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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
FIDDLERS, FIVE HUNDRED

Old King Cole lived too soon. He
could call only for three fiddlers. He
called "for his fiddlers, three"
In Washington today he could find
five hundred fiddlers, all fddling away
for dear life, but to the amusement
of nobody except themselves.
1t was expected that certain main
objectives would be set up and that,
the situation being desperate, con-
gress would drive at those main OBJ
jectives without the loss of a minute.
But pick up the Congressional Rec
ord for any day and observe the wind
jamming, log-rolling, -slapping
talk that fills the pages.
All along the line, from A to q,
in the roll call, the story is about the
same.
A presidential commission, certainly
not filled with alarmists, certainly not
radical" brings in a report that
ought to throw healthy fright into
every member of congress.
The drone of page-filling speeches
goes on, some artless, some witless,
some just pestiferous. Here and there
a bright spot.
The nation needs relief legislation. |
1t needs the kind of legislation urged |
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
BEWARE THE AMMUNITION
MAKERS

Munition makers are laying their
plans to get more profit out of Uncle
Sam.
They want to force the government
out of the business of making its own
munitions. They look to the Shannon
house committee to turn munitions
making over to private interests
again
American labor stands squarely
for NO PROFIT in war munitions
and materials.
If Americans are not on guard
profit will come back, full force, to
stimulate the making Of munitions.
Here looms battle. And profit
eering must not win the day!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
PERMANENT CURE.

and demanded by organized labor.
Congress likes the sound of its col
lective voice and drones along, sing
song, sing any song, just SO the Con-
gressional Record appears to print
the stuff.
The democrats, coming into power,
will find the people ready to shout
their praises high and often, if they
bring relief, if they buckle down to
the job and deliver real goods. But
they will find a people ready to jump
on them even harder than the Hoover
administration has been jumped on if
they fail At the present writing they
are not making the best of their op-
portunity.
An American Federation of Labor
convention, or the convention of any
national or international union could
do more in two weeks than congress
has done since it began its present
sessions, and perhaps more than it
will do before it adjourns sine die.
In this hour there is need for
action. There is no need for parade
of words. Congress has plenty of
bills before it. Let the nation tell
congress to GET BUSY AND ACT!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
THE BEER BILL

The beer bill lags and languishes,
for no good reason. Brewers wat to
spend millions. Immediate expendi-
lures of $175 100000 by brewers to
modernize plants, Is millions for sup
plies, Is millions for bottles, so mil
lions for cooperage, Is millions for
trucks, 20 millions for advertising, all
await congressional approval of the
beer bill.
To say nothing of the continued ex-
penditure and the immediate returns
in taxes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
Charming Welsh Valley

Knighton is charming little town
on the Teme In the Welsh borderland
OF Shropshire. The surrounding hills
provide many fine views. For the lover
Of antiquity, the naturalist and the
angler, the district has many attrac-
tions. The great Caractacus waged
many battles here and his earthworks
still may be seen. There also is a ruin
OF a fortress at Hopton castle dating
from the time Of Edward the First.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
NOTICE TO MOP SALESMAN

They were visiting friends one eve
ming Presently their three-year-old
son became restless. The hostess. no.
ticing this. gave him q soft rubber ball
to play with. During the course Of
his play the ball rolled under the dav-
export. and the little fellow crawled
In after 1t. Presently the hostess
asked him II he saw the ball.
He replied. NO"
Then why don't you come outY
"Im drawing pictures on the floor"
Boston Transcript.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
Tickled johnny

We waste no sympathy on kinder
garten teachers. says writer in the
Kansas City Times. There always Is
something going on among the fresh
young faces with which they have to
deal. A teacher tells OF little Johnny
who was overcome with laughter when
another child slipped and fell In the
class room.
Johnny" said the teacher reprov-
tngly, why are you laughing? There
Is nothing funny about a little boys
falling down."
It's funny To me-" protested John.
ny, still overcome. "It's funny to me-"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
AN EMPLOYER CONFESSION

AN EMPLOYER CONFESSION
1t has been announced that cotton
textile manufacturers are on the
verge of abandoning their plans to
end night work and the employment
of minors.
Those employers are organized, but
they will not live up to the agree
ments they make among themselves.
Not so very long ago one of these
employers said, somewhat bitterly,
that the association would meet and
would resolve to end night work,
whereupon he and every other men,
Der would rush back home to put a
double shift at work, to take advan-
tage of the promise of the other fell
low. Every "other fellow" likewise
broke hts agreement in the same
way and so all were worse off than
before.
If trade unions so lightly regarded
their obligations, what an uproar
there would be!
Here are employers in a great in
dustry, unable to keep their word, not
to labor, but to each other! All of
them sunk in condition bordering on
chaos, all of them needing the pro-
lection of cooperative action, all of
them lying to each other, playing
renegade, like lot of untutored
children. 1t is spectacle to con-
template.
The employer who made the con-
fession would like to go straight. He
would like to keep his word. He would
like to stop all night work and keep
children out of his factory. But he
knows that there is treachery all
about him. He knows that if he keeps
his word he will do so alone, and thus
go down to bankruptcy. He wants to
live, as an employer. So he does
what they are all doing and they are
all going down, down, down.
Only one force has combatted the
evils of the textile industry with any
effectiveness-the union.
In every industry it has been the
union that has compelled employers
to reform, to yield, bit by bit, the
autocratic power that they have SO
uniformly abused.
Employer autocracy in industry is
on a par with political rule by ar
aristocracy. Both fail to serve the
/ people. We are rid of the one; we
must be rid of the other.-The Tex
tile Worker.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
TRUCKS AND THE RAILWAYS

Trucks of coal continue to menace
railway haulage. Trucks now haul
10000 tons a year to Illinois mar
kets. Seven hundred trucks haul coal
from mine to consumer in Indiana
Majority hauls are within SO miles,
but the length of haul steadily grows.
Serious business for the railroads, in
teresting for the consumer. Spite
action will not adjust the issue help
fully.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13

The term infantry" applied to foot
soldiers. takes its origin from one of
the 'nfantas Of Spain. who, hearing
that the army commanded by her
father had been defeated by the Moors,
assembled body of foot soldiers and
with them engaged and defeated the
enemy. In memory Of the event. and
to distinguish the foot soldiers. who
were not before held In much esteem,
they received the name Of infantry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13

One of the great needs Of modern
civilization is improvement in condi-
tions and practices that will be ia
vorable to good mental hygiene.
Good authorities hold that the
primitive function of the court of law
was, in many instances, not to en-
force but simply to declare the law;
the assumption being that, judg
ment once having been given, the
law was rooted firmly enough in the
mind of the community to enforce
itself.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13

HE Purpose
One Sunday we took my little c0us.
In, Armin, age four, to restaurant
to dinner. After the waitress brought
the order, his mother asked him why
he did not eat Armin replied in /
meek voice. Mother. isn't this 4 res
taurantf'
His mother answered. "Why. yes. Of
course"
"Well, then," said Armin. Il came
here to rest."-Cnicago Tribune.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
In Doubt

Mrs Bliggins says his youngest Is
the image of his father" remarked
Miss Cayenne.
what did you say?"
Nothing. didn't know whether TO
congratulate Mr.. Bliggins or sympa
thize with the baby"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13

Summer BOarder-Oh, I'd just love
to be q farmer, to live with the blue
sky overhead
Farmer Jones-Yes, that would be
all right If the blue sky was the farm
er's only overhead.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
I.o1ieAl

Mummy, why do men shoot lions
and tigers?"
Because they eat sheep and kin the
lambs. They should not do that"
Mummy. why don't men shoot
butchers?"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
WHAT NEXT?

The New York Times tries out sue
cassfully a typewriter-radio trans
mission of messages, automatic and
secret from all except the designated
receiving machine. Messages are
scrambled while in the air.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13

At the present time in some places
the solid land is rising quite slowly
out of the sea, as for instance the
coasts of Sweden and Spitzbergen,
while other regions, notably Green
land, are gradually sinking.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
eCherry
" Where with sas
Tree Ii,.,. i, :. a..ss:,
We tell the truth
aboat many things. Sometimes pre-
fsundly, sometimes 0ippantly.
sometimes recklessly.

is being practiced over an ever-widen-
ing sweep of America.
A few days ago a national maya
zine was offered Is bushels of wheat
in exchange for a years subscrip-
ton. If the editor didn't want wheat
he was offered dressed chickens or
three acres of land, and the writer
enclosed advertisements from his To-
cal paper to show the extent of bar
ter in his community.
Barter is simply trading one thing
for another. One farmer traded
quarter of beef for a ham and some
bacon. Neither one possessed any
cash.
There are many who find a new
kind of delight in returning to CASH
less existence.
in plenty of rural sections taxes
are going unpaid and the occupants
are not dispossessed. The land
wouldn't bring enough for taxes and
the authorities keep hands off.
A few days ago a life insurance
company representative saved his
neck from 800 angry farmers because
he raised his bid for a tractor which
he seeked to reposses in lieu of
mortgage money.
These are ways in which people are
getting out from under debts.
Accountants would say these peo-
pie are writing off" their obligations
by the simple expedient of forget
ting them.
Other debts are being written off"
through liquidation
A hotel endowed with a capital
structure" five times the cost of
building has gone through a couple
of "liquidations" and now pays.
Certain banks are advising owners
of buildings to fill them at whatever
rent they can actually get and "re-
finance" on the basis of those rents.
Those are also ways of forget
ting" debts.
Banks that recommend the origin
ally inflated bonds now advise spill
ing the water overheard and getting
down RI an bopoct laval
Either the bankers were foolish
then and wise now, or dishonest then
and relatively honest now. Anyway,
debts are going into the laundry to
be washed out.
Pretty soon people will begin to
turn their attention to the mechanism
that got them into debt and that
keeps on sucking exorbitant profits
out of them. They'll begin hunting
for the syphon-and when they find
it they'll cut hole in it.
Layers Of holding companies, each
taking it's "cut" for doing nothing,
are due for the chopping block,
sooner or later.
Talk about the widows and or
phans" who own the Securities"
won't save them. There may be no.
ton that some temporary acute suf-
fering is better than the perpetual
bleeding.
1t will take long to find ALL the
leaks and gratis, but one by one they
must go.
Life insurance companies today
protect water in railroad "securi-
ties" because they own billions of
them.
People are looking with keen and
fishy eye at these things and many
more.
Barter is crude business and
probably would grow into something
like our present currency system in
time, but for today it is stripping
away lot of window dressing, get
ting folks to think to the point.
Bill and John trade even and no.
body gets "cut" No over-writing,
no underwriting, no stock, no bonds.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
But H. Know. tn. Number.

81 should think have good mem
ory. | know all the telephone mum.
bers In the town by heart"
Impossible"
"Yes. they start at one and go to
1857, but I haven't the faintest idea
to whom they belong"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
Had Graduated"

George-Last night i met a girl who
had never been kissed.
Bill-lmpossible! ! should like to
meet her.
George-Rut she doesn't exist-now.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13

To ask why the delay is to ask
for an answer to continuous riddle,
where congress is concerned.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
All There Was to 1t

All There Was to 1t
II think this scenery is just heav.
enly."
"Um. don't know. Take away the
mountains and the lake and it's just
Ike anywhere else
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
CUTTING REMARKS

Spool-"Did Mr. Scissors make any
remarks?" Darning Cotton-"Yes and
very cutting ones"
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The Washington times., 1933-03-04

Lost or =. Found? Hum
dreds of articles are lost daily and the
greatest percentage Of them are adver-
hand. If you've found something, read
the Lost and Found Columns Of the
WANT AID SECTION Of this newspaper.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04

again." An age old saying, but ever true.
II you haven't been able to locate the
apartment you want. read the timely
selection offered daily in the WANT AID
SECTION of this newspaper.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
CENTRAL PLANT
SUPPL|ESHEAT

OF all the construction work
now in progress in the city, one
of the most interesting from an
engineering and municipal con-
sideration is the District heating
system to deliver steam from a
large central boiler plant to be
erected on c Street between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets.
under contract with the Treasury
Department.
From the plant site there is now
being constructed a comprehensive
steam distribution system which
spreads out in three directions.
High pressure steam viii be deliv-
cred to the Treasury, Post Office,
Internal Revnue, Agricultural.
Justice Department and several
other Government buildings, do
ing away entirely with the need Of
individual heating plants.
This novel idea Of district heat
ing was developed in Lockport,
N. Y, in 1877 by the American
District Steam Company. which
company has. since installed sim
liar district heating systems in
hundreds of cities and villages in
all parts of the United States and
Canada. The present washington
installation is being made by the
Northeastern Piping and Construc-
ton Company of North Tona-
wanda, N. Y, a subsidiary of the
parent company.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
DANCE RA|DED;
125GOFREE

Charges of disorderly conduct
against 1875 colored residents of
Washington and Prince Georges
county were dismissed yesterday
in the Hyattsville police court by
Judge ]. Chew Sheriff.
All had been arrested at a
dance at the home of Charles
Greenfield at Bowie last Saturday
night. Greenfield was charged
with possession of liquor and that
charge was dismissed.
j. Wilson Ryon and Frank Hall,
counsel for the dancers, brought
out testimony that Magistrate
Louis Gundling, of Lanham, had
left his own bailiwick to go to
Bowie, in another magistrates
Jurisdiction, where he set up court
at the scene of the raid. This,
the counsel argued, was contrary
to the Maryland law and on this
plea the charges were dismissed.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
"PAlNLESS" DENTISTRY

NEW YORK QNS0.-Dr.
Henry L. Watchtel, dentist, has
cancelled debts amounting to S.
800. He wrote a note to each of
his 160 debtors, telling them to
consider the money as paid.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
EVANGELIST SERVICES

Guy w. Duty, Alexandria, Va,
evangelist, will lead special re-
vival services in the Wheaton
Gospel Hall tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
MILLS, MEYER,
|NOLEY JOIN
IN CONFAB
Old, Cabinet Members Present
Retiring Chief With An
Elaborate Desk Set

"Movng day" at the White
House did not keep the Cabinet,
the little cabinet. newspaper men
and innumerable well wishers
from, meeting with Herbert
Hoover as he prepared to hand
over his office to Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
And amid all the hub-bub, Mr..
Hoover and Mr.. Roosevelt with.
drew. from the group drinking tea
In the Red Room to q corner
with Prof. Raymond Moley. Sec
retarY Mills and Governor Meyer
Of the Federal Reserve Board, for
O conference.
-. Desk Set as Gift
Cabinet m m bers presented
their chief with a richly orna-
mented desk set consisting Of a
clock, thermometer, barometer,
O calendar, pen and pencil, and
O gold plate with the donors
names.
They talked for few moments.
the Executive said good'by to
each. With the Little Cabinet,
Mr.. Hoover posed on the south
lawn because pictures taken sew
eral days ago were not usable.
mo News Today"
To newSpapermen, he said:
II have no news today. There
40 plenty Of news in other quar-
terS."
MIR. Hoover added that he con"
sidered his relations with them "a
pleasant association through trou-
blesome times" Each was invited
TO. visit him on the West Coast.
Among the laSt-minute visitors
we're Atlee Pomerene, chairman
of the board, Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, and Frank
lin Fort, chairman of the Home
Loan Bank system.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04

Boston's crack pickpocket squad
is on hand today to protect the
pockets of Washington visitors,
here for the inaugural.
Three detective sergeants, Cole
man S. Joyce, Thomas F. Lyons,
and William j. Harrow, detailed
here especially for the inaugura-
ton ceremonies, are reputed to be
the best in their line in the
country.
Police Commissioner Eugene c.
Huffman, of Boston, has sent to
Chief Of Police Ernest w. Brown
SO editions Of q Pocket Rogues'
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
COUNTY FEES
INVESTIGATED

ANNAPOLIS, March 3.-Fees
paid Prince Georges constables
for warrants and the police pro-
cedure in making arrests were
probed by the county delegation
at a hearing preparatory to map
ping out new legislation yesterday.
Constable Warren E. 2eake, who
conducted a raid on a colored
dance hall a week ago and OBJ
tained 76 warrants, was grilled by
the delegation.
Proponents of blue laws testi-
fled yesterday before the delega-
tion in opposition to the move
to allow each town in Maryland
to vote on whether they want
blue laws. DR.. w. w. Davis,
executive secretary of the Lords
day alliance, led the protest
against reporting out of the
Judiciary Committee without
recommendation of the referen-
dunn bill.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
50 BOY HOBOESi
HEREFORFETE,
ROUNDED Up
Freight Train Disgorges 125
Itinerants; Police Give
Them "NeW Deal"

About so youths who wanted to
see the Inauguration but did not
have train fare have been
rounded up by police. ..
About rs more escaped last
night after several policemen
went to the lexington freight
yards following word that o
freight train loaded with unem-
ployed radicals had arrived.
More men than the police
thought possible for the rods Of
one freight train to carry began
to pile off.
The exciting pursuit began in
and out among the box cars In
the yard and about 90 ranging
in age from 18 to 81 were cap
tured.
The boys may be allowed to
watch the parade after all, ac'
cording to Inspector L. I. H. Ed
wards.
Those who promised to go
h ONE Immediately afterwards
will be released, he said.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
TEACHERS TO SPEAK

Mrs. Brunhilde Cross, music
teacher; Mrs. Iris BoSley, domestic
science teacher, and Crescent
Bride, physical education in
Structor, will discuss the value of
their respective courses to mem
bers of the Takoma-Silver Spring
High School Parent-Teacher Asso-
citation Wednesday night.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
Mrs. Norton Named
To PLQnninQ Board

Speaker John Nance Garner to-
day named Representative Mary
T. Norton CD of New Jersey as O
member of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
Mrs. Norton, chairman of the
House District Committee, will
continue in that capacity during
the next session of Congress.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
LlNGUIST TO TALK

Lewis Achille, professor of ro-
nance languages at Howard Uni.
versity, will address the Litera-
ture Lovers Club tomorrow at $50
p. m. at the Phyllis Wheatley
Y. w. c. A. '"The Life and Works
of Paul Lawrence Dunbar" cele-
brated negro poet, will be the
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