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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-23
Sunday
NICHOLSON HERE
Well Known Member of
Machinists' International
Executive Board Visits
Local Officers

Charles T. Nicholson, member of
the executive board International
Association of Machinists, popularity
known to almost every local union
machinist, was in the city for brief
visit last Friday. His purpose in Wis
iting Hamilton was to confer with
Business Agent Ted Smith regarding
the nationwide membership cam
paign now being waged by the ma
chinists
Whileehere Mr.. Nicholson arranged
for monster open meeting to be held
Saturday, December 8. The meeting
will be addressed by Nicholson, In
ternational General Secretary E. c.
Dawson and others. Big meetings are
to be held in Cincinnati, December 5,
and Dayton, December 7.
Everywhere the machinists are wax
ing up to the necessity for organiza-
tion--that a trade without organiza-
tion is a trade not worth learning
The local Machinists' Union has ar
ranged for open meetings to be held
each Saturday afternoon at the labor
temple at 2:30 o'clock.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-23
ince Charles Dickens has surpassed

since Charles Dickens has surpassed
it.
1t is the ambition of every woman
to marry and have at least one child,
but Ann Forest, the vivacious little
actress who is to appear in the role
of Lady Tybar in the William Fox
production, "If Winter Comes," has
an ambition that outdoes that. Miss
Forrest wants to marry and have at
least six children. She said SO her
self.
Before Miss Forrest sailed for Eng
land for the production of "If Win
ter Comes" she was asked what her
greatest ambition was. She replied:
Il want to marry and have at least
six children, then l would be happy.
l want something to fill vacant
spot in my life.'
"If Winter Comes" opens at the
Jefferson, Saturday, at p. m., for a
weeks run. There will be matinee
Sunday and Thanksgiving Day. Other
days the time of performance will be
from 6:15 to 11:15 p. m.
Walter Charles and his symphony
orchestra will furnish the musical
settings.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-23
CLERKS READY
FOR BANQUET

What promises to be one of the
most delightful affairs ever given by
any one of the local trade unions is
the banquet to be held by the Retail
Clerks Local Union on next Monday
night at the Elks' club. All arrange
ments are practically completed.
President Ray Wunderlich, to whom
credit is due for the affair, promises
several pleasing surprises. There
will be much music, song and oratory.
John Schwalnl, president of the Jewel
Photoplay Company, and an old-time
union man, will be the principal
speaker. Others will also make short
talks. When it comes to takers, why
that's clerks business to talk, and
they have some of the city's best
orators right in their own ranks. The
only trouble is they have so many,
and all will want to be heard, includ-
ing the gentler sex, that a time limit
will have to be placed in order that
those present will be able to get on
the job on time the next morning.
From all that can be learned there will
be 100 per cent membership present.
The banquet will be preceded by
the regular monthly meeting during
which large class of applicants will
be initiated. The annual election of
officers will also take place at the
meeting. The election of officers usu-
ally creates wild time" so. that
Monday night really promises his
tory making night for Retail Clerks
Union No. 119.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-23
AT HAMILTON'S
LEADING THEATRES

Riato, Sunday laundering Dawn"
In a mad rush of swirling waters,
the whole earth seemed to be doomed.
In its midst, man. feebly struggled
for breath and safety, and slim girl
struggled too, for the life of wastrel
hardly worth the saving. In this catt-
clysm of human emotions and ele4
mental fury is enacted the most
dramatic scenes of adventurous love
ever shown on the screen. 1t is the
climax of laundering Dawn" the
super Jewel picture to be seen at the
Rialto theatre next Sunday for four
days, with j. Warren Kerrigan and
Anna @. Nilsson in the leading roles.
The added attractions will be Hall
room comedy, and Rialto News.
Thursday. Friday, Saturday-"Scars
of Jealousy"
The sensational forest fire scenes
in "Scars of Jealousy" Thomas H.
Ince's thrilling drama of the old and
new South, come at the climax of the
story when one of the "Cajan' hill
men has been arrested, charged with
the murder of a revenue officer.
His brothers, in revenge for his
arrest, set fire to the forest which
surrounds the cabin in which he is
being held. A mob which has ga
thered to lynch the hated hill man,
is called off by the cracking blaze
and the "Cajan," with the help of
a girl, makes his escape only to
discover that the fire has circled them
and that they are entrapped in ring
of flames.
The added attraction will be Round
5, Fighting Blood" and Rialto News.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-23
ROAD REFUSES TO PAY

Washington With one exception
the TRANSPORTATION act is satisfactory
to the railroads they dislike the pro-
vision that they turn over to the gov
ernment one-half of their annual earn
ings in excess of 6 per cent and place
the other one-half in a reserve fund.
A test case is now before the supreme
court because the Dayton Goose Creek
railroad, small southern line, has re-
fused to observe this law.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-23
Regent, Sunday
"Sheik's FayOrite"

At the Regent, Sunday, Dave Ha-
mill offers the musical comedy de
luxe, "The Sheik's Favorite," with
that supreme comedian, Charlie Golde,
heading the cast. This musical COM
edy treat is chuck full of good laughs.
The treat offered in this attraction
is up to the good standard as set by
the management Of the Regent the
atre. The matinee will be at 3 p. M,
with two night shows at p. m. and
9 p. m.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-23
BLACKSMITHS UNITE

Rochester, N. Y.-Officers of the
International Brotherhood sof Black
smiths have organized local of black
smiths in this city. There are more
than 400 eligible members, and cam
paign has been launched to interest all
of these workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-23
RAIL sTRIK.s STILL ON

Philadelphia Despite contrary re-
ports, the shop mems strike against
the Delaware & Hudson railroad is
still on, and is waged as vigorously
as ever. The railroad has an ener-
eetic press agent who insists that
the strike is over.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-23
Jefferson, Starting Saturday
oIf Winter Comes"

'If Winter Comes" is one of the
greatest books of the last half cen
tury. In dramatic strength deep
pathos, whimsical humor and truth OF
character delineation, no novelist
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-23
Jewel, Saturday-Five Different
piTturaS

Pictures
The Jewel offers for Saturday five
different and distinct pictures, headed
by the famous Pete Morrison in False
Play" Western drama full of fast
riding and daring deeds. On this
same program will appear four other
pictures.
Sunday
For Sunday the Jewel will present
four pictures; the feature play will
be Jack Ford in Fighting Fates," a
thrilling Western of death-defying
feats and thrilling moments, and
three other pictures.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31

any community, morally or in any
other manner. In the first place he
lacks elements that make up man
hood-he steals the Job of his fellow
man in the latter's principled endeavor
to build up decent living conditions
And that fact marks him as a person
Of weak caliber.
An example of what strikebreakers
generally amount to and their aims
as a rule is well Illustrated in the
arrest of two former non-union clerks
that were arrested in Chicago the
other day by Sheriff Charles Cunning
ham The two fellows cut wide
swath around Peru during their SO
journ" here by getting into bad
automobile wreck through fast driv-
ing, both being of the smart aleck
type After repairs had been made
to their machine at a garage and a
tire store, the two dandies jumped
both bills-said to be large ones
And there you are: you have fan
estimate of what strikebreaker con
stitutes. A fellow that will steal your
job will steal anything he can get
his hands on. He is dishonest at
heart
The professional strikebreaker is a
strong believer in the golden oppor-
tunity" which consists of getting the
"jack" while the getting is good He
doesn't care tinker's durn about you
or yours get the Jack" is his ideal
while the man on the other hand whose
job he stole is one Of oyur neighbors,
taxpayer and a me-owner, who
perchance is forced to leave your city
through the dirty work of the strike
breaker, who doesn't begin to I'LL the
shoes of the craftsman or clerk, but
enables the unwise employer to help
"bust the unions"-an unwise move
of the employer if he only knew it.
for the unions, while the claim is not
made that they're perfect in all THEN
dealings, are the one institution that
promotes efficiency and competency
within their ranks. Some of the rail
roads of the country-and newspapers
as we'll, and others, have found this
fact out, much to their financial det-
riment.
These two non-union clerks didn't
do Peru any good neither did they
help the railroad that employed them
only, if busting the union" can be
counted as a help" The busting
process can only be temporary prin-
cipled men and women will again see
their loss in being unorganized anC
its disadvantages, and the time vii
come when they will desire reorgan
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31
MY CITY AND |

My home and my business is found
ed in My City. She gives me and
mine the protection of law and order,
that my property may be enhanced
and my right be sacred. l vote here.
My City gives my children su-
perior schooling. Good neighbors are
mine
Truly, My City is "home spot" for
me.
| owe My City my full measure of
civic loyalty. If l pretend a manly
and fair conception of reciprocity, l
must. upon every occasion, give My
City a full measure of loyalty through
intelligent cooperation with others of
similar sentiments.
My City does not want my partisan
ship, my offishness, my dissention, my
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31
Defending I'm Obsolete
Labor System

slave, but that the best of this kind
of effort did not remove the defects
of the system of human bondage.
There is of course no guarantee, as
the industries maintain, that the de
mand of leisure for the workers will
be turned to good advantage. OBJ
viously, the opponents of child labor
and the 12-hour day can no more
furnish that assurance than the indus
tries, on the other hand, can give as
surance that the money earned
through the excessive labor will be
wisely spent.
For the few now making a last
stand for the questionable methods of
employment there is little solace in
the argument, which they employ,
that America has been built by toll,
long, and arduous, that Abraham Lin
coin worked twelve to fourteen hours
day and that no class of workers
has had longer day than the farm
ers. For Lincoln and the farmers and
those other builders of the nation
worked in the open air and sunlight,
were their own masters and could
cease their employment as the sea-
son, their physical well-being or their
civic and patriotic duties demanded.
They did not toll underground, about
hot furnaces, in the midst of busy
machinery, under close supervision
and often harsh direction, or time
their movements by the clock and the
shrill early morning call of the fac
tory whistle. They were free men.
The modern toilers with whom they
are unjustly compared are under a
form of bondage not good either for
themselves or America Kansas
City Star
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31

Apologists for the 12-hour day in
steel industry and of child labor in
other industries, notably cotton man
ufacturing, canning and mining, have
some points of argument in common
clearly on the defensive and they
ought to collaborate.
In the first place these interests as
sert that the movements against child
labor and long work day have been
engineered by outsiders and represent
an improper and ignorant interfer-
ence in business. That was a stock
argument in defense of slavery and
of the liquor business.
Then there is insistence that the
children and the steel workers them
selves desire the labor and the long
hours of employment. The social
bearing of the situation, its relation
to national well-being, are lost sight
of. What is not mentioned is that
the child either is not competent to
speak for himself in the matter or
is being exploited by selfish or
thoughtless parents; and that the steel
workers, in large number of cases
an alien, is desirous simply of ac-
cumulating a good sum of money as
soon as possible and then returning
to his native country, Indifferent to
the welfare of American institutions
and the duties of citizenship.
Again, the assertion that the indus
tries in question have done much for
the welfare of their workers, children
and adults, in the establishment of
schools, community houses and recre-
alton facilities, recalls the fact that
the master usually and in his own
interest, looked to the welfare of the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31

lzation for the good it does them and
their fellowmen.
The two birds that shuffed out of
Peru between two suns are not un-
like others of the strikebreaker type
who are here today and gone tomor-
row They're entirely devoid of prin-
ciple of the home-owners that have
been compelled to leave Peru in their
valiant fight for the workers. The
strikebreaker knows nothing of these
principles! How could Peru,
Ind, Daily Tribune.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31
THE STRIKEBREAKER
AS A CITIZEN

About the only good strikebreaker
ever amounts to is to help himself.
And of that we have some doubt, for
come easy, go easy" financially
speaking, and of course he "blows"
all his income, does so with slight
benefit to himself, those dependent
on him-if he has of the latter, which
is very rare-and the community.
The strikebreaker is no good for
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31

criticism nor my indifference. Rather
My City expects of me qualities of
high citizenship, tolerant friendship,
willing cooperation, heart-given sym
pathy and intelligent support
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31
THE INTERNATIONAL
ANTHEM

(From the Spokane Spokesman
Review
Just to protect ourselves against
contributors who will presently be-
gin to send it in, we reprint very
ribald and reprehensible rhyme, which
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31

is as follows:
Four and twenty Yankees,
Very, very dry,
Journeyed up to Canada
To get case of rye.
When the rye was opened
They all began to sing,
"Who in hell is Harding !?
God save the king!"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31

Open shop champions desecrate the
flag to serve unscrupulous aims. Let
the union label answer the American
plan"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31

One of the illusions under which
some business men labor is that the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31

more they skimp the wages of the
workers under them the more pros
porous their business will be.
Palisadian., 1923-03-30
FATHERS AND SONS
DINE AT CONG'l


The Fathers and Sons dinner in the
Congregational Church was attended
up to it's fullest capacity on Wednes-
day evening, for although the number
of tickets had been limited to hun
dred, there were over that number in
attendance, and the affair as get
together" was a great success.
The five-course dinner with it's de-
licious and satisfying menu was we'll
served by the now famous catering
committee of the church under the
craftsmanship of Mrs. G. r. Thayer,
assisted also by many of the ladies
of the church.
The tables looked very attractive
and spring-like with jonquils and
ferns. A very large and handsome
flag was draped on the speakers ta-
BILE and the room was beautifully deco
rated with American flags.
Mr.. Gauss opened the function
with an invocation and Mr.. S.
N. Sears acted as POSTMASTER and
introduced the speakers. DR.. George
l. Finley, professor of geology in
Palisadian., 1923-03-30
Conure reuational Church

At the close of the three special
evening services of Holy Week in the
Grantwood Congregational Church,
the Easter season will be celebrated
on Sunday by two interesting serv-
ices.
At the morning service the pastor,
Mr. Cause, will preach on the theme
The Practice of the Resurrection"
The special music will consist of a
quartet-Mrs. Paul C. Merrick, Mrs.
N. C. Cause, Mrs. Joyce and Miss
Margaret epherd-singing a selec-
ton from THE Message From the
Cross" by Mcfarland, and there will
also be vocal solo by Mrs Richard
Horner of West Hoboken.
Baptism of infants and the recep-
ton of new members will take place
as a part of the service.
In the evening the pastor will give
an illustrated lecture on "The Far
East in the Near West" dealing with
the Japanese in California, and there
will be special music.
The Boys -Four H Club will hold
it's meeting on Sunday afternoon at
half past 2 o'clock, in the church
parlor.
At last Sunday evenings service
the pastor told of the work among
the negroes in the South, illustrated
with many beautiful colored stereop-
ticon views, and violin solos were
played by Miss Dorothy Donaldson,
accompanied at the piano by Mrs. j.
Kenworthy.
Palisadian., 1923-03-30
Hospital Campaiun

Many of the towns are deeply occu-
pied in launching a weeks campaign
for funds for the Englewood Hospital,
and prizes have been offered by Rob
ert C. Post, head of the hospital, in
a contest open to the schools of En-
glewood, Leonia, Tenaf1y Dumont,
Closter, Fort Lee and Cliffside Park,
the essays to be on the need for hos
pital increase. The material for these
essays is supplied by a little book
issued by the hospital campaign COM
mittee, and the essays must be re-
ceived on or before April 9 and not be
more than 800 words long. The es-
says will be judged by judges appoint
ed by the superintendent of schools in
each locality. The prizes are as fol-
lows for each locality: High school,
first prize SO, second IS; parochial
schools, first prize SIS, second prize
$3.50; grammar school, first prize IS,
second prize, $3.50.
Palisadian., 1923-03-30

New York University, spoke chiefly
Of the geological formation of our
own Palisades, touching on the lava
overflow of this region and likening
it to the California formation, and in
tracing the present from the past he
dwelt on our reptilian ancestry. DR..
James X. Shields, head of the Anti
Saloon League, from Newark, the first
speaker. related many very interest
ing incidents and told of the origin
and growth of the Anti-Saloon
League, paying high compliment to
William II. Anderson, now on trial
He stated that, on his advice, the
friends of the league voted for the
bill calling for investigation of the
league, asking also for investigation
of the opposing organizations; but
when the Senate found that the
league courted investigation, it voted
against the bill.
Judge Robert Carey of Jersey City,
the typical after-dinner speaker, treat.
ed of many subjects in humorous
manner, putting everyone in good hui
NOR as he radiated good cheer and
expressed his opinion that, in spite
of today's conditions and the fact that
the things we hoped for have not come
to pass, yet after all, the world is a
pretty good and happy one, with
growing desire for helping humanity.
He praised in this connection the
work of such men as DR.. Shields and
of the ministers as work for perma-
nent good, although he himself dis.
claims any connection with churches.
DR.. George Donaldson spoke ear
nestly on the subject of the League
of Nations, and on the movement to
commemorate on April the ami
versary of our entrance into the
worldwide war by nationwide en-
deavor through mass meetings, etc,
to rouse the nation to an entrance
into worldwide peace, by cooperating
in some way with the one great world
effort to do away with war-the
League of Nations. He called atten-
ton to it's work, stating that through
it four wars have already been avert
ed and many disputes settled without
war, and that this idea is an old
American ideal, illustrating it with a
poem by Frederick Hosmer, written in
1910, but ideally suited to today's
hopes and conditions, a poem which
afterward was commented on as won
derful and copies of it asked for.
Cortlandt Donaldson was the solo
ist of the evening, singing three Sc
lections suited to the occasion, accom-
panied by Mrs. Kenworth and much
appreciated and community singing
all through the evening, accompanied
at the piano by Warren Moody help
ed greatly in the air of good follow
ship of the whole evening
Palisadian., 1923-03-30
Consolidated Postoffice

The Inauguration of consolidated
central postoffice for the boroughs of
Cliffside Park and Fairview seems to
be an accomplished fact, to be really
in operation by the end of this sum-
mef and giving all the four sections
of Cliffside Park, as we'll as Fairview,
city delivery, which includes the de-
livery of packages to the door.
The matter of a central location in
Cliffside for this office is at present
being investigated.
Palisadian., 1923-03-30
Literary Lecture

Literary GCtuTc
The fourth of Mrs. Becker's literary
lectures was given on Tuesday eve
ming at the home of Miss Emma Hod-
kinson, Miss Perry being the hostess.
Mrs. Becker took for her topic more
of the modern poetry, and she treated
of English and American poets in par
ticular, among others of Vachtel Lind
say, Walter De La Mar and E. A
Robinson.
She spoke again Of the lack of
rhythm in the present day poetry and
of the cosmic consciousness shown
in the best poetry of the day.
An interesting account of Lindsay's
beginnings as a poet was given, when
he started out with only a pack on his
back, stopping at farm houses for
meals or night lodging, and reading
his poems as payment, feeling that he
was thus contributing to the beauty
of the world.
Most of the time was devoted by
Mrs. Becker to the reading of the
various works of the poets, devoting
special time to Lindsay's poems.
Palisadian., 1923-03-30
Congressman Speaker on Sunday

A noted speaker who should draw
a crowded auditorium on Easter Sun
day evening, is the Hon. William D.
Upshaw, Congressman from Atlanta,
who will speak in the Grantwood Con-
gregational Church on that evening
on the subject "Christian Citizenship
as an Easter Dedication"
Congressman Upshaw made an ad-
dress last fall before that body which
was later noted in the Literary Digest,
calling attention to it as having
stirred the conscience of America,
and those who do not get out that
evening will miss treat and an un-
usual opportunity.