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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-02-02
Mississippi's Penitentiary
Reported Overcrowded

Jackson, Miss. (ILNS)-One Of the
trustees of the Mississippi peniten-
tiary recently declared that unless
Governor Sennett Conner pardoned a
number of convicts it would be neces-
sary to ask the legislature for funds
with which to erect additional cages
for their safeguarding at Parchman
farms. Every Negro camp has con-
victs sleeping double in a single bed"
he said. "There are now around 1000
convicts in the penitentiary, an in
crease Of 400 over two years ago."
Governor Conner has pardoned only
handful of men since his inaugura-
ton two years ago.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-02-02
Company Union Growth
Held Big Danger to Labor
Situation Imperatively Demands Great Unionzaton
Efforts, Washington Conference Says-NRA Criti-
cized, u. S. Pay Cuts Condemned.

this unusual situation. The demand
of the moment is to promote organ
ization in whatever form or method is
best designed to rally the wage earn
ers to the cause of organized labor,
bearing in mind that in the pursuit of
organization the present structure
rights and interests of affiliated ma
tional and international unions must
be followed, observed and safe
guarded.
"The A. F. of L., contrary to q
common belief, does not desire to die
tate the form of organization that
shall prevail among wage earners. It's
policy has been that of encouraging
whatever form of organization in any
trade, calling or industry, seems best
to meet the requirements of the work
ers."
A. F. of L. Must Lead
After pointing out that employers
are taking full advantage of the pro-
visions of the NRA to organize and
maintain company unions, the report
says:
"It is in this sort of situation that
the A. F. of L. must assume leader
ship and take command in the organ
izing of wage earners in whatever
form the temporary situation may de-
mand or require, and with the object
i've in mind of not only protecting and
promoting existing national and inter-
national unions, but in encouraging the
formation of new national and inter-
national unions where no such organ
izations prevail.
at must be apparent that in this
endeavor of organization, conflicts
of jurisdiction and claims of invasion
of organization are likely to occur
If we are to meet the requirements
of the moment we must accept such
conflicts in the spirit of tolerance anc
through proper procedure correct
| such errors as may have or hereafter
occur"
Four Recommendations
Four recommendation were made
by the committee for organization
work They were:
First: That the work of organic.
ing by and through national and IN
ternational unions, supplemented b!
that Of the A. F. Of L. through fed
eral and local trade unions, proceed
with increased vigor and determine
ton; that the fullest possible lati
tude be exercised by the executive
council in the granting of fedora
charters, and that where or whenever
a temporary infraction of the rights
of national and international unions
may be involved, that the executive
council adpjust such difficulties in tn
spirit Of taking full advantage Of tn
immediate situation and with the ul
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-02-02

Washington, D. c. ILNS)-Warn-
ing that under provisions of the ma
tional recovery act, employers are
exerting every effort to form COM
| pany unions, and that the situation
| imperatively demands the utmost in
organization effort by the labor move
ment, representatives of international
and national unions, in conference
here, issued stirring call to labor
to intensity organization work
| throughout American industry.
Speakers, from President William
Green, of the American Federation of
Labor, down the line of national and
international union heads, declared
that American labor faced a critical
situation, and that no time must be
lost in organizing the wage earners.
1t was emphasized that the rapid
growth of company unions threaten
ed the very existence of organized la
Dor, that jurisdictional disputes must
be settled in the spirit of tolerance
and that organization must be pushed
in whatever form or method seemed
| best designed to rally the workers
under the banner of the labor move
ment.
| In addition to declaring for inten-
sive and aggressive organization activ-
tiles, the conference condemned con-
tinuation of wage cuts in the federal
| government service and listened to
complaints against the operation and
administration of the NRA. The
meeting was held in pursuance to
action taken by the last A. F. of L.
convention.
| Organization Held Imperative
The conferences declaration on or
ganization was made in approving a
report submitted by a committee
headed by Matthew Woll. Other
members were Victor A. Olander, Ar
thus O. Wharton. Daniel j. Tobin
Charles P Howard, Andrew Myrup
George Lakey, David Dubinsky and
Michael Colleran.
After pointing out that it was with
out power and authority to change
the fundamental principles of trade
autonomy upon which the A. F. Of l.
was founded, or to alter the constitu.
tional requirements and provisions OF
the federation, the committees report
said:
Organization among wage earners
is imperative. Industries are being
organized and cartelized throughout
the land. Unless the wage earners are
united through organization, free ane
independent of employer control or in
fiuence, labor will have suffered dis
tinctive loss.
"The paramount issue is not wha
particular form of organization shall
be followed in this emergency an,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-02-02
Court Upholds NRA

Portland, Ore. (ILNS) - Federal
Judge John H. McNary has upheld the
power of the national recovery act
code authorities to impose production
and working hour allotments. Judge
McNary ruled against the Willamette
Valley Lumber Co., of Dallas, in a
suit to restrain the lumber code au-
thority from imposing limitations on
the number of hours worked at the
mill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-05
Todays Science
BY DAVID DIETZ-

A NEW flight into the shakespeare Is TO take place
N in June under the auspices OF the Natlonal
Geographic Society and the United States army ar
corps Major William E. Kepner, expert balloon
pilot and Captain Albert w. Stevens wen-Kno"n
aerial photographer, will make the flight.
The two army men will take off from point
somewhere in the western United States near the
eastern edge of the Rocky mountains. Exact Time
of the fight will be determined by weather condi-
tions but it is hoped to make it as early in June as
is possible.
The balloon which the two fiers will use is five
times the size of the one used last November by
Commander Settle and Major Fordney in their sue
cessful flight into the stratosphere 1t will be three
and one-half times the size of the one used by the
Russian scientists in September, 1888.
Two and third of cotton cloth have been
required by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation OF
Akron o. to build the bag which will have ca
pacty of 100000 cubic feet of gas. When on the
ground, it will be about one-thireenth filled with
hydrogen gas. In this condition, the balloon Will
have the shape of a great inverted cone, 295 feet
high. In other words it will be as high as twenty
six story Office building.
AS the balloon rises into the higher region of the
atmosphere, the reduced atmospheric pressure will
cause the gas in the balloon to expand. In the
startosphere the balloon will assume a spherical
shape. At that time it will have diameter of 100
feet. 1t would be possible then to place within the
balloon eleven-Story Office building.
THE two 1iers estimate that their balloon will
l. drift 600 miles to the northeast, east south
east in the of their flight. That is why they
have chosen to take off from the eastern edge of the
Rockies They hoping to come down in open
country thus savaging the bag for future flight.
These observations will include measurements of
cosmc rays In this connection, it is of interest to
note that the SetteFordney flight did not end the
argument over the nature of the rays DR.. Comp
ton is of the opinion that the observations made
that flight support the view that the rays consist
largely of electrified particles.
Dr. Millikan believes that the observations are
in accord with the view that the rays composed
of photonsor quanta of energy
CCIENTIF1C observations to be made the fight
~ include temperature and barometric readings
from the start to the finish of the flight
In addition, series of photographs will be made
of the ground with of fixed focal length
mounted in the bottom of the gondola. 1t is
pected that by comparing these photographs with
maps it will be possible to construct altitude tables
more accurate than any in
Air samples will be taken at various attitudes by
means of special bottles. These samples will
then be analysed to determine the percentage of
rious atmospheric gases and water vapor
Electrical apparatus will measure the atmo-
spherc electricity at various attitudes as we'll the
cosrnic rays.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-05

Stunning the burdens caused by
natural and by man-made calam-
tiles.
The traditional view is, of
course, that farmers must take the
weather as it comes; relying not
at all upon government devices,
they become the self-reliant, in
dependent stock from which the
nation renewS its vitality. In this
view a paternalistic policy for the
farmer is undesirable, not so much
because it costs money. but be-
cause it softenS him as an indi-
vidual.
THERE are few persons who
u would not feel that while there
is something in this view, it is in
fected with a kind Of moral blind
ness. Is the modern American
farmer the same kind of farmer
around whom there has grown the
ideal of complete self-reliance?
The traditional view is an ancient
one based upon the experience of
farmers working their own land
for their own needs and for a
neighboring community. But the
wheat farmer in the DakotaS and
Kansas and Nebraska does not
live that kind of life.
He produces for a world mar
ket and he supplies his own needs
out of a world market. He is no
longer even approximately self
sufficient. Can he then be ex-
pected to be wholly self reliant?
In earlier days, if his crop was
bad, he suffered and accepted his
lot. But today, if his crop is bad,
his competitor in another region
makes a big profit. In earlier
days, because he supplied his prin-
cipal needs at home or in the
neighborhood, his standard of life
was relatively independent of the
consequences of political and eco
nomic policies.
Today his real income fluctuates
spectacularly, due to causes which
he can not control by his own
prudence, thrift or industry.
These are the underlying rea-
sons why we now recognize that
to protect the farmer against
great natural calamities or eco
nomic commissions is a social duty.
If he is to be self reliant, he must
be more or less self sufficient; in
solar as he is not, he must either
be led back to self-suff1ciency or
insured against those forces of
nature and of society which self
reliance alone can not deal with.
Copyright, 1891
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-05
Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-


CHIEF factors of healthful vacation can be
~ listed as follows:
First change of occupation; second sunshine
and the open air. third plenty of rest at night and
during the day; fourth congenial friends and sur
roundings; fifth, freedom from social routine.
This, for instance, was the type OF vacation long
taken by Henry Ford Thomas Edison, Harvey Fire
stone and John Burroughs-all noted for hard work.
success, and long lives.
These representative notables used to travel
about a motor car camping at night in the woods
or in some convenient place
They were with congenial people who were not
included in their usual environment. They had in
terest in conversation different from that of their
daily lives. They spent much time in the sunshine
and in the open air.
T~HEY went to bed early at night and arose when
Il they wished in the morning. They were not gov
erned by any routine on their vacation
They did not have to dress for meals or for the
evening but the most comfortable and toughest
clothing that they had. Their vacations have be-
come proverbiaI representing the best type.
Your vacation always should be selected accord
ing to your build and your state of health The real
vacation for the average city dweler is in which
he have comforts suitable to the condition Of
his body.
For a real rest real bed with real mattress
is help to weary limbs. A hot bath with rub
down by trained hands helps to soothe the tired
muscles.
INSTEAD of these surroundings many worker
who has had fifty weeks of Office routine tries
mountain climbing thirty-six holes of golf daily,
putting terrific stress on his blood vessels and his
heart.
Thereafter instead of sleeping in comfortable
bed he finds strange bed with mattress con-
cocted from cotton, straw corncobS. Then he
wonders why his back and his thighs hurt so much
when he gets up the next morning.
Under such circumstances there is no place like
home!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-05
Fair Enough
by
WESTbRO0K PE0[ER

WASHINGTON, June 5. = If the American
w ambassador, Mr. Bulltt, wants to introduce
the game of baseball to the Russians and it says in
the paper that he intends to do SO, it will be
middling poor version which will be presented by
the four scrub teams which he plans to select from
the American residents of Moscow.
Most Americans think they can play ball and
majority do have fine appreciation of the game as
played by the professional experts but there not
many even at home who can translate their appre
citation into performance
Even though the four Moscow ball clubs be COM
posed of former varsity athletes they still not
likely to give their Russian friends much than
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-05

weather. The pilots, in short,
were inexperienced in bad
weather flying, but it was not
their fault as individuals.
ENFORCED economy in recent
~ years sharply cut all flying.
The air corps unofficially sets 300
flying hours a year for tactical
pilots and 100 hours for admin
istrative pilots, an average of $50
for the corps, as the amount
needed to maintain efficiency.
The 1884 fiscal year appropria-
ton forced reduction to an aver
age of 100 hours. Then funds
were cut again. The corps, of
drawing on large stocks of gaso-
line purchased at the low 1888
prices, limited reductions some
what. Again cuts we're ordered,
and new schedule, ranging from
100 hours a year for administra-
tive pilots up to ITO for pursuit
pilots, was adopted. Some pilots
flew less than two hours a week
and then generally only in the
daytime and with the sun shin
ing.
Air corps students at the army
school receive only ten hours of
blind flight instruction. They are
expected to get experience by
service flying, but army orders
generally are for no take-offs I'M
less skies are clear or clearing.
Army men with ten or possibly
thirty or forty hours of blind fly
ing we're assigned to take the
places of commercial men who
probably had from ten to fifty
times that experience. That they
succeeded as we'll as they did is to
their credit.
General Foulois told congress
recently that studies indicate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-05

MYTH the termination of
w congress, Roosevelt faces
some of this most important APP
pointments since the early part of
the administration. They are:
successor to Frank Walker, head
of the Super-ca binet; five men,
bers of the stock market board,
and the members of the Wagner
labor board-if the bill passes, and
it looks as if it had real chance.
F.. Roosevelt is being urged to
take his time with these and select
Surefire men. The jobs are too
important to be rushed. In
cidentally, the successor to Frank
Walker may prove the key to the
new steering committee. :.
Senator Elmer Thomas of Okla
homa brought congressional recog-
milton to Miss Doris Stevens, the
lady who was sentenced to sixty
days for attempting to petition
Woodrow Wilson for women's suf-
frage. Recently Elmer inserted in
the Congressional Record a six
year-old speech of Miss Stevens,
delivered at the Havana confer
ence. 1t took up four pages of
small type at a cost to the gov
eminent of $54 a page.
r
CUGAR is causing more pains
Oand more crusty tempers to
those in and out of the admin
istration than almost any other
commodity. Individual
sugar companies have been lobby
ing. for bigger quotas within the
United States. Island possessions
have been sparring for bigger
quotas from without the United
States. Puerto Rico and Hawaii
got the small end of the deal. f.
The Philippines quota was fixed.
in a private conversation between
Quezon and Roosevelt last winter
and couldn't be changed. The
Cuban quota was fixed by Sum-
ner Welles, former Ambassador,
and wouldn't be changed. Finally
he gave away about as much of
the Cuban quota as Mrs. Rainey
puts in her coffee. (Six lumps)
Domestic sugar companies lobby
ing for bigger quotas have had
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-05
From, One Who KnOUs

ID UT it should not be necessary for me to turn to
ID books, since 1 am familiar out of my own
experience with the advantages which accrue to our
fraternity refer to the Order of the Bunny Heart
The average American today steps into big pas
senger plane and flies to Toledo Timbuctoo with
out the slightest qualm. To him it seems such
normal thing that fight does not even furnish
him with five minutes of dinner table conversation
Eight thousand feet high and half way home from
Indianapolis looked across the aisle at fellow
traveller and found chat he fast asleep He
slept Solidly from landing field to landing field.
And I pitied him. was too taut even to doZe,
and I'd rather be terrified any day of the week than
sound asleep. To the average citizen of Toledo
stroll along the front in easy range of the gas and
the guns claSsed mild diversion. In fact,
after few nights the sightseer element Disappeared
The show was insufhciently exciting.
But to me it always an experience. came
early and stayed late. Twenty years from now I
will still be starting long, dull anecdotes beginning,
Nov, the first time I gaSSed in Toledo
And 1 wouldn't take 500 for my arrest. OF
course, this happy memory is somewhat clouded by
the fact that find so much skepticism among my
friends. They think it plant. am suffering
from the fact that when I ran for congress tried
to get arrested. and succeeded. But II isn't true
that I bribed the cop Toledo was wholly on the
level and there was nothing de luxe about the man
ner of the roundup Any one of the kids would just
as soon have stuck bayonet into me as any one OF
the other prisoners In fact, think that presented
the widest target in the entire suspect line. And
since brought up the rear of the forced march, L
had bayonet just to the right of me as well as one
aimed directly at what might be called the small OF
nv back.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-05
A Horrible Week

DID speak to both soldiers and tried to point out
i that honor and alacrity and everything else
would be just as we'll satisfied if they would keep
their blades a foot away instead Of six inches.
have said that beauty must almost inevitably nave
in it some element of terror There is no such thing
as peaceful beauty. Well, full Ohio moon SHINING
on bayonet gives lovely light.
After the first minute so I gave up trying to
convince anybody that was newspaper man. IL
didn't seem to help At the very beginning when
a Gordon was thrown around little group which
was watching the fire, I sought to walk out OF Gus
tody by saying in lordly manner, I'm news
paper man." The young guardSmans answer was 10
aim his bayonet at my abdomen and answer, Get
back there!"
For me this has been a swell week have gone
through seven days in an almost CONTINUOUS colo
sweat of terror Never again. I'm afraid, will be
content to sit upon the peaceful shores OF Hale Lake
and fish for bullheads. This new sort OF lie mas
got me- I wonder what's doing in Chicago
Copyright. 1884. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-05

Believe it or not, throughout
the hour and-a-h half auto ride of
General Hugh johnson and
Clarence Darrow by Johnson's
invitation the subject of the MIRA,
or Darrow's report on it, never
once was touched on-not even re-
motely. Each man waited for
the other to raise the question
and neither did. The con-
versation got started on General
Grant, and by the time the visit
was over had got down to Han
nibah
The Census Bureau is not all
dry statistics. Says DR.. Stuart A.
Rice, assistant director: ITO the
average person the word census
suggests an individual, who, in
the words of a high school essay,
goes around every ten years from
house to house increasing the
population.
DEMOCRATIC senatorial cam
IL paigns this year are no lally-
da affairs. Ohios Representa-
tive Charles v. Truax, who notes
in his congressional directory BIZ
ography that he has sold hogs to
breeders in every state of the
Union, and who is after the scalp
of Senator Simeon D. Fess, re-
Gently refused to attend dinner
to which the latter also had been
invited. And Texas Senator
Tom Connolly, who has the secret
good wishes of the adminiStra-
ton in his denomination duel with
Young Joe Bailey, grandstanding
f1rst-term congressman, never re-
fers to the latter, gives no lndi-
cation that he considers him even
in the race. CALIFORNIA; able
congreSswoman, Florence Kahn,
is totally immune from the ira
ditional feminine fear of mice,
but has an unreasoning dread of
cats. =. The senate committee
investigating receivership and
bankruptcy practices in federal
courts has uncovered the amazing
fact that in three California cities
federal judges allowed fees total
ing mere than 100000 in a lit
tie over two years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-05
From the Record

DURING the last thirty days 1 have received, and
- each and every member must have received
hundreds of letters ard kilograms from misled
business telling that this tstock market
reguation) legislation will be detrimental to the
best interest of the nation. say to these business
men that they are misled. This legislation will re-
store confidence, will not injure legitimate business
and all it will do is restrict the gambling activities
of small group of men who have interest in the
welfare of the nation, but who, regardless of the
effect everybody knew it would have upon conditions
of the country ruthlessly manipulated the markets.
SABBATH (Dem. ILL.