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I I A T. a Want Ad Headquarters, Court 4900 PITTSBURGH PRESS Other Press Departments, Court 7200 WEDNESD'AY ILPRtL 18. 7 9 9 9 A WOMAN'S OPINION And The Sooner It's Started The Better! Tlie Pittsburgh Press A Scripps-Howard Newspaper PUBLISHED BY PRESS PVPUSHINO COM PA NT Patriotism, War By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON Jnn ISh AT last we give honor where honor is due. For the first time in our history, statesmen who opposed war have been crowned with laurel wreaths.

Four of them still serve us in Washington Norris of Nebraska, Lun- Harry C. Milbolltnl, PrtsiJrnt. LJutrJ T. Lrecb, Editor. Frank C.

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'GjVc Light end the People Will Find Thar Qq-n Way" WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1936 A RED HUNT. AT SEA? SINCE he took office in March. 1933, Secretary of Commerce Foper has been the apologist for the many ills and evils which beset the American merchant marine. He has always been going to do something about it. The record to date indicates that he has done nothing of major Importance to promote safety of life at rea, to improve the deplorable working conditions among seamen on many of our merchant ships, or to insist even upon the carrying out of contracts between Government and ship owner.

Now, the Department of Commerce seems to be waging a furtive fight against American seamen. There have leaked out of the department vague allegations of "mutiny" and sabotage." The charges have fallen upon more than 20,000 men like a blanket, bringing these hard-working, poorly paid citizens into disrepute without even the courtesy of a specific bill of complaint. Are we about to have a 'ied hunt" designed to place the blame for the inefficiency of our merchant marine upon the shoulders of men who are paid for the most part less than $50 a month? As for foreigners dominating American crews, as has been suggested In various interested quarters, the Labor Department's review for January states that of 19.780 seamen studied, 81 per cent were native-born or naturalized citizens and more than 20 per cent of the remainder have taken out their first papers or have served under the American flag three years or longer and by marl-time law could therefore be counted as citizens. Any bill of complaint which Mr. Roper, in his own good time, pleases to present against American seamen, should be followed by a similar document from the seamen specifying their complaints against the Department of Commerce.

The weighing of the evidence should be by a Congressional committee authorized to take apart and examine the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection and the administration of it. I AS MUCH TO YOU TO PgOTfecT THEM AS IT IS fern jNNAf fli I'C Mrs. Ferguson Now, 19 years later, we pay them a belated tribute. Our weakness bows at last to their strength, and our folly acknowledges their wisdom. For make no mistake about it: the man who keeps his country out of war is the true patriot of the 20th Century.

Now let's look at the picture etched upon national annals in 1917 when a handful of men and one woman, Jeanette Rankin, voted against our entry into the World War. As time passes, Its significance will grow clearer, for several in so doing voted themselves out of Congress. How many of our present representatives, I wonder, will show the same courage when the test-comes and it seems to be coming. The United Sfates is getting ready for war in such a sweeping fashion as to frighten the most optimistic. We now have the largest peacetime war-budget that any country has, or ever has had in the whole history of the world.

Read that sentence again. Let it sink into your consciousness, for you are helping to pay the bill. And what does such a bill mean? It means war. Peace is not preserved in any such belligerent fashion. The throttling fingers of militarism are about our very throats ready to choke democracy to death.

Surely the ghosts of the boys who died to "make the world safe for democracy" must walk restlessly by night in this "peace-loving America." EVERYDAY LIVING Hidden Sorrow By DR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON AN old Bible story tells of the king of Samaria, whose city was beseiged by enemy armies and his people were starving. Few details are given, but the scene was ghastly in its terror. As the kine- walkprt th wall nf Mo ft-r. one day, wearing his royal robe, two distracted women told mm that they had to kill and eat their little ones.

The king, horrified, rent his robe in agony. The people stood stunned with astonishment he wore underneath his robe a secret suit of sackcloth. If they had envied the king they were rebuked he, too, suffered with his people in their woe. SILICOSIS SURVEY THE results of the Labor and Industry Department's survey on occupational disease hazards in Pennsylvania manufacturing plants should spur the Legislature to enact legislation to safeguard workers in affected industries. Approximately ll'i per cent of all those employed in manufacturing industries are exposed, in some degree, to the dreaded disease of silicosis, the survey has revealed.

This represents a total of 107,000 employes, nearly 6000 of them women." If coal mining had been included, the number exposed to silicosis and other occupational diseases would be nearly 300,000. i The figures just compiled are amazing and appalling. They reveal the urgent need for a compensation law that will include all victims of occupational diseases, now denied the stf te's protection. Already, 23 per cent of anthracite miners examined were found to be suffering from anthraco-silicosis, commonly known as miners' asthma. At the next session of the Legislature, we urge Senators and Representatives from industrial districts to unite and fight for such a law.

Victims of silicosis are just as much entitled to the state's protection as are workers who suffer bodily injury. It is time that they receive it. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS Glass Maker Says Plants Are Forced to Leave City il iiiiti'nfWif frit ftfSfriii--nromi Dr. Newton cv" llumaa II rjDITOR'S NOTE: Please be E' brief. As a rule, S00 words should be ample.

Your name and address must accompany each letter as an evidence of good faith. They will not be -used unless you wish it. The Press receives many more let ters than it has room to publish. Therefore, we reserve the right to reject or condense any letter. GOVERNOR EARLE'S REPLY EVEN those pcrw.s who generally disagree will; Governor EArle cannot, we believe, but be impressed by the statement fee made in his speech be re last night that: "Bitter enemies oi President Roosevelt are Rot going to help themselves by peevish attacks upon the relic: system.

Tliey may as well make up their minds that we are going to hae re-iif us forever unless we solve the problem of unemployment In the machine age. They can talk about budget balancing until the cows come home, but until that problem is solved the choice is going to be between unbalanced budgets and revolution." There is nothing so very startling about Governor Earle's statement except that he is a public official who came out openly and discussed a question that is constantly being discussed in private. President Roosevelt did the same tiling in his Baltimore speech but generally this question of so-called "permanent unemployment" is merely mentioned in private. Few officials or politicians have gone into it openly and frankly. EVERY development of the last two years has shown steadily increasing production without a proportionate gain in employment or wages.

This fact is widely known but largely ignored. Capricious critics of relief, who cry for a balanced budget, make no effort to say what they would do with the millions of unemployed who would thus be thrown off relief. Seemingly, their attitude is: "Let them shift for themselves." Which, in actual" practice, means: "Let them sink or swim." There are only possible answers to the relief problem: Re-employment, or continued relief. The third answer starvation is unthinkable, and would inevitably lead to revolutionas it has led there in other countries. wUR relief problem is bound up with the entire problem of the machine age," said Governor Earle.

Recalling the widespread unemployment and lengthy breadlines of 1912 and 1913, he I continued: "We escaped a showdown with the machine age back in 1912 and 1913 because the European war was beginning and orders were pouring in for war materials. Then we entered the war and there was work for everybody. Afterward there was inflation caused by our newly acquired European gold, seeking safe investment. That expanded our investment markets and gave us a boom and carried us right up to 1929. Then the bubble of inflation ourst." What is Governor Earle's answer to this problem of so-called "permanent unemployment" a phrase recently widely used by those who do not consider that there cannot be permanent unemployment without permanent relief? "The most important measure in the President's long-term program," answered the Governor," and to my mind the greatest law ever written, was the NRA.

Unfortunately, regulation of codes and trade practices to a great extent obscured the fundamental principle of that law the principle of Federal control necessary to establish higher wages and shorter working hours. That principle was, and is, in my opinion, our only salvation "I warn you that if we shut off relief and fail to meet the challenge of the machine we face revolution, because empty stomachs do not reason. President Rooseevlt provided, a solution in the NRA and saw that solution destroyed by the Supreme Court "I admit honestly that except for raising wages and shortening hours I know no answer." CERTAINLY the Governor's reply has the virtue of frankness. And the question which he asked and sought to answer is the most vital in our national life. Particularly is it vital to those who own property, to those who run business for theirs Is the greatest stake.

Owning the most, they, likewise, have the most to lose. Yet, in unreasoning obstinacy or sheer blindness, many of them cry against relief and demand an immediate cessation of emergency spending knowing full well that this would throw millions of families up against the fundamental issue of self-preservation. Under such circumstances, we do not believe Governor Earle exaggerates in the slightest when he says "empty stomachs do cot reason." And those who oppose the answer which he gave must furnish a substitute answer of their own. The problem, of continuing unemployment, despite the improvement in business, cannot be solved by ignoring it. Any such attempt means catastrophe.

capitalistic Hoover could do that good. Why did Mr. Roosevelt kill off the hogs and let them rot where they fell and then turn around and hand a few dollars to the poor people on relief with which they could not afford to buy the meat since it was now so high in price? Why did Mr. Roosevelt begrudge the soldiers their money? Was he saving it for his own campaign, or did he want to give it to those who sit at home or else get all the soft jobs handed out on the relief projects while the soldiers on the relief job gets down in the ditch and digs? Why is he taking away the reserve funds of the great corporations from which the company keeps up its payment to the pensioned worker and the widows and orphans of workers killed in their employ in the companies lean years? Does Mr. Roosevelt want to throw these thousands upon thousands more on relief to be burdens on the taxpayer? Let's try another leader.

DISGUSTED CITIZEN. it we could see beneath its surface, there is a secret sorrow, some bereavement, some disappointment, some frustration, some temptation, it maybe unknown to the world outside. No doubt some of my readers heard Pa-derewski play the piano, if they did, they have never forgotten the experience. It was the enchantment of pure genius, the magic and wizardry of a great artist. But did they know about the little crippled daughter in his home, whose life was a weakness and a weariness to herself, and an agonizing problem the heart of her father his hidden sorrow? Often where the world sees nothing but shining success, and envies it, there is the sackcloth of sorrow within and behind an unknown agony bravely borne in silence, without a complaining word.

In St. Paul's Cathedral in London great crowds heard Dean Inge preach a philosopher, a master of pungent phrases, one of the keenest minds of his generation, and one of its astonishing scholars. But in his home a lovely little girl lay an invalid, yet so brave and bright withal, that when she faded and died she left an unearthly light behind her. Her father wrote a poem in her memory. If we knew all, we would understand and be more gentle in our judgments of people.

A gay robe may hide tragedy, a laugh may stifle a sob, and God who sees all is unfailing in his forgiveness and pity. day, wait the depression will soon liquidate itself. About the only thing I learned from Hoover's speech was that he still thinks it more important to balance the national budget than to shelter the homeless, clothe the naked and feed the hungry. "i And for Mr. Hoover's information, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, sponsored and wet-nursed through Congress by Joseph Grundy and his cohorts, did more to destroy the purchasing power of the American farmer than all other tariff acts heretofore.

Why It forced the farmer to buy all his farm implements and farm, necessities in a highly protected industrial market, while at the same time he (the farmer) had to sell his farm products in an unprotected market. Was that a fair agreement? No, but one could call that class legislation. Be not deceived by Mr. Hoover's wise cracks, he Is still the same ultra-conservative. His one and only thought is to increase the corporate wealth of the nation and to fiddlesticks with the common people.

JOHN F. HIGGINS. Tyre, Pa. A GEORGIA JUDGE A 74-YEAR-OLD judge got up out of his sick-bed and stopped a lynching by the dramatic expedient of deputizing 100 masked men who were battering at the walls of a Danielsville (Ga.) jail. He told the mob their masks did not conceal their identity, that he recognized them anyway.

And he commanded them to "stop violating the law" and to start enforcing it. Before this show of courage and authority, the mob" me'ted Into a shamefaced cordon of civilian deputies, who kept the peace until a detachment of National Guardsmen arrived to take the Negro prisoner to the safety of another jail in another city. Such courageous action does not always succeed. Other public officers have acted as boldly but have failed to turn back mobs. But a great many more lynchings have been carried out because of the default of local officers who cringed before the mob or conveniently absented themselves from the scene of the outrage.

If we had more local officials of the caliber of this old Georgia judge, we would have fewer mob murders, and less demand that the Federal Government assume this simple police responsibility. Is It Art? LEE TAYLOR CASEY. Lead Co. and B. S.

Fahnestock's Patent Medicine Co. The fourth floor was occupied by B. S. Fahnestock's baking powder department. The third floor housed the printing office of Vernon Fashnestock.

There was some delay in getting the first paper ready. Impatient newsboys running up and downstairs had everyone's nerves on edge. Then the unexpected fire happened. B. S.

Fahnestock, brother of Vernon, was helping in the press room. He- was smoking a long tobie when his father, Benjamin L. Fahnestock, came up from the second floor to see how he was getting along. Benjamin L. always was opposed to Benjamin S.

smoking and lectured him at every opportunity. Benjamin S. was busy working and smoking but upon turning around and seeing his father coming, he dropped his lighted cigar from his mouth. It fell on some benzine-soaked papers, on which they had been wiping their hands. The consequence was a blaze and everyone out of the press room.

But Benjamin S. ran upstairs to the fourth floor baking powder department, got a big scoopful of bicarbonate of soda and some baking powder and threw it over the flaming paper, extinguishing it at once. After a few minutes' delay they got a paper out with headlines on the first page about the fire being put out with baking powder. At the time this happened, the writer was bookkeeper for Fahnestock White Lead Co. and B.

S. Fahnestock. Now, 52 years later, you have flood water to knock you out. EDWARD A. LETZKUS, 1120 Stanford Road.

AH, BUT is it art? For centuries the pundits have asked this question, lifting their eyebrows with the inflection of their voices. And for centuries, we of the great Editor. The Pittsburgh Press: REPLYING to Mr. J. E.

Marquis in his article on why plants move from Pittsburgh, let him consider the following points. Being a part-owner of a glass plant in Pittsburgh, I know something about it. It costs us about $17,000 per year overhead (taxes, etc.) here against similar space in other towns which can be obtained for around $2,500 per year. This year I tried to negotiate for some additional space for expansion. I found that to buy was out of the question; to rent would be unprofitable.

To put up a building would result in our paying for the building, renting the land and after 20 years of heavy amortizing payments th bank or estate would own the building we had paid Against this the Chamber of Commerce of other centers will donate land, for a payroll of about 400 persons, Then when one hears one of our esteemed Council state at a labor meeting that "he looks forward to the day when the workers will own all the machinery," which happened two years ago, any intelligent employer is going to plan for a move to some spot where employment, manufacturing and the functions of an leader are appreciated. Do the buyers here endeavor to buy in Pittsburgh? Some do but we have been forced to rely on the New York and Boston markets when all our capacity could be absorbed locally. Why not move nearer the markets? What does Pittsburgh offer our A life in the slums while they might live in the country in clean small homes of their own. When the Chamber of Commerce heard we were thinking of moving they phoned and asked us to see them before doing anything. We, of course, agreed to this.

But what can they do? We need land, buildings.f reedom from taxes which eat up the profit, good labor conditions. Can one get them in Pittsburgh? I tried to find them and could not. And to add insult to injury, last St. Patrick's day we had 10 feet of water and slime on our factory floor and were out of production for the first time since about 1870. It is time that all loyal Pitts-burghers who are trying to build Pittsburgh get good and mad about our conditions and take some definite action on thi3 problem.

Pittsburgh plants are high cost plants and have to face the competition of other plants more fa-voiably sponsored by their community. They must do something to remedy this condition soon. I sincerely hope that I have convinced Mr. Marquis that Pittsburgh is driving out its plants rather than them leaving because of other conditions. If not, let him come over to my office some day and argue the point.

J. T. HAMILTON. 26th St. A.

V. B. R. unwasnea, artistically speaKing, have been Hoover Is The Same Ultra-Conservative Editor, The Pittsburgh Press: There is an old adage that says "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place." Let's hope the prognosticator of this ancient proverb is right. I also hope it is applicable to American politics.

On April 4 I tuned in on a local station and much to my displeasure as well as discomfort, who do you think was wise-cracking in one of his weekly vituperations? None other than our ex-President, the rugged individualist of the laissez-faire era; the same gentleman who had the citizenry of our country lulled into a lethargic state by whispering everything was all right and that prosperity was "just around the when in reality we were getting deeper and deeper into a morass of government perplexities that would have eventually engulfed our social and economic order. During the Hoover regime "stand by" was the order of the Would It Be Better To Heed One Man? Editor, The Pittsburgh Press: The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich, in his weekly radio harangue told us, "The central office of the Union at Royal Oak reserves the right to approve or disapprove endorsements given by the district assemblies of the group." In view of the fact that the Reverend criticized Congress for being supine and subservient to the President of the United States, would it be too presumptuous for a disinterested bystander to inquire whether it is less "supine, subservient and jelly-fish-backboned" to take orders from Rev. Coughlin than for Congress to submit to the leadership of a man who, by the grace of the millions of electorate, was chosen for this very purpose? NATHAN MUELLER, 1122 N.

Murtland Ave. abashed by the sophistication of our betters. Just when we find something that appeals to us, that sends a little shiver of pleasure into our dreary lives, up pops that eternal question: "Ah, but is it art?" What is art, anyway? I leave the technical definitions to those sophisticated persons with their abundance of words signifying a err pat nnrl tnfimafo Questions Answers Your Questions Answered You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or information by writing to Frederick 21. Kerby, Question Editor, The Pittsburgh Press, Washington Bureau, 1013 Thirteenth St Washington, D. enclosing cents in stamps for reply.

Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. EDITOR. GOOD NEWS FOR FARMERS ELECTION year though it is, one New Deal measure is riding the stormy legislative seas without difficulty into the safe harbor of permanent legislation. This is the Norris-Rayburn bill, authorizing the Rural Electrification Administration to continue its work for a decade and assuring It the necessary funds. The measure as passed by the House authorizes 410 millions in loans at interest rates of not less than 3 per cent to persons, corporations, co-operatives and public bodies for developing plants and transmission lines to supply farm homes with electricity.

As passed by the Senate the bill carried 10 millions more. This "program is small compared with Senator Norris original billion dollar loan fund proposal. It is also small compared with the extent of the social frontier against which it would move. There are said to be 6,800,000 farms in the United States, 6,000,000 of which are not receiving central station facilities. The House program aims to electrify 1,000,000 farm homes.

Like the Wagner-FJlenbogen housing program, this one is moderate and sound in that it has the long view. The new Federal program will extend over a 10-year period, with only 50 millions of RFC money made available for the first year and 40 millions annually thereafter. Unlike some other recovery projects this one should be entirely self-liquidative. Not even the most rabid partisans have cared to oppose this measure. There is a good reason why.

They realize too keenly what it will mean to a million farm families to be able to press a button and get electric light, electric heat, electric power. What's more, there is no wail of protest this time from utility companies. They will do much of the building involved, with Government loans, and thty will sell millions of dollars worth of new appliances. Measures like this may well prove to be among the most enduring monuments of the New Deal. They Say: Lee Casey grasp of the subject.

Any person with 20 pet words or so can get by in almost any gathering as a learned follower of the arts. The erudite Supreme Court of Massachusetts defined burlesque' as being "not art" and went on to say "a tragedienne is the highest type of the acting profession, but burlesque is not art and is not acting." Just another occasion of the question popping up again. WTiy can't art be defined as anything a person likes? If a person likes "Custer's Last Stand," it is art as far as he is concerned. If he likes the enticing damosels on calendars, it's art. What is there about art that demands profundity, consistency, logical reasoning and the dearth of Why can't we like the right things for the wrong reason or the WTong things for the right reason, as we prefer? Why can't we just like it for no reason at all? The theory that art is for the favored few and not for the masses is exasperating at times.

It always is the self-annointed who brazen such theories. Something must be exclusive to be true art and the common touch would taint it. They go on the premise there must be something wrong with it if more than a few persons like it. Snobbishness always is associated with art these days; it titillates a person's vamty, makes him feel drawn apart from the common herd, just a little superior to his brother. My quarrel isn't with- art as much as it is with its camp followers so hostile to amateur competition.

They want a monopoly, desire to have the exclusive right to interpret it to the masses, ignoring the universality of art which should let every man enjoy it where he finds it. Why not end all this quibbling over definitions and let each man decide for himself what is art. If he wants to find his art in a burlesque show and regards a great tragedienne as a boring tear jerker, all right. If he'd rather look at the painting of a naked wench in a barroom than at a Rembrandt, let him go ahead. And if he finds more meat in Harold Bell Wright than Anatole France, it's his privilege.

But don't go taking all the joy out of life by asking: "Ah, but is it art?" Question List Offered To New Deal Friends Editor, The Pittsburgh Press: Why has the number of people on the relief increased beyond all proportions since Mr. Roosevelt has become President and -if his NRA was such a great boon to the U. S. why didn't great numbers of people leave the relief rolls as it was in effect long enough to prove itself worthwhile or not? What became of the statement Mr. Roosevelt made when he took office that he would end the depression in six months.

Why is our foreign trade with Canada and other countries less now than when other Presidents were in the White House? Why have we been able to come our of greater crises than the one today without throwing away the foundation of our country, the Constitution? Other Presidents used the Constitution to bring about good times. Mr. Roosevelt wants to throw it away. Is it because he has given us such wonderful results so far? Why do people give Mr. Roosevelt credit for trying when everyone knows that in private business and in public business it is results that count? Your employer does not pay you for trying but for the results you give him, but Mr.

Roosevelt spends billions for no good and gets no results with all of his alphabetical hash and yet the blind hero worshipers say that he tried. Even Name the Capital and Principal City of Venezuela A. Caracas. Q. What were the scores of the Pittsburgh-Notre Dame football games of the past four years? A.

1932, Notre Dame, 0, Pittsburgh 12; 1933, Notre Dame 0, Pittsburgh 14; 1934, Notre Dame 0, Pittsburgh 19; 1935, Notre Dame 9, Pittsburgh 6. Q. In what year did Burleigh Grimes join the Brooklyn Dodgers and how long did he pitch for them? A. He joined the Dodgers In 1918 and pitehed for that club thereafter until the end of the 1926 season. Q.

Did Ray Keech ever establish a world speed record for automobiles? Is Keech now living? A. Keech established a new world automobile speed record-of 207.55 miles per hour, driving J. M. White's "Triple racer, at Daytona Beach, April 22, 1928. This record stood until March 11, 1929, when Major H.

O. D. Segrave drove his "Golden Arrow" to a new record of 231.362 miles per hour. Keech was killed in a racing" accident on the Al-toona Speedway at Tipton, June 15, 1929. Ours is the noisiest age in history.

So long as we are constantly engaged physically, we think we are moving up in life. William E. Rice, Field Secretary of the New York State Christian Endeavor Union. Once Al Smith was the courageous spokesman for poverty and intelligence alike, for whom we, the people of the United States had tremendous hopes. Today everything he touches doth become rich and strange.

Charles R. McCabe, in Manhattan College's Student Publication. PRETTY GOOD, AT THAT -pHE State Department has had to increase its staff on account of the large number of applications for citizenship made by men and women now in Europe who believe they have some kind of a claim to be citizens. We may be a little short in this country on cathedrals, art galleries, tumble-down palaces and ruins; and we may not have any counts, dukes or barons; nor any princesses, outside of a few in Hollywood. We may have some bank robbers, racketeers and dust storms.

But after all, we don't live day after day in fear of the bugle call and roll of the drum. And we have freedom. -When you think it over, this Is "The Good Old U. S. Flames Marked First Edition of Press Editor, The Pittsburgh Press: I heard your broadcast over the radio about a proposed flood edition It might not be amiss right now to quote an incident concerning the beginning of The Pittsburgh Press in a fire.

In the summer of 1884, P. C. Druitt, superintendent of the Newsboys' Home, started The Penny Press. It was printed by Vernon Fahnestock, who had a printing office at 325 Liberty (new number 957). The first floor was occupied by W.

T. Ghaffey, wholesale tea merchant. On the second floor were the offices of Fahnestock White Wealth in Christ is good, but wealth in temporal goods Is terrible. I wish none of you get rich. Get love.

It's better Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian leader..

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