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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30
CITY OF THE FUTURE.
Vision of the Change That May Corae
Through the Motorcar.


Segregation OF traffic was practically
unknown before 1900. When the mo.
torcar came it was obvious enough
that the eight mile an hour truck and
the twenty mile an hour pleasure car
could not simultaneously run on the
same densely packed avenue. Not the
fastest, but the slowest, vehicle deter
mines the speed Of a congested streets s
traffic. This conclusion then Ia justi-
fed: In the city Of the future there
will be separate streets for the fast
pleasure or passenger motorcar and for
the slow commercial motor truck.
Moreover, trucks are increasing in
weight SO that ordinary pavements
cannot support the heaviest that can
be built. 1t is very evident that the
city must provide one type Of street
for the fast pleasure car and still an
other for the heavier, slower truck.
New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Lon
don, Paris and Berlin have found cub
ways preferable to elevated structures
for rapid transit railways for very
much the same reasons that confront
US even now with the increasing use
Of the mOtorcar, and we may expect
that motor truck subways will be pro-
vided In the congested city of the fu-
ture. There are straws enough to
show that this is the tendency Of
thought among municipal engineers.
1t becomes safe to prophesy that the
city OF the future will provide high
ways for its heavy motor trucks deep
In the ground. Swift passenger motors
viii speed along In ths sunshine unob-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30

who are peculiarly susceptible to
tuberculosis. This Is made possible
through the generosity of Miss
Martha Hentschel, who has given
her home and estate of three and a
half acres, valued at $50, 600, for
the purpose. Miss Hentchel is
herself suffering from tuberculosis,
and when she learned that two per
cent. of the garment workers are
victims of this dreaded disease, she
determined to give her home for a
sanitarium. The Union has ap-
propriated the necessary money for
proper equipment.
The threatened nation wide rail.
road strike has been averted. Yield
ing to the appeal of President Will
son and facing the probabil ty of
this country's entrance into the
world war, the railroads have
granted the demands of the four
employees brotherhoods for basic
light hour day. The telegraph
wires on March 19 carried through
out the United States messages
from the brotherhood chiefs reoind-
Ing the orders for the inauguration
of the great progressive strike at
D. M, on the same day. The deci-
sion is regarded as complete sur
render to the brotherhoods, brought
abou', however after the patriotism
of the railroad managers had beer
put to the test.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30
BOAT TRIPS

The springtime excursions down
the majestic Ohio are on, much to
the delight of Cincinnati and vicin-
ity. After a season ashore, prom
enading on the wide holystoned
decks of the great white steamer.
Island Queen or tripping the light
fantastic in the spacious dancing
cabin Of the Queen, come as keen
pleasure.
The big steamer sails on the
usual schedule for Lawrenceburg
and Aurora, leaving Broadway har-
Dor, Cincinnati, promptly at $50 a.
N. and $3.50 p m. Stopover without
extra charge are granted to those
who wish to spend a few hours in
either Of the Indianan ports-o call.
Many inquiries have reached he
Offices of the boat management ask
ing if that company is following
the rule of Other concerns in raising
prices. The answer is that the
price remains just the same as in
former years, 25 cents for the round
trips, despite the soaring of coal
prices The river was never so
splendid a spectacle as now and
those who love the natural beauty
of the great outdoors are taking ad
var age Of the opportunity to make
the trips
The very newest music will tin
kle from the instruments of the
dancing cabin orchestra and from
the brazen throats of the caliope,
now one Of the most noted music
makers in the United States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30
Coal Prices Must Be Reduced.

Washington, March, 30.-The
federal trsde commisson has noti-
fed leading anthracite coal produc-
ers that any failure to grant the
usual spring price reductions can
not be justified by claims of in
creased cost of production. The
commission has heard, the notice
says. that producers intend either
TO Withdraw or reduce the regular
seasonal discounts on the ground
of alleged mining costs.
In its inquiry into the cost OF
mining anthracite, the report or
which will soon be issued, the com.
mission has obtained detailed infor
nation on the costs of companie.
which mined in 1916, about rs pei
cent of the total production of an.
thracit-. This information, y
says the commission, obtained di.
rectly from the records of the com
panies referred to, indicates no in.
crease in average cost in the las
four months of 1916. and furthe,
indicates an actual decrease of cost
IN the case Of some of the compan.
les whose cost of production i.
high
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30

Ies which the motorcar VIII bring
about and from the ease with which
man may journey from his house to
his Office or to distant railway sta
tion.
And with that change there will be
satisfied the craving for the open air,
for trees and flowers, FOR starlight and
moonshine, for outdoor games and the
full enjoyment Of nature Only in the
heart of the city itself will there re-
main In subways for trains and motor
trucks a reminder OF the life we now
lead. And even there the spacious pub
lie squares and the fine. smooth wide
streets, necessitatcl by many parallel
streams OF speeding cars. will family
recall the CONSTRUCTED city passageways
of the present Waldpnar Kacmpffert
in McClure's Magazine
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30
New Liquor Possibilities.

Governor Neville of Nebraska
while approving the views of the
editors of The Outlook, presents ?
very interesting topic for discussion
in this country today, as he sug
gests the advisability of appointing
a National Commission for the pur,
pose of inves .igating all the things
that pertain to the liquor traffic as
affecting the moral and social inter
ests Of the community, and it's re-
lations to the nation welfare as its
most abundant and generous re-
source from which revenues for
taxes are derived.
The subject is one which does
not admit of immediate decision.
1t, on the contrary should be
studied with great care and a desire
TO render entire justice to everybody
those who are interested as bust
ness men; those who are opposed
to continuation of the traffic, and
those who insist that they have a
right to partake of liquor to mod
citrate extent as long as they do not
interfere with others.
The government has for years
been collecting more than $500, 0U0-
0OC per annum from the liquor peo-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30
Ttrnctea ana unaelayea.

Etfucued ana undelayeu.
So the city OF the future. II" city
that tho motorcar will bring into he
ing, will be pleasantly different from
that compact aggregation of towering
office buildings and dwellings painted
by romancers. 1t will be an open,
sunny city its outskirts thirty miles
from its commercial center; its suburbs.
If suburbs they can be called, sixty or
q hundred miles distant and easily
reached by trains perhaps twice as fast
as those which now convey us TO our
work. There will be no slums in that
motor city, for slums are created by
high land values, which cannot be lev
eled so long as this is a horse ruled
world. The home building instinct, an
instinct as natural as the nest build
ing instinct of a mated bird, will be
easily satisfied That follows from the
more eouable distribution of land val
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30
Plants Without Roots

The 'fiOwer of the air. is a curious
plant found in China and Japan. 1t is
so called because it appears to have no
root and is never fixed to the earth. 1t
twines around a dry tree or sterile
rock. Each shoot produces two or
three flowers like lily-white, trans
parent and odoriferous. 1t is capable
of being transported 600 or TOO miles,
and 1t grows as it travels. suspended
on a twig.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30
Same Old Story.
Preston, lMinn.) Republican. }

An Anti-Saloon League repre-
sentative blames the women for the
increased consumption of liquor in
wet communities. Other reformers
have accused women of the respon-
sibility for the increased consump-
ton of cigarettes. Same old story
we've heard ever since the first
woman was blamed for the increas-
ed consumption of apples. Winons
Independent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30
A Nary shnr4 s4rsa.

One of the shortest and most OBJ
scure streets in all Greater New York
LIS Chestnut street, and it's as small as
its name implies. This street Is less
than fifty feet long and runs from New
Chambers to Madison street separat-
Ing in two a triangular block, the
whole OF which would not have an area
large enough for a modern building
even if located IN section that would
warrant the improyement.-New York
Post
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30
The Schemsr.

Mrs. A.-Don't you think you lose
patience with your husband on rather
slight provocation? Mrs. B.-I have to
provoke him sometimes so that he will
lose his temper and then give me any
thing / want so as TO atone for the ir-
Titable way he has acted. - Boston
Transcript
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30

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addressed to The BUTLER COUNTY PRESS, oAo
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The publishers reserve the right to reiect any
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30
An Eve TO Business,

I've noticed one thing about those
oriental mystics who tour the country
from time to time"
"WellW
''They can always emerge from their
oriental mysticism long enough to
count up the box office receipts. ."-Bir-
mingham Age-Herald.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the MiddIetown Trades
and Labor Council of MiddIelown o.
Endorsed by the Labor Legislative
League of Butler, Preble 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, 1917-03-30
What Is Ganiua2

Genius is handsome name frequent
ly given to hard working men after
they have finished tough 1ob.-Amer.
lean Magazine
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30
Good Salesman,

John, whatever induced you to buy
\ house In this fCrsaken region?"
Zone OF the best real estate men In
he business. life.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30
Envious.

Louis-They say she will get mil
lion the day she marries Fred Louise
We'll. it's worth it.-Chicago News.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30

The concessions of the weak are the
concessions OF ar.-Burke.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30

Genius can never despise labor
Abel Stevens.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30
FRIDAY, MARCH 80, 1917.

Ertsyed at ths Posto6fee at HGmfifo1 OHIO, GI
Second C2ass Mail Matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-30

Issued WEEKLY AT S26 MARKET STREET,
HAMILTON, OHIO.
HOME TELEPHONE 300.
BRIL- l2o6-X.
Evening star., 1917-09-22
ONLY AMERICA CAN SAVE
POLES FROM STARVATION
President of General Relief Commit
tee Says Nation Cannot Exist
Without U. S. Food.
BY OSWALD F. SCHUET-TE.
CabIegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.

CabIegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1917.
BERN, Switzerland, September 10 (de-
layed) .-"Only America can save the lives
of hundreds of thousands of Poles" re-
marked to me Antoine Suchowski. presi-
dent of the Polish general relief COM
mttee I'VE appealed by cable to Sec
retary Lansing, but so far we have re-
ceived no reply. We still hope that it
will be favorable. for upon it depends the
whole future of our people. Thanks to
President Wilson's noble words we are
on the way to independence. but OF what
value are independence. autonomy and
sovereignty If we cannot keep the ma ton
alive?
determination. That word is none too
strong, for the reports we receive are too
horrible to believe. for they are worse
than they were last year. Now winter is
coming and the suffering millions are
starving. Deaths from tuberculosis, dys-
entery and famine are increasing daily.
For every 100 births there are $50 deaths
In some districts the proportion is 200
deaths to 100 births.
Children are the worst sufferers In
Warsaw 100000 persons live on public
charity and in Lodz there are 200. 900 who
are destitute. In Wilma the conditions are
help US, for we must bring food to them
We have asked Secretary Lansing to help
us do what has been done for Belgium.
We can buy no more food in Switzerland
for export. We must bring it from over
the sea. The Swiss government is will
ing to help us guarantee that not a sin
gle ounce reaches the Germans. A single
shipload would save thousands of inno-
cent victims.
I'VE have distributed ALMOST $4,000
| 900. but this is only a drop in this ocean
| Of misery. Food shipments are now more
important than money. Our nation has
struggled too long for liberty to die now
| when it is in sight. The United States
can save us. can strengthen the bonds
| the war Of independence and win the
nations gratitude"
Evening star., 1917-09-22
OBJECT TO SUGAR PRICE,
Cuban Growers Protest Food Admin.
istration's Limit tn produoerc

Protests of Cuban sugar growers
against the food administrators agree
ment with American producers to Iimi,
the producers price to ~. cents a
pound, have been presented TO the food
administration by Jose Miguel Tara IA
and Jose Ignazio Lezama They said
they feared II this price is forced upon
the Cuban crop through the govern
ment's import and distribution license
power. the 1918 crop will be materially
reduced.
They expressed Willingness to CO.
operate, however, and food admins
tration announcement said there is
every reason to believe that an entireI,
satisfactory price to the Cuban planters
and the buyers of Cuban sugar will be
arrived at" The newly organized in.
ternational sugar commission will con.
fer soon with representatives of Cubar
planters.
Evening star., 1917-09-22

Maj. Gen. Tasker II. Bliss succeeds
Maj Gen. Hugh L. Scott as chief of
stan of the Army. This permits Gen.
Bliss to fill out the balance of his
period of active service as head of the
Army. He retires for age December 81.
President Wilson authorized Secre-
tary of War Baker to make the an
nouncement of the selection after yes
terday's cabinet meeting. The nomina-
ton Will be sent at once to the Senate.
Gen. Scott is sixty-four years old
and has reached the age of retirement.
He will Immediately be recalled to
active service. For the present Secre-
tary Baker stated, he will be assigned
TO duty in connection with training
troops in the United States; he will not
be given a specified command.
The appointment of an assistant
chief of staff will soon be made. 1t is
assumed that the man selected for this
post will be the successor to Gen. Bliss
on his retirement g chief of STAFF to
direct the Army during the period of
the war.
Evening star., 1917-09-22
CAMOUFLAGE COMPANY READY
TO CONCEAL FIGHTING MEN
Distinguished Artists Are Members of Newly
Formed Organization Now Camped Near
the American University.

Uncle Sans newest thing in the way
of a military organization Is a COM
pany of camouheurs, or military ma :
ture takers. the members of which
have already established their camp
in a ravine near American University.
Just outside of Washington.
The 1st Camoufiage Company is COM
manded by Lieut.. Homer ST. Gaudens.
famous American sculptor. Lieut. ST
Gaudens, who graduated from the hrst
training camp for reserve ohcers a.
Plattsburg, was formerly associated
with Maude Adams in the preparation
and production of the wonderful stage
effects and illusions in Peter Pan and
a kiss for Cinderella The second
in command is Lieut.. Wllfred 5. Con-
row, who also won his commission re-
Gently at Plattsburg. and likewise halls
from New York where he made a con-
Siderable reputation as a landscape
painter.
In Ranks as Privates.
The first score of recruits for the
company. all buck privates gh
they have had highly successful pro-
fessional careers-includes a painter
expert in color conceaiment, ianc-
scape and mural painter. an architect
who has made a specially Of modelling
and wood -turning. a man who studied
camoufiage tricks in Europe, drafts
man. a chemical engineer, scene de-
signer and an artist.
Lieut.. st. Gaudens. who will direct the
efforts of the camouleurs in their at
tempt to make the trenches constructed
by the engineer student officers at the
American University camp invisible. ex-
planned plans which will be carried out
at the camp as follows:
I'VE are planning to try out number
of experiments. Camouflage. as every
one now knows. is the art of military
concealment. the painting or otherwise
Disgusting of guns. observation points.
dugouts. shelters and the like so that the
enemy will not recognize them. and the
setting up of dummy objects to fool the
enemy aviator and make his artillery
waste their ammunition.
Signal Corps to Cooperate.
Later on the Signal Corps has agreed
to cooperate with us. 1t will send OBJ
servers with cameras in aeroplanes over
the trenches to see whether we have sue
ceeded in concealing them from the
enemy.
.'For the reasons stated aeroplane OBJ
servers who will test the efficiency of our
efforts at concealment will be accom-
panied by good photographers. skilled in
the use of color screens and telescope
Evening star., 1917-09-22
NAVAL ACADEMY OPENED:
RECORD IN ATTENDANCE

ANNAPOLIS, Md. September 21.-
With the largest regiment in it's his
tory attending, the Naval Academy be-
gan it's academic year yesterday, the
total enrolment being 1.453.
In previous years there have never
been but few more than LOO middies
in attendance. The new class has 740
members, or as many the entire en-
rollment in some years not more than
generation. ago. The increase this
year is all the more remarkable in view
of the fact that there are but three
classes at the academy now. where
there usually are four. This is be-
cause the junior class was graduated
during the summer a year ahead of
time.
To take care of the increase, about
zoo middies of the new class will be
quartered in the Marine Corps bar
racks on the government reservation
about a mile from the main academy
buildings.
In addition to the regular classes.
commissions were awarded to a class
of 200 civilians here last week after
they had finished a ten-week course of
intensive training at the school. An
other such class will be started here
about October i, and temporary bar
racks are being erected for it's MEM
bers on the Naval Academy grounds.
Evening star., 1917-09-22
MAYOR THOMPSON JUSTIFIED.
Chicago's Legal Department Upholds
His Permitting Peace Meeting.

CHICAGO. September 22.-The city's
legal department, in an opinion, justified
Mayor William Hale Thompson in per-
mitting the public meeting here recently
OF the Peoples Council of America for
Democracy and Terms Of Peace. after
Gov. Frank o. Lowden had forbidden the
organization to hold meetings in the
state.
The opinion has been approved by
Samuel A. Ettelson. corporation coun-
sci. and was rendered. it is stated, at the
request OF Mayor Thompson.
'It seems clear from the provisions
Of the constitution and authorities that
you could not. lawfully. have prevented
in advance the holding Of the meeting"
the opinion says.
TT you. as mayor. had forbidden in
advance the holding Of such meeting.
your action. in our opinion. would have
been unJustihabls and in plain viola
ton Of your oath Of ONCE"
Evening star., 1917-09-22
MORE SMALL BILLS NEEDED.
Secretary McAdoo Asks Congress -
Help Solve "Change" Problem.

Please give me change for Q IS bfll.~
says Secretary McAdoo to Congress.
the Treasury has a lot OF ffves. but II
needs some ones and twos."
The Secretary. finding a SHORTAGE In
the one and two dollar bills OF tAe
Treasury. has asked the House of
Represe to call in the fves and
issue the smaller bills. There are out
standing S324. 200. 900 in fives.
However, there will then be Q scarcity
of fives; and to meet that emergency
the Secretary asks Congress to remove
the present limitations on the issuance
of IS bills. He also asks that national
banks be allowed to circulate more
81 and 81 bills.
Evening star., 1917-09-22
GERMANY is CLOUDING
THE STATUS OF BELGIUM
Permits Conflicting Authoritative
Statements to Appear Simultane-
ously in the Newspapers.
BY RENE FEIBELMAN.
Cablegram to The Evening Star md
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.

CaDIeSrdm TO The Evening star ana
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.
The German government is renewing
its game of hide and seek with the
newspapers regarding the future of
Belgium. While many influential pa
pers were allowed several days ago to
publish the statement that Germany
was about to renounce all control over
that country. other papers. Just as in
fiuential were requested by the gov
eminent to say that no decision had
been arrived at, and that it would prob
ably be made only at the peace confer
ence, as Germany was unwilling to
bind herself while holding such valu-
able security.
This procedure naturally weakens the
confidence of the German people in the
governments peace policy. AS the Vor-
waerts said in leader. remarkable for
a socialist organ, What Germany did
to Belgium was wrong and must be re-
paired" This opinion was held by the
former chancellor. Won Bethmann Holl-
veg, until he took it back under pam
German pressure. The Vorwaerts sticks
to this and says that Germany not only
must give up Belgium, but also give up
the foolish claim for guarantees. 1t
points out that only one guarantee
would be military control, which natu-
rally would put an end to Belgian
sovereignty
The Vorwaerts is the first German pa
per that dares to assert that Belgium's
claim 10 independence is to be granted
if there is to be any peace at all. This.
it says, is a question Of right and con-
science, and Germany cannot afford to
neglect moral and legal factors if peace
is to come. The leader ends with SEN
tence which is extraordinarily bold to
be printed in Germany in 1917:
There is a right, and Belgium has a
right to independent life"
This article naturally excites the fury
Of the whole pan-German faction. the
members OF which not only wish to
keep Belgium because Of its intrinsic
value but because the country gives
a better access to the North sea. Count
Won Reventlow and other military ex-
perts say that to give up Belgium is to
lose the war.