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FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1929
The Community Chest came out
victorious last week, and we are told
that contributions are still conrrg in
which will swell the fund. At the out
set of the campaign many of
citizens labored under the impression
that the chest this year would fail
and the required amount would not
be secured. We are pleased to know
that there are still thousands of citi
zens left in our city who will always
give to a worthy cause, and it is this
class of people that fills the chest each
year.
The Community Chest drive is
£ZBAL
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Year
Payable in Advance
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cation.
V
»ver,
but the time to contribute is never
over.
Thirty people were arrested in
liquor raids last Saturday night by
state officers and by local deputy sher
iffs. Most of those that were ar
rested wer£ men, while some women
were among them also. Prohibition
has been a law for ten years, and up
to this time it has failed in its pur
pose. We have been wondering when
the drys will wake up to the real
situation and admit that their hobby
is the real bunk.
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This is Clean-up and Paint-up Week
in Hamilton. Every nook and corner
should be cleaned up of old winter
BILL BOOSTER SAYS
,oes Auygooy -thiuk
LET US QUOTE YOU ON YOUR
LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIALS
And You Will See the Difference
the Butler County Lumber
"Rusiness Methods
Home
economy in the operation of a home cannot!
V Mcured until there is an accurate knowledge
COfte. Modern wives, borrowing some of the methods of
tfie business world, are rapidly Towering their "operating
eacpense."
Take the matter of home baking, for instance.
When you add up all the costs, flour, shortening, milk,
yeast, and—often overlooked—the value of your time, you
yriS find you save money by buying
BAMBY BREAD
Ob« dollar-and-cents basis, you can't afford to do
your own bakme---especially when such delicious and
wiiolesorne bread can be bought so cheaply. But the
most important consideration Is the fact that we relieve
you of the work and worry, leaving your time free for
other disttw or for relaxation and recreation.
Why not try it out for a week or two? You'll ap
eactre hours you have—and the extra pennies,
Buy a loaf of our bread today.
WEIK'S BAKERY
THAT AkJVMOWEV SPEKJT
WITW THE MERCHANTS OF
-THE LARGE ajearbv
env
EVER. WD ITS
T£
WILL
VWAy
BACK. WPR.E
HELP WV TAXES, SUPPORT
OUR- LURCHES OR- ASSIST
fN AWy OF THE NUMEROUS
CAUSES *TO WHI&M OUR
HOME.
JWEfceMAtfTS ARE" ASKED
ID eOWTRtBLTE i
rubbish. Wouldn't it be well to make|
every week in the year clean-up time
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SHOULD A UNIVERSITY
LOSE ITS HEAD?
Prof. Harry Elmer Barnes and some|
possible that sanity can b* aeveloped
P°ss'ble
FIGHTER
Trade union friends are
The Taylor Society, once known as
a stop-watch organization, but now
bitterly opposed to those quack
methods of exploitation and commit
ted to management engineering of a
truly scientific nature, has cancelled
a meeting to have been held in Char
lotte, center of Carolina
bosses.
will stay away from the Carolinas|
until the situation is less "tense."
This is good news. It puts thel
I brand
of
t0|what
become. It should remember that thelspeakinK
tyranny. go from place to place in glorified|
kites called airplanes."
GALLANT FIGHT GALLANT
coming
financially to the rescue of Wm.
B.I
Wilson in his fight to win the seat I be getting better as it grows older,
in the United States senate
claimed
BRAVE TAYLORITES!
The society doesn't want to give the
cotton mill speed-up "efficiency" driv
ers any chance to claim relationship
with true engineering efficiency. It
I but
Co.
of
1375-1381 Shuler Ave. Phone 3883
Bread Is Your Best Food—Eat More Of It
deviltry on textile mill I
methods about as effectively
thing that has happened.
as any-|
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NOT SO BIG—PAPER MONEY
The treasury has announced that
beginning next July the paper money
issued will be smaller. The govern-
beginning to feel little self-con-
Of course, the cost of
$20. This shows a return to i
malcy. We can remember back in I
the halcyon days when a flve-dollar
no
about the Mooney case. I terrain or valley of tears any sooner
Prof. Harry Elmer Barnes may beltf,^
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so many things, but it docsnt seem
regarding any public issue by olias-lpor
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p_nf u EMmpr Rnrnes and some! a I attain the age of 60 are dependent!'s
more to hve today lt s worth more
we
all manner of a jackass about everlfee| that we got here too som. A
hundred years from now
method of U
a
jj
the people of 2029 will say when
of us
«those
it
by Boss Vare, of the Keystone state. I venient.—Ex.
The fight waged by Wilson, formerly!
a cabinet member, pioneer trade
unionist and beloved character wher
ever he is known, has been one ofl
those gallant fihts that could be wag-|
ed only by a gallant fighter.
old b020s had
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
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mistakes of democracy never yet|t0 travel everywhere on the ground,! out fuel, the ordinary gas chariot will ™ov ...
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have been cured by the imposition o* I except for a few who were able tolbe tuned in with a central station by I.
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ment will save $2,000,000 a year by I James J. Davis, secretary of labor, is I have the same wave-length, so long
decreasing the size. This is a good I responsible for the statement, which I as the total load could be carried by
move. The big old-fashioned bills are!
was
14
p"
psychological effect on the public will I their eyes to serious aspects of con'
be noticeable. Not so much will be| ditions within the social structure. It
expected of the small bills.
living
I
standard of
,iving
*r,r,
article seldom cost more than tenl
or twelve dollars. The cost of living I vide for old age. Statistics garnered!
will never -go back to where it was.*! by life insurance people show that|
Nor should it. Although it costs!
a
]|ow
a
more than 80
Per
.|
other professors and students are-runi »j«he more we hear about the "good
off the campus by University of 11 old days" the more we are satisfiedljg supported by public funds, an equal! Boiled down, Dr. Woods says that
Pittsburgh officials for trying to talk!
did. jn fact, we sometimes
today's
we we
ing people around the block. I standing terrible hardships and in-l the one who is doing it." With this
The University of Pittsburgh has| conveniences every day. "Imagine
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Of course, living was much less"
complicated than it is now," they will|crank
I say, but they must have been a hardy I thority than
race of people." The world may not
is certainly getting more con-|
The Cherry
Where with our
Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.
Oh, oh, the federal trade commis
sion has been hard at work protecting
the interests of the common people.
Lots of people wonder what "the fed
eral trade commission does to earn
textile| its living. Some go so far as to won
der whether it does anything. It
does. It works hard. It proposes to
let no guilty piffledink escape the
terrible maw of the law—and also
the paw of the law.
With a wunnerful swatting to right,
not to say imperious, way, the male-l
factors of petty folderol to berate,
besmother and bedamn with "cease
and desist" orders.
Of
course the federal trade com
mission has given more or less time
to digging up the dirt about powerl Coa]_Iron
now and then at the hands of this
same commission.
A magazine has just been called on
the carpet name suppressed, of
course. It agreed, after fatherly dis
cussion, to cease printing a long list
of advertisements, which the commis
sion enumerates
"Papa's Silent Partner," advertised
to make "he-men," to bring quick
animation" and all manner of pep,
will no longer be exploited by this
magazine. Neither will the "new
youth-giving belt," which massages
BY THE WAY
Comment and Criticism About Things Do
ing in The World
automobilcs In other words w
It will come as a surprise to many I length, and by throwing the switch a
no doubt that actual statistics show I generator of corresponding wave
86 per cent of the American people I length in the central station would
are "poor." No less an authority than I supply the power. Many cars might
£iven to a British newspaper.| the corresponding generator.
the
P\°P'C
!fVe
I incomes of $2,000 or more, he said.
scious at the small amount of work I
I I n e e n e a a k o o s e i y i n
they are able to accomphsh. And the
the United Statcs many c)ose
has been computed from American!
income tax returns and similar statis-l
only 14 per cent of the nation. I education should not be simply
The scale of wages of the average I body of acquired facts poured into the
-American worker, coupled with a high!
{. }jaVe arrived on this earth,! numbei are employed by the public,| education should develop the power to
a**d
are idle most of the time.
Some wise man, a few years ago,
dec]ared:
ving will seem primitive.
obtained will send us merrily on ourl
or v
queer little quirks of
exposun
on that subject have included the pro
verbial southern, as well as the north
ern and others. But it is in swatting
the little fish of the world of Trivia
that the commission really earns its
money, has its fun and amuses the
populace.
Whether all of this is in the proper
realm of labor activities we wot not,
and wotting not, don't care a hang,
However, seriously interpolating a
thought, the common people are
trimmed to a finish by a vast array
of fakery, quackery and deception
which gets a^slap^in th7ne7k Tvwylthe
cause, apparently, it wants to.
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radi0 8tation win soon be transferre(, that they had no strikes or |abor
According to the plan, each carl bor Council,
would have a certain receiving wave-1 Labor News
mits you to "see your best girl and all|
FAKE
here is your change to break into real! ®oth Pa88ei legislature. I
Police Bill Signed!
trust propaganda and its exposures! r» I the bill in the house.
By Governor Fisher
Harrisburg, Pa.—Governor Fisher
has signed the Mansfield bill, a fake
control of the vicious coal and iron
police system that is used to break
strikes and intimidate workers.
The state executive made a com-
state when three
dered John Barcoski, a miner. He1
was beaten over the head until hel I 1 QAn III? A ft
was senseless and his body was tram-1 Li/lUUl\ llljilJJ
pled upon.
The Mansfiid bill was introduced to|
away the fat and incidentally takes!these police roaming at will to en-l Boyd, adjutant general, and Sheriff
good money out of lot* of easilyIforce
their
and hard on advertisements that! authority and jurisdiction of in-lappealed to the companies for a re
read, "If you are earning a cent less! dustrial police to the property ofl dress of grievances before we came
than $100 a week—$5,000 a year—I
the
sp
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This paper does not vouch for the
practicability of this suggestion, but
only passes it on as an indication of
what may happen. In any event it
illustrates the daring conceptions of
the modern engineer. And who can
sa*
raa
1
tics that 54 per cent of personal in-
tine
fV»of P\A
nnr s\£ novoAnol in.
gradually coming down, but it still
has a long distance to go. A five-J ^i?200 that a third of the country re-| versity, Dr. A. F. Woods, director of
dollar article that cost $25 a few! ceive between $1,200 and $2,000 while! scientific work of the United States
years ago can now be purchased fori those who get over $2,000 compose! department of agriculture, said that
I
*^at the idea may not some day
^e to wrok?
memory»
is not highen0UI[h
a
of the remainder one of Cvery 10
«A fellow who says a thing
can not don
may be with-1 step lively to get out of the way of
everv dav in mind it is wise not to make lightlt0
.. .. ... a of the prediction that power from a| them like it, that used to advertise
shown how foolish .t
It *s the aim of modern edu-
ration first to develop power to us,
margin sufficient to pro-l ^at^S| discover truth, to distinguish
cent of those who
or partly dependent.
One of every 10 of our population!
it from error, and to develop the habit
of careful and exact observation and
correct conclusion. The true teacher
not a
£uide
fountain of knowledge but
an ingpiping spirit and
.g
than
ith-l troubles of any kind, can no longer
so*
er
thus I
in£
way. I There is the
The idea is advanced, not by a|
isionary, but a no less au-|
G.
she is doing," advising that "you see
everything." You won't if the com-| Washington.—The United Stat
mission can protect the privacy of thel supreme court refused to review it
lady from this fiendish kathoscope.l decision confirming a three-month
Confidentially, the commission doesn'tl sentence that Harry F. Sinclair must
believe the thing is all all-revealing I serve for contempt of court. The only
as the advertisements claim it to be.I avenues of legal escape now are par
don by President Hoover or a suspen
'Amazing profits" advertisements!
iney are having strikes ga-
re an the worker
against
M. Williams, presidentl -on
of the Marmon Company, who de
clares that such a plan is receiving
serious consideration by leading au
tomotive engineers.
finally is rebell-
intolerable conditions,
same remedy for the
south that there is everywhere else
in the country. Intelligent organiza
under the banner of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor will help to
olve the problem.—David Levine,
President, Seattle, Wash., Central La
in Washington State
SINCLAIR LOSES AGAIIV
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are made taboo, not that the com-| who imposed it two years ago.
mission is opposed to profits, but itl Sinclair was found guilty of refus
thinks the offers in question meanl ing to answer questions by a senat
profits only for the advertisers. "Sexl committee that was investigating tin
explained" gets no more display inl Teapot Dome scandals. The convi(
this magazine, as does a dissertation I tion means more than the imprison
on "Is spooning dangerous." No use! ment of Sinclair—it arms the senati
talking, the commission is interestedl with a power that was heretofore
practically everything. But of| denied
more importance is the kibosh put on
advertisements saying: "Men—bigl
pay. South American work. Com-I
panies pay fare expenses." I Aootio o
1 A 1 Ei
The federal trade commission got[
to left and to center, the federall jnto p0Wer trust inquiry because! Denver. Organized labor
trade commission moves in its august,!
it was pushed in. It gets int0
ion of the sentence by Justice Hitz,
[COMPENSATION BILL
their! Partial
victory
in
plete about face from his position ofl of Labor led the fight against tl
February 15 when he denouncedl one-sided proposal that workers
sweeping powers that the coal and! compelled to accept before they lire
iron police will retain by the bill! employed.
he now approves. I The unionists were opposed
The demand for regulation of thesel every force that anti-union influence
corporation-controlled thugs sweptl could muster. The workers are con-
°f
them fident
allay protests. This bill provided that
three reputable citizens should testify! Elizabethton, Tenn. Thomas F.
to the character of applicants forcoal| McMahon, president United Textile
and iron police. Each appointee mustl Workers, /ejected the suggestion that
give a bond of $2,000, wear a uniform I he and other trade union executives
and display his badge. His jurisdic-l leave here "to clarify the situation"
tion, however, would remain un-1 between strikers and the Bemberg
touched. I and Glanzstoff rayon mills.
company wWich employs them.l here?" said Mr. McMahon.
estate my way." I The workers' fight for control ofl Elizabethton. Public officials can be
The commission slams the brakes! this private army was supported byl helpful in this controversy if they in
on advertisements of "French pep tab-1 churchmen, newspapers and citizensl sist that all parties observe the law
lets" lor "vigor, pep and energy" and I generally. I and stop kidnaping. We will stay
on a hokum treatment for "Jjlood dis-l Governor Fisher was connected with I here at the pleasure of employes, re
eases." The commission moreover) the non-union mine in Indiana countyl gardless of the views of mill man
doesn't want any more advertisements! which secured an injunction against! agements or public officials."
of the "X-ray
kathoscope" whkh per-|
striking .miners from singing hymns. The
its
fight
business life be-| compensation when the state senatt
«wo^,,r»i«y5,.'»-. t,TJ7-,y-'*'» ,f.
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mQre of
absolutely necessary."
think. How much of modern educa
tion does this? Too little, it is to
be feared.
Even a worm will turn. The south
e frequently has to| that used to boast of the most patient
and docile wage earners, that used
0XI),°it
its workers and make
1
for higher
raised the wretchedly low maximum
of $12 a week for injured workers
$14. The minimum was raised froi
$5 to $7. v
Mining corporations and other lai
emPloyin&
k
interests hope to defeat
"YELLOW DOG"PLAN
LOSES IN WISCONSIN
Madison, Wis.—The Wisconsin
sembly has outlawed the "yellow don
contract. The Wisconsin Federation
they
by
will also win the senate
Refuses to Quit Strike Area
Organized labor protested against I The suggestion was made by W. C.
thuggery. Representative! J. M. Moreland.
yielding pockets. I Musmanjio, who lives in the district! "If our absence will'clarify the sit
I in which the Borsoski murder wasl uation,' why was not that true when
The commission puts the ban good!
conimitted,
introduced a bill limiting I these workers were unorganized and
.We
jjave
a
iawfuj ight
to
V«i "4 jt
second strike against the two mills.
When the first strike settlement was
made the management promised
there would be no discrimination.
Later
a
adopted.
victimization policy was
ROOFERS RAISE WAGES
Portland, Ore.—Composition roof
ers signed a two-year agreement with
employers. Foremen will receive $10
day, journeymen $9, and appren
tices $6.50. The old rates were $9, $8
and $0.
JOSEPH BINDER PASSES ON
Grand Rapids, Mich.—Joseph Bin
der, for 15 years general organizer
Pattern Makers' League of North
America, died in this city. He was 49.
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