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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
A TRADE SECRET"
Production Costs Different
From Living Costs,
Court Holds

Washington.-The District of Co
lumbia court of appeals has upheld
the district supreme courts refusa
to sustain the federal trade commits
sion's demand that score of inde
pendent steel companies give reports
monthly on their production costs anc
other information.
The federal trade commission en-.
deavored to acquaint the public with
costs of manufacturing the various
commodities. The plan seemed rea.
sonable, as the living costs of work
ers have been probed down to the last
fraction of a cent.
The decision means that unless the
commission can induce the United
States supreme court to reverse the
court of appeals, production costs will
remain a secret.
The coal barons recently defeated
the commissions attempt to secure
production costs. In the Maynard
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02

WITHOUT PREJUDICE?

Twenty-eight union men formerly
employed by the government, dis
missed under a cloud last March, are
about to be indicated.
These men were members of various
organizations. Most of them belonged
to the Plate Printers, Printing Press
men and Federal Employees Unions
They were employed in the U. S. bu-
reau of engraving and printing.
When they were dismissed they
were sent away summarily, without
the slightest notice and were even
compelled to leave their desks under
secret service guard.
Washington and the country specu-
lated wildly for a time as to what
was wrong-and then the case drop
ped from public sight.
The twenty-eight went out under q
cloud. One died and it is said that
his death was due to the humiliation
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
LUXURY & WEALTH
To Be the Big Gamers Un.
der Subsidy Bill

Washington.--In an attack on the
ship subsidy Senator Sheppard show
ed that under this bill the largest
subsidies would be given to luxurious
passenger vessels, designed mainly
for the accommodation of the wealth
ier classes, the pleasure seekers, the
tourists, the globe trotters, the mon
eyed idlers, the feasters and revelers
of Americas vulgar, dollar-worship-
ping aristocracy."
ut was recently announced" con-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
AMERICA FOR LIBERTY

Certain employers are pushing cam
paigns to forbid the workers having
voice in fixing the conditions under
which they shall work.
These employers assert that they
alone have the right of naming the
terms of the work, the wages and the
hours of labor of the persons whom
they employ. Thus the workers,
through the economic power of these
employers, are forbidden from max
ing use of the natural, the human
right of free association with other
workers for mutual, economic and So
cial benefit.
These employers seek to hide their
real design to break down American
standards of living by naming their
scheme to do it "the American plan"
In furthering the purposes of this
autocratic and falsely-named plan
these employers have caused work
men who refused to be found to be
lockout out of shops, and have enlist
ed the aid of the courts by suing out
writes of injunction against the work
ers, forbidding them from doing acts
which they have lawful right to do.
This so-called American plan" at
tacks the principles of American lib
erty by denying to workers the right
OF free association. It's plain purpose
is to shatter wages and to increase the
hours of labor and thus break up the
homes of the workers, taking the
children from the schools and putting
them to work in the factories.
This so-called american plan" cuts
deep when it assaults the homelife of
the American worker, which is the
guarantee of national security and the
fount of social progress.
By whose authority do the organic
ers of this plan use the name Amer
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1923

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Issued Weekly at 326 Market Street.
Hamilton, Ohio.
Telephone 1896
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02

case the court held that there is a
difference between production and
commerce and that congress has no
control over corporation that is not
engaged in interstate commerce. Even
though the company ships some of it's
coal to other states, this does not
subject it to the powers of congress.
These two decisions are of vast i'm
portance to big business, as they af-
feet general industry. The decisions
mean that the public may be informed
on what it costs worker to live, but
the cost of producing a ton of coal,
OF steel, or cement, must be guarded
as trade secret.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
WHO GETS THE MONEY

Washington.-The workers share
IN the rubber industry is less than
$40 week, according to the census
bureau. In it's report on rubber tires
and tubes and other rubber goods it
is stated that in 1921 wage earners
to the number of 1886 were paid
total Of $97,067, 900 in wages. This
is an average if $19.40 week.
In round numbers the cost of mate
rials was $685., ,OO0, 10000, and the value
added by manufacture was 1857 7,000,-
900.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
"a - H - H
MORE DRY AGENTS

Last week we witnessed the spec
tacle of a couple of dry agents, led
by a preacher, entering home under
the excuse that they were looking for
liquor. They didn't find liquor, but
they located lot of fruit jars con-
tanning much money. 1t looks very
much as though they tried to get
away with the coin but were made to
disgorge testimony showing that one
of them had $160 concealed in his
shoe The preacher stated that these
two mice gentlemen" were quartered
in spare room at his home and that
they participated in the home prayers
and all its functions. The saints for
bid! Talk about hypocrites-can you
beat it? It would seem that the good
men of the church and the dry adher-
entS are wiling TO put up with any
body just so long as they are "dry."
This week we see three "dry"
sleuths enter a home in Lindenwald
and assault two women, one tuber-
cular patient, with blackjacks-rais-
ing Jumps on their heads in their zeal
to find, as they claim, man charged
with illicit traffic in liquor. Nice
work, surely! But there is an old
saying, give a horse thief enough rope
and he is sure to hang himself. 1t
seems this old adage is to hold good
in prohibition, for the dry movement
is slowly digging its own grave
through it's own enforcing agency.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
JUSTICE FORD TELLS 'EM

JOSIlCE fORD lELLS EM
There's one judge that isn't bowed
down by the weight of his dignity.
We don't know overly much about
Supreme Justice John Ford, of New
York, but he tore loose in a speech
few days ago in such a manner as
to indicate that he is no pink tea
person.
"The courts are partial to accumu-
lated wealth." said this judge in his
speech.
Sounds good to hear a Judge come
across with the truth.
There's more:
"They (the courts) are on the side
of the powerful employer and against
his employees, and they are daily,
through judge-made law, depressing
the poor and lowly in the interests
of amassed capital"
Ford said federal judges are the
worst. They are fixed for life and
not responsible to the people. Also
they are picked by lawyers and here's
what Ford says about lawyers:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02

ARTHUR BRISBANE SAYS:

"The Union of Locomotive Engin-
GERS recently purchased substantial
part of the Empire Trust Company,
of New Nrk. Some old-fashioned
fnanciers shivered, and they will
shiver more now, for the engineers
will establish in New York a bank
entirely their own, with branches op-
Grating throughout the city.
Instead of shivering, finance should
rejoice. Nothing makes you more
conservative more quickly than own
ing bank, except owning two banks" !"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02

lean? America, in it's very nature
is opposed to everything for which
this plan is sponsor--low wages and
long hours-which mean child labor,
ignorance, misery, squalor, and howell
homes. All court injunctions on earth
cannot make them just, cannot make
them American.
America has declared to all the
world that the labor of human beings
is not commodity or article of COM
merce. This means that workers are
human with the rights of humans.
America stands for justice and
equal rights to all mankind.
M IA IA "a -
PALACE CELEBRATES
Just three years ago the Palace
Theatre Beautiful threw open its
doors to the theatre-going people of
Hamilton. During those three years
its patrons have been privileged to
witness many of the finest works of
[ the screen The Press extends to the
| Palace best wishes for many returns
of the day and may they all be pros
porous. To Messrs. Meyer, Turberg
and Silver we extend congratulations
upon the able and successful manage
ment of this popular play house dur
ing it's, three years course, and wish
for them continued success and pros
perity.
M IN M ~ N
According to the comic pages run
in many newspapers these days we
should have oodles of snow and lots
of zero weather The weather mar
certainly has been playing dirty with
the cartoonists.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
"LAWYERS ARE THE EMPLOY
ES OF WEALTHY MEN AND

LARGE CORPORATIONS"
1t is earnestly hoped that Harry
Daugherty and an assorted lot of
judges around the country will take
note of what Ford said
FORD, BEING A JUDGE, OUGHT
TO BE AN EXPERT WITNESS ON
THE SUBJECT.
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of having thus been discharged after
quarter century of faithful service.
Now, following many Investigations
it is said that all are to be vindi-
Gated and restored to their rights
without prejudice"
At the outset the move was unques
tionably political. Twenty weight
union men suffered humiliation,
shame, loss of work and loss of es-
TEEN for politics.
There ought to be something more
than an ordinary vindication to COM
pensate for such a political slaugh-
ter.
WA m m E "a
A waiter smashed bottle of hocoh
on the U. S. senate restaurant floor,
disclosing the fact that Washington
is as wet as any place in the country
if not wetter
Officials who declaim about the
duty of obeying the law also indulge
freely in pre-Volstead practices.
One of the reasons why some peo-
pie want to be officials seems to be
that so many pipe lines have one end
in so many public offices
"a "a "a pa &c
LIVING WITHOUT WORK
1t is great mistake to suppose
that under some form of government
or in some advanced state of civili-
zation people can exist without effort
and live wholly at ease, declared Cal
vim Coolidge, vice president of the
United States, in speech before the
Chicago Sunday Evening Club
Evidently Vice President Coolidge
is oblivious of the report recently |
made by the federal trade commission
which declares that during 1922 the
labor exploiting corporations distrib-
uted stock dividends totaling over
$2,OOo,Oo0,OOO.
All the effort" required to secure
the annual dividends on this plumber is
that used to endorse four fat dividend
checks per year And surely the vice
president will admit, on more mature
consideration, that those who have
enough of these stock dividend checks
can live wholly at ease"
In fact, the people whose major
occupation is that of coupon clipping
and dividend drawing cannot be charg..
ed with exercising much effort in or
der to live without work.
IN IN N - N
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Evening star., 1923-09-10
RTALTo-"The Green Goddess, "

George Arliss, noted British actor,
Is always so interesting to watch
that people would go to see any play
in which he had a role. "The Gree n
Goddess" presented in picture ver-
sion for the first time tn Washington
yesterday afternoon at the Rfa1t O
Theater. gives Mr. Arfiss a most
accommodating role which shows all
of his many clever fndividualities of
characterization to fine advantage.
The motion picture of the play,
which itself was very successful. has
many opportunities to enhance the
atmosphere of mystery and give rich
oriental settings that were impossi ble
in the stage production. Although
the charm of Mr.. Arfiss' voice and
many of his clever lines are absent,
the spirit of his Interpretation and
tact and the dramatic effects are
greatly heightened in the picture.
The photography is excellent ana
Mr.. Arliss is supported by a fine cast.
including Alice Joyce, David Powell.
Jetta Goudal and Ivan Simpson. MIR.
Simpson plays the same role which
he filled SO successfully I'm the stage
Director wifa of the Rialto Or
chestra aids the effectiveness of the
picture very much with his musical
score. which includes "Chanson In
doue," and Amy Woodforde-Eindeu n s
Indian lyrics, The Temple Bells" and
''Kashmiri Love Song" These are
played as overture and during the
production. proving much more po-
EDUCATIONAL.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
METROPOLITAN -"Trilby. -

The Metropolitan Theater was
crowded yesterday on the opening
presentation of 'Triiby." the Richard
Walton Tully picture of Du Mauriers
famous old romance of life and love
in the Paris studios.
Trilby. the entrancing sculptors
model, with beautiful feet, and the
face. form and mannerisms strangely
like the well known heroine of fiction,
Is depicted by Andree Lafayette, de-
life, color and an almost eerie quality
to the role.
This picture of Trllby is different
from the run of motion pictures. 1t
ifnbibes deeply of the old romance of
the Latin quarter. 1t throws into
despairs of Little Billie, the English
lad, who falls In love with the model,
and hts group of friends who stand
out, each q character strong, bold, in
deIineation. Svengali, the demonical
tramp genius of the pianoforte, who
hypnotiZes Trilby, and, when Little
Billie's people object to a marriage
between the English lad and Trilby,
runs of with her, then teaches her
to sing beyond all compare--tl1at out
standing character Is depicted with
marvellous cunning by Arthur Ed
mund Carew.
The story of how TriIby was found
in a laundry. taken to the quarter as
a model. falls I'm love with Billie, is
stolen by Svengali, and later at the
height of her musical career snaps in
reFersion to her old life, when
SvengaIi's hypnotic power over her
is broken, is transferred from the
book with unusual conference and COM
tinuity. Lovers of the book with note
elisions, necessary for the sake of
brevity, but no essential to the great
story has been omitted. Particularly
at the dramatic ffnis has the picture
not sacrificed the high tragedy of the
story to the publfc5s good of a happy
ending.
Added effectiveness is given the
concert scene by the off-stage rendf-
tion of an aria from la Boheme," by
Senorita Julia COMM, Spanish opera
star. with a gorgeous soprano voice.
Lloyd Hamilton in an unusual COM
edy. The Optimist," brings many
hearty laughs. and there is a Metro
pofitan World Survey, with pictures
of Japan. The concert overture con-
sists of selections from Gounod's
Faust"
Evening star., 1923-09-10
PALACE-"Three Ages"

Buster Keaton's first feature-length
comedy. Three Ages" presented yes
terday at the Palace. brought out one
salient fact-that the somber- faced
comedian has crowded more laughs
and thrills into his short-length films
of the past than in this six-reel, We
hicle. on which he graduates into
comedy features.
In Three Ages" however, there are
some conical situations which drew
q ripple of laughter from the Palace
audience yesterday. How keaton
makes a touchdown during a battle
on the gridiron and wins the classic
for his team is one of the mirth-p pro-
voking incidents and worthy OF COM
mendation for its originality.
Three Ages" is divided into three
episodes-the caveman era, the Ro-
man empire when at the height or
its power and the present agE~ana gE~tno
the dominant theme is love. keaton
personally directed the picture. Sup
nortfne ex him he had the pretty Mar
earet Leahy, the English beauty
prize winner; wallace Beery, Lillian
Laurence, Joe Roberts and Cupid
Morgan. -.
The caveman episode opens the
comedy, showing how Keaton strate.
gieaiIy captures the caVeWoman oL
his dreams. Next comes the eplsoue
of the Roman empire IN lts ag neguey, ~
in which Buster also Is forced 20
overcome many obstacles before ne
defeats his rival for the hand OF the
Woman of his heart. The third cpl
sode finds Buster in competition WItn Wa
his rival for the thira time' h ,ssne %n9e hoH In
sach neriod in which the action takes
place Buster has the parents OF the
girl against MN. .,,n,Ia-
mental feature, provoked VlrtuailS
az much laughter as did Keaton's SIX
-eai feature. Other attractions IN
cinde Pathe News and Topics of the
nav
Evening star., 1923-09-10

tion. comedy and melody are finely
mingled and important contributions
to the pleasure Of the audience are
made by the capable orchestra and
weIl-drilTed chorus.
Jazz of the most spirited sort runs
through the entire performance and
the songs are marked by a degree
of originality which makes the show
valuable feature of the season.
Numerous members of the COM
pany are conspicuous in the enter
tainment and some are performers
of distinction in their respective
lines. Gertrude Saunders and Mar
garet Simms have leading roles. both
revealing unusual ability in songs.
the former with an infectious. spirit,
which extends across the footlights,
and the latter with 4 voice which
gives force to some tunefu1 melodies.
r. Eddie Greenlee, Thaddeus Dray-
ton, VIII Cook, Irwin c. Miller, BaIiy
Mills, Doe Green and Billy Rickmon
are also worthy of special mention
The lyrics are by Maceo PfnkaPd
and Nat Vincent, the book by Irwin
c. Miller and the direction by Walter
Brooks.
Matinees will be given on Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday and a
special midnight show on Friday.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
Photoplays.
C0LUMDTA-"Bluebeard's Eighth
Wife,


Gloria Swanson wears a variety of
elaborate gowns and headgear In her
latest picture, 'sBIuebeard's Eighth
Wife," an interesting, II lengthened,
version of the French play by Alfred
Savior. 1t Is q delightful satire on
the modern divorce system which
makes 1T possible for an attractive
American millionaire to have had
seven wives and pay each a generous
alimony, yet still leave him free to
court an eighth wife.
Gloria plays the eighth wife. who
marrfes after a whiFlwfnd eourtship
and in entire ignoranea of her hus-
She Is confronted with this appalling
discovery on her wedding night, and.
being a chic French maiden and a
good sport in the bargain, she de-
cides that she will give her husband
chance to prove that he really loves
her before they take the honeymoon
to Egypt that had originally been
planned. She taunts and torments
him in almost every way known to
feminine vile, and even goes so far
secure divorce. There is no need
10 tell the ending, for what clever
French comedy with witty lines and
the glorious Gloria as the heroine
would have the heart TO turn out any
way but happily?
The scenery along the Riviera and
in sumptuous mansions supposed to
be in Paris is very pretty to look at,
and Miss Swanson uses up the entire
gamut of her expressions, almost
overworking the coy and clever
glances, in Interpreting the role
played so artisticaliy on the stage
by Ina Claire. Huntley Gorden looks
his role as the much-marrfed Amerf-
can.
Pitfalls of a Big City" the news
reel, and a short scenic complete the
program. Mr.. BrusiIof gives a violin
solo from "CavalIerfa Rusticana" and
then leads the orchestra in a modern
jazz version of the same music, which
has neither the bouyancy of modern
music.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
BY R. A. EBzMONS.

The mockernut is one of nine ma
tive hickories. 1t is a tall. pyramidal
tree, fifty to eighty feet high. rang
ing from central New England and
Ontario south to Florida and Texas.
1t Is the most common hickory tree
of the south, where its finest develop
ment is reached. with a height of 10o
feet and a trunk diameter of three
feet. The name, mockernut, is prob
ably a result of the disappointing
character Of it's nuts. They are of
large size and resemble the shelIbark
nut. Julia Rogers describes them:
THE nut is truly mockery to any
one who considers his thumbs. The
husk is thick and stubbornly adherent
at the base. The shell Is almost in
vulnerable. When at last 1t is shat
tered by a blow. the kernel, though
sweet. is small, and poorly repays the
trouble. Oftentimes there Is no kerr
mel at all"
The bark is light brown. deeply fis-
sured. not shaggy. The head is
usually narrow and <s composed of
horizontal or dropping branches The
Evening star., 1923-09-10
ADJUSTMENTS

are forced to several encores. so
clever is thir work
Announcing that gales of laugh
ter is their forte Mort Fox and Joe
Burns keep all I'm high spirits by
repeating many of their original
songs.
The Midnight Alarm" one of the
most thrilling photepIays seen at the
Strand for months. ts the major screen
Offering, and In it's many meiodra-
matte features 10 a FIRE scene that
VIII be hard to duplicate.
Built around the New York fire
department, the story relates to the
disappearance Of girl at childhood
and the attempts OF her fathers
business partner to keep her from
gaining wealth.
Miss Alice Calhoun plays the role
Of Sparkle, a waif. who really Is
Susan Thornton, missing hefress
! Percy Marmont appears as fire
| captain and Yescues her from a. burn
! ing building In which she has been
| imprisoned in a. steel vault.
Short film subjects of coufical
and educational nature complete the
program
Evening star., 1923-09-10
cENTRAL-"The Hardest Way"

Fannie Ward is the feature at tne
Central for the early half of TINS
wAsk In '"The Hardest Way" Whlch
nnened there yesterday, she taxes
tba role of a girl who throws away
,,arsonal happiness in carrying OUT
the dying request of her fatner' VINO
had committed suicide.
THE father was loser at Saius,
who paid his losses to the IoS.eI
sather of his daughters lover with
had check, Prevented in his atteHps
to recover the check at the point OF
rfstol by the interference OF the
Japghter. the father turns the re
volver on himself. AS he is dyins' =
reonests in a note practicaiiy III rhe
breakfng of the engagement Inc
daughter does this. rhar
only some time afterward, When
she is reading tfre message from nes
suicide father. the girl - discoVeTeu
h., her sweetheart. who thus learns
~ the cause of the broken engage
,,1ant Then follows the happy end
ing Miss Ward handles her roIe
with a natural facility and grace
that brought enthusiastic comments,
She is adequately supported: oy
we'll selected cast.
Larry Semon in The Mldnlghtt ~ I I
caberet." a. two-reel comedy, and the
burton Holmes reel of natural color
nictures of Yokohama ana 1okio'
showing the areas stricken py eartn- ear,-
1uake. are also on the early week
hill