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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09
She Prayed for a Dishpan-Got It!

story of how prayer brought much
needed dishpan to Major Jennie Ward,
the beloved head of the Army's famous
Cherry Street Slum Settlement and
Nursery on New York's East Side.
So much poverty and suffering exist
ed In the neighborhood at the time that
the Major and her helpers did not feel
justified in taking even a slim dime to
buy new dishpan. Finally the Major
and her assistants went down on their
knees and prayed for dishpan, just
IS they had prayed for guidance in
their work of relieving the distress
about them.
That evening, the Major set out With
her tambourine to collect such money
as she could on the streets and in the
saloons thereabouts In one of the
"gin-mills" was an utterly inebriated
man with a large bundle.
Here, shishter," he mumbled, as the
Major ratified her tambourine before
him, II amt got no money, but yer
lhic-welcome to ylsh."
at was a fine big dishpan," said the
Major the other day, as she reminis
ced about her work of thirty years
ago.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09
POOR MANS LAWYER" HAS
IT'S FIRST WOMAN ATTORNEY

i it serves as THE Poor Mans LAWYER )"
That Is the reason why. armed with q
legal degree, dated 1918, an admission
to the bar, on which the Ink was scarce
ly dry, p years Of youth and more than
ordinary good looks, she opened her
office at Salvation Army Headquarters
l22 West Fourteenth street, New York
city.
Miss Frooks has made good. She has
untangled many family snarls without
resorting to the divorce courts. She
has obtained justice for tenement
dwellers who have been preyed upon
| by landlords, installment collectors and
loan sharks. She has helped pay off
mortgages, settle Wills and draw up
contracts She has defended criminal
actions in court and protected the
rights of men and women who were
prevented by iron bars and prison
gates from managing their own affairs
But that's not all It was found that
an additional legal adviser was needed
by the Salvation Army to look after its
Sl0000000 worth of property orphan
asylums, maternity hospitals, Industrial
homes day nurseries, schools scatter
ed throughout the length and breadth
Of the land. Miss Frooks was given
the work Again she waded triumph
antly through the task
It Is no uncommon thing for the Sal
vation Army TO receive urgent calls
from the poor for legal advice and as
sistance, and when the cases are wor~
thy the Army obtains competent law
yers and sees that justice is obtained.
This is one of the incidental develop
ments of the Army's many activities
which bring it into intimate contact
with the poor, the unfortunate and the
misfit the country over.
Attorneys in many cities make 1t
practice to give their services free to
those recommended by the Salvation
Army Miss Frooks Is the first woman
lawyer to hang out her single" with
/ the Army.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09
OUT OF WORK
BENEFITS
Won't Solve Problem, Says
British Food Controller.

London, England The govern
ment's plan to pay out-of-work bene-
fits was ridiculed in the house of COM
mons by J. R. Clynes, British food
controller during the war.
In time like this" he said, when
we are SO much in arrears of work,
and when there is a crying demand
for a greater abundance of commodi-
ties and the needs of life, it is pa
thetic thing that we are considering
in this house not the question of how
to turn labor to a better account, but
how to provide money in order that
idle labor shall be kept in being
Reynolds s Newspaper, one of Bri-
tain's leading liberal publications, de
clares that Clynes statement is "a
deep criticism of principles and is a
challenge that has got to be answered.
The system under which we lived
before the war, says this newspaper,
and under which we shall probably
live again if we let ourselves drift,
is one based on the keeping down OF
wages and the standard of life by
means Of a reserve Of unemployed
workers, which could be larger on
smaller as it suited employers What
we want is, not SO much something
which makes such state of things
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09
Artists Oppose Union.

American artists are not in favor of
a union, according to the Society of
Independent Artists, Inc, which made
public the result of a QUESTIONABLE
among its $50 members on the sub
iect. The artists were asked to reg.
lister their approval or disapproval of
a union similar to the recently organ
lied union Of French graphic and
plastic artists In Paris.
The detailed vote was not an
nounced, but the attitude of those op-
posed to the proposition was stated by
Walter Wesley Dow of Columbia uni
versity who said:
I'VE have more societies than we
know what to do with. It simply makes
additional trouble and takes time that
artists would prefer to give to their
work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09
CAIN LITTLE BY
WAGE INCREASE
New South Wales UnionistS Com
plain That Living Cost
Also Advances.
BUSINESS men ALSO PROTEST
Make the Point That They Are Com
PEELED to Pay Scale to Men Who
DO Not Earn lt-Pay Rolls
Enormously Increased.

AS the attempt made by the New
South Wales government to modify
the hgher-wage provisions Of the
board of trade declaration has failed,
the new standard for a living wage is
now in force. Cnionists everywhere
are demanding its full benefit which is
being freely accorded by the indus
trial courts The boards declaration
was 10 the effect that the basic mini
mum wage for all adult male labor is
E3 us (about 5000 per week. This
adds over f2,000,000 a year to the eX-
penses oil the railway department
alone. The increase in the private
wages bin Of the state is variously es-
tlmated at from f8,00o000 to E10,000,-
600.
Business men say that they would
gladly pay, and are actually paying
even a bigger wage to men who work
industriousIy and faithfully But the
edict compels them to pay to every
man the full wage, which is sufficient
to support family of four persons
no matter whether he is an idler, in
competent or otherwise undesirable
The railways are passing on" the in
creased charge by raising fares and
freights, and private employers, where
it is possible, are doing the same, SO
that the unionists complain that the
increase in the cost of living neutral
izes the effect of the increased wage
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09

All able-bodied citizens Of Italy be-
tween twenty and sixty-fye years old
would be required to work by the pro-
visions of a bill introduced recently
in the Italian parliament. Persons
able to work who fail to do so are
subjected to a heavy fine under the
provisions Of the bill, Money acquired
from this source would be used to
maintain those unable to work and
keep up agricultural colonies to which
able-bodied persons who fail to work
would be sent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09

Legal advice" said Miss Dorothy
Frooks, attorney for the Salvation
Array, at National Headquarters, New
York City, ought to be given away
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09
SEEK ENDING or
LABOR DISPUTES
Cleveland Business Men Would
Establish Basis for Friendly
Relations.
CHAMBER or COMMERCE ACTS
Body Asks for Suggestions That May
Aid End in Principle Of Col
lective Bargaining Recognized-ln-
creased Production Strongly Urged.

The Cleveland chamber Of commerce
recently mailed its members copies of
| the tentative declaration of principles
establishing i basis for proper labor
| relations in Cleveland 4 committees
report Is thus submitted in order to
obtain comment and suggestion from
members prior to final action by the
directors to make it the official pro
nouneemeut Of the chamber
The manifesto advocates collective
bargaining under the form of repre-
sentative negotiation which is defined
as that form Of collective bargaining
which provides Tor negotiation between
an employer and duly accredited rep
resentatives OF his employees regard
ing hours, wages and an other matters
properly affecting their relationship
The statement advocates the setting
up Of machinery to develop and crys-
tallize public opinion in accordance
with the facts in industrial disputes
ana to effect the suspension of strikes
or lockouts until the fucts of the dis
| putes have been established
The declaration proper begins by
calling for increased production as a
prime factor Ii reducing prices and
deprecating restriction of output
either by workers or employers, in or
der to increase wages or prices.
The eight-hour day is recognized"
as having been adopted In many in.
dustries and the plan of paying extra
for overtime when necessary is in
dorsed though overtime work is dis
couraged
William g Lee, president of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and
Warren S. Stone. grand chief of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers.
are among the twenty-six members OF
a committee on labor relations who
signed the report.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09
Warns oil pirect Actlon.

In view Of the agitation among GER
tain elements Of the Welsh miners to
use direct action, prominence is given
to speech by Thomas Richards, mem
Der Of the house of commons and gen
eraI secretary of the Welsh Miners
federation, in which he declared:
'The direct actionists are heading
the country to revolution. The Brit
ish workingman is the freest subject on
Gods earth and to follow the direct
action will-of-the-wisp will ruin him
and put progress back a hundred
years
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09

for the asking. II ought to be dispens-
ed like religion and medicine
This is the reason why Miss Frooks
chooses to cast her legal career with
the Salvation Army, to aid tha, organi-
zation in the part Of its work in which
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09
Mammoth New PIant for eary.

MdmfnoLn new RANT TOT 1dTys
Official announcement was received
at Gary. Ind, that the National Tube
company will at once begin the cree.
ton in Gary of a mammoth tube plant
costing S40.000000 and giving employ
ment to 10000 men Work will start
on the construction Of four large blast
furnaces, to be followed by the cree.
tion of miles of tube mills, shops, of.
fee buildings. and other structures re.
quired for the plant.
The tube plant will be built i'm.
mediately east of Gary harhor on a
mile wide strip of land extending for
two miles along the lake. II viii cover
over 1000 acres Of land. The tube
company also plans to begin the cree.
ton of Il large number of Gary homes
for employees of the plant.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09
Wage and Produotion Up.

Philaielphia's wage scale increased
120 per cent in 1918 over 1917, while
the value Of production in all classes
Of industry increased 30 per cent ac-
cording to NJ ioke Gottschall Of the
state department. Of internal affairs.
The value Of Philadephiu's prod
acts for 1918 is placed lit S1,913,8 ,852,-
4o0, as compared to $1559,148,200 In
1Q77
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09

Typical of the hand-to-mouth ex-
u istence led by the Salvation Army
IN its early days in this country is the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09
viii aulId Homes for EMPLOYEES.

" IT 1V''V1 '1''TE-1 y --.''F'
The United States Steel corporation
Is preparing to build houses for Its
employees in communities where hous
ing Accommodations are insufficient, nc
cording to an announcement by George
/. Patterson president of the New
castle Pa) board of trade. The
houses will be sold on the installmeni
plan, each purchaser to furnish 10 pei
cent of the initial investment.
"a ~ ~
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-09
HALTS ALL AID
FOR STRIKERS
st. Louis Labor Unions Stirred
by Drastic Decision Of
Federal Judge.
HITS ELECTRICAL WORKERS


It's Officers and Members of the
Union From "lnterfering"-oth
er News of Interest to Labor.
st. Louis labor circles were stirred
by what was declared to be a most
drastic decision by Federal Judge Far
is against Local Union No. ., Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers, sixty members of which are on
strike against the Kinlock Telephone
company The decision, in the form
Of temporary restraining order, pro-
hibited the officers and members Of
the union in any way aiding the strik-
ers or interfering with the strike pend
ing a hearing on March II, when the
defendants were ordered to show
cause why a permanent injunction
should not be granted.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-11
SCHOOL entertainment
AND. ST. MARY'S FINALS

On next Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings, in connection with the
closing of ST. Mary's School for the
summer vacation, an entertainment
will he held on each evening in st.
Mary's Hail. Duke of Gloucester
street. The program has been well
arranged, and promises to be Of the
usual merit, for St Mary's never does
,,hings by halves.
Besides music, instrumental and
vocal. there will be drills and evolu-
lions by the students, and a playlet.
On Friday evening, in connection
with the entertainment the diplomas
to graduates will be presented the
following:
Charles G. Bernstein, Frederick }.
Brown. Henry j. Dammeyer, Enrico
G. Pantaleo. Walter b. Smith.
Mary Magdalen Bland. Augusta NJ
Brown, Rose Marie Callahan, Joanna
NJ. Connell, Florence Z. Gould, Dora
j. Vallandingham.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-11
WEST ST. BLAZE THIS
P. NJ. LOOKED MEAN

Fire, which was discovered shortly
after O'Clock this afternoon in the
two-story hip, brick and frame dwell
ing at No. 2S West street, occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs Harry Brown, looked
for a time as though it might prove
disastrous.
The blaze was discovered by sew
eral persons passing along the street
The shingle roofing had caught fire
beneath a window frame in the upper
part of the house, and the flames were
rapidly licking their way over the dry
strips of timber and spreading to the
apex of the roof A general alarm
was turned in and the fire fighters
soon had a couple of streams playing
on the blaze and extinguished it; not,
however, before two or three rooms
had been partly gutted by water.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-11
TWO MORE NARROWLY
ESCAPED LIKE FATE

Clasped in each others arms as they
sank beneath the surface. c. II. He'd
ricks, a. seaman in the n wy, whose
home was in Houston, Tex. and Miss
Albina Anarbartitious, 2641 South
Sargain street, Philadelphia, were
drowned in Severn River last night
and w. G. Hambright, first-class
yeoman of the Navy, and Miss Betty
Walker, 121 New Jersey Road, Neroge
Village, n. j., narrowly escaped like
fate when their canoe overturned in
Severn River.
ed at 10 o'clock this morning by
means of grapplings, and scores OF
naval enlisted men and others are still
pursuing the search for that of Miss
Anarbartitious.
The tragedy occurred about 200
yards from the wharf near the st tion
ship Reina Mercedes, at the Naval
Academy. The party of four had
started out in the canoe, which belong
ed to Yeoman Hambright. from the
knights of Columbus Hut, and they
had proceeded about half a mile when.
getting into choppy sea, the splash
from the paddles caused the frail
craft to ship some water. The girls,
il is understood, made a shift to the
other side of the canoe and it over
turned. Hedricks and Miss Anarbar-
titious, it appears, were thrown fur
ther away, becoming gripped in each
others arms. and not being proficient
swimmers, they sank before aid could
reach them.
Hambright and Miss Walker man
eyed to paddle their way back to the
canoe and hang to it until a small
motor boat, containing a party en-
gagged in fishing, came along and pick
ed them up. They were in a COM
pletely exhausted condition and were
taken aboard the ship Reina Mercedes.
where medical attention was given
them. This afternoon their condition
is reported as practically normal.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-11
DELEGATES ACT LIKE
TRADITIONAL INDIANS

The names OF Maior-Gcnerll
Wood and Governor Frank q.
LOwden. Of Illinois, as candidates
for President Of the United States
were placed before the Republican
National Convention. nj the Coli
scum here today amid dcafening
applause aud lOng-continucd DEM
OnStratiOnS.
Governor Allen nominated Gem
eral Wood, and secOnding speeches
were delivered by Frank Knox,
OF New York, and Mrs. Douglas
Roberts. LOwden'S nomination
was made by william A. ROden-
berg. of Illinois.
Delegates paraded about the
convention hall after each OF the
nomination speeches had been
made and Chairman lodge, after
restoring order among the dele
gates, found II difficult 10 bring
quiet In the galleries, which con-
tinued the din much longer.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-11
STATE ROADS FUNDS
APPEAR IN TUMBLE
Governor Ritchie Finds Those OF
Old Board Are In De
plorable Condition"
AUDITORS HARD AT WORK

AT a meeting yesterday of the State
Roads Commission, which was attend
ed by Governor Ritichie, the state
auditors reported the books of the old
commission TO be a bad tumble in
a "deplorable condition" said Cover
nor Ritichie. The auditors expect TO
complete their work in a few days and
will then submit their detailed report
to the commission Until this report
is forthcoming the commission will not
know how much money, if any, ii will
have at its disposal for immediate and
future work on the roads. There is
no hint of a wrongful use of funds
plicated system of bookkeeping, for
which a new system will be substi-
tuted at once, and TO the diversion
of funds from one road account to an
other.
Former Chairman Frank A. Zouck
expresses a willingness to aid the
auditors and the commissioners in
arriving at full understanding OF
the accounts.
In discussing the conditions in the
office of the commission. Governor
Ritchie said:
THE books of the State Roads Com
mission ere in such deplorable con
dition ~ inexcusably deplorable.that
it is impossible to state accurately
at this time the financial situation
The auditors have been working night
and day to get at the facts | expec;
to be able to state not later than
Monday the situation as it is"
Because of the mixed accounts there
is an impression that some of the
counties have received more than
others in the expenditure of the funds,
which were apportioned on the mile
age basis. If the funds supposted to
be on hand are not found there may
be temporary interference with the
teral road plan advocated by Gov
ernor Richie
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-11
R|TCH|E GIVEN
IL. D. DECREE
BY ST. JOHNS
Assistant Naval Secretary Roose-
welt, French Ambassador Jus
serand And Others Honored-
Governor Delivers Address To
Graduating Class At Exercises
DIPLOMAS PRESENTED
TWENTY-THREE CADETS

With number of distinguished
persons in attendance. and ceremon-
les of deep historical significance.
Commencement Day at St. Johns
College, today was probably the most
memorable in the history of the old
institution.
Ceremonies of unveiling of the tab
let commemorating the valor of the
twenty-four st. Johns men who gave
their lives on the battleields of
France during the World War crisis.
and the presentation TO the college in
behalf of thesFrench government of
a captured German gun, marked the
additional features of more than not
table interest
The commencement exercises were
held in the College gymnasium this
morning, and one of the chief fea-
lures incident thereto, was the con-
ferring of honorary degrees of Doc
tor of Laws, upon Governor Albert
C. Ritchie. who delivered the address
to the graduating class; the French
AMI assador, j. j. Jusserand, who la
ter in the day presented the German
gun; Rear-Admiral A. H. Scales, SUI
perintendent of the Naval Academy
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Franklin d. Roosevelt. and Major
General Robert w Alex nder, United
States Army.
The ceremonies began with the
procession of candidates for de-
grees, alumni, members of the Board
of Visitors and Governors. and other
visitors, President Fell and members
OF the College faculty. all of whom
occupied seats on the official stand
Scriptural reading was by the Rev
j. II. Gillum, of Baltimore, after
which the invocation prayer was said
by Rev. j. ID. LaMothe, also Of Bal
timore. Then followed the presenta-
tion of the Alumni Association prize
of $40 for the best original essay,
open to competition among the ser,
iors. The prize was won by Earl "
Custis, of Pocomoke City, and the pre-
sentation in behalf of the Alumni AS
sociation by Osborne Yellott.
Continued on Page Fiye)
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-11
CUMBERLAND RAISES
QUOTA; ANNAPOLIS
WAY BEHIND

Cumberland has joined the
ranks of those towns of Mary
| nd which have filled their quotas
in the campaign for recruits in
the new Maryland National Guard.
The Cumberland company went
over yesterday morning.
Silver Springs also raised its
quota of 80 men. Hyattsville has
formed a company. Hagerstown.
Crisfeld and Frederick have prac-
tically completed their quotas.
But Annapolis. and even Balti-
more are behind Adjutant Cen
eral Milton A. Reckord says he
doesn't know how 10 account for
il. unless the counties are better
organized. more awake to the pos
sibilities of what life in a National
Guard unit means.
Its up to Annapolis and the
county TO come through with its
quota.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-11
BICYCLE THIEF
AT 1T AGAIN

For some time there has been no
stealing of bicycles reported in local
police circles, but apparently the bicy-
Gle thief is at it again.
Last night Lee O'Neill, pressman
at The Evening Capital Office, left his
bicycle outside the door on West
street. a public thoroughfare. and
when he returned for it the wheel was
gone.
Nothing has been heard of the bicy-
Gle since. AS Mr.. O'Neill lives in the
suburbs and has used his wheel as
a method of annihilating distance and
saving time. he has been greatly in
convenienced by the bicycle thief. not
to say the material value of his lost
wheel.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-11
GOVERNOR D|SSOLVES
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE

Governor Ritchie has formally dis
solved the Maryland Council of De-
tense. Action was taken at the request
of General Francis E. Waters, the
chairman. The order of dissolution
will be followed by the final meeting
of the organization. The Governors
letter to General Waters follows:
"The emergency which called into
being the Maryland Council of De-
tense, created by Ch9pter "a of the
Acts of 1917 being terminated, and
the activities of the body being end
ed, it becomes my duty to formally
dissolve the council, which | hereby
do.
"I have been advised that the
council, of which you are chairman
has wound up its affairs and is await
ing this letter from me before holding
its final meeting
"The termination of the Maryland
Council of Defense marks the close
of bright page in the history of the
State. You and your associates are
deserving of the highest praise for
the able, conscientious and untiring
manner in which all of you worked
during the war to enable Maryland
to respond to the demands made upon
its resources at a time when the
existence of the nation was imperiled
81 congratulate you and the other
members of the council upon the
splendid services you have given the
State"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-11
LIGHTNING BOLT
STRIKES BALLOONS

While flying from the battleship
Pennsylvania, at Hampton Roads
where the Atlantic Fleet is doing
target practice, two kite balloons
were struck by lightning and COM
pletely destroyed. The balloons were
raised and allowed to remain up as a
thunder storm approached with the
result of their being struck at the
beginning of the shower They were
not manned