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(Editor's Note—This is the fourth
lind final "article of series, dealing
With the work of the Crusaders, one
of the major national anti-prohibition
organizations with a local division in
this city. This group is doing note
worthy work for the repeal of the
I*th amendment and also of the
Hate enforcement acts.)
f&In our previous editions we have
jild you of the purpose, principles
id plan of the Crusaders. We have
town you the spirit that inspired
organizers. The co-operation
Maintained with other major national
fchti -prohibition organizations. Warn
has been sounded concerning
icket" organizations professing to
bl working in the "wet movement."
in our concluding article, we sum
trize the past and present and give
pledge for the future.
The new Crusader is not theatrical.
He s not bombastc, bat he refuses
to be misled.
j^The new Crusade is not an activity
olrn of prejudice. Hatred has no
place in the plans of the young Cru
sader. He has coined a phrase—it is
^§brth repeating, "No man or woman
vifas big enough yesterday—is big
efiough today—or will be big enough
tomorrow to hate and reason at the
same time." And this, he says is the
titne of all times since the creation
of man when cool* dispassionate, tol
erant reasoning power is necessary.
This new champion of human rights
respects to the point of veneration
the legions of silver-haired women
and gray-haired men who gave the
best part of their lives in placing
the eighteenth amendment on the
statute books. He thrills to the ideal
ism that prompted the great tem
perance movement of fifty years ago,
of thirty years ago and of twenty
years ago. He has definitely decided
that actual temperance is so vitally
neeessary to the future welfare of
this country that he is going to fight
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By HOWARD WILSON, Executive Secretary, Crusaders
Cincinnati District
for it with every law-abiding power
at his command.
The young Crusader of today has
no quarrel with the purpose which
motivated the temperance forces be
fore prohibition became a law. He
has no quarrel with them because he
is in hearty accord with the idealism
that drove the temperance and pro
hibition movements to final success
and this new Crusader is going to
demand that every benefit prohibi
tion brought about be retained. It is
at this point' that the new crusade
breaks with the eighteenth amend
ment. Its leadeers and rank and file
are now willing to allow this country
to be. despoiled by agencies spawned
by the eighteenth amendment, pro
tected by corrupt local politics and
either ignored or condoned by pro
hibition leaders.
The new Crusader is not going to
condemn the old saloon and with the
same breath make light of the speak
easy and the bootlegger. He is not.
going to condemn the corruption that
existed between local politics befere
prohibition, and with th e same
breath ignore the present multiple
corruption between the illicit traffic
and local politicians. He is going
to make every possible effort to get
the old temperance forces to co-oper
ate with him in his present challenge
to the speakeasy, the bootlegger, the
corrupt politician and the gangster.
He believes that when sincere tem
perance people understand his mo
tives, they will back his crusade.
In conclusion, the new Crusaders
have no illusions about the task in
front of them. They know that the
job is not over. They know that
at the close of the prohibition regime
will bring them nothing more than
a temporary respite, since the big
gest .job confronting the Crusaders
will begin when the dry law ends.
They are dedicated to the principle
that since eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty, continuous agitation
and the Worst is Yet to Come
David Webb & Sons
FUNERAL HOME
PHONES 48-78. ROSS AT "D"
To TRanic You
For your favors of 1932 and couple the wish
with the hope that your New Year may be one
of continuous happiness.
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for temperance is the price we must
pay for a sober nation. To this end
they pledge their vigorous and loyal
support. They believe that the time
has come to "Wake up America"—and
that is exactly what they propose to
do.
The officers of the local Hamilton
Battalion are George A. Rentschler,
executive commander Leeds Bron
son, vice commander Charles Koeh
ler, secretary Peter E. Rentschler,
treasurer.
TRADESCOUNCIL
The Co-Operative Trades and Labor
Council met Tuesday night in regular
session. President Lee Inman being
absent, Brother Elbridge Nicholas
acted as president. Chas. Baynes
was appointed vice president, and
Chas. Chapin, door keeper.
The council meeting was not so well
attended, and only twenty-two dele
gates answered the roll call.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved.
A communication was read from
the Trades and Labor Council of East
Liverpool, Ohio, in which they state
that they have a resolution which was
endorsed by the Ohio State Federa
tion of Labor, to propose a law com
pelling all street* Railway lines to
place two men on all cars. The sign
ers, Franklin Walcott and F. A.
Marshall, request that Trades Coun
cil in Hamilton place the matter be
fore the state represerttaitves. On
motion the communication was receiv
ed and ordered complied with.
Communication from Thos. J. Don
nelly, secretary of the Ohio State
Federation of Labor, in which he
states that under instructions of the
last convention, he had printed 5000
copies of the address of Dr. Wm. M.
Leiserson on unemployment insur
ance. A package of the copies were
received by the secretary and distrib
uted among the delegates. On motion
the communication was received.
A communication was read from
the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce
in which that organization requested
that we send check for dues for last
year amounting to $25. On motion the
same was ordered carried over until
the next meeting, when Stanley Ogg
will be present.
Electrical workers reported work
slow and only about thirty-five per
cent of members working.
Machinists reported organization
in good shape but no work.
Milk and ice cream wagon drivers
reported that the milk companies are
reducing the working days of their
men.
Polishers report that there is no
work, and the Majestic products are
still non-union.
Plumbers report no work.
Printers report they will go on a
five-day work week beginning Jan
uary 1.
Dance committee reported a profit
of $61.50. On motion the report was
received and the committee dis
charged.
CAMPAIGN
Committee Will Meet Jan
uary 1
The non-partisan political cam­
paign committee will meet in the la
bor temple, Sunday, January 1. Chas.
Hosea reports that able speakers will
be present and the meeting will be
educational as well as instructive.
All workers are invited to attend this
meeting.
DRASTIC CHANGE
Is
Needed, Something Is
Wrong, Says Mrs.
Roosevelt
New York City (ILNS)—Some
thing is "fundamentally wrong" and
there may have to be "some drastic
changes" to provide "a decent and
happy life" for American workers,
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt told the
National Consumer's League in ses
sion here.
"We are facing industrially in this
country a crisis such as we have
never faced before," Mrs. Roosevelt
declared. "The manufacturer who
has every desire to be fair to his
workmen, who has an enlightened
point of view on social conditions,
must compete in the open market,
and the depression has brought about
such great unemployment that the
unscrupulous man who for years
would have found it impossible to
find people to accede to his condi
tions of work is now finding it easy
because men and women must keep
body and soul together.
"Conditions are coming before us
every day which seem unbelievable in
these days, but day after day they
are proved to be true.
"Wages are falling below what
would have been considered safe for
decent living a short time ago," she
continued. "Men and women are will
ing to go back and work long hours.
They do not complain if certain sani
tary regulations are not kept because
they are afraid of losing their jobs, no
matter how poor those jobs may be.
"This organization is suggesting
two things to better conditions, a
minimum wage and a compulsory
number of hours of work a week.
These are very fine, but they are just
steps along the way. They are pre
ventives. They will just stop a gap.
There are more fundamental things.
fHE BUTLER COUNTY PftESft
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AJE^T New Year!" we cry
with the best Christian in
tentions, and In so doing
we celebrate the close of
what is perhaps the oldest
pagan festival known to
man. For New Tear's day
ends the Yuletlde festival,
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familiar to our Aryan ancestors as
Hweolor-tid, or "the turning-time."
Among primitive peoples everything
Is thought to live thus to the ani
mistic savage the lightning and the
falling trees are living and unfriend
ly things trying to hurt him.
Naturally enough In this stage of
man's development the sun was re
garded In the same light—as a rea
soning being—and since the sun fur
nished primitive man with his very
means of existence he came to wor
ship it and to watch after Its welfare.
Even today there are tribes who
during an eclipse turn out with great
clamor and shoots arrows Into the
air, under the Impression they are at
tacking the monster who Is devouring
the sun.
Little wonder, then, that early man
watched with growing fear the year
ly drama of winter—the death of
vegetation and the apparent weaken
ing of the sun. Perhaps this time It
really would die and leave him cold
helpless I
Then when hope had almost fled
would come the great day of the turn
ing-time, the day when the sun turned
back and became gradually stronger
that In due time green buds might
spring forth and the song of the birds
herald the coming of another spring.
The world was saved and man re
joiced during that season of Hweolor
tid, lighting great bonfires symbolic
of the sun's warmth, and offering gifts
to Freya, the Mother goddess.
Our modern personification of the
old year is an aged man dying, and
the New Year we conceive as an
Infant. The rebirth Idea persists.
The probable reason for the sacred
nature attributed to the mistletoe in
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Lighted Great Bonfirt*, Symbolic of
th« Sun's Warmth.
the Eddas and early Celtic mythology,
the important part It played In the
Druidic rites, and its modern associa
tion with Christmas, may have been
the mysterious nature of this plant's
hirth, springing as It does for no ap
parent reason and with no visible
coots from the body of an oak tree.
Although New Year's day Is men
tioned as an important festival by
Tacitus in the first century, It Is not
referred to as a Christian feast day
until well on In the Sixth century. It
was then that the date of January 1
was universally accepted, although
even now in countries suoh as Russia
and Greece, where the Gregorian
rather than the Julian calendar is in
use, the occasion is celebrated 12
days later than Is customary with us.
In Imperial Rome the day was ded
icated by Numa to the two-faced god
Janus, In whose honor men were wont
during this festival to forget old
grudges, and to whom they would of
fer sacrifices of cakes, wine and in
cense. And as a tribute to this two
faced god—this god who could look
back at what had passed, and forward
at what was to come—Julius Caesar
named the month of January.
In England It used to be the custom
to save a pnrt of the Yule log to light
the New Year's fire, in order that
some mysterious continuity, reminis
cent of the pagan vestal fires, should
remain unbroken. Many other
strange superstitions were connected
with the day, among them that of the
"first visitor," which still prevails in
Scotland.
According to another old legend,
the first pitcher-full of water drawn
from a spring on New Year's morning
was supposed to possess remarkable
properties, and maidens used to sit
up all night to obtain this "cream of
the year."
We still sit up to "see the New
Year in."
So, when the bells ring out at mid
night and we rush into the street,
shouting and slapping strangers on the
back, and performing what we think to
be very original antics, let us remember
that people acted In precisely the
same manner and did exactly the
same "original" things at the festival
of the Saturnalia in pagan Rome
more than 2,000 years ago.
For there is nothing new under the
sun.— Boston Herald.
"There is something fundamentally
wrong with a civilization which tol
erates conditions such as many of our
people are facing today. We talk of
a 'new deal,' and we believe in it, but
we will have no 'new deal' unless some
of us are willing to sit down and
think this situation out. It may re
quire some drastic changes in our
rather settled ideas and we must not
be afraid of them."
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Indian
New Year's
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OR. B. A. BATES
HE soft white snow Las cov
ered the hills and in the val
leys the song of the robin
and the cricket is no longer
heard. Even the purr of the
little brook in the bark
housed village Is silenced by
the fingers of the overhang­
ing Ice and the quiet hour has come to
the soul of the red man.
At such a time In midwinter, when
the moon is full at midnight, the New
York Indian and his kinfolks prepare
for their ceremonial of the New Year.
This ceremony centers around his
faithful companion, the dog no other
animal has an equal hold on the heart
strings of the Indian. The dog daily
teaches him the ever-sought virtue of
loyalty. Then, too, the dog alone
knows the trail to the land beyond the
sky when the life trails of'the red men
are ended.
Thus It was In the olden days that
the Six Nations selected a pure white
dog, and by solemn gestures cast their
sins into the sacrificial animal. The
fire of white oak chips was kindled
under the strangled dog and as the
smoke ascended, the Indian knew that
his confession of sin and plea for for
giveness carried in the soul of the dog
had reached the all-seeing, all-knowing,
Great Spirit far up in the land of the
departed.
Even today the age-old ritual Is car
ried out by the Iroquois but Instead
of a white dog, feathers and ribbons
from headdresses are burned with all
the ancient ceremony of their fore
fathers. Enemies become friends,
harsh words are forgiven, family dis
sensions are healed, debts are paid,
and parental objections vanish as lov
ers plight anew their troth at this
Indian ceremony of the New Year. In
ter-tribal discord is banished, old loy
alties are renewed, and a fresh trail
is blazed for a New Year on the dally
earth trail of each red man.
MilUnium
What on earth would become of us
If these New Year resolutions ever
took effect?—Collier's Weekly.
In Darwin's day many of the
clergy considered that, if accepted,
Darwin's theory would destroy the
foundation of all religion.
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Charlotte Chamber of
Commerce Starts War
#n Loan Sharks
Charlotte, N. C.—In addition to the
low wages imposed on them by em
ployers, underpaid wage earners in
this vicinity are thj victims of loui
sharks who stand ready to tide the
workers over periods of economic
stress provided Shylock's pound of
flesh is paid to the usurers.
Mr. Frank Sims, Jr., president of
the Junior Chamber of Commerce,
after a thorough investigation of the
loan shark activities here, declared
that the loan sharks are taking $500,
000 annually from the community and
charging excessive interest rates. He
said the chamber would launch a de
termined war to drive the Shylocks
from Charleston.
Soviet Union Is Second
Largest Producer of Oil
Washington.—The Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics has become the
second largest producer of petroleum
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START THE NEW YEAR
The Home Loan and Building
Association
Third and Court C. J. PARRISH, Sec'y.
Dargue s Cut Rate
21 NORTH SECOND
WITH A
SAVINGS ACCOUNT
We Pay All Taxes on Your Account
OHIO'S OLDEST BUILDING ASSOCIATION
FOUNDED IN 1873
To You and
Yours
We extend our best wishes for
a most prosperous
and
Happy New Year
246 High Street
in fche world, with the United States
ranking first and Venezuela third, ac
cording to figures made public by the
U. S. department of commerce.
From January through September
of this year United States production
reached 595,198,000 barrels Soviet
Union, 120,160,623 barrels Venezue
la, 88,287,647 barrels Rumania, 36,
913,929 barrels Persia, 35,981,989
barrels, and Mexico, 24,633,972 bar
rels.
In the Soviet Union the production
and marketing of oil is a government
monopoly.
NO MORE RATS
or Mice after you use BESTYET.
It's a sure rodent killer. Try a pack
age and prove it. Rats killed with
BESTYET leave no smell. Cats and
Dogs won't touch it.
60 cent size, 3 oz., is enough ftn
Pantry, Kitchen and Cellar.
75 cent size, 6 oz., for Chicken
House, Coops and small buildings.
Sold and guaranteed by Hamilton Flour and
Feed Co., 761 East Ave. Phone 8056 and
A. M. Graham Co., 245 Millville Avenue
Phone 878.
Our
New Year's
Wish
WE HOPE that the year 1933 will
be a prosperous one for you—
and that we will continue to merit
the kind patronage you have favored
us with during the old year—and
for which we thank you.
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