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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, o.
SAVING WAGE FAVORED

There has been a good deal of dis
cussion recently, following the ad-
verse finding of the national railroad
labor board, on the question of the
living wage. In connection with this
discussion, Secretary of Labor James
J. Davis, in the course of an address
at Portland, Oregon, declared himself
for saving wage for labor, as
against living wage.
81 believe" he said, "every man
should be entitled to an eight hour
day and wage which not only per-
mits him to bring up his children as
mans children should be brought
up, but should permit him to put aside
small sums regularly from his pay
envelope to provide against emer-
gency and old age"
No wage is adequate, of course,
without provision for the lessened or
even subtracted earnings and the
necessities of the workers advanced
years and the needs of his family in
that connection. Any economic sys-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15
LABOR SUPPORTS
SEAL SALE

Workers of the state and nation are
supporting the crusade against tu-
berculosis through the sale of Christ
mas seals.
Il am anxious to cooperate with
the Ohio Public Health Association in
the splendid work that you are doing
in the cause of good health" said
John Moore, president Of the Ohio
Federation of Labor in his acceptance
of an invitation to serve on the state
Christmas seal committee.
"The fifteenth annual Christmas
seal sale to be held in December is
an opportunity and responsibility for
every working man to share in this
fight against tuberculosis" said
Samuel Gompers in message to or
ganized labor of the country. His
letter adds: II urge upon all of you
to buy as many Christmas seals as
you can and thus to share in this
great life-saving enterprise in which
we all are generally Interested"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15

tenn which contemplates their becom-
ing a public charge is woefully short
and incompetent.
The education of the children is a
matter of national concern, for nc
republic like ours, whose fate is in
the hands of its sovereign citizenship,
can survive with an ignorant and
vicious electorate. The younger gen.
Grafton must be trained to a compe-
tency to Judge national problems, as
well as those of state and municipal
ity.
And no wage rate is fair or just
which does not offer opportunity for
the general cultural Improvement OF
the minds of the worker and his FAM
ily, as well as for their mental and
physical development. They belong
inseparably to the American standard
More than all this, however, the
American workingman is entitled to
a chance to get ahead. He has right
to some equitable share of the surplus
profits of industry, and the surest way
to universal prosperity and general
industrial peace is to recognize that
right in some definite way. This will
give the opportunity to which he is
we'll entitled to get into business fol-
himself and to provide his family with
home. Certainly that is not asking
too much.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15

OUR PLAN is BEST

Some labor Journals in America
are calling attention to the increased
strength of the British labor party in
the newly elected parliament of Great
Britain, and are saying that American
labor ought to follow the separate
party plan of their fellows across the
sea and organize distinctively labor
party.
There is nothing in the facts to
make this a logical conclusion. Brit
ish labor has done nothing with its
separate party performance appar-
emily, but to emphasize its minority
and antagonize the majority. The
laborites in the parliament are about
two hundred votes short of domi-
mating power, and their vote isn't
even strong enough to secure legisla-
tion by bargaining or trading.
On every proposition of purely labor
class legislation, all the other parties
in parliament would unite against it,
so its numbers, which seem imposing,
are hopelessly futile. Considering the
fact that the conditions surrounding
the last election gave them the best
chance they can ever hope to have,
there is apparently no chance of fu-
ture dominance.
In the coming new congress of the
United States, in the election of which
American labor looked after it's inter
ests by non-partisan or bipartisan
methods, labor has a much larger pro-
portion of loyal friends of its just
legislative program than British labor
has in the new British parliament.
Indeed, there is reason to believe that
the new congress here is friendly
enough to put through labor pro-
gram of legislation that is not tainted
with radicalism.
After all, it is results that count.
American labor got there and British
labor did not. The difference is i'm
portant-Cincinnat Chronicle.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15
HIGH LUMBER COSTS
Blamed on Labor is Traced
to Gree6

Seattle The boasted "high cost
fof labor" as reason for high lumber
costs has been discredited by officers
of the international Union of Timber
Workers.
These trade unionists show that the
labor cost is 80 cents on 1000 shin
giles that were retailed in the east for
SO, while 10 per cent went to labor,
63 per cent went to mill profit, the
brokers and the railroads.
Several months ago shingle pack
er placed a note in bundle of shin
giles, asking the ultimate consumer to
inform him how much the shingles
cost him. The shingle packer received
letter from Westport, Conn.,, which
stated the writer paid SO per 1000 for
so, 900 shingles.
1t might be of interest to know how
much of this SO went to shingle, mill
labor. how much to the timber barons,
and how much went for mill profit,
the brokers and railroads" the union
lists say.
BASED on widely varying condi-
tions, the average cost Of shingle mill
labor is 90 cents per 1000 shingles
The average timber cost is $2.35 per
1000, which in this case will leave
$5.75 per 1000 that went to mill
profit, the brokers and railroads.
"The total cost to the consumer in
this case was $720. Out Of this $720
to shingle mill labor went $72, or only
| 10 per cent; to the timber barons
went $18S, or 261 per cent; to mill
profit, the brokers and railroads went
$3.50, or SO per cent
"In other words, the mill owners
brokers and railroads received about
6.4 times as much as went to shingl'
mill labor; the timber barons receiv
| ed over 2.6 times as much as shingl'
mill labor; the mill owners, timbe
barons, brokers and railroads got
times as much as shingle mill labor
or 90 per cent of the cost to the con
sumer.
Timber costs in this case were fig
ured on prices paid to the timber ba.
rons by the mills that own no timber
but who must buy logs in the 'oper
market In cases where the mills
own their timber the timber cost is
much lower and the margin of profit
much greater"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15

BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS

The campaign is on for the sale
of the little Christmas seals, the
money from the sale of which is used
to fight that dreaded disease, tuber-
culosis. John Moore, president of the
Ohio State Federation of Labor, urges
every union man and woman to get
into this campaign. The seals cost
a penny apiece. Buy lots of them
stick them on every package, every
letter, and thereby take part in the
great campaign in the cause of good
health.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15

THERE IS A DIFFERING CE

THERE is A DIFFERENCE
In sustaining a Pennsylvania law
which imposes 11a per cent tax on
anthracite coal, the United States
supreme court has again declared that
there is a difference between produc
ton and interstate commerce.
This decision is of interest to labor
because lower federal courts in Mis-
souri, have just held that strike of
leather workers is an interference
with interstate commerce.
Opponents of the Pennsylvania coal
tax claim that the tax interferes with
interstate commerce. To this the
supreme court replied:
"The reach and consequence of the
contention repels it's acceptance. If
the possibility, or, indeed, certainty
of expectation of product or article
from a state determines it to be in
terstate commerce before the COM
mencement of it's movement from the
state. it would seem to follow that it
is in such commerce from the in
stant of its growth or production, and
in the case of Goals, as they lie in
the ground.
"The result would be curious. 1t
would nationalize all industries. 1t
would nationalize and withdraw from
state jurisdiction and deliver it to
federal commerce control of the fruits
of California and the south, the wheat
of the west and it's meats, the cotton
of the south, the shoes of Massachu-
setts and the woolen industries of
other states at the very inception of
their Production or growth, that is,
the fruits unpicked, the cotton and
wheat ungathered, hides and flesh of
cattle yet "on the hoof," wool yet
unshorn, and coal yet unmined because
they are in varying percentages des-
tined for and surely to be exported
to states other than those of their
production"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15
FRIDAY, DECEMBER Is, 1922

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15

disastrous effect the shop mems strike
is having on profits.
The Lehigh Valley, for instance, has
deficit of $295,976, compared with
a profit Of $1,571 ,287 for September
last year. This September, the Le-
high reports an increase Of S735, Ate
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15
HUGE PROFITS IN OIL

New York.--Since the Standard Oil
Company was dissolved 10 years ago
its various units have distributed
$2,289, ,693,252 in cash dividends,
rights" and stock dividends.
During the current year 1881 900, ,6s4
has been distributed. The dividends in
actual cash amount to $128,856, 1878.
and is new high record for any year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15
REJECT WAGE CUT

East Liverpool, Ohio.-Members of
the National Brotherhood of Opera
tive Potters in the sanitary trade
have rejected their employers wage
cut demands. The employers first
asked for 20 per cent cut, which
they later changed to 10 per cent
cut.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15
WHAT THEY PAY

There are men who go down to the
sea in ships, but it requires far more
bravery to go down in the mines for
coal. Another mine blast recently
Mortified the country, and three-score
delivers in the earth have paid with
their lives.
Our fuel is costly. We balk at pay
ing few dollars ton for the stuff.
We say it is too high, that some one
is profiteering, and some believe that
the miners are too particular, that
demands are excessive for pay and
conditions.
But the miners themselves are con-
stantly paying for our coal with their
blood. They risk their lives daily in
order that the industries of the nation
may operate and homes be warm.
Operators may boast that mines are
just as safe as many other forms of
work-and easier; that miners are
protected from extreme heat and cold;
that accidents are rare.
And yet these big disasters are fire.
quent. They come apparently without
warning, and when they occur the
victims have little chance of escape,
are penned up, doomed to die. When
miners go down to work they never
know whether they shall return to
light again.
1t is the risk they must take. In
return, all the rest of us can do is to
see that their monetary rewards are
sufficient, that every precaution is
| thrown about their work, that mines
are rigidly inspected and a close
guard kept at all times. Our coal
should not be spotted with blood, and
need not be if the operators will moi
| take too big a share of the prices We
| pay for themselves.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15

A big turkey given away free at
the Labor Temple Bazaar, December
81 and %.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15

Music and refreshments at the
Labor Temple Bazaar, December Il
and %.
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in Operating expenses" which indi-
Gates that its strikebreakers and
guards were paid pretty penny.
The Washington times., 1922-08-13

sense: I get a swift impression Of
this enormous town.
at last know the marvellous
Fifth avenue. Autobus with a
green body and yellow wheels;
taxis orange. white and brown and
white and black: women's hats OF
vivid shades--red dominates; there
IL much color and all the colors,
The women wear dresses and
hair both short. 1t seems that the
ladies' hairdressers OF America
have the secret OF making curls
that stay. Thence comes this fash
ion of short hair. Someone gave
me the explanation. did not ask
for II, / offer II, put II into cir.
culation. r.
The movement seems no more In,
tense than on our own boulevards,
and there is no doubt that II Is
directed In more orderly fashion.
There are. from place to place, at
the principal crossings, policemen
in turrets raised several feet above
the pavement, who make signals
which are obeyed by the vehicles
and pedestrians. :
admire the skyscrapers; but
as I was prepared for them, they
did not sstGnish me as much as !
expected they would. And then
one should be able to stop. to get
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who had come on board while we
were busy with the health and
passport examinations, briefly told
me to follow him on deck where
the photographers waited. fol-
lowed him and found, already
there. my colleague and companion
on the mission, Andre Chevrillon.
Meanwhile. a reporter from q
great New York paper asked me
In English my impressions Of
America. replied. or rather
Cheyrilion did for me, that It was
a little too much; then as this
man wanted to know my impress
sions on something, he asked me
what thought Of the dramatic
movement Of the present day.
All, how I should have pre-.
ferred seeing tho arrival at New
York, or at least what remained
Of the arrival at New York, and
there remained very little; in q
few moments We should be along
side the pier,
However, I had to speak a few
words upon the dramatic move
ment Of the present day, a grave
question q complex question.
which should have demanded re.
nection. serious preliminary
studies and careful editingi But
In his desire for information the
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and two women drink wine. but
the head waiter explains that It
IL their own wine, they have
bought II, they have been able to
get II outside, but the hotel did NOT
supply It.
Many society people. many
women. especially, the greater
part fashionable; Paris modes. the
impression OF luxury with all that
the word signifies.
On leaving the table we stand
for some minutes In the vestibule
OF the hotel to watch the coming
and going Of It's patrons. Very
American and also pretty is the
little telegraph girl with her short
black hair much curied. We ad.
mire the elevator boys. They
wear a Jacket of deep blue that
exposes q waistcoat of q brighter
blue. The elevators are perfumed,
There are three that go up and
down oeaselessly> a great speed.
One never goes up or down q,
stairway.
FIFTH AVENUE REVEALED.
We go TO our rooms, Presently
Mr.. Haskell and Mas Jones, Of the
Carnegie Foundation, come for W
AZ they promised. We run around
New Yerk In q motor In every
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II was impossible for the medical
and nursing staff to cope with the
great influx Of sufferers. Being
q member Of the Croix Rouge, I
stayed a. long ~ possible In the
large school At Lyons, converted
into Q temporary hospital. to help
tho overworled nurses"
Moro interesting TO her has
been not her work a art col
Isctor. and not her work In the
psychse field. but her other work
In which she has been the means
Of bringing relief to the MANNED
and wounded and other war suf-
ferers. .....,
STARTED HOSPITAL.
"wishins to DO some good work,
decided to start q Coulter Hos
pital for the wounded. and was
lucky enough to have q house in
Grosvenor Square. formerly the
town house Of the Duke Of Man.
chester, offered for that purpose
by it's present proprietor. Sir Wal
pole Greenwell. and in securing
the kind interest of friends in the
project. The Earl Of Sandwich
was our president. the. Honorable
Mrs. Cyril Ward our command.
ant, and Honorable Sec. Lady
Juliet Duff. our assistant COM
mands Mt, Mrs. Scott Gatty, our
treasurer. Captain Reynell, our
house doctor. and there were
twenty-five well-known visiting
physicians and surgeons"
In the hospital work Mrs. Mock
was not unmindful OF the help
that her psychic power might be;
In fact, II was through the influ-
ence Of DIR. Coulter, known as a
spiritual force to students OF the
psychic science. that she under
took the work. .....
While suggestions for much Of
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''She has the capacity to direct
and the energy to utilize this gift
TO its fullest extent. Her father
was English, but made the United
States his home and married an
American lady. Born in America,
the wife OF an American, and
having lived in Indianapolis. In
diana, during a part Of her mar
Iried life. she has always taken
great interest in social matters in
the United States. She was in.
strumental in starting a Coulter
House in Chicago. an institution
which has suppressed the ram
pant white slavery formerly prev
alent there.
In these days when women are
demonstrating their ability in
fields Of endeavor formerly re-
garded as belonging wholly to
men, one is not surprised to read
of their frequently going "over
the top" In new occupations. But
when a woman is interested in
three widely different lines Of
work and meets with such sue
cess that she wins renown in
each, then that woman must be
set down as either remarkably
, gifted or remarkably energetic, or
both.
While a schoolgirl under the
instruction of George +. Bass, she
was regarded as having unusual
mental power and the develop
ment Of this rare talent in later
life led her to the field OF psychic
science, where she worked In con-
nection with the brilliant psychic
investigators in Europe, winning
distinction for noteworthy work
In Europe, India, China, Japan
and Asia. Mrs. Mock attracted
special attention in London Paris
for her work in the psychic field
and she has been entertained as q
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Especially fascinating. both dec
oratively and historically, is . col
lection Of, more than twenty-five
maps dating from 1911 to 17ts.
They cover the world a. then
known and were the product Of
John Speed OF London us42-1szs,.
A oolorful and fascinating spot In
the furniture collection is made by
a large wall plate rack Of the Queen
Anne period. the shelves Of which
are filled with the quaint, highly
ooiored and glazed handiwork Of
the old staffordshire potters Of a
century or more ago. These images
were. and still are, widely popular
In many Of the rural districts Of
the British Isles and hardly a cot
tske mantel or dresser but has one
or more az Its chief adornment.
The Mock collection possesses
many beautiful rugs and a large
number OF articles Of small size.
such as Chinese jade and crystal,
jeweiry, enamels, and beads dis
played In cases.
Mrs. Mock has shown rare dis
elimination rs an art collector.
All Of her wonderful collection has
been loaned to various art mu-
seums at different times. At
present this collection fills her
home on Connecticut avenue to
overflowing, as 1t includes the art
furnishings Of q. large house which
was copied after an old English
mansion. There Is Chinese
room: with its Buddhas. pictures
and treasure cases: in the hall Is
early French art, in the library
are Queen Anne furnishings; in
the dining room are things Of the
Jacobean period; there are Eliz-
abethan beds, many chests and
drawers Of the Jacobean period.
and paintings by the old masters.
What . small fortune It must
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guest in the homes of many cele-
brated artists and men of letters.
as well as In palaces Of Kings and
Queens.
MEMBER OF CLUBS.
In London and Paris. Mrs.
Mock has a membership In sew.
eral celebrated clubs. Among the
London clubs are the Writers, the
Literary, the Americs / Women's
Society, the Lyoeum. OF which she
is an international member. and
the Astronomical Society Of
France, in Paris, with q member
ship In various art associations.
She's a great lover Of art and
Of the beautiful handiwork Of
man. not only for its intrinsic
value, but for it's associations and
for the thought that each art
worker has put a part OF himself
into his work.
The Charlotte Herbine-Mock col.
lection comprises some six hundred
items and includes a wide range
of objects combining beauty and
utility. The furniture here ranges
from excellent examples of early
Jacobean beds, tables. chests, cup.
boards, settles and chairs, through
the productions Of the succeeding
reigns to the time and works OF
Sheraton. There are some ex.
cellent French examples Of the
Louis XIV, XIV and XVI periods and
some highly carved Italian pieces
Of the more advanced renaissance.
There are a number of Greco
Byzantine religious pictures of great
beauty and interest, which in two
or three instances probably ante
date the fourteenth century. Three
large. aristocratic portraits OF the
Sir Peter Lely type fit admirably
with the old English furniture, as
do two marines Of the Turner
school.
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have cost b bring al Of these
heavy. carved and valuable pieces
from overseasi And the owner
has always been quite willing. In
deed anxious, that others should
have the benefit Of the art which
she found such pleasure in col
lecting.
VISITED BALKANS.
II 90 happened that Mrs. Mock.
while on her travels. was IN
Athens at the time Of the peace
declaration after the Balkan War.
She was also in China about SIX
months after the revolution and
was in PelSin the first day that the
palaces were thrown open to the
public. She went through them
to see the beautiful collections Of
art. In Manchuria she saw many
wonderful art treasures that
might have been bought for q
song. but she did not happen to
have a supply Of songs" with her
at the time.
when my son came to Swift
zerland to school," she said, IT
settled in Paris. where an intimate
friend and her husband. Prince
and Princess Alexis. Of Serbia,
also live. I was there at the time
Of the retreat from Mons, and left
to rejoin my boy, stili In switzer-
land, In a cattle truck 30 crowded
with refugees one had barely
space to stand. In this truck We
remained for forty-eight hours be-
fore reaching Lyons with exceed
ingiy little to eat or drink. refresh
ment OF any kind being impos-
sible to obtain on the journey.
But the privations and miseries Of
that time paled before the harrow
ing sight Of the wounded lying In
the station yard, their wounds
undressed, their wants unfulfilled.