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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12
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JIGGERY SPLITS

TIGGERY SPLITS had always been
j the soul of good humor and the life
OF the party, so naturally T. Toatler
experienced quite shock when he
Saw him looking so sad and detected.
Jiggery." he exclaimed What on
earth can have happened to you! You
always the soul of good humor and
the life of the party Surely your
charming wife-surely nothing has
gone amiss at home? / can recon-
mend YOU to very cheap divorce law
yer"
Jiggery Splits smiled wanly and
shook his head.
Your business then when did you
20 into bankruptcy"
Jiggery Splits heayed pitiful Sigh.
Business was never better" he
mournfulled
Then you're ill?-Poor chap, how
long does the doctor give YOU 70 live?
Are you quite sure your will is made
out in correct legal form?'
Never in better health?' said
Splits sadly. "I1l tell you, Toatler.
You're not a gambler, are your
Never gamble" replied I. Toatler.
Good, said Jiggery Splits. We'll,
it's this way. You see, every man |
knew took ii for granted by my cheer
full expression that my stocks were
winners, and they invited themselves
around and as result, my stocks
dwindled alarmlngly SO I've devel-
oped long face, aud its working fine
Er sorry you don't speculate, old
man, or I'd invite you around"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12
PITTSBURGH PAPERS MERGE

Pittsburgh-Fou of the five news
papers in this city have been merged
into one morning and one afternoon
papers. The papers involved are the
Post and Gazette-Times, morning,
and the Sun and Chronicle Telegraph,
afternoon. The purchasers are Will
liam Randolph Hearst and Paul Block.
This is the second Pittsburgh news
paper merger in recent years. The first
was when the Pittsburgh Publishers
Association acquired the Dispatch and
the Leader and discontinued both pub
lieations.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12
More Egyptian Treasures

Wonderful discoveries are re-
vealed by Doctor Reisner, the Egyp-
tologist, in report on his discov-
cry in the pyramids of Ghiza Of a
6,000-year-old tomb.
1t is that Of Queen Hetepheres,
mother of the Egyptian king
Cheops and wife of King Senefru,
who reigned 1000 years before
King Tut-Ank-Ahmen was born.
The framework of the canopy Of
the sarcophagus, says Doctor Reis-
ner, is an astonishing piece Of con-
struction.
HamiltOn's leading and best union
made SC cigar--Standard.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12

end of the story, sometimes tragic,
sometimes just amusing.
The strangest part of it all is that
men who are neither ignorant nor
superstitious so often fall victims to
the lure of the shrouded bands and
become their defenders at the bar Of
public opinion.
So, we have two amusing phenomena
for observation, in both of which his
tory is repeating itself, as it has done
before and as it will do again.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12
FAIR BOARD
Provides That Labor Day
Picnic Be Held on
Fairgrounds

Some little uneasiness has been
felt in trade union circles as to
whether the Labor Day picnic would
be held on the fairgrounds this year
since it became known that the
grounds have been leased to the Ham
ilton Jockey Club for a 19-day race
meet beginning August 27 In fact
it was rumored about by some person
or persons, who did not know, that the
fair board had failed to give Hamil-
ton labor thought and that the
picnic would not be held on the fair
grounds this year, as usual.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. Though the fairgrounds had
not been spoken for this years pic
mic, when the lease for the race club
was drawn, the fair board, through
the insistence of Secretary M. D.
Urmston, had embodied in the con-
tract that nothing in it should bar
Hamilton organized labor from hold
ing its annual celebration on the
grounds on Labor Day, if it so de
sired. The race club accepted this
proviso and agreed to cooperate with
labor in every way to make the day
a big success.
At a meeting held last week be-
tween Trades Councils committee and
representatives of the Hamilton
Jockey Club, arrangements, -satisfac-
tory to both parties were made
Trades Council and the Jockey Club
are to pull together in manner that
will stage the biggest program and
make it the biggest Labor Day cele-
bration ever held in Hamilton. Seven
races will be run on the track, in
Guiding the Cooperative Trades and
Labor Council purse and the Labor
Day handicap. This fine afternoon
attraction together with the several
special big attractions provided by
the picnic committee, both afternoon
and evening, should make the big day
of labor a hummer indeed
And right here and now it might
be added that the Jockey Club Off
cials have shown disposition to give
organized labor consideration in
every move in connection with the
coming race meet. Every bit of la
Dor performed on the fairgrounds has
been done by union workmen so far
as union labor could be provided, that
is, outside the common labor And
in other ways the club officials have
recognized organized labor, in the
purchase of materials, etc
Yes, sir, thanks to Secretary NJ D.
Urmston, the fair board and the
Jockey Club, the Labor Day picnic
will again be held on the fairgrounds
this year, bigger and better than ever.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12

There are few growing things
more attractive, says Nature Maga-
zine, than that member Of the lily
family, the American white helle-
bore, known to farmers as "cow-
poison" because its roots disagree
violently with their herds. Cow
poison seems to flourish in the
northern states, amid bogs and
swales; but on the tablelands of
the mountains it extends far south
wards into West Virginia's virgin
wilds.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12

Ex-Gunner Jenkins, who is said
to have fired the first British shell
in the drive against Won Kluck's
troops in the battle of Mons, arrived
recently at Auckland, New Zealand,
to take up farming. Jenkins served
with E battery, R. 81. A. He took
part in many large engagements on
the western front, and came through
uninjured.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12
Horse Justifes Exisfencs

Walter E. Hayward of Temple,
N. H., has a horse that is reputed
to be thirty-four years old. Three
times within the last year he has
made arrangements to have the
horse killed, but each time he
showed such unusual pep that Mr..
Hayward decided not to do away
with him.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12

In eastern America land that has
been farmed 200 years is worn out
and abandoned, says Cappsr's
Weekly. In China some of the land
has been farmed 1000 years. The
Chinaman, comments Mack Cretch-
er, may need missionaries to show
him how to seye his soul, but he
already knows how to save his soil.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12
Double-Hedded Snake

When plowing at Marksville, Va,
Oscar L. Housden turned from the
soil one of the most unusual freaks
ever seen there "a two-headed
snake. The reptile was a little more
than two feet long. It made hard
fight with its two heads before be-
ing dispatched by Mr.. Housden.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12

AS to Mr.. Stephenson, it is clear to
all and sundry by this time that he
sold horse to the Governor of In
diana horse named "the Senator"
which may have. been most fitting
name for this particular horse.
1t is also clear that while the Klan
ruled in the hey dey of its power
there was great amount of corrup-
tion in Indiana, with public affairs be-
ing tangled this way and that at the
behest of hooded grand dragon.
A grand jury is delving into the
mess in an effort to hold an inquest on
political scandals which are only part
ly dead and the nation does not yet
know just how fearsome was the mess
cooked up in the klaverns of the Sc
cret mob
There is a great deal in common
between Klan and Soviets. Mr. Coyle
might find much more interesting ma
terial in Indiana than in Moscow, and
surely much more mystery.
Both of these machines gain their
power by secret eonniving, by the pow
er of cloaked minority, which man
ipulates and uses the ignorant and
unseeing masses.
1t seems automatic that any shrewd
band of manipulators, given the prop
er slogans and accoutrements, can
WELD an ignorant or superstitious
mass for time. But always there
must come an end to it. The mystery
does not last forever. The tinsel grows
dull with tarnish--and then comes the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12
HIGHWAYS ARE NEEDED

Observation-Disclosures needs bet
ter highways, not more railroads, said
the Interstate Commerce Commission
in rejecting the railroads application
to construct 7S miles of track in that
state.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12

Three times as much electricity
was generated in New York city in
1925 as was produced in London,
although the London population is
greater by 100000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12
CONVENTION CALL
ISSUED BY A. f. OF l.

Washington.-Of of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor have issued
the call for the fortY-seventh annual
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12
TheCherry
" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
fOundly, sometimes fiippantl-.
sometimes reckessly. !.

Amusement is not the least valu-
able thing in the world by any means,
and many persons will turn with real
gratitude to those current stories in
the public prints having to do with
such personages as the imprisoned
grand dragon of the Indiana Kluxers
and the editor of the Locomotive En-
gineers' Journal, though for entirely
different reasons.
The grand dragon, though he writes
an "ex" before his title, is still a
power, emptying out black boxes by
proxy from his prison cell, the con-
tents serving to arouse the state and
cause the nation to speculate this way
and that as to what will come next.
Mr. Coyle, on the other hand, serves
only as a focusing point around which
to record disappointment of a kind
He it was who organized a grand 'la-
Dor" junket to the realm of the Sow
cts, the great expanses of Red Russia
only to find, as the date of sailing
drew near, that one after another of
his passengers became prematurely
sea-sick and decided to remain on the
beloved terra firma of the United
States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12

Why not a homemade, union made
cigar? Standard. sc.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12

Our truss department is equipped
and possesses facilities to satisfac-
tOrily care for difficult or simple
cases of rupture and we have num-
erous styles of trusses for various
kinds of rupture. Private fitting
room and expert lady filter for
women and expert filters for men
assures the best of service. Elastic
trusses at $1.89 to $500. Double
trusses at-$3.5O.
Elastic abdominal support ready to
put on or made to order. Elastic
stockings, anklets, knee caps and
arch supports fitted properly.
DARGUE'S CUT RATE
FL N. SECOND ST.
Open Evenings
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12

A year agoeit became known, too
soon to suit Mr.. Coyle, that he was
organizing a mission" to Russia to
find out the truth about conditions in
the land of commissars. No sooner
was the story in print that those list
ed to go began to let it be known that
they had by no means definitely made
up their minds.
Again, matter OF two or three
weeks ago, it became known that this
time everything was all set for the
big journey.
But again the gods pour vinegar
upon the excursion and one by one
the passenger list diminishes until it
seems dubious whether Mr.. Coyle may
not have to make the trip alone, serv-
ing as the lone Investigator, the sole
apostle of truth. 1t is a great burden
TO thrust upon the shoulders of one
man. But weighing it all, it is also a
great pity that the Soviets should be
held to need such help-that they
should be held incapable of telling
all about their own paradise. 1t as
sumes an incompetence upon their
part that they do not themselves ad-
nit.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-08-12

The price is the patrons to determine nevertheless be-
in true economy and particularly guard them from
verifying.
Evening star., 1927-05-10

The Canadian parliament has de-
cided against the employment of wom-
en- as stenographers until they have
reaehsd the age Of 80 years. ,..-
Evening star., 1927-05-10
FRIENDS Al. RITES
FOR BROTHER mike
City Missionary, Familiar Fig.
ure in Capital, Is Laid
to Rest.

Brother Mike, beloved by the count
less numbers of unfortunates he has
succored as city missionary for the
past 80 years, and familiar figure
with his little green provision cart at
the city markets, was laid to rest to-
day after Il life or unstinting devotion
to his fellow beings.
Michael Nancy died Saturday at
Garfield Hospital, where he had been
taken two days before from the Star
or Bethlehem Women's Emergency
Home, Foursand-a-half street and
Missouri avenue. In whose service he
had worked until the age Of %.
He was prn at Harpers Ferry, w.
Na. His szRfly life was engaged as
chesapeake BAY fisherman and cattle
<iroYer But ne fell upon evil times
and SAW the sean1y side uf life before
he was converted Nancy became
Brother Nike at the Jesus VIII Help
Missiob and later joined the staff OF
the Sunshine Home, where he re-
mained until the latter was taken over
By the W0men's Emergency Home
three years ago.
Rain Or shine, for SO years Brother
like trundied his little cart, day IN
and day out, to Center and East
Iern Markets. where the merchants,
who held him in great respect ana
love for his worthy and unselfish toll.
would load the tiny wagon to the
brim with wholesome food for his
charges at the mission.
{ His friends at the markets and all
those he had befriended IN turn came
ito the mission this morning for Broth.
er Mikes funeral service, conducted
By Rev. s. p. Fogle of the Brethren
Church. Many of them. including his
widow and three daughters, accom-.
panied his remains to the burial
ground at Great Falls. Va.
Evening star., 1927-05-10
BORAH ADVOCATES FIVE-POWER
PACT FOR BENEFIT OF CHINA

to assist and encourage every legiti-
mate aspiration of the Chinese for
freedom, unity, cultivation of a ma
tional spirit and the realization of the
republican form of government"
Cites Coolidge Address.
Turning to the recent address of
President Coolidge in New York on
the Chinese situation, Senator Borah
quoted that part in which the Presi-
dent said: "In the turmoil and strife
of the present time we realize fully
that forces may be let loose Temporal
rily beyond their (China's) power to
control"
"And it is to guard against that
eventuality that American forces are
in Chinese waters" Senator Borah
continued. 'They are there simply
to guard American rights, property
and lives. But that does not mean
intervention. Even in the face of
falsehood and propaganda Of the
'jingoist' it should not be difficult for
the United States to choose a. wide
course in steering clear of interyen-
ton in Chinese affairs or conflict with
the Chinese people.
1.-THE Presidents policy looks to
peace. It looks to a strong United
China. 1t announces a policy In har-
mony with the principles OF interna-
tional justice and decency.
Evening star., 1927-05-10
LAFAYETTE SQUARE
OFFICES PLANNED
Eight Story Building to Be
New Feature in Vista From
White House.

Construction Of an eight-story stone
Office building at 16 Jackson place.
overlooking Lafayette Square and
constituting a new feature in the
north vista Of the White House, will
be started within a few days, accord
ing to plans announced today.
The one.time fashionable residence
on the site, which was used for
number of years following the World
War as the home of the District Chap
ter of the Red Cross, now is being
torn down to make way for the new
structure.
The new building will be erected for
Robert S. Brookings, founder of the
Brookings Graduate School. and the
income from the building is to be used
as an endowment for the continued
maintenance of the school.
Congress Fails to Approve.
Proposals in Congress for the ac-
quirement of property adjoining the
square, so that development of archi-
lecture there could be controlled by
the Government. failed to pass.
The new Brookings Building. while
eight stories high, will be but IS
inches higher than the top of the
home of the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States, which stands nearby
at the corner of Connecticut avenue
and II. street. at the northwest cor
ner of Layfayatte square, according
to nlans.
The building will contain 90 office
rooms. arranged in suites of six rooms
each. The main room of each suite
will be fitted with an elaborate mantel
and other furnishings TO make it ap-
pear as much as possible like the IL
braFy of a private home.
Stores and Shops Excluded.
Desiring to eliminate any unneces-
sary commercial aspect from the
building, it was stated, the builder
has planned the first floor as Sthe
quarters of a banking institution or
some similar organization and no
small shop or store is to be granted
space there.
The building will be 2212 feet wide
and l46 feet deep There is a 15-foot
alley to the south of the projected
building and a 30-foot alley to the
rear. The building will be stone
throughout. with bronze exterior for
the first floor facade The first floor
corridor will be Of marble.
The design for the structure was
drawn by Waddy Il. Wood, Washing
ton architect. and a fellow of the
American Institute OF Architects.
Evening star., 1927-05-10
SEES "ENGINEER TOUCH"
NEEDED IN ADVERTISING
Charles f. Kettering, in Address to
Association, Commends Ford's
Plan for Attracting Attention.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, May 10.-Introduction Of
the engineering type of mind into ad-
vertisng was advocated by Charles
F. Kettering, vice president or the
General Motors Corporation. in an ad-
dress before the Association OF Ma
tionaI Advertisers here last night.
Mr.. Kettering. in stressing the need
of the engineering touch, held up
Henry Ford. head of rival concerns
as a master exponent of the practice.
He {Ford) made his advertising
such that it appealed striklngly TO
the customers mind" Mr.: kettcrlng
said. "He didn't concern himseH
about advertising that appealed 10
the so-called advertising expert. The
expert was not going TO keep the
wheels turning and his bank roll
growing.
Some of the finest ads ever written
never paid dime into the treasury of
the manufactures because they were
either over the heads of buyers or IT
told too much or too little.
THAT is where the engineering
phase enters into advertising. Your
engineer knows to thousandth of an
inch just what his part must be to
give efficient service and he knows,
too what is needed and what is not
needed in his mechanical device. When
the advertising man finds out that
same feature OF his business, what he
needs and where he needs it, then he
begins to make money"
Evening star., 1927-05-10
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Thundeish
ers this afternoon or tonight, cooler
tonight: tomorrow fair and cooler.
Maryland and Virginia-Thunder-
showers this afternoon or tonight;
tomorrow fair and cooler.
West Virginia-Mostly cloudy and
much cooler, probably showers in east
portion tonight; tomorrow fair and
cooler.
Records for "a Hours.
Thermometer-4 pm, 81; 8 pm, T6;
IL midnight, 72: am, GO; am, IA.
Barometer4 pm, 29.91; p.m.,
29.91: II midnight, 1880; am, 29.S7;
s am, 1888.
Highest temperature, 50, occurred
at $50 pm. yesterday, lowest tenn
perature, 60, occurred at 4 am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, 6S; lowest, Sc.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey)
Today-Low tide, 1902 am. and
1924 pm; high tide, 1922 am. and
3;43 pm.
Temorrow-Low tide, 1854 am. and
I'LL pm; high tide, AIS am. and
4:37 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose sol am: sun sets
7:0S pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises am; sun
sets 7:09 pm.
Moon rises 1:23 pm; sets 2:26 am.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition OF the
water at Great Falls at a.m.--Tem-
perature, so: condition, muddy.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star., 1927-05-10
WIDE HUNT STARTED
FOR KIDNAPPING GANG
Plot for Wholesale Abductions Re-
vealed After Two Victims
Are Released.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May 10.--Police yes
terday sounded a general alarm for
the capture of the Dougherty brothers,
Charles and Samuel, notorious crimi-
nails, wanted here as leaders of the
band who, on April %, kidnapped and
held for ransom Abraham Scharlin
and james H. Taylor, wealthy real
estate operator. The captives We're
freed Friday after one Of the gang had
been killed by the police and another
captured.
The band. according to the police,
comprised a number of Western and
Midwestern crooks who singled out
New York as the scene for reaping 4
harvest by kidnapping large bootleg
gers, horserace "bookies, !" fences. or
men through whom stolen goods are
disposed of. and others keeping large
sums of cash on hand.
The house in Brooklyn, where the
two men were held, was q miniature
arsenal, 1t was learned yesterday. De-
sign, 4 to ward off attack from q large
number of men, it was equipped with
machine guns, hand grenades, tear
bombs, automatic rev0ivers and rifles
and sawed-off shotguns.
Evening star., 1927-05-10
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated 1Febs.
CLEVELAND, May 10.--Senator
William E. Borah, Idaho, in an ad
dress here last night on foreign rela
tions seized on a recent pronounce
ment of Premier BRAND of France
that he favored a treaty between
France and the United States to out
law war, to advocate "a treaty be
tween the five great nations, United
States, Great Britain, France, Italy
and Japan, to outlaw war as between
these nations and China.
1.-THE accord of these five powers
together with the policy announced
hv the President Teferring to his
New York address) would, in effect,
nut the ban or outlawry on war
where outlawry is most needed" Sen
ator Borah declared.
Nations Help Needed.
Wrhe things which China demands
of foreign powers--control or her own
tariffs, possession of her territory.
execution of her own laws-are
things she is entitled to have, and
these five great nations have it within
their mower to grant these things.
"What is the meaning of the pres.
ent doctrine Of force as being prac.
ticed by the fiy@ great powers in
China ?" the senator asked. 1T means
the fight of foreigners to seize and
exnloit China's wealth and when
china objects answer with armies and
nayies. 1t means an effort to crush
the nationalistic spirit of 100000, 900
people, an undertaking which !
venture to predict will mean loss OF
millions in treasure and hundred Of
thousan nds lives. /"
But from this course the United
States has turned away Senator
Borah continasds .pgsfsrrips rather
Evening star., 1927-05-10
LEAP FROM AUTO FATAL,

TORONTO; Ontario. May 10 (P.-
A. J. Michel. 80, Of Chicago. ILL.,, died
here yesterday from injuries suss
tanned when he jumped from an auto.
mobile in which he was a passenger
last Thursday.
Frightened when a celluloid eye
shade which had been placed close to
the heater of the automobile began
to smoke Michel opened the door OF
thezcar and leaped out. His skull was
fractured.
Evening star., 1927-05-10
BOY SCOUT H0N0RED.
James Pryor Wins Certificate fol
Hereism in Rescue.

First Class Scout James Pryor, ii
years old. of 1717 Twentieth street, a
member of Boy Scout Troop %, last
night was awarded the national court
of honor certificate of heroism for his
act in rescuing Woodman Pomeroy. n
boy companion, from drowning in
Chautauqua Lake in 1925.
The presentation was made at
Wilson Normal School by DIR. Paul
= Bartsch chairman of the local court
of honor. who, together with L. &,
Drake, District Boy Scout executive,
gave an Illustrated lscture on Summer
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