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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-01-14
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MoLDING public" opINIoN

t'CAtDA~'O y oA>AN - ~ 49,
How greed molds public" opinion
was illustrated in the house Of repre-
sentatives by Congressman Huddle-
ston in discussing the Cummins- -Esch
railroad law which was backed, he de-
clared, by the strongest lobby ever
assembled in Washington.
"The power of the interests behind
the railroads is overwhelming" he
said. "They are able to control and
mold public opinion at will. At a
sign from them the presses of great
newspapers change stroke, the chan
nels Of public information are block,
ed, criticism is silenced and bandages
are placed upon the eyes of the peo-
pie.
Dealing with the great selfish in
terests we are confronted not only by
railroad officials and manipulators,
but with captains of industry and fl
nance, capitalists, and after them,
with civic bodies and with wealth and
property interests with lines running
from the heart of Wall street through
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-01-14
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REACTION AND REVOLUTION
OPPOSE ORGANIZED LABOR

The records of the National Erect
ors' Association, one of the steel
trusts's adjuncts, show it has paid
money to the |. W. W
This was divulged in New York city
at hearings by a state committee that
is investigating the housing situation,
Secretary Cheney, of the association,
naturally professed ignorance of the
purpose for which this money was
paid. He said ne "did not know
whether the iron erectors secretly
pay agents of the l. w. w. But he
did acknowledge that his association
was not fighting the |. w. w. very
hard. This latter admission is most
significant, when the steel owners re-
lentless opposition to organized labor
The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-12-14
New Home of Hebrew
Sheltering Society
\ National Monument by American
Jewry to Their Immigrant Brethren
from All Over the World.

The purchase by the Hebrew shelter
ing and Immigrant Aid Society of
America of the Aston Library building
ing for its new home. is one of the
greatest events in the history of Amer
lean Judaism. This structure is one
of New York's most cherished land
marks and fortunately became the So
Ciety's future home thru the foresight
of the Treasurer and Chairman of the
building committee. Mr.. Harry Ffschel.
1t is ii striking fact that the famous
structure was built thru funds be
queathed by an immigrant, John Jacob
Astor. who came to America in 1873
st the age of twenty. amassed fortune
in the fur trade and founded the
library which bore his name as IA
permanent and valuable memorial to
testify his grateful feelings toward the
city in which he had lived and pros
pered.'
John Jacob Aston died in 1913. BY
his will he bequeathed 100000 to be
used as foundation for library ana
building. The Aston Library was
opened six years later. The first pres
idcnt of the Library was Washington
Irving. There are thousands of i'm
migrant American citizens occupying
positions of honor today who have had
the first benefits of adult education
in the old Astor Library and many
professional man looks back upon the
hours spent in that historic building aS
the most influential periods in the
development of his character and ca
reer
1t is indeed rare civic honor that
has fallen upon the Society to have
procured this historic structure rs Il
permanent home and headquarters. In
the furtherance of the Socicty's OH
iects to AmericaniZe the Jewish immi-
grant the Aston Library Building Of
fcrs splendid opportunity for the coli
tinuation of its educat ional service.
The Society, in preserving one of the
City's most cherished relies, will keep
alive the American spirit that imbucd
its founder and will proomte in ever
increasing measure the civic training
IF the recent Jewish arrival to this
country.
The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-12-14
Rabbi DR.. Isaac Verne
Elected in Los Angeles

Election of Rabbi DIR. Isaac Verne
Of Congregation Beth Israel, as chief
rabbi for the Orthodox Hebrew congre-
cations of Los Angeles has been an
nounced DR.. Verne is IA NJ. \. and
Th.p. of the University of koenigs-
berg, Russia, andh is widely known as
Talmudical scholar. and as an au-
thor of works on religious philosophy.
He has occupied orthodox pulpits in
New York, Columbus, Ohio, and chi
cago, and is now serving his sixth
year as rabbi and preacher for Con
gregation Beth Israel.
Ten orthodox Hebrew congregations
of Los Angeles are now organized III
an association, known as the United
Hebrew Orthodox Congregations OF
Los Angeles
The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-12-14
AN INTERESTING QUESTION.

Here is IA problem for the layman ,
\ Rabbi has been highly successful III
notwithstanding his temple; it Is Il
social and cultural center, not only for
his own congregation. but for the Jew
ish community. He himself has been
"A large factor in the civic life of the
general community. As a pastor tthc
word will have to serve for want of Il
better) he has ccmented the colsest
relations with his congregation; the
word beloved" is the one which best
Expresses their feelings toward him.
He has been n big brother to the young.
the friend and comrade of many in
time of trouble or sorrow. his study
has been II confessional for scores OF
burdened spirits. Children enshrlne
him in their hearts and his Sunday
School has deservcdly splendid repu-
tation. But he is not an eloquent
speaker: he is unable to attract large
attendance to his services. Is he a
failure or Il success in his chosen pro
fession American Jewish Review.
The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-12-14
JEWS OF NEW YORK.

According to the Communal regis
ter of the Kehillah in New York. i'll
The year 1890 only 800 Jews lived there.
Today New York has II very intensive
life. there being at present more than
T2O SynagogS. each accommodating
about 1,5O0 Jews. twenty-nine of the
services are conducted in Yiddish and
the remainder are in English. Hebrew
and Spanish. There are twenty-ninc
Jewish cemeteries in the city, and the
public library has magnificent Jew
ish reading room: whilst there are
seven Jewish theatres, which are play
ing almost exclusively Yiddish plays.
The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-12-14

At II banquet of the fur dealers.
recently given in st. Louis. in answer
to an appeal of Rabbi Stephen s. Wise
of New York city. those present pledg-
cd themselves to raise from those en-
gagged in the trade 100000 for the
Palestine Restoration Fund.
The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-12-14

Gertrude Bloom Davies has formed
the first Jewish Girl Scout troop in
Steubenville. OHIO. Mrs. Davies was
captain Of Troop 12j in Philadelphia
prior to her marriage.
The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-12-14

Or. stephen ). Wise is on 81 lyccum
tour Of Southern cities, IN the course
Of which he will speak at Grcenville,
Atlanta, Macon, Mobile. Montgomery
aud Little Rock.
The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-12-14

Since January LIST the Hazefira has
begun to appear once more as II daily
in Warsaw, under the editorship of l
Greenbaum. who is Il deputy to the
Polish Seim. and member of the Polish
Zionist Central Committee.
Evening star., 1921-03-06
A Story of the Stage.

nETTERTON BOOTH, the ase4.
d trasedian. told on his eightiete
birthday at his daughters home n
Cleveland number Of theatri9I
"reminiscences.
"And then there's a theatricai
man, he said. ''who didn't learn II.
read and write till late in life. O
evening Fiasco-that's the rascaiS
name attended supper party.
where a diamond ring was ramed
off by a hard-up soubrette. For the
rafie YOU had to write your name
on q slip Of paper and drop 1t in -
hat. Fiasco was in great distress
What was he to do? He'd have died
~ shame il it came out in this pup
lie fashion that he couldn't write.
"yTaII the papers were dropped in
the hat one by one. and when the.
hat was passed to Fiasco he droppea
in a blank piece. after pretending w.
write on il, Of course.
"The rule of the raffle was that tne
6rst name taken out of the hat wouia
win the diamond: SO comedian was
hlindfolded he paved among tne
papers, and il happened that Flasco
was the one he took out. 49,
Everybody was astonisneo
.he paper contained no name. II
nassed around the table. and hnaiy
malicious Young ingenue got nol9
Of il. She studied it carefully. ana
then she said with a malicious smile,
M Fiasco wins. This is mas
,ordwriting. I'd know it any
where" .,.@
Evening star., 1921-03-06

afterwards Moor sees him with il and
believes what Iago has been telling
him.
So the next time Moor sees the little
woman he says:
"where at is dat handkerchief / done
give yuh?'
A Nd she says she has lost her han.
~ kerchief on acct. of it being SAT-
urday night. but expects to find IL
Sunday morning. But she don't get
no chance to look for it Sunday morn.
ing, because she hasn't no sooner
than went to bed that same night
when in come Moor and says, Hello
chicken" and rung her neck.
So right afterwards Moor finds out
from Mrs. Iago that it was all oue4
what Iago had been saying abo&
cassie ana the madam. so the big feE
low pulls a razor and pares hs owR
All All and ali / suppose itss shat - Z
might call q problem piay;@ The -
problem is how is Rosa gorng 10
killed the next time as IL seems Ii&1
they's a rule that she can't nxs'
through a whole opera. This tiiMSS
she got her neck rang ana AZ diner -
times have saw her get stabbed AM
lap up poison and jump IN q bonnsS
and lock herself in a safety oeposs
vault. - Es
And the I'd problem is whether -
nessary for a man to ring. their wfAS
neck when she can't find her hanker
cheif. If it is my advice Is to sci.
motherless children short as they wsAl
,ocn b. ~ lease OF them throEsd on
the market. RING w. LARDNER..
Great Neck, March 8.
Evening star., 1921-03-06

editor handy. And these seats Is Just
as good as anywheres else after you
get your breath.
Maybe some Of my readers seen
Othello when it was a play. VIM.
Shakespeare wrote it. but it was
ware house till Verdi the song writer
got a hold of it and turned It into
q musical show. But some OF Shake-
sneare's lines was SO raw that tHey
had to translate all the words INTO
garlic and you can't tell what us All
about unlest you seen 1t as play.
THE hero is a tenor singer named
l. Othello that is a gen. In the
yan,ce army. He is marred to a
white gal named Desdemona that
some fortune teller must OF told her
tbav would be a dark man in her
future. Well one of the birds on
Can. Moor's stan is a man named
Iapo that has got a gruge VS.. Moor.
and to get even with him he decides
- nv and make Moor believe that
the little woman is flirting with
Cd lieut. named Cassie.
They's a big party gong on ana
ayarvhody has broughten something
.ionS ON the hip and they all get
singing lab and Iago has some home
made fehting spirits that he makes
Cassio drink a pit. of it and the next
thing YOU know Cassie is acting like
q lost halloonist. In the mist OF the
brawl. Moor comes in and asks;
"Who-all stahted dis heh ruckus?"
and they tell him Cassie.
So he says, "Cassio you fine yosefr
annudder job"
We'll the next day Cassie sobers up
Evening star., 1921-03-06

the n. Y. papers has quit trying to
print everybody's name that has got
a dress suit. So all and all I am not
x as much OF a opera fan like i use
to be but when l got marred they
put clause in the contract that says
we got to go to opera at lease once
yr. and the subject has been brought
since the Metropolitan season opened,
but kept saying: wait till the Chi
cago Co. comes along SO as we can
hear singers that is not SO old that
their voices has begin to crack.
Well finely the Chi Co. got here
where Mary Garden is now director
of the Co. as it seems like the direc-
tor they had before got into q jam
and quit. This guy was one OF the
Italian conductors and the story was
that somebody sent him new So
voice out and as soon as the con-
ductor heard the 1st note he pulled
the bell for the car to stop and says:
Madam this is your street
+ X * X
THEY asst him afterwards what
note she had sang and he said he
didn't know but he hoped it was an
accidental.
The conductor give her transfer
on a through route line that took her
over amongst the starveing children
but before she went she had the sat-
isfaction Of seeing them give the di-
rector's job to Miss Garden as they
figured that woman was better
equipped for trying out them new
voices on acct. OF wearing her hair
over her ears.
Well Mary got here with her Co.
and I pretended for wk. like l
didn't know it but finely had to ad-
nit it and we looked up in the paper
for the program and picked out the
following Sat. night witch was Rosa
Raisa and Chas. Marshall and Treat
em Ruffo in Othello. Rosa is the
best singer in the world as far as
/ am conserned though the N. Y.
critics generally always says her
voice is too loud or something. but
that Is probably because they been
use to the Metropolitan opera So
pranos that If you don't park pretty
close to the stage you would think
they was in a moveing picture. Any
way. Rosa don't never sound too loud
where I set when they's no society
Evening star., 1921-03-06
In the Bible.

rIsHoP HoSS said at Nashville
~ picnic:
"rhe religious knowledge OF too
nanv adults resembles, I am AFRAID.
the religious knowledge Of little Eve.
$50 you attend Sunday school reg
,,,,,vr the minister said to little Eve
"'Oh, yes. sir said she. o.a.
".And you know your Bible?
"'Oh, yes, sir
could you. perhaps. tell me some
thing that's in it?'
az could tell you everything that's
"Indeed" And the minister smiled.
DO tell me, then.
Sisters beau's photo is in it, said
little Eve. promptly. and mas recipe
for vanishin' cream is in 1t and lock
OF nv hair cut OF when I was a baby
is in it. and the ticket for pas watch
is in it,"
Evening star., 1921-03-06

these two hog-tied. when they were
willing to back him to the limit,
Sauer got cold feet"
"Sauer? That's a. new line. for a
crook" Admission, idly whiting a
pencil, looked up.
s.\AAIT." Parr was warming up
w After he had convinced the
experts, the inventor himself began
to have doubts. They were willing
to go ahead. but he wasn't. He got
the queer idea that he had been fool
ing himself, that there was flaw
somewhere. There was quite row.
believe: but he wouldn't go ahead.
They repeated that they were satlS-
fed. He told them he didn't think
their opinion was worth two whoops
Finally Brown, the banker. who saw
riches slipping away from him. asked
Sauer if he would be content to call In
an umpire and let him decide. Well
Sauer backed and filled. and finally he
said if they would call in an expert OF
authority. all right. lie
would abide by the verdict. He dldn
seem to be worrying over the fact
that he might be fooling them. That
was their lookout. He was AFRAID he
was foolng himself.
The functionary of police chuckied
softly to himself.
"Armiston," he said. you told me
Evening star., 1921-03-06
: Sour Grapes.
CONGRESSMAN was t,

"A CONGRESSMAN was talking in
n Atlantic City about ferocious
attack which an editor had made on
politics and politicians.
"sour grapes" he said. 'The man
wanted to run for Congress and his
party turned him down.
His talk now reminds mo Of the
chap who proposed to Lotta Golde,
the old-maid heiress. Lotta, the pro-
posal over, shook her head and said:
"'No. Mr.. Ostrander; a thousand
times no; 1t isn't merely that l do
not lovetyou; the truth is that you
are even repulsive to me. am
surprised that you risked this decla-
ration. Gould you not read your re-
lection In my face?'
'"The we'll known sour grape look
cleaned in young Ostrander's eyes
as he gave a harsh laugh and re-
".No. I was never any good at read
ing between the lneS."
Evening star., 1921-03-06

the grace of God-as some one said
somewhere said Ballard, eyeing the
cultivated circle. you or l might
have struck that blow. In each of US
is a moment of blind fury. waiting
to be summoned. Most of US escape
the summons. Pettibone didn't. What
then? Should his career of public
usefulness be annihilated simply be-
cause instinct overwhelmed reason,
for split second? ! say. no.
Il say. no." responded several of
the circle.
.Pettibone is a man of rare mind"
went on the sophist. He knew what
he had to lose. Therefore the more
reason to conceal his act. And he. a
chemist cried Ballard in disgust.
trips up on a problem a. schoolboy
wouldn't have misSed-the solvent
for gold
What is the defense"" asked
Admission, for Ballard was a famous
pleader.
None" said the lawyer savagely.
Not yet-not for another hundred
wears. Sauer was IL deSpi cable
swindler. a decent man, a righteous
Evening star., 1921-03-06
THEl PHANTOM ALIBI

tone: well. that's what happened to
our friend Sauer. He dissolved
"Dissolved?'
.te,,.pone's fingerp rintSw ere on one
end of that pipe" said the policeman:
Finger prints, bah: cried ARMS
ton, angrily. To think that even po-
lice bungling would lay a sordld
crime of this sort at the door of a
man of Dean Pettibone's prestige was
Il will allow you that said Parr.
But they led us to Petty. we
searched his place. Why. L don't
know. Only a fool would expect to
find anything there. Stiil, he was
the last man seen with Sauer alive
and something had happened TO Sauer.
In his laboratory Petty had a big lead
tank full of liquid. We asked him
what it was. He said it was resldues
Residues of what / don't know. w ell,
we drained that tank, and we found
this"
He pushed his chubby fingers into a
vest pocket and drew out a tiny ball
of tissue paper. which he unwrapped
carefully. He laid this small object
of irregular shape on the desk. Ar
miston stared at it. He examined II
under a magnifying glass.
Its gold, isn't it," he said, puzzled.
Parr nodded.
Its the residue of our frirnd
Sauer." he said, coldly. 1T is the
corpus deficit that's going to convict
Pettibone. It's the gold filling out
Evening star., 1921-03-06
Artistic Temperament.

THE late William Dean Howells
= had no faith in the Greenwich
Village doctrine that the artistic
temperament" pardons all things
that authors and actors do not have
to behave themselves like other men.
II used to know a poet" he said one
day at Kfttery Point. This poet was.
very conceited. He neglected his
wife. of courst.
His wife once took him TO task
for philandering. She wept as she
told how she had seen him drinking
champagne with a chorus girl. when
he was supposed to be at work on a
nany mann .
He didn't deny the charge.
az thought you understood. my
dear he said. that I am too good to
be true"
Evening star., 1921-03-06
By Frederick Irving Anderson

policeman and the anxious little old
maid.
A month passed. The rubber band
of public interest, measured by the
barometer of newspaper circulation
was moving on through other helds
of force. The vat murder had sub
sided. On the side of Pettibone there
was nothing to be expected. the
dean had contented himself with
single explicit statement, in the be
ginning. His respect for words ana
their uses gave his denial of guilt at
once a simplicity and completeness
that were almost classic. Here was
man accused of murder with no
resources save the dignity of his bare
word, who made no effort to conceai
his contempt for the stupidity or IN
flexible justice. The little SaVant
passed his days of waiting in cell
and amid peace and quiet that he had
always craved. but never before
achieved. He immured himself and
begged his friends to spare him, he
buried himself in his books.
The mighty voice of the press even
found time to record with much
Evening star., 1921-03-06
Lardner Makes Othello
Easy to Understand

and Iago tells him the best way
get his Job back is go ask Mrs. NJ
to put in a kind word for him wf
the gen. and then Iago fiNes II so a
Moor sees Cassie talking to teeN
madam and 1ago also hints TO Moor
that they been on friendly terms "A
long vile and Moor tells him 10 prove
il. Well il seems like Moor was onk
OF the kind OF men that gives ther
wife a handkerchief for a wedding
present. SO in the next scene the
Moors is talking together and Moor
has got a head cold and asks the Mrs.
10 loan him her handkerchief and she
pulls it out and drops IL and 1as9'
hicks IL up and takes IL to Cassios
who don't know whose is 1t. but
Evening star., 1921-03-06
BY RING w. LARDNER.

INO the Editor: Well since the last
time / wrote you 4 letter been
to the Manhattan opera house
and seen the Chicago opera
Co. that / use to see them free for
nothing when lived in old Chi. as the
society editor on one of the papers ust
to take ME along to tell her who was
who in the different boxes and what
their dress suit was made Of and etc.
but now got to pay $40 and up to get
in and up because l have not been in
n. Y. society long enough yet to know
everybody's 1st name. and besides
Evening star., 1921-03-06
THE Presenta-
tion of a Case
Unique in Detec-
tive Fiction by an
Author Who Has
Written Exten-
siively Along This
Particular Line.

//N r o! no." said Admission. the
extinct author. with the
air of a sorely tried man
doinc his hest q he civil