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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27
ORPHANS AND AGED
Tell Tragic Stories Rivaling
Dickens Tales

New York City (ILNS)-True sto-
ries of almshouse life, told by social
workers in the Harmon Foundation
and Social Work Publicity Council
contest, show conditions as shocking
as those portrayed by Dickens.
DIR. Eva Reid, California University
psychiatrist, won the $500 first award
with the story of Anna, taken to an
orphanage at 2, came near losing her
sanity as the result of long continued
brutality. The tot was fed mostly
skim milk and moldy bread. At 8 she
was put to scrubbing floors and wash
ing. At 10 she was EARNED out to
a friend of the warden. Then followed
beatings and branding with fam
ing stick. She was rescued in the
nick of time, emaciated, nearly blind,
reason almost gone. She is now a
successful highly paid nurse.
An equally sordid story of south
ern almshouse inmate is told by Har-
old j. Matthews, secretary, state con-
ference of social work, Columbia,
Miss. He depicts starvation, over
work, neglect, beatings. His true
story won second prize. Third went
to Lillian F. johnson, Nebraska child
welfare director.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27
ALL-YEAR SCHOOLS
OPPOSED BY LABOR

Milwaukee.-Organized labor op-
poses the local school boards eff
cheney" plan to have schools operate
the entire year. The scheme was pro-
posed several years ago, but failed
because of the workers protest.
This is masked speed-up sys-
tem," trade unionists declare. much
has been said about school buildings
lying idle three months in the year,
but manufactures in this city often
close for longer periods. We do not
want the factory piece system trans
ferred to the schools with the chill
dren crowded through rather than be-
ing given education that will stay
with them because it is understood" /"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27

dren are carely if ever seen together
now at social functions and that they
are seldom seen at theaters or in
church in the same groups.
"But we did it, anyway he mur
murs In q tone of somewhat sup
pressed wonder that 1t could ever
have been possible!
And this is as he recalls it:
The evening was cool and crisp !;
the sky bright and cloudless, the
ground covered with snow. heavily
crusted.
Consciously, he was not aware that
this was different from any other
night. Yet subconsciously he realized
something was unusual. He might see
many more New Years eves-as, in
deed, he has been privileged to do
passing of an old century, with its
great epochal struggles and moment
Gus achievements. and the arrival of
a new one with clean slate upon
which humanity must transcribe its
record Of accomplishment - what
would the next one be?
White, and unmarked the page of
an unwritten book-the year-spread
before him. He was to be one of the
worlds billions of people to have part
in transcribing new record.
The thought was impressive.
broad grin sweeps his face, un
noticed hy others In the room The
m tight and the cracking warmth
,hc tircside made all drowsy Late
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27
FEW STRIKES IN ITALY
SAYS FASCIST FRIEND

New York; There are few strikes
in Italy, since disputes are settled by
arbitration" declared former Judge
John j. Freschi, in an address to the
conference on immigration policy.
The judge could correctly have said
"There are no strikes in Italy," as
Mussolini has wiped out the legiti-
mate trade unions and installed Fas-
cisti labor organizations that are Off
cered by government papointees.
The arbitration, referred to by the
judge, is compulsory, and if the work
ers strike they are jailed.
These corrections may be minor
matter to dictators and their defend
ers, but they are of first Importance
to men who believe in freedom.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27
i he
New Year
and Evolution
By
w. D. Pennypacker

.NHf-7T WAS more than q quarter
h1 century ago that John, q
E4nJ young man then. saw the
kqa97 present century ushered In.
AS man of mature years now, he
looks back to that epochal midnight
with interest.
1t seems strange that that New
Years eve appeared different from
any other in his life. And yet, the
reason is not far to seek. There could
be no other such midnight in all his
life.
No other century would be ringing
for him with such clamorous din of
bells and whistles.
AS he draws his chair close to the
cheerful wood fire, the smoke from
which has given the room an aroma
as of resinous incense, he cannot but
become reminiscent. Before him are
mental pictures imprinted upon his
mind twenty mine ,'ears ago-pictures
which the coming and going of many
winters and the joys of as many sum
mers can never efface.
For more than decade prior to
1900. John. his parents, and groups
nd
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27

10 the coming IN OF the new century
1t is only another New Year now
Mileposts seem much closer than they
did then. He has seen many of them
so many. in fact, that they mean
little except TO suggest in its widest
sense, common brotherhood of all
mankind.
When Alice and Jack returned home
in the wee hours the color was just
coming into the eastern sky They
wished Dad a happy New Year-and
they meant il sincerely-though, both
were conscious that he belonged TO a
different epoch.
The breaking day, with an auspi
ciouS opening, was happy one fol
the entire Ross family, and all were
conscious that il marked more than .
New Year-they sensed that il marke
the beginning of another cycle In tn.
evolution of the race.
&C. 1929. Western Newspaper Unonl
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27
MORE GROUPS
INSURED

Washington (ILNS)-Three new
group insurance policies have just
been wittten by the Union Labor Life
Insurance Company, it is announced
at the company's home office. These
are:
Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers'
Union No. 5, Detroit; Stage En-
ployes' Union No. 304, Hampstead, L.
l., N. Y; Des Moines Fire Fighters
Union No. a.
In addition to group policies writ
ten, the company announces an en-
tirely satisfactory trend in the writ
ing of individual insurance, with
agencies throughout the country re-
doubling their efforts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27

hours and wild festivities are no part
of the present life Of one who had
reached adult life when the bells
changed and whistles footed, and horns
blew, as 1900 was ushered in.
Children, and in some cases grand
children are out in the wild jazziness
of the night. Every one is doing IT,.
he thinks, but himself. A world pleas
ure-mad is seeing new years arrival
amidst gaiety and thoughtless frivol
that is astounding 1t is all In the
way we are brought up, he admits. to
himself, and is broadminded enough
to recognize that with the turning of
the wheel of time gradual but none
the less effective evolution has taken
place. He Is conscious that the
Young man and young woman of t"
day those of the flapper age he calls
it-are as different in their thoughts
and mental reactions as are our pres
ent highly bred domestic animals and
their prehistoric ancestors of the
Stone age
AS he takes another long pull on hi>
friendly pipe there is glow followed
by dense cloud of smoke. The curl
ing rings ascending in the half Iigh
of lessening fire give the appearance
of. and, in reality, cause the full effecl
of dreaminess. His mind flies back
ward and he is again In the happs
events and great accomplishments OF
the past.
How long John sleeps in the quie!
room. while younger members of his
family are out to welcome Ne"
Year, we could not say. In the op
pressive silence, the tick of the man
tel clock can be heard distinctly. It's
regularity would not suggest that
year is dying, nor would ii suggest
the joy of the coming of New Year
and the possibility of 1880 being one
IF earth's happiest New Years.
Save for the clock. all is Sileni
rhen there is the outbreak of
Whistles, the din of tin horns and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27
A Private Tutor

Helen was five years old and was
not old enough to go to school. She
was somewhat envious of several
neighbor children who started to
school this year.
After school in the evenings and on
Saturdays Helen had listened to the
wonderful accounts of her sophisti-
Gated little friends until she felt that
she must defend her Enlightened pre-
school age.
Il don't think | shall ever go to
school," she volunteered one day.
Daddy knows everything, so | think
that I'll just stay at home and let him
teach me-"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27

rAAh1 - RACE DASl iUUkcu up IIoH
I ri her office desk into the eyes
lXYI of a strange young man.
He was smiling down on her.
Would you please write me a let
ter tomorrow? Pm going home for
the holidays, and here's my ad-
Dress" depositing slip of paper be-
fore her.
Grace stared incredulously. "Such
impertinence don't even know
you'll"
al don't mean to be impertinent.
really. / can't explain now why I'm
making the request, but / will on my
return after Christmas"
But"
sIt is most important that receive
at least one letter from you. Say
anything you wish, but please write :"
He left without another word and
Grace sat motionless, staring after
him. There was no one In the office
to talk to, so she just stared and
wondered.
Finally, she picked up the slip bear
ing his address and read: "Ben Ora
ham, Avondale, Kentucky"
Where had she heard that name be
fore? Somewhere. surely. HE was a
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27

NJ >. II VI q
nent. protracted
nto ten minutes OF
m, re the darkness
If the night is rent
with distractin4
noises.
John rouses with
a start. His pipe
has fallen to the
iloor. and the fire
is out. He is still
llGne.
AS he mad dozed
away John had, In
fancy, been back in
the old days. He
mad returned TO his
YOU & manhood
and the dig recep
tiOn every one gave
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27

Haddaway, secretary of board OF mis-
sions of the Methodist Protestant
Church. The plnat prints several re-
ligious publications under conditions
that have been condemned by the
Federal Council of the Churches OF
Christ.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27


older folk In q
small town met for
a social evening
and remained TO
welcome In the
New Year. 1t was
in those old-fash-
ioned times when
young folks and
their elders fire.
quently spent so
cial evenings to
gether.
AS John peers
into the ruddy en-
bers he wonders If
such things could
be possible now.
He knows that
parents and chill
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27
PRINTERS LOCKED OUT

Baltimore.-Th Stockton Press, a
local commercial printing office, lock-
dout several members Of the Typo
graphical Union, who have been re-
placed by low-wage non-unionists.
The chairman of the company's board
of directors is Rev. DIR. George w.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27
Equipped for the Job

The Boss. can't take you ON as
collector You have criminal record
as stickup man.
The Applicant-But think OF my
experience. Day or night, with my
little gat, / always got the money.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27

The mstallment Buyer-How much
Is this hat?
Clerk-It is $40 cash.
Mrs. /. B.-And how much by In
stallments?
Clerk-Fifteen dollars. Ten dollars
down and one dollar a week for five
weeks.-The Outlook.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27
Preferred Her, Anyway

Youth would like to marry your
daughter, Mr.. Lambs.
MIR. Lambs-My friend, IL think
you mad better meet my wife first
Youth have sir. And ! still wani
to marry your daughter
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27

The Dowager-W What has become of
Mr.. Gadabout? He used to be quite
q society lion.
The Old Tea Hound-He doesn't go
out any more. He married a society
Lion tanner
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27

After New Years the country can
settle back to a long run of hard work
with no disturbing influence until the
appearance of the vacation literature
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27
Travelling to the Light

Into the cloud there comes a rift
That shows the suns bright ray,
When some one gives a friend lift
Along the stormy way.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27
Entitled to Cover Charge

The farmer, having provided the
viands for dinner on New Years eve
insists on inquiring why he cannon
claim share in the cover charge
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27
FRIED CRISP WITH EGGS

Miss Belle Letters-How do you like
Bacon, Mr.. Smith.
Mr.. s. (more given to eating than
reading) crisp with eggs, Miss
Belle.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27
Her
New Years
Surprise
BY
Lily Rutherford Morris

A@ RACE DAVIS looked up from
&1 ri her office desk into the eyes
49, of strange young man.
IT. x,,ac -p,iljpo down On her
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27

1T WAS more than a quarter
century ago that John, q
young man then. saw the
} nrasent century ushered in
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-06
Jail Awaiting
Harry Sinclair
BY KENNETH G. CRAWL ORD
UNITED Press Staff Correspondentl

WASHINGTON, May 8. W.P) =
Final papers ordering Harry f. Sin.
clair, millionaire oil operator, to be-
gin serving his 90 day sentence in
the Washington jail were issued to.
day by Justice Hitz in the District
of Columbia supreme court.
AS Justice Hitz signed the Sim
clair commitment order, he turned to
District Attorney Rover and said:
"All right, the sentence is effec-
tive
Rover then turned the order to [.
S. Marshal Snyder.
Meanwhile at the jail a score or
more persons gathered to wait for
Sinclair to appear. y battery OF
movie cameras was set up and talk
ing picture apparatus was hooked up
to record for eye and ear the i'm
pending answer to the adage of the
skeptics, "You can't put hundred
million dollars in jail"
Half an hour after the commit
ment order was signed there was
still no authentic word as to where
Sinclair was.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-06
TO
MEASURE SPEED
OF LIGHT BEAMS

CHICAGO, May 6. W,P)-Prof. A.
A. Michaelson, physicist who clocks
the speed of sunbeams, leaves to-
morrow for Pasadena, Calf, 10 con
duet his newest experimenting Of 4
light ray of five round trips through
tube mile long
Prof. Michaelson, 76 years old,
calculated in 1926 that the speed of
light is lS6,2S4 miles an hour but
was not satisfied with that figure,
although the margin of error was
estimated at one-third of an inch
in a distance of A mixes
This time the noted scientist will
construct a tube, three feet in dia-
meter and q mile long. The light
ray will be reflected through the
tube, which is to be a vacuum, for
five round trips or 10 miles.
"The vacuum probably will cor
rect the speed of light one or two
parts in million,' Prof. Michael,
son said And will serve as a
check on the first experiment.
While in California he Will re
peat his ether drift experiment
which formes the basis of the
theory of relativity. The experiment
this time will be conducted on a
mountain to determine whether
there is any difference in results
obtained at sea level.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-06
RANCHER SUFFERS
WOUND IN NECK
FROM BOYS GUN

Basil Speers Meloland rancher
was painfully injured yesterday af-
ternoon while driving with his fam
lily near the Acacia school when he
was shot in the neck by George viii
kerson, - year old boy who was
testing out his 30 calibre rifle.
The bullet that wounded Speers
first hit che side of the car and
then richocheted striking the ranch
cr on the left side near the jugular
vein.
The wounded man was taken to
the FL Centre hospital where the
bullet was extracted and he was
then permitted to go home.
According to Deputy Sheriffs Tom
Sharp and j. S. Tucker who investl'
gated the affair Speers did not know
what struck him and endangered the
life of his family. At first it was
thought that he had struck some
thing on the road and that a piece
of rock had wounded him.
However, the deputy shcriffs Wis
tied several homes near by and after
questioning the families they learned
that George Wilkerson and Johnny
Weiss, 10, had been shooting birds
near the school house.
At first the boys denied having
fired near the road but later George
admitted that after firing at bird
flying low he had seen the Speer ear
stop and Mr.. and Mrs. Speers get
out.
The two boys were brought to FL
Centre and lodged in the juvenile
detention ward of the county Jail.
1t is expected that no charge will be
made against them but that they
will be given severe lecture and
allowed to return home.
speers, this morning, is said to be
recovering from the wound.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-06
IN
FLORIDA SAID
TO Be SERIOUS

b. A. Harrigan received the fol-
lowing night letter from P. V. Har-
rigan who is in Florida studying the
methods of control of the Mediter-
ranean fruit fly which is causing
such damage in that region.
"Situation serious. Am doing ad-
vance scouting inspection. Have
worked districts in three counties.
Find fly everywhere. Abandoned
groves in woods and thickets heavily
infested. No irrigation necessary,
consequently trees never die. Pre-
liminary inspection barely started
Spreading out fast as competent men
available. All fruit in known in
Tested zones being gathered and
dumped in huge pits and covered.
Believe every citrus district may be
found infested after inspection and
many wild plants may prove hosts.
Several California commissioners
sent to distant counties. Certified
shipments leaving here daily. Eradi-
cation problematical. VIII take two
years under favorable conditions. In
tested fruit drops from trees and de-
Gays within few days after being
stung. This pest spells ruin to near
ly all fruit crops when once estab-
ished. Inspectors found 700 flies
on one tree and 100 pupa under
same tree. Unable to count larvae in
fruit. Conditions here could not be
worse. General inaccessability to
many paintings aggravates clean
up"
A carload of fruit from Florida,
inspected in New Orleans, was found
to contain the fruit fly and conse-
quently more rigid lines will be
drawn in California than ever.
The fruit fly is costing each coun-
ty in Florida $4,000 per day in con-
troll alone, according to Harrigan.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-06
KLWANlS CLUB
TO ENTERTAIN
HERE TONIGHT

Final arrangements We're com
pleted today for the Kiwanis Glee
Club program to be given tonigh.
at Fox Imperial Theatre, stirling
at 40.
A score of prominent business
men, members of the kiwanis
singers, were taking time off from
their usual duties to practice up on
high and low notes under the di-
rection of John G. Canton, to make
certain that everyone would be in
best singing form tonight.
"Not u dull minute in the en-
tire program is the way Earl
Jones, president of the KiwaniS
club reported "From the time the
clock clicks 7:30 until couple of
hours later, those who attend the
program are going TO have some of
the best entertainment offered in
FL Centro in many Il month
The kiwanis Glee club of 20
voices, together with the Kiwanis
quartette, will be heard in a num-
Der of popular songs which have
already established the singers
reputation on a firm basis III Impe-
rial Valley. Wandering Singers
Patrol,' > "Winter Song ANA
other favorites will be sung by the
glee club, with the quartette offer
ing a number of specialties.
\ novelty number will introduce
Ralph Maynard and his orchestra in
a number of snappy hits, assisted
by Claire Newkirk, danseuse, and
the Kiwanis singers. A surprise "
feature of this number is certain to
prove popular with the audience.
"A Night In Old Mexico" re-
counted in detail in Saturday 5
Press, will form the third part of
the program. A group of excellent
vocalists and musicians will pre-
sent the Spanish songs which find
particular response from Califor-
MIA audiences. Elaborate costuming
and stage effects make certain to
provide the proper atmosphere for
this part of the program.
Nina Canton will act as accom-.
panist for the glee club ana for
ether musical numbers.
Gets Good Film
When the Kiwanis program was
planned, Manager Herb Norris, of
Fox Imperial Theatre, who is a
Continued on Page Six)
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-06
OIL PRODUCTION
IN THREE STATES
TO BE CURTAILED

LOS ANGELES, May 6. U.P)--
Texas, Oklahoma and California,
producers of 50 per cent of the oil
in the United States, will take con
certed action to curb overproduction
of petroleum in accordance with
President Hoover's conservation
order, Mark l.. Requa, former di-
rector general of the oil division of
the United States fuel administra-
tion during the war, announced to,
day.
In collaboration with George Otis
Smith, general director of the Uni
ted States geological survey, Requa
has planned conference with
heads of the oil industry in these
three states. 1t is hoped a compact
will be agreed upon to control their
respective oil production quotas.
TO make this agreement legally
binding, the governors of each state
will be asked to add their opinions
to the conference and to urge that
the program eventually arrived at
be made a statute of their state
governments, it was learned.
The present conference was plan
ned at the request OF Secretary of
Interior Lyman Wilbur and Presi,
dent Hoover, Requa said, and is
favored by each of the three gov
prnOrS
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-06
THRILLS GALORE
EXPERIENCED BY
BALLOON PILOTS

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 8. W.H
Near tragedies in the air during
hours of drifting through rain,
wind and hail storms were told to-
day in reports received from the
pilots and aides in the - balloons
which left the University of Pitts
burgh stadium Saturday in the ma
tional elimination balloon race.
Reports from 10 of the ~ pilots
had been received here today at
race headquarters, giving the loca-
ton of the landing and telling of
their experiences. The other two
balloons the Detroit Times" with
F. j. Hill as pilot and A. G.
Schlosser as aide, and "Thc Navy
No L. piloted by Lieut.. T. G. w.
Settle and Ensign Wilfred Bush
nell-either remained in the air or
they have landed and the pilots
have been unable to report to head
quarters.
Capt. H. f. Honeywell, who
piloted the "St. Louis balloon,
with the aid of Roland J. Gaupel,
landed his balloon near MiddleseX,
\. Y, 225 miles from Pittsburgh
yesterday after thrilling experien-
ces in the air.
We landed roughly two miles
cast of here after a flight in which
we rammed into mountain, battled
wind, snow, rain and fierce bliZ-
zard,' Captain Honeywell report.
ed. Owe also narrowly escaped be-
ing dumped into Lake Canandia'
qua.
"Our stetoscope was broken, our
compass waterlogged, our baro-
meter was jumpy and all our per-
sonal belongings had been thrown
overheard by the time we landed. "
Lieut.. L. G.. Ent, the aide of
Capt. w. J. Flood. pilot of the
Army No. l" balloon told of
their landing near Ellenville, y.
y, after 24 hours of flying.
Lieutenant Ent said both he and
Captain Flood were thrown out of
their basket when it caught in a
tree during the landing.
eve drifted through rain, snow
and hail, narrowly escaped being
struck by an airmail plane near
Williamsport, Pa, and we were
nearly dumped out Of our basket
when our drag rope caught in q
tree Lieutenant Ent said in his
report.