WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT
What's It All About By The Man On The Street Someone has sajfi that the modern daily newspaper It of a kalekloscnplb nature, because as you turn it you tea many varied pictures of life. And this...
...It seems that there really is something worse than O. O. P. "farm relief...
...state for ijie party," are after State Sena lor Walter Gotland of Its cine with a sharp stick because h» intimated that they aught to go way back and alt...
...Now it appears, in the case of the southern corporation at least, to have hren a jug-handled affair, one in which it was a cinch for the boss to win and the men to Jose...
...Ill" eminent conservative, Prlmo de Rivera of Spain, was kicked out of his job of coercing the people and depriving them of every right guaranteed by the constitution...
...It was a bargain, an honest, open and above-board bargain, made for the pood of the country...
...And then came the dawn!'' as they say in the rrrov-les and the talkies...
...As nice a bedtime story as we ever heard...
...Reactionary newspapers, with their eyes as usual on the main chance, are denouncing the lobbyists—not because of their nefarious methods, but because they failed to deliver the goods...
...Cal Coolidge and Andy Mellon no longer were able to hold it up with glowing words...
...The preferred stork of the southern cotton mill draws 6 per cent dividends...
...Forgetful of the old G. O. P. adage, "Claim everything Ind admit nothing," a portion of the Stalwart press of fejj»nsin acknowledges that there are "a few weak spots prafe record of Gov...
...It looked like a Sne tresturr...
...The employes who had paid $4,noo,000 for stock found that It had dropped to $2,000,000...
...President Hoover is not only the only member of the 0. O. P. who is undergoing the torture that Is experienced by those who wear a "hair shirt" The Wisconsin (Spmen Republicans who are demanding their share of vie loaves and fishes "because they carried th...
...that it was only habit that kept some of them working so hard after they had not only achieved a fortune that would keep a couple of million wolves from the door but had such a wad of money that they didn't know what to do with it...
...It meets with a wave of condemnation that pours from every quarter wilh the sole exception of that inhabitated by the stingiest of money-frabbcrs, * • • But, aside from that inescapable conclusion, let us examine the business condition under which this breach of trust occurred, to see if any palliating circumstances can be unearthed...
...Somebody always is taking the joy out of life for the poor old Standpatters...
...So it sold them stock...
...A red-hot political cam-Ralgn...
...So it appeared when the news of it flashed over the wires ard through millions of radio receiving sets, and was gaily and gaudily headlined in the newspapers...
...Kohler...
...and the cut brings it down to $16.20...
...But this does not show the who...
...The breaking of a solemn compact is reprehensible...
...to astrology...
...This reflection brings to mind another instance of cupidity...
...So wc come to the sad conclusion that there are rich business men who do not find the accumulation of still more wealth—at the expense of their poor workers—boring, and that there arc men of money whose driving force is GREED...
...The workers went to the savings banks, drew out what money they had been able by economy to lay aside, and invested with their bosses...
...Cut right in two, a staggering loss for the new "partners...
...It was going to make them partners in the profitable business...
...This concern operates in Virginia, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson, who will be remembered by some persons whose eves are not clouded by gold dust as the author of the immortal Declaration of Independence, a document that will be pointed to in eloquent periods by orators all over the republic next Fourth of July...
...Senator Joe Grundy of the forward-looking state of Pennsylvania, in...
...The Eau Claire, Wis...
...a New York concern announced that it had decided to do something for its faithful and hard-working employes...
...The prospects of this Simon Legree concern are so rosy that, in its yearly report it...
...that the instinct of a constructive purpose and the desire for power motivated still others...
...a pittance that Is not calculated to swell appreciably the savings deposits of the banks of the "Sunny South.'' • • * The profits of this benevolent corporation are so large that the holders of its common stock are drawing 1(1 per rent a year, the same amount that is paid by the Union Pacific, one of the greatest railroad companies in the world, and everybody knows that railroad men get more than $16.20 a week...
...Gazette hands this nice compliment to the intelligent people of Wisconsin: "Walter Kohlcr has taken the rtate out of the half-insane cla>;s, running wild through the streets, shouting anathemas at all who would listen...
...It was painful for Die exploiters' press to be compelled to record the lart that...
...The other day it w.as discovered that back in December, 1928, that eminent philanthropist and statesman...
...And labor, tn view of this sacred promise, joined in the movement to keep things going by agreeing not to ask for a boost til pay until the alarming aspect of the business situation had passed away...
...down and let the men run Qe t>ie counter...
...that others continued the grind for the love of the romantic adventures that are inherent in a business life...
...This is what, the Con-servativcs call "fighting for principle," but the wise compositor will spell it "principal...
...This corporation owns the third largest cotton manufacturing business in the United States...
...Telegram says: "The stars in their courses point to the re-election of Gov...
...It will be remembered, for ^t was announced with a tremendous nourish of trumpets, that G. O. P. "prosperity" was to be safeguarded by doing everything possible to keep labor employed, and employed at the then existing rate of pay, which was to be maintained...
...Is it to laugh...
...they were to be placed in...
...It has 6.000 employes and the average wage is $18 a week, a beggarly sum...
...The press ajrenl.i of the corporation did not fail to let the dear public know all about their benevolent-browed magnates...
...During the boom in Wall Street, when its stock was soaring to the blue sky...
...The other day we read an article by a financial writer who told us that the mere making of money, the piling UP of huge profits, is really terribly boring to many rich men...
...This was the news that * southern cottrtn-mlll concern had made a 10 per rent slash in wages—in direct violation of the solemn pledge heralded at the conference of business men With President Hoover, following the crash in the stock market...
...gushed forth with these joyful words to Its humane owners: "Without ar,y atempt at prophecy, your management is more encouraged as regards the future than they hafce been for years...
...We predict that when the returns from the primary election come in the Telegram will see stars, all right, all right...
...And this is true...
...The market cracked...
...an address to his fellow wool manufacturers, said that Herbert Hoover "never ran for even the office of dog catcher, and doesn't know anything at all from experience.what legislation means...
...That was helping the workers with a vengeance...
...The Standpat Stalwart editors are addicted not only to crystal-gazing but...
...It is...
...generally brings out a whole lot of spots...
...a position to reap some of the rich rewards which heretofore had gone only to the insiders...
...Kohler...
...And then we turned the pa ire to be confronted by Wt entirely different picture...
...Steve BoUes of the Janesvillc...
Vol. 1 • February 1930 • No. 10
