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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday-"Tri.
fling with Honor"

Real human drama is woven into
the story of "Trifing With Honor, !"
the Universal-Jewel photodrama
opening locally at the Rialto theatre,
next Wednesday for a three-day run
On the baseball field Bat Shugrue
hit around 400 and was the home-run
king of the league In private life
his batting average was practically
nil. Physically he was a battleship,
morally derelict. But because his
private life was his own and his pro-
fessional life the public's, it was the
latter side of his nature that got into
print"
Every kid who swung a bat on a
sand lot knew Of Bat Shugrue. He
was a champion of his class, therefore
a hero with the lads who loved the
national sport. 1t was Bat, the home
run king, whom they knew and wor-
shipped for his prowess. 1t was
natural that such widespread interest
should make Bat good copy" for the
newspapers.
The added attractions will be Snub
Pollard in sold at Auctionl Movie
Chats and Millers Jazz Orchestra.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
STATE HOG-TIED
Former Tax Commissioner
Shows Absent Land Own .
ners Control West
Virginia
Says While Workers Fight
Among Themselves Aris-
tocracy Tightens Hold
on State and People

Clarksburg, w. Va.-One-half of
the land in this state is owned by
non-residents, declared former State
Tax Commissioner Townsend, in a
Labor Day speech in this city The
non-residents also own four-ffths of
the state in value
| The speaker said the disregard for
law by corporations can be traced to
these absentee owners who debauch
the state, politically and industrially
West Virginia has an area of APP
proximately $4,000 square miles, said
Mr. Townsend Reduced to acreage
this amounts to 15,360,000 acres. Of
this 210 corporations, none of whom
own less than 10000 acres, own in the
aggregate 6,035 1876 acres.
add to this 100000 acres owned
by corporations in less than 10000
acre tracts, and you have in round
numbers one-half the state owned by
corporations, the great majority of
whose stockholders reside outside the
state. This one-half of West Virginia,
owned and controlled by non-residents
who do not have an interest in this
state or the welfare of its people and
its institutions except to exploit it,
is worth in dollars and cents five times
as much as the remaining one-half of
West Virginia. The remaining half,
which is owned by the small property
owner, the farmer the small business
man, the crossroads merchant, pays
twice the amount of taxes to support
the state, county, schools, municipal
tiles, etc, as do the 100000 of acres
owned by non-residents.
"One-ffth the value of the state
owned by the people who live in it is
paying twice the amount of taxes of
the other four-fifths owned by non
residents The non-residents who own
Approximately half the state in acres
and approximately four-ffths of the
state in value, can we'll afford to
spend $5oO,0O0 every four years to
control the executive department of
the state government. They are pre-
pairing now to spend that much next
year while the laboring people of the
state are fighting among themselves,
disagreeing about insignificant mat
+aYe y caid Mr. Townsend
The landed aristocracy is carefully
laying its plans to continue its stran-
gle hold upon the state and its peo-
Pile"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
GAVE WARNING
Wyoming Mine Blast Pre-
dicted By Miner

Seattle.-The mine explosion near
Kemmerer, Wyo., where 100 miners
lost their lives, was not unexpected,
according to David Irvine, whose home
is in this city Until recently Irvine
was an organizer for the metal miners,
but of late has been employed in Wy
dining mines.
In letter to the State Federation
of Labor headquarters, Irvine states
that he warned mine examiners and
others that there was grave danger
of just such catastrophe occurring
if they didn't abandon the use of open
lights in the mine, smoking and the
use of black powder for blasting pur-
poses.
His warnings went unheeded and he
decided in the interests of his own
safety to quit and seek employment
elsewhere, says the State Federation
bulletin.
"The coroner's inquest failed to fix
the blame where it belonged and little
effort is being made to avert the pos
sibility of a recurrence of the same
kind of a catastrophe.
at is conditions of this kind that
the miner regularly has to contend
with that renders any remuneration
he may get inadequate in its compen-
sation for the dangers, often unneces-
sary, that he must constantly face"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
PHYSICAL DEFECTS
BLAMED FOR CRIME

New York" "Seventy-fve per cent
of all crime is by-product Of power
ty, and much of that crime can be
traced to bad tonsils, short-sighted-
ness, bad feet and other physical and
mental defiiciencies,' said Louis D
Gibbs, county judge Of Bronx county
in a speech in this city
The speaker declared chat it is the
early environment that shapes life
and the slum life in our cities pro
duces criminals" he said physical
defects render the individual unable tc
adjust himself to society He falls
behind and then takes the line of least
resistance"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
HALpERIN GETS
nice REWARD

The Schipper Jewelry and Optical
Co is exhibiting in its window a check
for 500 which the Jewellers Secur-
ity Alliance is paying to Jake Halperin
who was responsible for the arrest
of Floyd Hurst and ]. Duggins, who
entered the store of the above mem
Der on several occasions and carried
away number of articles of jewelry,
and who were finally caught while
robbing another merchant in town.
Upon conviction these boys were SEN
fenced to the reformatory for an in
determinate term.
The jewelers. Security Alliance is
an organization of about $500 through
out the United States, who are banded
together for mutual protection against
burglary and theft Each one of
these jewelers. displays a sign in his
show window offering 500 reward for
the arrest and conviction of any bur-
glar or thief who attacks them and
the alliance has made good in every
instance where this reward has been
earned, having paid out about 100000
in such rewards, through which more
than 1900 criminals have been cap
tured and placed behind bars There
are several jewelers. in Hamilton each
of whom displays these signs, and the
reward will be promptly paid if any
one is convicted of an attack upon
any of them.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
REFUSE INJUNCTION

Casper, Wyo.-District Judge Rose
of this city, does not believe that Ia
Dor injunctions should be issued mere
ly because they could do no harm
to workers.
A restaurant manager wanted al
injunction because, he said, his strik-
ing walters We're assaulting employees
The court found that this statement
was not true Then the attorneys as
sured the court that an injunction
would not harm the workers, but the
court rejected this reasoning.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
BUILDING MANY
SCHOOLS

Raleigh, N. C.-This state continues
its program of building a school house
a day, and within five years the en-
tire physical equipment of the school
system will be rebuilt.
During the past two years 573
school buildings costing $14,O42, ,445. .58,
and approximately 100 city school
buildings costing $11,264,o00 have
been erected.
These figures have been published
by the bureau of school house plan
ming which states that approximately
500 school houses have been torn
down.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
NO LABOR SHORTAGE

New York.-Reports from Sharon,
Pa, indicate that Judge Gary's proph-
ecy of labor shortage is not being
verified in that steel center. The steel
trust is operating it's sheet and tin
mills at full capacity, the Carnegie
plants are on the same basis and
American steel and wire mills are op-
Grating 100 per cent. Independents
are running at normal capacities.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
STEWARD REELECTED

Denver.-The convention of the Ma
tional Federation of Federal Employees
reelected President Steward. Boston
was selected as the next convention
city
Many resolutions bearing on inn
proved working conditions in the gov
ernment service were considered. La
Dor colleges We're approved, and mem
bers were urged to give their support
to same.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
STICK TO A. f. OF L.

Vancouver, B. Rejection Of a
plan to sever connection with the
American Federation of Labor was
recorded by the convention of the
Canadian Trades and Labor Congress.
This portion of the Dominion is yet
inoculated with some sentiment of the
one big union venture that ended so
disastrously for its promoters four
years ago. This element now repudi-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
Saturday-"Counterfeit Love


Counterfeit Love-" a Playgoers
Pictures Special, will be the featured
attraction at the Rialto theatre for a
one days engagement, Saturday
This is a romantic melodrama of
the South, in which love, intrigue,
mystery and horse racing go to make
a splendid bit of entertainment
The added attractions will be a
H. c. Witwer Fighting Blood" story,
Rialto News and Miller's Jazz Orches-
ira. Saturday has been designated as
Swimming Pool Day at this popular
theatre, and cents will be donated
TO the Lions Clubs swimming pool
fund for each and every child or adult
purchasing an admission ticket for
Saturday matinee.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28

ates its 1919 position but presents a
new medicine that is warranted TO
cure all the ills frail man is heir to.
The congress voted down a proposal
that Canadian trade unionists go on
general strike in the event of war. A
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28

substitute proposal providing that if
war threatens Canada a special meet
ing of the congress will be called was
carried. Tom Moore was elected pres
ident of the congress for the eighth
time.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-08-23
FANNIN

w. c. Brown and Miss Clyde
Jones motored to Jackson Saturday
and were accompanied home by
Misses Lanora Jones and EVE
Cawthorn.
J. w. Wilmington, Mrs. III. K.
White and Miss Annie Maud Lath-
am were shopping in Jackson Satur-
day.
Messrs. J. J. Wilmington, Carey
Aldridge, Mrs. Eula Marshall and
daughter, Fay, Misses Gladys and
Hugh d. Tinnin transacted business
in Jackson Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Schultz, OF
Goshen Springs, attended services
here Sunday.
Mr.. A. p. Barksdale and sister,
Miss Minnie and Miss Hattie Boyd,
of Sand Hill, attended services here
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Swilley and
children, Louise, Edna, Woodrow,
Bill and Junior, left Sunday for
Carter, where Mrs. Swilley and chill
dren will spend some time with her
son, Arthur. Mr.. Swilley returned
Sunday night.
The meeting begun at the
Methodist Church Sunday. Rev.
Dawson, of Brandon, is assisting
Rev. Barrett.
J. w. Wilmington, wife and chill
dren returned to their home in jack
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-08-23

son, Sunday after pleasant vaca-
ton spent with homefolks.
J. A. Robinson transacted bust
ness in Jackson Friday.
Fannin was well represented at
the Cotton Association Picnic held
in Brandon last Thursday.
Evon Long and sister, Leota,
spent the week end in Shiloh at
tending Camp Meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs II. d. Tinnin motor
ed to Brandon Sunday afternoon.
e. b. Mcdowell transacted bust
ness in Brandon Saturday.
Mrs. Dora l.. Henry, of jackson.
is visiting her friend, Mrs. II. u.
Tinnin, Mrs. Henry's friends are
always glad to see her.
w. C. Brown and Carey Aldridge
motored to Brandon Sunday after
noon.
Hildreth Swilley and sister,
Minnie Belle, transacted business III
Brandon Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carey Aldridge,
Mesdames J. J. Wilmington, Lou
Collum, Josie Cooper and son, spent
Monday with relatives in Goshen
Springs.
Mr.. Duncan Collum and children
spent Sunday with his brother and
family.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-08-23
Hederman Bros, mdSe. SnII. I4o
In re County Depository Report.

The Quarterly report of the Ran
kin County Bank, County Depository
Of Rankin County, Mississippi, hav-
ing filed its Quarterly Report, July
2nd 1923, for the second quarter
of 1923, and the same having been
duly examined and audited by the
Board of Supervisors, and having
been found in all things correct and
true; it is therefore approved; and
was approved July, 1923, term, but
failed to be put on the minutes of
said board and it is now entered
for then; said report showing the
20 halancaS hand
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-08-23
MoNUM ENTS

are to commemorate the love and
esteem in which the party that Is
dead was held, by the one that erects
the monument. If the monument
leans and falls in the grave, cracks
and lettering becomes invisible, II
does away with the above pretty
sentiments and shows neglect and
poor judgment.
No first class firm does business
through agents; as they know moth
ing about the business and only in
terest in getting one-fourth OF the
amount you spend. We have monu-
ments all through this territory
that were erected over fifty years
ago. They are standing erect, and
IL cleaned off would look as pretty
and clear as the day they were
erected. You can get the same class
of work by calling or writing to
A. j. MARTIN
MARBLE & GRANITE WORKS
153 East Capitol ST., Jackson, Miss.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-08-23

Be it ordered by the Board that
the following allowances be made
out of Road Construction and Main
tenance Fund of Beat 1:
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-08-23

Be it ordered by the Board that
C. c. Moore be allowed $11.54 for
lumber.
Be it ordered by the Board that
S. d. Donnell be allowed $21.0O for
Z days per diem as clerk of Board.
Ordered that the Board adjourn
until its next regular term.
S. l.. M'LAURIN,
President
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-08-23
Proceedings
of Board of
Supervisors

The Board of Supervisors or
Rankin County met in regular ses-
sion in the court house in the Town
of Brandon on the First Monday in
August, 1923, a quorum being pres
ent and the following proceedings
were had and done, towit:
Feed Contract Awarded.
Be it ordered by the Board that
A. III. Martin be awarded contract
to furnish Beat l with oats at 60
cents per blu. and sweet feed at
$1S5 per sack; w. G. Barnes be
awarded contract to furnish Beat 2
with sweet feed at $500 per sack;
G.. III. Sheriff. be awarded contract
to furnish Beats and 3 with oats
at 50 cents per bu; j. Il. Knight be
awarded contract to furnish Beat
with oats at GA cents per bu. and
sweet feed at $500 per sack.
Be it ordered by the Board that
the following allowances be made
out of Road Construction ana Main
tenance fund of Beat 3:
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-08-23

hand 1850
f. L. Harper, same ------- 1916
ID. G. Harper, same ---- 5000
sBe il ordered by the Board that
the following allowances be made
out of Road Construction and Main
tenance Fund of Reat 3:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
PATRONIzE ALABAMA COLLEGES

In another column Of this issue is
printed a communication from P. p.
Claxton, provost of the University of
Alabama, advising boys and girls grad
uating from accredited high schools
to attend some higher institution of
learning better to fit themselves for
their future work. Mr.. Claxton makes
some healthful practical suggestions
along this line, and especially in his
advice to boys and girls of the state
to choose some school in Alabama.
The more this advice is accepted the
better not only for the students them
selves, most of whom will do their
future work in Alabama and will find
more congenial field for their SER
vices, but for their home state and its
educational interests. Not few Ala
bama boys and girls attend outside
colleges, not because they offer
broader educational opportunities, but
because they are larger in patronage
and in some instances more widely
known. The question arises, what
made them so? 1t was the patronage
of outsiders, including Alabamians.
Alabama schools and colleges would
be much larger, stronger and more
efficient if sons and daughters of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
STATE BANK SHOWING

The increase of twenty-five million
dollars in deposits of the state banks
in the year ending April 80 attests in
no uncertain terms the recovery from
depressed industrial and commercial
conditions and the progress that has
been made since recovery. The total
of deposits shows an increase Of thirty
per cent, that Of demand deposits
tkirty-one per cent. and that Of saw
ing deposits twenty-nine per cent.
Especially gratifying is the increase
in savings deposits, which demon
strates the earning Of substantial
surplus over and above a livelihood as
well as the disposition of Alabama
citizens to lay away money when they
have It to lay away. The increase in
bank deposits corresponds with other
evidences of the better conditions, such
as iron, coal, coke, cement and cast
iron pipe productions, record produc-
ton Of finishing steel mills, record
bank clearings and building activities
and record placement Of new capital
in old and going concerns. The re-
covery is sound In every quarter and
progress is along proven lines that
count for it's permanency.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
A MORAL OBLIGATION

The convict employment question
will not be settled in consonance with
advanced thought of enlightened So
ciety until it is separated from con-
sideration of revenue to be derived
from that employment. Citizens of
Alabama are it's wards in whatsoever
status they may be, whether in their
accustomed occupations, in insane asy-
lums, institutions for the feeble mind
ed, industrial schools, places for the
deaf, dumb and blind, or in con-
finement for breach of law. The
moral obligation of the state is to
conserve it's citizenship. There are
dollars and cents in every humanita-
rian measure that a state adopts, be-
cause human treatment tends to pre-
serve the mental and moral fabric of
citizenship. The dollars and cents
flow in the more rapidly in proper
ton to the elimination of the idea of
financial profit in establishment of
humane practices and institutions. So
long as direct and immediate profit
is chief or major consideration, leasing
of convicts will appeal with potency
because that is following the path of
least resistance.
The League of Women Voters are
on sound footing when they declare
that "convicts in the prisons of Ala
bama are not to be regarded in the
light of the amount of revenue they
can produce for the state through their
labors, and the state should. arrange
for other means to derive its revenue
than by leasing of the convicts."
These women and other women's or
CARNATIONS opposing the employment
of convicts for the profit of private
parties do not plead for idle convicts.
On the contrary, they declare that
they should be "kept well-occupied,"
and they also take the position that
while incarcerated they should be
taught some honorable method of
earning livelihood. The women do,
however, demand that this work be
for and under exclusive jurisdiction
of the state without division of au-
thority or profit with third party.
The loophole for inhumanity opens
the moment that the state admits pri-
vate profit into the handling of its
incarcerated wards. That is what the
women are striking at and that is
what enlightened public opinion de-
mands shall cease. Revenue from
convict employment is not to be con-
nected with the higher dictates of hui
manity and public self-respect. The
state cannot afford to do for money
what it is under moral obligation not
to do at all.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
ACQUIRING PARK AREAS

Purchase Of park property is look
ing to the permanent future and takes
into consideration the needs of COM
ing generations. Sound considera-
ton Of park land acquisition should
not be confused with the question Of
park development. For the very rea-
son that Birmingham grows rapidly
and it's lands rise in value as each
year passes, the necessity of securing
ample park space for the health and
recreation Of the increasing popula-
ton is an ever-present and pressing
one. If the parks already owned by
the city and lying fallow have not
been improved as they might have
been, that is another matter and quite
apart from making the provisions for
the permanent future that every SEN
sible city makes. For this reason the
question of purchasing a forty-acre
tract Of land in the western portion
of the city for park purposes is one
to be considered on it's own merits
and with special reference to the per-
manent future good that it will be
able to serve.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
MORE PAVING NECESSARY

Completion of the paved road to
Ensley and Fairfield by the Eighth
avenue route is matter of prime i'm
portance and the committee from the
Ensley real estate board securing
rights of way for the construction of
the small remaining portion of this
thoroughfare are performing a public
service. Travel between Ensley, Fair
field and the group of industrial CEN
tiers out that way, including Docena,
Edgewater, Mulga, Bayview, Wylam
and Pratt City is heaviest Of all on the
various suburban routes leading out
Of Birmingham. The Third avenue
paved road is congested with this traf-
fic and Pratt City is not adequately
served with highways leading to it..
The completion of the Eighth avenue
paved highway would relieve the con-
gestion of the Third avenue road and
would also serve Pratt City via
Thomas and Owenton. 1t will bring
the entire western section of Greater
Birmingham into closer connection
with old Birmingham and add to the
convenience of all. There is no more
thriving section of the district than
the western suburbs and they are en-
titled to adequate road service between
them and the city proper.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
DR}S3HB2bEAp{R
Il hA A =
The Odic Raw

(The newly discovered "odic ray
scientists say, may make gravity cap.
itulate. If assertions are proven true
objects under its influence will floa
and fly around.-Scientifi Note.)
If you see a stranger walking up g
lamp post
Or endeavoring to emulate bird,
If you see him softly stealing like a
fly across the ceiling
Or attempting something equally
absurd
II a motor truck arises from the pave.
ment
And proceeds to shake shimmy
in the sky,
Or staid old railway station scars
away from it's foundation
Or foundry or schoolhouse flut-
tiers by
If you see the world gyrating all about
you
In a frenzied, unfamiliar sort of
way,
l. may be crazy notion caused by
alcoholic potion,
And again, it may be just an odic
ray.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18

Alabamians generally were encour-
aged to receive their education in
this state where they will pursue their
future activities. Instruction in Ala
bama colleges is of high quality, and
there would be no personal sacrifice
in attending them. State loyalty
should mean something to both pa
rents and children in this connection.
It is one important way in which to
contribute effectively to the states
development and prosperity. If the
advice is generally adopted, Alabama
will soon feel the wholesome effects,
and Alabama schools would soon COM
mand the wider national respect en-
joyed by big schools elsewhere, to the
upbuilding of which Alabamians have
long contributed.