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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
THE UNCONSCIOUS ARsoNIsT'

THE UNCONSCIOUS ARSONIST
The one great obstacle to fire pre-
vention is the virtual refusal of the
individual to realize his personal re-
sponsibility in regard to the common
hazards that exist, to a greater or
lesser degree, in almost every home
and business establishment.
Perhaps the most tragic phase Of
fire is that it is practically wholly
unnecessary. Eighty per cent or
more of fres-including many of
those which cause the greatest waste
in both life and property-could have
been prevented by the exercise of care
and the sort of knowledge that is ex-
pounded during the annual Fire Pre-
vention Week, and which can easily
be obtained from the various private
organizations or from local fire
authorities.
The citizen who disregards fire
risks might be termed the "uncon-
scious arsonist," and his name is le-
gion. 1t is his home that burns, or
his factory. But the entire commun-
ity pays for it, in the loss of taxes
on destroyed property, in higher in
surance rates, in lost employment or
business opportunity. Fire prevention
is largely personal matter-but fire
waste is of importance to the entire
nation There has never been fire,
no matter how small, that did not do
its part to prevent progress.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
OUT GOES ALFONSO!

With Alfonso of Spain gone from
his throne, but twelve monarchs re-
main in all the world, half of them
ruling small states.
The immense realm that once was
Spain, sprawling over the world in
mighty eXpanse of fabulously rich
territory, has all gone republican.
There was something of belated wis
dom in Alfonso's going, but perhaps
the Spanish people will build the bet
ter for the delay
But, while kings have gone, die
tators have come, and dictators rule
some of the territory that once was
a part of the Spanish realm. There is
Cuba, for example, ruled by tyrant
no less brutal than the Weyler who
ruled for a king of Spain.
Perhaps the rising tide that sweeps
away kings may also sweep away
dictators. This paper is one of many
others that has in the past exposed
the tyranny of Machado, and it is
obvious that long g-continued pounding
from within and without Cuba is hav-
ing it's effect. The Spanish people
of Havana cannot well be immune
to the example of the Spanish peo-
pie of Madrid.
The thrones of dictators, as well as
those of kings, grows uneasy. Who
knows what the next news will be, or
whence it will come?
Will it be Machado? Or perhaps
Mussolini? Or the Infamous Stain :?
When the winds of freedom blow
they blow where they find the misery
of oppression.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Without free speech there can be
no progress, no advancement by state
or nation" said Governor Meier, of
Oregon, in his inaugural address.
Every citizen, be his station high
or humble, has the right to give rea-
sons for the course he pursues. The
suppression of this right constitutes
a double vrong-it denies the right
of one to speak and the people to
hear.
'The law is presumed to protect
free speech, even to voice wrong ideas,
for every citizen has the right to his
opinion. It is better a thousand times
that the right of free speech be abus-
ed than it be denied; for the abuse
dies in a day, but the denial of free
speech strikes at the very foundation
of our system of government"
The governor favored the federal
child-labor amendment, and called for
an old age pension. "The poorhouse
should be abolished" he said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
FRIDAY, APRIL "a, 1881
DID YOU GIVE?

The 1881 drive for funds for the
Hamilton Community Chest closes
today. But that doesn't mean that
those who We're not solicited or could
not be found by the solicitors are pre-
vented from giving and doing their
share. At the time this was writ
en-, Thursday, the Chest was far from
being full-way short of the goal
sought, and it was question whether
the goal would be reached But even
so, even though the Chest is filled,
more money than the quota sought
can be used. The social agencies as
sociated in the Chest actually need
more than they have asked for, or
have been allotted, if they are to main
tain their full services. They should
have more than they have asked for.
So if you have not been solicited,
nor haven't as yet given, won't you
send in your subscription at once and
help give relief to some family that
is perhaps in dire need at this time,
and by contributing you can also help
keep up the good work of the char
acter- building agencies. So if you are
able and in position to do so, give
All of US who are more fortunate and
can do SO should give, and give to the
ability of our means, and feel as P. P.
Boil, campaign chairman, in an adj
dress to his workers the other day,
said:
Let US be thankful that we are
the ones who are soliciting and giving
funds, rather than the ones who are
in need of aid, for it is only by the
grace of God that we are more for
tunate than they"
Chairman Boil further said:
Those who are temporarily in
Strengthened circumstances at present
need not feel that they have disgraced
themselves because they have been
forced to seek aid. In the future it
may be those same people who will
be giving aid to some of US who are
here today"
So hear, and heed, the plea of
Chairman Boil for the Community
Chest and give, GIVE MORE, the
NEED is GREATER.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
Archery Practice

Butt shooting is an old English term
which means the same thing as target
shooting. In the olden days the shoot
ing grounds were equipped with banks
OF dirt, covered with sod, which
formed the so-called butt. Over this
sod was usually placed a piece of pa
per to act as target, and the term
"butt shooting was used to distin-
guish it from rovers. Rowing consists
in shooting at various targets placed
In fields at varying distances. The
archers shoot from one to another,
which helps develop their judgment
OF distances, and in the olden days
meant quite lot to the yeomen
whose business was. shooting the bow
and arrow, and on days when they
were not fighting they were in the
fields practicing rowing. Montreal
Family Herald.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24

been put into shape, making them fit
to go into, something they weren't
under the old regime. New light fix
lures have been installed throughout
the building, giving it CHEEKY and
cozy appearance. The yard has been
rid of dead trees and has been dug
up and reseeded, so when the grass
comes up we will have beauty spot
right in the heart of the city. The
people are beginning to look at their
county building with feeling of
pride, whereas it used to be an eye
sore. Fine work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
World Owes Vast Debt
To Icelandic Writers

In that strange island Iceland
burst up, the geologists say, by ire
from the bottom Of the sea; a wild
land of barrenness and lava; swal-
lowed many months Of every year In
black tempests, yet with wild gieam-
ing beauty in summertime; towering
up there, stern and grim, in the North
ocean where of all places we
least looked for literature or written
memorials, the record of these things
was written down. On the seaboard
of this wild land is a rim of grassy
country, where cattle can subsist, and
men by means of them and of what
the sea yields and it seems they were
poetic men these men who had deep
thoughts in them, and uttered musical
ly their thoughts. Much would be lost,
had Iceland not been burst up from
the sea, not been discovered by the
Mortimer The old Morse poets were
many of them natives of Iceland
Thomas Carlyle In Heroes and Hero
Worship"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
Diamond in History

India was the original home of the
diamond as jewel. For centuries
India remained the sole source of
Europe's diamond supply. About 1870
diamonds were discovered in Brazil
In 1867 diamonds were discovered in
South Africa. South African diamonds
constitute more than 90 per cent of
the worlds supply. From their dis
covery to the present time they have
yielded 90000,000 carats The dia-
monds of the world. probably repre-
sent a value of $5,000,00OOO. There
have been some diamonds found in
the state of Arkansas. The Arkansas
diamond mine in Pike county has pro-
duced several thousand diamonds
equal in color to the best produced in
other parts of the world and / per
cent harder than the hardest from
other parts of the world.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
DIVIDENDS SOAR

New York City (ILNs)-Moody's
1881 Bank and Financial Manual, just
out, says 100 of the largest banks in
America paid increased dividends in
1880, year of "hard times" The
banks in the tabulation paid out 72.1
per cent of their profits in dividends,
increasing them by 81 per cent,
though their earnings were III per
cent less than in 1929. The manual
analyses 1000 foreign and domestic
banks and contains details of 1872
mergers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
OUR aNEWn COURT HOUSE

No doubt strangers who rarely
come to Hamilton and have occasion
to visit our county building, if they
haven't been in for three or four
months and 90 into it now, think
Butler county must have a new court
house, or wonder at the transforma-
ton Of the old building. Under the
direction of Superintendent Tom Boil
the whole inside of the building has
been renovated - everything newly
painted and vanished, old and obso-
lete furniture and equipment thrown
out and new put in
The rest and comfort rooms have
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
One DOMINATING
MAN I'm POLITICS,
CLERGYMAN SAYS
Some Individual Controls
Transit Utilities and Fed
eral Government, Pastor
Pittsburgh Church Claims

Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS) - That
transit utilities are "owned and con.
trolled by one gentleman" and that
sensational revelations that will con-
stitute "the bursting of bomb" are
to follow, was stated here by Mgr.
James r. Cox, one of Gov. Pinchot's IS
three observers at the house utility
investigation here.
More than that, this one man con-
trolls the government, according to
Mgr. Cox. He cited the Pittsburgh
taxicab strike of last year in which
he assisted union leaders He said
Mitten Management was represented
there by the Parmalee officials "and
they brought on man to take care
of the situation who had been fol
years with them in Philadelphia ano
who said he would remain as genera
manager"
"We learned" the pastor of old st
Patrick's Catholic Church of Pitts
burg continued, "that these companies
, were owned and controlled by one
gentleman. Now | am not going tc
mention the name because we dom
have the facts, but it seems to bt
leading up to one. They not onl!
control the utilities, but they contro
the United States government, ant
when the bomb bursts, it will shov
one dominating figure in politica
life"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
HOME GARDENS URGED

Washington.-Home gardens as an
unemployment aid is urged by the
presidents emergency committee on
employment.
The produce, it was emphasized
should be for home consumption and
as temporary expedient, but not to
compete with the farmer. 1t is not
stated how city dweller can grow
bushel of potatoes and not affect
the man on the farm who grows that
commodity.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS


President Charles P. Howard, OF
the International Typograp phical Union
asks some pertinent questions in the
Typographical Journal They are
questions that might well engage the
earnest attention of all our political
industrial and financial leaders. Here
is what he asks:
"How many of the 120 million peo-
pie in the United States can be per-
mitted to be idle and hungry and oul
institutions and theories of govern
ment remain safe? In this enlighten-
ed age how many will be satisfied with
charity as substitute for honest
work? A hungry stomach, an under
fed and ill-clothed wife and children
are not conducive to straight think
ing and orderly action. What must
be the thoughts of the man walking
the streets looking for work and un-
able to find it, as he looks upon those
who enjoy the comforts and luxuries
of those who know not what it means
to be without the necessities of life :?
How long can he be depended upon to
restrain himself from responding to
the primary instinct to take what he
must have when he cannot secure it
through honest effort?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
Old St. Augustine Still
Spanish in Character

The fact that st. Augustine was al
ready an old town before the Pilgrims
landed in New England, is rarely con-
sidered In comparing the respective
antiquity of these two events. Yet,
to be exact, st. Augustine had been In
existence 55 years when the May
flower made its famous voyage to New
England's shores. Translated into
more modern terms, when Plymouth
was settled in 1920, st. Augustine was
already older than many of our west
ern cities are today.
In 1913, almost a century after Its
foundations, st. Augustine was report
ed to have 800 householders besides a
Franciscan monastery and garrison.
On its one hundredth anniversary st.
Augustine was again visited by mis-
fortune in the person of Captain Davis,
a rowing English freebooter. While
the inhabitants fed to the fort for
safety, he sacked the town, but failed
to find much booty.
In 1884. ST. Augustine again passed
under Spanish dominion and continued
undisturbed its dreamy existence, lit
tie affected by the events of the out.
side world. Although in 1921 1t was
embraced in the territory Of the United
States, it remained distinctly Spanish
in character, and even today retains
much of this foreign atmosphere.
Today st. Augustine is one of the
most interesting historic cities of the
United States, its quaint narrow
streets and shaded plaze eloquent OF
centuries of existence. One can mo-
visit this city without strangely feel
ing the romantic charm of this ricf
historical background.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
alternating MOSQUITOES

In the higher reaches of the Rocky
mountains in the northern part OF
Montana lives species Of mosquito
that hibernates during the winter, un-
der logs and in sheltered spots, and
may be seen flying on the first warm
day Of spring. These mosquitoes are
large, with spotted wings, and often
are referred TO as snow mosquitoes
According to Drs. n. Kadletz and l..
Kusmina, Russian scientists, these
mosquitoes store up fat in the sum-
mer, as do bears, and subsist on II
while doing through the winter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
Burns the Musician

AS for Burns, his genius fed upon,
daily and hourly, the floating High
land airs that lived among the people
He was musician born. Some wind
would blow him a wandering line Of
verse, some ancient tag of ballad,
and strain of an entrancing Celtic
melody. While he drove his plow
he would whistle and chant
till he had woven them into some
thing that made all the world in love
with him forever er-Grace Rbys in "a
Celtic Antholorv."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
NEW MACHINSTS'
OFFICIAL

Washington.-The general execu-
tive council of the International Asso-
citation of Machinists elected Harry j.
Carr, of Kansas City, to fill the un-
expired term of the late Peter j
Conlon, general vice president.
The new official served as general
organizer assigned to railroad work
He previously had been a member of
the general executive council He
represented railroad workers on q
government wage board during the
war.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
OPPOSE WAGE CUT

Portland, Organized street
car men oppose a 10 per cent wage
reduction that is being urged by the
local traction company.
The company, last year, secured a
10-cent fare to pay per cent wage
increase. The present wage reduction
demand was unanimously rejected by
1,700 employees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
DEPRESSION WILL END;
ANOTHER IN 10 YEARS

Westinghouse business depres-
sion will last year, but we will
have another period of "hard times"
within the next 10 years, said Her
bert F. Fraser, professor of econom-
les at Swarthmore College, in an ad-
dress before the annual meeting of
the Religious Society of Friends.
The speaker warned employers to
adopt unemployment insurance if they
would forestall such compulsory ac-
tion by the state.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
MILL WORKERS CUT:
WAGE $3.50 A DAY

Everett, Wash.-Several hundred
mill workers employed by the Robin
son Manufacturing Co. are on strike
against 10 per cent wage cut that
would bring rates in many cases down
to $180 day. Others would be paid
$210.
The company, last fall, cut wages
20 per cent The latest cut is being
resisted and the employees favor or
ganization. They are aided by the
local trade union movement.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
CHAIN STORE PROFITS
REACH RECORD FIGURE

New York.-The Great Atlantic
and Pacific Tea Company, that oper-
ates 1871 stores, made net profit
last year of $30,742,775. This COM
pares with $26,219,631 the previous
year. The company installed 319 new
stores last year.
The dollar value of merchandise
sold last year was almost as large as
the steel trust, and was considerable
in excess of some of the larger in
dustrial corporations.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
DOUBLE COMPENSATION
FOR INJURED CHILDREN

Harrisburg, Pa.-The state legisla-
ture amended the workmen's COM
pensation law which makes it costly
to employ children in illegal work
The amendment provides that where
such a child is injured double com
pensation shall be awarded.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
FULL CREW ACTS UPHELD

Washington.-Th Arkansas full
crew acts were upheld by the United
States supreme court.
The court, in two prior decisions,
sustained both laws and in the pres
ent case rejected contentious that con-
ditions had so changed as to consti-
tute an undue burden on interstate
commerce.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24

by some overload. There are some
As million workers in the United
States, all of whom ought to be hon
orably employed in self-respecting
labor with wages that insure decent
living conditions This year tribute
is due to American labor for the pa
tience it has exercised under trying
conditions. We have had no riots nor
expressions of communism as have
been witnessed in other countries.
Our workmen have not been degrade
by miserable government dole as
the workmen in England have been.
In the midst of depression our coun-
try has kept it's head level and it's
feet on the ground. There are evil
dences that this period of depression
is over, and now is the time for our
best minds to consider ways and
means to guard against recurrence of
such conditions. The day was when
it took all our manpower working
ten hours day to produce materials
for domestic and foreign consump-
ton. The machine age has changed
all that, and industry must now ad-
just itself to new conditions and take
up this slack in employment. Machin-
cry much be our servant, not our
masteri
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
FAVOR INCOME TAX

Denver.-A resolution proposing a
constitutional amendment that would
permit a graduated income tax has
been passed by the house of repre-
sentatives. The vote was 81 to 6.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
STATE UNIONS TO MEET

Providence, r. 1.-The annual con-
vention of Rhode Island Federation of
Labor will convene in this city Sat
urday, April 25.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
LABOR is KING

We should all be thankful that we
live in an age that has no serfs or
human chattels owned body and soul
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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middlet0wn Trades
and Laber Council of Middletown. O.
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Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Glass Mail Matter.
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But spring is in the air in most
sections of the country. More people
have time to pick flowers this year,
having nothing else to do, than has
been usual in more prosperous years.
Anyhow, find something to laugh at
and let the world roll by. But don't
stay away too long.
The Nome nugget., 1931-03-07
LADIES BURDEN RACE
 PRO! ES ENtITINt

The ladies bardsn race, uad. the auspices o: the None Ken. Club, ran ja.t >..a1y alou-l Y Little Creek Loop, distance 6.> miles, proved very intarest3n- anI that the lady museers do no, tax la back seat from their brother musheis.
 Mrs. F. J. OHara, with Mrs. Wm. Cameron a> bnrden. set the pace for the field and won first place ;n the remarkable time of 20 minutes ] seconds.
 Mrs. Gurnar Kaa-on with Eileen Walsh as burden, finished secon1 in 29 min. 40 seconds.
 Margie Bra aHadt with her mo h. CT as burden, finished third in g min. seconds.
 Mrs. Henry Burgh with Mrs Jos Durand as burden, finished fourth.
 Margare, Ullrich with Queen of Ihe Trail Madeline Calkins. as bur den. after loosins considerable time when her dogs tangled with Mrs. Harry Lomens team. came in fifth.
 Mrs. Lomen with Mrs. w. B. Miller as burden, did not make the loop much to the disa ppointment of the Little Creek judge. who
The Nome nugget., 1931-03-07

.,ae 10 be the leader of the league witA q percentage average of .75o as against d percentage of second T 2hes' of 800.
 The game was virtually pit |" rr's battle with very few hits Dna made on either side. The ..4re stood to 1 for d few inn ings and when the Commercials came to bat in the last inning the score stood i to l. however. they managed to bring in 3 more runs mak ng ;Ae score tied. with the last half of the 7th inning to play and Nome to bat With play ap preaching d definite crisis things happened quickly and as ever, in terest mounted until no one in the hall could distinguish even the umpires' decisions on the various plays. With two outs and two strikes on the last man up for Nome. with one of their men on third base, the batter knocked out a fast one, into the gallery bring ing in the additional run needed to win the gam" for Nome
 Nome is now l4adtng with the Commercials and Hlmmon tied for End and the Fedprals in 3rd place.
 What will he the outcome of the &.mes next Monday night, ii hard to say. but one thing is sure, they will certainly be exciting and bring forth the sportsmanship-like cHowd-. who have so far put in thrir attendance at the AB hall , for the games already played pon't fail to attend the next ,wo and mad sames of thc series They'll pay you back in count less ways for the sm,ll and nom-' inal admission charge O! 90 cents Percentage standing of Teams