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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21

The various subcommittee report
everything shaping up nicely SO far
as their various assignments are
concerned. The country store COM
mittee reports that prizes are accum-
ulating fast, and all that is necessary
to make the store The biggest of it's
kind ever staged at the Labor Day
outing is for more members to send
in some little donation, no matter how
small.
The committee on amusements re-
ports that it has again arranged for
boxing bouts, both afternoon and eve-
ming, and that some fast work may
be looked for in the ring on Labor
Day. The committee also announced
that battle royal will again be stag
ed. The battle royal is sure to bring
on big afternoon crowd as some who
witnessed last years battle still
laugh at the thought of it.
Tickets on the automobile are 60
ing good. There is just a little COM
plant of lack of cooperation or
lukewarmness on the port of a few
organizations members, but this is
expected to vamoose completely as
the day draws nearer, and no doubt
there will be 100 per cent lineup
at the proper time.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
LAUNDRY UNIONS
FIGHT INROADS OF
HOME WASHING
San Francisco Drivers I'm
dertake Selling Campaign
to Meet Competition of
Domestic Washing Ma
chine.

New York City QLNS)-"Con-
vinced that their employers, the laun-
dry owners, are not alert in meeting
the competition of domestic washing
machines, the Laundry Drivers I'm
ion of San Francisco has undertaken
program of research and sales pro-
motion, advertising and Selling"
says. The article continues:
"a door-to-door survey of the num-
Der of washing machines used in San
Francisco is now being completed.
Specific districts have been assigned
each of the union drivers, and reports
are submitted on prepared forms.
Drivers are also asked to report on
the approximate percentage of laun-
dry work done in each home, as COM
pared to the amount sent to CONNER
cial laundries. They are also studying
the type of solicitation made by
domestic machine agencies, with espe-
cial attention to what these statesmen
say to the housewife about CONNER
cial laundry service.
Union Head Outlines Plan
"The plan, outlined by William A.
Connolly, president of the union, is:
"'First of all we want to ascertain
as nearly as possible, the number of
washing machines in San Francisco
homes. To secure this information we
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
COST-0F-LIVINC
WAGES SCORED

Washington.-The theory that wages
should be based on what it costs the
worker to live is denounced as utterly
unjust by Secretary of Labor Doak.
"The argument is made that the
cost of living is falling and that real
wages have therefore increased"
said Doak "The argument might ap-
ply if we had ever in this country
applied fair division Of income to
labor, but there is more to the ques-
tion of wages than what a man can
eat and what he needs to clothe him.
self.
Labor is entitled to more than
a bare subsistence. The employees
productivity has increased MANIFOLD,
several hundred per cent in many in
dustries. He is entitled to retain a
portion of the gains thus made. All
the gains should not go to the profits
of industry"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
AGRICULTURE MOST IMPORTANT
PART OF FAIR, SAYS GOVERNOR

The Ohio State Fair will this
year celebrate the 81st anniver-
sary of its organization. Begin
ming in a modest way, it has grown
under the nurture Of the Agricul-
tural Department of the state until
it is today recognized as the best in
the country.
It must continue to be a place
where the predominant spirit will
be along the line of development
for our agricultural interests, in
cluding not only the material Of
the soil, but the fruit of our trees
and the growth Of our animal hus-
bandry. 1t is the one place where
agriculture reigns supreme and
receives it's greatest appreciation.
AS the Chief Executive of the
State it gives me great pleasure
to welcome not only the citizens Of
Ohio but the visitors from the
states who may come to the Fair,
and it is my hope that each visitor
will be abundantly repaid; that the
youth of our state will be inspired
to greater efforts along agricul-
tural lines; and that the spirit of
progress and education may be
greatly enhanced.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
FIGHT WAGE
REDUCTIONS
SAYS A. F. OF |.
BY THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
OF the American Federation of Labor

u
OF the American Federation of Labor
The executive council of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor reiterated
end reaffirmed its original position in
opposition to attempted reduction in
wages. 1t is firmly of the opinion
that the distressing unemployment
situation can be overcome only
through the development of the pur-
chasing power of the masses of the
people to it's maximum capacity. The
facts are overwhelmingly in favor of
the position assumed by the American
Federation of Labor. The widespread
unemployment which prevails through
out the nation is due to a lack of
buying power upon the part of the
masses of the people.
The purchasing power of more than
100000 wage earners has been
totally destroyed because they have
been forced into unemployment. There
must be added to this large number
many millions more who are working
part time only and who are depend
ent upon these unemployed and part
time workers. The many millions of
dollars which have thus been lost will
never be retrieved. The amount of
goods this vast army could have
bought and consumed if they could
have been maintained in reasonably
steady employment would have pre-
vented continuation of the distress
ing situation which now exists.
Attitude of Some Amazing
In the light of these economic facts
it is amazing to observe the state
ments of some who propose further
impairment of the purchasing power
of the limited number of workers now
employed through the imposition of
reduction in wages.
Unemployment will continue just
as long as the purchasing power of
the masses of the people rests below
and beneath the ability to produce
manufactured goods, Obviously, the
consuming market, which is very
largely made up of the masses of the
people, must absorb manufactured
products and manufactured commod-
tiles in a volume corresponding with
the production facilities of industry.
This can only be accomplished when
the consuming power of this great
purchasing market corresponds with
the productivity and efficiency of in
dustry.
Low wages mean unemployment,
human distress and human suffering.
The present unemployment situation
will never be relieved until wages are
built up so that men and women can
buy and consume.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
LABOR DAY
Com mittee For 1881

The following are the different sub
committees on arrangements for tn,
1881 outing and celebration, under
the auspices of the Co-Operativ,
Trades and Labor Council:
Grounds-Ed Sims, Cecil Bowers.
Gate-Herman Perpingon and mem
bers of the Carpenters Union.
Advertising-Er. Weiss and Ike
Jarrett.
Big Wheeled. Weiss, Stanley Oge
and Ed. Dulli.
Ice Cream - Robert Service ane
Chas. Perine.
Lunch-Stanley Jackson, Bro. Stan
ley and Cornelius Nichting.
Automobile Hosea, Albert
Haggard, Adam Westrick and Bro
Louis Baur.
Soft Drinks-Otwell Condor, Ma.
bel Warren and Bro. Shields.
Fruit Wheel-Bro. Berginson, Ed
Fredricks and Bro Stanley.
Country Store-Chas. Baynes, Clar-
ence Roth, Fred Moore, Frank Moore
Lee Inman and Allen Linn.
Dance Committee-Ike Jarrett and
members of Stage Employees Union
The committee meets Immediately
after the central body meeting on
Tuesday nights, in the labor temple,
South Second street.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
Employment Services
Find 638,6S9 Jobs

Washington.-TlD newly organized
employment service of the department
of labor, authorized at the last ses-
sion of congress, has found jobs for
28l,679 persons since April /, accord
ing to an announcement by Secretary
Of Labor Doak.
There are 236 states and municipal
employment offices which cooperate
with the department. In the four
month period covered by the report
the cooperative offices and the de-
partment's service connected 638, 8,689
unemployed workers with jobs.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
Employment Action Taken
By Two State Governors

Chicago, Ill. (ILNS)-A call for a
national congress on unemployment
to be held in Memphis, Tenn, August
"a, has been issued by Gov. William
H. Murray, of Oklahoma. He saic
the action was taken at the request
of mass meeting held in Oklahoma
City, July 81
Gov. George H. Dern, of Utah, has
announced that he will name an un-
employment council to work out a
program under which each commu-
nifty in the state will provide work
for its own unemployed during the
winter months.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
STOCKYARDS COMPANY
FIGHTS PROFIT LIMIT

st. Joseph, Mo.-The ST. Joseph
Stockyards Company filed suit to
prevent the U. S. agricultural depart
ment from enforcing its order fixing
the company's stock handling charges.
The department, acting under law
designed to protect farmers and
stockmen from unjust handling
charges, limited the company's re-
turn to 71s per cent on its invest
ment
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
BOXING BOUTS
And Battle Royal on the La
Dor Day Outing Program

The committee in charge of the
Labor Day outing is busy bunch
these days completing the arrange.
ments for labor's big day.
The advertising committee started
on the job this week with bang, and
in such manner that everyone in But.
Ter county and surrounding territory
who is not dead or at least asleep
knows that local labor is going to
whoop things up at the fairgrounds
on Monday, September 7.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
WHAT NEXT?

Discovery is announced of method
of producing copper alloy harder
and of greater tensile strength than
that of steel The process, developed
in the laboratories of the Montana
School of Mines, involves the addition
of nickel and silicon to copper and
subjecting the alloy to heat treat
ment. 1t is reported that the metal
has a tensile strength of more than
100000 pounds to the square inch and
is one and ne-quarter times harder
than structural steel
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
JOBLEss IN BELGIUM

Brussels, Belgium.--Insured unem-
ployed workers in Belgium at the
end of June numbered 62,642, or $50
per cent of the total insured, which
compares with 7.s at the end of May
and 1.9 at the end of June, 1880.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
MEXICO BANS IMMIGRATION

Mexico City-The interior depart
ment announces that the immigra-
tion of laborers will be suspended in
definitely on September Is as means
of solving the Mexican unemployment
problem. The ban will not apply to
skilled tradesmen and workers from
countries with which Mexico has i'm
migration agreements.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21

operate one laundry, but many of the
drivers now on their own routes. The
majority work on a fiat commission
FOR pickup and delivery service, and
the laundry owner may have no sales
contact with the customer.
"The campaign will be carried on
with full cooperation of the laundry
companies"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30
GOETZ ON BEAR HUNT

A. E. Goetz left yesterday as member of a hunting party with Judge Harding and George Folta, for a ten-day quest of the big brown bear in the Whiting River district.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30

to look like the creek will be a real producer. Joe Haley, Henry Johnson and Granville Lanott are open cutting. They have lot of bedrock uncovered which they will try to clean up this summer
 During the past winter they put a hole to bedrock on the extreme left limit benches in about the same position pay lies on Liven- good They have some pay pros poets in the hole and will con- tinue prospecting next winter. It may develop into something good.
 Lee Murray and Billy Mahon and John Cignitti are the sole merchants in Livengood and seem to be getting along well. There are 50 or 60 in the camp now and everyone is working.
 All are tickled pink with the prospects of getting a road.
 "The Hudsons are not doing any thing with their quicksilver mine on Olive but intend to develop it further this coming winter. They have a good showing of cinnabar." !"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30
DOUGLAS NEVIS
MAYOR KILBURN TO MAKE
 TRIP EAST; LEAVES MONDAY

An interesting trip planned by Mayor L. w. Kilburn begins fo1 him next Monday when he takes the Yukon for the south to attend the annual session of the grand lodge l. O. O. F., which convenes at Spokane on June 8. Following his representation of the Douglas Odd Fellows at the meeting, MT Kilburn intends to go East to at- tend the 150th Anniversary of the founding of Sterling, Mass, the town in which he was born. MT Klburn remembers distinctly the occasion of the tooth Anniversary celebration of Sterling. which took place when he was just young lad. He has several brothers end sisters living there still, and cor- sin of MT. Kilburn's, who is judge of the Supreme Court of Massa- chusetts, is to be speaker of tEt day.
 During MT. Kilburn's absence Councilman H. L. Cochrane will bt acting mayor of Douglas.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30
BIG FEATURE AT COLISEUM

The Big Trail,' a gigantic Fox
 movietone drama of frontier days
 Is the unusual attraction for Sun day at. the local Coliseum. Twen-
 ty thousand players, savage In- dians, charging buffalo, battles, swollen rivers, blinding b1izzards,
 make up this great play.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30
WnJ%KurauiI

SYNOPSIS: At the home of Nora Lakes late hueband, Ni-
 cholas Thayer, near Albany, his step-sic.or, Damon Van Vorst, planes her for having failed to prevent his suicide. But, impclled by duty to Mi chClas, she asks Nora to live with them. Jonathon Thayer's frank talk to her concerning his brother overcomes Nora's dislike for him, but it flames anew when she cverhears his reference to her "wretched tramp of a father" Planning seen to live at the Thayer place, Nora returns to the home of her Aunt Emily and finds a letter from Italy, advising that her fathers marriage plans are called eff. She joins her aunt and cousins, Frances-de- serted by her husband-and crippled Hallie, at dinner. Poor young Dr. Mere is their guest.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30

f In some way that was obscure to her she knew that she and Jon were fighting a battle with hidden weapons: Jon with his indifference and she with her distrust. He must urge herl He must reassure her; tell her that he had been expecting her, and she waited.
 Damon expects you" he smiled. i He did not say that he wanted her to come.
 No, I can't come"
 Very soon then. next week, when he is out of danger?"
 He stood smiling on the steps. He drew in breath of fresh air as though the atmosphere of the dingy old house had clouded his lungs. Then he ran down to his car. Copyright 1880, Jesse Douglas Fox)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30
Congregational Community
 Church

REV. PHILLIP E. BAUER. Sunday school at 10:30 a. m. Preaching services 11:30 a. m. following Sunday school.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30
.LIvENCOOD HAS GOOD OUTLOOK
 FOR THIS YEAR
Mining Work Likely to Be More Extensive Than
 Last Season

FAIRBANKS-"Ever y bo ody in the Livengood camp is working and taking advantage of wh a t water there is," Sam Godfrey, who returned to Fairbanks after in- Specting his mining holdings there is quoted as saying by the Fair banks News-Miner. "Pr aspects are that this season will be equally as good if not better than last year.
 Tony Silva and his partners, George Gadoff and Tony Bann, are drifting on the Virgin claim on Livengood They have pay. Fritz Dangel has a hole to bed- rock on the left limit benches op- posite the town and is going to do some sluicing this summer. The Frisco brothers, working at the head of Livengood, are preparing to drift.
 "On Lucky Gulch Henry Sproul
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30

has very good pay in drifting ground. He has working shaft to bedrock. The ground is being worked under a lease from Jack McCandless and c. H. LaBoyteaux
 Chris Stedelman is working at the head of Amy Creek on ground formerly owned by Jack Nelson.
 "On the benches of Gertrude and Glenn Gulch ,Chub Douglas and Luther c. Hess have good open cut proposition. They have two cuts with about 3o,OOO feet of bed rock ready to clean up and with any water at all will have a good summer.
 Ben Falls has an open cut lay out at the head of Ruth Pup. Carl Olander is working the Barker and Godfrey property on Lillian Creek
 Nick Mandich and John Jurich who purchased the interest of M Beegler last year. are open cut ting. They should have a very good season.
 Two Cuts on Olive
 'On Olive Creek, Cliff and Jim Hudson have struck pay dirt on No. l above and are now working two cuts. The ground is shal- low and has the earmarks of be- ing something very good.
 "Ted Hudson is operating on ground owned by Mrs. Julia Wheeler, Luther O. Hess and Mike Wagner He has started sluicing
 Several stampedes have been made to Wilbur and it now begins
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30
Bulgaria Moves to Limit
 Students in Universities

SOFIA, May 30-Entrance to two universities in Bulgaria is to be limited under plans of the educa- tional authorities. The census revealed that whereas the population increased by 13 per cent and the enrolment grew by 80 per cent.
 The authorities have advised par ents to teach their sons and daugh- ters trades, warning them that hun dreds of young people who gradu- ate from the universities can't find white collar" jobs and have to un- dertake labor for which they are not fitted.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30
Barbers See Double Edge
 In Tax on Razor Blades

FRANKFURT ON THE-ODER. Germany, May BOA tax on razor blades, to check the increasing nu- mber of those who do their own sha- aving and to add to government in- come, was suggested at the annual meetings of ba1ibers here
 It was figured that a tax Of about a cent and quarter on every razor blade sold in Germany would give the treasury $7,400,000 a year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30

A letter from Damon Mon day ccnfronts Nora with hard reality, and tears blot out doctors compliment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30

HARRY WILLARD, Lay Worker
 Meets Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30

Old Papers aC The Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30
Chapter 19
DOES JON WANT HER?

Like a spectator Nora looked about at the faces gathered around the table of her Aunt Emily: house; Aunt Elm, Fran, Hallie, anc young Dr. More with his sensi- tive mouth: each one of whom was defeated by life, struggling against poverty and drudgery, hard work and illness. Against the instability that such a precarious existence en- tails, she saw the solidity of the old Thayer mansion.
 Dr. More had turned to her anc was asking, Your aunt tells ms you have lived so long in Europe have you ever stayed in Germany I want to go there one day tc study
 No" she answered indifferently I've never been there. And not for years and years do want to go away. If you know how glad I am to be home!"
 He nodded silently, looking at the faces under the glow of the yellow globe. Sheets of rain blew against the windows. The dining room was warm and cozy and they were rest ed and stimulated by the hot food
 Nora saw his look and she added honestly, T meant. with my hus- bands people. Do you know the Van Vorsts?" she asked with sud- den interest.
 He told her no. drawing his vel vety brows together. Nora com pared him with Jon again, his thin plain face, sensitive, humorous eager, without Jon's pride of race But Jon was treacherous. . Her heart swelled with anger as sha thought of him.
 MT. Van Worst bought up all the land down by the river for a mile, Nora said for the pleasure of thinking aloud about them.
 ''Van Worst" Fergus More unused T think do remember that name now. Was it he who bought up a whole village so that the people who were foreigners had no place to go and had to give up their livelihood --it seemed a great pity to make those people leave what had once been thriving settlement" he concluded.
 Nora said impetuously, at this hint of criticism, I'm sure it's much more important to preserve that beautiful country without ugly small shacks-"
 "Yes, more beautiful for the Var Vorsts," he admitted.
 She flashed glance at him. He did not approve of her, she coulc see, but who was this poor strug- gling young doctor to approve or disapprove?
 After supper when Fran had car ried the sleepy baby up to bed, she returned to play the violin fol them. Nora was carried out of her self, away from the freight ane intent faces to the old Dutch house standing high above tht river. There life was lived beauti. fully, gracefully, and there she toc would live it.
 That night as she and France! went to bed, she told her her plans
 Don't you want us to help vol with your clothes?" Fran offered generously.
 es'I don't want them to be asham ed of me-" Nora admitted.
 But how could they? Poverty i nothing to be ashamed of. Ant your fathers father was governo of the state and Uncle Chapman was a judge of the Supreme Court.
 aAnd my own mother was tn daughter of a little shop-keeper il cork!" Nora said laughing. An I'm proud of it!"
 \ They discussed just how far he money should go, what she woul' need.
 Hallie had joined them and sh
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30
FORMER CHANNEL GIRL IS COMING FOR VISIT

Mrs. c. E. Ewert is a passenger aboard the steamer Queen from Sc- attle for Juneau, with her young daughter. Mrs. Ewert, (nee Ruth Wilson) will visit this summer with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Jack Wilson. She attended school in Douglas and Juneau and is real Alaska girl.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30
Douglas a Church. "
 SerUices

Notices ru thls cnurcn column must be received by The Empire not later than 10 o'clock Saturday morning to guarantee change of sermon topics. etc
The Washington times., 1931-10-31
JOE HIGH ADDS
HEATING WORK

Joe High, Inc, of 1915 Thir-
teenth st. N. w., reports the
current year to have been the
most profitable ard successful
Of its ii years existence in the
plumbing business in the Wash
1ngton area.
Mr.. High attributes much of
the success of his business to
his close personal supervision of
all jobs, whether large or small.
His repair trucks are specially
built for the large amount Of
repair work he does, being stocked
at all times with hundreds of
different parts and pieces, say
ing his customers the expense of
sending back to the shop for ma
terial.
A heating department has been
added to their regular plumbing
facilities, and several jobs have
been booked already. Mr.. High
said:
Thousands of recommends.
tiOns from satisfied customers
to their friends have given this
firm the familiar slogan, Our
Plumber The same high
grade Of workmanship which
has made our reputation will
be maintained in the heating
department."