Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

V • A Tht Barnwell People-SentlneL Barnwell. 8. C, Tharsdar. April 22, 1937 K L \ V { \ I I 3 I r i 1 R' | I Br. s I I News Review of Current Events the World Over v Senate Condemns Sitdown Strike but Spares President— Henry Ford Defies Lewis—Governor Benson Incurs Censure of Minnesota Senate. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C Western Newspaper Union. mist Sen. Robinson TN ORDER to get the Gulley coal 1 control bill through the, senate without an amendment condemning the sitdown strike, Majority Leader Joe Robinson prom ised to permit con sideration of a reso lution carrying sim ilar condemnation, but when it was pre sented and adopted, by a vote of 75 to 3, it was not a joint resolution, which would require the signature of the President. That was what Senator Mc- Nary and others wanted, but Robinson said it must be concurrent, because he would not put Mr. Roosevelt in the posi tion of having to indicate his posi tion on the sitdown strike by either signing or vetoing the measure. Besides declaring the sitdown strike "illegal and contrary to sound public policy” the resolution as adopted took a double slap at the employers by also declaring: “That the so-called industrial spy system breeds fear, suspicion and animosity, tends to cause strikes and industrial warfare and is con trary to sound public policy; and “That it is likewise contrary to sound public policy for any em ployer to deny the right of collec tive bargaining, to foster the com pany union or to engage in any other unfair labor practice as de fined in the national labor relations act.” 'JhJ/vihd about The Origin of Sitdowns. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.- With the Barnum show there once was an elderly lady ele phant named Helen. Now, Helen 7a rot it e ■National Topics Interpreted £ by William Bruckart National Proas Bulldlnr Wanhlngton, D. C. LJENRY FORD returned from * Detroit to his winter residence at Ways, Ga., and there announced that the Ford Motor company “nev er will recognize” the United Auto mobile Workers of America or any other union. “We’ll deal with in dividual workers,” he said. Ford said that any of his men who struck would be “led out” of the particular plant with regrets “be cause we know the men are simply being duped and coerced by the strike leaders.” “We won’t hold any grudge against them and will be willing to hire them back,” he added. He said public officials were charged with protecting citizens from such disorders as sitdown strikes. “Those who seize property not their own are in the same category as housebreakers,” Ford said. John L. Lewis in reply told a union meeting in Detroit that he had no doubt Ford will continue to deal with individual employees “as long as his employees permit him to fol low that policy and no longer.” And the C. I. O. chief added ominously: “I have no doubt Henry Ford will change his mind on this subject.” The strike in the Ford plant in Kansas City came to an end and the members of the United Auto mobile Workers were boasting of gaining a victory over the imper turbable Henry « But the advantage they won was slight and temporary, and the battle with Ford is yet to be fought The thirty-day strike of the Chrys ler company employees came to an end when W. P. Chrysler and John Lewis reached an agreement under persuasion of Governor Murphy. The company agreed to recognize the U^ A. W. A. as the bargaining agency for its members, and the union pledged that it would call no sitdown strikes nor permit its mem bers to engage in any in Chrysler plants for the duration of the com pact, which extends to March 3, 1938. The strike of Reo'Company men was settled on approximately the same terms, and Governor Murphy then turned his attention to the Hud son company strike. The C. I. O invaded Canada by calling out 3,700 workers in the plants of the General Motors com pany of Canada at Oshawa, Ont. But it was the old-fashioned kind of strike, with picketing, and the union pledged there would be no violence. 'T'HREE hundred sitdown strikers 1 at the plant of the Hershey Chocolate corporation at Hershey, Pa., were overwhelmed and driven out by a mob of thousands of irate farmers and loyal workers of the company. The farmers were en raged because the strike had cut off their market for $10,000 worth of milk daily. They and the non strikers were armed with clubs and bricks and the strikers were treated roughly. Gov. George H. Earle of Pennsyl vania ordered an investigation and declared formally: “The bloodshed at the Hershey plant was a disgrace to the com monwealth. The blame lies direct ly on the sheriff of the county, who said he did not need the assistance of the state police to maintain or der. Precedent decrees that loCal authorities must ask the state’s as sistance before it intervenes. “The state police will not be used to suppress union labor. Neither are they interested in the sitdown prob lem. They will prevent mob rule. Apparently the sheriff was not an had wearied of traipsing to and Stars?. * n,orccment ° mcer m fro in the land. Probably she figured she’d seen JVf QVING back again ,o threat, anyhow &, each tail AVI A Rearac/wa WnCn UlC 868501 Gov. Benson we find Elmer A. Benson, Farmer-Labor governor of Minne sota, involved in labor troubles that might conceivably ' result in his im peachment. About 200 members of the “people’s lobby” staged a sitdown in the senate chamber at St. Paul for the purpose of enforc ing their demands for immediate ac tion on the gover nor’s relief plan. Benson had previ ously spoken to the crowd, telling them “it is all right to be a little rough once in a while” in dealing with the legislature, and the lawmakers were exceedingly re sentful. The governor, after one day and night, persuaded the dem onstrators to leave, telling them they had done a good job. On regaining possession of its chamber, the senate put through a resolution condemning the gover nor for “inciting people to riot” and failing to perform his lawful duties to “quell and quiet the mob.” While there was no serious talk of impeachment, the report was current that the senate resolution was drafted deliberately as a pos sible basis for such action. D ITUMINOUS coal miners were on strike only one day, for the new wage scale, providing an $85,- 000,000 increase of pay for the 400,- 000 men, was signed by representa tives of the operators and the United Mine Workers of America. Of course the consumer will have to pay for this wage boost. Charles O’Neill, president of the United Eastern Coal Sales corporation, and chairman of the operators’ delega tion at the conference, said the cost of bituminous coal at the mine would go up at least 25 cents a ton. The miners won a raise of 50 cents a day, but lost their demand for a 30-hour week. The 35-hour week, or 7 hours a day and 5 days a week, uhich was in effect under the old contract, will remain. Also the men failed to get two weeks’ vacation with pay and a guaranty of 200 days of work a year. '"p HERE- is going to be a lively * three-cornered struggle in the southwestern oil fields. The C. I. O., whose plans in that direction were mentioned in this column not long ago, has begun the campaign to or ganize the workers in the Texas field. Harvey C. Fremming of Washington, president of the Inter national Association of Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers and close friend of John Lewis, is in charge of the operations. A rival movement for members and pres tige will be started in a few days by the A. F. of L. Gov. James V. Allred of Texas has given notice that he will use “every resource” against sit-down strikes, which he declares are un- awful and un-American. He added: “My investigation convinces me ■ hat sit-down strike organizers have ■nvaded Texas. Sit-down methods 1o not represent the desires of an overwhelming majority of organized Ir.bor in this state.” "T RANSrATLANTIC air service * between the United States and Greet Britain may be expected to start almost immediately, for the last obstacle in its way was re moved by an agreement wi,th Can ada concerning routes through the Dominion. Assistant Secretary of Commerce J. Monroe Johnson announced that two routes through Canada had been made available for trans-Atlantic flying'craft that will make a total of four trips a week. One route is by way. of Shediac, N. B., and the other through Montreal. The hop- off point for eastward flights over the ocean would be from Bottwood, N F., which also would be landfall on the westward flights. Johnson said that under the agree ment British and United States planes would make two crossings apiece weekly. CENATOR JAMES HAMILTON ^ LEWIS of Illinois told the senate that he believes the time has come for President Roosevelt to call an international peace conference that would revise the treaty of Ver sailles He said the object of the con ference would be to reach a “new disposition that might content the nations that are now in revolt and which continue in conflict because of the affront and injury they feel was worked upon them under the terms of the treaty.” Tne senator asserted the popular ity of Mr. Roosevelt abroad would lend much to the success of such a conference. Irvin S. Cobb season ended;' she went rejoicing back home to Bridgeport, Conn. Nobody ever knew the date of depar ture the next spring. There was no more bustle about winter- quarters on that morning than for weeks past. But always, when the handlers en tered the “bull barn” to lead forth the herd, they found Helen hun kered down on her voluminous haunches, which, under that vast weight, spread out like cake batter on a hot griddle. She would be uttering shrill sobs of defiance. And neither prodding nor honeyed words could budge her. So they'd wrap chains around her and two of her mates would hitch on and drag her bodily, she still on her rubbery flanks, aboard a wait ing car. She’d quit weeping then and wipe her snout and accept what fate sent her. So please don’t come telling me that the sit-down strike is a new notion or that somebody in Europe first thought it up. Thirty years ago I saw my lady elephant friend, Hel en, putting on one, all by her four- ton self. • • • Taxes and More Taxes. J UST when everybody is taking comfort from the yodelled prom ises of that happy optimist. Chair man Harrison of the senate finance committee, that the government will be able to get by for 1937 with out asking this congress to boost taxes, what happens? Why, in a most annoying way. Governor Eccles of the federal re serve board keeps proclaiming that, to make treasurj receipts come anywhere near meeting treasury disbursements throughout the year, he’s afraid it’s going to be neces sary to raise the rates on incomes and profits higher than ever. And meanwhile state governors and civic authorities scream with agony at the bare prospect of any reductions in Uncle Sam’s allot ments for local projects. A balanced budget would seem to be like Santa Claus, something everybody talks about but nobody ever expects to see. * • • Self-Determination. FORMERLY the states jealously * guarded their sovereign per quisites. Once—but that was so long ago many have almost forgot ten it—they fought among them selves one of the bloodiest civil wars in history over the issue of states’ rights. Now we see them complacently surrendering to federal bureaus those ancient privileges—and may be, after all. that’s the proper thing to do, if in centralized authority lies the hope of preserving a republican form of government. Still, one wonders what English men would do under like circum stances, since Englishmen are fussy about their inheritance of self-de termination. Perhaps the distinc tion is this: In democracies there exists the false theory that all men are born free an$j equal. So the Englishman insists on having his freedom, which is a concrete thing, and laughs at the idea of equality. Whereas, the American abandons his individual freedom provided he may cling to the fetish of equality. Yankee tweedledee and British tweedledum may be brothers under the skin, but they have different skin diseases * • • The Parole Racket. astonishing but seemingly that, of five young gang sters recently caught red-handed in a criminal operation, not a single one was a convict out on parole. Is there no way to bar rank amateurs from a profession calling for prior experience and proper background? And can it be that the various pa role boards over the union are not turning loose qualified practitioners fast enough to keep up with the de mand? Maybe we need self-open ing jails. Those sentimentalists who abhor the idea that a chronic offender be required to serve out his latest sen tence should take steps right away to correct this thing before it goes too far. Our parole system must be vindicated if it costs the lives and property of ten times as many innocent citizens as at present. IRVIN S. COBB. ©—WNU Service IT IS * true Festival Bills Elephant Fight Elephant tug-of-wars, in which the beasts locked tusks and some times struggled for hours, were a feature of a festival recently held near Calcutta, India. Washington.—Senator McKellar, Tennessee Democrat, arose in the senate recently to Silly Law offer a bill that Doomed would repeal a provision of law prohibiting the employment of both man and wife by the government. It has been in effect since the sum- mer of 1933. The provision ought to be and probably will be repealed because, as far as I can see, there is actually no sense in the national government refusing to employ ef ficient workers because a man’s wife or a woman’s husband al ready is on the federal pay roll. It was not the importance of this particular repeal proposal, how ever, that interested me. Senator McKellar’s action was significant and interesting only because when repeal of the so-called marriage clause and federal law was pro posed, it marked the beginning of the end of one of the most abortive pieces of legislation that has been on our statute books. I refer to the so- called economy act of 1933. I cannot refrain from recalling a prediction that I made when the economy act was before congress in 1933. It was introduced and sup ported by the New Deal legislature in an effort to carry out a cam paign promise made when Presi dent Roosevelt was running for of fice in 1932. You will remember that he promised to reduce the cost of government twenty-five per cent, saying in many speeches that the cost of government was too high and that a reduction in taxes was necessary. It will be recalled like wise how he said that “Taxes come from the sweat of every man who labors.” Well, the economy act was driven through, despite declaration from many senators and many represen tatives that it was impossible to mutilate the structure of govern ment as proposed in that bill and still have a government that would function properly. And here were some of the most ridiculous provi sions in that legislation to come be fore congress in many years: They worked injustices on veterans of the World war,* on farmers, on retired government workers, on the army and navy and marine corps, and hamstrung and handicapped gov ernment agencies in a manner I had not seen in my long experience as an observer of national affairs. It was on that occasion that I made the prediction mentioned, above, and to which I call atten tion because of the McKellar pro posal for repeal of the marriage clause. I wrote at that time my definite conviction that the economy law was silly; that it would work hardships a^d that its basis was ninety per cent politics. I predict ed further that within a year the politicians in the house and senate who had shouted so loudly about economy would begin to chisel va rious provisions out of that law. Each of those things has happened and now we see the end. The end of the law has come but not the end of its effects. Prac tices in federal government admin istration that had been operating satisfactorily and efficiently throughout the years were thrown into the discard and new ideas sub stituted. The discarded methods were the development of experience and were serving the purposes for which they were intended. Some of them have been restored and are again functioning as they should but one can wander around through the maze of government corridors and find attempts still being made to make schemes work that are un- | sound in practice, schemes from | the minds of theorists. It will be a number of years before the effects of the economy act will be obliter ated. • * * As the chiseling began and the economy act fell to pieces under sounder thinking. Spending there was Orgy launched the greatest spending orgy any nation ever witnessed. It has continued with unabated pecu liarity and is still continuing not withstanding the fact that within the last few weeks we have heard statements from administration sources to the effect that adminis tration expenditures will be cut. The fact is they have not been cut. But the average person outside of Washington sees and hears only things related to large totals of gov ernment spending such as relief for the destitute and vast programs of public building. They do not hear nor do they see what is going on among agencies of the government that relate to comparatively small items of money outgo. It is these small items, when taken together, that bulk so large even though by comparison with relief the total ap pears insignificant. I am going to call attention to just- one item, a small item as govern ment expenses go, about which I suspect most persons who do me the honor to read these articles have had little information. They have had little information because they are in a position to see. only isolated examples. I refer to gov ernment publications. Representative Taber of New York called attention to the condi tion respecting government publi cations recently when the house ap propriations committee was holding hearings on a bill appropriating funds for several government de partments. Mr. Taber estimated that gov—ForGicni m m ont miKli Aatirme vires**** ^ 'IV) tf Helan Twslv street Creamed Eggs With Chill and Rice To two cupfuls of well-seasoned medium white sauce add one tea- spoonful chili powder and s i x hard-cooked eggs, cut in quarters. Meanwhile, cook one cupful of rice, season it to suit the taste and arrange in a border around a platter. Pour the egg mixture into the centei. Serves six. CopyrlKht.—WNU SenriM. emment publications were costing in the neighborhood of twenty-mil- lion-dollars a year. He called them administration propaganda. “Every organization in the gov ernment,” Mr. Taber declared, “is sending out all sorts of propagan da, propaganda in fancy colors, pamphlets with pictures of resettle ment projects, pictures of WPA propositions and all that sort of thing.” It was the first estimate I had been able to obtain of the cost of government publications for it is not easy to ascertain how much these beautifully done magazines cost each department or agency. Nor is it easy to determine how much is paid for the distribution of the countless thousands of state ments issued for the press or mailed in millions of copies to voters. The whole thing constitutes a maze that is so complex that it is staggering. The government printing office lists 73 periodicals of the magazine type for which it will take subscriptions or sell individual copies. These, of course, are printed documents. They do not include the many pamphlets that are mimeographed or published otherwise by governmental agencies. * * * I mentioned the distribution of of ficial statements for the press and to voters through- Wetgning ou t the country. the Coot There is no way, as far as I can see, to calculate the total, but one Washington correspondent recently took occasion to weigh the output of press statements from the De partment of Agriculture for one week. His curiosity had been aroused by the tremendous volume that had been delivefed to his of fice—both by mail and by special messenger—and so he weighed the week’s grist. It totaled more than three and one-half pounds. This, as I said, was from only one depart ment and the weight was the weight of the paper alone. One need not employ a great deal of imagination to think of the cost involved. First there was the pa per itself. In the second place there was the cost of typing the material and thenjjL mimeographing it. But before it reached either one of these stages, it was necessary that a vast amount of work be done by well paid men and women writers and research workers who prepared the material that was used whether in mimeographing or in printing. There are two publications that come to my desk regularly that’ strike me as being extraordi narily expensive. The “Consumers’ Guide,” a product of the Agricul ture Adjustment administration and the “Electrification News,” pub lished by the Rural Electrification administration, are the two most ex pensive and most elaborate periodi cals that I regularly see. They are sent out free not only to the Wash- | ington correspondents but to thou sands upon thousands of voters— to any voter whose name either agency obtains. And they are paid for out of taxpayers’ money. Typographically, each of these pe riodicals is exceptionally well done from a magazine standpoint. They are replete with pictures, and cop per engraving is expensive. And so it is throughout the gov ernment. Everywhere a correspond ent goes among government offices he meets “federal workers,” among the government personnel, engaged in preparing and distributing the government’s stories for public reading. / • • • Now, let me touch on another phase of the cost of government publications. I re- Franking f er t 0 the use of Abuse the franking privi lege. As everyone knows, government mail goes through the United States mails without the payment of postage. That does not mean, however, that the railroads or the airplanes or the steamships haul that mail free. The only difference between that mail and the letters you write or receive is that the government pays the transportation lines on a pound basis and no stamps are used. It is bulk transportation whereas when you and I mail letters we pay the cost of transportation on those let ters to the government by means of s postage stamp. It is entirely proper and reason able that government mail should hot require postage stamps. It would simply be taking government money out of one pocket and put ting it in another. Yet, in the end you and I, as taxpayers, pay for the transportation of tha government mail and we pay for the millions of pieces that are lent out from the various government departments. G Western Newspaper Union, and Phrases Etourderie. (F.) Giddy conduct, an imprudent caprice. Ricordo. (It.) A souvenir, a keepsake. P. contre coeur. (F.) Unwilling ly- Calembour. (F.) A pun. Pas seul. (F) A dance per formed by one person. Sans culottes. (F.) Ragged men, the lower classes during the French revolution. Si non e vero, e ben trovato. (It.) If it is not true, it is very ingenious. A la lettre. (J.) To the lettefl, literally. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets made of May Apple are effective in removing accumilated body waste.—Adv. Helping Others What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? for WOMEN only CARDUI is a special medicine for the relief of some of the suffering which results from a woman’s weak ened condition. It has been found to make monthly periods less dis agreeable, and, when its use has been kept up awhile, has helped many poorly nourished women to get more strength from their food. This medi cine (pronounced “Card-u-r) has been used and recommended by women for many, many years. Find out whether It will help yon by giving It a fair trial. Of course. If not benefited, consult a physician. Two Kinds of Secrecy A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.—Chesterfield. Miss REE LEEF says; (<C^) ' CAPUDINE relieves HEADACHE m quicker because its liquid... alxauLf JUiolveJ. Hasten Early Hasten in the morning so that by evening thy work for the day bt accomplished. Don't irritate Gas Bloating If you want to roally GET RJO OF GAS and terrible bloating, don’t axpect to do it by Just doctoring your atom- ach with harsh, irritating alkalies and ”gas tablets.” Moat GAS is lodged in the ctomach and upper intestine and is due to old poironous matter in the constipated bowels that are loaded with ilNcausIng bacteria. If your constipation is of long stand ing, enormous quantities of dangerous bacteria accumulate. Then your diges tion is upset. GAS often presses heart and lungs, making life miserable. You can’t eat or sleep. Your head aches. Your back aches. Your com plexion is sallow and pimply. Your breath is foul. You are a sick, grouchy, wretched, unhappy person. YOUR SYSTEM IS POISONED. Thousands of sufferers have found In Adlerika ’the quick, scientific way to rid their systems of harmful bacteria. Adleivka rids you of gas and cleans foul poicons out of BOTH upper and lower bowels. Give your bowels a REAL cleansing with Adlerika. Get rid of GAS. Adlerika does not grips —is not habit forming. At all Leading Druggists. Ignorance and Knowledge , Distance sometimes endears friendship and absence sweeteneth it.—Howell. HELP KIDNEYS To Get Rid of Acid and Poisonous Waste Your kidneys help to keep you-wall by constantly (Uterine waste matter from the blood. It your kidneys get functionally disordered and fail to remove excees impurities, there may be K isoning of the whole system and dy-wide distress. Burning, scanty er too frequent uri nation may be a warning of some kidney or bladder disturbance. You may suffer nagging backache, persistent hemdache, attacks of diasineae, getting up nights, swelling, puffinean under the eyss—feel weak, nervous,- all played ouL In such caaae It is better to roly on • medicine that baa won country-wide acclaim than on something less favor ably known. Use Dona’s Pillt. A multi tude of grateful people recommend Doan'. of grateful people i’s. Au year ntiohoorl Doans pills