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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31
ENROLMENT OF 100000 MEN
TO BEGIN JUNE is

New state quotas for the new pro-
ram expanding the CCC to 100000
Joung men, ranging in age from Is
% %, has been announced by Mr..
Robert Fechner, director of the
emergency Conservation Work. The
lew quotas, which carry increases for
al states except Arizona, Idaho, Mon
ana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon,
South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, and
Washington, were computed" it
vas stated by Mr.. Fechner, ION a
basis that weighted population SO
per cent and relief needs SO per cent
n each state" The War Depart
ment will have charge of the enroll
nent of the men, but the Department
IF Labor will select them through
state directors of selection. The
veterans, $4,000 in all, will be select
ed by the Veterans Admipistratiop.
Enrolment is scheduled to begin
June Is and to close Angus: 81,
1895.
The old basic quota for Maryland
was 1858; the new quota is 500.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31
sIXTY-FOUR OUT OF ONE HUN.
DRIED LEFT NOTHING

Even in normal times, SO per cent
of the American people are poor in
vestors A survey made of 10000
.]ersons, before the current depres-
sion, shows that only one out of one
hundred accumulated as much as
100000. Only one out of eleven
eft an estate which, if invested at
the rate of 6 per cent, would produce
IN income of $50 month or over,
and nearly two-thirds of the men
studied-64 out of each 100-left
nothing
This was in good times. In the
words of Henry Behner of the New
England Mutual Life Insurance
Company, What a similar study
would reveal today is unpleasant to
contemplate.
Facts like these, which are gradu-
ally becoming known to the mass OF
men, are largely responsible for the
changed investment attitude of wage
earners. More and more of us are
starting investment programs in COM
parative youth, which will provide
1T least a competence in the future.
Life insurance, trust funds and SINH
ar investment plans, which place
iafety first, are becoming more. and
more favored.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31

Last year haste in it's many forms
was the direct cause of about 10000
deaths, to say nothing of hundreds
of thousands of injuries, and prop
erty damage running into the mil
lions. At best, those hasty drivers
might have saved few seconds or
few minutes by being reckless-they
might have reached some distant OBJ.
iective half an hour sooner than If
they had driven carefully. What a
price they and their innocent victims
paid for that potential saving in
time.
For every driver who is hasty be-
cause of a genuine need to get some
where in hurry, hundred drivers
are hasty for no sound reason at all
because they are congenitally care
less, irresponsible or incompetent.
How long are we going to permit
these drivers to sacrifice thousands
of lives year on the altar of reck-
lessness?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

Ancient and Modern Necromancy,
Alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, De-
nounced," will be the subject of the
Lesson-Sermon in all Churches Of
Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, June 2.
The Golden Text will be from
Psalms 92:7-"When the wicked
spring as the grass, and when all the
workers of iniquity do flourish, it is
that they shall be destroyed forever"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible, Isaiah SALT
mo weapon that is formed against
thee shall prosper; and every tongue
that shall rise against thee in judg-
ment thou shalt condemn. This Is
the heritage of the servants of the
Lord, and their Righteousness is of
me, saith the Lord"
The Lesson Sermon also will in
clude the following passage from the
Christian Science textbook, Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
lures" by Mary Baker Eddy, page
211-"The transfer of the thoughts
of one erring mind to another, Sci
ence renders impossible"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31
STAPE MUST DEFEND GROSS
TAX LAW

The State of Maryland has been
ordered to appear in court before
June to show cause why its pro-
gram for raising relief revenue-the
one per cent. gross receipts tax
should not be declared unconstitu-
tional or illegal
At the request of four merchants,
Judge j. Frank supplee, in Balti-
more Circuit Court No. 2, signed an
order directing Comptroller William
S. Gordy, Jr., to answer by that time
suit to test the constitutionality
and legality of the tax law and to
5how cause why the State should not
be enjoined from any further at
.empts to collect it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31

President Roosevelt wants the
NRA extended for two years by Con-
gress. But he recently told Sena-
tor that he would not oppose even
ten-months' extension.
Result: The Senate Finance Com
mittee has approved a draft of
resolution which, in the words OF one
commentator, Offered an emascu-
lated Blue Eagle less than ten
months to fiutter to its grave"
The resolution would extend NRA
to April /. 1886, and would draw its
teeth by eliminating all regulation OF
intrastate business, and all price
fixing, with the exception of mineral
resource industries.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31
BETTER HOUSING
DAY

June 9Th has been designated as
National Better Housing Day thru
out the United States and National,
State and municipal executives will
participate in a program of celebra-
tion on that day, it was announced
by Henry w. Webb, Director for
Maryland of the Federal Housing
Administration President Roose-
welt is expected to make a coast to
coast broadcas. on that day advocat-
ing better housing and plans for the
breaking CT ground in thousands of
communities of the country are be-
ing made for the erection of model
homes.
The model homes will be erected
by interested groups in the various
cities and towns and will be COM
pletely furnished and open to the
public for inspection when complet-
ed. Information about the National
Housing Act will be distributed 20
the citizens who personally inspect
these homes and an explanation of
home financing through insured
mortgages under the provisions of
the Federal Housing Administrator
will be made.
Arrangements have already been
made in many of the communities of
Maryland for participation in the
National Better Housing Day Pro-
gram and other plans are being
formulated daily.
The plan is concerted effort to
direct the attention of home owners
and prospective home owners to the
advantages offered through the mod
ernization and repair campaign and
the plan of home financing through
insured mortgages
Over S69,000,000 have been loan
ed for modernizatien and repair
since last August and Il is estimated
that for every dollar loaned several
dollars OF private capital for which
no loans were necessary have been
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31
LIVES OF chill
DREN

In it's campaign to safeguard the
lives of children, the Keystone Auto
mobile Club of Maryland issues a
special warning to motorists. Call
ing attention to the approaching
school vacation season, Albert e.
Buckley, Manager of the Club, en-
phasizes that the danger to children
will be increased when they are
freed from the restraints and safety
lessons of the classrooms. The duty
devolves upon motorists to be doubly
careful, he declares, if repetition of
last years child casualty list is to be
avoided.
added responsibility is placed
upon the motorists in the summer va
cation season." the Club manager
said. while children are attend
ing school they are under the in
fluence of teachers who almost daily
bring forcefully to their attention
some lesson or phase of safety.
During vacation they won't hear
word about safety, unless parents
take the place of the teacher in this
respect.
"Thus, motorists should take into
account that youngsters are apt to be
more thoughtless during the sum-
mer. They will no. be crossing
streets under the guidance of school
patrols. They may forget to cross
at crossings. In a score of way they
may deviate from the safety prac-
tees of the school year. Ball play
ing, roller skating and bicycle riding
are few of the extra hazards motor
lists should be prepared for.
''If drivers keep child safety in
mind they will, in large measure,
avoid the saddening accidents that
have marred other vacation periods.
The motorist who always assumes
that a child is going to ge. in his
path never has accidents"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31

The Blue Eagle received heavy
body blow on Monday, when an UNI
divided Supreme Court ruled thai
the NRA code system of fair compe-
tition is unconstitutional. In con-
formity with this Court ruling. Don
aid R. Richberg. chairman OF the
National Industrial Recovery Board,
announced that all compulsory en-
forcement of the codes will be sus-
pended.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31

spent bringing the estimated total of
expenditures over the $400,000,OO0
mark, for the United States.
Applications for insured mort
cages under the second title of the
office of the State Director for Mary
land, total s2,O19, 4140O.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31

Former Senator o. E. Weller has
been chosen to be Maryland's Repub-
lican National Committeeman, sue
Feeding former Senator Phillips Lee
Soldsborough, who resigned recently
when he was appointed to a Federal
post.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31

1t takes thirteen muscles to make
smile. Is that why SO many smiles
are unlueky?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31

Philosophers are wise men, but
YOU can't eat philosophy and fire.
aouently you can't sell it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31

Fingers were made before forks;
and does everybody know how to use
fingers?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31

Those who love 20 travel over the
globe may not realize that there are
millions who don't care for it,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-31

Sooner or later the wise fish runs
across the bal. that fools him.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19
Anti ascist Chest
Expands Activities

New York City (ILNS)-The activi-
ties of the "Chest for the Liberation
of Workers of Europe" are continually
expanding, reports DR.. Harry Lee
Franklin, executive secretary. An
swers of labor organizations to the
calls sent out by the office, William
Green, and other officers of the chest
have been extremely satisfactory. La
Dor chest committees are being organ
lied in many places.
Considerable impetus to the labor
chest drive under the craftsmanship of
Matthew Woll, had been given by the
1000 contribution of the United
Mine Workers of America. John L.
Lewis, president of the Y. NJ. W., is
member of the chest committee, and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19
FORTUNE SMILES
On Two Picker Machine
Workers

Ludlow, Vt.-Old garments that
had come in package from New York
city We're being loaded into a picker
machine by two operatives in the
Ludlow Mills and ground to bits. Sud-
denly the belt began to spill, and then
the machine came to adead stop.
The workers opened the machine
and found a big wad of green paper
between the teeth, and already cut
into small bits. They removed it and
found it to be a roll of greenbacks.
They took it to the mill office, where
the manager told them to take it to
the local bank and have the bits
pierced together.
The banks tellers worked for
hours, but unable to complete the
task, sent the money to the United
States treasury to be redeemed. They
estimated that the denomination OF
the bills would amount to more than
81 900. The mill manager announced
that the amount of the redeemed
bills would be equally divided be-
tween the two picker machine oper.
atives. The bills apparently had been
sewed into the garment by someone
who mistrusted the safety Of bank
There was nothing to indicate the
original owner of the garment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19
A WELCOME CHANGE

Alfred P. Sloan, president Of Gen
eral Motors, calls the Wagner labor
disputes bill most unfair and one
sided,' and law that will put al
power in the hands Of professional
labor leaders" Not true; but if il
were true, what of it?
Auto workers now are in the hands
Of professional labor exploiters. The
auto industry, which Mr.. Sloan rep
resents, is the worlds worst socia
criminal in the matter of irregular
employment, and is charged by a gov
ernment board with maintaining
speed up system which wrecks men
and spy system that will not le
them call their souls their own.
Professional labor leaders woul'
be a welcome change.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19
FIRST UNION
BANKING PACT
Amalgamated Bank Signs
Agreement With
Workers

New York City (ILNS) For the
first time in the history of banking
in the United States, a financial insti
tuition has signed a contract with its
organized employees providing for
classified minimum pay scale, closed
union shop, overtime and vacations.
The agreement was signed by the
labor-controlled Amalgamated Bank
Of New York and the Bookkeepers,
Stenogrpahers and Accountants I'm
ion, Local 12646 "A. F. of T., as
result of several months negotiations.
The pact gives the bank employees sew
eral important concessions. In the
first place, new wage scale has been
set up According to this scale there
are three different types of workers
Defined as:
ID Apprentices, who are those only
employed as messengers, are to re-
ceiye a minimum salary Of SIS per
week. (2) Junior clerks, who are for
mer messengers advanced to clerical
positions or newly hired clerks with
no experience, are to receive mini
mum salary of $21 per week. The
number of junior clerks employed in
the bank shall at no time exceed 10
per cent of the total number of en-
ployed After a years junior clerk
ship, the Juniors automatically be-
come CD Journeymen with mini
mum salary of $1,000 per year with
high resalary brackets for tellers and
department heads The new contract
also has an overtime clause which
stipulates time and half for over
time, double time for Sundays and
holidays" A further clause takes
care of vacations, two weeks vaca-
tion with pay"
The agreement provided for a
union shop, the bank to hire all
new employees through the union
office.
The union issued the following
statement: "Tbis agreement although
not the best possible for white collar
workers goes a long way in setting a
precedent for new agreements in sim
liar institutions. It IS the first Of its
kind.
I'VE feel that although this is
tremendous step forward, until the
great masses Of white collar workers
become union conscious and begin to
organize, and not to fight organiza-
ton, then and only then will we be
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19
Junior Meteorologist
Examination Cancelled

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that, because
Of the fact that there are no vacancies
at the present time, nor any contem-
plated vacancies in the near future,
in the position of junior meteorologist,
the examination recently announced
for this position will not be held.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19

year in salary and bonus-and other
sums in stock deals on the side.
Perhaps the best idea of Axton's
life can be gained from bits of the
speech he made at the A. F. of l..
convention. Saying that men are pro-
ducing fully ten times as much as they
did SO years ago, he went on:
IF men are producing ten times
as much as they did SO years ago, they
must have ten times as much pur-
chasing power, for if labor produces
ten times as much and can buy back
only five times as much, we are going
to have so-called overproduction, and
unemployment is sure.
If we are ever to have return
of prosperity in this country, the pro-
ducer must have enough to buy back
the product of his labor.
IF l am unable to manage fac
tory without taking our profits out
of the pay envelopes of the workers
or chiselling the consumer, the
sooner | get out of business, the bet
ter That's what brought on this de-
preston. There has been too much
take out in business
The man who, in Axton's position,
can talk like that, and who has back
ed all his words with deeds, is man
for labor to remember.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19
WoODFoRD FITCH AXT0N

Woodford Fitch Axton, founder,
president and chief >tockholder of the
Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company, died
in Louisville recently at the age Of
So years; and with him passes one of
the very remarkable men of his gen
GRAFTON.
Mr.. Axton founded the Axton-
Fisher Company, and brought it to a
point where it is the largest inde-
pendent tobacco company Of Amer
lea, employing nearly 5000 workers
and doing large and prosperous busi-
ness That is an achievement in itself;
but it is the least of Mr.. Axton's titles
to remembrance.
He ran a union factory from the
very start. For SO years the Axton-
Fisher has had contract with the
Tobacco Workers international Unoin
Of America At the last convention Of
the A. F. of L. in San Francisco, Mr..
Axton was invited to speak by Presi-
dent William Green, and recalled how
E. Lewis Evans, now president Of
the Tobacco Workers, had come to the
newly opened Axton- Fisher factory
to organize it.
That is record worth studying.
Here is something more. Axton, as
said, was president and controlling
stockholder of the company His sal
ary was $4,000 a year and he would
take no more, even when his directors
and other stockholders asked him to
do SO. That was enough, he said, and
he did not believe corporation officials
had any right to take fantastic sal
aries. Meanwhile, George Washington
Hill, head of the American Tobacco
Company, bulkiest of the Big Four,
was making over million dollars
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19
WHAT NEXT?

Russian inventors are working on
the problem Of producing a mechan-
ical cotton picker, and are reported to
have made considerable progress
They have already invented and
manufactured shuttle cotton harvest
ing machines which have been used
for picking cotton for several years
in Central Asia, taking the place Of
hand labor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19
IDLENESS IN FEBRUARY
ESTIMATED AT 9,898, ,OOC

New York City QLNs) The total
number of unemployed workers in the
United States in February was 9,898,.
900, the National Industrial Confer
ence Board estimates. This is a de-
crease of 242 1000, or 2.4 per cent from
the preceding month, but an increase
of $4,000, or 0.2 per cent over Febru-
ary, 1884.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19

1t is the duty of everyone who is
working, no matter how short time.
to give his quota to the Community
Chest
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19

Give and help those who devote
their time to making the Community
Chest a success.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19

That probably is the best of all the
signs now visible. 1t is the prelude to
the establishment of direction.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19

It is your duty to give to the Com
munity Chest.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19
WISDOM

Not gold but only men can make
A people great and strong;
Men who for truth and honor's sake
Stand fast and suffer long
-merson.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19

able to obtain for these workers far
greater concessions, and really decent
working conditions" !"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19

Entered at the Postoffce at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19

Issued Weekly at s2e Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-05
World Of Music

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-05
Girl Uses Razor
To Mar Beauty

OAK BLUFFS, Mass.-Because
her fiance complained she was
too popular" Miss Jean Pratt,
II, brunette daughter of Norman
L. Pratt, selectman, cut IS deep
gashes in her face, arms and legs
with a razor blade in a secluded
section of the East Chop summer
colony.
Physicians at the hospital ex-
pressed the opinion that most Of
the wounds, particularly five deep
ones on her face. would leave
scars. None of the wounds was
otherwise serious and there is lit
tie doubt that she will recover.
Not until six hours after she
was taken to the hospital, did she
admit to police that the wounds
were Self-inflicted.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-05

1llOl1lO VI ASA4SASA4NAS14
The donkey's bray of Bottom
will be heard at the Sylvan The
alter Wednesday night at 7:45
o'clock when the United States
Army Band, under the direction
of Capt. Thomas Darcy, plays
the Overture to Midsummer
Nights Dream" by Mendelssohn.
The Overture and Nocturne will
precede the Washington Com
munity Players version of the
Shakespearian fairy fantasy
which had a run of three nights
last summer at the Monument
grounds.
The incidental music by Men.
delssohn will be played during
the play by Dorothy Hobley, con-
cert pianist, and James Cannon,
violinist, both Of this city. The
play is offered without intermis-
sion. Howard Whitefield, as
Puck, will head the band of
fairies; Oberon will be taken by
Robert Duke; Titania, by Nancy
Hall. The roles of Peaseblossom,
Cobweb. Moth and Mustard
Seed will be danced by Alice
Louise Hunter, Marian VOL
berg, Polly Prickett and Lor-
raine Rakusin. Miss Hunter is
dance director of the production,
and will present a group Of 80
fairies, several of whom are tiny
and ideally suited to the play.
The incidental vocal music will
be sung by Christine Irish, Mary
Apple, Betty Galbraith, Mildred
Archer, Winifred Bowman and
Jean Mum. The finale Of the
play, which shows the. fairies
blessing the house wherein the
lovers are the guests of the duke,
is sung by the sextette of voices
as the fairies dance about, lighted
only by the fireflies, with the
mischievous Puck speaking the
epilog.
The theme shown above from
Londonderry Air" is a tune that
has been made famous in America
by Fritz Kreisler. 1t is adapted
from an old Irish song entitled,
Farewell to Cucullain." However
other lyrics have been set to the
music, the best known of which is
entitled Danny Boy" The tune
is slow moving, sentimental and
easily remembered.