tbe lines about the
rather thin Ups.
o a •
CHE glanced up from the Uttar
^ aha wm reading to the girl In
tbe doorway. "Yea—* aha said
crisply, “what Is it?"
“Are you Miss Groves?"
“I am."
"I’m Gale Henderson. Mr. Fisher
•
I said you wanted to aee me—
"Oh—Gale Henderson. Yes.* The
liersonnel manager's manner un
bent slightly. "Yes, I did want to
see you. Sit down, won't you? In
that chair—there."
Miss Groves returned to her let- j
, ter and Gale sat in the chair beside
the desk. She felt relieved. It
couldn't be an accident or anything
that had happened at home, she
l was sure. Miss Groves wouldn't
have kept her waiting If It had
been anything like that.
Miss Groves put down the letter (
then and sorted through some cards
on her desk. She picked up one.
"Your ns me,” she said, glancing at
the card. "Is Gale Henderson?"
j "Yes."
"And you've been employed in
'the mill for two years?"
“It's a little more than that
I now."
Miss Groves pursed her lips tnd
studied the card. She went on as
•though Gale had not spoken. "You
live In the mill vlllsge, do you
not?"
"Yes."
"With your father and brother?"
Gale nodded.
"Are there any other members j
of the household?"
"No."
"Your brother works in the mill,
too. I believe?"
Gale said that he did.
• • •
1I11SS GROVES laid the card on
|ifl her desk. "What I have to
say to you." she went on. “Is. of
icourse. just between ourselves. We
have our little talks here—my girls
and I—and afterward our lips are
sealed." Miss Groves smiled, a
smile which to Gale was somehow
repellent "T like to call this room
our 'Confi-corner' because it is here
I learn how to know my girls and
they learn to know me. I don't 1
believe you’ve beeu here before.
'Gale, have you?"
"No."
"Well, wc must get acquainted.
I want to be friends with all the
girls in this great mill. All of
(hem! There are so many ways in
which we can help each other. 1
want them to come to me with their
little secrets and their problems j
and know that I will help them.
You see. I love girls so! I feel that ,
It Is a great privilege I have here,
coming In touch with so many
young lives. Wonderful young lives!
Youth is such a wonderful thing
my dear. Don’t you think so?"
*‘I suppose It is." Gale agreed.
Miss Groves put a hand on the
girl’s arm. ”Of course It Is. There's
nothing in the world so wonderful
as youth. And you have it You're
youug. 1 want you to tell me your
problems, my dear."
"But. Miss Groves—"
"Now. now! Of course you have I
problems. Everyoue has his or her
problems and it does us good to
talk them over. That's why we
have our *Confi corner* Such a
lovely young girl was here, eltttng
in the same chair you're sitting In.
half an hour ago. She came to me
because ahe wanted advice and 1
gave it to her. It seems some of
the girls she works with have taken
up some very dangerous ideas. Dan
gerous for themselvea and tor otk
era! Tney’ve lamed 10 tnis girt,
tried to make her dissatisfied with
conditions in the mill, telling her
the workers are underpaid and the
hours too long and I don’t know
wbat ail.
"She didn't kuow wbat to do. Sha
heard there was going to be a meet
ing to organize the mill worker* in
opposition to the company. These
other girls insisted she must come
to the meeting. She was afraid of
wbat might happen if she didn't go
—and of what might happen if she
did. Night after night ahe worried
about ft and finally she did the
right thing—she came to me. Do
you know what I told her?"
Gale shook her head.
• • •
..I TOLD her to go to the meeting
* and hear what was said there.
I told her the best way she could
help these other employes was to
let me know what is going on. Be
cause it’s my work to help our girls,
even when they’re in the wrong.
But how can I help them unless I
know juat such things? I told her
she and T would work together to
stamp out (his dangerous, un-Amer
ican propaganda. She left me, com
pletely reassured. She’s taking the
right eourse and knows it."
Miss Groves looked at Gale and
went on in her purring voice, "You
see bow a few words at the right
time ran mean everything? We
aren’t going to let employes of this
mill stray into dangerous radical
ism. We’re going to keep our great
big family happy and intact. Tell
me," her eyes narrowed, “do you
know of any such meetings that
have been held?’’
Gale thought of Leota Bollar.
Laota had said there was going to
be a meeting—but not that there
had been one.
"No. Mias Groves."
"Has anyone asked you to join a
group with the idea of opposing the
company?”
"No.”
Miss Groves sighed. "I’m glad to
bear It," she said. "Of coursa tt’a
important to know how far tbia
disloyalty has gona. Frankly. I waa
worried. I called you in because
I knew you were one of our steady,
reliable employee. I’m aura you
understand that rebellion of this
sort will demsnd discipline. The
company will be obliged to punish
those who defy them. And it dis
tresses m because I love young
people and I know that, underneath,
none of them are really wrong
headed. They only make mistakes*
Gale shifted uncomfortably. Sha
remembered Clyde Flaber had said.
“Don’t waste any time getting
back.* He would be angry because
abe bad stayed ao long. And why
did sha hava to alt there, listening
to Miss Groves? How could she
get away?
The personnel director went on
slowly. *A bright girl—a girl who
keeps bar ayaa open—learns a great
many things. And I’m sure you're
a bright girl. If yon have anything
to report, from time to time. I hope
yon'll come to see me. I assure you
I can make it—well, shall we say,
to your advantage? Can I count on
you. Gale?"
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