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Subscrilters changing their address will Olease notify this office, giving old and new address to Insure regular delivery ot paper FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1925 Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton, Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter Issued Weekly at *26 Market Street Telephone 12M Hamilton. Ohio Endorsed by the Trades and Labor Council of Hamilton, Ohio Endorsed by the Middletown Trades and Labor Council of Middletown. O. H: NEW HOTEL AND CITY HALL With the hotel stock-celling drive over the top to the tune of $37,000 the new hotel for Hamilton is assured Hats off to everyone connected with this big job. They are certainly de serving of it. Many of them sacrificed much time from their business that a fine, big new hotel for Hamilton might be possible, that the dream of years might be realized. Too much praise for their efforts cannot be given the tired, wornout, but happy, members of the drive organization. But there is another thing. While the enthusiasm was at the boiling point at the closing meeting of work ers Tuesday night, when the final results of the drive were announced it was proposed that a campaign be entered into at once to put over bond issue for a new city hall. If they hadn't been held back by some of the more conservatives present it is believed enough of those, keyed up to about 110, would have gone out the same night and collected enough to build a new city hall. That's the spirit and why not keep it alive, while the keeping is good "Why not keep this fine organization together, intact, while it is so and go in for a bond issue campaign for building a new city hall, which good ness only knows we need about-as bad .as any other one thing. With that bunch of live wires behind it anything can be accomplished. The new hotel, the soldiers' monu ment and a new city hall will make line start for a civic center for Hamil ton. Former Edgar K. Wagner Instructor at The Cincinnati ELLIS M. POTTER What can one say of a man who gives to the city a hundred acres of valuable farming land, right at the edge of the city limits, for park and playground purposes, with no strings attached to his gift other than that the land must bemused for all time to tome only for the recreation and pleasure of the people? The Press is not accustomed to handing out bou quets of flowery enconiums but, speaking in the language of those the j^ress represents, we want to say that the act of Mr. Potter was a blamed fine thing to do. Every man, woman and child in Hamilton, when they fully realize the bigness of Mr. Pot ter's gift will have a warm spot in their heart for this big, generous giver, to whom the city has much to be thankful for at this Thapksgiving time. Would it be inappropriate at this time, we wonder, to suggest when it comes to naming this sure-to-be fine big park in the near future that it be called "Potter Park," and in this man "her perpetuate the name of a big, generous giver in the minds forever of the people benefitted? Would it? Mi THE LAND GRAB Grabbing of the land by chunks along the Miami and Erie canal is on. Several hundred feet north and south of the Heaton street bridge has been leased by the state highway depart ment to Middletown individuals who are figuring on using part of the land for filling station purposes. They plan to build over the canal and re move the bridge railing at that point, saying that County Surveyor Conklin assured them this permission could be obtained. How Conklin gets that way or since when he is authorized to speak for the county commissioners we don't know, but it is to be hoped that Conklin does not permit anyone to move the county fairgrounds or Greenwood cemetery in order that a filling station might be built. fa a toa WHY DAWES FAVORS GAG In favoring a gag on senate de bate, General Dawes "let the cat out of the bag" in New York last week He said that a filibuster defeated the Muscle Shoals bill. In diplomatic terms, General Dawes assured his select audinece that if the bill could be jammed through the sen ate, as in the house, one of the coun try's greatest water power projects would now be in the control of pri vate exploiters. This is the first time General Dawes has acknowledged why the senate rules should be changed. Heretofore he has indulged in generalities. In the next congress a reduction of surtaxes, repeal of the publicity of income taxes and abolition of the in heritance tax will be favored by the general's friends. Too much discus sion will not help these plans. The Teapot Dome scandal will be reopened, as will several other embar rassing subjects. These will be thoroughly aired in the senate. In the house this is im possible under the rules. -Here is the reason for opposition to the senate rules which permit the public to become acquainted with matters of vital interests to them. Opponents "of the senate rules don't like talk, discussion, publicity. Silence is essential to their business. THE PRACTICAL QUESTION A train bearing several hundred members of the United States War Veterans, on their way to convention in Jacksonville, Fla., was held up for three hours in Cincinnati recently while federal prohibition officers ex amined the contents of every piece of baggage aboard. Some private flasks or bottles were found and three men, all public officials by the way, were arrested on liquor charges. The practical question is whether this sort of thing pays. If Volstead- College of Embalming Funeral Director DISTINCTIVE SERVICE 228 Heaton St MODERN EQUIPMENT i Otradc v r,r-. '-i v 3T BILL BOOSTER SAYSr wrtwiut fatows UWO ADVERTISE, fcECAUSfc -UAS4 AUMNS GWE THEN*. BEST IVI SERVtee AUO VALUE. \UtTW TWEkA BECAUSE TUEVR AOS BRIUGr BUSlUESPT&YOWU, WOT OULV FOR, TMEVA, BUT FDR. ALU OP OS. *fRA06 WITH TWBA BECAUSE YUEM DESERT IT q-'v ism is to endure it must be sold, as the go-getters say, to the average man. We do not believe that holding up a train for three hours, to hunt for pint flasks intended for personal use, tends to popularize it with those put to this inconvenience, whether sufch 4 persons are innocent or guilty, any more than we believe the indiscrimi nate searching of automobiles k in the public highway tends to popularize or strengthen it. We wonder how many believers in prohibition were left on that train when the three hours were up. Ardent prohibitionists contend that the liquor law violator is in the same class as the murderer or embezzler. /Ita average man has not reached that point in his view of the matter and does not seem to be making any prog ress toward it. People in general are very restive under the multiplicity of laws and the incessant conflict of pub lic authority with personal liberty.— Ohio State Journal, Columbus, to l* P* Nt LABOR'S POLICY Writing in the magazine Success William Green, president of the Amer ican Federation of Lafor, states la bor's policy as follows: "The outstanding primary factors in all industrial enterprises are Cap ital and Labor. "Complete success can only be ob tained by, them through understand ing and co-operation. "Then the age-long conflict be tween these two forces could be ter minated, and all other factors in in dustry could be developed and utiliz ed to the highest point of efficiency. "Modern trade unionism is address ing itself to these problems of indus trial co-operation and understanding. "We do not believe that our common problems are impossible of solution, nor do we believe that the obstacles to be met are insurmountable. "We refuse to accept the theory that the differences between capital and labor, between employer and em ploye, are irreconcilable. "The bitter and violent conflicts are always traceable to a disregard or denial of the common rights of either employers or employs, when tyranny is a substitute for justice, autocracy for democracy, and secrecy and dictation for frankness and mu tuality in industrial relationships." to Ma to CARPENTERS' UNION FIRST As it has been in many other things Carpenters' Local Union No. 637 was the first to step up and buy stock in the new hotel which is now assured for Hamilton. Carpenters' Union bought the first share for $300, and since then has doubled its subscrip tion. This announcement was made by Frank K. Vaughn, chairman of the hotel committee, at the noonday luncheon meeting of tfoe workers Monday. It seems the question of just who was the first purchaser of stock had caused much controversy and discus sion, and when Chairman Vaughn made the announcement that the Car penters' Union was the first buyer it was received with much enthusiasm and a great demonstration, marking the popularity of the carpenters' or ganization witir the business men of Hamilton. It is gratifying to the organized workers of Hamilton to know that a part of their organization was the first to step forward and help make the big improvement for Hamilton possible, though it is not surprising that it was the carpenters' organiza zation to act as the agent. The carpenters' organization never fails to respond when the call to aid in any worthy or just call comes.. Nor does the organization wait to be soli cited. It does things voluntarily. Nor THIS BUTLER COUNTY PRESS does this fine organization do things for the good it expects to get out of it for itself, but it does things for the good it does others. Nor do the members vote sums of money for various purposes simply because it comes out of the treasury of the organization. Big hearted fel lows, they would go down into their individual pockets and contribute just as quickly, as has been shown many times in the past at meetings when special collections were made to help in various causes and substantial sums were gathered. Long live the Carpenters' Union, and may their ex ample pave the way for others to fol low. to' III Hi LABOR PAPER'S MISSION The information and publicity serv ice bureau of the American Federa tion of Labor calls attention to the fact that the public press gave very little of the more important news of the recent federation and the part given was that least interesting to the great body of unionists throughout the country. This suggests the im portance of the labor press, which alone can carry the salient develop ment of the great convention to union ism's great constituency. The feder ation's bulletin itself said: "The daily newspapers simply give extracts. "Therefore, if the great rank and file are to learn of the actions of the convention, it must come through the official and weekly labor press." More and more the value of labor journals is being recognized and ap preciated. In its report to the A. F. of L. convention, the executive coun cil, speaking on this subject, said: "With many questions vitally con cerning the workers and the public unsettled, with open and underground attacks on the labor movement and our fundamental American institu tions persisting and developing, the labor papers become sentinels con stantly on guard for the instruction of the masses and their protection from the predatory economics, polit ical and judicial interests who are al ways at war against the cause of humanity. Service to the labor move ment and mankind is the purpose of the labor press. We commend their efforts during the past year and urge that wholehearted support be given them for the militant work now call ing for the" mobilization of all our powers." That is a very fine compliment to the influence and usefulness of labor journals, but here is something even more appreciative and forceful, ex pressed by the great Gompers: "The labor movement owes much to the labor papers of the country, and he who injures a labor paper is a traitor to the cause." to to to to to CRUSHING MRS. LANSDOWNE American wage earners, as well as all other Americans, want the truth about the Shenandoah disaster and 3II other army and navy affairs. With wide-open doors in the Mitchell inves tigation it may be assumed that the truth will get its chance there. But can as much be said for the Shenandoah hearing where the widow of Commander Lansdowne has just been a witness? v Slowly the pond&ous wheels of the navy organization rolled over this courageous woman. She was pictured as being a witness before the board of inquiry. As such she was not permitted to have counsel. But Captain Foley, whom she ac cused qf seeking to induce her to "twist the facts," was allowed to ap pear with counsel, "because he was a defendant." It needs no lawyer to know that where there is a defendant there must be a plaintiff. In truth, Mrs. Lansdowne was the plaintiff. But a plaintiff would have had to be allowed counsel. And observers ii( Washington are asking whether that is the reason Mrs. Lansdowne was described by the board as a "witness" and her Counsel ejected from the room. It is a fact that all who have come as witnesses to uphold the navy ad ministration have been welcomed. No blocks have been put in their way. But Mrs. Lansdowne met a differ ent condition. She was pounded and grilled and denied the light of coun sel. She lodged a serious complaint and she had the courage to go through with it. But they called her as a wffc* ness and put her on the grill. Nor is this all. What has become of the civilian witnesses who were the eye witnesses of the Shenandoah dis aster? Where have $hey gone Why have they not been called? For instance: Ernest Sheefriftr, ot Cambridge, Ohio, a newspaper man, United Press correspondent, was on the scene an hour after the crash. He saw the Shenandoah log. He talk ed to survivors until they got orders not to talk. He ought to have a story. There are many others. Why have these first witnesses Dot been called? Why is it so transcendantly impor tant to smother the widow of the man upon whose shoulders it is apparent some Would like to put the blame? to to to to to GREED FOR LONG-HOUR DAY Textile interests, led by Massachu setts manufacturers, seem determined to turn back the hand of progress. That they will succeed is hardly prob able, as progress has a way of march ing ahead pretty consistently, despite occasional setbacks. Confronted by Southern competi tino, the Massachusetts manufacturers are raising a dismal howl that the 48 hour week for women must go and that women must be permitted to toil 54 hours a week*. The manufacturers also seek the return of the ten-hour day, the remvoal of the ban on women working after 6 p. m., and the rein statement of the double shift. To these ends they have begun an active campaign. Fortunately for the Workers, organ ized labor is awake to the danger of the manufacturers' onslaught, and is vigorously fighting the movement to repeal the shorter work week law. The unions charge that the depressed con dition in the textile industry are due to the inefficiency of the manufactur ers and that as usual, the employers want to make the workers bear the burden. They declare that the New England textile mills, in. the main, are badly managed and equipped with antiquated machinery. Give the mills good management and up-to-date machinery and they can successfully compete with Southern mills, the unions contend. Whatever happens, organized labor will put up a desperate fight before it will submit to having gains of years wiped out by greedy and short-sight ed employers. The manufacturers might as well understand this and realize they are fighting a losing bat tie. If they do, it will save them a lot of trouble. to to to to THE KALEIDOSCOPE .By I. B. McCUMBER Everybody loves a hypocrite—even the devil—and the church. Some years ago the churchly hypocrites were busy burning people at the stake because those same people did not be lieve in the people who were posing as devout Christly people. Now the governor of a hypocrite state—Massa chusetts—states that the officials of sixty towns in his bailiwick have stolen some $600,000 in the last few years from the people. Thus it ap pears that to sit in official circles and shout "amen" warrants the hypocrites to try and make the morals for those who do not STEAL. V 0 Just because a certain mortal de generate, having plenty of money, tir ed of the woman whom he married, the courts have given to the public and the children of this land, a demon stration of how easy it is to prosti tue the functions of our alleged courts. Mr. Rhinelander being sued by his wife, fofr part of his money, and he trying to get a divorce from the woman he flouted up to such time as suited his animal mind, obtains the ear of a judge, and the world {it large is treated to a spectacular display of how filthy are the minds of some of our so-called judges. The cesspool would never be tolerated in any kind of a sanitary district—but this cess pool is judicial. -Or Brigadier General Smedley Baker, who was loaned by the United States government, to make Philadelphia "spotless town," said a mouthful to the sanctimonious people who bor rowed him. "I was brought here at the instance of your leading good peo pie. I was informed that you were dirty and filthy, that you needed cleaning. After I came everyone ran away but your mayor." Soak him, WHEN YOU NEEO THE SERVICES OF A RELIABLE DRUG STORE CALL ON RADCL1FFE The Re a I! Stoist Cor. High and Second Sts. LET US DEVELOP YOUK PICTURES Louie! We now will hold "amen" meetings twice each afternoon and three times on holidays. Thus, the general joins the Kaleidoscope as a commentator. We may appear icono clastic at times, but that inconoclasm is such that we only endeavor to tear down the sheep's clothing that sancti monious wolves wear the better to ply their sanctimonious murders pid strangling. o v One of the speakers at a recent session of the Anti-Saloon League held in Chicago, was quoted as saying that President Coolidge could stop the flow of liquor into the United States with a stroke of the pen. The spon ger of easy money evidently does not know anything about there being three departments in our national government. He reasons that if all men do not agree with him they should be slapped into jail or burned at the stake—without trial or hear ing. Of such as these we have a few. Thank God their number grows less and 1©8S« .• -.r^ In our opinion some of the alleged propaganda accredited to Mr. Mat thew Woll, one of the vice presidents of the American Federation of Labor, some one is getting ready to ride to a fall. Not a fall from a measly doorstep or the lower branch of a gooseberry bush. He is said to have come out and stated that the Amer ican labor movement is in favor of cancelling all the foreign debts and to favor the repeal of all anti-combi nation laws. History evidently has no terror for Mr. Woll, otherwise he would recall the time when organized labor was having thfe devil's own time, and trusts in the day of Roosevelt were holding the people of these United States by the cuff of their trou sers and shaking them down for their last penny. As one of those who has fought and paid in the rariks of organ ized labor for forty years we emphat ically abjure the rescinding of Europe's debts, unless Mr. Woll will step out th front and pay up what we owe. UNION LABEL DEMAND EFFEC TIVE IN TOLEDO Toledo, Ohio. Anti-unionists In this city are worried. The demand for union-made goods has increased as a result of the organizing and ed ucational campaign of the A. F. of L. and union label trades department. A union label council has been or ganized, and at no time have local trade unionists been more determined to centralize their purchasing power The anti-unionists and their inform ers within the ranks of labor can not cope with this situation, and they are encouraging merchants to frown on the label agitation by suggesting: "This is the best grade with the union label on, but we have higher and bet ter grades without the label." This permits these merchants to dispose of their prison-made, low wage and sweatshop goods." The Tple HolbrocK TAN VEAL LACE, QO Sizes 2*4 to 5% CHESTNUT TAN CALF LACE—Sizes 2% to 5% BROWN SIDE BLU- d»0 CQ CHER, 2y2 to 5%..... MEN'S RUBBER BOOTS ... i Redeem Surety iStamps v v Reliable Dealers in DRY GOODS CARPETS CLOAKS MILLINERY, QUEENSWARE O U S E U N I S I N S HE BIG majority of peo in this community are "sold on"—have implicit faith in our financial service^ Just why is this truef" .1 Because our institution is supremely safe—every dollar being backed by an excess se curity in the form of first mortgages on real estate— homes principally. An economical management and a sound plan provide the highest earnings possible with assured safety, The Peoples Deposit Improvement and Loan Co. Voss-Holbrock Stamps With AH Cash Purchases David Webb U N E A I E O The most modern Limousine and 'Ambulance in* the city PHONfc 48 219 MAIN ST. a k e a e Y o u u y W o Serviceable Shoes for The Boys Dress Shoes School Shoes Ladies' Galoshes V *2 Rentschler Bldg. ®T F. WARNDORF, Secretary LOWER WAGES IN SOUTH Huntersville, N. C.—The Anchor textile mills has cut wages from 5 to 12 per cent. Employes who refuse to accept the reduction are being evicted from company houses. Wages were also reduced by this concern in September last year. v WANTED ELASTIC STOCKINGS, Anklets. Knee Caps, Legginjrs, full length elastic stockings fitted properly. Dargue's Cut Rate Store, 242 High street. tf GLOSS OFF Will remove the wearshine from Ladies' and Gents' garments. Get the better kind of Cleaning, Repair* ing and Remodeling done at KappePs, 162 N. street. Phone 2617-L. 98 Ladies' Zipper Boots ,C $5-65 Bros. co. ViARMY BLUCHER, •. ^Sizes to 5 Vi {Q MOCCASm ELK BLUCHER— panco *9 QA SOLES -V fcQ QC •"'.TAN ELK SCOUT fcO OA $«)••/J -.JUL, Sizes 2%, 5%.. CLEM PATER '•it .s ••*.i, V v :'S 1 V. & 'A? A ""Cv -K' .4, S .•v»: vt- j.-*"" -•, j-* v CAR LINE PRICE EXCESSIVE San Francisco. Organized labor opposes the city purchase of the pri vate-owned Market street care.line for $36,000,000. $ a i *\i Is 1 "s I V i .V?" '-viM -Vv-^ South Second 'J Street ,* Sfei.il safea'sSi