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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07
WORDS FAIL

Counsel was defending a prisoner
who had killed a negro boy by hitting
him on the head with brick. The
case against the prisoner being quite
clear, counsel endeavored to get his
client off by making a perfervid
speech. He said
"The responsibility of defending my
client is almost overwhelming. This
morning, as was walking in my gar
den enjoying the lovely sunshine and
balmy air, listening to the birds sing
ing and looking at all the beautiful
bowers, | said to myself: My poor
client, immured in his cell, can see
none of these things"
Just then negro at the back of the
court shouted: Neither can the chap
he hit on the head with brick"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07

tai to the community and those in neec
of what it has to offer. The doors OF
Mercy hospital are open day and night
and those who are in need of service
are welcome-a service graciously
kindly, promptly rendered.
Aside from this service to the sick
and needy, Mercy hospital has an ex-
ceptionally valuable social service and
also conducts baby clinic, minister
ing especially to the needs of those
who cannot pay for the valuable serv-
ice rendered them.
When an institution renders such a
service to the community it is no more
than right that that community should
bear at least portion of the expense
of operating the institution. Hamilton
expresses it's gratitude for the service
of Mercy hospital through the Com
munity Chest, a portion of the funds
of which go to the hospital. The re-
port of the last six months of last
year revealed the fact that the Mercy
hospital had operated during that per-
iod with a deficit of more than thirty
six thousand dollars. Through the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07
Uncommon Sense
BY John Blake
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

THE craze for questions has TO
some extent succeeded the craze
for the cross word puzzles
Industrious editors, or people hired
by them cull out lists of questions, and
submit them to their readers.
The readers sharpen their pencils
and their wits and try to answer them.
The average result from adults is
about twenty correct answers in fifty
The exercise is good exercise, for
some Of the questions which cannot
be answered Indicate very bad mem
cries or very poor reading.
The ability. to supply correct dates
is not very important.
But the knowledge OF what is going
on in the world IS important
And when people discover that they
know what Roentgen rays are, and
thar they do not know the difference
between vitamines and calories, and
that they have not the slightest idea
what John Huss or Calico did to gel
their names into the question lists il
is time to take thought
These questinnnaires give everybody
an opportunity To find out how they
are keeping up" and 10 revise their
reading and thinking methods in or
der atone for what they have for
gotten or what they never read
This is an immensely interesting
world, and it is privilege to know as
much about 1t as the average mind
can know.
One of the worst of all mental vices
is indifference.
Ii is considered funny TO reply
what OF it, when told that the Wright
brothers invented the airplane, and
that Dutch janitor discovered the
first microbe, but ii proves a lack of
intelligence. and a lack of apprecia
lion of life and what life means that
ought TO be cause for shame
The man who gets little out of life
has himself 10 blame.
Even If he knows his own business
and the way 10 succeed In It, he is
ignorant, though he may have made
an abundance of money. Look over
these questions, and try TO answer
them
IL you can't answer the important
ones, there is not only something the
matter with you, but there is some
thing the matter with your capacity
Ia ge all that there Is 10 be got out
Of life.
have known men who have been
twice or three times around the
world, and are still ignorant.
| have known men who have been
through college and are still ignorant
But ignorance OF that kind Is far
from bliss-it Is the possession of an
inferior mind. which Is alf-blind and
',aii-deat aDd which never Is illum
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07
TEXTILE WORKERS
Gain in Membership De-
spite Hard Contest

New Orleans.-The United Textile
Workers are increasing their mem
bership and were never in better finan-
cial condition, said Thomas F. Nc
ton, to the convention Of the A. F.
of l..
Mr.. Mcmahon thanked the trade
union movement for aiding their sue
cessful New Bedford strike.
For six months we continued the
struggle, and this would be impos-
sible without your aid" he said
The speaker urged trade unionists
to patronize the products of the
Naumkeag Manufacturing Company
of Salem, Mass, which manufactures
Pequot sheeting. This concern is 10C
per cent union and refuses to take
part in any wage-cutting movement
that is urged by frenzied dividend
seekers.
Manufacturers of other brands OF
sheets are bringing every pressure or
selling houses and department stores
to reduce their purchases of Pequot
sheets. This program can be defeat.
ed, said Mr.. Mcmahon, if trade union.
lists call for and advertise the Naum-
keag output.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07

Mrs. Fowler don't see any mod
ern Improvement in that strain of
hens.
The Breeder-Why, madam They're
daily layers, non-sitters-
Mrs Fowler know all that, but
when they lay they don't cackle bit
louder than hens did when eggs sold
for fifteen cents a dozen.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07

mated by the real light of ordinary
knowledge
You can't brush up by reading die.
tionaries of facts, but you can by
reading history-and by reading the
newspapers carefully become intelli.
gent. and become company for your.
self as we'll as for your associates.
(Copyright)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07
OUerheafed

First Taxi Driver-I hear Shorty
Manusco is in the horsepital wit
noivous breakdown
Second Bandit-Yeah, tn poor sap
took his wife out in his bus and let
her drive
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07
Advancing Refinement

"Guess wen have 10 change the
name of Crimson Gulch," remarked
Cactus Joe, as he pinned carnation
on the lapel of his dinner coat.
"What'll we call it?"
"We ought to sacrifice the old name
entirely. We nigh. rename 1t pink
Rivulet. Washington Star
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07
Fron, Choerin

Binks-Why are you so sure Julie
wasn't kissed when they turned out
the lights?
Jinks-Because she was the only
girl who was blushing when they were
turned on again!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07
Alfred and EIoiss

Hey, Eloise," yelled Alfred, take
that dog Off the links"
what forP
"He thinks it's up to him to retrieve
all golf balls"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07
A Real Sufferer

Smif-Old Harrison has suffered
more than most men.
Bjones-In what way7
Smiff-Four of his daughters sing
and his only son plays the saxophone.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07
PROTECTION

Anxious Wife-"Abe, have you done
anything about that horrible Black
Hand letter."
Abe-"Oh, amt though. / turned
it over to my insurance company.
They got $4,000 tied up in me; let
them worry"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07
Sympathy Invaluable

Sympathy speaks not only consoling
words but takes the trembling hand
and sends to the heart Of the sorrow
ing the electric spark Of courage t.
fight life's battles alone.-Grit.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07

Community Chest the people of Ham,
ilton give aid to the hospital and help
it meet deficit developed through
service.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07

At the lowest charge possible for
its charity patients, Mercy Hospital
last year accepted loss of $13, ,18084.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07

Girl Scouts are developing the
mothers of tomorrow.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-07

Trials of a Tourist
Mid cities and villages
Though we may roam
There's no place like home.
When the pocketbook's empty.
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18

to substitute internationalism for
sound patriotic doctrine, advocating
new forms of religion or no religion
at all, denouncing the foreign and
domestic policies of the United
States government, Iauding Russia
and everything which emanates
from the red government, teaching
theories which they think are new
but which in matter of fact are as
old as human fraility itself in fact
doing everything possible to weaken
the faith of the people of the United
States in the present economic and
social structure.
This sort of activity has become
fashionable in certain classes of in
tellect who seem to think that de-
structive reasoning is a symbol of
and intelligence. 1t is the
kind of activity that is apt to bring
about an era of social and political
unrest which out and out commun-
ism in America could never accom-
plish. 1t is not to be said, of course
that there should be no criticism of
things as they are. Mankind learns
from the experiences of its own and
the preceding generations and con-
structive criticism, which seeks to
eliminate the bad without annihilat-
ng the good, is not only desirable
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18

who attended from the city were
Thomas Daisey and daughter, Mrs.
Gertrude Eikenhofer.
Capt John Elliott and wife, and
friends motored from Lewes on
Monday and visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilmer Steele.
Mrs. Thomas Hudson and three
children-Kendal, Emory and Eliza
beth and friend, Miss Esther Ford,
of Dover, all motored to Wilmington
and visited Mr. and Mrs. Kover Hud-
son on Saturday.
The Baccalaureate sermon will be
delivered on Sunday morning, May
9th, in Bethel NJ e. Church by the
pastor.
The Commencement exercises will
be held from Bethel M. E. Church
ON Thursday night, May S1st. The
orchestra will furnish
music. The principal speaker will
be James M. Tunnel, Esq, an at
torney of Georgetown.
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
'cMOTH-PROOFING" SOLUTIONS
TESTED BY ENTOMOLOGISTS

There is a widespread interest on
the part of the public in the possi-
bility of protecting clothing and
furnishings from moth damage by
dipping or spraying the fabric with
sO-called "moth-proofng" solutions.
lLOng-continue experiments with
such solutions by the Bureau of En-
tomology Of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture result in
the conclusion that while certain of
these solutions may be considered to
have value for a limited period of
time if properly applied, the effect
is not necessarily permanent nor the
protection absolute.
Whatever value moth-proofng So
lutions possess is impaired to the
fabric by thorough wetting, prefer
ably by immersion. Spraying furni-
ture covers or suitings with weak
sprays that merely dampen the sur
faces or pile Is a method that gives
no practical results. Solutions con-
tanning arsenic in any form are not
recommended. They are not only
likely to be dangerous but they have
proved the least effective of the So
lutions tested by the department.
Among the better solutions tested
are the f1uoride, the cinchona-alka-
loid, and the cyclohexanone solu-
tions. Before attempting to treat
fabrics, especially those belonging to
anyone else, information should be
obtained as to the effect on the fab
ric and as to whether future wash
ing or dry cleaning will remove the
protection impaired.
The prevention of moth damage to
nohair furniture covers has receiv-
ed much attention. Some of the best
covers of animal origin are being
reated by immersian in moth-proof-
ng solutions at the factory It would
seem that the factory is the logical
place for solutions to be applied to
he best advantage. It would seem
wise also for the furniture manufac-
urer troubled with clothes moths to
lse only such covers as have been
actory treated.
1t is difficult, If not impossible, to
thoroughly impregnate overstuffed
lrniture with moth-proofng solu-
ions after the covers are in place,
nd there is the danger of spotting
he covers after they have been in
Sc, and the possibility of dyes run
ing or changing. If moth-prooflng
are to be depended on,
covers only should
3 used. Then, If they merely post
1ne injury for three or four years,
ley will doubtless be worth their I
)st,
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
THE REAL MENACE

In concluding his address before
the national convention of the
Daughters of the Revolution, Cap
tain George L. Darte, Adjutant Cen
eral of the M. o. w. W., said re-
Gently:
'In conclusion-inay 1 say 1 have
no fear of a red army taking posses
sion of our country by force of arms.
1t doesn't have to be done that way!
The same results can be accom-
plished through a Social or Econo-
mic revolution. 1 sound this note of
warning, that unless we take cogni-
zance of what is going on, and wake
up, we are going to get-sometime-
just the sort of government we de-
serve by our apathy"
There is much in this statement
with which the student of American
political and social affairs will agree.
Our danger is not the red army of
Russia or a militant red army in
America. The SNUG American, Sc
cure in his home and his club, who
answers all questions Of doubt by
that no red army Will dare
attack the United States, is shooting
away from the mark.
Communism does not grow by
frontal attack, and could not so
grow in America. If our present fab
ric of government ever is changed
it will not be by red revolution, but
by a gradually sapping away of the
general belief in the ideals of cur
government and our social order.
And there is more sapping of this
Kind being done than the SNUG, nom
believing American imagines. At the
bottom, comparatively few in num-
Der, are the out and out social rev.
But in the ascending
scale are thousands of others busy
)oring from within, seeking to cast
loubt on constitutional government,
N our religion, on the home, on the
heory of individualism and every
,ther element which goes to make
Ip modern society. These borers are
lot all of the same stripe or the
anne complexion, nor are they all
ocated in the same social strata.
iome of them even are in our
chools and colleges, and our
hurches, sneering at patriotism,
idiculing our histories, attempting
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
Sweet Cream Butter

Do you know that great deal OF
butter nowadays is made of sweet
cream instead of sOured, or ripened,
cream? The custom of letting cream
sour before making butter from 1t
developed centuries ago, probably as
a matter of necessity rather than Of
choice, and the use Of starter in
developing bacteria, in order that
the butter might acquire the desired
acid flavor, became a general prac-
tice. About forty years ago tine
State experiment stations began
making sweet-cream butter from
raw cream and found that it was of
good quality and flavor. In 1905 the
Department of Agriculture carried
on work to determine the keeping
qualities of sweet-cream butter, and
found that if made from unrjpensd,
pasteurized sweet cream it would
keep at least eight months in stor-
age at 20 F. AS a result Of this
work the Navy Department adopted
the practice of buying large Quanti-
ties Of sweet-cream butter and plac-
ing it in storage. At the present
time number or creamerleS IN WHAT
has always been considered sour
cream territory are grading cream
and making some sweet-cream but
ter. In New York City most OF the
butter dealers now handle some
sweet-cream butter and during the
cold-storage season particularly,
buyers are eager to obtain butter Of
this kind. An association Of cream
cries reports that in 1926 it sold ov-
or 50,00O,000 pounds Of sweet-cream
butter in various cities of the United
States. In the beginning, butter
criticized this kind of
outter because it lacked the high
1avor and aroma of the ripened
,ream butter, but now an increasing
lumber OF butter dealers each year
ire handling it and it is rapidly
aiming in popularity.
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18

but essential for progress. But the
boring away which has for its pur-
pose the weakening of the entire
social, economic and political srruc-
ture is something else. 1t is harmful
in its effects and designedly so, and
if it is not met in America by the
right sort of doctrine in return, we
may indeed, as Captain Darte has
said, wake up some time to just the
sort of government that we have de-
served because of our apathy.
TEL 'Dw yoD sazD IL in the Chronicle.
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
Woodland Farming

What is the importance Of the
woodland in the business of farm
ing? The Forest Service, United
States Department of Agriculture,
lists some of the more important adj
vantages of a well-managed farm
woodland as follows:
They can play a useful part in di-
versified farming. Cotton farmers in
the South faced by falling cotton
prices following the war were fortu-
nate if they had woodlands to turn
to.
Farm woodlands will often pro-
duce a profitable crop on lands
otherwise useless for agriculture.
The price of standing timber has
always been more stable than that of
any other land crop.
Farm woods produce a valuable
product -timber-readily salable for
cash.
The farm woodland affords the
farm owner winter employment at
time when other work is relatively
slack.
1t enables him to grow on his own
land and without cash outlay con- /
part Of his timber and fuel
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
FARM NEWS

Experiments in feeding alfalfa hay
as green under irrigation in the Yak
ina Valley in Washington showed
that the hay was most digestible and
had the highest percentage of pro-
tein if cut when the plant was in
one-fourth bloom. But the highest
yield of digestible protein per acre
resulted from cutting when the
plants are in one-half bloom. If al
lowed to grow until the bloom is
three-quarters developed the hay is
more desirable for horse feed but
the protein decreases and the indi-
gestible fiber increases.
RSR
One of the interesting sights con-
nected with last years floods in the
Mississippi Valley, according to a
Department of Agriculture entomol-
gist stationed in Louisiana, was the
migration of countless numbers of
ants. Almost all the plans in the
flooded fields were covered with
great numbers of ants, which climb
ed up as the water rose and gather
ed into balls at the tops of the
plants. The ants finally formed into
compact masses which f1oated away,
and were drowned after the water
engulfed the plants. Certain ants
are the greatest natural enemy of
the boil weevil in the Mississippi
Valley, and in former years when
floods have occurred the most strik-
ing after-effect has been unusual
boil weevil injury for several years |
apparently due to the dis
astrous effect of the overflow on the |
ants.
We know that foods containing
rancid fat are unpalatable, but how
IAN fats be prevented from becoming
'ancid? The precautions are very
simple. The main thing is to keep
lir away from the fats as much os
possible. Fats in cans that have
,een sealed in a vacuum or in COM
,lete1y filled containers with air
light covers, such as fruit jars, will
.eep indefinitely without becoming
ancid. In some instances, as in
ase of lard in pals, the fat itself
lay seal the cover and reduce the I
xposure of the fat to the air. If it ;
improbable to exclude the air en- |
rely from the fat, refrigeration and 1
will delay the development {
{ rancidity. Heat, light, and con- t
lct of fat with uncoated metals
asten the development of rancidity, f
} that under exceptionally adverse S
1nditions a fat may become rancid C
a few hours. While the first steps | a
the development of rancidity are S
1t apparent to the senses, the keep d
g quality of a fat suffers with eX- b
)sure to the air until finally the fat n
.quires a disagreeable, taIlowy, u
,netrating odor and flavor which
e call rancid.
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18

If you can't be a sun be a star.
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18

Tell ',w yoD 'aeO it in the Chronicle.
The monitor., 1928-04-13
AN IMPORTANT WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS

The postal regulations require that for newspapers
to be sent through the mails subscriptions must be paid
in advance reasonable time thirty days. is allowed
for renewals At the expiration of this period, where
subscriptions are renewed the paper must be stop
ped If this DONE postal privileges denied the
publication Those therefore, who desire to continue
receiving The Monitor must to it that their subscrip
tons are paid the law requires, in advance State
ments are being sent to all those who owe, col
lector will cal-and unless your subscription is paid
we will be compelled to cut off your paper which, of
course, we do not want to do.
We, as publishers, MUST comply with the law or
pay the penalty
The monitor., 1928-04-13
HOWARD TO GET
AN APPROPRIATION

Washington, d. C.-The restora-
ton of an item of s390,000 for How
ard university in the Interior Depart
ment appropriation bill seems certain.
The House recently approved the res
toration of the item which was
stricken from the bill on point of
order by Representative Lowrey,
democrat, of Mississippi.
When the bill reached the Senate
the Howard appropriation was re-
stored in the measure. Later, when
the bill went to conference, the
House conferees agreed to let the
Howard item remain. The House
ratified their action.
Some controversial items in the bill
have delayed it's being sent to the
president for his signature.
The monitor., 1928-04-13
THANKS HIS SUPPORTERS

| take this method of expressing
my sincere thanks and gratitude to
all who worked so earnestly and faith
fully for me or voted for me in the
recent campaign. l can never repay
the numerous volunteer workers who
gave their time and in many in
stances their cars in their endeavors
to re-elect me to the state legisla-
ture. While defeated by a narrow
margin of votes, am gratified that
the members of my race showed their
approval of my legislative career by
the vote given me. l highly prize this
mark of confidence and approval.
My campaign was conducted upon a
high and honorable plane so that
neither / nor my friends have any
thing to regret. / congratulate my
opponent, DIR. Mcmillan, upon his
victory, and as it is highly important
that our race should, if possible,
maintain our representation in the
legislature, / pledge him my support.
Sincerely and gratefully yours,
JOHN A. SINGLETON.
The monitor., 1928-04-13
LETTERS FROM GU RREADERs


Editor of The onitor:-Will you
kindly accept my grateful thanks for
the whole hearted support accorded
me in my fight for nomination for
the office of public defender, and,
too, will you convey to those friends
and well-wishers who not only voted
for me, but who also worked in
cessantly that / might win, my fur
Their thanks. Tell them am not dis
couraged, but that the fight for just
representation in the administrative
life of the country shall be carried
on with a greater vigor and determin-
alton, and that !, Amos P. Scruggs,
shall ever contribute my effort and
money that such recognition shall be
contaminated.
To those of my friends who failed
in their sacred duty of registering
and voting, thereby contributing, by
their neglect, to the continued dom
nance of those who have all and con-
cede to our group so very little, l
humbly urge to Awake, arise, or
be forever fallen.
AMOS P. SCRUGGS.
The monitor., 1928-04-13
A GRATUITOUS INSULT

The n a ton a | republican
committee has insulted the Ne
groes of the United States by
yielding to the prejudice of
that provincial little burg on
the Kaw which invited the ma
tional republican convention
to be its guest and promised
courteous treatment to all del
egates. The local committee
bowed to the refusal of Kansas
City hotels to admit Negroes
who Nigh be members of state
delegations as guests. Protests
poured in to the national COM
mittee not only from self
respecting Negro delegates but
from broad-minded white peo-
pie, of whom, thank God, some
few still remain. Our race
newspapers from coast to coast
have opposed this un-republican
innovation and discrimination.
The national republican COM
mittee recently met in Kansas
City with the local committee
and agreed to the Jim Grow
arrangements. National Chair