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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
NO MONEY FOR
KILLED
Car Company Claims 1t Is
Broke

New York.-The Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company is bankrupt, and it
is impossible to reimburse relatives
of 100 persons killed in the Malbone
tunnel accident, said Lindley NJ Garri-
son, receiver for the company.
The statement was made in letter
to Joseph 7. Griffin, president of an
association formed to protect the in
terests of relatives of the victims.
Mr. Griffin's letter to Mr.. CARR
son, written after published state
ments that the expenses of the re-
ceivership had exceed $472,000, said.
in part:
AS you very well know, the COM
pany mas made no restitution to any
of the victims of that disaster. Even
claims for small sums, for directors
and undertakers' bills, have not been
paid. You may understand then, how
bitter is the sentiment of these peo-
pie when they are led to believe from
newspaper stories that such vast
sums of money have been paid to one
OF two individuals as legal fees, while
just and honorable claims sanctified by
every consideration of charity and
law, have been allowed to go unliqui-
dated through all these weary months
that have elapsed since the accident"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01

would take from labor its only effect
i've weapon and give it nothing in re-
turn.
owe have pointed out continually
that the plan presented by our op-
ponents is a makeshift remedy, that
it does not strike at the real roots
of industrial unrest. What is the
cause of strikes? The time has come
when we must think in terms of
causes, and subject any suggested
remedy to this criterion: will it help
solve the problem of industrial un-
rest by removing the cause? If it
does not it is worse than futile, it
is positive evil in that it delaps
any real settlement of the problem,
and only serves to irritate the sore
of industrial unrest.
Compulsory arbitration would de-
prive the laboring man of the power
to work out his own destiny and give
that power to small body of men.
This is not democracy. Our govern
ment might be operated with less
friction if the management of it was
taken out of the hands of the people
and placed under the control of ex-
perts. We have always believed,
however, that democracy means letting
the people work out their own des-
tiny, that the justification of govern
ment is found not SO much in efficen-
cy as in the increased power and
ability it gives the people in solving
their own problems. Whatever may
be said to be the advantages of com
pulsory arbitration, it certainly can
not be said that industrial democracy
is one of them. 1t leads straight to
industrial autocracy, not democracy.
Democracy must come from with
in, and be the self expression of the
whole working class. 1t can never
be handed down from above and given
to class deprived of its economic
power and chained to industry under
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
Ia Pa ~
SALES TAX BILL
BY Editor of MOlders' Jour
nal

Cincinnati.-John P. Frey, editor of
the international Molders' Journal,
suggests that trade unionists awake
to the Importance of the proposed sales
tax, now advocated in Washington,
as a means of raising national taxes.
The unionist says:
sWhat a certain group of repre-
sentatives are attempting in congress
is nothing less than removing the ex-
cess profits tax now paid by manu-
facturers and placing the burden di-
rectly upon consumers. Such tax
would make the wage earners heavier
blrden bearers than before, and would
exempt those most able to pay a
proper tax from assuming such an
obligation.
"The sales tax bill is an effort on
the part of certain financial interests
to secure exemption from taxation
and to have their burden shifted to
consumers so that the government
may gather a direct tax from every
wage Garner, each time they purchase
any article.
Local unions and members inter,
ested in knowing exactly what is in
volved in a sales tax should write to
Congressman John A. Frear, of Wis
consin, house office building, Wash
ington, D. c., for copy of speech he
delivered on this subject January 81"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
Of Economic And Po-
litical Consequence Resulting
From Horde of Hungry lien,
Women And Children
In Country

Chicago, Ill.-Frank P. Walsh, gen
eral counsel for the railroad labor
organizations, in an address here be-
fore the railroad labor board, reveal
ed the concerted drive under way to
break down the organized labor
movement of America. He said:
Gentlemen of the Board: 1t will be
impossible for us to proceed with the
presentation of our case until the wit
nesses we have called for have been
subpoenaed and have presented them
selves for examination. We asked for
these witnesses in ample time to have
had them here today, and | may say
that it is a matter of great surprise to
me to find that they are not here and
have not been summoned. | shall
not state at this time our reasons for
calling these witnesses. 1t suffces to
say that their testimony is essential to
our case, and that when they appear
the relevancy and Importance of their
testimony will be shown speedily.
Il feel it incumbent upon me to add,
however, that my clients are in no
sense responsible for the delays in
these proceedings, nor will they remain
silent under any such imputation. We
have been ready from the outset to go
forward in an orderly way to a speedy
determination of the issues involved ir
this controversy, and we submit that
the whole matter could have been dis
posed of weeks if not months ago, if
we had been granted the conference
which we asked of the railroad execu
tives, or if this board had taken steps
to bring about such conference.
"The delay has been both disturbing
and costly to the general public. 1t
has contributed largely to the uneasi-
ness ard uncertainty in all business
and in all industry which have pre-
vented that return to normal activity
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
CRUSH RELIGIOUS
BODIES
If They Don't Obey Is Die.
tum of Reactionaries

Pittsburgh, a.-Reactionary en-
ployers in this city have become so
brazen that they serve notice on re-
ligious and semi-religious organiza-
tions that they must be deaf, dumb
and blind on the labor question or
greed's purse strings will be tighten
ed
The Employers Association Of
Pittsburgh has issued a circular to
their membership, supplemental to the
one issued last January, in which at
tention was called to the industrial
program of the Young Womens
Christian Association and the efforts
of that organization to raise 100000.
The industrial program of these wo-
men includes collective bargaining,
protection of workers from enforced
unemployment, minimum wage and
experiments in cooperative owner
ship. The women refused to sell
their principles and reaction gloats
that they only raised 100000 "as re-
suit of the information given our
members"
"The ladies of the Y, W. G. A.
We're very 'wrothy' over the action"
says the employers, ''but we told them
we could do nothing unless they
would repudiate the action of their
national body and promise not to send
any Of the sums they We're raising to
the national headquarters, where it
would, of course, be used in the sup
port Of the national program which
had been adopted, and which, we be-
lieved, to be detrimental to our
American institutions.
"The dangerous attitude of some of
our religious and quas;-religious in
stitutions is enc of the most serious
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
COLLEGE BOYS STRIP
ANTI-STRIKE S0PHISTRY
DEBATE SHOWS NO-STRIKE ADVOCATES OFFER
NOTHING BUT GOOD WISHES TO WORK
ERS WHO LOSE THEIR RIGHTS
Claim That Fair Wage Will Replace Labor's Right To
Strike is Riddled By Victor of Contest

San Francisco.-In a joint debate
between teams representing Princeton
and California universities on anti
strike legislation, the Californians,
opposing the plan, showed that anti
strike advocates offer nothing but we'll
wishes to workers who have lost their
rights.
The question was: Resolved,
That congress should pass laws pro-
hibiting strikes in essential indus
tries"
The claim that fair wage will re-
place labor's right to strike, was rid
died by California, who was declared
victor in the contest.
what is a fair wage?" asked the
westerners. without an answer to
this question the whole plan resolves
itself into one of mere platitudes and
generalities. We have analyzed the
reports of many wage adjustment
boards in an effort to find any state.
ment which defines living wage with
any degree of accuracy. We have
found none. In most of the decisions
the Judge has frankly admitted the
impossibility Of giving a wage award
upon an scientific basis. Judge AL
schuler in the packing house case
says: Budgets are of very little as
sistance, all rejecting the point of
view of those who compiled them
"The proponents of this law, be-
fore they have established SEM
blance Of a case, must show that it is
desirable to standardize progress and
change the labor movement from one
of vital dynamic growth to one of
static repose. Impossible of determi-
nation, with no basic economic assump-
ton for either a living wage as a
minimum or fair wage as a maxi
mum, how will the commission be able
to guarantee the workman fair ex-
change FOR depriving HIM of the
strike. The enactment of this law
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
Walsh Declares Movement Is
Launched To Return To Old Op=
pressive Working Conditions

CARNATIONS and to turn back the
clock that has registered all pro-
gress that has been made in the
relations between those who work
and those who employ them.
"Oh, / say to you that we are not
deceived as to what is transpiring,
and we hope that the public is not de-
ceived
Here and now we put this board on
notice to expect, when it comes to con-
slider wage schedules, that the railroad
owners will argue most vociferously
that wages of railroad workers should
be reduced because the wages of pack
ing house employees have been lower
ed and their hours of labor increased.
And whatever tribunal is interposed
between the parties to the controver-
sy in the packing industry will be told
by the packers that wages in that in
dustry must be reduced because wages
of railway workers are about to be
reduced
Then, i'll the next great struggle Of
the shorter workday-and don't forget
that that is one of the great issues in
the steel industry-they hope to be
able to say that the eight-hour day
is a failure and to offer as proof of
that a return to longer hours in the
packing industry.
''That is the vicious circle of
which labor complains That is the
way the plan has been set up, and
that is the way it will be played
through by the financial interests
unless they are restrained by a
wisdom which is not theirs or by
power which is greater than
theirs.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01

and productivity in which we are all
50 vitality concerned. Il has recruited
thousands upon thousands to the army
Of the unemployed. Every time | ap-
pear on the streets of the city of Chi
cago | am accosted repeatedly by poor
devils who have been driven to mendi-
cancy in order that they may have
food to eat and a place to sleep.
''That is condition which did not
obtain few months ago, and it is a
condition that should cause the grav-
est concern to our responsible citizen
ship. |, for one, am apprehensive of
the economic and political consequent
ces that may ensue when we have a
horde of hungry men, women and chill
dren in this country.
Long before the last great war
1t was maxim of war that an
army fights on it's belly. | invite
your thoughtful consideration as
to how an army of the unemploy-
ed may fight on empty bellies.
And further to aggravate an al
ready alarming situation, we have the
threatened debacle in the great pack
ing industry. There 100000 men and
women have been told that they must
work longer hours for less wages in
order that the industry may go for
ward to the satisfaction of the over
lords who control it.
This means that all the ground
gained by these workers in years of
struggling for their economic rights
through the establishment of the liv-
ing wage and the short workday as
fundamental principles in industrial
relations will be wrested from them in
day or in an hour.
ut means that the packers are
backing up the railroad owners
and the Morgans and the Garys of
the steel industry in concerted
drive to break down all labor or
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
va Fla pa
0.B.U WOBBLES
Latest World Saver Has U.s.
ual Collapse

Drumheller, Alberta, Canada.-The
one big union was given another
shove into oblivion, when Arthur
Evans, general secretary of its min
ing department, denounced this "mulli-
gan form of organization" and re-
signed
In a letter to "the faithful rem
nants Of District No. 1, mining de
partment of the one big union," Ev-
ans declares that the one big union
executives are attempting to use the
organization as a wet nurse and
propaganda club for the socialist party
of Canada and it's various political
freaks"
Evans refers to "would-be dictators
of the proletariat" within the one big
union, and condemns the mob form
of organization"
The resignation is indicative of the
workers attitude toward the lates,
world saver that was launched in Cal.
gary in 1919 amid wild hurrahs. 1t has
been stated that the one big union
now includes less than 5000 members
in the entire Dominion of Canada.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.-The
Alberta Labor News makes this com.
ment on the resignation of Arthur
Evans from the one big union:
"Many OF those who opposed the
o. b. u. from the beginning were Sc.
verely criticized at the time wher
they expressed the conviction that
the men at the head of that movement
were only interested in making it,
to use Mr.. Evans language-sa wei
nurse and propaganda club for the so
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01

cialist party of Canada and its var
ious freaks
''Those who precipitated the so
called o. bu. u. movement caused a
distinct setback to the working class
organizations Of western Canada, from
which many are now only recovering
1t is to be hoped that mary will profit
by the experience and not again be
led into helping to further the propa-
ganda of those who believe in the mis-
ery' theory"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
RAILROAD CONSPIRACY EXPOSED
BY COUNSEL FOR BROTHERHOOD employees. TELLS La
b0R BOARD OF ATTEMPT TO BEAT DOWN WAGES

things we have to face at the present
time.
"The radical and bolshevik elements
in the churches seem to be co-operat-
ing through the federal council of the
churches of Christ in America and
many of our members are expressing
themselves as determined to discon-
tinue financial support of their respect
i've churches unless they withdraw all
moral and financial support from the
federal council"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01

an economic system that recognizes
it only as commodity.
''The labor movement is living,
vital thing. To cement it into one
status decreed by governmental au-
thority is to destroy irretrievably the
whole movement"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-04-23

the truth that every people is as
well governed as 1t deserves to be-
In other words, il your government Is
not right and just and If under 1t you
suffer without reason, then you and
others who suffer are to blame for not
changing it by proper means and law
ful and orderly procedure.
Breaking a law never bettered a
law.
Contentment is the worlds greatest
preventive of gray hair and wrinkles.
1t is the best preservative OF youth
and happiness. It Ii the most Won
derful antidote for an i'll nature or a
grabbed disposition.
Cultivate contentment with every
thing good.
Encourage contentment with what
Is impossible h change.
Be discontinued only with what Is
unjust and do not be contented until
the wrong has been righted.
The toad. IL he lodges all the mar
rows teeth, is after all not SO badly
on. The exercise doubtless does hin
good.
tcopyrieht)
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-04-23
Make Big Hit at Peru

words of English and also beat re-
treat, to be replaced by the manager
Of the hotel.
"Look here" said the bos'un after
ascertaining that the manager under
stood him, more or less. "That waiter
tried to gyp us. He said we owed
twelve of these cigarette papers (point-
ing to q Peruvian sol, worth about 40
cents). figured it up from the menu.
and we only owe eight. How about
IT."
The manager glanced at the bill ana
then at the bos'un. "All right" ha
said, and bowed the four out.
"What did tell your" were the last
words Of the bos'un as he reached tho
street.
The navy's -Four N" yell echoed for
the first time from the high, vauited
ceilings of the aristocratic National
club of Lima during the visit OF the
Atlantic fleet and created q scena
seldom equaled in that magnificent
relic Of the Spanish occupation.
Following a reception and banquet
Peruvian orators excelled themselves
In expressing their best wishes for the
Atlantic fleet and the United States
In concluding his eloquent response.
vice Admiral II. p. Jones suggested 2
navy yell.
"Give them the four Ms. with one
navy and three Lima's, the leadea
shouted. and then led q cheer that
shook the building. The sight OF q
| gold-bralded, whirling dervish spin
ming and leaping In perfect time to
laundering. rhythmic cheer. brought
every member Of the club 70 his feet
and the flushed junior officer was car
ried around the hall on the shoulder
tof gray-haired n0tables.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-04-23
American Jackies Thoroughly at
Home in Lima, the Capital.
Cafe Managers Find II Saves Trouble
TO Have Bill Agree With Menu
Prices and Change Correct.

Calla.-A strange language, q still
more puzzling currency and exchange
rate and a strike Of chauffeurs and
coach drivers during the Atlantic
fleets visit to Peru did not prevent
American sailors from filtering into
every nook and Granny Of Lima, seven
miles from this port. from the hum
blest saloon to the cathedral.
They may have lost little In ex-
change or paid more for a meal than
the average Peruvian, but the smiling
storekeeper and cafe manager FOUND
# sayed them time and trouble to have
their bill agree with menu prices ana
their change correct. For instance
In one of the best hotels tanned
hos,un called for the bill for himself
and three companions.
"No.r he declared, tits too mucn'
a. the waiter laid down bit OF paper
With i column Of figures on 1t.
.How do you know it's too mucn
won haven't looked at 1t yetT one o.
his friends demonstrated.
.rt's always too much the mrs
limo : the bos'un replied without NOV
inc h,s hand from the pile Of Peruvian
currency he had placed on the table
.T.va been in France. and l know.
,ong argument ensued In Englisl
nv the sailor and Spanish by TN
waiter. -,
The head waiter came, tried his TEL
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-04-23

Formosa and saghalien, S.

Korea Formosa and Saghalien, o.
901, 140.
roth Of these figures are less oy
more than a million than the figures
siyen IN 1918. The population OF the
empire. then estimated from compi-
lation OF old registers. was given az
7s2o1 s56, or 1,235.348 more than the
census Of 1920 gives. The decrease
for the Japanese empire, therefore, u
f.8 per cent.
Thus Japan, by Its nrst mooeIn
cersus for the 1920 figures are the
nrst made along modern lines Of M
yesfixation, fails to bear out its story
of ever Increasing population which =
lIteraIly driving the nation to seek
new lands in Asia and send lts I'm
miernnts out into the far corners OF
the earth. :.
since the fall Of the Tokugawas II
IN. heen customary to compile all cen.
- records from old registers and u
ms heen known for some time thai
dunlications were not only apt %
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-04-23
Something 10
Think Ab0ut
CONTENT, Discomfort
By +. n. WALKER

sssrhe +oad heuasfh the harrow knows
Exactly where each tooth point goes;
The butterfly upon the road
Breaches contentment to that TOAD
MOT all of Kipling's best poetry Is
IN printed in large type. Some OF It
appears In the smaller characters
when It precedes verses which the au-
thor thought were more important,
That is the case with the lines print
ed above which I'D the DOund voiulne
serve as an introduction to "Pagett.
n. RI"
But one need not be butterfly to
preach contentment. There is many
4 man and woman living far from q
butterfly life that preach contentment
II The most fcrcibie and convincing
NAV. which is by example.
Discomfort - very cou.l asa'eeo. s., ),
Tor innunerable failures. It has been
the moef forcihS1 factur In the great
- - cefl5;k wyrfrS revolutions and ref
;s s,.s, Slssi
80 man 81 nation thoroughly
6iscontcnted with surroundings, with
honnd q s. s change.
Disroptesst has played q consider
able factor a The history q America.
1t was discomfort, 9ssa -
q Communication with the rest OF tne
world that led Columbus g SAL ou'
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-04-23
THE WOODS
D. DoUcfAs MAI.LocH



AkAN. thrust upon the world, awakes
AVA from sleep. y
Knowing not whence he came nor
how nor why.
His earliest impulse is an infant cry
His final privilege is that to weep.
A conbatant although he sought no
strife,
A puest unyelcome come unwilling
ly,
Given his vision that he may not
see, -.
He names this unnamed paradox HIS
life.
He learns to walk the forest and TO
It's green and brown, its song ana
seasons change,
Yet will not taste berry that Is
strange
Or tread pathway that he knows
not of.
skept,c and doubter of the fiow'r and
tree,
He questions this and that investi
gates
Yet drinks the beaker offered by the
fateS
And. leaves unsolved the greater mys
terry.
| (Copyright.)
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-04-23
Fake Ulster County Gazette
Most Noted Newspaper
Forgery of Country.
NO GENUINE COPY KNOWN
Library Officials Doubt If There 10
Genuine Copy of Newspaper OF That
Date In Existence-Forgery 10
Easily Proven.

Chicago. - Perennially and usually
about this time copies OF the most
noted newspaper forgery of the coun-
try - the Ulster County Gazette OF
January 4, 1900, with its account OF
Washington's funeral-cOmes to ng6t.
The only other newspaper imitation OF
the kind that compares is the duplica-
ton of the vicksburg Citizen, printed
on wall paper during the siege in 1867.
81 doubt if there Is genuine copy
Of the Ulster County Gazette OF that
date in existence" Edward A. Henry,
who is in charge Of the University OF
Chicago's collection Of old newspapers
said. "At any rate. have never seen
one, nor do I know Of anybody. VINO
has.
.Wilberforce Eames Of the New
York public library told me half a
dozen years ago that he had made the
most careful examinations OF copies
of the Gazette submitted to him as
genuine to chemical analysis OF
the paper-and had almost come to
the conclusion that there never was
an original.
26> Different Editions
eat the Library of Congress l was
told they had 20 different editions
The New York public library lists nine
in its latest catalog. we have three
each different from the other.
/ II suppose there was once genuine
Ulster County Gazette Of the date
named: from which all these suisse
ouent copies have been made. The fac
that the Wisconsin State Historical
i society. which has the largest collec
j ton of old newspapers in the Middle
4 West, lists two copies Of an Ulster Ga
| zette for August IS and September y
1904. strengthens this belief.
4 saThe account Of Washington's fun
erol ia accurate and interesting. NJ
fault can be found on that score, al
though think reports Of the funera
q In other papers Of the same time ar
IN several instances still more strtk
ing,
at may have been that many year
|, after the funeral some printer prot
abIy IN the vicinity Of Ney York. TO
Kingston, Ulster county. Is on q
Hudson, thought to produce sometnin
Of interest to others and profit to hin
self by making & facsimile OF q
original account. Had he taken
New York paper. the duplicato
could have been instantly detected an