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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-12-17

By International Labor News Service
New York City.-The cost to indus
try of handling materials can be cut
a billion dollars a year, and million
workers relieved of "back- breaking
labor. Harold v. Goes, Chicago manu-
facturer, asserts in a report to the
American Society of Mechanical En-
gineers made public here.
The report was presented before the
materials handling division at the
forty-seventh annual meeting of the
society.
Millions Wasted Annually
Industry is annually spending mil
lions of dollars in payroll for work
that could be better, more efficiently,
and less expensively done by mater
ials-handling equipment" says Mr..
Goes.
"The total annual payroll of Amer
lean manufacturing, according to the
latest census available, was $14,017,-
100000. A survey indicates that the
Notwithstanding labor cost of
American industries in this annual
payroll was approximately % per cent
of this amount, or S3,0S4,0OO,OO0.
Materials handling equipment now
available in the present state of the
art, together with Encouragement of
equipment, relocation of production
with Notwithstanding equipment
systems, and adequate plans for pro-
cedure and operation in this co-ordi-
nation would reduce this at least to
$2,000,000,O0O, releasing the recipients
of 1904, 100000 of payroll from back
breaking, nerve-racking, fatiguing
work to be employed in more pleas
ant, less exhausting places, in other
phases of industry or in industries
perhaps not yet born but awaiting the
labor to develop them.
Over Million Men Relieved
"If we assume the average annual
wage for this class of work at 81 900,
then the labor released would be
1,084,000 workers. Suppose we exer-
else our imagination and, to be rea-
sonably conservative, assume that to
release this labor we must invest it's
equivalent annual rate for one year in
Notwithstanding equipment, what
have we done to the annual American
industrial balance sheet?
eve have transferred an annual ex-
pense of 81, ,O84, 100000 from our over
head to our assets, as represented by
the s1,084,OOO,OOO invested in equip
ment, etc.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-12-17
Greed Costs Coal Operators Advantage
Gained By Big Export Market Demand

ductive capacity exceeded the consum-
ing requirements of the country. In
stead of fitting the production to the
market demands, operators have gone
ahead producing when they had no
orders.
Export Market Was Big Need
1t has been generally recognized
that the need of the bituminous in
dustry was for the development of an
export market. The Emergency
Fleet Corporation not only gave no
assistance in this direction, but rebuff
ed operators that approached them
on the proposition. Operators have
shown no tendency to try to develop
an export market.
But with British coal out of the
world markets, real prosperity has
hit the bituminous industry in the last
three months.
The operators have had a golden
opportunity to build up a foreign
trade, and to stabilize the bituminous
industry in this country Instead of
seizing the opportunity, they have
taken advantage of the situation to
raise their prices to all the traffic
would bear, and to effectually drive
themselves out of the world markets
in the future.
How Prices Have SCARED
In September Fairmont slack coal
sold at $1.30 to $1.35 a ton, and a
month later it was selling at So to
$3.35. Coal elsewhere that was SELL
ing at $1.85 to So in September has
been jumped to $4 to 81 ton.
Coal that was selling for export at
these prices in September has been
advanced to 81 and SIS ton. The
Fleet Corporation, which was carry
ing coal at $3.50 ton in the summer,
decided that it should share in the
profit-making, too, and advanced its
coal rates to 81 ton. The result is
that the foreign buyers have been
caught on wave of profit taking by
the bituminous operators and shipping
interests of this country.
Lose Advantage By Pro6teering
The operators have not sought to
establish permanent market abroad,
and stabilize their industry. They
have engaged in the usual orgy of
profiteering, and made a mockery of
merchandising methods. They can
not resist the temptation to profteer
at the expense of the foreigner.
The labor problem in the industry
has been entirely overshadowed by the
temporary demand for coal, and to
seize advantage of it, the operators
have thrown to the winds all benefit
that might come from three years of
strenuous campaigning, and circula-
tion of propaganda, against the Jack
sonville scale. They have given fresh
evidence that the problem IN the BIZ
luminous industry is not one of wages,
but one of defective and unscientific
merchandising methods, coupled with
over production, and no sensible effort
to develop a foreign market for the
excess output. The years Of strenu-
Gus bowling against the Jacksonville
scale have gone for naught.
Miners Union in Strategic Position
Officials of the Miners Union are
in strategic position to insist upon
renewal of the Jacksonville scale.
The operators, both union and nom
union, have demonstrated that they
can pay it. The burden is entirely on
the operators.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-12-17
TO AID GIRL STRIKERS

New York-Trade union officials
are aiding 1000 striking paper box
workers, who refuse to accept the
anti-union shop. Most of the strikers
are young girls.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-12-17
WOULD TRICK CARPENTERS

New Orleans.-Organized carpen-
ters warn fellow craftsmen that this
city has on excess of carpenters, and
that anti-union contractors are at
tempting to flood the city with me-
chanics.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-12-17
STEREOTYPERS GAIN

Akron, Ohio.-Stereotypers on daily
newspapers raised wages 81 week
with time and one-half for overtime.
The new wage is $45.60 for day work.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-03-19

A long row Of young women seated
at a switchboard; hands neving
rhymically as plugs are thrust deft-
ly into Jacks; the faint click of metal
against metal q low hum Of carefully
modulated voices and everywhere an
atmosphere Of quiet efaciency-such
is the modern telephone exchange.
But in the exchange Of less than
half a century ago far different
situation presented itself to the eye
and to the ear-of the chance visi-
tor. Almost without exception the
operators in the first exchanges In
large cities were boys, as they were
in the Gold and Stock exchange, New
York City, in 1879.
And boys were. then, as they are
now and ever will be, just-boys.
Many an operator Of that early day
delights to tell his grandchildren OF
the pranks the youngsters played on
each other or-it must be recorded In
all candor-upon the subscribers. The
apparatus was not arranged to permit
the quiet operation of the present day,
and its youthful guardians had to
shout to each other-at the top OF
their voices, when trafic was heavy
the numbers called for by subscribers.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-03-19

the Western Electric Company, and
the report ehows the necessary func-
tons Of each.
Mr.. Clifford says that although the
Bell System is growing larger and
more complicated, it is less hazardous
to manage because of better knowl-
edge of the essential facts. He says
that the population of the country
grows at the rate of from one to two
per cent a year, general business at
the rate of three or four per cent,
and the telephone business, due to the
higher standards of living and the
trend toward the economy of time,
general business
Telephone service is not a commod-
ity, he says, or a physical product
comparable to that furnished by other
industries, or even other utilities.
The problem of furnishing service
phones interconnected and except
for economies, many factors of cost
would increase greatly. Telephone
costs have been pit at the present
relatively low point in spite of the
unique character OF the business, only
by constant invention and develop
ment of new types Of apparatus and
by new and better methods of opera
| ton.
During the past year steady i'm
prove,uent has been made in tele-
phone service so that it will better
meet the Requirements of the users.
Maintenance and upkcep have been
continued on a high plane, with strict
attention also to all possible econom-
/ les The amount of new construction
/ for 1926 is expected to be somewhat
greater than last year.
Mr. Clifford speaks of the continuing
work of development and research on
more than thousand probes re.@t-
ing to telephone service, on continuing
experiments in transoceanic telephony,
and on other phases of radio trans
mission which might have application
in the extension of telephone facilities.
The result of improvements and
economies is apparent, he says, in the
cost of telephone service to the pub.
lie. Telephone rates are, on the aver
age. only 80 per cent higher than ten
years ago while wages and material
costs have increased much more and
living costs have increased rs per
cent Bell System companies do not
need nor do they seek to earn more
than a reasonable return on their
property Rte adjustments have been
made necessary chiefly because of the
change in the value OF the dollar.
Speaking OF relations with the pub
lie, Mr.. Gi:.ord states that in the tele.
phone business. they are founded on
satisfactory service at the lowest pos
sible rates Tn is the aim OF the
Bell System. Ii also aims to conduct
its affairs in accordance with Amer
lean ideals and traditions.
, The highest award for the year,
, under the terms of the Theodore N
Vail Memorial Fund was a gold medal
accom- panied by $500 in cash given to
Anna Leonelda Lehman, chief operator
i of the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele
phone Company. Piedmont, w. Va
: This award was made for conspicuous
/ courage and devotion to the public
> service during severe food in the
! spring OF 1924
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-03-19
CTAR RESTAURANT.

STAR RESTAURANT, an -,
- Rockville. Nd,
opposite Burrows barber shop. is open from
8 A. M. to 8 P. M. Prepared to serve
meals at all hours, also to take boardcrs
by the day. week or month.
aug 2l-lm
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-03-19

Even when discipline in the central
once was at It's best, the air was filled
with stridsnt cries, with the shuffling
Of many feet as the youngsters ran to
and fro, with snarling threats and
even the sounds Of physical combat
when the paths of two Of these Mercu-
rial Msrcuries crossed in the middle
Of the central Office floor.
A strange contrast, surely, with the
modern exchange, whore the volume
Of trafic is so great as to make that
Of enc of these early exchanges seem
Insignificant, but where this vastly
more complicated business is trans
acted with not the smallest fraction
Of the ado that made the telephone
operating room of 1879 little less than
a place Of amending uproar, veritable
bedlam.
In such contrasts as this the his
tory Of the telephone has been writ
ten. And yet such contrasts have not
been brought about by radical and
sweeping changes, but by a process
Of gradual evolution toward better ap-
paratus and operating methods - a
process which is still going on and
must continue until telephone service
has been made as nearly perfect as it
is humanity possible to make it.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-03-19

we're added to the w. S. CLIFFORD
Bell System during 1925. At the end
Of the year 16,720,000 telephones were
lnterconnected so that practically any
one of them can be connected with
any other one throughout the United
States, at any time, day or night.
Over 100000 toll and exchange con-
nections, each an individual transac-
ton, are handled daily.
Three hundred and sixty-five million
dollars was expended by the Bell Sys-
TEN on new plant construction, includ-
ing new plant to replace $107,00O,OOO
of plant retired. Net additions to
plant were $25S, 900 This brought
the assets devoted to furnishing tele-
phone service up to 1888, $1,000. The
number of persons employed, including
those in the Western Electric Com
pany, was over $4,000.
The gross revenue of the Bell Sys-
TEN, he states, was 1851, 100000 and
net earnings were 6h per cent on the
amount invested in plant and other
assets. Earnings available for con.
tingencies and surplus amounted to
Ia per cent on the investment-less
than a cent a day telephone, neces'
sary but relatively small margin OF
safety.
1t is shown that there were over
362, 900 stockholders Of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company al
the end of the year, making the Bel
System in a sense, publicly owned
The amount of capital stock Of the
American Company outstanding was
1921 $4,000, an increase of $33,119, 400
for the year.
The net income Of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company
was S1O7 100000. or the resulting bal
Ance, after payment of dividends a
$500 a share, $6,000,000 was appro
priated for contingencies and the re
mainder, S2O,36O.0O0, was carried Il
surplus.
Mr. Clifford says that the nature o
the business requires a NATIONWIDE,
organization operating under stat
laws and state regulation and fedora
laws and federal regulation. This re
quires various inter-corporate rels
tons, which, however, are simple il
principle and not arbitrary. 1t CON
prises in brief the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company, whicl
is the parent company, twenty-fv
Associated Telephone Companies, an
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-03-19
LNARM FOR SALE.

ENARM FOR SALE.
One-half mile from
Germantown. Md, l07 1-2 acres; SO acres
cleared, balance in timber. Nine-room
house and all necessary farm buildings.
Large orchard.
EDW. P. SCHWARTZ, INC,
734 18th Street. N. W.,
july lO-u Washington, D, c.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-03-19

DOR SALE.
l. l56-acre farm near Rockville,
Nd. lO-room house. slate roof, basement,
large orchard, necessary farm buildings.
Will sell as whole or in part
33-acre farm on Frederick pike. near
Gaithersburg, Md, suitable for poultry OF
truck farm. Usual farm buildings. spring
dairy and orchard.
Brick bungalow, Frederick avenue. Gath.
ersburg, Nd, 7-rooms. bath, H. W. H..
cleo. garage. About acre of ground and
fruit. Price reasonable for quick sale.
EDW. P. SCHWARTZ, INC.
734 18th Street, N. w..
Washington, D. C.,
oct 23-tf Or Gaithersburg. Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-03-19
Price. $1,000.


Unsurpassed as to location, is exclusive
residential neiehborhood. most COM
pletely equipped and beautiful home,
eleven rooms, including bath, basement
and attic steam heat, electric lights, oak
stairway, three oak mantels, garage, large
front and side porches. back porch. iceless
cooler, pneumatic water system, fruit, etc. !;
lot SOx360; within $50 feet of church /;
close to school house; beautiful shrubbery,
flowers and trees within 2 blocks Of Ward
station, and within 10 minutes walk of
Gaithersburg station.
Price. $4,000.
Five rooms half acre of land, fruit and
beautiful shrubs located on Frederick
avenue.
Immediate possession can be had
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-03-19
Radio Service

Radio Service
Sets completely tested for troubles and
adjusted. Weak tubes revived and made
good as new. II you have any trouble with
your radio call me.
All work guaranteed.
Radio sets built to order.
JOHN W. HENDERSON,
Germantown, Md.
Phone GaithersbuIG 1853 F 30.
jan Slim
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-03-19
Gaithersburg Homes.
Price. $4,000.

Price. $4,000.
Adjoining the $1,000 property adyer-
tised opposite this item. New. chestnut
trim, No. Wilson floors. pedestal colonade !:
three rooms, reception hall and pantry on
first floor four beautiful, large bedrooms
with closets, bath and large sleeping porch
on second floor; trimmed to attic bn;It.
in garage; iceless cooler pneumatic water
system; steam heat, large porches front
and rear /; lot 60x360 fruit, etc.
Price. $1,000.
Four rooms. $50 #. front. third acre of
land; lot No. in Thomas Addition to
Gaithersburg.
Terms reasonable.
Thomas,
sAITHBRSBURG, ND.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-03-19
HIGH SPOTS In
A. T. & 7. REPORT
Summary Of the Annual Report OF the
American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company.

Progress in the
quality and extent
of telephone serv-
Ice is the keynote
in the annual re-
port OF President
w. S. Clifford, Of
the A m e ri C a n
Telephone an d
Telegraph Com
pany. He states
that more than
$4,000 telephones
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-03-19
NoR1ECK GARAGE,

AUTHORIZED FORD SERVICE STATION
using genuine Ford parts.
automobile repairing. tires. tubes and
accessories.
Auto and stationary electric plants service
Postoffice address. Rockville. Md, r. F
d. 4,
Phone, Sandy Spring ll6 IA; resi-.
dence. Sandy Spring 1l6 81.
c. E. FORD. Proprietor,
Successor to Donald Bowie.
ian l6-tf
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-03-19
Big Reduction In
Clothing.

- " odfson, the Tailor of Ga;tho
across the street from the offers Bio Rod,;
nuie "ooi SUITS selling from
Boys pure wool suits fromS a.
. Pants nice looking So to S4So
Also steam cleaning, pressing, and renai;na
Price my
Also Palm Beach suits CLEANED ous
open from A. M until p M Open on saurd., - =, .
A""ork done on plant at reasonable 80.
j. Wolfson,
Phone 162m
GAIrHERsBURG Md
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-21
DISTRICT DAY PLAN
FOR SESQUI MADE
VoteIessnesS to Be Stressed
in Capitals Exhibit at !:
Philadelphia.

The fact that the District is without
national representation will be EN-
phasized at the Philadelphia SesQui-
centennial Exposition during the Dis
trict of Columbia day celebration
October 6, it was decided by the com
mittee appointed to arrange the pro-
gram at a meeting yesterday after
noon in the board room of the Dis
trict Building The printed program,
booklets and a pageant were sug-
gested as the medium for broadcasting
this information to visitors at the
exposition.
Committees on finance, transporta-
ton, program and publicity were au-
thorized to be appointed by Commits
sioner Cuno II. Rudolph, chairman
of the celebration committee. A sub
committee was named to recommend
the selection of an orator. The Ma
rine Band was suggested as the most
suitable military band to play on the
occasion. Another suggestion was
made that special arrangements be
made to have the Washington base
ball team clash with Connie Mack S
Athletics at Shibe Park on that day.
j. H Savers, director of participa-
ton and special events of the Seoul
centennial, told what had been done
by other cities and made suggestions
as to what Washington might do.
Representative of the Baltimore and
Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroads
promised that trains would be run
direct TO the exposition grounds on
District day, providing sufficient pat
ronage of their lines warrants it, A
promise of reduced fares also was
made under the same conditions.
Martin A. Leese, vice chairman of
the committee, presided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-21
81 PERSONS BITTEN
!. BY DOGS IN 2ODAYS
Record Total Brings Drive for
Strict Enforcement of
Regulations.

With 81 persons bitten by dogs
since the first of this month, a record
In this period for number of years.
Maj. Edwin b. Hesse, superintendent
of police, has started a drive to en-
force the license and muzZle require
ments for dogs in the District. In 10
instances of persons bitten recently
the dog was found to have rabies.
Many persons still have failed to
apply for dog licenses to replace
those which expired on June 80, and
while each year owners of dogs are
given a few days grace and the
poundmasteP refrains from impound-
ing dogs found without current H.
censes, Maj. Hesse and Health Officer
Fowler both believe the situation now
demands enforcement of the law.
Strict enforcement by police of the
regulation requiring dogs on the
street, without leash. to be muzzled
during June, July, August and Sep
TENDER. and also the license require
ment was ordered by Maj. Hesse in
this message to the various precinct
captains
ut is reported that approximately
2 900 dog tags less have been sold
thus far this year than during the
preceding year, but that the number
of persons bitten seems to indicate
that there is an equal number Of dogs
in the District; also that the Commits
sioners' order requiring such dogs to
be muzzled is not being obeyed nor
enforced.
Members Of the force are directed
to put forth special effort to bring
ing about compliance. both with the
law requiring dogs to be licensed and
the Commissioners orders requiring
the dogs running at large be effec-
lively muzzled."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-21
SWELTER|NG CITY
FACES HOT NIGHT
Forecaster offers Cheer,
However, for Showers Will
Bring Relief Tomorrow.

Armed with formidable array OF
sizzling rays, Old Sol was struggling
today, and somewhat successfully,
too to provide Washington with It's
hottest temperature of the present
season.
Forecaster Mitchell announced at
noon shat the mercury had climbed
to IS degrees and was still going,
strong toward an anticipated mark OF
80 or 100 degrees.
No permanent relief could be prom
Used, either, until probably tomorrow
night, when a break is expected IN
the existing warm spell, followed by
a period of more comfortable weather
Mr.. Mitchell said there was bare
possibility that local thundershowers
would develop this afternoon, but as
for tonight-he swelters to think OF
1t. Unless something unforeseen crops
up, it it will be a warm, warm night
in the old town, he believes.
Tomorrow it will be not so warm,
however. with possibly scattering
of thundershowers in the afternoon
and then will come the, promised re-
lief.
Hot weather's not so hard to
stand if you know there is cooler
weather in the offing," the forecaster
observed, philosophically. Tell the
folks 10 concentrate on what is COM
ing, and it will help them TO forget
about the heat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-21

q request was made to adjust matters
and $42 was given RamStad.
The signed statement then continued
that the car was then taken to the
garage where Ramstad was later
arrested.
The investigators allege that they
have evidence to the effect that after
receiving the SAP Ramstad wanted an
additional S5S and at the garage al
lowed one of the colored men to de-
part in an effort to get this money.
After the man departed the others
waited at the garage. Meanwhile to
the eighth precinct came an old col
ored woman, whose name was not
obtained. She told Schenck and Jones
that there was a 'hijacking" and
bribery game being played at the
garage. They rushed up there and
found Ramstad and Woodbridge there
with the other colored man and the
car with 10 cases Of liquor in it.
The women disappeared as the
police approached but later Mrs. Ram
stad was apprehended.
Police say that the $42 was recov-
cred and is being held as evidence.
Ramstad has been on the police
force for approximately three and a
half years. At the eighth precinct
it was stated that he at first refused
to make any statement as to the case
but later gave the signed statement
Assistant District Attorney Ralph
Given. after a conference with police
officials investigating the case, said
this afternoon that charge of ac-
cepting bride would be placed
against Ramstad. Woodbridge denies
implication, asserting that his car
had been comma ndeered by the po-
liceman. He is being held while his
story is investigated. Ramstad was
expected to be released on bond this
afternoon.