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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01

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WE ARE LuATH TO CHANGE


When it is realized that the human
race has been developing for prob
ably half million years, its changes
in ideas during even one or two CEN
turies seem revolutionary.
1t may be remembered that king
of Spain once refused to sanction the
proposition to cut canal across the
isthmus of Panama, on the ground
that the Almighty made that neck of
land connecting North and South
America and that it would be sinful
to divide the continents by canal.
Coming closer to our own times,
it is recorded that as late as 1892,
when a group of men in Lancaster,
Ohio, asked permission for use of the
school house, in which to hold meet
ing to promote the building of a rail
road, the school board replied by let
ter as follows:
"You are at liberty to use the
school house to hold meetings for all
proper purposes. But railroads and
telegraphs are impossible and rank
infidelity. If God had intended His
intelligent creatures should travel at
the frightful speed of Is miles an
hour, He would have clearly foretold
it in the Holy Prophets. It is de-
vice Of Satan to lead immortal souls
down to hell"
These ideas seem ridiculous to US
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A COMMON SENSE JUDGE

A COMMON SENSE JUDGE
While giving due praise to the
United States supreme court for its
decision knocking out the Kansas
state court of industrial relations and
declaring compulsory arbitration ille-
gal, don't forget to save good sized
bouquet for Judge Samuel E. Shull,
of Stroudsburg, Pa.
Judge Shull just recently handed
down a decision, which, like the su-
preme court ruling, makes for wider
liberty and the curbing of arbitrary
arrested by Pennsylvania state po-
lice. Judge Shull held that policemen
who stop automobiles along the high
ways and search them for liquor
without reasonable and probable
cause to believe that the vehicle is
engaged in the transportation of IL
quor" are guilty of trespass.
"Unquestionably," said Judge
Shull, "the policeman making this ar
rest grossly exceeded his authority.
He was trespasser, pure and
simple"
'The practice of policemen to
prostitute traffic laws and regula-
tions and use them to make unlawful
searches of vehicles travelling the
public highways, while common one,
is an inquitous one and results only
in breeding resentment and contempt
for all laws. If this search can be
justified by law, then any individual
travelling the highway in his car with
his family or friends, on a private
trip for pleasure or business, is law
full game to be bagged like a bandit
and submitted to the humiliation of
search at the arbitrary whim or pleas
ure of any policeman"
Judge Shulls decision is eminently
in accord with common sense and
constitutes a straight-from- -the-shoul-
der blow at arbitrary power Would
that there were more judges who see
things as he does!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01

Federal Prohibition Director Roy
Haynes some time ago stated that
Cincinnati was one of the "driest"
cities in the country One bootlegger,
testifying in court, stated that his
income amounted to some $4,000 per
week, and then he had to split up so
much of that to prohibition enforcers
that there was nothing left for him.
Oh, yes, any private concern would
stand for the commissioners blarney,
but he would be given a quick hoist
into space to get fresh air.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01

The present generation is wonder
ing what is the matter with so many
railroads and public utilities. There
is no need wondering, children. This
country has hundreds of millionaires
who have taken those millions out
of the railroads and public utilities,
and now somebdy has got to pay the
interest on the stocks and bonds that
they issued for real money, and hence
they are millionaires.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01

When it comes to an election, the
average worker walks up to the polls,
looks for his party ticket, marks his
"cross," and thus puts his stamp of
approval upon having his wages re-
duced 1t is true that he gets the
same amount of money in his envel-
ope, but instead of paying five cents
per pound for sugar he is charged
nine; instead of paying five cents for
street car fare he pays ten. Most
of the difference is needed to pay the
interest on watered stock holdings.
One of the most successful enter
prises in more recent years had to do
with electric lighting Profits were
SO great that more stock had to be
issued to the end that profits would
be brought back to normal. When
business could not return to what was
called fair rate upon the new
water" rates were raised. But the
millionaires were at Palm Beach,
Monte Carlo, or swimming in high
balls near Washington, D. c. Leave
it tc our so-called business men and
so-called church members. They
know that there is no one here to
chase the money changers from the
church quite SO long as they come
across with liberal contributions.
The Golden Rule looks we'll upon a
placard, but it is fatal to present day
business.
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Evening star., 1925-02-15
Hand Looms Of France Producing
Fashionable Fabrics for America

Pharaohs, yea, 5000 years earlier than
Tut-ankh- Amen, according to yester-
days discoveries OF the American Firth
expedition at SakharaD, how was ii
organized for making these most
modern stuffs?
In fact, how was it kept from the ruin
which the factory system threatened?
Every time we pass through the vii
lagos we feel like taking off our hats
to the modest weavers who do every
real artists in doing it :" said Messieurs
Rodier
"Handlooms require workers whom
we do not call workers, but artisans,
which means art and not mere routine
work. Handlooms require. we think, a
taste for such artistic weaving which Is
born from generation to generation.
I'VE live in Picardy. where there re-
mains some of the old population which
always did handweaving from father to
son. The family owns the loom-the
great wooden frame. All the rest is
brought to it. One day 1t is one DISPOSE
ton. Another day, another tissue is
woven. Two months later II is some
thing else. Every three months we
change. The homeweaver, in his village,
never knows what is coming. but Is al
ways agog for something new and beau
tiful.
'It requires an artisan with a brain
habituated from childhood to take
pleasure in the varied and complf-
Gated products of his own hands, with
the habit of the loom and all it's in
tricacies.
Evening star., 1925-02-15

From the age Of years the boys
and girls have lived weave dreamed
weave with the hum of the shuttle
always in their ears. 1t is splendid
musicr
WHEN the motor car arrives at the
w village home with new "har-
ness" new shuttles, new combs, new
designs and new yarns for weaving
a new fabric, it often takes three
weeks before the lone artists can
start to weave.
They have to 'organize" the loom
for the new product, run the yarns
through, perhaps, 5000 little brass
rings, to get the shuttles started.
To equip a loom means, for the
warp alone, the putting into place of
5000 to 10000 threads, according as
the warp is silk, cotton, wool, tinsel
or what not.
Kasha, plain, can be produced by
machinery; but. as a fact. all that is
being used has some considerable
ornament woven into it-which means
hand loom by necessity.
Take one Of the new damages. It
hasa red border. This solid red bor-
der, which Is 50 rich, looks absolute
ly as if it must have been sewed onto
the piece of white Or cream wooden
material. You would think It could
not be Joined In any other way. But
examination shows that it is not
joined--it Is a continuous woven part
of the whole. The red border just
commences abruptly, straight across
the piece, by the width of a thread.
Evening star., 1925-02-15

board, with long, black case in his
hand. He spread it out upon a table
case OF surgical instruments, with
tempered blue steel glittering in the
electric light.
Capital! capital" he exclaimed.
II really beIieve-I honestly believe
that you are the man I have been
seeking for years"
What the mischief do you want
with me?" Daniel demanded, trying
in vain to sit up.
Just to have a look at your BRAIN
was the pleasant reply.
How are you going to get at my
BRAIN" Daniel found strength to ask.
"Cut it out, of course" the other
explained You needn't have the
least alarm. am the greatest oper-
ator in the world"
The surgeon took a step forward.
The knife shone before Daniels hor-
rified eyes like a line OF silver. He
tried to shout. but his voice rose
scarcely above a whisper. He felt the
touch of those cool. strong fingers on
the back of his head. 1t must surely
be the end.
At the very last moment came an
unexpected respite. Heavy footsteps
had passed the closely curtained win
dow. The front doorbell pealed
through the house.
You had better see who that is
Daniel faltered. TT may be some one
with a better brain than mine"
Again the summons of the bell
pealed through the house. Londe
stole from the room. closing the door
quietly behind him. Daniel found
himself able to move his arms and
legs a little. He swung himself into
sitting posture. Again the bell
rang. He heard the sound of stealthy
voices in the hall, then silence, after
which he fancied that he heard a
door opened and closed.
Then the ringing of the bell now
became more and more Imperative.
He dragged himself TO the window.
There were two policemen there
and Ann. He managed to tap it
feebly. Soon they heard him. He
caught a glimpse of AIMS terrified
face outside. Then one of the police
men forced the long window with a
clasp knife. They were all in the
room. Daniel was just able to stand
now.
Evening star., 1925-02-15

"Britton's a lunatic" he gasped.
Get him If you can. I should have
been a dead man in 60 seconds
Ann Lancaster smiled a little
wanly.
Il felt that you were doing fool
ish thing" she said. II watched at
the other end Of the footpath. I saw
you throw up your arms as though
you had a fit, and disappear into this
garden. I knew it was no use COM
ing alone, SO 1 rushed down to the
police station"
You've saved my life" he NUT
tered.
They heard the tramp of the police
through the empty house, the open
ing and closing Of doors. voices NUT
tering-but the men came back un-
successful. The two tragical figures
the great surgeon and his nurse
had passed out once more into the
world of shadows.
A Nm LANCASTER was again seated
"A in the easy chair drawn up to
the side of Daniel Rockies desk. She
was in deep mourning-the secret of
the rock garden had been blazoned
out to a Mortified world.
still no news?" she asked.
Nothing beyond the usual crop of
absurd rumors," he grumbled. Il am
in touch with a friend who will let
me know directly there is a real dis
covery.'
Il should have thought" she
observed, that the cleverest Grim
inal in the world would have found
ii impossible to slip away from a
place like Dredley and vanish
especially with a woman. That a
lunatic should be able to do so with
the whole of the police force of Eng
land hot-foot after him, seems
amazing"
"Londe is only a lunatic upon one
point" Daniel reminded her. He is
obsessed with the idea of replacing
a portion OF his own brain with that
of another man. Apart from that l
believe he is just as brilliant as ever.
That's what makes him so horribly
dangerous"
She shivered.
And the woman"
She was his favorite nurse, and
she went mad precisely when he did
Evening star., 1925-02-15

Her madness today consists solely
IN believing that what he desires Is
possible"
us she really his wife," Ann asked
curiously.
They were discharged from diff
ferent asylunls within g. week Of one
another" Daniel replied. They met
in London and were married by spe-
cial license. It was understood that
they We're leaving at once for Austl
tralia."
And somewhere or other" Ann
went on with little shiver. they
are free. He is sharpening his knife
for his next victim. and the lure in
her eyes is there, waiting for some
poor victim"
Are you going to keep your post
at the foreign Office Daniel asked
Il hope not" she answered, why -
i am starting affairs on my own
account" Daniel announced. viii
you accept post with me-"
What are your affairs?' she in
quired
II have made bunglers start" he
admitted. but there is a new de-,
partment of home secret service being
established-the head of il is the
friend I spoke of-and we are going
to find Londe. 1 am also pledged to
AVip iIAIi ia any Ol0tT Oh MS CdSGS
where my assistance may be or
service. Then. of course, there is my
day. by-day work of DECIDING cipher
manuscripts. j do that for any oneI
who chooses to employ me. The
foreign office still sends me theirI
! work.
You'll find the work tedious al
times-youl have to help with thel
DECIDING when there's nothing elsel
| doing"
"I don't mind that" she assured
him. There is just one thing which
VIII reconcile me to any amount o q
drudgery.'
He looked at her curiously For all
her charm. he realized that she was Il
very determined young woman.
You know what 1t Is" she con
tfnued. after moments pause
Some day you may get on the tracki
of that man-and there may be 4
chance Of helping"
He nodded.
Il understand. Try and start herd
| on Monday morning. please"
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1925-02-15

There's the work Of the hand loom
For such work, an artisan is paid
from 35 francs to 40 francs. on al
average, for his days output, whicI
is very greatly more in purchasin
power, In provincial France, than TIL
equivalent, by financial exchange, o|
sI.90 to s220
According TO the complexity Of TIL
design, the home worker will weav|
from one-half yard to 12 yards pei
day. He will work just as he fancieg !
sometimes over 10, -, or even II
hours day, and at other times onlJ
few hours. The artistic tempera
ment' comes in here-the fine oil,
village fathers, who are masters "
the art, do no small amount of sit
ting around and chatting weave
between interminable matches o.
their great card game, manille
It is the most magnificent kind o.
home work" say the Rodiers, but +
takes a long time-and the ardor o.
the art comes upon them. Then, the,
DO not count their hours, be sure
SO, we say, we take off our hats e
them! We have prestige, naturally
because we have created so many
things. Since armistice we have
created moro than 10000 designs
THESE marvellous dress goods
which are works of art rather
than mere stuffs to make gowns ou
of. are of the most striking and ten
der woven designs in color.
Figured silks bearing such fancy
names as Tchinacrope, Crepe Ma
junga and Tchin- -Tchin recall tn.
civil war in China, with which they
have nothing in the world to do
Many of these crepes and improve.
ments on the georgette OF other
years are of solid colors, such as
gray, sky-blue or pale green, but
with wide borders done in hennas
yellows and soft shades Of Lavender
Others carry all-over designs so
large that three or four patterns will
make a gown apiece for Janet and
Nancy to Join hands like matched d
dominoesi
A striking new silk is called de
grade. It's patterns start in a small
way. grow large toward the middle
of the piece, and again become small
near the other end. When the pat
tern is large yellow sunfiower with
a brown center on a white back
IouHu Tile chcCC Is dS dS IL
is beautiful.
A Chinese-like silk has large al
over patterns done in three different
colors. The first row, let us say, Is
black and white; the second and mid
die strip Is black, red and white, and
in the final patterns green Is added
The design in each case is the samel
Now, It is truly wonderful wha
fine things the power-looms can tur
out, in great modern factories. Fac
year. their triumphs grow greater.
But-but--for artistic surprise a
sheer wilful beauty woven bodi
into "Kasha, plain" or to evolN
"Tisseola, fancy" or any of a doze
expensive novelties. you must sti
go back to the hand loom, to the al
tique machine used by TutanklX
amen's slaves!
1t was already older in Tut's da
than Tuts day, now, is older ths
ouPsi
Evening star., 1925-02-15

straight footpath which bisected the
heath and stretched to Dredley. He
spent some little time practicing
short approaches.
Then he Strengthened up and looked
down the path. A woman was com
ing toward him, yelled and cloaked
yet unmistakable. He devoted him
self assiduously to series of wrist
shots. and was just collecting the
balls. which he had played on to the
green, when the woman paused. He
looked up. Once more the spell of
her eyes was upon him.
Come and talk to me-" she invited
1T must be too dark for you to play.
4 want TO know whether you are
really thinking about the house,"
* X
THEY strolled back together. side
L by side. The woman's voice was
pleasant. almost caressing.
They had reached that part of the
footpath now which bordered the
gardens of Heathside on one hand
and the gardens Of another house on
the other. The twilight was merging
into darkness. Daniel was a brave
man. but he suddenly wished that he
had adopted other tactics. His hand
stole into the pocket where his re-
volver lay concealed. He felt her
fingers slip underneath his other arm.
Something fell glittering onto the
path. He stopped to pick it up
There was a sound like whistling g
close to his ears. a jerk around his
neck, sense of sitting. He was
vaguely conscious Of man stepping
over the wire strand from the garden
of Heathside; something was held to
his nose: he seemed enveloped by an
odor, partly of faded flowers, partly
suggestive of an anesthetic. Then
the house began to move toward him
the shrubs passed him in solemn pro-
cession. an open door swallowed him
up into a black gulf. He was in the
hall Of the house he had called to in
spect earlier in the day. He was in
the room behind the stairs, the door
Of which Britton had opened with a
Yale key. He was lying down. The
sense of suffocation began to pass. his
head grew clearer. only his limbs
seemed numbed. The control of his
tongue came back.
what are you up to-" he cried
weakly.
Britton turned round from a cup
Evening star., 1925-02-15
BY STERLING HEILIG.

fAhlS. r eDTudTy D.
IN HE oldest machine In the world
has become the most modern
working curiosity of fashion.
1t is the hand-loom, which
dates back, unchanged, be-
yond Egypt OF the Pharaohs.
In villages or French Picardy. hun
dreds of picturesque old private
houses are humming with the work
OF such hand looms, to produce the
ultra a-fashionable Kasha cloth for rich
American women.
bition they brought up a specimen
lhand-loom with its village operator in
order that elegant Parisiennes might
see roumecla and tissecla made-those
gorgeously figured stuffs of silk and
cotton.
Here is an art industry Of the home,
| in the small town, which was on the
point Of disappearing in the competi-
tion OF machinery In great factories.
Yet today. under powerful protect
ing influences of Paris, the same old
fashioned hand looms are turning out
the most beautiful and expensive of
all tissues known to the trade, in
wool, silk, mixed silk and cotton, tin
sol and all kinds of variations.
1t Is strictly home work.
I Around the town Of Bohain. in the
Aisne, the clatter of looms in peasant
parlors is the one gentle sound which
echoes from street to street.
About 2.4oe people are able. not. per-
haps, to do masterpieces, but actually
| to work at their own looms, in their
own homes, in the Aisne, under the
direction Of a very few houses of
Paris.
Remember that these obscure
French villagers are weaving, all
alone. by hand, absolutely tho most
| fashionable and costly tissues!
| Kasha, for example, is the softest,
warmest, pure wool cloth that has
ever been made into blouses, skirts
and sport coats, OF the tenderest,
brightest woven colors and designs.
Tho raw wool comes from the Cash
| mere goat, which means, in reality, the
mountains and valleys Of Thibet. Ger
| tain samples in the crude state are
| themselves SO sweetiy soft and tender
I that manufacturers keep little boxes
| full OF films Of such raw wool in the
| ffreproof safe, to show and touch as a
1 phenomenon
| Tho Cashmere wool costs wholesale
| from s14 to $50 per lilo e pounds).
Made up into fancy Kasha (not plain,
but figured in colors) the piece Of near
| w yards long by a width Of 1 yard
and q fifth sells for about $40 wholesale
| In Paris.
| X X " X
THE great Rodier house of Paris
| practically runs Bohain and 81
villages around about.
At Bohain are the mills, but to the
] villages the Rodier motor cars continu-
ally carry the harness for dressing
handlooms in village homes, along with
| tho yarns and patterns for each ultra
| fashionable novelty.
! I have asked the Rodiers about hand
| looms (You hear about them, nowadays,
| in every social conversation, the new
| dress goods and how to get them, be-
1 cause there are not enough to go
| rcund!o
| How was the home industry (the old
sst known method OF weaving fabricA I
say. which goes back beyunA ~
Evening star., 1925-02-15

PAItIo, 6UTUdIy o.
~ HE oldest machine In the world
has become the most modern
working curiosity of fashion.
1t Is the hand-loom, which
dates back unchanred be-
Evening star., 1925-02-15

He rigged up a sort Of travelling Held
hospital for operations, and they cay
that, during the Mons dsbacle he some
times had as many ~ 90 or 20 bad cases
on his hands at a time. Nothing seemed
to tire him. He was three years out
there but, then. Of course, you've
read about him. Very few people know
the end OF his story, however"
"Tell It to me at once. please"
Sir Francis sighed.
"It was very sad" he continued. "One
night, after a simply terrible seven or
eight hours work--it was in that Cam
brai affair-Londe and his head nuEee
both went raving mad. They hushed II
all UP, but he killed two mon before
they could get hold Of him. He and the
nurse were both brought home to an
asylum somewhere near London It was
only last year / heard that they were
discharged AZ cured"
And what became OF them"
II believe that they went quietly back
to Australia"
Daniel rose to his feet.
I'm Immensely obliged, worton,' y
he acknowledged '1f you'll lunch
with mo at the club. the day after to-
morrow, I'll be glad to tell you all
about It,"
Done, my lad" was the hearty re-
sponse. zone O'Clock sharp, mind
I'm on duty again at 2.'
Daniel found time to call at his
rooms. where he slipped a small re-
volver into his pocket. He then
caught the next available train to
Dredley, where, on the platform, he
had q few very fortunate words with
Miss Ann Lancaster. Afterwards he
took taxicab direct to the Coll Grub
drank q whisky and soda, and with
half-a-dozen balls in his pocket and
mashie in his hand, strolled out to
q distant part of the course. In time
] - roAshs1 = green bordering the