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The Washington times., 1928-03-09
S Black Cats Escape
Flame; Maltese
Perishes

NEW YORK. March 9.--When
it comes to bringing bad luck to
others, black cats may be the
best in the world, but they sure
know how to win .favors from
Lady Luck for themselves.
Five, coal black members of the
feline family managed to escape
from the basement of the store
Of Joseph Granto, when flames
started to eat their way through
boxes Of groceries and other ma
terials stored there. The smoke
became dense and by the time the
firemen arrived it was impossible
for anyone to enter the cellar.
Granto kept six cats TO keep
the mice away. Five OF them
were black and the sixth was
maltese. The maltese died Of
suffocation but the black ones
were found safe and sound on
the pavement after the fire was
extinguished.
The Washington times., 1928-03-09
u. s. Employees Group
Rams Merger Plan

The central body of the District
Of Colunabia Moderation Of Federal
Employees Unions today Ii on rec
ord protesting against the pending
street car merger.
A resolution passed by the group
sets forth that the proposal to de.
mand d capital xataon Of $50, OOO,O
at Z per cent annual return con-
tains no assurances OF benefits to
the community, but on the other
hand indicates q purpose to exploit
street car patrons.
A committee composed Of b. G.
Hooper. w, 8. Kinney and John II.
Newman 10 appear before the Pub.
lie Utilities Commission and pre-
sent the protest.
The Washington times., 1928-03-09
HITS THEORY OF
GRAWTAT|ON

LONDON. March 9.--William HI.
Parkes. q London janitor, main.
tains that Sir Isaac Newton was
all wrong and that his teachings
on the law OF gravity have misleati
the whole OF the modern scientific
world:
Parkes has devoted ten years OF
his life to the task OF discovering
the exact cause Of gravitation, .
subject upon which Newton said
nothing.
II have at last fatnomed the
cause" he says in book, REVEAL
tons in Astronomy and Gravita-
tion." just published. "Bodies and
particles In space are maintained
by the control Of attractive motion,
instead Of by the pulling force Of
attractive matter, a. indicated 10
the Newtonian theory.
The Washington times., 1928-03-09
Zoo Has Irish Hen
Laying Green Eggs

An Irish" hen which lays green
eggs has been added 70 the Zoo
as q st. Patriclk's Day present.
The EN- n known az an Araucan.
Ian and the species was discovered
In Chile IN 1914.
Its orieian Is unknown. although
1t has been kept Tor many years
BY Chilean farmers ~ . domestic
fowl. The green eggs are about
the size Of thase of q Rhode Island
Red and are said to be excellent
for table purposes.
The hen n distinguished from
others in appe. lnce by b peculiar
growth Of feathers on each side
Of the neck.
invest h hnppinees 90 well - Real
Estate ~ purchasing . home thEeMgn
todAy'e IlmeD an0 AeEaAd Clas8lnea
The Washington times., 1928-03-09
Shock Of 12-FOOt-F Fail
Kills Phila. .IeWeIer

PHILADELPHIA. March 81
Losing his footing at the top Of
. stairway, Joseph Press. proprietor
OF a jeweIry shop, plunged ~ feet
into the basement Of his store and
died from shock.
The Washington times., 1928-03-09

Buy . home for your family today
= Wide offering n listed In tOdny,s
Times and Herald Classified Real Estatc
for sale columns.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
SHOULD SEE ALL SIDES

There is in vogue type of patriot
ism whose proponents seem to think
that supporting the government"
consists solely in standing for what
ever the army and navy department
propose They forget that the de-
partment of state is a part of the
government, and that it is at least
just as much patriotic duty to sup
port it's efforts for world security and
peace.
They also talk much about Sup
porting the constitution" and over
look the first amendment, violating it
by seeking to suppress free speech
when it is within legal and constitu-
tional limits.
Another omission in their philoso-
ply is that national security and de-
fense are fully as much conditioned
on our foreign relations as they are
on armed men and ships.
There is a great need of men and
women who are capable of seeing all
sides of the square and of seeing
things in proportion.-From Bulletin,
Federal Council of Churches.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
Chinan1an First to
Put Out Dictionary

The first extended dictionary of the
English language was published In
1855, representing the monumental Ia
Dor of Samuel Johnson. who died De.
cember II, 1884.
Doctor Johnsons dictionary, which
occupied many years of his life, was
the most remarkable work Of its kind
ever produced by single person.
Noah Webster's American dictionary
was first published In 1923, and Wor-
cesters English dictionary appeared
In 1860.
The first dictionary compiler was
Pa-Out-She, scholarly gentleman OF
Cathay, who fourished about 1000
B. G. He perfected a standard die
tionary of the Chinese language, the
same containing about 10000 charac-
terS.
One julius Pollux compiled Greek
dictionary about A. d. 1T, and pre-
viOuS to this date (about 1OO b. C.)
one Varro made up Latin one. A
polyglot dictionary in eight languages
was compiled about 1900 by Calepini,
a Venetian friar. Vauglas edited the
first French dictionary, issued by the
French academy in 1894. A Spanish
one was issued in l726, an Italian in
1929 and a Russian one In 1889.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
TREACHERY EXPOSED

The United Mime Workers have
met the flank attack of coal owners
allies by calling on local unions to
enforce their constitution and expel
every communist, and to expose their
various activities
Henceforth they must work outside
their union and furnish their own
audience.
The reds revived the ancient trick
of attacking the unions officials while
pleading their love for workers who
elect these officials.
The miners are on strike for more
than a year. They again prove they
are made of stern stuff by scorning
those who have double tongue.
The communists are committing
treason to workers who have suffered
to maintain a living wage and the
right to unite.
The reds "save-the-u union" move
ment is the last word in shameless
ness. Only purchasable men would
start an internal war among workers
who are battling against entrenched
greed.
The communists will now plead for
the sympathy of ginerbread liberals
who have not the slightest notion
what the struggle is all about.
But every man who despises the
sneak will applaud the miners fol-
smoking out the borers.
The communists journeys to pay
masters of anti-union coal owners may
be less frequent since their treachery
is exposed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS

rapid finishing of governmental i'm
provements and stop there, indicating
lack of vision and lack of courage.
Our program is one of complete
ness. We advocate total elimination
of child labor, wage for the adult
sufficient to have the child attend
school, thereby eliminating litter
acy; the discontinuance of manufac-
turing commodities in prison that are
placed on the open market in unfair
competition with free labor; the put
ting into operation of a five-day week,
eight hours daily, so that industry
may absorb the unemployed. The ad-
vocacy of the establishment of the
.five-day week is not intended or ad-
vocated on the principle of health
necessity, but rather of meeting the
improved machine age, with its pro-
ductivity.
There are seemingly but one of two
courses that can be followed:
1st-The above described trade
union program, which means inde
pendence, character building ant
elimination Of charity.
2nd-The alternative of introducing
in this country England's unfortun
ate unemployment experience, the
dole system, which means depend
ence, lack of independence, shiftless
ness, national paternalism.-Ekay.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
Big Executives Haue
Their Oun Troubles

Amos II. Bump assistant general
sales engineer of the Killzem Kat
Trap Associates, Inc, was concentrat-
ing. Upon his nice, clean desk was a
nice, clean pad, and upon that pad IN
q nice, clean hand Mr.. Bump was writ
ing. He paused and surveyed what ne
had written. Then he wrote again.
Miss Vince, his secretary. PADDED
into the room.
"Mr. Schimmel, of Schimmel, Schim-
mel, Schimmel 4 Schimmel, is here,
she whispered. He has luncheon
engagement with you"
Mr.. Bump groaned. He hated hav-
ing a train of thought derailed.
Zone interruption after another" ne
growled. "How Is man to find time
to solve his problems?" And ne
stamped out to greet Mr.. Schimmel.
Upon that desk, on that nice. clean
pad, exposed to the gaze of those who
cared to observe, lay the fruit of Mr.
Bumps morning endeavor. And this
was the message, reading from left t6
right: Amos r. Bump-A. K. Bump
"A. Remington Bump"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
JUGGLED WAGE FIGURES

The bureau of internal revenue re-
ports that 228 millionaires in 1926
paid taxes on a total income of $780,
595,524 Wages and salaries pro-
duced $16,OOO,OOO of this amount.
This is an average wage of $70,350,
and is included in the total amount
paid in wages and salaries in this
country. The same system is used
below the millionaire class. When
workers who are paid less than a liv-
ing wage read of the total wages paid
and the grand average throughout the
nation, they wonder who is getting
the money.
The report of these 228 millionaires
indicates how the average is boosted
and how wages are juggled.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
THEY WILL OBEY?

A group of candy manufacturers
have promised the federal trade COM
mission they will obey the antitrust
laws. The names of the manufactur-
ers are withheld.
The commission adopted its usual
policy when business men are charged
with bribery, trickery, refusing to sell
to certain retailers or stealing COM
petitors' trade secrets.
The commission investigates and If
ground for action is found the busi-
ness men are cited to appear and
agreements are reached without pub
licity. If the defendants are dissat-
isfied with the award they appeal clear
up to the United States supreme
court.
In no case is fundamental guar
antee of the business men denied
Their offenses are violations of statu-
tory law or common law, if not anti
trust law existed.
When workers are charged with
violating the antitrust laws differ
ent procedure is noted.
On the word of an employer strik-
ers are enjoined from doing thing
that would be legal if no strike
exists.
On the word of the same employer
! they are ordered to appear before the
court. They are publicly branded as
doing an unlawful thing and are as.
sumed to be guilty and must prove
their innocence.
The strikers cannot appeal from the
award of the court, who may fine OF
jail at will.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
The Cherry
~ Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
= we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
fOundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly. -.

The Most Voluble President Since
President Roosevelt has made another
speech. He makes speech every
now and then. There is good deal
of humor, perhaps unconscious, about
this business of calling him Silent
Cal. He is as silent as a saXophone
in jazz band.
The Most Voluble President Since,
ETC., had, naturally, to address the
Daughters of those who made the
Revolution famous. He did much
better job than usual, though perhaps
he didn't intend it so.
If Mr.. Coolidge had not been think
ing of Big Business in every moment
of the speech, what he said to the
Daughters, great many of whom
are mothers as well as Daughters, and
great many of whom are very rich
and very aristocratic, the speech would
have been worth gossiping about to
the neighbors.
Listen to these two paragraphs
from the speech which the president
made to the Daughters:
Through regulations and commits
sions we have given the most arbi-
trary authority over our actions and
our property into the hands of few
men,"
"If the people are to remain polit-
ically free, they must be economically
free. Their only hope in that direc-
ton is to keep their own business
in their own hands"
Those are good statements They
echo sentiments many times set forth
by labor organizations in pronuncia-
mentos of great pith and moment.
The first paragraph if we read it
with an understanding Of the growing
bureaucracy of boards and commits
sions, is solemn warning; the second
an even more impressive one.
The president uttered his warning,
however, more as warning to the
people to retain local self-govern-
ment than as a warning to keep in
tact their rights to govern their jobs.
There has come from the White
House in this administration no great
understanding of the meaning of eco-
nomic freedom to the masses of pres
ent-day Americans.
The economic freedom involved in
Pennsylvania, where the masters of
wealth have sundered the most ele-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
TRADE UNIONISM

Trade unionism is the only organ
lied effort in existence that is in COM
plete accord with the need of hu-
manity's material requirements, and
they have far-seeing program-with
clear vision, advocating remedies that
will grant all an opportunity to be
employed in this present serious sit
uation in which the country finds
itself regarding unemployment. Poll
ticians, in an attempt to assist, will
put into operation the starting and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
DID YOU HELP.

At this writing it looks very much
as though filling the city's Commun-
ity Chest is going to prove big
success. Never has there appeared
so much enthusiasm in the Hamilton
citizenry to back the movement and
lend it support to successful conclu-
sion But the thing is, did YOU
help? Surely you don't want to be
among the few who are counted not
in on this good thing. Think of the
world of good that comes out of the
Chest for the unfortunate of the city
especially the women and children
the widows and orphans. Not count
ing the good of upbuilding in the char
acter of our boys and girls-Hamil-
tons future citizens.
While the actual drive towards the
goal closes this evening, yet it is
never too late to do good. Though
your contribution may be little late
coming in, though you send it in to-
morrow or next week, it will receive
the same welcome it would have re-
ceived last week Even though you
haven't been solicited, don't peeve or
excuse yourself for it, but send in
your bit on your own initiative, for
be it known, it is big job for the
workers to get all around and miss
nobody
Look over the following list of
agencies to be benefited, then come in
and feel better for having done So:
Associated Charities, Babies Milk
Fund, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Fresh
Air Camp, Colored Community Cen
ter, Girls Training School, Humane
Society, Mercy Hospital, Public
Health League, Salvation Army,
Y. w. C. A.
HELP HAMILTON HEALTH AND
HAPPINESS.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
SINCLAIR GOES FREE

Harry Sinclair, charged by the gov
ernment with having conspired with
Albert B. Fall in 1922 to lease the
9,321-acre Teapot Dome naval oil re-
serve secretly and fraudulently and by
payments of money to Fall, conspir-
ing with him to defraud the govern
ment, has been freed by a jury in
Washington, D. C.
Here are some opinions of the YER
dict:
Senator Gerald P. Nye: This is
further evidence that it is quite i'm
possible to convict a million dollars
in this country Of ours.
Senator Thomas Walsh: / didn't
see how he could escape.
Senator Thomas Hefiin: Another
farcical performance. You can't keep
the confidence of the people when
authorities permit millionaires to buy
their way out of Jail.
Senator Smith Brookhart: 1t
doesn't change my opinion of his
guilt.
Senator John J. Blaine: Lack of
zeal on the part of the prosecution re-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
Silk Industry Old

According to Chinese records the
filament produced by the silkworm
was first successfully woven by ST.
Ling-Chi, empress of China, In 27OO
B. G. 1t was not until the Sixth cen.
tury that the art Of making silk was
introduced In Europe. In 1909 James
| brought the silkworm and the mul-
berry tree into England and shortly
after this the Company Of Virginia
was formed by group Of Englishmen
to promote the silk industry In the
United States. The first experiment
met with disaster. Four years later,
influenced by the crown, the colonial
legislature passed an act requiring
ten mulberry trees to be planted on
every hundred acres. There was q
fine for neglect of this duty and q
premium for every pound of silk pro-
duced.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
Jury TRIAL FOR STRIKERS

It is a measure of how far we have
drifted from constitutional moorings
that the granting of a jury trial to
the Kenosha hosiery strikers should
be hailed as a great victory for or
ganized labor. For when the consti-
tuition was adopted, this right of trial
bv Jury was in it and it has never
been repealed by the people. Since
the beginning of the Republic it has
been a fundamental right of the citi-
zen and it still is. 1t is not some
thing he must ask as a boon. Yet
in recent years courts have so en-
croached upon the liberties of the peo-
pie that we see men identified with
labor rejoicing because Federal Judge
Geier grants trial by jury in cases
of alleged contempt coming before
him.
In 1922, during the strike Of the
railroad shopmen, men were sentenced
to jail without trial by jury for vio-
lation of the Daugherty injunction,
and those who were then rallying to
the slogan of "smash organized la
bor," hailed the Daugherty injunc-
ton, as did Charles G. Dawes, now
vice-president, as "the new bill of
rights" But two years later when
an appeal reached the supreme court
of the United States, the lower courts
were rebuked. The highest court
held that the provisions of the Clay
ton act, which was adopted to curb
the injunction evil, protected labor
from sentences to jail, whether a
strike is on or not. 1t takes no law
yer to see that it is wrong for any
Judge to act as prosecutor, judge and
/ jury when a mans liberty is in jeop-
ardy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
Chinese SholD Little
Regard for Shrines

Public religion appears to be In
more healthy condition in Japan than
in China. Japanese temples are far
better kept up than are Chinese tenn
pies. One sees many splendid places
of Shinto worship. Apparently Shin
toism Is closely connected with wor-
ship Of the emperor. A magnificent
Shinto shrine has recently been con-
structed on hilltop overlooking
Seoul, the capital of what used to be
called Korea, but is now known as
Chosen.
The japanese on entering temple
inclosure are respectful and seem to
be in worshipful mood. Their shoes
are left outside and they walk either
in their stocking feet or In soft san
dals provided by the temple authori-
ties.
In China, on the other hand, the
temples are usually in bad repair. Fire.
quently they are occupied by soldiers.
In Buddhist temple saw one Of the
celebrated shrines rallied off as a can
teen where the soldiers bought their
cigarettes and sweetmeats. The sa-
cred image itself was partly concealed
by merchandise.
No one thinks Of taking off his
shoes In Chinese temple. One sees
few Chinese worshiping. Apparently
the principle religion is ancestor wor-
ship, and that takes place behind the
scenes I'm the home, where the family
altar represents the place for the
highest type of aspiration. There Is
a sanctity about home life In China
that one does not find elsewhere. -
Senator Hiram Bingham, in Worlds
| Work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
THE USELESS GOOD CITIZEN"


There is certain type of man in
every community who poses as good
citizen. He breaks no laws, lives NOR
ally, pays his honest debts and is
never tangled up with the law in any
manner. But he lives of himself, by
himself and for himself exclusively.
When the call is issued for volunteers
to put across a community movement
and give a boost, he never answers.
When calamity has befallen people
in certain localities and charity flies
to their rescue, he is never one of
their number. When money is needed
for a public enterprise his name is
never on the list. When he sees some
neighbor stuck in the mud he detours
to avoid him.
In fact, if he stood on the shore and
saw the ship of state sinking, he
would never offer to throw out line.
And if all mankind was fashioned
from this same kind of chap, what
would happen? There would be nc
churches, no hospitals for the sick
no institutions for the unfortunate
no progress. If YOU are about to
become useless "good citizen" read
this article over again, and remember
the Hamilton Community Chest drive
| is on.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04
Remembered Famous Jump

Little Kathryn, who was driving
through the country with her uncle,
clamored to be taken back to the city,
claiming that there was nothing to
see In the country.
"Why," said her uncle, trying to dis
tract her attention, 'see all the pretty
cows over in the pasture, and they
can't hurt you because there Is q
fence around Them"
Kathryn was silent moment and
then expressed her skepticism. Huh"
she said. "a cow Jumped over the
moon once, so I don't see why 1t
couldn't jump over fence. Chill
dren, the Magazine for Parents.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04

plest thing is to prevent their talking.
"That was done in Russia long be-
fore bolshevism took charge. The
czars, in the long run, found that it
didn't pay.
"Mine owners may learn, event
ually, that writers of the constitu-
ton knew what was good for this
country. They were not bolsheviki;
far from it, and included conserva-
tive rich men,"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04

mental rights, has stirred no answer
ing echo of protest from the chaste
corridors of the executive mansion.
The slaughter of economic freedom
by the august courts Of the land has
been complete and remorseless, but
the White House has yet to make
known it's resentment. The speech to
the Daughters was not meant to con-
Germ itself with these fundamental
matters.
The present Voluble Chief Executive
is all for freedom for business, for
getting absolutely and with fine
abandon, that where one half is free
and one half is bound, freedom for all
stands on the brink of precipice
from whence the push of destruction
lists may send the whole social organ
ization into the chasm of destruction.
Nobody who has balance and sense
wants business to be unfree. But
neither does anyone who has balance
,, and sense want freedom for business
at the expense of unfreedom for the
masses who toll.
There is about Coolidge a certain
fervor Of attachment to the individu-
4
to individuals who are not rated in
Wall street. And so he gave the
Daughters the usual palaver, which
was just about what most of the
Daughters wanted anyway.
| Very little tea is being dumped into
the harbor days.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04

In this changing age Of machinery,
1t has been aptly put by Manhattan
epigrammatist, many hands do not
make light work light. The weight of
this heavy argument, he points out,
lies In the fact that because Of mod.
ern facilities there no longer is need
for the purposeless handy man about
the house or factory with his inconse-
quential and makeshift antics. In a
word the walls no longer have just
ears but amperes! Electricity is do
ing the work of 35O,OOO,0OO men with.
out losing its temper, its force or Its
friends.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-04

The union label trades department
of the American Federation of Labor
has recently issued new list of firms
and manufacturers making union
labeled goods. Copies of the lists
were distributed among the delegates
at the central body meeting Tues
day night. Every trades unionist
should have one in his home for ref
erence.