The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-01-03
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" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes 6ippantly,
sometimes recklessly. ........

What with Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year along with lobby
investigation sensations, radio mon
opoly pleas, railroad and steel merg-
ers, unemployment and other tremen-
dous and insignificant things, few
times have been more laden with
varied adjectives.
Any single day in these times pre-
sents to a puzzled people more issues
than were crammed into year when
grandfather was a young feller.
The radio question is issue enough
for year. Instead it is lucky if it
gets through one edition as page
stuff. Like the judiciary, radio creeps
along, "like a thief in the night"
filching more and more, crawling
nearer and nearer to monopoly stat
ure, nearer and nearer to what is
even more dangerous, establishment
of property rights in the air. Beware
of that!
Secretary Davis tells farmers that
$4,000 are idle in Detroit, probably
an der-estimate; he says like num-
bers are idle elsewhere and he tells
them straight out that the best farm
relief is employment in the cities.
But he socks home a faster one than
that. He says wages must go up
HIGH to make up for displacement
cf men by machines. That would
have been a campaign issue in Jeffer-
sons day.
General Electric splits it's stock,
four for one. The meaning of that
is that the original investor who put
his money in before the first split-up
will get about 25 per cent on his
money.
That, too, would have been a cam
paign issue in older days. Now no.
body cares much and non-holders Of
stock merely wish they had been
lucky enough to get some back in the
pre-boom days that preceded the pre-
crash days.
A salad course for all this generous
spread of big issues is the testimony
of sugar man H. c.. Lakin, who has
told the senate quizzers that Gen.
Enoch H. Crowder, former ambassa-
dor to Cuba, holder of degrees from
eight universities and d. S. M. man,
gave away a high military secret to
his Cuban sugar friends, that secret
having been that in event of war the
United States would not attempt to
keep sea traffic open between the
mainland and the Philippines. That
was big and vital news to Wall street
owners of Cuban sugar.
Crowder had high military career,
filled with glory and such honors as
come to few army men. Now, blooey!
AS ambassador to Cuba, Crowder
was an intimate of the dictator Ma
chada, by courtesy called president,
elected by Vaccinations that make the
Pennsylvania bosses just school boys,
Crowder admired, openly, the man
who has destroyed every right Of
freedom in Cuba.
The men who fought in '98 for
Cuba Libre wouldn't know the old
place!
But, to move on. Folks say Merry
Christmas, hoping that it will some
how turn out better than hoped for.
They say Happy New Year hoping
that it will be better than seems
likely, trying to get themselves out
of the frame of mind that sees bluer
than the blue really is.
A taxi driver, using good English,
says, MAN, you ought to see what l
see. | get around this town. | see
folks hunting for work, stung by
promises for work that don't pan out.
It's bad, very bad" He adds, 81 was
with Hoover's A. R. A; I've been
around some" He knows good
many of the things about which stat
isticians and economists guess.
Well, Happy New Year, anyway.
1t will be happy, of course, except
for those who are not happy. Happi-
ness will outweigh misery and trag-
edy. 1t always dose, fortunately. It's
that old "silver lining" stuff.