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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04

Stop and consider what it means
if you are one of the those union
members who never attend the meet
ings.
Suppose all other members did what
you are doing. 1t would mean that
nobody would be at the meetings, and
before many moons passed there
would be no union.
The reason that union exists at all
is due almost wholly to those who
attend the meetings.
If you are not attending, you are
doing that which would kill your
union if all other members followed
your example.
The more members stay away the
harder it makes it for the few who
attend. They have to bear the brunt
of the struggle. No matter how hard
they try they are weakened by your
absence, just as an army would be
weakened if most of the soldiers in
the ranks went into hiding on the
days when there were battles to fight
You want results from the union,
don't you?
Then by the eternal laws that under
lie all human progress, you must help
get these results.
Nothing hurts your union so much
as the indifference of the members.
No attack from the outside can pos
sibly do SO much harm as this M
excusable slackening on the inside.
It is this shirking Of duty that does
more injury to union than anything
else.
A real union man never permits
anything but extraordinary causes
to keep him away from his union
meetings.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04
- - A - -
DID YOU GIvE7

1t looks like the drive in Hamilton
to secure funds for the starving chill
dren in Germany will be a success.
However, in case of this kind there
is always place for more, and it
is never too late to do good, so that
if you haven't as yet given to this
most worthy cause, do so at once and
bring yourself smile for having
dore so.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04
A HAPPINESS PRESCRIPTION
Consider the Postal Employe and His Wages


you sleep tonight
tented feeling that had deed and that might reflect
of happiness to many people?
right feeling case
will
happiness
position postal
brings this all
all conditions all
SOBER INDUSTRIOUS efficient prompt
That the record of the He worthy friendship and
your encouraging support
Take up pay Congressional
recently published figures taking Detroit representative city,
which family five
decenty Prices decreasing
regard wages of
that the maximum is $1775
below the living ne This
supposion loses his worku pod steadily
through entire without loss working day
The reader he is the head of family of ve understand this
clothing the children
multous his family the vicinity
of DECENCY line
pays
year a years ago.
proposal
the benefca rule raising
the rates. but if should shown this necessary then we hasten to
let these
postal employees
policy that will
paid hauling
adusted reasonable basis there would be
in clerks
compensation the
rapidly than postal Seemingly
much willing the pleas of the railroads than
just requirements faithful postal
In them the
Senator Edge of
Kelly of Pennsylvania have introduced
adopted approved
entering after the second and $20
the third the
RIGHT NOW Congressman and Senator
and that all human
letter the House
Building Office Building and they will reach the
representatives and senators address.
Tell him what
and he will advice.
today. will help than realize
together something these worthy and
deserving workers
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04
Sau,e KNIFE and Fork

In every meal but three In the last
thixty-two years A. q. Finn Of Luray,
Va, has used the same knife and fork.
Both the knife and fork were found
By Mr.. Finn, one in the east end Of
Luray and the other In the west end
Of the town. The knife and fork have
almost been worn out of all semblance
OF themselves, but 1t would require a
fabulous price for the owner to part
with them.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04
LIFE AND MONEY
Worker Invests One, Boss
the Other

New York. "The union has a big-
ger stake in the garment industry as
a whole than any other factor in the
trade" said Morris Sigman, presi-
dent of the International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union, in urging en-
ployers to accept the unions plan to
reform that industry.
In explaining why the union has a
greater interest in the industry than
anyone else, President Sigman said:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04
No Free Adn,issions

New Domestic from Ireland (pre-
ssnting visiting card to her mis-
tress) )-There's two of 'em one In the
drawing room and one waiting at the
door, mum.
Mistress-Why didn't You invite
them int
"Sure, mum. an you didn't want two
to come IN WI one ticket, did your
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04
Tribute 20 College Girl

Or. Katherine Bement Davis, who
has had long official connection with
the penal institutions Of New York
city, says that in her twenty-five years
experience with penology she has
never known q college girl graduate
serving time for criminal oftense IN 4
penal institution.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04
"a N ~ ~ ~
WHAT INJURIES UNIONS7

What hurts the union hurts you.
For this reason you are deeply con-
cerned in all things that affect your
labor organization one way or the
other. Did it ever occur to yeu that
there is nothing which Injuries the
union so much as the failure Of mem
bers to attend meetings7
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04
Years DON'T Stop Her

Mrs. Mary French Sheldon, writer,
explorer, globe-trotter, artist, big game
hunter, linguist and physician, IL still
active on the lecture platform at the
age Of seventy-eight. Mrs sheldon
has the distinction Of being the first
woman ever made q fellow OF thu
Royal Geographical society.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton. Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
LABOR PARTY WITH SENSE

startling contrasts. She has a king
and a queen, dukes, duchesses and
lords and ladies. She has a house
of lords and a house of commons,
where the common folks vote. The
dukes and the lords and the ladies
and the king and the queen and the
house of lords have no power; the
house Of commons is all-powerful.
She has conservative party made
up of the nobility on the one side
and the scum of the cities on the
other. She has labor party-the
workingmen's party. Today the
workingmen rule Great Britain.
Great Britain has workingmen's
government and laboring man is
prime minister Of England and labor
men hold all the great offices of gov
ernment. All the labor leaders do
not work with their hands. They are
intellectual men-the leaders of the
labor party.
The British labor party has had
the common sense to do what the
American workingmen have not had
the common sense to do-they have
had the intelligence to welcome to
their ranks all kinds of men and wom-
en- who believe as the workingman
does and who stood for their princi-
pies and their policies. They have
had the good sense to welcome with
double heartiness those men and wom-
en- Of education and training who can
supply them with that part of their
equipment which men who work all
day with their hands cannot have.
Contrast this with the policy of
some Of our American labor leaders,
who, making labor leadership a pro-
fession, repulse the proffered assist
ance Of the men and women of educa-
ton and experience who could help
them promote the policies and the
interests Of their people.-Exchange.
pa - "a "a "a
FAKE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
Fake collective bargaining finally
gives itself away everywhere. Charles
M. Mills, described as industrial coun-
sellor to a New York legal firm,
writes in the Iron Age "a surprising
place to print such thoughts) the fol-
lowing somewhat understanding COM
ment:
The final test of industrial repre-
sentation and the shop committee lies
in the development of real collective
bargaining. The man in the ranks
must come to feel that he deals with
management on essential issues not as
an individual or as single repre-
sentative with limited powers, but as
a delegate with the full strength of |
the group. Today the average shop |
council offers a most restricted and
mild form Of collective bargaining.
Few industrial representation plans |
permit arbitration on disputed ques-
tions to go outside the company. The
power of collective bargaining as es-
tablished by groups of men in differ
ent plants of the same company or
different industrial plants in the same
locality is practically absent. En-
ployes are not generally brought to-
gether in large and diversified groups.
The opportunity for collective thought
and action is absent. i. Future pro-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04
ARE THE PEOPLE TIRING?

Just when the newspapers get go
ing good on the tune that "the peo-
pie are tired of the oil scandal,
blam! comes piece of stuff so hot
that the papers have to crack open
the front page and smear it mile
wide.
The scheme to freeze Teapot Dome
out of the news is foiled by the very
magnitude of the mess. Some scan
dals can be suppressed part of the
time, some can be squelched all the
time, but big scandal can be cracked
wide open sooner or later.
1t took two years to get Teapot
Dome onto the front pages. 1t is not
SO easy now to sink it in the inside
pages.
And the newspapers betray their
hand when they say the people are
tired of it in the same editions where
in it is given first page position.
The people will be tired Of getting
to the bottom of Teapot Dome after
the bottom has been reached and the
mess cleared up-AND NOT BE-
FORE.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04
REVOLUTIONS
In Latin America Financed
By Big Business

Washington If the numerous con-
gressional probes now on in Washing
ton only revealed the fact that South
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04

gfess in industrial representation will
come largely in making employees and
their delegates feel that they are not
sharing in a mere old-ladies' sewing
circle but in a powerful, vital red
blooded conference where essential
issues are discussed /"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-04-04
FRIDAY, APRIL A, 1924

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton.
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-06-20
Marketing Problems
Difficult to Solve
Progress in Cooperation
Stimulated by Obstacles.

prepared By the United States Department
Of Agricuiturel
"The farmer cannot solve his mar
ketlng problems by individual effort
neither Is cooperative marketing
panacea for all the farmers economic
difficulties" declared Lloyd s. Tennyi
assistant chief Of the bureau Of agri-
cultural economies. United States De
partment Of Agriculture. in m address
at the annual meeting Of the Chamber
Of Commerce Of the United States held
at Cleveland.
Discussing cooperative marketing
Mr.. Tenny pointed out that the farmer
is essentially a manufacturer and is
confronted with the same marketing
problems as the manufacturer Of any
other product.
"The farmer has the same right to
control and solve these economic ques-
tons as have other business men," Mr.,
Tenny said Individual effort cannot
solve them and group action Is in
volved. 1t is not only necessary that
the right Of the farmer TO organize be
accepted morally, but that this right
be recognized by law. Congress has
recently passed the Capper-Yolstead
act which gives this right to farmers
and most of the individual states have
taken similar action. The federal Law
simply gives producers the privilege
Of combining to do for themselves
what any manufacturing corporation
has always had the right TO do, name
ly, to handle in a wholesale way the
output Of their production plants"
Cooperative marketing among farm
ers must be considered In the light Of
and Judged by the results accom-
pllshed through cooperation, Mr.
Tenny pointed out. and then as
proof that cooperative marketing !
producing satisfactory results h'
stated that during the year 1923
total business amounting TO over S2,
20O,0O0,O00 was handled In the Unlte'
States through cooperative associa
| lions.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-06-20

home. like a nice mountain home
but a tree is the place In which to
be coy and comfortable.
AT night, when 1t is dark, go
out to travel and do my marketing.
Il can jump from most enormous
heights so a tree home does not bother
me.
people who live in houses always
have to go out OF them from the
ground floor.
But I can jump from my tree home
right to the ground without any bother
at all.
IF / lived in house l would not
bother to go downstairs to get out
of-doors.
81 would simply jump down from
window. But people can't jump as
! can.
They wouldn't make good Tree
Kangaroos.
Il don't mean to hurt their feelings
when I say this / hope they do not
feel badly that they can't do more
than they can.
a hope they do not spend their
time saying:
"'oh, dear, If only we were Tree
Kangaroos, how nice It would be-
81 hope they don't say things such
as this for as long as they are peo-
pie suppose they must make the best
of It.
"But how thankful 1 am that ] am
really and truly a Tree Kanslroo'
@Of course they may say thht as
long as am Tree Kangaroo 1t Is
GOOD tbing that make the best Of It.
but I'm not making the best of 1t
for love being what am.
"And it is SO splendid to have a tail
as long as ones body.
THAT is such a help In balancing
when one is jumping Now maybe
people could jump from their upstairs
windows if they could balance
tails. poor dearsl
but they havep'tot feel sorry for
"Oh, well 55abIy they are happy
them. They don't know the JOY of
being Tree Kangaroo and so they
don't know what they miss.
"As long as they are happy in their
own way l shall not try to upset. them.
But must make ready TO go out
for little exercise. and a good run,
for it is aight time now and I've had
e good supper of leaves and a splen-
did daytime sleep"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-06-20
Two Methods Gi,e@ ior
.1L:l1..r Johnson Grass

"a grass is best erndlcated by
er two methods. When there are
comparatively few spots of johnson
grass on the farm, pillow up these spots
in the fall or early spring, and grub
OUT by hand all the root systems pos
sible. For the first two seasons go
over these spots every few days grub
bing up all roots whose location is In.
dicated by plants. When the farm is
badly infested, fence the field hog
tight, pillow up in the fall and run hogs
on the plowed ground during the win
ter, allowing them to work the ground
for the roots. This method If prac-
tlced every few years, while It will not
entirely kill out johnson grass will
keep It down where 1t will do little
or no damage to other growing crops.
Where Johnson grass is located in
spots on land that cannot be handled
as described. then these spots should
be covered with straw and left that
way for several years.-C. A. Helm,
Missouri College Of Agriculture.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-06-20
.YPPdtNdta!y.s.
Fairy Tale
A TREE KANGAROO
WrA i.lll'l :. SR SRA e BOWER

Far away in Australia lived this
Tree Kangaroo and life TO him was
very pleasant.
He was very handsome. His coat
was of thick, long fur and the color
Of 1t was brownish-yellow. His waist
coat was Of white though he wore a
front belt Of a pale yellow shade.
His face was black though across
his forehead he had a grayish band
and his ears were black on the out
side and yellow inside.
His legs were of a yellow shade
yellow stockings he would have said
he wore--and his paws were black.
His tail was as long as his body and
his body was Of good size.
The children Of the family dressed
like the ladies Of the family In gray
ish suits, which were simple and
pretty.
THE daytime" said the Tree Kan
CARGO, is for sleeping and eating.
Sometimes a fly or many flies will
disturb my sleep and l have to kill
them to have peace and rest.
II give them good hard blows, too.
But I like to sleep during the day
and my place for sleeping is In a
tree.
''That Is why l am called Tree
Kangaroo. l am devoted to trees.
"My home is In a tree. would
not be happy in any other kind Of a
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-06-20
Has Ancient Flavor

At the Coffee club Friday, among
other witty jokes, this one was told:
"The rudder and the anchor of a
ship entered into a dispute over the
issue Of which was the most important
to The vessel. Each felt that It Occu-
pied this pre-eminent place. But after
a time the anchor grew tired of the ar
gument, run itself out and told the
rudder that you can now go where
you dern please"
The president of the club tried to
prove that this one came from Joe Mil
ler's Joke book, but failed.-Houston
Post.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-06-20
Real Sailors?

Small Boy Cat dock)-Papa, those
are not real sailors, are they7
Papa-Why, yes, my son. They
have just sailed that big ship across
the ocean. and In about a week they
will sail back.
swell, / suppose they must know
something about sailing, but they are
not really and truly sailors, are theyT'
Indeed. they are. Why do you
think they are notT'
why, I've been watching them al.
most an hour. and haven't seen one
Of them hitch his trousers stand on
one leg. and say Yo-ho. my hearties r
once"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-06-20
Cooperative Societies

A study of the relative size of va
rIous cooperative organizations shows
that more than % per cent of 5S5 fruit
and vegetable marketing organizations
do an annual business of 10000 or
under. says the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture. The business of
per cent exceeds s1,OO0OO0 annually.
OF 1,139 farmer-eontrolled creameries
nearly 60 per cent do between 81 900
and 100000 annually. Twenty-three
per cent of 1861 grain associations do
between s6l,000 and 100000 annually.
and IA per cent between s20l 900 and
100000
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-06-20
.RM kCTSr:


When a bird is killed, bugs rejoice.
Cooperative marketing of farm
products is another way of answering
the Biblical question: "Am l my
brothers keeper"
Before sowing sweet clover you
should make some tests for acidity
Of the soil. Sweet clover must have a
sweet soil.
Give the alfalfa chance. Do moi
pillow 1t up because 1t looks thin to
start with 1t usually starts poorly
and may come up
Don't turn the stock out too soon.
The curly grass is watery and has a
low feeding value. and 1t is hard on
the grass, causing the roots to weaken.
injurlng the later stand.
Good onion soil is good cabbage
soil. Both require the richest soil and
the best cultivation in the garden for
their best and successful development.
Celery demands rich soil, plenty of
moisture and growth must be kept go
ing a top speed for a good crop. If
allowed to langulsh during a drought
it is likely to become tough and
strlngy.
The okra or gumbo. standard soup
material In the South. the green half
grown pods being used as tiavoring, is
an easily grown warm weather yege
table for northern gardens.
When the pigs begin to eat fix a
pen where they can eat alone and give
them skim milk. ground oats, corn and
barley. They sOoE depend on feed.
and when weaving time comes they
hardly miss the sows.
To obtain the best feed value from
alfalfa 1t capnot he stacked too green.
there, being an Absence Of moisture in
The form of rain or dew,
II is always Advisable to io' 4, me
.oot crop with a leaf crop ,,,,h nro-
". siSP ,,-,,ss a crop which u"
case OF raui ..se Weld above ground Is
luces It's ea,anfinK. Tsenns, corn. pep
he right l,,nf or tomatoes are avail
1ers. Utilize the space OF the rad
re re. as soon as they are out of The
round
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-06-20
Obtain Greater Yields
From Smaller Acreage

1t would seem foolish to have to cul-
tIvate Eve acres of potatoes. row after
row of them, TO get the same number
of bushels that some men get on
single acre, wouldn't It? But that is
a frequent occurrence. The fact that
a man grows Eve times as many rows
Of potatoes does not promise him Eve
times as many bushels each season.
Rather plant fewer hills, and put the
extra time in manuring and mulchlne
and wedding. and get bigger yields
from smaller acreage. Instead Of
growing the 40 bushels on an acre,
with some special care. those 40 bush
els are being grown by many farmers
on quarter Of an acre. That leaves
more garden space, and is nothing
else than good business and good
farming"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-06-20
Value of Soy Bean Straw

Soy bean straw which is left after
the beans are threshed compares fa-
vorably with timothy hay In feeding
value. The loss. however, Is greater
than in the case Of the timothy. Soy
bean straw contains about three times
as much digestlbIe protein as does GA,
straw. II is not as rich. though, In
carbohydrates. so the two feeds com
pare favorably In the amount of total
nutrients. When the two
feeds are given, the horses seem TO o.
better on the soy bean straw.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-06-20
Life gives you just Is years
Of real health-and happiness
Average Health Span extends only from age IS to
age 81, according to United States
Life Tables, 1920

Assuming that ycu are the average
person, you will enjoy health-phys-
ical freedom and full vigor-only
from age is to 81. This Astounding
fact is shown by the United States
Life Tables, 1920.
Your earning power win decrease
rapidly after 40 That period com
monty called Hthe prime Of life" win
actually be an age Of decay.
This sounds sensational. Il Is sen.
sationaL But it is true--and 1t is
something to which the wise man or
woman viii give serious thought.
OF course, it is not natural, or right.
1t is the direct result OF an artificial
mode of hfe-of careless eating, sleep
lessness, and stimulated nerves. Nature
provides a danger signal-fatigue-to
warn when the body needs rest. The
person who regularly deadens the
fatigue signal by the use Of drug is
overriding the warning Of nature.
That is what coffee does. The
average cup OF coffee contains ] u TO
grains Of the drug eaffein-Slassifed
as a poison. This is dose Of caffein
Of the size often administered by ply
sicians in eases Of heart failure. 1t
is powerful stimulant. It appears to
give new strength by deadening the
fatigue signal Actually, this new
strength is robbed from the body's
own reserve.
Coffee contains no nourishment. It's
only virtues, as a beverage, are its
warmth and flavor. A good, hot, drug
less drink is benefit with every meal
Millions enjoy such a drink in
Postum A drink made of whole
wheat and bran, skillfully roasted, with
q little notwithstanding more. A