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MACHINERY
Is
1
Opposed By The European
Public
Washington.—The public in Europe
an countries uphold labor's oppositioi
to machinery on the ground that thi
will increase unemployment, accordin
to a study of the European textile in
dustry, just published by the United
States Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The study was made by the Assis
tant Commissioner of Labor Statistics
Charles E. Baldwin, who spent fow
months abroad.
MIn
all of the countries visited,"
said Mr. Baldwin, "there were largf
numbers of persons unemployed and
public sentiment generally, as well ae
the workers, was strongly antagonistic
to the introduction of labor-savin?
machinery and methods that would re
duce the number of jobs therefore,
there was little inducement for the
employer to attempt to develop mass
production htrough the introduction
of labor-saving machinery and de
vices."
Mr. Baldwin found it difficult to
and European textile output. "It was
find a basis for comparing American
well-night impossible," he said, "to
bring together for the various estab
lishments the total time costs of all
the processes of manufacture from the
wool in the grease to the finished cloth
packed for shipment. In view of this
fact no attempt was made to arrive at
overhead expenses, cost of manage
ment, material, etc."
In the United States, manufactur
ers quite generally have worked out
the money cost of production, the
study reveals.
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 oar own Plant
GLOSS OFF
Wu -emovt the wearsnine from
Ladi*-*' and Gents' garments. Get
the better kind of Cleaning, Repair
inp and Remodeling done at Kappel's
162 N street. Phone 2617-L
HOSPITAL
MO MOI5E
nr.
•i "ir
.«
JUST HUMANS
8y Gene Carr
Mirror» 3,000 Yearn Old
When the modern girl picks up a
hand-mirror to admire herself, she is
only following the example of young
women of 3,000 years ago.
Archeologists in Media, in Greece,
have discovered In tomb? of the My
cenaean period several hand-mirrors,
one with an Ivory handle. Silvered
glass was unknown in those days, and
mirrors were made of sheets of pol
ished metaL
Even before polished metal was
used, girls had their mirrors. They
used polirhed stone, dipping it iuto
water so that the thin film of liquid
would serve as a reflecting surface.
Skunks Show Mercy
Under il:c skunk Geneva convention
the use of a gas-attack is strictly for
bidden in any battle which only
skunks are engaged in, says Nature
Magazine. In such a fight the com
butants depend entirely on tooth au.
claw. Sometimes that fierce death-in
the-dark, the great horned owl. will oc
casionally pounce on a strolling skunk.
Usually, however, he finds ttiaj the
latter's antiaircraft armament is too
strong for him and retires without
honor to bear about with him the
aftermath of hit raid until Ilia
next
molting.
Swa$3er
Oxfords
Make Autumn
Walks a Brisk
Pleasure
for
WOMEN
MISSES
NEW
ALLIGATOR
OXFORDS
Black or Brown
ALSO
Pumps
Straps
(JO/LOS:
*£&
246 High St
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v.iClure Newspaper Syndicate
DAT'S A LUCKY BREAK. RIGHT IN FRONT OF A HORSPITAU"
Army Rations Long Ago
Bow the American soldiers In the
old fort of Detroit used to fare is In
dicated by a warrant recorded In Sep
tember, 1797, contained in the record?
of Otto StoM. register of deeds, and
signed by Edward Day, department
commissary. The warrant reads: "The
United States owe at Detroit to
Messrs. Lelth, Shepard and Duff, f,185
rations of soap at 22 cents a pound
123 pounds beef at 10 ,ent a pound
31,736 rations af whisky at $2 a gal
Ion (one-half a gill being a ration)
5,404 rations of candles at 24 cents
a pound, and 24.886 rations of vinegar
at 8 cents a quart ... All of
which quantities have become due to
the soldiery anterior to this date as
appears by due bills of the assistant
commissary."
Humor
SHE GOT HERS
A wife who was inclined to be
Jealous took her husband shopping
with her, and while buying a dress
she noticed him gazing admiringly
at a passing mannequin.
"You never looked at me like that,"
she reproached him.
"You never looked like that," he
snapped back at h-r.
Preferred Lower Climes
First Poet—Still living at your old
anode?**
Second Poet—No, I moved because
of the climatic conditions.
First
poet—Climatic
conditions?
Second Poet—Yes, .oo much of a
climb to the attic.
Explanation Needed
Mistre&s (to new maid) —Why didn't
you-sound the dinner gong, Mary?
Marj'—Please, mum, I couldn't find
it
"Why it's there on the hall table!"
"Please, 'm, you said this morning
that was the breakfast gong."
One Thing Missing
Mrs. Newlywed rushed in from the
kitchen, a smoking pie dish in her
hands. She placed It on the table in
front of her husband.
"There, dear," she cooed, "that's a
cottage pie."
'Td have known it was cottage pie,"
he remarked after the first few mouth
fuls.
"Y«.u would?" she asked, delighted.
"Yes," he replied. "1 can taste the
thatched roof and the crazy paving.
But what did you do with the bricks?"
Considered the Baby
Mrs. Tel 1 i t—Cousin D«roiliy, you
know, always wanted to have a little
baby daughter so she could name her
June.
Mrs. Asklt—Yes. Did she do it?
Mrs. Tellit—No. The man she mar
ried was named Bugs, and it wouldn't
do, you see.
Had Read Genesis 9:13
"Robert, tell me .something about
Noah'? Ark."
"Which one?"
"I didn't know there were more
than one."
"Oh. yes. there were—there was
Noah's ark, the ship, and Noah's arc,
the rainbow."
Too Much Leverage
"Poor Zeb Hayfield. He'd been
counting for years on his boy's com
ing back and lifting the mortgage."
"And then?"
"He came back and lifted the silver
ware."—Passing Show.
DROPPED AND CRACKED
9
She—Jim Jones is certainly cracked
He—Probably—his girl dropped him
The Difference
Man wants but MttJe here below.
Nor wants that little long
Our prima donnas want
more, though
And want It for a song.
Subscribe for the Press.
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
Uncommon Sense
By John Blake
DOCTORS
Ta
WO or three winters ago I spent
day with a country doctor.
He found his office filled with pa
tients as soon as he had finished his
ftreakfast
He listened to all of them, picked
out the few who really needed his
services, told them what to do, and
sent them away.
The others he treated considerate
ly, assuring them there was nothing
the matter with them, and almost
pleading with them to go back to
•ieir work or their household duties,
and not to imagine they were sick.
Then we started out together in his
little car, through a blinding snow
storm.
There was a boy's broken bone to
set in the first house, five miles away
a child to give antitoxin to in an
other house a little farther along an
old lady with rheumatism to be made
omfortabie In another place, and a
dog—yes, a dog—to be dosed for dis
temper at the house of a well-to-do
farmer.
A
There were no veterinaries In that
neighborhood. The doctor treated
man and beast.
At another little family's home the
doctor had to speim an hour explain
ing that the diphtheria serum would
not harm the children, and that they
ought to take it because of an epi
demic which was raging.
He was a medical officer as well as
a doctor, and could, if he had chosen,
have brought along a policeman to
enforce his word.
But he preferred the softer method,
and he at last was successful.
We made forty-two visits that day,
and the doctor returned exhausted, to
snatch a hasty dinner and go out
again on a report of an accident on
the highway. He got to bed a little
after three in the morning.
Very 'Recently a doctor who had
treated a child with serum in New
York city was shot and killed by the
child's father.
He had been called too late. The
child died. The ignorant father be
lieved the Injection of the serum had
killed it
Such risks doctors must frequently
take.
Vet, as a rule they take them cheer
fully, employ tact among their pa
tients, and are always cheery and
comforting, and work like slaves.
One wonders why men choose a
profession which is so arduous, even
though the doctors who become spe
cialists reap rich rewards.
Ye brave devoted men enter this
profession, and many of them grow
gray in it without ever getting any
thing but a livelihood, although they
may be men of real ability.
I never hear people speak slight
ingly of the profession but that I
think of the ride I took with my friend
In the country.
He died not long ago, broken down
at fifty. Afterward a man who had
been at medical school with him said
he would have made a fortune in the
city. But I think he did more good
working in obscurity.
(Copvi iirht.l
O
A
By Viola Brothers Shore
FOR THE GOOSE—
A
STUDENT—an artist and a moth
er*—their work is never done.
If a thing is bein' talked about a
lot, there's bound to be a little truth
in it And a lotta untruth.
Just because people are tellin' you
the truth, don't mean they ain't try
ing to fool you.
FOR THE GANDER—
The feller that's watchin* could al
was 'a' worked out the game.
Some artists Just wanna paint
enough to be able to live well. And
Others
again just wanna live enough
to be able to paint well.
It's Just as bad for you to go
around not trnsfln' nobody as It Is
trustln' everybody.
(CopvrUrht.)
O
GlPllGHGk/®
ru I
*If people who boast that they
speak their minds would do only
that." says Meditative Meg, "what a
relief the silence would be!"
SEVEN-DAY WEEK
For Labor Owners Want
Less Oil
New York.—Internationa! oil mag
nates are conferring on methods to
limit production and in Oklahoma this
movement has gone so far that the
State Corporation Commission has set
a limit on output.
The world movement is headed by
W. C. Teagle, president of the Stand
ard Ool Company of New Jersey, and
by English and Dutch operators.
The old competitive theory has
been replaced by a belief that output
should be limited. This sabotage of
production is approved in every in
fluential quarter, but the five-day
week for workers, that is urged be
cause of overproduction, is resisted.
In the mid-continent oil fields of the
United States oil well workers are
compelled to labor seven days a week.
PRINTERS REJECT
LABOR PARTY PLAN
Charleston, S. C.—President How
ard led the fight in the International
Typographical Union convention
against the establishment of a labor
party "whenever a majority of the un
ions affiliated with the American Fed
eration of Labor favors such a pro
posal." The plan was rejected by an
overwhelming vote.
The same treatment was meted out
to a proposal that the convention fa
vor a nation-wide referendum to as
certain the sentiment of the country
regarding the repeal or modification
of the Volstead act. The vote would
be provided for and regulated by con­
HERBERT
C.
HOOVER
FOR
President
gress.
Seattle was selected as tKe next con
vention city.
PAY ROLLTOTALS
And Employment Gain In
August
Washington, D. C. (I. L. N. S.).—
Employment in manufacturing indus
tries increased 1.5 per cent in August
as compared with July, and pay-roll
totals increased 3.2 per cent, accord
ing to a preliminary report made by
the United States Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the Department of Labor.
Increased employment in August is
a usual occurrence owing to the com
pletion of July inventory-taking and
repairs, but this increase in August,
1928, is significantly greater than in
any one of the last five years, and in
August, 1923, there was actually a
falling-off in employment. A greater
number of separate industries report
ed increased employment in August,
1C28, than in any month since Oc
tober, 1925.
The index of employment for Au
gust, 1928, is higher than at any time
since October, 1927, with the excep
tion of March, 1928, when the index
was one-tenth of 1 per cent higher
than in August.
WORTHMORE
UNION MADE
SUITS AND TOPCOATS
*21
.50
—Men who have been wanting
popul: price suits with the
Union Label can now find
clothes union made at Worth
more. All the style, fit and
quality you will find in much
higher price clothes. We in
vito your inspection.
CLOTHES SHOP
Keep Ohio la Its rightful lace
THIS IS
A REPUBLICAN YEAR
HERBERT C.HOOVER
•m
MYERS Y.COOPER
in the Republican ran!:s by voting at
November 6 for HERBERT C. HOOVER for President and MYERS Y. COOPER for Governor.
Support Hoover in his policies which are for the best interests of Ohio and the nation by giving him
1 sympathetic congress of his own party to carry out his program.
To do this vote for Simeon D. Fcss for the long term in the United States senate, for Theodore E* Burton
'sr the short term in the United States senate and for your Republican nominee for congress.
Likewise, support Cooper in his policies which a-e for the best interests of Ohio by electing with hiir
-,te officers and legislature who are in sympathy with his program* To do this vote fori
John T. Brown for lieutenant governor.
Clarence J. Brown for secretary of state.
Joseph T. Tracy for state auditor.
Gilbert Bettman for attorney general.
Bert B. Buckley for state treasurer
Robert H. Day and Frank W. Geiger for the Ohio Supreme Court (on separate judicial ticket).
And Republican nominees for the state legislature.
Be aim you are registered to vote this ticket November 6.
Hoover in the Nation and Cooper in the State Mean
Utmost Efficiency in Governmental Activities
PUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Harry D. Silw, Ow'rtnwi, Neil Houm, Cwlnmhws. Ohio
Employment in August, 1928, stood
1.6 per cent below the level of em
ployment in August, 1927, and pay
roll totals were 0.9 per cent smaller.
The decreases in both these items,
comparing 1928 with 1927, were de
cidedly smaller in August than in any
previous month of 1928.
The data for Auorust, 1928, are based
on returns made by 11,097 establish
ments in 54 of the principal manufac
turing industries of the United States.
These establishments in August had
3,111,655 employes.
Increased employment was shown in
August, 1928, as compared with July,
in 40 of the 54 separate industries and
increased pay-roll totals were shown
in 43 industries.
RETAIL FOOD PRICES UP
Washington.—Food prices increas
ed in 44 of the 51 cities reporting
from JiPy 15 to August 15, according
to the United Stites bureau of labor
statistics. Fall River and Pittsburgh
lead with a 3 per cent increase.
Seven cities reported a decrease.
The 1 per cent list included Denver,
Louisville, Peoria and St. Paul. Less
than one-half of 1 per cent was re
ported by Minneapolis, Portland, Ore.,
and Springfield, 111.
MYERS
Y.
COOPER
FOIt
Governor
the general election Tuesday,