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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

1t must be admitted that womcn's
clothes. scanty though they are. provide lots
or material for sermons. orations, poems,
editorials and paragraphs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

When by aid Of radio activity we are
able to operate machinery at long distance
the coal problem will be less and the man
problem more acute
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

Boom times and bad times are blisters
md puncturcs on the one wheel. Sooner or
atcr business will learn how to take better
are OF it's tires.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

Married at sixteen fourteen years ago,
Palisade n. j.. woman is the mother of
eleven children. nine of them living. Won.
der how that woman puts in her time?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

News item setting forth that nothing Is
OF Importance Realistic stockings (rcal-
istic because they look like bare legs) are
in big demand in Paris.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

Pennsylvania train delayed by a mouse
getting cntangled in n woman's shoestrings.
Many train has been lost by a poor fish
similarly entangled.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

From Atlantic City comes the news that
girls stockings this summer will bear their
names SO that all may see. Why not paint
'em on their cheeks?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

Washington prophets may be right in
declaring that a third party will not put in
an appearance this fall but the reason will
probably be the lack of leader rather than
any lack of sentiment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

Great harrington. Mass, man went
without sleep for forty years. Less re.
narkable Is the numerous clan that hasn't
been really awake during that period.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

Accumuators of filthy lucre may console
themselves with the fact that a thousand
dollar bill probably carries fewer germs than
the more frequently handled one dollar.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

Twas ever thus. Just about the time
n man begins to exult over the coming of
spring the carpets have to be beaten And
by the time he grows enthusiastic over the
arrival Of summer the lawn needs trimming
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

1t is the varying cost of producing
coal that complicates the miners wage prob.
lem and gives a certain amount Of reason.
ablcncss to pleas for naturalization,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

Episcopal convention in Portland, Ore,
has blue psnciled the ten commandments.
Belated second to sinners the world over.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

When Pinchot meets Finn idealism is
due to be hitched up with practical politics.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

Insurgents Spill Belfast Liquors"
Probably figured out that one good spill de.
served another. They've been spilling the
beans for some time past.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

a Regina. Sask., COW recently gave
birth to five calves. This is easily ex-
planned. She thought she was a cat. But
what story 1t would have made if she had
thought herself q shad
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

Joy at the coming Of spring is modified
by the fear that Jack Frost may be lurking
around the corner.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

New York musician committed suicide
rather than play jazz. One may imagine
him decaiming, Rather death than dis.
honor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

A letter addressed to Mr.. President,
Berlin" has been returned to the sender in
Karlsruhe because it was insuficiently ad :
dressed. Red tape has not yet discovered
that Germany Is republic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

People susceptible to colds find II less
Of hardship these days to meet Nature e
drafts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11
Answers to Yesterday's oulx

I. Two and a quarter inches mako a nail
In cloth measure.
. Afghanistan and Beluchistan lie BE-
tween Persia and India.
,. Chalcedony. is a precious stone Of the
quartz kind with many varieties, As
agate. ccrnelian. chrysoprase
I. Sir John French was commander-in-
chief Of the British forces In the re-
treat to the Marne In 1914.
8. Ad valorem tariff Is one levied In pro-
portion to the estimated value Of the
goods.
g. Cicero. the Roman writer and orator.
was the author Of a famous treatise on
old age. "De senectute."
7. The title OF tho opera a,, CsSaiieria Rus
8. st. Francis of Assist lived In the latter
part of the twelfth and the first part
Of the thirteenth century. His dates
are 1lSs-1226.
9. Delaware and Pennsylvania are States
first settled by Swedes
o. Daedai means skillful inventive. may.
manifold, complex. mysterious The
name Is derived from Daedalus, Of
Greek legend. the designer CT the
famous labyrinth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

There is little likelihood that the Genoa
conference will interfere with the machinery
of the League of Nations; for what Genoa
decroes the League will have to carry into
effect
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

''The war has set the world back haie
n century" says DR.. Robert Simpson
But there is here no cause for
despair. Progress is ever made two steps
forward, then one back.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

Conan Doyle says Sherlock Holmes has
now no place in his mind. The needle,
Watson! Spiritualism has proved
Moriarty,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11
And Maybe
-'Taint Tainted

Army has declined the services of New
York banker active in his opposition to pro-
hibition. the supposition being that his
money is tainted. But what about the dimes
dropped into the tambourincs in saloons in
rre-Vostead times? May it not be that
even tainted money diverted to righteous.
uses becomes gorificd?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

The parks begin to prove there 10 no
imminent danger Of race suicide in Phila :
delphia,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

From the standpoint Of a political gang
n safe man is one who knows the combina
tion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

The fate Of machine candidates may be
registered tomorrow.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11
SHORT CUTS
Gee, Genoa I! Giddap!

Snyder wasn't even scratched. He just
fell of.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

QUIZ
I. Who was the Artfui Dodger?
?. OF what country is Wellington the
8. What is the meaning Of the express
sion ito 20 to CancSsa"?
4. What Is a merle?
5. Who was Thomas attempts?
g. Who was Kamehameha the Great?
7. BY what two nations was the treaty Of
Guadalupe Hildalgo signed?
8. What is q socle?
8. What Is a quinQuagenarian?
10. Who is the patron saint Of Scotland?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11
OUR NAVY Y-SMASHlNC CONGRESS
AND ITS SHAMEFUL VICTORIES
$50 Years Is Asked to Accept Hu-
initiation and Dishonor at Home

TF AN enemy Power we're to scatter and
sink the American Navy the country
would be swept by fear and rage and grief.
Everywhere there would be an uproar of
wild alarm. But the Farmers Bloc, with
the aid Of those politicians In Washington
who always fight for seats on tie most i'm.
posing band wagon in Congress, is deliber-
ately sinking the navy now and the country
seems to view the amazing performance
without emotion of any sort.
For the first time in history the navy Is
being deliberately humilated. 6orncrcd,
beaten and unable to defend itself Con-
gross. by starving tho service to it, knees
through the economy" legislation already
forced through the House Appropriations
Committee under the whip Of revived
Populism. would not only leave the country
in very real peril it would do far more than
that. It would ask every officer and man in
the service to calmly face the prospect of
shame and martyrdom and death that opens
naval force called to action in an emergency.
When. during the war. radical political
ngitators sought to weaken and disrupt he
military forces of the United States they
were called traitors and sent to the Federal
penitcntiaries. When politicians, acting in
the midst Of world crisis. deliberately set
about to wreck and ruin the naval forces of
the country and leave the nation dependent
for its safety on the forbcarance Of rival
and aggressive Powers they are applauded
at home and re elected to ofice-perhaps.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

Incidental to its cam.
palsn for a half a mill
lion dollars for its or
ganiZ8tion the Solpoti,p
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11

Properly to man the fleets permitted to the
United States under the new sea power
treaty the navy should have an enlisted per-
sonnel Of about no. 900 Thus we should
have a force no larger than that which
Britain will maintain under the new agree
ments. Congress has turned n deaf ear to
the naval experts who have been trying to
make 1t understand that it is men. not ships.
that count in n crisis. and that half
manned vessel is of little use either in peace
or war.
BY degrees and solely for the sake of
economy the naval budget has been cut in
the Appropriations COMMITTEE" to point Mt
which it can be made to provide only for
CO 900 men. We are permitted under the
terms of the arms limitation agreements 70
maintain naval force greater by two thirds
than that of Japan Yet the japanese will
enlist &C. ono carefully trained and seasoned
mon 20 handle their restricted fleets, In
Japan and in England there is n frank and
obvious determination to make up by un-
paralleled efficiency for the reduction in fleet
units.
In Westinghouse. let us say. in the
Middle West and South-an exactly op-
posite theory prevails The inland popu-
lation and its representatives content
to see our ships manned by skeleton crews
Of inexperienced men. About so per cent
of British naval crews have been trained for
eight years or more in actual service. APP
proximately 20 per cent of the men who
serve in the American navy are serving first
cnlistments and can not be expected to be as
efficient in the handling of a ships guns and
machinery as men of long and consistent
training naturally are.
Counting the technical disadvantage in
evitable with relatively green crews and
adding TO 1t the disadvantages of the ruthless
starvation process favored by the House APP
propriations Committee, It may be said that.
If the economy plan is carried through, we,
as a nation, must drift amid the complica-
tions and per!s Of new made world with
q navy inferior not only to that of the
British, but inferior TO the japanese navy as
well.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-07
RHODES NEVER WOMAN HATER
But Celebrated Empire Builder" Had
Little Time to Devote to tho
Genter Sex.

Cecil Rhodes had the reputation OF
no means misogynist, though he
might have been regarded misoga-
mist. He was welded, it was said, by
his friends, to Africa But his life
would have been more complete and
no less full of achievement If he had
been married to the right woman
at least SO says my wife and other
women who knew him.
While / have said Rhodes was not
a woman hater, he was averse to vast
ing his time on women of mediocre In
tellect. Rhodes excused himself for
not marrying by saying that he had
hot the time to give a wife the atten-
ton she was entitled to receive.
In his magnificent house at Cape
Town there was only one picture 1t
was a painting of young woman,
beautiful and modest Of aspect, by Sir
Joshua Reynolds, and hung In the din
Ing room above the fireplace. He loved
to look at ii and frequently told how
he had gained possession OF 1t. AS
boy he took great fancy to this
picture, which belonged to u relative,
and his love for it increased as he
grew to manhood. Eventually he
bought 1t. He always wound up the
story by saying: Now have my lady,
and | am happy. job Hays Ham
mond III Scribner's Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-07

That the United States Steel cor
poration Is "the greatest enemy TO
our industrial life and peace. I"
was charged by Samuel Untermyer,
counsel to the Lockwood investigat-
ing committee addressing the New
York State Association of Real ES-
tate Boards, at the opening of state
wide campaign to carry his fight for
housing legislation directly to the
people.
Mr.. Untermyer said that the h0us-
ing situation was growing worse, that
while the increase in apartments In
New York city In the nine years be-
fore the war amounted to 137, ,249, in
the past three and one-half years the
increase had been only 823. He urged
the realty men to support the legis-
lation to be proposed by the Lock
wood committee and added that the
object lesson of 500 or 1000 prom.
nent lawbreakers in prison would be
the only thing that would bring bust
ness back to an honest basis.
Mr. Untermyer said further that 1t
was not labor that had raised the
cost of living. Profiteers and crimi-
nal corporations, he said, had com
more in order to secure the living
wage he needed.
The report of the Interchurch World
movement on the steel strike showed
according to Mr. Untermyer, that
sooner or later the United States Steel
corporation would have to be brought
to severe reckoning before indus
trial peace would prevail.
The greatest enemy to our indus
trail life and peace, based upon a
friendly understanding between cap
ital and labor, Is in my opinion, the
United States Steel corporation,
which, under the pretext OF the open
shop, has for many years been con
centrating It's vast power in the car
rying on Of vast campaign OF espi-
onage and oppression, aimed at the
destruction OF all organized labor" he
said.
What an impertinence for com
bination in itself Illegal, to say that
while it may maintain its corporate
existence, no combination of its work
men with others for protection against
its autoeratic power shall be recog-
nized The mere fact that such u
condition Is tolerated is in itself u
grave indictment of our form Of gov
eminent"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-07
PAY HONOR TO GOD OF FIRE
Japanese Religious observances That
Take Place in Coolest Season
of the Year.

A japanese religious observance PEI
culiar 10 the coldest season Of the
year is that of bathing In cold water
and wearing to and from the bath a
single kimon0 OF pure white, with d
white band about the head. The cere-
mony, says the Japan Advertiser In
recent issue, is cut of respect to
Fudo-san, the god of fire. primarily.
Those observing the custom carry a
lantern and jingle small bell as they
20 along the street The season con-
tinues for thirty days.
The first fifteen days of the season
Is called the daiken, or great cold,
and the second fifteen days the sho-
kon, or small cold. Most of those who
go through the ceremony are young
men, apprentices in some trade, who
run to and from the bath, repeating
the words 'Rokkon Shojo," as they
go The principal temple and bath Is
the one in Fukawaga-ku. The cold
water bath there was recently re
built at cost of 300,00 yen In an
ticlpation of the cold season 1t Is
open for women only until o'clock
in the evening, but at all hours In
the day for men. Among the women
are many young actresses, who pray
earnestly for success In their profess
sion, Another Fudo shrine Is near
Meguro station.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-07
TRADES COUNCIL

The COOPERATIVE Trades and Labor
Council met Tuesday night in regu-
lar session. President Stanley Oge
presided over the meeting and thirty
delegates were present.
A communication was received
from B. A. Larger, general secre-
tary of the United Garment Workers
of New York, in which he states that
the United Woolen Mills Company
of Parkersburg, w. Va, has opened
store in Hamilton and that there
is some question as to their standing
with organized labor. He states that
this firm has signed agreement with
the international Union and would be
glad to have the council convey the
message to organized labor of this
city. The communication was receiv-
ed and ordered complied with.
A communication was submitted by
delegates of the local Theatrical
Stage Employees delegates from the
federation service of the Motion Pic
ture Producers and Distributors of
New York. The letter goes on to
state that following the armstice
big business" laid plans for nation
wide open-shop campaign by which
they hoped to wreck the labor unions.
Anticipating this activity, and with a
determination to meet and defeat pre-
judicial propaganda, organized labor
Of the Pacific coast, assisted by its
eastern brothers, formed and financed
q motion picture producing, and 4
motion picture distributing, organi-
zation for the purpose Of telling la
bor's story to the American people
through the motion picture screen.
The first shot in organized labor's
"open-shop" campaign has been fired.
The first production is called ''The
New Disciple" and it tells labor's
story as it has never been told before.
The letter brought forth some dis
cussion, and some of the delegates
favored getting the picture here for
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-07
Wealth In Beads

Probably the choicest and most val.
liable beads in the world are those
possessed by the natives of Borneo. La
many cases they are very old. and
have been kept for centuries in one
family
Some are thought to be of Venetian
origin, while others resemble Roman
variety.
It IS difficult to induce the natives to
sell their beads, which tfley guard as
heirlooms. A rich chief may possess
old beads to the value of thousands OF
pounds.
When children are small they are
carried on the backs OF their mothers
in a kind of cradle, which is often
deliberately adorned with beads. One
chief possesses a cradle valued al
goo
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-07
German Labor Bill.

The German cabinet has sent to the
reichstag bill legalizing the eight
hour working day. However, Germany
has had such day since 1918, being
the first European country after Fin
land to take this step The bilrs
most remarkable provision is pro
hibition directed not against the em-
ployer but the employee by which
provision workmen are forbidden to
work for themselves or for other EN-
ployerS in their regular branch Of in
dustry after they have done their
regular eight hours for their chief EN-
ployer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-07
Commissions Finding Ridiculous.

Cost Of living, S13.50; minimum
wage, ST.. That's decree handed
down by the Massachusetts state
minimum wage commission in regard
to women and girls In the so-called
minor candies" or minor lines OF con
fectionery and food preparations.
The decree brought back Inquiries
to the commission, the gist Of which
was: How can u minimum wage OF
S12 be enough for woman or girl
whose cost of living you find to be
$3.50? How about the gap of S1,50T
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-07
the purpose of raising funds for the
old age pension campaign

4
old age pension campaign
1t was moved and seconded that
the letter be turned over to the old
age pension committee to investigate
and if possible try to get the picture
here.
Bills of the Ohio State Federation
of Labor and the American Federation
of Labor for per capita tax for one
year were allowed. Other monthly
bills were also allowed
Under the head of reports Of organ
izations the delegates reported as fol-
lows:
Bakers in fine shape, and new
agreement signed up. BARRIERS re-
ported that there are now twelve non
union shops in the city, and that
union men are patronizing them.
Carpenters in good shape, and many
carpenters working, and in a few
weeks all their members will be en-
ployed. Engineers, one man out of
work. Molders, fair shape, many
| members out of work; fight still on
| with Long e Allstatters, Black &
| Clawson Co., Niles, Atlas hotel and
the Holland Furnace Co Electrical
workers in good shape, and seventy
FIVE per cent of men working Sta
tionary fremen, two men out of work.
Molders 283, working four days a
week Plumbers, almost every man
working and are standing pat on new
agreement to be signed up soon.
Stage employees, conditions good, and
Gem theatre still unfavorable. Paint
ers all working and agreement renew
cd Printers, conditions fair but ali
working Metal polishers, four men
out of work City fire fighters, all
working. Street ear employees, all
men working Stove mounters, all
working. Retail clerks, four men out
of work, and that they have placed a
car in the new store Of the United
Wooden Mills Company. Baker driv-
ers, doing good and trying to organ
ize balance Of baker drivers. Pattern
makers report seventy-fve per cent
members working Machinists re-
ported that they are drifting along as
we'll as can be expected, and that
some Of the factories are reducing
wages and increasing hours. The
machinists further report that these
factories asked the men during the
wan to work long hours which was
Granted as an emergency. These
same factories are asking the men to
do the same thing now. claiming that
ii is for an emergency also. The ma
chinists look upon it as part Of the
movement to have part Of the men do
all the work, while the rest walk the
streets This will give the factories
an opportunity to reduce wages more
and more
The house committee reported that
they have met twice and that progress
is being made and that a monthly re-
port will be made at the next meet
ing
Committee on Geier bakery report
ed progress, and the full committee
VIII meet in the near future.
Molders asked that the Mary-Lily
Candy shop on South Third street,
said to be owned by j. Vanati, who
is former member of their organi-
zation and who is now working in
one Of the struck shops, be placed ON
the unfair list
The trustees were instructed to pro
ceed with the repairs Of painting and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-07
Turned From War to Peace.

The principal former military and
naval workshops of the German gov
ernment, which were closed in 1919 in
accordance with the treaty of Yer
time factories and are producing goods
more adapted to usages of peace than
war Two hundred thousand workmen,
thrown out of employment by the
closing Of the shops, have been re-em-
ployed
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-07
A Good Imitator.

"Look, Hannah" said her mistress,
aren't those flowers beautifulW
Deed an dey are, ma'am.' replied
the cook. "Dey looks jist like de hoW-
abs on NAH sistah's new hat Amt 1t
wonderful how nat'raly de Lord can
make things?"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-07
sIIaht Unemployment Decrease.

A slight decrease in unemployment
throughout the United States was re-
ported for September by the Depart
ment of Labor in summary of con
ditions.
On September 80 the department
said 1920 establishments had 1S,O50
more workers OH their pay rolls than
on August 81, an increase of 1.2 per
cent. In IS principal cities, employ
ment decreased in 20, but increased
in 80, and in one-Columbus O.-re
NAMED unchanged during the month.