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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3,1939.
SCORE ONE FOR CIVIL
LIBERTIES
Within a week of his confirmation
as Attorney General, Frank Murphy
has made a proposal which not only
meets the views of practically every
labor leader and liberal, but makes
them wonder why it wasn't done be
fore. He is having an investigation
made with a view to establishing a
Civil Liberties Bureau in the Depart
ment of Justice, to protect the civil
rights of those who cannot protect
themselves.
"It seems," he said, "that where
there is social unrest—and I have
been through no little of it myself
since 1930—we ought to be most
anxious and vigilant in protecting the
civil liberties of a protesting and in
secure people."
Mr. Murphy already has made two
moves in this direction. He has sent
two men to investigate the handling
of sharecroppers in Missouri, and he
has set a member of the staff to make
an exhaustive study of the federal
civil liberties statute in relation to
the three Civil War amendments.
Labor has had tremendous help
from the La Follette Senate civil lib
erties investigation. But there are
places in which public opinion has
little weight, and in these the local
tyranny goes on. The Department of
Justice can have weight anywhere.
Why, oh, why, wasn't Murphy's plan
tried before?
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SUBSIDIZING THE RAILROADS
The Railroad Business Association,
headed by one Harry A. Wheeler, has
launched a proposal that the federal
government shall subsidize railroads
to the tune of $110,000,000 a year for
three to five years. "To a moderate
degree," he says, "it would probably
increase employment and urges that
the government might subsidize rail
roads to increase their efficiency in
the event of war. But the prime
scheme is to have the government
hand over 25 per cent of all the rail
roads spend on tracks and structures.
There are plenty of objections to
this scheme. The editor of the Rail-
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SOCIAL and CARD PARTY
Every Friday Night
THE SPOT FOR REAL ENJOYMENT
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
Work of the International Labor
Organization in 1938 proves that in
ternational co-operation is possible,
even in a world beset by war and feav
of war. A summary of I. L. O. activ
ities for the year, issued by the Wash
ington branch, brings out the progress
of the organization under most diffi
cult conditions. The summary is much
too long to quote here, but opening
paragraphs outline its context. They
should prove heartening to all believ
ers in international co-operation.
"Despite the political crisis," the
summary says, "the activity of the In
ternational Labor Organization still
further increased during 1938. Its
June conference, in which represent
atives of 50 nations and many Euro
pean and overseas ministers of labor
took part, was one of the best-attended
and most interesting which have met
at Geneva. Its good relations with
governments, employers' and workers'
organizations have been kept up and
developed through regular and fruitful
collaboration.
"Requests of governments for the
technical assistance of the Interna
tional Labor Office to prepare or re
vise their social legislation by taking
into account the results achieved or
experience gained by other countries,
were more numerous than in previous
years. Finally, the International La
bor Organization has carried on its
regular work of research and infor
mation in all fields, continuing to study
objectively the new problems every
where created by the development of
industry."
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H. Lloyd Child, airplane test pilot,
dived a new pursuit plane at a speed
of more than 575 miles an hour. The
way Age, present when the plan was
launched, said that he doubted very
much whether railroad managers
would want such a subsidy. They
would fear, among other things, that
their competitors might get an ad
vantage over themselves. As for mili
tary efficiency, the government had to
take over the railroads in the World
War to get any sort of efficiency. But
two provisos, at least, should attend
any proposal of this kind:
As projected now, it would increase
employment in the very worst pay on
the railroads, maintenance of way
and structures. Federal money should
not be spent in fostering a system
which never has paid living wages.
If Uncle Sam's money goes anywhere,
it should go into the pay envelopes.
And next, no federal money should
be used to bolster up railroad graft.
The water should be wrung from any
railroad that gets such help.
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BASIS OF UNITY
We cannot bring about a real world
unity based on lasting values without
an understanding of the impulses and
the fixed grooves of action of the dif
ferent races and nationalities.—Ted
Shawn in "Gods Who Dance."
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WHAT NEXT?
Nazi authorities say all passenger
auto tires in Germany this year will
be made from buna, a synthetic rub
ber. Two large factories are produc
ing buna from coke and lime. It is
claimed improvements have been made
in technique, speed and production
costs.
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WISDOM
America's future will be determined
by its homes and schools. The child
becomes, largely, what it is taught
hence we must watch what we teach
it and how we live before it!—Jane
Addams.
MOOSE HOME
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speed was so great that the marker
on the indicator moved off the roll of
paper on which it made the mark. It
may well have been 600 miles an hour.
He dived like a swooping hawk, from
an altitude of 22,000 feet above sea
level to 4,000, and from 9,000 feet
down, he was going full pace.
With the world in the situation that
it is, every citizen of this country will
be glad to know that an American
plane with an American pilot holds
the mark. Though it certainly doesn't
add to the value of airplane stopping
artillery.
While on this subject, it is well to
say that this is the fastest that any
living thing is known to move. The
Canada goose takes 80 miles an hour
in going north going south, the babies
are along, and he has to go more
slowly. An Englishman clocked two
swifts, their common name is chim
ney swallows, over a measured two
mile course. One nade 171.4 miles
an hour and the other 200. A duck
hawk, swooping as Pilot Child dived,
was clocked and estimated to be going
from 165 to 180 miles an hour.
A policy of absolute mandatory neu
trality, wholehearted, clearly ex
pressed and emphatic, is among the
prime elements of a program of peace,
Senator David I. Walsh of Massachu
setts told a nation-wide radio audience.
Walsh is a member of the Senate La
bor Committee and chairman of the
Senate Naval Affairs Committee.
"Our national welfare demands and
our people insist that in inter-rela
tions we follow the wise Washing
tonian admonition to avoid entangling
associations abroad," he said. "In
brief, to mind our own business."
The Cherry
Where with our
Little Hatchet we
tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly. Sometimes flippantly,
s o e i e s e k e s s y
Idea of "tending to our knitting" is
getting vigorous championship in
Congress.
Outstanding senators and repre
sentatives are warning against Amer
ican involvement in Europe's quarrels
Senator Robert H. Reynolds of
North Carolina, among others, has
emphasized the warning. He slammed
meddling with the internal affairs of
other nations and said:
"I think from now on we should at
tend to our business, keep to our 'knit
ting' and attempt to provide employ
ment for the 10 to 12 million God
fearing men and women who are walk
ing the streets ill fed, ill clothed and
ill sheltered."
No one will attempt to deny, pub
licly at least, that providing Ameri
ca's jobless millions with full-time em
ployment is of paramount importance.
Judging by the lack of success in
the last six years of effort to solve
the problem, it will be with us a long
time. Certainly its solution is a task
demanding our best efforts.
And we can't solve it if we are stick
ing our nose in other people's busi
ness, worrying about the
way
they run
their affairs and striving to "reform"
them.
Another big problem which will
take our best efforts is prevention of
motor accidents.
Auto slaughter on American high
ways is a disgrace.
Yet it can be largely prevented, if
we have the will to tackle the job in
earnest.
Evansville, 111., and several other
cities have proved that auto deavhs
and injuries can be drastically reduced.
To get results, three main things
are necessary:
Determination by trained men of
the cause of accidents as they occur,
with quick and unsparing punishment
of drivers found to blame and remedy
of conditions making for street and
highway accidents.
The program takes some money and
some nerve. But Americans have
both.
Is President Roosevelt losing his
good humor?
At a recent press conference, he is
reported to have "dressed down" a
newspaper man who asked him what
qualifications he believed Thomas R.
Amlie had for membership on the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
"The President shot back," one ac
count says, "that he would not have
sent in Amlie's name if he had not be
lieved him qualified for vhe post, add
ing that it was the first time at any
press conference a question of that
nature had been addressed to him."
Naturally, Mr. Roosevelt must have
believed Mr. Amlie had qualifications
for the post, or he would not have
nominated him.
But why the bad temper when asked
to name the qualifications?
It seems a perfectly proper ques
tion, calling for an answer, not a dis
play of peevishness.
Miami's police officers have com
pleted a course of training in'the fine
points of courtesy and politeness. The
instruction was given as part of a
campaign to welcome winter vaca
tionists.
"Members of the "police division are
official representatives of the city in
the eyes of visitors," City Manager A.
E. Fuller commented, "and while we
desire the police to be firm in the en
forcement of general traffic, laws we
want them to be courteous."
Miami is setting a good example to
euery city in the nation.
STUDENTS AIDED
Oxford—The National Youth Ad
ministration has allotted $33,480 to
aid 248 students at Miami University,
it has been announced. A total of
$625,535 was appropriated for Ohio
students.
Tuley Heads Bartenders
Members of local Bartenders' Union,
No. 169, held the annual election of
officers in the Labor Temple last Mon
day from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. The re
sults of the election are as follows:
Durb Tuley, president J. E. Mc
Cormick, vice president Clifford
Brown, treasurer John Nelson Bow
ers, inspector Clifford Sauers, re
cording secretary Eugene Issenman,
William Gaughan and Robert Knodel,
trustees.
The contest between George Ten
bush and Robert Novak for business
agent resulted in a tie vote and just
who will be the next member to hold
this position will be decided later.
Tom Brannon, Ollie Hardin and
Charles Krehbiel were judges of the
election.
SALES TAX BOOST
SHOWN IN BUTLER
Sales tax receipts in Butler County
during the week ending January 14
totalled $,111.44, compared to $
425.50 in the corresponding week of
1938, according to a i*eport issued
Monday by Don H. Ebright, state
treasurer. Receipts since January 1,
are $17,263.72, compared to $19,
366.10 in the same period last year.
Relief Families
In County Increase
The Hamilton relief load decreased
by five cases to 483 last week but the
Butler County list showed an increase
of 19 for a total of 1,218, according
to the report Monday by Miss Isabel
Beardsley, commissioner of the Ham
ilton department of public assistance.
An increase of 25-cases in Middle
town that brought its total to 340 was
responsible for the jump. One family
was removed from the township load
to drop it to 395.
George J. Pieper
Dies In Decatur
George J. Pieper, age 72, formerly
of Hamilton, died of complications at
6:45 o'clock Saturday night in the
home of his sister, Mrs. Fred Walther,
931 North Street, Decatur, Ind.
Mr. Pieper was born in Hamilton
on December 6, 1866, and was a mem
ber of Hamilton Lodge No. 36, Loyal
Order of Moose and of the Hamilton
Metal Polishers' Union. He resided
with his sister for the last nine years.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday afternoon in the Griesmer
Grim funeral home, 422 North Second
Street, with burial in Greenwood.
Joseph R. Flum Dies
Joseph R. Flum, age 46, a machin
ist, 845 Vine Street, died of complica
tions Sunday morning at 2:30 o'clock
in Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincin
nati.
He had spent his entire life in Ham
ilton, born here February 29, 1892.
For 23 years he was employed at the
Nines Tool Works Company, where
he continued in employment until De
cember 22, when he became ill.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday morning at 8:30 o'clock in the
home and at 9 o'clock in St. Stephen's
Catholic Church, with burial in
Stephen's Cemetery.
St.
HOELLE ELECTED
Directors of the Butler County
Farm Bureau elected Louis Hoelle,
Fairfield Township, secretary-trea.
urer for the 1939 year. He succeed
Luther Borger. Ben S. Van Gorden i
president of the bureau and J&oland
Bevis, vice-president.
Oyler Named In
Morgan Township
The following officers were elected
by the Morgan Township Farmers'
Institute at the close of its two-day
session in the Morgan Township
school: president, Lee M. Oyler vice
president, Byron DeArmond secre
tary-treasurer, Mary Jane Ludlow,
and hostess, Mrs. Charles Starr.
The following executive committee
also was named: Mrs. George Doerr,
Mrs. Frank Baker and Mrs. Lee Ar
nold.
EMPLOYERS REQUIRED
TO FILE EXCISE TAX
All employers who employed eight
or more persons during 20 different
calendar weeks of 1938 must file their
annual excise tax on their total pay
roll at the Hamilton or Cincinnati In
ternal Revenue office no later than
Tuesday. After February 1, fines
are to be attached.
ESTES RETURNS
Middletown—Henderson Estes, for
mer assistant attorney general, has
returned to Middletown to reopen his
private law office. Estes, a Demo
crat, was supplanted when the Repub
lican regime of Governor Bricker took
over the state administration. Estes
is a former Middletown city solicitor
and past commander of the American
Legion post here.
Court Upholds Convictions
Of 34 Illinois Coal Miners
Chicago (ILNS).—The U. S. Cir
cuit Court of Appeals has upheld the
convictions of 34 Illinois miners found
guilty on charges of a conspiracy to
bomb railroads and mines during a
period of inter-union warfare.
The court, however, ordered sen
tences and fines reduced, to require
each to serve a total of three years in
prison and pay $15,000 in fines.
A. M. Fitzgerald of defense counsel
said "we will endeavor to take the
case to the U. S. Supreme Court."
Judge Charles G. Briggle sentenced
the 34 miners in December, 1937, after
six-weeks trial in U. S. District Court
at Springfield. The trial climaxed
five years of warfare between rival
mine unions in the central and south
ern Illinois coal fields.
Nearly all the defendants were af
filiated with the Progressive Mine
Workers of America, a union formed
in a revolt against John L. Lewis and
leaders of the United Mine Workers
of America in 1932.
Defense insisted throughout the
trial and appeal proceedings that the
defendants were victims of a counter
conspiracy engineered by the Peabody
Coal Company and the U. M. W. A. to
halt the growth of the rebel union,
which now is affiliated with the Amer
ican Federation of Labor.
Canadian Labor Congress
Suspends All C.I.O. Unions
Montreal (ILNS).—Notices of sus
pension from the Trades and Labor
Congress of Canada, have been sent
to all unions affiliated with the Con
gress of Industrial Organizations, R,
J. Tallon of Ottawa, secretary of the
congress, announced.
The suspensions, which he said af
fected between 20,000 and 25,000 mem
bers, become effective immediately and
will be brought before the annual
meeting of the Trades and Labor Con
gress next September for ratification
"The suspension was not ordered
because of any antipathy to the unions
affiliated with the C. I. O.," Tallon
said. "Over 80 per cent of our mem
bership is affiliated with the A. F. of
L. The whole matter boiled down to
the point of whether the majority
would withdraw from the Trades and
Labor Congress, or suspend the mi
nority."
In suspending the C. I. O. unions,
the Trades and Labor Congress acted
at the request of the last American
Federation of Labor convention.
Unity And Strength
As we of the labor movement enter
another year, let us be grateful for
the manifold blessings bestowed upon
us. Let us firmly resolve to stand
ready and united for more 'forward
marches' as the need arises. We shall
never lose sight of the fact that stick
together-ness (if we may coin a new
phrase) is our only weapon.
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Aesop knew his stuff when he tells
about a man who had a quarrelsome
family and after trying in vain to
unite them by words, thought he could
get better results by an example. He
called his sons and told them to lay a
bundle of sticks before him. Then
after tying the sticks together in one
bundle he told his sons, one after an
other to take up the bundle and break
it. They all tried but tried in vain.
Then untying the bundle he gave them
the sticks to break one by one. This
they did with the greatest of ease.
Then said the father: "Thus, my sons,
as long as you remain united, you are
a match for all of your enemies but
differ and separate, and you are un
done."—The Chronicle, Cincinnati, O.
Funeral Directors
All Airplane Makers
Except One Barred
Business With Japan
Washington, D. C. (ILNS). The
report of the National Munitions Con
trol Board quotes a letter which Sec
retary Hull, head of the State Depart
ment, wrote to American makers of
munitions, airplanes and airplane
parts last July. Expressing his own
and the federal government's abhor
rence of the bombing of civilian popu
lations, Secretary Hull said, in part:
"It should be clear to all concerned
that the government of the United
States is strongly opposed to the sale
of aeroplanes or aeronautical equip
ment which would materially aid or
encourage that practice in any coun
tries in any part of the world.
"Therefore, in view of this policy,
the department would with great re
gret issue any licenses authorizing
expoi'tation, direct or indirect, or any
aircraft, aircraft armament, aircraft
engines, -aircraft parts, aircraft ac
cessories, aerial bombs or torpedoes to
countries the armed forces of which
are making use of airplanes for at
tack upon civilian populations."
All manufacturers in this country
heeded Hull's request save one, the
United Aircraft Corporation, East
Hartford, Conn. The State Depart
ment revealed that export licenses
were issued to the corporation in De
cember to export 600 propeller blade
forcings to Japan at a total price of
$102,000.
GUERNSEY COUNTY LABOR
OFFICIALS ARE CHOSEN
Cambridge, Ohio (OLNS). The
Guernsey County Central Trades and
Labor Council has elected the follow
ing officers for 1939: Clark Gamble,
president Josiah Shooter, vice-presi
dent George Lynskey, secretary
treasurer John Hamilton, Dan Robin
and O. G. Vance, trustees.
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says
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