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CITY MAKES BIG
CUTJN DEFICIT
Instead of a forecast $35,000 deficit,
the City of Hamilton ended the 1940
fiscal year with outstanding obliga
tions of approximately $5,000, R. P.
Price, city manager, disclosed.
Price said the city, through hand
to-mouth operations, expended $22,000
less than was appropriated by council
for the year.
Because of unforeseen expenditures,
it was predicted last summer that the
city would have a deficit of $35,000 at
the end of the year. Councilmen were
informed last month that the munici
pality would probably be "in the red"
$15,000 for the past year.
Price explained that the unforeseen
expenses included $10,800 for employ
ment of additional members of the
Hamilton Fire Department, $5,000 for
the city's portion of employees' in
surance as required by state status,
and a decrease of $20,000 in classified
property tax returns for the twelve
month period.
Price announced that a hearing on
the city's budget for 1941 would be
conducted at the March 6 meeting of
the council. Passage of the budget
was postponed until city officials were
notified by R. H. Smith, county audi
tor, of the probable tax revenue to be
received for this year.
A temporary budget for the first
two months of tftis year, to allow the
city agencies to operate until the per
manent budget is adopted, was ap
proved by councilmen at their Jan
uary 3 meeting.
Seek Minimum Price
For Beauty Parlors
Representatives of more than 20
Hamilton beauty shops Monday night
voted to place before City Council pe
titions seeking passage of an ordi
nance establishing a minimum price
scale. The petitions are to be pre
sented at the first March meeting of
council. A committee, including Ray
R. Fliehman, chairman Mrs. Bertha
Brannon, Miss Kathryn Woodruff, Ed
ward Brannon, and Robert Hughes,
reported that a bill had been intro
duced in the Ohio Legislature by Ed
ward J. Gardner, Representative,
seeking to remove the "cosmetology
profession from the wage and hour
provisions established by order of
George Strain, director of the Ohio
Department of Industrial Relations."
Prepare For Tax Collection
R. H. Smith, Butler County auditor,
took the first step Monday in anticipa
tion of the assessment of personal
property in Butler County and the
levying of the 1941 tax thereon by
mailing forms to financial institutions
and dealers in intangibles.
These blanks are to be filled in and
returned to the auditor between March
5 and 12, and thereafter will be re
layed to Columbus for a recheck.
Legion Registration
Approved By Veterans
Full endorsement of the American
Legion nation-wide plan to register
all Legionnaires and World War vet
erans generally on a volunteer basis,
for possible future national defense
service, was given by Morris G. Tay
lor, one of the directors of the Frank
Durwin Post No. 38, American Legion,
of Hamilton.
"In giving veterans of the World
War an opportunity to complete its
national defense questionnaire, the
American Legion is performing a real
service to the nation," Mr. Taylor said.
The local registration will be con
ducted Saturday on the National De
fense Registration Day by a special
committee appointed by the Hamilton
Legion.
UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE
WILL CLOSE SATURDAY
The Hamilton office of the Bureau
of Unemployment Compensation, 143
North Third Street, will be closed
Saturday, February, 22, in observance
of Washington's birthday. All per
sons, who are scheduled to report
Saturday, are requested to contact the
office Monday, February 24.
C.C.C. ENROLLMENT
The Civilian Conservation Corps
will conduct four intermediate enroll
ments in Butler County during 1941
in addition to the regular quarterly
enrollments which take place in Jan
uary, April, July, and October, Charles
L. Sherwood, state welfare director in
charge of C. C. C. selection in Ohio,
announced this week.
TRUSTEESHIPS UNDER ATTACK
BY MIDDLETOWN COURT JUDGE
Middletown, Ohio.—Weaknesses of
the trusteeship law were criticized
Tuesday by Judge Edward H. Dell of
Municipal Court before the Retail Gro
cers' and Meat Dealers' Association in
the Civic Association Building.
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"The theory of the statute is based
on a fallacy," Judge Dell said. "If a
person cannot get out of debt with 100
per cent of his salary, how can he be
expected to pay them 80 per cent of
his salary?" he asked.
NEW BEER-LIQUOR PERMITS
Mary Rosina Bolser, 863 Central
Avenue, Hamilton, D-2. Taresa Combs
and Stephen Takach, 515 Yankee Road,
Middletown, D-2. John Kehr, Oxford,
Route 1, D-l. Grace Robinson, 702
Williams Avenue, Hamilton, D-2.
Archie Federick, 938 East Avenue,
Hamilton, D-l.
Charlie's Out Again
Mr. Charles Elble, business repre
sentative of the local Bartenders'
Union, No. 169, is on the job again
after a five-week period of sickness.
Charlie wan compelled to be confined
at his home with a case of flu which
developed from a severe cold. All his
friends and acquaintances are pleased
to again see him on the job.
MAGAZINE WRITER SAYS
BEER AIDS CAMP MORALE
New York.—Clarence Woodbury, in
an article in the March issue of "The
American" magazine, entitled "The
Army's War Against Vice," says:
"The mere fact that beer is now be
ing sold in army canteens is having a
tremendously salutary effect upon the
morale of many of the soldiers, who
feel less inclined to go to town in the
evening if they can get beer at camp
at cost prices."
CHIEF CALHOUN BACK AT DESK
Police Chief John C. Calhoun, ill of
a heart ailment in his home for the
past several weeks, returned Monday
to his office in the Hamilton police
department.
Pending further improvement in
his condition, Chief Calhoun is ex
pected to limit his work in the de
partment to a few hours each day.
LEISER OATH FRIDAY
Appointed Butler County probate
judge by Governor Bricker, Oscar
Leiser, Hamilton attorney, will be
sworn in Friday at 10 o'clock by Judge
Fred B. Cramer. He said he would
not announce the appointment of his
office staff until "the last of the week."
GREIG SPEAKS TO
STUDENT NURSES
The Butler County Tuberculosis and
Health Association has arranged a se
ries of lectures and talks on tubercu
losis and public health which begin
next week in Middletown when Charles
G, Greig, executive secretary of the
association, speaks before student
nurses in training at Middletown City
Hospital.
"History and Evolution of Public
Health Laws and of Health Regula
tions" will be the title of the first lec
ture. Tracing public health progress
from the time of the pyramids, Mr.
Greig's lecture will also deal with
modern practices and developments in
public health work in Ohio and Butler
County.
Other health lectures to be given
next week under the auspices of the
tuberculosis association include a pre
sentation, "Tuberculosis and Youth,"
before the assembly of McKinley
Junior High School and the Middle
town Hospital Nurses' Alumni Asso
ciation, where Mr. Greig will speak
on "Tuberculosis in Young Women."
All lectures will be illustrated by
sound motion pictures.
U. S. DEPARTMENT
OF LABOR
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
has started an inquiry into the causes
of the fire in the plant of the New
Haven Quilt and Pad Company, which
cost the lives of ten workers and re
sulted in serious injuries to three oth
ers. The factory was making army
blankets.
She has asked Lewis E. MacBrayne,
general manager of the Massachusetts
Safety Council, to investigate and re
port his findings to the United States
Department of Labor. Mr. MacBrayne
is the regional representative for New
England on the National Committee
for Conservation of Manpower in De
fense Industries named by Secretary
Perkins last July.
Seven other outstanding safety ex
perts in different sections of the coun
try were appointed at that time to
keep a check on plants engaged in de
fense orders so as to prevent injury
or death of skilled workers, to prevent
loss of work time through sickness
accident or occupational disease, to
prevent delays to production sched
ules which follow accidents and to
control, as far as possible, factors
making workers physically unfit.
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Another striking example of the
same British devotion to liberty was
given by the toleration of the "Peo
ple's Convention" in London, which
enjoyed itself hugely by lambasting
the government.
The "People's Convention" is ana
lyzed by Harold J. Laski, famous Brit
ish economist, in "The Nation" of Feb
ruary 15. The convention, Laski says,
was essentially Communist-inspired.
That was plain to anyone reading the
reports of the meeting in the Ameri
can press.
The chief demand of the "People's
Convention" for a "people's govern
ment," Prof. Laski points out, is in
direct line with the British Commu
nist Party's aim to "turn the imperial
ist war into a civil war." While he
does not believe the Communist party
really desires a Hitler victory, he em
phasizes that civil war would destroy
Britain's national unity and neces
sarily result in Nazi victory.
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the Communist attitude lies in two
factors: 1. the need for defending the
Soviet Union in this war 2. the chance
for a third party to emerge in the dif
ficult period of post-war reconstruc
tion.
However, the leaders of the Labor
Party, he indicates, are equally aware
of the dangers ahead and are one with
THE
CHERRY TREE
Where with our Little Hatchet we tell
the truth about many things, sometimes
profoundly, sometimes flippantly, some
times recklessly.
If you like 'em hot, "here's one that
sizzles:
Carl Haessler, managing editor of
what is known as the Federated Press,
in charge of a class in labor journalism
for the C. I. O. Auto Workers, tells the
workers how to run labor papers after
the C. I. O. fashion, or perhaps after
the Federated Press fashion.
It is interesting and you get a good
line on what to look for when you read
papers edited by those who get their
"education" from Mr. Haessler.
A summary of Mr. Haessler's course
in so-called labor journalism is put
into nine paragraphs and it makes
most interesting reading.
But in part it looks more like what
might be a course for reporters on
the Daily Worker than on what most
of us know as labor papers.
Let us take a good look at para
graph No. 9 which is headed "Labor
Publicity." It boils down this way:
"Straight releases. Telephone tech
nics. Plants. Hints. Stalls. Follow
ups. Meeting the reporters. Dodging
their questions. Out-of-town papers
Wire services. Tackling editors and
publishers. Pitting one paper against
another. Covering op. Art."
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COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
THIS
column recently discussed the
action of the British Government in
suppressing the Daily Worker, London
Communist organ, following many
months of deliberate opposition by the
paper to Britain's war effort. The gov
ernment's action, after long provoca
tion that would have speedily brought
drastic action in any totalitarian coun
try, was cited as an example of British
patience and devotion to constitutional
liberties.
the British people in their determina
tion that large-scale experiment in
solving social problems shall take
place.
Hie British Government naturally
didn't like the "People's Convention"
but did not interfere with it and there
was no resort to mob violence. The
British, no matter what the stress or
provocation, very seldom do resort to
mob violence. Which is a lesson for
America—a lesson that in these jit
tery times should never be forgotten.
Mob violence is not a sign of
strength but a sign of weakness, as
Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security ad
ministrator, pointed out effectively in
a recent discussion of civil liberties in
the colleges. Declaring that the na
tional interest lies in having college
policies for the protection of the civil
liberties of teachers and students vig
orously and clearly stated as an ex
ample to the community, McNutt re
marked:
"If the studious and reflective mem
bers of a college, the leaders of aca
demic thought, cannot keep their heads
what chance is there for the butcher,
the baker, and other workers to temper
their patriotism with cool effective
ness."
"For we must never forget," Mc
Nutt added, "that mob persecution,
such as marred our record in the last
war, is just as much a break in morale
as in terror collapse and irresponsible
vigilantism are but two aspects of
hysteria. Either represents a loss of
that self-control without which no man
or nation can be strong.
"Tyranny and terror may be neces
sary in some nations. They are not
tolerable here. Democracy has a story
that can stand the light of honest
men's discussion."
There you have it. Not our idea.
Mr. Carl Haessler's idea!
Go back and read it over again.
Pick out the words that guide you
to the kind of journalism taught
by Mr. Carl Haessler of the Fed
erated Press, as it is called.
Nice words are those used by Mr.
Haessler in his course of teaching the
young journalistic idea how to shoot
the works.
Let's have a little deeper look. Let's
pick out some words. For instance
"Plants. Hints. Stalls."
A "plant" is something that needs
no further definition. Anyway it
doesn't stand for legitimate news that
happens. It seems to stand for some
thing that is made to happen where
and when somebody wants it to hap
pen for a purpose known to the person
who makes it happen. It has a certain
kind of smell about it.
"Hints" and "stalls" follow nat
urally, once you start on that kind of
trail. The purpose of stalling is fairly
clear. You stall, let us say, when you
don't want to "come clean."
Well, there is very little stalling in
Mr. Haessler's outline—and very little
"covering up," which is another one
of the nicely descriptive words in the
outline. Why should one "cover up
in labor publicity? Perhaps reporters
might ask Mr. Haessler about that
when he offers them some "labor pub
licity."
But, according to the outline, when
reporters come you should know how
to "dodge their questions" and how to
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"pit one paper against another." And
you should know how to "cover up."
But if the reporters don't come, then
you should be versed in the fine art of
tackling editors." It must be thrilling
to know how to "tackle an editor."
It must be fascinating to know all
about labor publicity, as taught by Mr.
Carl Haessler of the Federated Press,
lecturer for the C. I. O. auto workers.
MOST fascinating. And instructive.
And so we have sought here to offer
you a FREE lesson out of the sum
mary of the course, so that you, too,
dear reader, may know how to do labor
publicity on the C. I. O. auto workers'
1941 model streamlined with the
newest badgets, "hints, plants, stalls,
covering up and dodging." Yes, if
that's the way you like it.
And don't forget your "telephone
technics," with spinach.—C. M. W.
PLENTY OF BUILDING
WORKERS TO MEET
ALL NEEDS, REPORT
Washington, D. C. (ILNS). De
spite the large volume of construction
begun in the last few months, supplies
of skilled and semi-skilled building
trades workers appear to be ample in
most states, Federal Security Admin
istrator Paul V. McNutt reported.
His statement was based on a na
tional survey recently completed by
the Social Security Board's Bureau of
Employment Security, McNutt ex
plained. This survey indicates that
while there have been local shortages
of construction workers in some
places, they have been adjusted by
recruiting men from nearby commu
nities through offices of the United
States Employment Service.
Administrator McNutt said that
more than 250,000 were registered for
employment in selected construction
occupations on December 7, 1940, al
though the demand for such workers
in the building of military projects
and new industrial plants has been
steady. While some of these regis
trants may have obtained employment,
the bulk of them, as well as those who
registered subsequently, are still avail
able for work. However, the supply
of construction workers is reported to
have decreased substantially since last
spring.
The survey covered 93 selected con
struction occupations. Of the total ap
plicants, more than 216,000 or nearly
86 per cent were skilled workers, and
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30,500 or about 12 per cent were semi
skilled. The remaining 5,400 repre
sented the highly skilled professional
and managerial occupations. Un
skilled construction workers were not
included in the survey.
More than 40 per cent of the regis
trants were concentrated in five states
—California, New York, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, and Texas. New York pub
lic employment offices listed 39,000
applicants, more than twice the num
ber in any other state.
Despite the usual seasonal lay-offs
in many areas, there has been a
marked decrease in the number of
available construction workers. Cali
fornia's applicants with construction
skills were about 50 per cent fewer
in December than in April, 1940. Over
the same period, applicants for con
struction work at the public employ
ment offices in Pennsylvania were re
duced one-third, and in Texas, one
fifth.
"Wrong Way* Arnold
Is Completely Confused
Organized labor always has thought
that Assistant Attorney General
Thurman Arnold was headed in the
wrong direction with his campaign of
prosecutions against unions under the
anti-trust laws. And the night after
the Supreme Court handed down its
momentous decision blasting Mr. Ar
nold's campaign into smithereens, the
muddle-headed prosecutor proved that
these suspicions were well founded.
Mr. Arnold boarded a train at New
Haven for Washington but woke up
the next morning in Boston. Appar
ently the Supreme Court decision
threw him into a total state of con
fusion.
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