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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
Third District Women
Meeting at Corsicana
fRv Tine Associated Press.l }

CORSICANA, Texas. April 12E
Representing az towns and 10i clubs,
with membership Of over 5000, del
egates which will number $50 women
started gathering in Corsicana Mon
day morning to attend the third dis
trict meeting Of the Texas Fedora
tion Of Women's Clubs which will
continue through Wednesday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
Supercedes Seaman's
Act, Says High Court
(Bv The Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON. April 1.-THE
Jones seamen's act and the federal
employerks' liability act were de-
clared by the supreme court today TO
have superseded state statutes limit
ing to one year the time in which
suits must be brought for injuries
suffered by seamen loading cargoes.
The court reversed the lower courts
in case from San Francisco brought
by f. B. Engel.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
$85,000,000 For
Navy Air Service
(Bv The Associated Press.)

IBV Ht NSSOC1HtVU ftaSsT
WASHINGTON. April IA bill
embodying an Ss5.O0o.O00 five-year
building program for the naval air
service was passed by the house today
and sent to the senate.
The program. the first continuing
policy ever approved by the house, Is
designed to provide by the end OF
the five year period 1000 sew air
planess and two new dirigibles. each
three times the size Of the wrecked
Shenandoah.
A somewhat similar program has
been reported by the house military
committee for the army air service.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
Palm Beach "Clean
Resort" Says Pastor
(By The Associated Press }

NEW YORK, N. ". April a.
Palm Beach II the cleanest resort
center in America, perhaps in the
world, thinks the Rev. DIR. John
Roach Straton. Some golf courses
are closed Sundays and the place has
received undeserved notoriety frem
financial magnates who abandon
their wives and carry stage stars
there on private yachts. Y,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
NEW KIND OF DANCE

NEW YORK-There's a new kind
of dance at st. Marks in the bou-
werie. which church officials regard
as unrelated to the sort Bishop Man.
ming frowned upon. Seven girls in
flowing robes danced for an hour
yesterday in front Of the curtained
altar. The church was darkened ex-
cept for footlights upon the dancers.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
SEVERE 'QUAKE
10000 MILES OFF

NEW YORK. April IA severe
earthquake. believed TO have been
more than 10000 miles away. perhaps
off the southwest coast OF Australia,
was recorded on the seismograoh at
Fordham university today. The quake
started about 3 n. m. reached its
maximum force at 4:2S o'clock and
subsided at 6:20 o'clock.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
Two Months Old Babe
Left at Butcher Shop

fBy the Associated Press.l
Denison. Texas. April IA two
months-old baby girl was found on
the doorsteps of meat market in
Denison late last night.
The child was first found by a
small boy. Officers have clue to
the person leaving the child and be-
iieve an arrest will be made soon.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
KENNETH SMITH
GOES TO TRIAL

SAN ANTONIO. Texas, April 12.-
In less than two weeks after the
daring holdup Of the San Antonio
National bank. Kenneth Smith went
to trial today, charged with the rob-
berry.
Five other men indicted were sent
back to the county Jail. after the
cases were severed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
DRUSES HARD HIT
In LATE FIGHTING

(By The Associated Press.)
PARIS. April l2.-Havas dispatch
es from Beirut. Syria. say the Druses
lost 700 men in the recent fighting
between the French and tribesmen
in the Hermon region, southwest Of
Damascus. The French losses are
placed at Is killed, three of ther
French regulars, and AZ wounded.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
RIDDLE ASKS NEW TRIAL.

DALLAS. Texas, April 12.-Motions
for new trial for Judge George w.
Riddle. convicted Saturday Of violat-
ing state banking laws. was filed In
court today. Judge Riddle. once a
wealthy banker, was sentenced to two
years IN the penitentiary.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
Farmer Killed When
Tractor Goes Wild

fLER, Texas, April IA buck
ing tractor today killed Jack Wills.
farmer, 35r as he was plowing In a
tieid near here. The back wheels of
tne machine stuck in bog and when
wills applied the gas the tractor
turned over backwards, crushing him.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
MOTHS ENpANCER VIOLIN

GENOA--In efforts to prevent
moths destroying Paganini's famous
violin which has been kept in a glass
case since he died in 1910, It ID nov
being played fore often. Bronislaw
GilpsI gave q concert with it yes
terday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
Repartee Rampant,
Audience Applauds

WASHINGTON. ID. C.. April 12.--rn>
'errupting the presentation of the
case Of the vets. corps OF dele
CContinuped on Page 2.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
FLUNG FROM FAST
BOAT, MANDROWNS

HOUSTON. Tex. April 12.-The
ship channel was being dragged today
for the body of Richard Slataper. 20.
drowned Sunday when he was thrown
from a speed boat making a turn in
the channel Just below Manchester.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
COTTON .CHANGE LOSES.

COTTON 'CHANGE LUSES-
WASHINGTON. April 12.-The Old
Lot Cotton Exchange of New York
City lost in supreme court today In
m effort to compel the New York
Cotton Exchange to furnish it contin-
nous cotton quotations.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12
j. 5. WITNESS
AIDSDEFENSE
Prosecution Testimony
Introduced at Will
liams Trial
fBy The Associated Press,

SAN DIEGO. Calf. April 12.-Capt.
Clifton b. Cate. testified that Colonel
Alexander S. Williams. whose court
martial began today was not intoxi-
Gated at the Hotel del Coronado.
Mrch 6. when Brigadier General
Smedley d. Butler ordered him un-
der arrest for alleged drunkenness.
Captain Cate. the first prosecution
witness, said il was not possible to
smell liquor on Colonel Williams.
II did not even see him take n
drink nc the hotel" was the captains
added assurance.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-12

MARINE BASE. SAN DIEGO, Calf.
April 12.-Preceded by a salute of Is
guns, heralding the arrival of Rear
Admiral Thomas Washington, presi-
dent Of the court. the court martial
Of Colonel Alexander s. Williams. on
a charge of intoxication preferred by
Brigadier General Smedley ID. Butler.
opened here at 1910 a. m, with n
handful Of spectators and two score
news writers, photographers and
telegraphers in attendance.
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country. He gave notice that threats,

country. He gave notice that threats,
propaganda and loss of federal pat
ronage will not change his course.
Il will not yield an inch in the
fight for the principles of my father, !"
he said. I'VE are enlisted for life in
the struggle to bring government
back to the people. We will not quit
and we will not compromise. Our
task is great, but our cause is
greater
Senator La Toilette had previously
made public letter he forwarded to
Senator Watson, chairman of the SEN
ate committee on committees, in
which he gave notice that if he is
appointed on any committee as re-
publican it must be with the under
standing that he. will not change his
announced policy or abandon any
principle urged by his father.
Alta boy, "Bob."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-01-01
new TRUSTS
Forming Under Changed
Title Will Replace Old
System

Washington. - "American industry
is passing through another period of
trust making comparable to the ear
lier one of from Is to 80 years ago."
says the bulletin of the department
of social action, National Catholic
Welfare Council.
"The difference now is that the
newly formed trusts are called mer-
gers and holding companies. When
the trust is a compound of various in
dividual concerns, it is called trade
association, some of which, however,
have not yet entered the price-fxing
stage.
"The result to the consumers, both
in city and country, is that they pay
the higher prices which monopoly
power can exact To the small busi-
ness man the result is that they are
either pushed out of business by COM
petition or they hang on to the coat
tails of the larger companies. To the
small investor, the result is that they
more definitely lack control over
their investment And to labor there
comes still greater difficulty in or
ganizing effectively because of the
greater strength of the company or
companies they work for.
"The earlier age of trust making
was followed by a period of trust
breaking, which continued up to the
war. During the war the equivalent of
trusts was encouraged for purposes Of
foreign trade, and when we entered
the war business understandings, as
sociations, ETC., were encouraged, but
at the same time a check was put
upon rising prices by government fix
ing of prices. Since the war price
fixing has been abandoned and yet,
with rare exceptions and some ineffec-
tive agitation, the encouragement has
been all. the greater to form trusts
under one name or another for do
| mestic trade"
The churchmen hint that if private
monopoly becomes so strong as to
Withstand the government, govern
ment-owned concerns might be in or
der"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-01-01
LIBERTY

"The right to think, to know, to
UTTER" as John Milton says, is the
dearest of all liberties. Without this
right there can be no liberty to any
people; with it, there can be no slav-
cry. When you have convinced think
ing men that it is right, and the hu-
name men that it is just, you will
gain your cause. Men always lose
half of what is gained by violence.
What is gained by argument is gain
ed forever. Let US believe that the
whole of truth can never do harm to
the whole of virtue. The last
lesson a man ever learns is that lib
erty of thought and speech is the
right of all mankind; that the man
who denies every article of our creed
is to be allowed to preach just as
often and just as loud as we our
selves.-Wendell Phillips.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-01-01

PRAISE FOR GREEN

DIR. George Stoves is pastor of the
West End Methodist Church of Nash
Vile, Tenn. He is considered to be
one of the foremost ministers of the
Methodist Church. DIR. Stoves, in his
Thanksgiving proclamation, had this
to say of William Green, president of
the American Federation of Labor:
81 am thankful for William Green
, who has been elected the worthy sue
cessor of the late Samuel Gompers as
head of the American Federation of
Labor. Mr.. Green possesses fine
brain, a clean life and deeply religious
experience"
DIR. Stoves puts it tersely, speaking
of the endowments of labor's peerless
| leader. A leader of the masses said
to be possessed of "fine brain, a
clean life and deeply religious ex-
perience.'
1t is certainly gratifying to have a
minister of the great Methodist
Church to say such truthful words
about the chief executive of the Amer
/ ican Federation of Labor. The times
are changing. The leaders Of the re-
ligious thought of the present day are
beginning to realize that the mem
bers of organized labor typify the
principles Of the Christ by living "s
clean life," and at heart they are
| "deeply religious
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THE PEOPLES
ANTHEM
BY EBENEZER ELLIOTT

BY EBENEZER ELLIOTT
Zone of the leaders of the Chartist
movement in England; he was known
as the "Poet of the People.")
When wilt Thou save the people?
o God of Mercy! When?
Not kings and lords, but nations!
Not thrones and crowns, but men!
Flowers of Thy heart, 0 God, are they!
Let them not pass, like weeds, away!
Their heritage a sunless day!
God save the people!
Shall crime bring crime forever,
Strength aiding still the strong?
Is it Thy will, o Father!
That man shall toll for wrong?
mo" say Thy mountains; mol" Thy
skies;
Mans clouded sun shall brightly rise,
And songs be heard instead of sighs." !"
God save the people
When wilt Thou save the people?
O God of Mercy! When?
The people, Lord! the people!
Not thrones and crowns, but men!
God save the people; Thine they are;
Thy children, as Thy angels fair;
Save them from bondage and despair!
God save the people!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-01-01
LIVING COSTS SOAR;
CONGRESS TO PROBE

Washington.-Me of congress
are receiving protests on the mount
ing cost of living. The United States
bureau of labor statistics says the
retail food index shows for Novem-
Der 15 an increase of almost 31s per
cent since October Is, 1925; an in
crease of about liz per cent since
November Is, 1924, and an increase
Of 59A per cent since November Is,
1918.
Every effort is being made by poll
ticians to convince the people that liv-
ing costs are being lowered, but the
test OH the national pocketbook is the
best answer.
The protests have stirred members
of the house, and a committee has
voted to probe soaring prices in the
District of Columbia.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-01-01
WASTE
In Coal Mines Reaches High
Figure

Baltimore.-At an open forum in
this city John Brophy, president of
Anthracite District No. 2, United
Mine Workers, said that the waste of
coal was almost unbelievable" He
said that 5OO,OOO,0OO tons have been
irrevocably and needlessly lost be-
cause Of faults in the organization Of
that industry.
"A difference of from 10 to 20 cents
ton has meant the leaving Of mil
lions of tons which never can be re-
deemed because under the present
competitive system that difference
would have to be sacrificed by the
mine owners" he said.
"The talk of our 'inexhaustible sup
ply of coal recalls that heard few
years ago about our timber resources.
The effect of such loose talk will be
more disastrous in the case Of coal
than it has been in the timber indus
try because in time we can grow more
trees, while lost coal is gone forever.
"The accident rate in American
mines is a crying shame. We have
twice the number of fatalities report
ed in the British mines with half the
number of miners employed. In the
bituminous mines Of Pennsylvania
alone about 500 men are killed annu-
ally and even more die in the anthra-
cite mines"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-01-01
MIDNIGHT FROLIC
AT Palace Theatre to Usher
In New Year-Will Be a
Cheer-Ringing Affair

Everything is in complete readi-
ness for the Palace theatres annual
midnight frolic, which will usher in
the New Year tonight Thursday
at 1880 p. m. The Palace theatre six
years ago first started these popular
midnight events, and ever since 1920,
when every seat was occupied long
before the clock struck IL, these mid
night frolics have become bigger and
better. The record of "a sell-out
every New Years eve' promises to
again be fulfilled tonight at the Pal
ace theatre.
AS the Press goes to press, there
are still hundreds of choice seats
available at the box office of the Pal
ace theatre, but this is undoubtedly
in view of the fact that Hamilton
theatre-goers usually wait until the
very last minute before they definitely
decide what to do News Years eve"
A splendid program has been ar
ranged for this midnight frolic. Of
course there will be series of brand
new comedy features. There always
are at ihese events, and while the
frolic starts at 1880 p. m. in 1925,
the good morning" slide is not dis
played until the wee small hours of
| the New Year Vaudeville acts will
be presented by the very best profes-
sional acts obtainable. Comedy skits,
dancing acts, singers, dancers, aero
bats, hypnotists-anything the heart
desires will be found "on tab" at the
Palace midnight frolic. If anything
has been overlooked, from grand opera
to jazz, from the ridiculous to the
sublime, such omission will not be
noticeable until next year.
Yes, indications are that this New
Years midnight frolic will by far
surpass those of the past Souvenirs
are to be given to all who enter
| Life savers" are to be dispensed
freely, so that hilarity may go on un-
dismayed, and oh yes, there's another
thing--if you should become hungry
around about one a. M, just when
you're really enjoying yourself, just
walk out in the lobby. There'l be a
refreshment stand erected specially
for this occasion. So if you want to
start the New Year right, there
seems no better method than by tax
ing in the Palace theatres sixth an.
nual midnight frolic.
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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council Of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middlstown Trades
and Labor Council OF MiddletOwn. o.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
The Press wishes for everybod,
A Happy and Prosperous New Year
THEN AND NOW

When the eighteenth amendment
was enacted and the wicked Volstead
law passed over the veto of President
Wilson not one person in million
knew how to manufacture an intoxi-
eating drink, and this is the reason
why there was such great drop in
the amount of liquor consumed in a
short time; but the people are learn
ing the trade with an aptness char
acteristic of American genius, so that
the future looks mighty moist. In
the pre-Volstead days man who got
drunk didn't hide, so that the num-
ber of soaks could easily be counted;
while in this day Of drinking behind
the screens" the fellow who feels
himself beginning to reel gets in the
clear in order to escape the cops, and
thus the prohib exponent feels free
to assert that there are mo drunks
no more The wine rooms are no
longer located in the rear of saloons
but they are to be found in some fliv-
yer. Oh, yes, this prohibition stuff
has done great things if you call it
great to make about one-half of the
people law Minister CO.,
Post.
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THE OVERHEAD

Each time you buy a motor car
you pay for five things in which you
can never take a ride. That state
ment is made in an advertisement of
one of the leading American cars
The FIVE items are set forth as:
War, tax, freight charge, factory's
profit, and salesman's commission.
But why stop at that point? You
are exploited at every turn in your
operation of your car. You are ex-
poited at every turn if you have nc
car.
A gallon of gasoline for your kitch-
en- stove has as much overhead" as
a gallon of gasoline for your car. You
burn gas. All right, you eat grocer
les. You buy the gasoline that brings
the delivery car to your door. But
SdoOliiC 10 CiC lCdSC, SHioilCSt eah,
most unimportant of your days ex
ploitation.
If you light a match, bite an ap
Pile, inhale bowl of soup or SURROUND
bean sandwich at your MONDAY
lunch at your favorite pie foundry yo,
are paying rent, interest, taxes
overhead on all sorts of things, ant
you are lucky if you get back to your
work without paying war taxes
freight charges, dealers profits ane
other overhead on somebody's car.
During your days work you will
help, by your surplus and uncollectet
earnings, to pay somebody's 'fiv'
things" in which they can't ride
and you can't and won't, either!
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gle is ON an uncertain basis because
Of the large amount Of paper money
that has been issued the past few
years.
In financial circles in this city die
tatorship seems only matter of time
until a "strong man" appears. The
question is freely discussed in French
newspapers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-01-01
MONEY IN FIRE INSURANCE

New York.-During the past 10
years % leading fire insurance com
panies have distributed cash dividends
of more than $150,0OO,O0O and stock
dividends that have par value of
$4,000, 900.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-01-01
OPPOSES POWER LEASE

Washington.-Sena Mcclellan OBJ
jects to turning over waterpower
rights in the Tennessee river to the
electric power trust. In a telegram
to Chattanooga business men, he says
the trust might strange for all time
the development of commercial and
manufacturing interests in Tennes-
see"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-01-01
DICTATOR FOR FRANCE
PUBLICLY DISCUSSED

New York France headed for a
dictatorship to solve her financial
troubles. The franc, that country's
money unit, has dropped to its lowest
value, and the entire financial strug-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-01-01
WISDOM

desire that on no occasion, whether
near or remote, nor for any reason
whatsoever, shall demonstrations of
political or religious character be
made over my remains, as / consider
the time devoted to the dead would
be better employed in improving the
condition of the living, most of whom
stand in great need of this.--From
the will of Francisco Ferrer, Spanish
educator and radical, executed in 1909.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-01-01

ARE THEY SINCERE?

ARE THEY SINCERE?
Why is so little attention paid to
Governor Pinchot's charge that the
stealing of votes in Pennsylvania
elections threatens the safety of our
institutions"
The governor lists this evil in his
call for special session of the Penn
sylvania general assembly.
Pennsylvania originated the lawless
Cossack system; that state is the
home of the steel trust, the anthra-
cite trust, and other great monopo-
lies; it is the home of contract
breaking, anti-union bituminous coal
companies whose working conditions
are those of Siberia That state is
the bulwark of trade union opposi-
ton, where injunction judges flourish
and free speech has been gagged
times without number.
Recently Judge Gary, of the steel
trust, and other large employers or
ganized a committee to secure the
enforcement of law. Wouldn't it be
well for the Judge to start in his own
state?
Are the men who profit by this
vote sealing-and who are now silent
sincere in their plea for law en-
forcement?
If the stealing of votes in Pennsyl-
vania is so general that it threatens
our democratic form of government,
can we cover up this evil by discuss
ing individual crime?
- s R IA "a
YOUNG BOB'S" DEFY
young Bob" La Toilette, senator
from Wisconsin, defied standpatism
and machine politicians at dinner
in his honor given by Labor, official
newspaper of the 16 railroad trade
unions and brotherhoods.
Senator La Toilette left no doubt
as to where he stands on the issues
being urged by the progressive ele-
ments in the political parties of this
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1926

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