Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 12 February 1932 — Page 3
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1932.
HALLELUJAH HOOVERVILLE HUNTS HEAVEN
for at least a 25 per cent all-round decrease in armaments. This bod} of young opinion will be presented to the Governments shortly.
A LONG LAUGH
Hooverites Hungering for ag0 Tribime .
Pie are Told to Get it
in the Sky.
The date set for the Democratic convention in Chicago, June 27 follows 'the Republican convention I a trifle too closely; two weeki | isn’t long enough for the Demo icrats to get over laughing — Chic
Hooyerville, an orent colony of the banks of the Mississippi River, within the city limits, gave approximately 400 inhabitants on abundant proof this week that it is a permanent settlement. The building is a shanty constructed of orange crates and scrap lumber; its pews are rough timbers salvaged from the near-by
dump heaps.
Hooverville residents are not ‘‘bums”. They are victims of the depression period who live in shanties of their own construction
on the river bank.
Church of Hooverville Morning service: “Pie in the Sky,” sermon. Solo, “There’ll Be Hot Dogs in Heaven.” Evening service: “Hell Is Not Hot,” sermon. Rev. Smith will quote Bible to prove it, so beware ye that sin in the hope of getting to a snug, cozy spot. Solo, “Throw
Out the Soup-Line.”
Supt. Bloke of the Sunday School will give an inspirational lalk: "We CAN Take Up Our Belts Another Notch—and We Will.” Mrs. Bloke will report for committee that canvassed town for dis-
PAGE TOO FAST, WAGES ARE CUT
Shocking Explanation is Given by Contractor for Breaking His Promise.
tennial celebration of George Washington’s birth will nevertheless be inaugurated unofficially in religious services throughout the entire country during the three Jays just preceding that date. On Friday, February 19, those whose Sabbath begins at sundown on the
LOW WAGES AND PROSPERITY From 1919 to 1929 the workers
in our manufacturing industries iu-
One of the arguments of wage
sixth day of the week will honor reduction advocates is the claim the memory of Washington in that lower wages will stimulate their regular devotional services, business recovery and hasten the The following day, Saturday, return of prosperity by enabling others will observe the Sabbath in manufacturers to reduce their similar manner, and on Sunday all production costs and consequently other religious groups will hold tlie prices for the articles which divine services paying tribute to tliei r employes produce, the father,, of his country. ! This contention received a heavy As is pointed out by the United blow by the report of the U. S. States George Washington bicen- Bureau of Agricultural Economics tennial commissio, which has been on wages of farm laborers. The cooperating with and assisting the Bureau said that wages on United churches of the nation as well as States farms have dropped below all other groups in preparation for 1931 level. Lowest wages are this great event, these religious Pa-i<l ih the South Central and services leading up to the official South Atlantic states, at 72 to 74 opening of the celebration are cents a day with board and 96 most appropriate. Given this devo- cehts to $1.02 a day without board, tional aspect to start with, it will Highest wages are paid in the more than ever impress the Affier- North Atlantic states, where the cian people with the great princi- average rate is $1.70 per day with pies and motives underlying this board and $2.37 without board.
tribute to the great American. I Monthly rates, the bureau found, an( i the price received for the
they had agreed to the 40-cent rate, but said “needy men were
carded belts. Bring pins for collec-! not strong enough to “be worth tion plate. I more than 35 cents.”
The pastor is sorry to report i that he and the deacons decided ■ propositions to follow example of early followers of Christ and have everything in common impractical for reason that there is nothing to have in common, and furthermore as likely to be offensive to St. Louis Ministerial Alliance.—New
York Times.
(Special Correspondence)
Because their employees were
too weak from hunger <4 to main - ^Vith features provided espec- lange fiom $14.4o with hoard in tain a 40-cent-an-hour production for observance in the home, the South Atlantic states to $32.29 standard,” Bedford, Ind., contrac-' tlle school and the church, the wit h board in the far western tors engaged in erecting a new fire 1 cele,3ration wiI1 unite America in states; and without board, from department building for the city a tar ni °re impressive and lasting $21.SO in the South Atlantic states have cut the men’s w'ages to 35 tribute than ever could be accom- to $31.45 in the far western states. ce nts. I plished by the most spectacular' T he bureau also found numerous This brutallv frank exolamtion display of national wealth, power instances, paiticulaily in the north was given by Jay Gerriot? ™d achievement. Every person central states, of laborers driven man for the contractors, when ,ivin S iu the United States must to the point of working for their Mayor Henry Murphy asked the be impressed at this time, if never f ofl and lodging alone, which is
before, with his debt of gratitude the diet the farmers furnish to
to George Washington. The oppor-jtbeir horses.
tunity is now being given him to I H the wage reducers’ contention
huuullcu Luai vwicii me ex P ress that gratitude in a nation- that low wnges and the following contractors^'were^awarded‘the job al demonstration designed for the io^. Production costs contribute to I
participation of every individual in business levival and prosperity, the country. (the farmers should be in the fore-|
The United States bicentennial| m ° St . r ^ ks . oE ., prosi) ^ rity -
employers why they had broken their promise to maintain a 40-
cent wage for laborers.
Gerriot admitted that when the
BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
Ask Drastic Cuts
University and college students of Great Britain, Germany, the United States and else where are moving forward unitedly and with paign for disarmament and world peace. More than 20 British universities, headed by Oxford, Cambridge and London, have already completed forms — signed by captains of sports eulbs and leaders of intellectual groups — urging the British Government to work
Church Services to Mark Unofficial Opening of
Great Event.
creased their output 54 per cent, but the employers raised the workers-’ wages only 26 per cent. From 1919 to 1929 by far the larger portion of the prodigious increases in the workers 1 output was taken by those who own and
operate industry.
A Ford or a Chevrolet costs between $500 and $600. And yet an economist interpreter of the labor policy of our industrial hour bops implies that wages should be de-| flated so that the workers will not be able to buy and maintain mod-
est-price automobiles.
Dr. Haney seems to be tinctured with the slave owner’s conception of what labor should be paid for producing wealth. The slave owner fed, clothed and housed the slave worker and garnered as his exclusive net profit the difference between the cost of the slave’s living
LENT WILL ENB BIG CARNIVAL
Cathedral Bells Close the Great New Orleans Mardi Gras.
wealth the slave produced. In short, the slave owner’s profits w r ere regulated by the living standards of his slave workers. So with Dr. Haney. Automobiles, he reasons, are not absolutely necessary to keep the modern worker in good working condition, therefore adjust his wages downward so that he will not be able to buy an automobile.
UNEMPLOYMENT IS NOT INEVITABLE
New Orleans, Feb. 9.—(UP)— Mardi Gras carnival, the greatest show in the land, in point of color and tradition, reached its final and biggest week Monday in a blaze of tinsel and banneie, music and
mirth.
It was the 106th annual showing of the oldest and strangest festival in America. The cast boasts half a million players—the entire population of New Orleans. It had an audience comprised of the thousands of spectators, here from every corner of the earth to watch the spectacle. There were 1,500 school children here from Alabama alone. Other visitors have come by air, sea, train and automobile from every state and many nations. Business of the city will remain virtually at a halt until Tuesday midnight, when the bells of the age old St. Louis cathedral toll the arrival of Lent, season of penitence, and the end of the show.
motorist is called upon for such assistance he must give it, but only within certain limits.
A HEAVY CROP
“What was your plum crop like?” Well, a heavy storm blew down
gathered that when another wind blew dowm the rest.” “Bad luck! Could you. (Jo anything with them?” “Well my wife ate one, and I ate the other.” — Labor o
50 per cent of it. and we’d hardly ous.
Hawks’ bills have no teeth. All marine serpents are venom-
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Certain static and inefficient owners and managers of our in-
comfort from their conten-
commission has been in communi- ,, „ . cation with all of the 232 000 are 011 ^ be ver £e of bank-| fallu S
church groups in the United ruPtcy despite the fact that in ad-Uion that unemployment is an in-
Sd hy l
cates that all are desirous of tak-j^ loan them hundreds of millions tnbuUon ot wealth.
ing an active part in the celebra-t™hed money at ® reasonable rates and backed up by
tion.
When America goes to church on the three days preceding George Washington’s birthday this year, it will be to open “unofficially” a celebration never paralleled in all history—a celebration in which those who participate will honor themselves in doing honor to a nation’s founder. Officially scheduled to open Feb- i
ruary 22, the nation wide bicen-[gone. — Labor
STRAIGHT AHEAD
When you come to the place
(In the finishing race
Of Lifes’ tournament bout, Don’t give up the goal/
Because you are old,
Or wait to be counted out. Don’t lie ’til you’re dead, But keep pressing ahead, There’s no such thing as fail;
For it’s only a bend
Many miles from the end— Don’t stop at a turn in the trail.’
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“Go after business” has the sound of a good slogan until you remember where business lias
WAGE CUTS direct and indirect.
A WORKMAN’S HOURLY, rate may remain fixed but if the demand for the factory’s products falls off he hi turn will produce fewer units of these products. His wage rate remains the same but his earnings are less because he is not working full time. The workman lias certain fixed payments that he must meet rent, insurance, taxes, and the like that go on regardless of his production. An Electric Company is in the same position as the workman. When industry suffers a loss in business the Electric Company in turn loses industrial load. When a considerable part of our industrial load is lost it cuts down the quantity of our product. Quantity production is one of the factors that has made possible oui present low rates for all classes of electric service. There are certain fixed charges, such as interest and taxes, which do not lessen with diminishing production so that, indirectly, tliis company had already taken a “wage cut when the depression first affected business. In spite of this “indirect wage cut” we filed new residential rate schedules last spring and made a “direct wage cut wInch further reduced our annual earnings by an estimated amount of #108,00 a year. Again on September 1st, 1931, we made available to certain power customers the contract power rate, which has brought about a substantial reduction in our revenues from this class of customers. It will continue to be our policy to give our customers the best possible service at the lowest possible rates. O. M. DRISCHEli, General Manager
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the Federal farm board subsidized with $500,000,000 supplied by the government to stabilize the prices of farm products at reasonable fig-
ures.
Their condition is so desperate that Congress has appropriated an additional $125,000,000 for the u«e of the Federal Land Banks to as-
sist them with new loans.
The situation in which the American farmers are placed should put a definite quietus on the activities
of low-wage propagandists.
These industrial bourbons and their legislative and judicial satellited maintain that the “natural order” and economjc lows” govern economic affairs much the same as forces like gravitation opef-ate in the physical world. Mr. Albert Thomas, secretarygeneral of the International Labor Office, disagrees with this reactionary view. In. a yecent discussion of the slow progress made throughout the world in applying positive cures for unemployment, Mr. Thomas reiterated his conviction
I that the world army of nearly 25,-
Low wages, with the consequentj 000,000 jobless is caused by polismall buying power of the work-jcies originated and controlled by ers, are jour greatest handicap tolhuman beings, and that human be 1 the revival of normal business lings have the power to change
tlie return of pros-
those policies so as to provide work and good wakes for every
employable person.
“My enthusiasm has not waned.” Mr. Thomas said, “even when, not so long ago, partisans of the liberal economic school endeavored to demonst’ate that economic cmisev arise just as do temporary
'>s to lie in bed and suffer passive-
ly.
“Fortunatelv we hav*e already got beyond these theories. The increase of unerup’oyment on a ]ar e «eale has stirred .everybody from his inactivity. Economics who have for so long been content to I’ie droamlesly in their beds have
A,/ n™,, aroused
Can Commandeer Car; But Cannot Make You Speed
Police in Illinois. Indiana, and practically all other states have the right to commandeer gn automobile and order the owner to assist them in chasing an offender, but they cannot legally compel the motorist to drive faster than the law permits, nor at a speed which would endanger life, limb, or prop srty. Practically every state lias a law which provides that the gen3ral public shall assist the police when they are called upon to do so. It is not the spirit of these laws, however, that the citizens should be required to act. in a manner that would constitute a hazard to them or to the general public, or both parties. When a
By reducing rates, r/c hare taken a direct cut in our residential revenue of $108,000 a year.
activity and
perity.
It is regretable that some of our .leading business men have not the clearness of vision to see this
elemental economic truth. AUTOMOBILE LIVING
, STANDARDS ^
Dr. Lewis Haney, director of the j springs, and that the periodical re New York University of Business!rival of unemployment is someResearch, specializes on articles | thing naturally and inseparably for magazines and newspapers con-1 linked up with economic develop-
secrated to the interests of those ment.
who own and manage industry for “Many people advised me to maximum profits for the owners | choose wjga passivity, since it is and scant regard for labor. Late’yj impossible to war against the natlio lias discussed the living stand-! ur'l order of tho world. But this anis of the workers. policy would be just as inadvisable
In a recent article he announces his discovery that the “wages of some labor groups” are too high. Ho says }v> do°s not argue that “li’^ng staudarUg should be sharpU/ lowered,” but, he adds, “it hardly seems reasonable that every American farmer and laborer must own and operate a”, automobile.”
T‘-n’t that a brilliant suggestion?*.^ last been aroused out, of their
In these days of high-speed I'rv-lUioevy of fatal'sm.
duetion, an automobile is just as “Certainly we believe that we necessary a part of the equipment | nan change the natural order of of the farmer 'in his business of j t hings. Nature cannot expect the producing and marketing farm j ma jority of people to remain in
products as any other piece of misery.
farm machinery. An automobile is j “Even religious organizations •>lso necessary so that he and his a r Q favoring the view that human family may secure some of the! intelligence is capable of directing education and pleasure that come! social and economic progress. The from short and long auto tri r 's.|ip25 Stockho'm Conference of the Evew farmer should have an au- j English, Orthodox and Protestan’ tomobile, and the prices he ’ e-j rpm-clies nn 'nlmously declared coives for h\s products should by [Hint the sufferings on account of all means be high enough so that i llm , m p] ovm ent are ‘intolerable for neither its purchase price nor up-jthr, moral s-nse.’ and that the keep will financially embarrass j ra uses 0 f the disease must he h* 1 "- ^ I found and exterminated.’ And now the workers in iud<’S-| In llis viPW that social and e-o try. Under machine production the „ onij( . colK iifons am created by American, workers produce a j goeietv rather than bv the “naturr quantity of commodity wealth,^ orf j pr -- or “ecomnnic laws,” Mr for the owners of industry to ao-! Thomas ref ip C ts the position of propriate than do the workers^ in ! raMona i people generally.
The length of the work day ami work week, for instance, is not determined bv the “natural order” or “economic laws,” but by the will and decree of the autocrats who own and control the establishments in which the workers are
employed.
There are over 8.000,000 unem ployed today because these autocrats, having the power to do so, .compel their workers, by threat of dismissal, to work in many in stances six days a week. The employers have the power to establish the shorter work day and the five-day week. They know they have it. Labor knows they have it. The 8,000,000 unemployed know they have it. The peop’e know they have it. It is folly for them and thetr apologists to attempt to pass the hack either to the “natural order” or to “economic laws.”
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Hope for Peace
P The appointment of Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura as commander of the Japanese forces m Chinese waters is seen as the first rHt m the war clouds that hover m the Far East. Admiral William V. Pratt, U. S. Chief of Naval Operations, declared that the new Jap! leader is a statesman as well as a Bailor, and if anyone can clear up] delicate situation it is Nomwa, 1
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