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LABOR VERSUS CAPITAL.
The age-old battle of capital vs. labor is again rearing its
head, as the nation anxiously awaits the next move in the present
crisis in which the steel industry is occupying the central role.
Carrying the fight against company unions which predominate
in this all important industry in American business, the national
labor leaders are determined to bring about the abolishment of
singular unions, and provide the needed impetus to carry the
United Mine Workers of America, headed by the militant John
L. Lewis into full power among the workers of the steel industry.
Many have been the prophecies concerning the final outcome
of this major labor battle, with leading industrial critics taking
the issues on both sides. The steel interests are determined to
keep the influence of unionized labor out of their midst. The or
ganized labor groups are determined to bring about the complete
unionization of the steel industry. These two sentences sum up
the entire fight, and the adamant stand taken by both interests
forecasts a long and bitter battle to the very end with no quarter
asked nor given.
It would appear from the statements of the labor leaders
that the so-called company unions are controlled in their entirety
by the steel “bosses.” They state that they are determined that
the long dynasty enjoyed by industrial leaders is due to topple,
and that the reign of non-interference by labor leaders has come
to an end. On the other hand it appears from the statements by
leading industrialists of the various steel companies that they
are taking militant stands against any outside interference, and
assure freedom against coercion by third party interests. It
seems that the steel companies will never require their employes
to belong to any union to gain employment.
The whole country wats with baited breath as the hour
approaches for a final showdown. Up to this time, the steel in
dustry has been successful in resisting the attempts by organized
labor to extend its influence into the various companies. But
labor has grown to such a position of importance that whether
at this stage of the game, it can renew its age-long fight with a
successful ending, remains to be seen.
Both parties boast some of the leading figures in the na
tion's political and industrial fields. Both parties have ample
funds from which they might be able to carry on the fight into
the proportions of a standout. Who will win? Will it be capital,
with its ever present sources of unlimited revenue, or will it be
the labor group with the bounding energy and spirit of organiza
tion of the workers as the moving force. Perhaps capital will
win again, aMd perhaps, on the other hand, labor will step into
the niche of success, which it has hand hewn by the experience
of former defeats.
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Editor Daily Times:
Savannah is an attractive city, but
it certainly has many “sore spots”
which it should attempt to erase. I
have noticed particularly the shabby
condition of many of its sidewalks.
Well paved roads and neat, sturdy
sidewalks are an essential part of any
city which depends on tourist trads
as much as Savannah does.
Even if Savannah were not so large
ly dependent upon tourists, it would
have no excuse for leaving some of
its sidewalks in as deplorable a con-
NOT--In the News
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ONE OF OUR more ardent fans
has complained to us about the con
clusions reached in a recent ocntro
versy over the question: “Who is the
better looking—man or woman?”
Jane, who makes the complaint, is
not so incensed over the fact that her
sex didn’t score so well in the find
ings as she is over the negative man
ner in which it was decided that mas
culinity was the more beautiful.
In this psychological controversy
the question as to the relative hand
sorriness of man and woman seemed
to be settled with an invitation such
as this:
“Just put a woman in male attire,
and then see which is the better look
ing.”
Well, Jane doesn’t think that test
is quite fair.
“All right.” she says, Spartanlike,
“let the man be the best looking of
the sexes. Who cares, anyway?
"But I think before they put all
this down in the record books, I be-
dition as they are. Many sidewalks
are rough and broken and constitute
a decided menace to pedestrians.
Along many narrow streets there is
no sidewalk at all. This puts the
pedestrian in danger of being hit
by automobiles. No time should be
wasted about matters like this. Some
sort of action is needed.
A VISITOR.
Editor The Daily Times:
It was encouraging to read the ar
ticle in Thursday’s paper announc
ing that the American Automobile
association planned to launch a na
tionwide fight against the parking
meter. The evils pointed out by the
leaders of this group have all been
discovered to be only too true by
Miamians. Most of us want no part
of these machines.
When a large organization like the
A.A.A. takes up the cudgels there ap
pears to be some hope that this lat
est menace to taxpayers may be elim
inated.
AN AUTOIST.
lieve they ought to make another test.
It’s this:
"Put the handsomest men in the
world in formal evening gowns, the
best available. Then just see how
swell they look! Bah!”
* ♦ *
WE CAN recall the day when moth
ers could coax the most stubborn of
pouting children with the offer of
an ice cream cone or a stick of candy.
But, evidently, it takes a greater en
ticement these days.
Mary Muir a Michigan reader, est
tifles that some mothers are now us
ing different methods. She relays the
story of a Detroit woman, who was
attempting to influence her five-year
old son to go along with her into a
store.
“Come along, Bobby”, pleaded the
mother. “Come along—mother’s GOT
MONEY!”
* * *
THE INDIANA farmer who posted
this sign in front of his property has
a monopoly on his rare product:
For Sal-
Collie Puppies
Fresh Eggs
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—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
McCARL’S VALEDICTORY
Denouncing Extravagance of Emergency Set-Ups
GIVES AID TO LANDON
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, July 6—John Ray
mond McCarl, retiring as comptroller
general of the United States, landed :
about as severe a spank on the New '
Deal as well could have been imagin- I
ed, with his denunciation of the ex- ;
travagance of its emergency setups.
For one thing, McCarl spoke as a
high authority.
He has been administering govern
ment expenditures for 15 years, with
presidents of both parties in the
White House. He has handled his
job honestly and competently. He
has been called tight-fisted, but never
a breath of scandal has been suggest
ed in conection with his running of
one of the least popular of federal of
fices, for its principal function has
been the paring down of expense ac
counts.
* * *
Kept Out of Politics
Secondly, the comptroller general
has kept scrupulously out of politics.
He expresses himself with no tinge
of partisanship.
For a decade and a half he has not
said a word except through his offi
cial opinions. Republicans and Dem
ocrats have raged alike at what he
would not permit them to spend. He
never has answered.
After his long silence, his voice
sounded like a thunderclap.
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I And it was apropos just as he was
! quitting—his valedictory.
• • •
Constructive
, Another item:
i McCarl is not purely a fault finder.
He did find fault but he offered his ;
' services to aid in correcting the
faults.
Congress is trying now to hit on a
method of consolidating agencies and
reducing governmental overlapping
and duplication of expense. Os all
individuals, McCarl is best equipped
by experience to be helpful at this
task.
There is little money in it for him.
The most that can be made by the
adviser to a committee on Capitol
Hill is S3OO monthly. McCarl can
beat that, many times over, practic
ing law.
* * *
As A Candidate
Ray McCarl, as I have previously
remarked, was a little talked about
as a 1936 Republican presidential pos
sibility.
Governor Landon scored instead.
Now McCarl is mentioned in con
nection with 1940.
I cannot see that he will rate as a
candidate then.
• • •
His Chances Dim
A presidential candidate must have
been in the limelight.
McCarl, momentarily, is.
If Landon is presidentially elected,
maybe McCarl will be in line for a
cabinet appointment.
That wil keep him in the lime
, light.
But in 1940 Landon will be in line
1 for renomination; it will not be Mc
j Carl.
» * •
No Bright Prospect
On the other hand, suppose Presi
dent Roosevelt is re-elected.
In that event McCarl will get no
i cabinet appointment, and will not
: have a background in 1940.
In short it is a gloomy prospect
for McCarl.
If Landon is elected McCarl will
play second fiddle to him until Mc-
Carl is too od to count. If Roosevelt
wins McCarl will have faded into ob
scurity before his chance comes again.
• • •
Aids Landon
McCarl’s utterance is a terrific slam
for Roosevelt, anyway.
It is great campaign material for
Landon.
It doesn't appear to be calculated
to do McCarl any ultimate good. It
is honest, but not particularly profit
able, so far as appears, to McCarl.
ONE MINUTE PULPIT
He that maketh haste to be rich
shall not be innocent.—Proverb 28:20.
The official flag of the city of New
York, adopted in 1915, tells the story
of the origin and early history of the
municipality. The colors of the flag
are Dutch-blue, white and orange.
These same colors folated over the
island more than 300 years ago.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
UNEMPLOYMEMT STAYS
As a Scare Goblin to Both Parties
AN UNSOLVED PROBLEM
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Neither Republicans nor Democrats
met the relief problem squarely in
their respective conventions. They
skirted all around the basic issues of
the unemployment question.
In spite of the best business condi
tions in six years—and in some indus
tries the best business on record —
unemployment remains at a high
level
Worse, states and municipalities
and counties are failing to m<»et their
relief responsibilities.
Relief may be a local issue, as
critics of the New Deal assert, but
persons dependent on relief do not,
believe so.
What Way?
The noisy conventions in Cleveland
and Philadelphia, of course, purpose
ly avoided the basic unemployment
issue. It is a scare goblin—just
around the corner—for both parties.
The Republicans condemned, and
much of what they said was true, yet
offered merely the alternative that
had failed —leave it all to the unham
pered business to find the way.
The Democrats would go on pay
ing endlessly.
The Coughlin-Lemke party would
put the making of money into the
hands of the people.
How any of these hopes w’ould
eventuate into jobs for all is not ex
plained logically.
The Socialists demand a planned
economy and every man to share in
MyNew York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK. July 6—Odd Lots:
At a loose end in downtown Man
hattan I loitered outside a shop
where a jeweler was selling a large
stock of miscellany at auction . . .
A youth with apple cheeks bid $2 for
the “surprise mystery package” and
opened it then and there; he had
bought a bronze pocket toothpick,
complete with fob chain and bearing
the inscription, “Harry, 1889” . . .
Westbrook Peglers private lake on
his Connecticut estate has been dub
bed “Lake Malice” . . . Felix Ferry
the exquisite Anglo-French producer
of girlesque shows will soon offer Lon
don a revue with the most distressing
| title in years: “Ferry Tales of 1936”
| . . .' Young Jimmie Donahue one of
Manhattan’s few authenticated mil
lionaire playboys, will finance the
show, adding another name to the ros
ter of emeste Social Register theatri
coes. . .
* * *
As this is written Governor Lehman
remains coy about running again for
the governorship adding nothing
much to his original statement that
he would not be a candidate, yet all
the know-it-alls insist that he will
run without doubt ... I even saw a
wager of $5 to $1 placed today in a
printshop bistro, with the short end
of the bet put up by a man who
thought Lehman really intended to
retire ... If Lehman actually with
draws from politics it will startle and
engross this reporter, because it will
be the first time in his life he has
seen a politician retire for any other
reason than the insistence of the
electorate ... I have viewed the
Lcuis-Cchmeling fight pictures twice
at the movies and each time could
not but remark the pokey pace of the
fight on film, when it was such a
hair-raiser and yell-incited for tho.e
who were present.
• * ♦
A pair of laughing ladies inspect
ing the fountain on the Rockefeller
Center Plaza terrace, developed, after
a. bit of frowning and noggin-tkurnp
ing on the part of your gad-about,
to be the Marchioness of Milford-
Haven und Gloria Vanderbilt . .
Now all the drawing rooms buzz with
high praise for that strange and, for
this taste rather rambly novel-con
fession, “The Last Puritan,” by George
Santayana ... I hear it has sold
150 000 . . . Yet insight into the read
ing habits of certain bcok-buyers may
be had in the comment of two pretty
young things at a tea-party . . . One
was a radio warbler, the other a de
signer of modernistic ash trays .
After loudly lauding the tome, they
confessed privately: “We bought it,
but we haven’t read it. Don’t give
us away. We made an election bet
and the loser will have to read ‘The
Last Puritan’ ”... However, by the
time November rolls around some new
literary wunderkind will have explod
ed on the stalls ... I had a bet on
in the case of “Anthony Adverse”,
but I won and so the book stiff
awaits a long period with nothing ■
to do . . .
Now that the conventions are over,
the columnists are casting about for
some place else to go . . . But they
see only the summer doldrums ahead,
without even a good hanging to lure
them afield ... I went to neither cir
cus, but a collegiate reader sends me
an echo in the form of the wording
on a crjptic banner displayed re
cently ;.t of all places, the Yale
class reunion . . . The placard rcaa:
"A Vote for Mr. Roosevet is a Vote
for Mrs. Roosevelt” . .
And from the Philadelphia orgy
these ears, long attuned to trivia
caught only a story told by the flam
buoyant ex-Senator Tom Heflin of
Alabama ... A pedagogue was be
moaning to the parent of one of his
charges that the bey could not be
made to stop saying “I seen” . . .
The father retorted: “Don't worry
about that. I’d rather he said 'I seen’
when he really seen something than
to say ’I saw’ when he ain’t saw
nothing!”
i the resources and the earnings of in-
I dustry and land according to his la
' bor.
| Some plan is essential, economists
| say. Otherwise, business itself will
' be the greatest sufferer.
Printing or Borrowing?
Printing more money may elimi
nate interest, which eats away sav
ings. But will the decline in the value
of money not be more, much more,
than the cost of the interest?
Money is a medium of exchange.
In itself, it can mean nothing. Men
do believe that the government ought
to have full control of it but not to
. manipulate.
Issuance of interest-bearing bonds
is a decided burden. These interest
bearing bonds eventually take more
away than outright taxes. But every
body fights taxes.
The alternative borders on social
ism and communism. Thus the
American choice will be (1) more
bonds, (2) and or more taxes, (3)
and or printing money. It may be
all three.
That is the Wall Street view, stat
ed over and over again.
It blames it all on President Roose
•velt.
But there seems to be nobody in
Wall Street, either, who looks very
far ahead.
» ♦ *
Cost of Interest
This will explain the cost of inter
est:
Cleveland built a city hall 25 years
ago. It issued bonds for the purpose
in the sum of $3,680,000.
All the bonds will not have been
paid off until 1952.
The interest by that time will have
amounted to $3,706,000.
In brief, the interest amounts to
$26,000 more than the principal.
The city hall cost not merely the
$3,680,000 paid for the actual con
struction, but twice that sum.
♦ ♦ •
Unemployment
We take these headlines from a
buletin of the Alexander Hamilton
Institute:
“Employment up only 9.5 per cent
since the low for the depression,
while production has increased 21.2
per cent. Employment, however, held
rp better than production in 1930-’32
slump. Consequently, despite the
slower gain in employment since 1932
employment shows less of a decrease
since 1929 than production. From
now on gain in employment should
keep pace with rise in output. Out
put, however, must rise above 1929
volume to absorb al unemployed due
to increase in supply of workers and
to the fact that there was consider
able amount of unemployment in
1929.”
Even in the “best’ year the United
States ever has observed, .unemploy
ment was high—perhaps the highest
in the world.
“Maldistribution,” economists say.
And—they add—maldistribution re
mains.
President Roosevelt made some
mention of it in his Philadelphia
speech.
Your’e Telling
Me?
MANY A MOTORIST whose ambi
tion was to drive the fastest vehicle
wound up his career driving the
slowest —a wheel chair.
* * *
We cannot see anything so
strange in this Denver man who
sleeps standing up. The minor
league baseball cutfields are full
of them.
A Londoner has invented a signal
apparatus which, when operated by a
centist's patient, notifies the molar
miner when to keep on drilling and
when, because of pain, to stop. O. K.
but can you arrest the dentist if he
crashes the red light?
* * *
Japanese government has pro
tested establishment of radia sta
tion in American embassy in To
kio. This is the first inkling we
have had that Uncle Sam has
crooners in his diplomatic cerps.
ALL or US
THE TERRIBLE INSULT
A WOMAN I know uses the word
“masculine” as if it were an epithet!
On her lips “masculine” is abuse
and scorn and contempt. When she
applies it to a man the edges of his
egotism curl up and shrivel. When
she says V her husband “Don’t be
so masculine!” he knows exactly
what she means by it and it’s NO
compliment. He knows he’s been act
ing like a Traditional Male—and he
ought to be ashamed of himself. He
knows exactly what she thinks of him
at that humiliating moment.
As she uses the word, “being mas
culine” means to swagger—to disre
gard other people’s rights in a dumb
ly arrogant way—to bluster out of
a jam—to bullyrag through a diffi
culty—to treat a woman as if she
didn’t amount to much—to pay her
silly compliments instead of treating
her as if she had intelligence—m
fact, to look upon ALL women in the
traditional male fashion, as trivial
and shallow creatures who are pleas
ant enough as amusements, but of
course, aren’t to be the companions
of a man’s higher self.
Being masculine is being the Head
of the House and riding roughshod
over other people.
It is calling up at 6 o’clock—when
the table is all set—and casualy an
nouncing you won't be home to din
ner.
It is deciding an important domes-
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per- by Central Press Association
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press Asso
ciation)
Monday, July 6: Tammuz, 16, 5696
in Jewish calendar?. Martyrdom of
John Huss, a holiday in Czecho
slovakia. Zodiac sign: Cancer. Full
moon.
♦ ♦ ♦
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Maj. William E. Kepnsr, b. 1893, U.
S. army, strktosophere aeronaut. . , .
Harry Ford Sinclair, b. 1876, oil mag
nate. . . • Harold S. Vanderbilt, b.
1884, largest stockholder in New York
Central R. R., yachtsman and bridge
player . . . Roger Babson, b. 1875,
statistician . . . Ralph Wupperman,
known as Morgan, b. 1887, cinemac
tor .. . Earl D. Babst , b. 1879,
sugar magnate . . . Dhan Gopal
Murkerji, b. 1890, Hindu-American au
thor.
* * *
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
July 6, 1646—Gottfried Wilhelm
Loibnitz was born in Lolpzig, where,
when he was only 22, he evolved the
plan for conquest of Egypt which sug
gested Napoleon’s invasion of the Nile
country 150 years later.
He lias been suggesting things to
men ever since, for he discovered cal
culus, and he first showed that of
two equal nurses, “the first, if mov
ing with double the velocity of the
second, would overcome four times
the resistance —in other words, that
energy, the power of doing work,
varied as the square of the velocity.”
Which means that if you had an
accident while driving your car 60
miles an hour, you would hit an ob
struction four times as hard as though
you were driving 30 miles an hour.
Leibnitz, whose range of knowledge
is ratsd as having been greater than
any thinker since Aristotle, disputed
the latter’s believing, “Nothing in the
intellect that was not first in the
senses except the intellect itself,” in
stead of “nothing in the intellect that
was not first in the senses.”
July 6, 1747—John Paul was born
in Kirbean, Scotland. He was known
as John Paul Jones when, at 29, he
was given command of the warship
with which, in Six weeks, he captured
16 ships and gave the British navy
the worst defeats it ever suffered from
one commander.
The first “Star Spangle Banner”
to fly in action and the first to be
saluted abroad, was at the staff of
Jones’ Ranger. The banner was made,
we are informed, by Miss Sarah Aus
tin, a Swedish Lutheran church com
mittee in Philadelphia.
The victories Jones won for the U.
S. on the seas caused him to receive
high honors from France and Russia,
and a Russian princsss as his bride.
But John Adams referred to him as
a “foreigner from the south, arrogat
ing to himself merit that belongs to
New England sailors.”
July 6,1776 —0 n receiving first
news of the adoption of Declaration
of Independence at Philadelphia, New
Yorkers pulled down the town’s statue,
of Kxng George 111 and delivered it
to a metal works where it was melted
down into 42,088 cartridges.
As a wit of the time stated, “His
Majesty’s statue was returned to His
Majesty’s troops.”
July 6, 1835—John Marshall died
at 80, after 35 years as Chief Justice
of the supreme court of the United
States, during which he established
the court’s power to void legislative
acts of congress.
Liberty Bell got its big crack in
tolling a dirge for him. .
July 6, Among State Histories: 1785
—Congress adopted the decimal sys
tem of currency, establishing the
Spanish dolar, which got its name
from the (Bohemian thaler, as the
U. S- dollar . . , 1846—Commodore
John Gloat, commanding a U. S.
naval squadron, seized California
from Mexico . . . 1854—The first
convention using the name of the
Republican party, opaied in Detroit
. . . 1892—First groat dsteel strike
began in Homestead Mills, near Pitts
burgh . . . 1920—F. D. Roosevelt was
nominated as vice presidsnt.
* * *
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—The first sub
marine was sunk by depth charge,
which was to become the deadliest
weapon of surface ships against sub
mersibles. The UC-7 went down off
Lowestoft a minute after a charge
was poured overboard from the Brit
ish patrol boat Salmon, a converted
passenger motorboat.
❖ *
blow the small subchaser, the “mos
qu to boat” was to become naval craft.
Small, fast, hard to hit, they were to
be of invaluable aid in defending ship
ping in coastal waters:
Thirty-three other submarines were
to be destroyed by depth-charges,
which were developed in 1915 owing
to the complete immun ty 'enjoyed by
the submarine immediately on sub
mersion. Though early depth charges
could not be depended on to damage
a submarine outside of a range of 30
feet, the effect on the nerve of a crew
of a series of heavy explosions caus
ing immense concussions inside the
boat, was very marked!
As indicated by the name, the 300
pounds of TNT on the depth charge
is detonated on reaching a given
depth, fixed by regulating it s“pistol,”
or by automatic action of w»ter pres
sure.
(To be continued)
tic matter without saying a word
about it to the other side of the
house.
It is proudy excusing the small
boy’s selfishness on the ground that
he’s a boy and for no other reason
at all.
It is referring to “my” radio and
‘ my” automobile and “my” house—
when everybody knows the whole
family shares the ownership of those
possessions.
It is being all those things, having
all those qualities that seem to de
light some women when they are in
love and INFURIATE all intelligent
women all the rest of the time.