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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23
THE BRITISH WORKMEN.
Manufacturers Largely to Blame For
Shortage of Munitions.

Manufacturers Largely to Blame For
Shortage of Munitions.
A remarkable analysis of the point
of view of the English workman, given
by skilled laborer in the Quarterly
Review, carries the conviction that the
persons primarily to be blamed for
the lack of British munitions are not
the workmen but the manufacturers.
THE workers have absolutely no idea
of endangering the empire or of ex-
posing our troops to added risks" he
writes. Their attention is concentrated
on the notion that a state of war is
being made the excuse for further ex-
plotting them. Requests made before
the war are still undealt with, while
the cost of living has been much in
creased. Protest has been unavailing,
hence the strikes-unfortun in war
time" The 10000 strikers on the Clyde
demanded an additional twopence
long before there was any prospect of
war. The great majorty of these men
had had no increase in pay for seven
teen years, the increase then having
been one halfpenny per hour Their
employers having disdained to give an
answer to their demands, in spite Of
the vast volume of business and the
war rise in the cost of necessities, they
refused to work until an answer was
given. In such cases as this the fault
is obviously the manufacturers not
the workman's.
An English workman has two facts
thrown in his face each day, chat his
wages buy less than before the war
and that the work he does is producing
great profits for his factory in which
he has no share. England can prevent
strikes for the remainder Of the war
either by securing the Workmen into
superangelic state of mind in which
they will not care what becomes Of
them and their families because Of
their devotion to the men in the trench
es, or by prodding the factory owners
into parting with n portion Of the
wealth that the workers are producing.
The workmen admit that the war
time strike is wrong and that they
ought to be willing to refrain from
striking and to sacrifice their homes,
families and ordinary bare comforts
for the benefit of the men in the trench
es. But they ask very humbly: ITO
prevent strikes, why should you not
sacrifice penny Of your towering pro
fits?" and they receive the answer,
Because we are the manufacturers. Z"
Philadelphia Ledger
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23
THE MINIMJM WAGE.
Good Thing For Women, but Male
Workers Do Not Need It,

w VI tNCi5 GO iNCI lNGGu IT,
Discussing the question Of a mini
mum wage. john Mitchell form head
OF the United Mine WORKERS ana now
chairman Of the New York industrial
commission. said;
| beiieye the legislature should have
the power to tx a minimum wage for
women and children, but not for men,
because the men are able to take care
of themselves through their unions.
Unfortunately the women do not or
ganize as the men do, and many a wo-
man enters the industrial pursuits
with the ultimate hope of becoming a
home maker and is not so anxious to
secure industrial rights through organ
ization.
Wages for women now are lowered
by girls who are supported at home,
but who go to work to get what might
be termed pin money to eXpend upon
themselves and who do not aid in the
support of their homes This class of
working girls is harmful to the class
who are compelled to support them
selves by their work as they keep the
latter's wages down. There is no de
mand for a minimum wage for men,
and If you put such a provision in the
revised constitution the laboring vote
might defeat the whole instrument
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23
More Pay For Car Men.

Approximately 1000 employees Of the
Bay State Street Railway company of
Boston will receive a general increase
in salary, according 20 an announce
ment made by the arbitration board
which has been considering the griey-
ances Of the men. Wages of motor
men and conductors are advanced to
range from 245 to 30 cents an hour.
A minimum wage of 1925 a day has
been created for all other employees.
and the hours of labor of this latter
class arereduced from fifty-nine to fifty
four hours weekly without loss of pay.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23
TWO MINDS THAT DID AS ONE.
When DR.. Anna Shaw and Miss An
thonY Lectured Toaether.

CnOfy LSCtufSu IOSStieTs
Writing of her lectures for suffrage
with Susan b. Anthony, DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw says in the Metropoli-
tan Magazine:
We travelled and lectured together so
constantly that each of us developed
an almost uncanny knowledge Of the
others mental processes. At any point
of either's lecture the other could pick
it up and carry it on--a fortunate con-
dition, as it sometimes became neces-
sary to do this. Miss Anthony was
subject to contractions of the throat,
which for the moment caused a slight
strangulation. On such occasions-of
which there We're several-she would
turn to me and indicate her helpless
ness Then | would repeat her last
sentence, complete her speech and aft
erward make my own.
The first time this happened we were
In Washington, and Aunt Susan stop
ped in the middle of a word. She could
not speak; she merely motioned to me
to continue for her and left the stage.
At the end of the evening prominent
Washington man who had been in our
audience remarked to me confiden-
tally:
"That was a nice little play you and
Miss Anthony made tonight-very eff
fective indeed"
For an instant | did not catch his
meaning or the implication in his
knowing smile.
every clever, that strangling bit, and
your going on with the speech" he
repeated. at hit the audience hard"
Surely" | protested, you don't
think it was a deliberate thing-that
we planned or rehearsed it?"
He stared at me incredulously
Are you going to pretend" he de-
manded. that it wasn't put up job?"
| told him he had paid us a high
compliment and that we must really
have done very well If we had con-
yeyed that impression, and l finally
convinced him that we not only had
not rehearsed the episode, but that
neither of us had known what the 9th
er meant to say. We never wrote out
our speeches; but our subject was al
ways suffrage or some ramification of
suffrage and naturally we had thor
oughly digested each others views.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23
The Human Brain.

Our brains are seventy year clocks.
The angel of life winds them up once
for all, then closes the case and gives
the key into the hand of the angel OF
the resurrection. Tick-tack, tlck-tack
go the wheels of thought Our will
cannot stop them. They cannot stop
themselves. Sleep cannot still them.
Madness only makes them go faster.
Death alone can break into the case,
and, seizing the ever swinging pendu-
lum which we call the heart, silence
at last the clicking of the terrible es-
capement we have carried so long
beneath our wrinkled foreheads. -
Holmes
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23
Matter of Precsdanoa.

A discussion once arose In the Uni
yersity of Cambridge whether doctors
at law or doctors in medicine should
hold precedence. The chancellor asked
whether the thief or the hangman pre-
ceded at an execution. Being told that
the thief usually took the lead, well,
then,' said the chancellor, 'let the doc
tors In law have the precedence and
let doctors In medicine be next In
rank. London Standard
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23
Wnrkers Sack Truth.

The San Francisco Labor Council
has instructed it's law and legislative
committee to investigate real estate
with other cities of equal size. This
information Is desired to refute the
argument sometimes advanced that the
unions by maintaining high standard
OF wage are keeping manufacturers
away from San Francisco. The labor
people maintain that 1t Is the high
value placed on real estate that pre-
vents manufactul from locating In
that city.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23
Labor Law Modified.

The first rulings modifying the Penn
sylvania women's labor laws have been
made by the state Industrial board, un-
der the discretionary powers given the
body by recent legislation. Applica-
tons made by hotel keepers and char
liable institutions to divide the one day
of rest into two half days were grant
ed. The rulings made will run until
Sept. 80. when general orders will be
made.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23
Guards Sent 10 Prison

The nine deputies who were convict
ed recently in Trenton, n j.. of having
fred into a group of strikers at the
Williams & Clark depot In Roosevelt
were sentenced by Justice Bergen to
terms of not less than two years nor
more than ten years in state prison on
each man. The convictions were for
manslaughter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23
CHICAGO Traction Strike.

The extent of the Chicago traction
strike is indicated by these figures:
Total number on strike, 1900; miles
of surface track affected, 1905; miles
of elevated affected, 915; surface pas
sengers carried daily, 3,o44, $50; elevat-
ed passengers, 712,000; total carried out
of Loop daily by elevated during even
ing rush, 10000; income of surface
lines daily, $4,000; income of elevated
$4,000; capitalization of surface lines,
$140,000,000; capitalization of elevated
lines $9O,OOO,OO
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23
The Blue Heron.

Notwithstanding the nature fakirs
who write wonderfully unsound natu-
raj history, the heron does not spear
prey with its bill NOR does the loom; 1t
bites them. nips them between the long,
sharp mandibles. We have had captive
herons and have seen thousands of wild
ones all over this continent, and they
do not do the silly trash told of them
by the nature fakirs.
Some OF the nests are as big as a
small haystack, built upon year after
year until they reach enormous
weights. very often UP to 500 pounds
Outing.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23
Boston Carpenters sion Scale.

The Boston Carpenters union has
signed an agreement with the Master
Carpenters association which provides
for wage rate of 81 cents per hour
from July l, 1915. to June /. 1916, and
60 cents per hour from June /. 1916,
to June !, 1917. Five days to copsti-
tute weeks work during the months
of June, July. August and September.
1916.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23
THE TRADE UNION.

That the trade union movement
is the highest and best devel-
oped working class movement
thus far evolved no thinking man
can successfully dispute.
There is no effort so potent to
accomplish tangible results In
the material, economic, moral or
social conditions as the great
economic power of the trade un-
ion movement, which recognizes
the identity, the fraternity, the
solidarity of labor.
q
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23

Nearly thirty trades In which women
are employed and more than 100000
women workers were represented by
delegates to the biennial convention of
the National Women's Trade Union
League of America, held in New York
city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10

Rule G., one of the greatest rail-
road pictures ever produced will pc
offered at the Iris today and tomor-
row. Approved by the noted picture
critics, and by prominent railroad
men who actually take part in this
subject. The picture is based upon
the series of stories run in the Sat
urday Evening Post, Keeping John
Barleycorn Off the Train" by Rufus
Steele. There are scenes showing ac-
cidentS and near accidents which leave
us with our hearts in our mouths
and then again there are scenes of
such dramatic power and with such a
subtle and gripping appeal as to bring
tears to many eyes. Rule c. will
make hit wherever shown. The
leading part is taken by Kathleen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
Painful Coughs and Bronchitis
Promptly Relieved

with 2 ounces Schiffmann's Concen-
trated Expectorant. Besides, guaran-
teed to give perfect satisfaction or your
money returned by Geo. w. STAINS
fields Drug Store.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10

Emerson and the supporting COM
pany includes real ''railroaders." Fri
day and Saturday William Farnum in
''Sa mSOD''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10

written for Harry Shannon by Rich
ard Carroll and Boyle voolfolk with
special music by voolfolk and Race
The main features of the show are
the comedy and the excellent cast
Mr.. Shannon will be remembered as
the featured comedian last season
with me TenderfOOt." Nobody
Home" is the attraction at the Nov
city for three days starting tomorrow
afternoon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
Nobody I'll

IN ObOdy Home" at the novelty.
Nobody Home is the latest Boyle
voolfolk musical tabloid. The name
is attractive and the producer claims
the show is equally as good as his
Sunny Side of Broadway and The
Dream Girl Nobody Home is
written around a very clever idea and
scenically is the heaviest tabloid on
the road. The play was especially
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10

The picture with
the punch powerful!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10

Fresh from an ex-
t ZEN d e d run on
Broadw ay, New
York; 10 weeks rec
ord breaking en-
gagement the Stud
ebaker, Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10

8 weeks capacity
engagement i'm Los
Angeles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10

Thousands have
seen this thrilling,
marvellous picture,
and Endorsed it as
the greatest. You
should see it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10

16 weeks in San
Francisco.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-09
IN AND OUT OF TOWN.

DR.. and Mrs. A. a. Marsteller will
motor to Mathews County on Saturday
to spend the weekend with friends.
Miss Gladys Preston steEall. Of Fay
etteville. w. w., who attended the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-09
HIGH SCHOOL. PUPILS
WILL PRESENT PLAY
Unique Exercises to Mark Begin
ming Of Commencement
Week.
WRITTEN BY HONOR PUPILS
Alumni Night to Be Held on Satur.
day, and Commencement Proper
Takes Place at City Auditorium
on Monday Night.

The Quest of Gladheart," fantasy
In TWO acts. will be presented by the
senior class Of the John Marshall High
school tomorrow night in the school
the play ID the class history and pro-
pnecy. ana some pertinent remarks
about the individual seniors which
takes the place Of the usual formal
class exercises just before graduation
II is distinct novelty in this way
ana no pains have been spared by
Miss Ray Van Wort. stage manager, to
make the affair success.
The play was written by Misses
Elise Goepf1rth and Frances woodson,
who will graduate this year with hon
ors. Miss Carrie Berkeley, who has
taken prominent part in school affairs.
especially amateur theatricals, will
she viii be supported by A prominent
cast, all the members Of which have
been rehearsing their parts for weeks
CAST OF CHARACTERS AND
SYNOPSIS OF PLAY
The cast and synopsis follow:
Ola oh cart. Carrie ". Berkeley
Gladheart OF the Vision. .
Henrietta NJ. Rhodes
Indian Spirit. Edith G. sydnor
spirits or Sleep.
Helen C. Kusterer. Elizabeth L.
Magill. Elizabeth w. Warwick
Prince Loyal. Rush Loving
Prince Loyal of the Vision .
............C. Houston Patterson
Prince Steadfast Claude S. Belts
Prince Steadfast OF the VISION.
................ George l.. Carneal
Father Time. Edmund II. Rucker
Scribe .................I Irving T. Duke
Prince Loyal and Prince Steadfast.
Times ambassadors to the Kingdom of
Youth, arc concerned about the well
fare of girl named Gladheart, who
had graduated seven years ago under
their guidance. In her youthful long
ings and vague aspirations, she has
failed to fully realize what the past
with It's faithful servitors has meant,
and will mean TO her In her search
for the City of Great Things. An In
dian spirit appears. and tells them OF
Gladneart's companions. but naught Of
her.
The princes disguised as old men,
res'lve 10 seek Gladheart. They come
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-09

upon her asleep in the woods. Upon
awakening. she addresses them, and in
an impotuous strain talks exultantly
OF the C!sy of Great Things
Eersuading her to accompany them.
they lead her to the Court OF Father
Time. to whom she refuses % pay
homage. but through the intercession
Of the princes she is shown n vision
Of the past. that her confidence in her
faithful guides and monitors may be
reawakened and ner uncertain steps
guided Alright
USHERS IN HIGH SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
She sees and hears herself indulging
in somewhat whimsical but eh.nusi-
astic monologue concerning her school
days, and oy,usly acknowledging her
Prince Loyal and Prince Steadfast
When the vision passes. Gladheart con-
fcsses to her waywardness with due
humility. wheIeupon the princes give
her the Rose IL Hope. With ihe low
ing injunct.ons OF Father Time and
and Prince Ste:dtast, she Is inspired
to seek even the City OF Greater
Things.
The class clay will usher in the
commencement exercises at the John
Marshall High School. Following this
event. alumni night will be observed
on Saturday right, when the senior
class OF 1915 will be admitted in the
great fold OF John Marshall graduates
supper and dance will follow these
ceremonies. Invitations will be sent
out this wecH to the commencement
exercises, which will be held ir the
City Auditorium on Monday night, and
the occasion l., being looked forward
to with pleasure by the students.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-09
Doctor Tells HoU to
Shed Bad Complexion,

We cannot restore degenerated facial
tissue any more than We can restore lost
limb. II Is useless to attempt to convert
q WORKOUT complexion into a new one.
Tho rational procedure is to remove the
complexion instead-remove tho devitalized
cutlcle. Not by surgical means however.
as the underlying cults is too thin too ten
der. to withstand immediate exposure. APP
plying ordinary mercoized wax will grad
ually absorb tho offending cuticle. BY de-
srees new. youthful skin appears; soft
No lady need hesitate to try this. Pro-
cure an ounce Of mercolized wax OF the
druggist Spread thin layer before
retiring. removing this In tho morning with
soap and water. In from one to two weeks
An approved treatment for wrinkles is
provided by dissolving. an ounce OF pow
dered saXolto in q half pint OF witch hazel
Bathing the face in the solution brings
prompt and remarkable results.-Dr f.
Mackenzie In Popular Medicine.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-09

The board of managers of the vir
ginia Home for Incurables will NEE
at II o'clock this morning at tn,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-09
supreme Court Proceedings.

Especial TO The Times Dispatch
WYTHENILLE, VA, June s.-Pro-
ceedinss in the Supreme Court OF APP
peals OF Virginia to-day were as fol-
lows:
lsaacs We. Isaacs. guardian, argued
by B. W. Wilson for appellant and
W. ". Bird for appellee and submitted
Barker Bond Land Company VS.. Wha-
ley, trustee. argued by Donald T. Slant
for appellant and II. G. Peters for ap-
Dellee, and submitted. John a. Witt VS..
w. I. Greasy, argued by William Eu-
bank for appellant, and continued un-
I'll tomorrow morning.
Next cases to be COLLABORATION
Lumber Company VS.. Young: United
States Spruce Lumber Company VS..
Shumate: Fulton Ne. Cox: Mckinney VS..
Trustees and E. and Fl. College; Nor
folk and Western Railway Company VS..
Warden.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-09

The convention of the woman's
Christian Temperance Union will meet
In Woodland Heights Baptist Church
today, the opening exercises to begin
at 1890 O'Clock. Mrs. Helen II. Green
State Woman's Christian Temperance
Union organizer. will be the main
speaker of the day, and several other
speakers will be on the program
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-09
FIGHT OVER POSSESSION
OF -YEAR-OLD GIRL
Tragic Case Is Heard by Judge Scott
in the City Circuit
Court
AN AUNT CLAIMS POSSESSION
Rather Has Married Again, and
Claims That He Is Now Prepared
to Give Little One a Good Home.
Decision Expected To-Day.

Brother was arraigned against sister
IN me City Circuit Court, yesterday, in
'eariui contest for the possession of
pretty little four-year-old girl who
looked on with troubled eyes at the
legal battle that she could not under
stand.
me action was in the form of a
haoeas corpus proceeding brought by
william NJ. Mertens. of SOS West Cary
street. to obtain possession Of his baby
uduehter who has since the death of
MS hrst wife, three days after the in :
rant was born, been cared for bv Mrs.
j. n. Missimer. 400 North Hancock
street, the sister of the child's father.
Accoralns to witnesses put on the
STAND ny Attorney I. /. Talley. repre-
sentins Mrs, Missimer. Mr. N1crtens
when his first wife died. gave tho c,,s
tody OF the infant to his sister. telling
her at the time that the child was hers
10 keep and rear. One woman witness
told the court of the scene in the dea III
champer when Mertens, she said. In the
presence of the still body of his wife
LOOK the child in his arms and placed
IL IN the arms Of his sister, telling her
TO keep the infant and adopt II.
PREPARED TO FURNISH
CHILD GOOD HOME
That was four years ago The baby
OF three days has grown to winsome
little girl, and both Mr.. Missimer and
MS wife are attached to her as to a
daughter OF their own. In the court
room. yesterday, the tears rolled down
MT. Missimer's checks as he sat through
the proceedings brought to tear from
MN and his wife the little waif they
have come to love. His wife. alternat-
ing herself between fearful and dry
eyed periods, tried bravely to comfort
her husband.
About a year ago Mr.. Mertens mar
ried again In his petition to the court
he asserts that he is prepared to furn-
ish his little daughter with a good
home. and asserts his right as father
10 the possession Of his own child He
denies that he ever gave the child to
his sister for adoption, claiming that
he placed her in her care as a temper
airy cxpedicnt having at the time no
means of caring for her himself.
EXPECT COURT WILL
RENDER DECISION TODAY
The case has many elements of the
tragic. Witnesses who testified before
Judge Scott, yesterday, expressed the
belief that the child would have good
home with either her father or her
aunt On the one hand Is the father
demanding the custody of his own
child. and on the other is the sister Of
the childs dead mother. and her hus-
band, fighting to keep in their homo
the notherless infant they have reared
as their own.
The hearing will be resumed this
morning. Judge Scott is expected &c
hand down a decision some time to-
day. Mertens is represented by At
torneys Louis o. Wendenburg and T
Gray Haddon.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-09
THREE ARE BADLY INJURED
IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT

lSpeclal 10 Inc Ilmes- Dispatch
WINCHESTER, VA, June S.-Ell!s
Denny. local business man, had his
right leg severely fractured, and
Liveryman Daniel McIllwce and Marion
Goss were severely bruised early this
morning, when the automobile in which
they were making trip to West Nir-
ginia to inspect horses. sk!dded on a
muddy road near Gore, swerved back
ward and turned over as il started up
an cmbankment. Denny and Goss were
injured by jumping. McI!lwee was
caught under the car and remained
there half an hour before assistance
arrived.