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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27

tional War Labor Board strikingly be-
fore the country and bring US to an
entirely new phase of industrial life.
The first of these awards was by
the board in the Smith and Wesson
case. The employers were ordered to
abolish the individual contract" sys-
TEN, to deal with democratically Sc
lected representatives of the workers
and o do nothing to prevent labor or
ganization
The second award was by the ref
cree appointed by the board in the
case Of the Bridgeport machinists.
The Smith and Wesson people de
clared they would not abide by the
award, The war department, with the
approval of the president, command.
eered the plant
The Bridgeport machinists continued
a strike in the face Of the award,
whereupon the president informed
them that drastic measues would fol-
low refusal to return to work.
This means that the National War
Labor Board decisions are to be en-
forced The National War Labor
Board is a democratic piece Of ma
chinery for securing war time produc-
tion without interruption. It is $3.50
labor and employers. Ample room is
allowed for appeal and review in event
of dissatisfaction. One of its car
dinal principles is that labor must
have the right to organize freely and
to have representation Of its collec-
tivity in dealing with employers.
Labor has accepted the machinery
j of the board, has had voice in nam
ing its personnel and is determined to
stand by its word. The National War
Labor Board is accepted by organized
labor as a piece of machinery that
will help win the war And the work
Of the board thus far makes it clear
that there has been ne overestimate
placed on its value in that direction.
It is democratic. effective and un-
flinching.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27
Buy LIBERTY BONDS

The manufacture of beer stops on
December 1st for the duration of the
war. Many men will be thrown out
of employment What is to become
Iof the brewery workers, seems to cause
little worry. 1t is true that other
work may be had for many, perhaps
all, who are thus thrown out Of en-
ployment. For the younger people
and those of middle age, the matter
is not so serious, as they may, with
out much trouble, be able to adapt
themselves to new conditions and earn
q livelihood in other than the brewing
industry. But how about the elderly
and the real old? Men 55 and so
years of age Men who have never
done anything else than work in a
brewery. VIII they also be able to
work in other industries, and if so,
who will give them employment? And
even if, here and there, an employer
should be willing to give these old
men chance, either out OF sympathy
or because they are short Of help, the
wages meted out to these old and per-
haps feeble men will presumably be
not very high. It is this class who
will suffer the most from the drastic
order issued by the president and food
and fuel administration. Yet they ac-
cept the situation with that splendid
patriotic spirit that the brewery work
ers have displayed in all war move
ments
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27
Buy LIBERTY BoNDs :,
FIGHTING LOAN.

AS the campaign for the Fourth
Liberty Lean approaches the Ameri-
can army in France moves on toward
Berlin Under our own leaders the
great An,es. car army has won not
able victory.
The Fourth Loan must be a great
success. The Fourth Liberty Loan
is fighting loan.
When our soldiers on the battle
front are blaying death, each one of
fering to make the supreme sacrifice
for his country and the great cause,
we who remain safely at home surely
should give them every support should
make every sacrifice to strengthen
them. If we can not fight ourselves,
we can make our dollars fight.
1t is a great cause for which Amer
lea is engaged in this war; it is a
great struggle in which the very hope
Of the world is bound up that is being
waged in Europe and on the high seas
1t is an honor to have a part in il
and all Americans, all of their lives
will be proud of the part they had in
it or ashamed of their failure to dc
their part.
The Fourth Loan is a fighting loan
Every subscriber to the loan strikes a
blow for Liberty, for Victory.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27

% find out whether they can frame
lp something which viii serve for
pen negotiations.
1t is well enough to see indication
weakening within the Central En-
pres. 1t is well enough to haa this
Indication of exhaustion thrown u
FOR if this feeler means anything 1t
means that Germany knows what a
continuation of war means for her
md her vainglorious plans.
But not upon any such condition as
this can peace be built.
Prussian militarism cannot be me
gotiated" out of existenee-and Prus-
sian militarism has to 60!
1t is going now, before the sweep
Of the allied armies, which is entirely
as it should be.
Prusslanism can't come begging to
be let off easy. Prussianism isn't
going to be let off at all. Upon that
the demoeracies Of the world are re
solved
None is more concerned in this mat
ter than the workingman. For him
the preservation Of democracy, with
its future guaranteed beyond question
is the first condition Of existence. No
lickering with autocracy at this or
any other stage Of the game.
Il is well that This Prussian propo-
sition comes hard upon the heels of
the American governments revelation
of the kaiser's bribing Of Lenine and
Trotzky 1t gives the proper flavor
to what he has to say through the
Austro-Hungarian government about
peace.
And the answer Of all lovers of free
dom is the classic, NOTHING DO
INGw
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27

BUY lerRN BoNps
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27

POSITIVE PROOF OF PRICE COMPARISON. Did
you ever while on your daily shopping tour, use the
KROGER advertisement for comparison as your
guide? If you should we feel confident would num-
Ben YOU among the long list OF satisfied customers who
have BY this positive concise, clear cut statement
learned what the Aroger Prices and Quality are.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27
Buy LIsFRTY BoNos ;

Teddy Roosevelt, in Labor Day
talk, denounced the "shipyard Slack
ers." We have an idea that a man
like Roosevelt, possessed Of the lung
power and mania for fighting every
thing and everybody, might be induced
to do an honest days work for an
honest days pay in any shipyard,
which would relieve him of the accum-
ulated gas without overexerting him
self at irregular intervals. Brewery
Workers Journal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27
Learn to Get Along Without Sugar

It has been done before. hundred years ago
fined sugar unknown. Our ancestors used honey and
you honey also. Besides there syrups The
natural sugars of fruits will today they did
tures ago. You will get all the sugar you need in this
way The Allies do it England, which before the
used sugar than did, has but two pounds
per head month now; France and half pounds,
and Italy only Show yourself patriotic American
and less than your ration This is but slight sacr
flee compared with all that the Allies doing Do
yourself.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27
Buy uBsRY BoHDs

OF course, there is nothing to pre-
vent a man resignlng any position he
nay hold (and there is no position
SO large but that another man large
enough to fill it can't be found) and
entering the service. That is demo
cratic privilege that every citizen of
this great country holds. That is one
of the principles for which democracy,
of which we preach SO much. stands
for.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27

the gane
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27
~ BUY LIBERTY BONDS
BONDS PUT THE DAM IN
POI,SDAM.

The mails were clogged on Tuesday
of this week with the new sears-Roe-
buck catalogue and the backs of the
carriers are still sore as the result Of
delivering them. They weigh about
five pounds each. No doubt they will
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27
( Buy LIBERTY BoNDs

Just because coal is away out there
in price and haed t. get at, is
ne reason Why old King Winter and
Jack Frost should butt in so early in
the game
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27
CALL FOR HELP !!

Hamilton's quota of the Fourth Liberty Loan is
almost S2,oooooo. At the request Of the Liberty
Loan Committee the War Chest Committee has
consented to give its aid to raise this In former
drives some people have said that they did not help
because they were not asked. To raise $2oo0,o00 is
stupendous task and the Committee asks every
body to help. Whoever is willing to work on a Com
mittee will please telephone the Chamber Of Com
merce-Both Phones No. $780,
Patriots, your services are needed! viii you
volunteer or will you wait to be drafted?
CLARENCE MURPHY,
Chairman.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27

Save for Your Country or Slave for
the Hun
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-09-27
Al Together NowI
AS TO NEGOTIATIONS"
NOTHING DOING.

Austria Hungary has shot another
peace bolt Which means that the
German kaiser has ordered such a
move.
The Austro-Hungarian govern ment
asks for secret conference in which
representatives of the warning nations
can get together behind closed doors
New-York tribune., 1918-01-10

That is to Say, because more in
dustries are vitality interested in Sc
curing cotton at fair price, the
price Must not be fixed! Besides:
Wheat is almost absolutely essen
tial to human life. Any conditions
that would make it less accessible to
large proportion Of population
would seriously jeopardizc the state
at large, which would make it per-
fcctly proper for any government to
regulate production and distribution.
The same cannot equally be said Of
cotton. Present high price for cot
ton, brought about by small crops
and steady demand from mills
without consideration of the price, is,
therefore, not considered a direct
menace to the state. 1t is, therefore,
believed that the government will
hesitate before it establishes maxi
mum price for cotton, letting the
law of supply and demand take its
course
1t is hardly necessary to say that
cotton is really almost as much an
essential of life as wheat "The
Journal" itself has pointed out the
universal use of it, and to this. may
be added the fact that it is required
in huge bulk for the manufacture
Of powder and for other war uses.
The truth is that the motives both
of Southern planters, who hope for
higher prices, and Northern mill
owners, who hope for a decline in
cotton, and do not want the price
fixed on the basis Of present quota
tions, are thoroughly selfish, and, as
the Commercial National Bank, of
Washington, points out, neither can
adduce good reason "for the ex-
emption Of cotton from price fixing
when coal and steel and foodstuffs
and other commodities are under
going such regulation. Moreover,
the fixed price will certainly be high
enough for ample profit for the
grower" and "any legislation which
ignored cotton would be sectional as
we'll as inadequate" Many sound
economic reasons against fixing
commodity prices at all can be ad-
vanced. But as long as they have
been ignored, there is no reason why
cotton should be the Stacker COM
modify.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-10
Steel Industry
Badly Crippled by
Shipping Delays
Uncertainty Over Future
Prices Also Tends to
Curtail Production

Never has the steel industry been so
generally crippled as it is at the pres
ent time, according to leading trade
authorities. Furthermore, the prospects
of any early return to normal condi-
tions are regarded as exceedingly poor,
owing to the paralyzed state Of ship
ping facilities
Scores of blast furnaces have been
banked in the Pittsburgh, Youngstown,
Wheeling, Cleveland and Chicago dis
tricts. Steel works in the same terri
tories have been able to operate at
but so to rs per cent of capacity. The
East, while spared fresh snow block
AIDES, has had record low temperatures
and SO little fuel has been delivered to
steel plants that working schedules
have gone to pieces
Poor as was the showing of produc-
ton, as revealed by December pig
iron statistics, as compiled by "Thc
Iron Age" that for January is ex-
pected to be worse The total output
CT coke and anthracite iron last month
was 2.Sa2.919 tons. or 92,997 tons a
day, against 3,2O5,794 tons in Novem-
ber or 1O6,859 tons day Capacity
active January l was only 93,500 tons
day, against 106.953 tons on Decem-
Der /, and only 324 furnaces were in
blast January /, loss of "a in the
month.
General selling of all iron and steel
products, trade authorities say, has
been brought almost to standstill as
a result of the request Of the War In
dustries Board that all sales calling for
deliveries beyond April l be made SUBJ
ject to revision in accordance with gov
ernment prices.
while enlightened opinion" says
''Tke Iron Trade Review" "is that max
imum prices, as long as present con-
ditions obtain, will not be lower than
those now prevailing, there is no as
surancc whatever as to this prospect.
Hence, sellers see no advantage. in dis
posing of their production beyond April
|. Since the output of practically all
iron and steel products is sold up solid
to that time, the outlook is that very
little tonnage will figure in the general
market over the near future. 1t is with
the greatest difficulty that consumers,
in special instances here and there,
manage to obtain small tonnages of
iron or steel for nearby consumption.
Inquiry however, is much less active,
owing to realization by consumers that
their wants cannot be filed
An enormous tonnage of steel sold
for export is reported to have piled uo
at the seaboard awaiting shipment.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-10
Canadian Northern
To Pay Notes To-day

Arrangements have been made by the
Canadian Northern Railway Company
for the payment at the Office of the Cen
trail Trust Company of the $3.50. 900 6
per cent one-year gold notes maturing
to-day. This issue was originally placed
by William A. Read & Co. During the
last year the Canadian road has re-
duced its outstanding obligations by
S6,00O.00O. The canadian Northern is
now controlled by the Dominion gov
ernment, which owns practically all of
the 100000, 900 capital stock of the COM
pany.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-10
National Banks
Resources Exceed
slS,o0o,00o,oo0
Deposits Increase Nor.
Than Two Billions
Within a Year

WASHINGTON. Jan. 9.-Resources
of national banks have risen to new
high level Of $18,553, 100000.
Compilations of reports of 1866
banks as of November 20. 1917. COM
pleted to-day by Controller Williams,
show an increase in resources since
September II of $2,OO9 900 900, and an
increase since November II, 1916, of
S3,033, 100000. The controller called
attention to the fact that the total
resources were. a half billion dollars
greater than the aggregate resources
OF all state banks and trust companies
and private banks, as reported last
June.
Deposits amounted to $14,798, ,0OO, 900,
or s. 1854 100000 more than on Septem-
Der IL, and $1,000, 100000 more than on
the approximate date a year before. OF
the increase since September IL, S641,-
100000 was in the central reserve
cities, and $477O00,0O0 with country
banks. Only in Maine, Illinois, Mich :
igan. Iowa, and Nebraska were no in
creased aggregate deposits reported.
Iexas recorded the greatest increase,
$50, 100000
Loans and discounts amounted to
$o,535, 900, 900, or Ga per cent of de-
posits, an increase over September II
of $4S0,000,000 and over the year be-
fore Of 81 $1,1S0,000,oO
Cash in vaults and the amount due
from Federal Reserve Banks was ST.
10000, 900. The banks held $2,354,
100000 worth of Liberty bonds, Ger
titicates of indebtedness and other
| United States securities, or $1,195 ,OOO,-
oOo more than September II, and ST.
o29,00O, 900 more than year before
Bills payable and rcdiscounts were
reported as S6O0,O0O 10000, and capjtal
and surplus amounted to S2,236. 900 900
Securities other than government
sonds held by the banks we're $1,9O6,-
New-York tribune., 1918-01-10
Wealth and O

1917 are not yet available. but 1t IS
assumed there was a substantial in
crease, so that the increased rate on
premiums, if in force on all business
written by these companies. means an
addition to their income Of at least
$4,000, 900
Insurance companies have had un-
usually large payments to make dur
ing the last year owing to the increase
Of nearly 100 per cent in the tots!
fire losses in the country. much OF
which has been charged against enemy
aliens. At the same time the grett
fall in security market prices has
caused heavy shrinkage in the asscf
value Of the stocks and bonds held by
these companies.
Real Estate Board Approves
Thomas p. Graham, 15o Broadway,
secretary Of the committee appointed
by the Real Estate Board of New York
to investigate the proposed increase in
flre insurance rates, said yesterday:
After a clear and exhaustive state
ment by representatives of the fire in
surance companies before committee
of the Real Estate Board it was the
opinion of the committee that it would
not oppose an increase in the fire in
surance rates. The first requisite Of
an insurance company to the insured
is its solvency, and it was clearly
demonstrated that the increase was
needed to maintain safe reserve. This
is q war measure which will be re-
moved when conditions become normal
again. Existing insurance contracts,
many of which have several years to
run, will, of course, not be affected |
doubt if rental rates will be affected
by the increase of insurance rates"
A Dissenting Opinion
l.. ID. Woodworth, secretary of the
Advisory Council of Real Estate Inter
ests, 55 Liberty Street, who has inves-
tlgated the contentious Of fire insur
ance interests, issued the following
statements:
"This increase in fire rates for New
York City appears to be not only unde-
served, but highly improper for two
special reasons:
"First-The provision of practically
inexhaustible supply of water at an ex-
pcnse of hundreds Of millions of dol l.
lars and the very efficient high pressure
system for fire projections; and second,
the excess Of premium payments over
fire losses in New York
"Thc premiums collected in this city
have been shown to total about $685.
100000, whereas the fire loss is less
than $10,000,000. Neither figure in
cludes the insurance written by Lloyds
on ships in our harbor and docks nor
that on merchandise which passes
through the city,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-10
Dividends Declared

Atlas Powder Company Regular aua~ w.
ly dividend of y per cent on the pe.s .s,s
stock, payable February TO stock oil '''
January s.
Certain-Tced Products Corp. lnit'ai ,,ots
dend of 81 per share on the common Isss
payable January IS to stock Of recos'
ary Il.
Chevrolet Motor Company Regular I'm Ssr
terly dividend of 3 per cent, payable
airy ! to stock of record January H.
Federal Sugar Refinins Company .a q
quarterly dividend of Sl.5D share Oh ~
ierred stock. payable February 70 S'''
record January 2l. \
Keystone Telephone Company.-pls ~ j
~ per cent on the preferred stock. y n
count of accumulated di' idends on w ass !
ferred stock, payable February 70 'N
record January y. "a.
Standard Oil of California. Resuial 5
terly dividend of $3.50. rayable MsFe'
sto>l. Of record February Is. -ls
+. w. Woolworth Company ~ ~
quarterly dividend Of per cent on y" -,c,r
r-ol stock. payable March ! to stock
February .. .s,
Burns Brothers. Inc. Regular O. e. 81
dividend of / \. per cent in cash on ~ ~ II
mon stock and I per cent in stock, o0' Tesl
able February Is to stock of recou
ary /.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-10
News Digest
Foreign

Shipping Shares Feature London Trad.
ing.-LOADON, Jan. 9.-There was :,
moderate turnover on the Stock Ex-
cnange to-day and the tone was good.
Shipping shares were leading features
on reports of a forthcoming advance in
government rates. Cunard stocks we've
lurther assisted by reports of re-
issue OF capital. Russian securities
were firm, City of Riga bonds gaining
four points Eastern Kaffirs were
strong. The other sections were dul!
throughout.
Paris Bourse.- PARIS, Jan. 9.-Trad
ing was fat on the Bourse o-day.
Three per cent rentes, SO francs %
centimes for cash.
Exchange on London, 81 francs oo1.
centimes.
Five per cent loan, SO francs 45 cen.
times.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-10
Dollar in Foreign Exchange

Exchange continued to move against
Switzerland in this market yesterday,
the Swiss franc rate easing 4.50, COM
pared with 4.46 the day before. The
slackened demand for Swiss exchange
was attributed to belief in some
quarters that tie Presidents state
ment Of the country's war aims might
result in peace discussions between
the warning nations. French exchange
was firmcr. with check francs quoted
at 5.73. The rest Of the market did
not change.
Closing rates yesterday, compared
with week ago, are given in the table
below. American bankers have sus.
pended all dealings in German and
Austrian exchange. so that daily quo
New-York tribune., 1918-01-10
New York

Brokers Again Cautioned on Tax
Stamp Payments-Gbvernor of the
Stock Exchange, at meeting yester
day, took further action to prevent ir-
regularities in the transactions of
members intended to avoid payment of
the Federal stamp tax Of 50 per 100
shares. A resolution, was passed which
read:
The reopening OF contracts in
securities by a member of the ex-
change or by his firm for the purpose
OF allowing others to intervene in
SUCH transactions is an act detrimen-
New-York tribune., 1918-01-10
State Revenues From
Stock Transactions
Reach Record Total

ALBANY. Jan. More. revenue
from stock transfers was received dur
ing the last fiscal year than ever be-
fore. this being due largely to the
enormous volume OF trading in stock
which began some time ago, according
to Controller Travis in report issued
tonight.
The total receipts aggregated S7,786,-
511, while the largest amount ever be.
fore received in single year was in
1906, when S6,631 ,903 was reached.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-10
Brokerage Firm Suspends
Kerr & Co. Announce Inabil-
ity to Meet OBLIGATIONS

firm of Kerr & Co.. II Broadway.
was announced yesterday from the
rostrum of the Stock Exchange lust be-
fore the opening of business. The firm
found itself unable to meet its obliga-
tons. Liabilities are not expected to
be large. Thomas G. Smith was named
as assignee.
The firm was organized in December.
1898. and consists of Robert B. Kerr
and Louis Kerr.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-10

The above rates express the cost of
foreign money in terms of the Ameri-
can dollar. You buy an English pound
sterling at, say, $4.75A. The intrinsic
parity is S4.S61s per pound. Thus, you
say either that pounds are at a dis
count or that dollars are at premium,
which Is owing to the fact that in Eng
land the demand for dollars with which
to settle accounts in this country ia
greater than tho demand. in this coun
try for pounds with which to settle ac-
counts in England.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-10
Chambers Of Commerce Dues
Exempt From W. Tax

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Chamhcrs
of Commerce. dues are not subject to
the 10 per cent tax imposed on club
dues, even though the chambers activ-
tiles include social features, Internal
Revenue Commissioner Roper to-day
ruled
New-York tribune., 1918-01-10
Money and Credit

Money on call at the Stock Exchange
ruled at 4 per cent yesterday, or u
higher than on Tuesday. The firmer
tendency was due more to smaller Of
fcrings by the banks than any increase
in demand for accommodation of this
character.
Lending operations in the market for
fixed date maturities were somewhat
reduced yesterday owing to the re-
stricted offerings by the banks. Loans
on industrial securities as collateral
were made on straight per cent
basis for the shorter maturities.
Ruling rates for money yesterday
compared with a year ago, were as
follows:
Yesterday. Year ago.
C,l1 ,ooro,- doL 2oL