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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-08
Uncle Wiggily
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
BEE.

How did you feel this morning.
Urcle Wiggily?" asked Nurse Jane.
as the bunny rabbit gentleman arose
from the breakfast table and looted
toward the corner OF the hollow
stump bungalow, where his red
white and blue rheumatism crutcb
leaned against the wall
"Oh l feel very happy" answered
the bunny ''I feel just like having
an adventure. I am going 10 hou
over the fields and through tho
woods. and 7 invite you 10 hop with
me. Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy. Come. oh
come adventuring," sang Uncle Wig
silly.
My But you do feel gay" laugh
cd Nurse Jane. I'm sorry / cam
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-08

transatlantic line Repairs cost
$4,000.
Had this ship had the use Of her
radio, she would have picked up the
messages of the u. S coast guard
cutter on iceberg patrol. or the
warnings of the naval photographic
office. and would have steered clear
of the obstruction.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-08

ping board vessel. got out Of order.
For two weeks she was lest" She
was found" only after her radio
set had been repaired.
The radio officer Of a cargo ship
died, and the ship sailed without
waiting for a replacement. Running
this way. without radio. the ship
rammed an iceberg in the northern
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-08
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RADIO AS A LIFE SA YER

WASHINGTON. D. C.. Sept. =
The one place on earth where radio
Is real serious business Is at sea
There entertainment BY radio
phone IS only secondary to the great
cause OF preventing lose OF lives by
drowning. Saving ships from de-
struction also Genes ahead Of the
radio concert from some land sta
ton. For on the water, radio Is
the only means by which one ship
can call another for help.
what brought home TO shipping
officials the real importance OF radio
at sea was the Titanic disaster.
when that giant liner struck an ice
berg in the night OF April Il. 1912.
This calamity resulted IN a confer
ence OF maritime nations on the
problem OF preventing further loss
at sea, not only from icebergs but
from other causes.
Iceberg Patrol.
Immediately thereafter an iceberg
patrol was established by these ma
tons THIS patrol is under the con-
troll OF the United States Coast
Guard Service. but all the other ma
tlons that took part In the confer
ence contribute toward its main
tenance.
No record has been kept in Wash
rgton Of the lives OF ships saved
by this service But incidents are
remembered by officials wherein
lack OF such service would have
meant further destruction Of lives
and property.
The icebergs floating down from
the north usually cross the main
ocean liners lane between America
and Europe Further Titanic dis
asters are prevented by radio flashes
or the position. course and rate OF
drift Of such obstacles.
Other Services.
In connection with other ship
service, radio Is just as important.
Last year. officials Of the u. S ship
ping board say. more than 500 yes
sells flashed distress signals and
nearly 200 were towed TO port by
arrangements made by radio.
AT one time the radio apparatus
o. the Western Hero a L. S. ship
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17
WHAT UNIONS HAVE DONE

The next time someone asks you
what you have unions for" don't
pity his ignorance, but take the un-
Informed gentlemen in hand and en-
tighten his mind to the greatest force
for good that the worlds workers
have ever known.
Compare the long workday of
thirty years ago to that to today.
Explain to him how that at the be-
ginning of the union labor movement
all of the different mechanics were
working from twelve to sixteen hours
per day, and now that the eight-hour
day is a fact in all organized callings.
and that many of them are discussing
the seven-hour day that they may en-
JOY to a greater degree the good
things of life.
If the unions successful efforts in
reducing the workday are not suff-
cient excuse for our existence, show
your friend how the workers agita-
tion secured our free school system
and its free school books How we
have rasied wages and established a
vast chain of benefits How we have
forced employers to safeguard life
and limb How shop conditions are
bettered by workers standing together
and protecting from blacklisting the
fellow who has gone to the front.
Tell him that all these gains have
been made in the last fifty years.
Before that time men were even de-
MED the right to organize Existing
laws at that time declared that three
workers gathered together in one
place constituted a conspiracy. But
despite obstacles men united They
formed debating societies and estab-
lished labor papers. Slowly but sure
ly they one at time toppled over
old ideas maintained by lawmakers,
professors, economists and students.
Upward they have climbed out Of
slavery and bondage, over 4,0000 900
strong
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17
VARIOUS SPECIES OF THE HOG

There are all kinds. There is the
greedy employer. There is the greedy
employe. There is the road hog and
a good many others in the various
walks of life. There is the hog that
has control over the various foods,
for instance, like the different foods
which were sold as high as 80 cents
per pound How far did these various
hogs get?? How far are they getting
now? How far will they get? Give
us the man, whether he is employer
or employe, that has interests of
others besides himself at heart How
many persons are there who donate
to everything where their name ap-
pears in print and who would not
give one cent to anything which
might not give them some notoriety.
The old saying and true one, "rhe
Lord loveth a cheerful giver.
Have you ever noticed in riding
around in the city in your auto or
over a country road "the road hos" :?
Generally he is the cause Of acci-
dents He wants the whole road and
part of the next road to himself, as
you pass him. He has that what
care l for your rights" expression,
and if you don't like it get out in the
mud But put the shoe on the other
foot and see the difference
Then you have the rent hog" or
in other words the landlord hog He
doesn't figure where his tenants get
the money to pay the rent, just so he
gets it. If you can't pay the rent,
get out, even though we know some
of these landlords are making as high
as 20 per cent on their investment.
These landlords are generally the
first to kick about their taxes. The
majority of these rent hogs would
like to charge tenants the high rent
they now are paying and make them
pay the taxes besides.
Let US not have the word hog APP
piled to as Let US go along and con
slider the other fellow and we viii
surely feel a whole lot better in the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17

DRUGGING PUBLIC OPINIO

DRUGGING PUBLIC OPINION
The American Association of Teach
ers of Journalism has directed atten-
tion of the public to the low ebb of
editorial opinion of American news
papers.
'Why is the editorial the weak sis
ter in modern journalism? News
interest, advertising interest and gen
eral interest in the executive of pro-
ducing the paper at present smother
the interest in editorials. This ap-
plies not only to the outside public
but within the office ITSELF" the asso-
citation was told.
The answer is simple. Editorials
have been drained Of their power be-
cause it pays.
1t pays somebody to drug public
opinion. 1t pays nobody to be the
advocate of public interest.
1t is a strange ironical fact that
organs of public opinion" have be-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17
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SALES TAX
Opposed as Vicious By Or
ganiZed Workers

Washington. - "Organized labor
stands 100 per cent for the soldiers
bonus, but is opposed to a sales tax
as means of raising revenue for the
bonus, just as it is opposed to a sales
tax to pay any debt contracted by the
government" said President Com
pers, in a public statement.
Labor recognizes in the proposal
to attach the sales tax to the soldiers
adjusted compensation bill subter-
fuge intended either to defeat the bo-
nus or to create a feeling of resent
ment against the veterans of the
world war by placing the burden upon
those least able to bear it and by per-
mitting the escape of those who pro-
fiteered so relentlessly during the pc
riod of the war and since the war.
"The bonus should have the APP
proval of congress, but to create a
sales tax would be to turn measure
of justice into an imposition and an
injustice upon the whole people The
position of labor upon the sales tax
is stated officially in the following
resolution:
Resolved, That the A. F. of L., in
convention assembled, declares against
the imposition of retail tax on
consumption, and demands that the
highest rate of taxation levied during
the war upon incomes and excess pro-
fits be retained until the full money
cost of the war has been paid
Congress refused to adopt the sales
tax as a part of the general revenue
provisions. That proposal should not
now be used to becloud the merits of
a measure intended to do justice to
those who patriotically defended the
country in it's hour of need "
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17
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WHEN MILADY BREWED

Back in A d. 1912, when King
John, he of Runnymede, was on the
English throne, there was very de-
structive fire in London. So the COM
mon council decreed that mo ale-wife
brew by night with reeds or straw"
but permitted these ladies who were
gladdening the homes of London, to
brew with wood 1t is one of those
intimate touches that bring far-off
history down to us. 1t affords us a
Closeup" even across the centur-
les The ale wife, with her reeds, or
straw or wood under her boiling ket-
tie, tasting or testing that her home
coming husband might have a deep
draught of "home-brew," would have
been to us, a few years ago, remote,
grotesque picture. But today this
lady of eight hundred years ago seems.
verify lineal ancestor 1t was about
century and ahalf ago that this ale
wife disappeared before the factory
system. The brewery, which was
nothing more than the factory system
applied to the making of ale or beer,
took the job off the ale-wife's hands.
Prohibition has now handed the job
back to her. And it is doubtful that
the brewery ever made beer such as
the ale-wife made 1t was her stuff
that made men burst into song about
brown October ale" Probably never
again will she cause men to burst
into lusty song There is much home
brew, but the ale-wife has not handed
down her magic recipe across the cen
turies.-Times- Star.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17

come instruments of private interests.
1t is material for the humorist as
well as the sociologist that the public
is the orphan of American life.
The steel interests, the flour inter-
ests, the railroad interests, the coal
industries, the banking interests, the
meat interests, the lumber interests,
the cotton interests, the water power
interests and the gas interests are
all favored children. They are PAM
pered and coddled by high tariffs, and
benevolent legislation, by the courts
and by the administration.
But the public-who wants to be
the devils advocate?
The union label signifies the appli-
cation in industrial life of those rules
which every good citizen applies in
individual life.
- ~ ~ ~ -
All that is needed is closer organi-
zation and cooperation, and a sane,
conservative use of our power, and
we will accomplish our ends peace
ably.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17
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INDIFFERENCE
To killing of Workers Is
Shown BY Public

Pittsburgh, Pa.--The public is in
different to the killing of workers
who dare to stand for justice, says the
Amalgamated Journal, in reviewing
recent outrages on workers in West
Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky The
Journal is the official magazine of
the Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers.
"The tragic scenes that are taking
place in Americas industrial centers,
such as have been enacted in Newport,
KY, and Yorkville, Ohio, during the
past two weeks, and which have been
transpiring in Mingo county, West
Virginia, for the past year, proves
conclusively that America today is
heartless toward workers who have
the spirit to stand out collectively
against unjust and oppressive employ
erS.
'''rhe American public today wor-
ships money. The justice of any con
test between a corporation and its
employees is given scant consideration.
The American public of today is
pharasaic. 1t permits workers to be
killed indiscriminately without pro-
test. The American public is exper-
iencing no feeling of horror when it
reads of corporations shooting up
towns, caring not who is shot, nor
whose property is riddled with bullets
from machine guns.
Corporations have become revolu-
tionary industrial Kingdoms that re-
gard no law nor social restraint"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17
THE COMPANY UNIONS

Just as predicted at the time
company unions were being formed
for the benefit of workers employed
under the so-called American plan,
open shop industries, there is every
indication that these unions are 60
ing on the rocks. They are about on
a par with the business house that
has nothing to commend it, and is
simply waiting until it drifts into the
hands of the receiver. It's liabilities
are large enough, but its assets
well, those who have been forced into
these company unions can vouch that
everything is going in and nothing
coming out. The new game of "put
and take" was invented about the
time the employers unions were be-
ing formed, and it looks like this lit
tie game has close affiliation with
them. Of course, these mushroom
unions were supposed to be the re-
serve force required to break up the
established labor organizations of the
country.
What chance of equal rights with
their employers in arranging wage
scales and working conditions could
men of such affiliations expect There
could be no enforcement of any de-
mands for the reason that would be
classed as coming from the individ-
ual and its value to the worker is
usually considered NIL There would
be no body of workers to back up any
proposition, even if allowed to go be-
fore these bosses unions, there would
be no consideration for such ideas if
it was not in keeping with the policy
of the company and for such imper-
finance a mans job would surely be
jeopardized
Most union men are conversant
with the methods used by employers
in the organization campaign for the
open shop. Every man that joined
these unions willingly or otherwise,
merely added to the temporary
strength which enabled the employer
for the time being to force where
possible the conditions he desired.
Stagnation was the opportune time
for this work and he took advantage
of it. There is just as much reason
to expect a reaction from the slash
ing of wages, and when business gets
going right there will be many offer
ings of bonuses to work for certain
employers if they need the men.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17
Issued Weekly at S26 Market Street
Hamilton, Ohio
Telephone 1896

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middetown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown. @
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17
TURKISH LIVING COSTS

Washington.-In a report to the
department of commerce from trade
commissioner in Constantinople it is
stated that the cost of living in that
city on October l, last year, was $50
per cent higher than in pre-war days.
Rent and lodging, however, increased
some 1,200 per cent over July, 1914.
These figures are for the working and
poorer classes of the city; for Ameri-
can and European residents the in
crease, including rent, is nearer 2,400
per cent. One of the reasons for the
present costs is the large number of
Russian refugees in that city which
is declared to be one Of the most ex-
pensive in the world
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NO TIME TO QUIT

No greater mistake can be made
by workingman than to quit fight
ing for his own interests.
Every time an active member Of
organized labor lays down on the job
the anti-union forces rush into the
gap thus formed and Immediately pro-
ceed to ntrench themselves for flu
ture attack
At the first favorable opportunity
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17

NO USE FOR BAD EGGS

Jack Dempsey, champion heavy
weight pugilist of the world, who has
bought magnificent home on West
ern avenue, Los Angeles, endeared
himself to the hearts of all union
building trades mechanics the other
day when he notified an electrical
contractor to discharge all non-union
electrical workers engaged in rear
ranging the lighting system in the
Dempsey home and to employ union
men only. Champion Jack said:
II want nothing but union men on
this job Give all the bad eggs the
air"
Los Angeles has four citizens of
worldwide fame who refuse to en-
ploy non-union building trades me-
chanics-Mary Pickford, Douglas
Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and Jack
Dempsey
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17
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THE REAL PROFITEERS

There still fingers in the mind of
many well-meaning Americans a no
tion that the high cost of commodi-
ties is somehow due to "labor's in
ordinate greed" They have been fed
up on stories on overall pockets bulg-
ing with bank rolls, of silk shirts and
flivvers, and cannot be blamed if they
are prejudiced.
Take building, for instance. The
nation is a million homes short be-
cause, the papers said, the workers
wouldn't be reasonable" But the
Literary Digest has published table
based upon actual statistics describ-
ing the curve of building costs since
1913 that places the blame where it
belongs.
Selecting 1913 as normal and fixing
the cost of building in that year as
100 per cent, the table shows that dur
ing the war years from 1915 building
material climbed from normal to 800
per cent above. At the same time
wages of labor rose from normal to
1870 per cent above
This is not all the story While
building material was going skyward
more than 100 per cent above all other
commodities, as the table indicates,
labor was 100 per cent below the cost
Of all other commodities.
The facts are not as picturesque as
romance, but they tell their story
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strong
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17

that comes, crash go the wages and
working conditions which it took
years to establish, and then when it
is too late the cutters give vent
to walls of despair.
If the suffering could be confined
to the cutters so that they alone
would pay the penalty of their folly,
their quitting could be viewed as good
riddance and the penalty as well de-
served punishment, but in the nature
of things the entire labor movement
must suffer just as it is always suf-
fering because there are so many blind
and Indifferent workers who never
raise finger to help the good fight
along but are always eternally clam
oring for being helped and having
what others fought for handed them
on platter.
1t is always few upon whom falls
the brunt of taking the initiative. 1t
is to these few that the rank and file
of the labor movement owe nearly
everything they have thus far gained
The headway made has, of course,
also been due to the support and CO.
operation given by the rank and file
in the background, but it is the active
members who have taken the lead
and formulated the plans that have
netted the gains of the past.
At no time in the history of the
labor movement has activity been
more necessary than at the present
time. To lay down now will not
avert future attacks on labor condi-
tions but will invite and hasten the
day when additional wage-cuts will
be slapped on without mercy
From all parts of the world comes
abundant evidence that it is the quit
ters who get slashed the soonest, the
deepest and most frequently, while
those who put up an active and intel
ligent scrap for their wages and work
ing conditions are cut the least and
the seldomest even in times of depres-
sion such as we have been having the
past year and half
For this reason no union man can
afford to lay down on the job of his
union activity His entire future is
at stake and his only hope lies in
putting up organized resistance to
the efforts being put forth to drag
him and his fellow workers down
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17

The union label is an inspiration,
a guide post and rallying point for
the energetic and conscientious wo-
man in every community, and for this
reason the Woman's Union Label
League came into being.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17

The Print shop Pest bothers the
Printers. Gets in the Road, Pies Type,
asks Foolish Questions, puts his Feet
on the Office Desk. Scatters the Ex-
changes all over, Smokes Nawful
Pipe, Splits on the Floor Snatches the
First Paper off'n the Press and com
mits Other Crimes too Numerous to
Mention.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-06
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One Square From Station
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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-08-29
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
MR.. L. VI. MURRAY

Mr.. George MacKay, this morning
received a telegram from Mrs. L. u
Murray, in New York, announcing
that the funeral services for Mr.. Muir,
ray viii be held Thursday. and that
ne will be buried beside his parents al
Catskill, on the Hudson river
Beside his wife and daughter, Mr.
Murray is survived by his brother
Col Cunliffe Murray, U. s. A., retired
his sister, Mrs. Upham, Of Brooklyn
and a number of nephews and nieces.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-08-29

Capt. T. E. Bridges arrived home
last night from a months absence in
the mountains of North Carolina Mr.
Bridges made the trip home by auto
mobile, via Atlanta and Oglethorpe
He said he never rode so fast in his
life, because the Outs on the roads in
Georgia was binding and the only way
to get away from it was to pass every
car on the road Mrs Bridges is now
just few miles out of Asheville but
will probably go to Asheville is an
other week.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-08-29
Eoneiv 5sbies Popular,

"Homely babies, especially those
with freckles and reu hair. are adopt
ed, as rule. more quickly than pretty
habies," said the nurse in charge OF
a ward in one of Detroit's homes for
orphans sit seems that pretty babies
relying upon their good looks, fail to
attract the attention of prospective
foster-parents, lille infants who were
neglected when good looks were passed
out, win their way into the hearts OF
childless couples through their happy
smiles and flashing eyes"