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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-12-20
PRIVATE UNEMPLOYMENT
INSURANCE

The unemployment compensation
fund set up in 1880 for the employees
of the General Electric Company will
end on December 81 when the federal
social security act becomes effective,
Gerard Swope, president of the COM
pany, announces. Under the plan the
employees and company have contrib
uted more than S7,000,000 in the past
five and one-half years, the employees
paying / per cent of their wages and
the company matching payments, dol
lar for dollar
In announcing the termination of
the plan, Mr.. Swope said:
"In compliance with the social Sc
curity act of the federal government
the General Electric Company must
pay tax on its entire payroll, begin
ming with / per cent on January and
increasing to 3 per cent in 1888.
'The federal law puts no tax on
the employees, but it is permissive
/ for the states to do so. In some states
laws have already been passed calling
for contributions by employees. Il
seems clear, therefore, that the Gen
eral Electric plan must be terminated
as neither the company nor the en-
ployes will desire to pay under the
federal and state plan, and also under
the company plan"
Out of the $7,o00,ooo contributed
there is approximately $3,ooo,ooo on
hand. It was announced that EN-.
ployes of the company will be per-
mitted to decide whether they desire
to have their portion returned tc
them, or whether the money shall be
made available for relief and loar
purposes under new set-up.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-12-20

In 1913, the duty on cotton gloves
was cut to 35 per cent, and leather
gloves to 81 a dozen, with 20 cent
penalty for every inch of length
above IA. Mr.. Littauer was not driven
out of business by this tariff cut. He
did business at the old stand, and
waited.
In 1922, his protection was raised
to $4 dozen pairs on women's gloves
and SIS per DOZEN on mems, while the
penalty for length was raised to 30
cents an inch. Cotton gloves were
boosted from 35 per cent to so per
cent. In 1880, the duties he was inter
ested in were raised again; cotton
gloves to so per cent, and leather to
Sc per dozen pairs for men and $3.50
for women. And Mr.. Littauer never
has been accused of paying wages
above the wretched rates which pre-
vail in all textile industries
Two millions to educate men for
government service? He ought to
make it twenty.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-12-20

a million families; health supervision
to prevent sickness, with particular
emphasis on infant care and supervi-
sion of expectant mothers, and advis-
ory work in dieting and correction of
malnutrition.
"There is increasing recognition on
the part of welfare officials" he said,
that adequate health and medical
care is a special necessity. When
individuals are unable to provide this
necessity for themselves, there is con-
tinuous need for community and gov
ernment action"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-12-20
Strike Violence Cases
Go Before Labor Board
BY A. F. Of L. News Service.

Greenville, S. C-The National
Textile Labor Relations Board opened
hearings here on the 100 cases of al
legged strike violence in connection
with the strike of the employees Of the
Pelzer Manufacturing Company last
summer.
The strike settlement effected in
September provided for the return Of
all strikers except those whom the
company charged with violence
during the walkout. The accused
strikers agreed to leave the matter
to the Textile Labor Relations Board
whose decision will be final.
Workers whom the board finds
guilty of violence will not be rehired
and those found not guilty will be
placed on the eligible list to be en-
ployed later as soon as jobs are avail
able.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-12-20
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1885
CONCERNING CERTAIN GIFTS

CONCERNING CERTAIN GIFTS"
Lucius N. Littauer is giving
$2,ooo,oo0 to found at Harvard grad
uate school of public administration,
"to promote the science and art of
government administration.
Even the stanchest advocates of the
New Deal will admit that public adj
ministration could be much improved,
though they would have little diff
Guilty in proving that some examples
of private corporation administration
treat the consumer worse than any
any government bureau dares to do.
But to praise Mr.. Littauer for phi
lanthropy in this action is entirely
out of place He is merely returning
in roundabout way a prob
ably pretty small part-of the vast
sums which he made by reason of
government favors
Littauer has been a glove manu-
facturer most Of his life. Gloves have
always been protected BY pretty
high tariffs. In the campaign of 1908,
Littauer fattened the Taft campaign
fund with sizable sums; and the DIM
gley tariff passed the next year boost
ed that protection.
Cotton gloves under the Dingley
dispensation paid so cents a dozen as
specif duty, and from 40 to so
per cent ad yaloren1, that is, according
to the value. Leather gloves under
the same tariff paid from $1.25 to
$3.50 dozen, and dollar extra if the
gloves were lined.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-12-20
7heCherry
Tree NH. :: s',;; :, H. :. ss,:::; ,.::; =;
abeut many things, Sometimes pre-
fsunsIy, sometimes fiPpantly,
sometimes recklessly. :.

Christmas, just around the corner.
Tales of joy on every hand Tales
of woe on every hand.
One of the troubles with season
of happiness is that so many don't
have much to be happy about.
So many don't have anything. Not
even any hope of anything.
Poets have made songs about
sleigh bells at Christmas, but there
will be snow only over part of the
country and in many places where
there is snow there won't be any fuel
to make the heat required to create
comfort in the midst of cold.
And there are no sleigh bells in
the Carolinas. Not much of anything
to take the mean edge off the misery
of unemployment.
No sleigh bells in Georgia, either.
Commander-in- chief Talmadge isn't
bbringing any joy of any other kind
either.
Meanwhile the moguls of business
are ranting against taxes. They are
willing to let the jobless ones shrivel
up in their joblessness.
They will fight taxes for unemploy-
ment insurance and for old age re-
| lief. They seem to think they have
got the hungry ones licked and that
they can now be thrown over the fence
without either compunction or danger
They are great lot-those organ.
lied business men.
They seem to think that business
is something marked off, apart from
the rest of our social existence, anc
that it has fence around it, marked
Strictly private"
They seem to think the nation has
no right to be concerned about it
no right to impose laws upon it, nc
right to even try to find knot hole
through which to have look at what
goes on
Private business is a fine thing, :
necessary thing But when it indulges
in practices that hurt the millions
then we have to do something about
those practices.
That's all the people want to do.
That's what business doesn't want
That's where the conflict comes
That's where the issue is buried.
1t is a particularly interesting thing
to face this just at Christmas time.
You can write down for yoursel.
the facts about it all and you can SCI
| just which facts do not square with
the Christmas idea. In that way, yol
can be just as good a judge as any
body.
You will find it very interesting u
try. Forget about labels. Just tax,
the facts, sort them out and see where
they fit with rights and wrongs.
It is a nice time for the supreme
court to be going into action, too, tt
see just how far the people can go il
governing themselves under a repre-
sentative form of government.
1t will be interesting to see which
kind of thinking the court will do il
weighing issues that will have a grear
deal to do with whether there is to bt
help for the otherwise helpless. That's
about what it comes to-
1t is Interesting that lust as Christ
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-12-20
WHAT NEXT?

A reception room built by the
Owens Illinois Glass Company in its
plant at Toledo is made entirely Of
glass bricks. Strong and durable, the
glass bricks are translucent, aiding
in diffusion of light and insulated to
reduce loss of heat. Even the ceiling
is made of sound-proof, fre-proof
glass, and it is said striking interior
lighting effects are possible.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-12-20

mas approaches, the lines of conflict
and struggle are being drawn.
There is little interest in peace, for
there is no peace. There is strife and
the prospect of strife.
The poor will read the Christmas
story and they will know, too, that if
they are to have the rights and safe
guards of decent freedom, they have
got to fight for them.
The privileged and over-fat will
read the Christmas story, and some
how they will make their privilege
and their fat fit in with it, to their
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-12-20

Don't let HEADACHE, Acid
Indigestion, Neuralgia, Muscu-
lar, Rheumatic, Sciatic Pains,
rob you of healthful recreation.
Take Alka-Seltzer. Find out for
yourself how quickly it will re-
lieve your everyday ailments.
AIka-Seltzer relives pain because
It contains an analgesic, (acetyl-
salicylate). Alka-Seltzers vegetable
and mineral alkalizers nautralize
excess acid.
Your druggist sells Aka -Seltzer by
the package and over his soda foun-
tain.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-12-20

These "Sales Tax Punch Cards" are invalu-
able to grocers, druggists, and all merchants
having small unit sales.
They enable the customers to save money
by paying one tax only.
To wide-awake merchants they offer oppor-
tunities Of getting and holding the custom
er's trade-in short, they are real SALES
BOOSTER"
These "Sales Tax Punch Cards" are made to
conform to the Ohio Tax Commission rul-
ings Made in different denominations
Printed on stiff bristol Each card num-
bered. Ready for immediate delivery.
Phone 1896 for additional information.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-12-20

satisfaction. And they will push for
ward their plans to keep their priv
ilege by fighting for it.
Everywhere everyone will know
that struggle is the order Of the day.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-12-20
WISDOM

He mocks the people who propose
that the government shall protect the
rich, and that in turn will care for
the laboring po or.-Grover Cleveland.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-12-20

The union label, shop card and but
ton are the best accelerators of higher
wages, shorter hours and better con-
ditions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-12-20

Don't allow any merchant to hand
you a package" See that the goods
is marked with a union label.
Evening star., 1935-04-28
This Changing World
Paris Sees Showdown on Burden of Arms
Upkeep Bills.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

1t took many years for the Ameri-
can exporters to educate the Chinese
in the art of chewing gum. A fortune
was spent in advertising the advan-
tages of that exclusive American
product. The Chinese purchasers who
bought it because Of its qualities of
whitening the teeth and helping d.
gestion insisted on swallowing instead
of masticating the gum.
But perseverance had its reward
to such an extent that China is now
well on the road to becoming gum
chewing minded an obvious evi-
dence of progress toward modern
civilizat ton. China consumes at pres
ent not less than $l,000,000 worth Of
gum every year.
When this business became a paying
proposition the American exporters
established a chewing-gum factory in
Shanghai in order to dodge the new
Chinese tariff rates. There are at
presents two such factories in Shang-
hal Both are American owned and
operated.
Somebody has recently thrown a
monkey wrench in this prosperous
business by spreading the rumor that
the chewing gum allegedly manufac-
Evening star., 1935-04-28

France, more than any other Euro
pean country, Is groaning under the
burden of military expenditures.
Armed peace. her statesmen say, has
become almost as costly as war. A
showdown must come soon, Paris
thinks; either Europe must make up
its mind to settle down and accept
peace on the basis of the existing
treaties. modified If necessary by COM
mon agreements. or an end must be
put to the present uncertain and costly
state of affairs by fighting another
war. A peace in which the cost OF
military preparation Is sky-rocketing;
a peace which keeps the entire popu-
lation in a continual warlike tension
is worse than war. 1t will necessarily
lead to social disturbances which may
have incalculable consequences.
Evening star., 1935-04-28
MARY Will DEPART
SOON FOR ENGLAND
Miss Pickford to Sail Next Month
and Expects to Make Pic.
ture Abroad.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SANTA CRUZ, Calf, April ~
Mary Pickford is going to England
next month, probably to make a pic
ture there, and she has lot of other
plans that don't include Charles
Buddy Rogers, she declared today.
Buddy" she said, as she prepared
to end the short rest visit here that
set tongues wagging about a possible
romance, is an old friend she has
known for eight years.
I'D call him a very good friend"
said the film star, "but certainly not
a special friend I've seen him of
and on, as 7 have many others. for
long time. know the whole family"
Miss Pickford said she and Miss
Marion Hollins. her hostess, would
leave late this afternoon by motor for
Los Angeles.
Miss Pickford said she and her
niece, Gwynne Pickford, would leave
for the East and Europe very soon,
hoping to be in England by the end
of May, If possible" In the party also
will be her secretary, her maid, and
the niece's former governess.
BY next Fall, she expects to have
returned to Hollywood. organized q
company of her own and launched out
as a producer. She said she hoped
her first picture would be ready by
late Fall.
Evening star., 1935-04-28
CHEVROLET REFUSES
PARLEY ON STRIKE
Can't Negotiate While Walkout
Is On, Official Tells U. S.
Mediator.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOLEDO, Ohio, April 27.-William
s. Knudsen, executive vice president
of General Motors, told a Federal
conciliator today the company cannot
resume any negotiations with strikers
at the local Chevrolet plant while
the strike is on.
After conferences with officials OF
the United Automobile Workers Fed
eral Union, Thomas j. Williams,
Federal conciliator. telephoned Knud-
sen and received this reply, he said.
Ellsworth S. Kramer, president OF
the union local, said the men will
not return to work until there Is q
satisfactory settlement.
Knudsen sent statement here
today IN which he termed the strike
IAN arbitrary and lswless act" The
strike began Monday night and the
company shut down the plant Tues
day. putting 2,340 men out Of work
indefinitely. Company and union
officials disagree on whether the
union is demanding a closed shop.
Evening star., 1935-04-28
FATHER COUGHLIN SILENT.
Works Behind Closed Doors on New
AddrezG

Works Behind Closed Doors on New
Address.
DETROIT, April 27 (P.-Rev Faith
er Charles E. Coughlin withheld COM
ment today on the potential role OF
his National Union for Social Justice
in the third-party movement.
Preparing to resume the position OF
teacher and interpreter" for the
union, which, he says, has 5000, 600
members, the crusading priest worked
behind closed doors in the Shrine OF
the Little Flower on the first address
Of his new series. It . scheduled
for delivery at II o'clock eastern
standard time) Sunday night.
Committed to q Redistribution OF
wealth" program as it is, speculation
was heard here regarding the atti-
tude of the National Union for Social
Justice toward other advocates Of the
principle, including Senator Huey p.
Long, Milo Reno, DR.. r. Z. Townsend
and otheeA
Evening star., 1935-04-28

tured in Shanghai was actually o.
Japanese origin.
Despite the Efforts OF the
Nanking government to suppress
the anti-Japdnese boycott. shop
keepers in Hongkong, Shanghai,
Canton, Marking and Tientsin re-
fuse to handle goods suspected OF
being OF japanese origin. Hence,
their refusal to sell cheUtng gum
despite the desperate efforts of the
American manufacturers to prove
false the allegations that their
product is japanese.
X \
A former dictator and a supposedly
ambitious prototype had breakfast
this week; Carlos Davila, former Chill.
can Ambassador to Washington ano
short Lived dictator of Chile and HueI
Long, dictator Of Louisiana.
The breakfast lasted longer thar
ordinarily. Davila was talkative ane
gave quite few pointers to the seniol
Senator from Louisiana. He analyzee
the causes why he. a popular Chilean
failed as a dictator. One OF the mair
reasons for his failure, said Davila
was the repugnance toward a G. P. U
on the Moscow pattern. That wa!
more the cause of his doom thar
else. Huey, for once. listened
attentively and took mental notes.
Evening star., 1935-04-28
COED KILLED IN CRASH

ORANGEBURG, S. c.. April 81
P.-Pauline Crosby of Bluffton. 19-
year-old junior at Columbia College.
was killed and two University OF
South Carolina goods were injured to-
day in a car collision three miles
south Of Harleyville.
The students. members Of wom-
ems dance band, were returning to
Columbia after playing at Summer
vile when their automobile collided
with a car driven by Lydia Gibson of
Taylors. Greenville County,
Margaret Purcell of Union. director
of the orchestra. and Bessie Mae Nc
Donald of Columbia were the two in
jured.
Evening star., 1935-04-28
TRAIN. KILLS THREE

BEAVER FALLS, Pa, April % up
Sunday Three persons were killed
and five injured shortly before mid
night when the Clevelander, crack
Pennsylvania Railroad train, struck
an automobile at the Fifteenth street
crossing.
The dead are: George Dunn, AZ:
his wife, Ida, 80, and their grandson.
Theodore Caplinger, aged 1. All lived
in Beaver Falls. Loretta Dunn, 3, and
Louis Dunn, 4, may die.
Evening star., 1935-04-28

The balance sheet of Europe Is
sad one. Not longer than Is years
ago. Europe was the leading continent
in the world. It's activities determined
the balance of international political,
economic and financial affairs.
Europe was supreme in exports to
the other continents. Asia, North At
rica and South America purchased
textiles almost exclusively from Great
Britain. Germany had no competition
in the export of chemicals and elec-
trio appliances. French wines and lux
ury articles had no rivals anywhere.
The European banks were the main
distributors of gold and credits. The
French, British and German invest
ments abroad, exceeded in 1914 s40.-
600 900 900.
Today America has replaced
Europe as the principal tpOrld
banker Ia costly and dubious dis
ttnction). Americas engineers and
skilled tDorkmen haze replaced
those from the industrial European
states. Japan is supplanting Great
Britain in the Uorld markets Uith
q terrifying rapidity. The drn,n-
nlent race provides Just enough
employment to Keep the ranks of
the millions OF unemployed from
sDelhng further.
Nowhere on the strife ridden old
continent can there be a thought OF
constructive economic activity, as long
as the specter of war hovers over
Europe.
Because Japan has snatched Man.
churia and Jehol from China, the
American chewing gum industry re-
Gently established in China is threat
ened with extinction.
Evening star., 1935-04-28
MAE VESTS FILMS
"SPLENDID," SAY WOMEN
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. April 27-The
Indiana Indorsers Of Photoplays, COM
posed mostly of women who act in an
advisory capacity in recommending
family" pictures, consider Mae Vests
performances on the screen as "splen-
did entertainment"
Delegates to the organizations
twentieth anniversary meeting here
yesterday heard Miss West described
as "a good actress with a pleasant
personality and q fine voice.
Evening star., 1935-04-28
c. O.P. CHIEFS MAP.
|DR|VE IN MIDWEST
Agree Flight Roosevelt
Program Must Be Started
Soon.
BY the Associates Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS. Mo. April
27.-Midwestern Republican leaders
struggled behind closed doors today
with plans to rejuvenate the party,
but reached open agreement on only
two points
/. Flight Roosevelt"
2. Call the much discussed general
Midwestern meeting to draw up net
set of party principles early in June. -
In announcing agreement, broadly,
on the time for the conference. Har-
rison Z. Spangler of Des Moines, ma
tional committeeman for Iowa, said
the men In the parley here still were
at loggerheads over the city to be
chosen for the conference. Thirteen
delegates from eight States were here
tonight. Another delegation, from Ne
braska. was expected.
"A half dozen cities want the con-
ference" Spangler said. THE site will
not be determined before tomorrow.
Would Oppose Administration.
The one thing that brought approval
all around was a statement by Richard
Lloyd Jones, Tulsa, Okla, publisher,
that I'VE will seek to develop an active
opposition to the national administra-
ton"
After a meeting of Republican
leaders at Washington last Saturday,
it was announced the proposed con-
ference would be held elsewhere than
Kansas City. 1t was feared meeting
there would give undue emphasis to
an incipient presidential boom for
Gov. ALI M. Landon OF Kansas.
From Representative U. S. Guyer of
Kansas, in Washington, came tele-
gram vigorously attacking efforts to
hold the meeting elsewhere than in
Kansas City.
Evening star., 1935-04-28
Resent New Deal.

BOSTON, April ~ LP.-Criticism
of the New Deal, which they hope to
cryStalize into national campaign ar
guments in 1886, was voiced tonight
by New England Republican leaders
who will gather in Boston next Tues
day for a regional party conference.
Although the purpose of the confer
ence, as set forth by John Richardson,
Massachusetts National Committee
member, is Ito stimulate Republican
interest" in New England. he and
other leaders in the six States ex-
pressed the belief that it would develop
q united opposition viewpoint toward
the Democratic administration.
These Republicans reflect the
growing sentiment of resentment and
protest against a political system
which just doesn't work or give work
to the millions of unemployed" said
Vernon w. Mari. chairman of the
Massachusetts, Republican State Com
mittee, under whose sponsorship the
conference will be held.
More and more people are tirlng
Of ballyhooed experimental schemes in
Government and demand practical
measures to bring return of pros
perity."
Evening star., 1935-04-28
St. Marys Deputy Named.

LEONARDTOWN. Md. April 81
(SpeciaD Clarence Greenwell, Of
the first election district Of St. Marys
County, has beennamed deputy sheriff
of the district by Sheriff j. B. Love.
sr.. of Loveville, Md, it was announced
today.
Evening star., 1935-04-28

a new program, and for a new pur-
pose"
"You do not have to pay any at
tention to the old line Democratic
politicians. You set them to one side
and put in your own candidates" he
wrote. They are the same candi-
dates whom you would name on a
third party ticket"
Evening star., 1935-04-28
Church Women to Serve Dinner

TAKOMA PARK, Md, April 27
Especially The guild of Trinity Epk-
copal Church will serve a chicken
pie dinner in the Parish Hall next
Tuesday from to 7:30 pm. The
proceeds are for the benefit of the
guild.