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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06
GROUP LIFE INSURANCE

Announcement that the United
States government may provide group
life insurance for government en-
ployes is of tremendous Importance.
1t is true that the government bung-
led the war risk insurance, but any
private company that was at the same
time engaged in fighting a world war
might also have bungled. That means
little in regard to the present plan.
War risk insurance gave life in
surance as a whole tremendous for
ward impetus. So, no doubt, would
the new plan. The success of the
plan would depend upon the number,
or percentage, taking the insurance,
| if it is left to voluntary action.
Private life insurance is, for the
most part, sold through agency men
and much money goes into commits
sions. The government undoubtedly
can beat this, if it adopts proper
insurance principles. Even if the
| plan never materializes, it has serv-
ed a good purpose. 1t has proclaimed
to the country that insurance is not
only good thing, but it is a neces-
| take the lesson to heart. In the
Union Labor Life Insurance Company
they have their own union insurance
organization from which they can get
good insurance at once, at as neal
cost as insurance can be written.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06
EUROPE DEFENDS MUNITION
SECRECY

Fighting in a League of Nations
commission on armanents, Americans
and Canadians have just been finding
out, if they don't know it, that
Europe wants free reign to secretly
make all the munitions that can be
thrown together. The New World al
nance succeeded in forcing publicity
for the number and weight Of arma-
ments, privately made and state made.
but they put it over by the skin
of their teeth. Europe fought hard
to keep secret forever the output of
state-owned plants. 1t is gratifying
to find that Americans fought for q
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton. Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O..
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1929
THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT

The nationwide hook-up by the
National Broadcasting Company of
Labor Day speeches by President
Green and Secretary Frank Morrison
is significant.
So is the trade union membership
gain So are the fve-day week gains,
the general acceptance of labor's
high-wage theory, the value OF hu-
man life, the dignity of work and
an awakened social consciousness.
Labor's advance is evident to all,
save those who refuse to see.
These alone cling to ancient tails
mans that are abandoned and pet
shibboleths that are discarded.
At no previous Labor Day could
we announce more substantial prog
ress or could we say wage earners
assumed a more realtic attitude to-
ward their problems-and their foes.
Never before has labor been more
confident in itself; nor has it had such
faith in trade union effort.
Labor has not changed its policy
former opponents have. Economic
forces that are beyond mans con
troll. have also aided labor.
The workers stand today as they
always have-urging organization
education, mediation and arbitration
In bygone days they were scorneo
as 'step-at- atimers" by revolution.
lists, and refusing big problems" by
the dilettante and so-called liberals.
But they reckon with economic
forces and the evolutionary character
of our social organism Principles
they then urged are either writer
into the law of the land or they have
met popular approval, while oul
critics and saviors are forgotten.
The progress of our movement is
not sensational, because it appeals te
reason, rather than emotion. Il
keeps step with the evolutionary
forces in society. 1t attempts to ad
vance only as fast as the collective
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06
LABOR EDITORS
NAME is PLACED
ON SCHOOL

Aalanta.-The labor editor and his
worth is finally recognized-the local
board of education has named it's lat
est school jerome Jones School"
Mr.. Jones is editor of the Journal
of Labor, published in this city. He
is a veteran trade unionist and has
battled for social justice since the
memory Of man runneth not. The
board of education takes this method
of acclaiming his honorable citizen
ship and his long service in the cause
Of popular education and against child
labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06
EXPLOIT PUBLIC
HEALTH

New York.-False health ads were
assailed by DR.. Hugh Grant Rowell,
assistant professor of health, Teach
ers' College, Columbia University.
"New diseases are created for
which the product in question is the
panacea," said DR.. Rowell. floods
and certain manufactured products OF
distinct merit when properly used are
the basis of cure-alls. Sick indus
tries are brought back to dividends
through frightening parents or seduc-
ing them into food uses which cannot
help being injurious.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06
TURNING THE TRICK

American labor's willingness to en-
courage increased production through
scientific management and machinery
as conveyed in letter from William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, was read before
the fourth International Congress for
Scientific Management at the Sor-
bonne by Morris Llewedyn Cooke, of
Philadelphia. ,
Labor" wrote President Green
''has an interest in increasing produc.
tion because only out of increased out
put can come sustained rises in the
standard of living. Trade unions are
ready to cooperate in promoting eco.
nomics in production when there are
set up agencies that assure them jus.
tice and equity"
Correct! American labor, especially
in its organized form, is far too in
| telligent TO waste its energy in /,
futile effort to prevent the inevitabl,
forward movement of progressiv,
civilization.
President Green as the chief execu
tive of the American labor move
ment, in his statement, voiced a trutl
no American trade unionist either cal
or will find fault with.-Ex.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06
DEMPSEY LOSES HIS CARD

Suspension, which may be tempo
rary or may be made permanent, is
what Actors Equity has Just handed
to Jack Dempsey. Jack didn't like the
Hollywood unionization campaign and
helped send it to the ropes. Now
Equity has sent Jack to the ropes,
which teaches US that when man
gets one ex- in front of his name it
isn't so darned hard to. collect
another. Quite aside from that Equity
seems to be working hard to convince
certain of its members that when the
majority speaks it speaks with au-
thority and demands attention.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06

intelligence of it's members permit
It's great purpose is to delevop
this intelligence and stir wage earners
to latent powers through collective
action.
In this our times-tested, weather
beaten trade unions stand apart from
all other institutions. No other move
ment compares with organized labor.
A. F. of L. News Letter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06
FAIR TRIALS AT GASTONIA

Sixteen communists and near-com-
munists are on trial for first and sec
ond degree murder charges in Gas
tonia, N. C. While the reds have
yelled their heads off about capitals
tic injustice it seems, fortunately,
that fair Judge is on the job. There
is every indication that there will be
no Sacco- -Vanzetti aftermath when
this trial is over. With the Judge Civ
ing the defense three important rul-
ings at the outset, it has none of the
appearance of a trial of ''the right
men on the wrong evidence" This will
please all fair persons.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06
|HARD-BOILED BOSS
DEFENDS Low WAGE

University Of Virginia. Homer
Ferguson, president Newport News
Shipbuilding and Drydock Company,
assured the Institute of Public
Affairs that long hours and low pay
in Southern textile mills "are una
voidable at this stage of develop
ment."
He opposed unionization and cited
his plant that manages to survive
and succeed without the unions and
without strikes"
He questioned the value of organ
ization of workers and declared that
"unionization is not the universal and
complete panacea the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor would have you be-
lieve." The speaker quoted no au-
thoritative trade unionist who ever
claimed that unionization, in itself, is
a universal and complete panacea,' .
but the rhetoric was unchallenged.
Newport News, Va.-Homer Fergu-
son, president Newport News Ship
building Company, who opposed trade
unionism. at the Institute of Public
Affairs, is one of the few remaining
employers who oppose unionism by
bludgeon methods. No organized
worker, if known as such, is permit.
ted in his plant. The last union-iror
molders-was driven out of his plant
several years ago, after a protracted
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06
strike. Ferguson followed up his vic
tory, it is claimed, by attempting to
drive the unionists out Of Newport
News.

The largest bill printed at the Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing is
the $4,000 BILL The highest denomi-
nation in postage stamps is $5.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06

There are other leaning towers be-
sides the one at Pisa. There is one
at st. Moritz, Switzerland; one in
Ems and one in Ulm, Germany; and
two in Bologna, Italy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06

There were 10000 houses or more
in ancient Athens in space limited
by a city wall only five miles in cir
conference.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06

The new radio house in Munich,
Germany, contains one of the biggest
organs used for broadcasting. 1t
has SO stops and 3,183 pipes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06

The emergency hopsital at the
University Of Washington has In
stalled q bed z feet 6 inches long.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06
HORRORS

In this Volstead day many readers
will consider, with mingled emotions,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06

measure of progress toward civiliza-
ton, and regrettable that they won
only shadow of victory. The Old
World hates like everything to give
up it's old grudges.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-06
Fred RentschLer
Urges Hamilton
To OlUn Airport
Endorses Municipal
Airport

efforts to have City Council sub
municipal has kept touch with
Saturday Mr. Rentscher wired Mayor Burke
follows:
Hon. r. H. Burke Mayor, August 81, 1879
Hamilton Ohio
the of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce
glad to advise you that in opinion Hamilton will
mistake in acquiring municipal airport stop)
appreciate that the immediate desrabty of this must be
other of the community stop)
firmly every forward looking city must eventu
ally its airport (stop Commercial aviation has
with gratifying development during the past two years
established itself faster and better
of transportation for tstop) AS President OF
the Aeronautical Chamber of America have
this advice cities, and because of
Hamilton hope that the time is ripe
undertake this development which
will prove extremely beneficial in the to
FREDERICK B. RENTSCHLER.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-12-26
Cast Is Announced
For Seniors Play;
Use Quaker Story
Miss Rushton is Coaching 4th
Year Students in Production
Leads Taken by Margaret
Witt and Harold Nelson

'.Friend Hannah" is the title of
the play chosen by the senior class
to be presented in the theatre jan
uary %. The story concerns the
love affair between George, Prince
of Wales, and Friend Hannah, a
demure Quaker maiden. Compli-
cations are plenty, but things are
Strengthened out in the end. The
plot is set in the time Of George
III. Miss Winona Rushton is coach
ing the cast.
Characters are as follows: Friend
Hannah, Margaret Witt; George,
Prince of Wales, Harold Nelson;
Margaret Lightfoot, Alice Mae
Smith; Uncle Thomas Lightfoot,
Wilson Preston; Betty, Geneva
Broughton; Duke of York, Thomas
Brown; Duke of Chandos, Bill Bur-
ris; Isaac AFFORD, Emerson Pot
ter; Lord Butte, Bill Frazier; Rob
ert Clegg, Dan Carter.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-12-26
Shoes 'e17a HOzO
With Mean Tune

]. II. Siegfried was raised in the
country. This fact was disclosed
Tuesday noon at the regular lunch
con of the Kiwanis club. Only
long hours spent on the flat of his
back on the bank of a "crick," bare
toes wiggling at the sky could per-
NIT man to become as efficient
on a mouth organ as Siegfried is.
He received a harmonica as his
present, but was not allowed to
even play "The Bells of st. Mary's"
He was not the only one to re-
ceive present. All members got
'em-from jumping dogs to stuff
ed dates. And after the hours
sport the presents were all handed
in to make other kids happy on
Christmas day.
On the program were featured
Mrs. A. M. Chellis, who sang a
beautiful solo, Billy Burris, who
recited, and Marvin Carnahan
state highway patrolman, WIN
gave very fine talk on the work
of his department.
The next meeting will be ladies
night, at which time installation
of officers will take place.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-12-26
ANDERSON BACK
FROM TRIP EAST
Church Representative Reports
Visit to States Across the
Mississippi River

A. A. Anderson returned the
last of the week from an extended
trip through the East in the in
terests of the Church Manufacture
ing company. He visited pros
poets in every state east of the
Mississippiriver during his six
weeks trip. He returned through
Texas and southern California. 1t
was so cold when he was in Chi
cago that he didn't feel able to sit
through the big football game, but
when he got to Texas and Nevada
it was so balmy that he dreaded
coming back north to Washington
He reports that the outlook fo1
the local grape juice is about nor
NAL and that the factory can start
its operations in the new year with
production somewhat increased
over q year ago.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-12-26

Kennewick fruit growers are
about three seasons ahead Of the
experiments in spray control meth
DDS, according to w. S. Green, who
points out report given by Prof.
Anthony Spuler of the Wenatchee
Field Laboratory staff of the W.
SC. given before the horticultural
meeting in Yakima recently. Green,
a Highlands orchardist, in discuss
ing Prof. Spuler's statement says:
"Prof. Spuler and his associates
have finally come to the front by
changing the old Today straight
arsenate of lead spray methods.
claiming to have made a revolu-
tionizing discovery. His report,
as printed in the Washington
Farmer, declares that exhaustive
tests, and the last season, an ex-
ceptionally bad one so far as moth
damage was concerned, have shown
that the old system is not salts
factory and that lead arsenate
alone is not to be relied upon for
complete control, especially when
the season is variable. Lead ar
senate loses considerable strength
from weathering, the investigators
reported, and at the end Of five to
eight days may not get more than
80 per cent of the larvae. Applied
at arbitrary intervals. the cover
sprays may miss, every time, the
period of greatest larvae emer-
gence.
"sNo matter how irregular the
intervals at which the moths show
up, the trap records reveal their
presence. Then ,by waiting 10 to
IA days, depending on the wealth
er, the orchardist can get his dope
on when the eggs are near the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-12-26
Drilling Where?
Store WindOw

A hardware store window may
strike you as an odd place to drill
for oil and gas, but it's being done.
With A. V. McReynolds as engi-
neer, a miniature rotary drill rig,
modelled after that now being op-
Grated on the Walla Walla Gas &
Oil company lease, is running in
the window of the Mutual Hard
ware store.
Powered with an electric motor,
the drill is suspended from a tall
derrick and bores down through
the floor. Electric lighting equip
ment has been installed, and the
factory building has a 90 car
fridge barrel steam whistle and
steel wool smoke pouring out of its
smokestacks.
One of the cleverest devices is
the hydraulic circulating mud
pump, which theoretically sends
a continuous stream of water thru
the hole to carry away the cut
tings. There are also three extern
sion shafts ready for use when
the rig drills down deeper. Nc
Reynolds has made models of three
different types of drilling bits,
which are on display in the win
dow.
Sand. scraps of sagebrush, a
service truck, an oil magnate's
roadster and company house
lend reality to the scene. A rattle
snake and a jackrabbit will soon
be added-in miniature, we hope.
A guage will be put in the win
dow to keep record of the number
of feet drilled each day by the
real rig on the gas field.
McReynolds, aided by Alex Bier,
has been working on the model for
over two weeks. All of it has been
done by hand.
In competition with this minia-
ture drill is the one being run in
the window of the Ferrell Trans
fer company. The set is rugged up
realistically, with doll workmen to
keep things going. It will be in
teresting to see which strikes "oil''
first.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-12-26
MaSOnS Will Hold
Installation of
Officers on Friday
DIR. Tieje of Cheney to Be in
Charge of Impressive Lodge
Rites as New Leaders are
Inducted into Office

Installation of officers of the
Kennewick Lodge, F. & A. NJ, No.
153, will be held December 81 at
$3.50 in the lodge hall. DR.. Tieje
of Cheney, will be installing Of
ficer. All Masons are urged to he
present.
The following officers will be
inducted: E. C. Smith, worshipful
master; Harold Fyfe, senior war
den; w. S. Washburn, junior war
den; H. E. Oliver, senior deacon;
Marvin Carnahan, junior deacon;
Harry Linn, senior steward; w. S.
Green, junior steward; Russell Day
treasurer; M. N. Hudnall, secre-
tary; Gus Pearson, tyler; r. @.
Macmahon, chaplain and A. F.
Brownell, marshal.
Kennewick Masons are looking
forward to having DIR. Tieje with
them again. He had charge of in
stallation last year and conducted
an impressive and satisfying cere.
mony.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-12-26

to determine the actual spray dates
The spray program used is at
least three and possibly four cover
sprays of a combination of oil me-
dunn and lead, two pounds to 100
gallons. In 1925, one calyx and
three cover sprays, the last one on
July 16, kept down worm damage
to one per cent, and 1928 the same.
In 1929, four cover sprays were
used with proportionately good re-
suits, most of the worm damage
coming in August because OF the
long worm season, and the inabil-
ity to use the sprayer at this time
between the close rows of heavily
laden trees.
81 cannot agree with Spuler,"
Green continued, "that the conf
bination sprays are more costly
even in material. One tank of the
combination oil and lead that we
use costs $2.19, and with 100 tanks
each spray for four sprays, the
cost is $876. Nine sprays of
straight lead at $S4 per 100 tanks
would cost $756, or $120 less than
our combination. But we save
far more than $120 in labor, gas
oline, wear and tear on the ma
cshinery by using four, and not 9,
sprays. Results also put us in the
lead, for the combination means
cleaner fruit, higher grades, less
trouble in washing, and sure con-
troll of red spider and migratory
scale.
81 believe our methods in this
district are tried and satisfactory.
We simply now get the endorse
ment of the extension staff for a
practice in common use since our
success in 1926" Green concluded.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-12-26
KENNEWICK LOSES
Richland Goes Off with Honors in
Hoop Double Header

Richland gave Kennewick a
good chance to watch their dust
when they ran away with the long
end of the score of both hoop games
Friday night. The Richland boys
copped the game with a 25-15
margin and the girls won 54-33.
Speed marked the playing thru
out of the team from up the river.
Although Kennewick flashed into
the lead in the first half, they soon
dropped behind as the Richland
boys began dropping the ball thru
the ring with consistent regularity.
The Kennewick girls also bat
tied against a fast quintet, and
will have to speed up to make the
grade this season.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-12-26
Strawberry Men
Put Rule Revision
in Boards Hands
Growers Recommend Reten-
ton of Faciag Clark Seed.
lings-Other Changes Left
To Discretion of Board

Following the decision reached
Al the annaul meeting of the Three
Rivers cooperative, members in
arrested in Strawberries met Dec
amber 18 in special session to
consider the revision of strawber-
~ packing rules.
After a comprehensive discus
sion of all angles of the matter, it
VAS voted to leave the matter up
10 the coeperative's board of di-
rectors, with the recommendation
that the rules remain the same, at
At least as far as the facing Clark
Seedlings was concerned. Changes
in other respects will be under the
control of the board.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-12-26
Manufacturer Dies
at Home i'm Yakima;
Funeral Held Here
M. III. Church Passes Away
After Long Period of Fail
ing Health Pioneer, and
Builder of Industry

Following a long illness, NJ. H.
Church, pioneer of Kennewick,
passed away at his home in Yaki-
ma Sunday morning. Funeral ser
vices were held at 1890 Thursday
morning. Pail bearers were Sc
lected from former employees Of
the Church Manufacturing COM
pany. 8. 2.
Mr.. Church was 72 years old at
the time of his death. He came to
Kennewick in 1906, and with II. c.
Stringer organized the Twin City
Ice & Cold Storage company, which
he operated for several years.
Meanwhile he discovered the high
quality of the Kennewick grapes
and carried on extensive expert
ments with the juice. When String
er withdrew from the company,
Church reorganized the business
into the Church Manufacturing
company, adding the grape juice
plant to his ice and storage bust
ness. .--=-t
Starting with a small building
on the present site, the structure
was added to and remodeled until
it now forms the largest concern
of its kind in the West. Church's
Grape Juice has a national distri-
button and reputation and has won
world prizes for its purity and
high quality. On account of i'll
health Church sold his interest in
1927 to JIG. Kelly of Walla Walla.
Besides his wife, Church is sur
vived by four daughters, Eleanor,
Mrs. C. E. King of Kennewick;
Mrs Victor E. Marriott of Down.
er's Grove, ILL.,, and Mrs. Hoyt, of
Oak Park, Ill. Mis-. Church brought
the body from Yakima and will re-
main until after the funeral,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-12-26
What DOYOu
Think?

Will a woman ever be President
Of the United States?
MARDE JOHNSON-As far as
I'm concerned, she can be, but it
won't happen for a long, long
ame, maybe never, because of pop
aaar prejudice in mans favor. I
unnk a woman would be capable of
the job, however.
bEA SHERK-It's doubtful, and
~ ~ won't have to begin worrying
aoOut it for many, many moons.
1uS NEUMAN-Yes, but not in
my Ife-time or yours.
NELL O'LEARY-Well, why
aot! At the rate we're going now,
won't be long.