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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-06-24
Wages and salary incomes in all in
dustrialism declined.
THE FAKERs' DEMOCRACY

The FAkEKS UEMOOhACI
Democracy often has to serve as
shield for demagogy, and the most
crooked crook thinks he can make
people forget the ugly curves of his
character by shouting himself hoarse
for democracy.
With the word democracy upon
their lips, politicians are deceiving
the people, profteers are exploiting
the nation, and labor leaders are be-
traying the workers and the govern
ment at the same time.
We have seen such things done
during war time, we see them done
today, and our experience has con-
vinced us that where democracy" is
made shibboleth the people have
reason to be on their guard, for they
are in immediate danger of being
humbugged.
Mistrust everyone who hides his
ignorance behind well-sounding words,
his lack of character behind patriotic
phrases, and his moral crookedness
behind democracy"
There was time when every inde-
pendent thinker was denounced as a
hereto, and charging man with
heresy was tantamount to condemn
ing him. Nobody would argue with
such an outcast, nobody would reason
with him, nobody would even listen
to him. The only proper way to deal
with him was to burn him at the
stake.
In our days the radical" has taken
the place of the hereto and whenever
he is hunted and slandered, denounc.
ed and prosecuted, it is done in the
| Name OIL democracy
The worst and most contemplate
enemies of democracy in form an
spirit are the political takers ant
moral humbugs that use democracy
as a trademark for their crooked
ness. They are betraying democracy
with every act they are performing
they are the Judas Iscariots of de
mocracy.
They may carry democracy upor
their coat sleeves, but they do no
carry it in their hearts, for their ain
and end in life is their personal ad
vancement, and they serve everybody
who stoops low enough to hire then
for some kind of dirty work.
Beware of the town cryers d
democracy"
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spoke everybody shuddered. His voice
brought obedience, instanter.
The baron owned the land and the
people thereon.
Is our condition mentally as it was
in baronial days?
Prohibition ought to go and 1t VIII
go because it is everlastingly wrong.
not because Rockefeller hoped on the
band wagon on its last eighth OF a
mile.
Americans by the millions have
fought this fight for governmental
and constitutional honesty and to
them in their sovereign right goes the
credit.
Put foot on this sickening bally-
hoo for Rockefeller.
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TheCherry
" Where with eur
roo Little Hatchet
We tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pre-
foundly, sometimes lippantly.
sometimes recklessly. :. =.

Almost everyone lis praising the
unctious Mr.. Rockefeller, So
Let's have little discord.
Why should this multimillionaire
have laurels and crowns and enco-
miums heaped upon him, just because
after 13 years of waiting he has dis
covered what clear majority of
Americans knew long ago?
Well, just for one reason-M MONEY!!
If Rockefeller had no more money
than John Jones his conversion
wouldn't have been splashed all over
the front pages. His announcement
wouldn't have shaken the country to
it's foundations.
Money talks, Jasper, money talks.
Rockefeller has way of slipping
out of tight situations by moving
adroitly at the last minute-and for
prohibition this is just about the last
minute. It's all aboard for the band
| wagon now.
| How many remember Ludlow? And
| the mess the Rockefellers were in
then?
1 And how the cartoonists of the time
were still picturing the Rockefeller
| tyranny?
| And how, on the advice of Ivy Lee,
the newly acquired press agent, this
same young Rockefeller inveigled
Mother Jones into a hand-shaking
stunt that changed the whole tide of
publicity into a stream of praise and
almost adulation?
All, that WAS a stunt! And it
sickened many hearts.
But behold the repetition.
By the admission of his own
| officials Standard Oil of New Jer-
sey is NOT doing what it COULD
EASILY DO to relieve unemploy-
ment.
| Unemployment is a mighty grave
issue-and SO is wage cutting.
But Mr. Rockefeller is not going to
be caught in the backwash of con-
demnation and ostracism. No. He is
going to be hero because he makes
the belated discovery that prohibition
is failure and tragedy.
Of course every convert to sanity
is that much to the good. Every man
| has vote.
But the secret of it is that
| Rockefeller has more than his
vote. He has money Campaign
contributions! All, the reason for
the ballyhoo.
Well, there is something the mat
ter when the possession Of money en-
dows a man with the power to change
+, party platforms-probably both OF
them, and with the power to remake
every front page in America and to
give him the voice of authority of a
king.
/ Rockefeller on prohibition is at
least right. But for l3 years he has
been wrong What about that? For
13 years he has pungled up the coin
! to maintain a regime that has en-
throned crooks, racketeers, gangsters
and beer barons. Well, it ought to
take SOME undoing to undo that.
This may be discord in the chorus
of praise, but so be it.
is it "him, the people" or it it 1--WE
the people,?
In olden times when the baron
|
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by management? Wage-earners make
very important investments in the in
dustries to which they are attached
but they find their returns most un-
even.
They have the risk of unemploy-
ment which may cut individual in
comes completely. During the recent
era of great prosperity two and one
half millions of workers were unem-
ployed. Their income loss in the best
year was estimated by the New York
Journal of Commerce at $4,000,000,-
900. By the first of January of this
year unemployment had reached
nearly eight and one-half millions,
and losses in wages had lowered wage
Garner incomes eleven billions below
1929.
A still more serious hazard threat
ems. Workers may spend years in de-
veloping technical skill and have this
entire investment wiped out by an
improved machine, new material or
new chemical process. These work
ers are industrially bankrupt. In the
past ten years over million indus
trial jobs have been eliminated.
Workers whose jobs are gone must
learn new occupations or shift to the
ranks of the unskilled.
Seasonable trades such as the gar
ment industry, construction and auto
mobiles, do not provide workers a
full time opportunity to work. These
peaks and low points in employment
result in variable incomes which
make it hard for workers to plan
their expenditures.
All workers face the hazard of in
creasing difficulty to find employ
ment as years are added to their ages.
They have the risk of inefficient man
agement increasing the cost of oper-
alton so that returns in the form of
wages are unnecessarily low. They
have to endure the consequences of
depression, which may exhaust their
savings and force liquidation of in
vestments under favorable conditions.
They always have the handicap of
being excluded from deliberations
where division of returns from Joint
work are decided, and even knowledge
of facts is often denied them so that
there is constant risk that funds that
ought to go to wages are diverted to
dividends, extra dividends, surplus.
capital expenditures, etc., and the
amount left available for wages is
unfairly restricted.
A preliminary estimate by Business
Week shows that comparing 1881 and
1929 the decline in wage-earners' in
come was greater than that of any
other group except sale of securities.
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FRIDAY, JUNE "a, 1882
ORGANIZATION

Because SO many people are force
fully reminded of the consequences
of economic insecurity, this is fruit
full time to talk with wage-earners
about better management of their
to any wage-earner or salaried per-
son that he as an individual is help
less to control his industrial fate. In
time of misfortune he has no re-
course but charity, and he has no
way of putting any security into his
work relations. All he can do is to
accept terms as offered or look for
another job if he has income to tide
him over the interum.
The most important fact in wage
earners' affairs-or in salaried work
ers-is to have job. AS job holder
he becomes a producing member of
the firm and soon feels identified with
the work group. Despite his invest
ments in his job and reality of part
nership, he is treated like a commod-
ity to be bought or sold as needed
The only way for wage-earners and
salaried persons to establish the fact
that they are not commodities or
articles of commerce, is to organize
for the establishment of their right
to status as contributing partners
organize in organizations which they
control and which can effectively con-
serve their interests. Conserving the
interests of one group does not nee
essarily mean in opposition to the in
terests of other groups, but co-ordi-
nation of interests so there may be
mutual progress and benefit for all.
With the present degree of close
interrelationships of many forces. it
often occurs that although the i'm
mediate interests of a special group
are contrary to the interests of 9TH
ers, their more permanent interests
are bound with coordinate progress.
But there must be the agencies for
making this co-ordinated progress
possible. This necesitates the inde
pendent organization of each func-
tional group. If wage-earners and
salaried persons are to participate in
the development of business relations,
they must be organized and ready for
effective action. In their own inter-
ests and in the interest Of society.
organization of functional groups for
the better management of their
affairs is basic necessity.
Now that the needs of better man
agement is so plainly apparent, is the
time talking unionism. While every
union is handicapped by declining in
comes, the responsibility for spread
ing the facts of unionism must rest
upon each individual union member
There is real advantage in the fact
responsibility cannot be shifted, for
if every union member does his bit
the activity will be much more wide
spread than if respo rsibility for
organizing work were delegates to
organizers. If every union member
would pledge himself to find oppor-
tunity to talk unionism with at least t
one non-member every day, that edu-
.ational work would bear fruit.-The
Federationist.
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Endorsed by the Trades and Laksr
Council Of Hamilton. Ohio
Endorsed by the Middlctown Trades
and Labsr Council Of Middletswn. q.
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WORKERS, RISKS

Managers Of industry have claimed
profits on the ground that they as
sumo the risks of industry. But have
the risks of industry been borne only
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Overworkinx Childrel

Overworking Children
What's the matter with little
brotherY'
Brain fag. He's trying to think up
a bright saying that will win prize
The Washington times., 1932-04-06
- 4 WA5H4EG48890HNl Times
~ ADVENTURE CLUB

time, but just didn't get around
to doing it until the other day.
Recalling Virginia Hogeland'S
trip to Florida (you remember
her letter about the trip several
days ago., she says she was in
Florida herself two years ago,
and it was wonderful. Vera is
IL years old and in the eighth
grade at the Langdon school.
Next year she expects to go to
Tech High School.
Clifford Dodd, jr., 1908 King
st. Alexandria, Va, says he en-
joys the column very much,
and especially likes the secret
password game each week. So
far he hadn't been lucky
enough to be among the win
ners, but expects to keep on
trying until he does. Which is
the spirit we admire and we
wish him luck.
Sylvia Teri, 824 Allison st.
N. W., has a teacher. Miss
Lampert, at the MacFarland
Junior High School that she
thinks is wonderful. Sylvia is
only ten and in the seventh
grade which we think is pretty
smart, don't you, Adventure
Club members?
She has blue eyes and black
hair, and is an enthusiastic
member of the club.
Alma Posey, Fairfax Station,
Va, writes:
"My birthday comes ON Oc-
tOber "a, and 1 will be eight
years old. 1 go to the Fair
view School and 1 am in the
high first. 1 am the baby one
in my family and 1 have a
brother and sister at home.
My sister goes to Clifton High
School, and my brother works
and gives me all his pennies.
His name is Earl. My sister
reads the funnieS and club
column to me every night, and
I feel real sorry for Little An
ME Rooney My Nom and
Dad are very good to me be-
cause my mon says 1 am the
baby. I would like some of the
members to write to me-"
We think Alma has a very
nice family from her letter.
A little note from Oliver Var
ney will complete our column
today. She writes:
ri read your column every
day, and think it is interesting.
I love to read the letters from
other members. I am IL years
old and in the high seventh
grade at the LangdOn School"
This is the eighteenth day Of
the big Animal Contest. Don't
forget we want ALL of you to
enter, and there will be some
thing for everyone. Fifteen big
prizes and a ticket to the show
at the Rialto for everyone not
winning a prize.
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A4441d14 14O4 IL
stein, 618 AZ st. S. w.
We think the two West Vir-
ginia members deserve a lot
of credit for sending their an
Swers in so promptly. George
sent us a picture with his let
ter which we will publish
shortly in the column. And
Lillian sent us pictures of her
self, her twin sister, Sylvia, and
her little sister, Naomi. I'm
fortunately all three were too
dark for reproduction.
The two pictures we are pub
fishing today are Cf Billy Mann,
II Fifteenth st. N. E., and Jo-
Seph Hutchison, Fairfax, Va.
Billy writes:
/ listen to Kit KarSOn'S
radio talk over WJSV twice a
week and read the club column
every day. My brother, Jesse,
also wants to be a member"
The new Virginia member, Jo-
seph, writes:
'T am IL years old and I
live on a farm where 1 milk
cows, feed chickens and many
other things to help my moth
er. 1 shall be promoted to the
sixth grade at the end of this
term"
We think Joseph is a very
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lucky boy to
live ona farm.
Farm life ap-
pealS to near
ly all boys
who like ami
mails and the
out Of doors.
We bet there
is a swimming
hole and all
kinds Of jolly
t h ingS like
that on Jo-
Seph'S farm,
Vera Wen
dal, 2701Ham-
lin CT NJ r
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p e r S o n I o
guess it cor
rectly was S.
Linden John;
son, of Har
per's Ferry,
w. Va.
The eX t
two letters to
arrive at Kit
KarSon's desk
with the right
word we re
from George
F. nderburk,
M artinSburg,
w. Va, and
lillian HOrn.
The Washington times., 1932-04-06

The secret password this
week was Haunted" in Little
Annie Rooney. And the first
The Washington times., 1932-04-06

I'm ST. N. E., A1IA "AIA1'E
writes that she has been plan
ming to join the club for some
The Washington times., 1932-03-12
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Phone Nat 4278 Funeral designs
Wedding announcements
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JOBLESS DRIVE
A|DS212,236

NEW YORK, March IL GI.NS).
Headquarters of the United Action
for Employment Group Campaign
announced today 81 communities
reported finding jobs for $500 un-
employed.
This brought the total number
Of persons given work since the
drive started to 212,236.
California led the tabulation of
States with jobs found for 3,460
men and women in six communi-
ties. New York was second, with
five cities providing work for 1859
persons, and Ohio third, with
seven communities reporting 1,112
jobs found.
OF the total number of COM
munitieS reporting, so were not
previously heard from.
In all, 1900 Of the country's
$3.50 communities with popula-
tions Of more than 1000 were rep.
resented in the total tabulations
to date.
Minnesota remained in the lead
with the greatest total number of
jobs obtaineda 23,006. New York
was close behind, with 22,042.
The Washington times., 1932-03-12
8 INDICTMENTS
To BALKPITT
PAROLE

Unless the Government quashes
the three other indictments
against G. Bryan Pitts, former
chairman of the board of the
F.. H. Smith Company, he will
have to serve his full term in
jail with no chance Of parole.
This was revealed today by
officials of the Department of
Justice, who indicated that their
course Of action had not been
determined.
Sought Trade"
1t was pointed out that attor.
neys for Pitts, at the time he
abandoned his appeal, sought to
make a trade with the Govern
ment, whereby the other indict-
mnts would be dropped but that
no promises were made.
Pitts is under a 14-year sen
tence on the conspiracy charge
and in addition has d year-and
a-day sentence on a charge Of
criminal contempt for introduc
ing spurious records in the other
trial. Nugent DoddS, Assistant
Attorney General in charge of
criminal prosecutions, said today
he would try to make Pitts serve
the year-and-a-day sentence.
Prevents Reprieve
This sentence does not interfer
with Pitts obtaining a parole af'
ter serving one-third Of his sen
tence. The indictments, how
ever, If still on the records at
that time, will prevent any re
prieve.
Pitts is under indictment on
charges growing out Of the fail
ure of the Hamilton Hotel Cor.
poration, personal embezzlement
Of Smith Company funds and
using the mails to defraud.
The Washington times., 1932-03-12
Club VIII Discuss
Child Labor Bill

The bill proposing to amend
the child labor law of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, will be discussed
by the Monday Evening Club at
a meeting Monday at 8 p. M, at
the Willard Hotel. Speakers will
include Miss Fay l.. Bentley, di-
rector of the department of school
attendance and work permits Of
the public schools; Walter s.
Ufforo, general secretary Asso-
ciated Charities; Miss Sybil Baker,
supervisor of Fairgrounds, and
Rev. Francis j. Haas, director of
the National Catholic School, of
Social Service.
The Washington times., 1932-03-12
Times Boys Guests
At HOLU0rd TheGter

The most interested spectators
Of the new show at the Howard
Theater today will be the colored
carrier boys of The Washington
Times Redhead edition. These
are members Of that group of car
riers who bring the results Of the
various branches of sport direct
to Washington homes late every
evening.
Through the courtesy of the
management of the Howard The
ater, these boys today will see that
stirring picture. 1.-THE Lost Squad
ron," and the popular Louis Rus
sell, entertainer extraordinary, di-
rect from New York city.
The Washington times., 1932-03-12
MISS MARJORIE REED

The funeral for Miss Marjorie
Reed, 40, Of Herndon, Va, who
teE dead in washington Wednes.
day morning, was conducted this
afternoon from her mothers
home, Mrs. Thomas E. Reed, in
Herndon. Burial was in Chestnut
Grove Cemetery, Herndon, Va.
Miss Reed was an active mem.
Der in the order of the Eastern
star, for the past six years being
secretary Of the Herndon Chap.
ter. She was also a member and
active worker in the st. Timo-
thy's Episcopal Church, Of Hern-
don. Miss Reed is survived, be-
sides her mother, by two brothers,
7. E. Reed and Ralph Reed.
The Washington times., 1932-03-12
CAPPER AWAITS
MAPES REPORT

Further consideration by the
Senate committee of the Mapes
taxation bills, already passed by
the House, to levy approximately
$4,000, 900 annually in additional
taxes on Capital residents was
scheduled today.
Herbert D. Brown, chief Of the
Bureau of Efficiency. and Thomas
F. Murphy, assistant, were sched-
uled to confer with Chairman
Arthur Capper. Earlier in the
week they promised reports to-
day on three Of the five measures.
These are on the bills proposing
doubling of the gasoline sales
tax; increase in the automobile
tax, according to weight: and
establishment Of a District in
heritance tax.
The Washington times., 1932-03-12
D. C.. Naval Officers
Ordered to Sea DUtu

Naval officers on duty here
who received orders today for
sea duty are Capt. William w.
Smyth, to U. S. s. Tennessee;
Comdr. Robert A. White, to De
stroyer Squadron No. 10, and
Lieut.. Ethelbert Watts, to U. s.
S. Fulton. Capt. Henry D. Cooks,
commandant of midshipmen at
Annapolis, will command the U.
s. S. Oklahoma.
Officers ordered here for duty
include Capt. Lesley B. Anderson,
to Navy Yard Division; Capt.
Robert L. Ghormley, to Naval
Operations, and Lieut.. Comdr.
Herman E. Fischer, to the Blu
reau Of Ordnance.
The Washington times., 1932-03-12
RADIO RAMBLES

10:S0-Music that Satisfies.
1O:45-Seventh Anniversary Gel
ebration, Death If Dr..
Sun Yat Sen, Founder Of
the Chinese Republic.
11:15-Wardman Orchestra.
11:45-Madris rera's Orchestra.
12:0O-Weather.
12:O1-Guy Lombardo's Cana
dians.
12:SO-Stern's Orchestra.
1910 RilOe'ol''-WOL-ss0 Meters
4:OO-Helen divers Little Folk
Program.
4:15-Betty Thompson, Popular
Songs.
4:SO-Ruby Epperson McQuar-
rie, concert pianist.
4:45-Nell Lewis Stafford, read
ings.
5:00-Radio.
5:O5-One Time Opportunities.
5:15-Olmsted Trio.
5:45AWalter T. Holt Studio Pro-
gram.
6:OO-Dorothy Reddish, soprano.
6:15-Nordica Mandolin and Gui-
tar Program.
6:45-M ssanut ten Academy
Quartet.
7:OO-Dinner Music.
7:15-"Radio Joe."
7:2O-The Washington Herald
and Hearst MetrOtOne
News Globe TrOtter.
7:30-Sterrie Wellman, marimba
solos.
7:45-Eddie Leger, banjo melo-
dies.
8:OO-Radio Mite Court.
S:3O-Lelia Endicott, Popular
Vocalist.
8:45-Edith Reed Entertainers.
S:OO-Good Mite.
l'so Kil0oyole'-WJSV-sOS Meters
4:OO-Anne's Kiddie Hour.
5:OO-Modern Living.
5:SO-NewS Flashes.
6:OO-This, That and the Other.
6:15-The Professor.
6:45-Studio Presentation.
7:OO-Market Report.
7:15-Joe and Harry.
The Washington times., 1932-03-12

nor Medill Pat
terson Of the
w a sh in ct on
H raid, who
makes her de-
but on the air
Monday ever n
ing, March %,
over the Co
lu m bia net
work.
The counteSS'S
first nov !,
House Of VIC
lence" is only
out a week and
The Washington times., 1932-03-12
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Gerald weinberg. "a. and Lee Shot.
nos. "a. The Rev. s. H. Metz.
William 7. Edwards II, and Vir.
Einia M. Gray, 1S. The Rev. W. F.
Smith.
Morris Kaufman, IS, and TIIlie
Becker, 2S. The Rev. ]. IT. Loeb.
John F. Marino 21. and Alice M.
Drake. II. The Rev. w. A. Shelton.
Sylvanus H. Morgan. 81, and Clarice
". Shepherd. Is. The Rev. J. Il. Briggs
J. Marvin Pruitt. 3S, and Hazel e.
Hobson. Is, both OF Richmond. The
Rev j. e. Ball.
julius e. Hatcher 40, and Sarah
=. King. ~, both of Richmond. The
George Butera, rs, and Marie Carey,
1S. both Of Baltimore. The Rev. H.
w. Tolson.
Leon Glover. 80. and Hattie Thomas,
~: The Rev. K. F. Coates.
Robert Pinkard, ~. and Alice AoI-
land. 2S. The Rev. C.. T. Murray.
Raymond Kitching. 20. and Chillester
Brown, ~. The Rev. ]. T. Louis.
william RawIs, 80, and Leila Harris,
35. The Rev. B. H. Perry.