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h Seem So Me HEWOOD BKOUN NTLW YORK. Aug. 15,—1 want to meet a man I whom I nr-.rr have 5-en. although his face is quite familiar. I refer to that gentleman whose name and physiognimy are constantly featured in the irtoons. He is called IIM Outside Agitator." At first I could not understand just wnat it was concerning which he was outside. But after reading the documents I gather that he is outside the protection of the law. the reasonable dictates of fair play, and any shred of human consid-
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agitator" follows a familiar pattern. He is a big. hulking fellow- wi'h bushy whiskers and a beard and generally he carries a bomb, labeled “Un-American Ideas" in his right hand. The artists who shape our nation's thought like to portray him as held in the firm grip of Uncle Sam and being hurried along a gangplank to a departing steamer. I suppose the miscreant is pictured invariably as huge and forbidding to furnish justification for such organizations of vißilante tendency as go out into the roads and byways seeking to visit personal vengeance on those whose ideas are requgnant to them. The defenders of the hearth and home who sally forth to save us from the revolutionaries like to present themselves as battling manfully with men in buckram of gigantic stature. Admittedly, the Minute Men are not altogether averse upon occasion to tackling lone outposts and winning brilliant battles in which a hundred of the faithful are arrayed against a single outlander. a a a All Example of the Rural Press BUT I am afraid these mighty hunters of the red herring do not always tackle foemen of their own size. I have before me a copy of a paper published in Carmel. Cal. Befpre that sovereign state experienced its recent nervous breakdown and began to suffer from a persecution mania, Carmel was a colony of artists, poets and writers. Overnight, these friendly and creative folk grew long beards and whiskers and became "outside agitators" who must be nagged and threatened out of the community. Id - not speak with any degree of exaggeration, for I wish to offrr in evidence some portion of an editorial from the Pacific Rural Press. John E. Pickett, editor ” I find it leproduced admiringly in The Carmel Pine Cone. May I quote as follows: "Carmel is supposed to be quite liberal and hard to shock, but the unmuzzled Ella Winter, divorced wife of Lincoln Steffens, and an ardent radical, has gotten some of the fathers and mothers of the tow-n into the frame of mind where they would like to decorate Ella with some unemployed feathers, accompanied bv an adhesive." This is Mr. Pickett s sprightly way of saying that Miss Winter, a well-known American author, ought to be tarred and feathered. I did not read what said during the general strike, but if he followed the editorial trend of the communities round about he railed the action of the unions a threat against law and order. And if it wasn't Mr. Pickett himself there were scores of commentators urging that the spirit of Americanism was in danger and that the sanctity of hearth and home must be protected. 808 Menaced !—Up a 10-i ear-Old I READ further in the same piece: "Part of the charge against Ella is that she makes Pinks out of children of the town. Another charge is that she is the somewhat unstrict mother of the somewhat unrestrained 10-year-old Pete Steffens. When people refer to young Pete as a town pest, they want to give his mother some of the honor, we understand.’ Call out the militia and the police and urge the honest citizens of Carmel, Cal., to take up arms against the Red menace. Pete Steffens is on the rampage. American institutions are about to totter. If it were only silly the whole commotion on the roast might be dismissed with a gibe. But the truth is that the so-called law-abiding elements have begun what may be described literally as a terror. In California. Fascism is a fact and not a theory. The outside agitator probably isn't a large burly man with a black beard. He is a 10-year-old child or a woman or any unprotected person whom meanspirited folk can persecute under the wide excuse that they are being patriotic. iCopvrißht. 1934. bv The Times!
Today s Science - —BY DAVID DIETZ OF A CENTURY," the magnificent W pageant depicting the growth of transportation in America from the stage coach and the prairie wagon to the automobile and the airplane, is still the best show to be found in the Century of Progress world fair. All by itself, it would be worth the trip to Chicago. A mechanirally-mindcd man could spend a pleasant week wandering around the halls of the Ford building. while an engine-consrious youngster would have no trouble putting in the rest of the summer there. Chief change in the Hall of Science, central structure of the fair, is the new arrangement of the exhibit of human embryos. Originally tucked away in an obscure corner, the exhibit was quickly discovered by the visitors and became one of the greatest attractions. A jam of visitors, none too patiently awaiting to push forward to a vantage point always marked its location. Now' the exhibit has been arranged so that all may have a good look without the creation of traffic snarls. The whole Hall of Science is. of course, free. In the midway section of the fair is another exhibit of embryos. This, however, is titled something about the mystery of life and not very clearly labeled from without as to what the visitor will find within. It costs 25 cents. The waves of Lake Michigan and the clouds form the natural background for the pageant. "Wings of a Century." It is given in an amphitheater on the shore of the lake near the Hall of Transportation. • a a IT is appropriate that the ground plan of the fair is such that most visitors see the Hal! of Science before they wander back to the Hall of Transportation. Watching the unfolding pageant of American transportation. I wondered how many visitors to the fair realize ~ust how appropriate this is. I could not help but wish that somehow it had been made a bit plainer that the triumphs of transportation have been applications of the triumphs of science. Th? application of steam was the application of scientific principle. Each development in engines meant an advance in the scientific laboratory. The pageant makes use of a series of real steam locomotives. They run out upon the stage under their own power and range from the pioneer contraptions of railway pioneering to th? fine, gleaming steel monsters of today. But the audience did not see another pageant which occurred to any scientist or engineer in the audience. That was the pageant of the scientific laboratories, the parade of the research workers who developed toucher steels, lighter alloys, wavs to make steam do more work, ar.d many other important things. The same thing is true of the automobiles and airplane*. All of them owe their beginnings to that day mnr.v centuries ago when Galileo, already blind, pondered over the laws of motion and paved the way for Sir Isaac Newton. By night, the fair is a triumph of the science of electricity. The lighting effects seem even more spectacular this year than they did last.
eration. One does not need to come from any place beyond the horizon to be identified as an outsider. Two friends of mine were engaged not long ago in some form of labor dispute in Long Island City. Somewhat to their amazement they found their activities chronicled in a neighborhood paper under the heading "Outside Agitators From Manhattan Invade Long Island City.” Sometimes the difference between a home town patriot and an "alien trouble maker" is no more than a long putt. But in the cartoons at any rate "the outside
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THE NEW DEAL IN AMERICA’S RELIEF
‘Production Aid’ in Ohio Proves Boon to Thousands of Needy
Thu i* the third and lavt of a aerin of stories on * production relief." Jobless aid plan that ia sweeping the country and is regarded as the most significant movement in the last two years for the solution of unemployment and relief problem* u tt n BY WILLIS THORNTON .NEA Service Staff Writer CLEVELAND, Aug. 15.—The movement to establish "production units” within relief organizations is spreading rapidly. Sometimes it takes the form of a mere local "unemployment co-operative,” such as became popular two years ago. But in Ohio it comes closest to a real state-wide organization. Ohio, with one-sixth of its people on relief in one form or another, had to do something. Here's what it's doing: Within the state relief administration at Columbus has been created a division of factories, headed by Boyd Fisher. Under his leadership, Ohio Relief Production Units. Inc., has been established. Fisher plans to take a small part of the federal funds alloted to Ohio for relief and use them to equip and run idle factories in all parts of the state. Each community will make such goods as it has plant equipment and skilled labor to produce. At Delaware, a woodworking plant is already turning out furniture, and forty women in another plant are making women’s and childrens dresses '4BO a, day). At Toledo one plane is turning out white goods. Cleveland has leased a factory i
in which it plans to turn out eventually as many as 50.000 men's suits a year. At Columbus, plans are well under way for relief workers to build 180.000 mattresses for relief families. Overcoats will be similarly made in Cincinnati, and hosiery in several cities. About a million dollars has been made available for these projects within the state. The federal re’lief administration has nothing to do with them except that it furnished the money. Eventually, when these units get into production, national guard or army trucks may be used to transport the goods on an exchange basis from one city to another for distribution. B B B HERE'S how Ohio relief officials cxlain the movement and its relationship to the present economic system The federal government is already furnishing millions of dollars to state relief organizations. A lot of it has gone for mere “made” work. Why not use it for productive work? It's better for the workers and the government gets something for its relief dollar. Clothes, for instance. In northern Ohio relief dependents are given no clothes beyond pants and sweaters. They can’t hunt jobs that way. Why not let them make their own suits and overcoats? Private industry won’t be hurt, because the goods manufactured are such as are not now being furnished to the unemployed, and which they cant buy. Most of the money will be spent for raw material, anyway, which means more work for private producers of such material. B B B EMPLOYES here are to be alallowed to work as many hours at the going rate of the trade as would build up their incomes to the relief scale. Then those who wish to will be allowed to work as many more hours, up to forty, as will earn them credits exchangeable for goods made by the co-operatives. Benefits of this plan, outlined by Marc J. Grossman of the Cuy-
. The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen—
NORRIS. Tenn., Aug. 15.—8 y next April Tom Banes will believe that there is really a dam at a place called Norris, ten miles' down the river. For, by next April, the waters of the narrow Clinch will begin to broaden until they creep up and over the site of his shack and his cow barn. But at present he refuses to believe it. "You ain't a'goin’ to get me to leave this home. . . A dam? Yes, I’ve heard tell about this dam ever since the war. But I don’t believe they'll ever get around to buildin’ it.” It is only ten miles from the home of "Doubting Thomas" Banes to the scene where thousands of his more progressive valley kin and neighbors flock on Sundays to stand on the brink of the canyon and stare down at the concrete masses that represent Norris dam one-third completed.
It is more of a miracle than Niagara Falls because less than a year ago there were no crushers and trucks and cable towers and coffer dams, no great scars in the rock of the canyon walls where soon the concrete will grip the stone —nothing but quiet, timber-covered hills with the muddy Clinch flowing through, on its way to the Tennessee. a a tne people turn out the •3 younger people mostly, bringing the babies and signing the guest book and listening to the guides, who explain how the dam will back up the waters of the little Clinch to make a lake wffth an 800-mile shore line and store water for a power plant 400 miles below. There have been doubters other than Tom Banes, many skeptics, many critics, people who heard that the Tennessee Valley Authority planned to amuse itself reviving "those quaint folk-dances,” people who lesented the intrusion of directors who were in one case a college president from Ohio— Arthur E. Morgan of Antioch, and in another a young lawyer from Harvard—David E. Lilienthal. But when the pouring began—the pouring of money and the pouring of concrete, skepticism paled. Knoxville, headquarters of the TV A, is flush with the spending of new forty-niners. Population figures, counting both the staff workers in Knoxville and the dam workers at Norris, twenty miles away, have spurted up 3.750. Shrewd political candidates, sensing growing TVA popularity, find it a convenient band wagon. Though east Tennessee is "a Republican oasis in a Democratic desert." the recent primaries were flavored with slogans such as "Vote for Neal, the Man Who Made TVA Possible." Popularity of the project is due to the fact that Dr. A. E. Morgan is more than a college president. He is an idealist of the two-fisted variety. While inspiring his staff with talk about "social evolution" and "a broader life," he inspires
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ahoga County Relief Association, active in starting the work here, are these First, it enables the unemployed to regain or learn new skill at worthwhile trades, instead of tn-admilling around on unproductive “made” jobs. Second, it helps them get back self-respect, because they will be largely supporting themselves. Third, it will enable the same federal relief funds to provide a far greater variety of food and clothing for the unemployed. B B tt EXTENT of these projects in the future is unguessable. But the Ohio Relief Production Units, Inc., is already surveying the possibilities of producing its own paints and varnishes, medicines, soap, candles, bakery products, meats, printing, cutlery, tools, stoves, rugs, carpets, linoleum, ice and even radios. Those are all for the future, but they show the possibilities. Spread of such projects, no two of which are exactly alike in their manner of operation, is one of the phenomena of the year. At least 150 communities in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands are experimenting with some such plans, all varying in detail. In Southern California about 18.000 people in 113 communities have joined in the Unemployed Co-operative Distributing Association, whose principal product is fruit and vegetables. In Snohomish county, Washington, a group of 250 families operates a cannery, shoe factory, and shingle and saw mills. Wheeling, W. Va„ is making pants and overalls. In Colorado, ten communities are exchanging their products through the Colorado Co-opera-tives, Inc. o tt RICHMOND, Va., has its Citizens’ Service Exchange, where 554 families work for a share in their own products, and 2,770 people have thus taken themselves off relief rolls except for staple food articles, which the exchange is not equipped to produce.
the valley populace by presenting them with a spectacle in the concrete. an THEY are impressed that TVA is ahead of schedule. It undertook to do the job in less time and on less money than had been planned by army engineers —and is doing it. Officials can account for TVA efficiency in that they are not bound by red tape. It if comes, they cut it. The dam rises and the city grows. The name of Senator George W. Norris, pioneer exponent of federal power-plant operation, has been given not only to the dam on the Clinch river but also to the town of homes for directors and workers two miles below, a town whose No. 1 citizen is A. E. Morgan. From a small white clapboard house tucked away in the trees, Dr. Morgan has radiated energy, idealism and a passion for redtape cutting. Even a carpenter working on the construction of Morgan's house was infected. Delayed in hanging a door because th? hinges had not oeen delivered. the carpenter finally came to the Big Boss. "It's all done. Doctor,” he said proudly. "I got the hinges. I went to town and bought ’em myself at the Five-and-Ten.” 250 TO ATTEND 10-DAY CONVENTION OF SOCIETY Grand Carnolian Slovenian Catholic Union to Gather Here. To hundred and fifty delegates are expected here Sunday at the tenday quadrennial meeting of the Grand Carnolian Slovenian Catholic Union in the Holy Trinity auditorium, 902 North Holmes street. The union is a fraternal orgamzaLon with 40.000 members in the country. The order was founded forty years ago in Joliet. 111. Frank Velikan. 736 North Warman aver.ue. is general chairman of the meetings. National officers of the ordei will be here.
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They work six hours a day for the exchange, and are paid in scrip, exchangeable for any products of the exchange. It is estimated that this has raised the standard of living of members by the equivalent of sl6 a week in cash. Thus it is seen that the manner of distributing the goods made by otherwise unemployed workers varies. In general, there are two types —one in which the management of the plant is directly carried on by the work division of the relief organization and the other in which a pure co-operative is established by the members themselves. Os course, neither is pure
CITY BOY TO TAKE RABIES TREATMENT Pet Dog Is Found Rabid by Veterinarian. A boy was scheduled to be given the Pasteur treatment today after a pet dog was found to have been rabid by Dr. C. F. Stout, veterinarian. The boy is Leo Dampier, 7, of 1609 Bellefontaine street. He was bitten last Friday. Norbert Watness, 15, of 422 East Orange street, and Clifford Montgomery, 45, of 415 North Temple avenue, were bitten yesterday by dogs. The dogs were penned up ten days for observation to determine if they had rabies. Democratic Cfub to Meet Tenth Ward Democratic Club will hold a meeting at 8 tomorrow night at the new club headquarters, 2135 East New York street. William Holmes is president.
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“Pop” Rallston (upper left), 86-year-old baker, inspects some of the 350 golden loaves of bread he bakes every day in the bakery of the Richmond (Va.) Citizens’ Service Exchange. ... At right (above), two young men in the weaving room arc making a hooked rug and a sock . . . the exchange got the loom in exchange for a half cord of wood, and the young operator took a trip to the state prison to learn how to run it. Below (left), a Columbus (O.) production relief worker displays a dress made in one of the self-help plants there, and below (right), a group of Columbus women is at work on a mattress.
Socialism, because the government (the profit system, through taxes) pays the cost. But it's paying that now, and getting nothing but "bare living” relief. Canning plants have been the most commonly operated on this plan in the last few years. Texas last year operated nineteen abandoned canning plants to put up beef from government-bo .ght cattle. It is easy to see that, once established in many states, and with exchange of products between them, the standard of relief can be boosted to almost any extent, and perhaps its cash cost can be cut.
THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP tt tt tt tt tt B By Ruth Finney WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—The government's confused position on price-fixing grew more confused today as three different administrative agencies tackled the problem from three different points of view'. Out of the tangle may come a final decision as to what the Roosevelt administration requires from industry in this respect. One branch of the government is trying to punish code members for failing to file price schedules along with those of their competitors. A second is trying to punish manufacturers for agreeing on prices. A third is sitting in a judicial capacity trying to decide which practice tends more strongly to monopoly.
NR A is asking that three rubber footwear manufacturers be made to comply with price filing provisions of the rubber code. It charges that their failure to make public a schedule of prices "diverts trade to them to the injury of their competitors” and has a tendency to monopoly. The federal trade commission will determine the virtue of these charges. The recovery act directs
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And students of the relief problem agree that the government can not forever stand the drain of direct cash relief at its present rate. Production relief throws the gate wide open to nationwide organization of what amounts to a co-operative economy inside the profit economy, with workmen moving from one to the other as opportunity offers. To the many relief dependents who are sick of passively accepting aid, and who want to do something to earn it, those reopening factory doors are a sign of hope. (The End)
it to enforce code provisions for NRA and in this capacity it has issued a complaint against the rubber companies and summoned them before it. But the federal trade commission also has been directed by President Roosevelt to sit as a court of appeals on charges by small business that code provisions are injurious and constitute monopoly. The rubber companies have appealed to it in this capacity and the trade commission has directed NRA to answer their charges. B B B JT is nearing the two cases at once. Thus NRA is before it as complainant and also as defendant and so are the rubber companies. Each charges the other with monopoly, an offense which the trade commission has been keen in ferreting out in the past. It is already on record as disapproving price fixing provisions of several other codes, though not in a judicial capacity. To make the situation more complicated the department of justice chase the day on which trade commission hearings began to file suit against thirty-five manufacturers of women’s dresses, charging them with fixing prices in violation of anti-trust laws and asking that they be enjoined from acting jointly. A New York federal court will pass on these cases. The federal trade commission's ruling will affect half of all NRA codes. It also may have much to do with the future of the recovery act. PLEADS FOR HIS LIFE Commutation of Death Sentence Is Considered. By Cnitrii Press FLORENCE, Anz., Aug. 15.—The appeal of Louis S. Douglas, former New York taxi driver, for commutation of his death sentence for the slaying of an aged prospector today was under consideration by the Arizona state board of pardons and paroles. The board's decision will not be revealed until next week.
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Fdir Enough noitm CHICAGO. Aug. 15.—The swirl ol ugly passion which marred the summer tournament of the American Bridge League at Asbury Park, N. J.. may be just the thing that was needed to put bridge over as a public spectacle. There seem to have been two swirls, in fact, one when Hal Sims tapped Oswald Jacoby on the chin and another when Mr. Sims lifted him by the ear and let him drop. Up to the present writing, Mr. Jacoby has not retaliated, but they may be saving that phase of the
conflict for a return swirl in Madison Square Garden. Bridge heretofore has been regarded as a sedentary sport and efforts to popularize jt with the masses have not bee’n successful. Now that brutality has been introduced, however, the game may have a future. There always has been some mystery as to the reason for bridge tournaments which are attended by comparatively few customers, most of them ham-and-egg or preliminary bridge players themselves. The professional bridge expert does not like to be reminded of the fact, but there is
no perceptible difference between a bridge expert and a card shark. Bridge somehow has enjoyed a high social status which is denied to poker experts. There is said to be unwritten law inscribed in the air somewhere which forbids an expert of major league caliber from disguising himself as a novice and trimming suckers. a a tt A Great Art—Commercialized T TOWEVER, this unwritten law, if any, puts a A A great strain on the self-control and the personal ethics of the individual bridge export or shark. Poker experts or sharks were unable to resist the temptation to take advantage of innocent victims for financial gain and there long has been a sort of feeling that parties who played poker for a living were professional gamblers and none too desirable socially. Your correspondent attended a championship bridge tournament in a New York hotel a few years ago, attracted there by large coverage which was being given the bitter combat in the papers. It seemed that such an important battle should be frequented by a large and enthusiastic attendance and your correspondent was taken somewhat aback to discover that there were no more than fifteen head present in the arena, which was a private parlor. The silence in the room was terrific and after enduring this for some time your correspondent asked one of the leading contenders for the championship what was the angle. ‘ Oh, it is pour le sport,” said the bridge expert or shark. "Do not attempt to kid the press, but let us come to the point at once,” your correspondent said. "What is the angle and how do you bridge gladiators figure to get yours?” The card shark changed the subject, but your correspondent made further inquiries and discovered that there were several angles. There was the book angle. It developed that the two groups of experts were exploiting two schools of bridge and that the publicity was boosting the sale of the books in which they explained all to their constituents. tt a Passion—Uglp and Swirling 'T'HEN there was the syndicate angle. Each camp was tied up with a newspaper syndicate and was selling bridge lectures to the papers around the country at so much a week. The winner’s lectures naturally would sell better than the laser’s when the tournament was over, but in the meantime both schools were receiving powerful publicity free of charge and it was assured that even the loser’s syn* dicate receipts would be doubled when it was over. There also were the moving picture rights, the playing card testimonial rights and the revenue to be derived from the cigaret company, the chair cushion company and the ash tray company for testimonials. This was not a brutal tournament, but it was somewhat nasty in spots as the rivalry developed and it was easy to foresee then that one day the bridge sharks would allow themselves to be swept into swirls of ugly passion. They do no harm and, aside from boosting the various by-products of the experts, they also may attract large crowds to the tournaments after this. It would be worth something to the management to be able to declare to the custombers before a tournament: "Boys land girls) this is going to be a grudge tournament and a swirl of ugly passion and may the best newspaper syndicate win.” Brutality long has been characteristic of poker. The miners and steamboat men carried pistols in convenient positions and when their ugly passions swirled the damage often was total and generally permanent. But bridge is coming on with a rush when one expert or shark nabs another by the ear and lets him drop. In time the veteran expert like the veteran prizefighter may be identified by his cauliflower ear, and say with pride "I got that playing bndgfe with Hal Sims.” (Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN QINCE it was found that cases of blood vessel inoccur more frequently among smokers than among nonsmokers, more attention is being given to the relationship of tobacco smoking to the blood vessels. Experiments have shown that smoking cigareta will produce in the great majority of normal peo.ple under certain conditions a change in the surface temperature of the arms and legs. Moreover, it has been shown that, with many persons, slowing or even complete stopping of the flow of blood wall occur in the capillary blood vessels in the finger tips during the smoking of a cigaret. Investigators have continued their studies in this connection and have brought out some very interesting facts. They tested the effects of cigarets on a number of confirmed smokers, using not only standard brands, but also special types of cigarets without nicotine, mentholated cigarets, and some made with ashless filter paper. a a a THEY also made special studies on certain people known to be especially sensitive to tobacco. The investigators are particularly interested in the reasons for excessive smoking. Obviously, if the effects are unpleasant, one is less likely to smoke. They found that two elements are predominant in the desire for the next smoke, the first being the wish for the soothing, quieting effect, and the second a nervous disorder to do something with one's hands. The most immoderate smokers who use from forty to sixty cigarets a day actually smoke less than half of each cigaret, indicating the nervous habit involved. a a a IT is interesting to realize that the investigators found no appreciable difference in the average effect between standard and de-nicottnized cigarets. Neither was there any difference between mentholated cigarets and those not mentholated. With all the different brands there was a drop in the surface temperature at the tips of the fingers and toes, and in most of the persons studied a slowing and stopping of the blood flow of the small blood vessels at the tips of the fingers. The work also seemed to show that nicotine is probably the most important of the toxic factors involved and that anything developed by the cigaret paper* is not concerned.
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