The Butler County press. [volume], August 17, 1928, Image 3

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

Image provided by: Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH

                
4.
Sow* and His Band in Golden Jubilee Tour
to Appear at Fair in Concerts Twice Daiiy
The strains of "Stars and gripes
Forever", "Semper Fidelis" and
other stirring marches, played un
der the direction of their famous
composer, will float over the Ohio
State Fair Grounds during the
week of August 27.
America's beloved "March King",
John Philip Sousa, and his band
will appear twice daily at this
year's Fair, according to an an
nouncement from Director of Agri
culture, Charles V. Truax.
An incident illustrative of their
wide popular appeal occurred some
years ago, when Sousa and his
band were touring in Germany.
John I'hilip Sousa
They encountered an American
traveler who asked who all these
uniformed compatriots of his might
be.
"We are members of Sousa's
Band," he was told.
"Sousa's Band?" said the puz
zled traveler, "I never heard of it."
"You have never hear of Sousa's
Band?" shouted one of the musi
cians. "Stranger, I dont know
what part of America you come
from, but I'll bet ten dollars to one
that your town isn't on the map."
No man in public life in the Uni
ted States for tl»3 last fifty years
is a more familiar or more popular
character. His life story is the
romance of a patriot through the
years from the Civil War to the
present time, of a staunch Ameri
can, and of a citizen of the world.
At fifteen he was a teacher of vio
lin at seventeen a conductor of
operettas at twenty-six years a
national figure as a director of the
United States Marine Corps Band.
For thirty-six years he has been
the dominating spirit of Sousa's
Band, favorite entertainer of the
American people, on tours at home,
in Europe and around the world.
Sousa is the only man to hold
commissions in the three branches
of the armed forces of the United
States. He was a Jieutenant of Ma
rines from 1880 to 1892, a lieuten
ant in the United States Army dur
ing the Spanish American War,
and a lieutenant commander in the
Navy during the World War. It is
by the latter title, as of the Naval
Reserve Forces, that he is now
known.
The high esteem in which this
genial conductor and his band are
held throughout the country ma/
be shown in a unique and emphatie
way. It is the only musical organiza
tion of its magnitude that has ever
been able to stand on its own feet
financially. It has never been sub
sidized, and has never depended
on gifts. The sale of tickets is its
only source of revenue, yet it has
always been a financially sound
organization, even in these later
years when its expenses have ap
proached $2,000,000 a season.
This year, Lieutenant Command
er Sousa is heading his band in &
Golden Jubilee Tour of the coun
try, qelebrating the fiftieth year of
his career as bandmaster, and the
thirty-fifth year as leader of his
own organization. It is in the na
ture of a triumphal tour, re
newing old acquaintance and mak
ing new friends. The citizens of
Ohio are fortunate in having the
opportunity of enjoying one of the
few extended visits of'this famous
musician.
For the engagement at the Ohio
State Fair, Sousa's organization
will consist of almost a hundred
bandsmen, many of whom will ap
pear as soloists, Miss Winifred
Bambrick as harpist, and Miss Mar
jorie Moody as soprano.
LET US QUOTE YOU ON YOUR
LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIALS
And You Will See the Difference
Tt* Butler County Lumber c»
The HolbrocK Bros.
Keliable Dealers in
DRY GOODS CARPETS CLOAKS
MILLINERY, QUEENSWARE
O U S E U N I S I N S
Voss-Holbrock Stamps With All Cash Purchases
l)ar£iie*s Cut Rate
21 North Second Street
THE STORE THAT BROUGHT YOU CUT PRICES
Np juggling of prices to mislead you, but the
same fair cut price every day, and a lower average
price than any other store in Hamilton wanes
sell at, but have to so long as we are^here. We can
only stay as long as you stay with us.
John Dargue & Son
Funeral Service
We render an intelligent, sympathetic service, never slight
ing on quality however, we do render a service that is
within reach of all.
The price is the patron's to determine, nevertheless we be
lieve in true economy, mid particularly guard them froiQ
overbuying.
Our beautiful Funeral Home is always at your disposal.
Burial Garments designed for each individual case and made
in our own establishment.
Edgar K. Wagner
Funeral Director
co.
r.
The Cherry
rw Where with our
Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly
Must helpless man, in ignorance se
date,
Roll darkling down the torrent of
his fate?
Thus, in his Vanity of Human
Wishes, Samuel Johnson posed the
question. Today mankind, through an
amazingly, almost miraculously, in
genius scientific minority, is piling up
the products of intelligence in such
herculean fashion that well may the
masses expect to stand in ignorance
of the great forces that change hu
man surroundings almost day by day
fcnd night by night.
Do we rush toward a condition
where irfan, in the mafts, will be "help
less man," in fact not drifting, but
plunging down a torrent of change
forced by science and beyond the com
prehension or authority of man in the
mass?
In olden days men found time to lie
outstretched under the stars, ponder
ing in that prone position upon the
things about them. Today but few
have that leisure. Those who have
time from work find what otherwise
would be leisure so filled with things
calculated to give pleasure or surcease
from toil that calm thought is about
the last thing to which attention is
given.
On a magnificent tide of change we
rush to new conditions of which we
know little, can predict less and bother
about almost not at all.
Lee De Forrest, the electrical wiz
ard, offers his views. Radio transmis
sion of power and power drawn direct
from nature in sky and earth, air
transportation and other coming de
vices, will depopulate cities and revolu
tionize manufacture. That is but a
hint of his picture. Change is con
stant, but it grows more rapid each
year and that is the thing that is so
little comprehended in these times.
There are many industries that under
go more change in a month in 1928
than could have been dreamed of in
a decade of the life of our grand
fathers.
It appears that in the main we are
content to let fate bring on the tor
rent and we will ride as we may, tak
ing our chance as to whether that ride
be a joy or a painful tossing from
rock to rock.
In ages agone a scourge might wipe
out a community. Today a new ma
terial puts an established line of man
ufacture out of business—and there is
your modern scourge, uncontrolled, un
prepared for, with the devil inevitably
taking the hindmost, of which there
are plenty.
The poverty of the' past was the
poverty of rags and empty stomachs.
The poverty of the future will be the
poveryt of those who can not keep up
with the terrible rate of change, eith
er mentally or physically.
An age of science is bursting over
us, with a populace, in the mass, left
all too largely wondering what it is
all baout and thus unable to take col
lective means of protection against
the blasts of upheaval which science
produces in its constant discovery of
the new and the revolutionary.
The desperate rebel of the nineties
thought to explode a bomb and blow
up a social system. Today a man with
a test tube makes a discovery and
makes greater change in the lives of
millions than the piffling bomb ever
could have wrought by blowing up a
czar.
Yet how manjb look forward to us
ing the same old methods, doing the
same old thing in the same old way.
"The march of the human mind is
slow," as Bufke said, in the mass but
while the human mind in the mass
marches in measured tread, the mind
of modern science rushes on in fan
tastic leaps and flights, overturning
demolishing .recreating. And we had
better get our wits about us that we
be not always "helpless man in ignor
ance sedate," just rolling down the
torrent of upheaving change. For to
morrow is not to be just another yes
terday.
COMMUNISTS OUSTED
NO ROOM FOR "BORERS
Atlantic City, N. J.—A central body
must unseat delegates who declare
in favor of Communism.
The A. F. of L. Executive Council
authorized this action at its quarterly
meeting in this city, on an appeal from
Canton, Ohio. This is in line with
the policy of national and interna
tional unions affiliated to the A. F. of
L. and is justified on the ground that
the purposes and policy of trade un
ionists and revolutionists have no aim
ilarity.
The Executive Council instructed all
affiliates to discontinue scholarship
and financial aid to the Brookwood
College, at Katonah, N. Y., of which
A. J. Muste is the head. This institu
tion claims to be a workers' college,
but it extols the views of Sovietism
TEACHERS WIN PAY RA1SB
Atlanta.—Teachers in Fulton coun
ty schools secured a pay raise through
the activity of the local Federation
Trades.
of
WORKERS
Seek to Protect Laws Votecl
by People
Salem, Ore. (I. L. N. S.).—Ben T.
Osborne, executive secretary of the
State Federation of Labor, has filed
with the secretary of state petitions
initiating a constitutional amendment
that will, if adopted, prevent the leg
islature from scuttling laws adpoted
by vote of the people.
Briefly, the amendment provides
that the legislature can not attach the
emergency clause to a law that
amends or repeals an act which has
been adopted by a vote of the people
of Oregon. Laws passed by th« legis
lature become operative at a stated
period after the legislature adjourns
and before the period pf operation ar
rives the laws may be held up by pe
tition until the voters have an o ppor
tunity to pass upon them. At pres
ent in case an emergency is declared
in the passage of a bill it becomes a
law as soon as signed by the gov
ernor, thus preventing the voters
from passing upon the merits of it.
The use of thtp emergency clause has
been increasing. It has been used in
cases in which there was no excuse
for it, more than to take away from
the voters the right to express them
selves on the measure.
If an arrogant legislature should
chose to do so, it could repeal every
law that has been enacted by a vote
of the people, attaching the emergency
clause. At the last session, three
months after the voters of the state
had by an emphatic majority adopted
the law abolishing fish wheels, the
legislature sought to nullify the law,
even before it was in operation. Gov
ernor Patterson declined to sign any
bill repealing a law enacted by the
people, but not every governor may
take such a stand. The amendment
which the State Federation of Labor
is sponsoring is perhaps the most
fundamental piece ®f legislation that
has been offered sin^e the enactment
of the initiative and referendum
amndment. It safeguards the intia
tive anc' protects the sovereignty of
the peop»e.
LABOR-FARMER
Contest Big Factor in Mex
ico Situation
Washington—A sidelight on an un
derlying cause of present conditions
in Mexico is shown in this July 26
Associated Press dispatch from Mexi
co City, in which reference is made
to Luis Morones, head of the Mexican
Federation of Labor, who resigned
from President Cale's cabinet:
"Raphael Mallen, one of the agrar
ian leaders, asked to explain the Mor
ones-Obregon feud, and the dislike of
the agrarians for the laborites, re
plied:
'Morones organized the city work
ers. Obregon organized the farmers.
These groups do not have common in
terests and they became opposing
groups.
The agrarians regard Morones as
the mouthpiece in Mexico of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, the Mexi
can viceroy of Gompers and Green
and therefore a disloyal Mexican.
'Obregon did not have connections
with farmer organizations outside of
Mexico. He was not a traitor. He
represented Mexicans ^nly.
T'hat's why Obregon's farmer fol
lowing opposed and oppose Morones
town workers'."
CRIME WAVE
Is Caused by Boo2e Indus
try, Say Lawyers
Seattle.—Growing lack of confidence
in the integrity of'all public officials
because of "bribery and corruption in
public office" by bootleg money was
depicted in a repott read to the crim
inal law section of the American Bar
Association.
The author, Arthur V. Lashly of
St. Louis, conducted an official investi
gation for that group of lawyers.
The report, based on opinions of of
ficials, publishers and law enforcement
agents in many large cities, placed
"the real problem of crime and failure
of justice in many parts of the coun
try" directly at the door of the boot
legging industry.
"Bribery and corruption have be
come common occurrences because the
cupidity of politicians and state and
government officials generally have
been excited by the enormous profits
of bootlegging, which being unlawful
are considered legitimate prey."
By-products of the illegal industry
—the thug, bombing and hi-jacking
gangs—often utilize their spare mo
ments in influencing elections by ter
rorism and in extortion schemes, Lash
ly said.
"Many murders, hold-ups and other
major crimes are directly chargeable
to this source."
EXPERTS WEARY DULUTH
Duluth.—This city has grown weary
of "experts" who have deluged the
people with probes, surveys, compre
hensive studies and charts.
Editor McEwen of the Labor World
suggests that the townJias had enough
of "expertphobia,"and that a little
work of a construct^ character
would be appreciated by the comma
nity.-
OVERTIME
Agreements Are Illegal,
British Count Holds
Vancouver, (I. L. N. S.).—Dismissal
by the British Columbia Supreme
Court of the claim of a worker against
lumber company for payment for
work performed during hours in ex
cess of the limit of eight hours per
day, as fixed by the hours of work act
the province, 1923, has raised an
interesting question as most unions
have clauses in their contracts with
employers governing overtime.
The worker stated that he had en
tered into an agreement with his em
ployer to work over the legal limit,
and claimed $1,177 as overtime pay
due him. In dismissing the claim, the
court held that the agreement was
llegal, the act being equally applic
able to employers and workmen.
The company denied the agreement,
and, though it profited by overtime
labor, is apparently not amenable to
gal punishment.
The question is, What is the status
of contracts between unions" and em
ployers containing clauses governing
overtime
NOT ''CONTENTED"
Say Unionists of Workers
Down South
Greensboro, N. C.—Speakers at a
trade union mass meeting in this city
denounced "the dishonest propaganda
that industry is moving South, where
labor is so docile, so cheap and so un
organized that it is unwilling to listen
to the labor agitator."
This, the unionists declared, "is an
insult to the intelligence of southern
workers.
"Never in the history of the South
has there been such a movement as
the present one," said one speaker,
'There is a general awakening of la
bor organizations. In Winston-Salem
especially, where the anti-union Rey
nolds Tobacco Company is located,
the same is true. Progressive people
there is much activity. In Durham
throughout the Carolinas are taking
a new interest in trade unionism."
Low wages, long hours, wretched
work conditions, "yellow dog" con
tracts and the company "union" are
developing this unrest.
You don't have to preach honesty
to men with a creative purpose. Let
a human being throw the energies of
his soul into the making of some
thing and the instinct of workman
ship will take care of his honesty
The writers who have nothing to say
are the ones you can buy the others
have too high a price. A genuine
craftsman will not adulterate his
product the reason isn't because duty
says he shouldn't, but because passion
says he couldn't.—Walter Lippmann
Pumps, Straps
Gore Pumps, Ties
Plain Pumps, Oxfords
Y BOYS
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S
SANDALS
$1.00
All Sizes
12 to Big 6
AH Si/t-s
Tan Leather—VVearflex Soles
246 High
Street
Y
SUMMER OXFORDS
$1.99
INJURED CHILDREN
CANT GET BENEFITS
Harrisburg, Pa.—Hundreds of chil
dren in this state, who are injured do
not receive compensation benefits be
cause they are illegally employed.
There were 4,186 accidents to min
ors under 18 years of age repoii ed to
state officials last year. Special in
vestigations of 515, or 12 per cent, fo
these accidents were made because
some type of illegal employment was
indicated on the accident report. In
258, or 50 per cent of these cases, the
minors were found to be employed in
violation of the child labor law.
Under the law these children are
debarred from compensation benefits.
A. F. OF L.
Deplores Murder of Obregon
Atlantic City, N. J. (I. L. N. S.).—
The Executive Council of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, meeting here,
has approved the following message to
President Calles of Mexico:
'The tragic death of President-elect
Obregon has created a felling of deep
regret and profound sorrow among
the working peoples affiliated with
the Pan-American Federation of La
bor. The assassination was an un
speanable and unjustifiable crime, call
ing for swift and certain punishment.
We can not understand the mental and
moral characteristics of any person
who would assassinate a man so sig
nally honored and universally ac
claimed by the people of Mexico."
/T
Ambulance Service
Phone 35
iiy
I Great Bargains in Summer Footwear
Tomorrow's Values the Best Ever.
Summer Shoes at wonderful price concessions
Y
O E N
WOMEN'S STYLE
FOOTWEAR
$2
The Labor Temple Auditorium. For dances, bazaars, parties, etc.
Inquire of the Trustees, or phone 1296 for dates.
IC. W. GATH CO.
Funeral Directors
99
High Heels, Low Heels
Tan and Black
Lace or Blucher
*^%ban€ofien€(r
FAVOR SIX-DAY WEEK *~i
'Denver.—The State Industrial Com*-,
rtiission has ruled in favor of a six*:
day week for culinary workers in Colo*,
rado Springs.
Nothing will ever be attempted If
all possible objections must first be
overcome.—Johnson.
Patrons and
Public in
General
Do you realize when
sending your
DRY CLEANING
OR DYEING
To
The Hilz Bros. Co.
Under Management of
JOSEPH HILZ
You Get Direct Service
PHONE 4 OR 157
Clean and Reglaze Furs
Repair and Alter Clothing
Reline
Have no Branch Stores
Own and operate our own Plant
Chairs and Tables Rented
17 So. Street
w jhi
SAND-GRAVEL-CEMENT
The Hamilton Gravel Co.
Phon« 3708
All Departments offering New
I'uiftit, Satin
iJarchnu'nt, Two Tone
Tan, White
MEN'S AND BOYS'
C.YM SHOES
79c
and Brown
hxtra Heavy Soles
MEN'S STYLISH OXFORDS
$2.99
Tan, Black and Sport Styles
Y
y
Y
Y
Y
y
Y
y
y
Y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
TeL
862
y