Judge — August 9, 1930 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Industrial Statesmanship “Pxpusrnian sratesmansiie of the I first order,” says Commissioner ‘rances. Perkins in comment unemployment plin of the Company. Under workers and the com- pany jointly build up a trust fund, to be drawn upon for relief pay ments in time of stress. “The contti- butions would be the same from presi- dent down to office boy, 1 per cent of the income. The executives will not be called upon to contribute in cases of emergency. Emer; defined as the time when more money is being paid out for relief than is heing paid into the fund for dues. When employment falls below a. cer- tain figure non-members will be re- quired to pay into the fund, provided they are employed at least 50 per cent of the time, and unemployed members will not be required to contribute, but > benefits.” As Miss Per- s, “The fact that officers are to contribute a percentage of their salaries will also impel ee to plan for sta ion, It wil » the ecutives an_ incentive pr erent u employment.” This splendid scheme time when seve American peop the very wi in which nounced Owen Young, in 4 San Francisco, was saying that any such degree of unemployment — is wholly unnecessary and proves that we haven't got our social machine ad- justed properly. Gerard Swope is di- rectly responsible for the plan. But it should not be overlooked that Mr. Young himself is the head of the General Electric board. He today as he has stood fc as our greatest industrial statesman, comes at a millions of the ire out of work, In stands some The Price of War still paying for the Civil VV Last year we paid out in pensions to veterans of that ancient folly and to their dependents — the round sum of $142,000,000. We are still paying for the Spanish War of more than a generation ago. Our pension bill for that war was $65,000,000 last year, and the new legislation is going to increase Nobody can guess what the World War is going to cost in pensions. But it will be plenty. Long after all the warships have been scrapped, our grandchildren’s children will curse us for the idiots that we are in even arguing about the survival of war. The Spirit of Horatio Alger ago the Y. M. TY-FOUR rs A. in a small New York town n excursion to the Centennial tion. A sixteen-year old coun- try boy named Elmer Sperry was taken along. He spent exciting days around the engineering exhibits and went home to become a great engi- neer. When he died he was the holder of four hundred patents, including those for the gyro compass and the gyro stabilizer. He never forgot that trip which opened his eyes to. the beckoning, baffling world of invention. His will, filed the other day, left a million dollars to the Y. M. C. A. Probably many a man in moments of day-dream recalls gratefully the little incident, the brief word, the helping hand that e him his first start. He pictures himself, some day when he is rich, going to that bene- actor of the old da ‘You have forgotten me, but I am nd-So. Here is part of my for- ke it, for all that I am I "Few ever carry out such sentimental resolutions. It is easy to forget. Successful men are prone to take on new obligations so fast that they never catch up with the old ones. And the great majority come belated to the sad knowledge that what once looked like a start was just a switch and that they never got started at all. So here's to the memory of Elmer Sperry, not only and saying, because he made 1s ships safer at sea and planes safer in high air, but also because he re minded us that here and there the spirit of Horatio Alger still lives. Croquet vs. Golf A cesenous reader, probably real- izing that ideas are scarce on these hot days, helps us out with the following provocative communication: “LT have just been watching two littl girls playing croquet on a parlor rug; the three of us played one game to gether. Since you seem to like to start arguments, I give you the results of my evening's diversion. “Assuming excellence in equip- ment, tables, courts, and so forth, I think that the following games. re- quire scienc fa the order in which I = billiards, tennis, 3. handball, 4. asia 5. pool, 6, volley ball, 7. golf. “If someone name them: should advance cro- quet to third place, however, I should not dispute the change. Croquet de mands correct distance far more than handball.” Let's. not quarrel about that, brother. Handball or croquet, it’s all the same to us, But how do you get that wa golf at the bottom of the lis e is there another game in which the player must take account of so many factors —varying distances and heights of les, undulations of the ground, differences in the surface, whether sand, long grass or smooth lawn, ion of the wind, aye, even the y of the dir and the direction h the mower has passed over . The only respects in which golf is 1 other games are that you choice of implements and that the b: is not in motion when you hit it. » easy as cempared to wwe a (Golfers, forgive us for that word » really know better, but to be fair about this.) somebody tell us what's ow let really hard about this croquet. R.ILW. comicbooks.com