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Show LEHI FRESS PRESS, LEHI, UTAH cidentally, most of these commissions, it is charged by public own- ership advocates with considerable logic and no satisfactory answer, have failed to function satisfactori- - NATIONAL AFFAIRS ! ly. Now consider one of the latest activities of the committee, which caused its surprise visit to Chatta- nooga. One was a row over whether the power company interests did not resort to misrepresentation, and ac- tually spend $24,000 in fighting a public ownership referendum in Chattanooga. Reviewed hy CARTER FIELD find TVA investigators curiwork in laws sometimes ous ways . . . Surprising use of federal investigators in examining witnesses in what is really a row between two Chattanooga newspapers . . . Senator Carter Glass and Secretary Ickes exchange Industry Rejects the Man Over 40 Giving America a New Worry; Science Proves There's No Reason for Such Discrimination j But even more surprising is the use of federal investigators and the examining of witnesses in what is really a bitter row between the two afternoon newspapers in Chattanoo- ga. The older of these papers, the Chattanooga News, is headed by George Fort Milton, who recently spent many months in Washington on the payroll of the state department at a pay rate of $8,000 a year as some sort of assistant. Milton has always been interested in national politics. He was a hard hitting lieutenant of William G. during the famous convention fight at Madison Square Garden when the religious issue was pre dominant. It was generally assumed in Washington, when he came to the state department, that his real job was to be a sort of press agent for the presidential ambitions of Cordell Hull, though this turned out to be a hope among the admirers of Mr. Hull who hoped this signified the secretary of state was really going after the nomination rather than an actuality. So the News communicated to Francis Biddle, counsel for the TVA committee, these facts, plus the fact that the purchaser, Harold Humphreys, had promoted two separate attempts to get referenda in Chattanooga on an ordinance which would forbid duplication of existing electric facilities. Whereupon the witch hunt was on. Mc-Ad- Interests. Most of the testimony was over the fight waged on that bond issue, though some of it was on later attempts to force a vote on a cjty ordinance the effect of which would be to forbid such duplication. citiIt developed that a zens and taxpayers committee spent nearly $24,000 fighting the bond issue, but was defeated. The chief object of the committee counsel, Francis Biddle of Philadelphia, was to show that this citizens' movement was financed by the power interests, and that its campaign was one of misrepresentation. Now comes the curious part. Under the Tennessee law the local company, which was in danger of extinction if the referendum went for the bond issue, could not spend one cent to combat the public ownership advocates even for newspaper advertising to tell its story. But it is perfectly legal, under the Tennessee law, for a corporation outside the state to send money into Tennessee to fight for the local company's Senator Class and Ickes Exchange Compliments When Sen. Carter Glass denounced PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes the other day as a "con- ed Sat-terfie- ld . Ledger-Dispatc- h, It CLAY pO FT C r - PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTO-KRAF- T ECONOMY FILM SERV1C! Any Rot! Developed with 8 Quality Prints ' - - - & Extra Prints Wrap coin and film cuefull) PHOTO-KRAFBoi 749 Salt Lakr City, ( lata SCHRAMM-JOHNSO- N I DRue BUILDING MATERIAL BRICK CO. INTERSTATE great multitude of competent men Building and Kirt Brick Hollow Building Fire Clay Swer Pipe Drain Tile Roof A Manteii and women who have been unable to find jobs simply because they're "over 40." You can see it any day in the want ads under "Help Wanted": H 1 on, 1 Franl lllh E. Hy. (30 Salt Lake City, Utah 1189 So. Plumber, experienced at fittings and alterations. Only men in young thirGazette Office. ties need apply. Lou G 1 leconi OFFICE EQUIPMENT It's a case of plain arithmetic that young men can weather unemployment better than their elders, having fewer mouths to feed, fewer feet to shod. But a employer, looking only at efficiency d and economy, compares the head with the bald pate and takes the former. Young men learn quicker, adapt themselves bet ter, turn out superior work. At least, it's the argument. Tables Are Turned. The man over 40 is a problem of the machine age. Once, in the days of guild supremacy, the situation was reversed. Every youth was an whose hands were apprentice thought unskilled, whose talents were shaped under the guidance of a wizened elder. Moreover, in that simple world it was satisfaction enough that all hands were busy; the age of specialization had not ar rived. If you should look in the depart ment of labor files at Washington, the case of John Brown would fur nish an example of today's dilemma. Brown is 45, married and has two g His children. days started after grammar school be cause his widowed mother needed help. At 15 he found work in local factory, took time out to serve overseas in the World war, then worked steadily until the depression days of 1932. Meanwhile, he had been married, had bought himself a home, took out insurance and built up a small savings account. But from 1932 to 1937, John Brown could find no work. His savings disappeared, he lost his insurance and his house was mortgaged. When the the factory finally boss refused to give him a job; said he needed younger men. In consequence John Brown doesn't know where to turn. His life's work has been specialized and he'd have to start as an apprentice in another trade. With many, many years of usefulness ahead of him, this man has reached an age when industry PRODUCTS SEW EH HPS PACE BRICK WALL COfINo POTS ALL ILA I PKODICTS I IAN TIKE. ILAl AND USED deska and chiiri, mch'a. ufti, kk 8. L. DESK EX.. U3 S. Stale, Salt Z NEW tvpewriteri, adding " ATHLETIC GOODS cold-blood- ATHLETIC GOOt GREAT WESTERN Uniforma. Bate, Vlovei, Baseball. Bcfui Vollvballa, Athletic ahoes, etc. Hi IDAHO SCHOOL SUPPLY CO. 8ah U thick-thatche- wage-earnin- turns him out. Why? Industry's Answer. As their first reason, employers say he is a "bad physical risk," that he's entering the period in life when degenerative diseases will lower his efficiency. But employers are generalizing here; a man's susceptibility to disease almost always depends on the type of work he does. Highest death rates are found among unskilled laborers. Statistics show that frequency of sickness decreases with advancing age, though older people have more severe illnesses. The only fair course is to let a physician determine whether the man over 40 is a "bad physical risk." The employer's second reason is "bad accident risk," notwithstanding repeated surveys which show the man over 40 is more careful than younger workers. Caution is of age. a natural The ct r , ' f It ICE CREAM FREEZERS ICE CREAM COB SODA FOUNTAINS TER FREEZERS and Ice Cream cahim, Bar Fixtures. Stools. Carbonaiori, &( Tables Also reconditioned equipment toi CO. Manufirtim 55 Post Office Place Salt Uk J MOTORCYCLES BARLEY Used Motorcycles HOUSE OF HOPPER. Write for 140 E. Bdy hk eatii Silt U SCHOOLS Young men are forging the new pattern of American society, for industry now seeks youth to the detriment of men over 40. U. S. Dept. of Interior photo. only grounds for the "bad accident risk" argument is that older men are slower in recovering from in- juries. Next, employers speak of "decreased productivity." There is no denying that efficiency declines with age, but not so fast as to strike a death blow to the man of 40. What few tests are available show that exceptional workers of 40, 50 and even 60 are just as efficient as younger men. The simple answer is that proficiency's decline is gradual; it does not plummet down after a man reaches 40. The most valid argument of all is the last, that a middle-ageman is "too slow and inadaptable to changing conditions." In an age like the present, where industry has been revolutionized in the past two decades, this claim may hold water. Modern machines work faster. The men who tend them must do liked wise. America Grows Old. But arguments are fruitless and meanwhile the problem grows worse. Becaue of America's declining birth rate, we are rapidly becoming a nation of middle-age- d men and women; by 1960 it is estimated 36 per cent will be over 40! Industry and government have not been blind to the problem. First they favored social security, but its result has been higher taxes and a subsequent demand for more efficiency and fewer workers. They e tried pensions, but it was poor business to hire a man at 40 when he'd be retired in a few years. They tried sharing the work, which reduced efficiency and proved an expensive proposition. And the century-old trend to shorter work weeks has defeated itself because it brought machinery. The solution is not yet. Some say only an intricate balancing act can overcome the problem, a comprehensive system of social insurance to keep men employed or keep them fed when jobless. Though many remedies have been, r.nd will be of- old-ag- labor-savin- g far-of- Western Newspaper Cnion. It Be. When In tt.NO StVADA HOTEL GOLDEN -K- m.-, pimlar hotel By JOSEPH W. LaBINE Last January, President Roosevelt's unemployment census showed between 8,000,000 and 11,000,000 Americans were out of work. Since then, recession has boosted the figure. The tragedy of unemployment has been one thing, but the type of people hit by this ogre is an even greater disaster. and what the What hurts of America are best minds is understand to still unable d middle-ageof the predominance the on relief, people firmed blackguard," after "Honest Harold" had attacked the Virginia senator as a "hypocrite" who "bites the hand that feeds it," there was interests. So the Commonwealth & Southern ground for thinking that perhaps the Old Dominion is behind its senator. company of which Wendell L. Will-kWhich is passing strange, not be is head, furnished $20,000 of the cause Virginia admires Senator citimoney used by this zens and taxpayers committee. Its Glass it has been proving that interest was that it owned more these many , years but because it than 90 per cent of the common had been thought that the New Deal was very strong in Virginia. In stock, and a good deal of the preferred stock, of the company which lact, a poll taken two years ago by the Richmond Times Dispatch would be badly hurt if the referenshowed the state to be overwhelmdum went against it. for President Roosevelt. ingly Which would seem to clear up anBut it would appear that the other reason why the New Deal is purge has changed things somewhat opposed to holding companies. down below the Potomac. For inLaw Injects Another stance, in a speech a few days ago in Richmond, the historic capCuriouM Phase in Battle ital of the state, Rep. Dave E. Another curious phase, to disinterested outsiders, which law inject of the lashed away at the attempt federal administration to ined in this battle, is tervene in state primaries. That this. Under the law way, he insisted, lay dictatorships. and its own regulaNow this was not a speech delivtions,, the PWA, ered in the heat of a primary camheaded by Harold L. paign by a candidate fearful of what Ickes, is permitted to make a free gift might happen to him. It was delivered more than two weeks after of 45 per cent of the the Virginia primary. total cost of any On the same day on which his project, and to loan ithe remaining 55 per speech was printed the Roanoke cent of the cost at a Times over in the sixth congressional district (Mr. Satterfield's dislow rate of interest, to any municipality Sen. Barkley trict is the third) published a very wishing to construct its own electric temperate, but also very critical editorial of the purge idea and of distribution system. its application in the present camPresident Roosevelt has frequent paign. a local where contended that ly community decides it wishes to be President's Attitude May served by a municipal system the local authorities should first seek to Cause Loss of Prestige A few days before that the Norbuy out the existing utility system down at the rather than resort to the economic folk far eastern end of waste of duplication. In the last session of congress an the state, published powerful editorial attempt was made to attach an awhich is being reamendment to the relief bill providprinted throughout be no should promoney ing that Virginia, saying that vided for constructing public ownerJ9 it was because of v if ship electric systems in communiWoodrow Wilson's now utilities. served ties by private tolThis movement attained so much unwillingness to erate his opponents thCit Presisenato in the strength indent Roosevelt sent for Sen. Alben to the point of fore their cluding W. Barklev. Democratic leader of most leaders in his the upper house. peace delegation Harold Ickes Barkley later promised on the that he lost the peace and Mr. floor of the senate that no such Roosevelt's unwillingness, in Georloans would be made to communiand elsewhere, to tolerate his gia ties where there already existed pri- opponents is exposing him to the vately owned electric systems un- danger of a serious loss of prestige. less the ownership of the private "Mr. Roosevelt." said the Roanutility refused a reasonable offer for oke Times, "is like Wilson in that of its property. the purchase is he convinced of his own eternally not make But the PWA does loans for the purchase of existing Tightness and, because he feels so strongly the rectitude of his moproperty. tives, is impatient of any opposition. It is a dangerous quality, albeit a Investigation Often not uncommon one in men who ocTurn Into Witch Hunt positions of great power, and The danger of any congressional cupy it may easily, and often docs, lend it that is is always investigation to ultimate disaster." likely to turn into a witch hunt. Some New Dealers are wondering Especially if the ordinary fishing exwhy Mr. Ickes, to make some just headlines to fails produce pedition trifling f point in a speech in for the conductors. should Taconia, call Virginia's the moment actual a for Consider grand old man a "hypocrite." Espepurposes of the TVA investigation, cially as Mr. Ickes has now had involving the expenditure of more six years in to watch han half a billion dollars of the Mr. Glass, andWashington have known might taxpayers' money, involving the that nothing was so calculated to which congress yardstick question, to Sen. Millard E. bring and most of the public thought was Tydings.support over the, river in Maryto determine scientifically what land, as to have the electric rates all over the country put in the position ofadministration unfairly atought to be what would be fair, tacking Carter Class. For Glass is what would be excessive thus prov- as much admired in as in Maryland a but not a only guide possibly ing Virginia. Anything about Glass is commissions the for 'club regulating news in Maryland. public utilities in the 48 states. In- ie . hotels'" r. . Dl a krvwiuu A.Lwrnc. BAIT- I . " Bute BU It DnTL uvsai.s.I nj Two Chattanooga Papers Engage in Bitter Row WASHINGTON. Laws sometirr.es work in curious ways, as the congressional committee investigating the Tennessee Valley authority is discovering. The committee spent days going into a referendum held in Chattanooga over the question of whether the city would issue $8,000,-00- 0 of bonds for the purpose of constructing an electric distribution system duplicating the one now owned in that city by private power FIGHTING 'FORTYPHOBIA' ' - , - - v ' - The load is shifted from the capable, conscientious shoulders of the man over 40. to the eager, ambitious shoulders of younger men. Each has his merits, but one must suffer.-- U. S. Dept. of Interior photo. fered, the man over 40 has thus far received little but sympathy. One man has scoffed at sympathy. He is Henry Simler, a New York typewriter manufacturer, who recently began fighting the "fortypho-bia- " menace by proving that men over 40 can compete with their younger colleagues and do a good job of it. To employers from coast to coast he sent a comprehensive questionnaire to learn what employers have actually learned about the relation of age to efficiency. He discovered that youth is more careful about its appearance, is more cheerful and more enthusiastic. But for loyalty, conscientiousness, willingness and results, the man over 40 won by a wide margin. With these facts he set out to form a nation-wid- e organization of Forty-Plu- s clubs, groups who would break down employer resistance in their respective communities. ' Flooring "Fortyphobia." What happened in Boston is typical. At the first meeting of this Forty-Plu- s club was a small group of unemployed men, mostly of the executive type. One was 46, a Dartmouth graduate with manufacturing and retailing experience. A second was 42, formerly vice president of a drug company. A third had wide experience in public relations work. They decided to tackle the problem from the inside out, to find jobs for each other by capitalizing on Simler's survey and selling themselves to the public and employers. They scoffed publicly at the "Heln Wanted" advertiser who sought a technical college graduate with at least 15 years' experience in one specialized line and who "must not be over 35." What this employer wanted, they said, was an unemployed genius who finished college at 20. One "Forty-Pluser- " administered a verbal threshing to a man who had turned him down for lack of experience only 10 years ago, and who now said he was too old. Boston's Payoff. Their campaign brought results, too. After six weeks, five Forty-Plu- s club members had permanent positions, one of them paying $6,000 a year. Automatically these men were suspended from membership, since this strange organisation is anxious to "kick out" its brothers in the bond as rapidly as possible, thereby making room for new men. Some employers express a hope that the "fortyphobia" problem will work its own way out. They claim the present crisis is only a temporary, violent reaction to the modern trend of thought which favors work for the young man and leisure for old age. Meanwhile, the man over 40 is being given the attention he deserves. Massachusetts has empowered its department of labor to publish the names of employers who discriminate against certain persons on account of age. And Secretary of Labor Perkins has added her opinion that "it is against common sense to leave people of 40, 45 and 50 out of work when they are willing and able to work." But perhaps employers have a just reason to discriminate. Before America can solve this great social problem, she must find the true cause. Wetern Newgpnper Unlcm. Barbering taught in short time. Be urn good pay and steady work, barbers ini demand Enroll Now. MOLER'S BARBER COLLEGE. Salt Uba It TRUSSES Instruments. Surgical Trusses. Hospital Sum of Abdominal k Manufacturers porters.TheElastic Stockings. 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