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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29

strong, serviceable shoes have ad-
vanced from $500 and $500 to $3.50
and $3.50 We are talking now about
good shoes-not cinderella slippers"
but strong shoes for strong boys and
girls and hard-working men,
Now, these are the facts about the
E. J. shoes; and it looks different than
the fiction which is being so largely
handed around the country, about
"$25.O0 shoes"
The above quoted prices, showing
advances which have been necessary
in our shoes, due to increasing costs
(which everybody is thoroughly fam
liar With of hides, leather, materials
and labor-are intended to apply on
what we know as STAPLES the shoes
which the workers and their families
buy, and always have bought These
are the kind of shoes, and the prices,
which interest the worker and his
family.
The $500 man is lonesome indi-
vidual. There isn't many of him; and
as we make $4,000 pairs of shoes q
/ DAY, we would soon supply such peo-
pie with their footwear, and then we
would have to quit business, or make
shoes for the average man" and his
family, who comprise the largest per-
centage Of our population In other
words, for the exclusive" man or wo-
man, who wants to pay, and insists
upon paying, fancy prices, we haven't
any particular use. 1t does not make
sny difference what he pays for shoes.
Don't be talked into paying any
fancy or ridiculous prices for your
footwear Advances there are. and ad-
vancea there will be, legitimate and
necessary; but nothing like the ex-
travagant statements frequently made
about "$25.00 shoes" need give you
moments concern
And now word of advice Don't
speculate in shoes Don't buy any
more than you need. Meaning, don't
hoard shoes, as some people are do
ing. The chances are, if you buy a
pair of shoes suited for your needs,
and take good care of them, and have
them repaired when they need repair
ing-keep them we'll half-soled and
we'll heeled-you can save lot Of
money on your footwear, if you fol-
low this advice
This is intended to give you plain
statement of fact, about shoes, in con
tradiction to the wild and extravagant
rumors so persistently published
throughout the. country
1 Your Shoemaker Friends,
Endicott Johnson and Workers.
- - ~
BITS OF HUMOR.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29

Goodyear Welts, retailing at $500 to
$500 before the war, now retail at
$500 to $500, showing an advance in
the retail price of $3.50 to $500 per
pair.
These shoes interest men and wom-
en- who like to dress well and have
good looking shoes, and can afford it.
There always have been work shoes
$3.50 to $4.00-for hard work.
There always have been boys and
girls shoes at similar prices. E. J.
work shoes, before the war, retailed
at $3.50 to $400. During the war
the same shoe sold from $3.50 to
$500; and since the war, $4.0O to
5000 The extreme advance" on the
retail price of E. ]. work shoes, in
six years, averages about $500 q
pair In the same time, boys good
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29
SHOE 5

Don't get excited about shoe costs.
The press notices to the effect that
"S25.00 and up shoes are in sight,
is largely myth There always have
been $25.00 shoes, and about one per-
son in one hundred thousand would
pay this price. There always have
been $1,000 and $500 shoes, and GER
tain numbers of people would buy
these shoes possibly because they
matched Dress" or for someaother
equally important Cd reason.
There always have been shoes known
as Goodyear Welts" for dress-up and
street wear, retailing from $500 to
$1,000, for the past ten years. e. j.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29

pay automatically increased when the
boards order becomes effective, about
the middle of September
Provision is made for an extension
Of the hours Of work under special
circumstances, when permits may be
issued by the secretary of the board
not to exceed SO days in any one
year. The minimum of SIS is higher
far than that in effect in the other
western provinces, the figures being
$12 in Manitoba, $12.75 in British Co.
lumbia and SO in Alberta
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29
a Good Excuse.

Willie and Jack Biffer are two
youngsters who are pugihstically IN
clined The other day the following
conversation took place between them;
"Aw," said Willie, you're afraid to
fight; that's all it is"
Nav, Pm not" protested Jack
''but if / fight my mall find it out
end lick me"
How'll she find it out ?"
She'll see the doctor goin to your
house.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29
Undue Exercise.

"Oh, Harry" said the slangy, though
sweet, young thing, father is sure
strong for you"
Il know it, dear" returned Harry
ruefully, after an interview, but
think q man of your fathers age ought
to conserve his strength f"
Such is luck.-Crelk We can't
pay you the twenty-five dollars on this
money order until you are identified. .
That's tough! There's only
ene man in town who can identify
me and owe him twenty Boston
transcript.
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1919-12-19
SHOOL ART SALE

The Director of the Art in the New
York City Schools says there is much
cash value to the Art Education given
in their schools today.
The little Christmas Sale held Satur-
day morning at Decks Delicatessen by
the pupils of the 9Th and 7th grades,
High School Art, and Manual Train
ing Glasses proved that the statement
of the Art Director of the New York
City Schools could well apply to our
own school. 1t also proved that Art
has advanced far beyond the mere
drawing unapplied" stages.
The articles offered for sale were
attractively arranged and were sold
very quickly. The articles most in
demand were shoe-trees artistically
: painted and decorated with ribbons
waste paper baskets made and hant
: painted by the Manual Training De
| partment, Sewing aprons made by the
Applied Art Glass, Coat hangers ant
shopping bags made by the 9Th and
7th grades.
Marjorie Newell, Lora Await, ant
Jose Padilla made efficient clerks a
the sale.
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1919-12-19

ExAMI NATION FOR THE OFFICE
Both the teachers and students re-
ceived the word last week that an
examination would be given each class
every two weeks. These graded pap
ers are to be turned in to the Super
intendent's office Once every six
weeks a set of questions from the Of
flee will be given to each class. The
object is to keep file of the work
one by each pupil in each subject.
From time to time comparisons will
be Inade Of the pupils work. Where
reasonable improvement is not shown,
an investigation of the case will be
made. This system will doubtless
ly prove very beneficial to the pupils
and serve to raise the standard of the
school work.
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1919-12-19
PAN ON A SUMMERS DAY

The seniors and freshmen are work
ing diligently on their entertainment
which is 10 be given at the Auditor
ium, Tuesday evening, December 23rd
at 500 p. m. The entertainment as
a whole will be combination of beau
ty and fun. The freshmen girls are
to give cantata entitled Pan on
Summers Day.. This piece was writ
ten and composed by Paul Bliss and
is intended to interpret the voices of
nature as heard by the poets ear on
a summers day from early dawn
when Aurora paints the mountain
tops in amber, until the full moonlight
of early morning.
According to Mr.. Bliss modern
mythology Pan is nature in sound.
Therefore, his music interprets the
patter of rain, the rustling of leaves,
the thunder of the storm and drowsy
humming of the bees.
The girls may be depended on to
sing this rather difficult music in a
very acceptable manner. Any music
lover cannot fail to be delighted with
the performance.
Special costumes have been made
under the direction of the instructor
in sewing.
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1919-12-19
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
Continued from Page II

sity of Arizona. This was the mes
sage which DR.. Lockwood brought to
the adults of Clifton. Housekeeping
ranching, farming, practically every
industry is represented in the Exten-
sion Department and any one may
obtain help and information relating
to these and other industries through
this Department.
Moreover, everyone in the state
may have access to the circulating
libraries; any community may have
demonstration agents in their, OWL
homes for the asking. More com
plete information may be obtained
from Supt Bakers office.
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1919-12-19
AN OBSTINATE FAMILY

The seniors have taken It upon
themselves the responsibility of pro-
viding the comedy for the evening.
They will present one-act farce, en-
titled can Obstenate Family. AS
MANY as three different families have
three violent quarrels and reconcile,
ations in brief period of thirty min
utes. A farce that can do all that
is worth listening to. Be sure to
hear it.
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1919-12-19
BASKET BALL GAME

On Friday, December IL, the Cliff
ton High School Basket Ball team
played a fast game with the Metcalf
Basket Ball team at the Auditorium.
This was the second game of the
season in which every man of the
Clifton First Team were able to play
and they defeated the Metcalf boys
by a score of 80 to Is.
Although this is the first inter
scholastic game that our team has
won, the team says that this victory
is the predecessor of many similar
victories. watch Our Step" is their
motto.
The Athletic Association wishes to
thank the public for the hearty sup
port given but hopes for even great
er support in the future.
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1919-12-19
PLANS OF BOYS BASKET BALL
TEAM

The Athletic manager of Clifton
High School has laid limited plans for
the games which will be played in
Clifton in the near future. 1t is
known which teams have asked for
games are: ella Academy, Stafford,
Lordsburg and Morenci
The order in which we are to meet
these teams has not been definitely
decided as yet.
The people of Clifton are urged to
watch for the announcement of the
schedule and to lend their hearty sup
port to the games.
Our team is doing some splendid
work now and the patrons of the
games will be assured a harder and
faster game on the part of the Cliff
ton team from now on.
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1919-12-19
COM M ERCIAL

The ofrioe practice class of the Com
mercial Department are still holding
speed tests after school on Tuesdays
and Thursdays. Clifton business
firms will soon have much excellent
material from which to select their
stenographers.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-12-20

WHO MT PREAcHER7

NfW NoRK-Someone struck Rev. ".
Carpenter on the head with q rob
after calling him 20 The door of his
home. The Bridge Street African NJ r..
church offers sa5e reward for The arrest Of
the cultait Res. Mr. Carpenter has been
preaching pointed sermons on the sins Of his
I'M
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-12-20

ofoAns AAD CIGARETTES IN FANCY
c~HRIsTAfAd PACkh0Es, ALL Sizes
INV MHxtcC CIGAR 90.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
Bolshevik Finance

The Lenine- Trotzky government Of
fers to pay Russia's debts by means of
stipulated quantities of raw materials
The explanation of the proposal lies in
the preamble to the budget estimates
offered by NJ. Krestinski, Lenine's FL
nance Minister, at the end of October
krestinski is an enthusiast for finance
"in kind" which he thinks will ulti-
mately do away with the monetary sys-
TEN. In his budget preamble he said
that Russia was drawing near to the
complete devaluation Of the ruble, and
continued
"When all factories, workshops and
other enterprises shall have passed into
the states hands, when the harvest of
their productive power goes direct to
the state without any exchange by the
medium Of money and when taxes are
received in kind, then the preparation
of money budgets in the present form
viii cease to have any meaning. The
states budgets will then merely record
the turnover of material values And
if by that time home and foreign trade
are organized a barter foundation,
the question of the sum Of credit notes
in circulation will have lost its mpor-
tance. Unless for further circulation,
the notes will be annulled without loss to
the state treasury
Lenine and Trotzky may claim a dip
lomatic victory in the approaching meet
ing with the Entente representatives
on the Princes Islands Perhaps they
will claim d victory also for the idea
of abolishing money. Foreign trade cor
ganized on barter foundation is a
step in that direction.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
Railroads for the Unions

Fourteen labor unions propose that
the government shall buy the railroads
and turn them over to the unions to be
run at profit-the profit to be shared
with the government.
No reason is urged. 1t is not argued
that the unions could make travel faster
or safer, that a swifter and cheaper
movement of freight would result, or
that the rehabilitation and Improvement
of the roads could be expedited. SO far
as we can find from the brief of the
counsel for the unions, the only conten-
ton is that as the wages paid to the en-
ployes are three or four times as much
as the wages paid to capital the en-
ployes have three or four times as good
right" to run the roads as capital has.
Fourteen railway unions propose that
they shall have q right to tax the public
for their own advantage.
Fourteen railway unions propose that
the government shall finance an exper-
iment in the "soviet" operation of the
transportation system.
And for what reason?
The public which pays the other
nlneteen-tWentieths Of the population -
may we'll ask what then will be the pub
lie gain? What advantages do the unions
offer? Can they cut the country's an
nual transportation bill of S5,OOO,OOO,-
600 by a third or quarter or by any
amount? At present reckoning, SO
cents out Of every dollar paid by the
public for freights and fares go to the
employees in wages The unions can
scarcely buy fuel and supplies, coal, oil,
locomotives, cars, steel rails, ties and all
the rest for less than the market rate
Clearly, then, the only way they could
lower present costs would be by lower
wages or by running the roads with
fewer men. Do they propose this?
Why not buy farms for the million
and half or two million tenant farmers
and farmhands and let them try their
luck, at government expense?
However, the railway unions propo-
sal may do much good. 1t may focus
public attention upon questions that
have been greatly and sentimentally be-
logged
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
The WarAgainstHeawt

(From The McGfN University Ma0osine Montreal
One very healthy sign in the public life
of the United States is the sincerity and
portinacity with which the war on Hearst
is being waged. Notwithstanding the fact
that the Hearst press has its represents.
tlon IN many parts of the country, The
storm centre of this fight is in New York
City, where a personal coalition between
Hearst and the Tammany Mayor, Hylan,
moment be ignored by the respectables
Hylan's attempt to give Hearst prominence
as chairman of one of the committees
which have been named by the Mayor to
receive the returning troops has led to 3
display of sentiment that will injun
Hearst far more than he can be benefited
by the appointment in question. For sew
eral weeks the newspapers have been filled
with letters from eminent persons ex.
planning in full detail why they are unabls
to serve on a committee with the owner o.,
"The New York American and 1.-The New
York Journal"
Hearst, in fact, is more than an indi
vidual. Increasingly he is looked upon as
a type, as a sinister influence, as a journal
istic Ahriman, and all because it is believed
more strongly day by day that for the sake
of money and power he is purveyng to the
masses a kind of doctrine which tends to
create class strife and which represents
no sincerity of opinion. It is quite clear
that under present day conditions the press
must have more and more power in shsp-
ing public opinion. With universal free
dom Of speech, one must expect to see the
expression of every type of opinion even
to the point of pure anarchy. But The
distinctive thing about Hearst is that he
foments discomfort wilfully and sordidly-'
not because he has any beliefs but be-
cause he prefers lies to truth, and scandal
to decency, if by printing lies and scandis
he is enabled to sell his wretched papers
to the multitude.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08

ceedingly difficult to visualize the steady
and little varying demand for staple
goods in a nation of hundred millions.
The volume, as is remarked in the inter-
views noted, remains heavy, and within
certain obvious limits does not vary
greatly with prices. After all, buying
power is circulating fund, or fow and
unless it is very seriously checked at one
point will over wide range of months
tend to equalize in spite of price fluctua
tions. Which is only saying in an alb
stract way that people must have food
and clothing and what are counted now
the necessaries of life. For all these they
seem to have abundant money and, ac
cording to almost universal testimony,
for an unprecedented amount of luxuries
as we'll
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08

imum of faulty. If fifty thou
sand troops under General Wood had
been sent to Siberia last April the Amer
lean, Czecho-Slovak and Allied line
would now have been west of the Urals
and possibly in Moscow. The
regular army and any number of volun-
teers would eagerly 60
l emphatically disbelieve in any pro-
posal to conquer Russia with an alien
army and order her to set up the sort
of government which we think the Rus
slams ought to have. Such an army
tends to unite all the people of the
country against it simply because it is
foreign. We should give all the means
and arms that we can to the Russians
who are our allies. But we
have finished the great war with Ger
many, the war which brought about our
interference in Russia. l do not believe
In keeping our men on the other side
to patrol the Rhine, or police Russia,
or Interfere in Central Europe or the
Balkan Peninsula. At the peace table it
is to be presumed we shall give to each
nationality all the aid we can in peace
able fashion. But | do not believe that
the United States should enter into a
worldwide career of disinterested vio-
lence for the right; because where both
the larAds and the issues involved are
remote from us our people wouldn't
know with certainty where the right lay
and wouldn't feel that we ought to go
into the quarrel. We have enough to
do that is our business. Mexico is our
Balkan Peninsula, and during the last
five years, thanks largely to Mr.. Wilson's
able assistance, it has been reduced to
a condition as hideous as that of the
Balkan Peninsula under Turkish rule.
We are in honor bound to remedy this
wrong and to keep ourselves so prepared
that the Monroe Doctrine, especially as
regards the lands in any way controlling
the approach to the Panama Canal, shall
be accepted as immutable international
law
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
No Jobs for Sailors

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Civilian sailors are still looking for
jobs, and yet any civilian ships of the
United States that are selected to bring
our troops back from France or England
have our civilian sailors thrown out of
them and navy crews put in their places
British ships come in nearly every day
manned by British civilian sailors and car
ryng our troops. If British civilian sail
ors are good enough to bring our boys
home, why aren't. United States civilian
sailors? The British steamship Cedric
with a British civilian crew, got in yes
terday with 3,O59 United States officers and
men, The Italian steamship Duca d'Aosta,
with an Italian civilian crew, got in to-day
with United States troops.
have been ousted from three ships in
the last three weeks because the navy
grabbed them while they were getting ready
for sea. They are the Paysandu, the Santa
Olvu and the Clio. | was sent from one
to the other as fast as they were taken
over, but the navy kept up with US. If I
was drinking fellow, after an experience
like this where would | be?
GEORGE A. MDERMOTT.
New York, Feb. 5, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
Porto Rico S Need

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Labor in Porto Rico has been un-
derpaid for so many years that the work
man has gradually degenerated physically
and morally until to-day he has arrived at
a stage where he is unable even to demand
his rights. Working from nine to eleven
hours a day for rs cents to 81, with the
prevailing high cost of food and large
family to feed-for here, as the world over
it is the poor that increase the population
his prospects become so hopeless that he
loses all ambition.
The number of practically abandoned
children is appalling, for the parents can
not feed them the wages they receive
and many actually die of hunger.
Porto Rico gave her men and resources
ungrudgingly during the, war, and to-day
Porto Rico is in dire distress She needs
now the ass sistance she so willingly gave
Her workmen need helping hand to raise
them out of their present distress while we
are deliberating over giving them living
wage, and how better could we do this than
by gathering up their helpless children?
MRS. RICHARD BALZAC.
New York, Feb g. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
Trust in Chaos
New York, Feb. 5, 1919.

They are given money for their journey
home.
They proceed to amuse themselves for
few days in the great city
They turn up with nothing in their
pockets at the Salvation Army or Y. M.
c. A.
They apply for work at the Office of the
United States Employment Service
They feel that something is due them
in the way of privilege.
They want to remain in the city.
They want higher wages than they re-
ceyed before entering the army.
BY the principle of first come first
served. the available opportunities of EN-.
ployment in New York City are being
rapidly exhausted There will be multi
tudes of New Workers returning in the
coming months to find all places filled and
themselves crowded out of their native city
by men who should have been sent home in
the rst instance
This heavy load of placement work has
to be carried b. a newly organized agency
Of the government The employment SER
vice is meeting the situation to the best
of its ability. Its financial support is
wholly inadequate, a fact that will he
realized when disaster comes 1t is as vet
poorly functioning piece of machinery.
It's personnel is almost wholly unframed
except in the method of the private en-
ployment agency. There seem TO be few
who have studied the experience of other
countries in working labor exchanges. The
truth is that we are having to build the
vehicle and carry the load at the same
time This may succeed, but it will not
provide conditions under which foresight
can be exercised, careful estimates. made
on labor and industrial conditions. and
plans laid for an absorption, not by the
casual situation of the day but by ar
rangements perfected In advance The
war department could have helped by de-
modifying the soldiers through their own
draft boards at home. The government
could at least participate in some of the
larger industrial plans. Instead of that
the whole is intrusted TO the supposed nat
ural residence of American industry.
In other words, all is intrusted to chaos.
New York, Feb. z, 1919. ID. c. c.