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The above illustration, from a
drawing by The Parsons Company,
architects, for the front of the pro
posed new home of the The People's
Building and'Loan Association, gives
an idea of the beauties-to-be of the
handsome new building to be erected
at 318-320 High street. The interior
of the building will be in keeping with
the exterior beauties and will be elab
orate and modern in every way, con
venient for every business activity of
the organization and for the accom
mocation and comfort of its patrons.
All contracts for the twilding were
let Monday evening, and it is pleas
ing to note they were awarded to
Hamilton contractors, and what is
more pleasing to local organized la
bor is that they all employ none but
union labor. The building will be
erected by none but union, labor
throughout. Those to do the work
are: General construction, F. K.
Vaughn Contracting Co. heating
equipment, Albert Shuler & Son
plumbing, Walker Contracting Co.
electrical work, Mense Electric Co,
painting and decorating, Louis Spran
del & Son.
The Mosler Safe Company was con
tracted with to install the vault safe
ami it will be of monster proportion.
When completed, it is said *the vault
will have the heaviest rectangular
door of any vault safe in Butler
county.
The association is now located on
the second floor of the Rentschler
building, and has always been known
as the People's Deposit, Improvement
and Loan Association. At a meeting
of the stockholders, held Monday eve
ning, it was decided to change the
name to The People's Building and
Loan Association. At this same meet
ing the following directors were elect
ed: A. J. Warndorf, F, W. Graeser,
Adam Braun, George A. Davidson,
A. C. Rolfe, Don W. Fitton, C. M.
Eikenberry, C. J. Fitton and E. F.
Warndorf. C. J. Fitton* and E. F.
Warndorf are newly elected directors,
succeeding the late Frederick Schnei
der and the late Henry Wogenstahl.
The board of directors re-elected
the following officers: President, F.
W. Graeser vice-president, A. 0.
Rolfe secretary, E. F. Warndorf at
torney, C. J. Fitton assistant secre
tary, Mrs. Tillie Clark clerk, Miss
Vera Klingel.
E. F. Warndorf entered the office
as assistant secretary in June, 1912.
Upon the resignation of the late
James Fitton as secretary in Febru
ary, 1920, Mr. Warndorf succeeded
to the secretaryship. While Mr.
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Building and Loan Association
Or do you have to stop oc
casionally because your eye*
become tired—pain you. If
such is your trouble it would
be a good plan to have us
make a thorough examina
tion of your eyes and de
termine whether or not prop
erly fitted glasses will help
you, If glasses will not help
you we'll tell you so—just as
gladly as we will tell you if
glasses will remedy the de
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Warndorf is a young man, everyone
concedes he is a live and hustling one.
He is wholly wrapped up in the
success and progress of his associa
tion, and under his live activity the
People's Deposit, Improvement and
Loan Association has seemed to grow
in leaps and bounds. For the asso
ciation to own its own home has long
been a dream of Mr. Warndorf, about
to be realized.
The coming of the People's Build
ing and Loan Association's new build
ing is breaking the ice of stagnation
in new buildings in the High street
business district, and will be gladly
welcomed by all Hamilton. It is to
be ho^ed that this new building will
be but a forerunner to many more to
follow.
POSTPONED
Kiddies* Camp Benefit Box
ing Show Set For
Week Later
The big benefit boxing show for the
kiddies' camp which was to have
been staged on Wednesday night, Feb
ruary 17, has been postponed one week
and will now be held Wednesday night,
February 24, instead. The postpone
ment is made to make the arrange
ments and boxing card more complete.
A splendid card is being arranged,
but it is not quite complete at this
writing, but the same will appear in
full in the Press next week. Chair
man Jack Scheaf is working hard to
secure an extra high-class number to
add to the already made-up fine pro
gram, and he says when he gets what
he is now after the card to be staged
will be the highest Class ever shown
in Hamilton.
.Don't forget the new date—Wednes
day, February 24, at Regent, theatre.
All tickets hold good for the new
date.
WM.MEMY
Announces His Candidacy
For-County Auditor
Next fall, at the November elec
tion, all county -officers will be
elected. Party primaries for nomi
nation will be held August 10th. Can
didates are beginning to bud. The
latest to announce himself is Wm. C.
McKemy, for the nomination for coun
ty auditor on the democratic ticket.
Mr. McKemy is at present deputy in
the auditor's office, where by his cour
tesy he has made a host of friends.
COMMUNISTS OUSTED
Toronto, Ontario.—Charges pre
ferred against two communist mem
bers of the Commercial Telegraphers'
Union resulted in their expulsion.
They are urging the formation of a
Canadian national union. This divi
sion is favored by every opponent of
the trade union movement.
The communists were tried by the
executive board of the union. The
verdict declared that no one can re
main a member of that unibfc and be
falfce to its* declarations.
GOVERNOR PARDONS
MINER
Charleston, W. Va.—Governor Gore
has pardoned Edgar Combs, who was
serving a life sentence for the alleged
murder of a mine guard during the
"armed march of the miners" in 1921.
All others who were convicted in con
nection with that incident either es
caped punishment or were pardoned
long ago. Organized labor petitioned
the governor to release Combs, whose
wife was injured in a factory while
supporting her children.
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UNCLE SAM GOUGED
By Soft Coal Operators
Since Anthracite Shut
Down
Washington. Non-union bitumi
nous operators of West Virginia have
trebled the price of coal sold to the
government, since the anthracite
shut-down, according to the chief en
gineer of the government fuel yards,
testifying before a joint congressional
committee.
Mr. Pope said he bought coal from
Fayette and McDowell counties, last
March, for $2.41 a ton, and now he
must pay from $6.16 to $6.50. These
counties are controlled by anti-union
coal barons who operate on the non
union basis, "to protect the public."
Edgar Wallace, a member of the
United Mine Workers, and legislative
representative of the A. F. of L., told
the committee that increased prices
for this coa.l was not due to labor
costs. He said the miners were paid
the same wages for mining $6.60 coal
that they received for mining $2.41
coal. He declared also that there had
been a tremendous drop in freight
lates from the West Virginia field
during the last six months, none of
which has been subtracted from the
consumer's bill.
Charles P. Selden, Jr., a Pennsyl
vania mine operator, and W. W. Grif
fith, a local coal dealer, staged a
wordy row before the committee on
who is responsible for gouging the
public. The operator said the coal
merchant, sold him a ton of coke last
November for $15 which cost him but
$4. The merchant assured the com
mittee that in a turnover of $333,250
he made a profit of only 2 cents on
the dollar. He refused to tell the
committee the period of the turn
over. The committee wanted to know
the exact number of business days,
but the merchant said that this was
"immaterial."
FEWER WORKERS
Larger Output Wealth Dis
tribution Unjust, De
clares Church Body
Washington.—The Federal Reserve
Board reports a 30 per cent increas
ed production in American factories
in 1925, as compared with 1919. De
spite the increase of nearly a third in
output, the board reports that there
are fewer workers employed and that
those at work are paid but 7 per cent
more than in 1919.
"Such a ^reat increase in produc
tion must be disposed of either here
or abroad," declares the department
of social action of the National Cath
olic Welfare Council.
"It is not being sold here," con
tinues the department, "because la
bor's wages have not gone up enough
for them to buy their share of it.
"Neither can the farmers buy
their share of the goods because they
are far worse off now than six years
ago, and many of them, though bet
ter situated than a couple of years
ago, are practically in bankruptcy.
"Seeing the great prosperity of the
country, and realizing that they are
not sharing in it adequately, the work
ing people in their unions are con
cluding that Jhere is only one thing
for them to do. They must ask for
a share of the increased production.
"It all comes back to the great
wealth of the United States and the
fact that large sections of the Amer
ican people are not sharing equally
in the wealth we produce.
"The largest sections of the people
that are falling short are the wage
earners, the lesser salaried workers
and the farmers. Of these three, the
farmers and the lesser salaried work
ers are falling farthest behind."
UNEMPLOYMENT
HITS EUROPEAN
WORKMEN
Vienna, Australia.—Unemployment
has increased in Austria to an alarm
ing extent. The national trade union
organizations includes among its
schedule of demands for remedial
measures the extension of the period
of compulsory school attendance by
one year, thus holding up the constant
stream of young people who are be
ing turned out of school without the
remotest chance of employment.
Copenhagen, Denmark.—Unemploy
ment among trade unions in Denmark
has increased from 73,000 to 84,000
for the first month of 1926. One out
of every three organized workers is
out of a job. Applying these figures
to both organized and unorganized,
100,000 Danish workers are deprived
of employment.
London, Eng.—The Ministry of La
bor Gazette gives the number of un
employed registered at the employ
ment exchanges as 1,233,000.
FAVORS STRICTER
IMMIGRATION LAWS
Washington. Further restrictive
immigration laws, which would per
mit only the most desirable aliens to
come into this country, was favored by
Congressman Johnson, chairman of
the house immigration committee, in
an address in this city.
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
Lincoln
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This man whose homely face you look
upon,
Was one of Nature's masterful, great
men
Born with strong arms, that unfought
battles won,
Direct of speech, and cunning with the
pen.
Chosen for large designs, he had the art
Ot winning with his humor, and he went
Straight to his mark, which was the hu
man heart
Wise, too, for what he could not break
he bent.
Upon his back a more than Atlas-load,
The burden of the Commonwealth, was
laid
He stooped, and rose up to it, though
the road
Shot suddenly downward, not a whit
dismayed.
Hold, warriors, councillors, kings!
All now give place
To this dead Benefactor of the race!
—Richard Henry Stoddard.
Lincoln's Faith in
American Principles
Never Lost Sight of Truth
in Declaration of
Independence.
Lincoln invoked the Declaration of
Independence In his efforts to check
the spread of slavery, but just as
those who framed it uttered a maxim
Intended for all time, when merely
seeking separation from Britain, so
Lincoln reiterated an eternal and
universal tr'.th, and believed In it
as such, Judge Charles C. Simons
writes, in the Detroit N«ws
"I had thought the Declaration con
templated the progressive improve
ment in the condition of all men
everywhere," he said. And he knew
that It would outlive the death of
slavery, just as the framers intend
ed it should outlive their successful
separation from Britain.
lie closed his Springfield speech
with this stirring appeal, after read
ing the Declaration with the Doug
las Interpolation: "Are you willing
that the Declaration should thus be
frittered away?—thus left no more,
at most, than an interesting memento
of the dead past?—thus shorn of its
vitality and practical value, and left
without the germ or even the sug
gestion of the individual rights of
man in it?"
Three years later, on Washington's
birthday, Lincoln, President-elect,
stood in Independence hall, Philadel
phia, on his way to the inauguration
at Washington. Doesn't it, somehow,
stir the blood and fire the imagination
to think of Lincoln on the spot where
the immortal Declaration was given
to the world? "I have often inquired
of myself," he said there, "what great
principle or idea it was that kept
this Confederacy so long together. It
was not the mere matter of separa
tion of the colonies from the mother
land, but that sentiment in the Dec
laration of Independence which gave
liberty not alone to the1 people of
this country, but hope to all the
world, for all future time."
Faith Again Voiced.
Speaking to the soldiers of an Ohio
regiment toward the close of the war,
Lincoln again voiced his faith in the
American principle. "It is in order
that each of you may have, through
this free government which we have
enjoyed, an ope-i field and a fair
chance for your Industry, enterprise
and intelligence, that you may ail
have equal privileges in the race of
life, with all its desirable human as
pirations. It is for this the struggle
should be maintained, that we may
not lose our birthright."
The world is full of strange con
trasts and anomalies. It was a eu-
MINE EXPLOSION
KILLS SEVERAL
TRAPPED MINERS
Helena, Ala. Another non-union
mine of this state has 'demanded a
fearful toll. Sixty-three miners were
trapped by an explosion in the Moss
boro mine of the Premier Coal Com
pany, near here, and one-half of that
number is dead. No rescue help was
available in the vicinity of the mine,
except local crews and these lack ex-
Gettysburg*
Four score *nd seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new nation
conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war
testing whether that nation or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield of that
war We have come to dedicate a portion
of that field as a final resting place for those
who here gave their lives that that nation
might live It is altogether fitting and proper
that we should do tins But in a larger sense
we can not dedicate —we can not conse
crate—we can not hallow—this ground.
The brave men living and dead who strug
gled here have consecrated it far above our
poor power to add or detract. The world will
little note nor long remember what we say
here but it can never forget what they did
here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedi
cated here to the unfinished work which
they who fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedi
cated to the great task remaining before us—•
that from these honored dead we take in
creased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion—
thai we here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain—that this nation
under Cod shall have a new birth of free
dom—and that government of the people,
by the people, for the people thai not perish
from the earth.
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rlous thing that the gentle, kindly,
humane Lincoln should be called on
to lead the nation in the greatest
fratricidal war of history. It is a
curious thing that today when pas
sion, and prejudice and hate seem to
rule humanity, there should be
a
world-wide revival of Interest
In Lincoln.
But there is hope in it. It may
yet be that human nature will vi
brate to the music of that passage
which closes the first inaugural,
"We are not enemies, but friends.
We must not be enemies. Though
passion may have strained, it must
not break our bonds of affection. The
mystic chords of memory stretching
from every battlefield and patriot
grave to every living heart and
hearthstone all over this broad land,
will yet swell (he chorus of the Union,
when again touched, as surely they
will lie. by the better angels of our
nature."
Difficult to Recognize.
It is only when we understand the
true character of our government,
and why it was so organized and so
established that we are able to rec
ognize (hose projects which, 111 them
selves seemingly wise, may when
fairly considered be seen to destroy
the harmony and threaten the in
tegrity of the whole fabric. We some
times fail to recognize in those things
which seem to promise enlargement
of liberty, things which in reality
must result in curtailment of liberty.
I have myself on occasion failed to
recognize them, and so perhaps you
may.
Not wholly has the original scheme
of limitations, checks and balances
been preserved. The electoral college
in its original form was early swept
aside. Perhaps wisely so. The differ
entiation between the two houses of
congress by which they were to act
as checks, one upon the other, has
been partinllv obliterated by the
popular election of senators. The
representative organization of po
litical parties, which while not cre
ated by the Constitution, owes its
development to the representative
system of the Constitution, has been
almost wholly destroyed. I am not
suggesting that any one of these basic
changes is in itself vital, and be
sides they involve political con
troversies into which I do not care
to enter—but I am indicating a tend
ency in respect to the checks and
limitations of the Constitution which
It is well for us to consider, especial
ly when self interest and patriotism
so happily combine to urge on us
the perpetuation of the Constitution
in the spirit of its founders.
LINCOLN'S TOMB
Burial place
of
the great
in Oak
Ridge
President
cemetery, Springfield,
lit.
perience.
Every effort is made.to conceal rea
sons for the explosion, but it*is "be
lieved a pocket of gas had in some
manner accumulated and exploded.
The property is described as crude
in its equipment. No attention is paid
to safety in these mines, many of
which are operated by convicts under
the lease system.
The disaster followed the Overton
mine explosion of December 18, which
claimed 52 lives.
PROPERTY CONFIS
CATION HANDED
TO ANTI-FASCISTS
Rome, Italy.—The' Italian senate
has adopted Mussolini's plan to con
fiscate property of Italian citizens who
reside in other countries and who op
pose fascism. Loss of citizenship is
also provided. The act has been ap
proved by the Italian chamber of
deputies.
The senate was assured that it is
Mussolini's intention to apply the
measure "with prudence and modera
tion."
Under this law any citizen of Italy
residing in the United States who ex
poses the methods of Mussolini will be
penalized by the loss of property he
may own in Italy, and also lose his
citizenship.
Mussolini's world-wide spy system,
operating through fascist centers, will
forward this information to the dic
tator.
FUNDS APPRO
PRIATED FOR
ARMS DELEGATES
Washington.—Congress has voted
$50,000 to pay the expenses of an
American delegation to Geneva that
will join with representatives of other
nations in preparing a program for
the proposed world army-reduction
conference.
The conference will endeavor to ad
just intricate technical disputes on
what constitutes a nation's armament.
Since the world war, military experts
are agreed that the productive powers
of a country, its raw material, geo
graphical location and its transporta
tion systems, are all a part of national
armanent. The problem is to equalize
these elements and reduce armies ac
cordingly.
The question of what is military
aviation and what is commercial avia
tion are also included, as well as the
strength of European nations that
have large standing armies because
of their colonial possessions.
BOSSES
In Drive to Force Open Shop
on Toilers
By International Labor News Service.
Montreal.—Although they agreed
to submit their wage-cutting program
to arbitration, four large boot and
shoe manufacturers of Quebec city
even before the arbitration board was
formed began to bring in non-union
workers from other places and put
them to work at reduced rates. This
caused a strike of the employes of the
four factories, who are members of
the National and Catholic Union.
The four manufacturers are deter
mined to enforce the open shop, as
well as cut wages. The arbitrary ac
tion of the employers is forcing the
Quebec workers to realize the weak
ness of isolation, and there is already
talk of reorganizing under the Inter
national Boot and Shoe Workers'
Union. Years ago, under very similar
circumstances, Montreal boot and shoe
workers abandoned their independent
unions, and linked up with the inter
national, through which they have
greatly improved their position.
SELLING AT PROFIT
AIM OF BUSINESS
Boston, Mass.—"The aim of busi
ness is to sell something for more
than it cost, thereby making a profit,"
declares A. W. Sanders, an industrial
psychologist of Great Britain, in an
article on industrial psychology in the
Journal of Industrial Hygiene. Mr.
Sanders adds that the chief problem
confronting employers is "how to
lower the cost without lowering
wages." He thinks that "industrial
psychology can help to attain this end.
It can lower the human energy re
quired to do work, thereby decreas
ing the time required in production."
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