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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-09-03
UP THE STREET

Greenville, Tenn, is one of those
towns that is two miles long and
one street wide But at the ends of
that street are two signs that point
out the straight road of opportunity
that lies before the feet of every
American citizen.
At one end of this street is a sign
over a tumble-down one-story frame
shack which reads, "a. Johnson, Tail
or. At the other end of the street,
shining and high, is marble monu-
ment on which reads, A. Johnson
President of the United States"
Staring at each other are the be
ginnings and end of career, the
possibilities which confront every
young American and which have
made the United States the Land OF
Opportunity, the greatest nation OF
all time. Between "a Johnson
Tailor" and "A. Johnson, President,
the road is short but the journey Of
achievement was long From an ig.
norant tailor unable to read or write
he became the nations chief execu-
tive.
Every young American can make
his way UP THE STREET to the
goal he sets for himself if he has the
/ gameness and determination to do it
But he cannot do it if he is stopped
/ by every obstacle Thrift and say
ing will help you over the obstacles
They viii pile up a reserve that vii
get you past sickness and disaster
and boost you over unemployment
and misfortune.
/ Systematic saving and safe invest
ment are the payements that make
the way smooth aid easy Every
time you buy Government Savings
Stamp OF a Saving Certificate you lay
paving stone that will give you a
step forward up the street.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-09-03
CONCERNING THE
STRIKE

Strikes are bad Bad for the work
ers, and bad for employers, and bad
for industry, and bad for the commun-
ity. AS a matter of fact there is
nothing good about a strike itself,
just as there is nothing ennobling
about war or any other kind of strife
But-the direct results of a strike
are often beneficial to the worker, and
indirectly to the employer. Many en-
ployers are fair. but as a rule that
which the employer comedies is that
which the insistent demands of the
workers press home upon him. 1t is
when the organized workers encounter
an unreasonable, stubborn employer,
or group of employers, who will not
recognize the toilers' right to a living
wage and reasonable hours of labor,
that a strike takes place. The strike
hurts just as it hurts to have tooth
extracted or filled. But the operation
is usually successful and the incon-
venience and pain are overshadowed
by the ultimate benefit received.
Look at any country where strikes
are few or where there are no strikes,
and we will find in that country low
standard Of life as compared with any
other people. Industrial dependence,
servility and docility exist in countries
where there are no strikes. If the alb
sence Of strikes meant industrial and
commercial prosperity; if the absence
Of strikes meant the independence of
country, its wealth, its progress,
then China should stand at the head
Of civilization. The worker hates and
breads the strike. But he hates and
despises industrial slavery more, and
is sometimes prepared to suffer the
pangs Of the former to escape the hui
initiation, degradation and hopeless
ness Of the latter Edmonton Free
Press.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-09-03
WANT STRIKE BREAK.
ERS

Galesburg, M The local telephone
company is advertising for help" that
will work under non-union conditions.
The telephone operators and electric
al workers are denied the right to
bargain collectively and they refuse to
work Company officials are waving
the Star Spangled Banner to support
thei rcheap labor policy
This patriotic stunt has been sup
plemented by an injunction against
the strikers "and all others" from
doing things that would be lawful if
the company was not endeavoring to
destroY trade unions
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-09-03
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IN TIME OF UNREST
By Harold Speakman)

by ddTOiQ SpeakHlaHj
The mist lies gray upon the way
And the night seems cold and vast,
For the shadowy wings of restless
things
Have brought unrest to the best Of
things
But the dawn will come at last,
The path is rife with a restless strife
And the night rolls on ahead,
But from afar where poppies are,
Calm as the light Of the farthest star
Shines the calm faith Of the dead.
They gave the best within each breast,
Giving as best they might;
Giving as One gave on q tree,
Each from his own Gethsemane-
Shall we then mumur restlessly
Till our dawn flames into light?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-09-03
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CONTRACT SYSTEM HIT

Philadelphia The contract system
Of cleaning streets in this city leads
to debauchery Of street-cleaning in
spectors, costs exorbitant sums of
money, is a hindrance to clean and
carefully supervised streets an is
tanned with politics.
This, in effect, is the conclusion
drawn by board of engineers, after
months Of investigation The engi-
neers recommend that next year the
city take over the woGk Of street clean
ing.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-09-03
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HIGHER WACES~TOR WOMEN

The minimum wage of 10000 women
employed in the fruit and vegetable
packing industries in Sacramento.
Cal, has been increased from $3.50 a
week to $1,000.
When dried fruit is handled eight
hours will be the rule, but green fruit
and vegetabel packers may work long
er hours, with time and one-half for
over the eight hours.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-09-03
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WANT NON-UNION SHOP

Milwaukee, Cigar manufacturers
in this city are the latest to declare
for the non-union shop, and, as usual,
have not the courage Of their convic-
tions and label their movement a
tricky term that will appeal to un-
thinking. The regulation injunction
has been secured.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-09-03
CAR MEN ACT
TOGETHER

New Orleans Striking street car
men have refused settlement offer
by Federal Judge Foster that they
return to work as individuals. The
street car company is being operated
by the court through a receiver, and
the court refuses to recognize the
Street Car Mems Union This atti-
tude is a reflex of a strong anti-trade
union sentiment among certain local
EMPLOYERS.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-09-03
GETS 81 AN HOUR

Peoria, Ill.-Machinist commercial
shops have signed a new wage agree
ment with the Machinists' Union. The
minimum is 81 an hour, or an adj
vance of 1914 cents,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-09-03
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MONS STRIKE PEORIA

Peoria, H. The Peoria Retail Mer-
chants Association trails behind the
steel trust by declaring for the non
union shop The local business men,
who depend for a living upon we'll
paid workers, are so illogical that they
imagine European living standard
for workers will help them.
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New-York tribune., 1920-06-09
Hearing in Hughes Case
Ends, Jury Is Locked Up
Court Sessions Are Held in
Judge Mack's Apartment
in Hotel

The case Of Detective Sergeant
Thomas ". Hughes, On trial before
Federal Judge Julian ". Mack on the
charge of offering bribe to Internal
Revenue Agent Harold B. Dobbs, went
to the jury yesterday at little before
p. NJ. AT 11:40 no verdict had been
reached and the jury was locked up
for the night.
The final session Of the trial was
held in Judge Mack's apartment in the
Hotel ~Ansonia, the judge being pre-
vented from going TO the Federal
Building by pains in his leg.
Just before the jury was locked up,
it asked for testimony taken during
the trial up to yesterday. The testi-
mony will be given it when the ses-
sion is continued in Judge Black s
rooms at 9 o'clock this morning.
Hughes. who IS charged with having
tried to bribe Dobbs to steal papers
IN the case of the government against
several alledged vendors of Illicit
liquor, took the stand III his own de-
fense yesterday morning In addition,
his attorney called as character wit
nesses United States Marshal T. D,
Mccarthy, Federal Judge Julius NJ.
Mayer, Magistrate George ". Simpson
and former Magistrate Charles W Ap-
pleton. A letter from Charles S. Whit
man, speaking highly of Hughes, also
was produced
New-York tribune., 1920-06-09
Lore s Dream Shattered as
He Puts Fiancee in Jail
Albert Belohlav Thought Promised Wife Was Wait
ing for Him in Rotterdam With $500; Finds
Tier Here, Money Gone; " on Her Through 'Ad'

The love dream of Albert Belohlav.
nourished tenderly for six long years,
blew up with resounding bang two
days ago when he encountered his
sweetheart at the corner of Eighty
sixth Street and Third Avenue. Last
night Freda Berger, the perfect en-
bodiment of Alberts six-year-old
vision Of bliss, languished in not
very comfortable cell in the Morrisania
Police Station, charged with grand
larceny.
There would have been nothing
particularly heart-searing about the
circumstance of Belohlav's meeting
with his sweetheart at the corner Of
tlghty-slxth Street and Third Ave
nue., but for the fact that at the pre-
else moment he was entertaining Wis
ION OF the fair Freda seated patiently
on the pier 1t Rotterdam, awaiting his
arrival. Admitting fairly enough that
1t might be possible that Freda could
not be expected to wait all summer on
the pier, still it was very much Of a
shock for Albert to discover her at
Third Avenue and Eighty-sixth Street.
Even if she had been just q little
nearer the waterfront, Albert thought.
it wouldn't have been so bad But at
Eighty-sixth Street and Third Avenue
New-York tribune., 1920-06-09

there wasn't even steamship ticket
office in sight
The tale Of the love dream of Albert
Belohlav was told to Detectives Ryan
and Maloney, of the Morrisania sta
tlon, and they acted promptly. He
said that he got into communication
with Freda through a matrimonial ad-
vertisement in a German language
newspaper. A meeting followed and
the couple agreed that they would save
their money, get married and 60 live
in wealth aud contentment on farm
in Germany.
This was six years ago, Belohlav
told the police. Later he went to work
in Chicago and then to Hobart, Ind
From these places for five years, he
says, he has sent money to Freda in
New York, amounting IN all to $500
Recently Miss Berger wrote Belohlav
that she had been offered an oppor-
tunity to go. to Germany as nurse
with family from Boston. She would
take their money with her, she wrote,
and would wait for Albert on the pier
at Rotterdam.
Full of hope and dreams OF bliss,
Belohav came TO New York and worked
until ne could save enough money for
his own passage. Then it was that he
met Freda. When, at a second meet
ing, she failed to produce either the
money or bank account Of it, he had
her arrested
New-York tribune., 1920-06-09
Revenue Chief Saws
People Now Should
Help Clamp on Lid
Williams Asserts Americans
Are Law Abiding and SUI
preme Court Has Removed
All Doubt Act Is Valid
From The r,4oune,s wasatn1.on Bureau

From, The Tribune's wnshin1ton Bureau
WASHINGTON, June s. William
NJ. Williams, Commissioner Of Intern al
Revenue, to-day declared the decision
Of the Supreme Court upholding ma
tional prohibition will give n decided
impetus to the enforcement Of The dry
laws.
Mr.. Williams expressed the belief
that law-abiding citizens would now CO.
operate to enforce the law, as all doubt
as to its validity has been removed.
The bureau has been much con-
cerned with the heavy Withdrawals of
liquor from bond, according to Mr..
Williams, through forged permits and
illegal use Of permits. He believes the
situation will be remedied by a new
method which is being perfected
The illegal traffic in liquor must
stop" said Mr. Williams
"It has been truly said that the sue
cessful administration OF any law de-
pends upon public sentiment. The
American people are a law-abiding
people Their sentiment is to demand
the observance of the prob ibition law,
as all other laws.
In communities where attempts are
made to defeat or thwart the law, pub
lie opinion-the opinion of the law
abiding citizens. always in the major
ity-will be of great aid in bringing to
swift justice violators OF the law.
The bureau is advised that not
withstanding the fact that the ma
tional prohibition act has been in eff
feet since January, 1920, there are
many persons who are not familiar
with the double taxes and penalties.
These additional taxes are separate
from the fines and prison sentences.
For instance: A person manufacture
ing and selling, in violation of Fed
eral and state statutes, ten gallons of
distilled spirits might be liable with
out court proceedings to maximum as
sessments of taxes and penalties
amounting to ss,12425
The liability of the 'boot-legger' or
operator Of a blind tiger for assess
ment OF taxes upon evidence, apart
from any court proceedings, is also
Interesting. Such Persons violating
the Federal and state laws would be
subject to the following maximum
taxes and penalties: $500 under
the national prohibition act. $4,000
under the revenue act of 1918, $50
under Section S944, Revised Statutes.
and s256.25 under Section 317e, Re
vised Statutes, making total
Of S380S25"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-09
Mayor Writes Director
OF Census ON Test Count
Policemen May Cheek Enumer-
alton in Representative Dis
tricts of the Civ

In response to protests that have
rolled in from civic and realty organi-
cations as we'll as individuals through
out the city. Mayor Hylan yesterday
wrote to S. L. Rogers, Director of the
Census, asking information to test the
Federal count
The Mayor asked for all figures on
several representative districts. As
soon as he obtains these, he will have
members of the Police Department 60
Ger the districts and check up on the
count.
If the report of the police tabula-ors
warrants it, It Is believed that the
Mayor will order the department to
take a census of the entire city.
Meanwhile protests are being voiced
in every borough in the city against
the census returns
Charles E. Reid, executive secre-
tary of The Bronx Board of Trade in
sists that at least $4,000 Bronx resi-
dents have not been counted. The
United Real Estate Owners Associa-
ton has announced that it will hold a
meeting on Monday to make plans for
another count
New-York tribune., 1920-06-09
Crowd of 1000 Too Big.
So Court Is Adjourned
Seventh District Municipal Tri-
bunal Closes for Day When
Man Starts Disturbance

The eth District Municipal Court, at
12oth Street and St. Nicholas Avenue,
was not built to accommodate crowds
such as attend national conventions or
babe Ruth sessions at the Polo Grounds
When few more than 1000 persons
tried to squeeze into the courtroom yes
terday there was congestion. an alter
cation, lot of excitement and eventu-
ally an adjournment.
When Justice Sidney Crane opened
court there was standing room only and
not much of that. Even the window
sills carried quota Of acrobatic
humanity. and the aisles were complete
ly choked with litigants and specta-
tors. Emil Aubschman objected to an
order from court attendant that he
stand out of an aisle, and was promptly
arrested on charge of disorderly con-
duct. The disturbance brought sew
eral women to the verge of Mysteries
Magistrate Frank Mancuso, in the
Washington Heights court, later pa
rolled Aubschman for examination to-
morrow
New-York tribune., 1920-06-09
Farm Leaders
Appeal toU. S.
For Laborers
Greatest Food Scarcity in
Nations History Inevita-
BILE Unless Aid Is Proyid.
ed. They Tell Wilson
Action Must Be Prompt
Suspension of Public Works
and Longer Hours for
City Workers Suggested

From The Tribuaes Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, June s.-America is
faced by the greatest saarcity of food
stuffs IN its history because OF the
flow of labor from the farms to the
cities, heads of three national farm
organizations declared in a memorial
presented to-day to President Wilson.
The petitions ask the President to
use government machinery to allocate
such labor as may be recruited before
harvest, and recommend cessation of
public work-national, state and NUM-
cipal-until after the crops are gath
cred.
"Unless immediate relief can De ef-
fected in the farm labor situation we
will soon be face to face with what
will be the greatest scarcity of food
stuffs ever experienced in America"
said the memorial.
l. was signed by I. c. Atkeson, for
the National Grange; Gray Silver, for
the American Farm Burau Federation,
and R. F. Bower, for the Farmers
Union.
Longer Hours Suggested
City workers, it is suggested, might
work longer and harder to free labor
for the farms If the average factory
laborer appreciated the situation he
would be willing to increase his labor
from eight to ten hours daily until
the emergency is passed. the farm
! leaders declare
City dwellers, 1t is suggested, would
be the ones to suffer, since farmers are
able to grow enough products to supply
! them selves without difficulty. They
need more labor to provide the surplus
to feed and clothe city people
The farm leaders asserted that
higher prices seem inevitable
Living costs will mount higher and
unrest become greater until proper
legislation gives the necessary facili-
ties to increase production and provide
proper distribution,' said Mr.. Silver
He criticized Congress for not passing
needed agricultural legislation
Memorial Submitted to President
The memorial said in part:
Ihe eX1gency of the situation re-
qulres that public attention be directed
to this matter at once. Everyone can
help oy speeding up production and
worklng longer hours. Relatively few
city employees are fitted for Immediate
farm work, but each can work little
harder and little longer at his pres
ent job and thereby release others who
can help with food production.
Sufficient bank credit should be
made available to relieve the present
severe strain experienced in financing
farm operations and in purchasing ma
chlnery fertilizers and other labor
saving equipment and supplies. This
would tend to relieve the situation
temporarily and save US from what
now seems inevitable food shortage
TIE permanent solution must, ol
course, come through readjustment oi
scll fertility policies. food prices anc
wages, which will enable the farmer tc
pay wage that will more nearly com
pete with scales prevailing in the
cities"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-09
Jack Dempsey
Put ON Trial as
Draft bod ger
Board Chairman Testifies
He Had No Reason to
Think Fighters Answers
to QUESTIONABLE False

SAN FRANCISCO, June SACK
Dempsey, heavyweight pugilist, went
on trial here to-day in the United
States Court on q charge OF evading
the draft. The Indictment charged
taht Dempsey In his draft question
neirs had sworn to the false state
ment that his parents and wife were
dependent on him for support, and that
as result Of this false statement he
obtained deferred classification.
Witnesses were called to-day to give
testimony to show the pugilists's
parents we're not dependent on him,
as other members OF the family were
contributing to the family support.
Dempsey's questionable, registra-
tion and classification cards were in
troduced by the government John S.
Hogan, chairman of the local board
which passed Dempsey's questionnaire,
testified that to the best of his belief,
Dempsey was correctly classified in
Class "A, provided the statements
made on his questionnaire were true.
In reply to a question, Hogan testifie
that Dempsey's actions we're not sus-
picious and that the board had no
reason to believe that the answers were
Incorrect.
Dempsey O. KID Answers
Rudolph Goodman, q Chicago notary
who witnessed Dempseys signature TO
the questionnaire, testified that he went
over the blank and made certain ad-
ditions, filling out incompleted parts.
He testified that Jack Kearns, Demp-
seys manager, who also faces trial on
charge of conspiracy to evade the
draft, answered the questions He
added that Dempsey approved the an
swers and said they were correct.
The questionnaire was read to the
jury. In 1t Dempsey described himself
as an expert miner and pugjhst and
said he had worked at the carpenter
trade He said he had earned $500
the preceding year; that his wife was
"sickIy" and had never been employed,
and that he had dependent upon him
wife. parents, widowed sister and her
two children, contributing $40 a month
apiece to their support.
Seeking to refute the statement in
the uestionnaire that Hiram Dempsey,
father of the pugilist, had earned only
$500 at odd jobs during the year pre-
yious, H. S. McCann, auditor of Salt
Lake City, testified that the city had
paid the elder Dempsey s472.3s for
service as a laborer in the time in
question.
Divorced Wife on Stand To-day
/ was indicated by the defeuse that
the Interpretation Of the words mainly
dependent" in the QUESTIONABLE will
be an important limo Of argument.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Dempsey, Mrs
Fife Clarksop. the pugilist's widowed
sister, and Kearns were in the court
room. Maxine Wayne, divorced wife
Of the pugilist, WAS not in court. Her
testimony is expected to begin to-mor-
row.
Anticipating a large attendance at
the trial, a barrier was put across the
corridor at the entrance to the court
room and general spectators were held
outside until those connected with the
case, attorneys and others. were seated.
Very few women were present. Amer
lean Legion buttons appeared In the
button-holes of many men in the audi
ence, and several army officers were
watching proceedings.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-09
Palestine Only Nation That
Has No Postage Stamps of Own

LONDON, May 15.-palestine is now
the only nation which has no postage
stamp Of its own. But representatives
of the Zionist government here have
informed London philatelists that this
anomaly promises soon to be rectified.
for with the establishment of Palestins
as the national home of the Jewish
nation it is believed little time will be
lost in emulating the examples Of
other small nations called into being
by mandates of the peace conference
by the issuance Of distinctive stamps.
Pending the preparation Of definite
designs, stamps sold by British army
postofices in adjacent former enemy
territory are being utilized by over
printing with the word Palestine"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-09
bank Clerks Aid Edwards
forty-fye Experts TO Rush In.
come Tax PAYMENTS

iae oath Of deputy collector was
administered yesterday by William H.
AA~ards. Collector Of Internal Revenue
ieT Manhattan, TO forty-fve bank
sisFss who viii assist in handling pay
aents of the second installmsnt of In
!Ens Is.
#ith the assistance Of these men
u addition to our regular force, we
vi De able 70 Keep right up to the
a.'aste,' said Collector Edwards. GAS
DA AZ INC cashiers windows are
gssd payments Immediately will be
rlaasserred % the Federal Reserve
s4hk and we nope to have every pay
Js On deposit on the afternoon Of
. -se y The oenk clerks, familiar
:. ~ tass kind Of work, will be used
= '@oaiafa segregate and check up
.sS. payments and will greatly aid
- !orcs in the cashiers offfcex.