The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-08-30
The Cherry
!" Where with our
fDD Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes flippantly.
sometimes recklessly.

their left wings and making that pc
culiar yapping noise by which they
are identified by those who study and
classify queer birds.
The reds keep on being just as red,
| if not redder, bowling each evening to-
ward Moscow. The habitues of the
New York conference coteries keep
on writing pieces to ease their turbu-
lent feelings.
| Few Of these queer birds can ever
be cured and restored to a condition
more nearly approaching the normal.
The. ailment is it's own feeding ground
Moreover, in its processes it creates
about the cranial cavity crust for
which there is no easy solvent and
which, in most cases, resists attack
until there comes that decay before
which all flesh and bone-even the
boniest of bone, gives way.
Reason and facts avail little, il
anything. The motion of events
leaves only scorn upon lips that have
tasted the narcotic delights of places
| foreign to those of the unexalted mob
If reason and facts did mean any
thing the story might and probably
would be different.
| 1t is worth remarking that in q
year noted for left wing attack and
bitterness and for intellectual super
iority in the coteries, the American
trade union movement has made a
record of progress unequalled since
the hectic days of what is known as
the World War, for which it has be-
come fashionable to apologize
among those who want to be fashion.
able.
Solid trade union strength, counted
in dues paying members, has gone up
Wages among organized workers
have gone up, taking up with them
the wages of great mass of unor.
| z
Thousands of workers have come te
know the joys of the fve-day week
while other thousands have at last
got away from long work day, te
enjoy day that is of eight hours
duration, or less.
Politically labor today enjoys q
position dug in as it has not beer
dug in since Woodrow Wilson asked
labor to join hands with him back in
the pre'20 years.
There are many manifestations OF
this new strength of position, one OF
which is frequency of trips by labor
men to the White House that, in con
trast with days not so very long gone
is as remarkable as it is wholesome
helpful and satisfactory to everyone
Surely labor men are not gonig to the
White House so often unless they are
wanted there and welcome there.
To be sure, there is no labor party
business on the agenda, which grieves
the coteries, while it satisfies every.
one else.
] The Wall Street Journal, which is
no labor paper, for sure, makes one
wise observation. 1t remarks thai
labor votes that cannot be delivered
to any existing party probably coule
not be corralled into new party.
That is not the fundamental reason
for labor's refusal to enjoy the dis
appointments and deficits of labor
party, but it is at any rate side
light worth noting.
All in all it is bad year for thu
left wingers. They take the tim,
and trouble to build for themselves
intellectual platforms, even throne.
from which to pour forth condemna
tion and advice. They predict dis
aster, if not destruction, and nothing
happens, except that the poor patien
over whom they would minister get
better and better the whole disregard
ing their prescriptions, their pills ant
panaceas.
1t must all seem very strange tt
the disciples of the left-very strang'
and very perverse.
But after, all, if that is the wa.
things go, that is the way they g.
and surely they cannot be made to re
verse their motion and direction jus
because few disappointed, though
exalted, ones need a patient on which