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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29
Splitting as Method Of
Aggression or Defense

Early legends of the dragons fiery
breath, be 1t a monster Of the sea-
land, air or all three, may have been
inspired, some biologists believe, by
the tendency Of many living creatures
to resort to splitting as an act of ag
gression.
A type Of beetle known as bonn
bardier, common In some districts of
England, expels volatile liquid that,
exploding. leaves tiny cloud of
actually fiery breath-to
confound It's enemies.
Many snakes eject thin streams Of
venom from their fangs, and the SER
pentine ringhals OF South Africa have
developed proficiency in aiming at a
victims eyes. Newly confined reptiles
often cover the glass panes OF their
pens with venom intended for pass
ers-by.
Several species of fish rise to the
surface in aquariums and spout at
visitors, possibly in an effort to at
tract the attention Of those who have
food. The archer fish, found in the
fresh waters of the Malay archipelago,
spouts water at insects resting on float
ing twigs. The Jet knocks the insects
within reach.
Among land animals the house cats
'pftt," accompanied by swipe with
extended claws, seems to be its nat
ural req ctfop In thn prncpnon Of q doc
New York Times Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29
Town Claims Many Rscords

There Is a little town In South AZ
rica which claims to lick creation.
Name most any record you like, and
this little place will 60 one better.
volksrust they call 1t In South Africa,
and 1t certainly does live up to that
reputation. Sunfowers-thsy grow
from 28 inches across In volksrust.
Snakes. pumpkins, fish, pigs htters
and everything, right down to the daily
milk output Of the average cow-all
these things mean records for volks-
rust 1t is doubtful, however, II all
or any Of the claims would stand in
vestigation. but they certainly do keep
Volksrust on the map, which 10 apt to
surprise anybody who has seen the
place-Washington Star.
Species of SAIAmandoP
"Water-dog" is common name for
bellbenders, large, ugly but harm
less salamanders, which are found In
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and the
Southeast. They feed on crayflsh. fish
and other water animals, and readily
take the bait from f1shermens hooks.
They exude much slime, are difficult
to handle, and can live for hours out
OF water. The spawn resembles that
Of frogs, but is lighter in color. They
reach length Of about twenty inches
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29
Compass Needle Never
Quite Without Motion

Ask the next dozen people you meet
where the compass needle points, and
some OF them may reply that 1t indi-
Gates true north. Actually there are
very few places in which it does so.
The Magnetic pole, to which the nee
die points, Is some distance from the
North pole. In Great Britain the COM
pass needle shows q direction consid-
erably to the west of true north. Ev-
cry year the error will become little
less, until 1t Is quite small. Then the
needle will begin to move westward
again, the error growing and growing
as the years pass. Columbus, Drake,
and other early users of the magnetic
compass must have been sorely puz
zled at times by its antics, for in some
parts of the world the deviation, as 1t
Is called, Is enormous. Curiously
enough, the compass needle does not
remain quite steady in any place dur
ing the "a hours. 1t swings very
small amount, first in one direction
and then In the other, each day. II
you look at a compass needle carefully
you will see that it has slight down
ward tilt This inclination varies
slightly during the day and night.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29
Character and Climate

Racial character depends largely on
climate. Where the climate is stimu-
lating 1t is easy for people to be in
dustrious. They are more likely to be
inventive, to make improvements, and
to carry out reforms. They do not
necessarily have more ideas but they
have the energy to put the ideas in
action, says Prof. G. V. P. Young Of
Cornell university.
Habits Of life and occupations, and
even social practices and PHILOSOPHERS
Of life, are largely determined by cli-
mate and geographical conditions. In
the Far North a nomadic life is neces-
sary, because hunting and fishing
grounds must be changed. Family
ties are not likely to bind strongly.
Families are small and In the pre-
carious subsistence there IL little pity
for those who cannot support them
selves. In the tropics life is too easy
and the scantiest labor yields abund-
antly.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29

itself in the declaration that if those
who own and control our industries
cannot furnish work at wages large
enough to provide the workers with
the necessaries of life, then there
must be some form of unemployment
insurance or, as last resort, relief
in the form of public or private char
ity with charity standards of living
based on scientifically prepared bud
gets designed to keep the workers
alive and but little more.
This reactionary idea should be
scrapped. Labor does most of the
productive work in all departments
of our economic life. With modern
machinery, the workers not only pro-
duce earnings large enough to pro-
vide Giving wage" for themselves
and a fair return to the owners on
their legitimate investment, but also
produce earnings running into bill
lions of dollars.
The theory of the Giving wage"
people is that this immense surplus
belongs of right to those who own
and control industry.
Labor does not subscribe to this
theory. Labor's policy declares that
large and ever larger portion of
this surplus shall go to the workers
in wages, and that the amount shall
not be determined in the least by
what it costs the workers to live.
A living was what the slave own
ers gave their slave workers. Labor
has passed beyond the slave status.
Living-wage employers and econo-
mists are still dominated by the slave
conception. They should modernize
their viewpoint.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29
Endorsed by the Trades and Labsr
Council Of Hamilton. Ohie
Endorsed by the Middletswn Trades
and Laber Council Of Middletswn. o.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 90, 1882
NORTH THIRD STREET
EXTENSION

City council, last week, took action
for the city's part in the proposed
extension of North Third street, and
City Manager Russell P. Price an.
nounced that "the city is now ready
to stand it's share of the expense
of the project" State Highway
Director assures that the state
is ready to proceed with the building
of the bridge over the river The
Miami Conservancy promises to make
the fills necessary when the river
is dredged this spring. County COM
missioner members have taken action
whereby the county will cooperate in
every way and do it's share for put
ting through the big improvement.
So, all in all, it looks like the dream
of years of all Hamilton is COM
ing true-the opening and extension
of North Third street and the even
tual development of the territory
north of the city.
The announcement of the co-opera-
ton on the part of the city, county,
state and Miami Conservancy, assur-
;on +bo boo;oa;,oo. of +L;r ,.ro,+ -,
provement in the early spring was
received with much gladness and ap-
proval throughout the city, and espe-
cially SO by the unemployed. 1t is
estimated the cost of the entire prof.
ect will approximate $450,000, the
greater part of which will go for
actual labor.
This is good news indeed to the
jobless of Hamilton, and it is to be
hoped there will be no unnecessary
delays popping up and the job get
under way in the shortest possible
time.
The Press believes the North Third
street extension will ultimately prove
one of the greatest progressive steps
that the city has ever taken, and the
Press congratulates and commends
all the officials for their quick CO.
operation and action which makes the
dream" possible of realization. Let's
go!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29
PERMANENTLY UNEMPLOYED

A business statistician of some
renown said some things the other
day, which ought to make both bank
ers and workers think. He, Laurence
N. Sloan, vice president, Standard
Statistical Service, declared that Is
per cent of the present 7,O00,0 900 un-
employed are permanently unemploy-
ed-that is, disfranchised of the right
to work., $780, 900 able-bodied men
are scrapped, through the machine
process.
Apart from the fact that this is a
confirmation of what this journal has
been pointing out for the last four
years, there is another angle of in
terest. What are we going to do
about it? Labor says we should cur
tail hours. The five-day week and the
six-hour day may we'll give workers
share in increased production in the
form of more leisure. But Mr.. Sloan
declares that the five-day week is a
crime.
We cannot grasp Mr.. Sloan's rea.
soning. He doesn't believe in curtail.
ed production, we suppose, but the
five-day week doesn't mean curtailee
production.
To date no business statistician, ne
banker, no business man, has propos
ed any alternative cure for techno
logical unemployment, and until they
do the shortened week and day must
stand.-Electrical Workers Journal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29

TIA, and payroll index of 48.6;
stone, clay and glass products show
ed an employment index of 51.7, and
payroll index of 36.9. Automobiles
record was an employment index of
61,6, and a payroll index of 46.7.
The total average for all indus
tries reported was an employment
index of 65.3 for December, and a
payroll index Of 500, based on 1926
as 100. If these figures can be taken
as representative of the conditions
in manufacturing industries, half of
the purchasing power of labor en-
ployed in industry in 1926 is gone.
Could war be any worse?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29
BREAD
Is Big Issue With Southern
Toilers, Says G0Oge

Greensboro, N. C. (ILNS)-"The
big issue with organized labor in the
South is going to be bread, butter
and beans with little fat back, al
though we prefer steak, on the side,"
said George L. Googe, of Savannah,
Ca, acting chairman of the Southern
organization campaign of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, during an
interview here in which he discussed
plans for the work in the South dur
ing the coming months.
Googe spent week looking over
the situation in North Carolina.
While in this city, he was invited to
address the Greensboro Economic
League, where he presented the view
point of labor in regard to the prob
lem of unemployment.
Reduction of the productive hours
OF men at work so that each man
needing and desiring work may have
ms share is advocated by organized
labor for taking up the unemploy-
ment slack in the nation. Googe in
sisted that this reduction of the work
ing hours, if it is to result in restored
prosperity, must be accomplished by
enough pay in the pay envelope to
provide the necessities and a few of
the luxuries of life for the workers
and those dependent upon them.
Lost Wages Curtail Market
Googe was inclined to feel that un-
employment in America, although un-
employment is worldwide, is largely
a national problem. In explanation
ne pointed out that wage earners of
America lost $11 200, 100000 in wages
last year because of unemployment.
That meant that the market for goods
IN this country was curtailed to that
extent during 1881. The speaker be-
lleved that the non-payment of war
debt payments due us by foreign
nations sinks into insignifcance be-
side the loss incurred by American
wage earners.
Il have not yet found single CITY
in the states covered by my Office"
stated Googe in discussing relief
work, "that is financially able to take
care of its unemployed properly"
He told of city in which practi-
cally all of the employed have pledged
two per cent of their incomes for re-
lief work. That city has opened a
food supply station, clothing sta
ton, and has been carrying out plan
providing three days week work at
$1.50 a day for men out of work. But
it has only secured funds sufficient to
carry the work on during just half Of
the winter. He believed that few
cities, counties, or states can or will
appropriate one dime to meet the tre-
mendous additional emergency this
winter.
See LabOr's DEMAND Supported
Local taxes" said the labor leader,
"are derived principally from levies
on real estate, while federal taxes
come from taxes on incomes, inherit
ances, tariffs, big corporations, and
number of sources"
Organized labor of the South is
uniting with the American Federation
of Labor efforts to persuade congress
to make federal appropriation for
unemployment relief. Googe sug-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29

up its home markets by raising the
standards of living" This is the same
as saying that American employers,
in contradistinction to their Euro
pean brethren, are engaged in raising
the living standards of American
workers.
Living standards are largely de-
termined by earnings. The editor of
the Post evidently is oblivious of the
fact that American employers during
the past two years have reduced the
living standards of millions of others
by wage cuts and part-time work.
Right now the executives of our
railroad companies are working to-
gether to reduce the living standards
of railroad workers by a ten per cent
wage cut. And our employers as a
whole absolutely refuse to reduce the
hours of labor to the seven-hour day
and the five-day week, and thus auto
matically provide jobs for at least
eight million unemployed persons and
raise their living standards from the
near-starvation basis to the standard
fixed by reasonage wages.
AS a rule it may be stated that
when it comes to labor the employers
of the United States, Europe and
every other country apply the iden-
teal policy of extorting from the
workers as large an output as pos
sible for the lowest wages that eco
nomic and social conditions will per-
NIT.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29
Damr0sch Asks Relief
Fund For Idle Musicians

New York. Walter Damrosch,
former director of the New York
Symphony Orchestra, issued an APP
peal for the 100000 relief fund for
jobless musicians sponsored by the
Musicians Emergency Aid.
The musicians, it was stated, al
though skilled in their art, are stead
lily being forced toward destitution.
According to Mr. Damrosch, the un-
employed musicians do not go to the
welfare agencies or stand in bread
lines. They remain behind their
doors of their studios, silent, suffer-
ing and discouraged because the lack
of buyers for their services brings
them face to face with want.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29
HOW ABOUT ANOTHER WAR?

Now that we have so little money
to buy food, and the bosses are try
ing to pound wages back to pre-war
levels, just how much does it cost to
live, anyway?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
tabulation for the month of December.
1881, basing the price index on
weighted figures (Which allow the
proper proportion of each kind of
food according to its common use)
says that average food prices in De-
cember, 1880, were 37.2 per cent
higher than in 1913, and in December,
1881, food prices were still 14.3 per
cent higher than in 1913; and that
for the year 1881 food prices were
21.3 per cent higher than in 1913.
Meanwhile, taking 1926 as the ba
sic 100, the figures showing volume
of employment and of payrolls tell
quite different story. In textiles,
the amount of employment in De-
cember, 1881, was 1913, and the pay
roll was 55.8, as compared with 1925.
Total Of wages there was II points
lower than total employment.
In iron and steel, total employ
ment was 58.8, or ALP points below
1926; while total wages was represent
ed by $50, or 81 points below 1925.
Payrons dropped 21.8 points more
than employment.
Leather and its products showed in
December an employment index of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29
Dark Corners
Dy DOUGLAS MALLoCH
TT THERE'S a corner in your house
A little dark. you lift the shade:

IF THERE'S corner in your house
A little dark, you lift the shade;
II there's corner In your heart
A little dark-wen, I'm afraid
You sit and worry, worry thin,
And just won't let the sunshine In.
II there's q corner In your room
A little dark, lamp you light:
II there's q sorrow In your breast,
/ fear you sit there In the night
Among the shadows, in the gloom,
When many lamps might flood the
room.
II there's corner In your house
4 little dark, the curtain raise,
II there's a corner In your heart
A little dark, then build blaze
Upn the ashes that are dead,
Light some new dream, and look ahead.
%. 1891. Douglas Aalloch. )--wNU Service.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29
LABOR'S REMUNERATION

There is tendency among certain
writers on economics and industrial
relations to assume that all the work
ers are entitled to is Giving wage"
This theory frequently expresses
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29
EMPLOYERS AND LIVING
STANDARDS OF WORKERS

The editor of the Washington Post
says that Europe is still practicing
the exploitation of it's labor with
view of selling large quantities of its
products abroad, instead of building
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29

The game of draughts or checkers
is said to be of the greatest antiquity.
Pieces of checker boards and men
have been found in tombs of Egyp-
tian rulers of a date not later than
1900 B. C.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29

gested that the Economic League
members advocate such an appropria-
tion. He felt that labor's request will
be backed by every local community
honest enough and frank enough to
admit that it cannot handle the stu
alton alone.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29

Up TO your ears in work
every nerve at high tension.
No wonder you snap at the wife
and bark at the children.
w q tch out! Overworked
nerves may lead to Sleepless-
ness, Nervous Headache, Nerv-
GUS Indigestion and q host of
other unpleasant disturbances.
Why don't you try DR.. Miles
E6ervescent Nervine Tablets?
Just one in a half glass OF
water makes a pleasant, spark
ling drink delightfully."- soothing
to over-taxed nerves.
DR.. Miles Nervine is now
made in two forms-Liquid and
Effervescent Tablet. Both have
the same soothing effect.
$1.OO at your drug store
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eCherry
" Whore with ear
about many things. sometimes pre-
foundly, sometimes 1ippantIy,
sometimes recklessly. ....


The human race, as has been said
before, is about the funniest thing
en- earth.
While big cities face bankruptcy
bankers are called in to advise them
on how to esape-at so much per
advice.
Meanwhile the banks set the cities
an astounding example by failing
head over heels.
Cities may go broke, but they have
recuperative powers unknown to
banks.
South Carolina has just gone in for
bank failures in big way.
On January forty-four banks
went to glory in that state.
"A great New Years gift" the
people muttered, sardonically.
Forty-four banks went bust-all of
them in a chain.
The Pittsburgh and Chicago spec
tacles will not be forgotten by the
people of those cities for many
year, and South Carolina will have
her memories equally long.
No matter how bad a wreck the
bankers make it seems possible for
them to continue the same old pose.
They wear the mantle of wise men
and go their way, adorned in raiment
that no longer fits, if it ever did.
The people are a credulous lot.
At least up to a point.
There is talk of running Banker
Dawes for vice president!
Meanwhile the cities have got into
financial deep waters by policies of
extension of function without remu-
neration.
Like the federal government, many
of the cities have taken on one new
Service" after another, out of which
no revenue is derived, and for which
the people, having had their fill, are
unwilling to pay.
We are dreaming people, at times
an audacious people, but much of the
time people given to self deception.
We observe the democrats making
battle cry out of the phrase, "Hee
haw, we're coming back" and ignor-
ing the poverty of issue back of it
we smile at its bland and child-like
assurance.
Well, elections are won and lost on
issues no more indicative of phi
losophy or program.
Harding won on "Back to nor
malcy," though neither he nor anyone
else knew just what it meant. Mostly
folks thought it meant surcease from
struggle, but it didn't work out that
way.
The bankers win on just about such
platform as Cne democratic nee
haw."
They play game that is a mys-
terry to most folks and, like the law
yers and the doctors, they disabuse
no ones mind. If folks like to gaze
in awe upon mysteries, let them
gaze.
No circus ever tore the veil from
its side shows.
Houdini never gave up the secrets
of his tricks.
Some day, but not for a long time,
something will be done about the
power of bankers.
It's racket-a frock-coated racket
in which lot of small bankers pay
almost as high price as do the folks
who make up what is POLITICALLY called
the rank and file.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-29

The Buddhist religion supports the
largest monastery in the world. This
monastery, the Dubung at Lhase,
Tibet, houses 5000 monks and stu
dents.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-08-26
DEMOCRATSENDORSE
old AGE PENSIONS
Reaffirm Action of National
Party at State Conven-
ton in Columbus

Headed by T. j. Donnelly, chair
man, and NJ L. Brown, secretary, of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-08-26

tive petition next January. Governor
George White has publicly announced
he will sign an old age pension meas
ure, and has discussed the law spon-
sored by the Ohio Old Age Pension
Conference.
Chairman Donnelly, of the confer
ence, reports nearly all of the dis
tricts have been organized and that
petitions are now in circulation. When
filled and notarized they are to be
returned to State Secretary M L.
Brown in Springfield. Three type
written copies of the signatures are
to accompany each petition. This will
be done so that careful check may be
made of the names. 1t will be necs~
sary to circulate supplemental peti-
tions next year so that the law may
be submitted direct to the voters of
the state if the general assembly
fails to pass the bill. Those who sign
this year cannot sign the supplement
tai petitions next year. Chairman
Donnelly says if the signatures are
secured in specially assigned districts
the work will be much easier. Partic-
ularly is this true of counties that
have large populations.
Local unions are urged to name old
age pension and non-partisan political
campaign committees to cooperate
with the Ohio State Federation of
Labor in the campaign to be conduct