The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-08
TheCherry
" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pre-
foundly, sometimes hippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

"A great SclenLlSI, Sir James Jeans,
predicts that in about million mil
lion years the universe will have faded
out of the picture, dissolved by radi-
alton.
In something like a million years
that will be mighty interesting news.
Meanwhile the kettle boils and things
are doing in the year 1881. Schwab
tells newspaper editors he never took
dollar out of Bethlehem Steel and
Will Rogers kids him silly.
Hoover, beset and bedeviled, let's
it be know nthat he is hot under the
collar about wage reductions and that
he opposes general tariff slash in
the coming congress.
People talk much drivel about
tariff, clamoring for a general cut.
Generalities like that don't fit the
tariff. The last congress log-rolled
the present tariff into being and re-
vision would repeat the process. Can
there never be sanity about tariff?
Here is news: William z. Foster
has been elected one of the 27 mem
bers of the standing committee for
current business of the communist
international at Moscow.
That seems to tie the reds in the
United States pretty close to the
Stain menage.
What alibi will reds in this country
offer now?
Incidentally, the balance sheet of
the red international shows income of
81 1,096,231. The red international has
no purpose in spending money except
to foment rebellion against non-com-
munist governments.
AND, if the reds admit getting that
much money, how much, it is fair to
ask, did they get and use and forget
to publish?
Oh, there are many questions that
could be asked about it.
But anyway, we've got new ticket
for those who need it-on this man
Foster.
Some folks say that prohibition
isn't major issue. Well, issues are
seldom made because someone puts a
label on them.
Unemployment is THE issue-un-
employment and the abuses that
create unemployment.
But when more than 200 men at
tend national conference as dele
gates from organizations all over the
country, it can be taken as a sure
thing that they are nightly inter-
ested in the issue that brought them
together.
The demand for modification of the
Volstead act has just brought that
kind of a national labor conference
to Philadelphia
There was no mistake as to what
these delegates thought about modi-
fication as an issue. They were de-
termined. They were aroused. They
don't intend to stop until they win
Prohibition is a real issue, no mat
ter what politicians think about it.
Turn the page again. Turn to
Kirby Page, ex-preacher, pacifist. He
has just questioned $4,000 preachers.
He asked them if they believe the
churches should mot go on recorq
as refusing to sanction OR SUPPORT
any future war"
And 12,076 answered Eyes" Much
more than half of the 10000 who an
swered
Asked if they would personally re-
fuse to sanction or participate in any
future was as combatants, 10,247 said
they were prepared to refuse. More
than 5000 said they would refuse to
serve as war chaplains.
That, it seems, is carrying pacifsm
pretty far. "Any" war is big order
There have been and can be neces-
sary, essential, inescapable wars
wars for human freedom and for the
safety of freedom already won
Either there was too much emo
tionalism in the answers recorded, or
the respondents have forgotten their
history and gone haywire on their
economics, or else there is just lot
of sloppy thinking going on in lot
of pulpits.