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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-28
FARM BOARDS
HICH-SALARIED
MEN QUIzzED
Details of Heavy Selling of
Wheat at Pegged
Prices Related.
BY LYLE c. WILSON
United Press stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.-Details
Of grain sterilization operations
showing that the government was a
heavy seller of wheat at one time
during the period of pegged prices,
were given Friday by George S. Mil
nor to the senate agriculture COM
mittee.
Minor is a $4,000 a year execu-
tive Of TIE sterilization corporation
and the Farmers National Grain
Corporation, both sponsored and
the former controlled by the farm
board.
Minor said wheat prices were
Plugged from November 1890 to
June 8, 1881, at 81 cents for Chi
cago and 70 cents for Kansas City.
In response to questions from Sena-
tor Thomas Dem, Okla.). Minor
said that on Nov. 10 the stabiliza-
ton corporations bought 8.O65 900
bushels Of wheat and on Nov 10
bought 100000 bushels.
On the three succeeding days it
sold an aggregate of $500 900
bushels. It has been reported since
that time that the corporation was
seeking to "retard prices"
The witness told Thomas it was
not the intention of the stabiliza-
ton corporation to retard prices,
but that it was found that the
pegged prices could be maintained
better, if violent fluctuations were
discouraged.
Several senators were interested
in Minors salary, all of which now
comes from the privately owned
Farmers National Grain Corpora
ton. He told them the highest in
come he ever received as president
Of the Sparks Milling Company, Al
ton, ILL.,, was $36,000
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-28

on War Secretary Patrick Hurley
later today to learn the results Of
the investigation. He also may call
up Labor Secretary William N.
Doak. Shipstead said he wanted
the Governor to compel the con-
tractors to maintain the wage rate
prevailing at the time the contract
was made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-28
ChiropractOr Sued

BIZ Times Spccidt
WARSAW. Ind, Nov. 28.-Dr. H
B. Murray, a chiropractor, is de-
fendant in $4,000 damage suit filed
by a patient, Mrs. Bessie Atkins, who
alleges improper treatment. She
charges that her spine was reckless
ly bent and that despite her pro-
tests and cries Of anguish, the Chi
ropractor did not desist, but instead,
laughed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-28
WAGE CUTTING PRoBED

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S-The
war and labor departments are con-
Quoting an investigation of charges
that private repair contractors on
High Dam, between the Twin Cities,
have cut wages, Senator Henrik
Shipstead (Farmer-Labor., Mimi
announced here today.
Shipstead said he intended to call
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-28

Scores of plant diseases are
found 10000 feet in the upper air
by experts in airplanes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
RENO HAS A BOOM

No depression talk in Reno, Nevada
Sudden influx of gamblers and di.
vorce seekers from all parts of the
world has brought a house famine
and "Reno smiles in the midst of it's
new-found prosperity In the heart
of the great American desert, they
have found the key to wealth.
But you would not go to Reno to
live, any more than you would bring
your children into roadhuose. Nor
for human beings whose prosperity
is the price of human waste and
tears and the license money of those
who prey upon their fellow men. You
would meet there poor sports, get
ting rid of the women they promised
to love and honor, and gamesters
stealing the fruits of honest work.
Your wife would find a gay society
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
WORKLESS ISSUE MUST BE EVADED

employment" discussed by industrial leaders who
proposal should be confused with
replaced
lost all claims to their job?
These are no of-they discharged.
relief plan that indus
released
their work.
would ideal situation if there
inventive the scientific mind
constantly workess the number of
unemployed only
conditions fortunate
10 employed.
These workers are o social order.
of employment in the when
haunted by the fear that they
will eventually be placed on the street
be rgularizaton under the
Millions unemployed ignored
condition These forces their
functonng, and make conditions
of employment
hope employees whom they pay off,
against millions blindness bundering. 1t post
poning the day must be faced
This be done by drastic
reduction of hours.
compelled yield
y the reoutonng social utook
be work This question cannot
be solved employment for those who
happen to have jobs.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
BUYING FOREIGN OIL

There are between 100000 and
250,000 men out of work in our Mid
die Western oil fields. The annual
loss is enormous. A great industry
is tied up. Not only are the wages
of the workers taken out of the spend
ing field, but the income is cut off
for thousands of investors. Equip
ment is standing idle and deterior-
ating. Companies which make equip
ment and which would find this rich
field for sales, thus keeping thousands
of their workers employed, feel the
effect.
Undoubtedly the companies and in
dividuals owning wells would be glad
to produce oil and sell it on basis
of cost plus very slight profit.
But perhaps it is a good idea to
preserve that OIL Maybe it will be
needed a hundred years from now,
when there is no business depression.
Possibly that is what is in the
minds of our government officials. 1t
would seem so. 1t is easy to believe
that they do not want the American
fields to be worked.
Recently our navy department went
out and signed contract for nearly
100000 barrels of oil to cost S2,-
260,110. They bought it from a for
eign field.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05

them, down where they can't help
themselves right now, but is is only
a matter of time when they will learn
that, though the worker may be down
he is not out-that he is still in the
ring-and that he is coming back one
of these fine days with a clout that
will send his wage-slashing opponent
staggering to his corner-staggering,
if not completely out.
Labor is not going to be carried
away in the maelstrom Of depression.
Labor may have to go around in the
eddy for a while, but eventually labor
will catch its breath, stand organized
and be ready to fight for its rights
at all times.
1t is through the solidarity of its
membership that organized labor has
been preventing greater reductions in
wages, and it is through this same
solidarity that labor will get back
in time, what it has lost.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05

has no trouble ordering out the firing
squad. It's a different matter when
there are elected representatives to
be consulted.
The Russian masses will compre-
hend that some day--and so will the
others.
The shame of the American intelli-
gentsia will be heralded some day as
pretty black business.
Today these high takers ride pretty
high, wide and handsome.
Of course they are free to talk
and that is good and as it should be-
1t, is their talk that is disgraceful
and wrong not their right to talk.
We find tyranny praised as though
it were the expression of a paradise.
We find men who ought to appreciate
freedom extolling unfreedom.
Well, all things right themselves in
time, though sometimes at terrific
cost For the present there is free
dom in the United States. We shall
have it as long as we value it and
know how to use it, the intellectuals
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1881
A MAGNATE'S STRIKING
WARNING

Talking straight to steel executives
described by him as "the comrades
sitting here in the front row." James
A. Farrell, president of the United
States Steel Corporation, accused
them of wage-cutting and said:
Il think it's pretty cheap sort of
business"
Looking back over the long record
of anti-unionism of the United States
Steel Corporation, particularly under
the late Judge Gary, this is a remark
able piece of news. Mr.. Farrell said
more.
Observe:
You say wages have been stabil-
lied in the steel industry. They have
not. We are living in a FOOLS para
disc. Honeycombing and pinching and
all sorts of things have gone on. The
so-called big standard companies, the
companies in the headlines. are not
maintaining the standard of wages.
It's shame that when some of the
large companies are trying to main
tain wages, others are cutting them
even when they are affording only
three-day- y-a-week employment"
Mr.. Farrell finally warned his col
leagues thus: Il think we are not
doing good job, and unless we do
a better job something is going to
happen"
Let US be grateful for this plain
speaking But let US remind Mr.. Far
rell that if trade unionism could be
made as strong in the steel mills as
it is, for example, in the printing
industry, the job of preventing wage
cuts could and would be much more
easily handled, and there would be
infinitely less danger that what Mr..
Farrell calls something" will chap
pen"
Unionism is protection for hu-
manity and safeguard for democ-
racy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
OUR HUMAN SACRIFICES

The ancient Aztecs believed in hu-
man sacrifices.
They thought it necessary to lay
human beings on the affairs of the
gods, in order to secure their annual
crops, and their water supply.
The ancient Aztecs had nothing on
US.
We, too, believe in human sacri-
fices-burnt offerings, or whatever
they happen to be.
In order to secure our coal supply
we believe that it is necessary to
sacrifice human beings.
But we must have the coal!
And coal miners are common-just
humans.
In 1929 we sacrificed 141 men in the
month of March on the altar of the
god of Bituminous Coal.
In 1880 we only sent 81 men to the
burning, on that altar.
In 1929 the god of Anthracite
claimed 80 sacrifices in the month of
March.
In 1880 the number was cut to %
sacrifices.
Necessary?
Of course it is necessary.
And we believe it.
And act on our faith.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
7heCherry
/" Where with eur
roo Little Matchet
We tell the truth
about many things. Sometimes pre-
feundly, sometimes Aippantly,
sometimes recklessly. .......

Great discussion has arisen as to
whether Mussolini has a censorship.
His defenders say you can print any,
thing you like in Italy as long as your
opinions are not wrong. In other
words, you can say whatever the die
tatorship thinks is right.
That probably limits criticism to
something like this: "Mussolini is a
fine man."
Same kind of freedom of the press
exists in Cuba and in Russia.
In one of the labor papers recently
there was jingle, written about some
famous gent, winding up:
Every giant oak was once
A little nut like you"
You probably couldn't address those
lines to Mr.. Mussolini, or to Boss
Machado in Cuba.
All joking aside, under dictator
ship Mr.. Pro Bono Publico has to
keep his mouth shut, except when he
sings praises.
Mr.. Mussolini has no very high
opinion of the United States. Neither
has Mr.. Stain. in Russia.
But there is kind of plain speak
ing going on today in the United
States that would make those tyrants
writhe i'll anguish.
There is more constructive but crit
ical examination of our institutions
going on here than has ever gone on
in any nation before 1t is one of
democracy's finest tests.
Other nations have seen as much
and more criticism, but always it has
led to destruction-its purpose was to
plan for tearing down. Here it is to
plan for making things work. The
difference is considerable.
Under a tyranny, or under an
oligarchy, Mr.. Individual usually
finds it expedient to point out how
lovely everything is.
In a democracy he can say what he
thinks about high and mighty institu-
tions, and if enough say things they
can get action. AS long as political
government remains democratic there
is chance for freedom in every di-
rection.
Political governments determine
where the shooting is to be done.
That's why criticism is unhealthy
in Italy, Russia, Cuba and few other
countries.
We may have grievous industrial
evils and also grievous political evils,
but as long as the people have enough
grip on their political government to
maintain freedom to speak, write and
organize, they can get where they
want to go.
It's when tyrants replace congresses
that the shooting starts. One man
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
SIMPLIFIED PRACTICE
SAVED $3.50, ,000,0 900

Washington.-Government aid to
business men in standardizing and
simplifying their output has enabled
210 industries to save $250,000, 900,
according to Dr. Julius Klein, assist
ant secretary of commerce.
"Ten years ago." said DIR. Klein,
there were 552 patterns and dimen-
sions of woven wire fencing on the
market; simplifcation cut the total to
62. Once there were 40 varieties of
milk bottles; now there are but four"
Simplification runs through the list
of industry, and has resulted in less
capital being tied up in inventories.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05

political strength as a balance of
power, we were effective in swinging
decisive votes for friends of labor
Practical evidence that the fedora
tons leadership represents the minds
of the rank and file of wage-earners
throughout the land was helpful in
securing constructive labor legisla-
tion
1t is interesting to compare the ex-
periences of American labor's politi-
cal policies with those of British la
Dor. Before British labor organized
an independent labor party, through
mobilizing it's political votes in sup
port of labor and friendly candidates,
it secured a number of constructive
labor laws, including the trade dis
putes act. Since it has changed from
a non-p partisan to the labor party pol
icy, it has encountered even greater
opposition to its efforts to secure
social justice legislation.
American labor believes that the
fundamental function of labor organi-
cations is to promote the welfare of
labor, and to use each advance as
increased capacity to cooperate with
other groups for common welfare and
mutual progress.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
Thomas Redding Dead;
Was Popular UniOnist

Chicago.-Thomas Redding, first
general vice president Sheet Metal
Workers international Association,
died at his home in this city.
The funeral was largely attended by
trade unionists and other acauaint-
ances of this popular trade unionist.
He was representative of his in
ternational at IL conventions of the
American Federation of Labor. He
was an outstanding figure among or
ganized building craftsmen.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
LABOR IN THE SHORT SESSION

In the last session of the list
congress there were 67 legislative
days. In that brief period, when ap-
preparation bills and administrative
measures have priority, Is measures
affecting labor interests were passed.
Here we have again practical proof
of the effectiveness of our non-parti-
san political policies. BY using our
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
DODGING AGREEMENT
MADE BY BUSINESS2

New York.-Are business men pre-
pairing a popular psychology that will
permit them to repudiate their no.
wage-cut agreement with the presi-
dent?
The Washington correspondent of
the Wall Street Journal makes the
significant statement: "* only a
few employers were represented at
the Washington conference so that
their competitors who were not rep
resented would appear free from any
promise"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
WILL, IN TIME, GET 1T ALL
BACK

Some employers are taking advan-
tage of the depression-existing con-
ditions-to slash wages. They know
that many of the workers with hun
CRY families are willing to accept any
thing in the way of pay to relieve
hunger and suffering at home. They
have the workers, that is some of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05

women who had made shipwrecks of
their lives. Your children would play
with children waiting to learn whether
they are fatherless or motherless.
You would not live in Reno, the
burial place of truth and honesty,
hearing the jazz music that strives
to drown the melancholy dirge Of de-
feated lives. A prostitute city that
makes its bid for the largesse of men
and women who are failures, in a
state that has put honor on the bar
gain counter, is failure as home
Elk.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
CONTINUE STATE
POLICE

Harrisburg, Pa. = representative
Musmanno charged that the senate
judiciary general committee destroyed
his bill that was intended to check
Pennsylvania's coal and iron police.
The bill is supported by organized
labor, and would confne the police to
the property of corporations that pay
them.
The amended BILL" said Mr.. Mus
manno, "will continue mongrel po-
lice force"
The dog that trots about finds a
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
WHAT NEXT?

The General Electric Company has
perfected and placed in various hos
pitals an artificial fever-producing
machine whose benefits to medicine
are legion. 1t induces temperature
of LOG degrees without discomfort to
suffering patients. Such artificial
temperatures speed up the body
processes so that they provide i'm
munity against infections.
As the bootlegger said, 'Life is full
of trials, with occasional convictions. !"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
WISDOM

The great movement called labor is
the supreme instrument in politics
for the realization of new and bet
ter social order.-Canon Donaldson.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
TAX CHAIN STORES

Tallahassee, Fla.-The state senate
passed bill defining chain stores and
imposing special license tax thereon.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-06-05
THE RIGHTS OF WAGE FARMERS
AS Interpreted by Pope Plus XII


As Interpreted by Pope Plus XI
Reafrmng labors unquoned right organize Pope Plus A
Friday his labor ncycca from which
the following pertinent extracts aken
the there beyond question excessive and
commodities life between capital
riches accumulated in the
while other the prOetariat who form mu
nothing their their hands
and of their brow"
unbdd competition has been succeeded by the
the hands of few of the whole
power only nations but the entire world and
this degenerate into tyrannica des
potism."
saable commodity, but which the
working always be respected"
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Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.

Issued Weekly at sac Market Street
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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council Of Hamilton. 0hie
Endorsed by the Middletewn Trades
and Labor Council Of Middletswn, q.
Evening star., 1931-11-29
Cabinet Dinner Is Event
Of Next Thursday Night
At Executive Mansion
Close Dividing Line of Congress Gives SisniG-
cance to Opening of Official
Social Season.

spreads into more pretenticus width as
it nears Georgetown.
Embassies and legations are opening
their doors on Fridays for the at homes,
which lend rich color to a Washington
season. The new Japanese embassy,
with its charming and popular chate-
laine Nine. Debuchi, will be the mecca
of many who are anxious to see not
only the hostess, but the drawing room
suite Of the very complete new building.
The British embassy with its American
chatelaine is not far beyond-on Mass
achusetts avenue-and with Lady Lind
say in much better health than
at any time since her official re-
turn to Washington. she will be de-
lightful hostess. One so we'll remembers
the old embassy on Connecticut avenue,
which for more than a half century
was the meeting place for society who
dropped in on afternoons for a cup of
tea and delicious toasted mullins or lit
tie cakes and chat with the chatelaine
of the house.
Congress brings the opening Of the
Continued on Page 3, Column g.
Evening star., 1931-11-29
Mrs. Gam Assisting
At Debut Tea TODAY

Mr.. and Mrs. J. Warren Haines will
entertain at a tea this afternoon in
their home at 1922 Ashmead place
from 4 to o'clock in honor of their
daughter, Miss Elizabeth HaineS. Re-
ceiving with Mrs. Haines and Miss
Haines will be Miss Helen Brayshaw
Bird. Assisting Mrs. Haines will be
Mrs Edward Everett Gam, Mrs. James
J. Davis, Mrs. Frank w. Mondell, Mrs.
Gilbert Grosvenor, Mrs. Samuel J.
Prescott, Mrs. Harry K. Daugherty,
Mrs. Edward Keys, Mrs. Cloyd H. Mar
vim, Mrs. John W. Bennett, Mrs. John
L. Hyde, Miss Janet Richards, Mrs.
Frederick 7. F. Johnson, Mrs. Heber
Wells, Mrs. Charles ]. Williamson, Mrs.
Harvey Wiley, Mrs. James Mccartney,
Mrs. Eugene WoOdson, Mrs. Estelle
Douglas and Mrs. Florence McGill
Keefer. Assisting Miss Haines will be
Miss Marbury Beall, Miss Fanella Cas-
tanedo, Miss Villa Fullmer, Miss Atlee
Wayne wirgman, Miss Jean Woodson,
Miss Virginia Glazebrook, Miss Mary
Bennington, Miss Phoebe Fuller, Miss
Sallie Hoffman and Miss Peggy Sipms.
"A
Evening star., 1931-11-29
Secretary and Mrs. Stimson
Have Guests at Dinner
Governing Board of Pan-American Union Gives
Luncheon for Retiring Minister
of Ecuador.

The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Stimson had guests dining informally
with them last evening at their home,
Woodley, on Cathedral avenue.
Secretary Stimson attended the
luncheon given yesterday by the mem
bers of the Governing Board of the
Pan-American Union, at the Union
Building, in honor of the retiring Min
lister of Ecuador, Senor DR.. Homero
Viteri Lafronte. The other guests were
the Ambassador of Cupa, Senor Don
OreSteS Ferrara; the Ambassador OF
Argentina, Senor DR.. Felipe A. Espil;
the Ambassador of Mexico, Senor DR..
Jose Manuel Puig Casaranc; the Min
ister Of Uruguay, Senor DR.. j. Varela;
the Minister Of Guatemala, Senor DR..
Adrian Recinos; the Minister Of Mica
ragua, Senor DR.. Juan B. Sacasa; the
Minister of Venezuela, Senor DR.. Pedro
Manuel Arcaya; the Minister of Haiti
NJ DanteS Bellegarde; the Minister of
Colombia, Senor DR.. Fabio Lozano; the
Minister of the Dominican Republic,
Senor Don Roberto Despradel; the
Minister of Honduras, Senor DR.. Celeo
Davila; the Minister of Bolivia, Senor
Don Luis o. Abelll; the Minister of e.
Salvador, Senor Dr.. Carlos Leiva; the
charge d'affaires Of Chile, Senor Don
Oscar Blanco Viel; the charge daffaires
of Paraguay. Senor Don Pablo M. Yns-
fran; the charge d'alfaires Of coete