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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
MOTIONS OF PLANTS.
Some Forms of Vegetable Life Have
the Power of Choice.

Some Forms of Vegetable Life Have
the Power of Choice.
One of the chief distinctions between
vegetable and animal life is that ami
mails have power Of choice and of vol
untary motion, while vegetables and
plants grow only mechanically by nat
ural law. But the microscope seems to
show that many vegetable forms can
move as easily as can animals.
There is plant called Yolvox globa-
tor. so minute that millions Of it could
be put in wineglass. which is seen
to whirl like top across the field Of
the microscope. Some plants found in
our ponds, which are still more minute,
move habitually, as with an apparent
purpose.
Darwin, who gave closer study than
any other naturalist to climbing plants.
stated that these seemed to exercise
the liberty of choice. Their tendrils,
In climbing over pieces Of wood with
holes, will try one hole after another
until they find one that pleases them.
He saw one tendri withdraw itself
after having located itself in a hole for
thirty-siX hours.
Other plants will run a long way
over the ground, refusing to climb the
trees in their path until they come to a
peculiar species of tree, to which they
at once cling. -Harper's Weekly.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24

properly man one respectable Office
and the break from the ranks Of
the unions that the employers ex
pected as soon as funds got low
has failed 10 materialize. There
has not been a single desertion,
and this has spread gloom through
out the Franklin Association,
Contributions to the strike fund are
coming in in sufficient amount to
meet all strike benefits, and that
this condition of affairs will be con-
timed until the strike is won is as
su-ed BY the action taken by the
Labor Council in r, quesung affili-
ated unions to levy l0cent per
capita weekly assess suient.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
School For Convicts.

Jackson, Mich, Oct "A Jack
sons prison school for inmates of
the penitentiary has been opened
The new superintendent has au-
thority of the State Board of Edu-
cation to confer diplomas upon in
mate graduates. The first eight
grades will be started Immediately,
and the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and
twelfth grades will be added as soon
as necessary examinations can be
given. Many of the teachers in
the school will be from among the
inmates. The warden states that
there are number of inmates who
are college graduates and very
capable men and these men will be
given charge of the classes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24

State; a law providing for organ
izing and maintaining rescue crew
in the mines; law providing for
fire escapes on workshops and fac
tories that are two stories and over
in height; law providing for semi
monthly pay days for corporations
aud concerns maintaining commis-
saries: law providing for the re-
porting Of accidents to the Depart
ment of Workshops and Factory
Inspection, and to prohibit the use
of any part of the report as evil
dence in the courts except for law
violation cases. An other bill passed
was that Strengthening the child
act in conformity with recent
Supreme Court decision
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
The Deaf and Dumb

In early times 1t was an opinion,
maintained even by philosophers, that
the education of the deaf and dumb
was impossible. 1t was then believed
that language could be acquired only
through the medium OF the ear. as
shown by the couplet of Lucretius:
To instruct the deaf no art could ever
reach
No care improve them and no wisdom
teach.
The first mention of instruction for
he deaf and dumb is found in Bede.
4. d. SG5. No other case is met with
for some centuries RudoIfus Agrico-
la of Heidelberg makes mention Of an
educated deaf mute in his "Dialec-
tica, 1880 1t was not until 1920 that
instruction for the deaf and dumb be-
gan to be general New York Ameri-
can.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
OLD ENGLISH JURIES.
They Were Fined or Bsaten For Not
Reaching a Verdict


Not always enviable was the lot of
the old time iuryman, for there was
always the prospect of trouble if the
verdict did not sratfy the higher pow
ers. Thus the failure of jury to con-
yict Sir Nicholas Throckmorton made
Queen Mary ill for three days." and
she came ont of her sick chamber to
fine the disobliging jury meanwhile
confined in PRISON. the sum of $4,000
a head.
Elizabeth followed the same plan,
and the practice OF fining English ju-
ries did not cease until 1870, when a
fine inflicted by the notorious Jeffreys
was rescinded on appeal
In some old time courts Of quarter
sessions" the injunction to lay their
heads together had to be carried out
by jurymen in literal fashion. When
they began to consider the verdict they
were supposed to dive beneath the
level Of the Jury box and remain in
that cramped position until decision
was reached.
Meanwhile the court usher stood
near the box armed with long wand
of willow. If any juryman ventured
to emerge above the surface before the
twelve minds were agreed down came
the wand on the head of the offender.
Chicago News.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
calumet Strike.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Oct. "a
The Daily Mining Journal has this
to say of the copper strike. 1t is
violating no confidence to say that
after two months there is much
more strike left in the copper coun-
try than the operators two months
ago believed would be the case. :"
The Grand Rapids labor paper in
commenting on the above express
sien says: The above gives in
fewer words than we can express
it the real situation as 1t exists in
the copper country at the present
time. The strike is far from over.
A good many papers would have
us believe that the strike is rracti-
cally ended, hut such is not the
case. The operators are stubborn
and refuse TO arbitrate, and the
miners refuse to return to work un-
til the differences are adjusted.
The operators have been circulat-
ing paper. The coal dealers Civ
ing a published account of how
the miners in West Virginia are
losing money by the new agree
ment they have adopted, yet the
facts of the case have no. been
given. The union men through
out the country are responding
literally to the defense fund to
carry on a strike. Already plans
have been made to furnish coal for
the strikers this winter, and no
one on the outside need worry
about the miners. Just worry
about the operators. They are the
ones that will need consolation
when the time comes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
Missed the Bird and Lost

The Glasgow News records a singu-
lar incident during a lawn tennis tie
The two players. who may be term
ed A and b, We're very evenly match
ed. The game was long. and some
times one and sometimes the other
narrowly led At length when A was
within a stroke of defeat he returned
a ball softly, and it looked as if his
fate was sealed So it would have
been, but just at that moment bird
few across the court in line parallel
with the ball,
AS all good tennis players can well
understand. b mistook the bird for
the ball and smashed" at it vigorous
ly. 1t swiftly rose and be missed it
by feathers breadth, and ere he
could recover his balance the ball had
dropped on his court.
This stroke proved the turning point
in the tie, as A thereafter played up
strongly and ran out winner.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24

THE fight of the local bakeries
and the outside non union bread is
on. The local bakers who are be-
ing assisted by the labor organiza
tions will do everything in their
power to get back their trade which
was gradually being secured by the
foreign bread trust. The trade Sc
cured here by the outside bakeries
has increased to an enormous size
and now that the local bakeries
have shown their willingness to run
union bakeries it is up to the union
men and women of this city to help
them drive out this non union
product. To drive the non union
bread from Hamilton, the union
bakeries must have the united sup
port of the laboring people of this
city. Committees must be appoint
ed in every nook and corner of the
town to find out what saloons and
groceries are handling the non-un-
ion bread and what laboring people
are buying it. This can easily be
done by good live committees who
are not afraid to use little of their
spare time TO look after the work.
The groc Aries will gladly put in
q line of union bread if they have
calls for it and the saloons will
handle nothing else if they are
called upon to do so. Let US all
get in the fight, it is our battle as
much as it is the baker bosses
They need our help and we must
get busy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
Indiana polls battle-ground. i.

Washington, Oct. "a. The sit
uation in Indianapolis is but little
changed. The managers of the
traction system are still continuing
their tactics OF maintaining an army
of thugs and gunmen to intiminate
their employees and for the purpose
of endeavoring to scare the organ
izers now on the field with the
hope that they may leave the city.
Even though innumera5le assaults
have been committed upon certain
organizers, these organizers still
remain in Indianapolis for the pur-
pose of protecting the best interests
of the workmen involved in this
controversy. The Employers As
sociation has developed bitter
feud provoking war, determined to
haze its way, irrespective of law,
without any consideration for the
community These traction en-
ployers assume that they h We the
right to treat men as they will
but there is being put up battle
against this stand to the end that
the men who work shall have the
right to have some part in determ-
iniIg the wages they shall receive,
the hours they shall work, and
with whom they will work. The
other unions of the city are giving
material assistance in this contest.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
Miners, Increase Phenomsnal.

THE growth of our union has been
phenomena within the last year" says
John p. White. general president of
the United Mine Workers of America.
Its membership having been increas-
ed by more than 100000 new members.
Our membership is now more than
100000. In the month of February of
the present year our paid up member
ship reached the high water mark Of
399.s09 For that same month there
were exonerated from the payment or
dues. in accordance with our laws. 49,
149 members, making grand total of
412.9 members"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
CAN'T BE DELIVERED.
Vote of Organized Labor Is lnde-
pendent and Uncontrolled.

Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American Federation Of Labor. before
the house lobbG committee. denied that
be had promised to swing the labor
vote of more than 100000 to any
one in the national campaign Of 1908
and admitted that he could not and
would not attempt to deliver that vote.
He might nave gone further and frank
ly confessed that there is no labor
vote"
In every campaign certain politicians
and labor leaders cultivate the illusion
that because large numbers of men
work with their hands and belong to
unions they can be voted for one can
didate or another like political dis
trict club. But it never works out that
way at the polls After the returns
are all in nobody can say how the car
penterS or bricklayers or metal work
ers or trainmen east their votes. No
one has ever been able to deliver the
vote Of organized labor or control any
considerable part OF it.-New York
World.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
Not Wholly Selfish.

When the garment workers strike
Tor sanitary shops they are saving all
society from the danger of clothes
reeking with disease When railroad
employees fold their arms, and refuse
a working day so long that they are in
danger of nodding in sleep past the
signals they are saving all classes. The
Bakers union, struggling against ex-
ploitation by the great bread making
corporations, is fighting that all the
people shall have cheaper and cleaner
bread. Thus, though the workers
struggle is for themselves, it cannot be
a purely selfish one. Life and Labor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
Movies In Schools.

Cin-innati, Oct. 24.-The school
officials are planning to install
moving pictures shows for all the
schools. At the request of the
superintendent of schools, the pu-
pills wrote letters to him telling how
they passed their leisure time. Ac-
cording to these letters, practically
all the boys aad girls go to the
nickel shows in the evening. The
school authorities, therefore, are
convinced that the schools should
be provided with entertainment of
this character.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
Liberal Response.

Butte, Mont. Oct. "a. The BUTT
unions responded literally to the
appeal of the striking copper min
ers OF Michigan. Aside from the
large contributions from the min
ers organizations, the miscellane-
Gus crafts have already forwarded
S.. $50. In addition to amounts
already paid in, many unions have
levied assessments. The Cooks and
Walters have pledged themselves
to donate Sl00 per month as an or
ganizatian; the Painters 81 per
month each, and the Plum bers 81
per month each and the Plasterers
s. per month each. The business
men also have subscribed literally
to assist the striking copper miners.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
AvERTs LABOR TROUBLES.
Cancellation an Ideal Method of Ad,
justing Industrial Disputes.

Cancellation an Ideal Method of Ad.
justing Industrial Disputes.
Methods used IN settling labor dis
putes in New York city by means Of
conciiation and arbitration are dis
cussed at length iii ii bulletin issued
by the United States department of
labor to outline an ideal scheme for
adjusting controversies between capital
and labor.
The New York plan applies to thirty
one employers associations, represent
ing a membership of more than one
thousand firms. and trade unions repre-
senting 10000 members. 1t Is stated
that approximately $4,000 building OPP
erations each year. with an annual ex-
penditure of S200000000. are affected
The report says that conciliation and
arbitration agreements between en-
ployers' associations and unions In the
building industry in New York city
have been in effect for more than TWEEN
ty-eight years with varying success.
The agreement to which the bureaus
study is devoted came into operation
in July 1908 and while it formally ex-
pired in July. 1910 disputes within the
industry are by mutual agreement still
settled practically according to the pro
visions of the original plan
According to the method of pro-
cedure under the agreement. says the
bulletin. the secretary was expected
in the first instance to exhaust every
possible means to effect settlement
by conciliation If this method failed
the complaint formally made in writ
ing was referred to the executive
committee of twelve members. The
Executive committee must then meet
within twenty-four hours and endeavor
to adjust the dispute If the ques-
ton at issue was found to be matter
for arbitration special arbitration
board of four members was organized
This special board was empowered to
call in an umpire TO assist in carrying
out its duties
In conclusion the report says that the
plan OF arbitration must be regarded
as having proved highly successful,
and that the general strike has been
almost eliminated, that wage rates
have gradually Increased and iurisdic
tional disputes have been settled on
more nearly equitable basis than ever
before and that instead Of the former
heated controversy often leading to
open warfare there has appeared
desire on the part of both parties to
settle grievances peaceably and on the
basis of the facts presented.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24

controversy between the Journey
men and master plumbers has been
settled, and as result 130 journey
men are back to work. The first
difficulty arc when the master
plumbers discontinued SATURDAY.
morning work, whicn was termed
by the ,u:neymen lockou. Dur
ing the progress of the strike the
matter plumbers Advertised ex,en
sivelv for non union plumbers but
fai'ed To secure the number needed
This had the If of actuating the
master plumb 5 20 seek a conft r
ence, which ended in settlement
Of the difficulties noted atove.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
Vienna Alarmed.

London, Oct. "a. Emigration
from Austria Hungary to the Unit
ed States and Canada is increasing
so rapidly that the authorities in
Wanna and Budapest are taking
steps to check it. The shortage
of recruits this year for the armies
of the dual monarchy is said to be
about 100 600. The farmers are
also complaining about the lack of
labor. SO many able-bodied young
men having migrated 1t is as
serted that more than so, 600 liable
for army service are now IN Canada
and not one responded to the re-
cent summons to return. The RI
valry between the Austro- American
and the Canadian Pacific psnies
the latter of which early this year
established a service from Trieste,
has resulted in more transport fa-
cilities and cheaper fares It is
also understood that the Italian
government proposes TO stop the
Italian emigration to America, both
North and South, and divert it to
Tripoli.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24

appealed to the dictionary as their ar
bitter and protector. and for their flu
ture safety exalted it to the position
of despot. Thus, while nobody
searches the dictionary to avoid those
words which it stigmatizes as slang.
the pronunciation fiend is continually
devouring its pages lest he commit the
objectionable sin of uttering syllable
not sanctioned by its authority. Rob.
ert j. Menner in the Atlantic Monthly.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
Pressmen Hopeful.

San Francisco, Oct. "a. The
Labor Clarion, in its last issue,
says: Another week has passed
in the strike of the pressmen and
feeders, and the employers are still
bemoaning the fact that competent
strikebreakers are about as scarce
as water in the Desert of Sahara.
There are rot in all the Offices com
bined enough competent men to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
Misuse of the nictinnaru

Since the time of Johnson the die
tionaries have attempted to record the
pronunciatons prevalent among the
best speakers of English in their gen
Grafton. That they should dictate pro-
nunciation was, of course. as ridiculous
as it would have been futile. But, as
In the case of Caesar, the honor of die
tators seems to have been thrust upon
them. Those who found themselves
Waliowing In the slough of despond be-
cause OF conflicting RECOMMENDATIONS
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
The Sheep In the Grass.

Lord Palmerston once inspected
Summer In the Lowlands, a picture
by Sir John Watson Gordon Look
here said Lord Palmerston to the
artist, why should the grass In that
field be so long when there are so
many sheep in the field?"
MY lord, replied the artist. those
sheep were only turned into the field
last nightv'
Lord Palinerston bought the picture
at q hiGh nliee
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24

Why not build good pond on the
farm? The government will stock it
with fish; it will furnish water for
your stock the year round by installing
pipes and hydrants to keep the water
cool and sanitary. and when winter
comes it will furnish a fine place for
the amusement Of the young folks.
Then it will supply the material for.
The ice crop to store away for summer
use Successful Farming.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
TRADE UNION NOTES.

The Women's Political league Of Cali
fornia announces that the unon label
will appear upon its official publication.
Boston Bricklayers' union has de-
fided to ask the international to con
rider establishing an old age pension
system,
Franklin K. Lane. secretary Of the
interior department. is an honorary
member of Typographical union No II,
San Francisco.
federation of railroad employees or
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24

is being formed IN this city.
Cnder the plan 50 MS not to conflict
with the American Federation of
labor. no organizations belonging to
the American Federation of Labor will
be nlipihle to inin
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-10-24
Parcel POST Change Sought.

Washington. Oct. 24.-To de-
termine whether or not it should
acq liesce in change in the parcel
post regulations SO that books
would be admitted to the mails as
parcel post matter, the Interstate
Commerce Commission has ordered
an investigation. The Postmaster
General has asked the commission
to consent to the proposed change,
but it was decided first to make an
investigation. The commission an
nounced that it will receive objec-
tions to the proposed change up
Until October 20, at which time the
matter will stand submitted for de-
cision.