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The Monte Vista journal., 1917-07-07

Mrs. L. B. Wallace ana
children left Monday evening
for Fort Morgan for a few
davs' visit with Mr.. Wallace S
parents. From there Mrs.
Wallace and the two younger
children will go on to Portland
Oregon, where they will spend
the summer with relatives.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-07-07

Mrs. Joe Webster of Pueblo
and Mrs. Mary Webster OF
Orange, Calf, came IN last
Friday morning to attend the
funeral of the late Mrs. Weo-
ster Joe Webster came IN
Saturday morning.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18
C. W. Wood Went To
See Billy Sunday.

Billy in way Is foxy, although
couldn't help thinking 1t was the
foxiness of pure cowardice. His
game is to draw the crowd and
demonstrate to the minister that
the people are attracted by the
pure gospel. If the churches
didn't support him, he would get
no following, and single frost
would ell nate the church support,
What the churches want Is people,
as many people as they can consis-
tently attract. There are certain
things they won't do in order to
attract them, but If the people can
be attracted by the pure gospel, "
they are willing to compromise gen.
orally on culture and taste. So
Billy breaches the pure gospel, !"
damns everybody to hell who
dsesn't believe In the Puddle of
Blood, curses saloonkeepers, "rips
dancing from hell to breakfast aud
back again to lunch and net only
draws the crowd but makes 1t ap-
parent that the crowd Is with him.
How does he do It,. That Is
where his foxiness comes In.
After he has preached his grue
some gospel, the old time evange-
list used to call for a response
Will these of you who have &C
cepted the Lord Jesus Christ as
your Saviour, and are trying to lead
a consecrated Christian life, stand
up 7" Billy doesn't take any such
desperate chance; the ministers
might get wise that the pure COS
pei" isn't as popular as ii seemed
to be. He doesn even ask vote
as to whether saloon keepers are
weasel-eyed or Unitarians stink.
No, he winds up with a peroration
about the Americon flag, somehow
manages to get Jesus into the
trencher-Billy's Jesus, l believe,
belongs to the Iowa National Guard
gives Rodey sign to start up the
Star.Spangled Banner and yells:
Now, all of you who are willing
to fight for Christ and your country
stand up. Masses.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18
Establish Poor Mans Court.

Wilmington, Del. May IA
"poor mans court will be estab-
lished in this city under authority
of law passed by the last legisla-
ture. This court will have juris-
diction over non criminal cases and
damage cases ranging as high as
$500 Matters of damages involv-
Ing only few dollars can be called
at once, the difficulty be set forth
In statement to the judge, wit
uesses called, the hearing given and
everything settled in at most 80
days. Heavy expenses of the trial
and a huge fee to lawyer are
avoided. 1t is not necessary to
have jury but one varying in size
from three to FIVE members may be
called as in a referee's court.
Unlike the supreme court and
court of general sessions, the poor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18
Grant Miners Demand, Op.
orators Raise Wages.

New York, May l8.-Commit
tees of the anthracite mine opera
tors and their organized employees
have signed wage agreement by
which 173 900 workers in the east
ern Pennsylvania hard coal industry
will receive increases ave raging 20
per cent.
A 10 per cent advance on gross
earnings goes 20 the miners them
selves. An advance of 80 cents a
day goes to breaker boys and aged
men, slate pickers, waterboys, jig
runners and special workers. The
monthly and pump men are in
creased SO cents a day and similar
increases are granted to the remain
ing classes
This agreement, effective May /,
and to run until April l, 1918,
takes the place of one made last
year, but which the miners re-
quested should be set aside because
of increased living costs. The mine
operators, after appointing a com
mittee to discuss the matter with
their employees, agreed that the re-
quest was reasonable. Similar &C
tion has been taken by bituminous
operators. The new contracts ex-
pire simultaneously and the opera
tors and men In both fields can re-
open or continue their contracts
next spring as conditions warrant.
II feel confident that the agree
ment will alleviate the skyrocket
ing cost of food and clothing pro-
pucts sufficiently to tide the mine
workers of the anthracite field over
an unprecedented crisis" said Pre-
sident White, of tie United Mine
Workers.
The singing OF the anthracite
agreement, following the bitumin-
Gus settlement, insures industrial
peace in the basic industy of the
nation.
What better recommendation
can the opponents of trade union
ism seek to convert them to the
same policy of collective bargaining
than Is typihed by the agreements
reached by the anthracite and btu
minous coal industries during our
present crisis p
The wage efforts of miners re-
presentatiyes were hampered by the
bonus system certain operators are
offering. The vigorous opposition
of President White and his asso-
ciates to this uncertain scheme has
practically ended It's continuance
in the organized coal industry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18
Rockefeller Concern Breaks
Union Pledge.

Starkville, Col. May United
Mine Workers at this place and at
Sopris are protesting against the
anti union policy of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company (Rockefel-
ler's concern which has discharg-
ed trade union officials, because of
their activity in favor of organized
labor and against the Rockefeller
union" which has proven fraud
and snare. In resolutions for
warded to all unions In mining
camps controlled by the Rockefeller
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18
Central Body Meets Twice
In Special Session.

The Cooperative Trades and La
Dor Council was called inte special
session last Sunday and also Tues
day night by members of Hamilton
Typographical Union, No. 290.
The meeting was called for the pur-
pose OF taking up the matter of So
licitors representing the Republican
News claiming that the paper is
fair to organized labor 1t Is said
that the solicitors carry copies of a
letter sent the Republican News by
the secretary of the central body
in 1914, after compromise was eff
tected with that concern.
A committee composed of Harry
Spears and Henry Brinker was ap-
pointed TO secure the services of an
attorney to hud out how the suits
were disposed of at that time. The
Cooperative Trades and Labor
Council, Typographical Union No.
290 and the Nonpareil Printing
Company were parties to the differ
ens suits thai were brought by the
Republican News.
At the meeting Tuesday night
attorney Harry Koehler informed
the council that he had investi-
gated the records at the Court
House and found that all cases
against the parties were dismissed
A committee was appointed to
draft a circular giving the laboring
men the reason for the existence of
the letter and also give them a true
statement of the standing of the
Republican News at this time.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18
CONSUMPTION OF GRAIN BY BREWERlES AND DSTILLERIEs
NOT LARGE ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY CLOSING
THESE PLANTS
Use ABOUT | PER CENT Of TOTAL CROP
Nearly Malt of This Is Waste Which Makes Valuable Food o
Cattle Practically No Wheat Used in Making
Beer or Whisky

Vadsv ths heading of War time
Prohibition" the Cincinnati Times
Star says:
In times like these the government
& calied upon to do many radical and
unusual things 1t Is particularly Inn
Yostant, therefore, that we keep our
heads. restrict our efforts to the things
and changes which are really neces-
saxy and desirable, and refuse to be
stampsded by the excitement OF the
eour into unwise innovations.
Don't Mind "Dry" Leaders.
Take the question of wartime pro-
AShssion.
II II were true that Americas pro-
gxess IN the war would be made easier
and her success surer by stopping the
manufacture of beer and whisky, 1t
goes without saying that that course
should be adopted. II, on the other
hand, continuation of brewing and
distiiling ia not danger to the nation,
we should not be hurried into radical
action because dry" leaders have
saken advantage of the nations need
TO urge a course which they really ad-
vocate regardless of war conditions.
Nineteen hundred and sixteen was
not year of good crops. Our total
production OF grain amounted to about
k,o00,000.000 bushels OF this 2,717,-
$4,000 bushels were corn, 07,557, 900
wheat, and 1929, $4,000 oats.
Use Practically No Wheat.
II not good crop year, 1916 was
record year for the distilleries, chiefly
because Of the large amount of alcohol
used in the making of munitions. And
yet in 1916 the distilleries and brew
cries Of the country used only little
over 2 per cent of the countrys total
grain production The figures are about
110,000,000 bushels of the various
grains, barley and corn making up
very much the larger part Of the total
There ia practically no wheat used in
the making of either whisky or beer.
Thirty-nine million bushels OF grain
we're used In American distiIleries In
1e16. From this there were produced
a4s .123.s11 gallons of spirits. or this
total, S<,532.252 gallons were dena-
sured and used in this country for the
of munitions. 37,34S,484
gallons were exported and used In
and France for the same pur-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18
Anti-lnjunction Law Passed
In California.

Sacramento, Cal. May. Is. The
state legislature has passed the bill
urged by organized labor. The
recent passage of similar legisla
ton by the Minnesota legislature
was a factor in The unionists sue
cess.
The California act Is modelled
along the lines of the Clayton law
and prohibits injunctions where the
plaintiff has remedy in law. No
person can be prevented from per
suading others from terminating a
condition of employment, and no
injunction shall be issued against
any person or persons, from going
on strike or doing any other thing
that would be lawful If no strike
t xisted.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18

agreement for the loading of lum-
Der for the season of 1917 at 33
ports in Michigan, Wisconsin and
Indiana was reached. Wages are
increased TO 55 cents an hour for
day work and 82Kcents FOR over
time. If men are ordered out on
Sunday and there is no work for
them they will receive two hours
pay az overtime rates.
Differences between the Harlan
& Hollingsworth corporation and
Boiler Makers Union No. 494 of
Wilmington, Del, have been ad-
iusted and the men have returned
to work. The union had negotiated
a wage scale that raised wages Il
per cent. for piece workers and 10
per cent. for day workers, but the
company failed to reinstate COM
mitteeman. Although the boiler
makers had secured substantial
wage increases, they suspended
work as a protest against this In
justice.
Officers OF the White Rats Ac
tors Union have declared the strike
against sixty theaters in various
parts of the country suspended be-
cause of war conditions. The strike
was caused by lockout policy of
the Vaudeville Managers Protec-
tive Association. The White Rats
announce they will continue their
court contests against several In
inpctions and that their strike has
been lesson to the managers.
Tomorrow is another day." is the
significant statement of president
Fitzpatrick, in announcing the
strike suspension.
The great Falls branch of the
Montana Employers Association
has failed in Its attempt to smash
trade unionism and has ended a
lockout by agreeing that hereafter
all grievances shall be referred to a
Joint committee consisting of six
men from each side. The agree
ment is signed by the Employers
Association and the Cascade County
Trades and Labor Assembly. This
settlement was only made possible
by the rugged trade unionism OF
Great Falls workers who resisted
the mort powerful influences their
employers could command
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18
New Trial For Mooney
Urged By Trial Judge.

San Francisco, May 1S.-Super-
Tor Court Judge Griffin, who pre-
sided at the trial of Thos. j.
Mooney, who IS charged with par
ticipation in the bomb outrage of
July %, 1916, has written letter
10 State Attorney General Webb in
which the latter official Is urged to
confess error before the state su-
preme court and agree that Mooney
should have new trial.
Judge Griffin calls attention to let
ters written by Frank c. Oxman,
the states chief witness, who i.
now arrested on the charge of hav-
ing attempted to induce perjured
testimony. Oxman wrote to F. E.
Rigall. GRANVILLE, H., to come tc
this city and testify as character
witness
"You will only have to answer
three or four questions and will
post you on them" wrote Oxme ,
who was later exposed by Rigall,
after Mooney was found guilty and
sentenced to death.
In urging the state attorney gen
eral TO confess error at the hearing
fer new trial before the supreme
court, Judge Griffin saws that If
these letters the authorship of which
are "undenied and undisputed, "
were before him at the time of the
hearing of motion for new trial,
II would unhesitatingly have gran
ted 1t. :"
These letters, Judge Griffin con-
tinues, go to the very foundation of
the truth of the story told by the
states leading witness, and because
the matter Is now out of his hands,
Judge Griffin makes this unusual
quest to the attorney general ''in
order that no possible mistake shall
be made in a case where a human
| life Is at stake
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18

company, the unionist declare that
this discrimination must cease or
the c. F. & l. will be called upon
to take such action as will put an
end to intimidation of superinten-
dents and their subor dinates who
would prevent miners orga izing a
bona hde trade union in place of the
Rockefeller union" that Is owned,
dominated and financed from the
company's headquarters.
In their resolution the miners
say:
eve are loath to stop the pro-
duction of coal at a time when Ii
may interfere with the welfare of
our country, but we have reached
the limit of toleration In this un-
called-for and unjust discrimination
by this company, through its petty
pit bosses and superintendents.
"The company has made public
statements that 1t has no objection
to their employees belonging to la
Dor union, but these statements
have been proven false and hypo-
critical because of the continued
discrimination against men who
take an active part in the sffairs of
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea"
The resolutions declare that If 1t
is necessary to call strike to secure
justice other union miners employed
by this company will be asked to
join the movement.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18
WORLD OF LABOR

The United Cloth Hat and Cap
Makers Union has trebled its mem
bership within the past year and
now has an enrolment of over H.
0U0. It's most striking success has
been becured In the ladies' hat and
millinery branch.
Section toremen and trackmen
employed on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad have raised wages
Section foremen are raised from
So. so TO So a month, and trackmen
receive proportionate advances,
These workers are members of the
International Brotherhood OF Main
tenapce- of Way Employees, afili-
ated with the American Federation
of Labor.
The Grand Trunk railway seems
to be looking for trouble by at
tempting to check organization
among IT'S low waged machinists.
Several of these workers have been
discharged They include officers
of the Machinist' Union and the
management refuses to discuss the
matter, even though the Canadian
industrial disputes act prohibits
public utilities from precipitating
lockout until thirty days notice
has been given the government.
At a conference between repre-
sentatives of the Lumber Carriers
Association and the International
Longshoremen's Association an
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18

Machinists of Dayton have
made a demand for the 8-hour
day Monday, August 81, 1916
All Machinists, Toolmakers
Screwmakers and other ma
chine shop employees Stay
Away.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18
Steel Strike Settled.

Cleveland, May 18.-The Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers has adjusted its
strike against the Otis Steel COM
pany. Representatives of the fed
eral department of labor assisted in
the peace negotiations.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18
Boss Can Select Hotel.

Sacramento, CAL, May 18- Gov
ernor Stephens has vetoed the Will
liams bill which would prohibit en-
ployers from discharging employees
for failure to patronize a boarding
house or hotel owned or conducted
by the employer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18
Raise Benefits For injured.

Boston, May 18.-The house of
representatives has increased from
$40 to IA the maximum amount to
injured workmen under the state
compensation law. The period In
jured workmen must walt until
benefits are paid is reduced from 10
days to seven.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18

mans court will be in session all
the time except in July and August
1t may sit then. The Judge will
be one of the regular state judges
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18

whatever is intended for insertion must be
authenticated by the name and address OF the
writer, not necessarily for publication, but as
guarantee of good faith.
smbseribers Changing their addr ess will please
notify this Office giving old and new address to
insure regular delivery OF paper.
We do not hold ourselves responsible foi any
views or opinions expressed in the articies OF
communications of correspondents.
Communications solicited from secretaries OF
all societies and organizations, and should pc
addressed TO The BUTLER COUNTY PRESS, S1o
Market Street, Hamilton Ohio.
The publishers reserve the right TO reject any
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18
raChinists

Stay away from Hamilton, Ohio,
strike still on at the Black & Claw
son Co., unfair conditions, STAY
AWAY.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
CounciI of Hamilton. Ohio.
Endorsed by the MiddIetown Trades
and Labor Council of Middlelown o.
Endorsed by the Labor Legislative
League of Butler. Prebie and Mont
gomery Counties.
Endorsed by Metal Trades COunciE
of Hamilton Ohio.
Endorsed by the United Trades and
Labor Council, Dayton, Ohio.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18

bushels of grain used in distilleries
nearly one-half went into alcohol for
munitions purposes. OF the remainder
large portion was used. not for drink
Ing, but for pharmaceutical purposes
and in various manufacturing pro
cesses.
Part Goes Back.
OF the total weight Of grain used by
American breweries and distilleries, a
considerable proportion-from thirty
to fifty per cents turned back in the
form of grain waste, which makes
very valuable food for cattle.
AS we have said, the total oonsump
tion of grain in breweries and dis
tilleries during 1916 was about no..
100000 bushels. 1t would be fair to de-
duct from this from 20,000,O00 to 25,.
100000 bushels used IN the manufao.
ture Of munitions and of drugs. II
would be fair, also, TO deduct from 30.
100000 and 100000 bushels, the
amount of grain waste available for
use in the feeding of cattle after dis.
tilling or brewing What may be
called the net consumption of grain in
breweries and distilleries, therefore
amounts to between 45,000,0 900 and 80,-
100000 bushels per year. or in the
neighborhood Of one per cent OF the
country's grain production.
Give America Square Deal.
Great Britain and Germany have
curtailed their production OF alcoholic
liquors; neither Of them has stopped
production absolutely. Wouldn't it be
unfair for America to close her own
breweries and distilleries as a war
measure when we are still shipping
grain to England, and in fact even to
South America, to be used in brewing
and distilling there?
The Times-Star is deeply impressed
with the necessity of doing everything
possible to win the war 1t ie fully
alive to the importance of food pro
duction and the cutting out of food
waste. But 1t does not believe that
what might be called the net consump
tfon of grain In the breweries and dis.
tilleries is large enough to justify un-
der present conditions the closing of
these concerns, with all the disturb
ance to industrial and financial condi-
tions which this would entail.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18

Issued WEEKLY AT S2S MARKET STREET,
HAMILTON, OHIO.
HOME TsLRPHoNx 800
BILL l298-X.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-18
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1917.

Entered at the Po5fo6fee al RGwiiison, Ohio Gi
SsSO.d Class Mail Matter.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-15
WOULD use COLLEGE MEN
ON SCIENTIFIC BOARDS
Council Of Defense Suggests Work
That University Faculty Can
Undertake..
USE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
National Research Council Suggests
Scheme Of Organization With Com
mittees at Various Virginia Insti-
tutions Of Learning.

While great service is being rendered
to the government In planning to carry
the war to successful conclusion
apd in laying plans for great construc-
tive work after the war is over by
men OF science associated with col
leges and universities as we'll as those
connected with scientific departments
Of largo Industrial enterprises, the
Washington authorities believe that
still greater service could be rendered
through the organization OF such men
under the direction of the several
State Councils of Defense. In this way
their efforts would BIO correlated 80
that each State would act az unit,
and would thus be ready to respond
without delay to any call that might
come from the President, the Governor,
or their advisers.
Accordingly. the Virginia Council OF
Defense has been requested to con-
sioer this matter at an early date and
formulate liar by which the scion
tine mon Of Virginia. especially those
connected with the college andSunIver-
s'ty laboratories and with the indus
trial plants. may become organized into
n great scientific research bureau. VIr-
ginia Is rich In men OF this type, and
the council believes that this State
VIII shortly rank high among Ameri-
can Commemorative in the organiza-
tion and patriotic activity Of her men
OF science.
COOPERATION IN
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
At the request OF President Wilson,
the National Academy Of Sciences. or
Eanized the National Research Council
In April. 1916. which included in It's
membership tho chiefs of the techni-
cal bureaus OF the army and navy,
the heads OF government bureaus en-
gagged In scientific research group
OF investigators representing educa-
tonal institutions and research founda-
lions. and another group of represen-
tatives from industrial and engineer
Ing research. The Council Of National
Defense recognized this organization
last February. and requested It's CO.
operation in all matters pertaining to
scientific research for national defense.
The Virginia Council OF Defense re-
ceived instructions yesterday from
Washington relative to the orsaniza-
ton OF scientific men In Virginia These
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-15

Instructions were accompanied by let
ter from DR.. George e. Hall. chairman
Of tho National Research Council. out
lining tho general plan.
Or. Hall wrote. in part, as follows:
Tho National Research Council has
carefully considered tho question Of
the general organization OF State COM
mittees OF research. and has como to
the conclusion that such organiza-
lions should be determined by local
needs and conditions. Local causes,
such as tho development or investiga-
ton Of natural resources OF the proper
development OF tho use OF research
methods in Industries or the correla-
ton Of Industries with research labora-