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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH FIGHTING 'FORTVPHOBIA' WHOS t NEWS Industry Rejects the Man Over 40, Giving America a New Worry; Science Proves Theres No Reason for Such Discrimination THIS By JOSEPH W. LaBINE Last January, President Roosevelts 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. What hurts and what the best minds of America are still unable to understand is the predominance of middle-age- d people on relief, the WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON In Indianola, Iowa, NEW YORK. only member of the Mulli-ca- n family who stayed that way was Doc Mullican, the town dentist. One of his daughters married, and the four others became the Lane sisters of Hollywood. Had he lived a few months longer, the father would have witnessed the grand slam success of three of the girls, Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola, in the new film Four Daughters. The home background of the Lane girls is such that it suggests Meg, Beth, Jo and Amy, these antecedents somehow easing into the picture, to the delight of the audience and the quite unrestrained enthusiasm of the critics. It is too bad that Leota couldnt have been the fourth daughter this without disparagement of Gale Page, who gets a full share of honors. Leota is aiming at the Metropolitan and is now studying at the Juilliard School well-bein- body-weig- Wanted: a case of plain arithmetic having fewer mouths to feed, fewer feet to shod. But a employer, looking only at efficiency and economy, compares the head with the bald pate and takes the former. Young men learn quicker, adapt themselves better, turn out superior work. At least, its the argument. If you should look in the department of labor files at Washington, the case of John Brown would furnish an example of todays dilemma. Brown is 45, married and has two g children. His days started after grammar school because his widowed mother needed Young men are forging the new pattern of American society, for help. At 15 he found work in a local factory, took time out to serve industry non? seeks youth to the detriment of men over 40. U. S. Dept, overseas in the World war, then of Interior photo. worked steadily until the depression Next, employers speak of de- only an intricate balancing act can days of 1932. overcome the problem, a comprecreased productivity. There is But from 1932 to 1937, John Brown hensive system of social insurance with declines that efficiency could find no work. His savings disto strike a to keep men employed or keep them so not but as fast age, appeared, he lost his insurance and death blow to the man of 40. What fed when jobless. Though many his house was mortgaged. When few tests are available show that ex- remedies have been, and will be ofthe the factory finally workers of 40, 50 and fered, the man over 40 has thus far boss refused to give him a job; ceptional 60 are just as efficient as received little but sympathy. even said he needed younger men. In One man has scoffed at sympathy. younger men. consequence John Brown doesnt He is Henry Simler, a New York is of all The most valid argument know where to turn. His lifes work man is typewriter manufacturer, who relast, that a middle-age- d has been specialized and hed have the to too cently began fighting the fortypho-bi- a slow and changinadaptable to start as an apprentice in another menace by proving that men like conditions. the In an age trade. With many, many years of ing 40 can compete with their over been has where present, industry usefulness ahead of him, this man decyounger two in colleagues and do a good the past has reached an age when industry revolutionized of it. job water. hold claim this ades, may turns him out. Why? He discovered that youth is more Old. Grows America careful about its appearance, is Industrys Answer. But arguments are fruitless and more cheerful and more enthusiasAs their first reason, employers meanwhile the problem grows tic. But for bad physical risk, loyalty, conscientioussay he is a worse. of Americas deBecaue ness, that hes entering the period in life willingness results, the we are rapidly man over 40 won byand rate, wide a when degenerative diseases will clining birth margin. becoming a nation of middle-age- d With these facts he set out to form lower his efficiency. But employers men es1960 it is and women; by a nation-wid- e are generalizing here; a mans sus- timated organization of Forty-Plu- s 36 per cent will be over 40! disease almost to clubs, groups who would break always ceptibility Industry and government have down employer resistance in their depends on the type of work he does. Highest death rates are found not been blind to the problem. First respective communities. among unskilled laborers. Statistics they favored social security, but its Flooring Fortyphobia. show that frequency ' of sickness result has been higher taxes and What in Boston is typdecreases with advancing age, a subsequent demand for more ef- ical. Athappened the first meeting of this and fewer workers. seficiency They Forty-Plu- s though older people have more club was a small group e pensions, but it was of vere illnesses. The only fair course tried men, unemployed mostly of the 40 to man at hire a is to let a physician determine poor business executive type. One was 46, a Dartin few a be retired 40 when over hed man is a bad the years. mouth whether graduate with manufacturing They tried sharing the work, which and retailing physical risk. experience. A second and an reduced efficiency proved The employers second reason is was 42, vice president of formerly expensive proposition. And the centu- a bad accident risk, notwithstandcompany. drug to work shorter weeks trend ry-old ing repeated surveys which show has They scoffed publicly at the Help defeated itself because it the man over 40 is more careful Wanted advertiser who sought a g machinery. than younger workers. Caution is brought technical college graduate with at not Some is sav The solution of age. yet. a natural 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 cold-blood-ed thick-thatch- ed wage-earnin- ot IT hasnt already happened, it is pretty nearly a certainty that someone will give Commodore Robert B. Irving, master of the Queen Mary, a pipe for breaking the Atlantic speed record. He collects pipes and smokes vthem almost constantly, and important occasions in his life are usually signalized by the ceremonious presentation of a B.B.B. Best British Briar which type of pipes features his collection of several hundred. The tall, smiling, skipper is a border Scotsman of Kirtlebridge, Dunfreeshire, 61 years old, a sailing man for 47 years, 35 years with the Cunard line, barring time out for war service. He is . deliberate, friendly, chatty the last man in the and world to pose for the portrait of a speed demon. Next to pipes, his hobby is collecting carvings of miniature elephants. The son of a retired army colonel, with no seafaring folk anywhere in his line, he went to sea at 12 on the school ship Conway, and, at 14, around the shipped on a horn to San Francisco. He joined the Cunard line as fourth officer. His first command was the Venno-niand later he was master of many of the crack ships of the line, including the Lusitania, in 1914, and ,the Aquitania. In his native Kirtlebridge, he lives in a house built in 1770, tramps through his 1,500 acres of copse and moors, works in his garden and ' raises spaniels. As one who has ranged the world through nearly half a century, he is happiest when headed homeward, for there, he is the kilted chief of the ancient fry- i The load is shifted from the capable, conscientious shoulders of the ing clan, and there his heart is. over 40, to the eager, ambitious shoulders of younger men. Each man Consolidated News Features. , WNU Service. has his merits, but one must suffer. U. S. Dent, of Interior photo. old-ag- . labor-savin- by-prod- ed easy-goin- g, four-mast- er a, ! ht. milk and butterfat. When her rations are cut down, her milk production falls off, she loses weight, and she goes drier sooner than normal. A cow will often give milk when she really needs to use the full amount of a scant feed supply to supply her own that young men can weather unemployment better than their elders, became locally famous for their home musicales and their party stunts. Lola,1 eldest of the four, met Gus Edwards, away out on the kerosene circuit, 18 miles from Indianola. She persuaded him to give her a tryout. That led to a vaudeville engagement, and later to Hollywood. It was Edwards who tagged her Lola Lane. Leota moved out next, also in vaudeville, while Priscilla and Rosemary were still in school. But, at the ages of 14 and 16, respectively, the two latter rounded out the quartette in Hollywood, in Varsity Show. They have a grand house, showy cars, silks and sables and what-nin the Hollywood routine but their public doesnt begrudge them their slice of the American dream, as ' long as they so faithfully portray its Little Women. Four Daughters, of modest production cost, was quietly unveiled without any fuss whatsoever. Critics headline it as a sensational success. The lesson seems to be that the picture moguls, downhearted about the business and ready to spend until it hurts, are overlooking the pulling power of not necessarily expensive taste, simplicity, and sound dramatic craftsmanship, in lieu of a million dollars. IF 1 The old family cow has taken a lot of abuse in her time and kept on producing milk for her master, but she can do a much better job when she gets enough of the right things to eat. A good cow not only cuts down on the household food bill, but she contributes much to the health and geng of the family. eral A cow has a huge stomach and a tremendous capacity for converting feed into milk. On full feed she will use about half the nutrients in her feed to maintain her own The rest she converts into Plumber, experienced at fittings and alterations. Only men in young thirGazette Office. ties need apply. of Music. The only sources of excitement in Indianola, 21 miles south of Des Moines on the Rock Island, were the 3:15 train and the Methodist college. The Mullican girls, all musically gifted and all good looking, BALANCED DIET IS BETTER FOR COWS By John A. Arey, Extension Dairy Specialist, North Carolina State College. WNU Service. of competent men and women who have been unable to find jobs simply because theyre over 40. it any day in the Its v Rations Cut Down, the Milk Production Falls Off. great multitude Help Farm Topics body. In the course of a year, an averagfarm cow needs 18 bushels of corn, 13 bushels of oats, 600 pounds of cottonseed meal, two tons of hay, and one to two acres of good pasture. The hay should be of good quality, and the pasturage should be a good growth of grasses or legumes. Winter pastures of rye and crimson clover or of wheat, barley, oats, and crimson clover are good for supplementing the dry feed. Three or more different feeds, say 500 pounds of corn meal, 300 pounds of cottonseed meal, and 200 pounds of ground oats or wheat bran will make a good grain ration. Give a cow all the roughage she will eat and allow three quarts of grain per day for each gallon of milk she e-size gives. Important Hints Given For Handling Pullets These are important steps in the successful management of the pullets for a good laying and breeding flock this fall, according to a writer in Hoards Dairyman: Range the pullets and cockerels separately. Move the pullets to the laying house soon after they start to lay. Provide a summer range shelter to take the place of the brooder house. Get pullets out on clean range. Alfalfa or sudan pasture makes good range. Hopper-fee- d both grain and a good commercial or home-mixe-d growing mash during the growing period. An automatic waterer and will reduce the labor in caring for pullets on range. Provide the pullets with artificial shade if trees, shrubs, or a corn field are not near the brooding range. Do not house more than 100 pullets in a 10 foot by 12 foot brooder house during the hot summer months. self-feed- er Siberian Rye Grass Siberian rye grass, a decent citizen in its homeland, went d when transplanted to the nursery at Pullman, Wash. Being unaccustomed to such luxury of soil and climate, it ran amuck like morning-glory, a single plant covering a spread and extending its roots down 36 inches into the subsoil in one season. Now recognized at 20. as ajnenace to better farming land, Bostons Payoff. it is penned up with galvanized steel Their campaign brought results, sheets extending two feet below the too. After six weeks, five Forty-Plu- s surface. Later it will be transferred club members had permanent to the areas of the sandy, blow-so-il positions, one of them paying $6,000 state where a year. Automatically these men thirst will tame it down and and put i( were suspended from membership, to useful work. The Home Country since this strange organization is anxious to kick out its brothers in Magazine. the bond as rapidly as possible, Comb, Wattle Disease thereby making room for new men. be40 the man over is The disease affecting the comb Meanwhile, ing given the attention he deserves. and wattles of poultry is known as Massachusetts has empowered its favus. It is due to the presence of department of labor to publish the a fungus organism, advises a in the Boston Globe. This names of employers who discriminate against certain persons on ac- parasite is transmitted from fowl to count of age. And Secretary of La- fowl by direct or indirect contact. bor Perkins has added her opinion Affected birds should be promptly that it is against common sense isolated and treated by the applicato leave people of 40, 45 and 50 out tion of a mixture of one part of tincof work when they are willing and ture of iodine and six parts of glycabld to work. erine. It should be applied two or But perhaps employers have a three times a week. When the feaththe skin and parts ot;her just reason to discriminate. Before ers and America can solve this great so- than the wattles and comb are afcial problem, she must find the true fected, it is advisable to destroy the bird rather than take a chance cause. on its spreading disease. Western Newspaper Union. hog-wil- 12-fo- ot under-nourishme- nt poul-trym- an |