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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
RY John CLACETT PROCTOR.

-ASHINGTON has changed great
deal in the last half-century
mn as will be testified by many
NH whose memories go back to the
U DAVIS when some of its main
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17
THE COMPANY STORE swINDLE

Organized labor for 30 years has
been fighting the scrip SYSTEM" the
peculiarly mean swindle in which a
corporation pays its employees in
orders on a company store, rather
than in cash. But though the evil has
shrunk to a fraction of it's former
proportions, it still persists.
Some figures recently gathered in
the coal camp of Ward, West Vir-
ginia, show how the graft works.
The cheapest coffee sells at the COM
pany store for 80 cents pound; the
same coffee sells at a private store
a mile away for II cents a pound.
The bacon which costs 35 cents a
pound in the company store sells at
p cents in the private store.
The difference in price on creamery
butter is 7 cents a pound; on oleo,
8 cents; on dried fruits, from 5 cents
to 719 cents. The same discrepancies
show in potatoes, bread, lard and can
ned goods. On the average, it costs
from 20 to DO per cent more for sup
plies at the company store than at
the private store.
The West Virginia law was amend
ed in 1913 to make scrip payments
legal if the employe Consented" to
take them. Without union to protect
him, the coal miner must consent"
to anything the company demands.
But what an unutterly despicable
graft it is.-(Labor).
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17

their denials cannot be taken at face
value, for they must appease their
converts.
AS a matter of fact, we can take
nothing out of Russia at face value.
We can only wait for results.
But it is, nevertheless, fairly GER
tain that the communist program of
collectiveism has hit many hard
bumps and things are not going as
well as might be.
Stalin's declaration of a return to
certain basic manifestations of non
communist societies shows the same
old dictatorship at work, and perhaps
that is, for us, the paramount fact
of the moment. For the rest, it is
best to wait and see. Anyhow, the
Russian bear, reputed to walk like
a man." proceeds toward whatever
may be its destiny along zig-zag
course
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17
TRADE UNION COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING

The employers group in the 1915
National Industrial Conference call
ed by President Wilson, voted against
labor having the right to organize
without discrimination and to be rep
resented by representatives of their
own choosing.
Employers would not deny to them
selves the recognition of the principle
of their right to be represented in
any relationship affecting their inter
ests by Representatives of their
choosing. The exercise of this right
is the keystone of freedom in nego-
tiations involving the rights and in
terests of labor.
In denying to workers the right of
collective bargaining through repre-
sentatives of their own choosing and
the right to organize without dis
elimination, employers are blocking
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17

Stain, regarded by many as the
soviet enigma, announces another
new economic policy"
A new credit system must be es-
tablished, he says Wages henceforth
are to be paid on the basis of work
done-piece work and higher rates for
those that work fastest or best. Big
state trusts are to be broken up into
small units under Individual manage
ment. Each industry must show a
profit and Justify itself" The kulak,
not so long ago fodder for firing
squads, gets a new place in the red
sun. So do the members of the intel
!igentsia
If we may take these things at face
value they mean the abandonment Of
the heart Of the communist philoso-
pry. The profit system, in large
measure, returns to Russia.
The red leaders deny that they
compromised with capitalism, but.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17
JOB SECURITY

job frequently
daily living mbed
the fabric the whole plan of living To lose job losing part
comparatively 400000o
persons relationship
the that the changing
their without
ing of work into industry
capacities that kind of work
preparation other having stake
IN enterprise
management efforts
Workers encouraged to have the spirit of
though they They
and that they must
share the which the
goodwill capacities the job Their
While represents ntangbes it d
These of
nte them recognition
associate the of job
ywithr take of emergencies
feature of work contract and
every worker the basis of his work
this business depression
thinking and these workers will not continue
their and rights Property
continue rights without mutual
milton of rights the undertakings
eserve necessary to its success
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17
CHANGE ON EVERY HAND

Any industry or trade that today
thinks it can shut its eyes to change
is drawing false conclusions. And
change today in industry means men
thrown out of jobs, sent to look for
new ones that generally do not exist
Machines to cool homes in summer
are being tested and will soon be on
the market. One is already available.
That is change of enormous impor-
tance. 1t will not be good for max
ers of fans.
A great building in Pennsylvania
is almost all steel--including doors
and window frames.
Co-ordinated rail-motor transport
service is being adopted by one rail
road after another. Containers for
-than-carload lots also are coming
into use.
Turning to little things, photo cells
sort and count almonds for market
work formerly done mostly by girls.
Where will the girls go?
A vending machine sells you a bot
tie of milk for dime and gives you
back a nickel for the bottle.
Change is the most common things
modern industry has. Look out! A
whole industry of today may be gone
tomorrow.
And all too often industry, going
it blindly, is itself unaware of what
is coming until it gets hit.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17
heCherry
" Where with our
fDD Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes Rippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

This depression is a curious affair.
Statistics show that times are pretty
tough. More than five million still
are out of work.
Out of 10000 members of one trade
in one city only 5000 have work.
Bituminous mine owners have car
ried nonunionism to the point of des-
peration and they seem now willing
to come back to unionism and order
liness, feeling the depression and the
pickering of non-unionism in their
pocketbooks.
Unions are paying relief and out
of-work benefits as never before.
Tokens of depression are plentiful
enough.
But over July Fourth holiday
crowds showed no thinning out. Such
resorts as Atlantic City were throng
ed, and never did the crowds seem
more happy and carefree.
Railroads hauled joy-seekers in ca.
pacity loads.
Baseball is still bringing in the null
titudes. Even prize fighting, that
draws its thousands and thousands tic
spend their money. Where there is
any lack of attendance nobody lays il
to hard times; they lay it to wear
ing off -of public confidence in the
game.
How comes this great orgy OF
money spending for these things
when the nation is blanketed in de-
preston that stills factory wheels
and chokes the lines of trade? 1t is
one of the great puzzles of the stu
alton.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council Of Hamilton. Ohie
Endorsed by the rMiddletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown. @.
FRIDAY, JULY II, 1881
is IT TRULY so?

The press today is the champion
and defender of the people, Robert L.
Vann, editor of the Pittsburgh Cour-
ier, told the National Association of
Colored People, meeting in conven-
ton at Pittsburgh recently.
"In this age of activity, the pub
lie press is expected not only to re-
cord current events, but to anticipate
the needs and wants of the people;
to defend the people against the
common enemy-whether that enemy
be found in the economic, political or
religious world" he said
"The editor is not only expected
to serve as watch dog for the peo-
pie, he is expected to sense the will
and wishes of the people and truth
fully interpret them. The acceptable
editor of today is the man who meas
ures the welfare of the public by the
same yard-stick with which he meas
ures his own personal welfare"
1t is an attractive picture that Mr.
Vann paints, that of the press as the
defender of the people, but is it a
true picture? There are good
grounds for believing that it is not
and that the press as a whole is more
devoted to making money than to ad-
vancing the welfare of the people.
A few newspapers fight for the
masses part of the time, but only
the labor press fights for them all
of the time.-By the Way.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17

Stocks of clothing in stores are
low, yet it's been many year since
pleasure-seeking throngs looked as
gay on raiment.
The whole situation seems tangled
and muddled and unreasonable. One
things stands out: This is depres-
sion without panic. In other times we
have had panics sometimes we have
had panics without depressions and
panics coming ahead of depression.
But here we are at the bottom of
the depression. President Green
who is no chaser of phantoms, who
seeks facts as they are says we are
dumping along the bottom right
now.
Conservative forecasters see 1882
as year of comeback.
1t is a peculiar thing that with such
grinding down as we have never
known and with so many indications
of possible disaster around us, we
have, on the whole, gone through in
more or less of daredevil fashion.
Perhaps there is fatalism in the air
Perhaps there is something deeper
and finer than that about. Perhaps
there is a determination that our
vast machinery of production must be
compelled to yield us happiness and
plenty and so, daring the system to
the finish, we spend the last cent as
happily as the first!
Anyhow, we shall see, as we go
along. However, already there is
some sign that there is this mag
nificent determination. MEMBERS
ARE FLOCKING INTO UNIONS,
and when members flock into unions
we have the best indication in the
world that we are not licked-that
WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO
FIGHT INTELLIGENTLY.
We shall go on enjoying life, fight
ing for more of life, for more of hap
piness and freedom and SAFETY
FROM THE EVILS OF UNDUE
EXPLOITATION!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17
CHICAGO, is THIS TRUE?

Through that mouth-t h-to-mouth chan
mel from whence comes so much truth
that men fear to speak openly comes
the fearsome whisper that in the
great city of Chicago an indictment
of trade union officials can be had
for $4,000. And that there are
plenty who are willing to pay that
price to put an effective union leader
out of the field of action.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17
Free Textbooks Denied
Night School Students

Washington. The legal adviser OF
the government of the District OF
Columbia has decided that night
school students cannot have free text
books because night schools are not
specifically mentioned in the free
textbook law recently enacted by
congress. The law was urged for
many years by the trade union move
ment of Washington. Labor leaders
believed the phraseology was COM
prehensive enough to include all
schools. whether night or day.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17

the genius developed out of the prac-
tical experience of the workers that
would be at the command of industry.
In system that permits workers
expression only through representa-
tives satisfactory to employers, the
latter can evoke only the echo of
their own limited theoretical knowl-
edge in the operation of industry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17

the failure Of employees in the big
tractor plant there. The poster ridi-
cules employees oe the plant for their
inability to keep it going. A big
laughing camel is the central feature
of the poster, which is reproduced in
the Business Week, New York. 1t is
said the plant turned out but a small
part of its scheduled production for
1880, and that ineffciency of work
ers has been the cause of 2.783
breaks in machinery in the past four
months.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17
LAUGHING CAMELS"

Perhaps important light is shed on
how the soviets are getting along
with their fiye-year plan by poster
placard over Stalingrad in derision of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17
Crisly Relic

"As few hostesses today use silver
disll-covers," writes correspondent,
II would like to know the origin Of
these before they disappear. They
date from bad old times, when mobiles
In fear of poisoEers made the cook
irsl eat of the food, then paddock ii
In the dish carried to table.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17
WISDOM

The maintenance of an opportunity
for free political discussion to the end
that government may be responsive
to the will of the people and that
changes may be made by lawful
means, an opportunity essential to
the security of the republic, is fun
damental principle of our constitu-
tional system.-Chief Justice Charles
E. Hughes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17

Any doctrine that will not bear in
yestigation is not fit tenant for the
mind of an honest man. Any man
who is afraid to have his doctrine in
vestigated is not only coward, but
a hypocrite.-IngersolI.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-17

Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1895 Eamilton, Ohio
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Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
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M EMS SUITS

Our entire stock goes at these two low
prices = nothing reserved = the finest
clothes obtainable-all the latest styles
and patterns-fine, long-wearing wor-
sted suits--in the shades every man
likes. These garments represent values
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-10
TONY FAVORED
OVER kid BERG
damned House Expected;
Englishman Thought
Burned Out

NEW YORK. Sept. 10. tPl-Tony
Canzoneri is TO defend mis- light
weight title against Jack kid
Berg at the Polo Grounds tonight
and onlyfs5 will buy the best seat In
the place.
The unusually low top price. the
result OF several failures this sum-
mer. Is expected 10 bring out a
crowd OF about 10000 to see Can
zoneri defend his title for the sec
ond time against the English
whirlwind. 1t Is the third and rub
Der meeting between the two but
on the first occasion. when Berg
gave the grinning New Yorker one
of the worst beatings of his career.
Tony had not yet taken the light
weight crown from Al Singer.
Reversing the situation before
their battle in Chicago. when Cam
zoneri avenged that earlier defeat
by knocking out Berg in the Sec
ond round. the pre-battle dope" Is
all in favor OF the champion this
time. Canzoneri Is favorite mt
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-10
Weir FACING
HARD PROBLEM
Tough Schedule And Young
Team Are McAllen
Prospects

McALLEN, Sept. 10.-With the
starting OF McAllen schools We'd
nesday. A. NJ. Weir. high school
mentor began his official training
on the football squad for the COM
ing season. Weir has been delay
ed in getting started by the illness
Of his wife. who has just under
gone an operation in Temple, Tex
as. for appendicitis. AL will have
about four lettermen back this
year. around which to build his
machine for one Of the toughest
schedules Of any class d team in
the Valley. MICA n is not predict
ing a Valley championship. but do
expect to complete their schedule.
and have the reputation OF having
a clean, hard fighting club.
Lettermen returning to the Nc
Allen squad so far are: Captain
John Hays. tackle; Karam. tackle:
Sharp, end: Mcvey, guard: and
Jones. tackle. The rest Of the men
reporting TO Weir are new men.
most Of them never having had on
a football suit before, but are will
ing workers. Other members of
the squad so far are: Meyers, Dean.
Rockwell, Ford. Pate. Yates, Had
den, Trad Chidlow Troutman. Roll
Inns. Cook, Osborne. Mathison. Ar
rendando, and Conway. 0ean.
Rockwell. Ford. Pate, jeanette,
Ramsour, and Mathison have play
ed under Weir IN junior high school
during the last two seasons.
McAllen now has a fine lighted
field. and will endeavor TO play
what games that can be arranged.
under those lights. Donna has al
ready consented to appear under
the lights. and there will probabl.
be more before the season is over
II Is the belief Of the citizens of
this town that games at night will
permit more people TO attend.
Coach Weir comes to McAllen High
school from junior high, where he
passed the entire season in both
basketball and football without
losing a game: having won up
state games for the State Cham
pionship in Junior high football.
Town people are back Of him. and
McAllen is in for an interesting
football season.
The schedule for McAllen Is as
follows:
Oct. 3-John Reagan. at Hous-
ton.
Oct. e-Open.
Oct. 16-Alice at Alice.
Oct. 22-Mercedes at McAllen.
Oct. 30-Donna at McAllen.
Nov. 6-Edinburg at Edinburg.
Nov. ll-Harlingen at Harrington.
Nov. omission at Mission.
Nov. 26-San Benito at McAllen.
Some OF the out OF the Valley
games are return games for teams
that came to McAller last year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-10
Spuds, Sports
Split z Games;
BUGS 3, Bluffs |
fBr The Associated Pressl

Wichita Falls and Shreveport
closed their combats against eacn
other yesterday by splitting a
doubleheader. The Sports won the
first, 6 to 4. The Spudders grabbed
the nsghtcap. 2 TO /. Lefty Erick-
son, who has been aOld to the
Chicago White Sox was in top
form. He limited Wichita Falls TO
nine hits. His mates collected
fourteen off Presnell. Lee and
Terrell engaged in a mound duel
In the second game, with Terrell
the winner. He held the Sports to
four hits.
The Beaumont Exporters cele-
brated Manager Del Bakers day by
sweeping a doubleheader from the
San Antonio Indians, 3 to 0 and
9 to 3. George Hollerson held the
Indians to six hits in the first
game. Whitlow wyatt stopped the
Redskins with three hits in the
second game for his eleventh VIC
tory this year. The second game
was called at the end Of the sixth
because Of darkness.
The Fort Worth Cats won their
second consecutive game from
Dallas by beating Lefty Hansen.
6 to 4. Dick Whitworth hurled the
Cats to victory.
The Galveston Buccaneers bea:
Houston 3 TO I.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-10
Doeg Warns Up
In Title Defense

FOREST HILLS. N. Y. Sept. 10.
-LPJ-Before he started in defense
OF his national singles title, two
predictions were made about the
chances Of Johnny Doeg and to a
certain extent both have been full
filled. The first was that, dropped
to fifth in the seeding. he stood
about as much chance OF repeating
his 1890 victory as that place In
dictated; the other that II he got
safely past his first few matches.
his chances would look somewhat
better.
Doeg had a close call in his
opening match with Eddie Jacobs
OF Baltimore and Jared only a little
better against Ned Herndon of New
York. With these two struggles
behind him. the big titleholder
from Newark. N. j., showed a con-
siderably better brand Of tennis
yesterday when he eliminated
Bryan Grant. Jr.. the little Atlanta
player who had conquered Jacques
Brugnon and earned a right to
favorable consideration today when
he faces Frank X. Shields. tall
Davis Cup star who Is ranked Sec
ond in the United States.
Matches today:
Johnny Doeg VS., Frank A.
Shields.
Ellsworth Vines VS.. Berkeley Bell.
Fred Perry VS.. Frank Bowden.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-10
INTERNATIONAL
TANG TO BOUTS
Scotty Takes On Craig In
Main Event; Jim Meets
Joe Flores

Like big time boxing of late
years. the grunt industry will 90
international" here tonight. what
with Jim Heslin. Scotty Dawkins
and Joe Flores billed.
Dawkins. who grapples George
Craig in the main events, rolls his
RS when he grunts and growls. He
halls from the Highlands and fire.
quentiy affects kits even in this
country. The knobby- kneed gentle
man knows his bar and chancery
even though he comes from the
hot-bed OF golf. Dawkins has never
wrestled here before but he has
appeared on cards at Harrington and
McAllen frequently. re Is Of the
rough and ready type who does not
object 10 using his fists when the
occasion arises.
His opponent. Craig. can proper
~ be placed in the same category.
Last week he took on Young
Stecher. the belligerant Bohemian.
In this affair he proved himself a
willing tosser Of the unpadded
knucks.
Jim Heslin. who claims an Aus
tralian title. will be pitted against
Jc. Flores in the semi-final. Heslin
talks with a Down Under brogue,
but as yet your correspondent has
not had the pleasure OF an audi
tion Of his grunting. Heslin. like
Dawkins. has wrestled at Harlin-
gen and McAllen but has not ap-
peared here.
Flores is a Fl. Worth product.
He goes in for the fast. clever
stuff but has his moments at the
rowdy rough-house stuff. He Is
sure to make Heslin strut his stuff.
Jesse Mylum, a Stephens-trained
product out OF Corpus Christi, will
take IN Cyclone Mackey in the
opener. This should be a whirl-
wind affair as both men are ex-
tremely fast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-10
Football Under
Way In Earnest

With approximately 100 boys out
already the football season is get
ting under way IN earnest here
The local coaching staff headed by
Red Irvine and Ben Brite =
working with high school and jul
Nor college candidates each after
noon.
The junior college boys take
their workout early I'm the after
noon and the high school grid
sters get their exercise 'ater-
The squads are going through
light setting UP exercises and
drills In the fundamentals on
blocking and tackling. Irvine Is
stressing the fundamentals. "A team
that Is not well grounded In fun
damentals can never reach It's max
imum strength. Red says. ard he
Is making his plans accordingly
The Junior college Is well forth
fled for material. Practically every
member or the squad has returned
and several new boys are trying FOR
the team.
The high school lost seven first
string players but has n generous
supply of reserve performers back
this season.