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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-10-21
A TRAMP BUT NOT
A SCAB

Yes, I'm an outcast, tramp and a
bum,
Pm shiftless and dirty to boot;
don't care rap for your smile or
your frown--
Not a jot for your praise or your
hoot.
l live like beast, so you say in your
scorn,
Pm flaw in society's plan;
And you're right Pm all these, and
then some to boot,
But | never yet scabbed on man.
I'll steal when Pm hungry and fight
when | must,
And lie when it pays me the best;
Pm lazy and shameless, and drink
like fish,
And I'd murder, perhaps, if hard
pressed.
Pm a vagabond, worthless, curse
to the race
admit it so just save your CAB;
Pm crusty with dirt, but I've got to
go some
TO be dirty enough for q scab.
Pm low and degenerate, scarce fit to
live,
admit it and don't care a rap;
The ash barrels my banquet, and the
gutter my bed
AS | travel the face of the map.
You can call me a scoundrel, hound
or cur
They all fit, so just take a grab
| won't squirm at the dirtiest name in
the bunch
But I'll shoot if you call me scab.
H, w. Brown.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-10-21
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JOURNAL EDITOR PEEVED

The editor of the Hamilton Even
ing Journal, upon learning of the i'm
pending railroad strike, on Monday
allowed himself to run up to about 40
and lambasted the daylights out of the
nasty railroad boys, dog-gone 'em.
The editor, no doubt, could see him.
self hungry and sitting beside the cold,
cold crate this winter when he really
should be well fed and have the CRATE
roaring. He grabbed red flag in one
ad fairly paved up the paving blocks
round about Journal square and
Court street in his righteous indigna-
tion at what he considered a crime on
the part of the railroad men trying to
retain existing wages and condi-
tions. What do they mean by kickin'
on cut? Huh! Amt everybody doin'
it and don't we all have to stand for
it? This seemed to be the stand of
the Journal editor although we haven't
heard that the editor has been cut
lately in wages. He said that the
cause of the threatened strike is re-
duction of II per cent in wages. He
tells the public that this is the sole
cause put forward by the men. THIS
is AN INJUSTICE TO THE RAIL
ROAD EMPLOYEES. The Journal
editor went off half-cocked. At the
time he spoke he din't know what he
was talking about. The Press hoped
as soon as he learned different, that
he would make correction in the same
columns in which he condemned the
rail workers for their proposed action.
This he has failed to do. The Press
wants to say that when the Journal
editor says that the IL per cent re-
duction in wages was the only cause
for the threatened strike that he did
not know whereof he was speaking.
The men never kicked on this cut, al
though the railroads promised to hand
the reduction down to the public in the
way of reduced rates. The real cause
for the threatened strike is the re-
quest Of the rail managers for an
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-10-21
JUSTICE, NOT CHARITY

Never allow it to escape your at
tention that there is an ample amount
of food and of the other necessities
of life in this country for everybody
with the single exception that there
is a lack of sufficient housing facili-
ties.
The suffering of the five million
and more unemployed and their more
than twenty dependents is not caused
by famine. 1t is caused by an unjust
system of distributions system that
gives too much to the few and toe
little to the many. There is an
abundance for all if it were only dis
tributed in a just manner.
Because the system of distribution
is faulty these five millions of men
are denied an opportunity to earn a
living in self-respecting way. They
and their wives and children will
starve, or half starve, and a great
many of them will exc out miser-
able existence by accepting debasing
charity-receiving as a dole a small
part of what they should have had as
a right.
They should have justice. Then
they would not need charity
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-10-21
UNEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE
WAS PRACTICAL

The conference on unemployment at
Washington announces that it will con-
slider a permanent policy for relief
of unemployment and will make sug-
gestions as to how to get business
back to normal.
That the conference has passed
from the consideration of temporary
relief measures to that of a perma-
nent policy would seem to indicate the
belief of the conference that it has
settled the former problem. If it has,
the country would like to know just
how.
The sum of it's suggestions - for
suggestions are all that come out of
the conference-is that the cure of
unemployment lies with the cities
It's a job for the mayors, with some
assistance from federal and state Of
ficials, say the Washington delegates
And they advocate the expansion of
all possible public work as the means
which the cities should adopt to pro-
vide jobs for the workless. This, to-
gether with an appeal to the employers
to do the best that they can to keeI
work going in the shops and factor
les, is the fruit of the conference.
Harding warned the conference
against wasting time on seeking the
causes of unemployment. "Be prac-
tical," he said in effect. Don't un-
settle anything"
The conference carried out his in
junction faithfully. Nothing is either
settled or unsettled. 1t even judi
ciously straddled on the statistics of
unemployment. Some said there are
only 100000 out of work Secretary
Davis insisted that the figures of his
department, showing that more than
100000 are out of work, were ac-
curate. Every WELL" said the confer
ence, ''let's not quarrel over a few
million one way or the other. Let's
place the figures at from $500, 5000 to
5,500,O00."
In view of this performance we can
hardly wait until the conference gets
busy on permanent policy"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-10-21
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PASSING OF LODGE

There are hints from congress of
the possible passing of Lodge "Too
old for leadership" is the handwrit-
ing on the wall. The demands of the
disarmament conference on his time
and attention may be made the pre-
text of party reorganization that
will leave him nothing but the title
of leader emeritus.
For 81 years Lodge has been a
figure in congress, most of that time
whip of the republican party in the
senate. His passing would seem al
most like the passing of an American
institution.
Not that he is so beloved Heaven
save the mark He himself would
be the last to wish it. 1t is recorded
VI illlLi tllSe ilS always GICdtcS tIIG I'LL
preston that it is "a condescension
on his part to have allowed God to
create world not exclusively inhap-
tied by the Cabots and the Lodges"
But he has come to stand for the
canons of the gentlemen, the scholar
and "the best minds" In fact it is
rather more than suspected in certain
quarters that he himself is a big ma
jority of "the best minds"
Digniied and impressive as his ear
lier career may have been, his later
years have been overshadowed by his
bitter hatred of Woodrow Wilson.
Like many another, Cabot Lodge
would have been bigger man in his
tory, if his passing had come sooner.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-10-21

additional reduction Of 10 per cent in
wages and elimination of favorable
working agreements on rs railroads,
with no promise of no further re-
quests for reduction in wages. This
is the real cause of the threatened
strike, Mr.. Editor. Come on, be game,
be fair-admit your mistake and tell
the public you were wrong in your
article of Monday night.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
FILLING THE PRESCRIPTION
While Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon and Senator Boies Penrose,
chairman of the senate finance conn
mittee, are actively forwarding the
proposed revenue act which will re-
peal the excess profits tax and reduce
the surtaxes for their rich friends,
those citizens with moderate and
small incomes are either Indifferent or
at the most mildly protesting.
The revenue bill as proposed by
Senator Penrose simply means that
$4,000 people who own nearly one
third of the nations wealth are deter
mined to have the national debt ref
funded for forty to sixty years. This
would cost the average family about
$50 extra taxes every year to pay in
terest alone on the national debt for
| many decades to come.
The new bill provides for a reduc-
ton in high income taxes from 65
to 25 per cent. This simply means
| that the load is transferred from
those enjoying enormous incomes to
the backs of those who have a modest
income. AS both Secretary Mellon
and Senator Penrose are in the first
class, it means that they are unload
ing" some of the debt incurred through
the stupidity of themselves and thei,
representative in congress.
The citizen who finds his load in
creased should not complain. That i.
exactly what he voted for at the las
election, at least in many instances
is this true. He voted for reaction
and that reaction" is now getting
into action.
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i The bi-annual prediction cam
paign promises of less taxes to pay
cleaner and better city, ETC., etc., i
our candidate is elected are now being
handed out to the gullible public.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-10-21
LESS MINE FATALITIES

Washington.-The United States
bureau of mines reports that June,
1921, mine fatalities were Ga less, or
about 20 per cent, than the corres-
ponding month of 1920. The number
killed in June Of this year was 1866,
as compared with 219 the previous
June.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-10-21
ARE WE INTERESTED?

Disarmament cannot be accom-
plished unless the masses keep their
shoulders to the wheel every hour of
the contest. The president on behalf
of our government will, of course,
direct the cause. But he can only win
in case American sentiment is thor
oughly aroused and indomitably sus-
tanned.
We cannot go about our business
and leave this matter to the diplomats.
Nothing pleases the militarists of this
and other countries more than to have
public sentiment die down and to
have the people abandon the cause.
1t is our paramount duty to organ
lied public opinion in Hamilton and
elsewhere to let the delegates to the
coming conference on disarmament
know where the American people
stand.
We must unload army and navy
appropriations. This is how they
have grown in the last nine years:
1912 1921
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-10-21
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-10-21
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WE SHOULD WORRY

Says the Labor Advocate:
The story comes from Russia of a
restaurant proprietor buying set of
antique furniture for 4,O0O,0 900 rubles,
which today amounts to less than
500.
The present condition of foreign ex-
change makes one dizzy. The figures
give fair indication of the topsy-
turvy state of the worlds business
affairs. Francs, marks, kronen, lire,
crowns, drachmas, pesetas, guilders,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-10-21

The Poor Sap who leans against the
Drinking Fountain Is Entitled to Men
ton among the Town Pests, for he's
Always In the Way. Why doesn't he
60 Park himself against a Building,
so Us Citizens with our Tongues
Hanging Out can lap up Drink with
out first Pushing him Awayf
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-10-21

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1921
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-10-21

The bi-annual prediction cam
paign promises of less taxes to pay,
a cleaner and better city, ETC., etc., if
our candidate is elected are now being
handed out to the gullible public.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08
Important to all Women
: Readers of this Paper

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney or bladder trouble and never
suspect it. E.. &. =. '5,ze,..sss...-,
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in a healthy con.
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased. .>.. .-.-.-.-..:
You may suffer pain in the back, head
ache and loss of ambition.
Poor health makes you nervous, irrita.
BILE and may be Respondent; it makes any
one so. < -. u , +. T.. e. ~.
But hundreds of women claim that DR..
Kilmer's Swamp.Root, by restoring
health to the kidneys, proved to be just
the remedy, needed to overcome such
conditions. - q
Many send for sample bottle to see what
Swamp Root, the great kidney, liver and
bladder medicine, will do for them. By
enclosing ten cents to DR.. Kilmer 4 Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y, you may receive sam
pie size bottle by Parcel Post. You can
purchase medium and large size bottles at
all drug stores. 3
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08
MOTHER, QUICK! GIVE
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP
FOR CHILD'S BOWELS

Even a sick child loves the "fruity"
taste Of california Fig Syrup" If the
little tongue is coated, or if your child
is listless, cross, feverish, full of cold.
or has collie, a teaspoonful will never
fail to open the bowels. In a few
hours you can see for yourself how
thoroughly it works all the constipa-
ton poison, sour bile and waste from
the tender, little bowels and gives you
a we'll, playful child again.
Millions Of mothers keep "CaliforniA
Fig Syrup" handy. They know tea
spoonful today saves a sick child to-
morrow. Ask your druggist for genuine
"California Fig Syrup which has d.
rections for babies and children Of all
ages printed on bottle. Mother! You
must say california" or you may get
an imitation fig syrup.-Advertisement.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08
IN BUYING ASPIRIN
ALWAYS SAY "BAYER"
Look for the Name "8ayer" on Tab
lets, Then You Need
Never Worry.

"Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" can be
taken safely for Colds, Headache,
Toothache, Earache, Neuralgia, Lum'
bago, Rheumatism, Joint Pains, Neurt-
tbs, and Pain generally.
TO get quick relief follow carefully
the safe and proper directions in each
unbroken package of "Bayer Tablets Of
Aspirin" This package is plainly
stamped with the safety "Bayer Cross"
The "Bayer Cross" means the gen.
uine, world-famous Aspirin prescribed
by physicians fol. over twenty-ons
years.-AdVertisem .zz->7 y -~-a.~s. --,
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08
Why They Fell Out.

The elevator boy in the, hotel was
a great friend of Tommy's and often
gave him a ride; but q time came
when they ceased to love each other.
'What's the matter with you and
the elevator boy, Tommy" ASKED his
father. 'sDon't you speak any more?"
NO." said Tommy. '"He put me out
of the elevator last night"
"Why?" -"
Because punched him."
"Well, wasn't he right to do it?"'5,,- ~
Maybe So" said Tommy, "but ne
needn't have put me out on the
tenth floor and make me walk down !"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08
Punishinu the Fraction.

Pat caught a youngster stealing his
apples. AS he was persistent or
fender Pat decided to punish him, so
Ie laid the boy across his knee.
Another youngster who was hanging
around said: Don't beat him. mister;
he's not to blame"
"Why isn't no to blame?" asked Pat.
"Folks say he's not MI there"
"Well" said Patrick, II can't help
that. I'll just lick what there Is OF
him"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08
At Least One Friend.

us Bill Grabcoin here?" asked the
afrable and prosperous looking caller.
mo, SIR" said that gentleman's Sec
rotary. Mr.. GrabcOin is out
AS the visitor walked away the sec
rotary turned to the stenographer and
remarked 'Just think Of anybody cal
ling our boss bill ="
ooh, you never can tell,' replied
that young woman with an air of
great worldly wisdom. '"The worst
office crab I ever worked for had a
friend."- Age-Herald.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08
She Thinks So, Anyway.

SHS IHIINS %, |Iy"oy'
The feminist orator was wound up
as she addressed the gathering OF
mere men.
"Women," she shouted, shave in all
times and in all countries been the
handspring of national existence. Who
was the worlds greatest hero? Helen
of Troy! Who was the worlds great
est ruler? Queen Victoria! Who was
the worlds greatest martyr? Gentle
men, who, say, was the worlds great
est martyr?"
And with one voice that immense
crowd of men arose and cried:
'My wife!f Tulsa World. -
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08
Optimism Prevails Among Men,
bers of Subcommittee on
Warship Ratios.
JAPAN BACKS DOWN
Prince Tokugawa Denies Statement OF
Admiral kato Saying That Japan
Wants a 70 Instead Of 60 Per
Cent Ratio.

Washington-Great Britain, az
the ally of Japan, Is using her In.
fluence to bring the Japanese
views In the naval ratio dispute
into harmony with those Of the
United States. With this deve!-
opment, the Japanese pIenipoten.
tiaries again have submitted the
whole question to their home gov
eminent. The exact nature OF the
latest move for a solution of the
ratio problem Is not disclosed, but
It is indicated that Great Britain
has found a double interest In the
success Of the negotiations be-
cause she has accepted In prln-
cipIe the American 1858" propo-
sal and because, on the other
hand, she is in alliance with
Japan, who asks for a ratio OF
"10-1o7."
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08
BOSCHEE'S SYRUP

Allays Irritation, Soothes and Heals
Throat and Lung Inflammation.
The almost constant irritation of a
cough keeps the delicate mucous men,
brane Of the throat and lungs in con-
gested condition, which Boschee's Syrup
gently and quickly soothes and heals.
For this reason it has been a favorite
household remedy for colds, coughs,
bronchitis and especially for lung
troubles in millions Of homes all over
the world for the last fifty-five years,
enabling the patient to obtain good
nights rest, free from coughing, with
easy expectoration in the morning.
You can buy Boschee's Syrup wherever
medicines are sold.-Advertisem
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08
Kansas CITY Star.

ME and wife had little jower last
night" related Gap Johnson Of Rum
pus Ridge, land when I got the best
of the argument she lowed that
yuarafter she'd suffer in silence.
aim to watch her day or so, and If
she don't kick back l reckon I'll In
vite oil the married men on the Ridge
to gather around and enjoy the spec
tacle."-Kansas City Star.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08
Minht Be on the Toe.

"Hurry, grille"
II can't go just yet Must do lit
tie darning. I have hole in my
stocking"
"Where it will show?"
"Well, if it is in the stocking it Will
show, won't it?"-LOuisville Courier
Journal.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08
: 3 - ~ 9tE.1f 2. = 49,
Out of the Question.

He-A short session of married life
has convinced both of us we can't get
along together. Your actions have
been too sensational. So I suggest
that we get divorce as quietly and
quickly as, possible. 7a4-ses..ssss,....f.--.5
She-Your suggestion of quietness
and quickness is preposterous. in
tend to go on the stage.-American
Legion Weekly. .......,
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08

Cuticura Soap for the Complexion
Nothing better than Cuticura Soap
daily and Ointment now and then as
needed to make the complexion clear,
scalp clean and hands soft and white.
Add to this, the fascinating, fragrant
Cuticura Talcum, and you have the
Cuticura Toilet OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08
CONGRESS QUITS.

The end of the extraordinary ses-
sion of congress, which President
Harding called eight months ago, on
November %, will leave the regular
session beginning Dec. 5, number OF
important measures whose prompt
enactment the president repeatedly
but vainly urged.
They include (1) the foreign debt
refunding bill; (2) the railroad debt
refunding bill, and (3) the permanent
tariff bill. ~
Final disposition Of the Ford-New-
berry election contest will also go over
until the regular session probably un'
til January. -r p - :
Under an unanimous consent agree
ments, the senate met at 10 o'cock on
the 18th to conclude find consideration
of the much disputed revenue bill.
During the extra session, 1875 bills
and resolutions have been considered
by both houses and enacted into law.
Army Limitation Hats.
Limitation of land ornaments Is
not likely to fare so well as Limitation
of naval ornaments.
y France appears to be the center OF
resistance in any considerable cut IN
land forces. The argument runs about
as follows: 49,. ..-,s.-' s~--s .--< -
France is menaced by Germany and
does not dare reduce its forces below
the 100000 now under arms. Beyond
the alleged German menace lies Rus
STA under control hostile to French
interest.
France will reduce her land forces
II England and America will guarantee
her protection. Hence it is not dill
cult to see how the representatives OF
America and Great Britain can use
the. alleged plight Of France to keep
up their own land forces at the pres
erit status, If in truth they do not find
reason for increasing them.
Rome g. Brown, prominent corpor-
alton lawyer of the northwest, has
reported in an article appearing in
srThe Nation" Of New York that we
now have 1878 regular commission
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08
Just What He Wanted.

Just What He Wanted.
Cadger-Hear you're workin', Soak
err. What are you doin'?
Soaker-NOthin'!
Cadger-Any chance Of gettin' Job
at the same place?-Stray Stories.