The Butler County press. [volume], April 01, 1927, Image 2

About The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946

Image provided by: Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH

                
It: t'W
?.».
7-
l-f
4H-'
V'
"s
f-f\
THE PRESS
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ORGANIZED LABOR
Or HAMILTON AND VICINITY
ioHIQ UBMj^^^wjpBKS ASSHi
Kt' Members
Ohio Labor Press Association
THE NONPAREIL PRINTING CO.
PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS
Subscription Price $1.00 per Year
Payable in Advance
We do not hold ourselves responsible for any
views or opinions expressed in the articles
or communications of correspondents.
Communications solicited from secretaries
of all societies and organizations, and should
be addressed to The Butler County Press, 826
Market Street, Hamilton, Ohio.
The publishers reserve the right to reject
any advertisements at any time.
Advertising rates made known on appli
cation.
Whatever is intended for insertion must
be authenticated by the name and address of
the writer, not necessarily for publication, but
as a guarantee of good faith.
Subscribers changing their address will
please notify this office, giving old and new
address to insure regular delivery of paper.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1927
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
lined Weekly at 111 Market Street
Telephone 1216 Hamilton. Ohio
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
CHINA
The landing of American marines in
China to protect American lives and
property, and the capture of the city
of Shanghai by the nationalist army,
places the "Chinese situation" in the
front rank of world events.
The eastern provinces of China are
dominated by four leading Chinese.
The principal leaders are in provinces
in which the cities of Peking and
Canton are located. The former is
known as the Northern army and the
latter the Southern army. The Can
tonese are nationalists. They operate
through the "kouintang" (national
people's party). They demand aboli
tion of unequal treaties, oppose for
eign control of tariff customs and
urge internal changes that will per
mit that country to take its place
among the other nations. The "kuo
mintang" expresses a nationalistic
spirit that is developing in the Far
East nation.
The Peking government has its
ministers in various countries and its
representatives in the League of Na
tions. Between the two cities lies
Shanghai. This is a prize city. There
are two Shanghais—one controlled by
the world nations, and the other by
the Chinese. The latter is the native
section, and is now occupied by the
Cantonese.
Students of world events agree the
situation in China can be traced to
nationalistic aspirations. Many of the
leaders of the new movement are
young men who have been educated
in American and British universities
They control Canton.
It is believed that the United
States government is not unfriendly
to the Cantonese. Other world pow
ers favor the old divisions in China.
Psa Bw ft© Si
'TWOULD BE BETTER TO
MAKE HASTE SLOWLY
Hie case of the Kentucky man who
was sent to prison for life for mur
der on the lying testimony of a jeal
ous woman is commended to the atten
tion of the fellows who are so loudly
demanding that criminals be treated
with ruthless severity and that legis
lation similar to the drastic Baumes
laws of New York be passed through
out the country.
The case, which has just startled
the nation, shows how easily an inno
cent man can be convicted of a crime
for which the penalty is death or life
imprisonment. It brings home the
truth that terrible injustice is some
times done in the courts and that bet
ter judicial procedure and processes
is a more crying need than the inflic
tion of savage punishments, which
have never prevented crime and never
will.
What is needed is judicial proced
ure that will bring out the truth with
certainty and dispatch, followed by
quick punishment. The knowledge
that certain and quick punishment will
follow the detection of crime will do
more to deter criminals and would-be
criminals than severe punishment, a
fact that is recognized in England,
where punishment on the whole is
mild but certain and prompt. That
the English administration of criminal
-*"N ~y* T*-vf •f^v*^"y* ~-i *jkv r,-, if
«0.
Gas Contract Draws Near Settlement
A ten-year contract to furnish the city mixed gas, and which contract it
Is believed will iheet with the approval of all council members and the
approval of all the people generally, will likely come before council for final
and definite action at its meeting to be held next Wednesday evening.
At a conference held Monday of this week, and attended by members of
city council, Mayor Koehler, Service Director Mitchell, City Solicitor Zilliox
and officials and attorneys of the Hamilton Furnace Company, the Columbia
Gas Supply Co. and the Koppers Company, a revamped contract to meet the
demands of council in the contract submitted three weeks ago, was thoroughly
gone into and analyzed by the members of council and city officials. Council
and the city officials were not quite satisfied, as yet, with the contract as
submitted and suggested several changes, among them being that the words
"coke oven gas" be substituted for "manufactured gas," as contained in the
contract submitted.
To all the changes suggested, with the exception of one Iter a lower
rate, the Columbia representatives readily agreed. The contract, with the
suggested changes, is now in the hands of council, or will be, it is promised
by the gas company, before the meeting of council flfext Wednesday.
The Hamilton Furnace Company wishes to be released from the ten-year
contract it now has with the city to furnish coke oven gas. At the meeting
of council there will be an ordinance to this effect coming before council.
Before the company is released, the ordinance will stipulate the company must
pend $1,500,000 on the proposed new plant, as an indication of good faith
that the new coke oven plant will be built at Coke Otto.
As an additional assurance and guarantee that the proposed new plant
will be built, Mr. Ramsberg, of the Koppers Company, told council members
that the key for the construction of the plant has already been set up in the
Koppers Company offices at Pittsburgh. But the best guarantee Mr. Rams
berg gave that the plant will be built was when he stated that the Koppers
Company has assured the Columbia Company that the coke oven plant will
be built and that an agreement has been reached between these companies
to the effect that if the coke oven gas is not furnished the Columbia Company
within eleven months after the contract with the city is drawn, Koppers will
pay Columbia the difference between 50 cents, the price of natural gas, and
44% cents, the price for mixed gas, and at which price Columbia, under the
tentative contract, will sell straight natural gas to the city. Based on figures
on the amount of gas consumed, this guarantee would cost the Koppers Com
pany approximately $150 each day it failed to deliver artificial gas eleven
months after the company entered into the contract with the city. This
guarantee is made by the Koppers Company, Mr. Ramsberg stated, as an
assurance thSat the coke oven plant be built.
law works is shown by the scarcity of
crime in Great Britain as compared
to its frequency in the United States.
B§! P83 PS IS
A QUESTION
Senator Capper, of Kansas, has a
plan that is as bizarre as'it is bold.
He hopes to force the enfranchised to
exercise their hard-gained rights at
the polls.
The senator proposes to slap a tax
of one per cent on the gross incomes
of the vote slackers. He would drive
them to the polls by this economic
pressure method.
Granted he might make some mil
lions more vote—if the law should
be found constitutional and workable
—but what would be the net result?
And this is one of the things that has been uppermost in the minds of
the people during the long controversy of the gas contract, "Will the plant
be built?" But with the assurance that Mr. Ramsberg gives, together with
the guarantee that his company must pay the Columbia Company $150 for
cach day the company fails to deliver artificial gas eleven months after the
city enters into the contract with the Columbia, surely one can't ask more.
It isn't any longer a question of taking someone's word—money talks. The
Hamilton Furnace Company in asking to be released from its contract with
the city, agrees before the release become effective that it will spend
$1,500,000 or more on the proposed new plant. The Koppers Company gua
antees to pay $150 for every day it is not ready to deliver after a stated time.
Outside of asking one to deposit his family in our city's famous (or infamous)
prison as a guarantee to deliver, the Press can't even dream of what more
can be asked as a guarantee for faithful performance.
Of course it is highly desirable that
Americans and citizens of any repub
lic, for that matter, vote and vote in
telligently. But there is* the rub.
How intelligently do they vote?
Is the senator driving toward mere
masses of votes? What avail will it
be if the votes are blindly and stupid-,
ly cast.
Will the former vote slacker be a
more valuable citizen after he has
gone sullenly and stupidly to the polls
to vote for he knows not what? Is
the drive toward quantity alone with
out regard for the quality? Will
there be a parallel measure tending
toward an education for each voter
*i i*
ALL'S WELL?
Earl Carroll, Vanities man, must
go to jail as the sequel to his wine
bath party. Daddy Browning wins in
his court war with Peaches. Italy
and Serbia are involved in war talk.
Machado, in Cuba, goes serenely on in
his role of Carribean Mussolini.
American marines report all things
going as scheduled in Nicaragua.
American marines land in China,
where the nationalists pile up vic
tories. The American government
sends a battle flag on the way to
Mexico in the shape of a proclamation
that bandits may soon buy arms here,
while the chairman of the house im
migration committee goes north to
see what about unauthorized aliens
coming in through Canada. Surely,
peace is being waged with a vigorous
han|!
It is really to be hoped that council will enable itself to come to a final
conclusion of this great problem very soon. The contract, as submitted
seems to look good, fair and proper to the most skeptic. The people have
in plain manner, made their desires known. Workmen out of employment
and there are many at the present moment, are hoping that early action may
be had so that they may find employment in connection with the development
promised by the erection of the proposed big plant. Business men are hoping
too, that something may start soon that will help stimulate business in the
community. In fact, final action, whereby construction and operation of the
big plant will take place, has- only for it everything to the good. Again
LET'S GO!
The Cherry
Where with our
Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantH.
sometimes recklessly
It appears to be the self-appointed
task of considerable numbers of gen
tlemen of the Fourth Estate to glorify
the rich, and to a large degree they
do well their job.
Doubtless the rich deserve large
amounts of praise for certain attri
butes and there is none so mean as
to deprive them of that which is justly
theirs.
Only a few days past some song
ster burst forth in praise of the late
J. P. Morgan, extolling his integrity
A populace, reading with bated breath
was informed that Morgan never
broke his word. Doubtless he never
did. It may be assumed also that the
elder Rockefeller never broke his
word, either. But both of them broke
many competitors!
Certain more or less "popular
magazines lean heavily upon the "hu
man interest" in tales of how rich
men "got theirs" and what are their
rules for "success"—success being al
ways the ability to climb over the
rest of human-kind.
But every model with a pretty face
has also a reverse, and the art
seldom as attractive on the
side.
." ./ "*.
y THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
is
reverse
A joint house and senate commit
tee has just completed an inquiry into
the income tax situation. It finds, and
reports, that the rich are dodging
their surtaxes. And, says the report
"this provision (for penalties in cases
of surtax dodging) has rarely, if ever
been enforced."
These rich men wouldn't lie to their
neighbors and doubtless fortunes
could be entrusted to them without
any kind of a written document, but
they will gyp their Uncle Sam!
And Uncle Sam, dear old soul that
he is, lets them get away with it.
Small fry are being hauled up con
stantly for this or that infraction, but
almost never are the rich surtax dodg
ers punished. Only the rich pay sur
taxes, so when surtaxes are dodged
they are dodged by those best able to
pay. Also by those best able to fight
back when caught. But they go on
blissfully in the same old way.
Go into any United States court and"
listen to the minor prohibition cases
Poor people are haled into court and
punished for having their quart of
white mule, or even their pint.
But a United States senfttb* in
Washington, D. C., was robbed of a
truck load of fine old stuff by hi
jackers. He reported his loss to the
police and detectives paid by the
United States went out and got back
his liquor for him. And they won't
even make public the senator's name!
On the same day in court in the
same city a negro was fined $25 for
having a quart, and a colored woman
was fined $300 for having ten gallons
of moonshine.
It is much better to be a senator
and own a truck load. Of course the
senator's liquor was pre-Volstead,
while the other was post-Vol^tead,
which, in court, means post haste con
viction. But anyway, it is much bet
ter to be a senator—or else very rich.
Of course there is one thing about
these praises, or apologies, for the
very rich. There is a prima facie
case that they are considered neces
sary by the very rich. Otherwise
they wouldn't be offered. To be sure,
it is not a crime to be very rich, but
more and more there is coming to be
an extra-legal moral taint about be
ing very rich without having given to
society some commensurate return.
This is a good sign. It means that
money in and of itself is ceasing to
put place and position in an aristoc
racy set above the common run. Those
who have given greatly, who have
served finely, are genuinely and gen
erously respected and loved by their
fellow men. If they have been richly
rewarded, that is something that
pleases everyone. There was Bur
bank. There is Edison.
The public looks much differently
upon Edison and Harry Sinclair. So
it looks differently upon John J.
Pershing and Harry Daugherty.
When the minions set forth to blow
the trumpets about a rich man, he
probably needs all the toots in the
whole brigade of horns.
Smoke and enjoy
cigar—the Standard.
a union label
JOINT ACTION
Is Aid to Industrial Peace,
Declares Green
Williamstown, Mass. "Collective
bargaining originated with the work
ers and it is their contribution to the
advancement of industrial peace,
said William Green, president of the
A. F. of L., in an address to the fac
ulty and students of William College
"The workers have consistently ap
pealed for the substitution of collec
tive bargaining for force, domination
and industrial strike," said Mr. Green
"It is the workers' plan and their
contention that misunderstanding be
tween employers and employes can
be eliminated, that causes which make
for industrial strife can be greatly re
duced and that efficiency, co-opei-ation
and good will can be brought about
The breach between employes and
employers can be bridged by personal
contact, frank discussion and common
understanding through collective bar
gaining."
President Green pointed to the
many gains that have followed accept
ance of the collective theory.
"Wages," he said, "have been
creased, the hours of labor i*educed
tolerable conditions of employment
created, hygienic and sanitary condi
tions of workshops and factories im
proved, a higher standard of work
manship and output made possible and
an improvement in the morale and
standards of living among working
people established.
"The employer has been benefited
in that the possibilities of strikes and
interruptions in operation have been
reduced to a minimum. Industrial
peace has resulted in increased effi
ciency and decreasing production
costs.
"If there is a will and a purpose on
the part of all concerned to promote
industrial peace there is no obstacle
which can not be overcome through
collective bargaining."
INJURED WORKERS
MUST BE PROTECTED
Lansing, Mich.—In favoring higher
compensation for injured workers
Mayor John W. Smith, of Detroit
told a legislative committee that wel
fare organizations should not be re
quired to care for broken and injured
workers.
"If employers 'break' men, they
should see that these men receive ade
quate compensation," said the Detroit
executive. "The $14 a week these
men are now allowed is far from suf
ficient to support a family, particu
larly if he has a family in Detroit,
do not see how a man can live on the
$18."
MEAT CUTTERS RAISE WAGES
Amarllo, Texas.—Meat cutters or
ganized and secured a wage agree
ment. Minimum rates are $45 a week
with Sundays off and 8 o'clock closing
on Saturdays.
GIRLS' WAGES RAISER
Denver.—Striking cap makers em
ployed in the largest shop in this city
have raised girls' wages 5 and 10
per cent.
WIN FORTY-HOUR WEEK
Newark, N. J.—Fur workers have
Secured the 40-hou? week and raised
wages $5 a week,
1 $
tOAL MINERS
Libeled By Hostile Denver
Newspapers
Denver.—Organized miners in this
city denounce certain Denver news
papers *that would create a hostile
public opinion against these workers.
The miners are conducting an or
ganizing campaign and the newspa
pers quote the trade unionists that
there will be "fireworks" unless wage
increases are secured.
This statement, the miners believe,
is intended to be the forerunner of
the usual campaign of misrepresenta
tion for which these newspapers are
noted.
The Colorado Labor Advocate says
the miners have been duped by the
Rockefeller company "union."
"The Colorado miners," this labor
paper declares, "have been cut by all
the big operators in the state despite
the agreement of the (Rockefeller)
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company that
they will pay as good wages as are
paid in the competitive fields. This
agreement, made with the men when
the 'Rockefeller plan' was put in oper
ation, has been violated and the men
realize they have been duped by the
fake 'good will' of the younger Rocke
feller. The result is that they are
swinging to the union all over the
state."
COMPANY "UNION"
HAS TROUBLES
New York.—The company
of the Interborough Rapid
Company has its troubles.
Last summer a large section of the
company "union" staged an inde
pendent strike, but were defeated
The company lost several million dol
lars. The strikers were reinstated
after being "severely reprimanded.
They are now quietly drifting into the
regular organization.
CARPENTERS WIN
yf
Against Use of Streets To
Fight Union
San Francisco.—The board of super
visors has passed an ordinance that
provides that business concerns hold
ing spur track permits must sell
their products to any and all persons.
The permits can be revoked in the
event that the holders of same violate
the new city law.
The ordinance is a blow at the sys
tem maintained by anti-unionist^ dur
ing the recent attempt to enforce the
anti-union shop on organized corpen
ters. These business interests per
fected such an air-tight monopoly
that they refused to sell building ma
terial to any contractor who employed
union carpenters.
Organized labor urged adoption of
the spur track ordinance on the
ground that the streets should not be
monopolized by special interests that
would use their power to lower living
standards.
"What is your brother in college?"
"A halfback."
"I mean in studies."
"Oh, in studies he's away back."—
Michigan Gargoyle.
Buy a home-made Standard cigar 5c.
Chair Seats Caned
A Specialty
FRANK GEORGE
1351 High St. Phone 4332-X
ON ALL SAVINGS
Compounded Semi Annually
The West Siie Building
and Loan Association
Main and Streets
A Leader for
YELLOW FEVER FOE DIES
Miami, Fla.—Dr. Joseph Yates
Porter, retired officer of the United
States medical corps, died in this city
at the age of 79 years. It is believed
he was the first to discover that mos
quitoes transmit yellow fever. He
was one of the first to point out that
malaria is not carried by salt water
mosquitoes.
*A
"union
Transit
Members refuse to pay dues and
the company insists that only good
standing members of the "union'
shall be employed. The company re
fused to accept the anti-dues-paying
decision and insisted on a referendum.
The street car men accept the com
pany's claim that the "union" belongs
to them. "If this is true," the workei\s
say, "why can't we vote to dispense
With
dues?"
A more serious trouble, however,
confronts the company. Employes are
joining the Amalgamated Association
of Street and Electric Railway Em
ployes.
WE PAY Ha
Interest
Compounded
Semi^nnusUv
Important Changes In Train Schedules
Effective Sunday, April 3,1927
Patrons are requested to consult Ticket Agents rela
tive to the time of trains on and after that date.
BALTIMORE &, OHIO
"1827 100 Years of Service 1927"
W. F. CAHILL & SONS
Funeral Directors""
Established in 1875
The Last Word in INVALID CAR
Equipped with all first aid for Doctor and Nurse.
wheel base and balloon tires assures easy riding.
AH Comforts for Long Distance Trips
Phone 200 PARLORS 229 Dayton St.
BURNETT-WAITE'S
Sn
Ul
Your
s r.
Ten Days of Rare Footwear
Bargains for Women, Misses
and Children
''PHIS is an event you can't afford to overlook,
because shoe prices have been drastically re
duced. You can save considerable money on the
very footwear that is seasonable just now.
Look at these Shoe Bargains!
Women's Straps, Pumps, Ties
and Oxfords
Several hundred pairs of these new Spring Straps,
Pumps, Ties and Oxfords in colored patent and light col
ored kids and calfskins. High and low heels all sizes
and all widths. And all at big savings.
Children's Play Oxfords and QQ**
Barefoot Sandals 0*/C
Children's and Misses' New Spring yfl A 0 d| AQ
Straps and Oxfords QL $1A/O
Infants' and Children's Patent CQ
One-Straps QL
Women's and Misses' Felt OO
House Slippers OOC
Women's Straps,'Pumps QQ
and Oxfords
Women's Straps, Pumps O QQ
and Ties
Women's and Children's A A
White Kid Slippers
TH£ HOUSE
232 High Street
*f J-
&%
ON. SAVINGS
THE COLUMBIA SAVINGS
& LOAN CO.
6!2 64 QgNl,?CHLER DLOO
O £1
i s
'Vy'f
V"
1
3$
Long
iA
Jlour
Forty-Five "Years
Grocer
*•.
'I
&
'tauSBSi