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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03

half over, and it is necessary to
make appeals to humane citizens if
scores of children and infirm adults
are to be saved.
A survey of the Waterbury schools
disclosed that more than 900 child
rem are in a dangerous state of under
nourishment. The Red Cross has
opened food stations in several schools
and has been distributing 700 quarts
of milk a day to children
Fifteen hundred persons have been
registered as unemployed in the Mu-
nicipal employment office at New
Britain An almost impossible task
has been imposed on the city charity
department Many applicants for aid
have been found to be without food or
adequate clothing
Miss Elizabeth Boswell, secretary
of organized charities at Meriden,
says that in scores Of homes small
children have lived since Christmas
on bread and coffee
Little children crying for food,
their parents and older brothers and
sisters unemployed and hungry, is the
pathetic problem that charity work
ers in New Haven, Danbury and in
dustlial towns are endeayoring to
meet to the best of their ability
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS ON ITS LAST LEGS;
I'VE ARE in THR0ES OF DEATH, DECLARES OFFICIAL
C0NFISCATE WAR PROFITS
Action of Italian Goverme mt Should Send Cold Chills
Down American Proiteers' Backs

that those who had profited by the
war must pay for the war The new
law provides that before assessing
the war profits the following deduc-
tions are to be made: Ordinary in
come, based on the average for 1913
and 1914, but in no case less than
8 per cent of the capital invested; !;
all taxes and super-taxes paid on
profits and all other payments to
state, provincial and municipal au
thorities; expenses incurred in incor,
porating; income tax paid on interest
due to stock and bondholders and on
salaries of employees; amounts due on
social insurance set aside for welfare
work among employees or paid out of
net income for charitable work, be-
sides general exemption of 10000
lire. A single return is to be made
for the period August l, 1914, to
June 80, 1920, and payment is to be
made in bi-monthly instalments.
What sum will be realized from
this extraordinary tax it is, of course,
impossible to guess, but legislation of
this type explains much of Giolitti's
popularity, as well as the rapid rise
in the value of Italian money"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
BY Charles M. Kelley

Private ownership of transporta-
tion is on its last legs. Railroad off,
cials admit it. They have frankly
informed members of congress that
unless solution of their multiplying
difficulties is discovered without de-
lay many of the carriers will ''lose
their grip" and go under.
Eve are in the throes of DEATH"
spokesmen for the Association of
Railway Executives told the senate
committe on interstate commerce.
"A few of the roads may pull through
but | fear that many will be unable
to solve their problems. That means
insolvency and receiverships-an a
very grave situation for the business
Of the nation"
'Unless you can bridge the gap be-
tween your expenses and your in
comes," Senator Cummins, joint au-
thor of the iniquitous transportation
act, sadly replied, ''you cannot con-
tinue for another year. That is plain,
isn't it?"
Perfectly plain" admitted Julius
Kruttschnitt, chairman of the board
of the Southern Pacific.
A more depressed set of specialists
never foregathered than are now
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
CHILDREN STARVING
Ambition of Connecticut Employers to Make Workers
Eat Out of Their Hands is Being Realized
Condition of Poverty Among Populace Without Parallel
In Industrial History of New England,
Says New York Newspaper

Employers of Connecticut have
more than realized their ambition to
make the workers "eat out of their
hands" They have brought thou
sands of people to a state of actual
restitution. Perhaps similar situa-
tions exist elsewhere, but there are no
enterprising reporters present to re-
cord these epics of human misery and
suffering
The New York Herald has been in
vestigating conditions in manufactur-
ing districts contiguous to the metrop-
oils and recites heart breaking story
of abject privation and want 1t
finds in Stratford, where 5000 work
ers have been idle since last fall, "a
condition of poverty among her pop
ulace without parallel in the indus
trial history of New England" Wo-
men and children are starving, and
emergency charity organizations have
been formed to give relief before
many of them succumb.
1t was not realized that conditions
were SO bad until five children tainted
one day in a public school School Of
ficials made an investigation and
found that they had been without food
for days, and that hundreds of other
children were undernourished
More than half of the pupils in pub
lie schools have since been fed at the
beginning of the daily sessions.
The workers, the Herald reports,
are industrious and thrifty and saved
money during the war, but the pro-
tracted period of idleness has exhaus-
ted their resources "and they are now
sitting and watching their families
slowly starve to death"
Families of five subsist on a bottle
of milk and loaf of bread per day
Many families alternate in eating
meals Those who have breakfast fast
until supper time, and those who eat
luncheon must get along until break
fast next morning.
The charity appropriation of STRAIT
ford was exhausted before winter was
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
OPPOSE SALES TAX

Washington.-"On of the most in
iquitous impost measures ever devils
ed" was the reference made to the
proposed sales tax by Walter w. Lig-
gett, of Chicago, testifying before the
senate committee.
at harks back to the days of Rome
when the tax gathering privilege was
sold by the government" said the wit
ness. eve believe it will raise be-
tween $1,000, 100000 and $3,O00,000,-
900 of revenue, but will cost the con-
sumer $5,OOO,OOO,O0O to $S,O00,0 100000
adding from Is to 80 per cent to the
cost of goods to the consumers. In
stead of aiding business, no better way
could be devised to injure it, because
it will tend to decrease buying
The sales tax was urged by Meyer
D. Rothschild, of New York, who said
the jewelry interests of the country
favor it. This witness is one of the
persons mentioned in resolution in
troduced in the house for an inquiry
into methods pursued by sales tax
propagandists.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
Unless Gap Between Expenses
And Income Is Bridged, Roads
Cannot Continue Another Year
condition that legislation will not
help an incurable malady.
Government Ownership Coming

Government Ownership Coming
When such astute defenders of p1i-
vate control as Senator Cummins is
forced to admit that il is failure and
cannot exist, the end of its ruinous
rule cannot be far off.
To save the managers the govern
ment will find it necessary TO heavily
subsidize the carriers, and it is in
conceivable that any politician who is
solicitous of his future will go as far
as that. The stencil of the billion
dollar guaranty that was given to the
of resumed private operation is still
in the nostrils of the public. 1t was
the most malodorous legislative mis-
| carriage that has emanated from con-
gress in many years. 1t served mere
ly to empty the treasury without do
ing anything of real value for the
railroads. 1t encouraged a season of
riotous expenditures and diversion of
funds from the railroad treasures
into locomotive and car plants con-
trolled by railroad officials, criminal
acts that are now receiving attention
| from the interstate commerce COM
mission. 1t is highly possible that
the offending roads will be required
to return to the government large
sums-aggregating for the country,
it is said, nearly billion dollars
that were unlawfully paid for repairs.
When the roads receive their sur
charges their financial complexities
will be increased and they will be
just that much nearer the falling-of
place.
Only a miracle can save the situa-
| ton, and congress is not, as has been
demonstrated many times, miracle
| worker. 1t has but hazy conception
of the elements of this problem, hav
| ing relied heretofore upon the advice
so freely given by railroad lobbyists.
Those gentlemen exhausted their de-
mands when the transportation act
was written and now have nothing to
suggest in the way of amelioratives
unless it be continued subsidies, and
congressman are scared stiff when
that alternative is suggested. They
are not going to put themselves deep
er in popular disfavor if they can
help it.
With all roads blocked save the OBJ
vous and sensible one of government
ownership, congress is going to take
it willy-nilly, and that before many
months have been rolled back on the
scroll of time"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03

New York.-The New York World
prints this editorial, which will send
cold chills down the spine of Ameri-
can profteers, who are worried lest
labor unions secure the right to bar
gain collectively, and whether courts
may continue the use of the illegal la
Dor injunction:
italian lire are worth today nearly
double what they were worth four
months ago, having risen more rap
idly than the money of any other ma
tion in Europe. The reason for this
phenomenal stride in the direction of
return to prosperity in a country
that is among the poorest, which has
few natural resources, few articles to
export, is to be found in the courage
with which its statesmen have faced
the financial situation. In the inter
view which Premier Giolitti gave to
the Associated Press he pointed out
that if the present taxes were dis
tributed throughout the entire popu-
lation every man, woman and child
in Italy would be paying $50 year
to the government.
There is, however, another tax to
which Giolitti made no reference, be-
cause it is as yet uncollected, and one
that illustrates better than any other
the daring of the government. United
States Commercial Attache H. c. Nc
Lean writes from Rome to the depart
ment of commerce in Washington that
the decree conhscating all war profits
went into effect on April 2.
mo other nation has ventured to
confiscate all war profits. But Pre-
mier Giolitti, faced with the problem
Of an enormous deficit, announces
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
FIGHT INSURANCE BILL

Washington. Every influence
that private insurance companies can
command is drawn into fight against
the Fitzgerald-Jones bill, which pro-
vides for compulsory workmen's COM
pensation insurance. While this bill
would only apply to the District of
Columbia, its moral effect would be
widespread and would be serious
blow to the business of profiteering
in the injuries and deaths of workers
throughout the country.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
STATE UNIONS TO
MEET

Brainerd, Minn.-The annual con
vention of the Minnesota State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor will be held in this
city, beginning July IT,
Vancouver, Wash.-The annual con-
vention Of the Washington State Fed
Grafton of Labor will be held here be-
ginning Monday, July H.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03

WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
ISSUED ~ f'Hn
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-29
Like Father, Lille Son.

Among the members of a firm hav
ing South American connections arc
the Joneses, father and son. Recently
Jones, jr., who had just returned from
Brazil, was relating some rather tai
stories of life down there, when he
asked;
Now, during that awful heat, what
90 you suppose it was, aside from tie
temperature, that made it impossible
for us to take our after dinner siesta r
why, WHAT" asked guillible sis.
ter.
The peculiar noises" continued
Jones, jr. "You see, the coffee was
popping on the tree. The sun was 50
hot the grains just roasted before they
we're picked"
Whereupon dad yawned
Rather warm down there" he adj
mitted But when was in Brazil
YOU couldn't sleep at night Every
once in while there would sound lie
most extraordinary cracklin noise that
ever fell upon human ear"
"What were the sounds, dsd2"
asked Jones, jr., with grin.
''The rubber trees stretching them
selves" answered dad.-Pittsbur
Telegraph
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-29
LIGHTNING
ENTERED BED
And Frustrated Man and
Young Son at Millville,
Mass.
REPORTED
CRITICALLY ILL
Storm About Woonsocket
Most Severe in
Years

Woonsocket, R. l., July 29.-As re-
suit of the most severe electrical storm
in years about 10 o'clock last night in
this vicinity telephone service in the
suburban sections is demolished and
no trolley cars have entered this city
from Worcester since ten o'clock last
night, due it is reported to trouble at
the power stations on the line.
During the storm lightning struck
house at Millville, Mass, and pros
trated father and four year old son
who were sleeping in the bed. The child
is said to be in a critical condition.
The house was practically destroyed
by fire which followed Woonsocket
sent fire apparatus to the, scene.
The storm here was the third of the
night, two having passed around the
city earlier in the evening.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-29
Croquet in Vermont.

When croquet first from Paris land
Appeared upon New England's strand
Oh! what transformation fell
On young folks, and on old as. well;
Oh! what general change It made
In all who longed to play, or played
From Hayscales place, thousand feet
Each way, the game engrossed our
street;
| The grass in every yeoman's yard
| Got thinner as his game" got hard.
In dooryards where for years and years
| The plantains pulled each Others ears
The hired man was found at dawn
wheeling something off or on;
I've even seen him take a pin
/ And prick some seeds of grass seed in !;
| The space this side our henhouse run
Saw lots of landscape work begun,
And once, they said, game was found
Inside the Center burying ground
Each buggy that you passed OF met
Had in behind a croquet set:
The sons of Gideon let things slide,
The Alter Guild took sick and died /;
New social sets appeared in town
And Mae MacMimms met Bulbeye
Brown;
The church settees was all about,
The merchants sold their lanterns out !;
The worst disease at Pringles Point
Was whackerated ankle joint
AT Jest this time Sylvetus Mower
And Job l. Jaquith kept our store;
Twas job that fell, and day and night
He shot croquet with Preacher White;
Poor Vete, deserted, left and let,
Resolved he'd pop the preachers set
So jest at 10 one Sabbath day,
When meeting folks was on their way,
Wildeyed, axe-srmed and cursing loud
He pressed right through the Sunday
crowd.
A pair of nippers first he drew
And nipped each wicket wire in two:
He chopped and split each mallet head
From green right down to stake to
red;
He broke the handles on his knee
And slung EN- fur as you could see;
The box he smashed, the rules he took,
He threw the balls in Beaver brook,
And then let out so fierce shrek
1t hung around the hills a week
of course, the town was kinder stirred,
OF course, a lot of talk was heard
OF "trespass," prison fence" and like,
But no one had blow to strike:
The game it takes a saint to play
And never cheat, ebbed fast away;
Society reformed again,
And julie DE Smith shook Hilo Ben;
We heard no more of ankle Joint"
And all was peace at Pringle's Point.
Daniel L. Cady
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-29
WAR WOUNDED /.
| TO BE EXAMINED
To Make Correct Rating
AS To Permanent Dis
ability
10000 CASES ARE
TO BE REVIEWED
AS Result of Ruling BY
Comptroller of the
Currency

Washington, D. C. July 29,-Review
of some 10000 war veterans rated per
manently disabled was ordered yester
day by the war risk bureau as the
result of ruling by the comptroller OF
the treasury. 1t had been customary
bureau officials explained, to change the
rating of veteran from temporary
to permanent disability after he had
been six months in a hospital.
The comptroller's opinion, it was ex-
planned, requires that each case be
Judged on it's individual merits after
medical examination. The loss of COM
pensation to the veterans, officials said,
would vary in different cases by a
change in rating but could not be de-
ttsmined until after the review.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-29
Sandwich Serving.

The sandwich really has two offices
One is to provide an easily eaten BIT
OF nourishment when more elaborate OF
| lengthy service would be inconvenlent
| That is the informal sandwich.
| The other is to provide a dainty and
tempting morsel when anything more
substantial would be too much.
The Swiss cheese and mustard sand
witch is an instance OF the first type.
The pate-de fois gras sandwich is an
instance of the second
So whether you want a substantial
meal that you can eat on the run, or
whether you want a dainty bite that
YOU can take without interference to
your appetite an hour or so before din
ner-you have the sandwich to fall
back on, says the Boston Herald.
That the sandwich has proved itself
as a very important part of modern
life is shown by the fact that there is
an almost infinite variety of sand
witches now. There was a time when
lettuce sandwiches and Jelly sand
witches and caviar sandwiches were the
usual sorts served AT tea time. Now we
have dozens OF usual sorts" In fact.
the idea seems to be to get something
unusual. if this unusualness is only at
tanned through the use of some differ
ent seasoning of spice,
In tea room where sandwiches are
one of the luncheon specialties the bus.
mess women who frequent il are al.
ways interested in the new combina-
tions presented as sandwich filings.
Usually the Filings are delicious.
though once in while the combina-
ton is rather forced, Simply to gain a
new effect.
One filling they use Is made Of Amer
lean cheese chopped fine and mixed
with chill sauce-a filling and delicious
combination of hearty luncheon sand
witch, but of course, quite out of the
question for a tea-time sandwich
Another filling is made OF raisins and
nuts, mixed to a paste with cream.
This, YOU see, would be quite delicious
made into tiny sandwiches for the tea
table, although in big sandwich it Is
hearty enough TO be satisfying for
luncheon.
Of course, everybody knows that the
dainty making Of sandwiches has more
to do with their temptingness than
anything else Good bread OF the right
texture, the best butter, sharp knife
and a neat habit Of piling the finished
product on the plate, make really
tempting sandwiches.
Dorothy Dexter
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-29
ORIGIN OF DRINKING ToAsTS.
Feminine and Aqueous, Says Stuy-
vesant Fish to Alumni.

The origin of drinking toasts was
defined by Stuyyesant Fish, banker, one
OF the | survivors of the class of 1871
of Columbia university, as POSTMASTER
at the annuel alumni luncheon the
other day.
what is toasti" he asked, adding
zone of the books published before we
lost our liberty to restrain our own APP
petites says
THE toasted biscuits, though long
since disused as an ingredient of punch
formed, from a very early period, a
favorite addition TO many old English
drinks
Promising that, in the reign Of
Charles II, it was the fashion for ladies
attired in dresses made for the purpose
TO battle publicity in the City of Bath,
the origin of toasts is thus told.
1t happened on a public day cele-
brated beauty was in the Cross Bath,
and one of her admirers took glass of
the water in which she stood and drank
her health TO the company There was
one in the place, gay fellow, who
offered 10 jump in, and swore though
hc liked not the liquor" he would have
the toast" He was opposed in his reso-
luton; yet this whim gave foundation
tc the present honor which is done to
the lady we mention in our liquor, who
has ever since been called toast
Thus we see," MIR. Fish concluded,
that the origin of toasts was, like that
of all things Misunderstanding and also
aqueous. May these facts excuse me
for being necessary To the commission
of that which our fathers considered
the unforgivable sin-drinking toasts in
c. ID water.-New York Tribune.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-29
Thin Pocket Knives are Now the
Style.

Few men, apparently, realize that
there are fashions in pocket knives,
yet there have been several distinct
changes in the popular styles of knives
in the last 20 years. Around 1900
the popular American knife was a rath-
er elaborate affair, styled to meet the
freakish competition of foreign man
ufacturers, who seemed to feel that an
artists appearance was preferred to a
keen blade. In those days also the
value Of pocket knives was measured
by the number of blades and useful
instruments, such as nail files, cork.
screws, etc, which, they carried.
With the adoption Of smaller pock
cts In mems clothes. however. bulky
knives have become relies Of the past.
American cutlery makers. like the
watch manufacturers, have styled their
products along more handy and com
pact lines. The most popular model
now is the two-bladed jackknife.
Pocket knives made in this country
are closely fitted into handles rarely
much thicker than a sixteenth of an
inch. To accomplish this, and at the
same time produce knlIe that VIII
be Of service to its owner, requires
considerable skill Only the best steel
can be used and the grinding has to
be done most carefully. The thinner
the steel Of the blade, OF course, the
better the knife will cut, and the
grinding down Of the blades 10 the
proper thickness Is in itself an art.
Although the demand for thin
knives is, doubtless, the greater at the
present time, there Is still use for the
heavy pocket knife The former are
ideal for all ordinary uses. bat hunt.
ers, fishermen, boy scouts and other
lovers Of the great outdoors" still
carry bulky knives made for their spe-
cial requirements-New York Times.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-29
Girl Offers Garter for identification

Girl Offers Garter for Identification
The head Of big downtown institu
tion was once giving lecture on the
work of tie paying teller and, as Ho.
mer occasionally nodded. this man felt
justified in lapsing toward the end OF
his talk, into an informal narrative Of
some of his early experiences He told
Of the natural reluctance Of a bank IA
refuse to cash a check for one entitled
Ia the money who might not be fully
or regularly identified and of various
ways in which an experienced teller
satisfies himself Of an applicants good
faith.
"Once a charming young woman pre-
scented a small check at nv window,
said the speaker. "She was transpar-
emily honest, but had no acquaintance
in the bank nor any letters or other
papers with her. ! asked her II she
had a handkerchief or some article Of
jewelry marked with her name or mi
tials After a moments deep thought
her face frightened and she asked;
would an initiated garter buckle
do"
In the tumult that followed a bud
ding fnsncier near the back Of the
room raised his voice 70 ask. in a tone
of detached scientific inquiry:
ibid she get the money!
Young man, answered the great
one. Il have to remind you that a
banks relations with is clients are
often highly confidential. Washing
ton Journal
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-29

In every other city of any
size, other newspapers are
printed and other people
read them in the same intens-
i've way. In the great
stretches of rural communi-
ties the newspapers from the
cities radiate out through the
mail boxes.
North America is literally
bound together and welded
into a continent with COM
mon knowledge. and COM
mon impulses-by its 3d.
100000 daily newspaper cir
culation.
Newspaper readers have
come to look on the daily adj
vertising as part of the news.
They turn to their news
paper when they want to
buy, just as they turn to it
for the ball score or the lat
est developments across the
sea.
Localmerchants know this
and thew know they can
build a larger volume Of