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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-18
Unemployment Rife, But Taking
OF Juicy Profits Still Continues
Many Companies Stop Payments to Shareholders But
National Total Takes Big Jump-Bankruptcies Drop

by July 1. This is an increase of
$3.50 $4,000 over the total of pay
meats in the first half of last year.
The gain is really greater than
that shown, since the 1880 prelim-
mary figures undoubtedly will be in
creased when the final records are
compiled.
The accompanying chart compares
half year payments of interest and
dividends since 1923. The rise in in
terest disbursements has been mod
crate, it is seen, amounting to about
SO per cent in the eight years. as com
pared with jump of over $50 per
cent for dividends.
Fewer Failures in June
A hopeful sign is that fewer bust
ness firms were found bankrupt in
June than in any previous month this
year. The number of insolvencies
curing the month as reported by r.
G. Dun & Co. was 2,026, as compared
with 2,179 in May and 2,198 in April.
In March 2,347 defaults were record
ed; in February 2,262, and in January
2,759.
Despite this improvement the rate
of business mortality remained well
above normal, the June figure being
the highest for the month ever re-
corded In no previous June, it is
stated, has the number of failures
risen as. high as 1000. A year ago
the total was 1,767. In June, 1923, it
was 1,947, and in 1927 it was 1888.
For the first half of 1880 the total
of commercial defaults is
placed at 1871, which exceeds even
the number reported in the CORE
spending period of 1922, the previous
record year for business fatalities.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-18
Labor Forges Ahead

Chairman Smith discussed in detail
the surprising progress made in the
South by organized labor. Thousands
of workers have been enrolled in trade
unions in the seven states include in
the campaign. Federal charters have
been granted colored workers by the
American Federation of Labor and
several hundred workers in Alabama
and Mississippi have been unionized,
Chairman Smith said.
South Carolina is one of only four
states which has no workmen's COM
pensation law, and the workers were
urged to get behind compensation
legislation. T. A. Wilson, president of
the North Carolina Federation, dis
cussed this phase. of the subject be-
fore the South Carolina delegates.
He said that in the first IL months of
the operation of North Carolina's
compensation law approximately 5000
workers in the state received COM
pensation. He said there were $4,000
cases of all kinds brought before the
commission since the inception of the
law about a year ago. The law re-
quires report on every industrial
fatality or accident. The law author
ICES a maximum of SIS a week in
death and accident claims.
In South Carolina an injured work
er or the relatives of worker killed
in an accident can only sue his en-
ployer for damages, with slight hope
of collecting at some distant date and
even if judgment is secured the attor-
neys take half of it for service fees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-18
"YELLOW DOG" TALKS
IN PRINT BY A. f. L

Washington.-Senate debates on the
yellow dog" when Judge Parker's
nomination to the supreme court was
being considered in the senate, have
been printed in pamphlet form and
are being distributed by the A. F.
of L.
"This pamphlet ought to be useful
to speakers in the coming election
campaigns said President Green,
who declares the debates were the
''most brilliant discussion of the 'yel-
low dog contract that ever occurred.
Senators who took part in this de-
bate contributed wealth of legal
information bearing upon this indi-
vidual contract. On no other occasion
has there been such thorough discus
sion of the issue"
President Green announces that
copies of the pamphlet may be Sc
cured.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-18
MARKET CRASH
Doesn't Break Employt
Stock Owners

New York City (ILNS)-If a re-
port just announced by the National
Industrial Conference Board is as in
dicative as it seems to be, employe
stock ownership is perhaps more
formidable instrument in the hands
of great corporations than it had ap-
pered before the stock market crash.
In 1927 this board found 315 enl-
ploye stock ownership plans and it
reports now that re-survey of $50
of these shows only four out of that
number discontinued 1t credits none
of the discontinuances to stock mar
ket conditions. On the basis of that
report it is regarded as apparent that
employe stock ownership has shown
its stability for whatever purpose has
actuated corporations employing the
plan.
The board found that in many cases
stock had been sold to employees at a
below-cost level fixed before the great
rise in stock prices and but few came
through the crash with losses. The
board reports that it found but 10
cases where stock went below the
price paid by the employees. In sew
eral instances corporations loaned
money to employees for protection of
stock.
That most employees stuck to their
stock is indicated by the report that
only four companies reported a
greater than normal cancellation of
contracts for employe purchase of
stock.
But, added to all of its other find
ings the board finds that the bulk of
employe-owned stock is held by rel
atively small number of workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-18
MILITARY COURSE
is HELD OPTIONAL

Washington. - Attorney General
Mitchell ruled that military training
in the land-grant colleges is optional.
The decision upholds Secretary of the
Interior Wilbur.
Most land-grant colleges, during
the 68 years of their existence, have
considered that military training was
compulsory The University of Wis
consin, however, in 1923, under au-
thorization of the Wisconsin legisla-
ture, made military training an op-
tional course, and the department of
the interior, which administers fed
eral funds used by land-grant schools,
sustained this action.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-18
OUT-OF-WORK
Payment Favored BY New
YOrk's Governor

Salt Lake City.-"This nation will
come to unemployed insurance just
as certain as the people accepted
workmen's compensation" said Gov
ernor Roosevelt, of New York, at a
conference of governors in this city.
Governor Roosevelt said that fully
90 per cent of all unemployment oc-
Cured wholly without fault of the
workers.
He said proper study would readily
provide plan where insurance
against unemployment would not
take the form of a "mere dole or
hand-out from state or local govern
mental agencies, but could be placed
on a self-supporting basis through
contributions from public treasures,
employees and the workers them
selves"
The governor also predicted that
the five-day week would be applied in
the near future to check unemploy-
ment. In advocating more general
and more generous application of Gin
surance against old age want" he
said it had been rendered necessary
because of the growing tendency
among employers to look for younger
men and women"
The governor assailed what he
termed attempts by government of
icials and leading fnanciers" to
"juggle figures" and "distort facts"
relative to the extent of unemploy-
ment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-18

busy; prices were stable, profits were
large. This year, prices are going
down and the amount employers can
get for their product is continually
less. Orders are fewer and smaller.
Expenses are high, because of over
head on idle machinery, disorganized
work forces and other causes. There
fore profits are small, some firms can
not even cover expenses, and many
have failed
"The depression is world wide.
Workers and employers alike have
been swept along by conditions they
were not organized to control. Now,
although some may be less affected
than others, the majority must face
the conditions described above"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-18

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-Despite
heavy decreases in certain lines and
while the country is in deep trough
of unemployment that has stopped
wages for millions of Americans, the
total of dividends for the first half
of this year set new high maGk and
demonstrated that readjustment on a
basis of anything like actual values
has gone no great distance.
Every indication is that readjust-
ment has been spotty. Not only has
the dividend situation been filled with
contradictions, some disappearing,
some increasing, but trade has like
wise shown it's contradictory spots.
While the Kresge chain showed a de-
crease in business in the first six
months, the Grant chain showed an
amazing increase.
So it has been with dividends
Many have completely dropped out of
sight, but the total has gained. Util-
ity dividends, generally supported by
state regulation, have gone on mer-
rily. 1t is apparent that exhorbitant
profit taking has not subsidized, even
though commodity prices have sunk
by a full 10 per cent since August
and even though steel, once an in
fallible barometer, shows no cause for
rejoicing. Production of pig iron for
the first half of the year was 16 per
cent below the first half of 1929,
though only Ia below the first half
of 1928.
Big Dividend Increase
1t is indicated by preliminary re-
ports received by the United States
commerce department that not less
than $4,281, TIL 900 will have been
paid to holders of stocks and bonds
of the country"s principal enterprises
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-18
WHAT NEXT?

An automatic insurance selling ma
chine is the latest addition to the
platforms of big German railway sta
tions The traveller desiring to insure
himself against accident puts 10 to so
pfennings (21a to II cents) in the slot
and receives ticket with the day,
hour and value of the policy stamped
upon it. At the same time the appa-
ratus receives an imprint of the pur-
chaser's thumb, thus preventing
fraudulent claims. The insurance
usually runs for one or two days.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-18
Double Strength is Recorded in South Carolina
State Convention at Columbus Hears of Surprising Prog
Made in Big Drive to Organize Workers

Greenville, S. C. GLNS)-As a
sample of the progress which organ
ized labor has been making in the
South, since the inception of the
Southern organization campaign, the
growth in activity and membership
of trade unionism in South Carolina
points the way.
The convention of the State FEEDER
alton held here June 80 and July l
ana attended by some 125 delegates
discussed the remarkable progress
which has been made. During the
last IA months, and especially during
the last five months, the activities of
the state body have more than
doubled, not only in general organiza-
ton work but in membership. There
are now more than 10 local unions
affiliated with the state organization
and number of new ones awaiting
membership. Recently four district
councils of textile workers have been
organized and the convention author
lied the formation Of state council.
There are forty local textile unions in
the state, and for the first time in the
history of a South Carolina Fedora
tion of Labor convention delegates
representing textile unions sat in the
deliberations.
The convention was addressed by
Chairman Paul J. Smith, of the
Southern organization campaign com
mittee; Francis l. German, interna-
tional vice president of the United
Textile Workers, and 7. A. Wilson,
president of the North Carolina Fed
Grafton. President William Green, of
the American Federation of Labor,
had been invited to speak, but be-
cause of a previous engagement at
Winston Salem was forced to de-
cline.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-18

A workmen's compensation bill is
being framed by the labor leaders of
South Carolina and will be presented
at the next session of the legislature.
Opposition from lawyers and doctors
already has been encountered, who
see good pickings" going overheard
if the law is enacted.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-18
IGNORE S-HOUR LAW

Denver. - Contractors who are
building state and county highways
in Colorado admit they force employees
to work 10 and II hours, in violation
of the eight-hour law.
Protests were filed with the state
industrial commission by the Colo
RADIO Federation of Labor.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-12
Route No. 1M

Route No. 1o0 Durha Killingworth Madison road. Uhimproved section under construction. Through traffic advis- ed to avoid this road.
 Route No. POP Harwinton-T -Terryville road is un- der construction.
 Route No. 301 Salisbury-Lime Rock. Hotchkiss School road is under construction. Detour around bridge in Lime Rock.
 Route No. BOP New Canaan Smith Ridge road Is under construction. No delay to traffic.
 Route No. 315 Coventry, Willimantic, Hartford via Coventry road is being oiled for IF miles.
 Route No. S23 Cheshire, Cheshire Waterbury road is being oiled op shoulders for about miles.
 Route No. 33e Thompson, Brandy Hill road is being oiled for 4 miles on Webster
 Route No. 346
 Middletown. Newfield road is be- ing oiled for 1 mile.
 No Route Numbers Burlington Center road is being oiled for miles.
 Darien- -Middlesex load is under construction. No delay to traffic. Bozrah-Fitchville, Bozrah street is closed. Bridge is being construct ed. Detour posted.
 Eastford. Kenyonville, Ashford read is under construction. Grading is being done. Traffic can pass. Easton- Monroe road is Under con- struction. No delay to traffic. Goshen-G Goshen-Cornwall road is under construction. No detour. Hampton, a section of the Kim ball Hill road is under construction Grading is being done. Traffic can pass. KillingIy, Ballouville road is be- ir,g oiled for 1 mile. Madison. North Madison road is being oiled for 6.S miles.
 Madison, Horse Pond road is be-
New Britain herald., 1930-09-12
Barkhamstead-New Hartford road being oiled for ? miles. Route No 10f

Barkhamstead- New Hartford road being oiled for 2 miles.
 Route No. 101 Pomfret, Willimantic road Is be- ing oiled flor miles. Putnam, Pomfret road is being oiled for miles.
 Route No. 103 Sterling, R. l., Providence road Is being oiled for 2.5 miles. ., Route No. 1O4 < Portland, Portland Glastonbury road is being oiled for 2 miles. Portland, Center Church road is being oiled for 1 mile.
 Ronte No. 109 Coventry Bolton road is under construction, closed to traffic. Short detour at east end of job.
 Route No. 11O sufield Hartford and Springfield read is being oiled for miles. Windsor Locks Suffield and Springfield road is being oiled for ? miles.
 Route No. iii Columbia, Hebron Marlboro road is being oiled for ? miles. Hebron, Hebron Marlboro road is being oiled for miles. F. Route Nos. i'll, 11S and 3 Southington, intersection of the Milldale road is under construction. One-way traffic for short distance.
 Route No. 112 Guilford North Guilford road is being oiled for ' miles.
 Route No. 116 Bloomfield, Simsbury Hartford road Is being oiled for ? miles.
 Route No. 117 Newtown, Berkshire road is being oiled for 1 mile.
 Route No. 119 Danbury Mill Plain road is be- ing oiled for miles.
 Route No. 121 Salisbury, Lakeville road is being oiled for 2 pailes.
 Route No. 123 Canton road is being oiled for about one mile.
 " Route No. 124 Bethel, Main street, is being oiled for one mile.
 Route No. 134. Cornwall Bridge project, bridge construction and approach grading on new location. No detours. Kent-Bulls bridge project, steam shovel grading and bridge construc- ton on new location. No detours.
 Route No. 135 East Haven and No. Branford- Foxon road, ,>concrete road is under construction. Traffic controlled by traffic men. .-..-.
 Route No. 139 Killingly Valley road is being oil- ed dor one mile.
 Route No. 145 Newtown- Stevenson road, culvert work and steam shovel grading and construction Short de- tcur arranged where necessary.
 Route No. f52 Warren Cornwall road, steam shovel grading and macadam con- No detour available.
 Route No. 1858 Salem, Norwich Y Hadlyme road, shoulders being oiled for miles. Montville, Norwich -Hadlyme road is being oiled for 1 mile.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-12
Road Conditions in the
 State of Connecticut

Road conditions and detours in the State of Connecticut made ne- cessary by highway construction, repairs and oiling announced by the Connecticut Highway Department, as of September 10th.
 Route No.
 Clinton, Boston Post road is be- ing oiled for miles.
 Fairfield Southport cutoff, work or bridge. No delay to traffic. Old Lyme, Boston Post road is be- ing oiled for F miles, also shoul- ders are being oiled for miles. Waterford New Haven Pike, shoulders being oiled for 2 miles
 Route No. 3 -. Danbury-Newtown road, concrete pavement completed, Shoulders and railing uncompleted.
 Newtown-s Sandy Hook road, work on bridge extension, extensive, cul- vert work and concrete pavement. One-way traffic. f~
 Route No. |. S.5 Meriden and Wallingford, North and South Broad streets are under constructor. Through traffic advis- ed to avoid this road, North Broad street absolutely closed north of Rrittania street.
 Route No. |. S. 6
 Brooklyn -Willimantic road is be- ing oiled for Is miles.
 Hampton -Willimantic road is be- ing oiled for 35 miles.
 Thomaston, bridge over Nauga- tuck-river, East Main street is under construction. No detour.
 Route No. |. $.
 Canaan and Salisbury, Lime Rock bridge, grade crossing elimination is under construction. Use present roadway. No detour.
 Route No. 8
 Thomaston road is being Oiled for about miles.
 Middletown. Hartford Saybrook read is being oiled for + mile.
 Route No. 12
 Griswol1, Canterbury and Plain field. A section of the Norwich- Putnam road is under construction. Open to traffic. ~. Plainfield and Killingly, a section of the Norwich Putnam road is un- der construction. Traffic can pass.
 Route No. 17 East Hartford, bridge over Hook anum river is under construction, but open to traffic.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-12
KIN OF JESSE JAMES
 SCORNSBID TO HOLDUP
Asked to Draw Gun On Cop, Famous
 W Bandits Granddaughter Balks at Suggestion.

Los Angeles, Sept. 12 (UP)- Holdups hold no charms for Jessie Estelle James, granddaughter of Jesse James of Missouri. the man who made hold-ups famous.
 Miss James made this clear while testifying in superior court where her s64.4oo damage suit was being heard today against the Paramount Famous-Lasky corporation, alleging breach of a film contract.
 The press agents wanted me to get myself arrested for speeding as a publicity stunt" she related. Then I was to draw a gun on the police man so they could broadcast a story that Jesse James granddaughter
New Britain herald., 1930-09-12
ROADSIDE. BEAUTY
 KEITH'S AMBITION
Connecticut Man Outlines Pro- gram for Attractive Highways

Middlebury, Vt, Sept. 12-An in-, elusive program for the beautiflca- ton of New England roadsides was described here today at the twen- tieth quarterly meeting of the New England council by Luther NJ. Keith in charge of the landscape division. Connecticut highway department, who discussed the project recently inaugurated by the council in CO., operation with the Federations Of Women's clubs of New England, and told of the highway identification work being done in Connecticut.
 Connecticut and Massachusetts have been cited By national students of the highway identification prob lem .as conducting the most advanc- ed programs of roadside develop ment in the country, the council was told. r.
 Aside from the official activities in these two states, much work has been done in some individual com munities, but the program approved by the committee on recreational development of the council for the first time provides machinery for the coordination of all highway Identification activities The details of the program, it was explained, will be put into effect under super vision of the womens clubs in the several states as rapidly as possible.
 New England's highways are a vital part of the recreational re- sources which increase the income, taxable wealth, employment and sale of manufactured and agricu!- tural products of the section. By developing the beauties of her 1S0,- 900 miles of roadsides, New England will provide an additional and im- portant attraction for the millions of visitors who see the country from the highways" MT. Keith declared.
 Under the councils program, each New England state will be urged to authorize the appointment by it's state highway board of a state land scape architect to plan and super wise the Swork along the highways. The part of the program to be car ried out by the womens clubs will include practical highway beautif- cation demonstrations and contests. They will study state and local beau tifcation needs, and seek the remov- 9al of advertising signs not conform ing to present regulations or con- stituting hazards to traffic or i'm pairment of scenic beauties. /
 The State Federations of Wom- ems clubs were selected by the committee on recreational develop ment of the New England council as the organized group having the greatest interest and the most ef- fective influence for carrying on the work in this field of New England's recrational industry. Following a conference of members of the coun-
New Britain herald., 1930-09-12

ing oiled for ? miles.
 Mansfield, Willimantic-Storrs road is under construction. Concrete sur- facing is being done. One-way traf- fic is regulated by telephone.
 New Milford -Merryall road. steam shovel grading. No detours. Nor folk, North street is under construe- tior. No detours.
 Bedding -Meeker Hill road, bridge construction. Road closed.
 Bedding Umpawaug Hill road, steam shovel grading. No detours.
 So. Windsor East Windsor Hill road is under construction but open to traffic. \
 Stamford-High Ridge road is be- ing oiled for 3 miles.
 Sterling. Ekonk Hill road is being oiled for Is miles. Warren-Kent road, steam shovel grading and macadam construction. No detours. Winchester, Torringford street Is under construction. No detours.
 Woodstock, West road is being oiled for 3 miles.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-12

cil's recreational development com. mittee with officers of the New Eng land conference of state feaerations and the presidents of the state fed erations, the New England council'x cooperating committee on highway beautificatione was formed to carry out the al!-New England program.
 The members of the committee are: Mrs. ". R. Pattangall, Augusta, Me; Mrs. LaFell Dickinson, Keene, N. H.; Mrs. Allen A. Fletcher, Lud- low, Vt; Mrs. D. M. Goodridge, Newton, Mass; Miss Estelle Page. chairman, North Providence, R. l., and Miss Mary B. Weaver, New Mill ford, Conn. James P. Taylor, sec retary of the Vermont State Cham Der of Commerce, is acting as sec retary of the committee.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-12
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD FRIDAY SEPTEMBER F, 1880

had held up a cop.
 T have never been arrested and don't like holdups, so refused to do it."
 She said she had been employed to portray the character of her grand mother, Mrs. Zeralda Samuels in a picture but that another actress was given the part.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-12
Aged Horse Pensioned
 On Daily Grain Ration

Bethesda, Md. Sept. 12 R'-In government harness almost contin- uously since 1899, Old Nick. 34-year- old horse, has been retired on a pension of two measures Of bran, oats and alfalfa hay daily.
 It is Uncle Sam's way of reward ing the faitbful work of his four.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-12
footed employees.

footed employees.
 Since 1906 Nick has been at work at the governments veterinary ex- pertinent station at Bethesda where until 1915 he pulled a wagon daily from the station to the department of agriculture headquarters in Washington, a round trip of 20 miles.
 USE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS
New Britain herald., 1930-09-12

Mexico exp ports more than 6,ooo,- 900 punches of bananas yearly.i