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LT 6 i A A CE ES D-A it 2 TrT 9 3 8 Other Press Departments, Coart 7200 Want Ad Headquarters, Court 4900 IZTHE PITTSBURGH PRESS This Year's Mistletoe! A WOMAN'S OPINION Easier Said By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON The Pittsburgh Press A Scripps-Howard Newspaper PUBLISHED RT PRFS3 pBySHIN COM PANT -nouuiiinj wuno SCO, IN THE current issue or -xnaepenaeni Woman," Elinor Guthrie Hayes and Mar- jorie Shuler debate on the subject "Do Clothes Make the Woman." The former deplores the "hours of lovely time sacrified daily to send Harry MilboUand, president. Edward T. Lrecb. Editor.

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254 Fifth Avenue. Telephone Conrt 4900 (for want Ada onlv: Court 7200 for all other department hundreds of thousands of office workers to their desks resembling as nearly as nature permits the visions of screen and denti- "Tlnr frice advertisements." 1 Hours which, as she ex SUBSCRIPTION RATES Hallfl 9 plains might be spent in study or research or philanthropy or plain work. On the other side, Mice Rhulpr contends that UIO WRI 18 rentt.) Daily, one rear fby mall 3tlly in firt and second lone where there no 55 ou Sunday 0cent Dally and Sunday 28 cent a week I Sunday one year br mail only In first and Beyond ione whre there te no carrier) S5.0O -fj grooming, in conjunction Wltn intelligence, a unity Mrs. Ferrnson and the inner niceties, organizing for what is hopes will be the final drive to ratify the Child Labor Amendment, which awaits ratification by only 12 more states. In 1937 the Legislature of 19 states that have not ratified will meet.

Into these states Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Tennessee, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware, the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida the committee plans to send workers armed with what it calls "almost incredible statistics and photographs" showing "ruthless exploitation of young children." The Children's Bureau of the Department of Labor reports an increase of more than 150 per cent in the number of 14 and 15-year-old children certified for employment in the first five months of this year over the cor-esponding five months of 1935, when the NRA code standard was in effect. In the last seven months of last year, after the Supreme Court outlawed the codes, the numbers of children leaving school for work increased 53 per cent over the year 1934. Child labor, as reflected in these reports, increased 70 per cent in 1935 over 1934. Although some of this Is due to increased general employment the sudden jump in the number of working children appear to be due chiefly to the letdown of Federal regulation under the codes. It is all too apparent that child labor cannot be outlawed either by private benevolence or by state laws.

Studies made by the Child Labor Committee reveal exploitation of children as young as 10 to 14 in the lumber, turpentine and woodworking industries in certain Southern States, of manual labor of youngsters in beet sugar fields of Colorado and Nebraska, of the sweating of children in some of the cities. That factory doors are opening again to children is shown by the fact that 'Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way" TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1936 make not only the woman but her career. No matter what our sentiments are. Miss Shuler would probably be declared winner the matter were left to popular vote. For never has a nation of women been more dress-conscious.

But this advice from the ladles who live near great style centers is often wide off the mark when addressed to those who work in smaller cities. This, for instance: "Don't buy because the thing is in style; you'll meet it half a dozen times a day. Have the courage to be different." But, gentle dames, it's not courage we lack; it's cash. For what is more regimented man feminine fashions these days? You cant be different if your dress budget forces you to buy from department stores or less expensive shops. And there a good reason.

Meaium-priced goods are not produced except in job lots. Thev are sold in job lots. Ana you can no more get a tight-sleeved gown when full sleeves are the vogue than you can get a buggy whip at a filling station. It is almost impossible to find a big hat when little hats are in style or vice versa. 11 The only way to beat the game is to have one-fourth of the young toilers recorded by enough money to employ a good dressmaker and good ones who make reasonable charges these days are as scarce as hen's teeth.

The only alternative is to have enough time on your hands to hunt for needles in haystacks the Children's Bureau are working in manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile jobs. With favorable action by 12 of the 19 states meeting next year this disgrace of child labor can be wiped out once and for all. the needle in this case being something entirely different from the prevailing mode. EVERYDAY LIVING Master Motive DR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON rHAT IS the master motive of human w1 life? If you would move men to action and high endeavor, to what shall you appeal? To selfishness, the cynic says.

It takes many forms, whether it be self-preservation. UP TO THE OPERATORS GOVERNOR EARLE'S tour of the anthracite coal regions of Eastern Pennsylvania focuses public attention upon what the Governor properly labels as "the greatest conflict between property ownership and moral rights in the history of the state." During the depression numerous anthracite collieries shut down their mines for lack of orders, throwing an estimated 20,000 men out of work. Mining being the only industry of the region, these men have been unable to find other employment. Now they are illegally mining coal from the abandoned col'ierios and selling it through bootleg dealers in New York and other Eastern cities. It is estimated that $32,000,000 worth of bootleg coal was mined and sold last year.

The operators are insisting that the bootlegging be stopped. But local authorities refuse to interfere since this illegal mining is the only means of supporting entire communities in several counties. And Governor Earle's efTorts to reach a compromise have been fruitless. Not only do the operators refuse to re-employ some of the bootleg miners in order to recapture this illegal market in anthracite coal, but they also refuse to lease coal lands to the bootleggers. Thus, the issue is basically one of property vs.

human rights. On one side are the coal operators, demanding protection for their property. On the other are miners demanding a right to work. GOVERNOR EARLE now is making a personal tour of the bootleg fields, accompanied by mine operators and representatives of the miners. We hope his visit results In a definite agreement that will end what has become America's greatest illicit industry.

Unquestionably, the bootleggers are wrong. But so are the operators when they take an arbitrary attitude and refuse to compromise. They brought these miners into Eastern Pennsylvania. Then, after reaping millions of dollars in profits, they shut down the mines and cast their employes adrift. As Governor Earle points out, they have a social obligation to the miners and thus far they have refused to meet it.

So long as the operators maintain such a stubborn, unyielding attitude, continued bootlegging of coal in the anthracite fields is inevitable. For even if the state tried to put a halt to illicit mining, it would require thousands of policemen. And the state has only a lew hundred peace officers at its command. In other words, it's up to the operators. They alone can put an end to a vicious practice that already has reached the big business stage.

If they are far-sighted, they will take advantage of Governor Earle's present tour of the anthracite fields to suggest a truce. We have no doubt that it would be welcomed both by the Governor and by leaders of the miners. recognition, or Just plain greed, but it is always the same thing man is incurably selfish. But the cynic is shortsighted blind to facts of which the world is full. Self interest is a kind of mechanical force, potent, it is true; but not the ruling motive of life at its best.

"All that man hath will he give for his life," we are told: but again and LETTERS FROM PRESS READERS Similarity Of Chivalry Is Seen In Rebels And Moors Dr. Newton again, in loyalty to some idea, in devotion to some high impulse or ideal, man will fling his life away, gladly. A FREE PRESS ATTACK FOR MONTHS before the election, editors throughout the country said some pretty hard things about President Roosevelt. Most of them piped down after Nov. 3, but P.

Milton Smith, elderly editor of a weekly paper at Mountain View, held to his previous views and came out with a post-election editorial calling the President a "mountebank," a "hypocrite" and a "false alarm." Certain Democrats of Santa Clara County, headed by Horace E. Beales of Mountain View, president of the Patriotic League, promptly had Editor Smith arrested on a charge of criminal libel. To the credit of Democratic leaders elsewhere in California, they tried to get this silly charge dismissed. However, when the editor was arraigned before a justice of the peace in San Jose last week, the county's' prosecuting attorney, a Republican, refused to permit dismissal and said he intended to bring Editor Smith to trial next month, with the Democratic county chairman as speciai prosecutor. The Republicans can hardly be blamed for making the most of the opportunity given them by patriotic Leaguer Beales and his Democratic associates.

The trial, if held, will attract national attention. The Democrats who started the absurd action will be made to appear as crackpots at best and potential Fascists at worst. That may be useful to the Republican cause in Santa Clara County, California. We don't for a minute agree with what Editor Smith said about the President but he had a right to say it. We consider him guilty of bad taste but it is not criminal to call a public official, even a popular President, a "mountebank" or a "hypocrite." The President himself, and other national leaders keep is a burden on our people which they can hardly carry.

But what do our lawmakers do for No. there is another force in human me, a force which is like electricity in the physical world: a force which melts and fuses our lower powers, and overwhelms us with ite sovereignty. Call it religion, patriotism, idealism, love or. "CDITOR'B NOTE: Please be brief. As a rule, 300 words should be ample.

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the people in time of peace? Millions unemployed, and those who are employed receive starvation wages, the uncertainty for the daily existence worries the people that they no longer care what might happen tomorrow. This condition of affairs is well known to our leaders of industry, to the God or truth give it what name you will; there is a force which overcomes and drives out selfishness, and makes life a thing of splendor. It is not selfishness mat enncnes tne an one reaches the age of 65, if he is fortunate enough to have work, then starve to death from then on, with what the Security Act provides for him. It seems to me that everybody is well provided for, well taken care of but the public, which makes everything possible, which carries all the burdens. It gets nothing.

I would advise the Congress of the United States to remodel the Social Security Act, because when the people suffer our nation suffers. When suffering exists, no one can tell what may happen. Oh, yes, if one should happen to live 200 years, then the Security Act would be of great benefit to him. But what about the present? Safeguard the present, and the future will take care of itself. ALEX LITTMAN.

1553 Dagmare Ave. Congress of the United States, and nals of every people with the names of heroes also to the President of the and saints. It is not sell-interest tnat on every Da ere of history sheds a benign and United States. They agreed that something must be done, and they blessed light. do not know, but suspect of having hearts so small that they did it.

They gave us the Social It was not love of self that made Buddha Security Act. leave his palace to ponder the woes of the world, or made the Maid or Orleans lilt tne sword from the altar, and lead an army following a vision. I wish to say the Social Security Act as it reads now is a disgrace to its name, because the word security means something, but the act itself means nothing from a workingman's point of view. It is working to death until It was not selfishness that chained Vincent de Paul to the bench of a galley, or sent Father Daimen to serve the lepers, or inspired the saints of science to give their lives for humanity. Questions Answers Look around, and you will see common men and women, amid the care and wear of life, living by the glory of a whiter light than shines from sun or star their lives a melody of the party which professes devotion to the principles of Thomas Jefferson, might well in a noisy street.

Love is the master motive of life, and he repudiate this attempt by a few misguided California Democrats to deny one of the most important of those principles, the right to free who does not see it is blind! would rattle a straw. It would be distressing enough to most people if times were normal and we did not have so many strikes and prospects for more and bigger strikes. Every strike increases the cost of living, a fact which has not yet soaked into the brains of our political economists. But to add to the cost of living before the "Forgotten Man" has had a chance to draw his breath and begin to live fairly good again, is political suicide for the selfish politicians who are lacking in common sense. All this class of economists will tell you Is that the Sherman Anti-Trust law and the Interstate Commerce law must be enforced, both of which are against sound economics, and in the same breath tell you that there must be minimum prices, minimum wages and maximum working hours.

We should use some of our $13,000,000 school tax money and start a school of applied common sense, so these extraordinary economists may learn how ridiculous they are. HENRY F. GILO. 1424 Orchlee St. Editor, The Pittsburgh Press: THE so-called democratically-elected "Government" of Spain was actually based on a minority of the votes, and was never approved by the Cortes.

Leaving that point aside, must we seriously believe that a government once elected, can act as despotically and tyrannically as it likes, and that there is no right to rebellion? Such a monstrous doctrine of servitude cannot be tolerated by free citizens. Deputy Sotelo was murdered by "workers" for making a speech in the Cortes. In the Spanish Parliament, Gil Robles, uncontradicted, enumerated the outrages which occurred from the elections of February until the end of May before there was any rebellion. Among these he cited 10 newspaper offices completely destroyed and over 30 seriously damaged. I say nothing of the 1556 persons killed and wounded, 160 churches completely wrecked and 250 partially destroyed, during the reign of Spanish "democratic peace" from February to May.

All true Spaniards who love Spain and who do not want to become a province of Asiatic and atheistic Russia, are fighting under the leadership of Franco. As to the Moors: There is much in common between a chivalrous Spaniard and a chivalrous Moor. There is nothing in common between men of chivalry and the scum that has crucified priests and tortured defenseless nuns. The Spaniard and the Moor believe in God. And between those who believe in God there is a natural alliance against the degenerate atheists of Moscow and Madrid.

The Church in Spain has never advocated the use of violence, but, on the contrary, has always preached obedience to established authority. The ingratitude on the part of the Madrid government has been revealed clearly in that, at the beginning of the civil war, measures were taken immediately against the Church; a greater number of serious crimes against ecclesiastics and religious were perpetrated with impunity and the government has not hindered the profanation of ecclesiastical property. CORNELIUS JOSEPH BALTZ. Munhall, Pa. LAND CAN BE TOO DEAR NE VERY important reason why the speech and a free press.

New Court Barrage What Is a Tallith? A. A tasseled shawl or scarf, worn by Jewish men at morning prayer, usually draped over the head or shoulders. It symbolizes humility and reverence before the Deity. Q. Which spelling is correct, enclose or inclose? A.

Both. Your Questions Answered You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or information by writing to Frederick M. 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 made.

EDITOR. By RODNEY DUTCHER- A SAFE CHRISTMAS UNTIL the day comes when safety is everybody's obsession, it will pay Pittsburgh- WASHINGTON It is difficult to tell whether the U. S. Supreme Court is as demoralized as some think or whether its ers heads of families especially to heed the rudimentary common sense that is contained in Fire Chief Nicholas A. Phelan's safety suspected demoralization is only a misapprehension on the part of outsiders, effectively fostered by a substantial group of interested persons who want to get They Say: Tmu us into the habit of pooh poohing the court.

suggestions for Christmas. Here is his advice on putting up Christ mas trees. It's worth reading. And it may Q. Did the Democratic platform of 1932 advocate repeal of the prohibition amendment? A.

The platform contained the following plank: "Pending repeal, we favor immediate modification of the Volstead act in order to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer and other beverages of alcoholic content as is permissible under the Constitution, and to provide therefrom proper and needed taxes." avert home accidents: The Paris announcement that fish bladders are being used on ladies' hats doesn't startle me. Once a lady wouldn't have been seen in a hat that didn't bear some part of a bird. It's only natural that the cycle finally got around to fish. Fred Orsinger, Washington, D. aquarium Christmas trees should be set up securely so that they will not easily topple.

They Giving and Receiving Make for Bliss Authentic information sometimes trickles out of the secret conferences which precede the court's decisions. But none has trickled your correspondent's way since the justices ordered a retrial of the Duke Power case. This action involves PWA's constitutionality and nartlcularlv its rieht should be placed several feet from any heat ing or lighting fixture. Metal tinsel, flake asbestos or powdered mica should be sub stituted for highly inflammable cotton and paper in making snow effects. Q.

Of what race are the inhabitants of British A. They are chiefly Portuguese from Madeira, Negros, East Indians and Chinese. And here are the city fire chief's list of don'ts for preventing a sad Christmas. They likewise are worth the attention of every It is a fact that when you find the "woman in the case" you usually find the criminal. In hundreds of cases women have been primarily responsible for the crimes of their felon Miss Marie Grott, head of Indiana criminal identification bureau.

adult. Don't use any electrical equipment unless it meets the standard requirement for safety. All appliances should be detached when not Administration should make haste slowly in its farm tenancy program is the absolute necessity of getting the land cheap. For that reason we are glad the old Bank-head Bill did not become law. Passage of that measure, making available a billion dollars of Federal credit to purchase farms for landless tenants, would have added several dollars an acre to the asking price of land throughout the tenancy-ridden areas.

There are many landowners, notably banks and insurance companies, that would like nothing better than to unload their holdings on the Government. The purpose of the Administration, as we understand it, is to make it possible for renters and sharecroppers to re-establish themselves as farm owners, to enable families now dispossessed to sink their roots into soil which they can reasonably hope some day" to own, debt free. And that cannot be done without limiting strictly the money invested in the land. Therefore, we believe it is essential to success of the program that the Government undertake its program with moderate annual appropriations, to the end that it can buy land in a competitive market. While we might sympathize with the large landholder who wants to be bailed out.

who perhaps has such a heavy investment in his land that he cannot see any possible way of making a profit on that investment, yet we should not do our sympathizing at the expense of the tenant whose rehabilitation is at stake. If those now in that predicament can't make the land pay, how can a tenant farmer, starting from scratch, be expected to pull out with the same per-acre debt hanging over, plus the added debt he will have to incur to build a home and barns, and buy equipment and livestock? Under the best possible circumstances it will be difficult enough helping men, unaccustomed to the business responsibilities ot ownership and management, to become successful farm owners and operators. They should not be burdened with debts too heavy to bear. And the best way to start in making their burdens bearable is by acquiring the land at fair prices. a PRESENT WORTH WHILE in use.

Don't permit your children to use electrical toys until they get thorough instructions and Q. How long has the modern World Series been played? A. They originated in 1903 when Pittsburgh, winner of the National League pennant, and the Boston Redsox, winner of the National League pennant, and the Boston Red Sox, winner of the American League pennant, played a post-season series without supervision by their league officials. In 1904 no post-season series was played, but before the 1905 season was concluded, the National and American Leagues agreed on annnul post-season series governed by rules laid down by the National Baseball It is a tradition In legislative bodies that first-year members should say little and observe much but some men see only one year of service, and it is regrettable that constituents during that period should be represented merely by a close observer. Assemblyman A.

D. Schanzer, Brooklyn, N. Y. ttlen only under adult supervision. Don't use fast burning decorations for the table or the house.

Editor, The Pittsburgh Press: Not so very long ago, I read a chapter in a book which was written by an eminent sociologist on the subject of our increasing divorce rate. He said that divorce was increasing because women were growing better and better. He claimed that their moral character, would not permit them to put up with either the abuse or neglect, which many women in the past had endeavored to stand and usually without taking enough thought as to the duty which they owed to themselves. Weakness is not goodness. Of course, it isn't always the husband, who is at fault.

However, many men do not know what their obligations are in their own specific case. They behave in a manner which would be fitting if their wives were some other women, instead of the types which they are. William Hodge once said, that probably there was one man created for each woman, but most women get the wrong one. Probably, he said it the other way around. So many men still believe that Eve was made for Adam.

Now Adam was, of course, created to take care of Eve, and to help her raise a family. The rivalry which often exists between the sexes is supposed to end, where there is plenty of love and generosity. Marriage isn't a matter of give and take. That sounds too much like a boxing match. Give and receive, sounds more loving and generous.

READER. Don't be careless in the use of matches and smoking materials. Don't accumulate wrapping paper, tissue or gift boxes. Dispose of them quickly. Don't give toys that require alcohol or No country inflicts such unnecessary misery on immigrants as does this one.

Immigration Inspector Vincent Nankauskas, recommending discontinuance of Ellis Island quarantine station. kerosene for their operations Mr. Dutcher to make loan-grants for for public power plants. The court, however, stirred critics to take one more whack at its prestige by refusing to decide on the merits of a vital New Deal case when it had every possible speck of evidence before it. Following as it did the 4-to-4 verdict "which validated the New York unemployment insurance law by a failure to achieve a majority situation, the Duke action has inspired a new outburst of hooting to the effect that the court has lost its ability to make decisions even WTong ones.

Lawyers are guessing that the court stood 4 to 4 on the Duke Power case, but that Chief Justice Hughes was so mortally afraid of another tie decision that in some way possibly, they opine, by threatening the liberal Justices with the possibility that he would Jump to the other side he managed to have the supreme bench duck the issue by tossing the case back to lower courts on a basis of inconsequential technicalities. The story, whether true or not, is being spread around assiduously by those who seek to stir up popular contempt for the court. New Deal lawyers will talk your ear off In explaining how the Justices never before tossed back a case like this unless the procedural error involved had hurt someone, how the court socked the unemployed who would otherwise be employed on PWA projects, and how absurd it is for the court to refuse even at this late date to tell whether PWA Is constitutional. They insist that the order for retrial has put off a decision on the power plant issue for another year. Of course if Justice Stone were to recover sufficiently from Ms illness to serve on the bench, there would be little danger of 4-to-4 decisions.

No one knows how long he will be out. Meanwhile, general suspicion in Washington is that Hughes and Justice Roberts "got religion" after they saw the election returns, leaving the four die-hards McReynolds, Butler, VanDevanter. and Sutherland still holding the fort against the New Deal on all counts. CopjTiht. 1938).

Q. In what language was the Bible originally written? A. The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew, and the New Testament in Greek. A REAL INVENTION Men and women today are paying people to think for them ai are losing the virtue and the Still ity to think for themselves. Re F.

S. Fleming, New York City. INVENTOR JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, has patented a device to filter the voices Says Edward Was Unfit for Throne Editor, The Pittsburgh Press: King Edward's abdication, coming on top of Roosevelt's sweeping election, conclusively proves that editors and copy-writers do not carry weight with their readers, notwithstanding their claim of being makers of public opinion. You may ignore our contention that Eddie's contempt of his church's ban on marriage of divorcees was ihe sole reason for his running away from his job. But "Boysy's" conduct before and after his abdication made him absolutely unfit to sit on any English throne, regardless of the noisy demands of English Fascists and such public men as the erratic Winston Churchill.

Yours for decency in public life, W. M. OWEN, Tfltonsville, Ohio. Politicians Will Suffer For Raising Cost of Living Editor, The Pittsburgh Press: We have been told times without number that we get the kind of government we want by the way we cast our votes. It has not yet permeated our intelligence just what It means.

We are learning slowly. It is only necessary to perpetrate such stupidities as the Potato Control Act and now the Increase in price of milk by a boarct composed of men whom I of screen and radio performers and remove unpleasant qualities. "Editing for voice re cording," he calls the process. The world has been waiting for that In A smile is a good beginning Every dentist should install a large mirror in his office and practice smiling before each patient enters. Then he should walk around the chair and greet the new arrival with that smile.

Dr. Louis R. Hill, Los Angeles vention. May its use become general without delay. It will need to be sturdy to go up against the.

voices of some of the crooners and sopranos, and if it filters out unpleasant Q. What is the difference between a crazy quilt and a patchwork quilt? A. The crazy quilt is made of pieces of material of miscellaneous sizes, shapes and colors, and a patchwork quilt is made from pieces of cloth of different colors and shapes usually sewn together to form a design. In Colonial Days when every bit of cloth was Imported in sailing vessels at high cost, each scrap was highly valued and used. Thus the crazy patches, fitted together irregularly so that not a thread of the valuable material was wasted, came into being.

The original shapeless scraps, at first fitted together in crazy fashion, were later trimmed into uniform patterns. qualities with full efficiency there won't be much of those voices left. That will be a Social Security Act Called 'Disgrace' Editor, The Pittsburgh Press: -INCE Christmas is the time when elders' thouehts turn toward their children boon. Now, Mr. Hammond, invent us something it is fitting that this rich country's attention be called to a campaign to free thousands 01 There has been a theory In the minds of many people that a motorist is entitled to his first accident and that a suspended sentence is all right on such occasions.

With that I do not agree; a motorist is not entitled to any accidents, first or last. Judge Jacob Oltelman, Rochester, N. to filter the bunk out of political speeches. Do that before the next campaign begins, and To safeguard our people from foreign invasion and to protect our interests in foreign nations, we have an Army and Navy and ah force which cost the people youngsters from the burden of daily tou lor well nominate you for Public Benefactor No. 1.

The National Child Labor Committee is billions of dollars. Its yearly up.