The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
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GREETINGS TO A. F. OF L.
ANHEUSER-BUSCH
Ben E. Keith Co.
Distributor
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WELCOME
AMERICAN FEDERATION
all members of the American
OF LABOR
Federation of Labor.
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MUEHLEBACH’S
Southland Life Insurance Co
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PILSENER BEER
Home Office—DALLAS, TEXAS
“100 PER CENT UNION
FRANK G. MILLER DIST. CO.. INC.
A. MORGAN DUKE, President
1318 YOUNG ST.
PHONE 7-6466
GRAND PRIZE—A 100 Per Cent Union Beer
WELCOMES
President William Green and Delegates to the Southwestern
Greetings
Labor Council in Dallas
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GENUINE LAGER BEER
as the sole collective
H. FULLER STEVENS, Mgr. Dir.
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International Labor
Honors Wm. Green
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There Is No Finer Beer
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Every glass is uniform in its "sparkling-with-life"
genuine goodness. You will see, taste and thrill
to the champagne-like dryness of refreshing
Grand Prize. Aged for months.
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Declining Rate of Births
Effects Many Changes
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To Wm. Green, President, and
Agreement Negotiated by A. F. of L.
Affiliate Includes Closed Shop, .Win-
imam Hages and Ban on Strikes
and Lockouts.
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jority of the pattern and model mak-
ers in the research and experimental
departments o f»he Toledo plant of
Willys Overland Motors, Inc.
Relic of Ancient Maya
Dated to Year 291 B. C.
A duplicate of the oldest dated
object ever discovered in the Amer-
icas, a heavy stone tablet bearing
Maya symbols discovered about a
year ago near the viHage of Trez
Zapotes in Vera Cruz, Mexico, has
been placed on exhibition in Ex-
plorers Hall of the National Geo-
graphic society in Washington, D. C.
The original stone, which was
discovered by an expedition sent out
by the society under the leadership
of Matthew W. Stirling, is now in
the National museum at Mexico
City. The cast was made there.
The group of Maya numerals on
the face of the tablet, as interpret-
ed by Stirling and his colleagues,
record a date corresponding to No-
vember 4, 291 B. C. This date was
linked with the present day calendar
by use of the “Spinden Correlation,”
formulated by H. J. Spinden of
Brooklyn museum.
Another correlating system
worked out by J. E. Thompson and
Thomas Gann, fixes the correspond-
ing date as November 4, 31 B. C.
However, using either system the
date established is approximately
200 years earlier than that on the
Tuxtla statuette, hitherto the oldest
known dated object discovered in
the New world. This statuette is in
the National museum in Washing-
ton.
Science of ‘Duckology”
is Latest in Education
As a duck imitator Oscar Quam
of Minneapolis, Minn., is a full-
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fledged professor—he’s teaching
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United Hatters. Cap and Millinery tion employes of Standard Hat Com- cal 141, as the sole collective bargain-
Workers International Union, as the pany, Atlanta. Georgia,
sole collective bargaining agency se-
lected by a majority of the produc-
of Northwestern university (Evans-
ton, Ill.) sociologists indicate.
The decline began in the Scandi-
navian countries around 1875, ac-
cording to Dr. William L. Bailey, I
and has gradually spread through-
out the western nations. Today the
birth rate is about half what it was
in 1875 in these countries.
“If present tendencies continue,”
Dr. Arthur J. Todd, chairman of the
sociology department said, “popula-
tion will become stable some time
between 1945 and 1970. This should
result in an enriched standard of
living for more people.”
Children are progressively better
off as the birth rate declines, Dr.
Todd pointed out. U they are born
only when they are really wanted
they will be better cared for. Fur-
ther, the easing of pressure on the
school system will permit an em-
phasis on quality rather,than mass
production in education.
The declining birth rate is usually
accompanied by a decline in the
death rate, Dr. David K. Bruner
pointed out. When the death rate
is cut and the birth rate continues
to mount an ominous situation de-
velops. This is happening at pres-
ent in the Orient.
“Japan is adding 1,000,000 persons
a year to a population of 70,000,000,”
he said. “While this increase may
be used in power politics as an ex-
cuse for imperialism, actually the
people won’t migrate and the stand-
ard of living must inevitably go
down.”
Refusal to migrate from crowded
areas has been a political problem
for centuries, he added. British un-
employed, offered an opportunity
to settle in Canada, refused to go.
Actually, in the early days of col-
onization of this continent, people
were offered a choice between hang-
ing and emigrating and some chose
the former.
The three sociologists suggested
several different causes for the de-
cline of the birth rate. Dr. Bailey
calls it the resuit of “a fundamen-
tal change in our culture—recogni-
tion of a distinction between love
and parenthood.”
All three were agreed that in-
creased urbanization had affected
the birth rate, as has the economic
depression since 1929.
Paris, France (AFLWNS). — Wil-
liam Green, president of the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor, was elected
vice chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee of the International Federation
of Trade Unions, it was announced
here.
The Executive Committee, with Sir
Walter Citrine, president of the IFTU
presiding, also announced a special
meeting of the labor movements of
neutral countries will be held to dis-
cuss workers’ problems growing out
of the European war.
HOTEL
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Boot and Shoe Workers Union, Lo- Co., Philadelphia.
Budweiser
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At Your Club Bar
High-Frequency Sound
Dispels City’s Smoke
A device to cut the pall of smoke
hanging over American cities is be-
ing developed by scientists at the
United States bureau of mines’ new
experimental station in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
By use of high-frequency sound
waves, Hillary W. St. Clair, assist-
ant metallurgist, has developed a
system which has been proved for
its efficiency in clearing smoke-
laden, dust-filled or otherwise con-
taminated atmosphere.
Dr. R. S. Dean, chief engineer of
the metallurgical division, who
came to Salt Lake City from Wash-
ington to take charge of the experi-
mental station, predicted that the
day is not far off when St. Clair’s
device will be marketed commer-
cially at a price low enough to en-
able every householder and indus-
trial operator to connect one to his
chimney.
Heretofore the apparatus for
creating the high-frequency sound
waves has been too expensive and
impractical.
The device that performs the
“smoke-busting” act stands about
18 inches high and has a diameter
of five or six inches. It resembles
a small section of sewer pipe. In-
side is a 23-pound cylinder of alum-
inum. At one end is a loud speak-
er attached to what is virtually an
ordinary radio set.
Mexican Live ‘Corpse’
When a medical student at the
anatomical institute of the Univer-
sity of Mexico City touched the
chest of a supposed dead man with
the dissecting knife the “corpse”
sat up and yelled; "You fool, you
are hurting me.” The student al-
most collapsed as his subject ex-
plained that he was Jose An-
guinaino, a farmer, and that the last
he remembered was drinking to
celebrate a friend’s birthday anni-
versary. He fell in the street and
as he showed no life at. a hospital
he was taken to the morgue, where
he was left 72 hours. Still covered
with canvas, he was taken to the in-
stitute for dissecting. The revived
“corpse” walked unsteadily to the
adjoining hospital. The student, suf-
fering a severe attack of nerves,
had to be carried to the hospital on
A stretcher.
He holds classes six nights a week
in his newly founded science of
duckology and has drawn up a cor-
respondence course, complete with
detailed instruction and illustra-
tions.
It all started when Quam, a vet-
eran Minnesota guide, detected dif-
ferent types of duck calls. So he
decided to take a quack at identify-
ing and imitating them.
He figured the duck language ran
the gamut of a special greeting call,
a lonesome hen call, lazy hen call,
chatter and chuckle.
He interpolated the quacks into
musical notes and put them down
in approved do, re, mi, fa, so, la
fashion. Then he went further and
divided the language into two dia-
lects—the diver duck dialect and
the dipper duck dialect. Divers in-
clude the mallard, teal, spoonbill,
widgeon and pintail. Dippers are
canvasback, redhead, bluebill, but-
terball, ruddy duck, golden eve and
fishduck.
Knowledge, of the dialects pre-
vents a duck imitator from giving
a diver call to a likely indifferent
dipper. Quam teaches that the two
classes can be distinguished from a
distance by their wing-flapping—a
diver being a fast-flapper and a dip-
per a slow one.
Sex is the basis for the duck-call-
ing procedure in the Quam school.
He instructs his pupils in the sci-
ence of giving ladylike quacks in-
tended to entice drakes within shot-
gun range.
Hunters yearning to deceive
ducks first learn the greeting call.
This is done by singing the notes
on one of Quam’s scales, substitut-
ing “quack” for “do, re, etc.” The
next step is to go up and down the
scale by piping the duck tail horn.
From then on it’s just a question of
practice.
war or pestilence, a declining birth
rate is , producing far-reaching
| changes in American education,
economic life and culture, studies
Hedge Improves Home
The privacy and frequently the
appearance of a home may be im-
proved by a wall or fence along
the lot lines or by a hedge. The
kind of enclosure used can be de-
termined by the type of architecture
of the house. Colonial cottages and
frame houses in general call for a
white picket fence or neatly clipped
hedge. The fences may be selected
from many styles ranging from the
least expensive type with plain flat
palings to the more ornate style
with rounded pickets and fanlight
gate. Brick dwellings of Georgian
architecture are best framed by
masonry walls. These may be any
height desired, according to condi-
tions. Spanish or Mediterrarean
homes are best complemented by a
stucco wall, although hedges of va-
rious types are used effectively.
When a home owner contemplates
the planting of a hedge he should
consult a nurseryman before mak-
ing his plant selections, as the ex-
pert can tell him what variety will
thrive best in local soil.
Trees Retain Sap
“The sap in trees does not go up
in the spring and down in the fall,
as many persons believe," says H.
Basil Wales, of the United Forest
service in Milwaukee, Wis. Wales
says that winter-cut logs weigh no
less than summer-cut logs, which
would not be true if the sap in the
tree changed its location in the
spring and fall. “In the spring the
sap is more active in all species,”
says Wales. “Any tree will literally
‘bleed’ if wounded in this period.
Sap from the sugar maple is gath-
ered at this time because itis active
and flows rapidly. As the season
progresses the flow of the sap de-
creases and at the same time the
sugar content goes down.”
International Protherhood of Elec-
trical Worlerm. Local Union No. 3.
as the sole collective bargaining
agency selen 1 y a majority of the
employe’ '' ny Lighting, Inc.,
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crimination against any employe be-
caues of union membership or union
activity.”
Seniority is applied to all persons
covered by the agreement, whether
they are regular employes or extras
hired on the job.
Under the contract the employers
agree that they will discuss all com-
plaints and grievances through the
duly authorized representative of the
union, coupled with the following
stipulation:
"Both parties agree to submit all
disputes regarding interpretation of
the agreement or other grievances,
including discharge of employes, that
may arise under this agreement, with
the State Board of Conciliation and
Arbitration, and that the finding of
said board shall be final and binding
upon both parties to this agreement.”
The strike and lockout provision
reads:
“There shall be no strike or lock-
out by the employes or suspension
of work by the employer while griev-
ances or complaints are pending as
hereinbefore set forth.”
As a result of American Federation
of Labor victories in National Labor
Relations Board elections, the board
announced the following certifications
of A. F. of L. unions as collective bar-
gaining representatives:
International Union of Operating
Engineers, Local No. 5, as the sole
collective bargaining agency se-
lected by a majority of the engineers
in the power house of Hy-Grade Food
Products Corporation at its plant in
Detroit. Michigan. -
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Indian Sun Worshippers
Primitive Indians that roamed the
hills and plains of central Washing-
ton hundreds of years ago were sun-
worshippers, it has been learned
from a study of writings and paint-
ings on rocks found in this region.
Painting in colors of red, green,
black, blue and yellow with a pig-
ment that has endured for cen-
turies, the primitive tribes left be-
hind a guide to their day that no
one has yet been able to decipher.
Students of Indian lore say the de-
signs of rays and circles indicate
the tribes worshipped the sun, but,
have not been able to discover the
exact meaning' of the markings.
Modem Indians, it is said, do not
understand them; and it is believed
the early dwellers were a race
apart. Recently, skeletons of what
were thought to be members of the
primitive tribes were upcovered.
They were of adults slightly more
than four feet in height.
Boston, Maza (AFLWNS). — The
agreement negotiated by the Produce
Handlers Union Local No. 20307, affi-
liated with the American Federation
of Labor, with fifteen poultry and
produce companies here is unique in
the number of firms covered and the
advantages gained for union mem-
here.
The agreement stipulates that the
wages of weekly men shall be $30
for a 44-hour week, with pay for holi-
days. The wages of daily men are
fixed at 36. Extra pay is provided
for overtime with Sunday and holi-
day work paid for at the rate of
double time.
The agreement contains the follow-
ing provision with regard to union
membership:
'"It .is agreed and understood that
all handlers who are employed by the
company must be members of Fed-
eral Local Union 20307.
“The employers agree that they
shall not employ any handler unless
he is a member in good standing of
Federal Local Union 20307.
"The employer agrees that he shall
not retain without consent of the
union, handlers who are now mem-
bers of the union or who may become
members of the union unless they
maintain themselves in good stand-
ing as members of the union."
The agreement also provides that
there shall be “no discharge or dis-
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