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THE SILSBEE BEK
Xews Review of Current Events
WHAT TO EAT
and WHY
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nation arose.
labor
wit-
contractor who constructs a school
Questions Answered
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Secretary Ickes
Showing Iodine Content
of Various Foods
failing to feed them the foods that
will construct sound bodies, able,
to withstand the stress and strain
of life.
CALCIUM
The Captain of the Minerals
and threatening the present health
and future happiness of their chil-
dren.
Write to C. Houston Goudiss, 6 East
39th Street. New York City, for his
list of calcium-rich foods. Use it daily
as a guide in planning family menus.
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Free List of
FOODS RICH IN CALCIUM
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You are invited to write C.Houston
Goudiss for a chart showing the
foods rich in iodine and those
which are poor in this substance.
It will serve as a valuable guide
in preparing balanced menus.
Just ask for the Iodine Chart,
addressing C. Houston Goudiss at
6 East 39th Street, New York
City. A post card is sufficient to
carry your request.
principal of Todhunter school, New
York, and William Ellison Chal-
mers, assistant American
commissioner in Geneva.
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John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President, and his bride, the
former Anne Lindsay Clark, leaving the old church in Nahant, Mass.,
where they were married.
Calcium Starvation
The mineral calcium is to the
human body what steel and stone
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are to a building. It is necessary
to construct the bony framework.
The mother who fails to consume
adequate calcium before her baby
is born, or fails to give the child
adequate calcium throughout the
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Mrs. F. R. T.—There is no such
thing as a specific brain food, but ■
nutritionists are convinced that
the quality and efficiency of the
functioning of the mind depends
partially on the character of the
food consumed. Mental efficiency
appears to be influenced by the
quantity and quality of the pro-
tein in the diet, and it has been
demonstrated that the vegetable
proteins, including cheese, milk
and eggs are superior in biologi-
cal value.
C. J. K.—It is a fallacy to as-
sume that garlic is a blood puri-
fier. Garlic improves the taste of
food for those who like it, but
it cannot be considered to possess
special health properties. -
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How to Obtain Calcium
Milk is an outstanding source of
calcium. That is why it should
form the cornerstone of every bal-
anced diet. Cheese, which is milk
in concentrated form, is likewise
notable in this respect, and one
and one-fourth ounces of Ameri-
can Cheddar cheese are the ap-
proximate equivalent of an eight-
ounce glass of milk. Leaf and
stem vegetables are richer in cal-
cium than other vegetables or
fruits, but while their calcium has
been found to be well-absorbed by
adults, it is not so readily avail-
able to children.
Among the vegetables, however,
there is a wide variation, turnip
tops and dandelion greens provid-
ing unusually large amounts.
List of Calcium-Rich Foods
I have prepared a list of foods
rich in calcium which I shall
gladly send to homemakers upon
request. I
write for this list and use it in
planning the daily diet of herself,
her husband and children.
You really need such a list in
order to avoid the grave conse-
quences of calcium deficiency, for
so many of our common foods are
calcium poor that it is possible for
a diet to be abundant and varied,
and still be inadequate in respect
to calcium.
The list of calcium-containing
foods will help you do a perfect
job of building strong, fine bodies |
for your children.
There is no joy like the joy of
creating perfect, healthy children.
The architect and the sculptor
stand in awe before the realiza-
tion of their dreams. But you, the
mothers of children, the builders
of their bodies, you are the might-
iest of all. A diet adequate in cal-
cium, for you and your children,
will help you build beautifully,
wisely and well. Your reward will
be the joy, the pride, the heart-
warming satisfaction of having ac-
complished a worthwhile purpose.
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when election day rolled around,
voted for the Republican nominee
for governor, Phillips Lee Golds-
borough. Goldsborough was elect-
ed, the second Republican governor
since the Civil war, Lloyd Loundes
having been the first.
Smith Gets Nervous
After that Blair Lee came to the
senate, but he still hankered for the
governorship. So he tried again,
and John Walter Smith had to
strain himself a little to keep Lee
down. This began to get on Smith’s
nerves.
So when Lee came up for re-
election as senator, in 1916, John
Walter looked round for somebody
to beat him. At the time, Smith
was generally regarded as the most
conservative Democrat in the state,
and Representative Lewis as the
most radical. So Smith backed
Lewis against Lee.
Lewis won the nomination, thus
retiring Lee to private life, but the
Lee Democrats were mad, and the
Smith Democrats lost interest after
they had disposed of Lee. The Re-
publicans had nominated Dr. Joseph
I. France, at that time in the state
senate. He was comparatively un-
known. In fact it has often been,
said that thousands of men voted for
him without knowing who he was,
or caring. They were voting
against Lewis.
France came to the senate, for
one term, but long enough / to
plague Woodrow Wilson on the
League of Nations—he promptly
joined the irreconcilables when that
battalion of death organized to fight
the Versailles treaty. Also long
enough to acquire high ambitions.
He has been a constant candidate
for President ever since, though
never able to get any delegates
from his own state.
Bar Berry’s Path
A city boss who can deliver a
majority of 60,000 in a Democratic
primary for any candidate he
chooses—even if he delays his deci-
sion until the day before election—
and a United States senator who
has been doing favors for voters up
and down his state for 26 years,
stand in the way of the continuance
of Senator George L. Berry of Ten-
nessee in the upper house..
The city boss is Ed Crump of
Memphis. The senator is Kenneth
McKellar. They have decided that
Tom Steward shall be the “other
senator” from Tennessee. There
are other candidates besides Berry
and Stewart. One is Ridley Mitch-
ell of Cookeville, who, some -think,
will get more votes than Berry. An-
other is E. W. Carmack of Mur-
freesboro, son of the famous sena-
tor. There are also Dr. John R.
Neal of Knoxville and C. L. Powell
of Sumner county.
But Crump and McKellar seldom
SEEN
HEARD
around the
NATIONAL
CAPITAL
Carter Field
WASHINGTON.—The army engi-
neers have certainly made it tough
for David E. Lilienthal, in that task
he has been at for five years now of
allocating the cost of TVA as be-
tween navigation, flood control, and
power. It wouldn’t be so bad if
the army engineers didn't have so
much strength on Capitol Hill, but
they just demonstrated that again
this session. When President Roose-
velt’s reorganization bill, giving
him pretty nearly carte blanche
to combine agencies and distribute
governmental functions, was being
considered, the senate committee
wrote a special proviso into it stat-
ing that there must be no monkey-
ing with the functions and powers
of the army engineers! And even
Tommy Corcoran didn’t try to lobby
He knew it couldn’t be
PRIMING MONEY FLOWS
First Grants and Loans Announced by PWA Cover-
ing Hundreds of Projects in Every State
Nationally Known Food Authority Explains
How to Include This Vital Food
Element in the Daily Diet
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
6 East 39th Street, New York City.
A FEW years ago there was an earthquake in the Far
L\ West. When the tremors were over, the frightened peo-
ple looked in dismay upon the damage that had been done.
In some places they were saddened by the loss of a great
number of their buildings, and in one community, mingled
with their sorrow — almost-
crowding it out of their emo-
tions—was indignant ANGER.
For they observed that their
schools had suffered greater
damage than any other group
of buildings in the city.
On every side, the cry of indig-
arose. It was all too plain
that poor materials
had gone into the
construction of
those schools which
were supposed to
house children in
security.
The most vehe-
ment cries went up
from the mothers,
not only in that
community, but all
over the country.
That is natural, for
all mothers believe they have the
children’s welfare at heart. Un-
wittingly, however, they may be
doing them irreparable harm by
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Harry Hopkins
States Housing Administrator Na-
than Straus and Brig. Gen. John J.
Kingman, acting chief of United
States army engineers.
Outlining his plans for use of fed-
eral funds allocated his agency,
Hopkins said that the purchase of
materials alone for WPA projects
will give indirect, full-time private
jobs to 250,000 workers, in addition
to relief jobs for the unemployed.
“And so the WPA money flows,
like the blood in the human body,
giving life and strength to the eco-
nomic system all the way from its
toes to the top of its head,” he said.
Secretary Wallace said that under
the new agricultural legislation the
farmer is in good shape to do his
part in the recovery drive.
Gray, who has been administering
PWA affairs in the absence of In-
terior Secretary Ickes, said that the
spending of money set aside for
public works under the recovery
program should result in industry’s
receiving $1,000,000,060 in orders in
the next two years.
Straus outlined his agency’s pro-
gram of slum-clearance and low-
cost housing and said that it will
result in increased employment and
the “creation of that finest and most
needed of all commodities—better
homes for Americans.”
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German Spies Indicted
FTER five months of investiga-
**tion by government agents, 18
persons were indicted as spies by a
federal grand jury in New York.
Moreover, no secret was made of
the fact that they are charged with
being spies for the German govern-
ment, engaged in obtaining informa-
tion concerning our national de-
fense.
Four of the defendants are in this
country and will be tried here. The
others, including three German offi-
cers, are abroad.
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Group for Labor Survey
‘NH’INE men and women were ap-
pointed by the President
members of a special commission
that will study the workings of the
British labor disputes law and Swed-
ish labor relations. Most of them
already are in Europe ready to be-
gin their work.
The group is composed of Lloyd
K. Garrison, dean of the University
of Wisconsin law school; Robert
JVatt, American Federation of La-
bor representative; Gerard Swope,
president of the General Electric
company; Henry I. Harriman, for-
mer president of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States;
William H. Davis, chairman of the
New York labor mediation board;
Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg, regional
director of social security for New
York; Charles R. Hook, president
of the American Rolling Mills com-
pany; Miss Marion Dickerman,
Terrible Train Wreck
/^ALYMPIAN, crack passenger
train of the Milwaukee road
bound from Chicago to Tacoma,
Wash., crashed through a flood-
weakened trestle over Custer creek,
near Saugus, Mont., and at least 40
persons perished, most of them be-
ing drowned in a submerged tour-
ist sleeper. About 65 others were
injured.
This was the worst railroad wreck
in America in recent years, and it
sadly marred the safety record of
the Milwaukee road which had not
lost a paying passenger in accidents
in the previous 20 years.
The eleven-car train ran into a
cloudburst near Saugus but the
crew had no warning of the trestle’s
condition until the engine plunged
through the span, dragging sev-
eral cars after it.
must eventually become, the or-
deal of birth would be too difficult
for both mother and child.
Easily Lost From Body
The homemaker’s task of pro-
viding adequate calcium is com-
plicated by the fqct that the body
loses large amounts of calcium
every day, and this loss is greater
during sickness, especially in fe-
ver or when one is worried, over-
worked or has taken too strenu-
ous exercise.
Outstanding nutritionists unani-
mously agree that the American
diet is more deficient in calcium
than in any other element. And
it is squarely up to the mothers
and homemakers to correct this
tragic state of affairs, which is
undermining their own efficiency
Some for Every State
NJO SOONER had President
-*• N Roosevelt signed the pump
priming measure than the flood of
federal money was released.
Public Works
ministration,
case of TVA the army
Without sufficient calcium, the
bones become soft and porous.
They break easily and knit slowly
after they are broken. They may
bend and twist during growth, so
that the child who is a victim of
calcium deficiency may become
bow-legged and deformed, with a
malformed chest or enlarged fore-
head. Rickets—that horrible de-
ficiency disease which causes
stunted mis-shapen bodies—may
develop. And so may tetany—an-
other scourge of childhood.
Crooked Defective Teeth
The teeth, too, depend upon cal-
cium for the soundness of their
structure. When this precious
mineral is inadequately provided,
the baby teeth may soon decay;
the permanent teeth may come
in crowded and unsightly—and
quickly develop cavities.
There are also many other ways
that calcium deficiency may han-
dicap your children. For this min-
eral is intimately concerned with
all the body processes. It in-,
creases the strength and pulsa-
tions of the heart; helps the blood
to coagulate in case of injury,
thus effectively aiding in prevent-
ing hemorrhage. It strengthens
the resistance of the body in fever
and other diseases. It tones up
the nervous system, lessening
nervous tension.
Adults Require Calcium
Adults have a vital need for cal-
cium. A lack of this mineral not
only results in defective teeth, but
may also be responsible for nerv-
ousness, quivering and twitching
of the muscles and defective heart
action.
To be normal, the full-grown hu-
man body must contain more cal-
cium than any other mineral ele-
ment. Yet, every individual is, of
necessity, born calcium-poor. For
if the bones were as rigid as they
lose a fight when they are together, growing years, is as guilty as the
Actually the most important phase, c ---------------------------
to them, is the governorship and building of poor materials.
not the senatorship. Two years ago ”' ’ '
they backed the present governor;
Gordon Browning, and won handily.
McKellar was for another candidate
at first, but yielded to Crump. What
disturbed McKellar is that he al-
ways looks a long ways ahead. He
knew that if Browning should serve
two terms as governor, and make
a lot of friends, he might be a
strong opponent in 1940, when Mc-
Kellar comes up for re-election.
Tennessee has the same sort of
unwritten law about its senators
which North Carolina, Vermont and
many other states have. One must
be from the western part of the
state, the other from the eastern.
So McKellar doesn’t like the idea
of senatorial aspirants from his
own, the western, section of Ten-
nessee.
It’s Politics
Governor Browning, although sup-
ported two years ago by Crump,
apparently did not trust him. At
any rate he proposed a “county
unit” system of nominations and
forced it through the legislature.
This would have crippled Crump’s
power in state-wide primaries, for
it would have reduced Shelby coun-
ty (Memphis) to a few votes of the
electoral variety, somewhat similar
to the Georgia plan. To make
Crump all the madder, the bill
which Browning forced through
would have placed a maximum on
the number of votes in each county.
This would have strengthened the
smaller counties, cut down the
power not only of Memphis, but of
Nashville, Chattanooga and Knox-
ville.
-Unfortunately for Browning, this
proposed law was knocked out of
the courts, which held that the law
disfranchised voters, so that
Crump’s ire was aroused without
his claws being cut.
Browning had appointed Berry to
the senate after the death of
Nathan Bachman, though Crump
was for another man. The under-
standing in Washington is that
Browning did this at the urgent
solicitation of President Roosevelt,
who wanted a sure New Deal vote
in the upper house. In Tennessee
they say Charles West convinced
Browning of this and that Roosevelt
had no part in it. In fact, in
Tennessee the story is told that
this is really what happened to West
—Roosevelt stood by and let Har-
old L. Ickes kick him around.
At any rate Browning is now sup-
porting Berry, and Crump and Mc-
Kellar have marked both for the
slaughter. Which makes it most
inopportune, politically, for David
E. Lilienthal to join Dr. Arthur E.
Morgan in the public branding of
Berry as a would-be profiteer on
submerged marble lands.
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Senator Copeland Dead
EXHAUSTED by his labors and
the heat in Washington, United
States Senator Royal S. Copeland
of New York died just before the
adjournment of congress. He was
in the sixteenth year of his service in
the senate and had been an indefati-
gable worker. He was a consistent
opponent of many of the adminis-
tration’s policies and was one of
the leaders in the fight against the
court packing and government re-
organization measures.
Gov. Herbert H. Lehman an-
nounced that he was willing to be a
candidate for Copeland’s seat if the
Democratic party wished to nomi-
nate him.
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Louis K.O.'s Schmeling
TOE LOUIS of Detroit, the “Brown
Bomber,” stands the undisputed
heavyweight champion of the world.
His amazing victory over Max
Schmeling of Germany in the Yan-
kee stadium at New York gave him
that status. In less than one round
the challenger was hammered to the
floor three times by the crashing
blows of Louis, and his seconds
threw the towel into the ring, for
the German was quite helpless.
The referee declared Louis the win-
ner by a technical knockout.
Eighty thousand persons
nessed this epochal battle, the short-
est heavyweight championship bout
in history. Louis got 40 per cent of
the gate and 20 per cent went to
Schmeling.
The loser said his defeat was
caused by a blow over the kidney.
X-ray examination of the German
after the battle showed a projection
from a vertebra was broken. Th
blow was not a foul for it was no-
struck in a clinch.
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Ask Business to Help
LIVE of the officials who will have
1 most to do with carrying out the
President’s spending-lending drive
went on the air in a nation-wide
I broadcast and urged
that business co-
. E operate with the ad-
ministration in* re-
storing permanent
recovery. These
speakers were Sec-
retary of Agricul-
ture Henry A. Wal-
lace, WPA Adminis-
| trator Harry L. Hop-
kins, acting PWA
Administrator How-
ard A. Gray, United
The
ad-
of
which Secretary
Ickes is the head,
made public two
lists of grants and
loans covering 590
projects in every
state in the union
with a total estimat-
ed cost of $148,795,-
895.
Four more lists
were ready, and
these, PWA officials said, would
complete the “first push” toward a
$2,000,000,000 construction program
to provide work and stimulate in-
dustry. Officials further estimated
that these initial groups of projects
may run as high as 1,500 or 2,000
with a cost of $600,000,000.
Federal grants under the PWA
procedure cover 45 per cent of the
cost and, when a PWA loan is
made, 55 per cent. The difference
between the estimated over-all cost
of the projects and the sum of loans
and grants made by PWA is sup-
plied by the various applicants.
The 291 projects in the first group
to cost $92,520,374 will be financed
by the PWA to the extent of $41,632,-
715 in grants and $9,021,000 in loans
while the second list of 299 projects
to cost $56,275,521 will receive fed-
eral grants of $5,260,413 and loans
of $1,900,500. Thus the amount of
government assistance to 590 proj-
ects estimated to cost $148,955,895
will amount to $75,814,623.
The President, when he signed
the act, told the press that business
conditions were not as bad as pop-
ularly believed, and said he looked
for a definite pickup in the near
future.
that out.
done.
In the
engineers figured that navigation of
the Tennessee river could be pro-
duced for a cost of $74,709,000.
Then they went into the flood dam-
age at length, and figured out that
the average annual damage in the
valley from floods was $1,784,061.
Daniel W. Mead, former president
of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, has figured that only
$36,000,000 of the TVA’s proposed
expenditures could reasonably be
allocated to flood control. Mead
does make a concession in the di-
rection of Senator George W. Nor-
ris. He admits that the high dams
built by TVA, and to be built, would
aid navigation more than the plan
proposed by the army engineers.
He calculates that perhaps as much
as $90,000,000 should be allocated to
navigation.
Waving aside the point that it
has been proved many times that
even the $74,709,000 figure is an
economic absurdity, and conceding
the higher figure, this would make
the total that should be allocated
for navigation and flood control in
the TVA development $126,000,000.
Cost Half Billion
But it is common knowledge at
Knoxville that the total cost of TVA,
all its work completed, will exceed
$500,000,000! The lowest estimate
recently made is $479,000,000. It is
true that part of this money has
and will be spent for development
of the valley—free fertilizer, soil
erosion, etc. Official figures are not
available, but Harcourt A. Morgan
mentioned in his testimony that
25,000 tons of fertilizer had been
“distributed.”
“On the unwarranted basis of the
TVA estimates,” Mr. Mead con-
tends, “it is apparent that it esti-
mates the cost of power at about
2.11 mills per kilowatt hour. On
a more reasonable basis of cost of
the plants and of the power that
can be sold, the probable cost will
be from 5 to 7 mills per kilowatt
hour. Steam power can certainly
be generated in the Tennessee val-
ley for not to exceed 4 mills per
kilowatt hour.”.
Actually, right in Washington, the
local electric company, using low
grade coal, produces current at
the switchboard for 3 mills! And
this company pays not only bond
interest but good dividends, which
spells a heavy tax bill paid to the
federal government, both direct and
in the personal income returns of
its security holders.
All of which tends to answer a
question which even Senator Norris
has begun to worry about: Why the
delay, since 1933, in making allo-
cations of TVA costs as between
power, navigation and flood control?
Ambitious Lewis
David J. Lewis, now representa-
tive from the Sixth Maryland dis-
trict, and the New Deal’s choice to
succeed Senator Millard E. Tydings,
who bucked the administration on
the Supreme court enlargement pro-
gram as well as in most of the
other issues on which President
Roosevelt has faced opposition, will
gratify an ambition of a lifetime if
the White House is strong enough to
put him over.
A liberal with a lot of conserva-
tive friends, Lewis had a strong
hold on his district, which takes in
all of western Maryland, up until
1916. In that year he had his first
chance at the senate due to one of
the most peculiar setups in Mary-
land’s rather extraordinary political
history.
At that time the Democratic boss
of the state was Senator John
Walter Smith. His rival for leader-
ship was his colleague, Senator
Blair Lee. Blair Lee had won a
record for progressivism in the
Maryland legislature. He had want-
ed to be governor. In the primary
he had been beaten by young Arthur
Pue Gorman, son of Maryland’s
senator who had been chairman of
the Democratic National commit-
tee, and had led the filibuster that
talked the “force bill” to death.
John Walter Smith had backed
young Gorman in that successful
primary, but there was general re-
sentment. So much so that thou-
sands of Maryland Democrats,
Roper Is Optimistic
f | 'HAT there will be a business up-
-*■ turn, certainly by autumn and
possibly earlier, is the prediction of
Secretary of Commerce Roper.
“Natural economic factors,” he
said in a prepared statement,
“coupled with the influence of con-
structive legislation, point the way
to an early favorable trend in the
business cycle for which business
should immediately make adequate
preparation.”
The railroad situation, Rbper
said, is the most disturbing factor
in the present economic picture,
and it may make necessary^a spe-
cial session of congress. He de-
clared the condition of the roads'
is getting progressively worse and
is very serious. He saw hope, how-
ever, in prospect of bumper crops
in the Midwest which would in-
crease the demand for transporta-
tion.
I urge every woman to
this list ar.d „ss it ia
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Japanese Bomb Swafow
JAPANESE planes made three de-
J structive raids on Swatow, a
treaty port 220 miles northeast of
Canton. Their bombs ruined the
power plant and railroad station.
The United States gunboat Asheville
stood by to protect the 69 Ameri-
cans in the consular district. It
was believed this was the start of a
great offensive designed to cut off
Canton from the central battlefront.
Referring to Hankow reports of
possible mediation by a third power,
a Japanese spokesman in Shanghai
said: “Japan, will continue to fight
until Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
shek is overthrown. If Chiang would
only jump in the Yangtze river or
otherwise dispose of himself, Japan
would be highly satisfied.”
Goebbels Assails Jews
’ I 'HOUGH the attacks on Jews in
A Berlin and other.German cities
were officially deplored by the Nazi
government, Paul Joseph Goebbels,
minister of propaganda, further
stirred the anti-semitic sentiment in
a speech before a huge gathering in
Berlin, demanding that all Jews be
eliminated from business.
“The foreign press laments that
Jewish stores are marked,” Goeb-
bels said, referring to the smearing
of store fronts with the word “Jew”
in red paint. “I do not approve of
this either, but it is a good thing
to know which are Jewish shops.
We will take legal measures to cur-
tail their businesses. They will soon
disappear. The Jews incite us by
their very presence.”
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'Keep Out of Politics'
QENATOR MORRIS SHEPPARD
of Texas and the senate cam-
paign expenditures investigating
committee of which he is chairman
has directed all gov-
ernment agencies to
■ take no part in pri-
■ mary and election
gghj& J campaigns. And it
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pected of improper
I political conduct will
j be exposed and
J| cited for criminal
HiT prosecution.
commjttee at
Senator its first meeting
eppard adopted a resolution
pledging that its investigations will
be conducted with “vigor and vigil-
ance” without fear or favor and
without partisanship. The warning
against use of improper tactics was
directed first to all candidates for
senatorial offices, their friends and
aids. It was then extended to all
government agencies.
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Wage Law Effects
OTRAIN of the new wage and hour
law on industry, say labor ex-
perts in Washington, will be eased
by the existing unsettled economic
conditions. They size up the situ-
ation thus:
At industry’s present pace not
more than 200,000 wage earners in
manufacturing industries would get
more pay.
The big high speed industrial ma-
chines, such as automobile plants,
hardly will be touched by the law.
It will affect certain garment fac-
tories and a very small number of
textile mills.
It will affect the fertilizer industry
of the South and southern sawmills.
Even when business is as good as
it was last summer, unofficial es-
timates indicate that only about
260,000 factory workers would be
affected by the 25 cent wage mini-
mum of the law, and somewhat
more than 1,000,000 workers would
find their hours shortened by a 44
hour weekly limit, effective next
October.
At the outset the law’s effect will
be to improve “the worst condi-
tions” in certain industries engaged
in interstate commerce, the econ-
omists believe.
Child labor provisions will affect
mainly scattered minors working at
odd jobs in various mills and fac-
tories.
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Read, David. The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1938, newspaper, June 30, 1938; Silsbee, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1403347/m1/2/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Silsbee Public Library.