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DOWN IN COCHISE COUNTY
(Ceottmied from Page One)
Bro. Venard of the Salvorlan Sem
taaiT at St Nazaire, Wis., in which
ke says in part: “As a faithful
reader of your column in the Ga
nette since its inception, I did not
fa* to read of your new found in
terest in rocks.” He goes on to
teH of a trip to the Huachucas in
1987 and a rock find there. He
has given us the location and
•pines that wild horses will not
keep us away as soon as the trails
•re open in the spring. And he’s
probably right. We’ll report on
this later—when it’s warmer in
the Huachucas.
A second glance at the envelope
tells us that it is St. Nazianz.
Guess that we will never forget
St. Nazaire. When enemy sub
marines in the Bay of Biscay pre
vented part of our convoy from
landing at Brest in 1917, we made
the harbor of the old city at the
mouth of the River Loire. We’ll
always remember that landing.
But that’s another story.
We’re saving that one.
The sports experts have picked
Mie Dempsey-Firpo fight as the
anost dramatic sports event of the
half century. We can think of at
leant a dozen, particularly in base
batt and football, that would have
been better choices alt ho the af
fhir waa one to be long remem
bered. It was in this event that
the Argentine fighter, downed sev
eral times by Dempsey, got up off
the canvas and threw a haymaker
that knocked the champion clear
•ut of the ring and into the laps
•f the spectators. Several of these
assisted the dazed fighter back
thru the ropes where he continued
■nd won. And this was the same
•o-called Manassas Mauler who,
along with his admirers, has
whined about the “long count” in
•ne of the two fights he lost to
Gene Tunney.
“A small town,” says the Dry
Lake Dude, “is one in which ev
erybody knows whose checks are
of the gutta percha variety.”
The mink, highly valued for its
fur, has a very disagreeable smell.
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Virginia Mayo in “White Heat”
at the Lyric Monday and Tuesday.
KIOODNS
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A SENSIBLE LABOR POLICY
A great labor organization got
down to earth the other day with
some real thinking on a resolution
for the new year. An Associated
Press story from Washington dat
ed December 26 said: “The Amer
ican Federation of Labor today
proposed that management and
labor get together in 1950 to cut
production costs and that labor get
a wage increase as its share of the
result in saving.” That’s talking
real turkey!
Labor is right in suggesting that
employees deserve a share of
what is saved when production
costs are reduced. I believe that
workers ought to have higher
wages, when they can produce
more goods without increasing
costs in other ways. Actually,
there is no sound way to increase
wages—except greater productiv
ity. Our production per man day
has jumped 500 per cent during
the past 100 years. That explains
today’s good wages.
Reward for Output
Throughout the industrial his
tory of America, most industries
have paid about all they could af
ford to pay in wages. There have
been some exceptions. But in gen
eral, as productivity increased
wages climbed higher. Because of
modern methods and good tools,
productivity per man day has
doubled during the past 33 years.
The reward for great output and
efficiency has been a very high
level of wages.
But what’s been happening late
ly? In the past five years wages
have been pushed upward by arti
ficial means. Heavy pressure
from both unions and government
has shoved them upward faster
than productivity has increased.
Naturally, these methods create
dislocations and encourage infla
tion. I believe we have reached
the point where any further steps
in that direction would bring un
employment and encourage de
pression.
Ray of Hope
Now, this AF of L plea that
labor join with management to
bring down production cc*ts for
the purpose of obtaining higher
wages is a real ray of hope. It
makes exceeding good sense. For
example, I am told that in the
housing industry the cost of lay
ing brick could be brought ’way
down, with the right kind of co
operation of employees and man
agement. Here is a condition
that has hurt construction progress
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and slowed the building of homes
throughout the nation.
I understand that a good brick
layer can lay 800 to 1,200 bricks
a day without much difficulty.
However, a good many builders
have told me that the union will
allow their bricklayers to put up
only 350 to 400 per day. If this
industry represents a fair example
of what could be done with full
cooperation of labor and manage
ment, surely there are great
strides to be made in the years
ahead toward achieving higher
living standards for the people of
America.
Double It Again?
Experts tell us that America’s
living standards have advanced in
direct proportion to productivity
per man day. This simply means
that increased production will
bring about increase in living stan
dards. My conviction is that good
labor-management coopera ti o n
could increase productivity per
man day another 100 per cent
within the next 33 years. This
would bring a 100 per cent in
crease in living standards.
This miracle will happen again,
only if labor and management pull
together. If they solve our in
dustrial problems in an intelli
gent way America will reach high
er and higher levels of output.
Not only will this cooperation in
sure plenty of jobs and the goods
we need. It will do much to re
verse the trend toward statism,
which threatens to reduce every
American’s standard of living to
the same low level.
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE
NO BUENO SAYS MEDICO
Dr. Robert S. Flinn, president of
the state medical association,
spoke to the Kiwanis Club last
week and later addressed a Parent
Teacher Association in Douglas.
His subject was, “A Brief Glimpse
of Britain’s Economy,” and he told
his hearers of interviews with
Lord Beaverbrook and other well
known Englishmen in which they
expressed themselves on the state
of affairs under the present social
istic form of English government.
Rather surprisingly, Beaver
brook said that Americans should
keep their money at home as the
Marshall Plan is causing the Eng
lish to lose their initiative and is
retarding the country’s recovery.
Dr. Flinn said that the English
citizen works hard to get security
but gets little of it in spite of the
fact that he pays the highest taxes
of any one in the world. The in
dustries taken over by the govern
ment are constantly going in the
BISBEE, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1959
red, thus making it necessary to
hike the taxes. There is little in
centive for a worker to make extra
money by striving for bonus or ov
ertime at higher rates for it means
only taxes and little more take
home pay.
Compulsory health insurance
which is supposed to give the peo
ple “free sick care” is not a suc
cess either from the standpoint
of the public or of physicians. Too
many people malinger, pretend to
be sick when they’re not, and con
sequently there is always a too
long waiting line of those who
really need medical care. Each
doctor is supposed to have a pan
el of 4,000 patients. A conscien
tious practitioner who spends
more time with his patients will
not receive as much pay as the one
who rushes them through.
“We have followed Great Britain
in everything for many years,” the
speaker said. “Are we going to
follow her in socialism?” He ex
pressed his approval of voluntary
health insurance and said that it
is believed that within ten years
80 per cent of the American peo
ple will be carrying it.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
By S. Omar Barker
A Senate committee speaks harsh
ly of Vaughan,
And hardly more kindly of
Maragon;
But Harry, whose favors they trad
ed upon,
Is still the Dem. party’s pure
paragon!
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FBI MAN TALKS TO
BISBEE ROTARIANS
Arthur Potter, member of J. Ed
gar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of
Investigation, was the speaker at
Rotary meeting last week. He ex
plained the workings of the organ
ization and gave a number of in
stances where crooks had endeav
ored, without success however, to
change or obliterate their finger
prints and escape detection.
There are the two departments
in Washington, one where the fing
er prints of known criminals are
kept and the other where those of
ordinary citizens, presumably hon
est persons, are kept. Before, dur
ing and since the war innumerable
cases of identification have been
made through this department. la
peace time many persons killed
through accident would have been
buried as "unknown” were it mat
for the fact that their finger prints
had been taken and filed in Waah
ington. The speaker said that
about 112,000,000 sets of prints are
in the files in the national capital,
and that it requires but a few min
utes for identification to be made
after a set of prints or even the
print of one finger are received.
Mr. Potter was here last weak
conducting a finger print school
for local law enforcement officers.
Any one whose prints are not •■
file may have this means of identi
fication taken without charge; be
or she may thus be certain that in
case of amnesia or death by acci
dent anywhere in the world iden
tification may be made.
The Chinese poet, Li Po, waa
entitled to free wine in any tav
ern in China.
Food is eaten with the fingers
instead of chopsticks by the Chi
nese in a period of mourning.
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