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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-07-31
By GEORGE L. KNAPP

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-The
first objection which the committee on
old age security of the twentieth GEN.
tury fund, inc, finds to the Townsend
plan is a matter of arithmetic. DR..
Townsend proposes to finance his pen
sions by 2 per cent transactions
tax" which really is just a sales tax.
But there are at least 100000 citi-
zens in this country over so years of
age and with incomes of less than 5000
month, all Of whom would be eligible
for pensions under the Townsend plan
To pay these people 5000 a month
each would take twenty-four billion
dollars year. The committees re
search shows that 2 per cent sales
tax even in 1929 would have yielded
not more than nine billion dollars; and
in 1884 the same tax would have
yielded around four billion dollars
one-sixth Of the sum required te
finance the Townsend pensions. Or
the basis of business as in 1884, the
sales tax would have to be raised tC
12 per cent to raise the required sum
Sales Tax Big Burden on Workers
Sales taxes always are passed bach
to workers or on to consumers
usually both. In either case, tn,
| laboring man would have II per cen
one -eighth-of his income takei
away from him by lower wages O.
higher prices or both. The commit
tee rightly says that this would spell
tragedy in the majority of American
homes.
That is quite the mildest possibl
statement of the case. A trans
actions tax levied on groceries, TO
instance, would be collected at leas
three times--at the transfers fror
producer to wholesaler, from whole
saler to retailer, from retailer to cor
sumer This would mean 26 per cen
INSTEAD of IL per cent. The commit
tee holds that such a levy would b
utterly ruinous to business. Assured
lily, it would spell starvation to larg
proportion of wage earners.
1 Spending Plan Not Aid to Buying
Power
To the Townsend claim chat tn
Il forced spending of the entire pensio
each month would speed up bushes:
the committee replies:
This forced expenditure would nc
increase the speed with which tn
money would be spent. The income 9
| the great majority Of people now
spent almost Immediately, under th
compulsion of economic necessity, fo
| food, clothing and rent. Old peopl
could not spend it any faster-eve
under legal compulsion. Even
the boom year Of 1929, families rer
resenting so per cent of the non-farl
population saved less than Z per Ger
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-07-31
WIDESPREAD
Labor Aid Pledged to Roose-
welt

Washington, D. G. GLNS)-Work-
ers in 90 crafts and trades and Off
cials of AZ international unions have
Joined labor's Non Partisan League to
the leagues single objective for 1886,
the reelection of President Roose-
velt, George L. Berry president of
the league, announced here.
Three international unions, the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America, the international Alliance
of Theatrical Stage Employees and
Motion Picture Machine Operators
and the Cap and Millinery Workers
International Union, have voted pub
lie resolutions as a unit, pledging
their organization memberships to the
leagues 1886 plank.
"This response indicates that up to
this time, we have members in 81
per cent of the trade unions of Amer
ica," Major Berry explained.
Every holder of membership card
in Labor's Non-Partisan League is
pledged to vote for President Roose-
velt this November.
Tabulations of the membership
roster show pronounced spreading
geographically as well as numerically
Every state in the Union, includ
ing the Canal zone and the Territory
of Hawaii, is represented" Majol
Berry pointed out.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-07-31
Remington Strike Suit
Goes to Federal Court

Mddletown, Conn (ILNS)-On ap-
plication of the unions attorney, the
100000 damage suit and injunction
proceedings brought by Remington
Rand, Inc, against unions of workers
employed in its plant here was trans
ferred to the United States District
Court in Connecticut superior court
by Judge John F. Booth.
The decision came after an all-day's
hearing, when Attorney Cornelius Dan
aher, representing the workers, filed
a petition contending the action was
beyond jurisdiction of Connecticut
courts because the company was a
Delaware corporation and the workers
were Connecticut residents. With the
case now clear of state courts the
temporary injunction granted the com
pany limiting union pickets to ten in
number was nullified About 400 un-
ion workers have been on strike for
several weeks.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-07-31
Committee Which Carefully Studied Proposal
Says 1t Would Place Too Great Burden On
Nation and Would Not Speed Up Business Or
Increase Purchasing Power.

|of what they earned. The remaining
|93 per cent was spent for current
necessities"
'Nor would this forced expenditure
increase or decrease purchasing
power" the committee goes on. 1T
would merely take a substantial part
Of the income now earned by people
under 60 and hand it to those over
so. The result of the plan, on the
basis of the present national income
and price level, would involve re-
distribution of income in which not
more than 10 per cent of the people
| Chose over 60) would receive one
half of the national income, while the
90 per cent who would have to sup
port the 10 per cent would receive
the other half"
Economic Security Must Be
Given Aged
1t is hardly necessary to quote the
committees analysis of the effect of
even a universal per cent sales tax
on business, on employment, on the
whole national life. 1t is better to
give the thoughtful, kindly summing
| up of the committee, thus:
'.In exposing the fallacies Of
the Towsend plan, the commit
tee has no intension of implying
that the crying need of the aged
for economic security in the
United States should not be met
as far as is humanity possible
within the limitations of our
economic system.
'The great problem before th'
American people is to determine how
large a measure of economic securit.
can be given to the aged without tax
ling too much away from the rest o
US, or placing too great strain upol
the entire fabric of American eco
nomic life upon which the who'll
population including the aged--de
depends for its existence.
$500 Monthly Pensions Are
Called Impossible
1T is obvious that anything lik
5000 month is utterly impossible
with our present economic machin
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-07-31
Steel Campaign Begun
In Schwab's Bailiwick

Bethlehem, Pa. (ILNS)-The steel
workers organizing committee has
opened headquarters in this town,
sometimes called "Schwabsburg" and
"Graceyille" from Charles NJ Schwab
and Eugene G. Grace, heads of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The
organizers have rented a vacant store
only two blocks from the headquarters
of the steel corporation, and put
big sign over the door:
Headquarters, Steel Organizing
Committee"
Company officials claim to be con-
fident that their 1000 employees in
this neighborhood will stick to the
company unions, and resist all persua-
sion to go elsewhere.
You can't fit non-union round pegs
into union label square holes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-07-31
Massachusetts, Seeks
To Keep Industries
From Leaving State

ate, (2) efficiency of transportation
facilities claimed for the state, (3)
presence of large volume of highly
skilled labor
Before being appointed commits
sioner of labor and industries
Moriarity was very active in the
American Federation Of Labor, Mas
sachusetts State Federation of Labor
and the Boston Central Labor Union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-07-31

You can't fit non-union round pegs
into union label square holes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-07-31

One hundred cents of every union
earned dollar should be spent for 100
per cent union-made goods.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-10-17

Everyone employer You and neighbor contribute to
payroll of the largest of workers IN this country
group consists of government employees Three million
them the payrO of Federal state and local governments
navrols that can be taken from
nes Their salaries total 100000 And their
number is constantly increasing.
Some those employees of necessary They carry
on functions that perform legitimate services for you
and all other citizens.
Many of them They not only hnaneiai
burden they crcumsbe your liberties They perform services
for special group the expense Of else They
work nothing whatever to do with the busl
ness of govenngbureaus compete with and damage
ducve private business while devourng tax ste
the of taxation
sad but fact that bureau is started II
is abolished The need that created pass
remains Usually in size and cost and po-
Our political offlcehoders as
possible-that is the way they maintain their power
about time insisted that the worker in productive en-
erprse given consideration well the worker for
public payroll fast reaching the point where
private payro pay for and have enough left over for
those of who aren't bureaucrats.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-10-17

after he win have TO pay abstractors
and pay attorneys to search the title,
and he win find that his investment win
be much greater than the amount he
pays the landowner.
After fifteen years of contracting own
ers of oil lands, we in this organization
know the situation so well that wa do
not have to spend much time in search
ing out sellers. We know pretty well
which landowners owe money; and FREE
quently how much they owe and when
their obligations are coming due. We
do not try to buy royalties from those
who do not need money. We know
the average person usually viii delay
until he Is s'up against it." At that
time he is willing TO make some induce
snent 20 get the money TO pay his taxes
or to pay off a mortgage or remove some
other cloud ON his title. That is one
simple factor of the science of profitable
buying. We have been here long enough
so that people know that they can come
TO ms and sell their royalties when they
really need money. They know that it
high price. We can get along nicely
without any one particular royalty. We
do not HAVE to buy. We can wait a
while and another bargain win come
along.
We have built up this situation by the
process OF years of fair dealing and we
have a membership that viii absorb all
the really good royalties. We have
bought most of our royalties at a price
at which our members are certain to
make money If the land is AVERAGE
oil land. The man who understands
royalty values appreciates this fact. Be
fore we admit a new member, we ex-
plain royalty values and teach him to
figure royalty values. He sees his way
clear TO make money In royalties and
he soon recognizes that he can buy
royalties through this organization for
less money by far than If he were living
right in the oil field. That is a fact.
Out of all this it is apparent that
dealers do not fit into the picture
IL 1t is q desirable royalty, good enough
so that we win handle IL, our members
want it. We have no reason for passing
ft ON to someone else. Furthermore, we
have seen dealers boost the price 90 .
place where their clients cannot possibly
make a profit The dealer fades Osgay
but we continue ON In business and for
10 or 10 years thence we must meet
the criticism of those who bought through
the dealer. Rather than see q man fail
TO make a commensurate profit we
would rather that he did not buy royal
ties We know that there are enough
opportunities so that none should possibly
EaaI with ordinarily intelligent invest
meats.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-10-17

A young lady advised clerk she
wanted a nice night dress and as
she was to be married, she wanted
his advise on the appropriate color
for such an occasion. He advised
II It were her first marriage that
he would suggest white, but in the
event she had been married before
that In that case lavender was being
worn.
The young lady hesitated 8 mo-
ment and replied "In that case
would like q n1ce creamy white, one
with just a touch Of lavender in It. F"
sss SO
The filIing-station man had fin
ished wiping the windshield, when
the woman driver asked:
Would you mind going over
Johnny's face Just once?"
Bess: John has been going
around telling lies about the time
he was engaged to you"
Betty: II don't mind that, but if
he tells the truth I'll wiring his
neck"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-10-17

Coming home at two am. the
sympathetic husband explained as
usual that he had been sitting up
with a sick friend. It's no wonder
his friend was sick, either, the
poor fellow never won a hand all
night.
-
BY the way, have you made the
acquaintance of the Berger boys
yet-Ham and Lin?
-
A little oil field cafe displays
this appealing ad: "If you don't
eat, we'll both starve."
"a very devout young catholic
boy was riding his bicycle to early
Mass when he met with an accident,
which threw him to the pavement
and rendered him unconscious. Be-
fore he recovered his senses several
persons had gathered about him and
when he had recovered sufficiently
to realize where he was going, but
somewhat still dazed from the fall,
he inquired: SIS M-a-s-s-out" where
upon one OF the bystanders said
mo but your pants are pretty badly
torn"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-10-17
A MESSAGE TO BROKERS

- INCE the Securities and Exchange
- commission has been bearing
~ down. on eastern royalty brokers.
this organization has received many in-
quiries from dealers wanting to purchase
Montana royalties through ms as whole
saIers. So numerous are the inquiries
that we have prepared form letter
which we sent out to each one, stating
that we are not In position TO supply
them.
Our experience with dealers has been
so unsatisfactory that we have adopted
a definite policy. In the first place. we
have am unique organization which has
proven the most successful Of its kind
In the Unftea States The principles ON
which it was founded are reA@@nsibte for
It's success-Otherwise it could not have
continued i'm busagess for rs years. We
see NO reason for aeviatiing from thats
principie-that OF COOPERATIVE BUY.
ING. BY it's very nature, n does not
allow for sub-agents or brokers.
III householder could Raford to
buy his potatoes I'm 1OO-Sack lots,
he could get his potatoes very
cheapIy. But the average hOuse-
holder can't use 100 sacks of pOta-
toes, and furthermore couldn't af-
ford TO put that much into one item
of food at one time. But IL 100
hOuseholders viii go In together and
buy 100 sacks, each one VIII have
the buying power of am individual
who buys 100 sacks. Each one will
take his sack of potatoes at the low
price afforded by lump-sum buying.
The same thing applies to the purchase
of royalties. Let an investor drop off
the trOin at Gut Bank or Shelby with
$3.50 In his pockets and try TO buy
royalties direct from landowners. In
the first place he win not easily find
landowners who want to sell their roy
alties for relatively few of them live ON
the land. When the buyer DOES find
a landowner who is willing TO sell. he
viii soon learn that the seller needs
MORE than $3.50. He wants 81, ZOO or
some other substantial sum with which
TO pay off Indebtedness, to buy a car,
TO make q payment on a city home
or some other substantial thing. ANY
lesser sum win do him no good, so why
should he offer any inducement TO a man
with $3.50.
II, ON the other hand, the investor re-
presents himself and three others who
win put mp $3.50 each, then he has the
buying power OF $1,000.
Royalty buying Is not that easy, how
ever. The man who comes here from the
outside win have TO spend q lot OF money
i'm hotel bills and I'm travel 90 get ac-
quainted with tine local situa3fOn before
ne can make his first purchase. Thewe-
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-10-17

The wisest investor Of all is the one
who 'shedges'' ON his investment--n0
matter what line he enters. Some OF the
most successful royalty investors we know
frequently buy more royalty than they ex-
pect TO keep. They plan to sell a part
TO friend on assoclate-at moderate
profit. This reduces the investment in
the remaining portion of the royalty and
increases the yield. That is possible only
when royalties are purchased at price
that is s'right.v The man who buys
royalty ON oil land at 81 per cent per
acre and sells half of it for $3.50 or
So per cent per acre to friend has done
that friend a favor for with development
it may pay him from 1900 90 5000 per
cent. That does not involve the 0rsdin-
AIRY functions OF dealer" "A man
can sell his own property without being
a broker or a dealer. He will not sr0b"
q friend or associate, so he win not
boost the price beyond a margin of
reasonable profit. He can buy royalties
through us at a price low enough to
make such deals possible. We would
rather handle our royalties through this
sort of agency than through dealers
whose livelihood depends upon sales made.
Recently a royalty dealer from Denver
came to our office. He had learned of
TIC PRIZES OuE APCMEcE AkKg7AHtUcka "GAC
paying for royalties i'm Kevin-Sunburst.
He figured that he could make himself a
fortune If he could buy royalties so
cheaply, to resell them to his clients i'm
Denver. After spending a few days at
Shelby he returned to Great Falls.
II don't know how you do it," he said.
II couldn't get a royalty I'm the field for
the price at which you sold the Swears
royalty. / can sell your royalties for
a lot more money than you are getting,
If you viii give me the exclusive right
to handle good ones like the Swears.''
We told him that the only reason
this organization has continued 60 func-
ton for fifteen years is the fact that
we make sure that the "g0od Ones'' are
divided as widely as possible among our
members, so that they can all make
money. If we had adopted a policy Of
selling the good Oness to a favored
few and turning the doubtful ones to
our other membership, we would not
have retained our membership.
Since many brokers read this column,
this win serve TO explain why we do
not wish 90 Wholesale royalties. even
of we did not have 20 prepare offering
sheets under the rules of the SEC.
Even before the SEC we furnished with
every royalty . complete report ON title,
history of development operator and
geology. We know and desire no short
cut.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-10-17
so HE COMES BACK TO GET MORE.

Recently former Montana operator visited this office en-
route to Shelby he going look for new oppoun
ties profit He had sixth interest in lease that was held D
the Carter company strpper wells and they dwnded
down nothing until Ohio took Carter properties ONO
cleaned out acdized them and this mans sixth interest
is now paying him $3.50 per month.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-10-17

Cut
possibilities
8
%
with in this
ing week
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-10-17

Following up the last version:
There was anaEner old lady who
lived In shoe,
She didn't have any children.
cause she knew what 70 do.
The class IN French history were
studying the Napoleonic wars and
in the back OF the book was q
glossary of the French words and
phrases occasionally found Ia the
text and with which the students
were supposed 20 Become familiar.
During recital one day the phrase
femme de guerres came mp for
discussion. The teacher asked II
anyone had looked mp the meaning
of this phrase but no one answered
until finally the little fellow in the
front row with the thick glasses
said, That means. the women who
follow the war" Immediately after
ward the tough guy OF the class
was heard TO mutter," / thought
they called them 'hors de combat. =
Who touches hair of yon bald
head, Dies like a dog. march on,
she said.
Nose: Come here quick, Mandy,
the baby's got something in his
diaphram.
Mandy (on the rum: Laws
sakes! eff dat don't beat aIl-and
jess done put 1t on him"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-10-17

Young men taIk proudly Of what
they plan to do; old men talk OF the
things they have done; lazy men
talk Of the things they could do.
Two men named Wood and Stone.
were standing on q corner. A
pretty girl walked by. Wood turn
ed to Stone. Stone turned to-
Wood. Then they both turned to
rubber and the girl turned into q
drug store.
Madeline, the office siren, sea
she went out riding in her boy
friends new car the other mite and
was very much impressed by his
new type of clutch.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-10-17
SOME DEFINITIONS OF LUCK

Says the Oil & Gas Journals
LUCK:
The owner who held to strpper lease through
the depression finds it suitable for waterfoodlng
knows for the first time why he did it.
The Kevin-Sunburst version is:
LUCK:
The owner who held a stripper lease through the
depression and now finds suitable for acdlzaon knows
for the first time why he did it.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-10-17

Who touches a hair of yon bald
head, Dies hike a dog. march on,
she said.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-10-17

Nose: Come here quick, Mandy,
the baby's got something in his
dianhram"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-20
Adds AbAbA REUSED
AS FOE NEARS CITY
Natives in Panic; Defenders
to Blast Bridges.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
Adds ABABA, April 20.-The
government rushed stores of gun
cotton out along the road to Dessye
today, planning to blow up bridges
over cascades and to block noun
tain roads in the path of the Italian
advance.
Natives, dazed and panic stricken,
began to evacuate the city, believ-
ing the arrival of italian troops
was imminent. Motor lorries roared
increasingly through the city. Nor
NAL life was suspended.
The road from Dessye was crowd
ed with motor trucks from the
front, and tattered, flying fugitives
from the Ethiopian army.
Foreigners of many nationalities
besieged the bomb PROCEED British
legation for shelter. Americans
prepared to take refuge there if
necessary, by order of American
Minister Cornelius Van H. Engert.
Bhlata Tekala, mayor of the city,
tried to rally to him the mob of
5000 nondescript warriors, some
armed only with swords or spears,
who pledged themselves in wildly
cheering demonstration yesterday to
defend the city.