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Show MEN ana EAMD Haround i the NATIONAL CAPITAL- precisely the same condition on the other! The local merchants would be selling groceries and clothing and drugs to the workers. The lo cal doctors and dentists would be getting some fees from the tran- sients. But when the whole job is com- pleted, Lewis points out, it takes very few men to take care of the dam and the electric plant. Whereas a lot of coal miners are out of work forever as a result! - Carter Field Washington. There are certainly signs in Chicago, at the conference between railroads and labor, that en the part of those particular labor leaders at least there is promise of a rule of reason. For the first time since this country started to work out of the depression, labor, in these conferences, despite the knowledge that the administration is on its side, has shown a disposition to let the employer live and make a profit. This doesn't sound as though it were much of a concession. Some might think that of course labor would have to take this stand, as, If there were no profits if the employer did not "live" there would be no jobs. Every employer who has had labor troubles, however, believes that it is simply impossible to exaggerate the importance of dealing with labor union representatives who agree frankly that the employer should not only "live" but should make a profit. And it does not often happen that labor representatives, in a conference with employers, have been willing seriously to discuss abandoning restrictions on their employers which they hoped to obtain by law! A case in point in the railroad labor negotiations is the bill pending in congress, which restricts the length of freight trains generally called the bill. Most experts agree that this idea is not primarily in the interest of safety. In fact, some contend that it would increase rather than diminish hazards. It is primarily to force the employment of more men to operate more trains. But the railroads contend that it would not only increase their pay rolls, but would cause congestion in railroad terminals at times when there is a rush to ship perishable freight. the point is that this bill passed the senate the "greatest deliberative body in the world" with hardly any discussion. It was stopped in the house not because of the actual strength of its opponents, but because of other tilings. Those who wanted to stop it had the advantage of the crowded closing days of a session. They had the advantage of the wages and hours bill and others far more spectacular than the train bilL But railroad representatives here admit privately that they have small hope, of killing it. next session if the rauroaa unions continue to press for its passage. So the willingness of so many labor representatives at this. Chicago conference to call off passage of this law was not an empty gesture. They were giving up something they thought of real importance in order to permit the railroads to make enough money to give them an ad vance in wages. It all sounds reasonable enough, but it was spectacular in labor relations history, of tremendous importance to every employer of labor and to every person living in this country as indicating a long step towards industrial peace. Most observers are inclined to think that this conference is a straw in the wind indicating the trend of labor relations for the next year. This view may prove too optimistic. There is no certainty about it. But it seems probable for several reasons. One is that intelligent labor leaders realize they have a much aroused public opinion to deal with. There is more sentiment than they like for something they would fight to the last ditch to avoid responsibility of labor unions for their actions, clinched on them by a law forcing incorporation of unions. Find Ally in Lewis Ready to Spend $2,000,000,000 Keeping Warm. UERE'S a icavincfb tin- Kira:-- it's w Trt iitiort r - your heating plant i this thoroughly J . 1 u.e BED aj , The.a(v rvf 1st was brow shop. Sudd which took 'Oh," she bed! I thin "It is." ) sa ntly. "Ma - slept to it. sixteenth of an inch cf soot lady, have acts as an insulator against - on Anarev being five times as effecC Lincoln11U V . asbestos) it wastes fully or . isL "YOU tpr nf vp'v lnr nf What's more, a furnace with dirt and duct won't & 'k5, p nearly as much heat as a t, GETTI furnace will. Call in a competent service qow and arrange for a thorj, vacuum cleaning of your fursj He will do the job without mis inconvenience. While he's doing that, havti check up the whole heating ( tern from flue to ashpit-- gj against any possible failure of; plant after cold weather se'j. I know you'll find the cost compared with the stagger cost of the fuel that a dirty, Is. plant is sure to waste! E wants to save aadi play it. waste his fuel dollars! learn to tain frien ( - - .Aj. r-- : .Sitoi vUt Keep.ng warm in winter has its problems for the poor fellow in the cartoon, who, like 12,000 other Americans, wears' red flannels in the winter. The airlines have their warmth problem licked, for the same mobile unit (left) which pumps cold air into the planes in summer fills them with warm air in winter; after they take off, a steam heating unit goes into operation. Some scientists predict that one day most of our heat will come from the sun via the solar machine, such as Dr. C. C. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institution, is demonstrating (right). Nearly every year the cost of producing current from coal is reduced. Every few months there is softie improvement in Diesel engines, which makes the production of current from oil cheaper. No one krws when the terrific waste now invo:ved in cooling systems will be eliminated. But scientists say it's coming and will revolutionize the production of power, cutting its cost to a fraction. So it might pay the coal barons to have Mr. Lewis discuss this ques tion with them to their mutual ad- vantage. It would certainly drama- tize the situation before the country and tend to stop more government competition! Cy WILLIAM C. UTLEY SHORTS may come and with may go, but widely-varyin- Worm Gone, however, are the days when out of a trunk digging in the attic and chopping enough stove wood to fill the back yard constituted the average man's preparations for the winter months. Then he was not troubled with the knowledge that has now come to ligbt through medical research that the temperature of the human body can not drop more than five degrees without causing death in most ear-muf- The fiendish glee of column writers over the discovery that Charley Michelson, premier Democratic press agent, attacked Hugo L. Black in 1926 as a Klansman, and as unworthy to fill the shoes of Oscar W. Underwood, is a rather interesting commentary on how the status of the once abused press agent has advanced in the last decade. Also on how much this same Charley Michelson has done to advance it. But it is also rather amazing in that it has always been the accepted doctrine that newspaper men who wrote editorial or policy into their stories at all injected the partisan flavor desired by their bosses! So that unless one assumes that bosses employ writers solely for the brilliance of their writing, or perhaps in order to present all sides of the picture, the slant taken by the writer is in accord with the editorial policy of the paper. It, so happens that the New York World, at the time Michelson wrote this attack on Hugo Black, had n been running an crusade. This crusade was conducted by men in the New York ofTice, only helped out in pinches by the Washington bureau, of which Michelson was the head. It also happens that the World was, of all the outstanding newspapers of its time, the most anxious to have its editorials backed up by news stories, interviews and color in general. anti-Kla- Brought Up Reserves As a matter of fact, there was a sort of reserve staff, consisting of ten or twelve young men working for other though never rival Generally these were papers. youngsters covering the senate or house of representatives for York newspapers or press services. They would be called on the telephone, as soon as the chief of the World bureau received his orders, and directed first to read the editorial for which endorsements were wanted, and then get them. This policy accomplished the point of indicating to World readers that their paper had a tremendous following among the government officials and important persons generally. The World did not pay money for endorsements. It only paid hacks to get them. Later on Michelson went to work for John J. Kaskob, end did his amazing job of smearing Herbert Hoover, probably the most effective press agenting job ever done in this country. When they were thrown out the window in the 19;:2 Democratic convention, Michelson was retained by Franklin D. Kr osevelt and James A. Farley has been writing Farley's speeches and many others ever since, and cheerfully blast.ng his former employers, Kaskob anu Jonett Shoure. w fs cases. hot" 1937 style in"Getting volves not only coal miners and wood choppers, but scientists delving into the mysteries of new kinds of heat, architects poring over blueprints for automatically heated homes, and engineers supervising the operation of huge machines that work with machine-gurapidity, stamping out the parts for boilers, burners and electric stoves. In the first place, there is the matter of supplying enough fuel to heat the 12,000,000 homes and commercial structures that require artificial heat when the mercury slides down towards the n freezing point. g house. Dird House. bird house, probably the only one in existence, is the property of a California wom an. In training canaries to sing, she found it most effective to keep them shut, up in large outdoor houses, completely insulated against outside noises so that the birds would hear nothing but the sound of phonograph records being played. This brought on the problem of the bird house, and a complete ventilating and steam heating system was installed, with steam heat pipes enclosed in the walls. Managers of tiie nation's transcontinental airways, faced with the difficulties of passenger comfort on winter flights, took their problem to heating engineers, who have developed a unique system for warming the huge passenger planes that now roar across the sky trails. As the result of scientific research steam-heate- super-heate- home-own- d d M cross-countr- y ? live-roo- d ADACIIE i - j B J 7 Cfc. iV virtually .nrfrftwgasa SALT LAKE'S hydro-electri- c -- I e wlenj tparrr Union. NEWEST HOTEL Temple Square $l.SO to $3.00 ITotrl Trropln ?riar hai Ratmt T highly dMiralilr, friendlyitlmtnar-ula- will alway alnmi-plirre.Y- fiml ; HOSTELRY OOnr lobby Is delightfully !' cooled during the summer months Radio tor Every Room ZOO Room 200 Baths eng-ncer- - FEELING FINE THIS for Coal. summer and fall, the during more than 600,000 men have been and experiments, working with pick and shovel in pianes tins, winter w;Ji be warmed mines throughout the country, piling by "Hying steam heat," designed to up mountains of coal for protection maintain a temperature in the cabagainst the arctic blasts to come. ins of at least 70 degrees even durCoal dealers estimate that be ing the coldest weather. Th-- flying tween 50 and 60 per cent of the coal heaters, which weigh only MJ bought for heating purposes is shovpounds, produce enough steam to eled into furnaces during the winhouse on the heat a ter months, bringing the United ground. Using only eight quarts of States' coal bill for this season of water, the miniature boilers are the year alone to about $400,000,000. heated by exhaust gases from the In the oil and gas fields of Oklaengines, and the temperature is reghoma, Texas, California and Pennulated either by thermostats, or by sylvania, an army of 100,000 labor- controls in the pilot's compartment. ers is kept busy extracting gas and Provision is made for a complete fuel oil to aid in the business of change of air in the transport planes keeping warm. So rapidly has the every four minutes, so that the atheating of houses and buildings with mosphere does not become "stuffuel oil and gas increased in the fy." past few years, that it is estimated Thawing Out Iron Ore. 35,000,000 barrels of fuel oil will be Before of each flight, the take-of- f needed this winter to keep modern before and the exhaust from the en- boilers. furnaces roaring, and the bill will reach the staggering total of more gines has had a chance to start the es As scientists attack this problem, well as others, there is a hint steam heater in operation, the intethan $150,000,00 ). of the huge planes are warmed that the future might see riors great house owners will dig Shivering down into their pockets for another by special mobile heating units, changes not only in the type of heatmaintained at the airports. These ers used, but in the kind of fuel, for $:,50,000,000 for gas, and additional of thousands dollars for electricity units, mounted on small trucks, recent experiments point to a time pump warmed air into the cabins, when we may get all or most of our to run the most modern of all heatthus bringing the temperature to heat from the sun. ing equipment. Dr. C. G. Abbot, head of the Such tremendous expenditures for the desired level before passengers Smithsonian Institution, has recentfuel were unheard of a generation enter the ship. Not only is human comfort in the ly or two ago, and in fact the moddeveloped a solar heater that is wintertime dependent on scientific the most efficient yet produced. Utiern trend towards automatic heatdevelopments, but the business life lizing the hot rays of the sun, reing which is now sweeping the counof the nation as well, for industrial flected by a metal sheet, he try, and piling up huge fuel and schedules must be maintained de- has succeededbright in heating a black did not bc.mn bills, in equipment Here liquid called aroclor to a temperaspite weather conditions. earnest until after the World war. again, research experts in one in- ture at which it can be used for The Two Kinds of Heat. dustry came to the rescue of an- turning water into steam. Almost all the modern improve- other when Experts of the B. F. ments in heating equipment which Goodrich company solved a stub- declare that solar rays available for heat are at least 1,000 times as make life not only possible but comborn problem at the root of all in- powerful as all the coal, oil and fortable in the temperate zone, stem dustry by making it possible to power now used. Afrom experiments conducted not by nun ore in zero weather from ship the lthough the conversion of sun isolated research experis, but ty Great Lakes district. rays into heat is still too costly to comscientists working in the laboraOn the shores of Lake Superior, pete with the cheaper and better tories of one of the country's where snow and ice clore in while known fuels, scientists say the day e eotrical companies that puvort the big ore bouts are still rutin ng, may come when these are all exday Americans are indebted for .cnrloa' s of vet iron ore freeze into hausted, and when we will turn to improvements that have cumo frum solid chunks before they enn bo the sun for heat and power, and he amazing that there To meet this' emergency, the bus;ncss of keeping warm will ire essentially two k nr!s of heat: the aig'neers.deyiscJ n hose of s; be done with mirrors, ; nt and cmvec'r"! literally caily ronu n'.nded rubber-- Crounh $400,000,030 All er is conquered the difficulties of installing 65 miles of steam conduits beneath the swarming arteries of traffic in New York to pipe warmth from central heating plants to 2,000 oflice and residence buildings. On the opposite end of the scale is the successful installation of a separate heating system in a bird The eli: Golfer-Trav- is steam pumped into the cars, effectively thawing out the ore so that it can be handled quickly and efficiently Great Thoughts and shipped to the steel mills as Our great thoughts, our p. the "food" to keep industry humaffections, the truths of our An An ming. never leave us. oureiy weys playing While the ravenous demands of not separate from our conscis First the steel mills are being satisfied, ness, shall follow it wilhersow. lah! Giv had the also have heating engineers that shall go, and are of theirs (He stru problem of keeping food for the dinture divine and immortal. That Seconc ner tables moving to the markets in eray. lah! Gh winter. (He als( Third Tropical fruits, for instance, are 1 may brought into this country green, and then ripened in specially constructalso str ed heating rooms. Bananas are put The s I in rooms to ripen, with the temperlean fa ature carefully regulated between 5G Amer and 70 degrees. By controlling the know n temperature of the ripening rooms, run) marketers can delay or hasten the ripening process and so adjust the supply of bananas to reach consumA po ers in a steady stream. Grapefruit addres is ripened in specially-heaterooms the clc at a temperature of 75 degrees and -- FREE FROM tmrly-- i lemons" are kept towarc at a temperature of from.54to 59 THAT THROBBING ahtu; degrees until they are ready "to be seeme sold to the public. tician. "Wl Despite the emphasis on heat' for food, industries and homes, the Busilatter ness of keeping warm has as one of me?" AND READY FOR "Nc the most troublesome problrns''th difficulty of keeping a nation com ry or A GOOD DAY'J fortable during the winter, while rer the g Tit-ducing fire hazards to the lowest WORK. possible point. ' The extent to which this is being accomplished can be 1 easily seen frohrthe fact that while Tw the volume of business increased each 31 per cent in the autorriatic heattreBc ing industry from 1035 to 1936, fire' refet losses increased only 11.9 per cent. and Fire Losses Decrease. "t ,corn According to stalist;cs compiled by the authoritative Heating and ATI people who suffer occasionally Ventilating magazine, the volume of from headaches ought to know business in the automatic heating Ji this way to quick relief. industry has jumped more than 250 that At the first sign of such pain, P per cent in the past five years. In lake two Bayer Aspirin tablcli 1932, it is estimated that the sale of pro with a half glass of water. Someautomatic times if the pain is more severe, a heating equipment amounted to only $41,711,000. By second dose is necessary later, ac1936 this figure had increased to cording to directions. If headaches keep coming back $103,990,000. we advise you to see your own Meanwhile, fire losses in the Unitphysician. lie will loofc for the ed States in 1936 totaled $263,259,7-16- , cause in order to correct it. according to estimates of the NaThe price now is only 15 for tional Board of Fire Underwriters, twelve tablets or two full dozen showing a decrease of 34 per cent for 25 cents virtually, only a from the 1932 figure of $400,859,000. ceni apiece. there are still Nevertheless, enough defective chimneys and flues left in the country so that it is estimated that about $10,000,000 worth of property will go up in m TAELETS smoke this coming winter, and a ' a: similar amount will be lost because of imperfect stoves, furnaces and tn J. cent a tablet which Convected heat the kind given off by open fires and hot air furnaces produces warmth by heating the air. On the other hand, it was found that radiant heat consists of rays which warm the body without necessarily having much e.'fect on the the first twinge of frosty weather there are still 12,000 men in the United States who are walk- surrounding air. As the re?.ult of this research, and ing up to store counters and deby scientists connectinvestigations flannel underwear, ed with manding red other industrial concerns, thousand one hundred adding have found the answer to dollars to the $2,000,000,000 fund engineers problems in heating which this country spends every brought about by changed condiyear jn the business of keeping tions of modern living. They have Scribes Snicker iMlicnU.'-twfJ- I wr.en tr.e neat:i covered with as The bituminous coal producers may find John L. Lewis a very potent ally on one of the problems that is worrying them more than anything else. This is government competition for the coal industry from hydroIt electric power developments. just so happens that Mr. Lewis is very strongly persuaded that all this hydroelectric stuff is the bunk. He believes that electric current can be produced more cheaply from coal than from water power, even under circumstances favorable to economical water power development. Further he believes that the engineers of the electric industry have long most of the sites since promising low cost development. It also happens that Mr. Lewis has expressed himself very forcibly about the lobbyists who come to Washington paid by local chambers of commerce and other associations and maneuver to get big power deThe whole point is that a good velopments financed by the federal localities. treasury in their Lewis press agent works for his employhas pointed ers, und shoots at whatever Naturally. Mr. target out, .this benefits that particular they direct, just ns a good lawyer corr.munjty during the porird of resorts to all Ports of legal techniconstruction.' S would tearing down calities as well as scund argument a ro'V of houses on rnc side of a to aUack his client's O"co:cn;s. trcct, and erecting lhc:n oain in 8 Bell Sj ScrvU. pre-empt- c- . 1 ... ' cleaned. . It is r,n r.t V4 u.e precautions vou mn sure its most economical I loss. non-Ne- Hf- sure It so happens that every one in the electric industry agrees with Mr. Lewis in every particular on this particular subject, little as they may think of his C. I. O. and ideas about gratitude in politics, etc. The point they make is that the government right now in this electric business is gambling With the people's money. The point is that the chief cost of producing electricity from a hydroelectric development is interest on the cost of the project. Due to abnormally low interest rates at present they being held down by artificial government restrictions this particular item of cost is very unlikely to decrease. Quite the contrary. When the bonds sold now to finance such developments mature the government is more likely to pay a much higher rate. But the cost of producing electricity from other sources is extremely apt to become less. Mr. Lewis says current can be produced more economically now from coal than from water power. Most engineers agree. But not after the dams and hydro plants are bu.lt, providing the cost of these davns and plants is charged to profit end Sounds Reasonable 70-c- ar ith Old Man Winter Wetting His Chilly Whistle, Americans Oe j Agree With Lewis 70-c- ar Now ITS TIME FOR YOUR RED FLANNELS! I t, atinramrly romfortabl,thrrr-for- a aarrrahlr. oil can tiroualily understand why lliia hulrl Ul niGIILY RECOMMFNIWD Ton can alao apprnclala wbyi It' a mrk of d!si'ncthn to slop al Uiia benuUlul hostelry ERNEST C. 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