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THURSDAY, JAN. 18, 1940
,^e We Civilized?
‘ People of the United States as a whole
•re civilized but incidents which come to
tight by way of the newspapers every day
M BB to wondering just how much civiliz
ed we are.
Under the heading of “Useless Deaths,”
tae Reidsville Review made the following
comment:
“A father sues a daughter, a boy shoots
)iis girl because she refused him a date, a
Mother slays a baby because it kept her
hmne at night, and we call ourselves a ci
vilized people! This is the beginning of a
new year and what better way would there
he than to think twice and count ten in or
der to preserve the decencies of living,
^o many unwarranted suits, too many un
merciful deaths, all facts horrible and ri
diculous. We are a sane people, as a
whole, but when we hear and read of these
cases of visciousness and crime, we begin
to wonder if we are mentally competent, as
a whole.”
Bringing the subject closer homo, it has
been said that shocking things can always
happen in Wilkes. No better people live
than the citizenship of this good country
and a very small per cent of its popula
tion are responsible for 95 per cent of its
crime.
Inventions Make Jobs
In the midst of a period when for the
.rdhvt time in many years national prosperi
ty seems to be on the way back, it is dis
concerting to read that persons in high
places are again publicly utter.ng an old
and discredited piece of misinformation.
We refer to the hoap’' declaration that
“inventions take away jobs.”
Actually, this is a time when the .state
ment that inventions take away jobs is
most meaningless, coming as it do s in the
face of plans being made all over the coun
try for commemoration next month of the
160th anniversary of the American patent
system. During this celebration of “Mod
em Pioneers’ Day” nearly one thousand in
ventors whose achievements in recent
years have created new industries and
hundreds of thousands of new jobs will be
honored.
Sometimes there has been temporary
-displacement due to technological changes.
But over the long run, invention has creat
ed infinitely more jobs than have been de
stroyed by these changes.
Here are a few facts that help to show
the truth:
84 per cent of all machines invented in
this country are “labor serving” rather
than “labor saving.” That is. they are de
signed to create entirely new products or
ggj-yjees, or improve old products and ser
vices ,
One out of every seven persons employ
ed in American industry today works for
one of 14 new industries that did not exist
In 1870. These new industries owe their
existence to invention. . , -
Between 1900 and 1930, the period of
most intensive machine development m
this country’s history, the number of .lobs
increased at the rate of 68 per cent while
the population was increasing 62 per cent.
The inventor was behind those extra jobs.
Today with manufacturing industry em-
ploy^nfm^re workers than it did in 1929,
Jnd with thoughtful Amencans lookmg to
invention to create still more jobs, ^acks
on the inventor come at an unfortuna.e
^*^hev seem to resemble all too closely the
•rtitude of the stay-at-homes who moaned
that progress was at an end at the same
SJment that covered wa^ns were mo^ng
wMtward and the whole new world of
TSeriLn life was being built by adven-
courage and i aith in the future.
Banks And Newspapers
Newspaper and b*-*; Z,
1
rii-Vven of West Monroe, Louisi
Ouachita C^zen 01 criticism
in common, in the opinion
Louisi
ana, Both of theplenty^
?*Themosrit difficult task that we can
of at the moment is
rn^wspaper to please everyone,” says
citi^ ‘Tf the banker is conservative
^ with not being helpful to
X ^ ^ ^ U he lends the deposi-
■j he ia criticized when
oc«r?F«r pnnte aH
aensational. If he
leavee ' R. out he is chargsd with ..
aRaid to print the news. The best plan
the banker »■ the hewspapenato to foBdW
is to run his business the waj^ he laiw *t
should be run and let the crities eiitielze.
R wotdd be an interesting experiment if
“self-starting” critics w«re given charge of
the nation's banks and newspapers for a
period. It’s a safe bet that they’d rapidly
leam a* sad lesson—-and an equally safe
bet that the public which, depends on
banks to safeguard its money and news^
papers to give it the news of the world,
would take a terrific beating. Amatemr
banking and amateur journalism^ would he
a far cry from the real professional arti
cles.
Banking has given the American people
and American business unpi^lleled'" ser
vice—it furnishes the financial lifeblood
that built this nation in world record time.
The American newspaper gives the people
better, more complete and more accurate
coverage otf what is happening a mile
away or ten thousand miles away than the
press of any other country. ■ The bankers
and the editors will go on dqing^these
vital jobs while “the critics criticize.”
iidlh-
^er Cent
uirt-IchaJffo# MW- An -Mvortlaz MtAUi
ddoal Worlnr* M
luieigh,
ment la KorULHJarollM nms* asd
indsBtrr increased lO.T per cent
teat year, sa comp&r^ vltb 1088,
the dlTlalon of atatli^lea o the
state department ot' iaber ^ an
nounced today.
In a report haaed on tlgnrM
from 887 establishments, the dl-
^ AllH.nport|^ escRilsiunsntaj
eomtdaed employed an ariitefa o(^
1)1,878 penoaa throashonil last
res#, compand wltb'US,8d8 fii
48I8. pay roll* Inr 1988
ayenicad^#),878,8)0. as acaj^
$l,>91,9U?;la 1988. i'ATpnif*
weekly aSmlnga of lndly|d«ils Ik
crehsed ^m fl4.897 to 81^4^
ShaxjMwt InorMmas vara feponv
ed -In the eottott 'nuwdfiietaaihg'
Indiistry. Kmploymant In' ^ llO
reporting cotton ^ millh
mi
tif,' dhe ior-w
injfflwia Spis> 8^8 to .pS8 teftaHsa'-iiiw-hi
the nmbdr emplpyad.
llie fheraasas In areraca Indl*
vUnal vases mi other clasalflea-
i^Uoaa fWloys:'
All fflsinnfadtniiafrfnm $14:94
to $19,M: knit spod manaliBe-lanaraaea Utat tkarp is
tnrlv, liw |i8.t$ to $1949: ^tectory road
maanfactnvtng otiter than eottoit
eaHiig knK. foods, from fie.tc to
;$18,89;' eiMamshttients jhlher
TTiffffiftiriyjliBi *Ti*! iiKSfeti
tjOtl, from $14.79 to $14.8i^l«r
afrAIM|me»ts from n7-8$
Tlsion also stated IteV mils had hom Ci,‘818 in 498$ 'to
One-Armed Bandits
The person who put the name of one-
armed bandits on slot machines was plen
ty smart. There could be no better name
for the diabolical thief of school children’s
lunch money.
And these things have made their ap
pearance again just when people were be- *
ginning to think that the legislature had
them sure enough outlawed. |
People of the state are beginning to
wonder what kind of people composed the
legislature when they were unable or did
not want to outlaw slot machines. The
legislators were supposed to outlaw slot
machines and; right on top of the law
banning their operation they provided for
licensing them.
If the law permits operation of slot ma
chines—and we presume it does or they
would not be operating—it i.s inconsistent
in that it is unlawful to shoot dice or play
poker.
Seme try to justify operation of slot ma
chines on the theory that the players
should have sense enough to know that the
machines will eventually win or they would
not be there. But that is not the moral
viewpoint. The law is supposed to protect
the weak. The .strong willed who can re
sist the urge to put in a nickle hoping to
hit the jackpot need no protection.
Increased 19.1 per cent, luid that
the veekly checks ct IndirldmU
workers had Increased 8.1 per
cent.
A large part of the Increase in
the pay roll figures vas attribut
ed to the operation of the federal
wage-hour lav, which became ef
fective in Oc^ber, 1988. The law
required, for'the first 12 months
of Its operation, payment of a
minimum wage of 21> cents
last year; their aTerage weekly'
pap'n»B‘atfrfcirited-. frotf $819,8$1
to $1,089.4A8; And V9CM«t in-
dlri^ls InAroMed ,fi)ovt. $18 80
to 814.88.
The only decrease in weekly
wages was in wholesale merehan-
dising establishments, where sal
aries mostly are too high to be af
fect^ by the minimum wage law.
In. tr.at Industry weekly Indivi-
Mmt York, Jan. IS.—tTw pre-
dietion of "a fi^rbr'gtmd toidupy
yea-’ ' wgo ftren to 1,990 repro-.
sehtatlrea of retail stores
throB^out,'the.United States to
night by Saul,Cohn, president of
the National Retail Dry floods
arsoclatfon.
Be opened the 28th aunnal
convention of the organization by
felling the delegates;
“Using the 1923-1925 average
craditahig job haslj
Hrtmer.' M-
“Winter 4840 a 1
Tolufnrat the hlSbMt leret'
lUir; 1$39. W« hare a reasMUAN
• fatla-
predtetaMe faounft.'-
f#--
dual wages lu 1939 were 119.66,
hour, and a mazlmam work- compared with $20.08 In 1938.
week of 44 hours. On October However, the 123 establishments as a normal base of 100, our sales
24, 1939, the minimum wage was reporting showed that average during the latter part of 1DS9
increased to 30 cents and the weekly pay rolls increased from were around 94 per cent against
TolM^frWife
MawotV Aim; Jan; 15—
|rai4^^MHi;'M^7iight la a'chit
mliwrA'^to^ ryfkntaa
whp df^lrerad taeib.
ibir. A y. amil^ yfld tha (laad-
gkls and a
.1^4^ UrK.JXtTia 8b^ a*
Iia]fT n^lM)j^ two milaa, (ran
Saakof d^vered tha In
tents within an hoar and IS.ndn-
otes wUh tke help of Mrs. SOunt’a
mother and nsigbborlng house
wives. Bach of the chUdran
weighted a few ounces over three
pounds. ,
Ibe girls have been named
Faith, Hope and Charity, bnt no
name has been selected for the
■boy.
Ads. get attention—and resnlts.
Borrowed Comment
SKILLED MEN WANTED
(New York Post)
Frieda S. Miller, state industrial com
missioner, reports a shortage of tool-mak
ers, machinists and machine operators in
industrial centers of Albany, Utica, Syra
cuse, Rochester, Buffalo. Miss Miller says
this has been apparent for several years,
as men have left the field because of a lack
of jobs to fnd other work, while training
of apprentices has been sharply curtailed.
During the upturn in 1937, the Labor
Department at Washington reported that
business ran into a shortage of skilled per
sonnel as soon as it picked up to about 80
per cent of normal activity. “The rate of
business recovery,” it noted, “is quite like
ly to me more rapid than existing training
facilites.” Tt found, in a study applicable
to 6,600,000 job seekers, that almost a
fourth (23.6 per cent.) had no industrial
background; they had either no work ex
perience or had been unemployed fou“
years or more.
FAMOUS FROGS
(Hickory Daily Record)
From Morganton comes the most remar
kable frog story since Mark Twain carried
off world honors with his justly famous
leaping wonder.
'The Burke county amphibian is suppos
ed to have been sealed in a brick wall at
the State Hospital for the Insane since
1875. Workmen tearing down a sixty-
year-old brick structure are said to have
made the discovery, although the story
might have sounded more plausible if
credit to the hallucination of one of the
patients at the instituion.
To find a member of the genus Rana that
had hibernated for three score years in the
legendary recesses of the South Mountains,
would also be understandable to persons
throughout this area.
Anyway, the Morganton frog story
stands, and who is there can look at the
frog’s teeth or the whiteness of his hair
and deny it?
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A NOVELIST FOR CONGRESS? -
(New York World-Telegram)
Louis Bromfield, the novelist, says he's
going to run for Congress in Ohio. Fine.
The Congressional Record could stand an
injection of belles-lettres. We commend
to Mr. Bromfield for a campaign slogan
the title of one of his booki “The Man
Who Had Everjrthing.” That would be
claiming just a little less than is customary
among many membera of the House.
England is reported to be planning to
raise a large crop of cabbage. Cujtting
down on her purchase of American tobac
co may be only a coincidence. — Norfolk
Ledger-Dispatch.
Picture of wartime inflation—January:
Necessities go up 100 per cent. July: Rents
go up 60 per cent Msireh, two years lat-
ot; Your pay goes up seven per cent—
Buffalo News.
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