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PAGE 12 ENDICOTT DAILY BULLETIN Opinions Editorial FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11,1 938 Features £NDICOTT.f BULLETIN PHONIC M1-4M2 DIA L 74211 - Jtttablijhe d Aug . 20. 1114. b y H. J an d H . II . Freelan d Office of Publication. 113 Washingto n Are . JAME3 H . OTTAWAY . Presiden t and Manage r . .BYRON B . FRENCH , Vic* President—Advertisin g Manage r PAUL L. HOOPER , Edito r Official Pape r of the Village of Endicott Official Pape r of the Town o r Vestal •ntered is Swond Cltaa Uatter October 10 . 1»» J at tot • ifjtfjP'SeWi fSjVt Offic e at Endicott. N. Tx under the Ac t o f March 3 . 18\» . 1%# Bvlletla l a delivered To all homee LD Oroeter Bodlcott by carrier boy a t llf l par week or 17.10 per rnr, Publlibot f daily except Sunday . \We never Jjnou; anything until wc \now tin truth.\ — George F Johnson E. J. Shoe Wages «) Is Endicott Johnson. Corp. paying unuaually high wages to its workers, even in light of poor business conditions that have existed for the past year? For the information of our readers we recently wrote the United States Department of Labor to ascertain just what average shoe wages are in the United States, and we present herewith, letter written to us by Isador Ltfbin, Commissioner of Labor Statistics. Nov. 3, 1938. Endicott Bulletin Inc. Endicott, N. Y Gentlemen: In 'response to your request of October 26, 1 have had the average weekly earnings of wage earners in the boot and shoe industry computed by states for August 1938. These averages are presented below and were ob tained by dividing the total number of full and part time workers, reported by cooperating establishments, into the total weekly pay roll reported. • States in which the reposting sample covers less than three establishments have t>een omitted. The figures for Tennessee and Virginia have been combined to avoid re leasing figures concerning- less than -three firms. California Georgia niinois Indiana Maine .Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Missouri $23.52 16.05 17 18 15.60 17.25 16.64 18.25 15.32 18.98 New Hampshire 20.30 New Jersey 17 72 NEW YORK 20.60 Ohio 18.63 Pennsylvania 17.84 Tenn., Va 18.56 Wisconsin 20.10 Very truly yours, (Signed) Isador Lubin, Labor Statistics. Look the figures over. New York state is second in the entire list, except for California, which is not a shoe- producing state, but where higher priced shoes are manu factured that normally permit concerns tn pay their em ployes more money. The State department of labor reports Nov. 4, 1938. that the average weekly wage in the Triple Cities was $28.34 compared with $18.03 in Rochester and $20.43 in New York city. In the federal figures, obviously the New York state average is boosted above all states except California be cause of the high wages E. J. pays its 22,000 workers. What do these figures prove? They prove, very plainly, that E. J. workers are receiving above-the-average wages. Yes, we've all known this for a long time, but it'? n good thing for us all to refresh our memories occasionally One Word Led To Another -By Arthur 'Bugs' B»er- Twenty'Years After % It's just 20 years since the> declared peace. We've had trouble ever since. Looks like things would have been more n^g105oxly~if'13ErlrEl'kept un fighting: Ware and colds are easier to get than to stop. Nobody knows just how to end one or where. Bismarck urged the German Emperor not to march through Paris and Pershing Urged the Allies to scram to Berlin. Neither one was right The Hall of Mirrors in Versailles proved that a man isn't much good in front of a looking glass. There's a scrap in everj scrap of paper. War is started by diplomats and ended by exhaustion. Did you ever hear of an Unknown General, an Admiral Incognito or a dictator who was a Masked Marvel? We are just finishing 20 years of the most abrasive and corrugated peace the world has even known. It has been 20 years of turmoil, agitation and prov ocation. The war to end wars didn't end itself. We originat ed some of these gags years ago. But they are still topical. A peace treaty is merely a test to see if the clewr dip lomats can actually read and write. An armistice is a breath ing spell in short gasps. A war memorial is a paper weight on murder. A million women and children have been assas sinated in Spain and China in an effort to find the ideal form of government. How can we tell when and how it will end when we don't know how it started? We get two minutes of silence today at 11 o'clock as a down instalment on eternal peace. It isn't much. But it will have to do. Two minutes out of every year is a fair average. We can never forget there are 50,000 boys in France who should be 40 years old now. But you don't have to worry much about the future. Just remember there will never be a war machine assembled like the one that marched through Belgium in 1914. It had everything: guns, men, planes, Zeps, poison gas, flame, ter ror and the inclination to use it, topped off by the element :of. surprise. It should have whipped the world. It didn't. There will never be a homicidal crusade like that again. f^Ehe'democratic nations seem to have backed up a trifle iri^thei? efforts to stave off another war. We are always wUJtiur to' turn the other cheek if it hasn't got a gumboil on ft.fin'the meantime, we accept the two minutes of silence •Ss ah earnest promise of more to come. We gave pronibi- t'iqn 'H fate trial of 32 years and peace is far more important Caiyrliat, 1IH, XU| raaturw Sjnmciie The Human Side of the News Edwin C. Hill— • Wc ar e shocked b y latter-da y perversion s o f justice , racketeer s getting free, sensational \circus \ trials , an d shad y lawyers ' tricks . We bemoa n th e lost dignit y an d puissanc e of the law . I t migh t he worsen—in fact it ha s been. The deat h of Pot Crowe . .shakv (•Id Bowery bum , wh o 3 8 year s ag o kidnaped Edward Cudahy , Jr. , in Omaha , is a reminde r of a trial which make s th e most raf fish of our modem cour t ruoro work-out s a model of propriet y nnd just procedur e in compariso n Crow e collected a ?2S,000 ran som an d disappeared . Fiv e year.', late r h e surrendered , at Butt e Montana . He all bu t confessed th e diknappin g an d th e stat e ha d enoug h evidence t o sink a battle ship. Th e jury , afte r arguin g 17 years , brough t In a 'verdic t of \not guilty . Pat wen t hi s wo> an d in his old age cadge d a liv in g with hi s tear-jerkin g stor y of th e reforme d kidnape r wh o would save souls an d rid tin- world of crime . If h e eve r did a day' s work , it Is nowher e on rec ord. H e cashe d in both on >m an d repentance . Th e explanation of tha t vt—dirt is a n interestin g item in th e his tor y of thes e democratic mutes Th e 16-ycor-old Cudah y bo y wa s the heir t o the Cudah y moat - packin g fortun e What this Omah a jur y particu larly hate d wa s meat-packers . Cnwtt's admiifti'iuiia an d al l th» evidence melte d like a snowbull in th e heat of tha t prejudice. Th e retur n engagement s played m th e court s b y racketeer s who . in the meantime , arc doing busi ness at th e same old stand , has been a disquieting detail of mod em la w enforcement Bu t this , no doubt assessabl e t o venal law yer s an d politicians, ha s a n en tirely different clinical asper t from the Crow e case . N o louse-- do w c find inflamed - SOP ml •' sideswiping jurie s tn i' 1.1 1 th e Crow e rr.-' Thomas V. 1> i>- 1 :i -•' •• ••' ized fo r A \-r : I t''. . 1 -nl political thoniu v nf Mammmk thi s o r tha t <•-... I .n|.. th e honse- gow , rather tHm n merely wa\- ing th e flair nnd hymnin g th e foundin g fathers . Not only i n Now York, but in a half dozen othe r states , th e election campaig n ha s hinge d o n specific, localized, issues o f poli tical malfeasance , o r th e putativ e allianc e o f politicians wit h gang sters . In th e view of this onlooker, thi s is on e of th e most solutnr y an d hopeful political turn s of many years . I t may no t he polite t o point hut jus t no w ther e is a lot of rud e specification of politico- crimina l skuldugger y an d fro m wher e w e sit i t lookB like some thin g t o chee r about . r'oprrta-ht. King Kcatarce S*ii<1 Dr. Clendening Advises - - The Patriot The Warden Speaks —By Lewis E. Lawes— Warde n of Sing Sing Prison . Our Children By Dr. G. C. Myer s th e th e th e An Execution Described 0 Within th e walla of Sing Sing lies aootbe r prison A smal l tw o story re d brick building, surrounded also by walls , an d Includin g within Itself everythin g from an exercise yard, hospital , an d visitin g room t o a»kltchen Thi s Is the death house Manv time s I receive lettert ——^————^— receiv e asking, \Warden , jus t wha t reall), happens on a n execution night'\ Well, th e proceedings rcallv star t abou t ten o'clock. Th e re porters an d witnesses gather in the administratio n building where they are searche d and '-ounted in While thi s is going on, th e scene is movin g rapidly down in th e death hous e Electri cians are makin g a las t minute check of th e apparatus, an d th> chaplain is with th e condemned man . wh o is not, as commonly believed, \doped up.\ Several guards , pale with the strai n of the occasion, pace back an d forth at their posts. Slowly it seems, the hand s of the clock creep aroun d t o 11 p. m . I n th e administratio n build • Modern medical science, es pecially in it s chemical re searches , has developed ver y ex act method s of kidne y diagnosis . Bu t the result s must b e inter prete d wit h wisdom an d exper - ^rrthe^rstnilKerth-e-cellti uf ing tllB '\ffi th e Kidney may be ou t o f com missio n s o that the y d o not re mov e all of th e -waste product s which it is thei r business t o re mov e from the blood. I n that case, those product s accumulat e in th e blood. Moder n chemistr y has developed ver y exac t meth ods of recognizin g thes e quanti - tively s o that th e exac t amounts presen t ca n b e determined . IX the y arc in excess of normal , it is know n that the kidne y is no t doin g it s full wor k an d adjust ments in die t ca n b e made t o sui t it s lowered functional capa city. The stud y of th e patient' s whol e Body—th e blood pressure , the heart , the retin a of th e eye — aid s i n assessin g th e patient' s tru e condition. The blood vessels in the back o f th e ey e hav e been foun d t o underg o almos t the same changes , simultaneously , a s the vessels in the kidneys , so that a tru o pictur e of thei r condition can b e reache d by viewing the ey e wit h the ophthalmoscope . Dy e test s fo r kidne y function arc ver y useful. Th e kidne y In healt h Is abl e t o pick u p certai n dye s from th o blood an d excret e the m 100 per cen t in a shor t time . A dy e whic h ca n easily b e recognized i s injected int o th e vein of the arm, an d all the urin e Is collected fo r tw o hours. M Five year s ago—Armistic e day If 9 0 pe r cen t of the dy e i s col- \J themes an d addresse s b y guest lected in thi s time , the kidney-B speakers will featur e services in are considered normal . Endicott an d vicinity churches Th e findings of a urinalysi s Sunday, must b e considered in th o light. of th e condition of th e whol e L/* Te n year s ago—Joh n (.Jack) man. ~ W. Ashcraft, famou s pilot, re- That i s what makes th e wide - turned t o Endicott t o participate sprea d practic e of layme n de - In » four-da y series of exhibitions pendin g on the report s o f a com - at th e local airport mercia l laborator y s o dangerous , i ~ „„_ „ Many a man has received a sheet V*. F ' ft * en y fV 8 . , ? K ° „T3 ST of pape r wit h a purpl e nana ^ZrW^ A \ °' d FmH ' paintin g to som e abnormalit y in ioncd Motber the urine , and had hi s whol e day , . j g Twent y year s ago—U E. de- nay , hi s whol e wee k darkene d by Seated Bingbamto n Centra l 27 t o tha t token. 18 a t Jqhnso n Field. the room. The body jerks up right in the chair , straining against th e straps. The hands that wer e white stand ou t re d an d \tiff an the \juice\ paralyzes nerve cells. As the nois e of th e generato r subsides , th o bod y re laxes. There i s a sigh , and yo u cannot he sure if ft has com e fro m th e witnesses o r fro m th o iner t body strapped i£. the chai r Th e prison phyBician ap proaches , Btethoscope in hand . H e hastil y applie s the instrument, an d afte r a pause, \I pronounc e thi s ma n dead.\ Almost as the word s ar e out of hi s mourn , guards ar c unstrapping the bod y A wheel stretcher appears and lifeless for m Is • There is n o ligh t on in pantr y and i t i s nearly dark . \I wish yo u woul d g o t o pantr y fo r som e carrots,' mothe r asks. Dan , who i s five, starts off bu t soon returns with , \I'm to o tired, Mothe r \ \Now Dan , yo u know that yo u ar e fibbing; you'r e afraid . There' s nothin g there t o hurt you. \ Suspectiri«t fea r i n Dan , th e mother shoul d hav e accepte d hi s explanation , without suggesting' tha t h e was afrai d or was mis stating farts. She shoul d have gon e herself, or have offered hi m reward , or have induce d the la d in some other way t o choose t o ge t the carrots. And thi s the mothe r woul d hav e done ha d sh e though t the matter through. Not on purpose did sh e make the child's proble m harder fo r him; she just acte d o n the impulse , abou t as al l the res t o f u s will do at times , I guess . \I have brought this child in t o you. Doctor , becaus e sh e won' t ea t what sh e should i She just worrie s me t o death. We have awful scene s at mealtimes. She upset s the entire family . I though t yo u could tel l me what to do/ \ accompanied b y a few guards, are escorted b y bu s dow n t o the death chamber . They file in si lently an d tak e th e seats provid ed for them . A small door opens nea r the front an d a guar d step s in He Is followed b y th e condemned man with th e chaplain at his side. In th e rea r com e tw o more guards . Then the prisoner i s seated in the chair. Wit h unbelievable swiftness h e i s strappe d in . Th e hood wit h it s deat h dealin g elec trode is lifted over hi s head , and a s he looks at it casuall y an d half sobs. \So that' s what does It.\ Th e guards ste p bock an d th e executioner, a shor t thi n man , ap proaches. H e seems t o take hours a s ho slowly an d carefully ex amines th e straps an d th e elec trodes, then shuffles bac k to his post\ behind a screen in th e cor ner. A fe w seconds no w an d he will pull thee switch that is to send thiB ma n t o eternity , bu t he will no t se e hi m go . Ther e is n nb d towar d thp screen fro m on e o f the officials present, an d a slight dron e Gils Looking Backward th e limp nn d lifeles s for m hustle d oft* t o the autopsy, room . aghs -M -he-irtarrtifi There wnb-Sylvia— «even-yeare (o move out \And t o think, \ h e of age, whil e her mother painte d gags on the words , \that I begge d for the chanc e to se e it Com e on, \ he addresse s a fellow witness , \let' s get out in th e fresh ai r \ Copyright 193s. McrCttocht Hrndlca'e th e foregoing picture. Sylvi a neve r had a happier momont. When yo u go t o see your doc to r about suc h matters, leav e the child at home, at leas t fo r th e first visit Sally's Sallies News Behind The News - By Paul Mallon - 0 Wathnlgton—The campaig n damper up . government stokers, wh o hav e bee n restin g unheard in the coal bin whllo the electio n argu ment wa s on, are coming ou t uo w to fire up the Now Dea l again Heftiest Bhovelers are working In th e anti-monopol y committee , plannin g th e hottest Ar e there . Not all committeemen hare see n th e Ar e as laid b y Secrotar y Leon Henderson , the Hopkin s economis t and No . 1 stoker Credit abl e reportB fro m the furnac e roo m Indicate, howevor . that tho first an d foremost kindling ha s bee n heape d in a corner where hea t will hit a surpris e quarter- th e already perspirin g Interstate Commerce commission. It's t o bo Indirec t heating . Committe e hearings, starting within teu days, nr e t o lend before Christma s lnttPthe VanSwerlngen proxy case . Thi s is the ol d on e in whic h a Ne w Yor k bank Influenced » selection of proxie s on th e C&O hoard of directors . No explanatio n has over bee n offered as t o why this particula r problem shoul d bo so fa r u p front, but the reaso n Is a good one If yo u know It. IOC's handlin g of rail financing and other matters has loug been a s annoyin g to M r Roosevel t a s If It were Republican . Tb e VanSwerlnge n rehash of evidenc e will bo directe d to show tha t the Securitie s Exchange commissio n migh t better exercis e jurisdictio n formerly wielde d ineffectively b y ICC If th e fire burns as laid, the Whit e Hous e will recommend an d Congress may approve transfe r of ICC financing jurisdictio n ove r to SE C Uut many a fire burns contraril y ICC authorities already hav e learned wha t may be expected , an d are planning to ask expansio n of their ow n legal authority t o dea l with such banker influenc e a s is indicated in the VanSwerlngen case. Othe r fires bein g laid Internationa l —Th e President will propos e amendment of th e Neutrality act , doubt It no t H e needs more power bu t Congres s will be reluctan t t o giv e It withou t defining closo limitations . A compromis e substitute ts likely to be adopted , the scope of which is no t foreseeabl e yet . Railroad s M r R will no t duc k th e IsBue as he di d last time. Som e definite recommendations are being worked up , bu t tho y ar e 16 such gropin g ror m the y probabl y will no t b e rond y fo r the open ing of Cougresa. He probabl y will send a separate message u p lato in t|ie next sesxton Tax Exempts— V It H will make a strong effort t o abolis b tax exempts , but x\uen local governments discove r thi s woul d cos t the m , more Interes t o u thei r borrowing s th e move will b e blocke d by Irate representatives an d senators . Much ado an d no uctio n ma y be expected (Don' t forget bot h Federa l and state govurnmontt mus t finance more debt. ) Taxes—Tren»ui > is tryin g t o find a revlnlon pla n will make / Koine recommendations probabl y limited t o Increasing Income taxes/ betwee n SIO.OOU and IBU.nod. Congres s may approve this an d re newa l of expirin g excis e taxe s but nothin g else . Capital Financing—A govornmen t repor t will b e give n ou t soon recommendin g that bon d houses an d investment bankers b e pe r mltte d rediscoun t privilege s a t Federa l Reserve, banks Methods of little busines s loan s als o are t o b e promoted . Bot h subjects will be hot . bu t n o on e can see n clea r wa y t o actio n o n either of the m Housing—Ditto . Annual Wage- A stic k o r two Is on the fire. On e large concern recently made a confidential offer t o adop t a two or three yea r promis e If the government woul d guarantee a minimum pric e o t th e product it produces . I t is redundancy t o recor d that the government lost interes t In the subjec t immediatel y Good Neighboring—Much minor action ; no major If the pro gram ha s a n activ e affirmativ e spearhead (asid e fro m rearmament) it lias been concealed from those wh o shoul d know Polic y ma y assa y dow n to more words than steps . Unfortunately the thinker s her e ar o no t devoting themselves to thi s subject energeticall y Rearmament—Every possibl e proposal on thi s (and some tha t aren't ) hav e bee n made public. The subjec t may b e made th o rotat ing cente r of the coming fourt h No w Deal (accordin g t o Genera l Johnson' s count. ) The no w Congres s will b o willing, bu t may as k embarassln g questions abou t whic h particula r armament expenditur e ma y do the inoFt good , an d will decide, in th o end , what It consider s bout- Copy right. 1(18. King reaturea Smdicaia The Brighter Side —By Damon Runyon- ttri u. a Pat. Off 0 Ou r ol d man used t o sa y that bi s greatest disillusionmen t wa s whe n ho discovere d that folks do no t like the truth. Ho fixed th e time of hi s discovery as the brief ported when he was the secre t corresponden t In our ol d home tow n of Pueblo for a paper called TKe-Kstiras-crty sunaaysmT It seem s our ol d man wa s a sort of ploneov gossi p columnis t only ho did no t know It a t th o time . The Kansas City Sunday Su n wa s pretty much of a scanda l shee t and It printed things abou t people tha t no columnist woul d dar e print today , what with jurie s being mor e lenien t about murdor tha n tho y use d t o be . Ou r old man said he began workin g fo r the paper as It s Puebl o corresponden t with a hig h purpose , base d o n a theory of servic e t o th o community He sai d be though t he saw th o opportunity of Improving th e morals of som o citizen s of ou r ol d homo town throug h th e mediu m of the Sunday Sun by making them conscious tha t certain conduc t on their par t WOB most reprehensible . Ho sai d tha t the Sunda y Sun stipend was no t to bo despised , cither Ou r old man said that he had noticed lot s of time that whe n citizens would b e getting ou t of mora l lin e and making themselve s th e subjects of whispered gossi p tha t eve n their best friend s neve r bothere d t o spea k a wor d of cautio n an d be thought that woul d bo wher e be came In with hi s column . He sold he thought that eventuall y those citizen s when bac k on th o straigh t and narrow path again woul d blesn th o Kansas City .Sunday Su n and urge the erectio n of a monument t o the correspond ent, it the y woul d learn hlB Identity . Lik e nearly al l correspondents of th o Sunda y Sun our old man signe d a phoney name to his con- . tiibutlon s partl y .becaus e be was bashful bu t mainly becauso h e dld^r not want to b e foun d out * He alway s made it a poin t t o got around t o the saloons ever y tim e th e Sunday Sun came In under hi s correspondentlal regim e t o mak e menta l notes on th e reaction s of th o -citizen s mentioned In his Itoni.i an d that was whe n he first commenced to discover tha t folks d o not like the truth . H o Bold tha t th o reaction of the averag e citizen tha t he spoko of as neglectin g hi s wlfo and famil y fo r som e total charmer wa s towering and wholly Inexplicabl e rage . Our old man was als o working a s a reporter o n a. loca l dally m 'that tlmo and he sai d h e wrote a piece fo r the dall y about tha t same citizen, saying be wa s n fine, uptight , home-lovin g gentleman wblch everybod y knew wa s untrue, bu t th o citizen s loved It Ou r old ma n Bold h o Jus t could no t figure ho w anybody coul d enjoy a lie an d ge t sore at the trut h He said be began doubtin g tha t h e was effecting any mora l advancemen t whe n h o found that whe n severa l citizen s who ha d all bee n mentione d I n hi s gossi p column go t togother , they di d no t talk abou t givin g a voto of thanks t o the correspondent of tb e Sunda y Sun . They just talke d abou t tarring and feathering him If the y could find ou t who he was. Our ai d man did\ not want to resign IIIB Job a s correspondent bu t neithe r di d he care to bo tarred an d feathered. He tried Inserting llttlo itoms of a somewhat scandalous natur e The bump of benevolence is right on fop of the headr-well away from the Docketbook. ' •-, abou t himself t o throw people off th o trao k but one Issu e he gavcj, himself suc h a bawling ou t that a n astut e fello w tol d our ol d man> th e Item wa s to o revealin g to have bee n written by anyone sxcep t a person very, very , very clos e to th o subject Ou r old man di d no t lik e the wa y the feTlow kept emphasizin g very, an d anyway by that tlmo he wa s convince d that truth was a dru g o n the market BO h o quit. ''. Copyright. Ktm reaturrt Hjnfllcata . 1 .
