The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 31, 1938, Page 3

MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1938. ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na-' tional and International Problems Insep- arable From Local Welfare THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘PAYROLL OF BOYS COMPILE © STATE SHOWS | STRIKING RECORD AN INCREASE i | ORDINARY PASSING GRADE TAX REVISION LEAGUE COM- OF SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT! PILES REPORT COVERING IS WORTHLESS, IT IS RE-| sTATE EMPLOYES FOR PE- . ONE BID Washington. — Pan-American “Airways submitted the only bid for airmail service from Balti- more to Hamilton, Bermuda to the Postoffice Department recently. Its bid was $.00001 per pound for a spetificed load up to 800 pounds i * . per trip and at rate of $.000005 i V . 7 per pound for loads more than 800 \ pounds. Under such a bid, if the Airways handle 100,000 pounds of ‘FORD SCHOOL i qo wee As a business magazine recently , were generally designed to ach- said, “It was to Washington that ‘jeve just that, not to smear the business looked this week for clues of what’s ahead.” That has been largely true ever since 1929. It is probabiy more true today than it ever was before. Politics has become the dominating fac- tor in ‘the business situation and the business outlook. Number one late Washington occurrence was the President’s Statement, made at a press con- ference, to the effect that he wishes the ultimate destruction of all holding companieS. He speci- fically mentioned banking hold- ing compariies, but did not fur- ther elaborate his views. The Public Utility’ Act of 1935— whose constitutionality will be finally decided by the Supreme Ccurt this term—demonstrated the Administration’s policy of eli- minating holding companies in public utility field, but up to now no one believed the President was looking into other fields. His statement was greeted with both wonder and amazement in finan- cial circles, which pointed out that about half of all the widely- held listed securities nit concerns which:ate wholly | or partly holding companies by na- ture, and said that it would be impossible to accurately gauge the effect of a wholesale anti-holding company policy until Mr. Roose- velt clarifies or explains his views and purposes. The holding company declara- tion, coming on top of the recent- ly inaugurated anti-monopoly movement, further illustrates the widening breech between an Ad- ministration which is still cling- ing to its more or less revolution- ary objectives, and a Congress which seems to be daily turning more conservative and dubious of White House policies. It like- wise further emphasizes the tre- mendous cleavage of opinion that exists between the Administra- ticn and’ American business-at- large. Less-headlined, but of unusual interest, was an “investigation” on the subject of employment which ‘a Senate committee recent- ly held. As, Time says, “To the public generally, a Senate investi- gation means a scandal hunt.” This one was very different—the committee honestly wanted infor- mation, and the questions asked TOTAL COSTS OF | CCC OPERATIONS ARE SUBMITTED NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZATION JACKSONVILLE, Fia., Jan. 31 (FNS).—Total CCC operating costs in Florida for last year‘were $4,305,230.21, according to figures supplied the State Welfare Board by Robert Fechner, national di- rector, it was announced he?€"té- state welfare commissioner. It was estimated that Florida en- rollees formally allotted $1,786,- 226.25 to their dependents during the same-period. The director stated that records compiled by the U. S. Bureau of Census showed that CCC enrol- lees had planted 3,500,000 trees, aio genernment’s 4 | questionee. | One witness was Federal Re- !serve Chairman Eccles, represen- tative of right-wing Administra- tion opinion. Mr. Eccles, who has long advocated immediate bud- get-balancing, attributed the busi- ness slump to soldiers’ bonus pay- ment, which accentuated infla- tionary sentiment, and to strikes, increased operating costs for the railroads, lack of expansion by utilities and the government's ef- fort to reduce its contribution to consumer spending power. He Said it was necessary to reduce “monopolistically controlled prices and wages which are now two high.” Another witness was General Motors’ William Knudsen, who described the dilemma in the au- tomotive industry, the amazingly fast drop in new and used car buying, spoke of “fear psycholo- gy’,as a factor ipipspducing bad timeszend attrybutesyshis in part wee yioward bu: zA ion was aen ny Ae a Roehusk President, who said that “business lacks cot fidence and is scared” and observed ~ that the, businessman “has been clubbed over the head many times.” Mr. ‘Wood also said that a number of of gold; increased Federal Reserve requirements, and the fact that private spending did not take up the slack when thé government began slowing down some of its emergency activities. All of these witnesses likewise agreed that abnormally large in- ventories had contributed to the unprecedented sharpness of the decline last fall and early winter. The inventory situation is gradu- ally being corrected now, and in some industries recent figures in- dicate that ‘inventories are ex- ceedingly low—one of the main facts on which the many econom- ists who look for an upturn this spring or summer put their hopes. meantime, the actual, business in- dices have not changed much late- VEALED “RIOD OF 1S MONTHS f (Speci DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 31.— Average spoilage of less than one} percent on productive work re- quiring in excess of a million hours a year is the record of the student body of the Henry Ford Trade School located in the Rouge! plant of the Ford Motor Com-} pany here. The students are 1-| 700 boys between 12 and 19 years/ old. To get a passing grade in the daily examinations in the Trade School, the work turned out by| the students must be accurate from 0.003 inches to 0.0001 inches, | and finer. The ordinary passing grade of 75 percent in most schools is worthless in the Ford} school. Thousandths and _ ten-thou-} sandths of an inchSare common measurements for Trade School Seys.. All their workjis produc- tive, although none.of the work| goes into the Ford car. i Smaller boys repair small tools 2used in the Ford plant. An ex- jample is the repairing of up to }15,000 pair of safety goggles each | month. Older boys of more experience} repair all of the precision tools! to The Citizen) t (Speeial to ‘The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, . Jan. 31— “Believe it or Not’, the payroll? of the major departments: of the: state government haye increased more than one-fourth'in less than | two years”, says an official of the Tax Revision League. “During the same period Governor, Cone, in line with his campaign pledge of economy has cut the payroll of his office 48 percent”. The Tax Revision League has compiled a list of state employes for the month of November, 1937. This is compared with list of em- ployes published by the comptrol- ler’s office for March, 1936. The League’s statement shows an increase “in a period of 19 months of approximately 25.5 percent in the number of state employes and approximately 28.2 percent in: the total payroll”. “It is estimated, on the basis of the Noveniber payroll”, the report says, “that the state employes to- tal more..than. 8,000, including seasonal employes and labor on an hourly basis, and the total an- nual payroll is more than $10,- 000,000. “The 28.2 percent increase in the departments listed represents ithe tidy sum of approximately indicators and other items in pro- portion each month. | The oldest boys are engaged in the manufacture of tools—cutters, | reamers, drills, arbors, punches, ' dies, plug-gages, and special tools! in the Ford Company which can | be built on the machines used inj the Trade School shops. Inspection of their work is car- ried on in all stages of production, and finished work must be in- | spected before the tools can be sent out into the Fordfactory to | be used in production. | Johansson gage blocks, the in- ternational standard of measure- ment, which ‘are produced by | their own inventor, C. E. Johans- | son, in the -Ford- plant, constant- > Trade. School boys. spend a‘ So the debate goes on. In Spee mp es shee ly, with improvement lines offset by further declines in others. SAVES BANK $30,009 Cleveland.—Last spring, during a holdup in which the robbers got $18,866, Miss Mary Probala, 28, ran into a washroom of the Lor- ain Street Bank and stayed. Rec- ently, when three robbers enter- ed the bank, she followed her ori- ginal impulse, ran into the wash- room in which a burglar alarm hed been installed. sounded it and sav@i the bank $30,000. The men obtained only $4,000 on the counter and fled. minimum and to prevent future fires. A total of 5,272 man-days was spent by enrollees during the year in fighting fires.* All enrollees are¢ertitiey to the CCC by the State Welfare Board its vi istrict agen- cies. ‘The Board also furnished fanrperiation = 1S HEREBY GIVE! under and by virtue of and pursuant to that certain decree made and entered on the 22nd day of January, improved 28,000 acres of forest for < timber growth, built 16 lookout towers and houses and removed fire hazards from 13,653 acres. “The forest protection and im- provement work by the CCC has helped to safeguard Florida for- ests and parks. from five hazards so that these valuable natural re- sources will become of increasing value to the citizens of the state”, Director Fechner commented. Statistics compiled in Washing- ton disclosed that an average of 23 CCC camps were operated in the state during the fiscal year. The average number of young men and war veterans from the State who participated in the program during 1937 was given as 13,190, the department stating that each boy enrolied in the Corps remained for about nine months before being discharged to accept employment. The work Program advanced by CCC camps furnished healthful outdoor em- ployment to a total of 63% en- rolled Florida men as of Novem- ber 1, 1937, The major task of the forest camps during the year was the continuation of a program design- ed to hold forest fire losses to a im Chancery. in therein pending wherein A. Morales is plaintiff and E living, and ¢ sees, ‘grant under the said E mond R. Lord Tropic during the t. between Hae ted urge pioindan” hat * in some| Week im the classroom and two) weeks in the shop during their’ | course of training. They are paid cash scholarships and are given three weeks vacation each sum- mer and an additional week at .Christmas. In addition, they re- ceive free lunches. Two dollars per month: is paid each boy for deposit in a thrift account. Trouble Brewing The roar of the engines of the political machines can be heard in the garages. It won't be long now. —Buffalo News. Apoarentiy It takes all kinds to make up an electorate, including the silent vote and the noisy non-vote— Des Moines Register. bg It is of interest to note that the list compiled by the League shows “that while some departments have decreased both their number of employes and the amount of} their payroll, this is more than offset by heavy increases in other departments”. The report further stated: “The payroll of the governor’s office shows the largest decrease of any major state department. A decrease of 68 percent in num- ber of employes and 48 percent in total compensation. Several de- partments directly under the gov- ernor show a decrease but some departments under his control have made substantial increases in both the number of employes | and the amount of their payrolls. | “It is reasonable to assume that! increases are probably justifiable | in certain isolated cases, but an average increase in the total of these departments of 28.2 percent in 19 months is unpardonable. It is positive proof that some of those -entrusted with state af- fairs; the people’s business, are ; unworthy of that trust and are using their positions to pad the state payroll for personal gain or Political -expediency. It is also proof that the only thing that will stop our orgies of public spend- ing—federal, state and local—is a thoroughly aroused citizenship”. An unpublished, unproduced play may be copyrighted at the register of copyrights, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The fee is $1. OVER-SEAS TRANSPORTATION CO., INC. 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