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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Record of Executioner
of king Charles First

In connection with the history OF
King Charles the First, letter is still
In existence written by a notorious
Mother Redcap, who lived In small
thatched building on rough ground
leading from the Tyburn road over
Crack Skull common to Hampstead.
says a writer in the London Times.
The legend runs that one wild night
she was disturbed by stranger al
her door imploring shelter. as he was
fugitive from Justice. After
stormy scene, In which he displayed
plenty Of money, the old woman con-
scented to admit him. He remained
with her some years. when he died.
At the inquest one Of the doctors de-
clared that he knew the body to be
that Of the man who had been en-
ployed to decapitate King Charles !.
Mr.. Walter Crick writes: II have not
seen the book myself. but am told
that this entry concerning the identity
of King Charles rs executioner may
be found, as marginal note. In the
burial register of st. Mary's, White
chapel: This Richard Brandon re-
ceived ESQ for the job. which was paid
In half-crowns within an hour after
the execution had taken place; he
took an orange stuck with cloves and
q handkerchief from the kings pocket
and sold the former article to a gen.
tleman for 10s.'"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
BUILDING
Gains For Two Months Re-
ported

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-A 21.2
per cent increase in building during
April, including operations and re-
pairs, was reported by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, United States De-
partment of Labor. The increase
brought building operations to $685.
756,038, the bureau estimated.
The increase was the largest from
March to April since 1929. In 1890
the increase was Ill per cent; in
1881, 6.2 per cent and in 1882, 1913
per cent.
The F. w. Dodge Corporation re-
ported an increase of 36 per cent in
the first two weeks of May in resi-
Dental building contracts in the 81
states east of the Rocky mountains.
L. Seth Schnitman, chief statistician
of the corporation, said that if the
rate of increase was maintaiAsS
through the month the total would
exceed May, 1882, by modest
amount" and would mark the first
time since 1881 that residential
building contracts have risen above
their respective totals for similar
periods of previous year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Small Ships Best Fighters

There Is common notion that
large war vessels, such as cruisers
armed with eight inch guns, are Of
fensiye or aggressive. while smaller
vessels armed with no more than six
inch guns are defensive. AS a matter
of fact the most aggressive vessels
during more than q hundred years
have been the small vessels, according
to Social Science Abstracts" which
digests articles from 1000 periodicals.
Actually, 10000 ton vessels have a
greater endurance than the very large
vessels; furthermore, the endurance
of single vessel Is not very impor-
tant because fleet is no more en-
during than its smallest cruiser or
destroyer"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
1000 Poe Mill Workers
Strike For Pay Increase

Grennville, S. Cone thousand
employees of the F. w. Poe Manufac-
turing Co. here went on strike for
wage increase.
John Peel, southern organizer of the
United Textile Workers of America,
declared that the operatives would not
return to work until wages have been
raised, hours shortened and working
conditions improved.
He said many employees had not re-
ceived any wages in money for more
than year, every cent being taken
up at the company store for greer
les, rent, coal and other necessities.
N. C. Poe, Jr., president of the COM
pany, said he would be glad to meet
the operatives, but that they seemed
indisposed to confer with him.
The indications are that the strike
will continue indefinitely.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
LAX LAWS
Two States Haven
For SweatshOps

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)--New
York's new strict child labor laws
have driven sweatshop operators to
Pennsylvania and Connecticut, giving
these two states the unenviable dis
tinction Of being among the worst for
sweatshop conditions. the Childrns
Bureau of the United States Depart
ment of Labor, says.
The Children's Bureau says that
New York has frightened its child la
Dor laws to such an extent that the
sweatshops have had to move into
nearby New Jersey, Connecticut and
Pennsylvania. The depression and the
demand for low-priced goods has in
creased the trouble.
Pennsylvania children are permit
ted to go to work at Ia it they have
gone through the sixth grade at pub
lie school, provided they attend ex-
tension schools until they are 10.
Conditions in the South, however, are
described by Children's Bureau Of
ficials as much worse, with children
working day and night at the looms
of the great textile mills there, pro-
tected by no law at all or poorly en-
forced laws.
Sixteen states have enacted mini
mum wage laws which tended, Chill
dren's Bureau officials said, to break
up the child sweatshop.
Violation of what laws Pennssyl-
vania has, they said, had been fia-
grant since the influx of clothing fac
tories from New York. Most of the
sweatshop employers took work on
a contract basis from New York
firms, used portable machinery and
could move from small town to small
town before state inspectors could
catch up to them.
Despite conditions in certain sec
tions and failure of legislation in
several states, child labor is on the
decline, the labor department re-
ports. Officials laid the decline
largely to the increased use of COM
plicated machinery requiring adult
attention.
The percentage OF children be-
tween 10 and Is at work dropped
from 8.5 in 1920 to At in 1880. The
drop for children Ia and Is was from
17.5 to 90 per cent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02

A farewell party was being given
to one of the staff of big store
who was starting In business on hts
own.
The manager presided, but he was
not accustomed to public speaking.
Beginning his speech, he said: La
dies and gentlemen-Our young friend
is-er-about to paddle his own canoe
-er-let US hope-er-he will have a
level road all the way, and the-er
courage to overcome the mountains
of difficulty-er-he will meet, SO
that he may climb to the top of the
ladder-er-that others will follow In
his ootprints-."-London Tit-Bits.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Gladstone Classed a.
Excellent" in Debate

1t is certain that Gladstone often
moved the house to long and hearty
laughter, and that in private life, II
he was among his own family or with
intimate friends, he could be exceed
ingly amusing, playful and full OF fun.
But the fact Is that he was apt,
whether In private or public, to be TOO
much and too earnestly interested In
the subject of conversation to be In
clined to treat 1t jocosely or even hu-
morously.
Lord Balfour remarked: II remem-
ber John Morley telling me [it was
in his pre-Gladstonian days. that
Gladstone's humor was like grinning
through horse collar. 1t may not
have contained the raw material Of
good talk or good literature, but with
all Difference to John Morley, 1t was
certainly excellent debating. 1t turned
the laugh. il not the argument against
the victim. From Lord Kilbracken's
"reminiscences.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Modern Debt to Ancients

1t was not until the time of Alexan-
der the Great, that the use Of the arch
and the use of the dome which devel-
oped along with 1t In the Tgris and
Euphrates region seems to have spread
to Europe. Then the Greeks picked 1t
up as novelty. and passed 1t on to the
Romans; and eventually we moderns
received 1t, gift that had passed
through many hands from people
who possessed 1t, perhaps, before the
days Of the Great Flood. In fact, we
today owe very much more Of our civil
lization and culture to those ancient
folk than we generally guspect.-Ex-
change.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Truths POndered While
Riding at
Anchor
Then gently scan
your brother man
BY Mr.. MOdestus-

1.-The people are doing lot of
thinking nowadays"
Well, mebbe--
They are certainly having a lot of
new sensations.
Just what do we mean by think
ing?"
Let's try for a definition:
Thinking is the rational compari-
son of information or data"
There is certainly lot of new in
formation arriving.
A lot of it contradicts many pre-
viously held convictions.
A cynic has another definition of
thinking:
Thinking is just-for most people
"a Encouragement of prejudice"
A prejudice is mental attitude,
maintained against few facts.
Originally, it may have been a JUS
tilted judgment.
But when the facts change,
Old opinions become obsolete,
They are so much intellectual junk
Buying home is the best invest
ment!"
"Put your money in the saving
bank"
Insurance is the safest invest
ment"
At one time-not so long ago
these were solid convictions.
They had been justified by long
experience.
Then something happened
"The Lord helps those that help
themselves"
IF you want a thing done, do it |
yourself"
Honesty is the best policy"
Have you happened to try any of
these axioms Of the business world
Recent shiftings of building asso-
cations
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Discoverer of Pixies Peak Unknown

Pixies Peak was named after Zebu-
Ion Pike who was supposed to have
discovered that mountain peak in Col
orado. But the Stewart commission
Of Colorado college says Pike did not
discover 1t. The commission claims
the mountain was known to white men
as early as 100, and that was long be-
fore Pike was born. Investigators of
the commission found that Pike
learned of the peak while prisoner
of the Spaniards in Santa Fe early In
the Nineteenth century.-Pathfinde
Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02

Quinn has long been student of
social and industrial conditions. His
career as public office holder be-
gan in 1913 with his election as an
assemblyman from Middlesex county.
He was elected to the state senate
in 1929. Quinn, who is 67 years old,
has served as president Of the Labor
Bank Of Newark. He was carpen-
ter before he rose to the leadership
of organized labor in New Jersey.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02

crease in the call for his products
during the next few weeks to result
from infationary measures the ma
tional administration is promoting.
In order to obtain full advantage
from the expected profit opportuni-
ties, Mr.. Myers believes he should be
permitted to work at last 40 hours
a week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Wrong Bridge

When closing time came at the
village Inn the angling club moved off
with dignity to the bridge from which
they were to angle that night.
They seated themselves, cast their
lines over the parapet, and "fished"
steadily till the gray dawn was break
ing.
Then with roar the first down
train passed under the bridge Tit
Bits.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS
HAMILTON LABOR UNIONS

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02

Q--What was the earliest organ
ization of hatters i'm the United
States?
A.-The Hatters' Union of Dan
bury, Conn.,, organized in 1910.
Q.-Was there ever a conper-
smiths union in this country?
A.-Yes. 1t was called the Copper
smiths international Union and it was
absorbed by the Sheet Metal Work
ers' international Association.
Q.-When were public employment
agencies first opened?
An 1843 such bureaus were es-
tablished in Paris and they are
thought to have been the first.
Q.-HOw did the international
Brotherhood of Paper Makers orig
mate?
At had its beginning in social
club of papermachine tenders form
ed in Holyoke, Mass, in 1884. It de-
veloped into a national union, and in
1893 was chartered by the American
Federation of Labor as the United
Brotherhood of Paper Makers of
America, with jurisdiction over the
papermaking industry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Myers Says 30-Hour Week
Would Crimp Textile Output

Gastonia, N. ca. G. Myers, pres
ident of Textiles, Inc, operating mills
having 250,00O to 100000 spindles, is
to the 30-hour work week.
His plants couldn't supply the de-
mand for their output on such sched-
ule, he says, predicting a great in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Labor Head Named
To Customs Post

Newark, N. j. (ILNS)-Arthur A.
Quinn, president of the New Jersey
State Federation of Labor, and state
senator, has been nominated by
President Roosevelt as controller of
customs at New York city.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
LaborQueriies

Questions and Answers on La
Dor: What 1t Has Done; Where
II Stands on Problems of the
Day; Its Aim and Program;
Who's Who in the Ranks of
the Organized Toilers, ETC., etc.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02

Q.-HOw did the international
brotherhood of Paper Makers orig.
mate?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02

UEfKICT ORGANIZATIONS
Molders Conference Roosevelt ave- Piqus
HAMILTON BUSINESS
Electrical Workers
Moders Calvin sos Norman Ave- DAYTON. Ohio
Carpenters Cha Chapen, All Villains Ave; 2714-M
Milk Ice Cream Drivers Helpers
Painters A.
Fattern MakerA ."R Robt Service Ave.
flaseers William Utrecht,
Plumbers Phone
Stage Hands and Movie
MlDDLETOWN BUSINESS AGENTS
ralhters AW w. Stout 608 Waite, T. C. Hail
MOVIE operators B Ben H. Francis, Monroe.
stage Hands - Harry Sutphin Ave
Electrical Workers Marion ST. Hamilton
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-23
Weed Really a Flower
Growing Out of Place

A weed is correctly defined as a
plant growing out of place. If ever
a flower springs up where you don't
want it, like a dandelion or a wild
carrot on the lawn, it is a weed. If
elsewhere it is admired or cher
ished, then it is flower. Nearly all
our valued flowers are, or were,
weeds somewhere. We take great
pains to cultivate the poppy, the
Escholtzia, which covers lavishly
and spontaneously hundreds of thou
sands of acres in California. But
there are certain other weeds which,
we feel sure, will never be regard
ed as flowers anywhere-the dew
astating pigweed. for example, or
the rag-weed, or the murde:Ous
witchgrass (which, nevertheless, has
a very pretty heaO. Whether a
plant is a weed or a flower, de-
pends entirely on whether or not to
the farmer or the gardener it is
classed as "pernicious." And in the
Dakota harvest fields the most ex-
quisite wild roses are distinctly per
nicious."
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-23
HIT BEHIND THE BALL IN
LONG GRASS

IT'S the exceptional golfer who
L doesn't find the rough grass at
least more than few times on the
golf course. The average golfer
Goes 1t more times than he gen.
orally cares to remember. Such a
lie to many is just another golf shot,
but to Chick Evans a bit different
treatment is needed than that en-
ployed by a regular shot from the
fairway. In the first place he holds
the club tighter in such a situa-
ton, not to the point of rIgidity but
firm enough so that the grass
through which the clubhead travels
has no chance to turn II in the
slightest. Secondly instead of d.
recting his shot at the ball Chick
aims at spot in the long grass a
bit behind it. The clubhead contin-
uing its downward arc will thus hit
the ball squarely. He uses a re-
laxed swing even though the grip is
tightened here and his follow
through bit longer than usual. Oo-
viously his intention is to make sure
that the ball is hit and hit hard
enough to raise it from its close lie.
g. 1888. Bell Syndicate-wNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-23

stumps?" exclaimed Peter. II should
think you would have TO hustle"
NO" confessed Short-Tail. that
isn't all. If Reddy Fox or Shadow
the Weasel or any other Of the hunt
ers about here make a kill / usu-
ally know it and have many a good
feast on the scraps which they leave,
and by picking the bones. Then. /
eat beechnuts and some seeds. In
fact, can eat almost anything when
| have TO. I've never starved yet,
and ! don't intend TO in the future
Excuse me. I'm getting hungry
again. I'll be back again soon"
With this. Short-Tail darted away.
Watching him, Peter had az uncom
Portable feeling that in his move.
menrs he was very much ike Shadow
the Weasel.
G. 1888. by T. W. Burgess--wNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-23

along with a load on his hack, that
was a crumb from our potato salad.
He was having hard time with it,
particularly because Of the interfer-
ence of another ant. Al first we
thought the other ant was trying to
take his find away from him. 1t
kept at his heels, several times al
most upsetting him. But then we
discovered II was really trying TO
help him. We know. OF course, that
trying TO help at the wrong time can
be the worst sort of hindrance, but
apparently ants have not as yet
found that out.
1t was fascinating to watch the
two tiny creatures laboring, push
ing, struggling as If for dear life
over that speck of potato. They did
not act in the proverbial manner of
ants, just plodding calmly along !;
they got terribly excited, their
spindly arms and legs waving madly
about as if they were racing against
time TO get the precious spoils to
whatever was their haven of safety.
And we sat there amused at all this
excitement over a speck of potato.
Like lords of creation watching the
antics of their puppets, we observed
these lesser creatures wearing them
selves out over something so ridicu-
| lousy unworthy of excitement as
a fraction of an ounce of potato.
You see we had shaken off the
dust of the hectic week and were
already assimilating the sense of
sovereignty that comes in the peace
of the country. That's why we felt
nothing in common with those silly
ants
g. Bell syndicate.-WNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-23
S@B! B!EDT!ME sToRY,5x ,:5;x
&gDBY THORNTON w. BURcESSS8

eyes, that's ALL" retorted Short
Tail I've seen you more times
than / can remember, and occasion
ally you've seen me. but like great
many other people, you've caught
just a glimpse of me and thought
was a Mouse. You've seen my
tracks in the snow lots of times. and
you've thought they were the tracks
Of a Mouse. OF course l try to
keep out of sight as much as pos
sible. l have to do great deal Of
my hunting among the leaves under
the snow, becouse that is where
most of the insects that sleep all
winter are to be found. Then / find
a lot in the rOtted centers of old
stumps. | just love to dig around
in those"
And is that all you nave TO eat,
the sleeping bugs and things you
can find under the leaves and in old
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-23
BETTER TO BE
BY DOUGLAS MALLOcH.

p ETTER to dig foundations down,
- Build from the bottom, stone
by stone,
Than have the highest house in
town,
A house not strong, but big alone.
Better to build life the same,
On reputation day by lay,
Than have a little sudden fame
A whispered word can blow away.
Better to have a little gold,
That you have gathered dime by
dime,
Than have so much 1t can be sold
Because you cannot pay in time.
Better to have faith secure,
That you have mastered, stair by
stair,
Than live a life that can't endure
Some unexpected grief or care.
Better to be some humble thing,
ISL SIONluS greater year ny year
Than be a frail and frightened king
Time tumbles from a throne of
fear.
Better to climb, If not so far,
Just deed by deed, not dream by
dream
Better to seem the thing you are
Than not to be the thing you
seem.
@. 1893. Douglas Malloch.-wNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-23
SHORT-TAIL EXPLAINS
THINGS

THERE are times when Peter
l. Rabbit can be as patient as any
one / know. Just let Peter think
there is a chance TO see something
or hear about something he doesn't
know about, and his curiosity will
give him patience enough to keep
him sitting around half the day. So,
though Short-Tail the Shrew was
gone what seemed like long time,
Peter waited patiently right where
Short-Tail had left him. Peter did
q lot of wondering about Short-TaiL
1t was clear. from what Short-Tail
had said, that he stored up food for
the winter, though a snail certainly
seemed a queer thing to store up.
Thinking about these things, Peter
was full of questions when Short
Tail returned.
Your storehouse must be quite a
distance from here" said he. what
kind Of a place is it in?"
Short-Tail grinned. 81 wouldn't
answer that question for some folks"
said he, ''but | don't mind answering
1t for you, because you might hunt
for the rest of your life and not find
il. l have some little tunnels In
the ground, and off Of these ] have
some little stOrehouses. In one Of
these / am putting all the snails
can find. You have no idea how
good they taste in the middle Of
winter, when a fellow has 10 run his
legs off to get enough to eat" Short
Tail smacked his lips.
Il should think such little fellow
as you would have to sleep all win
ter or else freeze TO DEATH" said
Peter.
Danny Meadow Mouse doesn't
sleep, and he doesn't freeze, does
he?" retorted Short-Tall, rather
sharply. "No, sir, I'm just as active
in winter as / am in summer. In
fact, / am a little more active. If
anything, because it is harder work
TO find enough to eat, and have to
find a lot because food makes heat,
you know, and without plenty of
food l certainly would freeze"
But why haven't l seen you In
winter?" persisted Peter. looking
quite as puzzled as he felt
Because you haven't used your
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-23
Shakespeare's Education

William Shakespeare had all the
education necessary TO write the
plays attributed to him. The Bard
of Avon was well qualified to do
the work he did. Far from being an
untutored rustic, he probably was
as competent a scholar as Bacon
himself, Chaucer, Spencer or even
Milton. He had the same training
that they had. but he made more of
his opportunities than they did.-Ex-
change.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-23
BONERS are actual humorous
tid-bits found in examination pa
pers, essays, ETC., by teachers.

The flower had FIVE parts. sepals,
pedals, antlers, pistil and trigger.
Napoleon dispensed the rioters
with q Whit of grape fruit.
Three contagious diseases are
smoking, chewing and splitting.
The duke of Clarence, according
TO his usual custom, was killed in
battle.
Graft is an illegal means of unit
ing trees to make money.
A supersaturated solution is one
that holds more than it can hold.
Bronchitis is a disease that you
can get from riding a certain kind
of horse too much.
g. 1888. Bell syndicate.-WNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-23
THROUGH A
Eyes
BY JEAN NEWTON
THOSE SILLY ANTS

WE WERE out on a picnic, hav-
W ing lunch on top of a hin that
overlooked a beautiful countryside
1t was golden Sunday, with spring
in bloom. The air smelled sweet
some birds were singing, and over il
all calm blue sky, with little white
tufts of placid clouds floating con
tentedly on its surface.
1t was good for tired city folks
The strain and worry, the pace of "a
hectic week, seemed to ooze out OF
our bones as we lay around basking
on the hilltop. We breathed in with
the air the calm and peace and
quiet, relaxing like an overstrained
spring that is allowed to fall back
into place.
''Look!" said some one, as we
were idling after lunch, "see those
ants with that bit of potato" One
of the tiny creatures was struggling