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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22,1937
A CHUNK OF TRUTH
A group of gentlemen in New York
recently listened to a number of
speakers who denounced the social se
curity program of the present admin
istration as the "enemy of thrift."
They declared that the whole program
I was a mistake. They agreed that the
right plan was what they called "auto
matte saving," with the employer de
ducting a certain percentage for sav
ings from the worker's wages.
But it so happened that among the
Economy Leaguers, Associated Invest
ors, and members of the Manufactur
ers' Association present, there was
also in the hall one Abraham Epstein,
executive secretary of the American
Association for Social Security, and
probably the busiest single promoter
of old age pensions. Mr. Epstein
knocked the whole argument into a
cocked hat with one sentence:
"Our wage earners have rarely been
able to meet fully their day-by-day
expenses, let alone lay aside sav
ings."
With which large chunk of hard fact
landing squarely in the midriff of
pompous theorizers, the discussion
closed.
SEVEN NEW CASES OF
TUBERCULOSIS
The Board of Health reports seven
new cases of tuberculosis this month.
Cold, hard facts. But what a meaning
they have to those seven and most
HAMILTON, OHIO
Entertainment and Dancing
AT THE
likely to seven times seven of their
friends and family. What if you were
one of the seven? What would you
do This was the line of conversation
as the tuberculosis sanatorium com
mittee met informally at their head
quarters in the Rentschler building in
Hamilton yesterday.
You would do something if one of
your family was numbered among the
seven, was the opinion of most present.
First of all, you would want to protect
others of your family from infection.
But, can it be done at home? Some
said yes—others no.
One member ventured that imme
diate isolation through hospitaliza
tion was the answer. But that evident
ly is very costly from the arguments
prevented. Most agreed that they
would be broke within a short time
of paying to keep a patient in a hos
pital, thirty-five dollars a week and
up was too much for most. It was
agreed that taking the cure was an
expensive proposition, in private hos
pitalization. How about sending the
patient to another county tuberculosis
sanatorium—none of these will accept
out of the county cases, was the
answer.
Gradually the opinion was that the
Butler County Tuberculosis Sanator
ium that is proposed offered the log
ical solution.
Tuberculosis is a disease that the
community must fight and protect
itself from, as the average individual
is unable, alone, to cope with it, and
every open case in the community en
dangers others.
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Practical trades unionists of Amer
ica know there can be no industrial
peace unless there is industrial jus
tice, and so there can be no world
peace until there exists throughout
the world social justice.—James Wil
son, counselor, International Labor
Office, in addressing American Fed
eration of Labor convention at
Denver.
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WHAT NEXT?
When the vaults in the new United
States Mint at San Francisco are
locked, sound detectors react to the
slightest disturbance by short-wave
radio, snap on brilliant floodlights,
ring alarms and spray tear gas from
concealed jets.
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To Form Internationals In
Farm and White Collar Field
Denver (ILNS)—President William
Green, of the American Federation of
Labor, announced here that steps had
been taken to charter international
unions of cannery and agricultural
workers and white collar workers, in
cluding stenographers, bookkeepers
and accountants.
National councils in the agricultural
and office fields have been formed and
will be the preliminary move to is
suance of international union charters,
President Green said.
So far we have never seen any
body who got married on a bet that
won.
513 N. 5th Street Phone 3820-R
JOHN WINKLER
HAMILTON'S
LEADING BASKET MAKER
AND
CHAIR CANER
CASINO CAFE
HAMILTON'S LARGEST PLEASURE PLACE
NATHAN GRANT and His Spirits of Rhythm
Entertainers DeLuxe
ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCING
EVERY NIGHT
BEST OF EATS AND DRINKS
Monument Ave. and Wood St.
UNION BAR- Red, Bill and Mc.
ALWAYS RKADV FOR (R ICK SERVICE
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
The Cherry
Where with our
YP0 Little Hatchet
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truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly
The ponderous pundits of profit turn
loose their statistical stunts and the
populace is supposed to hold its breath
in awe and believe all it sees in the
papers.
Read the financial pages of the
daily papers. Short memories forget
what they read yesterday and so mar
vel at what they read today.
Nothing is more inconsistent than
the various tabulations turned out by
the multitude of agencies represent
ing big business.
The United States Chamber of Com
merce gets pontifical and turns out
its tabulations and washes them along
the road with general libations of
advice.
The N.A.M. goes into a trance and
Little Egypt pours forth words of
wisdom based on a lot of so-called
findings.
Business magazines by the score
view alarm, point with pride and gloat
-glamorously over what they fondly
call the truth, as found in their re
sourches.
Various foundations, safe in the
snug harbqr of financial security cre
ated by rich men ill at ease in the
midst of the gold, tell us what we
must do to avoid shipwreck, what we
must do to be saved and just why it
is that they are repositories of all
wisdom.
Probably the world never had so
much advice or took so little of it.
Labor itself pours out advice.
Of labor's advice it must be said
it relies more than most others upon
the impartial (generally) findings of
governmental statistical agencies.
Statietics are the ammunition used
by contenders. They are the filling
for bombs in economic conflict.
Labor makes more use of such
material now than it used to—buC
still not enough.
Andy Mellon, the "best treasurer
since Hamilton," used statistics to
good purpose. He got taxes on the
rich reduced by their use And the rich
came and got voluminous exemptions
by similar means.
And then when Andy Mellon passed
out of this mundane existence, it was
found that he had wound all his stat
istics up into a ball which he called
a foundation—tax exempt.
Those who get the wealth away
from others know how to use fig
ures.
They know how to make you think
you have been convinced, which is just
as good as if you really were con
vinced.
To repeat—all over the place there
are the dug-outs 6f big business, pout
ing forth ponderous argument, all
backed up by rows and rows of fig
ures. They look very convincing until
some better statistical surgeon sticks
the point of a knife into the heap
and then, down goes McGinty, London
bridge and the House of Cards.
But most folks are not skilled stat
istical surgeons, and so the evil dose
goes down the intellectual gullet.
And the moral is that labor
can't omnia vincit until it knows
as much about the game as the
other fellow, plus a little more.
The cruel and mean part of this is
that labor is so willing to join in the
stupid yammer at "brains," even
while it joyously pays it school taxes
aind sends its own kind to college
whenever it can.
A practical application of all this
at the moment is the general labor
inability to understand the Wagner
housing act so as to check those who
would distort it. And the housing act
was enacted to build houses for the
poor, with a flow of wages to those
vho do the building—thus, a 100 per
ent labor law that may well go hay
vire because labor men can't see their
vay through the statistics and techni
alities of it. There are times when
lull brains make for idle hands.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS
ANNOUNCED
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open com
petitive examinations as follows:
Associate refuge manager, $3,200
u year assistant refuge manager,
52,000 a year Bureau of Biological
Survey. ,!V
Assistant in home economics infor
mation, $2,600 a year Bureau of
Home Economics..
Full information may be obtained
from local secretary of the U. S. Civil
Service Board of Examiners, at the
ost office in this city.
Add to prosperity notes: Birth rate
statistics reveal an increasing number
of stork dividends.
STATEMENT
Of ownership, management, etc., of
The Butler County Press, published
weekly at Hamilton, Ohio, required by
the act of August 24,1912.
That the names and addresses of
the publishers, editors, managing edi
tor and business managers are:
Publishers: Edward E. Weiss and
John F. Mayer, Hamilton, Ohio.
Managing Editor: John F. Mayer,
Hamilton, Ohio.
Business Managers: Edward E.
Weiss, and John P. Mayer, Hamilton,
Ohio.
That the known bondholders, mort
gagee and other security holders own
ing or holding 1 per cent or more of
total amount of bonds, mortgages or
other securities are: None.
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS,
John F. Mayer, Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 19th day of October, 1937.
WM. HOWE,
Notary Public,
Butler County, Ohio.
My commission expires May 14,
1939.
BOARD FINDS PUZZLE
IN WET-DRY ELECTION
Members of the Butler County Elec
tion Board were puzzled this week
over the problem of a wet-dry vote in
College Corner, which lies partly in
Butler and partly in Preble county,
Opponents of the dry movement have
informed some of the board they will
challenge the election in the courts
on a contention that the district in
which the vote will be taken does not
include at least two precincts. To
make the vote legal, they contend,
residents of Preble county also must
cast ballots.
PERSONAL PROPERTY
TAX LISTING URGED
Persons who expect to leave the
vicinity for the winter are requested
by W. K. Swan, Butler county audi
tor, to fill out their personal prop
erty tax blanks before departing.
The regular listing period will be
February and March as in other
years, Mr. Swan said, "but by mak
ing arrangements to list before leav
ing, taxpayers may avoid confusion
and a possible penalty."
The early listings can be made di
rect at the auditor's office, on the sec
ond floor of the courthouse.
GARBAGE COLLECTION
CONTINUED
City Manager Russell P. Price said
this week provisions would be made
for garbage collection service even
though Judge Hugh Gilmore, of
Preble County Common Pleas court
today granted an injunction to pre
vent carrying out and performing of
the present contract held by the Hagy
Brothers. The injunction likewise pre
vents the city from paying any addi
tional funds under the Hagy contract
WITHHOLD PAYMENT
Paul Baden, prosecuting attorney,
said this week he would advise County
Auditor W. K. Swan to withhold pay
ment of all future bills to the stau
until the state auditor agrees to n
imburse Butler county for overdue
sales-tax revenue, $11,000 owed
For Children and Adults
WIGS
NOISE MAKERS
SERPENTINES
CONFETTI
5000 Assorted Hats
7500 Baloons, in 20 dif
ferent kinds, 6 inches to
6 feet long
Trick Novelties and
Lucky Charms
WITTMAN
337 S. Second St.
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ABSENTEE BALLOTS
Voters who will be away from the
vicinity election day, Tuesday, No
vember 2, may now obtain absentee
ballots by applying at the office of
the Butler county election board, on
the first floor of the courthouse.
The office will be open from 8:30
a. m. until 5 p. m. daily, and until
noon on Saturday.
MILLER BUYS
CAHILL CAFE
Edward "Dutch" Miller last week
bought the cafe at 405 South Second
street from William Cahill, who has
been the proprietor of the place for
the past year.
Everybody knows "Butch" and knows
he will conduct the business and his
new venture to the best of his ability.
He has been employed in past years
in some of Hamilton's leading and
most popular cafes. The same good,
wholesome food that made the place
popular by Bill Cahill will be contin
ued by the new proporietor. Bill's
many friends are sorry to hear that
he has retired from business, and the
same friends wish Butch unlimited
success in his new undertaking. To
both the new and the retiring proprie
tors, "Prosit."
STUDY PROPOSAL
The city planning commission will
be asked to study a proposal to pre
serve for park purposes the 40 acres
of timber land on the property known
as the Stahlheber Woods, on the
Darrtown pike. The Stahlheber farm
of 160 acres is being considered in a
real estate development by a Cincin
nati company.
Middletown.—An automobile theft
charge was filed Tuesday against
Gordon Henderson, Jr., 19 years old,
2034 Howard street, by Dewey Rob
erts, same address. Police arrested
Henderson yesterday on a charge of
driving without a license.
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by
the state in relief money, and money
due the county for court costs in
criminal cases.
400
Halloween
Suits
ALKA-SELTZER for
COLDS, Acid Indigestion, Head
ache, Neuralgia, Muscular, Rheu
matic, Sciatic Pains and other
disorders due to an over-acid con
dition of the body. The analgesic,
(acetyl-salicylate) relieves pain. The
alkalieerB help to correot the causa
of those pain 8 due to hyperacidity of
the stomach.
Get Alka-Seltzer at your drag
•tore in 30c and 60c packages for
home us*\ or ask for a plnss of
Alka-S^Itxer at the soda fountain.
Charles Blount
Ambulance Service
Phone 35
Red Jacket
Coal
Anthracite
Pocahontas
Semet Solvay Coke
SCHOOL BOARD VOTES
TO TALK NURSE PLAN
The Hamilton Board of Education
late today accepted an invitation to
attend a conference Friday noon on
unification of nursing services in
Hamilton. It has been proposed that
the city, county, Public Health League,
and city school nursing services be
consolidated under one head. School
board members have heard the mat
ter discussed, but have not given
an opinion.
GEO. KAPPEL
Practical all-around tailor, would like
to be favored with your patronage, for
Repairing, Altering, Cleaning, Press
ing, removing wearshine and Relining.
162 N. street. 1787 W. Will call for.
Give estimates and deliver.
SEE US
IF YOU NEED A LOAN
TO
Build—Improve—Buy
YOUR HOME
C. J, PARRISH, Secy.
Edgar K. Wagner
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
"THE PADDOCK"
HAMILTON'S NEWEST CAFE
110 North Second—Opposite Y. M. C. A.
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Schwenn Coal Company
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Chairs and Tables Rented
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say«
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