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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09
WHAT is "CAPITAL?"

Manchester, England. Recent
speeches in favor of settling indus
trial disputes on the basis of a fixed
rate of interest on capital and a min
imum wage for labor causes the Cot
ton Factory Times to ask: what are
we to regard as capital?"
at is impossible that employers
can be allowed to bring in a great
amount of watered capital to rank for
dividend and thus deprive the workers
of their true share of legitimate prof
its. There would have to be some un-
derstanding as to what is fair CAPT
tai, as well as what constitutes a fair
return on that capital.
MERELY to say that because a firm
has certain amount of capital down
on it's books it is, therefore, entitled
TO a certain dividend on it, is to beg
the whole question. Labor could never
accept such position"
In commenting on pleas for "for
bearance" between the two interests
the editor says that the tendency to-
ward trusts rapidly dissolves what
ever humanitarian link there might
have been between employer and EN-
ployed under the old system, and tha'
the only interest stockholders nov
have in a business Is to secure a sat
isfactory dividend.
"The need for forbearance is great
but the signs of the times declare /
to be diminishing quantity.
'The only way in which to over
come difficulties of this description
is by a removal of the suspicion tha
one class is seeking to obtain an ad
vantage over the other, and this cal
only be done when all are convinced
/ that the basis on which agreement il
to be reared as asuperstructure is al
absolutely fair and sound one and w
are building on the rock and not OIL
shifting sand"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09

only make it difficult to begin war,
but it should be supported for tech
nical reasons, as the production of
war munitions in anticipation of a
war which may not occur for long
time appears to be highly wasteful
and undesirable proceeding"
Modern warfare is not only con-
test between armies and nayies of the
belligerents, as was the case some
three score years ago, but one between
the entire industrial and scientific
structures of nations" he said. "A
truck or tractor factory, foundry, a
plant making motors, fabric or chem
icals, is as much an essential and
often deciding, part of the military es
tablishment of nation as is gun
factory. The high maintenance of the
productive facilities of nation rests,
therefore, at the very foundation of
its ability to defend itself against ex-
ternal aggression"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09

upper house of that state, but as yet
has failed to make its pledge etfec-
tive,
Opponents of the second house in
sist that occasions for constitutional
conflict are increased and the unity
and vigor necessary for national ac-
ton are diminished because of the
second house. From a practical stand
point, opposition to the second house
centers on the fact that it is the
stronghold for reaction, and that it's
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09
DISARMAMENT
Only Remedy for Future
War Prevention
Preparedness Means Huge
Waste, Declares Prom
inent Engineer

New York.-Present policies are
not true preparedness and really
weaken the nations ability to defend
itself, said Guy E. Tripp of the West
inghouse company in statement pre-
pared for the official journal of the
American society of mechanical en-
gineers.
The writer is an engineer of distinc-
ton. He served during the world war
with the rank of brigadier general.
He said disarmament would not
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09
ABOLISH UPPER HOUSE

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Queensland labor government is
carrying out its pledge to abolish the
legislative council, or upper house,
and the assembly has passed bill to
this end as the first step. The Queens
land high court has sustained the val
idity of this legislation.
The New South Wales labor gov
ernment is also pledged to abolish the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09
s25, COO, 100000 in two years for wa

$25, GOO, 100000 in two years for war
requirements.
Armament expenditures, as car
ried out today, undermine the ability
of countries to attain their highest
ideals. of national education and in
dustrial development, so that, from
the point of view of the engineer, any
agreement to disarm would tend to
minimize the possibilities of future
conflicts and at the same time ac-
tually increase the ability of The
great powers to protect themselves in
case of unprovoked aggression"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09
WILL SHOE PRICES DROP?

Peabody, Mass.-An average wage
cut of II per cent, affecting 40 tan
neries employing 5000 workers in
this vicinity, is announced. These
employees are mainly unorganized.
They had no voice in the proceeding.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09

veto power over the lower house null
lities the utility of democratic suf-
frage
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11
If the administration makes tax
paying a pleasantly there will be no
kick coming.
Mitchell on Minnesota Roads.

Here is what Charley Mitchell, for
merly CT the Duluth News Tribune,
but now editor of the Washington,
DC, Herald, has to say Of Minnesota's
great highway system:
''The fairest, and so the best, policy
in modern road building that
has yet been adopted, is what may be
be called the Minnesota plan because
it has originated in that state. There
it is known as the "Babcock" plan
from tn. name of the state highway
commissioner who proposed it.
"This amendment itself outlined a
system of state highways, apportion-
ing the mileage among the counties
and designating the market centers to
be included. But the more distinctive
feature is that this system is to be
both built and perpetually maintained
by the state through a special tax on
motor vehicles. There is to be no re-
sort to other taxation. There is to be
no charge against any benefited lands
and no assessments. Motor cars pay
the bill and maintain the: system. -
+" "All that wassleft to legislation was
administration and to formulate thu
nature of the new tax on cars which
the amendment exempted from the
usualepersonalty tax, and to designate
the character of the highway improve.
ment.
"Another very valuable feature Of
the Minnesota plan is that it relieves
all state political subdivisions from
the burden of building and maintain.
ing the main highways. All county
and township road funds can, there
fore, be used on the laterals, the feed
ers to small communities, and the in.
dividual farm ways. AS a whole the
plan deserves the study Of all road
officials, Of state and county officers
and also of land owners and taxpayers
It seems fundamentally just and the
answer to many road problems which
vex Virginia and eastern states"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11
Reward for Pugilism.

Denys Cochin, French academician,
says of the Cerpentier-Dempsey fight:
"Carpentier made two and half mil
lion francs whereas M. Eduard Bran
ly, inventor of the telegraph without
wire, man famous everywhere as
physician, electrician, professor, writ
er and scholar, one of the celebrities
and glories of France, continues to
earn % francs a day.. And.he dep
recates4 sthe French ambitions Gtot1be-
come nation Of boxers as inutile and
ridiculous.
It was not boxers who said to the
Germans before Verdun that they
should not pass. True, Carpenter did
put his body in the way of Germans
into France, wherein he differed from
our own particular pride of the fist
fighter. It wasn't a boxer who told
the Germans in the Argonne to go to
hell, but studious New York lawyer
instead. Many professional pugilists
were not busy winning war medals
but seem to have been reserving their
proves for a more propitious time
after the real fighters had won peace.
Embattled pugilists didn't save Paris
or Ypres or Verdun, nor did their on
slaught make holes in the German line.
Men whom they could knock down
with half a swipe; whom they look
down upon as weaklings or yellow,
men who couldn't deliver an uppercut,
slim clerks, clumsy farmer boys,
muscles-bound artisans, took the brunt
of the German attack and stormed the
German nests of machine guns.
Dempsey may now think himself
pretty much a man, y though he never
saw a spiked-helmeted boche, and yet
connected with Carpenters jaw. If
he is superman physically his super
stuff is the Neanderthaler kind, of r7b
use in a world of pistols, guns and
airplanes. Some boy with the muscles
of weakling in the Dempsey sense,
but with nerve to fly a bombing plane
over the spluttering hell, figured as a
destructive agent against the enemy
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11
i The Home Creamery.

; We believe most emphatically in the
home creamery: In the first place it
is home institution owned by home
people. In the second place it serves
as a guarantee that the cream pro-
ducers will always obtain a fair price
for their product. Obliterate the home
creamery and the dairymen will be at
the mercy Of the centralizers-wh
would be a sad, sad thing for the
dairymcn. Dairying is big business,
and it should be cultivated more
strongly. The dairy cow will return
a big dividend IN the amount of money
invested in her. Those regions where
dairying is the chief business are the
last to feel financial deprcssions and
the first to catch the breeze of pros
perity in their sails. Take away the
home creamery from the average COM
munity and you will have destroyed
it's chief dispenser of good times. And
it is we'll to bear in mind the fact that
if the home creamery is killed the
value of every farm tributary to that
creamery will greatly depreciate-
Winnebago Enterprise.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11

Now that a world conference in
America is approaching, we suggest,
without expecting to receive serious
attention, that our diplomats abroad
employ themselves in placing Ameri-
can ideas and objects clearly before
the governments and peoples to which
they are accredited It has been a
great weakness of not a few of our
embassies that they have become so
enamored of foreign ways that it is
difficult for the casual visiting Ameri-
can to realize they are representatives
of this country. This was most evil
dent during the years preceding our
entrance in the world war. Partisan
ship for the countries where they were
located became a sort of religion with
many of our diplomatic employees and
their wives, and it was often impossi-
BILE to recognize anything American
in their thought or attitude.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11
CarusO Dead.

The voice that brou ght gladness to
millions is hushed by the death of
Enrico Caruso. The world is mourn
er at his bier. The death of philan-
thropist, general or nation builder
is cause of bereavement to one and
perhaps several nations, but Caruso
drew tribute from mankind, without
regard to nationalities. Wherever the
human heart pulsates to the emotions
of love, triumph and romance, the
voice of Caruso is loved. Thanks to
the invention of photography, this
voice will thrill millions whose lives
will begin after Caruso is laid away.
These unborn millions will marvel at
his powers and will envy those who
saw Caruso and heard him pour forth
the strains that seemed to be natures
unprecedented music.
t. The gift that Italy made to the
world in developing Caruso was some
thing that can not be measured except
IN gratitude. Money and national
credits fade into nothingness when
compared with the benefits to human
nature which are conferred by such an
inspiring voice. The singer gave away
that which is above rubies-happiness
He lived happy life himself, and he
departs at the climax Of a matchless
career. Since all golden lads and
lassies must come to dust at last, il
is we'll that Caruso should go in his
prime, with his powers undated anC
with the world at his feet. Humanity
will amagine now that his glorious
voice persists forever, and there will
be no touch Of mortality in the tones
that are handed down, to posterity.-
Washington Post.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11

be available during the coming nine
years for road building in Minnesota,
many people imagine such: sum will
build roads enough to make the state
checkerboard Of highways. Large
as the sum is, it will do nothing like
that. But, wisely expended, 500, 00O,-
900 will give Minnesota system of
highways relatively equal to any in
the country.-Duluth News Tribune.
X X *
No Evidence of Opposition.
There are the usual advance remors
OF many candidates for United States
senator to succeed Frank Kellogg.
This is the dull season in political
gossip, and any sort of rumor is well
coined by the political space writers.
Ihere is, however, no evidence of any
substantial opposition to our brilliant
junior senator, and in the proper time
he will receive the nomination and
election. None Of the men mentioned
are his equal in ability or influence
and the republicans of Minnesota have
too much sense to swap man who has
made good in big way for an experi-
ment.-St. Cloud Journal-Press.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11
.T ~, \. Townley Debate Challene, y.


( The Leader last week printed the
letters that have been written and re-,
ceived in the matter Of the challenge
issued to Rudolph Lee by Frank Hicks,
editor of the Long Prairie Tribune, in
behalf Of Mr.. Townley to debate the
merits of the nonpartisan league with
Mr.. Townley. The letters. showed
prompt acceptance of the challenge
by Mr.. Lee, but a desire on the part
of the challengers to duck and crawl
out of their challenge after they had
issued it.
The chief objection they raised after
their challenge had been promptly &C
copied was that Mr.. Townley could
not debate because he was likely to
be in Jail at fair time, this notwith-
standing they themselves had suggest
ed fair time as the time for the de-
bate when they issued their challenge.
In order to meet this objection as
we'll as make every possible conces-
sion to insure having the debate, Mr..
Lee on Thursday, July %, sent Mr..
Hicks the following letter:
Long Prairie, July 20, 1921.
Mr.. Frank Hicks, Editor Tribune,
Long Prairie, MINI. Dear Mr.. Hicks:
Regarding the challenge you issued
to me in behalf of Mr.. Townley for a
debate on the general subject of the
nonpartisan league and it's record.
If Mr.. Townley desires to debate but
is not signing the agreement to be
here at fair time for the debate for the
reason that he may be in Jail at that
time, l am willing, in order to give the
people of our county chance to hear
Mr.. Townley, to agree to the following:
Mr.. Townley to agree in writing to
be here to debate according to the
terms previously mentioned, but if at
the time the debate is scheduled Mr..
Townley is actually in Jail, that he be
permitted to send a substitute. 1t is
to be definitely understood, however,
that if Mr.. Townley is not actually in
jail on date debate is scheduled, he
must either be here In person or the
debate to be Cancelled for his failure
to appear. In order to accommodate
your convenience, extend the date of
acceptance by Mr.. Townley to August
4. This gives total of Is days you
will have had to acknowledge the &C
ceptance of your own challenge. Yours
truly, Rudolph Lee.
1t would seem that this ought to
meet the last reasonable objection the
challengers can have to backing up
their own challenge. However, up to
the time of going to press this morn
ing no word has been received either
from Mr.. Townley or Mr.. Hicks. To-
day is the 18th day they have had to
acknowledge the acceptance Of their
own challenge.-Long Prairie Leader
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11
Gable dispatches to the St. Louis

Cable dispatches to the St. Louis
Times say that in the whole Of France
there are but $4,000 unemployed peo-
pie. If this be true, and there is no
apparent reason to doubt it's anthem
ITCHY, the other nations Of the world
should hasten to confer with France
and learn how she has turned the trick.
With Englmd's millions of idle men
and women, with America having a
great number of work seekers, the
situation in France is one to awaken
surprise and admiration and to inspire
desire for emulation in every land
where the industrial situation is de-
pressed. 1t is reasonable to believe
that the French tendency toward fru-
gal living, which includes belief
in everyone being at work, is RESPONSE
BILE for the showing rather than that
any broad national program of the
government brought about the desira-
bic condition. While the French peo-
pie received a vast amount of financial
aid during and Immediately after the
war, they did not put all their depen-
dence for the future on a continuation
of such assistance. Frances industry
has almost completely recovered from
the blighting effects of war, and it
is easy to believe that a people eager
to be busy with whatever task Of
fered promise of being a factor in
helping ,e-estahlish national prosperi-
ty would not only find work but make
their labor mark rapid advancement
of the country in this direction.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11

Attorney General Allen of Massa-
chusetts has ruled that women are still
without the right to hold constitu-
tional office in that state. He holds
that the nineteenth amendment to the
federal constitution merely gives
women the right to vote and does not
alter the state constitutional require
ment that men only are eligible to
constitutional office. Should Allen
ever come up for reelection he can
scarcely expect the support of the
women voters and, besides, he runs the
risk of having his face slapped and
whiskers pulled.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11
Did you know that Henry Ford own

Did you know that Henry Ford owns
railroad? He; does-the, Detroit,
Toledo and Ironton. And Henry per
sists in lowering freight rates on this
road despite the rules and regulations
of the interstate commerce commits
sion, which is holding up his schedules.
Notwithstanding the rejection by the
commission Of Ford's application to
make 20 per. cent rate cut on the
transportation Of stone, new reduced
schedules continue to reach the COM
missions Offices from Henry's little
road, including cut in the rates for
carrying soft coal. AS Ford owns this
railroad it doesn't appear to US to be
anyone's business but his own even if
he carries freight for nothing.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11

There are powerful organs in Eu-
ropeanism in this country which object
to the settlement of the Pacific prob
lens at the approaching disarma-
ment conference. They would ask this
country to disarm while permitting
Japan to take possession OF stragetic
bases in the Pacific and extend her
dominion over the republic of China.
They would bring about theoretical
guarantee Of peace at the sacrifice of
principles more vital than those for
which we went to war in Europe.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11
Veterans of the World War.


In the great war on. sea end land in
the military and naval service Of the
country 4,S00,00O men were engaged.
Of these 2,086, 900 went overseas, and
100000 fought. In the battle of the
Meuse-Argonne 100000 participated
and there were in that fight alone 12O,-
900 casualties, while 115,500 died in
the war in battle or from disease.
These Americans were an essential
link in the chain Of victory.
They were the flower Of our youth.
They served their country without
reckoning the cost because they loved
it. Before many years have passed
this country's government will have
passed into their hands. It is newt
able. The country is theirs. Its laws,
it's institutions, it's tendencies will, in
major part, be under their control.
There is no doubt whatever that
these men, like the veterans Of the
revolution and those of the civil war,
wearing their war laurels proudly, will
take up the work Of maintaining AM
erican progress and liberties under the
plans proposed by the fathers, modi-
fed by such developments as have be-
come essential and necessary from the
lapse Of time and. enlargement of
ideas.
If they fail the country will fail be-
cause they will control it. They are
our best and noblest. If they do not
rise to the plano intended who will do
it? If the youth, brave and sclf-sac-
rificing, do not sec their duty to their
ancestors, to their children, to the gen
eral good, what group. will do or see
these things.
But they surely will do all that the
fondest hope for. They will see that
the land is theirs to save, and they viii
save it. In the, years to came they will
be in" the forefront of I'll political
strife and their views will be national
not sectional. They will be as noble ir
peace as they were in war;. Among
them will be found the Utmost soul Of
patriotism.
This will be neither easy nor simple
It will be like the ~ days of battle
of the Meuse-Argonne where by per
'sistent bravery they broke the bacl
of enemy resistance. In their new
work they must hang on. They mus
toll and uplift. No one need despair
of the republic with so large a body
of patriotic men devoted to it's vel
fare.-Duluth Herald.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11
OPINIONS OF EDITORS
Applies to All Villages.

Applies to All Villages.
One of the nice things about being
on the council is that you get a lot
of advice about how to spend the vii
lage money after you've spent it for
something else.-Bemidji Sentinel.
X X X
Indications Point That Waw.
The time may yet come when
driver who runs pedestrian down
with his automobile will expect an
apology from his victim.-Red Wing
Eagle.
* X n
The Good Citizen.
. Our idea of a good citizen, and we
are glad there are a few in this COM
munity, is one always ready to give,
according to his means, to community
enterprises. He takes stock in them
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11
According to estimates presented by

According to estimates presented by
George H. Carter, public printer, to
Budget Director Dawes, saving of
$3,250,000 will be effected in the govs
eminent printing office for the cur
rent fiscal year. There is surely a
lot of printed stuff sent out from that
office in carload lots every year at
enormous expense to the taxpayers
which the public can get along very
we'll without, and we presume that,
among other things, this has been
brought into contact with the pruning
knife.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-11

3 & tyy
OF civilization IN the war, whereas q.
hulking pugilist, who couldn't shoot
and didn't dare, trotted round . ship
yard. 1 :..a s.. 5>' .Ss :..' Ill.,
The American legion boys. who
hoped Carpenticr would knock Demp-
sey's block off had the right idea. They
might 60, q step further and protest
against the whole bloody business of
prize fighting that rewards gorilla
like, small-brained ruffians whose
"killing instinct" works in rings for
hire, but not so anybody would notice
it in their country's defense.
The great American public needs to
reform itself in this direction. Ma
dame Curie, whose work is of value to
every man living in modern society,
comes to America and is scarcely no.
ticed by the many, but Carpenter,
who personally seems good sort and
who was ap actual soldier, they re-
ward with acclamations and a small
fortune. We, the crowd, the many,
the average man, need to improve our
ideas radically if we hope. to get much
of anywhere in world requiring seri-
GUS SENSE Minneapolis Journal.