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Friday, February 8, 1935
OUR TASK IS TO AVOID NECESSITY
OF RELIEF
One of the dangers we face in consider
ing any unemployment relief bill is the
chance that we may forget that unemploy
ed relief, no matter how it is set up or
what benefits it may provide, is in the end
only a substitute for something better.
Recent argument over different relief
measures seems to have taken it for grant
ed that there is, somewhere, a magic for
mula which, if we only could find it, would
iolve this vexing question forever.
It is most important for us not to forget
that even the wisest relief bill is only a
poultice. Even if every idle worker in the
land were drawing ample relief allow,
ances under a scheme which magically
prevented the financial load from burden
ing the taxpayer, the real problem would
remain. We would still face the task of
getting these idle men back to work.
There is going on in Washington nowf a
lengthy argument between proponents of
different kinds of relief. One kind is
typified by the administration's relief
measure, which would operate through
■tate systems and would give jobless men
an allowance ranging somewhere around
$50 a month.
I he other, infinitely broader, is repre
aented by the Lundeen bill, now being
discussed before a House subcommittee.
This bill would boldly pay all persons
past 18, who are jobless through no fault
of their own, a weekly sum equal to the
prevailing wage rates in their locality.
Those on part time work would draw from
the government the difference between
their part-time wage and the prevailing
.wage.
Now this bill, naturally enough, is draw
ing superlatives from each camp. Peo
ple whose viewpoint is that of the political
left are hailing it as a measure which will
at last do justice to the unemployed; con
iervati\es. on the other hand, see in it a
piece of extravagance which would com
mit the government to unbearably heavy
expenditures and would promote idleness.
What both sides are apt to miss is the
fact that our real problem is to arrange
things so that no unemployment relief bill
will be needed.
The immediate need may be to take
care of the jobless, but the long-range
need is to get the .jobless back to work.
Any relief bill, strictly speaking, is a
piece of extravagance—a sign that our
economic machine is out of gear some
where.
No matter how wisely we plan for a re
lief bill, the problem won’t be solved until
we have fixed things so that the jobless
man can get a job and not a handout.
PREPARE FOR A RISE
The cost of living is going to take a
jump, if charts prepared by New Oeal
forecasters in Washington are correct.
Between now and .lune 1, it is estimated,
prices will undergo a steady rise. This, it
is stated, will be due chiefly to increased
employment, a great volume of business
turnover, and the expenditure of $4.n00,
000,000 on the recovery and relief budget.
The prospect is one to be greeted with
mixed emotions. A steadily rising price
level wfll be accompanied by a general
increase in values which will make it easier
to pay debts—and reduction of our tre
mendous load of debt is an essential to re
covery.
On the other hand, if the cost of living
rises faster than wages and salaries, the
wage-earner and the white collar worker
w ill feel the pinch severely.
Fixing things so that prices rise just fast
enough, but not too fast, is apt to be a
ticklish job.
Girls More Than Boys
Fall Victim to TB
By DR. MORRIS EISHBEIN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical .Association,
and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine
One in every three deaths of girls in this country is
from tuberculosis. The rate lor ? oung women is near
ly twice as high as for young men of the same age
Many causes have been assigned for this increase,
including competition in the industrial and business
world with men. the new flimsy type of dresses worn
by women, the entrance ol women into athletic sports,
dieting to satiSly the craze for slcndenzation, and
cigarette smoking
The National Tuberculosis Association decided to In
vestigate the subject, it conducted a study of the
life histones, habits, and surroundings of all girls
between 15 and 35 years of age in Detroit and in
New York who had died of tuberculosis during one
year.
These studies indicated that many of the causes
assigned for this increase in the death rates from
tuberculosis of young girls could be discarded. One
third of the girls had never been employed in any in
dustrial work, and one-tifth had been working less
than a year.
• * •
In New York about 4 per cent ol the girls who died
of tuberculosis were found to have dietec. or used
other methods of rapidly reducing their wi ght.
Clothing did not seem to be a &*gmficant factor,
because girls at universities who did not have tuber
culosis wore about the same kind of clothing at the
girls who died ol tuberculosis.
In her analysis of the problem, one investigator
believes that the chief contributing factor was the
extra strain placed on young women of these ages by
the changes in their bodies, coupled with the neces
sity for making new' adaptations to life.
More than half the girls who died had been direct
contact with other persons who had tuberculosis,
without either taking proper preventive measures. It
has become a slogan that every case comes from an
other.
Because the tuberculosis in the&e cases was so rap
idly latal, special causes were sought in the social
side of the situation These indicate that the social
pressure on girls of tins age causes them to conceal
their symptoms in early stages.
Moreover, there were many factors :n tlicir lives
which tended to lower their resistance.
Correlated with the tden that every case comes from
another are two questions which the doctor must a.-sk
today, wherever lie is confronted by a case of tuber
culosis. Tl«e:r are From whom did the victim get It?
To whom did he give it?
Every person associated in any way with a person
who has tuberculosis should keep these questions con.
slantly in mind
The most flagrant waste that is going on in the
country todav is in our oil fields—Secretary of In
terior Harold L. Ickes.
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The World
At a Glance
RY LESLIE EIC'HEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
| NEW YORK Feb 8—The chang
|ed sentiment of bankers It proving
1 a great aid to the Roosevelt admin
| istration behind the scenes.
“Banking." published by the Am
| erican Bankers association says in
its February business review:
I "The comparative soundness of
! business conditions and the prospect
l of gradual improvement seem to be
eliminating from the minds of most
j business men any idea of either a
! serious setback or a fortuitous stim.
j ulus leading to any substantial and
i immediate advance . . .
“One feature dominates the situ
ation in these early weeks of the
new year It is a general recogni
tion of the comparatively solidity
I and stability of fundamental
business conditions, notwithstanding
I such flareups as the excitement over
the gold clause cases before the su
preme court.
"Indeed, the tendency of business
: undoubtedly is to discount unfavor
able developments so far as they can
be foreseen at this point ...”
Compare that with what the bank
ers were saying a year ago.
• • •
Constructive Factors
These are “constructive factors"
as listed by the publication of the
American Bankers association:
"The apparent determination of
the administration to start tha flow’
of private capital; the calmness
with which the business world ac
cepted the new federal budget pro
posals: probable stimulation of con
struction and allied industries by
the work-relief program the en
couraging vigor of the automobile
business; the greater vitality of the
steel industry; activity in retail
trade; maintenance of the govern
ments credit; simplifications of the
securities and exchange commis
sion’s registrations requirements
which should stimulate the capital
market: the absence of further at.
tempts to manipulate the currency
and prices: the strong banking
situation.”
• • •
lg&KWilllam Tecum
sek Sherman,Amc*
ican. general, born.
IWfr Jules Verne,
French
ISS^'Readers won
der how Verne
thinks up all those
fantastic yarns #
about airplane^
and*suhrnarmes^
*ttfh
J
Tax Fight
A tax fight is being conducted in
Minneapolis by the Minneapolis Star
to prevent exemption of valuable
property.
That fight mav be an eve-opener
for other cities that have not in
vestigated what is going on with tax
rolls at home.
The Minneapolis situation mav not
be altogether unique
A small private school elsewhere
in Minnesota tried to finance itself by
laklng privately owned property in
Minneapolis off the tax rolls. The
| school a Baptist institution based
! exemption of its property on the
! "rounds that it is a religious lstl
’ tut ion.
Minneapolis, with eight boys in the
i school, already has been railed on to
give up $18,000 a year in taxes on
downtown property, with more losses
in prospect.
i The school requested also exemp
tion on property in St Paul con
taining a liquor store. The St Paul
council responded by holding up the
liquo’* license.
A few headlines in the Minneap
olis star indicate the intensity of the
battle:
"Fight vast tax loss In city . . .
Battle turns on property valued at
$403 >60 deeded to academy . . .
County Auditor Erickson charges
transfer was deigned ‘to find relief
from taxes' . . . Would open wav for
wholesale tax evasion.’ official
charges . Charter granted insti
tution in 1854 by territorial legisla
ture basts of claim for exemption "
The academy s trustees have been
managing the acquisition of the
property through a collateral agree
ment campaign.
A public schools protective league
attacks the collateral agreement plan
as "scuttling the tax roll" and as
“likely to undermine public school
income."
Another Tax Problem
Democrats in Ohio are beginning
to wonder whether they will be re
turned to office
In the closing days of the admin
istration of Governor George White,
a state sales tax was passed. It
bears heavily on food—particular^
on food bought in small quantities
• as there is a tax on each transac
tion'. In fact, the tax Is called a
consumers' tax—which has an un.
popular ring
• • •
Important Settlement
An important labor settlement
which will have a broad effect on
railroad consolidations has passed
virtually unnoticed.
Some months ago the Baltimore A
Ohio began operating through line
trains over the Pittsburgh A- Lake
Erie »New York Central' between
McKeesport and New Castle Junc
tion. Pa a distance of 60 miles.
Labor leaders protested because 30
men were thrown out of work.
President Willard of the B & O.
has made this compromise
All men displaced will be paid a
years wages.
To all men who accepted new jobs
with the B 4 0 at lower wager me
railroad will pay the difference in
wages for one year.
A man refusing to accept a job r«
~~ ~~ unpensauoa.
News
Behind the
News
Capital tad world gamp, moti
id pen* rumtiM. m and xit o*
tba newa, written by a group oj
'earleaa and Informed newapaper
men of Waablngton and New
York Thu column la puouaned
oy The Herald aa a newa feature.
Opinion* eipreaaed are thoae at
the writer* ee individual* and
ahould not be interpreted aa re*
fleeting the editorial policy at tbit
aewepaper.
WASHINGTON
By George Durno
Spiked—The sharpest point in
the sledge hammer row over the
new auto code between Donald
FUchberg. head of the presidents
National Emergency Council, and
officials of organised labor is that
it bids fair to knock into a cocked
hat the reputed aspirations of Rich
berg to mind up on the United
Slates Supreme Court bench.
When President Bill Green, of the
American Federation of Labor, and
President John Lewis. of the United
Mine Workers, start calling a man
a Benedict Arnoldit is very apt
to hurt his chances of ever attain
ing the nation's highest law tri
bunal.
Memory goes bacg to Herbert
Hoover's effort to appoint Judge
Parker, of North Carolina, to th«
Supreme Court. Labor men remem
bered Parker as the author of the
famous “yellow dog" decision against
them and turned on the heat. He
was NOT confirmed. The same thing
happened when Judge Wilkerson. of
Chicago, who granted the anti
labor injunctions for former At
torney General Harry Daugherty,
came up for promotion to the
Circuit Court of Appeals.
Balancing—Spokesmen for the A
F of L. are busy building a fire
under Richberg in the senate. They
are striking responsive chords im
mediately among the so-called pro
gressive senators.
Even if the Emergency Council
chieftain—who hates to be called
Assistant President" — wins his
present fight with labor, veteran
senators predict the scrap will turn j
up to haunt him if his name is ever
;-cnt up for confirmation in an
other federal position.
Some observers think Richberg is
makbig a mistake by not more or
leas ignoring the dead cats as Gen
eral Johnson did. They say the
lawyer is on a tight rope anyway
and is bound to get off balance if
he starts dodging them through
counter-statements, etc.
• • •
Neck—Richberg had been claimed j
ao a blood brother bv the A F. of L.1
in the early days of NRA and code
making on the basis of his earlier;
connection with the Railroad Bro
therhoods.
As a mater of fact, the brother
hoods always have remained aloof
from the A.F. of L. But the railroad
men feel just as bitterly against
Richberg as do Green and Lewis
and the rest of thd A.F. of L. ex
ecutive council.
Richberg predicted when he took
the job of coordinating the New
Deal that eventually his neck would
get stuck out too far for retrieval.
Organized labor is doing its best to
make the prediction come true.
Flaws—While everyone waits rest
lessly for the Supreme Court's gold
clause decision, another interesting
bit of argument in furtherance of
the government's case is current
around Washington. Senator Borah,
who is steeped in the constitution,
holds this view.
Briefly, it is that no congress ever
has the nght to eommit future
congresses as to what weight, of gold
dollar should be used in paving off
such federal contracts as eurrrncy,
bonds, etc. Some lawyers are mak
ing the point that the constitution
->ves congress the right to regulat*
our currency; therefore, one con
gress mav not specify at what rate
or gold content a future assembly
o* the national legislature should
redeem government obligations.
Tnis, ol course, would apply to
private contract* also If the reas
oning is right.
In any event, admumtrationite*
are not unduly worried about, the
court's decision, even if it should
be entirely or largely c. gainst them.
They are confident that the nine
men in black would point out in
their opinion how Congress could
correct anv legal flaws that might
be found in the gold devaluation act.
Then the government could immed
iately petition for a rehearing The
court wxiuld take this under advise
ment—and congress would have sev
eral weeks in which to remedy any
errors.
But the betting is still all on the
government's side
Finesse—Reports that Secretary of
Interior Ickes will resign because of
the kicking around congress has giv
en him appear to be a little prema
ture at best.
President Roosevelt, in common
with alt other executives, won't have
a break in his cabinet family if it
ran possibly he avoided Too many
embers alwa.s are stirred into
flame.
Trkes is a fighter and he has hi*
back up now He hardly would re
sign unless politely asked. Wash
1 eu un get anything on me e*jy pa>*
wen* plan •M*p<
•xo FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS’
ingtons guess is that if hostile con
gressmen finally get at him there
will be no change until next sum
mer when the so-called scions have
gone home and everything can be
arranged quietly with the customary
Roosevelt fmease
• • •
Homea—The Federal Housing Ad
ministration is now installed in new
quarters and is expanding rapidlj
Bank* and building and loan as
sociations are ooming forward with
applicaticns for mortgage insurance
With the $100,000,000 revolving fund
available the RPC is about to fi
nance mortgage loan associations
and set in motion the circle of de- I
benture issues* which will have the
effect of making mortgage invest
ment* liquid instead of frosen.
Twenty-six million home-owners
with $21000.000.000 In mortgages
hanging over them are now enabled
to refinance their obligations on a
long-term low-interest basis. The
system “catches on" immediately it
is better understood. Federal mort
gage insurance is a practical relief
measure without experimental or
emotional theory—and it is a per
manent reform affecting the whole
field of home ownership, including
new construction
• • •
Naive—E Claude Babcock, presi
dent of the American Federation of
government employe*, had an em
barrassing morrent before the con
gressional sub-committee consider
ing the department of Justice appro
priation bill.
Bearing in mind certain of hia
membership. Babcock proix»ed that
prison guards be equipped with uni
form* made by convict labor. Thus
would have saved the guards some
money but It certainly ran counter
to the A. F. of L. phobia agamst
prison labor.
It developed Babcock's organiza
tion was affiliated with the federa
tion—but he didn’t think there would
be any objection to his suggestion.
^H .KPN SIPIMD1 .PS
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O «S5 NEA SERVICE, INO
■eun H tHE TODAY
GAI.E HKNDKHSON, pretty and
S3, works la a silk mill. She aud
her IP-year-old brother. FH1I'.
aapport their Invalid father.
STWVE METER* who alao
worka In the mill aaka Gale to
marry him. She proatlaea to flw
him aa aaawrr la a few days.
Gale (ora abating. hreaka
tkroagh the lee and la reseaed by
BRIAN WEimoRH whose fa
ther, bow dead, hallt the aalll.
Brlaa haa eoaae home after two
yeara la Paris to eater the mill.
Gale dlaappeara before hr learaa
her aaae.
VICKT THSTCHER. daaghter
of ROKRRT THATCHER, general
manager of the mill, arhemea to
captivate Brian.
I.KOTA ROM KR. another em
ploye. tells Gale the mill work
res are plannlag to orgaalae se
cretly and demand their rights.
She asks tir’e to come t- a meet
ing and t.a.e agrees. . iter she
learns that l.eota la a company
spy.
fcow GO O* WITH THE STOK1
CHAPTER XIX
Cv ALE stood still snd said. "Why.
w Joeie-!"
"It’s the truth.” the other In
sisted stoutly. “Wait till we Ret
out of here—I'll tell you more
about it.”
They followed the hurrying,
pushing crowd along the corridor.
Gale had heard there were spies In
the mill, that the company paid
certain men and women for keeping
them informed about what was go
ing on among the employes, but
these rumors had never seemed
quite real. Could Josie be right
about M ? Was Leota Boiler really
a spy?
As they turned into the wash
room Josie looked back and said in
a low voice. "Wait for me outside"
Gale put on her coat and hat and
hurried out of the building. It was
only a few moments before Josie
reappeared Another girl was with
her and the three of them went
down the walk and through the big
gate together. There the third girl
set off In one direction and Joaie
and Gale took another.
Gale glance over her shoulder
and saw that no one was near
enough to overhear. She said,
"What makes you think what you
said—?”
“About Leota? Because I know
it’s true. I got a friend who works
in the business office and he's seen
her in there reportin’ wbat she e
picked up snoopin’ around. She gets
paid for it Can yon imagine that?
Get tin’ paid for bein’ a tattle-tale.
She’s not the only one, either
There’s lots more. Ed Vogel, the
Rate-keeper, is the worst of the lot
The low-down, snoopin' tattle-tale!
Believe me, when I see him or that
Leota I keep my distance. A per
son’s got to be careful, 1 tell you
Say—I hope you didn’t tell het
anything!”
“Why, no," Gale said doubtfully
“I don't believe I did-"
Had she? Had she told Leota
Boiler anything which, repeated
could make trouble for Gale? She
tried to remember what each ol
them bad said. It was Leota whe
bad been so outspoken against tb<
company, against the way em
ployes were treated. If Leota wai
a spy—yes. she might have salt
those very things, hoping to gei
Gale to commit her&elf. All at onci
Gale remembered about the meet
*
F inic she bad promised to go ta
"111 tell Leota I can’t go," she
decided.
• • •
JOSIE went on speaking. “Gee, If
you let anything slip you’ll be
sorry for it!** she prophesied.
! "I’m sure I didn’t." Gale told
her. She thought It was better not
,to tell Josle any more about the
conversation with Leota. There was
still a possibility that Josie might
be wrong about the other girl.
"Whether she is or not." Gale as
sured himself. “1 won’t take
chances. I won’t go to the meeting
with her."
Thus she dismissed the whole af
fair. It never occurred to Gale
that the incident might have more
serious consequences.
She had no time to think about
Leota Boiler when she reached
i home. Her father lay bark against
the pillows and Gale noticed with
a stab how old he looked.
He greeted her cheerfully. Yea,
Mrs. O'Connor had come in and
I brought him some food at noon and
she’d been in twice since.
’’Here's your medicine." Gale
told him. “Yon're to take it three
times a day after meals. And here’s
the evening paper. I’ll turn the
light on and you can read It while
I’m in the kitchen—"
But Tom Henderson said he’d
rather not have the light on. And
anyhow he didn’t feel like reading.
Gale glanced at him anxiously
hut the glance told her nothing,
j She went to her own room and
changed the mill uniform for a
house dress. In the kitchen, in
place of the soiled breakfast dishes
she expected to find, there was a
pile of clean cups and saueera
* pistes and knives and forks.
“Mrs. O’Connor!” Gale thought
"Bless her! I’ll have to find some
wsy to make up for all this—"
She busied herself scraping car
rots and chopping cabbage and cut
ting slices of mush to fry; Phil
liked fried mush and it didn't cost
much. She set the table as soon
as the vegetables were on the stove.
Then she made toast and poured
steaming hot milk over it She set
a bowl of the milk* toast on a tray
with a cup of tea and was just
ready to take it to her father when
Phil came in.
“I’ll take It." he offered.
"Oh, thanks. Phil!"
...
4^ ALE went about getting the
meal on tbe table and when
Phil returned It was ready. They
sat down, facing each other, each
aware of tbe vacant place at tbe
foot of the table.
Pbil said. “He seems better to
night Don’t you think so?"
“Yes. Only he looks so tired •
“I noticed that." Phil agreed,
“hut he told me he didn’t feel
tired."
“You know be never admits any
thing is wrong."
i { “Yes. that’s true." Phil talked of
other things then.
A little later be arose and went
i into the front of the bouse. Gale
I gathered up the dishes and put on
water lo the kettle to heat. She
was on her way to her father’!
• {room when mare wag § knock
Lhe door.
Gale hurried forward and opened
the door. 8be said. “Good eve
ning—" and then stopped.
Steve Meyers stood os the
threshold. He said. “I heard your
father was sick. How Is he U*
night?"
“Better." Gale told him, “hot the
doctor said he should stay hi bed
for a few days."
“Could I see him?" Steve asked.
“Why. yes, of course."
He came Into the house thee.
Gale turned and Steve put out a
hand, as though to stop her. He
said, “Walt a minute, Gale. There’s
something I want to talk to you
about."
She hesitated, waiting for him
to go on.
“I didn't mean what I said tba
other night" Steve's voice was
self-conscious.
• • •
GALE'S eyes were lowered. "I
said things T shouldn't have,
too,* sh« told him. “Steve—I wish
wo could go on being friends again."
“Do you mean that?*
-Of course I do."
“Then it’s all over," Steve aald
eagerly, “I mean about these laat
few days. I’ve been nearly eraey.
Gale. It’s the first time we've ever
quarreled and It’ll be the laat. I
won’t be such a fool again. Look—
I brought you something—*
He held out a package, a long
white box. Gale took it, looking up
in surprise. She untied the eord
and drew off the cover. There were
six pink rosebuds Inside the box.
“Oh. Steve!’* she exclaimed, “yon
shouldn’t—!"
*'I thought you’d like them."
*’I do like them—they're lovely,
Steve! But you shouldn’t have
done it; you shouldn’t have been so
extravagant!"
She lifted the roj-es and held
them In her arms. The perfume of
the flowers filled the room and their
warm color seemed to bring a flush
to the girl’s cheeks.
"Ti)«y r« not mucn, Steve sate.
“Not is pretty « yon are, Oats.
Not nsarly. Ton ought to have
flowers all the time. I wish I
could buy them tor you."
She was smiling and yet. last
for a moment, he thought there
were tears in her eyes. “Why,
Gale" he said, “what's the matter?"
“Nothing. There’s nothing the
matter, Steve." The dark lashes
were lowered so that be eould net
see her eyes.
He went on then. “You said we
could be friends again, Gale. Doea
that mean I still have a chance?
That maybe some day—*
She raised her eyes and met his
over the roses. “Let's leave things
as they have been for a while,
Steve" she said. “Let’s Jwet be
friends—-at least for a while."
There was a moment’s pauae and
then she went on quickly. “Oh. hat
I must And something to put these
flowers in. They ought to be In
water 1"
She turned away to And a vase.
Later Gale Henderson was never to
see pink roses without a tightening
about her heart. But that was
much later after a great many
things had happened.
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