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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
PRIVATE PAY
To Injured Workers Anglers
North CarOlinians

Raleigh, N C.-The immense prof
it's of North Carolina private COM
pensation insurance companies, as
compared with benefits to workers
and employers under the state-con-
trolled Ohio plan, is explained by
Josephus Daniels, editor News and
Observer. Mr. Daniels was secretary
of the navy under President Wilson.
The newspaper asks, why Profit
from Injuries of Industrial Work
ers ?" In one year private insurance
companies collected $2,799,96 in pre-
miums and returned but $1,792,6 ,602 in
benefits.
"The insurance. companies of this
state" said Mr. Daniels, require an
overhead charge of SO cents from each
dollar collected in compensation pre-
MUM 1t is distributed for agents,
adjustment of claims, home office,
auditing payrolls, safety work, in
spectors and state tax. Every pre-
| iIilQin Dl less lldI pow CARRIES d pc
cial cost of $40, known as expense
constant Thus the premiums of less
than $500 pay more than SO per cent
overhead and makes an average of
approximately 40 per cent for all
classes.
'The administration of the Ohio
state insurance fund last year cost
employers 624 per cent of the pre-
MUM In addition there are less ap-
peals from the commissions devisions
and injured workers get their money
without delay.
During the first year the insur-
ance companies collected $2,799,962 in
compensation premiums from the en-
ployers of this state and returned
$1,792 ,602 in benefits. Why not North
Carolina invest the difference of over
one million dollars in its bonds?
This fund will cost the taxpayers
not dollar"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
WHAT NEXT?

Announcement of new process of
refining beet sugar was made recently
by Pierce Philippe, president of the
international Sugar Corporation.
Philippe said it is an electrolytic and
carbon method, is cheaper than the old
lime and sulphur method and will per-
NIT use of beet sugar in fruit packing
in tins. The beet juice is put through
the electrolytic and carbon treatment
prior to boiling or evaporation. By
elimination of lime and sulphur
treatment the refined sugar is freed
from mineral compounds, which here
tofore have prevented its use in fruit
canning in tin cans due to danger of
corrosion of the tin containers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
NO CHANGE
In U. S. Policy Toward So
Wet i'm View

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-No
change in the policy of the United
States against recognition of Soviet
Russia is contemplated, it was an
nounced at the white house on March
10. 1t was explained that the state
ment was made to set at rest specu-
lation caused by the recent decision
of Secretary of State Stimson to
make a study of the Russian situa-
ton.
Secretary Stimson's decision should
not be taken to mean that the United
States has in mind a new attitude
toward the soviet government, it was
explained.
Stimsons purpose is to broaden the
information of the department of
state on the Russian situation and is
in line with a determination to keep
thoroughly informed on world af-
fairs, it was said.
1t was reiterated at the state de-
partment that no special object was
behind the study other than the de-
sire of Mr.. Stimson to become well
informed on the Russian problem.
Announcement that Stimson was to
make the study had been hailed in
pro-soviet circles as an indication
that recognition of the soviet govern
ment by the United States was in
view. This inference was also made
by some opponents of soviet recog-
nition.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
STATE POWER
PLANTS URGED
IN WISCONSIN

Madison, Wis.-The state legisla-
ture passed the Loomis resolution for
constitutional amendment permit
ting the state to generate and dis
tribute light, heat and power.
The measure is favored by Gov
ernor Phil La Toilette, son of the
late Senator La Toilette and brother
of the present Senator La Toilette.
The resolution must be approved
by the 1888 legislature before it is
submitted to the people.
The proposal has been bitterly con-
tested by public utilities and attempt
ed bribery of legislators was investi-
gated by the senate, following
charges by the governor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
RAILROADS DENIED
PRIVATE CAR HAUL

Washington.-The federal supreme
court upheld an interstate commerce
commission order that railroads cease
from free hauling of private cars, in
Guiding so-called office cars.
The commission found that rail
roads handled large numbers of these
cars to Maine, Florida, California and
other resort states without cost. In
some cases, large shippers and their
families were included in this free
transportation, that often included
free meals.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
Progressives Meet to Plan
Program For Next Congress
Utilities Farm Relief Tariff Unemployment and Restor
alton of Popular Government Considered-Norrs
Denounces Labor Injunction and Poverty in Midst
of Plenty

More than 100 independent repub-
licans and democrats, labor leaders,
economists, sociologists and publicists
gathered at the conference to con-
slider an economic and social pro-
gram of legislation to be pressed in
the next congress by the small group
of insurgents who will hold the bal
ance of power in both houses.
Utilities, form relief, tariff, unem-
ployment and restoration of popular
government were on the program.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
But mployment Is Still at Peak Levels and
Will Be Serious Problem Rest Of Year, While
Epidemic Of Wage Reductions Retard Recov-
cry, Monthly Survey Shows.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-After
eight months of business decline,
some of the trade indicators are be-
ginning to turn upward and it seems
likely that the decline has been
checked and that the bottom of the
depression has been reached, the
March monthly survey of business of
the American Federation of Labor
says. "The next few weeks" the sur
vey says, will tell whether revival
will start now with spring activity or
wait for several months. There are nc
clear signs of an upward start yet"
THE vigorous rise in stock market
prices last month";" the survey states,
Sis due to a growing spirit of opti-
mism, but is not based on actual bust
ness improvement. 1t has the effect
of spreading optimism still further,
and several increases in production
can be traced directly to the more
cheerful spirit resulting But the
foundation is shaky."
Big Drop in Farm Income
The report reviews the farm stu
alton, stating that the general de
preston had been made more severe
by a decline of 20 per cent in the
farmers income. Of the efforts of the
farm boards stabilization corpora
ton to maintain American prices
above the world market, it said that
if the board is forced to sell surplus
stocks accumulated at present prices
there would be a loss of $60,000,000
on cotton holdings and $20,000000 on
wheat holdings.
'As matters stand now," the sur
vey said, ''the farm board must either
have new appropriations from con-
gress to buy the surplus crop again
this year-an endless and impossible
professor it will have to sell its
holdings and let prices come down to
world levels. The board has inti-
mated that it will not stabilize 1881
crops, and the price already has fallen
somewhat, but not to world levels. The
board has begun selling wheat"
Sign of Hope Seen
Hope is seen by the survey in the
fact that whereas last year unemploy.
ment rose steadily from September
through February, this year report,
from $685. 900 union members show
that apparently the rise has been al
ready checked-a month earlier thar
last year. This is cheering news in
deed" the survey says, adding:
Through union reports this month
give further evidence that the bottom
of depression may have been reached
they show unemployment still at peal
levels. The improvement is so small
as to be negligible for the millions ou
of work. There is no question tha
unemployment will last on at nearl!
It's present high level for severa
months and will be a serious problem
for the rest of the year. Competen
economists are even looking forwart
already to winter almost as bat
next year. Our problem now is to ex
tend plans for work and relief which
in many cases had been calculated t.
end in April"
Key Industries Gain
Key industries are increasing ac
! tivity, the report says, noting tha
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
Epidemic of Pay Cuts

The report directs attention to an
epidemic of wage cuts, which it
severely condemns. 1t is declared,
however, that despite an alarming in
crease in wage cuts, they have been
few in this depression compared with
1921. Of the wage situation, the sur
vey says:
"Midwinter and midsummer, indus
try's two dull seasons, are the times
when most wage cuts occur Last
summer in July and August wage
cuts were worse than in any previous
1880 month; 1873 firms reduced wages.
Cuts then declined to 81 in December
But January has brought a virtual
epidemic of wage reductions in spite
of all the warnings against lowering
workers incomes. In January 335
| firms cut wages, over twice the num-
Der in any 1880 month, and nearly
twice as many wage earners (43,000)
were affected. The cuts were severe.
averaging 10 per cent These figures
are from reports of the department
of labor.
"At first glance it appears that the
warnings of labor and business lead
! ers have been ignored. But in reality
even the January wage cuts affected
only very small proportion of indus
trial firms, far less than in the 1921
liquidation of labor. In January, 1881,
only 90 per cent of the reporting
firms cut wages, while in the worst
1921 month 13 per cent reduced and
the number cutting wages ran above
6 per cent for nine months In all,
go per cent of the reporting firms cut
wages in the worst II months of the
1921 depression, and only z per cent
in 1930-31. We know there have been
hidden wage cuts in 1931-frms lay
ing men off and rehiring them at
lower wage rates-but even including
these, wage reductions in this de-
preston have been few in comparison
with 1921.
PAY Cuts Serious Matter
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
DEFEAT ADULT WAGE BILL

Madison, Wis.-The state senate
indefinitely postponed" bill that
would regulate wages of adult work
ers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
EN- phasizes One Section

The president emphasized a section
of the Wagner bill providing for abo-
lition of the present employment
service in the department of labor
and the substitution of the federal
and state aid plan outlined in the
measure.
The present federal employment
service was finding jobs for men and
women at the rate of 100000 a year
and had special divisions for farm
labor and veterans which were not
covered in the Wagner bill, Mr.
Hoover declared.
"And even We're there no other OBJ
jections to the plan" he continued
''it cannot be made effective for many
months or even years. 1t is not only
changing horses while crossing 8
stream, but the other horse would not
arrive for many months"
Another Plan to Be Drafted
President Hoover said he was ask
ing Secretary of Labor Doak to CO.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
Labor Denied Relief

american labor, suffering from the
grinding evils of injunctive process,
was promised relief in the last ma
tonal campaign. But those who We're
victorius to great extent on ac-
count of such promises, forgot, after
election, the pledges which they had
made, and not only ignored them but
frustrated every attempt which was
made by the progressives in the
United States senate to redeem the
pledge and give relief to labor"
"We very properly boast of our
freedom and point with pride to that
recent period in our history when we
struck the shackles of slavery from
human limbs. But organized wealth
has invented a new form of slavery
by which the hands of labor are
manacled in new kind of involun-
tary servitude by means of judicial
decree"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
Pay Cuts Serious Matter

"To reduce workers incomes at this
time is serious matter. The spring
busy season is just ahead-a particu-
larly favorable time for the start of
business recovery. Much depends on
workers ability to buy. If industry
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-The
address of Senator George w. Norris
was the opening feature of the pro-
gressive conference called by pro-
gressive senators here. In it he made
clear the position of those who called
the meeting, stating that it was not
in the interest of the political ad
vancement or candidacy of any indi-
vidual, and was not for the purpose
of forming new party. He referred
to the hunger of millions in the pres
ence of plenty, and the loss of the
producers of food while the consum-
ers are called upon to pay high
prices. He referred to the hardships
laid upon labor by court proceedings,
and discussed at length the develop
ment and activities of the electric
power trust in its effort to control
elections and legislation in its own
favor. He pleaded for a free govern
ment and looked to the conference to
stake a great step forward in the
solution of these troublesome prob
lems."
In referring to the problems of la
Dor, Senator Norris said:
"With many of our textile mills
idle for the want of market for
their products, uncounted thousands
of little children do not have clothing
sufficient to keep them warm.
No Prosperity for TOilers
with food products rotting for the
want of a market, starvation stands
like an evil spector at the fireside OF
millions of humble homes. With un-
employment driving thousands of
honest laborers into beggary, the
more favored classes of our citizens
are living in riotous luxury with more
money than they can possibly spend.
Our boasted prosperity does not ex-
tend to those who toll either in the
counting house, the factory or the
farm.
"American agriculture, already suf-
fering from tariff which was too
high on most of the products the
farmer had to buy, was given tariff
by those who had promised to bring
relief which was still higher and still
more burdensome
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Presi-
dent Hoover, on March z, formally
announced that he disapproved the
Wagner bill for the creation of ma
tional employment system 1t was
said on behalf of the president that
his announcement constituted veto
of the bill. Mr.. Hoover said that the
measure would abolish the existing
federal employment service; that it
could not be made effective for long
time, and that it would not help in
the present unemployment emergency,
but would do great harm.
The presidents veto was criticized
by Senator Wagner, President Will
liam Green, of the American Fedora
tion of Labor, Edward FIR. McGrady,
legislative committeeman of the fed
Grafton, and others. "The working
people of the United States are deep
ly disappointed over the presidents
veto of the Wagner BILL" Mr. Green
said.
President Hoover said he had stud
led the bill, providing for national
system of federal and state-aid en-
ployment agencies, "in an effort to
find method to make it of use in
the present employment situation" F"
The study had convinced him, he said,
he said, that it would do more harm
than good and "that, if / would pre-
vent a serious blow to labor during
this crisis, should not approve the
bill"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08

Greene, the pastor of Calvary, made . brief
and touching address. Rev. DR.. Sunderland Of
the First Presbyterian Church and Rev. DR..
Williams of Baltimore also made short adj
dresses Miss Mccarthy sang Only Remem-
befed by What Have Done and the closing
prayer was by Rev G. G. Meador Of the South
Washington Baptist Church. The ministers
and the following honorary pallbearers pre-
ceded the body as it borne to the heaRse,
while Prof. Hayden performed. q dirge on the
organ: Hon. William Window Hon. Josiah
Dent Hon. Andrew Wylie. Hon. Walter S.
Cox Hon. Hiram Price, W. W. Corcoran, Gen.
z. Whittlesey, Dr. j. G. yelling, Judge Nc
Farland, Hon. Horatio King, Prof. e. M Gal
laudet, Rev. j. G. Anes, B. p. Snyder, David
A. Haynes, j. w. Thompson, A. II. Herr, 8. H.
Kaufman, William B. webb and w. 3. Shall
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08

one-half by four feet of white flowers. On
the platform and on stands were floral crosses
and anchors, surmounted by doves, a sheaf Of
wheat, q ship with broken mast; the open
gates Of wicker work. clad IN green studded
with white blossoms, over which were q pair
Of doves, also i've interlinked Wreaths-one
broken. On the casket was o pillow with the
word Rest with q dove above 1t and anchor.
Prof. 4. L. Hayden was the organist, and IN
the choir were Miss Eva Mills, Miss Mccarthy,
Mrs Morrison, MesSrs. Pugh, Whitaker, Holer
and Rice, with others, who rendered appropri-
ate music during the ceremony Rev. DR..
Cuthbert Of the Thirteenth Street Baptist
Church read appropriate selections of Scripture,
and Rev. Mr.. Parker Of the Metropolitan Cast
CapitoD Church offered prayer. Miss Mills
sang the solo, MY Redeemer' Rev. s. d.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
.Ry JOHN CLACETT PROCTOR.

T is a sad thing in way, to go into some
old mansion, where life, gayety and dig
nifty once prevailed, and find 1t stripped OF
all its former glory and greatness; the
old family that gave it caste and stand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
William Stickney Home Remembered

lenberger. The remains were removed to the
hearse by the following eight members of
Calvary Church; Rodney Taylor, T. r. Jones,
David Chambers, n. w. Bartlett, DR.. johnson,
H. G. Jacobs @. S. Prindle and George l..
Sheriff. The cOrtege-one Of the largest ever
seen at o citizens funeral in this city-pro-
ceeded to Oak Hin Cemetery, where the inter-
ment was made beside the son of the deceased,
who died last year. The choir sang appropriate
music at the grave and there was a prayer by
Rev. DR.. Greene, after which the benediction
was pronounced by Rev. DR.. Sunderland"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
o. E. S. Officers
to Be Installed
at Beech GYoUe

Officers of Beech Grove chapter,
465, Order of Eastern Star, will be
publicly installed at the Masonic
hall, Beech Grove, at 8 Saturday
night. Officers of the Indiana
Grand Chapter, who will preside,
are IRA Seeger, worthy grand
parton, installing officer; Mrs.
Blanche Regett. grand secretary,
and Mrs. Daisy Christ, associate
grand rnatron. Mrs. Hazel Coates
grand Ruth, will sing.
Those who will be installed
are Mesdames Jeannette Lock-
wood, worthy n1atron; Alyce M.
Clapp, associate natron; Anna
ODell, secretary; Thelma Paugh,
treasurer; Fern Ganstine, conduc-
tress; Mae Hougland, associate con-
ductress; Ella Bronson, chaplain;
Pearl Sedinger, marshal; Ethel
Haines, organist; Reba Masten,
Adah; Lillian StogsdilI, Esther;
Margaret Jenkinson, Martha; Mary
A. Neal, Electa; Hazel Marshall,
warder; Miss Eula Faye Tom, Ruth;
Samuel Marshall, worthy patron,
and George w. Shea. associate
patron,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
SORORITY TO HOLD
INITIATION SERVICE

Miss Mildred Nordlah is in charge
of the initiation service and the
paiarna party to be held for
pledges of Phi Pi Psi sorority at
the whispering Winds Saturday
night. She is being assisted by
Misses Margaret Ralston and Betty
Grove,
Pledges to be initiated are Misses
Betty and Kitty Pursley, Ruth
Lanhaln, Margaret Smith, Harriet
Clary, Tllelma Aston and Bessie
and Martha Gross. A midnight
supper will follow the pajama party,
and breakfast will be served Sun
day morning. Lavender and white,
the sorority colors, will be used in
decorating.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
Clarifying Yourself
By ALICTA HART.

DANIE NATURE may have cheat
~ ed you when she was giving
cut those perfectly arched eyebrows
about which poets sing.
But if you take matters into our
own hands, you can cheat her and
create an artistic effect quite as love-
~ as any she ever did alone. But
do not pluck your eyebrows now.
That vogue IS out.
Darkening eyebrows for beauty's
sake was done centuries ago, if we
are to believe Psychologists who
have found pots Of paint buried
with munmies.
Today, darkening the eyebrows is
a matter of choosing the right
shade of eyebrow pencil, using it re-
STRANGELY, but first Of all deciding
just what arch you want.
THE safest way to beautify the
l. brows is merely to emphasize
their natural line Of arch or
straightness until you make sure
that it is or is not as becoming to
you as another line would be.
Chances are that the general line
is right. You merely need more
color here or there to broaden the
brows's appearance, or emphansize
it here and there.
Choose a brown, blue, black,
mauve or other colored eyebrow
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08

pencil to match up with your
brow's own tone. The color of your
eye shadow and your eyebrow pencil
should be harmonious. Lashes, lids
and eyebrows have to get together
on this matter Of mutually putting
over the actual orbs themselves.
TITO darken your eyebrows, mere
l. ly take your pencil in your
hand just as you would an ordinary
pencil and trace a line over your
broWs.
If you put it very, very lightly
on the part of the eyebrow near
the nose and slope it out to the tin
ends near the temples, you will get
the impression C eyes set wider
apart than if you darken your brows
clear to their ends nearer the nose.
It gives the impression of a
pretty arch often, just to darken
the eyebrows more right in the
center than at either end.
Follow upper line of your brows
rather than the lower line when YOU
get right in the middle Of the brow
and see if that doesn't heighten
your arch, too.
Be very careful not to press
harshly. You may irritate the eye
brows and make them red instead
OF the color you want. And do not
make too obvious a line in them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
Personals

Mrs. Henley Holiday, 1854 Broad
way. is spending several weeks at
Miami Beach, Fla.
Mr.. and Mrs. william J. Hogan
3103 North Meridian street. are
spending few days at the Edge
water Beach hotel, Chicago.
Miss Lucille Weddle and Miss
Mary Alice Wilhelm will spend the
weekend in Hanover and attend
the Phi Gamma Delta house dance
Friday night.
Mrs. Peggy Smith, 2147 North
Pennsylvania street, has returned
from spending the holidays with
her aunt, Mrs. Ellen KEEPER Ste
pllan, Columbus, o.
Mrs. Emma Williams, Detroit, Is
here to spend the winter with her
son, Q. M. Watson, 315 North Sen
ate street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
Indian Objects
Contributed to
Art Collection,

A number of articles from the
Niblack collections are being ex-
hihited in the print rooms of the
Art institute during January. These
objects of art have been contrib
uted to the institute by Miss Sarah
Niblack, in memory of her sister,
Eliza Niblack, and in memory of
their brother, Vice Admiral Albert
P. Niblack, by his widow.
Among those presented by Mrs.
N1black is a group Of objects made
by the coast Indians of Alaska, COL
lected by the admiral during the
early years of his service as coast
surveyor and explorer of the coun-
try occupied by Tlingt, Haida and
Tsimahian tribes. His record of
this survey, "The Coast Indians OF
Alaska and Northern British Co.
lumbia," published in 1889, still
remains an authoritative work on
this subject.
The Alaskan objects are arranged
in one case, and include small
slate totalr, beautifully carved; a
wooden rattle, used in ceremonial
dances, carved bone ladies', painted
oars and baskets.