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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27

Trades and Labor Council on the
fair grounds on Labor day was held
Tuesday Every committee that
had been appointed was present
and rendered a report of the work
done.
1t was announced that all horse
and foot marshals will meet next
Sunday for final instructions.
Three bands have been secured to
furnish the music for the parade on
that day, the Hamilton Imperial
band, the Middletown band and
the Eaton band. The Imperial
band will furnish the music for the
races at the outing and will give a
concert throughout the day.
All labor organizations of the
city will be represented in the pa
rade and the women's label league
will have a float. Efforts are being
made to have the parade equal and
if possible surpass any ever before
attempted.
A report of the amusement com
mittee showed that the entries for
the races have been filed and that
some good horse flesh will be seen
in the races which include 2:25
pace for purse of 5000 and 2:3o
trot for purse of 5000.
The different articles which are
to be sold on the grounds and the
various donations to the country
store will be displayed in one oi
the High street store rooms. The
committee announced that many
prizes for the country store are
coming in from the union factories
and from many of the merchants
of this city, while liberal donation:
are being made by every labor or
ganization in the city.
The refreshment committee re
ported that all arrangements fol
the sale of refreshments of every
kind had been made and that from
all indications, the outing which i:
to be given this year will meet with
more success than ever given by
the council.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27

figure out the most which can be
given them for their admission
price would please the people better
than simply to see big sum of
money on the profit side of the
ledger. The Board, therefore, has
figured on how to give big cents
worth of pleasure for every cent
the visitors spend; it wants to give
the biggest show possible without
piling up any debts for tax payers
to settle.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27
Biggest Fair in History.

With Women's free day re-es-
tablished, with Old Soldiers and
Children's Day again a feature,
and with other things popular with
the public again a part of the
program, the Ohio State Fair
will open next Monday for what is
expected to be the biggest Fair in
history, and from the public stand
point, the best. Weeks and months
of newspaper discussions of the
State Fair has led the State Agri-
cultural Board to adopt the policy
that the State Fair Is not primarily
money making institution but
that 1t Is the peoples show, on the
peoples playground, and that to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27
ROSIE ER
Local Organizers and Busi-
ness Agents.

Charles E. Vaughn, A. F. Of L.
Residence, 721 Buckeye Stree
Home Phone 800 A.
Timothy Rowan, Internatiopa
Molders' Union, Residence, 939
Central Ave. Bell Phore 403 x.
VIM. W. Finfrock, Painters
Decorators and Paper Hangers
Union, No. 1876. Residence 3O8 S.
Second Street. Bell Phone 1896 l..
w. R. Smith, Paper Makers Un-
ion, Residence, Hotel DeArmond.
Home Phone 81. Bell Phone 81.
Swain B. Corson, Carpenters
and Joiners Union, No. 637, Resi-
dence l07 Brosey Ave-, Bell Phone
756 L.
John Gfroerer, Business Agent
Ba1tenders' Union, 226 S. 7th ST.
DAYTON OHIO.
Ben closterman, Polishers.
]. F. Eichorn, Bartenders, 7
Market street.
w. ]. Gregg, Hosting Engineers
Al w. Great Miami Boulevard.
VIM. Scnneberger, Cigarmakers'
125 Samuel street.
George Richardson, Teamsters' !,
80 Wayne, Ave, Bell Phone 541
Home Phone 2541.
Earl Nyswander, Carpenters 25
N. Main street.
Geo. Lorah. Plumbers corner
Washington and Main, street
Plumbers Hall.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27
OLD MAN HARE.
The Actors Meeting With Gladstone
Outside the Theater.


John Hare, the eminent English ac-
tor manager, said that the most de-
lightful compliment he ever received
was from Mr.. Gladstone. 1t was dou-
Bile ended compliment. Whichever way
you took 1t 1t was satisfactory.
Mr.. Hare earned fame playing old
mems parts, his character as Mr. Gold
by in "a Pair of Spectacles" being a
good example. Added to this was a
horror of having his picture taken.
Mr.. Gladstone had never seen O pic
ture of the actor, but he knew him
well behind the scenes as well as be-
fore the footlights. The premier's ia
vorite play was "A Pair of Spectacles,
and he always went behind the scenes
60 chat awhile with the actor. The
really old man and the made un old
man would sit there and talk In the
most delightful way for an hour after
the show.
One day the Earl of Rosebery had
Mr.. Gladstone to dinner, and he also
invited his friend John Hare. The ac-
tor came In smooth shaved, looking
about thirty FIVE. He was presented to
Mr.. Gladstone, and the prime minis
ter shook his hand most cordially and
said:
My dear sir, am very, very glad
to meet you. ! know your father very,
very well. Splendid actor! Fine old
man.
1t took the whole evening for the
earl and Mr.. Hare to convince him
that this son was really the father
London Tatler.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27
MAN AND HIS LAUGH.
s4f Restraint and Its Effects Upon
Human Emotions.

Laughter is a sign Of high develop
the less one laughs. The more highly
developed we become the more do we
perceive humor. For laughter, it must
be remembered, is a sign that an emo
ton has suddenly been set free. 1t is
like touch on the trigger Of gun, the
gun being self restraint.
No one ever tells an animal lin the
wild state) that there are certain things
that he must not do. There is no direct
prevention OF an act that the animal
wants to perform. Consequently the
animal has no self restraint
Man, on the other hand, is surround
ed by commandments from babyhood
onward. He is always being told by
some one, first by his parents, then
by the laws of society, that there are
things that he must not do. The de-
sire to do these things. coupled to the
knowledge that he dare not do them,
causes q tense emotion. The animal
lives as the occasion rises. Man is
keyed up by the continuous conflict Of
occasions.
1t is the relief from this keying up
that gives rise to laughter The great
er the tension caused by the delay be-
tween impulse and act the funnier
does the thing seem which releases it.
Something which would seem only
moderately funny if it happened in the
street becomes screamingly ludicrous
In church because of the tension of
feeling that one must be solemn. When
snowfall hits silk hat the sight
makes one laugh because Of the feel
ing that, whatever else a silk hat might
be intended for, 1t was not as a target
for snowballs. Exaggerations are Of
ten funny, because they twist our emo
ton from a usual to an unexpected
channel
A story teller who laughs at his own
Jokes always spoils his stories. 1t is
the man with the mournful face whose
quips seem the merriest. It is an old
saying that one must laugh and grow
fat" but modern science has learned
that we must laugh and grow wise."--
New York American.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27
New Members For The
Liberal League

The Liberal League of Butler
county has annexed one hundred
new members since its organization
last Monday night. The league
was organized with charter mem
bership of five hundred and plans
to start active work as soon as the
committees are appointed. The
next meeting will be held next
Monday night, at Symmes Hall,
corner High and Monument Ave.
Fred Pippert was elected President
and Chris Schween Secretary.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27
Firemen's Union Met.

Stationary Firemen's Union held
a meeting Thursday evening at
John Pabst's hall, and was largely
John Buhi the delegate
to the international convention held
at Cincinnati submitted lengthy
report.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27
The Ohio State
Fair.

With more horses entered in Its
races than at any other similar
event in the country, with promise
of the finest exhibits of live stock,
farm products and machinery ever
seen in the state, with horse show
conducted after the fashion of the
famous shows of Madison Square
Garden, and with the showiest and
most brilliant fireworks spectacles
which could be purchased, mem
bers of the new State Board of
Agriculture are more than satisfied
that Ohie State Fair, August 30th,
to September 8, the first to be given
under their auspices is to be one of
the NEST successful of the many
successful ones which the Buckeye
State has offered.
The Offices of the state fair board
are one of the busiest places in the
state these days, filled with horse
men, exhibitors, concessionaires
and privilege men, making final
arrangements for their visit to Col
umbus next week, and one peep
will be sufficient to convince that
there will be nothing lacking, from
sideshows and popcorn men to the
more dignified displays Of art, ma
chinery, fruits, vegetables, stock,
hlooded racers, ETC., to make the
State Fair grounds more than
TEEN with life for FIVE days next
week.
The fair board was particularly
fortunate in procuring Pains won
derful spectacle, Opening the
Panama Canal" as it has been In
great demand since its first appear
ance in Chicago some months ago.
The board secured it in competition
with several ether cities, for this
week, by sending a personal repre-
sentative to Chicago to press Ohio s
81 aims. There is magnificent
scenic display educational in Its ma
ture, which will show the route of
the new Panama canal, and which
1t cost $50, 900 to produce. The
scene opens on fete day, giving
opportunity for the introduction
of a circus performance participated
in representatives of circus fam
lilies whose names have been famous
in England and America for hun
dred years.
This is followed by an attack on
Panama city by sea, land and air,
giving an idea in graphic way of
the terrible battles now being
fought over Europe. The city of
Panama is entirely destroyed, then
comes the gorgeous display of fire.
works which concludes the enter
tainment Four hundred and fifty
people participate, and it is not ex
aggerated to say 1t will be the best
exhibition of its kind Central Ohio
has ever witnessed.
1t is the intention of the board
to give more for the money, at the
state fair, this year, than ever be-
fore, and to establish standard at
which future boards may aim.
Monday will be Ladies Free Day
this popular feature having been
restored. All women will be ad-
mitted free of charge.
Tuesday will be Columbus Day,
and Columbus, being back of the
fair more enthusiastically this year
than ever before, will try to make
it one of the big days of the week.
Wednesday and Thursday will be
Grange Days, and Thursday will
also be designated as Governors s
Day, as Governor Willis will spend
the entire day on the grounds and
Old Soldiers Day, when all chill
dren under IL years of age, and
all soldiers who fought in the Civil
War, will be admitted free of
charge.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27
ADJUSTED

The trouble between the Painters
and Paperhangers Union with Will
liam Herman of Sycamore street
has been satisfactorily adjusted by
Mr.. Herman compelling the paper
hanger to join the organization of
his craft.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27

Encorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middietown Trades
and Labor Council of MiddIeiown o.
Endorsed by the Labor Legislative
League of Butler, Prebie and Mont
gomery Counties.
Endorsed by Metal Trades Council
of Hamilton ohio.
Endorsed by the United Trades and
Labor Council, Dayton, Ohio.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27
Tell This To The Non
Union Man.

If asunion man should apply for
an increase in wages to his foremen
or If be should 60 to the Office and
apply to his superintendent what
consideration would be given him.
Any man who has had that ex-
perience knows we'll the answer.
But for the benefit of those who
have not we will state 1t here. Il
is this. We cannot pay any more
for that class of work you are on.
Then it behooves our nen-union
/ friend either to accept what the
employer wishes to give him or
quit. The boss tells him what his
labor Is worth; his labor is his own
but he has no voice in making a
price TO sell it.
| With the union man how differ
lent.
The union men decide what their
wages must be; they decide the
conditions under which they will
work, and it is only right and just
that they should.
| If the above is not correct why
| is it that we have so many agree
ments with the various railrca ads In
this country and when 1t comes to
that so called skill which the va.
rious contract machinists is pitted
against when asking for more pay
Is forgotten with the railroad ma
chinists. Nothing other than or
ganization has stepped in and
solved the entire question that en-
titles man to living or existing
wage.
When you meet non union
friend tell him of the union sue
cessful efforts in reducing the work
day are not sufficient excuse fol
our existence; show your friends
how the workers organization, ou1
free school system and its free
school books; how we have raised
wages and established a vast chain
of benefits. How we have forced
employers to safeguard life and
limb. How shop conditions are
better by workers standing to-
gether and protecting from black
listing the fellows who go to the
front.
Show him how unions spend
their dollars TO secure labor laws
that benefit union and non-union
men alike. Show him how unions
were the first to take up the fight
for direct legislation against child
labor and scores of other reforms,
and more than all these combined
show him the effect of unionisn on
the character of man. How it de-
velopes independence and Man
hood, bow it equips man to assert
himself instead of standing, cowed
and servile with cap in hand before
his employer.
Tell him of all the gains that
have been made within the past
fifty years, and not very far from
this city, only just recently. Be-
fore that lime men were denied the
right to organize. Laws declared
that three organized workers con-
stltuted a conspiracy but despite
these obstacles men united. They
formed debating societies and estab-
lished small labor papers. Slowly
ard one at a time they toppled over
old ideas maintained by lawmakers,
economists and students. Upward
they trooped out of slavery and
bondage until today they stand
more than 100000 strong, with
representation in the president s
cabinet, and with governors and
with statesmen proud to say they
once belonged TO a trade union.
Tell your non-union friend some
of these things next time he asks
what our movement ever did. An
itelligent answer will make one
more active worker for the cause OF
labor and humanity.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27
LABOR DAY will soon be here.

REMEMBER your obligations 365
days in the year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27

We CAN all be good union men
if we attend our meetings and learn
what is going on.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27

BE union man on Labor Day
and turn out in the parade.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27
RACE ENTRIES

A meeting of the committees for
the Labor day outing which is to
be given by the Cooperative
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-08-27
FRIDAY. AUGUST 20, 1916.

Erst,ed at the PostoEiee al Hamfifon, Ohio, as
Sseond C2ass Afa,l Matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-04

Washington, December 3,-6Special) With amiable amusement, official Wash ington is said to regard the F'ord-P Peace movement.
 This attitude is due it Is generally be- lieved, to the fact that the pacifists will not run the risk of involving this na- ton in foreign complications, and the idea that the mission Is entirely quixotic is character
 Passports were granted this afternoon to MT. Ford and about 50 others who will sail tomorrow-passports entitling the bearers to enter only foreign coun- tries not engaged in war The govern ment had previously represented to Euro pean nations the fact that in no way it is connected with the enterprise.
 It is thought probable this afternoon that William Jennings Bryan will aban- don the project. At any rate he will not sail tomorrow.
 SAILS TODAY
 New York, December 3.-The Sean dlnavian-Am line steamer Os car II is due to sail at D. m tomor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-04
DIRECTORS OF NEW
 HAVEN SUPPORTED MELLEN AGREEMENT
Traffic Agreement With Canadian Trunk Railway Was Approved by New
 Haven Board

New York December 3.-Testimony in tended to show that the directors of the New Haven railroad approved steps taken by Charles s. Mellen to make a traffic agreement with the Grand Trunk railway of Canada in the face of notification by the Attorney General of the United States that the agreement was to be investigated as an alleged infraction of the sherman law was adduced today at the trial of the Il former directors of the road on the charge of criminal violation of the law.
 Mellen testified today that when he learned the investigation was in progress he wrote a letter to United States District himself the responsibility for the Grand Trunk, transacations to prevent the late J. P. Morgan from becoming involved. Although he made it clear that NIT. Nor gan was not involved in the matters di- rectly under inquiry by the grand jury the traffic agreement and the virtually simultaneous abandonment of the Grand Trunk transaction to prevent the late and the New Havens projected parallel line to the Grand Trunks line in the Yer mont New Hampshire border-Mr. Mellen said he was afraid that Morgan had
 'done something"
 "T didn't know what he said, and l wanted to keep him out of the nasty mess.
 The witness explained that he referred to Mir. Morgan's "obsession'' that the New Haven should purchase the New London Northern railroad from the Grand Trunk and to interviews and correspond ence the financier had had with Edison J.. Chamberlain and Alfred w. Smthers. Grand Trunk executives on the subject. The government brought out that dur ing the progress of the grand jury in vestigation. which ended in the indict- ment of Mellen, Smithers and Chamber lain, it came to asenen's knowledge that the inquiry was to be enlarged to in- olude the question of the alleged monop- oly of the whole transportation system of New England.
 This Mellen said, resulted in efforts by the New Haven to have limited to the Grand Trunk matter only What steps were taken. the government reserved for testimony at a later date. but elicted from Mir Mellen this statement; "We (the witness. Ledyard and Rob
 (Continued on Page Nine)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-04
By HUGH w. ROBERTS

row, carrying 140 persons. who as guests of Henry Ford are going to Europe in an effort to induce neutral nations to take steps toward stopping the war. MT. Fords guests include s per- sons directly interested in the peace movement, 54 reporters for newspapers and magazines, three moving picture men and 20 employees on Mr. Ford's personal staff
 The party, designated by MT Ford IS the peace expedition, is due to reach Christiania, Norway, about December Il. The only stopping places already decided on are Stockholm, Copenhagen and The Hague. It is probable Ford said, that the party will visit other European capi- tals as the progress of the peace plans seems to require.
 After consulting with William J. Bryan, who arrived from Florida today to talk about the trip, Ford announced tonight that everything was In readiness for the departure that most all passports had been obtained from the state department and that the Oscar II would leave on time
 BRYAN'S STATEMENT
 Bryan issued a statement repeating his former assertion that he approved of Fords plans and that he would join the party at The Hague.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-04
SEIZURE OF ROCKING IS NOW THE SUBJECT
 .0F MUCH DISCUSSION
Question of Prize Courts Power to Permit Requisi- tiOning of Neutrals
 Considered

Halifax, N. S., December 3.--The pro-
 cedure in the cases of the American | steamship Hooking and the Danish steamer Hamborn, reausitions for which
 have been applied for by the British government, was made public today. The applications, made to Justice Drys- dale, sitting as judge of the prize court,
 were presented under the provision of the prize rules promulgated shortly after the war began. Under the rules, existing until last March, neutral ships and goods could not be requisitioned. But later an order in council was passed eliminat- ing the saving clause regarding neutral ships and goods.
 The question of a prize. courts power to permit requisitioning by the govern ment of neutral ships and goods under the new rule came up before the prize court in England, in the case of the Zamora, in which Sir Samuel Evans president of the British prize court, after reviewing a large. number of previous cases, especially in the courts of the
 United States held that the power of 4, government to requisition neutral ships and goods before they were concerned in a prize court was not violation of in-
 ternational law.
 Justice Drysdale granted the applica- tion and the necessary orders were is sued by the registrar. The course of the proceedings will be as follows:
 Tine commission ot appraisement has
 been issued to the marshal who will elect one or more competent appraisers, administer oath to them to appraise the vessels at their true value and to certify to the court the value so arrived at. Upon the filing of these certificates of appraisement. undertakings will be filed by the crown to pay into the court, If so required by the order. the amounts so found by appraisement. Releases will then be issued for the vessels from ths r;arshars custody and he will deliver them to the crown