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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-18
RAIL Law CONDEMNED

Des Moines. - The Cummins- Esch
railroad law was condemned at con-
ference of governors and other state
officials of middle western states in
this city.
"The Cummins- Esch law" said
Governor Blaine, of Wisconsin, "dis-
courages efficient and responsible
management, for it guarantees the
carriers a fixed return. Railroad
stocks are greatly inflated and the
fixed guarantee is upon the inflated
value, commonly known as 'watered
stock
"A guarantee to a private enter
prise is dangerous and vicious, yet
there is no more justification for
guaranteeing a return on railroad
Investments than guaranteeing the
farmer, merchant, manufacturer, pro-
fessional man or woman return.
"Under the Cummins- Esch law the
transportation companies have found
an excuse for organizing subsidiary
companies with over-capitaRzed as
sets in connection with transportation
which results in further Increasing the
burdens of rates"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-18
JUDGES DECISION
Enjoining Workers Proves
Fine Capitalistic Speech

New York.-A capitalistic speech,
not judicial decision, is the estimate
placed on Justice Strong's injunction
against striking leather workers by
the central trades and labor council.
The central body has issued pam
phlet on the courts decision, which
rambles over the universe to prove
that labor unions, and picketing, es-
pecially, are undesirable.
In urging organized labor to dis
cuss this injunction and create pub
lie opinion against injunctions, as us
ed in labor disputes, the central trades
and labor council says:
Both the United States and Eng
land, from whose system the legal
principles of this country spring, re-
cognize picketing as a necessary func-
tion of legally organized and properly
maintained labor organizations. To
declare it unlawful is not function
of a Judge on bench, called upon to
interpret law, but is the function of
the state legislature. Until such time
as they, acting in their legislative pre-
rogative, say that picketing is unlaw-
full, the Judge clearly exceeded his
authority in legislating from the
bench and is guilty of contempt of
the court of appeals of the state of
New York and the United States su-
preme court in failing to follow their
rulings, which are binding on him
Judge Strong's so-called decision is
not judicial decision at all 1t does
not cite single case in support of
his conclusion 1t is not a judicial
decision, but capitahstic speech
from the bench displaying a deep-root-
ed bias against a great mass of the
plain citizens of this country. 1t
clearly stamps Judge Strong as un-
fitted for the judicial position he
holds. 1t is his own Indictment"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-18
URGE CANCELLATION

San Jose, Cal.-Those> people who
are always insisting on facts" in con
nection with strikes, can join the
State Federation of Labor in demand
ing that oil owners confer with 5000
striking employees. The convention of
the State Federation has appealed to
President Harding to use every means
at his coslmand to induce the oil own
ers to sit in conference with the oil
workers and the federal oil board,
which was created for the purpose Of
making peace in this industry possi-
hle
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-18
Signed
signed,
MAURICE McAULlFFE".
w. "a "a
DENOUNCE GUN MEN

Beckley, w. Va.-At the convention
of district No 20, United Mine Work
ers, it was declared that "the men
working in and around the coal mines
of West Virginia, for the past 80
years, have not been allowed to ex-
ercise their state and constitutional
rights, and have been forced to work
under the most brutal gun man, mine
guard system.
''For the past u months the min
ers of Mingo county, of this state,
have been locked out from their work
because they joined our union, and
during this time thousands of our
women and children have suffered and
sacrificed, and numbers of our men
have given up their lives in this strug
gle. At the present moment 861 OF
our members, including the president
and other officials of both districts
in this state, are indicted by frame
up evidence, charged with conspiracy
and murder"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-18
NOT HIGH WAGES
But Pr0iteer Control Cause
of High Prices, Declares
LaWmaker

Washington.-The great corpora
tions of this country "have been exer-
cising a sinister influence not only on
public opinion, but they have been so
potential in the councils of the great
leaders of political parties that they
have dictated their own terms and
their terms were UNCONVENTIONAL sur
render" said Senator Reed in discuss
ing the revenue bill.
There is today peculiar reason
which emphasizes the enormity of this
policy. 1t is found in the fact that
every farmer in the United States is
selling everything he produces at less
than pre-war prices, and he is buying
his necessities in market controlled
by profiteers, and no reasonable man
can deny the statement. Why am |
warranted in saying that? Wool is
selling for less than it has sold for
in the United States in the last 20
years. The price has gone down to
almost nothing, yet every woolen gar
ment costs two or three or four times
what it did before the war.
What is the cause of that? Is it
on account of an increase in wages +?
Wages have advanced somewhat, but
wages are now declining and rapidly
declining. Making every allowance
possible for increased costs, there is
such gap between the price of the
raw material and the price of the fin
ished product that it is perfectly mani
fest that there must be an enormous
profit realized. Otherwise, why should
the treasury estimate that, under
present depressed conditions, $780,
100000 can be collected this year upon
excess profits?
"You need not argue this question,
very long with farmer who has mar
keted steers hide for $1,25 and in
turn is compelled to pay $12 for
pair of shoes which before the war he
could have bought for four or five
dollars"
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-18
RELIEF APPEAL
For Starving Armenians Is.
sued by Farmers Union
Head

Observation-Disclosures McAuliffe, ma
tionally prominent agricultural lead
er, chairman of the national board of
the Farmers Union and president of
the Kansas Union, one of the largest
and oldest agricultural organizations
in the country, has issued nation
wide appeal to farmers to aid Armenia
with contributions of grain.
This is the substance of report
recently received by l.. j. Tabor, chair
man of the Ohio Near East relief
grain campaign which is making a
state drive to add its quota to the
national quota of five million bushels
of grain to be sent to Armenia.
McAuliffe's appeal reads as col
lows:
ITO the members of the Farmers
Union--the farmers of a nation are
starving. Their wives and children
are starving. Not American farmers
to be sure, but farmers just the same,
| farmers in Armenia and the Bible
land. Wars and pestilence are wiping
them out. Famine is stalking among
| five times as many people as live in
Kansas and over an area much larger.
"Those farmers and their wives and
children are entitled to live, just as
much as we are. If the tables were
| turned they would be helping us. Only
corn and wheat and flour can save
them, and it must go forward in large
quantities, and at once.
| 81 fully realize that the farmers of
the United States have been hard hit
by low prices of their products We
are having a hard struggle to over
come the disaster that befell US. But
human kindness shines the brightest
in adversely. We have corn and wheat
more than we can eat, and more thar
we can get living price for. But
we can ship some of it to our starv.
ing neighbors on the farms across
the sea. A car of wheat or corn vii
sustain thousand starving farmers
their wives or children month Wha
locality or local farm organization il
any state would not cheerfully JOIN
hands to save a thousand human
souls
"An urgent appeal for the relief o
these starving farmers comes from
President Harding, from Senator Ar
thur Capper, chairman of the agricul
tural committee of the Near East re
lief, and from governors of ever,
state in the union But stronger thar
all these, as strong as they are, i
the appeal from suffering humanit,
itself
Il trust that our people, with heart
full Of sympathy, will band togethe
in each locality and assemble a car o
wheat or corn as their contributio
for the relief of those starving farm
ers
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-18
ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS

Tim Farley, GOT Hanover St.
Thos. Brennan, 303 S. Third ST.
Ernest R. Legg, 326 So. 7th ST
VIM. Kiley, Secretary. 635 Minor Ave.
SEVERN Amiot, 708 S. 8th St.
Robert Mick, 500 So. Front st.
John Smith, sos So. 5th st.
Grant King, $50 S. 5th st.
Geo NJ Diegmann, los n Kahn Ave.
Frank Venable, All N. Second st.
VIM. Biddinger, Secy., Post Office
s, Secy., 215 Chestnut; Phone 1222R
Edgar Smith, Secy.. 638 Chestnut St.
Walter L. Furry, 903 North D St.
Harry Conrad, 423 So. 11th st.
Arthur McGuffin, 2460 Benninghofen
j. Edward Lehmkuhl, $40 No 3rd st.
Geo Branded, 1888 Mt. Pleasant Pike
F. Durwin, 518 S. 7th; Phone 3014-X
Delbert Lenhoff, 180 Progress Ave.
L ester L. Long, sec, 1929 Heaton Ave.
Robert A. Fallert, 521 Prytania Ave
Carl Reister, 1882 Hensley Ave
j P. KuenZel, r. R. No 3.
Chas. Butts, R. r. No 6.
William j. Welsh, care NJ ,se Home.
Jack Scheaf, 529 Maple Ave.
}. Box 318; Phone 738-R.
Carl Windsor, r. r. 3.
Eta Streipick, Secy., 726 East Ave
y B. Christman, 525 w. Central Ave-
West Carrolton, Ohio.
Clyde A. Reagle, Ill Charles St.
r. C. Fitzgerald
Arthur Emmons, 108 E. Third st.
VIM. Bunnell, 709 Vanderveer st.
e. O. Otterbein, 210 So. Harrison Ave.
:. Murray Johnson, West Middletown
..J. A. Price, 205 So Harrison Ave.
Frank Jacobs, 1902 So Main st.
:. Earl R. Price, Post Office.
Philip Fay, 631 Garfield St
r.. c. Oglesby, care News Signal.
J. Lytle, oil Hill ST., Middletown, Ohio
C. A. Reagle, Ill Charles st.
II. A. Scully, 306 Castell Bldg.
Frank Smith, 301 f. First ST.
rket Street, Hamilton, Ohio
:. George Rempe, 1902 Yankee Rd
&C. E. Long, 727 Grant st
Jos. G. Howells, Franklin, Ohio.
!. Frank Boice, 726 Clarendon St.
:. Richard E. Gross. 920 Yankee Rd
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-18
LUMBER PRICES UP

Chicago. Lumber dealers report
an upward price tendency" especially
for northern pine and Douglas fir, the
advance being fairly geeral and rang
ing during the last two weeks from So
to S. per 1000 feet.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-18
HAMILTON LABOR UNIONS

Brew and Soft Drink No Friday
BARRIERS Union No Mondays,
Brcklaye 4h Tuesdays, T. c. Hal
Brotherhood of Railway Temple
Cigar Makers Union No Mondays
and 3rd Saturday T. c
Thurs, Labor Temple
City Fighters No. 20 Tuesday T. c. Hi No
No CAS- Alternate Wds, Labor Temple
Letter Carriers Tuesday, High Monument
No 241 Every We'd Labor Tem Homer one
Empoyes~1st and 3rd Sundays T. c Hail.
Mode Union No Every Monday
l 68 Auxiliary End & 4h Friday Labor Temple
Moder Union No 2s3 .~ Alternate We'd
Musicians High and Monument
Mta Poishers Alternate Wed, T. c.
Plumbers Temple John
Pattern Makers
paint Dec Paper Hangers No Thursday Temple
4h Mondays Labor Temple
and 3rd Fri, t c.
and 3rd Mon, T. c.
Stationary No SO End and 4th Thurs 3Ss High S
switchmen Union, No $50 l and Monday Moose Hail. p
Theatrical Stage Emp Sunday
Typographical 200 WedN1abe Warren, Secy, P
Teamse Thurs,
Fri, Labor Temple
MIDDLETowN LABOR UNIONS
Trades and 3rd Tues, T. G. Hall
Building Thurs, Lebee Bldg
BARRIERS No
Brckayers No 81 First I'd Mon ....~....~.-....
Carpenters Mon.
Electrical Workers No ...~.Every
Iron Steel Tin Workers No following Pay
Metal Poishers
Franklin,
Decy Paper Hangers No e4s1 and ard Wed
Plasterers No Mon.
Plumbers BIO s .....
Workers No 143 ~2nd and 4th Mon.
Stage Employees No 232 Every other Sat-
Stationary Firemen No 2e4 md
Chaufeurs No and srd Tues.
Typographical Union No. First Fri
DISTRICT ORGANIZATIONS
.IouH Haefle
BUSINESS AGENTS
Molders Bell Phone 403X
Smith, 811 9th st Bell Phone 1910-Y
Sycamore St.; Phone 3O11Y
Painter VIM s il,
Dedrick 1914 Ave. Phone 1065Y
Theatrical S. Schue Maple 2367-Y.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-08

ternj discovered maj ms guns we.
shooting high. He %signalled changes
OF range until they 'bulled."
We shivered and shook. or some Of
us did. over the sudden submarine on
slaughi which struck the World wa
frightfulness. Yet u WI strategisi'
planned and in part executed just sucl
Il blockade along the coast Of oui
southern states. The U-boats used by
the Germans embodied the substance
Of American inventions.
With goose-nesh and gloom We
studied Iurid portrayals of the nigh
attacks abroad. Yet our very own Wa
department equipped its signal force
in 1869 with powerful oxy-hydrogen o.
calcium lights ''by means of which ,
force Of 1000 men could work al nigh
as well as by daylight" A good i'm
tation Of the modern s%tar-shell cOul'
hc dropped from the aerostats. An'
both white and colored signal tOrche
were SEM up by small balloons Final
ly the observer could telegraph direc
from his basket to the cOmmandin:
colonel five miles away.
All this taught the Confederates &,
use ramouhage. They used dunn
guns and put up green branches to
%conceal the real ones. In one part OF
the lines 300 men were engaged in this
work.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-08
CID INVENTIONS

w LIVE TOO much in the present.
w We call r a spectacular age.
We call it our age. We are wrong
egoistically in error. And our egoism
blinds us TO what has gone before.
Men marvel at the precision of
modern artillery fire. The miracle-so
they sny-which makes this possible is
the aircraft spotting. Men rise high
above the target trenches and observe
directly the flight and fall of proiec-
tiles. BY wireless TO the guns ranges
are corrected to put the next salvo
crashing over the enemy.
'NIyi" we calculate with fatuous
cOnfoundment. chow marvellous il is,
And yet II we took the trouble 10 pry
a musty volume from our shelf we
could read the identical story already
half a century old. When Commodore
Foote bombarded Island No. 10 in the
Mississippi river he sent up a naval
officer in his kite balloon. the Eagle.
From an altitude of some 1000 feet
- fhi~nplar old papars 'eai III.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-08

M ,a va'cansc press,'re 81
mushroom face squeczes the pad
ngalnsi the plug. In helpless agony
lis edges protrude. They squash
against the gun tube and check effectu-
ally escape Of gas Hence, gas-check
pad.
,'ui Thai is common knowledge. The
interesting point is historical. Naval
guns stuck over the side. To load
them muzzle-ways running-in was once
necessary. Rut running-in took time.
So orr worthy forbears built breech
leaders. Whiskers were then in vogue.
Alas. the cruelty Of warl Breech load
ers worked to beat the hand. But the
very first broadside scorched side
burns. goatees. moustachios. and "chin
ners," from their proud owners chins
and cheeks.
Gases did ii. Gases that leaked
through the unsealed breaches.
In consequence breech-loaders were
pronounced failures. So powerful is
fashion. And for years and years Il
wIiskered man-o-warsman feared
Them.
Until the simple expedient of gas
check came. But isn't it the irony or
fate that one sees smooth-faced sail
ors now? The great discovery came
too late.
Too late for whiskers. yes.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-08
NOTICE OF SALE OF ANIMAL

Notice is hereby given nat on the
18th day of July, 1921, at II
O'Clock, NJ, at the Oakley Livery &
Feed Stables, in the Village of Oak
ley, County of Cassia, State of Ida
no, there will be offered for sale and
sold to the highest bidder for cash,
payable at the contamination of the
sale, one ~ bay mare, weight 1850
pounds, seven years of age, and
branded dot p" OF right thigh.
This notice is published under
Section 6412, Chapter 24O, Idaho
Compiled Statutes, 1919, creating Il
lien in favor of proprietors of livery
stables for compensation for the
feeding and care of livestock.
Dated this SOth day of June, 1927
ADAM SAGERS
ADAM SAGERS, Proprietor
Oakley Livery & Feed Stables.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-08

Charles lived In many
houses, and some of them were ugly,
But 10 him they were all homes. lie
was hnppIest perhaps in Devonshire
Terrace, London, and at Gadshiu Place
In Kent, where he worked and enter
tanned with a furious energy.
He had TO force himself to begin a
novel, for the work of starting was n
v%eritabIe torment 20 him Hut once
the first chapter was finished he wrote
with sheer delight. He would sit at
hIs desk for hours, living with his
characters as his pen went back ana
forth across the white paper. After
these arduous coninements he found
relaxation ira walking, providing for
hours through London streets or beat
Ing his way against the lashing winds
along the kentish coast.
He loved his homes and he loved
England, but he also loved to travel.
he found out-of-the-wny and quaint
villages in England, where he settled
for weeks mt "a time, but he often ran
across the channel to the continent
and sometimes made long stays in
Paris, Switzerland nnd Italy. Twice he
far I'm the United States, in
days when luxury In travel was hardly
known and when only those who really
new scenes undertook such hard
ships.
Much as he enjoyed these restless
tonged Iingerings In such favored
places as Genoa or Lausanne, he was
ever eager TO be back in England.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-08
SUBMARINE BELL

THERE is a certain warship Skin
l. per who calls attention 70 m
spreading gray about his temples. No
that he is proud of this mark of are
but because ii run no further thai
his ears. MY gray hairs STOP he ex
plains, because | always know jus
when to stop worrying"
His friends. however, shave one or
him. Twas the submarine bell thai
got the placid shippers goat.
rms gadget-as we say in the navy.
meaning thingumbob-is a device for
transmitting sound signals under wa
ter. Large Iightships such as Nan
tucket have a heavy bell suspended
deep In the water. BY an automatic
device a clapper strikes at regular in
tervals. Each bell along the coast has
its characteristic interval and number
of strokes.
All large ships and men-of-war are
fitted with receivers for capturing the
sound waves set up under water by
these bells. In the outer bottom is a
small box filed with water and CON
tanning a very sensitive diaphragm
which vibrates In tune with the bell.
Through telephone connection one
may catch the signals from the bridge
or any other part of the ship.
Since the receivers are on each side
sound comes most distinctly when the
bell is nearly or the beam. From four
to five miles is the average limit of
range.
One thick March morning our self
contained friend was approaching New
York. Though he was well off-shore
the soupy fog made him anxious about
his landfall. Putting his submarine
telephone to his ear he suddenly heard
the clear note of a bell. 'That's queer"
he exclaimed. 1--WE oughn't to be any
where nea the Iightship yet"
He swung the battleship about in
order to find which heading bloffrd
out the sound. In this way he could
obtain an approximate bearing Of the
lightship.
But the bell kept on. 1t played reg
uidF chlines, ana uecfedS-
ing. To the CONSERVATION of The skip
per he was unable to determine either
the distance. direction. or character Of
the crazy thing. "Can it be some new
kind of enemy internal machine?" he
wondered.
He became frantic. He cursed the
navigator, the lightship. the oficer-of-
'he-deck and Their all ships and bells
md officers. In a final paroxysm of
he sent someone to investigate
his receiving box In the double bot
oms.
Which disclosed a single happy
yhistling busy bluejacket. chipping
And every time the sailor struck
he bulkhead his signal carried direct
the perplexed bridge gang.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-08
MACHINERY INSPECTOR

a n EAPLOKER VIII return to the
IN drear loneliness of the wilder
ness. A convict free will find himself
strangely longing for the bitterness OF
captivity. SO strong is the hold en-
vlronnent can take on the soul of a
man.
ON a ship I'm the fleet served a good
seagoing chief engineer. But he had
heen ut sea too long. He was growing
stale. SO he asked for shore duty.
He was transferred to "A huge steel
mill where government contracts were
filed. For two years he was to hear
the hum of lathe and scraper instead
of the pound and the wheeze Of his
own engines. Instead of the intermit-
tent roar of the turreted guns he was
TO be half-deafened by the more steady
helching of gigantic blast furnaces.
His title was Naval Inspector of Ma
chinery.
A superdreadnaught was launched.
The inspector supervised the installa-
tion of her mighty engines. His re-
sponsibility increased up to the day Of
her trials.
on this day a board of inspection
and survey came down in full regalia
10 hold Official tests of the new war
baby. The Inspector met the big bugs
in proper form. but he didn't look
happy.
Perhaps it was the sheaf of papers
and records he produced that filed him
full of gloom. For instance there were
the weight tables for parts and fittings
and auxiliaries and full boilers as well
as mp ones: il may have been his
long monotonous report comparing the
finished product TO the original speci-
fcatiOns.
The machinery Inspector was gray
and weary. Facts and figures had be-
gun TO get on his nerves. Indoor work
had stolen his tan. And when he
guided the trial board through their
duties in trying out the newest Of our
m~en-of-war he realized he'd had
enough shore duty. Guess ri put in
for the leet again" he declared. II
don't seem to do So well here"
He was wrong. Few inspectors be
fore him had been his equal. The truth
was the old. old truth: He was home
sick for the heave Of a plated deck.
the swish OF oily hilges. and a salt
breath out Of the %starboard hatch.
So "slave Of the sea- is the righl
name after all.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-08
GAS CHECK
. OW simple each is !

IL Nv mp RhNh 49,
A That incandescent globe over
your head-yet man had mastered
electricity for years before he knew a
charged wire in vacuum would give
such brilliancy. That differential on
your rear auto axle-yet rear axles
were denominations before genius
equalized turning speeds by a triplet
gear of utter simplicity.
Life is full of mechanical miracles.
We take them for granted.
Gas checks belong to the class. After
four years Of war every one knows
what a gas-check is. Fits In the gun.
you know. 20 prevent hare-back Or
leakage of powder gas on firing.
Breech-plug is just a round chunk
of steel threaded to screw int the
guns back end after loading. It is
pierced by "A small hole in its center.
Mushroom stem fits into this hole.
1t really looks like a mushroom just
big enough to enter the gun. When
explosion rocks the earth and sours
Mrs. Jones milk teD miles away the
p%rOjectile gets an awful boot in its
rear. The mushrooms face filling the
breech gets an equal and opposite boot
Gases do the booting. Fiery. furious
masses of gases. rending heaven and
earth asunder to escape. It's the heat
of their passionate desire that gives
the shell its kick. We're there any
other avenue of escape never would
they bother with a half-tOn shell.
So breech must be sealed tight. Be
tween mushroom and plug is put Il pad
of 60 per cent asbestos and 80 PEI
cent fallow worked up into a solid cir