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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15
Millions Spent For
Public Health

Federal, state and local govern
ments raise by taxation around $685.,
100000 annually for public health
work, according to a statement made
by Dir. G. f. Waller, assistant to the
surgeon general of the United States,
in the hearings before the ways and
means committee of the house of rep
resentatives at Washington on Pres
ident Roosevelt's security bill. Fed
eral taxes contribute $10,000,000 Of
this amount. DIR. Waller pointed out,
however, that actually about one mil
lion dollars of this sum is used for
what might properly be called the
public health service. the most of it
being allocated to the Marine Hos
pital service operated by the federal
government
Private foundations spend about
$27 100000 annually for public health
work, raising the total Of government
and private funds to around $110,000,-
600.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15

The pampered movement learns to
love pampering.
Trade unions are fighting nrstru-
ments, until they gain that plane upon
which employers see the sense of CO.
operating.
The best and fastest way forward
is through the building of STRONG
UNIONS.
Look the world over and read his
tory to the beginning and that is the
lesson that rolls back across the plains
and barks out from every page of
it ALL
Build unions and go places!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15
LABOR THE WORLD OVER
Written for IINS and This Newspaper
BY DR. ALICE S. CHEYNEY
international Labor Office, Washington d. c..
World Unemployment Decreases

World Unemployment Decreases
According to the most recent statistics
published by the International Labor
Office, unemployment for the last
quarter of 1884 again declined as COM
pared with the same period in 1888.
The decrease is somewhat smaller
than was recorded three months pre-
viously, but is greater for Canada,
Chile, Estonia, Finland, Japan, Lat
via, Norway, and the Saar Territory.
Increases in unemployment were
shown for Belgium, Bulgaria, France,
Irish Free State, the Netherlands,
Poland, Spain and Yugoslavia.
Statistics for five countries based
on returns from trade unions show
Norway leading with 26 per cent un-
employed. The United States comes
next with an estimated 21 per cent,
Australia with 20 per cent; Canada
with II per cent, and Sweden with
Is per cent. All these percentages
represent declines of from one to
seven per cent in the corresponding
figures of year ago.
In the statistics obtained from the
employment exchanges in the differ
ent countries, the following countries
report decreases in unemployment
ranging from 1,426,ooo in the case Of
Germany to $500 in the saar Terri
tory; Austria, Chile, Czechoslovakia
Danzig, Estonia, Finland, Germany
Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan
Latvia, New Zealand, Rumania, Saar
In addition, nine countries with the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15
Baby Bonds For
Small Investors

The baby bonds" which President
Roosevelt's administration proposes to
authorize the United States treasury
to Issue in connection with the $4,000,
100000 fereral public works projects
to provide jobs for between three and
four million adults now on relief rolls,
will be in denominations of $25 and up
with a maximum limit of 10000 to
each purchaser. The interest rate will
not exceed three per cent. It is said
the government will utilize the post
offices as a medium for selling the
bonds.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15
Scenario Writers Join
Actors i'm Asking Code

Hollywood, Cal. 1LNS)- Scenario
writer's have joined with the Screen
Actors Guild in demanding a code of
fair practice.
Charging that present working con-
ditions impose abuses on the craft,
the writer's listed 10 demands in their
ultimatum, which corresponded in
many respects with the guilds recent
set of demands, now pending before
NRA authorities in Washington.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15
WHAT NEXT?

Latest in streamlined, high speed
trains is the Flying Yankee" built
for the Boston & Maine and Maine
Central railroads In trial runs near
Philadelphia, the train recently made
a speed of 100 miles an hour. The
train is powered by 60o-horsepower
Diesel electric engine. The weight of
the entire train, including the power
plant, is $4,000 pounds, compared to
the 100000 pounds of an ordinary
Pullman car
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15
TURNING THE LIGHT ON
POWER RATES

1UN Elk RAlES
The new federal power commission
has done a piece of work which should
have been done at least ten years ago.
It has prepared a booklet giving the
actual prices paid by domestic con
sumers for electric current in l9l
cities Of the United States. Further
publications of the same sort will
supply other information on the same
general subjeet-th cost of current.
TO the consumer, this is an enlight-
ening and encouraging document. To
the power trust, it is devastating
document It IS a death-blow to the
evasion and mystery and hocus poeus
BY which the present often outrage
Gus charges for current have been pre-
served
Tables are given showing the sum
paid for given amount Of current
in different cities; and with one impor-
rant exception, cities with publicly
owned plants are punched toward the
low end Of the scale, while the pr.
vate plants invariably carry off the
prize for getting the most money for
the least current.
Cleveland, Ohio, served by muni-
cipal plant, pays SO cents for Is kilo-
watt hours per month. Miami, Flori-
da, under the dominion Of the Florida
Power & Light Co, pays $1.17. Mount
Vernon, New York, with a private
plant, charges S7.31 for 100 XVIII per
month. Springfield, Illinois, with a
public plant, sells you 500 XVIII for
just one cent less-$730.
What price rugged individualism
Of course, no household ought to
use as little as Is XVIII per month
Few households do, where the rates
are decent. Coming up to the use Of
40 XVIII per month, the housewife pays
S1.31 in Cleveland, and $418 in Miami
All Florida seems to be a high rate
zone. Some years back, Sidney z
Mitchell was told by his doctor tc
take rest from the exacting toll Of
Wall street. He went to Florida-anC
Florida is still paying for his visit
with 30year franchises, and top rates
Of ~ cents per XVIII, and other boons
that monopoly loves to scatter.
Another high rate plateau is fount
in New Jersey, where the Public Serv
ice Electric & Gas Co. rules the cleo
trical roost. Camden, Elizabeth, Jer
sey City, Newark, Paterson, Trentor
all pay $500 for 40 XVIII, while
Cleveland pas $1.31.
The power commission deserves !
vote of thanks from the householder
of the country. Graft and extortior
flourish only in darkness, and the com
mission is turning on the light.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15

The history of mankind proves that
man strongly tends to oppose that
which he is ignorant of. Therefore, if
nation is to progress it mush care
fully preserve the fullest opportunity
for deliberation and general enlight-
enment on all of the problems that
confront people.-A. F. Whitney,
president Brotherhood of Railroad
Traimen.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15
New York to Buy
Street Car System

New York.-New York city's plan
for municipal street railway owner
ship forged ahead with the announce
ment that the conferees representing
the city and the Brooklyn Manhattan
Transit Company had practically
reached an agreement on the price to
be paid for the company's lines. Orig
inally the company, it was said, insist
ed on $2oo,ooo,ooO. 1t was reported
now, however, that the city would pay
around $19o,ooo,ooo, with suitable
provisions for amortization
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15
LABOR STRIVING FOR EFFI-
CIENCY ON IVA PROJECTS

ClENC1 ON - MO- ES -
American Federation of Labor
unions whose members are employed
by the IVA on its various operations
are cooperating with the authority
in an effort to demonstrate that util
ity projects can be constructed by the
government paying union wage rates
at a final cost that will certainly not
be in excess Of real costs on privately
built dams or power projects"
This declaration was made by
George Googe, Southern American
Federation of Labor representative,
speaking at a workers education con-
ference held at the IVA reservation
at the Joe Wheeler dam site near
Sheffield, Ala.
The American Federation Of Labor
is fully aware of the vast social bene-
fits that will be achieved as a result
Of the IVA development, and it is
our purpose to promote in every pos
sible manner the social and economic
policies which are being furthered
through the development of power re-
sources in this area Googe went on.
Organized labor is demanding that
the government maintain the highest
possible labor standards on the dam
construction work at Joe Wheeler, at
Norris, and the job about to be under
taken And, with few exceptions, the
IVA is living up to its promises in
this respect.
"The union workers in turn are
planning to cooperate with IVA and
to prove that the payment of the un-
ion wage scale can be justified by the
unit cost Of the finished job.
Private utilities who are instigat-
ing the fight against President Roose-
velt's plan for public ownership Of
natural resources have habitually
used slave driving tactics and low
wage rates on their big construction
jobs in the South. Because of the
extreme pressure of reactionary in
fiuences, the government is impelled
to keep its construction costs more or
less on level with those in privately
built jobs where labor was paid lower
rates.
The union men on the various dam
jobs see the situation clearly enough
and are working with the officials to
increase efficiency at all points and to
keep down costs wherever this can
be done without sacrificing union
standards.
"The recent emergency conference
of organized labor representative in
Nashyill, attended by some 480 dele
gates from 13 Southern states voted
enthusiastically to launch an extensive
educational campaign to combat the
heavily financed attack which specia
interests are carrying on against
IVA.
The success Of IVA will be tri
umph for organized labor in the South
and the reactionaries know this only
tao we'll"
-:o:-
The best use we can make Of gooe
fortune is to share it with our fellows
Il
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15

same method of reporting indicate in
creases in unemployment over the
same period year ago. These in
creases range from $4,000 for France
to 312 in Yugoslavia, and include the
countries of Bulgaria, Denmark, Irish
Free State, Netherlands, Poland,
Spain and Switzerland,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15
The Cherry
sYv Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
fOundly, sometimes fippantly,
sometimes reckIessly.

Across the country snow blew and
piled into heaps, and even in the
Sunny South there was freezing al
most unknown.
To some it meant beauty where the
snow was.
But to others-some millions of
them-it meant sharper suffering. It's
tough, being without fire; tough
being without warm clothes; tough,
shoveling snow with holes through
the shoes.
There is much grumbling by busi-
ness about the price of Recovery; but
no business man ever has or ever
will pay the penalty paid by just one
poor devil who has walked freezing
and snow -drifted pavements with
soles bare to the snow and the pave
ment.
1t may be tough and rough to have
to pay a surtax; but the surtax brigade
will never know how tough it is to
have no income on or out of which
to pay anything.
Washington these days is full Of
experts of all kinds the biggest lob
by that ever walked the streets of the
capital in hope.
Somebody is paying all the bills
and hoping the results will be worth
the money.
The government itself has its ex.
perts and its lobbyists, often the two
being inside the same coat and vest
Some of them have good sense and
some are just plain darned fools.
Those who haven't read what Hugh
Johnson has to say about Dr.. Morda-
cal Ezekiel ought to read it. Hum
mating.
They ought to read likewise the
nice and very true things the genera
has to say obout Edward F. McGrady
who is one of the biggest hearted anC
hardest-fghting men in the whole
ding busted capital.
TIE Security Program is on the way
through congress. States will fall il
line.
New York seems to be first in line
with program that probably is in
tended to set the pace.
It matches the government, dollal
for dollar-and thus there is no bee
of roses held forth for the jobless O
the aged.
| The program is slightly mis-named
Security is not in it, though it vii
mean relief.
Some folks are trying to fin
whether any lobor representative
were consulted in its drafting.
There are things which you hav'
to walk far to find out.
| However, there is this: The prin
lciple of social responsibility has bee!
accepted. What is started can be i'm
proved upon. And probably will be.
Il
| All in all, labor marches on.
| Its head is held little higher. It
numbers are larger. The number 0
unions grows larger.
| Where there is strength there j
progress.
| Those who kick too much about hoy
little government does should go bac
land read some Of the lessons abou
Iself-help.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15

The best use we can make Of good
fortune is to share it with our fellows.
Julian Hawthorne.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15
Women Workers Restricted in Bel.

Women Workers Restricted in Bel
gium. The Belgain minister Of labor
has recently issued decree fixing a
quota for the employment of married
and single women in idustrila work.
The purpose of this decree is to extend
the opportunities for work for unem-
ployed men. In placing such a quota,
however, the minister must have the
agreement of the organizations of
workers and employers concerned.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15

The burden" Of the surtaxl Mr..
Moneybags, with million dollar in
come, has $428,6O6 left when he gets
through paying his tax bill. One per
cent Of that sum would be $4,286. The
Brookings Institution has shown that
in the prosperous year Of 1929, nine
tenths of all the families in the United
States lived on incomes of $4,000 a
year or less.
In other words, one per cent Of the
income which Mr.. Moneybags has left
would not put a family in the top
layer of nine-tenths for the sorrows
of wealth with its burden of taxes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

lIlS SupeI-Hyp ypeI-ullId IlCH dIS It.
ported to be leaving New York. Gov
ernor Lehman has proposed a state
income tax, reaching to Z per cent on
incomes above $4,000. The Goelets
and the De Pysters and others of the
group whose living expenses are
around $85,000 per year per family
just naturally cannot stand such a
levy; and they are moving to Rhode
Island. That state, the report goes,
knows how to show proper Difference
to wealth, and never soaks a mil
lionaire more than $4 per $1,000 on
his personal property.
Even in Rhode Island, however, the
excessively rich will not escape the
federal income tax, which is good
deal higher than what Governor Leh-
man proposes. Not so high as it might
be. The British income tax is notably
higher than our own.
A married man with no dependent,
and an income Of 100000 a year pays
S30,394 in taxes in the United States,
and $45,304.69 in England. Uncle
Sam takes $263, ,944 from an income
of $500,000, married and with no de
pendents; while Britain collects 1924,
804.69 from chap in the same cir
custarmes. And such man Will
$1,000,000 income would pay Britain
S42, 160.69 more than he would pa,
the United States.
As a matter of fact, the rich nevei
have been soaked by income taxes il
America or in Britain, either. TIL,
man who complains of the burden d
the surtaxes in either country is eithel
rotten sport, OF he doesn't knoy
what real burdens are.
What hardship is inflicted on tn,
man with million dollars of ne
income who has to pay $571,394 of i
to Uncle Sam? None whatever. Evel
the apostles of plutocracy would no
say that he is missing meals or lack
ing place to sleep. Comfort an,
culture for himself and family, luxur,
IN any sane proportion, and REASONABLE
provision for the future can be secure,
with ten per cent of what he has left
Such tax deprives Mr.. Moneybag
Of just one thing power, economi
power, power to make others obey hi
will and pay him tribute That is tn
only thing that overstuffed wealth ca
buy for its owner; and it is the onl
thing that the income tax takes ava
| from him.
| The burden" Of the surtax! Mi
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15

Collective Agreements in Portugal
A number of collective agreements
have recently been concluded between
the workers and employers in the wine
export trade of Portugal. The general
provisions of these agreements call
for maximum working day of eight
hours, overtime to be paid for at time
and-a-half, and an apprenticeship pc
riod Of at least four years. Contribu-
tions to the welfare institutions of the
coopers' and warehousemen's unions
are to be paid by both employer and
worker, the former contributing four
| per cent of all wages and the latter
five per cent of his earnings.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-15
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Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-23
SLAYERS STAND
SLIGHT CHANCE
OF FREEDOM

Anxiety in Imperial county con-
corning the parole possibilities of
Woodrow Corley and Noble Morris
convicted Of murder in the first
degree, was said to be set at rest
with the receipt of Il letter by Elmer
Head, district attorney, from Albert
Fl. Mundt, clerk of the state board
of prison directors.
Corley and Morris were found
guilty of the brutal murder of
Ivan Null, special deputy sheriff
when he stopped their machine to
question them concerning a store
robbery.
The letter said in part: st am of
the opinion that in view of the par
ticularly atrocious nature of the Of
Tense committed in your county by
these prisoners, and the fact that
they had been given an opportu-
nifty on parole, which they violated
almost Immediately, it will not be
necessary to determine whether Oh
not they are legally eligible for
parole.
The circumstances of the reSpec-
tive cases are certainly such that it
is extremely unlikely that any board
now or in the future. would con-
slider extending them favorable pa
role consideration
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-23
SETTLEMENT.
DECLARED UP.
TO SULLIVAN.
Attorney Begs Off
During Hot
Fight

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. %.
(UP)-Further friction be-
tween Arizona's law en-
forcement officials develop
ed today when County At
torney Glenn Couple of Yuma
county threw back into the lap of
Atty. Gen. John L. Sullivan re-
sponsibility for stopping work on
Parker dam.
The county attorney, who had
been requested by Sullivan to in
vestigate and arrest dam contract
ors if he found they had been en-
croaching upon Arizona soil, told
the attorney general in a lengthy
letter that he believed Sullivan
and Gov. B B. Moeur can EFFECT
a speedy, just and equitable settle
ment of this question:
Cites Four Reasons
Couple begged off from proceed
ing against dam contractors Tor
four reasons:
l. Governor Moeur never has re-
voked his declaration of marital
law at the damsite. This, in Cop
pies opinion, has "shorn" local
officials of any authority to pro-
coed.
2. The state is mere interested
in stopping work on Parker dam
Continued on Page 8, Col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-23
Y OUSTED IN
LOS ANGELES
ROW
Shakeup Forecast
After Edgar's
Appointment

LOS. ANGELES, Dec. %.
(UP) - Robert H. Brown,
administrator, and IL others
of the Los Angeles county
liquor control office, were
ousted in a new shake-up today.
The dismissals were predicted
following the appointment. of Ray
Edgar of Ell Centre to succeed Orfa
Jean ShCntz as Southern Califor-
MIA member of the state board of
equalization.
A telegram from Secretary Blk
we'll l.. Pierce of the board said the
busters were due to unsatisfactory
service during the probation per-
iod."
The IL had been in office on pro-
batiCn since June 20, their pro-
stationary periods ending last Fri
day
Although a shake-up had been
predicted, the ak had not been eX-
pected to fall upon these men,
since they had been regarded as
on a permanent civil service basis
after Dec. 20.
Full explanation of the shake
up awaited Edgar's expected ar
rival today. Edgar was appointed
after Miss Shontz was made a
municipal judge.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-23
MAILING RUSH
HITS NEW HIGH
IN Ell CENTRIC

Christmas business at the Ell Cen
tro postoffice has surpassed that of
last year by $1,000, and promises to
rank with 1929 in the roll of ban
ner Christmas mailings, Postmaster
Frank Richmond said today.
Brawley and CaleXico postmasters
reported similar indications, with
mailings surprising any during the
last three years.
Saturday was the Ell Centre post
Offices busiest day, Richmond re-
ported, but added that today may
equal the Saturday rush.
Stamp sales so far have exceeded
those of the 1884 Christmas sea-
son by $1,000, the postmaster said.
The Christmas mailing rush be-
gan about Dec. 10. Saturdays bust
ness saw 166 sacks of mail leave the
postoffice here. Sundays trains
brought in 157 sacks, while the trains
this morning-after a Sunday on
which there was no mailing-brought
1877 sacks to the poStoffice.
The Christmas postoffice business
this year is far above that of the
last three years, Richmond declared.
An augmented poStoffice staff is
necessary to handle the business.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-23
JAIL CLOSES
F FESTIVITIES
Ell Centre Police
Kept Busy on
Weekend

e-Christmas festivity on the
part of certain FL Centric residents
kept police officers busy over the
week end and crowded the Jail to
capacity. AS a result of the jollity,
Christmas will be spent behind the
bars by several persons who rose to
the spirit of the season with too
great enthusiasm.
Jess Winfield Waddell pleaded
guilty to drunk driving in police
court Monday morning and time for
sentence was set for 9 o'clock Tues
day morning. Officers said he was
driving in a manner unique, to say
the least.
Bail of SO was forfeited by j. F.
MacConnell when he failed TO APP
pear in court to answer to a drunk
charge. A five day Jail sentence
was given Al Williams, who pleaded
guilty to being drunk. Trial for
Lawrence Brown and c. C. Kelly,
who pleaded not guilty to vagrancy
charges, was set for December 26.
Sam Bass was SO vigorous in his
celebration that police took him to
headquarters and booked him for
being drunk and disturbing the
peace. Records revealed that he still
had a 30-day suspended sentence
given him after former spree. He
pleaded guilty to the charges and
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