The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 13, 1932, Page 3

GOVERNOR SHAFER [cna Workers bx SENDS THANKS TO RED CROSS CHIEF Says Quick Relief Work in Drouth-Stricken Area Pre- vented Hardships In a letter to John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, Governor George F. Shafer expressed gratitude in behalf of the people of North Dakota for the work of the Red Cross in the drought area of northwestern North Dakota. He called attention to the assist- ance given by the Red Cross, stating that the organization's efforts “avoid- ed chaos and disorder and brought Security of mind and community con- tentment throughout the afflicted territory.” The letter to Payne follows: “In 1931 North Dakota suffered the most disastrous drouth in its history. Production of food, feed and grains was totally destroyed in 15 counties. Nearly 50,000 rural people were ren- dered helpless to provide the necessi- ties of life until another crop year. Facing the rigors of a northern win- ter, with local resources exhausted. thousands of families seerzed destined to suffer hardships unperalleled in the history of the county, “Then came the Red Cross and the emergency was «peedily and fully met. Sufficient food, clothing and other necessities were promptly furnished. Adequate relief for all human needs was Inelligently administered through a@ wonderfully efficient organization. Tae measure of supplementary aid furnished by the Red Cross has not only permitted the people in the dis- tressed area to live comfortably and free of undue hardshins for many months, but it has enabled them to operate their schools throughout the year on a normal basis and to main- tain harmonious social relations. It avoided munity contentment throughout the afflicted territory. The Red Cross as- sistance replaced despair with hope. and fear with self-confidence. It re- vived the spirit of faith in the hearts of the veople, it restored their faith in their state and country and reinspired them with confidence in the generos- ity and virtue of humanity. “The people of North Dakota are profoundly grateful to“the American Red Cross for the generous: aid af- forded them in this erest emereency, and, in their behalf, I wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation. “May I also express my admiration for the wise, efficient and patient manner in which all of the officials and representatives of the American Red Cross have performed their many arduous duties in this crisis. I par- ticularly wish to commend Messrs. Shepard and Rowland, directors in charge of relief operations in the Montana-North Dakota area, and Mr. Baxter and his assistants for discharg- ing their many difficult and delicat2 tasks in the Red Cross service in & manner deserving of the highest praise and reflecting much credit up- on the principles and methods of that great humanitarian organization, the American Red Cross. Sargent County “Men Probe Elevator Fire Straubville, N. D., April 13—(?)— Sargent county officials are investi- gating causes for the fire which des- troyed the Straubville elevator here Sunday. 8S. A. Sweetman, assistant states at- torney, and A. W. Gainor, deputy sheriff, announced they expected to make an arrest late Wednesday af- ternoon. . The fire started at 1:15 a. m., Sun- day and leveled the building, which chaos and disorder and) brought security of mind and com-/} THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1932 ee * More Than Million Children Holding Jobs Which Men Could Fill Editor’s Note—This is the first of two articles dealing with the | hazard of child labor. By PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Writer Shameful as child labor in itself jmay be, handicapping the lives of young workers exploited by industry. that is not its worst feature. For as a parasite of the economic de- pression, child labor is assuming the ,; Proportions of a new kind of menace. ; So it is that sentiment is to have small place in the campaign of those jwho are seeking to abolish child la- {bor. They are going to talk in prac- tical terms of dollars and cents, jobs jand lives. With some 3,300,000 minors below the age of 18 habitually out of school, and well over a million of them hold- jing jobs which could be filled by adults, what of the cost to society of such an oversupply of uneducated, un- trained workers? What about the hun- dreds of thousands of men kept out, of work by the cheapening competi- tion of children? What price under- developed and often maimed bodies, and the large totals paid each year in compensation for accidents to min- ors? ‘Those are some of the blunt ques- tions that will be asked. bs “The most far-reaching effect of the elimination of child labor upon the general industrial situation would be the removal of a most powerful de- pressant from wages,” said Courtenay Dinwiddie, general secretary of the National Child Labor committee. More and more thoughtful leaders in industry as well as in civic organiz- ations, Dinwiddie declared, are becom- ing convinced that a concerted cam- paign against the unsuitable employ- ment of children today is one of the most necessary measures for the stim- ulation of industrial production and adult employment. Machines Injure Children ‘The increasing use of machines has introduced a new economic problem. For instance, reports from the 16 states which keep records of accidents Although young workers are more likely to be injure posed to Many Hazards | PLEA FOR HABEAS * # & e : % luage chi the felonic intent and Child Labor Is Menace to Beenegned dean" aie prt d by machines than adults, according to the National Child |2tion filed against him in October, Labor committee, immature minors face other physical hazards. | r | arated’ Line MGR Wile Mee te ag ys » At left you see a girl of 13 sprinkling dehy- In the center is a factory worker of 15 wh H day at her machine. Little bootblacks like the one at right are familiar figures in most cities, etter een ae CORPUS IS DENIED A. J. Reichert, Appellant, Serv- ing Prison Term For At- tempted Murder A writ of habeas corpus sought by Andrew. J. Reichert in an effort to obtain his release from the state pen- itentiary, where he is serving a 20- year sentence for attempted murder, was denied today by the North Da- kota supreme court. Reichert was sentenced in Dunn county district court, Oct. 28, 1925, af- ter pleading guilty to charges of at- tempting to kill his wife and minor daughter, Adeline, by jae) to push the automobile in which they were occupants over an embankment, Reichert Lee to the Burleigh county district court for a writ of hal corpus, but this was denied and he made an original application He dl similar writ to the supreme urt. He predicated his right to the writ @, solely on the ground that the inform- 1925, did not state facts sufficient to constitute a ee offense and that, give th ie an pry? ae ta ose live the court authori \sentence. itd ae The supreme court held that the in- formation “in clear and specific lang- ne death of his wife and daughter.” Reichert was charged with remov- F e e Security of Breadwinners 2305508 from their Dunn county home to Kill- son, her son lost his life, and his em- ployers lost a $5000 death award. Standards of the white house con- ference call for physical examina- tions and employment certificates for all minors under 18, Yet in 14 states children under 16 may go to work regardless of their physical condi- tion. The survey made by the New York State Department of Labor showed that 49 per cent of working children had some physical defect which was being intensified by the requirements. of their jobs. | The wages of child workers nor- imally are low, but especially so in depression times when thousands are in competition with each other for | Jobs. Pay is especially poor in industrial home work. One New Jersey family of six persons, working until late at |night stringing safety pins, earns only $3 to $4 a week. In a Massachu- | setts town, children and their parents | fit tiny screws into electrical appara- | tus for as little as 20 cents per thou- sand. One child of 9 and her mother were found making doll dresses, about ‘a dozen every two hours, at the rate of 4 cents a dozen. And they furnish- ed their own thread. Schools Can’t Absorb All According to a white house con- ference committee, “the great mass of hpi children enter occupations that are monotonous in the extreme, lacking all educative value other than a certain amount of training in habits of work. What they must do can be learned in a few hours, or at best a few days; after that it is a matter of repeating the same tasks over and volves more than usual waste during the years when mental growth and! acquisition are at their height, and offers a poor substitute for the train- ing and self-expression of school life.” (Few New Birds Are i Reported in State By 0. A. STEVENS North Dakota Agricultural College The week following March 29 brought in practically no new birds. At present the weather is more fav: orable and we daily are expecting th {arrival of soog sparrows, grackles an: red-winged blackbirds as well as ad- ,ditional numbers of robins. The red. wings had been reported before but only a few. A number of additional reports on over again. Such a procedure in-|, deer. ——_——_—_——————@|_ The information set forth that | 1 when the automobile reached the At the Movies _ dot a. hill, Reichert planned. to stop See ithe car under the. pretext that some- PARAMOUNT ithing had gone wrong, and in ad- Uphold City’s Right To Rap Drunk Drivers Fargo, April 13.—()—Power of the city of Fargo to prosecute and mete out penalties in drunken driving cases is upheld by Judge M. J, Englert of Valley City in a ruling received by M. ‘W. Murphy, city attorney of Fargo, on an appeal. The appeal was taken in the case of the city against Jee Glaser, fined $25 and sentenced to 60 days in the city jail on a charge of drunken driving. Clair F. Brickner of Fargo, Glaser’s j attorney, filed a demurrer in police court on grounds that F. A. Leonard, Police magistrate, had no jurisdiction because the city ordinance conflicts | with the state law. The demurrer was overruled and an appeal taken. Brickner contended there are state laws which govern and provide pen- alties for drunken driving and there- fore the city cannot pass an ordinance regulating the offense. Judge Englert held, however, that \the state law gives cities power to |pass ordinances to carry into effect | the powers granted cities. Revolt in Ecuador’s Navy Is Suppressed Guayaquil, Ecuador, April 13.—(7)}— Ecuador got its navy back Tuesday when crews were put aboard the gun- boats Cotapaxi and Tarqui. The ves- sels comprising the navy were recov- ered in the night from the mutineers who seized them in Guayaquil harbor last_ week. The naval engagement, in which not a shot was fired, followed recapture of the fort at Punta Piedras where another rebel group was installed. General Ildefonso Mendoza, leader of the unsuccessful revolt, was found hiding with two of his lieutenants in the boiler room of the Cotopaxi, Tests conducted on the killing pow- er of various insecticides during the past several years show that poison The following highlights’ in the push life of Claudette Colbert, ‘filmland’s ment. “most unscandalized” brunette, fea- tured by Paramount in “The Wiser Sex,” give a sketchy idea of one of the movies’ most fascinating “biogs:” Born in the suburbs of Paris, near the Bois de Bologne . . . almost her entire memory of Paris in childhood is confined to daily walks in the {“bois” with the nurse ... baby “snaps” jare divided between views of her clinging to the hands of her appoint- ed custodian, or peering solemnly over the side of a high-wheeled car- riage . . . when she was six, father lost his money, and the family de- termined to seek a new start in New York. . . she speaks English without accent because her parents spoke to her only in French at home, so that She could not mimic their accent +++ at school, and with her chums She conversed in English ... in spite of having to learn the language of her adopted land, she never failed in a grade and was named class valedic- torlan upon graduation from Wash- ington Irving high school .. . it is one of the tragedies of Claudette’s life that her father, employed in the foreign department of the First Na- tional Bank, did not live to see her triumph in “Kiss in A Taxi”... she disliked silent pictures because it was too much the art of “making faces” +.. truly Parisian in her appreciation of, and sbility to wear, fine’ clothes ++ many of her stage and screen costumes, as well as her own clothes are self-created .. . is taking up golf and wants to do another stage play. ie machine down an embank- CAPITOL THEATRE There are plenty of millionaires who can afford a whole fleet of air- planes if they wanted them, but the number of wealthy men who actually own planes, and pilot them for their own amusement can be counted on two hands, according to figures fur- nished by Washington. | There are, perhaps, less than 100 really wealthy men in the United tates who fly to business or on leasure regularly, and of this num- ber, there are only a score who use {the air continually as a means of travel to their offices. A wealthy man was asked about fusting, the trouble “he planned to bran bait containing sodium fluosili- cate is about twice as effective as oth- er poison. What wakes-you-up and sets-you-up for the day? A cup of good coffee! So be ; y. sure it % good—good | pe 1 ] X, to begin with, Try Schilling! | Several million westerners call it WINGS of the MORNING. hil Sal ne smoker tells another.. - And so was insured for $16,500, before any|+-.291 that in these states alone from Carly arrivals have been received. Rob- this, and said most millionaires are effort could be made to save it. der 18 are ins Were seen Marcn 27 at Lisbon and in pig business, and the risk of reg- 20,000 to 25,000 minors unt jat Bismarck, Meadowlarks were|utar air travel is still too great to Leo P. Butler is owner of the ele- { injured annually. {noted March 27 at Ellendale. Kill- ratory Btatistics show that the younger the ‘deer, geese, juncoes and tree spar- take chances, hence their corpora- worker, the more likely he is to be in- rows have been reported at Tower , tions discourage the idea. Plan Journal: Jieed in handling machinery. ‘The City, Geese have been seen | also.| ‘Hughes a Pilot fhouse conference on Child |Flocks of ducks were observed at Lis-| Howard Hughes, who made the white “ * ” Hall of Fame at U|foatn and Protection has called for Pon and Ellendale March 27. |). |great air epic, “Hell's Angels,” and ’ the word gets around! Minot, N. D., April 13—()—Ap- pointment of a committee to make arrangements for a hall of fame at many restrictions of dangerous occu- pations, But actual laws are far be- hind these standards. One 15-year-old boy operating a the University of North Dakota, where {punch press clipped off three of his pictures of men and women who per- form some outstanding service and make some substantial contribution ta the journalism of the state will be laced, was announced Tuesday by Ww: ‘H. Francis, Velva, president of the North Dakota Press association. Francis is chairman of the es University, secretary of the commit- tee; Rilie R. Morgan, Grafton; and G. D, Colcord, Minot, the latter two being past presidents of the state as- sociation. Donnelly Predicts ’. Improved Earnings New York, April 13.—(P)—Excel- Jent crop cond ions in territory served by the Northern Pacific Railway hold hope for improved earnings, Charles Donnelly, president of the road, told stockholders at their annual meeting ‘Tuesday. Donnelly said he looked for no wick revival of industry, but believed favorable crops, provided prices were satisfactory, might give some impetus to improvement. “But,” he added, “at-the present time things don’t look so good.” Northern Pacific's earnings were isa pointing in January he said, but a little better in February. March results are not yet at hand. To Back Cooperative Grain Selling Bodies Fargo, April 13—(®)—The farmers Nesone grain sesriation #2} finianes ooperative grain mar! organiz- ations of the northwest for the com- i in i» dt we yy Wilbur tions of the Na-' Mott, ae tinger count coming” markit quarter of a century since the ty’s organization. bee cere the event which en suggested Yor the e' would be held in June. E. Trous: dale, W. J. Glenny and have been appointed as ~ tee on general arrangements. Sub- committees are to be appointed over the county. fingers because, he said, “the-boss was hollering at me to work faster.” In a southern state a boy of 1! hired as an oiler crawled under a steam shovel to release a pin. His head was caught in the, driving chain, his skull fractured and his left eye blinded. He received about $800 com- pensation. When he was able to work again a sympathetic boss took Nim back. This time he was killed out- right when the machine he was oper- ating came in contact with a high- tension electric wire. ‘Wisconsin set an example in 1917 with triple compensation rates for children injured while illegally em- ployed, and Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Michigan and Alabama now have double rates. But these laws, varying among themselves, apply only to youngsters who are hired illegally. Boys and girls hurt while legally employed usually receive a mere percentage of their wages, and the latter, of course are small. * Shocking “Compensation’ And in 12 states illegally hired min- ors are excluded’ from any benefits under the compensation Jaw. lack is explained by certain legisla- tors on the theory that it would tend to encourage civil suits in which the injured would be tad to receive uch larger amount "Two such boys illegally employed received $50 apiece when each lost his right hand while running a saw. Qt! wt $12 for eyesight perman- ba ae . A fourth received $12 for the loss of a hand. Their fam- ilies declared that they dared not sue for damages lest the fathers be dis- charged. Child labor is not always cheap la- bor, especially in those states where injured- minors are more adequately protected by law. A 16-year-old girl in the south lost four fingers in a t-\ laundry mangle three hours after she had started to work. Although she | received. but $500, those were three costly hours for such unskilled labor. ‘An 11-year-old boy was hired to help move some machinery in a west- ern packing plant. On the fourth day he was fatally injured. Because @ child had been given a job that could have beén done with greater safety by @ man, a mother lost her 5 | vance of the usual date. A golden- |migration. The is one of our ‘gi Fairmount a mourning dove was re- iported March 29. The first of these Birds often arrives considerably in ad- crowned kinglet was seen at Fargo tive birds and one call note suggests one of the wren’s notes. Missouri Gridders | On Protest Strike Columbia, Mo., April 13.—(?)—Mem- bers of the University of Missouri football squad were on “strike” Wed- nesday as a protest against the re- signation of Gwinn Henry, head coach. The players refused to don their uniforms Tuesday for spring practice and signed a petition in which they objected to the withdrawal of Henry | who has just completed another spec: pean nav, wale | tacular air picture, “Sky Devil ‘commonly begins to appear in our re- | Which will be seen in this city’at the ion the latter part of February. At/Capitel Theatre commencing Thurs- day is not one of the millionaires who is afraid to take chances. ‘The young producer has been pilot- ing airplanes since he was 14, and is March 30. They are very small, ac-|considered the foremost amateur pilot of the Hollywood movie colony. Now he can perform stunts with a plane that cause veteran aviators to gasp in amazement. Wound Is Fatal to Cass County Farmer Chaffee, N. D., April 13.—(4)—Her- man Zick, about 45, retired farmer, died Tuesday from a gunshot wound. He had been in ill health about two years. He leaves a son and daugh- ter and two brothers. Coroner O. J. Bante » Fargo, will’ investigate the jeath, as coach. Leaders of the movement said there would be no more spring practice until Henry’s successor is named, and that even then they would not return to the field unless the new coach should be acceptable to them. Will Bury Pioneer Woman Near Leeds Leeds, N. D., April 13.—()—Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Jacobson, 88, who died Sunday, will be held Wed- nesday at Chain Lake. Lutheran church. Interment will be in the church cemetery, She leaves five sons, three daugh- ters, 27 grand-children,- eight great grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren, é Labor Federation Protests Pay Cuts ‘Washington, 12.—(?)—An early showdown on federal pay cuts was as- sured Tuesday as a new cams from the American Federation of La~ bor sharneterising: such a step as one presaging, @ breakdown in the Amer- in standard of living. 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