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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29
By CHESTER M. WRIGHT

Atlantic City (ILNS)-American
labor is going after the 30-hour week
with all big guns unlimbered and with
the profound conviction that there is
no other quick way out of the cur
rent depression.
| The executive council of the fed
Grafton, meeting here in one of the
| gravest sessions of its long exist
ence, has been laying plans for a
campaign that will get results if any
effort can possibly do it.
Seek National Conclave
President Hoover has been called
| upon for the summoning of a great
national conclave of industry for
agreement upon 30-hour week. This
summons will be repeated and ham,
| mered home.
Labor also has other measures
| which it is not yet prepared to di-
vulge. But it can be said that the
council is deadly serious about this
matter.
The action of the government in
adopting the fve-day week as means
Of adjusting federal employees to the
economy law was hailed here as a
right step in leadership and as mark
ing the end of anything longer than
a five-day week in government service.
| The task now is to get private indus
try to follow.
JObless Army Grows
"There are eleven million unem-
ployed now," said President Green.
"By winter there will be thirteen mil
| lion" He called attention to the bo-
nus army as most serious manifes-
tation of unemployed. at is in real
ity an army of unemployed" he said.
81 am not an alarmist," he added,
"and | do not think for moment
there is any likelihood of revolution,
| but unless we have readjustment and
Iellcl VIC may ocC HioiS hahSSi
marches and raids on community
stores. We do not want that and it
/ can be averted."
Labor, as result of these sessions,
will call for a special session of con-
gress and for relief bill far sur
passing the one just passed. 1t will
demand other legislation, including
modification of the Volstead act as a
paramount issue.
Industry Must Act
But labor does not expect govern
ment relief measures to solve the in
dustrial riddle. These measures are
to stimulate industry and to provide
leadership. President Green made
it abundantly clear that real remedy
must come from within industry and
for that reason the federation is pre-
pairing to throw it's whole energy into
campaign for 30-hour week as an
Immediately necessary measure.
"The government does not own in
dustry," said President Green.
AS to modification, he held that the
tax to be levied on beer could be used
as the basis for great bond issue
with which to finance construction and
employment. But always it is in mind
that governmental action is starter
"a key, as he puts it--and that pri-
vate industry must be brought, not
only to the 30-hour week, but to a
realization that hours of work and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29

Atlantic City, N. J.-In its declara.
ton here announcing it's determine
ton to adhere to the nonpartisar
political policy of the American Fed.
Grafton of Labor in this years cam.
paign for the election of a president
of the United States, the entire
membership of the house of repre-
sentatives and third Of the mem.
bers of the senate, the executive
council of the federation made the
following formal statement relative
to principles and procedure:
"The American Federation of La.
Dor has found from experience that
the best interests of it's entire mem
bership have been protected and con-
served through strict adherence to
a non-partisan political policy.
"This procedure requires that the
platforms of the political parties
must be compared and the records OF
candidates for office must be care
fully studied and scrutinized.
"When all such political informa-
ton is made available the individual
members of organized labor invaria-
bly, support candidates for office who
are known to be friendly and SYM
pathetic toward the aims and pur-
poses of the American Federation OF
Labor and who enjoy the confidence
and esteem of the members and rep
resentatives of organized labor.
"The wisdom of such action is
clearly apparent when it is consid-
cred that the American Federation
of Labor is composed of men and
women who entertain different politi-
cal opinions.
"They are not required to become
identified with or to support any po-
litical party when they become mem
bers of the American Federation of
Labor.
"After giving consideration to all
these facts the executive council OF
the American Federation of Labor is
of the opinion that the membership
of the American Federation of Labor
should continue to adhere to its non
partisan political policy during the
ensuing political campaign.
"All information regarding plat
forms, candidates and their records
will be compiled by the nonpartisan
political committee and submitted to
the officers and members of the
American Federation of Labor SO
that they may exercise their political
judgment in a way which will be to
the individual and collective interest
of all working men and women.
"In connection with this very i'm
portant decision the executive coun-
Gil is taking into consideration the
fact that the candidates of the two
great political parties for the presi-
dency of the United States will make
important pronouncements upon
questions of unemployment and la
Dor in their speeches of acceptance.
eve firmly expect that each of
them, in these addresses, will make
declarations Of great significance to
labor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29
WAGE RATE RESTORED

India Tire and Rubber at Akron has
increased pay of 400 factory workers
and so office workers 20 per cent.
This restores the rate as it stood
prior to cut in January.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-21
: In To-day's Mail
you Send all letters and communications with your opinions Editor Waterbury :.


makes his appeal to the 50 per cent of Conencticut voters who are dis gusted with old guard democratic and republican tactics; they will elect him.
 10. Bingham has baked Her. bert Hoover almost every time he has gotten chance. And, at pres ent, through keeping Hoover elec- tors from the independent repubM- can ticket, Bingham and his ill., smelling boss may succeed in deliv- ering Connecticut to Roosevelt, a wet of their own stamp. Conover has taken this matter up with the White House and has received en- couraging response therefrom.
 I feel that this is one more time when the real Yankee Spirit of Connecticut Must assert itself. We have been browbeaten and "regu- larized" until practically all iden- tity of the real Yankee State, which has made the Connecticut Yan- kee" mean something, is gradually fading.
 One-third of Connecticut voters will demonstrate on November that they resent Bingham's servil- ity, that they know Lonergan's masters and that they trust Milton COnover to be a senator from Con- necticut who will make Connecticut nationally and internationally famous through his senatorial ut terances and actions. One-third of Conneeticut's votes, with six tickets in the field, will elect the independ- ent republican ticket.
 Let's entitle this drama, "The Connecticut Yankee in King Hen rvs Court" and depose the King.
 JASPER CRANE. 31 Audubon Street,
 New Haven, Conn.
 October 19, 1892.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-21
An Argument Postponed

A newspaper correspondent who has been travelling around New York. New Jersey and New England lately writes that as campaign issue in the East. prohibition IS as dead as the dodo.
 He has travelled through the same region in previous political campaigns of recent years, and always found liquor fighting issue. Now speakers do not mention 1t, the newspapers have little or nothing to say about it ad citizens asked about the subject show little interest. When the Newark News tried recently to start discussion ot what is to come after prohibition. printing several editorials on the subject, it was able to get only one response.
 It is pretty generally agreed that the Eighteenth amendment is going to be re- pealed. That seems to suffice. for the pres ent. with most people. They are interested now in the political campaign and the busi. ness situation. The repeal amendment ap- parently will be submitted, and will progress in a rather perfunetory way. with little at- tendant excitement. But as the time ap- proaehes for setting up a new liquor sys'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-21
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
UGLY PICTURE OF -FooTBAI
Dick Hyland Writes a Novel Which Is Valuable As
 An Expose"

A year or two ago the Carnegie Foundation issued a report on intercollegiate football a report that, quite properly, is still being talked about.
 But 1t seems to me that an even better expose of what this over- emphasized, freqeuntly professional sport can be in etaoishrdluuuul sport can be is to be found in 'The Dairy of a Line Smasher." by Dick Hyland, recently an All America back at Leland Stanford University.
 MT Hyland's book is a novel.
 Some of the revelations he makes are, think, unconscious = for heI is not trying to debunk anything. eh likes football and it is clearl that he would fight against its3 abolition.
 He takes us behind the scenes at| a great west coast university. Hel shows us football coach who is vain, selfish, over bearing and brutal; an atmosphere in which 1t is taken for granted that mo. coach can turn out a good teami unless the alumni send him the material; 8 game which can, ands often does, become almost as dirty and brutal as trench raid; a sit- uation in which even the most in- telligent football players look on their studies as necessary evils. and in which outright profession- alism is very often given only the thinnest of disguises.
 Rather surprisingly, his book isl an interesting and well-writtenI story, It is more important,l though, fas an expose; in somel ways it is more damning than any- thing the Carnegie investigators reported. s
 Published by McClYg, the book sells for S150. -
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-21
Give

Wartime enthusiasm for cause and wartime generosity and readiness to sacri- flee are needed this year to meet the relief Mobilization committee. Newton D. Baker has said:
 We are entering our third winter Of windespread unemployment and constantly increasing want Each year savings accounts are becoming exhausted. The ability of friends and relatives to be helpful and of neighbors is growing lses."
 There is needed more than pity for hu- man suffering. Generous and prompt action in sharing by those who have, with those who have not, is urgent and not only for humanitys sake but also for the preservation of character and morale. Real want, Mir Baker points out. breeds hopelessness and concentrates our attention upon the niate- rial needs of life which must be satisfied be- fore the claims of the higher living can be heard
 There are in this country to-day food enough clothes enough. shelter enough, money enough to take care of the needs of the whole nation. The only problem about it is to make America see herself and feel the call to duty Give is the watchword and the command. When local relief agencies, community chests and other civic and welfare groups state their needs and ask public support, every citizen with anything to spare should respond cordially and promptly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-21

Medieval pomp and ceremony character ized the royal wedding yesterday of Prince Gustaf Adolf, eldest son of the Swedish crown prince and Princess Sibylle of Saxe- Coburg- -Gotha. Foreign dispatches declared it the most eolofful wedding Germany has witnessed in many years" The descriptions suggest the settling of German light opera or a romantic novel of middle Europe. It was declared holiday in the city and the townsfolk gathered to see the brilliant pro- cesson pass - the brilliant scene showing the light blue Swedish. red Danish and scar let British uniforms; this mingled with the old time white of the German euirassiers and the Uhlan's dark blue dress eostumes.'"k All told it was a great event.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-21
The Sibyl's Cave

Now that high school and college stu dents are studying Latin again, there ought to be quite little interest in the latest ar- theological news from Italy. Virgirs Aenead, it seems, is not all poetry and fc- ton One of the hardest passages in that famous poem for matter-of-fact modern youth to swallow was the account of the Cumaean Sibyl, in her vast cave with many entrances and rooms writing her wild prophecies on leaves for the wind to blow about, and her message for the wandering hero
 A scholarly explorer has found near Cumae, in southern Italy, what he is sure is the actual cave described in the poem. with its chambers and inner passages and pools-not SO vast and magnificent, ot course as Virgil represents it, but near enough for Identification
 It was there, the poet says, that Aeneas was told: Yield not to evils, but more boldly persist, defiant of fortunes frown and take the path your destinies allow. It has always seemed rather vague to modern readers; but the Trojan here had no diff feulty about it. Like all successful heroes. he assumed that his path of destiny was where he wanted to go, and so went there.
 One thing more remains for that areheol- ogist to discover. That is the entrance to Avernus, revealed by the Siby by which Aeneas went down to Hades and through the Elysian Fields and obtained further in- formation about the past present and fu- ture. Some of us would like to slip down +toro ,od ,ek few ouesfiOnS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-21
Shared Work Values

The chief values of the share-the-work plan appear to be moral and spiritual rather than economic. If five workers who have been on six-day working schedule drop of one day apiece in order to give a sixth per son a chance to work five days, the total amount of work done remains the same. The total amount of wages paid remains the same. Each of these items is merely di- vided by six instead of by five. The sixth worker then becomes self-supporting The first five may have to reduce their budgets for his sake They may not be able to buy the new car or washing machine they were figuring on. though they should still be able to take care of essential expenses.
 Even if these things are so, the plan re- mains extremely useful The sixth work er's self-respeet. his sense of security and in- dependence and his hope for the future are sustained by the job and are of inestimable
 value to the community as we'll as to him. self. The five who have shared their work with him have immediate compensation for their sacrifice in the sense of having done the decent thing. In the long run they must be gathers, too, as the community gains.
 Share -the-work should be viewed as an emergency measure" says Walter C. Teagle. national chairman of the committee pronnot- ing the plan. As an emergency measure it is far less dangerous and more beneficial thar breadlines and other forms of outright char ity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-21
Practical Road Building

The most expensive roads are those which do not serve their communities we'll By the same token. the most economical roads are those which best suit local condi- tions. whether they cost three thousand dol lars mile or thirty thousand.
 At this time many states cities and coun- ties doubtless consider dropping much of their road work as an economy measure This is a mstake-almost any other gov ernment function should fele the axe of re- trenehment first. Road construction and maintenance has been one of the most vital factors in fighting distress and unemploy- ment the past three years. And-remember ths-every road dollar which we spend SO long as it is spent wisely after due study of conditions. will return continuous divl- dends in the future. It will do this by inn~ proving business conditions, encouraging tourist travel and broadening the markets and opportunities for agricultural sections.
 Good secondary roads, which are weath. erproof. skidproof. and long-wearing. can be built with oil or asphalt surfaces for less than five thousand dollars a mile. These make perfect feeder arteries for connecting towns and farming areas with the cross. country superhishways They have been termed the food roads of the nation--a title they sminsntIy deserve
 The good roads movement has been one Of the most progressive phases of the twsn' iisih century. The necessity Of facilities for fsa economical and ysaffound ifsnspen esn hardly Dc exaggerated. And roads will pIay an sysn greater part 10 ibs future oi Amtsiss sbaa shsy have is ibs pasL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-21
Now It's Up To The Farmer

Farmers throughout the nation have been watching the campaign of the Emergency Milk Committee, an organization represent iSs all dairy producers in the New York Milk Shed, to bring 80 per cent of all dairy. men into single cooperative organization,
 The campaign has been closed. several thousand marketing contracts short of the goal. The Dairymens League Cooperative Association, the leading cooperative in that territory, has returned to rigid policy o' restricted membership. The reason for this move is sound one. The league has found that not 80 per cent, of producers in tn, New York Milk Shed are capable of using the resources it offers It has decided that its first obligation is toward its present mem bership, and that it cannot sacrifice quality for quantity.
 This is not a new departure, but simply a swing back to an old policy. Prior to the organization of the Emergency Milk Committee the league selected new members with the utmost care, and required them to purchase stock and agree to definite pro- duction program. It is now up to the un- organized farmers of the Milk Shed to pre- pare and fit themselves for membership in the league.
 The duty of cooperative is to keep its rouse in order-the duty of the individual farmer is to do all he can to see that he and his neighbors fully live up to the qualifea7 tions demanded. The sooner all farmers, everywhere, are banded together in strong cooperatives, the sooner agriculture will achieve high and permanent standard Of prosperity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-21
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1882
Up the Business Spiral

There is no question that the big problem of the present time is employment. Unless idle men are employed. they will need fur ther relief-and relief resources are already strained. Unless men are employed, they cannot buy and thereby create a greater de- mand for goods, leading in turn to more employment. As Walter C. Teagle. pres- dent of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. said in a recent address, we cannot cure unemployment by waiting for business to return to normal.
 We must start at the other end, he says begin to get the idle into jobs, and so create more spending power through wider distribution of work. This will start spiral of more orders more work and better prices, which will circle up and ultimately carry us out of the gloom and depression in which we have been living more than two years. The vicious circle is thus reversed and momentum begins to work for us in- stead of against us.
 How is this to be done? By everybody in position 10 give work to others providing all the work he can. Lay off no more em- ployees; take on as many as possible. Where the actual volume of work cannot be in- creased immediately, spread it among more people. Keep to short hours. Help make broad base for the new prosperity.
 There is another factor. too, which Mf Teagle might have emphasized. This is the spending of money for goods. If all the people who need things and who can afford to pay for them. would go ahead and buy what they want at the attractive prices now prevailing, they would benefit both them selves and their country. Their money would be an active stimulant in the chan ntli of trade and industry, making more wcrk and accelerating the general progress up that spiral of better times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-21

From all accounts Waterbury Day was ! pronounced success. People were satisfied with what the stores had to offer in the way of bargains. They were out in large num- bers. The weather. though not entirely fav- orable, did not interfere with trading and though it was an overcast day no rain fell, The event was good thing for the city. A little money was put into circulation. stores were crowded. spirits good. and in general it was merchandising event. considered from many angles. "a decided success.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-21
FRANK WARD o,MALLEY
(New York Herald Tribune)

Frank O'Malley ceased to be a newspaper reporter in the strict sense of the term thirteen years ago, but his reputation as a. re- porter followed him throughout his subsequent career. Though he be- came a successful magazine writer and author of books, though he periodically startled the public with interviews in which he poured his sarcasm on the land of his birth, he remained to the end, in the popular imagination, Frank O'Malley, of the old 'Sun."
 Embodied in this fact is a trib- ute probably unique in the annals of American Journalism. It is a tribute both to MT O'Malley him. self and to the type of journalism he represented, which permitted him free rein in the.9development of his marked talents as humor- ist and observer. One hears too often of the mechanics of report ing, of the pressure for spot news and of the vast organizations re- quired for its constant supply, which are supposed to mold the individuals concerned with it's op- erations into anonymous cogs. Such organizations exist, but beside them and rivaling them in eff1- ciency as newsgatherers are other whose eff6rt and pride it is to em- phasize individuality in their re- ports, to encourage originality and style, to bring to full flower abil- itiesN of the kind that made Frank O,Malley famous.
 When he shone supreme among the stars of Park Row, it should be remembered. few reporters in- deed were privileged to sign their work. He attained this distinction, to be sure, toward the close of his association with "The Sum-" but to no particular purpose, since in the mean time he had stamped his .daily output with his personality so unmistakably that even casual readers recognized its authorship. His invariabIe, though always sympathetic, exposure of the hu. mar, comedy in every event or sit. uation he was assigned to. "covcr''; the ripping informaiity of his com. ment. like Q brook flashing sun- light, and his unerring instinct for those features of q story best cal- culated to support Its drama these were his trademark, and he needed no other.
 Frank o'Mniley was, In short, q thorough craftsman in q medium not often enough associated with the word, but wheih, as bs proved so conetisIvely, ts worthy Of the devotion Of hrst-fate literary gifts.