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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-05-21

Thou must be like promontory Of
the sea. against which though the
waves beat continually, yet it both
itself stands, and about it are those
swelling waves stilled and quieted--
Marcus Aurelius
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-05-21
Hapny Home

'John is so good-narured," said his
wife, "and it only makes him laugh
when his collar button rolls under the
chiffonier, no matter how big hurry
he's Cincinnati Enquirer.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-05-21
Chemical Atoms

The electronic theory Is the theory
that the chemical atom Is not the
smallest possible part Of an element,
but is composed Of electrOns describ-
ing orbital and MIGRATORY, motions.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-05-21

The person who carries the thurible
or censor in a church procession Is
known as a "thurifer." Formerly he
was always an acoIyte. but now he 10
often q layman.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-05-21
Extend Pity to Fool

You pity man who Is lame or
blind, but you never pity him for be-
ing a fool, which Is often a much
greater misfortune Sydney Smith.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-05-21
Admired Daddy

Little Girl (as she sees her father
march in with the choir)-Oh, look,
mother, there goes daddy in his sing
ing shirt Corporation Reporter.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-05-21
More Profitable

Our idea of preparation is the boy
who took four years Of journalism and
then opened a news stand.-Exchange
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-05-21
Primitive Cor Springs

Freight cars In the Pennsylvania
coal trade 20 years ago had wooden
springs made Of two pieces Of ash
supporting the boxes.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-05-21
Time Is Money

Time is money-and maybe that's
the reason why so many folks never
have time.-GlOversvill Leader-Re-
publican.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-05-21

Mrs. Newbride-I want a pound OF
mincemeat. and please take it from a
nice young mince.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-05-21
THE BROAD AK
Published Every Saturday

In this city since July 18th, 1899
without missing one single issue. Re
publicans, Democrats, Catholics, Pro-
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and responsibility IS fixed.
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claiming the editorial right to speak
its own mind. 1t is neither Demo
cratic nor Republican. 1t is strictly
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JULIUS F. TAYLOR
Editor and Publisher
Vol. XXXII No. So
Chicago, May p. 1927
Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug
10, 1902, at the Postofice at Chicago,
ILL., Under Act of March s, 1879.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25
RENTS DOUBLED
In New YOrk's Poorer Sec
tiOns

New York.-Shocking conditions in
tenement sections of this city were
revealed at a hearing by the state
housing board.
Welfare workers, lawyers and rent
payers stated that doubling and trip
ling of families in apartments was
still going on in rookeries built SO
years ago, and condemned as insani-
tary and uninhabitable before the
present rent laws were passes. Even
in cellars, it was said, two families
could be found living in rooms de-
scribed as unfit for pig to live in"
The testimony showed that families
with growing children, which could
afford a few limited luxuries in 1919
before the advance in rents, were re-
duced to the barest necessities; that
old couples barely able to pay rent
hSiSoOlOiC iioN0 DSCll IOIH pSlltu W SO
to almshouses because of the rise in
rents; that landlords have been mott
flying tenants to wait until the rent
laws lapse in June and we will give
you the trimming of your lives; that
land and tenant litigation in 1926 in
creased over previous years, and that
in 95 per cent of these cases the in
variable reply of tenants to the courts
was inability to pay the higher rents
The worst conditions described were
in the negro section of Harlem where
double shifts" of boarders used bed
rooms day and night and rents had
advanced more than 100 per cent.
A health departments investiga-
tion of $40 families in the East Har-
lem district showed that two families
were living in many apartments
meant for single families. One social
worker testified that children are de-
prived of necessary food that parents
could meet increased rents.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25

ing lives and property. Not an Amer
lean life has yet been shown in dan
ger. No American has been hurt. No
American property is reported dam
aged or confscated
When that story wore thin we were
given the Glow down" on it. There
were deeper reasons. We have paper
rights to dig a canal across Nicaragua
and we have rights to build a naval
base in Fonseca Bay. These we are
to protect by our interference.
1t is not shown that anyone plans
to blow away the land where the canal
may some day be dug, or to throw
Fonseca Bay out into the ocean.
Those things can not be damaged by
civil war in Nicaragua.
But there must be some kind of a
story told and this is the best that
can be hatched up. Under such
f1imsy cloaks our fleet mobilizes and
our troops occupy city after city to
protect so-called president who is
known as Wall streets handy man.
Of course what is back of the whole
tragic performance is the spread of
empire. There is new kind of i'm
peralism abroad and it is time it was
understood, particularly by Ameri-
cans.
American imperialism is not con-
cerned with mere territory. 1t is con-
cerned with financial exploitation.
We are confronted by and we are
dealing with new financial imperial
ism, the strongest kind of imperialism
the world has ever known.
The financial wealth and power of
America constitutes just about the
most formidable force in the world to-
day. 1t demands principalities, colo
MES, tributary and subject nations
and peoples.
This is the thing that is forcing its
will upon American foreign policy and
getting its grip on the great portion
of the surface of the known world.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25

"TM GOING to quit mediums" ex-
claimed the Hotel Stenographer.
Have to wear stouts now?" asked
the House Detective.
Kelly" answered the girl, "if l
looked as much like the first five min
utes of country fair balloon ascen-
sion as you, | would never bring up
the subject of figures. was not talk
ing about clothes, but about spiritual
istic mediums
They no longer satisfy They do
not seem to progress with the rest of
the world. Science has given us the
radio, the airplane and orange rouge
SO we get closer to perfection in every
way, but spirit mediums seem to be
getting farther and farther from spirit
land all the time.
Five different ones have told me
that my father was happy in the spirit
land. Three said his name was Pat
rick, and one said his name was
Michael. My father works every day,
and his name is Shamus.
-Four different mediums have made
my grandmother play a tambourine.
She is no longer among the living.
Kelly, but if she plays a tambourine
she learned 1t since she went to the
spirit land, for she was never outside
of Ireland, and tambourine is no
Irish musical instrument
They are always handing me
knocks from grandpa. The old gen
tleman was a kindly old Irishman
who never knocked anybody when he
was alive. All the mediums in the
world can't make me believe he is
happy in the spirit land, and yet all
the time knocking
"They still strut the same old stuff
they always have. Most of them have
an Indian for control or else Little
Bright Eyes who talks baby talk. If
medium would tune in on the spirit
world with radio and give you
something for your so cents, wouldn't
mind, but | am cutting them out and
will just go to an old-fashioned for
tune teller after this
Copyright by the McNaught Syndicate, Ino.)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25

By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. c. The metal
trades are not expected to make big
showing in the shorter work week
movement owing to the postwar re-
action which the unions are slow over
coming, and yet even the steel indus
try has some operations on the five
day basis. A bureau of labor survey
for last year shows 81 per cent of
employees in the iron and steel indus
try on five working turns a week
Some 13 per cent of the employees in
the bar mills have the five-turn week
and about per cent of the pudding
mill workers do likewise.
Progress toward the shorter week
is also shown in foundries and ma
chine shops throughout the land, a
survey of 86,274 workers revealing
35 out of 924 shops on the efficiency
basis, and 4,417 employees thus bene-
fitted. Some shops have the practice
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25
CORRECTION

In last weeks issue of the Press
there was an article stating that
Chas. f. Davis donated to Trades
Council a building bond for $40. This
was wrong. 1t should have read Chas.
A. Davis, 628 Ludlow street, as the
donor. Charlie is a popular member
of the local Carpenters Union and
always ready to go to the bat for his
organization, and the Press feels that
it is only due him that this correction
be made and gladly makes it. Credit
where credit is due, our motor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25
The Cherry
" Where with our
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
fOundly, sometimes flippantl-.
sometimes recklessly.

History is filled with examples of
the doctrine that the weak have no
rights which the strong are bound to
respect.
Of course, in later days at any rate,
the strong always seek to build up
some sort of moral justification for
their assaults upon the weak. This
is because lot of silly twaddle about
right and wrong has got people into
the notion of hating to go out as
brazenly as of old in the fight for
empire.
10 be perfectly candid, there is very
little right and wrong about the bust
ness of empire building. There may
be more or less bluffng and preaching
about superior civilization and that
sort of thing, but imperialism goes it's
way because Of deeper and less alb
stract things.
The case of American conduct to-
ward Latin America is an excellent
example of all this. The march of
empire is under way.
To be sure, there is talk of protect
ing American lives and property
| There has to be something like that.
The 1927 model empire doesn't just
go and grab little nation by the hair
and wiring its neck without building
up at least a semblance of moral
bulwark.
So oficialdom talks about protect
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25
The Five-Day Week
Is Coming

"The best evidence work adaptable
industry the that accepted operative
numerous lines of industry This reorm-the shorter
work week is us'-Wliam Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25
LOUIS NAU
At Hospital Remembered
BY Distant Reader of But
ler County Press

Lou Nau, who is still confined to
Mercy Hospital, was gladdened last
week by letter received from Emil
Gantz, the forme" we'll known Hamil-
ton carpenter con tractor but now a
resident of Miami, Fla, and a regular
reader of the Butler County Press.
Following the letter there arrived at
the hospital for Lou fine box of
oranges from Mr.. Gantz. Following
is the letter:
Miami, Fla
Dear Friend Lou:
| was grieved to learn through the
Butler County Press that you are still
confined to the hospital because of
your injury. No doubt time passes
slowly to fellow who has been as
active as you.
Were / in Hamilton | would cer-
tainly drop in to visit with you, but
as it is otherwise, will do the next
best thing Tin my estimation) by
sending you a small box of concen-
trated Florida sunshine in the shape
of oranges, which | trust you will
enjoy eating.
| am sure you would recover much
faster were you down here and go
fishing with me out on the Tamiami
Trail, where the fish are plentiful and
hungry to take your bait and hook.
We are having spring like weather
now with flowers blooming and mock
ingbirds singing. Am writing this
by the open window and the crickets
are chirping for fareyouwell out
side.
Accept my best wishes for your
early recovery.
Very truly yours,
EMIL GANTZ.
To say that Lou enjoyed receiving
the letter and the fruit is stating it
mildly. He says he is sure the
oranges are going to do much toward
putting him back on his feet
1t was just Al weeks Thursday since
he was taken to Mercy Hospital with
a broken leg as the result of fall
from a scaffold. He is gradually but
slowly improving and hopes to be able
to leave the hospital within the next
couple of weeks. In the meantime
Lou Graves company, and he urges
that his friends call and help while
away the time. Call on him, broth
ers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25
Ohio State Federation Of Labor
LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN No. 3

Tuesday evening, February 14th, a
public hearing took place before the
senate committee on labor in the SEN
ate chamber on S. B. No. 30-Mr. Reb-
man, to declare void yellow Dog
contracts. Trade unionists to the
number of about 800 from all parts
of the state were present. The COM
mittee is expected to report the bill
to the senate the coming week. All
unions, members of legislative com
mittees, etc, are urged to write their
senators AT ONCE, urging them to
vote for the bill.
A public hearing also took place
before the house committee on insur-
ance on the same evening in the house
on H. B. No. 5-Mr. Else, relative
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25

of alternating one full Saturday off
every two weeks rather than a half
Saturday off every week.
Some employers have seen the adj
vantage of not opening the doors at
all on Saturdays and they adjust the
regular working hours to five days in
stead of six days in the week. The
working hours are simply rearranged.
An instance of this which seems to be
working out we'll according to federal
observers is Bridgeport Conn. J
valve factory employing 700 mechan-
les. The men were working 4S hours
a week. The men used to work six
days of eight hours each. Under the
new arrangements they work the 48
hours in five days by putting in 91a
hours four days and 10 hours on Fri
days. The plan was approved by an
almost unanimous vote of the en-
ployers who liked the idea of having
Saturday and Sunday to themselves.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25
UNION LABOR LIFE
In Flourishing Condition On
Final Day of Stock Sale

Washington, d. C.-The original
mark set at $500, 100000, has been ex-
ceeded by $150,000.00. Books closed
finally on February 81. New sub
scriptions are pouring in daily, and
the demand for insurance policies con-
tinues unabated
Actuaries and management are
bending every effort to have the new
offices opened at the earliest possible
moment, and it is believed that about
the first of March transfer of files
and work can be made
The recent directors meeting held
in the executive council room of the
American Federation of Labor con-
sumed three days. A large volume
of business was handled, and the rec
ord of the meeting runs forty thou
sand words.
Policy forms in preparation are as
simple in language as can be devised,
and from an art standpoint reflect
the best taste of the photographer and
photo-engraver combined with the
skill of the printer.
Rate books are almost ready. The
present offices are crowded due to the
necessary augmented force of clerical
assistants.
The best of modern equipment in
office appliances will be installed, and
the new quarters in their splendid
location will be a source of pride in
all interested in this great advance
step for labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25
- NINF1uNUs
Supt. The Marsh Foundation Farm
Cedarville. Ohio

CedarvilIe, Ohio
~ have used 'AA Quality Fertilizers
for a number Of years and have always
found the fertilizers in excellent me-
chanical condition. The bags are al
ways of good quality and handle nicely.
"The yield Of grain and quality has
been very satisfactory whenever used, both
on clay and black ground soils. My
wheat this year yielded p bushels per
acre and ] used 18O pounds of 'AA
Quality Fertilizer per acre"
R. c. Watt
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25
OLD-TIME UNIONIST DIES

Fort Worth, Texas.-James A.
Gowen, outline unionist and member
of the Journeymen Stone Cutters
Association of North America, died
in this city. He served on the execu-
tive board of his international organ
ization for many years.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25

|
A number of trade unionists anC
members of the Fraternal Order OF
Eagles appeared for the bill. Unions
legislative committees, ETC., should
write their representatives asking for
favorable report on the bill.
Public Hearings Next Week
Tuesday, February 22-At 1880 p
M, public hearing will take place
before the house committee on vii
lages in the house on HI. B. No. 103-
Mr. Hill, prohibiting public dancing
on Sunday. This bill will Immediately
affect the members of the Musicians
Unions if passed.
Tuesday, February 22-At 8 p. M,
a public hearing will take place before
| the house committee on codes in the
house caucus room on H. B. No. 73-
Mr.. Marshall, requiring the licensing
of BARRIERS, etc.
Bills not previously reported are;
Explanation: House bills marked
''H B." and senate bills "S.B.")
| No. Description Introducer
Fl. B. 76-Providing for suit to test
the reasonableness of an
order of the industrial
commission fixing a rate
or classification. Referred
to judiciary committee
Vigran.
II. B. 207-Relative to the manage
ment and operation of
mines. Referred to COM
mittee on mines.-Roberts,
belmont Coz
H. b. 216-Providing for a state con-
stabulary Referred to
committee on highways
Mrs. Slagle.
Fl. B. Providing for Australian
ballot at primary elections.
-Woehrle.
II. B. 260-To codify mining laws of
the state. Referred to
committee on mines.-
Roberts belmont Coz
H. B. 261-To provide for the licensing
of private trade schools in
this state. Referred to
labor committee Roberts
belmont Coz
II. B. 269-Relative to establishments
for barbering, manicuring,
messaging, hairdressing
and chiropody, and their
regulation. Referred to
health committee - Mrs
Derr
H. B. 317-Relative to the number of
inspectors of workshops
and actories.-Carpente
S. B. 137-To provide that candidates
for public office shall be
placed on the primary bal
lot by the circulation of pc
titions.-Bender.
S. B. 150-Relating to workmen' S
compensation. Agreed bill.
-heDnldT.
S. B. 151-Relative to mechanics lien.
Herbert.
S. B. 166-To provide for the estab-
lishment and maintenance
of county police force in
the several counties of the
state.-Rebman.
H. J. R. No. 19-Proposing to amend
the constitution of Ohio so
as to pay the cost of the
administration of the work
mems compensation law
from the state insurance
fund-Vigran.
THOS. J. DONNELLY,
Sec.-Treas. and Legis. Agent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25
GLOSS OFF

Will remove the wearshine from
Ladies' and Gents garments. Get
the better kind of Cleaning, Repair
ing and Remodeling done at Kappel's.
1872 N. B street Phone 2617-L
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25
Van Vert, Ohio. Oct. 6. 1926

Have used "A Quality Fertllizers
and have always found them in excellent
mechanical condition and satisfactory in
every respect, giving the desired results.
/ can recommend them to the farmers
of Van Vert County. We used 200
pounds of "A Quality Fertilizer TO the
acre, on 23912 acres, and we obtained
an average yield of A bushels of fine
quality wheat per acre"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-15

monds. 100 grams: rosewater. 100
grams; white wax, 5 grams;
spermacetti. grams; oil Of rose
geranium, 5 grams.
II you prefer, make up just half
this amount. The lanoline, sperma.
cetti and white wax should be
melted in q small graniteware
double boiler. Remove from the
stove and add the almond oil.
Warm it again and add the rose
water drop BY drop, as you would
make mayonnaise, stirring it all
the time. When the cream is
nearly cold. pour It into q wide
mputhed glass or china jar. DO
not pour in the oil or rose gera-
mum until your cold cream Is en-
tirely cold, else the oil will evap.
crate and be wasted. Keep the jar
covered in a cool place.
In the morning, softened cold
water or cold water mixed with a
good skin tonic viii close pores
and prepare your skin for a light
coating OF powder.
This simple but effectlal care az
your complexion, combined with
daily baths. wholesome food and
the outdoor regime have sug-
gested. should, in the course OF
few months, insure for you d
slender, graceful figure, clear
skin and q lovely, natural color.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-15

benefit from the exercise. Make
It a practise also to breathe deep
Of fresh air at every step.
A screened outdoor porch.
which can be used for a dining
room in fine weather and as a
sleeping porch the year round, is
an Invaluable aid to healthful
beauty.
You may come home from
days jaunt out-of-doors with your
skin chapped and wrinkled with
the wind. But a little extra care
OF your complexion that night
should Danish the weather.beafen
look. After cleansing 1t well with
cold cream or olive oil, rub In,
wherever there are wind lines
and wrinkles, some such skin
food as the following:
I1anoline, 10 grams. oil OF al
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-15
Outdoors Is an Aid to Loneliness, Jeritza Ayers
Beware Of jealousy

daily out Of doors and Law up
store Of vitality and good health
which should keep your eyes. hair.
complexion and figure at their
best all winter. Moreover, this
outdoor life should give you
natural color surprising any you
can buy.
Even though you may live in
the city and work hard All day,
there is not the least excuse for
losing the benefits Of outdoor life.
Can You not get up half an hour
earlier and walk part or all the
way to work? Surely you can
take half an hours brisk walk at
noon. And you can walk an hour
every evening.
Try to get to the country or
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-15
Fashion Fads and Fancies

ners are formed OF clear crystal
stones.
Coming Events Cast Shadows
and coming fall purse styles fore.
cast velvet a. the most popular
medium. Mounted on gilded. Or
on imitation amber or tortoise
frames. these bags are usually
developed in pouch shape. al
though some are built along en-.
velope lines. being very flat.
Black Is more favored than coIors.
FOOtDrints N Fashions Sands
most definitely show that the
snnartest shade for fall hosiery.
for daytime wear, Is turf tan. &
This tone blends very well with
the reds and browns that vii be
among the autumn seasons IA
vorite colorings Tor costumes and
accessories.