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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-23
FORD IRRITATES THEM

Ford and his railroad seem to be an
awful sharp thorn in the sides of the
railroad managers. The Dayton La
Dor Review says:
Henry Ford has gone and done 1t
again
"The best minds among railroad
managers said the roads would go
bankrupt if wages were not cut to
the bone. Ford answered this by an
nouncing that the minimum wage on
his road. the d. T. & l., would be
Sc per day, and then demanded the
right to cut freight rates, saying his
profits were too high.
Last week he fired his detective
force, saying that the payment of
these detectives was an absolute
waste of money, as the road paid
taxes and the property must be pro-
teeted by the cities and counties
through which it passed.
"Atterbury, of the Pennsylvania,
insists that about half million a
year must be paid out by his road
to maintain its Intelligence depart
ment'
Ford is business man. After
bury and the other railroad minds
are lot of spectators.
"That explains the trouble with the
railroads today. And the wonderful
and weird Esch-Cummins law, the
most constructive piece of legislation
as Mr.. Harding called it, protects
the spectators, rims the public and
prevents a correction of the glaring
evils in the transportation world"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-23

government will certainly do its best
to soften the blow to property inter-
ests. All expenditures laid out on
ships partly completed, but not to be
finished, will be reimbursed and pro-
fits that were fairly to be expected
under contracts already let will be
granted out of appropriations.
Surely the government can not af-
ford to be more tender toward the
vested interests of capital than to-
ward those of labor Surely it cannot
afford to generously "take care of" the
big armament building corporations
and at the same time turn adrift the
men whose only capital is their labor
skill.
Does this protest seem absurd
If it does, it only shows to what ex-
tent we have grown to exalt the
sacredness of money above the sacred
ness of men!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-23

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-23
Issued Weekly at s2s Marke. Street.
Hamilton, Ohio.
Telephone 1895
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton. Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of MiddletOwn. o
MAN AND THE AUTO

In current issue of the Duluth
Labor World the editor gave express
sion to his thoughts of the auto man.
The editor frankly admits that he
doesn't own a tank" ther eby giving
excuse for his sad lament. He says:
"We do not know whether to dis.
cuss in this editorial the rights OF
man or the rights of the auto May
be since the auto came man lost his
rights on the public streets, just as
prohibition has taken away ones God
given right to drink himself to death
if he so chose, or to tear up the town
in the days of old dobbin things
were different. Traffic regulations
weren't so stringent. Dobbin knew
man was his master and he respected
his masters rights. We guess that's
why most people loved him. Haven't
we hundred times got behind his
wagon and given him helping push
up hill when he was straining every
nerve to make the grade? Whoever
heard of anyone giving lift to an
automobile?
when we crossed the street in the
days of dobbin he had sufficient re-
spect for our rights and weakness to
stop or check up and permit US to
pass. Not so now. It's get out of the
way and do it quickly or be run down.
It's funny what a difference it makes
in fellow when he gets a car. AS
a pedestrian he is great sticker for
rights, for ''his rights" but as the
man behind the wheel, well, he has
carried his pedestrial rights with
him, and the man who is still walk
ing can take the hindmost.
"It is said that if one wants to
ascertain the true attributes of
another all he has to do is to observe
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-23

CHRISTMAS GREETING

The Butler County Press sincerely
wishes all it's friends and patrons a
most joyous and merry Christmas.
We desire to thank our great num-
Der of friends among the various
local labor organizations for their
loyal and never ceasing work and
support Of the Press
We especially thank the business
and professional men and the manu-
featuring industries of the city for
their unqualified endorsement OF the
Press, which is manifested by their
liberal advertising patronage. They
recognize the fact that great major
ity of the money spenders of the city
is to be found among the ranks of
organized labor, and that the best
means of attracting their attention
is through the columns of their own
paper. Our subscribers read the ad-
vertisements, and believing in recip-
rocity, naturally trade with those
merchants who thus evidence their
belief that the dollar of the working
man is as desirable as that of the silk
gloved aristocrat
We again urge every union man,
and the family of every union man, to
spend their hard earned money with
their proven friends-trade only with
Press advertisers. Every business
and profession is represented in our
columns; it is only necessary to choose
from among them.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-23

& Marx, we are willing to be thou
sand per cent organized" said Mr..
Strauss, "ald you may tell the world. y
The contracting employer of the
teamsters did not come to terms with
in the time limit assigned by Mr..
Strauss, who thereupon eliminated
the middlemen by purchasing trucks
and rehiring his teamsters at union
scale directly through the union
headquarters. "A good many busi-
ness men," said Mr.. Strauss, "are tir-
ed Of unnecessary troubles started by
the open shop. Teachers Bulletin.
H A N ~ -
CARRY ON, WITH THE BRIDGE
From the action taken by the
county commissioners last Saturday
in ordering the county prosecutor or
his assistant to prepare the necessary
legislation for the construction of the
proposed bridge over the Miami river
at Coke Otto, it may be judged that
the improvement is to proceed de-
spite the objections of one w. w.
Crawford, who appeared before the
commissioners two weeks ago and
protested against making the i'm
provement, saying that it would be
too expensive at this time and sug-
gested that the building of the bridge
be delayed for few years, or per-
haps he meant that it should wait
until Noah is due to go through here
again in his ark BILLY" has become
very solicitous of the taxpayers in
terests all of sudden. He has been
getting his from the county for long
time and we have never yet heard
where he offered to volunteer his SER
vices gratis or that he requested that
his wages be reduced. Some time
back when he was named clerk of
the board of county commissioners
and the then county auditor offered
to continue the services of the clerk
without charge, such as had been the
no one heard "Billy" say word about
saving money for the county. Not
on your life; Billy" simply sat back
and pulled for the commissioners with
all his might in their fight with the
county auditor that he might hold the
job. Crawford is only one of several
thousand who oppose the making of
this improvement, but there were
other thousands who voted that it be
made, and they are in the great ma
jority 1t is the duty of the county
commissioners to carry out the man
dates of the majority voters of the
county, and that without any more
delay than possible.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-23

peals to you to do your shopping dur
ing the daytime. The stores will be
open three nights this week, but that
is no reason why you should do your
shopping at night. How would you
like it if your employer asked you to
work long hours, especially at night :?
Neither do the clerks. No good union
man or woman will shop at night
and thereby compel his or her fellow
worker to work long hours. Nor will
they allow any member of their fam
lily to do so, either. Shop during the
day.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-23

HOW MUCH DO YOU OWE
TOMORROW

Look over your debts on your daily
balance sheet.
How much do you owe tomorrow :?
Nothing, perhaps. Then it is new
day, the whole of which you can de-
vote to work for your future and re-
creation, through which you get en-
joyment out of life as you go along.
Perhaps, again, you owe it four or
five hours you have borrowed today
or last week, by leaving undone some
task that must be done by six o'clock
tomorrow night.
Then either part of the working
time or part of the recreation time is
gone. They must go to pay the debt.
1t is a pretty good plan to keep
square with tomorrow right along.
1t may bring new tasks and new
uses for time that you don't know
anything about.
1t may bring new opportunities. All
opportunities are brought by some
tomorrow or other.
If you have to spend all, or part
of it, paying with your labor and time
for dead horses, the new tasks will
not be done and the new opportuni-
ties will knock at your door in vain.
You will be too busy paying off
the old debt to heed either of them.
But if you are square-if you owe
nothing-tomorrow may be the turn
ing point in your life.
Very important things, with criti-
cal bearing on our lives, can happen
in few hours, or in few minutes,
for that matter.
If one of them is going to happen
tomorrow it will pay to have the time
account opened so there will be the
minutes or the hours that you need
for it,
Most of the night and the Sunday
toll that all men expend could be cut
to minimum if we never borrowed
from tomorrow
Yet we do-and right along.
1t is bad and an improvident
habit.
We can cure it if we try, but we
must try very hard, for of all the
habits that fix themselves on our
backs, like the Old Man of the Sea,
the habit of procrastination is the
most persistent and deadly.
Keep the balance sheet under your
eye all the time.
And if you find tomorrow figures as
a debtor, pay it off, and do it today.
Then you won't get out of bed with
a load on your mind in the morning,
but with an easy conscience and a
feeling that you at last are in posi-
tion to accomplish something.
ma M ma M ~
SHOP DURING THE DAY
Brother and sister, the Press ap-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-23
~ A A N ~
TIRING OF OPEN SHOP

BY signing up directly with the
striking A. F. of L. teamsters last
week, Hart, Schaffner & Marx( of
Chicago, lined up definitely on the
side of business men who are tired
of trouble stirred up by the open
shop 1--WE are not only one hundred
per cent organized at Hart, Schaffner
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-23

FRIDAY, DECEMBER %, 1921
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-23

CAPITAL UEBER ALLIES

If the Washington conference sue.
ceeds in it's first purpose-the scrap
ping of the naval program (and we
hope it WILLIS there not moral
obligation resting on the government
to make some provision for the men
thrown out of employment thereby?
No doubt almost all of them can
ultimately find places in ordinary in
dustry, which may be expected to
thrive and expand with the lifting of
taxation burdens and the still heav-
ier burden of international insecurity.
But fitting workers into new
places is a process that takes time.
Before it is completed many of these
men will suffer the severest distress,
if the government simply abandons
them.
1t is to be borne in mind that the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-23

how he conducts himself in his auto.
Meet him on narrow country road
and see whether he is willing to go
fifty-fifty with you, and if he is SYM
pathetic enough to slacken up while
passing.
"The automobile is truly great in
stitution. 1t shows up the character
of its driver when he has elsewhere
successfully concealed it from the
world 1t rules with brute force like
tyrants of old. We are going to buy
a "tank" some day to challenge its
supremacy.
That's what we think of the auto
mobile We wonder if we have any
company in such thoughts ?"
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The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21
HOW TO BECOME A ZERO

The simplest and quickest way for
men and women to become zero in
politics of public and private affairs
in general is to turn over their pro-
perty and their thinking capacity to
unrestrained leaders and not mix i'll
politics. Turn over your property
to someone to do with it as he plea
ses without any kind of limitation
and you are zero so far as handling
your property is concerned. Taking
everything for granted that you hear
and see and form your conclusions
without going to the trouble of dig
ging up the information on the op-
posite side of what you have before
and you will soon be zero so far as
anybody taking any stock in your
Judgment is concerned. Keep .lc of
from politics just because you do not
see any direct personal benefit in it
for yourself and you will soon find
that the machinery of government
will be used by gang whose prin-
cipal purpose in mixing in politics
is to profit thereby personally. Keep
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21
THE HOPE PIONEER

out of politics except when you seq
a possible personal profit for vour-
sell il. it. and you will soon be so
near a nobody and nothing as any
ole can well be. The fellows that
do mix in politics under such cir
cumstances can tax you so you might
as we'll give up your property. They
can take away your freedom with
state sheriffs and smelling commit
tees so you might as we'll be a work
OK, and they can shape the educa-
ton of your children so that they
might as we'll be parrots. Are YOU
going to be zero or are you going
to be somebody in the recall ele.-
ton?
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21

on the basis of last years high wages.
Frazier, Lemke, and Hagan hope to
work the people of North Dakota "a
to such a frenzy over this slump III
prices as to get a majority of the
voters to overlook or completely for
get that the issue in the this recall
election is not how to get the best
price for farm products. Everybody
in North Dakota that has any sense
is in favor Of that. The issue is
whether or not officials who are gull
ty of squandering public money and
using it for the purpose of promoting
the personal and political fortunes
of themselves and their friends .le
going to be retained in office or 9TH
ers put in their places. A large per
centage of the Independents already
| realize what the issue is in this cleo
ton, and that no right thinking citi-
zen can afford to be on record as
helping to perpetuate the guilty Of
ficials in Office either by supporting
them in a direct manner or by IL
voting on election day, or being a
Stacker between now and election
day. Those who already realize this
are getting ready for systematic
campaigns to help arouse others.
The active Independents in every
community will soon take the initia-
tive in the matter of assembling a
campaign fund for the Independent
State campaign committee, which
will enable it to get the truth, about
what has happened to our public
money, to the voters of the state by
means of speakers, literature and
newspaper publicity. Many nonpar.
tisans are going to contribute to the
Independent fund this time because
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21

The two delegates that North
Dakota was entitled to in the con-
vention of the League of Women
Voters OF America, held at Cleve-
land, Ohio last week, were Mrs.
Sheppard Sheldon, an 1. v. A., all |
Mrs. Lit. Gov. Howard r. Wood, a
Nonpartisan.
Mrs. Sheldon was day late in get
ting to the convention, which led the
regional director to think that there
would be no one else than Mrs, Wood
present from North Dakota, conse-
quetnly she was allotted the duty of
representing the North Dakita wo-
men, but as she did not appear at
the appointed time and Mrs. Sheldon
was on the ground and in the con-
|vention, she was called upon to d1
it. She not only spoke for the wo.
men in the convention, but she also
represented North Dakota before
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21

the younger generation. The men
and women of tomorrow must learn
to distinguish between demagogues
and statesmen. The earmarks arc
clear, and once our young folks
learn to know the big promises, the
personal abuse, the collection of cash
and other evidences of self seeking,
these farmers of the farmers will be
spotted as soon as they appear. The
citizens of today must do their duty
and establish a standard by recall
ing officials guilty of misusing the
public funds and public confidence.
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21
BULLS AND BEARS

Liverpool wheat importers notify
their buyers in American MARKERS
that England has all the wheat she
needs at present. The call for
cheaper bread by factory hands and
laborers, together with fair crop
in sight from other parts of the
world also tend to "bear" market
wave, the effects Of which reduced
our wheat price several cents per
bushel. Lemke and Ladd, however,
will, if running true to form, tell
the farmers that it is the result Of
some wheat gambler buying a mil
lion or two of wind" wheat, which
another gambler sells, the buying
and selling offsetting each other. The
buyer was a "bear" ON the market
until he had loaded up, then he be-
came "bull", or booster.
The seller was a "bull" on the
market until he had sold, then he
became a "bear", or knocker. Be-
fore the deal in wind" wheat the
pair that put through the wind
deal consisted of one bear" and one
"bull'. After the wind" deal was
closed, the same pair consisted OF
one "bull' and one bear.
When Liverpool buyers quit, they
neither buy nor sell. Then the man
or country who has wheat to sell
must find market elsewhere, OF
down goes the price, and all the an
tics, cattits and verbal juggling ot
Ladd and Lemke will not stop i.
But then, that's not what Ladd ant
Lemke are after. All they want is tt
keep the farmers attention by tell
ing him bogie and fairy tales, whil'
they get his coin for their game.
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21

various committees having to do
with legislation concerning women
and children. Mrs. Wood is reported
to have been very busy with group
meetings outside If the convention,
trying to interest women in the Non
partisan League movement, but with
out much success.
Mrs. Paige of Minneapolis, the re-
gional director for several northwest
states was very we'll pleased with
the manner in which the northwest
was received at the convention. Al!
the large stores in Cleveland were
decorated in buff and blue, the con.
vention colors, and the town was
thrown open to the women.
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21

The Nonpartisan papers are max
ing a lot of noise these days about
cream checks, egg baskets, dancing
parties, and children shoes that are
being used for the purpose of rails
ing fund for the Nonpartisan state
committee, to be used for the recall
election. 1t is really a pity that 80
many good men and women shall get
their names printed as contributors
to a fund to be used to keep men in
state offices who are guilty of the
most glaring and objectionable mis-
use of public funds that there is az
record of in the United States. The
officials will, of course, not try to
defend themselves because their
guilt is indisputable.
The price Of wheat and other farm
commodities and raw products have
gone down so as to cause a loss to
the producers who produced then
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21

Never in the history of North Da-
kota has there been a more repre-
sentative gathering than the Devils
Lake recall convention. Six hun
dred elected delegates from all over
the state considered the evidence
against the Frazier Gang two whole
days. Many were in doubt at first
as to the wisdom of recall, but
the final vote was practically unan-
imous for it.. For honest and self
respecting men no other course was
open.
Minot the home of r. A. Nestos,
who was nominated as candidate for
Governor the recall election, has
shown it's confidence in their own
townsman and it's desire to get out
of the Nonpartisan mire, by taking
the lead in signing up the recall Pc
titions and sending them in. From
the league strongholds North, South
and West of Minot and Ward County
reports show that everybody is tired
OF our political spree and anxious to
get back to sane and sober ways of
doing business. Last Wednesday
evening twelve hundred citizens Of
Minot and vicinity gathered to do
honor to Nestos and show their ap-
proval of the recall election.
Have you seen a single statement
in any League publication showing
that the Frazier-Lemke Gang con.
demns the looting Of the Scandina.
Wan American Bank? S450,OOO.OO
OF our tax money went into this bank
The concern was controlled by the
League Gang. The League Gang got
the money-borrowed it they say
1t was placed there by Cathro and
Company, although they knew it was
going to political henchmen running
errands for Frazier, Lemke and Ha.
gen.
Is, or is not, that alone sufficient
reason for recall? How much ta1
money, shall we let disappear in the
jeans Of this Gang before we kicl
them out?
There is only one way to have
good government and get good pub
lie service, namely, endorse the me1
elected by reelection when they dc
right; fire them when they stop serv
ing the state and serve themselve:
as the Frazier Gang has done. Sell
respect and good common sense a:
citizens OF republic, whose safet,
and prosperity requires honest pub
lie service on the part of it's officer;
requires that we insist on a higt
standard Of public service.
Even if the recall means som,
work and some fight, it is worth th,
trouble just as an object lesson t.
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21

they realize that both they and their
children will feel more comfortable
in the future if their names are on
record as having helped to remove
officials who have misused public
funds and put other honest people
in their places.
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21

FOR SALE-SO acres of No. up
land hay stumpage for the coming
season. situated on Sec. Is, Colgate
Township. John Holcomb, Colgate,
N. d. 4-3tp
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21

For Spirella Corsets see Mrs. Dor
rance. Residence in southeast part
of town, or phone 159. 1-2o
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21

FOR SALE-3 young work horses
2 sets work harness, Ford truck
G. D. Fisher, Hope, N. Oak. 1tf
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21

FOR RENT-Garden plot, consist
ing of 3 lots in city of Hope. See
Mrs. ]. K. Joslyn. 4-2t
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21

FOR SALE-"Victory" Seed Oats.
G. S. Shippy. 46-tf
The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-21

GOOSE EGGS for sale, 20 cents
each. Mrs. C. E. Smith. 4tp