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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-16

THE LABOR MOVEMENT

In addressing the East Edmonton,
Alberta. United Farmers Political
Association, Mrs. Mckinney, M. L. A.,
sounded a note of advice that is wor-
thy of more than ordinary attention.
The speaker urged upon her hearers
the necessity of being represented in
all their activities by men of known
integrity and sterling character. She
made the observation that if we are
to have good laws, we must have good
men to administer them.
There are people who insist that as
long as the principles upon which
we stand are right it matters little
about the men who are chosen to rep
resent those ideals. With this idea
we cannot agree any more than we
can accept the other extreme that
man is all that is necessary, regard
less of the ideas represented by him.
We hold that the soundest principles
and the highest ideals can be prosti-
tuted and made as sounding brass
and tinkling cymbals, if they are rep
resented by men whose characters or
capacity are unworthy of the cause
they represent. And, by the same to-
ken, the best intentioned and purest
minded Individual may be failure as
representative of the people if he
represents ideas that are not in ac-
cord with the best interests of those
whom he is supposed to serve.
The labor movement is founded
upon principles that from the stand
point of humanitarian are unassail-
able No representative of the move
ment need at any time apologize for
the ideals represented by him. 1t
then remains that labor must not be
in the position at any time where it
becomes necessary to apologize for
the men that represent it's principles.
Within the ranks of labor and among
those who are attracted by the ideals
of labor are men of established in
tegrity and loyalty to the working
class. There is also to be found a
wealth of latent ability that is only
in need of development. 1t is the
duty of the movement to make every
provision possible for the develop
ment of its men as well as its plat
forms.
~ ~ ~ ~ -
Aha another investigation This
time the U. S. senate is sending a
committee down into West Virginia
to investigate the coal mine situation.
This committee is expected to report
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-16
AT THE PALACE
BEGINNING SUNDAY
"The Old Nest" - a REAL
Screen Achievement

Beginning Sunday, September 18th,
the Palace theatre will present for a
limited engagement of not exceeding
five days at the utmost, the most
gripping, heart -throbbing picture
ever produced, "THE OLD NEST"
Managing Director Meyer, of the Pal
ace theatre, told representative of
the Press that "THE OLD NEST"
will do more good than any sermon
ever preached, and he stakes his rep
utation that it is without peer.
In "The Old Nest" Goldwyn gives
the public something it has been wait
ing for since the birth of motion PIC
lures. Rupert Hughes story is the
first sincere and realistic treatment of
the most sacred and beautiful of all
themes-a mothers love for her
children.
The background upon which this
drama unfolds is the simple old-fash-
ioned home of typical American
family.
The incidents that transpire in this
atmosphere; the rearing of the brood
from babyhood to full growth, the
fight from the old nest, and the sud-
den happy Homecoming of the flock
are SO unerringly true to life that one
is constantly assailed by the shock
of memories long hidden beneath the
dust of years.
At the Astor theatre, where 'The
Old Nest" played limited engage
ment, the audience made no attempt
to hide its emotions. Harriette I'm
derhill, in the New York Tribune,
said: "When the final reel was un-
reeled and the light went up we put
our hat on hurriedly so that no one
would see that we had been crying,
and then we looked around and every
one was crying so it didn't matter. y
And the tears are intermingled with
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-16
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton. Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of MiddletOwn, o.
THE CONVENTION

The annual convention of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor will be
held in the high school auditorium in
this city during the week of October
10th. There will be about 500 dele
gates present. Everyone knows that
our hotel accommodations are limit
ed and not able to take care of one
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-16

laughter, for Rupert Hughes has put
scenes of indescribably delicious hu-
'mor into the story. Mr.. Hughes him.
self prepared the continuity, helped
select the marvellous cast and gave
his personal cooperation to the pro-
duction. The titles are his. The in
imitably human touch for which his
books are famous permeats the pro-
duction. 1t is triumph for the
"author idea," which Goldwyn origi-
mated and which Goldwyn has success
fully developed.
Reginald Barker is responsible for
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its findings about the time William
Jennings Bryan is elected president Of
the United States. In the meantime
the miners can starve to death.
- - - ~ -
It's every workingman's duty to
harken to organized labor's call to
the colors. In this day of vast enter
prises the workingman who stands
alone is nonentity. Opportunity is
knocking at your door now Whistle
Il hear you calling me" and join the
union of your craft.
n - ~ - n
The labor movement, like every
other movement that moves, is subject
to a good deal of uncomplimentary
remarks from those who stand still
and sneer. Probably the mule who
looks over the fence and wobbles an
ear at the lightning express, has a
rather small opinion of railroad speed.
- ~ - ~ %
Every trades union has it's ups and
downs; its successes and defeats; it's
days of rejoicing and periods of de-
spondency. It's ultimate success de-
pends upon the loyalty, activity and
perseverance of the members, in the
endeavor to improve the economic,
social and moral conditions of the
masses of the people.
IA ~ R u IA
1t should be the duty of every union
man to familiarize himself with the
various union labels, the lines of
goods bearing the same, the places
where they can be obtained and to
urge upon all others the necessity of
doing likewise.
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the direction. He has followed the
story closely, and developed the char
acters until each is cleanly cut por-
trait. Mary Alden's performance of
the mother is conceded by the crit
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fifth of the number of delegates COM
ing. Cincinnati offers to provide ac-
commodations for those Hamilton is
unable to care for. THIS means that
the delegates would have to go back
and forth night and morning. And it
means also when the delegate re-
turns to his home he won't have
much to say of Hamilton. He won't
be sure whether he attended the con-
yention in Cincinnati or Hamilton.
And it means too that Hamilton will
have to go on record as being unable
to care for the guests she invites
to come within her gates
So, then, what does it all mean?
1t means that every one who has
room he or she can spare for the
week of October 10th should come
forward and offer it to the committee
in charge at the labor temple. Stretch
a point little and let go of that
room and fix it so that several men
can rest and sleep in it during con-
vention week. You won't have to do
it for nothing, the delegates will
gladly pay and be thankful to you for
the accommodations.
Do it for the cause. Do it for the
convention. Do it for Hamilton.
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MUST DO SOMETHING

Secretary of Labor Davis reported
to the senate the unemployment of
almost 100000 people il this coun-
try. Of these, 3,5OO,O0O are in man.
ufacturing industries, 100000 in
transportation, and 250,000 in mines.
At that, the unemployment is not as
great as it was in the winter of 1914,
when it was estimated at 100000
What the senate program will be
in dealing with the situation is un-
certain. But it is evident that some
thing must be done.
England has done three definite
things: 1t has established a system
of employment exchanges, which
brings the jobless and the employers
together 1t has government unem-
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les to be the finest single piece OF act
ing in a character role that the screen
has ever known.
Performances start daily at !, .,
5, z and 8 P. M.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-01-29
M, THE MAN MARIO.

On the far corner tall man, sim
ply clothed, composed of habit stood
stirless, hands clasped lightly before
him In gesture with which the girl
was we'll acquainted, head and Shout
ders lifting ab0ve the crowd. Against
the tawny flames of naphtha torches
his profile was sharp and black, the
Silhouette of an ascetlc, gravely fine i;
but none better than she knew how its
austerlty was belied by haunted eyes
whose sincerity could wiring truth
from lips that moved to frame a lie.
And he was looking for her; she
knew that, too.
In furry so real that 1t touched
her anger, she swung aside into the
oy-street, grim street that led any
where but the way she wished TO go.
Yet she welcomed its sulen gloom
and went swiftly, needless of every
thing but the necessity of escaping,
knowing In her heart she could not
escape.
Her name was called In a voice of
resonant timbre: 'Leouora.l | beg
Of you II Is /, Mario"
She stopped and swung round with
a specious show of surprise subsiding
into indifference. Tone and manner
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-01-29
II. LEONORA.

Together with the Faces, Its win
dows made the Street, being of many
sorts, to each its own significant illu-
mination hard plate glass masks of
saloons beaming false fellowship
mean shop fronts of lngratiating
shine, windows Of homely golden glow,
others through whose latticed shutters
filtered sinister CLEANS bespeaking
the unspeakable, others again that
gave only dull reflections In begrimed
panes of naphtha flames flarng lurid-
ly above pushcarts arrayed in UNI
broken lines along the curbs
Through this weller of light and
shadow, in the sidewalk channels, the
Faces passed and repassed, lurking
darkly in forbldding doorways, seek
ing hrazenly the brightest glare, COM
ing and going without rest. in uncouth
carnival; kind and brutal, cunning
and naive. wicked and innocent,
sWarthy, fair unique, commonplace; ;
faces that disguised, faces that al.
lured faces that meant nothing, that
were mere empty mouthing masks !;
faces of oriental cast, yellow and red
and brown; negro faces in every shade
of quartering. =.
She knew them all they all knew
her. The sense of strangeness ebbed !;
with every step, with every look
orOnnd with avorv hrontb eho d,o,,,
she was losing touch with her other
Self which had so singularly renounced
its authority and faded into impotence
at the Dark Corner, but which still
kept step with her chung to her more
closely than her shadow, and like q
wrath of the living, watched. noted
and compared while taking part in ae-
tons wholly foreign to its nature and
experiencing reactions obscure to II
and unintelligible
Now the girl moved swiftly, with
ease and boIdness, even with hint
of arrogance: giving the Faces look
for look, smile for smile, frown for
frown laughing implshly up at tall
policeman who knitted black brows
over indulgent blue eyes; flinging racy
retorts to the banter of knot of
men emerging from a gin-mill chill.
ing with glance and word the adj
vances of those who should have
known better; chatting hueksters who
bawled in her ears the tawdry virtues
of their wares; pausing now and
again to exchange more kindly per-
slfage with folk who held title to her
liking; cutting an impudent figure, as
confident and unabashed as colt
turned loose In home pastures.
Her sharp perceptions took In every
thing; not one considerable detail es
capped their remark. And she liked II,
she liked 1t ell. she was curiously per-
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the width of the Street was between
them. she was well aware of two
plain-clothes men vino turned to stare
when she had gone by and conferred
together concerning her craftily, after
the absurd manner of their kind, out
of the corners of their mouths
But that was minor circumstance,
more fun than reason for worry. They
couldn't jug a girl for wearing good
clothes, even If they didn't know
where she had got them or how. E.
The stress of her attention was due
to considerations far more weighty;
and when, of sudden, at crossing,
she deserted its cause, she checked In
unfeigned dismay, with startled
pulses.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-01-29

where he was held as slave for Ave
years.
After his RANSOM he wrote many
plays. They brought him more fame
than fortune, and he added to his re-
sponsibiiities by wedding, at the age
of thirty-seven, a girl of nineteen. IL
was evidently marriage of love. as
her dowry consisted only of '.flve vines,
an orchard, some household furniture,
four beehives, - hens snd chickens,
one cock and crucible." As he could
not live by his pen Ceryantes secured
a minor government position; but he
was In constant difficulties because of
pressing debts and his unbusinesslike
habits. He was thrown into prison for
debt; released, he sank into abject pow
erty.
Part of "DOn auix0te" WAS probably
written In jail. This novel, magic
mirror that reflects mobiles and kitchen
wenches, BARRIERS and ladies' of high
degree, all the varied life of a brill
liant period, IL considered by many to be
the worlds greatest humorous MASTER
niece, The wonder of 1t IL that it was
written by man nearing his sfxtieth
year, who had all his life been poor, who
had known little except misfortune.
aChiidren turn Its pages, young people
read ii, grown men understand 1T, old
folk praise it,"
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meated TO her very marrow with de-
light In sounds and sights and smells
familiar to her senses since time be-
yond their earliest record.
The Street, never wide, was the mar
rover for It's double rank of pushcarts.
Between these an occasional automo-
bile or horse-drawn vehicle went gin
gerly to spare the multitude of
urchins, half dressed and less than
half washed, of every age and almost
every nationality, that swarmed upon
the asphaltum. Tenement houses
their fire escapes converted into bal
comics lavishly draped with candid
bedding and still more candid women
drew confidential heads together on
high, leaving visible only slender
ribbon of cobalt sky. In between the
air was sluggish, thick with unnat-
ural haze, and rank with many odors;
an unholy alliance of garlic fried fish,
boiled cabbage and stale beer main
tanning debatable ascendency over the
native aroma of stratum of society
which holds soap less necessity than
luxury. And the night was tumultuous
with screams of children at crude
play, bowls of babies walowing in
neglect, bawling of street vendors,
each striving to outyell his nearest
competitor, clatter of tinny pianos,
blare and whine of faded phono-
graphs; all relieved against a wholly
normal undertone of incessant gossip
and pickering.
The girl Rugged to herself the Joy
of living; this was to her the breath
of life; even more, 1t was enterprise,
adventure, the very stuff of Romance.
She went her way smiling, with
conscious smile bred of knowledge
that she was dressed In her best, in
her very newest best at that garments
of cut and cost and quality such as
the Street seldom saw.
Nevertheless, her show of noncha-
lance cloaked circumspection; If her
looks were free and rowing, they were
likewise keen and watchful. Though
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choly of which her mind knew moth

| choly of which her mind knew moth
ing.
And insidously the tranquil surface
of that eontentment was fiawed by ap-
| prehensions of nameless danger. of
peril latent, stealthy and lmplacable;
as though the swimmer surmised some
monstrous shape of evil skulking I'M
seen In those Opaque deeps--or felt
herself subtly ensnared by a current
whose irresistible set was altogether
| toward destruction.
Now at length perceiving what was
to come, panic paralyzed in her the
instinct of self-preservation though
horror brimmed the cup of being, she
made no effort to fight free but, as
one who knows that struggling must
| prove vain, resigned herself and let
| the baneful current work its will with
her. Fascination, too was at work,
deep within her a mad desire to go
again that wild way she had so often
| gone, and once more be, and do, and
see.
go II is, so it must be, with those
to whom drug has made itself a
thing of Life and Death.
On ahead, like bend in the river,
waited that turning In her psychic
! life which she knew as the Dark Cor
ner: while she lay passive in the
grasp of that power which so obscure
ly had its rise in her yet was repug-
nant to her, being at once her Will
| and her Necessity. And as the Dark
| Corner drew momentarlly more near,
| the TRANSMISSION which she termed the
| Change was effected by what may only
be described as CONFUSION Of her
very soul, after which came lassitude
vast enervatlon In which all linger-
| Ing traces of reluctance were obliter-
ated.
Now she was no longer herself, but
| another woman than the one she
knew, strange woman clothed In her
own flesh but in no other way akin to
| her Self of everyday, having no
| thought, Impulse or emotion with
which that Self could sympathize,
save such as may be considered cor
mon to all her sex. Yet, incompre-
hensibly, consciousness of the old
self-dentity survived; and though Gas
she conceived iD dlspossessed from
its tenement, her Self continued by
her body's side, observant, critical, in
trlgued, something amused. -.
In this wise rounding the Dark Cor
ner, she passed into that place which
she had named the Street of Strange
Faces: and the enigma of this confu-
sion of Self with non-Self was forgot
ten In the rush of exotic sensation
and emotion, excitement and lawless
joy, which invariably accompanied
definite and final commitment to re-
newed pursuit of these transcendental
adventures.
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CHAPTER ONE
The Street Of Strange Faces.
/. THE DARK CORNER.

The way of the thing was ever the
same. 1t befell without warming; or
rather. the girl had never learned to
take heed of signs which seemed plain
enough In retrospect, when she sat
alone and puzzled her pretty head
with the dark riddle of this shadow
life which set her so widely apart from
every girl she knew and, indeed from
nil the rest Of humankind. :.
She had day of restlessness,
whose every hour brewed its new pc
cuiar mood whose every mood was
rurposeless, with times of almost
feverish gayety, causeless, fitful, fugi-
tive. and other times when for no rea-
son in her knowledge she caught her
self signing long fluttering signs that
shook her strangely. SO might ones
spirit sigh In WEAKNESS, faint with
the burden of incessant strife with
some great antagonist of unguessable
identity.
Toward nightfall all these were
soothed away into feeling of serene
poise and self-possession; and sat
urate with consciousness of the rich,
strong wine of vitality that quickened
her she thought of life In the likeness
of a wide placid river, wherein she
drlfted like fearless swlmmer--a
stream whose waters were warm,
sweet and e.ln with a penetrating
quality Of delicious calm she never
dreamed could be disturbed, so abso-
lutte 1t seemed, so permanent, so I'M
perturbable.
Only the srghs persisted oddly, as
If her spirit knew moments of melan-
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IN THE sixteenth century rolndnceS
of chivalry, written in absurd, ex-
@ aggerated style, were extremely
popular in Spain.
A dignifed gentleman by the name
of Quixada, who lived between Aragon
and CASTLE, went crazy over these
foolish books, which he spent all his
substance in buying. His brain was
stuffed with entertainments, quarrels,
battles, challenges, wounds, magic
salves, complaints, amours, torments,
giants, castles, captured maidens. gal
liant rescues, and all sorts of impossi-
Bile deeds of daring, which seemed to
him as true as the most authentic his
tory. Every inn-keeper was mag
nate; every mule-driver a cavalier.
He decided that for his own honor
and for the service of the world, he
must turn knight-errant and jaunt
through the world, redressing wrongs,
rescuing captured princesses, and at
last winning the imperial sceptre of
TrapizOnda.
He changed his name to Don
Quixote de la Mancha, got himself
dubbed knight by a rascally publican,
whose inn he thought was castle
with four turrets crowned with pin
nacles of glistenirg silver. In order
to carry full purse he sold one of
his houses, mortgaged another and
borrowed a goodly sum from friend.
When his practical housekeeper and
his pretty niece, together with his
neighb0rs, the barber and the curate,
thought to cure him by burning his
books, he was persuaded that his
library had been carried away by a
necromancer, and became crazier than
ever. He secured up rusty suit of
mail which had belonged to one of his
ancestors, mended the broken helmet
with pasteboard vizor, patched with
thin iron plates, and thus accoutered
set forth on his old hack Rocinante,
whose ribs stuck out like the skeleton
or ship, accompanied by a rustic
named Sancho Panza, persuaded into
serving as his squire.
Their departure vas brave spec
tacle; the tall, cddaverous, lantern
JaWed knight, mounted on his bony
nag, welding his long lance and car
rying his sword, his eyes cleaning
with enthusiasm and dreaming of his
beautiful mistress, whom he called
Dulcinea del Tob0so; the short, squat
paunch-bellied, long-haunched servant
with a canvas wallet and leathern
bottle, mounted on the diminutive ass,
Dapple.
On the plains of Montiel stood a
score of big wind-mills. Don Quixote
TOOK them for outrageous giants and
prepared to do battle against them,
and despite Sancho's protests that
their huge arms were only vanes, he
plunged the rowels into Rocinante's
tlllh hanks and with couched lance,
dashed off to the encounter The wind
ole" violently and the knight and his
steed were whirled away into the field,
"here they lay motionless and as If
uead; his lance was smashed to fin
aers' Sancho fastened to the aid of
MS master and found him unable to
sur out ne was soon ready to go on
again
1heir next adventure was with two
monks, riding on mules as big as
uromedaries' in company with a coach
III winch sat lady escorted by men
oh horseback Don Quixote imagined
SAS' adventurers had captured a