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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-09
EICHT-HOUR DAY
Gives Steel Workers Chance
To Live Normal Lives

By international Labor News Service
Washington, d. C.-Strong testi-
mony to the value of the 8-hour work
day in the steel industry is given by
the Gary Post-Tribune, Gary Ind,
in the following letter to President
Samuel Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor:
We have received a copy of the
American Federatonist for October
and we note with a great deal of
pleasure indeed, the editorial accom-
panied by reproduction of our adver-
tisement from Printers Ink which ap-
pears on pages 842 and S43 of your
magazine.
you say truly in this editorial IN
speaking of the 12-hour day that
there remains not single voice to
sing its praises A volume could be
filled with the good things to be said
of the 8-hour day as opposed to the
l2-hour day, but it is all perhaps fair
ly we'll summed up in saying that
thousands of working men in this
city now have an opportunity to get
better acquainted with their families
and to live normal lives.
"From a business standpoint, we
believe that the 8-hour day will be
the best thing that has happened to
this city although this is really only
of secondary Importance,
THE Gary PostTribune,
y. r. SNYDER, Manager :"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-09
WEST VA. WATERS
WIN UNION
WAGES AND HOURS

Morgantown, w Va.-The newly
organized Morgantown local of the
Hotel and Restaurant Employees In
ternational Alliance has signed up a
number of Morgantown concerns for
the union shop with outstanding wage
increases and shorter work day,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-09

lea insures and the security of en-
ployment which this enlarged COM
petition for workers services itself
assures, is the base on which is sus-
tanned the constantly rising tide of
American production and distribu-
! ton
"The effect of American economies
and the increasing scale of produc-
ton and distribution and consumption
on which human opportunity and
earnings rest, is written not only in
the aggregate of national wealth Gre
ated, but in the increase in only the
last ten years of savings accounts in
this country from six billion dollars
to fourteen billion dollars, and of ma
tional bank resources from six bill
lion to seventeen billion.
But if you ask what evidence we
have that Americas great wealth and
earnings are fairly and justly ap-
portioned among our people, we have
some measures that indicate the an
swer may be straightforward and
with national pride There are fig
ures of average earnings per worker
in the manufacturing industry, show
ing average increases per capita of
100, and then again 200, and then still
again 800 per cent, during the pro-
gress of this industrial development.
Is it not reasonable to assume that
the very existence of. the great vol
ume of factory production and the
great flow of distribution, shows
that wealth and buying power are
widely distributed, in the hands of
millions and millions sof consumers
No such volume could be marketed
were the ability to buy confined to
the fortunate wealthy few.
"Now, if those indicators show the
magnitude of Americas industrial
leadership; if those tests indicate as
we'll social system in which the
general level of possession is clearly
rising and secure, then they suggest
a deeper meaning, which carries an
accent of almost startling signii
canoe.
"We have taught for generations,
and it is undoubtedly the truth, that
poverty, itself, is the major cause of
sickness, suffering, and sometimes
death; and more, that poverty is the
mother of criminals, and destitution
the incentive to crime. For centuries,
the effort of the world has been to re-
duce and to eliminate poverty, from
which spring crime and social degen-
Grafton. In furtherance of the effort
for this attainment there have been
constructed social theories of expert
mentation which, in actual practice,
have only written an added chapter of
human misery and disappointment.
Progress Already Made is Clear
Does it not make you catch your
breath that. here in America, Ameri-
can individualism has written story
of social progress and individual ac-
complishment which may prove the
very outposts of the social advance
which will eliminate entirely the age
old horror of destitution? So clear is
this progress written in America, so
clear the acceleration of advance in
the security of individual living in the
American home, that it requires not
so much thoughtless daring as accu-
rate appraisal of national progress to
forecast that America is within strik-
ing distance of accomplishing the ut
ter and absolute elimination of pow
erty, the quest of many centuries of
social effort. It is within the possi-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-09

itself. 1t has had many trials, within
and without but the sound principles
of the movement have stood the test,
both with workers and with employ
ers. In the essentials the movement
is more solid than ever. 1t has
swept away many old hatreds and pre-
JUDGES. | has right to be proud
of its record and confident of its
future.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-09
America Within Striking Distance of
Absolutely Abohshing Poverty, Says
Head ofU.S. Commerce Chamber

BY international Labor News Service.
Washington, d. C.-There is good
ground for believing that America is
within striking distance of ending
poverty, says julius H. Barnes, presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States, writing in the
Nations Business, official organ of
the chamber.
MIR. Barnes does not place the pos
sibility of eliminating poverty in
some far off age, long after those
now living are dead. He declares
that it is within the possibilities that
poverty may be absolutely abolished
within a single decade, or at most a
single generation.
Why he believes that America may
abolish poverty is told as follows by
Mr.. Barnes:
ITO understand Americas great
ness and her industrial leadership, we
must consider that here is a republic
with a relatively short national his
tory of a century and half, en-
trusted with the natural resources of
continent, and that continent open
to the development of the white race
barely three short centuries
There is surely something of great
and solemn meaning that one hun
dred and ten million people, with this
short national history, have made the
high marks in human progress which
we have right to claim.
'The total population of the world
is about eighteen hundred millions of
people. Now, when you picture these
eighteen hundred millions of human
beings, inevitably progressing along
the road which leads ultimately to
living standards something like our
own, you get a picture of the vast
amount of human activity which will
be called into action, with increasing
urgency and increasing effectiveness.
Our System Proving It's Worth
"And when we have this picture of
eighteen hundred millions of people,
moving with blind and hating steps,
to be sure, along the road which leads
to individual happiness, security and
content, we have the inspiration of
a vision, if we may claim justly that
America will be the pioneer to open
wide the path for these advancing
hordeS
Surely it is picture to fix the
imagination and to harden the pur-
pose, that America with 5 per cent
of the world population, should show
the leadership in the translation of
the natural resources of the world
into the forms of human service
"And when one looks for the prac-
teal reasons as to why this excep,
tional translation of natures great
possessions into mans service, we
find that it rests securely upon an
industrial philosophy which is dis
tinctly and peculiarly American, also.
This industrial philosophy is one
which both from conviction and from
necessity has placed an extraordinary
value upon human labor, by enlarging
the product of human hands with
every invention and mechanical de-
vice which great originality and ge-
MUS could devise There was so
much to do in this vast empire, and
so few, relatively, to perform the
task, that there has been constant
economic pressure for the release of
manual labor by ingenious devices
for mass production.
''The economics of production costs
which this mass production of Amer
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-09
UNION FINED FIVE
HUNDRED DOLLARS
For Alleged Strike Under
Compulsory Arbitra-
tiOn Law

Sydney, Australia-Judge Curle-
wis, of the New South Wales state
industrial arbitration court, has fin
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-09

At last-a warm air heating system
for both renters and owners. The
Estate Heatrola can be installed in
any home and can be moved just like
any other piece Of furniture.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-09
Works Like A Furnace
Looks Like A Phonograph

Handsomely enameled in rich grain
ed mahogany, the ESTATE HEA-
TROLA looks like beautiful cabinet
phonograph. 1t has no nickeled parts
to be shined or metal parts to be pol
ished. 1t is a beautiful piece of fur
niture and a real ornament to every
room.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07
NOTED PHRASES

"Patronize the advertisers on
this programme"
win you have a shampoo,
sir?'
Having a fine time. Wish
you were here"
mot expecting to be called on
I didn't prepare.
This is the coolest theater In
the city"
Pass the butter, please"
Have you gotta match?"
Move to the center of the
car"
Pick out the nearest exit"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07
A COSTLY MISTAKE.

Hale-How was it that Simp-
son got defeated in the election
for mayor? Everybody thought
that he would win hands down.
Hardy-It was his own fault.
He made a campaign speech be-
fore the League Of Women Vot-
ers and forgot to part his hair in
the middle.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

Don't wear a one piece bathing
suit down Broadway. Men have
enough trouble lodging taxicabs
and prohibition enforcement
agents without running into
more danger.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

Don't say isn't it hot" Let
the other fellow start and then
the two of you can collapse to-
gether.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

Don't wear a fur-lined over
coat. It's tough on the moths.
And everybody else who comes in
close contact with you.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

Don't think of ice-cold beer
with a kick in it-unless you
happen to be in Canada, Cuba
or the rest Of the civilized world.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

Don't spend any time hopping
your brow. Let it accumulate
so you can have a complete show
err bath.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

Don't take a trip to the North
Pole. BY the time you get there
the summer will be over anyway
and you will. not have gained
anything.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07
NJ ED Blu r Y
SAY
By John P. Medbury.

~ rs a well-known fact that the
world owes every man a living
- but a lot of us are too lazy
to go out and collect it.
We just sit around and wait
for 1t to come C. o. ID.
The world is perfectly willing
to give you a living, but you
can't expect to have it delivered.
The terms are cash, and, no
matter how great a man may be
he can't open an account with
nature.
The world is sometimes slow
in paying what it owes you, but
maybe you don't settle your bills
so promptly either.
One guy found out that the
world owed him q living, and he
tried to get 1t through cOllec-
tion agency.
OF course, once in a while the
world doesn't give you your liv-
ing until it's to late for you to
use it.
Some guys are so stingy that
they expect their next door neigh
boris living, too.
A lot Of business men collect
everybody's living except their
? own.
The chances are that some man
Is dying right now and leaving
your livelihood to his heirs.
Z Butts that's all right; maybe
your heirs will take it away from
his.
Everyman, woman and child
I'm the United States should have
something like $51.40 cash. If
you haven't got that much, then
there's some dirty work going on.
If you've only got $41.40 and
the man next door has $61.40
then the chances are he's got ten
dollars that belongs to you.
The United States says that
you should have it, but If you
try to take it away from him the
city will put you in Jail.
The ony way you can get any
money is by working for it
most of the political jobs are
filled.
It's all right to go out and work
hard and make some money, but
while we're doing this ten other
people are working twice as hard
trying to take it away from us.
Copyright. 1928. King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

Don't invite your friends out
to your summer home. Some
people can't take a joke and
might come.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

One guy found out that the
world owed him a living, and he
tried to get 1t through a cOllec-
ton agency.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

The world is perfectly willing
to give you a living, but you
can't expect to have it delivered.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

Don't go to the seashore to rest
your tired eyes-unless you wear
binders.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

Don't take your family picnick-
ing this summer. Fool the ants
and other bugs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07
HOT WEATHER.
DON'TS
By Nat N. Dorfmar,.

N ONT envy the fellow who
wears a Palm Beach suit.
- Perhaps that's the only
thing he has left.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

The chances are that some man
Is dying right now and leaving
your livelihood to his heirs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

OF course, once in a while the
world doesn't give you your liv-
ing until it's to late for you to
use it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

A lot Of business men collect
everybody's living except their
own.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

Some guys are so stingy that
they expect their next door neigh.
boris living, too.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

Don't get married In August.
Don't get married in September,
October, November, December.
January, February, March, April,
May, June or July either.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

The terms are cash, and, no
matter how great man may be
he can't open an account with
nature.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

The world is sometimes slow
in paying what it owes you, but
maybe you don't settle your bills
so promptly either.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

Butts that's all right; maybe
your heirs will take it away from
his.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

We just sit around and wait
for 1t to come C. o. ID.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

Everyman, woman and child
I'm the United States should have
something like $51.40 cash. If
you haven't got that much, then
there's some dirty work going on.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

If you've only got $41.40 and
the man next door has $61.40
then the chances are he's got ten
dollars that belongs to you.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07
6 6 6

Is a Prescription for Malaria,
Chills and Fever, Dengue' or
Bilious Fever. 1t kills the
germs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

The United States says that
you should have it, but If you
try to take it away from him the
city will put you in Jail.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

It's all right to go out and work
hard and make some money, but
while we're doing this ten other
people are working twice as hard
trying to take it away from us.
(Copyright. 1928. King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

The ony way you can get any
money is by working for it
most of the political jobs are
filled.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07

n rs a well-known fact that the
world owes every man living
- but a lot of us are too lazy
to go out and collect 1t.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-25
GIRL Of II HELD
TOO YOUNG
To WE'D.
Syracuse Women Want Law
to End Child Marriages
Despite Consent.
By CHESTER b. Balm.
BY international News Service.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Oct. 25.-
Should girls under eighteen be al
lowed to marry, even with the con-
sent of their parents?
Syracuse leaders in. the feminist
movement return an emphatic mega
tive answer.
AS the law stands today any girl
under eighteen who has the per-
mission OF her parents can marry.
There is no age limit recognized.
A girl ten years old could marry If
she had her parents permission.
!. Mrs. Alexander Oberlander, prom
inent in women's activities. was
positive in her demand that the
law should be changed.
Il am positively opposed to such
a law which permits q girl under
eighteen marrying with the consent
of her parents" said Mrs. Ober.
lander. 1.-THE girl that age is moth
ing but child and should be
guarded against such a step.
want Law changed.
Mrs. Kate Knickerbocker, also
prominent in women's club activi-
ties, was likewise opposed to the
law.
THE girl whose age makes it
necessary for her parents consent
tn marry is far too young to realize
her own mind. She Is not developed
physically nor mentally.
Eighteen. nineteen or twenty
even at these ages are most girls
too young to assume the response
bilities of being wife. The law,
without a doubt should be
changed"
Mrs. Margaret L. Downes, county
probation officer, whose work for
several years has familiarized her
with all such cases, declares that
such law should not stand.
''The girls of fourteen, fifteen.
sixteen or even seventeen. are not
fitted in any way whatever for the
cares of married life," declared Mrs.
DowneS.
Some Exceptions.
According to Mrs. Downes per-
mission cannot be obtained in many
cases, except, of course, where a
girl of possibly sixteen or seventeen
is really in love and fit mentally
and physically to marry.
But the poor girl whose parents
are anxious to be rid of her, the
poor foreign girl particularly, phys
lcaily and mentally ten or eleven
years old, though she may be six
teen in years, is not projected by
law. And that is just the girl the
law should protect"
Mrs. Downes pointed out the case
OF firl fifteen years Did in this
city, on probation for truancy, who
was forced into marriage with a
man fifty-two. Had she been placed
in good home, and under the care
Of the attendants she would have
developed into a worthy woman.
But this father gave his permission
for the child to marry, and she was
taken out of the laws hands and
gwen over to the man, nearly four
times older than she, to work and
slave for him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-25
WHAT'S DOING
Today and Tomorrow
Today.

IO00ys
MeetinR-chemica Society of wash
ington, Cosmos Club. evening.
MeetinR-Bible study class. Women
City Club, p. m.
Meeting-BIg Sisters of the Juyeniiss
Protective Society, Epiphany Parish
Hall. 4:46 p. m.
Lecture-''The Art and the Attain tain
Topper, First Baptist Church. p. m.
Meeting Benning -Glendale- aklaneo
Citizens Association, SmOthers school,
Meeting-Kit Carson Post No. g. g. A.
r., Grand Army Hall. 8 p. m:
Dinner-Men's Club Of All Souls par
sc co n SS District of Asso-
ciated Charities. Neighborhood House.
40 N street southwest, $3.50 p. m.
Mseting-Gol, James 8; Petit en Ladies
Lecture-Dr. Jonathan c. Ray. of New
York City, Kentucky State Society, Me-
Meeting~Troop s, Girl Scouts OF
America. All Souls Memorial Church.
evening.
D., president of st. Johns College, An
napolis. Randall Hall, afternoon and eve-
ming.
Meeting-conduit Road Citizens Assoc
road. p. m.
Tomorrow.
Meeting-American War Mothers, 39O6
Thirteenth street northwest, s p. m.
Meeting Choral Club, Deanwood
school, p. m.
Halloween party-Burrville school, eve
ming.
Meeting-Mens Current Event club.
Miner Normal school p. m.
Meeting - Rhythmic Dancing class,
Birney Community center, evening.
Meeting-Federation of Civic Assocta-
tons, board room, District building,
p. m,
Masquerade ball-National Review, No.
/, Women's Benefit Association, evening
Meeting-Junior Social club. Wilson
Normal school, evening.
Dance-Robert L. Bruce Chapter, Or
der of De Molay, Cairo Hotel, 1915 Q
street northwest, evening.
Meeting-Trinidad Citizens Association,
Blair school, b. m.
Lecture-"Spiritism," the Rev c. M.
Feredia. S. J., Georgetown college. Thir-
ty-seventh and o streets northwest, S:16
p. m.
Meeting American Society Of Me-
chanical Engineers, Cosmos club, 8 p. m.
Meeting-Gym class, City Club, p. m.
Dance-Catholic Women's Service club,
6O1 e street northwest, p. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-25
'S.W.COMNUN|TY
/. NIGHT DRAWS
CROWD
700 Citizens Hear Talks and
Enjoy Music by Times
Newsboys' Band.

Seven hundred residents of south
west Washington attended the com.
munity night celebration of the
South Washington Citizens Asso-
citation in st. Dominic's parish hall.
last night. and heard Engineer
Commissioner j. Franklin Bell, A.
Floyd Gill, city editor OF The Wash
ington Herald, and C. Melvin
Sharpe, of the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company.
Major Bell pledged cooperation
of the Commissioners with citizens
in community matters. Gill sug-
gested organization of a flying
squadron" Of citizens to build the
sections prestige. Sharpe said his
company soon would spend $1,000
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-25
SUBPoSToFFIcE TO OPEN
AT DEPARTMENT STORE

A branch postal station will open
in the department store of Wood
ward & Lothrop Monday morning,
with Postmaster General Harry s.
New and William NJ Mooney, Wash
ington postmaster, in attendance.
Arthur e. Dean will superintend
the station, with the assistance Of
Robert L. Bailey and John Stone.
All classes of mail will be handled,
and postage stamps and money or
ders will be sold
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-25
THIEF TAKES DIAMOND
FROM PRIESTS cHALIcE

A small diamond was picked out
Of it's setting in a chalice in the
sacristy Of st. Martins Catholic
Church early yesterday. The loss
was discovered by Father F. x.
Cavanaugh while he was celebrat-
ing mass with the chalice.
The diamond, valued at approx
mately $50, was picked from the
setting by a thief who evidently
used a pen knife. Eater Cava-
naugh, owner Of the chalice, had
left it on a shelf in the sacristy
and it is there that the thief had
access to it.
Father Cavanaugh is very much
hurt by the loss because the dia-
mond was given to him by his
sister when he was ordained to the
priesthood six years ago.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-25
REPAIRS ASKED
FOR THREE.
BRIDGES
Board of Trade Committee to
Urge Appropriations to
Make Them Safe.

Chain, Pennsylvania avenue and
Benning bridges should be replaced
by safer and more modern struct-
ures, the annual report of the bridge
committee of the Board of Trade,
made public yesterday. said. Key
and Highway bridges are reported
safe.
The committee urges Congress to
make the following appropriations:
For preliminary work in replace
ment of Chain mridge, not less than
$500.
For preliminary work in improve
ment of Chain bridge, not less than
sylvania avenue bridge, not less than
$500.
For replacement of flooring of the
Pennsylvania avenue bridge, suit.