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i^rw*!!««a <•>'• \^ * ,/#<v ti - j >* T* ' r,/* ;* ri 'M^ *\ * [?> fr, I > * HH ** fc "*** ^ *^f 1 * 1 * >" ^ "* 1 '* P -" "" »W X * i <* J '^ *, „. Thursday, KATwin SP'T^ T«U ,- * Talti «< *, IHM S< HR> | sf T«UM A#» TWENTY YEARS AGO cometist, will be present and assist in the program at the city hall next Friday evening. Mrs. Barbara Schreiner is jjioving from the west side to Sto|nu'i house on the east side. riFTY YEARS AGO lis Employees , ' Share of Income By Gtorre Peck Tto largest of our industrial corporations have long been considered by the radicals and so-called liberals a9 good targets at which to shoot. They look upon our big industries as fair game, with no closed season. To the Reds, big businesses symbolize all that is to be hated in Capitalism. One of these companies is the United States Steel Corporation. Strange- Joe Dittrich, who has just pufcand taken possession of the J. A. Neyer house in this village, has made arrangements for the renting of the store room in the Spaulding building on the west side, where he will soon open a first-class tailor - jiy establishment. Miss Verena Justen, of Chicago was a guest in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Justen, over the weekend. if Howard Vasey, son of Mr. snd Mrs. Jobs Vasey, met with a very painful injury on Sunday afternoon, when, while playing with a number of his young friends, he was accidentally struck a vicious blow over the right eye with a baseball bat. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Spencer left Sunday on a two-weeks' trip to New Yorit * THIRTY YEARS AGO tin the board of trade Monday, butter took a drop of one cent a pound below the price of last week and was quoted at 27 cents. Spencer's whole wheat floor is re- "©ommended for stomach trouble. Try H. Work on the N. A. Huemann store building on the west side is progressing nicely. The masons expect to hare the walls completed within the next week. We are informed that a number of farmers residing in this vicinity have been obliged to plant their corn a second time this year. The continued cold is responsible. At the meeting of the village board, on Monday evening last, Henry M. McOmber was appointed Village Constable for the ensuing year. During the high wind one day last week, a piece of board was blown from a pile at the brick yard, and striking j -- r one of the workmen in the side broke, ly enough, this company which totwo of his ribs. gether with its operating subsidiaries R. H. Owen left last week for'employs 224,000 workers, is one of Kansas City, Missouri, where he has the outstanding examples which can secured a situation in a large whole- ^ set forth on behatf of Amer- sa,le music ,h ouse. i«>n Sv«t»m of Free Enterprise Our public school will close on Friday next. There will be exercises at From lftMt &he year it was organized) to pill,: inclusive, a period of eight yea*i,1M>rkers got 64.7 per cent of the net mbme dollar; from 1910 to 1919, 70.8 perc ent; from 1920 to 1929, 81.5 per cent; and from 1980 to 1939, 94.4 per cent. Apparently it has been the policy of this company, in line with industry as a whole, to give its employees an ever-increasing share of its net earnings. Surely not better answer can be given to the left-wingers Who are trying to, tear down the American Way. ican System Profit or Capitalistic System). rtov n»TT i nerp wm m> exprcises » A short time ago the U.S. Steel the school house in the forenoon and J Corp. released jtefinanciaj stetoment in the afternoon the teachers and.^r the year19S9. This columnist scholars will have a picnic a* McCol lum's lake. SIXTY YEARS AGO hastens to extend his congratulations to the officers and directors of that company for having joined the small but growing group of American industries which has discovered it' is _ , . .. . - u_ sound business to take the public and The coolest place »n town is lfn. j loyoe8 completely into its confi- Scott's ice cream parlor, where every-) body is . w - and! ^8 1989 "P®1* th*t U,S f„h r ! T Steel ha, nothing to hide. It not feed store to Lansings Mc^. mto the[&nlv shows proflt the company store formerly occupied by Lansing [ during that y«ar but it breaks * M^'sutL, wife of Michael Su«- <"»» *• -"h,t OONORE8SIONAX VIEWS by Congressman Chauncey W. Reed ton who lives Mi th® East side of the river, died on Sunday night last, and was buried on Tuesday. Her remains were followed to their last resting place by a large concourse of relatives and friends. Since the late rains there is plenty of water in the river, and the steamboat is able to make the regular trips without trouble. " BOYS' 4-H CAMP TO BE „ ma :n FROM JULY 1 TO 4 fORTY YEARS AGO Prof. P. E. Angevine has received a call to Lake Crystal, Minn., at a salary of $1,000. There are nine teachers in the gradestbesides the kindergarten. Whether ne will accept is a question which it is hoped he will decide in favor of McHenry. Mrs. Mattie Smith, the talented Approximately 200 4-H members .enrolled in the agricultural projects 1 in Northern Illinois counties close to Rockford will attend the 4-H camp on the grounds of Camp Rotary it has been announced by Farm Adviser John H. Brock. This years camp will be built around various hobbies that 4-H members are interested in. The hobbies that will be available include: campfire, recreation, swimming, handicraft, music, photography, nature study, puzzles and astronomy. Campers at Camp Blackhawk as this district camp is known will be from McHenry, Boone, DeKalb, Kane, Lake, Cook, Kankakee, Lee, Ogle, Whiteside, Winnebago, Bureau and Carroll counties. percentage of the net income doHjkt went to employees. In 1939i Big Steel sold to the public, goods and services to the tune of 857 million dollars. Out of this, 310 millions were paid to others for goods and services, 67 millions^ for taxes, 61 millions were set aside* for wear and usage of facilities and 9 millions were paid for interest. Not one penny of these four items totalling 447 millions was available for either the stockholders or employees of the company. Deducting this 447 million from the total business of 857 million we find that there was a balance of 410 million left. This was the entire amount available for division between employees and stockholders and to be set aside for reserves. Out of this the company paid out in wages and salaries 369 million dollars or 90 per cenU, leaving 10 per cent (for the stockholders and to be set aside for future needs. If further proof of the efficacy erf the American System of Free Enterprise is needed, let us examine the entire 38 year record of this company's treatment of its employees. Each decade has found it disbursing an increasing share of the net income dollar to its workers. Offer the Most _ Amazing Used Car Baraoins in their History! SAME LOW PRICES EXTENDED TO WHOLESALERS Highlights of the Week in the Capital Both legislative and executive actions have been moving at a fast pace during the past week. I will try to give my constituents a brief resume of the legislative and executive happenings of the week. Monday, Maty 27: The Senate passed and sent to the House the LaFollette Civil Liberties bill. This legislation seeks to outlaw so-called industrial espionage and strike breaking. Leading the Senate opposition were Senators Vandenberg and Taft. Opponents of this measure contend that it will virtually tie American industry in knots. Capita! observers point out that this legislation might tend to slow up preparedness and national defense and it is predicted that the bill will die in the House. On this same day the House Naval Affairs Committee" eliminated from the Naval construction bill certain restrictions on profits by private shipbuilding concerns. The reason given for the Committee action was that is was necessary to stimulate production and to insure competition in the bidding on Naval construction contracts. It was contended that existing regulations on profits make Navy contracts less attractive to shipbuilders than are private contracts. In view of the President's insistence, again expressed in his recent nation-wide fireside chat, that the defense program must safeguard against excessive profits being made, questioning glances are the order of the day. Tuesday, May 28: The President announced the appointment of a sevenman Advisory National Defense Commission. The men and the woman named and the functions of the national defense program which they are expected to supervise are: Edward R. Stettenius, Jr., Chairman of U. S. Steel Corporation, Industrial Materials; W. S. Knudsen, President of General Motors, Industrial Production; Sidney Hillman, CIO Vice-president, Employment; Chester C. Davis, Federal Reserve Board Governor and former head of the AAA, Farm Products; Ralph Budd, Chairman of the C. B. &. Q. RR, Transportation; Leon Looxmo (by Franklyn Waltman) * Americans are horrified over the tragic events now taking place in Europe. They also are bewildered over the apparent impotence of the .French Army to stop the <|nward march of the Nazi forces in recent days. We had understood that the French had the best army in all Europe. We had been given to understand that the Maginot Line was impregnable. What then has happened? This is a question that frequently has been heard in every town of our land. Well, one "answer is that France,' to fear, too, had a New Deal. The French did not call it that but the Popular Front of the Socialist Blum government was so much like the American New Deal that they had the appearance of the Siamese Twins. It will be recalled that the sit-down strike, which was given encouragement by our New Deal, originated in France under the Blum regime. The latter also sponsored a ^0-hour work week, took control of the marketing of wheat, placed restrictions on banking, devalued the franc and nationalised the munitions industry. * French are Paying la Blood Space is not adequate to go into upon the Dies Committee, the while she has espoused and sought to aid financially the admittedly voniiMnist tinged American Youth' Congress, even going so far as to entertain its leaders in the White House itself. Now, belatedly, Mr. Roosevelt and the New Dealers* generally are raising a hue and cry over the Fifth Column and are creating a publWlear and frenzy that may well cause needless riots and bloodshed, the while for seven years they have been engendering and encouraging the very dangers that now cause them ostensibly to quake in their boots. Yes, verily, the New Deal constitutes the Fifth Column we have most Public Pulse (All communications for this department must be signed by the writer, etherise they will not ha published. The Plaindealer fat* vites its readers to express their oymioas in these columns.) 4-** • BnC^UaSaMnSSXU rLOKAL One Mile South of MoHenry vf: - ~ «i Konto SL ; m>P-'y"" Flowers for all oocasions! Phone 4S VEWOR I BOX AT LART Met Bide- OFFICE * ' * Other fey WHAT IS THE ANSWER? Once again our human race has proven itself an inconsistent, unorganized j. even fool'sh species of life. the details of the way these policies Some of us have forgofctcr the atroworked out. One result frequently city of 1914 and are *t war again, has been ipentioned, namely, that They do not remember what little any among the major nations in the world violence has ever availed. They're at only France has lagged behind the it again. United States in economic recovery, j Once again fellow human creatures, Now, apparently, the French are fVay- each as individual as a fingerprint, ing with their blood for the crack-pot have risen against each other and kill, incompetence of their New Deal. The , maim and cleave forward with utter economic and industrial structure of, disregard for precious flesh, priceless the country was so weakened by the blood,, and the souls which to us are Trojan Horse of Socialism that when the supreme test of war came the French were unable to meet the challenge adequately. There is a lesson for America in what has happened in France. May Heaven forbid that we must pay for our New Deal as the French are paying for their New Deal. We still have the greatest of all heritage. Lately, war has become wholesale slaughter through the invention of machines designed to kill more effectively snd faster greater numbers of men at each operation. This easily reminds us of the stockyards. What does it all mean? Many people concern themselves time to clean out the saboteurs of our i orriy with supporting one or the other national economy who now hold the key posts in Washington. And clean them out we must, If this country is to produce promptly the arms and munitions which it needs to defend itself in all eventualities. For the Fifth Column which this country has most to fear is not the alien enemies among us but the New Deal and its satellites. No Fifth Column working deliberately and maliciously to undermine the foundations of national defense could have succeeded in this objective so well as has the New Deal. Military Defenses Neglected Throughout the more than seven years of its, existence, the New Deal has continuously sapped at the financial structure of the country. Now with a real or manufactured threat to the Nation's security, and with inconceivable sums required to prepare imof the two combatant sides. They point out reasons, give excuses, and justify eloquently that which they themselves never question or analyze; that which they feel without giving thought to the fact that there are really two sides, each as sincerely convincing as the other, to the question. Yes, we must look a little farther than considering who is right or wrong. What is the answer to the eternal questions -- Where are we going? Why do we struggle so? What does this all mean? We hear many explanations of the war. Some argue the points of economic adjustment, the fulfillment of a bilblical prophecy, and some just call it madness. But we fee! our question still unanswered, "Why war?" There has never been a good enough reason for the spilling of good German blood or for the loss of Anglo-French limb. We feel there is something utterly, a*" % 0Wer K12 aaA 14 J* V-41 ir. .Sis: A.F.Fre--rt Ci. McHenry, ZDL Hneennudeerrssoonn , Cunhaaiirrmmaann oofi itnhee S»eeccuurni-- defensneees<*, ew<*e> f1in°d" # onuergsleelcvteesd famcieHd- jnganejy wro,n gf--- *s omething that can't ties and Exchange^ Commission, I wjtjj a peace-time debt nearly twice Wholesale and^etailPrice «»biliza- that which was incurred "to make the 1938 Chevrolet Coupe wth heater. * <•- 4-door flle- [ daa, radio and heater. 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These people will act only in an "Advisory" capacity. We wonder how "Advisory" it will be. Will the new defense program be run by business-men or will it actually be run by New Deal politicians? Is the appointment of this Commvssidn a mere window dressing or is it "the real goods?*' Only time will tell. The House approved the Vinson Naval Construction bill and the Senate gave its approval to an already House approved measure which would assist the South American Republics in strengthening their armies and navies. A defense tax program for passage at the present session of Congress was announced. An increase in taxes up to $700,000,000, and a $3,000,- 000,000 raising in the debt limit are the formula of the new tax program. There may be a flat ten per cent increase in all existing taxes. The ac* tual features of the new tax bill are still In their embryo state. Wednesday, May 29: It was announced that President Roosevelt is preparing to ask Congress for a still larger appropriation for defense and will suggest a supplemental air corpji expansion program calling for an outlay of at least $6,000,000. While your Congressman believes that we must have an adequate national defense program; while he realizes that the present Administration has been negligent in its duty toward the American people /by its failure to provide it, and while he will be ready and willing at all times to support in the future as he has in the past legislation which will protect our nation in the future as he has in the past legislation which will protect our nation Schwermait Chevrolet Sales Phone 277 Corner 111. 31 & 20 FOR A BETTER USED CAR VALUE - SEE YOUR CHEVROLET DEALER T*h! world safe for democracy" in the last world war under . another Democratic administration. The large sums appropriated in the last seven years and intended to equip our military and naval forces for adequate defense have been expended without achieving the armaments needed, as freely admitted by the heads of our military and naval establishments. Nor have the President's efforts to gloss over the deficiencies given the public any reassurance. Could any Fifth Column do more than to leave us with a water bucket be attributed to fanaticism, prophecy, or adjustment. No nation on this earth is so radically different from another that they may consider themselves enemies. No matter their government, people are fundamentally the same. We are interested primarily in nourishing and sheltering our bodies. There are certain universal things in which we believe. Some peoples' lives are dedicated to God; some, to their, spouse and children/ some, to a search for beauty; and others have as their religion advancement and research. For all of us there is a desire to learn. To learn what reason there is for so many perkorses WantST I BUY OM aai Disabled Pay fro-- $5 to fit. -r-- AtlflK W. WEKBRACK I Pbeas 444 SS5 Hayward Steost Woodstock, lit <• INSURANCE '£5 EUL I WALSH ran AUTO $T; |teUaWe Compalniee Whssi yoa asod ia--raaiii sf aa Pfcaas 43 ar.tl-M PrteiBldf. .t o fai g.h t. a fair e when the mos.t power.fu l, ^vers e factors in life; to discover the method fw se,u Ful,er brush AMM1MAS AM MAA/1A/1 T w ' or to find out why the grass is green. Soldiers aren't just so many uniforms. The countries which fight today have produced the greatest of men. Goethe, Spinoza, Shakespeare, the tHree great "B's" of music, Bismarck, Shelley, Schopenauer, Heine, Kant, Milton and Schiller are a few. Hundreds of thousands of men will engines are needed? The New Deal has consistently fanned the fires of class hates and prejudices, has preached that success in business was a badge of disgrace, rather than honor; it has encouraged strife and bitterness in the ranks of labor, arraying the employee against the employer and, all the time, it has tai ken, from ,b,o th employer and em v . . . . have died before this war is over. r^yl^al,k^^!_sub8^!_of._each^n Consider that each one has the potentialities for making this world a bet- ?!**> f ~.. • HjJASH FOR DEAD HORSES and CATTLE Hon*, $3.00; Oows, $4.00; Dead Hogs and Sheep removed free! MIDWEST REMOVAL 00. Tel. Woodstock 1624-M-l or Dundee 10--Reverse Charges Telephone No. NO Insnqsaes ageata for ad class-- sf HIT MaHINKT ILUNOM the form of raids on profits, from the one, and hidden taxes, from the other, to pay for its waste and extravagance. These things are all apart from the fact that dangerous radicals, crackpots, "fetllow travelers" and others ter place in which to live. Is there any reason for war which would approach shadowing the reason for these men to live. The purpose of government is to h«vft>g little sympathy with, or . real1 J"0™?" m">he antipathy for* American institution. 'or ,p.ursu,t of and ideals haVe been nlaced in hiirh time8, the Kovernment must take governmental position, clothed Kwith Mastic steps to insure this security. dictatorial authority, and permitted to "bore from within" to their hearts' content. Bridges Case la Example notorious Communist Harry Bridges was saved from deportation and so and its people, he feels that we can't great a stench has her handling of the were finally penetrated by it and he has now asked that the Department of Justice take over the Service, to what advantage, judged by the previous attitude of Attorney General Jackson toward subversists, it is difficult to forecast. The one instrument of government, that has honestly endeavored to seek out and to curb Fifth Column activities, the Dies Congressional Committee, has met only with open rebuffs and hostility from the President himself and has failed to receive the proper co-operation from the Department of Justice and other government agencies due to this Executive antagonism. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt has also sought to cast discredit and ridicule But a man's life is too high a price for this security, since so few governments realise their responsibility in this connection. A man has the Madame Pwkin. i. a strikinc I*1* J"*!'?. '"y. ""I"1"' """Pample. Through her intercession the h e\ Pjtriotism then become" a sorry nn£r*nn. r.nJL»ni.t u™ RridiMM whe? compared to the meaning of humanity. I It, too, can be considered that exgo too fast and that this additional i Immigration Service created that even ! J request on the part of the President the aloof nostrils of Mr. Rooseveit, ^wth and war is not the only means should be considered with great csu- K" anA eXpan tion. We owe a duty to the American public which will have to pay the bill to keep our feet on, the ground and our heads clear and not allow official Washington to run hog wild in spending the people's money. We're for an adequate air force but we don't believe that public funds should be put into large numbers of aeroplanes which may be obselete from a military standpoint at the time that they are turned out of a factory. What seems more practical to us is to provide facilities for rapid production of aircraft in case of emergency. Our nation and its officials must not become hysterical and panic stricken. Common sense and reason should still prevail. | All this and much more has been said before. In fact, it has become old-fashioned. Some people scoff when you put the horror of bloodshed above the ideals.over which wars are waged. But somehow, this certain doctrine will never become out-dated -- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." What strange quirks of fate or character have perverted people's minds from the truth of this good sound reasoning, Why do we struggle so uselessly over things that have but one truth? What have we gained through these centuries of violence and bitterness. Where are we going? What is the answer? BARRY TAXMANE 5. JL Freued & Son CONTRACTORS AMD BUILDERS 56-W Oar Experienoe is at Tonr * Service in Bnflding Your Wants ^ ChirHe's Repair Shop Northeast corner of State Bridge m Charles Street, Sign Painting Truck Lettering - Furniture Upholstering and Repairing CHARLES RIETESEL KENT & COMPANY AO Kinds of _ I N S U R A N C E 'ffaced with the sMst reliable . Csaipaaies ' CSSSM tn and talk it •vse.-- Phone McHenry 8