The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 May 1936 — Page 4

THE DAILY BANNER, GREEN CASTLE, INDIANA MONDAY, MAY 4, 1936.

1 li« pi-™* wnt out in \,irch whfn thr new ship made its : first flight with the now legenda'ry Graf Zeppelin, which has more than a million miles to its credit. “Two German Zeppelins again in the air," read headlines throughout the Reich. It was the first time since ''the great fleet vanished with Germany’s forced disarmament. As the story was written, mechanics of the plant at Friedrichshafen, on Rake Constance, were beginning work on the skeleton of another, the LZ-RIO

The mastery at which Germany now aims with its dirigibles no longer is military. With modem range finders and deadly anti-aircraft quick firers. it is conceded Zeppelins would provide far too vulnerable a target in time of war. The present goal is

commercial. «

Germany already has a weekly three and a half day airmail schedule from Berlin to Rycnos Airas The Graf 0 Zeppelin, steady and reliable for years where every other dirigible of the “zef)’’ type hits crashed, makes ' regularly scheduled runs over the same route with freight and passengers. After trips to Lakehurst, tentatively set for May 5 and 16 and

triangular track meet here Saturday Junp th( . Hin dcnburg will enter

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i the same run.

But the North Atlantic still is the

iu;r\i w wins

Piling up a total of eighty-one points. DePauw defeated Ball State and Central Normal College in a

The Cardinal Ihinlies from Muneie finished second with 27 points and

Central Normal trailed with 18.

The Tigers collected grand slams in the quarter and half-mile events. Frees, in the dashes, and Taylor, distance runner, each turned in two firsts for DePauw. Wiliams of Central Normal, with thirteen points,

was individual high scorer.

great goal and at the same time the perplexing problem of German Zeppelin designers. Dr. Hugo Kckener. who next to their inventor has done more for Zeppelins than any other, still has no solutfbn to the riddle of the North Atlantic 0 gales which at present would make any regular year-round schedule impossible.

j Eventually, it is hoped. Gem tan

KfclCH TO ftlTf.D NF.W ZKITKI.I.V and American ’companies will share

o the sendee, and the Hindenburg’s

HERRIN. (UP) <L>dtesL and great- tripa this summer will serve primarest in° a world-honored tradition, j ily as trials of the route. With a "Ruftschiff Zeppelin 12(»." 6nly inci- ! trial airmail later passenger serdentally named Hindcnburg. spells vice between England and America

another step for Germany toward remastery of the air. Since the day 10 years before the world war when Count Zeppelin proved the practicality o£ his dream, 128 "zeps" have preceded the Hinden-

already projected for 10.16. the Zeppelin people have every incentive for speed. They believe, however, that once the problems arc solved the Zeppelin will prove so much more comfortable.

burg. At one time, during the war. elastic, practical and safe that it can a vast fleet menaced Rondon for easily overhaul its airplane compoti-

monthl. j tors.

Again Germany has a "flact," It can q^iry freight of all kinds.

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even to automobiles, ti actors or zoo monkeys. It can accommodate 50 passengers housed with every comfort, transport them at 80 miles an hour with much fewer bumps and discomfort. Danger of prevailing westerly winds, which have made thi' northern route from east to west so fatal to so many airplanes, are eliminated, it is said.

«.GRISTS REMEDIES I OR I NEMri.OVMENT Recently I made a suggestion concerning the unemployment problems which I sent to one of our state papers. In the effort to condense the article somewhat, the real meaning which I intended was not given. 1 am therefore submitting below “the complete list of suggestions 1 made. Suggestions for dealing with the unemployment situation: 1. There should be set up a continuous census of unemployment such that it would be possible to know at any time the number of men and women out of work. 2. There should be appointed a comtnisson empowered to f iiortcn or lengthen the hours of labor and to determine wage and salary ratios 'see below' as the situation demands. This commission should shorten the hours of lP,bor until aJI hut the normal unemployment is taken up. J,ater if business conditions warrant such action, the commission should, however be permitted to lengthen hours.•Always the effort should he made to prevent any considerable piling up of unemployment. 3. At first nothing should be Stipulated as to rate of pay. but at the end of each 6 months the employer should he required to submit to an audit conducted by representatives of the employees or persons retained by them. If tills audit should show that Ihe total amount of the earnIngs’paid out in wages had not been as much as sound policy should demand. the employer would he requirtsl to pay Iwck the labor in the .form of bonuses divided into six equal monthly installments, the difference between what had been paid in wages and what sound economic policy should demand as the share which must go to labor a a a means of pre-

serving the proper balance between consumption and investment. It might also be well in connection with this effort to distribute earnings in such a way. to give the commission power in each industry to establish certain ratios among the various wage and salary levels. In other words, it might be well to say that Ihe highest salary paid in any industry should not he more than so many times the lowest, and that not more than a certain percentage of the money paid out in salaries and wages should go to administrative aitd executive officers ami likewise that not more than a given amount should go to dividends until certain minimal wages had been apportioned 4 In cases of disagreements between labor and capital as to the correctness of the audits, there should he formed courts of appeal whose decisions would he final In cases in which labor is insuflffciently organized to make or have made the audits, they should he made by the employers with the consent of the employees. 5. Employees in institutions having no direct earning power such as schools, churches and in like, should he exempt from the above provisions: but during the duration of a depression these employees should be requited to pay in additon to any income tax already being paid, an additional income tax equivalent to the average loss e in income on the part of other wage earners due to the shortening of hours of work per week. This money should he used to help ocare for those other-wise not provided for by this plan For purposes of computing the average loss in income a forty-hour working week should be regarded as standard. 6 In those cases where it seems true that there are not at ,... sent, enough skilled laborers to carry on the work under the shortened schedule of hours, firms should be granted the privilege of employing the men needed, a normal forty-hour 1 week until such time as might reasonably he regarded as sufficent to train the necessary number of additional workers. During this period the | men employed overtime, on the basis of tin? hours set by the employment commission, should be paid the same hourly wage for overtime, as« they received for the rest of their work.

but the firm should be required to pay one half overtime wages for all such employees as a tax to the federal government to help care for those who are not provided for adequately by this plan. One cannot take time to enumerate all of the advantages which a plan like this might have, hut it may be worth while to Indicate seven probable advantages. First, it would place our obligation to labor above our obligation to capital as it seems m a Christian society it should be. Second, it would provide that such work as there is to do should lie fairly divided among all. Third. it would make unnecessary heavy taxes to provide for public works programs which can so easily be mishandled. Fouth through the ratio provision with respect to wages and dividends it seems that it might Ire possible to provide for the gradual expansion of consuming power. Fifth, it o would put an even greater premium on good management than does our present system. Thus, it would care for the much disputed problem of motivation Sixth, if there is anything to a rather commonly held theory that riepres-1 sions somehow grow out of a poor bal ance between consumption and investment. the ratio provision of the program just outlined provides a means.of experimental adjustment until the proper balance shall be discovered bul it does this without thr owing vast numbers of human be-1 ings out of work. Finally it would do all of these things without the gov-J eminent regifnentation which so many fear. The government would merely act as an umpire to see that all industries should operate accordtng to such rules as would conserve raVuucti as possible the human interests involved. Othen^W. the leaders of industry would be permitted to plan their program of production much as they now do Of course, one realizes that a program of this sort could not be put into effect without an amendment to our national Constitution. However, if the program itself has sufficient merit, perhaps, there would be no objections on the part of even those who are now expressing most concern about the integrity of th? Constitution. To aiich an amendment provided it were to be made through the

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Greater Powers Given Goering

General Hermann Gqering, right, Prussian premier and mini.ttttl aviation, became virtual “assistant dictator” of Germany his appointment by Roichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler a comptroller off*' materials and foreign currencies, an advancement which may***** the position of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, economic minister and * I president of the .Reichsbank, a figure long powerful in Gemnn*| tional financing. Relief Strikers Defy Governor!

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New Jen-ey politics, thrown into confusion by the Haup n ’ were further complicated by action of a group of unemp . ^ ^ moved into the state house at Trenton in protect againthe legirlature in enacting relief measures. Two 1 f f ,()«*• of the group, the one to the left, J.ohnny Spain, l esd * r '‘ wen * a Nout their domestic duties in defiance et ^ ^ * Hoffman's demand that state police oust thej‘»fl tt ** ^