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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29
COLUMBIA MACHINE
Z TOOL CO.
Buys a Big New Flag For Labor
Day.

The Columbia Machine Tool COM
pany contracted with the Whitman
Tent and Awning company for a
handsome new flag. When purchas-
in gthe flag the officials of the COM
pany stated that they wanted the flag
to float above the shop on Labor Day.
This goes to show that even the en-
ployers are given to thought of Ia
boris great day and that they desire
to give expression to the thought. 1t
is hoped that the national emblem will
float over every one of our great in
dustrial plants next Monday.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29
MACHINISTS MAKE
BIG SHOWING
Three Hundred Members More Than
Last Year.

Hamilton Lodge Nc 24l continues
to take in new members every meet
ing night and since last Labor Day
the organization has grown three
hundred members stronger. The show
ing that the machinists will make in
the parade next Monday will verify
this. At the last meeting twelve more
machinistst were initiated and sew
eral new applications were received.
When the armistice was signed last
November every effort was made by
some of the manufacturers to curb the
Machinists' Union, but their efforts
only made the men cling more strongly
to the organization. 1t will be re-
membered that there was much talk
at that time about reducing wages and
it probably would have been done if
the machinists were not organized.
This prevented reduction and has
since been the means of getting the
maehinists in nearly every factory an
increase instead
Ted Smith, business agent, reports
that the strikes are still on at the
Black & Clawson Company and the
Hamilton Machine Tool Company
plants and that both concerns are
having the time of their lives getting
help and retaining the help they have.
Ea m "a
Buying War Saving Stamps lends
your money to Uncle Sam who re-
turns it with 4 per cent interest COM
pounded quar,eriy five years hence.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29
81 E Pa
An Even Break.

Young man, are you satisfied with
your present position ?"
Nav, but it's fifty-ffty The boss
amt satisfied with the way fill it,
either. Detroit Free Press.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29
RETAIL CLERKS
To Be In Line One Hundred
Per Cent.

That the Retail Clerks will be in
line in force Monday may be judged
by the action taken by the organiza-
tion at<its regular meeting last Mon
day night when every member pledged
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29

months and all were glad to see him
back and once more in the organiza-
ton
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29

Definition of An Optimist.
A man who buys something from
Jew and expects to sell it to g
Scotchman at a profit.--Nebrasks
Awgwan.
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02
"A HANDY MAN AROUND THE
 HOUSE"

Michael Cross in New York Tribune) watch my wife dub around; and rub around; and scrub around And take day to clean the flat-four little rooms and bath The way she goes about the thing just makes me rise in wrath. The statement may sound curious, but gosh, it drives me furious pace the floor and storm about, and say things rather warm about Her shocking lack of system and her
 inefficient way; I'll bet man could take broom and
 in one hour make each room Just shine and sparkle in the sum-" she's often heard me say. For years she stood it nice and calm,
 but Sunday last she said: Now,
 Tom,
 This morning I'll put YOU to work
 and see how well you shine; It's just exactly eight, old top; now
 grab the dustpan and the mop And try to clean this four-room flat
 before the clock strikes nine.' I planned the work and worked the
 plan; I used the methods of a
 Man;
 Instead of scattered effort I just
 buckled to it right. Did I take more than one short hour
 to sweep each room, and. scrut
 and SCOUT?
 You bet your blooming life I didGl
 worked till twelve that night.
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02
Extend the City Limits

What is to be done about the extension of the city boundaries? Phoenix differs from any other town of which have any knowledge in respect of it's suburban surroundings Usually the limits of towns extend far into the surrounding sparsely settled and the unsettled country. Frequently water mains are laid and pavements extended to encourage settlement which may may not come.
 On every side of Phoenix there is a or less thickly settled fringe extending beyond the limits The casual observer supposes these districts to lie inside the city limits unless he happens to know just where the boundaries
 The people living in these outlying districts enjoy the use of certain municipal facilities such water, though terms little less favorable than those granted the city dweller Though they fire protection they enjoy also they live too far out but they cannot count upon that It lies with the nearest fire station employees say whetherit shall be afforded.
 They save something in the way of taxes but they lose a great deal in the way of street improvement and facilities Altogether the balance is rather against them and and the sentiment in favor of annexation is growing.
 It would be to the mutual advantage of these uitlanders and the city dwellers if these districts cally advantage to the whole community if it could be now completed before the beginning of the next census.
 We would not favor the taking in of farming districts great does make a great town. But we would favor the bringing in of every thicky settled district giving to the full advantage of city facilities and these facilities would be thereby in- creased and extended
 Another result would be the rapid growth of the city. There has always been tendency here toward settlement just outside the city limits An extension of the limits would stimulate such suburban settlement which in few years would be ready for admission.
 Our limits now too restricted. more so than those of any city of equal population anywhere else in the country.
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02
HOW'S YOUR DOMESTIC SEVENTH INNING?"
 TAKE YOUR WIFE TO THE GAME! PLAYERS SWAT THE BALL: YOU SWAT DIVORCEBUG

to become interested; growing un- derstanding of what it's all about brings wholesome excitement coupled with the peace that passeth all un- derstanding."
 And the womenfolk enjoy it just as much as the men. They may not get all of the fine points'-but they FEEL the thrills, the impulses. of the con test perhaps more keenly than the men. Little domestic infelicities fade into insignificance at the crack of bat and the ball sailing toward a high board fence.
 TAKE YOUR WIFE TO THE BALL GAME.
 By the way: Has YOUR game. on the Home Grounds. progressed as far as the seventh inning?
 If so. how is the family team com ing alcng-the team of which you are captain and Friend Wife is manager?
 Does your "infield" (your devotion, show any signs of "cracking?" Is the ''outfield' (your eye to the future, bothered by the sun? Are -our pitchers" tyour nerves) steady and reliable and your "catchers" fthe say ings bank and the pocketbook) nail- ing the due-bills as they come sliding into the home plate?
 Or possibly your side is at bat Mayhap Friend Wife has singled" (by making over last summers dress) and has then stolen second" tgone over to her mothers house) because you stayed out too late with the boys
 Isn't it up to you to bring her home" with a good solid two bag ger'' to Right. in the form of an apollo gy for your foolishness and a promise to play it safe" in the future?
 After all, Iife's just game of ball. and you can bring your "team" out on top if you will use little judgment. There will be lot of "errors," natur- ally, in the besinning-but KEEP TRYING, and you'll soon be in the "first division" among the couples who have won more than they have LOST!
 Above alI don't run to the umpire with protests! As an "unpire" in these games of life have heard hun dreds of protests, most of which were illogical and unnecessary-made in the heat of contest and regretted soon afterwards.
 Fight it out for yourselves If the atmosphere becomes too thick on the home diamond, and there's danger of the umpire calling it mo match cram your hat on your head, grin and
 TAKE YOUR WIFE TO THE BALL GAME,
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02

and the present It may be predicted therefore that legislation will be shortly offered for the smashing of monopoly or whatever looks like monopoly. It may be drastic and unjust but the popular demand that something be actually done that will produce results has become so insstent that congress will not dare to ignore it.
 Legislation in the past has been intellectual against monopoly perhaps it not really intended be effectual and perhaps it would not have been sustained by the highest court had been effectua But great changes in the way of thinking in this countrywide way the highest thinks have taken place. we have lately
 Anyhow, point is nearing at which something break. The situation is one which cannot be made longer serviceable by expedient patches.
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02


 discord into the discard, if you'll give them chance.
 When I make this statement it is with knowledge gained not only as a president of the Pacific C ast base ball league, which office I recently held for two years.
 TAKE YOUR WIFE TO THE BALL GAME!
 Simeon Strunsky literary editor of the New York Evening Post, calls baseball "the religion of democracy" In his essay on "The Game" published in the Atlantic Monthly some time back, he gives the following descrip- ton of the second half of the seventh inning"
 What I have in mind is a great democratic rite. a ceremonial which is solemnized on six days in the week during six months in the year by large masses of men (and women?) with such unfailing regularity and such un- questioned good faith that I cannot help thinking of it as essentially re- ligious performance.
 The time may be somewhere be- tween four thirty and five o'clock. AL most with a single motion this vast multitude rises to it's feet and stands silent. The precise nature of this religious half minute depends on the score. If the home team is ahead always imagine a fervid Te Deum arising from a multitude. If
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02
NoN- RESISTANCE

Courtesy is akin genius
 This morning coming down the the con- ductor healthy young hulk of fellow, approached a certain passenger for his fare The passenger flew into rage, and in voice that could be heard all the car protested that he had paid when he got on, and continued by asking the conductor he looked like that would beat the company of small amount
 No you do not replied the cnductor with smile and in low voice. but which rang true with honesty and perfect good feeling, and he continued T beg your pardon!
 The had been in a blockade, many of the pas sengers were looking their watches and protesting to their fellows that they would be late to work
 But the incident of the supposed defauting patron and the contrasting way in which the conductor met the attack, drew their attention from he matter of their own protests.
 The comments upon the conductor were many and favorable and began testing the Wrathful one, which made him all the more wrathful, and all save he finally arrived at their destination in state of good humor.
 This conductor who kept his temper and his voice in the face of such opposition is very able repre- sentative in the interest of the stockholders of his company.
 He not only disarmed the angry one, but he turned the complaints of the other passengers into favorable comment.
 This is capable of managing many cars rather than just one car.
 He has the prime element to control whole car company. and which is self control.
 We will miss our guess if this young hulk of a conductor does not finally become manager of men rather than remaining just one of many men to be managed.
 And as to the passenger who became angry we'll he looked like of affairs, and he no doubt arrived his office in such state of mind as to unfit him for his work for several hours
 He may have remained in that state long enough to prevent his lunch from digestng and to point Of actual illness during the afternoon.
 Through his mental and physical unftness he may have suffered the loss of money the opportunity for profit during the day.
 It would have been far profitable for this passenger handed the conductor another fare with smile and made the good natured, low voiced comment that the amount too small to quarrel about.
 It occurs to us that this might be practical dem4 onstraton of the doctrine of non-resistance
 That at least there are times when it does not pay to resistant and to the point of inca pacty by anger.
 The resistance should be within ourseves-to sist
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02
NO. 7
Copyright, 1919, by N. E. Al

Lively Beach, Wednesday. Dearest Joan:
 I am feeling rather chastened and lifeless. Whether it .the physical reaction from being nearly drowned in the surf I do not know Or because am bored with poor Jim Ross. who hangs at my heels like a spaniel. Or because the Harvard 1ifeguard crushes me with highbrow discussions of The Infinite. Or because the women here begin to show actual hostility toward me for being, well, different in my methods from their painstakingly- plotted daughters.
 Anyhow, dear, I'm out of sorts. Why, Joan, I actually overheard my self being raked over the coals this morning by a fat woman whose hus- band has made a million dollars in war supplies 0'll bet they were de- fectiveD and her homely daughter who is all dressed up like a plush horse. and nowhere to go.
 She looks like somebody, I'll ad- nit" said ma. "and Varick's a good sounding name-ain't there a street named that in New York some place? Yes. I thought so-down town in the
  terribly old and all that sort of thing. But Mrs. Haverton says she's only a stenegrapher. I bet she's out of a job, all right No sane woman would let her husband have anything like that in his office. Talk about vamp- ing
 Well, I don't care if it is slang, Lii, it's expressive. Still-she does inter- |. hot Varr Lille, if you did your hair the way she does, you might"
 'Well, mother, won't so there And think you're perfectly horrid. I wouldn't demean myself to copy her. The girls all hate her. Her methods are perfectly crude-making believe to get caught in the undertow and all thatl Why, it's CHEAP, that's what it is"
 There was more of the same sort, Joan, but I moved away out of ear shot It depressed me. For I swear to you, friend of my heart, that I have | done nothing insincere and nothing cheap I frankly admit AM husband hunting; just as all the rest of these girls are. But I have brought to bear two things they have not: First, the stored-up instincts of years and years which have heretofore been thwarted in me for lack of clothes and money and a chance to appear at my best Second. the intelligence and knowl- edge of men that my business expert ence has given me.
 I have put my resources carefully together, that's all, while these othel girls not only haven't as many re sources as I have, but have frittered them away in the constant round oi social life they are used to summer and winter.
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02
At the Breakinq Point

The matter of the high cost of living has been brought to a point at which it is demanded that something be done beside talking and ordering inves tigations which produce only reports which in turn are filed away. What is be done nobody seems to know. It is not certain that anything be done.
 The question has been put up to the administra- ton by the railroad brotherhoods with alternative demand for a further increase of wages It with the brotherhood that wage increases began nearly three years ago, than six months before we went to war and when it confidently asserted that we would be kept out of Wages of all other organized labor influence of this up Again after the railroads taken by the government wages were increased But as wages up did the things which wages buy, in much greater proportion until now the brother hoods assert, and it true. the wage earner is in shape than before his wages were increased three years ago.
 further increase of railway wages would, of course relieve the members of the brotherhood, but comparatively few people in this country affected by the mounting cost of living members of the brotherhood. The brotherhood chiefs aware that an increase of wages would afford but temporary relief that early effect of it would be stimulate the cost of living to further advances. that wages along the line would have be pushed up and that the of living would still higher.
 Altogether the situation would be exactly similar to the futile and weary round of the aborer who said that he worked that he might purchase food that would give him strength to work that he might purchase food to give him strength that he might work, etc.
 Running along with this demand of the brother hood is the discussion in congress of the report of the Federal Trade Commission, directed against the packers who, the shows. have control of the food supplies of not only this country of the packing business of greatest competitor as meat producing region Argentina.
 Against the showing of the packers that their profits in beef is only fraction of a cent pound the fact which the report calls attention of their dividends of many millions annually, the greatest in all the history of the industry.
 There is shown, too, the almost absolute control the packers have secured of other food supplies butter, milk, eggs, canned fruits and canned vege- tables all of which have lately risen in price without clearly defined
 Though the report, we believe, does not deal with retail profiteering considerable evidence is being gathered independently from various sources
 But all these disclosures relate only to the past
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02

thriller The fellow holds out a gold mine in one hand and an impossible condition with the other. He will pay me enough lucre to keep me and Ar delle for year q never told you about Ardelle, did Thy little French ter rier born three miles from the firing line of Ourca) if I will turn in the novelette, two weeks from tomorrow.
 "Of course it is impossible. No one but a super human, lightning fingered, keenminded, coolheaded stenographer who could take my dictation, correct ing and smoothing as she went along so that need not rehash it, could bring the miracle to pass.
 "Of course know one. She has red hair. too, which signifies character. And calm gray eyes. And pretty clothes. And she is tremendously easy to look at. And comfortable to have around. But she is at Lively Beach. And she would be too prim and con servative to come and lend hand to a struggling author rusticating in his absent friends bungalow away off in the silent woods of north Jersey.
 There is, to be sure, a drowsy old inn just down the road and round the bend, at the edge of the river, where nice girl could stop nights. But to have this happen would be too good to be true, so I have renounced hope. am about to cancel the contract. and shall try to decide which form of suicide is best adapted to a soldier author.
 Yours in despair,
 ERIC WALLIS.
 Joan--.Joan-what shall I do? DISTRACTED DOLIf-
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02

Don't sneak off by yourself, or with the gang from the office, leaving her to think out her own diversions for the afternoon because she "dont un- derstand the game!" Take her with you and give the family brains an airing!
 There is nothing so exhilarating- and, at the same time, so restful and game of ball. One needs only a su- perficial knowledge of the rules of play
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02

the outlook for victory is gloomy there arises a chant which harks back to the primitive litanies of the Congo forests.
 If this is not worship of the most zion? a. What other nation so frequently tastes or has ever tasted the emotional experience of the score tied in the ninth inning and the bases full?"
 MT. Strunsky is right-there is noth- ing like it:
 TAKE YOUR WIFE TO THE BALL CAMEL
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02

Fresh air of any kind is beneficial to the tortured brain in which the bugs of family di S c n t c n { are holding high carni- val-but the Ze- phyrs which blow across a baseball diamond where two sets of clean linbed young ath- letes are hitting. running, catching and sliding in the sunshine, are par ticularly r e c o m- mended. They will
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02
EXPERIMENTAL DITTlEs

(F. P. A. in New York Tribune) [ Man. wants but little here below
 And little's all that's due him. The merry landlords say, and so
 They straightaway give it to him.
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02
To &&1B1[ti[{lf
 eoo1K5Ned IS0S 5> hae G 9hewyppz Entez1zaeApnxa7

1 wasn't going to be ashamed of pet ting him nor afraid of spelling him by a little regular tenderness and &s much service as the business of home -mak ing should require.
 (To Be ContinueO
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02
Later and with much excitement.


 What do you suppose has happened, Joan darling. By the noon mail letter from Capt. Wallis: Dear Wonder Lady" it begins The affair with that publisher which tore me so unceremoniously from Live ly Beach, has developed into real
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02
BY JUDGE THOS. F. GRAHAM (San Francisco Divorce Judge Known as Great ReconciIer," and Americas Leading "Heart" Specialist)

Baseball, believe it or not, is posi-
 tive panacea for all forms of "divorc-
 itis."
Arizona republican., 1919-08-02
SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST ?, 1919

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
 De Foe.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-10-31
FRAZIER WANTS
STATE TO Run
Ignite / MI MINES )
Wires Lewis Of Mine Work
ers That State Will
operate'Them.
Will Provide Police Protec-
tion; Coal Must Not
Leave State.

Bismarck. n. D., Oct. so.-1n .
telegram to John L. Lewis, acting
president OF the United Mine Work
ers Of America, Governor Lynn j.
Frazier Of North Dakota, tonight sug-t
gested that North Dakota take over
and operate the Ignite mines of the.
state in agreement with the miners
pending settlement OF the strike. of BIZ
luminous coal miners set for Novems
Der /.
1t is understood that II the COVER
nor's proposal is acceptable to the,
mine workers officials and the miners
OF the state. he will order the mines
taken over under police protection to
be operated only during the strike and
with the understanding that no coal
be sold outside the state.
The governors telegram to Mr..
Lewis follows: So
The state is covered witt, snow.
Winter has set in here. A serious
fuel shortage exists. A strike Of
miners in the state will cause great
suffering. The coa Of Nefth Dakota
is Ignite, mined only as needed and
cannot be stored, hence there are no
stocks on hand. If it is not incom-
pattble with the just demands Of or
gained labor, I would suggest some
working agreement whereby the state
operate the mines under arrange
ments with the miners by which fuel
can be sold only to individual con-
sumers until your difficulties have
been honestly and eauitabIy adjust
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-10-31
CONDITION OF
COTTON CROP
IS DECLINING

Washington, Oct. s4.-rhe copdi-
ton Of the cotton crop on October
rs was Sill, according to a supple
mental report issued today by the de-
partment of AGRICULTURAL q the direc:
ton Of congress. No comparative ig-
uras for last yea are available, the
announcement said, and there is 10
basis for a forecast of production.
The regular report as Of September
rs gave the conditions as 54.4 per cent
Of normal, which forecast a produc-
ton of 1885, 900 bales.
Congress directed that a new esti-
mate, az Of October rs, be prepared
because members from southern states
insisted that the September IS crop
forecast was erroneous, the depart
ment Of agrieutture not having taken
acreage into confederation
in Its preparation. "Today's report
showed . decline Of 3.3 points during
the month, as compared with a de-
cline of points shown by the
September estimate and an average
decline Of less than five points, on the
ssnksmhaf date during the ten pres
cedjag years.