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Show HINT AH EASINRECORP How Baseball Manufacturers Show BracharV s Washington Dlgezt Its Distinctive Done WHOS ;St thing Weakness of Unsound Legislation Does Not Remain Concealed Long NEWS ri I THIS WNU Unsound and unworkable laws have a way of concealing their weaknesses tor varying lengths of time. It seems to be WASHINGTON. true, however, that those weaknesses, like ones sins, will be found out. This is especially true of written laws that are predicated upon a formula of how things ought to be done, rather than upon the basis of known acts and customs and living conditions of the people who make up our nation. Take the old NRA, for example. Its glaring weaknesses and impossible prescriptions were discovered rather soon by the persons and businesses who had to abide by the terms of that law. It was not so long, however, before most of us discovered that the artist who had sketched the original design of the blue eagle had made a mistake. You will recall, of course, that the design had 13 feathers in one wing and 12 in the other. That was bound to make the bird fly in a circle, and how true it was of the law, itself! Even, then, there were many persons who believed the law was not Sugiven a sufficient trial before the preme court mowed it down. Among those who held a conviction that NRA would work was Senator Guffey, the Pennsylvania New Dealer. It Is the same Senator Guffey who attempted to destroy, politically, all Democrats who disagreed with President Roosevelt tried to read them out of the party in a radio address. Senator Guffey, with the aid of John L. Lewis and the C. I. O., pushed through congress the NRA coal law. Guffey-littl- e The coal industry was divided in sentiment about the bill, as I remember the legislative battle, but Senator Guffey won. There came about a national bituminous coal commission, with power to fix prices, with power to compel a lot of other things, including the right of punishment under other laws if a coal mine owner should commit the horrible crime of selling below cost in order to get rid of his coal. Guffey Law Cost the Coal Industry Many Millions The first law so enacted was mowed down by the Supreme court just the same as the original and big brother NRA. Senator Guffey tried again. And so for two years, or thereabouts, there has been a law in force that applied the same principles of regimentation as NRA to the coal industry, and during that time, according to official reports, the soft coal industry has lost money. It lost $37,000,000 in 1937, and it lost about $60,000,000 last year, the coal commission has reported. Naturally, the coal mine owners are not taking this loss without a squawk. It is not a great deal more than a chirp, however, because the production of coal dropped from C. war that occurs between miners and operators every two years. In the meantime, however, things happened to labor in the soft coal mines. As I mentioned above, there was a decline m production of coal. It fig- ures out at 22 per cent. That obviously means that, while labor obh in tained an increase of the rate of pay, it worked only four-fiftas much time according to the records available to me. I fail to see where labor gained from the law. Moreover, from the federal relief authorities I learn that living conditions and buying power among the persons living in coal mining areas have declined almost in direct ratio to decline In production of coal. With respect to the added taxation placed upon the owners of the mines, the surface indications and the original declarations of supporters of the law have proved to be quite misleading. The law required the industry to pay a tax of one cent a ton and to meet assessments to cover the expenses of boards that were set up in the various regional areas. It is easy to calculate that the one cent tax raised $3,420,000 on 342,000,000 tons, produced last year. But that figure does not show the extra assessments that were paid to the regional boards, nor does it reveal that every mine owner had to hire extra clerks in the company offices to take care of all of the various and sundry reports that the national commission and the regional boards saw fit to require. one-tent- Simply Became an Added Expense Borne by Industry Again, it was expected that these costs and taxes would be absorbed a nice word for concealing the facts from the consumers in the selling price that was to be fixed. But, as I reported earlier, the commission never quite got around to fixing the prices under the current law. Hence, the hundreds of thousands of dollars which the law's sponsors said would be passed on simply became an added expense borne by the industry. The law has another feature which you and I, as individuals, do not feel directly. It is another one of those concealed things. The law specifies that no contract can be signed between operator and consumer to last for more than 30 days. That is to say, no price can be quoted for more than 30 days in advance. That may not appear important, but it tmw ihnl - mas, production. call. Even tee manufacturing ul tils osed by the American and National leagues. Left. By machine cover .ng. Center The horsehide fine cotton ound with woolen yarn. Next comes a wool winding, then a unaerg and at each step, is examined for weight Inspected, and (right) Is sewed on by band. The ball use Inspection during each stage. I- ba-t- alls Children Speediest Toy Auto Captivates RUG OF GLASS A "w"" i'yfM - Sss r T ,4 ? k av; i r ' ... A -- . ,v. '0s , - Mj1 s I NS - 'j. i & N,'rv'v' Nv , . The young lady can roll this Not exactly a plaything for kiddies, this toy automobile is said to glass rug because it really is a d Dick Sinclair was broken sheet of the new safety plate burn up the road at 80 miles per hour. racing glass for automobiles. A new type a bit shy, but mighty proud to pose with the of solvent has been placed between car at the spring hobby show of the Detroit Tacht club. It was one of two thin layers of plate glass. The the most popular exhibits at the show. Childrens toys, according to manbroken fragments cling to the ufacturers, can be educational as well as interesting. Modern toys are largely mechanical, and many require skill to operate. Seven-year-ol- er By LEMUEL F. PARTON x TEW YORK. Just a year ago, will H. Hays noted a possibly regrettable tendency of the movies This led to toward escapism." suggestions that Billy Hays Now he was suc-cumbing to the Matter of verbal enchant- FactEudemomst ments of toe Hollywood intelligentsia. That all blew over, but here Is Mr. Hays s today frankly proclaiming himself Our somewhat coneudemomst. servative dictionary is a bit vague about it, but, in his rough outlines, a eudemomst seems to be one who believes in fairies. In his annual report as president of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Mr. Hays cites with satisfaction the record e success of Snow White and is hapand the Seven Dwarfs, py that there are still a number of eudemonists left in the world. There is no disparaging or invidious but, reference to since Mr, Hays also reports with gratification that there are no isms and no social significance in Snow White," it is perhaps a fair inference that such black witchery is the dramatic antithesis. Practicing law in Sullivan, Ind., the homespun, sagacious Mr. Hays was no rising young eudemonist. That came later. He was, however, a rising young Republican politician and a Presbyterian elder, one of the technicians deftest inner-circof the Indiana party tournaments, where professional standards and scoring are high. That led him inevitably to what statesmen of his earlier day used to call political preferment, and, as postmaster general in President Hardings cabinet, he exercised political power of wide range and penetration. For seventeen years now, he has headed the moving picture industry. A round of eight Czar t Is Out, silents, when he left his cab Prefers Bill As His Handle toet Cadets Experiment With New Type Diving Suit r' is highly important The practice of large users of coal is to enter into a contract for a supply of coal to last for example, for a whole years operation. Having such contract, the owner of the man- for inufacturing establishment stance, will be able to know what his fuel costs are when calculating the reducing, even if the industry were price of the goods he manufactures fat. really and sells. Fuel costs are important, In consequence of this, and other and it therefore becomes plain that conditions affecting labor and proplarge users of fuel have an unknown erty, Representative Allen, a Penn- factor in their expense item for a sylvania Democrat, has introduced What do they do? year's plans. in the house a bill to reconstruct the They have to estimate that item, Guffey law. His proposal would and they take the maximum that eliminate the price fixing; it would can expect to pay for coal they eliminate the special tax on the coal of their product have to users and industry for upkeep of the high pow- pay that added amount whether in more or but coal less ered, futile, food or harvesting mabreakfast commission, and it would place the chinery or railroad freight rates. industry again on a basis where its That one feature of the law alone individual mines would be compethas completely disorganized the coal ing for public patronage instead of industry. inducing bootlegging of coal. I mentioned above that the indusCoal Operators Are Left With try had lost money. Well, you and in Sizes Not Needed I, as buyers and consumers of coal, Supply The limit also has had annot to mention the thousands of great manufacturing plants using other effect When a mine owner coal, also lost money because of the could make a years contract or a Guffey law. We lost money because number of such contracts, he knew of the price conditions. We would whether it was lump coal or stove be penalized in a big way if the coal or slack that his customers coal commission could ever have needed. Without a contract, the big accomplished the almost insur- buyers naturally shop around to get mountable job of establishing a set the lowest price. A mine operator, of federally fixed prices. It would therefore, may sell to one firm one have cost us money because we month and the next month, some would pay the price that was fixed, other mine will supply the coal. The and that price would have to be result is that one mine may find ithigh enough to allow a profit for self with hundreds of tons, or even the lowest grade and most ineff- thousands of tons, of lump coal when all that can be sold In a given month icient mine operator, is slack or stove coal. AnotherTug of War Between Well, it is the ordinary practice in business that if too large a stock is Coal Miners and Operators on hand, prices are reduced to InOne of the reasons the mine owners lost money was because many duce someone to buy. But not so in tlie soft coal Industry under the Gufwho supported the law were convinced it would mean increased fey law. If the price is reduced below the actual cost of mining, costs wages for the workers. The United Mine Workers of America, headed approved by a bunch of accountants here in Washington, the law by Mr. Lewis, believed so, and two sitting in not the Guffey law, but two years ago they demanded and ob- steps laws. They are the federal tained on increase of 10 per cent. other trnde act and the commission the debate on the bill in conDuring act. Under either one gress it was talked freely that the of these laws, the mine operator miners could get a wage increase who cuts prices below costs becomes and it could be passed on to the consumers This would be true, it was tagged as a very bad boy who must sa d, becau e the coal commission be punished by fine or imprisonment. So, the unwanted coal lies in w mid fix the puces mid the selling piles beside the mine, crumbling and fixed I nee, as by law, would have becoming of less value daily as the : be above production rusts. weather takes its toll. labi'c's v jg is a part of pro k Western New sp, per Union. frrrtolimiiMi "A)- - itii if y Cor-Auitl- box-offic- J W X, .. V i I s fc - r Fleece , Cadets of the Admiral Farragut Naval academy watch as a new diving suit Is tested In the Toms river to determine the feas.b.l.ty of using a mixture of helium and oxygen for deep sea diving. The experiment , made by Cyril von Vaumann traveler, writer and explorer. 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When Dr Albert Einstein suffered certain Indignities In getting his pass-Por- t, Mr. Messersmith was unjustly accused of responsibility. This was all straightened out and I resident Roosevelt upped him as minister to Austria. He July, returned to his present lotij. He was fur 14 of the Delaware Hhnojs bifure entering the consular supermu-nflen- t ConsulM w N I, U f. Nrws .e,ltu'! C9, rvtcc WEEK MONTH The a Detroit, S f'llVTAINS-c.LZtK- Nazis cant say It was a prejudiced opinion. When Hitler was emerging, Mr, Messersmith nn;r,nV',,P ffoar trail HI 3 pure s i Whether bird houses look like hats or hats look like bird housei s a debatable question. The spring bird house bonnet demonstrated bj Dorothy Coggins is made of clothes. up. 9! . ry work fltors ard general at Berlin, called Adolf Hit-alers next moves as clearly, and curately as a spieler for an old ioned barn dance. He turned in to the state department a state-oprecise rnent of what der fuehrer had his mind, now fully validated and certified. Naturally, it got little attention because it was In obviously credible. x fewawwujaMwJ 3rd of luWs Messersmith Called Hitler's Moves Early Arrows IndUate key Mediterranean and African territories where Italy is pressing coneessions from France, In Tunisia, with almost as many Italian residents as French, Paris Is willing to grant to the followers of Premier Mussolini. Italy also wants minority rights administration rights over the Suez canal, lifeline to her Tast equal African territory, and control over the railroad wlii.b runs from Djibouti. In Iren. h Somaliland, to AJdis Ababa, in the heart of Italian I ast Arrlea The Island of Corsica, for whlih an unoflhial Italian campaign has been fcUrtcd, will likily remain I rent h territory. bar piano embroidered even that of twelve would enjoy do: 24-inc- bump Used 8 Pattern 1947 contains pattern of two NwJ USEDAUTO d pstaoo TT WOULD be fine If we had a 1 cash register which would ring up a true prophecy when it was turned in. About a year and a half BIRD HOUSE nATS Jam Tartanian now companies putting out highly vociferous films no wonder he believes in fairies. He doesnt like to Sullivan, Indiana, is still home base for Mr. Hays and he is the towns favorite son, In spite of his philological flare-up- . th of the le be called czar, preferring just plain Bill, if there is any call for an informal salutation. Hearing him wind up in an address, or even in casual talk, one could understand how he could be a eudemonist, as he invokes the founding fathers or the palladium of our liberties, against this or that, but he usually coppers such oratorical bets with a remark like this: And, after all, it probably wouldnt work. Thus he is revealed as what might be called a pragmatic eudemonist In his county seat town, he inherited his fathers land-labusiness. A fragile man, with a slight limp and outstanding ears, he has the mannerisms of the country lawyer, and he wins over opposition, as he used to win juries, with a winsome and disarming smile. He is at times a euphemist, as well as a eudemonist insisting, infor stance, that censorship is merely Several years ago, he was worrying because the movies were going masochist. -3 132 of w 442,000,000 tons in 1937 to 342,000,000 tons in 1938. That is pretty rapid Ar and .major f 35 machine j Medal of I 'J duction costs, and the public would not feel it. The contract then negotiated expired recently and a new one is now being considered in the regular tug of 2- t WEEK f hero n ti rifle 20 killed "he i r-No- . .a , By WILLIAM BRUCKART Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. Europe- :nbed the York in 1918. ? Old NRA Is Striking Example of Careless Lawmaking; Now Comes Up the Unworkable Conditions of Guffey Law That Has Cost Coal Industry Millions. soldie private Good Meech1; Can Be CONSISTENTLY O CUY ADVERTIS5; f |
