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feeling for that dramatic quality
called understatement. He has the
proper accent. the appearance, the
volatile and expressive nature. Con-
veying emotion or narrative to an
audience is no novelty to him. He has
done 1t through one of the most COM
pick media in the world
The films have begun to popularize
good music, beginning with the minor
classics and working upward. While
DR.. Kinder is far too important a per-
son to contemplate forsaking his career
to spend his afternoons being matinee
idol, he might be willing to try his
hand at anything that would promote
public interest in the great composers
and their work. Mozart, whose music
and life were equally romantic and
stirring in many respects, would be
the ideal subject for him.
Furthermore, the Kinder debut
might mark the inception, after 10
these many years, Of one truly. pro-
foundly original idea in pictures-a
hero who can play the cello. There
have been heroes who could play
piano, fiddle, dance, roll and light
cigarette with one hand, swing from
tree to tree and emit animal noises,
recite the Gettysburg Address" and
toss off other astounding feats. Not
one cellist in the lot. Since DR..
Kinder was a concert performer of
international repute. his technique in
handling his distinguishing talent
should be thoroughly satisfying be-
fore the camera.
Just one stipulation must be writ
ten in all his contracts. In the Win
ter he returns to Washington for the
symphony season and in midsummer
for the water front series. That would
leave Spring and early Summer for
the movie people to do their best.
&MALL fry about a big industry:
George Arliss has decided to quit
making films in America. He gets
less per picture in England, but by
the time he has paid double income
tax on salaries earned in the United
States he nets less. If you are an
ardent ArliSs admirer, better write to
somebody's Congressman about get
ting special dispensation to bring
him back over here. The pictures
probably will be better on this side.
Peter LORE made himself famouS'in
this country in a German film called
M and an English production of
''The Man Who Knew Too Much"
The Nom rushed him to America
and he starred in Mad Love" With
the whole town talking about LORE,
the local exhibitors decided to pass up
mad Love-" a better film than the
English number and probably equal to
"M," which We have not seen. APP
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-15
Coming Attractions.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT, who wo

CLAUDETTE COLBERT, who won
the Academy Award for acting
In her first picture for Columbia. 1T
Happened One Night" now has COM
pleted another film for that studio
"She Married Her Boss" is the title
and it comes to the Earle next Fri
day.
In the new vehicle Miss Colbert ap-
pears as the peer of all personal
Secretaries-a veritable Office jewel
who anticipates every whim of her
boss. So well does she serve, in fact,
that the boss takes her home to loose
her managerial tactics on a misrun
household. Other in the cast are
Michael Bartlett, the young man who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-15
Benchley Again.

Nov that he has succeeded in teach
ing the world How to Sleep.
Robert Benchley has started picture
expected to be a liberal education in
How to Train a Dog"
Arthur Ripley has been signed by
Metro Goldwyn- Mayer to direct the
comedian-humorist ir his latest short
subject, to be produced by Harry Buc-
quet under the supervision Of Harry
Rapf, as the second of five short SUBJ
jects in M-G-M's Miniature" series.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-15
Legitimate Season About
To Emerge in New York
This Year May Decide Whether Theater
Remains an Art or Becomes Merely
Suburb of Hollywood
Bv Lucius Beebe.

FAIRLY crucial in the th should swing into action this
~ the Oympan Wood Kruch recently
the always described the
death, somehow dies. Nevertheless, despite this
optimism generally definite
regarding
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-15
EW YORK THEATER PREPARES FOR ANOTHER SEASON
Symphony Conductor Has
The Art of ShOWmanShip
Cinema's Progress From Semi-Classics to
Wagner May Make Screen Stars of
Leading Baton Wielders
Bv Robert B. Phillips, T.

Sokowski playing the lead Warner Bros promise
INt title role has not been
will Koussevsk Next we hope to see
Radio somebody
Kinder
That be denied
He Snowman
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-15
AZ. OF |. WAGES
FIGHT
To End Civil Service Dis
elimination Against
Workers

A strong protest against the grow
ing practice Of federal and state civil
service commissioners to limit exam
nations for public employment to
high school and college graduates was
made by the 1886 convention of the
American Federation of Labor.
There are thousands of members Of
organized labor, the resolution adopt
ed by the convention said, who be-
cause of their close contacts and
years of experience with the working
people of the country are eminently
qualified to hold many positions of
Importance and trust in government
service, except that they have been
deprived of high school and college
education through circumstances
over which they have no control"
These educational qualifications, the
convention declared, should be stricken
from civil service examinations "be-
cause they amount to discrimination
against those whose circumstances
have demanded they labor instead of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-15

attending school, which discrimina-
ton affects literally millions Of
American citizens and actually de-
prives these workers of sympathetic
representation in countless circum-
stances"
To remedy this injustice the con-
vention insisted that the examination
requirements be modified so that
real representatives Of the working
people may be given opportunity to
serve their fellow workers and the
nation in cases where such represen-
tatives can demonstrate reasonable
practical qualifications and ability as
the real nature of such positions
demand"
In order to promote changes in the
educational tests for public employ
ment the convention instructed the
executive council of the American
Federation of Labor to confer with
the United States Civil Service Com
mission and the proper federal and
state appointing and examining agen-
cies relative to a remedy for the dis
examinations against persons who do
not have certificates Of graduation
from the high schools and colleges re-
gardless of their practical experience
and to take any other action found
necessary to abolish the injustice re-
sulting from the rigid and exclusively
educational tests.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-15
Minneapolis Candy Workers
Win Wage Increase Strike

Minneapolis, MINI. (AFLNs)
Wage increases and the 4o-hour work
week, establishment Of seniority
rights and other benefits have been
Won for every union worker il the
candy industry here.
Following short strikes, agreements
were reached with all employers, with
one exception still pending. Negotia-
tions We're carried on by members Of
the Candy Makers Union. assisted
BY Roy Wier, representing the Cen
trail Labor Union
Success Of this organizing work
adds 500 workers to the union mem
bership in Minneapolis Immediately,
with many more to follow.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-15

regret, but it is something to rejoice
Federation of Laobr is for freedom
Of speech, freedom of expression, that
it has the willingness to exchange
ideas, that it is prepared to openly,
frankly and courageously come to
grips with the great problems that
are facing the American working peo-
pie.
MAY | say that the industrial tor
les of the country are not pleased
about what is taking place here; they
would far prefer to have you go on
for these two weeks saying kind and
sweet things, rather than to discuss
in a manly and courageous way the
real problems now before the people.
To me what has taken place here
is nothing less than proof Of grow
ing pains in the American labor move
ment. The American Federation of
Labor is growing, and with its growth
there goes pain and suffering and
some bruises.
Il sympathize with those who have
suffered during these days, but | know
that you men and your officers are
not unacquainted with suffering and
bruises, and if the American labor
movement requires your, suffering
you are courageous enough to take it.,
because that is the course that you
as labor representatives have chosen
for yourselves.
Freedom For All Workers
There is no need of me telling you
that the purpose Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor is to bring freedom
and liberty to the working masses Of
our country"
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Editor of Raleigh News and Observer Says
They Are "Bar to the Forward Movement Of
Free Men in Free South Toward Industrial
Happiness and Industrial Understanding"

EDITORS Note The following edi-
torial, entitled Forgotten Villages, "
criticizing the system of company
owned houses, which is a feature of
the oppression imposed on their em-
ployes by Southern textile mill mag
mates, appeared in the News and
Observer Raleigh, N. c., in connec-
ton with the recent action of the
Mooresville Cotton Mill Company in
evicting strikers from the company's
houses.)
Strikers and mill owners have been
in the courthouse in Concord over the
eviction of strikers from the company
owned houses in the Mooresyille Cot
ton Mill Company's mill village, Few
will disagree with Judge j. H. Glenn
ent in his exposition Of the law in the
case to the effect that while the COM
pany has a right to evict families at
any time without giving them a rea-
son, as every property owner has, it
must give the occupants due notice, as
required by law But the law is not
enough. The South ought also to
remember that when the president
put the textile code into effect in
July, 1888, he said:
"'phe planning committee of the in
dustry, provided for in the code, will
take up at once the question of em-
ploye purchase of homes in mill viii
lagos, especially in the South, and
will submit to the administration be-
fore January l, 1884, a plan looking
toward eventual employe home
ownership"
Commenting on that statement at
the time The News and Observer said:
Such declaration means no less
than the abolition of the most per-
nicious form of industrial feudalism
in America -. Under the best pater-
nalistic manufacturers mill villages
in some instances were provided with
better living facilities than workers
generally could secure for themselves
with the wages which they received.
Yet always they lived we'll by the
grace and permission of the manufac-
turer whose big house often sat apart
as a manor house from which all hope
and all justice must come. Benevo-
lences came down; only work and obe-
dience went up from the people. Self
government and the control of their
own homes was denied the inhabitants
of the best Southern mill villages.
The paternalistic management may
have provided better conditions than
the workers themselves would have
provided, nevertheless, the worker
was denied the democratic right Of
shaping his own community and even
his own home
"Not all mill villages were excel
lent, even after paternalistic pat
tern. No Southerner is unfamiliar
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-15

with other mill villages composed of
rows of Matchmaking houses, as in
nocent of plumbing as Of paint which
send their uncertain steps to un-
slightly yards and streets. No South
erner who has observed industrial
conflict in the South is unfamiliar
with the practice of making the mill
workers tenancy of mill houses a
factor adverse to him in collective bar
gaining, and a weapon to be used
against him in the form of eviction
when the mill owner desired to ex-
press his displeasure at any work
er's act oil the act Of the majority
Of the community Strikes and evic-
tions in many instances were one and
the same thing in many Southern mill
communities.
I'm both the best and the worst mill
villages the workers have been too
much set apart from other men and
women. They were segregated from
their employers. Paternalism sapped
them of their strength, and segrega-
ton robbed them Of association with
the freer citizens around them. Mill
villages owned by the people who live
in them would cease to be such mill
maintained ghettos for mill-eontroIled
men. Owned by their inhabitants such
villages would lose the undesirable
qualities Of their identity with the
mill and become, like other sections
Of cities, residential sections in which
men and women live not ruled nor
regimented, but in independence and
freedom.
That was in July, 1888.
1t is now October, 1885, and if the
planning committee ever made any
move toward the fulfillment of this
high enterprise, there is no sign of it
The mill village remains in Moores-
vile and in every other town where
teAClleS are manufactured IN the
South. the same blight on a free
South that it was before July, 1888.
Contentious, court decisions, and
fall from the spirit Of idealism behind
courage which marked the summer of
1888 have interviewed. The mill village
has been forgotten. But the mill vii
lage remains now as then, a bar to
the forward movement of free men in
a free South toward industrial hap
piness and industrial understanding.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-15

The duty Of all workers to enroll
in bona fide labor organizations, which
do SO much to improve their economic
conditions, was stressed by Rev.
Francis j. Haas, member Of the old
National Labor Board, in an address
to the 1885 convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor in Atlantic
City, N. j.
He congratulated the federation for
its devotion to the welfare of the
masses, and for the freedom of dis
cussion which characterizes its an
nual meetings.
In emphasizing the subversive pol
ices of anti-union employers, he
pointed out that since the supreme
courts decision declaring the NRA
unconstitutional and abolishing the
fair practice codes established under
it, there were numerous instances
where the code 40-hour work week
had been increased to AS hours, SO
hours, and even 70 hours for a 10
hour seven-day week
Problems Met Courageously
For the last two days, Father
Haas said, the American press has
been carrying stories about what has
been taking place in this convention.
1t is not necessary to tell you that the
stories are that there have been ~
this convention very decided differ
ences of opinion. 1t has been said
that there was sharp conflict. It has
not used the word fight, but it has
come close to using that word.
ITO me, delegates of this conven-
ton, the report of what has been TAX
ing place here is not something to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-15
PHILADELPHIA
SOCIETY WOMEN
Rally To Support of Under
wear Strikers

Philadelphia (ILNS)-As under
wear manufacturers struck back at
striking employees with injunction
proceedings, a group of the citys So
cially prominent women active in
community affairs came to the work
els aid
The consumers committee of the
women publicly announced its inten-
tion Of boycotting Philadelphia-made
underwear until the general strike is
settled.
The statement said, 1T has been
brought to our attention that the
manufacturers of underwear in Phila-
delphia, unlike those in most large
cities, have not accepted union con-
ditions for their workers. Girls work
full week for S8, and men with
families get as low as $11 week
After three years of unavailing
efforts to organize union in the
underwear shops in Philadelphia,
after every opportunity was given the
employers to recognize the union and
grant union conditions, a strike has
been called to give the workers union
Organization.
Believing that collective action in
industry offers the only effective
means of improving working condi
tions and Of composing differences
through mediation, the undersigned
express their sympathy in this effort
and their intention Of buying under
wear made outside Of Philadelphia
until an agreement is reached
The signers are prominent in the
social register and are active lead
ears in women's club work and civic
organization.
Twelve hundred of the city's 1900
underwear workers answered the un.
lions strike call, effectively shutting
down the city's 25 underwear fac
tories. Elias Reisberg, vice president
lot the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, which is conducting
the strike, said the aim Of the union
was to prevent the return Of the
! sweatshop TO the city and charged
that the underwear manufacturers
/ following the inyalidation Of the NRA
reduced wages, which were from S21
to $40 per week, to a scale of from
S8 to SIS, and extended the code work
week Of 37l3 hours to a work week
Of from 45 to 54 hours.
He said the injunction proceedings
brought by the firm of Zeirer & Brad
ley would intensity the determination
of the union to organize the indus
try III order to bring working con-
ditions in it to a level Of the other
branches Of women's clothing, all Of
which are unionized.
Winter in Montreal, and then go on
10 Halifax in the spring.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-15
Southern Newspaper Critcizes Mil
Villages Owned By Textile Magnates

State Federation Of Labor at the
August convention in Albany and fol-
lowed Ineffective meetings with the
state WPA administrator Opposi-
ton to so-caIled security wages IS
general throughout the state.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-15
Security Wage" Brings
WPA Strike i'm Buffalo

Buffalo, N. Y. (AFLNS)-A strike
Of all skilled workers on WPA and
ERB projects here was called Novem-
Der by the Building Trades Council,
which is carrying on an energetic
fight for payment of prevailing wage
rates. This action is in keeping with
a resolution passed by theNew York
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-15
Liberty For Working
Masses Sought By A. F.
Of l., Father Haas Says

Member of Former National Labor Board Praises Union
Shop-"Every Worker Who Enjoys the Benefits Of
Organization He Declares, "Shoud Contribute His
Part He Should Pay His Dues, He Should BE Part
of That Organization That Makes Benefits Possible
to Him."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-15

Winter in Montreal and then go on
. Halifax in the spring.
The Washington times., 1935-08-20
D. E. PROJECTS
G|VEN0. K.

The House yesterday approved
the conference report on the rivers
and harbors bill, carrying two i'm
portant projects for the District
of Columbia. The report now
goes to the Senate for approval,
following which it will be sent to
the President for his signature.
One of the projects, which was
not subject to the conference,
would provide $325,0O0 for the
dredging of the Potomac channel.
all Of the expense to be borne by
the Federal Government.
The other authorizes $780, 900
for improvement of the north side
of the Washington waterfront. AS
originally passed by the House,
the District and Federal Govern
ments would share $3.50 in the
expense of this work, and as orig
inally passed by the Senate the
Federal Government would pay
the entire cost. The conferees
agree that the District pay $780,
900 and the Federal Government
the remainder.
The improvement project con-
templates the construction of a
yacht harbor for 286 boats above
the Army War College, a wharf
for joint use of the harbor police
and harbor fire department, a
new workhouse pier, and three
new piers for commercial use.
The Washington times., 1935-08-20
MRS. GILMAN,
FEMINIST,
KILLS SELF

PASADENA, CAL, Aug. 20.
One Of the worlds leading fem
inists-Charlotte Perkins Gilman
was dead here today, suicide.
Mrs. Gilman took her life
Saturday, but the tragedy was not
disclosed until today. Shortly be-
fore she died she scrubbed a few
brief notes ION suicide"
Ill from cancer, Mrs. Gilman
ended her life in the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Katherine Beecher
Stetson Chamberlain, by placing
a chloroform-soaked handkerchief
over her face.
Ill With Cancer
In brief, Unconditional SEN
fences, the 75-year-old feminist,
rated by Carrie Chapman Gait
as the foremost woman in Amer
lea. explained she preferred
chloroform to cancer"
The suicide was made known
in a formal statement from the
family. The note was delivered
to police by Mrs. Chamberlain,
without comment. It was en-
titled "A last duty" and said:
Human life consists in mu-
tual service. No grief, pain,
misfortune or broken heart is
excuse for cutting off ones life
while any power Of service re-
mains.
'But when all usefulness is
over, when one is assured Of an
unavoidable and i'm m / ent
death, it is the simplest Of hui
man rights to choose o quick
and easy path in place Of q slow
and horrible one.
PREFERS CHLOROFORM
public opinion is changing ON
this subject. The time is APP
preaching when we shall cOnSid-
er it abhOrrent to our civiliza-
ton to allow q human being to
lie in prolonged agony which we
should mercifully end in any
other creature.
Believing this choice to be Of
social service in promoting wiser
views on this question, 1 have
preferred chlOrofOrm to cancer"
Born of a distinguished line
her great-grandfather was Lyman
Beecher and she was related to
Henry Ward Beecher, noted pas
tor, and Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe, author Of "Uncle Toms
Cabin"
The Washington times., 1935-08-20
VirginiaGrOup
Try Guns Near
Front Royal

FRONT ROYAL, Va. Aug. 20.
virginia's National Guard Field
Artillery Regiment camped on the
outskirts last night, prepared for
four days of intensive maneuvers
starting today.
The troops, outlawed from camp
at Mt. Gretna, Pa, because Of
the fear Of an infantile paralysis
epidemic, selected this spot be-
cause of it's extreme height and
~Ig0edness. It was this section
that washington picked for his
last stand had the British de-
feated him in the field.
The Artillerymen will return to
Alexandria Saturday and disband
Sunday.
The Washington times., 1935-08-20
Strike Held Doubtful
Al Hopewe|| Plant

RICHMOND, Va. Assurances
against labor disturbances in the
knitting and dyeing departments
of the Tubize Chatillon Corpora
ton at Hopewell, Va, we're ex-
pressed by union and plant Off
Gals, despite rumors of a possible
strike.
No new developments are re-
ported and it is believed a strike
at this time is unlikely.
The Washington times., 1935-08-20
SECT
HOLD RITES

HARRAR, Ethiopia, Aug. 20.
While most of their fellow-coun'
trymen are preparing to stave off
a possible invasion by Italy wor-
shippers of the Coptic sect here
forget war to indulge in their re-
ligious rites.
In brilliant costumes, they
form a procession with the Psalm
of David carried under the en-
broidered canopy by the priests.
The Washington times., 1935-08-20
Tax Fought in Suit

BALTIMORE, Aug. 20 Con.
tending that the per cent gross
sales and the special / per cent
title tax on purchase of automo-
biles are unconstitutional, Taxicab
Sales, Inc. today filed suit in the
circuit court.
The suit was filed against State
Controller William S. Gordy, jr.,
and marked the second assault on
the law upheld last month in the
courts.
The Washington times., 1935-08-20
PET Cat Filed AWAY
In Safe for 81 Hours

MELBOURNE O.N.S)-Helen,
the pet cat of the federal treasury
staff, spent 81 hours in a safe
and she is none the worse for it.
An official failed to see Helen,
and locked the door while she was
mapping inside. Not until nearly
three days later was the safe
opened again, and the astonished
staff saw Helen-faSt asleep.
After yawning and stretching, she
walked out and was given a meal
Of milk and recovered.
The Washington times., 1935-08-20
Olympic Game Parks
Are Forbidden 10 Jews

BERLIN, Aug. 20 CU.sJ-Jews
today were forbidden to enter
parks and health cure houses at
Garmischpartenkirchen, where
the winter sports of the 1886
Olympic games will be held. At
Kleve, in the Rhineland, Emil
Mannheimer, a Jewish teacher,
was sentenced to four months i'm
prisonment for alleged attempted
racial disgrace"