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Show THOMAS EDISON '.very citizen is as much a beneficiary of Mr. Edison as il he had mentioned him in his will." These words of Charles V. Kettering reflect Edison's entire career, for the Iruils ol his work are the personification of human nmo. hrJdd J Kat t Wens that jackasses have teen SFTHOMPO gL"Wf St oveent johs ever since, sayl ( gn) NEW ERA (Independent) Micron feJeraI iudgCS t Mount Clemens M,ch pottery company was liable for retroactive portal-to-portal pay they certain y sowed to the wind. Now with suits Wtng' Hi rPSeCf tKf WiI1 require more than $6 til-Not til-Not o t ; L f L ' !nduStr iS reaPinS tKe whirlwind. Not oy that, tut by so doing the federal courts have set the stage tor one of the tiggest rackets this country has ever seen. Unless Congress takes immediate action to pass some Aside from harnessing electric power for lighting the world Ins experiments and inventions did more to raise the stand-ads stand-ads oi American living than anything since the Industrial Keyolut.on. His phonograph and moving picture machines wdened the horizons of culture, tringing entertainment and knowledge to the entire world. His experiments in electro-rucsradio, electro-rucsradio, telegraph, electro-plating ... in rubter dyes and CiemAn.trC.rearted nCW industries. millions of jots . . . aided the Allied effort in both World Wars. He developed the improved dictating machine, the fluoroscope, the miner's salely lamp and discovered "etheric force"'the foundation tor wireless telegraphy. While the electrical world is a local point for celebrations of his 100th birthday, every man woman and child must pause and pay homage to the man who has made living easier and more eninvatU ju ana eqmtable laws to govern labor unions as well as placing straIght jackets on the employers, this country is due too see some tough sledding during 1947 our country than by fining industry and putting it out of bus-mess bus-mess via the retroactive racket route. tr, Jrs are working towards socializing indus-hy indus-hy they had better watch out. They should talce'a squint at England where a socialized government is in, power and where farmers are living under the threat of being moved oti their farms unless they raise the crops and proceed with their farm work according to directions issued by the government. govern-ment. Would American farmers resent being told what they must cJo with their land? They sure would. Would the American working man resent being led around by the nose? He sure would. American democracy can only be retained by just and : equitable Iaws.and a willingness of the people to obey them l ihe American people cannot afford to let racketeers way. And we must resolve to support and encourage research re-search and invention ... to continue the search for a still belter world as the basis of the living heritage he left us. 1 his is what Thomas A. Edison would want for us TORONTO (Ont., Canada) PRINTED WORD savs- IT STARTED WITH CAIN besides being the first murderer, Cain has the more doubtlul distinction of being the founder of totalitarianism In fairness to his memory, which has received harsh treatment treat-ment Irom the pulpits of many centuries, let is be said that this was an unintentional achievement on Cain's part. It begins with his unfortunate wisecrack when the investigation in-vestigation into Abel's- death got under way. Asked where Abel was, Cain answered: "I know not. Am I my brother's keeper r It will be observed that Cain was asking a rhetorical rrauuu "oui a iteral brother. It he had been guiltless the remark might have been forgotten. As it is, the whole incident has been twisted by the moralists to give biblical sanction to the idea that everyone is the keeper of everyone else. , Insofar as the notion leads to charity and unselfish social so-cial service, it has its merits but the step between doino- good . to others and making others act in the way that some authority author-ity thinks it is right for them to act is easily taken. Most of the dictators the world has known have started their careers with a sincere desire to do good to others. Their tryannies have been an outgrowth of resistance from people who want to be left alone. The dictator, whether fascist or socialist, cannot brook opposition to his charitable plans for the welfare of his people. peo-ple. I heir resistance makes it necessary for him to push them around, and it is not long before the pushing around becomes the principal function of the state ' CASA GRANDE (Ariz.) DISPATCH (Dem.)says: THE KING AND THE JACKASS 1 he following parable, written some 85 years ao-o is m Ur lanf a esP,oil " regardless of whether it is by business or radical labor leaders. Ue enforcement of this retroactive pay racket does away with all precedent and is one of the dirtiest and most harmful rackets ever tried in the history of the American W JVtTe n0tr argUing t!le Pint f Pal-to-portal pay. VVe do believe however, that if a worker spends 30 to 60 minutes every day (after entering the premises of his employer) em-ployer) m doing things required aside front his regular job, he should be paid for that time. But it is sure a crazy idea to propose, and grant, an employee retroactive pay for washing wash-ing his hands on the company property after he has worked his 0 or 8 hour shift. We also believe it's time we have congressmen who are honest enough, and smart enough, to pass laws that cannot be interpreted by any judge to mean anything but what the law' says. We also believe its time this country gets back to con-shtuhonal con-shtuhonal government -and that the people, demand that government by edict cease. widely credited to Abraham Lincoln. Should there be an apparent relationship to any other period than the time indicated, indi-cated, or to persons in high places of authority, readers must assume that it is purely coincidental. Once upon a time there was a king who hired him a prophet to prophet him his weather. One day the king no-honed no-honed to go fishin but the best fishin place was nigh pn to where his best gir lived. So he aimed to wear his best clothes. bo he called his prophet and says, "Prophet, is hit a comm on to rain" And the prophet he says, "No. King, hit ain t a comin' on to rain, not even a sizzle-ozzle."' So the king he put on his best clothes and he got his lishm tackle and started down the road toward the fishin' place and he met a farmer ridin' a jackass. And the farmer, he says, "King, if you ain't aimin' to get yore clothes wetted,' yo d better turn back for hit's comin' on to rain a trash-mover trash-mover and gully washer." But the king drewed himself up and he says, "Farmer I ve hired me a high wage prophet and he 'lows how hit hain t a comin' on to rain, not even a frog duster." So the king he went a fishin' and it come on to rain. The king s clothes.were wetted and they shrunked on him. The king s best gal, she seen him and laughed. Then the king was wroth and he went home and throwed out his prophet. Then he sent for the farmer and he says. Farmer, I throwed out my other prophet and I aim to hire you to prophet me my weather." All i" Ile farme.r' Il SayS' "King 1 haint no Prophet. All 1 did this evenin was to look at my jackass's ears. For when hits a comin' onto rain, his ears lops down. And the harder hits comin' on, the lower they lays. And this evenin' lliey was a Iayin' and a loppin'." And the king he says, "Go home, farmer. I'll hire me the jackass." |