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The Washington times., 1926-10-22
Capital Woman Signally F1onored
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PIANO In
RECITAL
Famous French Artist
Will Use Historic In
strument in Concert

The recital to be given by
Maurice Dumesnil at Memorial Con
tinental Hall on Monday evening,
November 1, under the auspices OF
the League of American Pen
Women, will be an event Of excep
tional interest from several angles
The Charge d'Affaires Of France,
Count de Sartiges. is q patron and
with members of the embassy staff
will attend the recital by his IA
nous countryman. M. Dumesnil' d
reputation as pianist gives II
musical importance and a pic
turesque touch, will be contributed
by the artists use of Chopip's own
piano for the Chopin numbers.
The piano, one OF the historic and
artistic, treasures of France, has
been loaned at the instance Of Isl
dore Phillip, directing head Of the
Musicians Relief Committee OF
Paris, because large proportion
Of the proceeds OF the concert are
to go to wounded musicians OF
France. A group Of our own
wunded artists are to be guests al
the concert.
In Paris the Chopin piano is en-.
shrined at the Maison Pleyel, a
French piano firm which was a
fashionable rendezvous for musicians
In Chopin's day and which is still
popular with artists. The little audi.
torium, in which Chopin used to
hold some of his famous soirees
musicales Is a veritable treasure
house Of Chopin mementoes .-- au-
tographs, letters. decorations from
Poland, programs and many others.
Chopin is believed to have used the
ancient piano while composing and
it is certain that he used It for all
his public performances.
Mrs. Edward Nelson Dingley, ma
tional president of the League OF
American Pen Women, has a box
for the recital and will entertain
in compliment to Mrs. A. ]. Brosseau,
president general of the D. A. r.
Mrs Delos Blodgett Is also a. box
holder.
Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Of Hills.
boro, Mass, a noted composer, is
one of the patronesses for the con-
cert. She has expressed her admit
ration of NJ. Dumesnil as an artist
and her delight that he had chosen
one of her compositions, The Her
NIT Thrust at Eve" for some OF his
recita1s in America. -.
After the concert Mrs. Beach VIII
sail for Europe to spend the winter
in Italy and southern France.
X
Mrs. Helen Ray Hagner issued In
vitations today for her annual tea for
the debutantes, which will be given
on the afternoon3of November II, al
the smart new Club st. Marks. 1t
will be the first get-together party
for the buds Of this season.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
Pa "a - IA M
SEVEN YEARS OF FAILURE

"Seven years of failure" says a
bulletin just issued from headquarters
offices of the National Liberty League,
at Kalamazoo, Mich, 'is convincing
hundreds of thousands Of Americans
that prohibition cannot be enforced
nationally. Even in Kansas, a dry
state for 20 years prior to the adop-
tion of the eighteenth amendment,
conditions are now so thoroughly wet
that they are the subject of nation
wide comment.
"In centers of population" the bull
letin continues, conditions are far
worse today than they were in the
days of the open saloon, and every
one closely in touch with the situa-
ton, from federal enforcement off
cials down, realizes that effective en-
forcement can never be brought about
under the provisions of the Volstead
act"
The National Liberty League, which
is now carrying on organization work
in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, advo-
Gates safe modification that would
legalize the sale of beer under gov
ernment supervision, and contends
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24

struction in the city BY. Inside Elec-
trical Workers Union, Local 3, caus-
ing CONSERVATION among builders
hoping to rush completion of their
work for fall occupancy.
Notice has been served upon con-
tractors that the electricians, who
control all new work, will no longer
install non-union fixtures, including
telephone switchboards, lighting fix
lures, chandeliers and wiring.
A working agreement has been
made between the installation me-
chanics and the shopmen who have
been recently organized as a new local
and have made remarkable progress
in unionizing the shops
Ample precedent is given for the
steps taken by the electricians. In the
long struggle of the carpenters to en-
force the handling of union trim on
buildings a series of court decisions
is available to vindicate the effort to
extend union conditions to the manu-
featuring end of the electrical in
dustry.
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CHANGING TIME

Don't forget, brother, there is an
hour coming to you, the one you lost
last April when you set the clock
forward one hour to conform with
the daylight savings plan, and which
hour you are to get back during the
coming Sunday night, or to be more
exact, about 2 o'clock Monday morn
ing. The thing to do is about retiring
time Sunday night set the clock back
one hour and forget it, and then you
will be on schedule time Monday
morning. Or say! Let the old stem
winder run along as she is and then
when you come to Monday morning
with that awful feeling of having to
get up and wish you had just little
longer to snooze, let it gradually sink
into you that you have another hour
comm to you. Say, bo, isn't it a
glo-ri-ous feeling?
And just while we are on the ques-
ton of time changing the Press wants
to say it is glad no action was taken
to make the daylight saving a perma
nent thing at this time. There has
been much discussion of the question
the past summer, and much argument
pro and con.
Cincinnati recently voted for all
year round Eastern time. Dayton and
Middletown has done much talking
along this line, and it is only ques-
ton of a year or two until both cities
adopt the new time. But until such
time there is no need for Hamilton
making the change, for there is no
question about it there is much oppo-
sition to the change at this time,
especially so among the working peo-
pie.
As an example of the difference of
opinion on the subject locally, in
vote among the members of the
Chamber of Commerce showed 10 to l
in favor of the change, while vote
among the members of First ward
church voted about the same ratio op-
posed. So there you are. 1t is well
to wait on making the change until
such time as it will make it of it's
own accord, just as it did in the sum-
mer months.
In the meantime, with Cincinnati
having one time and Hamilton
another, it will be we'll for Hamilton
people to remember always that Gin
cinnati is just one hour ahead of US
when it comes to business appoint
ments, store and office hours, the
atres, etc.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24

LABOR'S CONVENTION

The American Federation of Labor
will open its annual convention in
Detroit on October 4th. William
Green, in that convention, will COM
plete his first term as president
duly elected by convention.
1t has been big year for William
Green, and altogether it has been a
glorious year.
President Green has made deep
impression upon the nation and upon
the great movement of which he is
president.
The convention will face tremen-
dous issues. This is not unusual
Labor always faces great issues. This
is because the industrial world moves
at tremendous speed.
Labor will meet it's issues and
solve them as best it can in the most
democratic labor movement in the
world.
1t will be great convention. 1t
will be watched by every person who
wants to know about the important
things going on in the world. Not
the least, numerically, among those
who will watch will be politicians who
have aspirations Of their own which
they hope to realize. Labor need
care comparatively little about those
gentlemen.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
POLITICIANS DIDN'T DO 1T

The time is near at hand when the
welkin will ring with the claims of
politicians for the credit for the gen
eral industrial activity of the nation.
No politician will claim credit for
what has happened to prices of farm
products. Politicians never claim
credit for adverse happenings. But
they will zap their heads off, telling
the populace that they created pros
perity. Look for it. 1t will come
But the politicians had precious little
to do with whatever prosperity there
is. The American labor movement,
with its wage and hours of work pol
icies, its steady fighting to enforce
those policies, did more to maintain
industrial activity than all the poll
ticians from the Golden Gate to Cape
Cod. That's fact. Whenever a poll
tician gets up and proclaims the ster-
ling worth of himself or his party
as an agency for prosperity, ask him
about the farmers of the Middle West,
about the textile mills of New Eng
land, about unfortunate cities that
get the backwash of agricultural mis-
fortune. Watch him run for cover.
Politicians bring prosperity? If SO,
then grasshoppers bring sunshine.
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which really got him out Of Jail. That
makes him none the less deserving of
his freedom, but it does show how in
teresting the conduct Of human be-
ings can be.
The major point to it all is that
American labor needs almost to keep
card catalogue to know when and
how to spot a communist organiza-
tion, camoufaged to trick honest folks
into helping dirty and unscrupulous
machine.
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that such modification would go fur
ther toward stopping the flow of poi
son booze and illicit liquor than all
the millions of dollars the govern
ment can pour into it's futile fight
against bootleggers.
Surely the pitiful aspect of the
last seven years suggests that some
thing different should be done," the
bulletin concludes. "The logical thing
to do is to change the law so there
will be some possibility of dignified
enforcement"
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N n III ~ NJ
BE SURE TO VOTE

Every union, under the heading,
good and welfare" should discuss how
best to get out the vote on election
day, as well as to have every member
and their friends register.
There is nothing more important
than for members of organized labor
to exercise their sovereign right to
vote.
A reactionary congress or a re-
dictionary state Legislature can do
great harm.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24

THAT INJUNCTION SUIT

In an editorial in one of the daily
papers last week, relating to the tax
payers suit for injunction against
erecting the new electric light plant,
we note where it says the taxpayers
suit is not intended to further the bus
mess of any private company. No?
But up to the time of that assertion,
"Who said it was ?"
If the suit is not in the business
interest of any private company, then
why explain? Explanation, when not
called for, usually excites the sus-
picion that all is not as it appears on
the surface, in whatever instance.
1t is further noted in the same edi-
torial that the purpose of the tax
payers suit is to conserve the money
of the people of Hamilton" That's
nice and commendable on the part of
the petitioners in the suit, who would,
it seems, name themselves guardians
of the peoples welfare and interests,
and the intentions, at least, should
be appreciated. But is it? The Press
doubts it. The people, as a rule.
seem to have an uncanny intuition
when it comes to acting for them
selves on any great question of mo-
ment to themselves. And in this in
stance the great majority of the Ham
ilton people, without any doubt what
ever, favor proceeding with the erec-
tion of the new plant; this despite
all that may be said or done by those
tion without any fear, whatever, of
successful contradiction.
But we shall see what we shall see.
AS stated in the Press last week, the
taxpayers suit is but the opening gun
of a long-to-be fought battle which
is to witness the unusual finish where
in both sides win-the people their
rights, and the opposition the only
thing they really expect to gain
delay-THE REAL PURPOSE OF
SUIT, with the faint hope that the
courts-meaning all of them, for it
is pretty certain thing the case
will face them all before the finish
that the courts might guess wrong.
"a ~ ~ ~ -
QUEER MR.. CHARLES CLINE
Recently Mr.. Charles Cline was re-
leased from prison in Texas, where he
was serving life term. Five citizens
of Mexico were freed at the same
time. The Mexicans might long ago
have been pardoned if American labor
had not insisted that all or none be
set free.
Mr.. Charles Cline went Immediately
to Chicago and there, as told in an
International Labor News Service dis
patch last week, addressed meeting
of what is fatuously known as the
International Labcr Defense, now
about year old. To this outfit Mr..
Charles Cline gave credit for his free
dom, though most af those in the
probably never had heard of
Mr.. Charles Cline until he appeared.
The international Labor Defense is,
as has been told in the International
Labor News Service dispatches from |
Chicago, an out and out communist |
agency, designed to kick up the dust |
md lure non-communists into partici. |
patton with communists in behalf of
-.
Mr.. Charles Cline, so far as is
.nown, has not sent any messages of
hanks to the American, Pan-Amer-
can and Mexican labor movements
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24

Baltimore. - Farmers along the
Eastern Shore say low prices for
|apples will force them to let the fruit
rot on the trees. Many growers have
stopped picking apples.
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"a "a IA - R
GOMPERS IN GENEVA

Can editorial from the Baltimore SUM
Many outside of labor's circles will
be pleased by the news that the Amer
lean Federation of Labor has equip
ped, at considerable expense, a room
in the International Labor Office,
which is an adjunct of the League of
Nations at Geneva. Samuel Com
pers deserves to be remembered by
the men throughout the world who
seek to advance the cause of the
workers, and perhaps nowhere in the
world would he rather have had
lasting memorial than in Geneva. For
he, too, fighter that he was, dreamed
of world peace and served in it's
cause.
AS the years pass, and the pre-
judices with them, Gompers will be
recognized as one of the most useful
men of his time He lived through
the intense hate of the employing
classes, and passed into period, in
the latter part of his life, when he
endured the intense hate of the radi-
Gals among the workers. But all his
life he held to his goal with more
steadiness than most men, great or
little, are able to maintain, and his
goal really was the simple and fine
one of full and free opportunity for
the worker, the producer, to obtain the
fruits of his toll, and to expend them
as his individual judgment and taste
dictated.
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GLOSS OFF

viii remove the wearshine from
Ladies' and Gents garments. Get
the better kind of Cleaning, Repair
ing and Remodeling done at Kappers'
1862 N. B street. Phone 2617-L
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Issued Weekly at s26 Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
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ELECTRICIANS STRIKE
To Obtain UniOn-Made Fix
lures to Install

By international Labor News Service
New York City.-The long -smolder-
ing controversy over non-union cleo
trical fixtures broke out actively with
the calling of strike on some Of the
largest buildings in the course of con-
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1t is stupid for men to rant about
injustice and oppression and then
leave, unused the most powerful
weapon known to this commercial age
Buying Power.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER "a, 1926

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton.
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
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PAGE MR.. PURCELL
- - - ~ -

A year ago Mr.. Purcell, being then
fraternal delegate from the British
Trade Union Congress to the A. F.
of L. convention, made a pro-soviet
speech and was promptly called down
by President Green. Mr.. Purcell, no
doubt, didn't like it.
Mr.. Michael Tomsky, high in the
soviet machine, was delegated to rep
resent the soviets at the British Trade
Union Congress at Bournemouth a
few days ago. The British govern
ment refused to allow him to land.
Thereupon Tomsky sent a 60Oword
telegram to the congress.
Tomsky's message, looked for as a
fraternal greeting, was such hot
and scorching roast of British trade
unionism that the congress decided
against having it read into the rec
ord, publishing it instead as a sep
arate document with an adequate
answer
Since this episode British trade
unionists are not quite as cordial to
the soviets as they were One man
with a streak of humor suggested to
the congress that the government had
done them a service by keeping Tom
sky out Quite likely that is so.
1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Purcell
was present.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-08

ing the interval between last nights
program and the strenuous round of
entertaining scheduled f6f today in
complete relaxation. such was not the
view of S. l.. Rothafel, if his real
name must be known. Fighting Oft
what promised to be q touch of the
grippe. Roxy" was up at dawn, at
tending to the wants of his beloved
with brood of chickens.
There's something" Roxy contided
today as he pointed to a basket of
flowers placed at a vantage point IN
his hotel room, that pleases me more
than anything else in the world. | love
those Walter Reed boys and you can
bet l am looking forward to eating
dinner with them tonight prior to CIV
ing then a special entertainment"
Attached to the basket was a note
signed by Margaret II. Lower of the
American Red Cross. which shows
how Roxy stands al the Walter Reed
Hospital. in which he has taken such
an interest:
Dear Roxy: This is only very
small basket of flowers, and the boys
thought they wouldn't send it, but |
told them YOU would love it when you
knew they We're grown right here. So
each flower says, Hello, we are SO glad
YOU are here and that you are coming
out to see us. We can hardly wait for
tomorrow night to come. We all send
much love to YOU and Mrs Roxy"
Today's program of Roxy" and his
gang called for luncheon at the Ma
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ter of Robert Gray of Harrisonburg,
Va, and of Cumberland Dugan Will
liams Of Baltimore.
She was for many years prominent
in the Daughters of the American
Revolution and the Colonial Danes in
Baltimore.
She Is survived by a son. Maj. Cor
don Handy Mccoy, u. S. A. four
daughters, Mrs. Isabelle Mccoy Jones
CT this city. Mrs. Charles B. McAllis-
ter Of Garden City, Long Island; Mrs.
Oliver Fasslg Of San Juan, Porto Rico,
and Mrs. Walter w. Pollard of Balt,-
more and Detroit, and seven grand
children, among whom are Lieut..
Harry Mccoy Jones, u. s. N, and
Harvey l.. Mccoy Jones.
Funeral services were conducted at
the residence today at 11:3O o'clock.
DIR. William s. Bishop. former as
sistant rector Of st. Johns Church,
officiated. Interment will be in
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MRS. E. P. MCCOY DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Descendant Of Early Settlers and
Great-Granddaughter of William
Pinkney of Maryland.

Mrs. Elizabeth PinknaY Mccoy, 70
years old, widow of Col. Henry Nc
Coy and a descendant of early set
tiers OF Maryland and Virginia, died
Mt her residence. 1908 Belmont road,
Yesterday after a long illness. She
mad been a resident of this city since
1911.
Mrs. Mccoy was the great grand
daughter of William Pinkney of
Maryland, who served as Minister to
England and Russia and was Attor-
ney General during President Mon
roe's administration.
Born in Rockingham County, Va,
Mrs. Mccoy was the daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Gray Of
That place. She was the granddaugh-
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tionaI Press Club, after which they
gave a short entertainments
This afternoon at o'clock they
gave a performance at the Naval
Hospital and this evening they VIII
be dined at the Walter Reed Hospltal,
where they will put on another per-
Torrance.
The public will have ample opRor-
tunity to hear Roxy" as he IS giving
four benefit concerts at the Washing
ton Auditorium, two tomorrow ana
two Sunday-receipts from which VIII
go to the fund being raised Tor Il
combined hospital and scnool for tu-
hercular children at Albuquerque,
n. Mex.
After the Sunday night concert
Roxy" and the gang will return to
New York, where they have strenu-
Gus week of entertaining for chart
table purposes in prospect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-08
WEEKS GOING TO HAWAII.

Former Secretary of War Weeks
will sail from Los Angeles, Calf, with
Mrs Weeks and members OF his
family for Honolulu about January y.
Mr.. Weeks will leave washington
where he has spent the Christmas
holidays and with Mrs. eeks VIII
n,aIya a brief visit to Boston. From
there he will be accompanied by mem
beers of his family and will make the
trim 70 the Pacific Coast on private
car, going from Boston to Los Angeles
via New Orleans.
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"ROXY WELCOMED
BY MANY FRIENDS
Voice of Radio Entertainer
Readily Recognized by
People Here.

Roxy" whose voice has won joyous
recognition from no less than taxi
cab drivers. 81 telephone operators.
IL walters and several hundred mere
b|Standers since he arrived in the city
late yesterday afternoon, is resting
np' at his hotel today by shaking
hands with line of local friends.
Radio outstanding entertainer and
his gang of 10 began their series of
Washington entertainments which will
conclude at the Washington Audi
forum Sunday night. shortly after
their arrival Yesterday by putting on
an hour-and-a-half program at st.
EliZaheths Hospital
W mle the average celebrity would
have doubtless felt justified in spend
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Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore,
this afternoon.
"Wet" Floridan Sent to Jail.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, January 81.
P. Felty of Daytona Beach, Fla, to-
lay was indicted. pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to 80 days on the
State roads and fined $50 and costs
for transporting liquor.
F'elty was on his way to Pittsburgh
with over 100 quarts of whisky when
his automobile was wrecked.
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Fire Damages Easton Hotel.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
EASTQN, Md, January 8.-Hotel
Avon was damaged $1,000 about noon
today, by a fire which originated in
the kitchen fiue and burned the up
Der floor and roof.