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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-01-21
WASTE OF BEEF
Thousands of Pounds In
Storage ROtting

Philadelphia Robert NJ. SINNERS,
state food agent, has condemned more
than 100000 pounds of beef because
it has been in storage more than Ia
months. The incident gives a start
ling insight into what has been go
ing on in the meat industry during
the past year when commissions have
probed and dealers have explained"
why prices are high.
The state food agent says the
seized meat represents only a small
part Of the meat held in storage for
long periods in this city, and that it
is about 5 per cent Of the meat held
in the Delaware storage house, where
it was found That figure means that
there are about 100000 pounds Of
meat stored in the one plant, In addi-
tion to the private cold storage plants
of the packers and wholesale butchers
in Philadelphia. there are are four
other public cold storage where large
quantities Of meat are being lePt.
As late as the end Of last June.
when meat prices in this city sud-
denly shot skyward, ana the beer n
demned by the state food agent had
been in storage eight months, togeth-
er with millions of other pounds, meat
dealers published the following rea-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-01-21
MOST IMPORTANT

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-01-21

proceeds to act on the equally sinister
theory that the employer has secured
a property right in the labor of 9th
ers. He is doing this without the
sanction of any act of the legislature,
Labor is not property. Human labor
is an attribute of human life, an in
separable part of man and cannot be
property unless man himself is prop
erty. Unless some steps are taken to
prevent this dangerous practice. the
growing number of court decisions
will ultimately give the form of es-
tablished law to the claim that labor
is property and that therefore man
himself is property. We are heading
straight towards slavery, forced tow
ard it by the many judges who are
now misusing their power in the in
junction courts"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-01-21
SOCIETY LIGHTS"
Just Plain Lobbyists For
Powerful Interests

Washingnto-Many society lights"
are just plain lobbyists for powerful
interests, according to Senator Ken
yon. The Iowa law maker does not
object to lobbying, but ne does pro-
test against the methods Of some .ob-
byists
"There has been testimony before
committees of social lobbies in the
city of Washington, of gentlemen
receiving funds from great interests
to use in social lobbying" he said.
"You can pick up the papers every
day and read of dinners and dances
and balls given by the Lord knows
whom-a favorite form of lobbying in
this city.
Il do not know that there is any
way of stopping that kind of lob
by; but there is existing now in the
city of Washington, and it is going
to grow, lobbying of certain kinds in
lumber interests, oil interests and
other big interests; men go out of
the senate and men go out of the
house and join up with these lobbies.
''The general practice of law in
Washington is coming to be synony
nous with general lobbying
Il have in my mind a list of gen
tlemen, some of whom are ex-mem-
bers of congress and ex-officials of
the government, here in Washington
in the interest of oil, lumber and
other questions before the depart
ments."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-01-21

Allen discuss his "can't-strike" law
in this city, and says:
"While granting the sincerity of the
Kansas governor, | could not escape
the conviction that he is shallow
man, withal smart one in the
American sense. And while l witness
ed 'shrewd' business men and sharp
professional men applaud | wondered
if they, any more than Governor Al
len, had thought cut the thing, had
seen the implications of tie Kansas
industrial court. For Instance: Gov
ernor Allen said his court was to fix,
not living wage, but fair and just
wage Now, history is not silent as
to what it means to fix wages by gov
ernment decree, be it legislative, roy
al mandate or judicial decision. Wage
fixing means price fixing, just as price
fixing means wage fixing.
IF the increase in wages is re-
fected in the cost of the product for
which the wages are paid, for how
long will the fixed wages be fair and
just either to the receiver or the pay
er of the wages?
"It is in this manner that state
capitalism, not even state socialism,
contrasting the latter with guild and
other democratic forms of socialism
will be instituted in America, as was
in Prussia and in New Zealand, a
RECOMMENDATION of our entire life. Many
other considerations might be advanc-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-01-21
Iron Workers to stick.

Announcement was made by officers
Of the Amalgamated Association OF
Iron, Steel and Tie Workers and repre-
sentatives of the independent sheet
and tin plate manufacturers that work
In the independent mills will continue
without interruption, pending negotia-
tions on the next wage scale The
present wage scale expired July I. The
joint conference committee represent
ing manufacturers and the amalga-
mated association continued In con-
ference at Columbus, o.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-01-21
CA'LD SAVING WORK
: IN ARMENIA TOLD
BY AN AMERICAN
Charles v. Vickrey Gives Facts
of Near East Relief Pro-
gram for Orphans.

Charles v. vickrey, general secre-
tary of the Near East Relief, has re-
turned from a trip of inspection
throughout Central Europe and the
Near East, and made a report to the
trustees of the Near East Relief in
which he covers in detail the actual
work of child saving now being con-
Quoted by the great American relief
organization in the Near East Mr..
Vickrey believes that "a few millions
OF dollars wisely expended at this time
in the education of the children of
the Near East. in character building
and In moulding these young lives,
will be worth vastly more to the world
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-01-21

ed, but business men in particular
should we'll ponder where the Kan
sas industrial court of wage fixing by
government will lead to.
"One cannot jump half way down
Niagara"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-01-21
sons for the advance in prices:

sons for the advance in prices:
"a scarcity of beef because it is
the off season. the industry has not
recovered from the heavy wartime
drain, the high cost of corn and other
fattening feed, unsettled transports
tion conditions, cattle raisers not find
1ng market for hides and fats, the
difficulty of obtaining farm and ranch
labor and the high prices paid sucn
.abor."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-01-21
CANT STRIKE"
LAWS
Only Mean State Control,
Says Henderson

Cincinnati.-Laws to set wages by
the state logically lead to state cap
italism, says Alfred Henderson, writ
ing in the Railway Clerk.
The writer listened to Governor
The New York herald., 1921-11-08
Breaking a Musical Idol.

A brutal deed was done recently at
the Paris Conservatoire. They took
six old violins, including instruments
made by STgADIvARrUs and AMATI
and six modern violins and had them
played in the dark before an audi.
ence of musicians. Neither the player
nor the listeners knew in what order
the violins were played. The critical
audience took notes as the blind con.
test went on. Afterward they voted
for No. /, No. z, No. IL, or whatever
number the violin whose tone they
liked best was disguised under. Mod.
ern violins won first and second
honors.
Thus the conservatory destroyed an
old superstition. 1t was a suggestive
ordeal. Suppose the same test should
be applied to other ancient things
widely believed in and beloved? Old
wines, old cheese, old pictures, old
pipes--is the faith in these to be an.
initiated by such iconoclasts as these
Parisians? We hear New Workers.
often say that the old subway is bet.
ter than the new one; Is 1t possible
that they are wrong?
The New York herald., 1921-11-08
How Much Can We Tax Riches ?

1t is tribute to the ability and
courage of the present Secretary of
the Treasury, ANDREW w. MELLON,
that he is able to put financial pro-
4osals before the committees of Con-
gress in a manner which awakens
their interest and at times arouses
their deepest curiosity. There is
nothing unusual in the fact that he
stirred up a hornets nest among
some of our national legislators
when he told them, as Senator LA
TOILETTE says he did, that wealth
could not and would not pay the
taxes necessary to keep the Govern
ment in funds.
When we speak Of wealth we do
not mean simply money. Wealth, as
Secretary MELLON would describe it
and as Senator LA TOILETTE would
classify 1t, has two distinct mean
ings. Anybody with even a small
bit of economic understanding can
readily perceive that the national
wealth, estimated at about $3.50, 0,000,-
100000, consists of fixed property
like houses, railways, bridges, farms,
mines and cash. Some Of this wealth
cannot be displaced or transferred
from one place to another. There
is no possible way to move it; there
is no way to cash it all in.
But Senator LA TOILETTE acts as
il he had the idea that all wealth Is
in cash and all the Government has
to do is to say that certain per-
centage is to be paid as taxes. This
cannot be done, because as soon as
taxes soar so high that 1t becomes
necessary for rich persons to con.
vert their permanent property into
cash so as to pay their share infla.
tion results. There is nothing into
which this extraordinary margin OF
fixed property can be converted to
make it liquid except paper currency
and SO the Government has to start
the printing press.
The complications which arise from
this stage onward are numerous
but we know from the experience
of the high taxation during the war
that wealth. az Il IL usually described
The New York herald., 1921-11-08

culosis exceeded that of the preceding
year, owing probably to complica-
tions with the influenza scourge. The
drop in 1919 brought the rate slightly
below normal figures again.
Several factors are concerned in
the gradual conquest of tuberculosis.
The elimination of impure and in
fected milk has undoubtedly saved
the lives of many young children. In
New York city the death rate from
tuberculosis among young children Is
now almost negligible, owing largely
to effective regulations governing the
sale of milk.
The passing Of back to back tene-
ment houses has also been a factor
In the prevention of tuberculosis, as
we'll as other infectious diseases. Sta
tistics of the London Medical Office
show that two decades ago the death
rate in localities where back to back
tenements were the rule was So to
the thousand. With the doing away Of
these denominations the rate was low.
cred one-half. The adoption Of
asphalt paving in New York city low
cred the death rate from tuberculosis
In the congested parts Of the city,
and. incidentally, the rate from other
infectious diseases.
Cleaner and better food, cleaner
streets, cleaner air and more sunlight
are accomplishing the conquest of the
white plague. One occasionally reads
that tuberculosis is disease of mod
ern civilization. In part this is true;
but it would be more correct to
charge tuberculosis against infected
food, infected air and the uncleanly
conditions in which the tubercle
bacillus thrives.
The New York herald., 1921-11-08
The Indians Tribute.

One of the picturesque incidents Of
the ceremonies at Arlington on Fri
day will be the tribute of the Amer
lean Indian to the Unknown Soldier.
After wreaths have been placed on
the tomb by member of the House
of representatives, British war
mother and an American war mother,
an indian chief will step forward and
lay his war bonnet and his coup stick
on the last resting place of the Un.
known. The coup stick is the baton
of the Indian warrior; the war bon
net. each feather of which represents
some deed of valor, his helmet.
That the. red man, 1900 Of whose
breed went into the great war, should
be thus signally represented on
Armistice Day is due largely to the
efforts of RoDMAN WANAMAKEE,
founder and president of the Ma
tional American Indian Memorial
Association, which for years has
worked for the welfare OF the Indian
as well as for the preservation of
the things that tell of his history.
The Indian tribute will be another
scene in the remarkable drama of
November II.
The New York herald., 1921-11-08
American Line Crews.
Only II Per Cent. Aliens on the
Mongolia on n Typical Trip.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In your
paper of October 26 American Sailor
made the statement concerning the Man
churia and Mongolia Of the American
Lines service to Hamburg. "There are
less than 10 per cent. Americans on
those ships" referring to officers and
crow. and he added. Most Of the un-
licensed officers are English. 95 per cent
Of the crews are English or Germans"
For the information of this corre-
spondent and in defence of the Amer
lean Line. the oldest line under the Stars
and Stripes in the Atlantic, we state
as fact that all the deck officers on
the Mongolia are native born Americans
and all the engineer officers are native
born except one. who is a naturalized
citizen.
The following statement shows the
nationality Of the officers and crew on
the Mongolia on her last voyage out OF
New York, beginning October 20. which
is typical Of the average representation
of citizens on this ship and her sister
ship, the Manchuria
The New York herald., 1921-11-08
Conquest of the White Plague.

The conquest OF the white plague
seems to be assured in q not very re-
mote future. During the last twenty
years in the United States the death
rate from tuberculosis has been re-
duced from a little more than 2 to
126 to the thousand of population.
In New York city it has been lowered
from 229 to 1.09 to the thousand: !:
that Is, the rate has been cut in two,
with slight leeway to spare.
Equally gratifying is the fact that in
every registration State and city the
reduction in the death rate from this
disease has been very marked.
The reduction is shown not only
in the United States but in the
greater part of Europe as well. In
Great Britain, in the cities of Brad.
ford Birmingham and Edinburgh
the rate is little lower than In
New York city. and London pairs al
most evenly with New York with @
rate of los.
In 1918 the death toll from tuber
The New York herald., 1921-11-08
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Election Day. Polls open A. NJ. to
p. NJ.
Symposium on garbage disposal and harbor
pollution at q meeting OF the Sanitary Engi-
neering Division Of the Hcal-' Institute,
American Museum of Natural History. Sew
enty-seventh street and Central Park West.
p. M.
"Tolk Lore Of the American INDIAN pub
lie lecture by Miss Mabel F. Knight. st. An
selm's Hall. linton avenue and 155th street,
The Bronx, S:15 p. NJ.
Frank Aivah Parsons will give an Illus
trated lecture on Art. Dress and Common
Sense" before the Brooklyn Institute Of Art,
and Sciences, Brooklyn Academy of Music.
3 80 r. M.
New York Lodge, No. I. b. P. o. n,
dance. clubhouse. 1os West Forty-third
Sphinx Club. dinner. Waldorf Astoria. 7
NJ.
..villase Night" costume ball. Hotel Astor.
0 80 p. NJ.
Rockefeller Foundation. dinner. Hotel Com
modore, 80 p. NJ.
Junior Emergency Relief Society, meeting
of working class. Hotel Bltmore. 0 A. NJ.
Daughters of Pennsylvania, meeting. Wal
dorf-Astoria, 2 p. NJ.
Business Mems League. reception. Hotel
Commodore. 8 p NJ.
Society for Political Study, meeting, Hotel
Astor, =. M.
The New York herald., 1921-11-08

This city must decide to-day
whether it wants four years of in
telligent government, of increase i'll
the school facilities, of proper return
from the great municipal docks, Of
freedom from Tammany contract
greed, Of rescue of the police from
disintegration. and, in general, an
administration more trustworthy,
more dignified and more economical
than that which has been in power.
II New York wants these things it
has only to vote for CURRAN, Lock.
WOOD and Gu.RoY.
If it wants four more years of dock
scandal, of police clubbings, Morton
Petes and flourishes and ruffles; Of
honey for money" markets, Of bear
garden Board of Estimate meetings,
of Hettrick letter writing, of un-
solved traction problems and of gen.
eral incapability, then the Tammany
ticket is the one for New York to
vote to-day.
Four years is long time. Some
OF the part time school children will
be voters before the next Mayoralty
election arrives.
The New York herald., 1921-11-08

veterans would necessarily be pro-
NOTED without regard to the rights
of other public servants who. by rea-
son OF experience and length of SER
vice, are now under the rules entitled
to consideration
That e, = the effort embodied in
this amendment to create privi
legged caste in the population sue
ceeds women might as well look or
the civil service in New York State
end it's counties and municipalities
as closed to them for at least gen
Grafton to come.
The New York herald., 1921-11-08
Rembrandts From Russia.

The two Rembrandts from the col
lection Of Prince YUssopoFF which
were recently sold In London and
purchased, according to the Times,
by JOSEPH E. WIDENER are among the
first of the great art treasures Of
Russia to be put upon the market
since the rule of the Moscow Soviet
was set up in that country. These
paintings are such splendid examples
Of this masters work that their re-
covery has aroused the keenest in
terest in what other works of art
have escaped destruction and may
yet be brought out of Russia.
The two canvases, which are. COM
panion pieces, were painted about
1862; one has been generally sup
posed to be portrait Of the artists
son, TIrUs, and the other Of his
wife. They were shown before in
western Europe when they were
lent to the Rembrandt exhibition at
Amsterdam in 1898. They created q
considerable sensation at that time,
being referred to as those very won
derful pictures which come out Of
Russia" and as displaying the "im.
mortal, unchanging interest" pos
sessed by REMBRANDT's portraits.
It is said that the canvases were
sold for f2O0. 900, although when they
were first offered twice that amount
was asked for them. They are re-
ported to have been smuggled out Of
Russia by being concealed among
other possessions Of Prince YUsso-
roFr which were brought to England
aboard a British warship.
Mr.. WIDENER before his purchase OF
these two paintings had ten exam
pies of REMBRANDT's work. among
them "Saskia," 1.-THE Philosopher"
and "The MILL" for which he paid
Lord LANspowNE S500.000 a few
years ago. The addition Of the can.
vases from Prince YUssoPoFF's gal
lery makes his collection the finest
Of this masters work in private
house in the world. These, together
with the splendid portraits gathered
by Mr.. ALTMAN and on exhibition at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
give to America a greater number
Of REMBEANDTs work and finer ex.
amples of his paintings than any
other country except the Netherlands
can show.
The New York herald., 1921-11-08
The Paris ''Herald."
A Good American Notes Changes
and Plans His Future.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Fol
r:any years I used to see now and then
In The Nep York Herald of Paris the
plaintive query Of the Old Philadelphis
Lady relative to the difference between
centigrade and Fahrenheit. In those
days one OF my reasons for reading the
paper was to see II some kind editor or
subscriber would ever answer the ques-
tion. which was printed iaily. month
after month and year after year.
At length the paper Of October 20.
1921. has come to my notice. ed to my
delight / find the question omitted and
the answer given. As every New York
reader Of course knows the formula for
conversion of centigrade into Fahren-
heit I need not repeat 1t hero, but will
suggest that Philadelphia papers please
copy.
Like THE New York HERALD Of this
city. the European edition shows re-
n,arkable Improvement over the old days.
1t is bright, newsy Journal. well
printed in the American language with
few columns in French.
Some day when / die shall-being
a good American--presently fnd myself
In that dear Paris. In front of me at
a cheerful, unhomelike cafe table will
be Tho NeU York Hrald of Pdy1s and
mayhap. to keep It company. some other
aperitif. and shall happily sit hour
after hour turning Fahrenheit into cent?
grade and night into day.
RIcHARD p. READ.
NEW YORK, November z.
The New York herald., 1921-11-08
FRANCE TO SELL FLEET
OF MERCHANT SHIPS
Hundred Wood, Steel and
Concrete Vessels at Bargain.

Special Gable to THE New York HERALD.
Copyright; 1921, by THE New YoRK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Paris, Nov. Z.
Bargains in ships are to be offered In
the next few days when the French
Government decides to dispose Of the
French merchant fleet constructed dur
ing and since the war and which at
present represents loss of at least
billion and a half francs, which are to be
charged to Government management.
hundred wood, steel and concrete
cargo vessels. totalling 100000 tons. are
to be offered to bidders at prices adj
mittedly half billion francs under the
cost of construction.
In order to get as much as possible
from these Ships however. Under Secre-
tary lilo Is proposing that the Cabinet
approve some scheme whereby payments
will be accepted in instalments, only
with the provision that IL the exchange
rate improves or decreases the pur-
chase price of the vessels VIII be al
tered--naturally In the Governments
favor.
The New York herald., 1921-11-08
Differing Stars.

The degree to which the public, evil
IDENTIFY through motives of economy,
is abstaining from pleasures to which
it has been accustomed is, to judge
by appearances, the same in one part
of the country that it is in another
Everywhere there seems to be the
willingness to pay-to pay, moreover,
extravagantly if that be necessary
for the best. But for the ordinary
or merely acceptable entertainment
there Is not cent.
Managers Of musical enterprises
saw indications before the season ac-
tually began that there might be less
prosperous times than they had ear
lier reason to expect. The beginning
Of musical activities convinced them
that their apprehensions were we'll
founded. Many contemplated per-
formances, vocal and instrumental
were given up. Undoubtedly there
will be sharp decline in the earn
ings Of various artists from the fig
ures on which they set their hopes
during the summer. Moreover, this
loss will fall on those least able to
bear It.
There has been no sign Of lack of
means to support the appearances of
the most famous virtuosi in every
field of music. Distinguished con.
ductors Of orchestras, singers of the
first rank and instrumentalists of es-
tablished reputation are faced by the
same large audiences to which they
have been accustomed in the MOS;
prosperous times. They have no
cause to complain of decreased pat
ronage. The managers Of such ar.
lists are indeed surprised by the ex-
tent to which they are finding public
support at such period.
But performers of smaller reputa.
tion, those only on the path to fame
and those who are by nature limited
to less extended appeal-they are
finding the times hard. Many of
their engagements have been def
nitely abandoned. For others there is
scant attendance at concerts devoted
to the exploitation of their talents.
Evidently there is money to be ex-
pended on the shining stars in the
armament Of music. There is cold
winter ahead of the others.