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FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1927
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Cla.s Mail Matter
Issued Weekly at 326 Market Street
Telephone 1291 Hamilton Ohto
Endorsed by the Trades and Laboi
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O
CAMP CAMPBELL GARD
On last Friday, under auspicious
conditions, dedication took place of the
beautiful boys' camp presented by Mr.
and Mrs. Homer Gard to the Y. M. C.
A., as a memorial to their departed
son, Charles Campbell Gard, whose
name the camp is to bear for all time.
The camp will be known as Camp
Campbell Gard, and is to be for the
use of Hamilton boys and young men
The camp is beautifully and ideally
situated, just four miles north of the
city. In all, there are 32 acres of
land on which are 10 bunk houses for
sleeping, a recreational lodge, dining
lodge, hospital, camp directors' lodge
guest home, two shower houses and
pump house. All buildings are
equipped with every modern appliance
obtainable. There is a fine electric
pump on the grounds, and they and
all buildings are electrically lighted
But to appreciate the beauties of the
camp and its completeness one must
see it. It can't be described with
full justice to the donors. It is said
and by those in position to konw, that
there isn't a finer nor better equipped
boys' camp to be found in the state
than Camp Campbell Gard.
As stated before, the camp is to
be for the use of Hamilton's boys and
young men. It will be a place where
they will not only find wholesome
summer recreation but where they will
get, under competent supervision
training that will make of them manly
men, and which training will go far
toward directing their steps to sue
cessful future life, as well. The camp
is going to mean much for our boys
our future citizenry.
It is indeed a munificent and noble
gift from Mr. and Mrs. Gard, and in
the words of Hon. Chas. P. Taft, one
of the speakers at the dedication cere
monies, "Mr. and Mrs. Gard could not
have given a more fitting memorial
for the inspiration of the boys and
girls of Hamilton than this camp,"
and which expression the Press hear
tily joins.
«i
HEAR MR. YOUNG
"Slowly we are learning that low
wages for labor do not necessarily
mean high profits for capital," said
Owen D. Young, of General Electric,
at a recent dedication of a business
school at Harvard. "We are learning
that an increasing wage level is
wholly consistent with diminishing
commodity price level. We are learn
ing that productivity of labor is not
measured alone by the hours of work,
nor even by the test of physical fa
tigue in a particular job.
"What we need to deal with are not
the limits to which men may go with-
CHRIST FOR ALL-ALL FOR CHRIST
i i U W U BUBTp*U.~PaIatl* MSe
A SUN AND A SHIELD:—The
Lord God is a sun and shield the
Lord will give grace and glory no
good thing will be withhold from
them that walk uprightly. Psalm
84:11.
PRAYER:—May we, 0 Thou Giver
of every good and perfect gift, ever
seek to possess Christ in our hearts,
and with Him Thou wilt freely give
tia all things.
out physical exhaustion, bum the limits
within which they may work with
zest and spirit and pride of accom
plishment. When zest departs, labor
becomes drudgery. When exhaustion
enters, labor becomes slavery. Zest
is partly a matter of physical condi
tion, but it is also largely influenced
by mental actions."
Surely these words of wisdom which
might well be heeded by some of Mr.
Young's less enlightened big business
compatriots.
to to
A WISE SHERIFF
Sheriff Harry Powers, of Wyandotte
county, Kansas, is showing a heap
more common sense about young folks
than the people who spend time and
money raving about the "petting" and
other alleged shortcomings of the
younger generation. The sheriff is
quoted as advocating a "spooners'
park" where those smitten by Cupid's
dart may make love without interfer
ence from busybodies. Such a park
should be under supervision, however,
the sheriff qualified.
"Why, young folks nowadays have
no place at all for their spooning,"
the sheriff declared. "We can't allow
it on the highways. Parking cars
there endangers life. The town is
building up in the districts that used
to be surburban. There is no room
for the spooners.
"Young folks are going to spoon
they have since time immemorial and
they will until the mfllenium is reach
ed."
What a wise sheriff—he's been
there, we bet.
to to to to to
BRITISH SHACKLE REACTS
There is little doubt that British
"stand patters" have gone too far in
their efforts to shackle labor by the
anti-union bill. The bill is provoking
a reaction in favor of the workers,
even in quarters not over-friendly to
thd|n. Intended largely to weaken the
workers' political movement, there is
evidence that the bill has strength
ened it, so that many observers are
predicting that if a general election
is held in the near future the labor
party will make big gains, if not
actually sweep the country.
Great meetings of British workers
to protest against the bill show that
labor's fighting spirit is still on the
job. Everything indicates that the
British workers arc* not going to meek
ly accept what the present tory gov
ernment is seeking to force on them
they are going to put up a fight that
will give the reactionaries the battle
of their lives. In this fight the Brit
ish workers have the support and
sympathy of all far-seeing workers in
the United States, who feel that a
victory for reaction in Great Britain
will hearten the reactionaries here
and embolden them in their assaults
on organized labor and its standards
to to to JRi
THIS ENLIGHTENED AGE
A great meeting for law and order"
has been held by the "Citizens' Serv
ice Association," in Washington, D. C.
from which Mr. Coplidge has just fled
to find a cooler and perhaps less hec
tic atmosphere.
This great meeting for "law and
order" was called by an organization
of citizens formed apparently by a
professional organizer to help author
ities enforce the Volstead act.
As originally contemplated, this
organization was to become a great
net of professional snoopers, at least
one to every city block, so that every
neighbor's windows might be watched
for signs of private imbibing.
What a spectacle it all is! All the
piety of the country seems to concen
trate upon enforcing the Volstead act,
Not upon preventing such massive
raids as those upon Teapot Dome and
Elk Hills, not against such travesties
as the Sacco-Vanzetti case, but upon
the Volstead act.
A majority of citizens seem bent
upon one of two great objectives the
one being to get for himself as many
as possible of his neighbor's drinks,
the other to get his neighbor in jail
if he has any drinks. Truly this is an
enlightened and progressive age!
to to to to to
SUGGEST A BETTER WAY?
Officials of some international
unions are considering a change in the
whole method of conducting organiz
ing work. They say: Why should we
expect to get members when we tell
them what scoundrels we think they
are for being outside our organiza
tion
They add: Why not tell them about
the benefits of trade unionism in
stead—why not give them the argu
ment for being inside instead of
roasting them for being outside?
These officials contemplate what
might be called "sales literature,"
which means literature explaining
trade unionism and its benefits. They
PROBLEM OF DISTRIBUTION
For many years the manufacturing
interests of our land have been en
gaged in developing an industrial sit
uation which is attracting the atten
tion of the peoples throughout the
world. American enterprise and
American initiative have practically
revolutionized our manufacturing pro
cesses. The efficiency of the Ameri
can workers has been increased in an
amazing way during the last two dec
ades. We are now equipped to manu
facture in greater volume than ever
before. The problem of production
through the use of mechanical devices
has been practically solved. We are
now grappling with the more difficult
problem of distribution.
The correct way by which this prob
lem of distribution can be solved is
through frank, sincere andd honest
dealing between employers and em
ployes. The earnings of industry
must be equitably distributed. If the
employers and stockholders of manu
facturing enterprises appropriate to
themselves, in the form of dividends
and earnings, all the.profits of their
enterprise, without alloting to their
employes a fair share of the returns
of their joint efforts, industry will
ultimately suffer because of impair
ment which such a process will inflict
upon the market for their production.
The whole economical system is so
delicately arranged and there is such
an interdependence of interests that
any violation of the rules of fair play
and justice disturbs most seriously the
factors of production and consump
tion. Human selfishness must be con
sidered and human weakness must be
reckoned with. There will always be
a strong difference of opinion between
employers and employes with refer
once to fair and just distribution of
the earnings of industry, but if the
problem is considered in the spirit of
tolerance and frankness, with a full
regard for the rights of all concern
ed, we will solve the problem of dis
tribution as we have solved the prob
lem of production. The problem
ought to be simple and easy of solu
tion. We shall create a condition in
industry where the producing capacity
of the workers would be balanced
with their consuming power.
to to to to to
think trade unionism offers enough to
win on its merits. They believe they
can win men over better than they
have been trying to drive them over.
It may be that organizing work is
jn the eve of important changes.
This plan has another phase. It is
to be localized—an intensive effort in
a given spot. What is happening is
that the methods of business houses
are being considered for this trade
union field.
It is something worth thinking
about.
to to to to to
VOLSTEAD, MEET MA J. HEISE
Centralizations frequently fall down
when applied to individual cases. But
not always. Albert Briggs was
charged with violating the Volstead
act. One Maj. August Heise, assist
ant prohibition commissioned for the
New York district, thought Briggs
wasn't "coming through" with all he
knew.
Maj. Heise admitted afterward that
he had ordered his men to bind
Briggs' hands and feet and then tie
a towel around his head. Speaking of
Briggs, Heise said: "I told him that
if he did not tell the truth I would
twist it."
Maj. Heise said this was a Chinese
method of torture. Whatever it was
it was torture—the third degree, hat
ed instrument of baffled police.
Alleged prohibition is bringing
more and more of this kind of dirty
business, and more and more corrup
tion. The generalization is that laws
like the Volstead act are pretty sure
to yield the Heise kind of results
Unlike most generalizations, this one
holds up.
CHEAP"LABOR
For Atlanta Urged By Civic
Body
Atlanta.—The Chamber of Com
merce opposes a standard wage rate
ordinance passed by the city council
There is no mention of trade unions
in the ordinance, which is intended to
check the lowering of rates below
prevailing standards.
"If the Chamber of Commerce is
earnest about safeguarding the inter
ests of unorganized workmen through
the anti-union shop," says E. E
George, financial secretary of the At
lanta Building Trades Couroil* "why
do they object to unorganized work
ers securing standard wages The
truth is, the Chamber of Commerce is
whether you are union or non-union
just so you work cheap."
Smeke a Standard .cigar and get
quality.
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
It Was a Certain
Match
By QUEENA POLLACK
(Copyright.)
SHIRLEYandVAN
DORN shifted
gears, settled back in her
driver's seat to survey the surround
ing country with zest
"Don't take it too fast, dear," ad
vised Aunt Victoria, who had been
her guardian since her own mother
had died ten years before.
"But I can't crawl," protested
Shirley.
"You'll be tired by the time we
reach Gardener's, dear, and week-end
parties usually have strenuous ath
letic programs," began Aunt Victoria.
"Do you suppose I shall like any
one there?" interrupted Shirley. "If
tiresome Tom Manley attaches him
self to me. I warn you, auntie, I'll
fly home."
"You know," Victoria Brownslee
started, ingratiatingly, "Mrs. Gard
ner whispered at dinner the other
night that she expected Ted Farson,
the shipbuilder's son, if he returned
in time. You've never met him, Shir
ley, and you know he's quite the catch
of the season."
Helplessly, Shirley laughed. Wasn't
it bad enough to hafre to listen to dull
conversation of the usual sort, she
thought, without having to be bored
by another youth returned from E\*
rope and his tourist impressions?
"Dear, I'm thirsty," put in Auut Vic
toria, "can't we stop at the next
spring?"
"Yes, of course, and let's trust that
It will cool my indignation about
hasty and plotted marriages," Shirley
answered firmly.
Shirley drew up by the side of the
road and told her aunt to wait in the
car while she brought a cooling drink
for her. Crossing the road to the
spring, she narrowly escaped being
run down by a dusty blue car that
flew with powerful speed from out
a side road. Her aunt visloned a
thousand accidents and cried shrilly,
"Shirley, be careful!"
A mild-looking youth In drab hiking
costurue pulled Shirley to the other
side of the road, end encircled her
shoulder with a stalwart right arm
to steady her.
"Oh, thank you," Shirley said duti
fully. "You know America might
have lost one of her rashest daughters
If you hadn't jerked me aside in time."
"And one of her prettiest, too, I
venture," the youth added, with a
wide winning smile.
"Tosh," replied Shirley in her old
contemptuous manner for flattery.
"But I started across this road to get
my aunt a drink. Now I see no cups.
"If I may oblige you/ said her com
panion, proffering a cup from a camp
ing outfit, "I'll risk crossing the road
this time for your aunt."
"No," she countered hastily, noting
the disapproval on her relative's face
at this prolonged conversation.
She bent over to fill the cup with
glistening cool water, and thought her
rudeness to the man who had saved
her life was unworthy of her real
feelings.
"Here," he said, masterfully, "let
me at least fill the cap for yon,
Miss
"My name Is Shirley Sumner. And
yours?" she said evading the truth.
"Timothy Torrence," he replied,
suppressing a smile. She did not
know whether he was smiling over
her name or his own, His was funny,
to tell the truth, she thought.
"Well, good-by and thank you for
my life, which I do not value very
much these days," she said, attempt
ing to disarm further talk.
"Good-by," he said, equally unper
turbed, "I hope to have the good for
tune to rescue you some other time.**
Shirley ran back to the car with
out a backward glance. Strangely,
her aunt was smiling, and not at all
impatient. As she Jumped into the
driver's sea, she thought guiltily that
she might offer to drive her rescuer
as far along the main road as she
was to travel.
Her aunt voiced the same thought,
which surprised Shirley. When she
called the invitation, he accepted with
alacrity.
"This is my aunt, Mrs. Brownslee,
and this is Mr. Timothy Torrence,"
introduced Shirley. "Climb in and
keep each other company. I'm driv
ing as fast as I can to the Gardner
estate at Langhorn road. If you want
to stop before then, please signal me.'
Without another word she was off.
Once again she shifted gears, but
this time sat forward in her driver's
seat, tense. Faster and faster, she
found herself flying toward Langhorn
road. She could not hear conversa
tion in the rear of the car, but did
hear low laughter. What a sudden
and strange cameraderie for staid
Aunt Victoria! As there was no call
for her to stop, Shirley thought her
passenger was going past Gardners'.
She stopped the car, almost wilted
with the rush.
"We're late already, Shirley," said
Aunt Victoria as she emerged from
the car on the Torrence boy's arm.
"Perhaps it will save embarrassment
later If I Introduce you to Ted Far
son right here. S8iirley Van Dorn
is her right name."
Bewildered, Shirley stared from one
to the other, and then surveyed their
smiles with one of her own.
"Oh, I recognized her," countered
the smiling, brown-eyed traveler of
intelligence. And once again, a stal
wart arm encircled her shoulder and
she knew she would be saved from
the danger of misalliance.
"PICTURE" SALARIES
REDUCED 10 I'EK CENT
New York.—The Paramount-Fa
mous-Laskey Corporation, moving pic
ture producers, announce a salary re
ductioi of 10 to 25 per cent. The
cut will affect the high-priced stars
and actors who receive $50 a week or
more.
The motion picture branch of the
Actors' Equity Association, affiliated
Built Fortune From
financier.
v
Picture Pott CarSs
Sir Adolph Tuck was the picture
post card pioneer, says the Boston
Herald. His father, Raphael Tuck,
founded a firm making cheap pictures
for London only. The son rapidly ex
tended the business to the British
islands as a whole and then seized
upon the coming of the oleograph as
his opportunity for an enormous ex
pansion of his slowly developing in
dustry. He started with six sets of
designs, the next year there were
twenty, the third year fifty. He ob
tained the aid of professional artists
and his competitive exhibitions of the
paintings to be reproduced on his
cards were attended by such crowds
as nowadays throng the movies.
He went one year to every one of
the royal academicians with requests
for new designs and not a few found
It consistent with their dignity to ac
cept his ofTers. Famous poets wrote
verses for his cards. But Tennyson
had the fortitude to refuse an offer of
1,000 guineas ($5,255) for 1,000 words
of verse. This indomitable and enter
prising promoter of an industry which
he had himself created spent many
weary weeks In conference with the
postal authorities over the size of his
cards. His business success made him
a baronet and
a
prominent British
Popular Russian Dish
Elaborate and Tasty
Of Russia's many national dishes,
Solyanka Is perhaps the most popular.
This Is a much more elaborute prep
aration than Vienna snltzel or Hun
garian goulash. It is rich and pi
quant without being unduly heavy or
greasy, as are most Slav dishes.
To make It the Russian housewife
takes 2 pounds of cooked beef, veal,
ham or chicken, either singly or In
combination, 2 pounds of boiled cab
bage, teaspoouful flour, 1 onion, 2
pickles, 10 olives, 10 pickled mush
rooms, a few truffles and pound
butter.
The onion and cabbage are chopped
fine and fried In butter until" soft. The
meat is cut into thin slices. Then
the cook butters a deep pudding dish,
making it inch deep with alternate
layers of meat and cooked cabbage.
The top layer should be of cabbage,
and on this is placed slices of pickled
mushrooms, olives, truffles and pickleB.
White sauce or brown beef sauce Is
then poured over all and the dish is
baked in an oven for one hour and
served hot iu the same pudding dish,
with a sprinkling of chopped paraely
on top.
Cathedral's Fire Brigade
St. Paul's cathedral In London has
Its own private fire brigade and wa
ter service. The water service was
Installed shortly before the World
war. Though the cathedral does not
appear to the casual observer as be
ing a building that would burn easily,
being mostly of stone, there are hid
den away In the thickness of Its walls
and elsewhere In its Interior several
hundred passages, corridors, rooms,
staircases and cupboards composed
largely of wood. The great outer
dome, which Is to be seen from the
street, also is made of wood, encased
with lead. Another reason for tlu
fire brigade is the fact that most of
the wood In the structure is many
years old and unusually dry, making
It excellent tinder in event a tire
should start in the building.—London
Tit-Bits.
Proved Hit Contention
There Is none so deaf as he who
will not hear, and there Is none so
feeble as he who hates manual work
The man detested it. He worked hard
and brilliantly with his head, and con
sequently only worked when he had to
with his hands. At the earnest solid
tatlon of some moving power he finally
consented to mow the lawn. It was a
long, dreary process to him, and he
loved it less every minute he was on
the job. When he finished he looked
at his hands partly in sorrow, partly
in triumph, and then he went to his
wife and stretched out those hands
accusingly. "See," he said "see those
blisters? Didn't I tell you that I
wasn't strong enough to do it?"—
Springfield Union.
Tire-Changing Thinking
Roadside wit is, after all, the test
of friendship. One should not get in
too deep with people until one has
had a blowout with them.
The extra man in the car may be
silent for a hundred miles, but he al
ways has plenty to say about the right
way to jack-up somebody else's ma
chine.
The passengers can trample fort
acres while the host is hunting for
lost wrench, or tinkering with a de
mountab'.e rim, but they never run
into any poison Ivy. That's always ii
the spot where the bedraggled owner
sits down at the picnic supper.—Kan
sas City Star.
Used to Make Medicines
The aborigines of tropical America
believed the fern to possess speciu
curative properties and when made
Into a sirup it was used for pulmo
nary and other internal ills. An oi
made from the male fern of a cer
taln species has long been and is to
day highly valued by physicians as
an excelleut vermifuge. In addition
to Its medicinal virtues, the roots
this fern are highly prized for rnakit
beer and other beverages pleasing to
the taste. At the present time the
French believe fervently in the med
cinal qualities of a sirup made from
the Venus's-hair fern.
to the A. F. of L., opposes the reduc
tion.
Unionized motion picture actors do
not include stars. They are associ
ated with the "Academy of Moti
Picture Arts and Sciences," a com
pany "union.''
The Paramount Corporation claim
expenses must be lowered. Durin
the last two years the corporation
sold $30,000,000 new stock. Present
income can not meet these additional
charges.
Ambulance Service
Phone 35
J'lr
NOTICE
Grand Slam Golf Clubs and Louisville Slugger Baseball
Bats, made by the Hillerichf & Bradsby Co., Louisville, Ky.,
are unfair to the Polishers' Union.
METAL POLISHERS No. 43.
C. W. GATH CO. I
Funeral Directors
Sand-Gravel-Cement
The Hamilton Gravel Co.
Phone 3708
Chairs and Tables Rented
17 So. Street
W. F. CAHILL & SONS
Funeral Directors
Established in 1875
The Last Word in INVALID CAR
Equipped with all first aid for Doctor and Nurse. Long
wheel base and balloon tires assures easy riding.
All Comforts for Long Distance Trips
Phone 200 PARLORS 229 Dayton St.
Edgar K. Warner
Former Instructor at The Cincinnati College
of Embalming
Funeral Director
DISTINCTIVE SERVICE 228 Heatnn St. MODERN EQUIPMENT
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THAT MEAN
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Friday
The Second Big Day
These wonderful bargains have brought crowds to our store
but there are plenty more for everybody, so come and save
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Footwear For Women—Misses—Children
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