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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-09
Organized Labor Opposed
To Prohibition

The Federation of Labor of Ohio
Is seriously concerned about the
proposed prohibition amendment to
be voted on at the election Novem-
Der 3. Meetings are being held
over the state and resolutions in
opposition to it are being adopted.
At recent meeting of the Col
umbus Federation strong resolut-
ions were passed in opposition to
making Ohio dry.
The opposition is based on the
fact 1hat should prohibition prevail
not less than 100, 600 men would be
forced cut of employment and their
source of employment wiped out.
It is said that under present con-
ditions that it would be absolutely
necessary for many of these men to
seek employment in other states,
for the reason that so many are now
idle, and there is SO little demand
for help in business and industrial
pursu is that a most serious situa-
ton would be developed.
The resolutions point out that
those backing the dry movement
should be working to provide more
employment instead of for meas
ure that will lessen 1t.
The digni6ed attitude of the
Home Rule Association in its cam
paign for the adoption of the Home
Rule Amendment suffers nothing
in comparison with the bitter war
fare by the various candidates Of
the political parties.
Charges and counter charges oi
| insincerity and cowardice are made
daily, and if all of them were tru,
it would seem that not one of thoS,
seeking elevation to places of pol
itical honor is worthy of it.
On the other hand the Home
Rule Association has only sough
to lay its case clearly before til,
voter in an unbiased manner. will
a digni6ed argument for its adopt
ion. Misleading statements ant
unwarranted attacks on characte
prove nothing except that thos
who utter them lack truthful argu
ment to support their contentious
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-09
CARLYLE ON WAR.
When Men Kill Men Between Whom
There Was No Quarrel.

There Was No Quarrel.
What, speaking In quite unofficial
language, is the net purport and up
shot of war? 10 my own knowledge,
for example, there dwell and toll In
the British village of Dumdredge usu-
ally some 500 souls From these, by
certain natural enemies" of the
French, there are successfully selected
during the French war, say, thirty able
bodied men. Dumdredge, at her own
expense, has sucked and nursed them
She has, not without difficulty and sor
row. fed them up to manhood and
even trained them to crafts, so that
one can weave, another build, another
hammer, and the weakest can stand
under thirty stone ayoirdupois.
Nevertheless, amid much weeping
and swearing. they are selected, all
dressed in red and shipped away at
the public charges some 1000 miles,
or, say, only to the south Of Spain, and
fed there till wanted And now to
that same spot In the south Of Spain
are thirty similar French artisans from
a French Dumdredge, In like manner
vending, till at length, after infinite
effort, the two parties come into ac-
tuaI tuxtaposltion, and thirty stands
fronting thirty, each with a gun in its
hand.
Straightway the word "fire" is given,
and they blow the souls out Of one
another, and in place of some sixty
brisk, useful craftsmen the world has
sixty dead carcasses which 1t must
bury and anew shed tears for Had
these men any quarrelf Busy as the
devil is, not the smallest! They lived
far enough apart; were the entirest
strangers; nay, In so wide a universe
there was even, unconsciously, by COM
merce, some mutual helpfulness be-
tween them. How then? Simpletoni
Their governors had fallen out, and In
stead of shooting one another had the
cunning to make these poor block
heads shoot Alas, so 1t is In Deutsch-
land, and hitherto in ali other lands.
STILL as Of old, What deviltry so ever
kings do the Greeks must pay the pip
erv'-Thomas Carlyle
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-09
Statement Of The Ownership,
Management, Circu-
Iation, Etc.

Statement of the Ownership,
Management, Circulation, etc. of
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS pub
lished weekly at Hamilton, Ohio
required by the Act of August "a,
1912.
Name of Editor, Edward E.
Weiss, Hamilton, Ohio, Managing
Editor, Edward E. Weiss, Hamil
ton, Ohio, Business Manager, Ed
ward E. Weiss, Hamilton, Ohio,
Publishers, Nonpareil Printing Co.,
Edward E. Weiss and John F.
Mayer, Owners Hamilton, Ohio.
Known bondholders, mortgage,
and other security holders, holding
| per cent or more of total amount
of bonds, mortgages or other secur
tiles, Mrs. Katie Strategier, Ham.
ilton, Ohio.
Average number of copies of each
issue of this publication sold or dis
tributed, through the mails OF
otherwise, to paid subscribers dur
ing the six months preceding tn,
date of this statement. (This in
formation is required from dali,
newspapers only.
Sworn to and subscribed befor,
me this 29th day of Sept, 1914
Isaac c. Baker, Notary Public, But
ler County, Ohio. My commission
expires Sept. 18, 1917.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-09
You Will Be Taxed
If The State Goes Dry

Graham P Hunt, general coun.
Gil of The Ohio Home Rule Assoc
iation, declared Tuesday that il
statewide prohibition prevails in
Ohio, practically every industry In
the state would be called upon to
make up the tax deficit by special
taxes. II support of his content
ion he cites the many schemes OF
taxation called business licenses
which have been adopted by the
prohibition southern states.
Among these are:
Virginia: Rental agencies, SO
to $50; bankers, $3.50; cigar dealers
So; commission merchants, $50 and
up; dentists, SO to s25; junk deal
ers, $50; physicians, SO to $25;
theatres, SO per week.
Georgia: Architects, $40; col
lecting agencies, $50; gypsies and
traders, S25 in each county; insur-
ance agents, SO to $50; lawyers,
$40; pawn brokers, $50; stove
agents, $500 each county.
West Virginia: Auction sales,
a. druggists, SO; hotels and
boarding houses, 80 of rental.
Florida: Banks, SO to 500.
Mississippi: Barber shops, 81 so
per chair; brokers, $25 to SIS; dan
ces, $40; laundries, $40; lumber
yards, SO per 100, 600 feet of sales;
money lenders, 500; piano and or
gan agents, $50; restaurants, s. to
Sl25; soda water, etc. s. to $40.
Alabama: Billiard tables, s25;
book agents, $40; bowling alleys,
$25; construction companies, S25
fortune tellers, SIS; game tables,
p-o TO sou; pubic halls, plO to SO;
news companies, 500; pool tables,
S25 to 500.
Tennessee: Retail butchers, S.
to SIS; coal dealers, S. to $50; fruit
stands, $3.50 to s.; hotels and
boarding houses. so cents a room;
litig alton, $3.50 to S.; plumbers
and gas filters, s. to $40.
Louisiana: Editors, g5 to Sl20;
jewelers., s. to 1925; manufacturers
s15 to $4,000; merchants, S. to
$500; oculists, S. to $125; photo
graphers, S. to S120; slaughtering,
$40 to $3.50; variety shows,
s. 500 TO IS, 900
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-09
Awards Made This Week By
The Industrial Commits
sion Of Ohio.

The State Industrial Commission
granted awards to the following
Henry Stork, 139 Eimwood ST.
of $50. IA injured in the employ Of
William Sebald Brewing, Co.,
Middletown.
Clyde Mauser, 121 Linden Ave. ,
of S25. II injured in the employ of
Shuler & Benninghofeu. A medi
cal bill of IS. 90 was also paid for
him.
Fred Hoover, lis Summer ST., +,
of S32 2S injured in the employ of
Champion Coated Paper Co. A
medical bill of S28 was also paid
for him.
Clyde Wisty, 230 Milllkin ST.,
S3918 injured in the employ of the
Champion Coated Paper Co.
James S. Williams, 619 East ave.
of s28 49 injured in the employ of
The T. A. Snider Preserves CO.
Donald Banker, f19 Heaton ST.. !,
of s35 03 injured in employ of the
Estate Stove Co. A medical bill
of $50 was also paid for him.
Chas. A. South, 562 Ross Ave.
of S63. 90, injured IN the employ of
the Cullan & Vaughn Co.
Frank Tutas, 306 Hanover St.
of s38. .79, injured in the employ of
the Hamilton Foundry and Ma
chine Co.
Garret Gambre, 329 R zee ST.,
of S27 100 injured ia the employ Of
the Hamilton Paper Mill Co.
Edward Endsley, II High ST.,
cf 1888 90 injured in the employ
of the Breese Brothers Co.
These awards of the commission
were granted under the provisions
of the Ohio Workmen's Com pen
sation Law.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-09

sr two years all or rnem. germtnateo
and grew.
This Is a remarkable fact-that Is,
some Of the spores required two years
to awaken from their sleep Of apparent
death in liquid hydrogen.
Life seems therefore, at least in the
case Of these seeds and germs. to be a
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-09
LIFE AND ITS TENAClTY.

Plant Germs That the Most Intense
Cold Could Not Kill.
In reply to a number of questions
regarding nfe and 4ts tenacity, here
are results of biological laboratory ex-
periments made by DR.. Paul Becquerel
OF Paris university:
Seeds and spores of plants were
sealed in glass tubes. All air was
removed to the extreme modern vacu-
um limit, and then the tubes were sub
merged in liquid air during three
weeks at the temperature of 80 de-
grees below zero f. and under liquid
hydrogen at the temperature of 418 de-
grees during seventy-seven hours. Aft
er year some Of the spores. and aft
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-09

chemfcal process-the activity of chem
ism was suspended or stopped by the
intense cold.
Go put your finger into liquid air.
The cold kills the flesh and the dead
part must be amputated. But life In
seeds and plants, whatever it may be,
survived. HUMANS have no clew to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-09
Strange. but Trua-

isn't human nature a funny tbjnp2'.
said the philosopher at large. Take
the average man when he goes into
the wash room of big hotel or restau-
rant. LIZ the wash room boys insist upon
getting In his way by turning Oh the
water for him, putting towel In his
hands or whiskbrooming him, their
sole object of course being to extort
tip, he says to himself, What do they
think | am. an easy markr But If
they pay no attention whatever to him.
he asks himself. What do they think
am, a cheap skate. Queer. isn't it.'
New York Times
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-09

tue nature or I1fe. Calling it phase
Of chemism does not help, since none
knows what that is.
My theory is that chemism is mo-
ton OF and readjustment In atomic
states Of electrons. These are cleo
ricity. But what electricity is is un-
Known Edgar Lucien Larken in New
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-09

Cheerfuiness is half of health IN
me contrary, sadness and discoura %.
ment hasten old age.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-09

The testing time is with us at all
times and places.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-09
To Prevent Accidents.

Now. who can tell me three meth.
DDS of preventing accidents2" asked
the teacher, while the school board
stroked his beard approvingly.
"Stopr-fook. an listen" shouted tho,
class bonehead always there in an
emergency Buffalo Express.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-09
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1914.

fafs,ed al the Postonce az HamfitOn, Ohio, as
Second Class Mail Matter.
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Geneva and Marie Bird are quite
sick with sore throat.
Warren Cole and family attended
the funeral of John Weaver at Mt.
Vernon Tuesday.
Jonathan Tucker spent Tuesday
with his son, Simeon, at Mt. Vernon.
Mrs. Vinton Robertson is visiting
Mr.. Robertson's mother a few days.
Marie Mcfarland and brothers OF
near Mt. Vernon spent Sunday with
Lee and Fred fuckers families.
Quite number from here attended
the Childrens services at Bangs Sun
day.
Wallace Kearns and family spent
Sunday at home of John White.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Duston visited
Mr.. Duston's brother at Centerburs
the first of the week.
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TO LleHTEN TAX BURDEN

Get this program well set in your
mind and then all the sophistry Of the
columns and columns of criticism sent
out by the Equity Association, the Re-
publican organization, candidates and
press bureaus need not disturb you.
Governor Cox proposes to call the gen.
eral assembly in extraordinary session
for the sole purpose of reducing the
state tax rate and compelling local tax
ing officials to reduce their tax rates
and submitting an amendemnt incor-
porating the one per cent limitation
into the constitution. That's all. Moth
ing more.
The increased duplicate under the
Warnes law and an economical admin
istration makes this program possible
and practicable. The opposition charg
es that the execution of this program
will be in the interests of pure politics
And that is the only charge they make
which is true. 1t is pure politics Il
practice economy, make everybody pa.
his fair share towards the upkeep o
government and thereby reduce taxes
1t is honest politics. All other charg
es and arguments and intimations o
the Republican organization and 1t
allies may be disregarded. They ar
worth neither reading nor notice. GOV
ernor Cox proposes to Tighten the ta
burden of every honest citizen and t
make the dishonest tax dodger "com
across" That's all there is to it. lie
the CALLED jades wince!"
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suicide
ATTEMPTED
By Joseph Woods And He
viii Probably Die
As A Result OF Drinking
Some CaFbOIiC Acid
Worried Over Extended ILL.,
ness Of His Mother
And This Prompted Him To
And This Prompted Him To
Try And End Life
Condition Very Serious And
He Cannot Recover

Bladensburg, ohio, July 1-JosePh
Woods, aged So years, farmer, will
probably die as the result of an at
tempt to commit suicide by drinking
carbolic acid while In Bladensburg
early Wednesday morning. Worry
over the extended illness of his mother
is the only motive advanced by rela-
tives and close friends.
Woods was unmarried and has lived
with his mother practically all of his
life on a small farm north of this
place. During the past several months
she has been seriously i'll and he had
been taking care of her to the best OF
his ability. Realizing his inability to
act capably as her nurse, he moved
with her to the home of his aunt
Mrs. Henry Rine, in Bladensburg ant
had been there for some time,
At about two o'clock Wednesday
morning Woods arose from his bee
and went to his mothers room. III
asked her if she had been disturbed
and then was heard to leave the house
Little attention was paid to the odc
act on his part by the other peopl
/ in the house as they believed that h,
would return shortly.
When the family arose Wednesda,
morning Mrs. Rine discovered tina
her nephew was not in bed and
search for him was Immediately IN
stituted. Neighbors were called t.
assist and Woods was found after
short time, He was lying close to tn
wall of the Disciple church and
small bottle, which had contained cal
bolic acid, was lying by his side. II
was unconscious, but was discovere
to be breathing. He was removed t
the house short distance away an
physicians were called. 1t is believe
that he drank nearly an ounce of tn
acid.
After several hours the unconsciou
man was partially revived, but wa
unable to talk. The doctors hold ou
no hope for his recovery and hi
death Is expected at any time.
lie was suffering intense pain Wet
uesday
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ing shown in and some comment is be
ing made about ruling said to have
been made by me, as state supervisor
of elections, concerning the question of
electors voting at the primary election
this year, it might be well to have the
law on the subject brought to the at
tention of the public"
Mr.. Graves then quotes sections $50
and 1927 of the general code, the last
of which provides fine of not less
than 500 nor more than $500, or i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary for one
year or both, for violations of the laws
Speaking of these sections Mr.. Graves
continued:
From those provisions it ought tC
be clear to every one that an electol
who voted in Ohio in 1912 can, at the
primary election this year, lawfully
vote only the ticket of the party whose
ticket he voted in 1912. And If al
elector who voted in Ohio in 1912
changes his party afIiliation, he mus
first vote with his newly adopted par
ty at the November election in an ev
en-numbered year before he may Law
fully vote the ticket of that party at
primary election"
Mr.. Graves said further that thes
laws were originally enacted by
Republican legislature in 1904 and ar
signed by George T. Thomas, speake
of the house of representatives, an,
w. G. Harding, president of the ser
ate, and the Republican governor VIII
was then in Office They were file
In the office of the secretary of stat
by Lewis G. Laylin, who was secretar
Of state then.
"If these laws are distasteful to an
person or set of persons it is no fau
of mine," said Mr.. Graves. "If an,
: one is to be blamed or criticised le
the blame fall and the criticism b
cast upon those responsible for tn
enactment of the law, which, in thl
case, is the Republican party"
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Miss Grace Hayes is taking her
summer vacation next week.
Mr.. Eugene Carr went to Columbus
to see his father who is seriously ILL.,
Mrs. Semmie Mckee and Mrs. G. r.
Brown and daughter, Miss Olive, visit.
ed in Centerburg Wednesday.
Mr.. Earl Kerr is visiting his mother
Mrs. M. 10. Kerr
Mrs. Nellie Burris and daughter
Thelma, of Mt. Vernon, visited Mrs
Jay Freese last week.
Mrs. Grace Tilton Thompson anC
Miss Clare Tilton were in Mt. Vernon
Monday. ..s,s
Mr. and Mrs. w. /. Cline accom-
panied Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Worleine il
their auto to their home in Grovepor
Monday.
Miss Margery Harrison of Chicago
is visiting her father, Mr.. Elmer Harri
son.
Mr.. and Mrs Ross Van WinlSle speu
Sunday with Mr., and Mrs. Harry Beck
holt of Morgan Center.
Mr.. J. s. Schooler was home Friday
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Tilton, Mr.. Ere,
Hancock, Gorge Melick, Mabell
Greene and jeanette Hancock were il
Newark Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Lescalleet enter
tanned Miss Bowman of Ada Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Baird entel
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson PiersoI
last week.
The Misses Allie and Emma Wooc
ruff of Morgan Center attended tn
entertainment Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Baird and MI
and Mrs. Nelson Peirson of Newar
met Mrs. Baird's brothers and sister
at the old Reed home near Fallsbur
for a picnic dinner Sunday. In tn
afternoon the party motored to Perry
ton to the Odd Fellows Memorial.
The Martinsburg ball team will pla
at Danvllle the Fourth.
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Has Your Child Worms

Most children do, A coated, furred
tongue; strong breath; stomach pains
circles under eyes; pale, sallow com
plexion; nervous, fretful; grinding OF
teeth; tossing in Sleep peculiar
dreams-any one these indicate child
has worms. Get box OF Kickapoo
Worm Killer at once. II kills the
worms-the cause of your child's con
dition. Is laxative and aids nature to
expel the worms Supplied in candy
form. Easy for children TO take, 25c
AT your druggist.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-07-03
LIQUORS BANIsHED
FROM THE NAVY

Washington, ID. c., July 1.-The
famous order issued by Secretary
Daniels last April banishing all in
toxicating liquors from the United
States navy went into effect today.
The order read: "The use of intro
duction for drinking purposes Of al
coholic liquors on board any naval
vessel, or within any yard or station,
is strictly prohibited and commanding
officers will be held directly respon-
sibe for the enforcement OF this or
der"
The anti-canteen laws for the army,
passed by Congress after a severe and
prolonged battle of the temperance
forces of the country, are less sweep
ing than the prohibition which has
now been put into effect in the navy
The order of Secretary Daniels abol
ishes the officers wine mess and alb
solutely forbids the "use or introduc
tion" of alcoholic liquors. In the
army prohibition is restricted to "the
sale of, or dealing in" Intoxicating
liquors. Army officers under this
law may maintain wine mess al
their clubs.
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VALUATIONS ARE LEGAL

With their usual avidity to make
trouble regardless of justice or equali-
ty in taxation, the standpatters have
been busy trying TO incite litigation on
the part of private Incorporated com
ponies about the Valuations placed up
on this class of property by district as
SCISSORS
At the Office of the state tax commits
sion IT was learned that the supreme
court decision, recently, to the effect
that private corporate property can
not be assessed in each instance as Il
going concern, will not make any
changes in the duplicate or valuations
fixed for the simple reason that dis
trict assessors have not been asses
sing this class of property on that bas-
is. Instead only the physical proper
~ of these concerns has been apprais-
cd, and the supreme court held that
was what should be done.
Pecullarities In assessments of the
Champion Coated Paper Co, of Iamil-
ton, and The Cedar Point Resort Co.,
do not enter into any of the appraise.
ments made this year, In fact the two
former concerns were listed under an
other law, by county auditors, who
have nothing to do with listing proper.
ty now.
The mistaken impression has exist
ed In some quarters that because the
district assessors insisted upon an
swerB being given to interrogations
about capital stock authorized and out
standing bonded Indebtedness and sur
plus, that the information was used to
assess the corporations as going con
germs, or upon the amount of their cap
ital and good will Such was not the
case. This information was sought
merely to give an index as to the
amount of physical property Under
natural conditions when company
sells stock or issues bonds the pro
ceeds are used TO purchase equipment
Butif the officials show that such was
not the case with all of the proceeds
then the physical property on hand on
ly is valued.
The valuations placed upon private
corporate property this year are all
air tight and bomb proof, Is the way
taxing officials characterize them,
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Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Wharton re-
turned home this week from Akron
after pleasant visit with relatives.
Mr., and Mrs. Harry Gibson of New
ark, are visiting Mrs. Gibson's parents,
Mr., and Mrs. Hendricks Mckee.
Mr. and Mrs, Alfred Phillips re-
turned home after few dayss visit
with Coshocton friends.
Severa! Butler township school
teachers have gone away to summer
school in compliance with the new
school law.
Mrs. Adam Scott who has been i'll
is no better.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Law visited
Bladensburg friends few days last
week.
There will be an ice cream festival
at the Butler church Saturday evening,
July IL.
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Mr.. Gorge Petry and family of Ash
land, Ohio, are the guests of friends
and relatives.
Mr.. Hamilton Rine returned from
New Orleans Saturday.
Mr.. Philip stun, j., is moving into
the residence of w. II. Humbert.
Mr.. C. M. Drake will occupy the
residence of Mr.. Stull.
Mrs. Lole Nefr is repairing her resi-.
dence.
Mr.. and Mrs. c.. S. Berry were the
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Rude Stitzel
Sunday,
Mr.. Oregon Fike made a business
trip to Glenmont. Monday.
Mr., and Mrs, Martin Lepley are
visiting their daughter, Mrs. j, w
Smeeth.