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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
IS DEPRESSION OVER?

One significant sentence in Cen
eral Hugh Johnson's speech at Colum-
bus got into the press dispatches
which was not included in the re-
leases. Quoting speakers at the
Washington convention Of the United
States Chamber of Commerce as say
ing that "the emergency is over,
Johnson replied: "These will be well
come tidings to /. the hardly con-
cealed despair that stalks everywhere
throughout the nation"
When A. A. Berle, Jr., city cham
berlain of New York, said that the
depression is over, Mrs. Roosevelt
took occasion to diasgree with him.
A. F. of L. points an accusing finger
at the army of the unemployed, de-
claring it is 10 million, in face of the
declaration of the durable goods COM
mittee which seemed to think it only
as millions. These are hardly refer
ences to "traces left by the depres-
sion." The NRA has not reached the
goal set for it by General Johnson
last fall, when he said he would aim
to "maEe purchasing power equal ca
pacity of production"
Business activity is around IS;
steel production at about 60; payrolls
are still running proportionately
much under employment indexes.
This is spring and the hopeful time
of year, but no wise person lets his
enthusiasm get into the habit of kid
ding his judgment about such a
matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS

over the extraordinary lows. But
they're still pretty well down in the
economic cellar. They're cheaper at
this writing than they will be in the
future. And the opportunity to build
a home at low cost is still to be had.
So far as the home owner is con-
cerned, building and repairing now
is good business-it saves him
money, and gives him something es-
sential at bargain prices. And, when
he builds, he is contributing substan-
TALLY toward speeding recovery. He
is giving jobs-he is sending need
ing dollars through thousand indus
tries-he is stimulating commerce
That's why an excellent motto is:
Guild and repair now-save yourself
money-and help throttle depression. .
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
MERCHANTS SET
ELECTION DATE

Committees meeting in the First
National Bank building last Friday,
planned the annual dinner meeting
and election of the Hamilton Mer-
chants Association. The tentative
date set for the meeting is June z.
The place and arrangements will be
announced later.
The election committee planned fol-
the nomination of Is nominees and
then for the election of five from
this group who will serve as directors
for three years. The Is nominees vii
be selected by association member:
from the complete membership. Bal
lots will be mailed to all members.
Arnold T. Krebs is chairman of The
election committee, and M. E. Kellogs
is chairman of the annual meeting
committee.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
MEAN RACKET UNDER FIRE

The senate labor committee has
struck blow at one of the meanest
rackets in existence, by voting for a
nationwide investigation of wage con-
ditions under federal contracts. The
proposed investigation is aimed pri-
marily at the "kick-back racket" by
which workers are forced to give up
part of their wages to grating con-
tractors as a condition of getting and
holding a job.
The "kick-back racket" is a con-
temptible form of robbery and de-
serves no mercy. AS Senator David /.
Walsh said in reporting the investiga-
ton resolution. "The practice of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
HELP THROTTLE DEPRESSION

The construction industry has been
virtually at the zero point-even be-
low the general industrial level. It's
most important branch, home-build-
ing, practically disappeared. Last
year it shared but little in the busi-
ness pickup.
But now the construction index is
rising. 1t isn't going forward at a
boom rate, but sound, well-established
acceleration is occurring. Much Of
this is due to governmental building.
But private construction is likewise
showing a substantial upward trend.
Many men have found jobs at good
wages-and they are spending an ap-
preciable part Of their earnings in
improving homes.
An inevitable result is an increase
in construction costs. All the basic
materials--lumber, cement. roofing,
etc.-have made substantial gains
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
AMERICA MOVES ON


crucial period Of national evolution
public opinion beyond convictions
of the business class
In this sense America many
suny chiefly the American
giving President Roosevelt And can
Roosevel position regard to labor profits and
planning far the left OF that Alfred r. Soa
Motors; Telegraph Gerard
swop Weir of National Steel These gen.
their swivel chairs and step out OF their
that highly evolved subter
wokmen not have the force when
the farm class is impoverished when
the whole population the speculative and prof
iteering orgies Of the last decade
the present fatefu hour not the sup
by the A. F. of L. but the granite
refusal of business the WALL and make terms
enlightened public opinion OF the present ms ~ now
proportions the traditional contempt which
people, and forecasts hean collision
business and not only labor population not
now in the COSTLY disastrous and
nged and eventually grow to the proportions OF
We have used the word treasonus advdy of
1.-The absence other major clash be-
tween an autocraic business underlying popula
outside the law steel magnate is feeling
for the injunction Automobile magnates
are employ techncaes and weasel distinctions to justify
the national act In TRUTH Amer
lea defy public opinion expressed
government They longer impregnabe because they
employ millionaire lawyers to spin techncaltes OF escape
Look back 10 years federal government nct
ing labor that truth revolution has taken
America
The present after crisis and the end not
yet has been altogether matter OF victory
industrial
They continue to chle
bbe and wn they may
setting fascist regime But they are doomed Inc
auac deliver the good IL
feed population which knows
that the nation supporting comfort deency
discouraged There will be temporary setbacK
OF the
things knows right the underlying population
president will continue his cam unatrad obedience
in national
to millionaire publishers and
heed the still small powerful speaking in and
Magazine
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18


It is important to spread the labor
message beyond labor's own ranks.
All kinds of people should know about
labor.
If we had the militancy we ought
to have the white house would mighty
soon stop talking the nonsense of
minority representation. And there
would be faster adoption of the 80
hour week and faster raising of
wages.
There would be bigger hurry-ur
to get around the conference table.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18

These are days when labor needs
to spread its message, needs to make
known the facts about it's beliefs and
it's practices.
Labor needs to have itself under
stood.
Every labor man can do something
in that direction. And every union
man can likewise conduct himself
like a union man, setting example as
the first lesson to those who don't
like unions because they don't know
the truth about unions.
Go thou into the highways and the
byWayS-.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
WAKEUPY0UR
LIVER BILE
WITHOUT CAL0mEL
And You'll Jump Out of Bed In
the Morning Karin to Go

II you fssl sour and sunt and the world
looks punk, don't swallow lot OF salts. min
ssal water, oil. laxative candy or chewing gum
and expect them to make you suddenly sweet
and buoyant and full Of sunshine.
For they can't do It. They only move the
bowels and . mere movement doesn't get at
the cause. The reason for your down-and- -out
fssling II your liver. 1t should pour out two
pounds Of liquid bile into your bowels daily.
II this bile II not flowing freely. your food
DOESN'T digest. It just decays In the bowels.
Gas bloats up your stomach. You have .
thick, bad taste and your breath Il foul,
skin often breaks out In blemishes. Your head
achss and you feel down and out. Your whole
system ID poisoned.
It takes those good, old CARTER'S
LITTLE LIVER PILLS to get these two
pounds OF bile flowing freely and make you
Ted "up and up" They contain wonderful,
harmless. gentle vegetable extracts, amazing
when It comes to making the biIs now freely.
But dom { ask for liver pills. Ask for Carriers
Little Liver Pills. Look for the name Cartsr's
Little Liver Pills on tho red label. Resent .
substitute. 26c ut drug stores. o1081 @. N. Co.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18

forcing employees to kick back part
of their pay amounts to stealing
from the poor and helpless"
The senate should order thor
ough-going investigation without de-
Law, and when the facts are revealed,
prompt and vigorous action must be
taken to punish guilty contractors.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18

QUALITY GOODS AND WAGES
Robert III. Montgomery, New York
business man, told the United States
Chamber Of Commerce in annual con-
The Omaha guide., 1934-03-10
he

preston as the SCAPEGOAT Tor
avoiding reducing hours Of work snd
raging q living wage has been work
ca overtime by the Pullman COM
pany which has resulted in Der.ers
being kept merely on the pay roll
while receiving practically no work
added Randolph.
The ely BY the Pullman Company
that it is as POOR AS JOBS TUR-
KEY and is unable t9 give p9rters a
decent wage anu reduce their work
time to that Of other railroad work
ers namely 30 hours a month is not
borne cut BY the munificsnt luxury
sa.ar.es paid the top officials and the
cash and extra dividends apportioned
among the stockholders Randolph
maintains.
The Omaha guide., 1934-03-10
Asks Probe of Race-Hate
Quiz

ALBANY, N. Y. March Assem-
gyman Robert Bernstein of the 21st
Assembly District has introduced in
the Assembly a resolution calling for
an investigation by the state Depart
ment of Education Of a "true-false"
QUESTIONABLE given grade 9-B pup
lis in the junior-senior high school of
Nyack, n. ", recently characterized
as grossly improper and revolving
and an injustice to the Negro race.
The resolution asserts that the quiz
creates prejudice and racial animos-
ity.
The offensive QUESTIONABLE put
such questions as: mo Negro should
hold an office Of trust honor or mer-
it." Il place the Negro on the same
social basis as do a mule" mo Ne
gro has the slightest right to resent
or ever to question the illegal killing
Of Of his race, and pupils were
asked to Indicate whether these
statements were true or false.
The Omaha guide., 1934-03-10
CaldweIl's Books Banned In
Columbia

NEW YORK-March 7.-.(CNA)-
Erskine Caldwal's- Y novels -S'Tobatc6
Road and Goods Little Acre" were
banned last week by the library of
the Teachers College Columbia Uni
versity although they are on the re-
quired reading list of the schools
classes in American literature.
When an attempt was made to es-
tablish responsibility for the censor
ship nobody could be found to assume
the burden although one Of the assist
ant librarians Miss Eleanor Whitman
ventured an opinion that certain
members Of the faculty had protested
'gainst the books tendency to cor
rupt."
The university's faculty was in
complete disagreement with the ex-
pulsion order. Professor Van Doren
authority on American literature re
marked at seems silly to me l heart
lily disagree with those who ordered
it,.
Tobacco Road" a pay drawn from
the Caldwell's book is now showing
on Broadway. 1t deals with the op-
preston Of the Negro masses and
their life in the South.
The Omaha guide., 1934-03-10

Notes on business, taken principal
" from government reports follow;
COMMODITY PRICES: Following
the December re~cessions, an advance
started. which has been maintained
without deviation.
RETAIL TRADE: January fl
CURES show less than seasonal de-
cline. Substantial gains in dollar
volume are reported from all parts OF
the country, as compared with 1888.
EMPLOYMENT: Is registering
more than seasonal decline. The dis
solution of the CWA will release A.
100000 more people on the already
glutted labor market. TRANSPORT
TATION: Constant improvement is
shown in car loadings. Complete fin
ancial returns of railroads for 1888
show substantial Improvement over
1882. Railroad expenditures however,
remain low and the railway supply
business is dormant. AUTOMOBILES
The only adequate word for this in
dustry is blooming" Employment
and wage levels are very high. I'm
filled orders are the greatest in sew
eral years. Allied industries are pros
pering accordingly.
AGRICULTURE: Better t h a n
might have been expected, in view of
the disturbances of a few months
ago. Markets are fair and prices
stable. Buying power Of the major
agricultural districts is better than
that of urban areas.
LUMBER: In January production
was a third higher than in the same
month last year.
STEEL: Railroad and public uti-
lily orders have been low and the in
dustry has Jagged on that account.
Rising automobile orders have done
much to offset this
Continued From Page one
The Omaha guide., 1934-03-10
Ford And AIDES Ousted
From Anti-Lynch Hearing

WASHINGTON March = (CNA)
James w. Ford former Negf1
Communist candidate for Vice presi-
dent in 1882 and Bernard AIDES white
Baltimore lawyer facing disbarment
for his militant defense Of Fuel Lee
were last week at the hearing Of the
bill.
The Senate Judiciary sub commit
tee listened patiently to the variety
Of professors "ibera!sY writers pro
fessionaL women and others air their
legal social economic and political
reasons for desiring the passage. Of
the .Cqztigan Wsghsf anti. iynching
bill. However when. thtwo militant
spokesmen of the Negroand white
workers sought t press their: views:
They were accused of making. a
propaganda fafah out AT the pro-
.ceedfng and were ordered from the
witness chair.
: Ford Nlce-President Of theLeague
ct Struggle for Negro Rights assert
cd that the bal would NOT stop
lynching unless It struck at the roots
Of lynehing; jimserawism and all dis
ordinations against Negro people.
AIDES the white International Labor
Defense lawyer who. had been active
in the fight against the Maryland
lynchings declared that the lynchings
spring from the efforts Of the ruling
class to turn the anger Of the work
ing class inward upon itself instead
of against these who deprive it of its
rights"
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bill and letters should not be written
thena 81 an a~paaronistic spirit There
al. a. 9. p. statement said that all
these men are not enemies Of this
win be plenty Of time for antagon-
ism and pressure later after the in
Hvidual senators have taken a stand
or failed to take a stand on this bin
For the present these letters to
the judiciary committee should state
1) that lynchings increased 1870 per
cens i'll 1888 from 10 in 1882 to % in
1899; ~ that two lynehings took
place in January 1884; and (3) that
our white persons were lynched fn
1888 indicating that lynching Is more
than a racial problem; (4) that testi-
mcny before the sub committee Feb
ruary 20 and 21 showed a complete
breakdown in state and local enforce
mont of law and proved the states
and counties helpless to prevent OF
punish lynching; (5) that you Cor
your organization believe the fed
eral government must step in to halt
lynchings and that you believe the
Costigan Wagner bill S. 1878 is the
best method for federal action"
A syndicated daily newspaper
column reports that some southern
senators r trying to get Senator
Van Mugs not to report the bill even
cut Of the sub committee but the In
diana senator is firmly convinced the
legislation is necessary.
Continued From Page one
The Omaha guide., 1934-03-10
NEGRO BUSINESS MAN sue
CUMBS AT MAYO CLINIC IN
MINNESOTA

ROCHESTER, MINI. March 4-(C
NS)-Tollie J. Elliott, SO years old,
owner of a prosperous department
store in Muskegee, Oklahoma, died
here at the Mayo Brothers Hospital,
last week.
Three months ago Mr.. Elliott came
here for treatment and left after he
thought he had fully recovered.
While on a trip East two weeks ago
he again fell i'll and came to the
Mayo clinic February 10.
Mr.. Elliott, known as at. j." was
the owner of a women's ready wear
to-wear shoppe as well as the depart
ment store in Muskogee and called
The Omaha guide., 1934-03-10
Food Not Race Called Crew
to Tuberculosis

: considering the Negro weflnd ms
diet, CONSISTS Of meat which is al.
most entirely PqQa cereals, such as
hominy maize, c lard and
oleomarsarine ans White breadsand'
potatoes. This race which has an IN
cidence6 IF six deaths from stubereu-
losis @tosone white afh dfofa that.
disease, also, in the public hospitals.
and clinics of our city has an incid-
ence of approximately six children
with ricketts, to n white child with
that disease"
The<average healthy person should
profit from the foregoing, DR.. Gold
berg said, by eating greater quanti-
ties Of fats, liver, cod-liver oil milk
and eggs.
Continued From Page one
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Highlghls

and this provision caused the most
bitterness Of al among ~financiers,
inasmuch al it would force the lii
quotation Of thousands Of existing
accounts, including millions in bank
loans. All corporations with listed
stocks must furnish To the exchange
and the Federal Trade Commission
voluminous data concerning salaries,
bonuses, options income etc. To en-
force the bill drastic penalties r
provided nthe case Of violations
on the part Of exchanges a 100000
fine may be levied. Individuals can
be hooked to the tune Of $25,0OO plus
ten years in jail.
Mainstay Of opposition to the bill
is urban, ~cool-headed ar%tistrocratic
Richard Whitney great power of the
New York Stock Exchange. He sum
moned the heads Of all the big brok-
erage houses-and wires went out to
ali their branch managers, instruct
ing them to point out the dangers Of
the bill to friends and clients. Next
Whitney step was a letter to the
head of each of the 800 corporations
whose issues are listed on the New
York exchange Those corporations
include the bulk Of the great bust
nesses Of the country, which furnish
most of the jobs and investment OPP
portunities. When Mr.. Whitney went
to them he was aiming not only at
Big Business, but at the small stock
owner and the worker
Biggest Whitney gunEhowever, is
of a different .character9tt than most
would anticipate. It lies in: appealing
to the small corporation nan; OWNER
of firms with small stock issues
which never appear on a major Elk
the bill would make this stock i6efi-
change. According TO- Mr-1Whitney
gible for collateral for. loans either
at banks or exchanges, p: would thus
pinch the little fellow as hard as 1t
would pinch his big brother, the sup
er-capitalist. "
Supporters of the bill, so far seem
limited to the Senate and minor left
wing New Dealers. Mr. Roosevelt,
who will have the final word in this
as in so many matters, has said lit
tie and the belief is that the Act is
not a White House measure, that
much of the sting will be taken out
of it. He wants to put a bit on spe-
culation-but he doesn't want to hob
bic it entirely. And Lawyer Samuel
Untermeyer, crusader extraordinary
for many years for financial legisla-
ton of this nature, on reading the
bill murmured sadly that it went to
the opposite extreme from uncon-
trolled speculation, was impractical
and impossible.
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Negro Sprinters And Broad
jumpers. Capture Sever
Out of Eight Places in

, - M 80 r- L
NEW YORK CITY, March &c
NS) - Seven young Negro athletes
made a cleanup in the National
Amateur Athletic Union meet in
Madison Square Garden. Saturday
night February 245s when they won
seven out Of the eight places in the
60-meter sprint and the running
broad jump.
Owen Sets Broad Jump Mark
Jesse Owens, the 1888 Cleveland
schoolboy phenomenon, now an Ohio
State freshman, had the crowd cheer
ing with his amazing leaps through
the air. Successor to the Sol Buffers,
New Gourdins and DeHart Hubbard
among the Negro jumping champ
ions, Owens eclipsed Hubbard's eight
year-old indoor record of "a feet
7A inches on two successive leaps.
On his third effort Owens cleared "a
feet 10 inches, then he zoomed out
rs feet 3A inches-the first 25 foot
leap in America in a couple Of years
Owens also eclipsed the champion
ship record of % feet II inches, made
by Ted Smith.
The Negro jumpers swept all four
scoring places. Owens, who now holds
both national outdoor and indoor
titles, was followed by Eulace Pea
cock, New Jersey boy Of Temple
University, with "a feet 3A inches;
John Brooks, of Chicago University
with % feet II and three quarters,
all three beating the title standard,
and Ted Smith, with % feet 611 inch
eS.
Another outstanding event of the
evening was the equalling of his own
record for the 60-meter dash by
Ralph Metcalfe, who won in 81 sec
onds closely pushed by Owens and
Ben Johnson, the Columbia Univer-
sity freshman, who placed second and
third respectively. Sam Manici, white
also Of Columbia, was fourth.
Calvin Basket of Marquette; and
Fritz Pollard, Jr. and Deotis Taylor
were also-rans in the meeting.
The Omaha guide., 1934-03-10

NEW YORK March T - With the
the consequent progressive decrease
in the purchasing power Of the dol
lar in addition to the recent legal de-
valuation of the gold content of the
dollar the porters and maids being at
the lowest scale of the industrial
wage ladder through the Brother
hood of Sleeping Car Porters were
able to enlist the interest and CO.
operation of DR.. Edward Berman of
the Department Of Economies Of the
University Of Illinois to make a
study of wages and working condi-
lions of the porters and maids states
A. Philip Randolph national presi-
dent of the Brotherhood Of Sleeping
Car Porters and it is discovered in
this study that the Pullman Com
pany issued in stock dividends alone
in the last six depression years a
sufficient amount of wealth to pay
Pullman Porters a wage ONE HUN
DRIED AND SIXTY DOLLARS
($160.00) a month for the next
FORTY YEARS.
In. order to pay the wage scale the
Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters
demands for the porters which on
sist of $4,000 minimum: $145.00 for
two to five years service: $4,000 for
five to ten years service: $155.00 for
ten to fifteen years service and $3.50.
90 for over fifteen years service it
would cost the Pullman Company
approximately 100000 additionally
annually says Mr.. Randolph
The SHARE THE WORK PLAN
the big business interests
develop with the advent of the de-
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Urge Letters to Senate
Judiciary Committee on
A~nti-Lynching Bill.

Following the sensational hearing
February 20 and q before the sub
committee of the judiciary commit
tee of the judiciary committee OF
which Senator Van Mugs is chairman
Mr.. Van Mugs announced that the
subcommittee would come before the
senate at this session of Congress it
must be reported out soon by the
whole committee.
The N. A. A. C. P. which is behind
the bill urge correspondent to be sure
to write Senator Ashurst then to pick
out the senators on the committee
who happen to be from their state
and write them and if possible to
write every member of the commit
tee.
cit should be remembered the n.