fy. 5 I THE PRESS ffFICIAL GROAN OP ORGANIZED LA BOS OF HAMILTON AND VICINITY AMERCE 10 LABOR! •S ^tsr") 5-HESS Members Ohio Labor Press Association THE NONPAREIL PRINTING CO. PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS Subscription Price $1.00 per Tear Payable in Advance We do not hold ourselves responsible for any vfews or opinions expressed in the articles •X communications of correspondents. Communications solicited from secretaries of all societies and organizations, and should be addressed to The Butler County PreM, 826 Market Street, Hamilton, Ohio. The publishers reserve the right to reject •fiy 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 ttle writer, not necessari.'y for publication, but a guarantee of (rood faith. Subscribers changing their address will please notify this office, giving old and new Wdress to inBure regular delivery of paper. Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton, Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter. leaned Weekly at Ul Market 8treet Telephone 1296 Hamilton. OhVt Endorsed by the Trades and Labev Council of Hamilton, Ohio Endorsed by the Middletown -Trades and Labor Council of Middletown, O. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1928 REGISTER! Thursday of next week is the sec4 ond day for registration. If you didn't register this week, do so next Thursday by all means. Get the wife and all other members of the family who are eligible to vote at the No vember election to register, too. Re member, everybody who desires to vote next month must register this time, whether they registered before or not. It is important thatf every workingman and his family vote at the coming election. All precinct poll ing places will be open for registra tion. The hours are 8 a. m. to 2 p. m. and 4 p. m. to 9 p. m. :o: THE "THROWN AWAY" VOTE Voters of all parties—republican democratic, socialist, prohibition, in dependent and what-not—can unite in supporting the campaign of the Na CHRIST FOR ALL-ALL FOR CHRIST Hf wri It«I«1» Mil a fat. U Htfct an ,T 111: Wk RULER OVER ALL: Thine, 0 Lord, is the greatness, and the power and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine thine is the kingdom, 0 Lord, and thou are exalted as head above all.—I Chron icles 29:11. PAYER:— "God Eternal, Lord of all, Lowly at Thy feet we fall All the earth doth worship Thee We amidst the throng would be." v BILL BOOSTER SAYS: 0IKJ and O'Coats *21 VUISH B/FRV BUSlUESS MAkl TOVYU tional Civic Aid can be given by first setting a good example yourself .and letting others know that nothing short of death or serious illness will keep you from going to the polls in November. Then others can be urged to vote and the importance of getting out a large and representative vote can be stress ed at every opportunity. There are almost no good reasons for failing to vote. It is one of the most important and vital duties of citizenship. Go early to the polls and express your preference and then with a clear conscience you can spend the rest of election day as you see fit. And don't be influenced by the pests who tell you your vote is "lost" un less you cast your ballot for a win net. Elections are not merely a means of selecting public officials they are also a means of revealing public sentiment, of giving everj^ citi zen a "say" on how he thinks govern ments should be run. If you vote as you believe, your vote is not "lost" though you may be alone among mil lions. The only vote that is really "lost" and "thrown away" is the vote that is not cast at all. •:o: HIGH WAGES NEEDED "Ministers of the Gospel must not satisfy themselves with preaching the doctrine of charity they must also preach the doctrine of justice," says Rev. Dr. John O'Grady, professor of sociology, Catholic University, Wash ington, D. C., in his new volume on social work. "Multiply social service agencies and expand their work as you will,' says the clergyman, "you can contrib ute very little toward the solution of the problem of poverty without a more equitable distribution of the products of industry. y WOULD STEP OUT A WD LOOK AT MtS 9TORE PROFIT AKJD SEE IF A COAT OF PWIKlr VJOUUOWT HELP IT^AlJO EVERY HOME OVUUER MKJHT DO "THE SAME,TO SE£ (F MIS HOUSE iStff GETTlkJG- A Q\X •CVAASBV--VJHAT vJE MEED IS MORE "FSeSWPWMT 3tOMS! Federation to get out a larger vote. It is something on Which every believer of democracy can agree. "So long as the wealthy use their 50 Union Made Worthmore Clothes have been established in Hamilton for 20 years, at all times giving the most clothing satisfaction for the least money. Worthmore Clothes have the Union Label. An absolute saving of $1000 to $15.00 on each garment. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii V "If we are permanently to improve the condition of the poor and to pre vent large numbers of wage earners from passing into the ranks of the poor, we must strive for better wage standards and the protection of wage earners against industrial hazards. "Charity must go hand in hand with the application of the principle of justice in social and industrial re lations. Those who are interested in practical works of charity must ever strive for the improvement of social and industrial conditions." Dr. O'Grady declares that tn every city in this country there are large numbers of workers whose earnings can not maintain them and their fam ilies in health and decency. Indus trial hazards, illness and occupational employment all combine to reduce his earnings. :o: "INVESTIGATE BEFORE INVESTING" The public is urged to "investigate before investing," but this advice is not intended for workers who are en couraged to buy stock in the concern in which they are employed. Returns on stock ownership are un certain. Stock differs from bonds in that the latter is a mortgage on the property. A bond holder can throw the property into bankruptcy if divi dends are not paid. Stockholders are paid interest only after other financial requirements are fulfilled. Interest on bonds, replace ment funds, depreciation and sinking funds are given first attention. The stockholders are thcfn considered. Even if there is sufficient money to pay interest on stock, the board of di rectors can vote to pass dividends^nd leave the money in the treasury for fu ture requirements. Unless the stock is cumulative, which is rare, that espe cial interest is lost to the stockholder The corporation "insiders" always have the advantage. They diversify their holdings. They never "put all their eggs in one basket," as the work ers are called upon to do. The "insiders" may also secretly control a subsidiary corporation that is* a money maker, while the parent corporation, whose stock is owned by trustful workers, is losing money. Workers should remember that there are two reasons why management fa vors employes' stock ownership—this V J\ TH s power to iqprease their wealth and to pay the workers less than living i wages, poverty will increase. fS /V BUTLER COUNTY PRESS system ties workers to their jobs ahd it is an assured source of revenue in financing corporations. "Investigate before investing." :o: MR. MELLON AS A DIPLOMAT Mr. Kellogg may be Secretary of State, but Mr. Andrew Mellon is at times a good cook when it comes to stirring up international troubles. In Colombia there is a concession— oil, of course—known as the Barco concession. One of the Mellon com panies is heavily interested in it. The Colombian government has cancelled this concession. Mr. Kellogg has pro tested, but the Colombian government virtually says he can protest until he gets tired of it. A nice Imbroglio seems in the making. Somehow there seems to be com plete lack of evidence that the Ameri can people want any more Latin American troubles over oil," but that probably will make no difference to Mr. Mellon and Mr. Kellogg. o: WORLD REVOLUTION POSTPONED Soviet Russia has again postponed its world revolution by inviting for eign, notably American, capital to that country. The Communists are long on talk, but short on cash. Foreigners, accord ing to cable dispatches, "will practi cally be allowed to draw up their own contracts." When the "reds" began operations they barred capitalists and attempted to foment revolutions elsewhere. But they found it impossible to swing the world by its tail and made the first retreat in their own country by recog- Geo* O. Sloneker for SHERIFF SECOND TERM ALWAYS ON THE JOB v '-7 nizing small capitalists. They call this their New Economic Policy. "N. E. P." drugged the proletariat, but it has not cured their ills. Mines, railroad building and immense natural resources of Russia are now dangled before the eyes of foreign money lend ers. The "reds" are forced to face eco nomic facts, while they thunder their explanations that they will engulf the capitalists with one fell swoop. No date is set for this event, but a few centuries are nothing to the cheer leaders. i For the present the program mak ers will accept foreign money. The "reds" latest switch may revive agitation in the United States for rec ognition of the soviets. Big interests were never known to object to a gun boat or two to collect interest and to protect their principal. The American financier will hardly sign a blank check and hand same to the wily "reds." •:o:- POWER PROPAGANDA The Federal Trade Commission dredge is going on, digging up the sor did story of public utilities propa ganda in the schools, through the newspapers and wherever opportunity seemed to offer. Typical, perhaps, of the story that is repeated day after day is the showing that a professor of University of Alabama was paid $300 a month for a time by the utilities and then was raised to more than twice that ambunt. A power official reported he had been active in "band ing the college officials into a body that would work in harmony with pub lie utilities companies." The idea used W. F. 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