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Evening star., 1937-06-10
TO Attend n. Z. A. Jubilee,

Charl o. Williams. school educa-
ton chairman Of the National Con-
gress Of Parents and Teachers here.
will participate in the parent-teacher
section OF the National Education As
sociation Diamond Jubilee ,Conven-
ton, opening In Detroit June 10. The
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17
Nashville Banner Signs
Topographic Contract

Nashville, Tenn. (ILNS) Ending
eight years of industrial strife fol-
lowing a strike of the Typographical
Union members in 1929, James G.
Stahlman, Publisher of the Nash
vile Banner and president of the
American Newspapers Publishers As
sociation, signed union shop con
tract identical with that in effect on
the other Nashville newspapers, ef-
fective December 6.
The settlement included provision
to employ member Of the union as
foreman, who would select his force,
first from members who would other
wise have been out of employment by
suspension of the evening edition of
the Tennessean.
The contract was negotiated by
Clyde M. Mills and Dowell E. Pat
terson, representatives Of the Inter-
national Typographical Union.
Approximately fifty compositors
were employed on the Banner
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS

attorney. Fourteen cases wese dis.
posed of in court, and Ii are pending.
Compliance order were issued to Al
employers by the Division following
investigation, and Ia cases were con
ciliated successfully
Shortly after the first of the year,
the Division will announce the ap-
pointment of wage board for the
retail industry, which will determine
a minimum wage for that industry,
the fourth since the Ohio minimum
wage law became effective June 80,
1888.
Miss Shelter announces that on
January 3, 1888, the field staff will
begin a survey of the beauty culture
industry to compile wage facts on
which to base minimum for workers
in that industry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17
Aurora Borealis

The Aurora Borealis in the north
ern hemisphere and the Aurora
Australis in the southern hemi-
sphere are due to similar causes.
The usual theory is that the dis
plays are caused by the encounter
of electrons from the sun with gases
such as krypton and nitrogen, in
the upper rarefied atmosphere. Be
sides this electrical influence, there
is believed also to be some connec-
ton with the earth's magnetism and
with the frequency of sun spots.
Proof of this is that the rays Of the
aurora coincide with the direc-
ton of the magnetic needle, that the
needle is disturbed at such times
and that a brilliant aurora is often
associated with magnetic storm.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17
Pebbles and Bread Crumbs
Once Used to Do Problems

French children love to hear tell
OF the budding genius Andre Marie
Ampere, who, while still far too
young to deal with figures, worked
out mathematical sums with peb-
bles and breadcrurnbs.
Ampere had sad life. When he
was eighteen. in 1893, his father. a
justice OF the peace, who had with
stood the worst excesses of the
revolution, was imprisoned and
soon afterwards executed. Only
his deep and ardent interests in poe
try, music and botany saved the
young man from succumbing to his
subsequent depression. His one
great happiness was in his wife,
Julie Caron, whom he met in 1896.
After two years married life, re-
lates a writer in the Philadelphia
Inquirer, he had to leave her and
his infant son at Lyons, where he
had been teaching, in order to earn
more money for them by lecturing
physics and chemistry at Bourg.
It was after writing many bril-
liant articles on the mathematical
theory OF gambling, demonstrating
that the chances were against the
habltual gambler, that Ampere
found place as professor of mathe-
matlcs at the Lycee of Lyons.
He had scarcely settled in Lyons,
however. when his adored wife died.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17
WORKERS
PROTECTED FROM
PAY CHISLERS

Columbus, 0. (OLNS)- Back wages
to date for employees in all industries
in which a mandatory minimum wage
scale is in effect total $19,900.37 ac-
cording to the monthly report Of
Miss Elaine Shelter, chief of the
Division Of Minimum Wage, to O. B.
Chapman, Director, Department Of
Industrial Relations.
This total figure includes sI,414.10
collected for workers III the food and
lodging industry and $8731 in the
dry cleaning industry by the division
during November.
No report Of back wage collections
in the laundry industry are available
at the present time, due to the fact
that thousands Of dollars are in the
process of being paid Cincinnati laund
ry workers, who struck because of
wage chiseling employers.
The report lists 835 Investigations
made during the month. Four cases
were taken into court, and similar
number hailed before a prosecuting
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17

after payment of all operating ex-
penses.
The report was made prior to the
election of officers for the ensuing
year, which was conducted at the Of
flee of the fair board on the first floor
of the courthouse. The election re-
suited in reelection of all officers,
with the exception of Walter Ralston,
Ralston was renominated for treas
urer, but declined the office on
grounds that he intended to seek
election as County Commissioner
in 1888. James Noes, Fairfield town
ship, was elected in his place Other
officers are: Maurice Murray, presi-
dent; William Taylor, vice president;
John Cochran, secretary, and James
Noes, treasurer.
The secretary's report indicated an
attendance of about $4,000
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17
Dead Sea Lowest Spot

With an average level 1900 feet
below the Mediterranean and with
proper depth of another 300 feet,
the Dead sea is the lowest spot on
the worlds surface. 1t fills part of
a great rift in the earth's surface.
As natural reservoir with no out
let, its only method of getting rid of
the 100000 cubic meters of water
that pour into it every day from the
jordan and the Judean hills is by
evaporation under a glowing sun
and continual winds that blow dur
ing eight rainless months. This
evaporation has left behind an
enormous store of chemicals.
Though only At miles long and 9
miles wide, the Dead sea contains
some 10000, 5000, 00oo long tons of
salts in solution. One of the most
valuable of these is muriate of pot
ash, Of which more than 1000, ,00O,-
600 tons are thought to be present.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17
Norwegian Pagan Festival

Originally a Norwegian pagan fes-
tival in honor of the sun, St. Hans
eve is celebrated throughout the
country with bonfires, dancing and
merrymaking the whole night
through. In Oslo, the entire popu-
lation, it seems, either boats out to
islands in the ford or goes out onto
the tops of nearby mountains for
the celebration. Bonfres are light
ed on every hill, and at the outdor
museums here and at Lillehammer,
great demonstrations of folk dane
ing are given.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17
COURT DATES
ANNOUNCED

Conrad G. Stroh, Butler county clerk
of courts, announced Monday that
common pleas court terms of the year
1888 would start on the following
dates: January 8, May 2 and October
3. The dates for the opening of the
two terms of the court of appeals are
April II and October 10.
The balance of the schedule for
the court of appeals includes: Ham
ilton county, court terms January3
and November Z; Clinton county, April
7 and October 6; Clermont county,
April a and October 3; Warren county,
April and October A.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17

To Be Deported

Prosecutor Paul Baden, this week
received word that James Scarcella,
Al years old, New Miami, would be
deported to Italy if released from the
Ohio Penitentiary where he is serv-
ing an indeterminate sentence for hav-
ing shot his wife and father-in-law.
Sarcella will seek a parole next mon
th.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17
MOORHEAD GRANGE
DEPUTY

Mr. and Mrs. Upton Moorhead
Reilly, this week received their com
missions from the Ohio State Grange
as Butler County Grange Deputy and
Juvenile Matron respectively They
will succeed Mr.. and Mrs V. K Rah-
fuse, West Chester, who have held
these positions seven years.
Appointments are by w. F. Kirk,
state master, and members Of the Ohio
executive committee.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17
1887 FAIR SUCCESS

The 1887 Butler County Fair was
the most successful of any held here
in the last decade, both from the stand
point of attendance and financial re-
turns, it was announced last Saturday
afternoon when John Cochran, sec
retary Of the Butler County Agricul
tural Society, submitted his annual
report showing a balance of $4,398.36
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17
Union Is Given Credit
For High Steel Wages

Princeton, N. ]. (ILNS)
Princeton University's Industrial Re-
lations Section has issued report
giving the chief credit for present
high wages in the steel industry to
the unionizing work of the Steel
Workers Orgonizing Committee. AS
result of this organizing drive, the
steel worker is getting better wages
and working shorter hours than ever
before.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17
LABOR BRIEFS

A cemetery strike in New York
was ended by an agreement that the
conflicting parties hold conferences
pledged to get together in two weeks.
The office force Of Bethlehem Steel
has gone on a share the work basis
which cuts the income of the white
collar workers from 8 per cent up.
But it doesn't touch the hundred thoa-
sand dollar salary of Gene Grace.
Six hundred employees Of the
Quaker City Rubber Company Phila-
delphia, quit work because the COM
pany was making time studies of GER
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17
John Heating

Funeral services were conducted
Thursday morning for John "Jack"
Heating, CT, 1870 North F Street, re-
tired Hamilton patrolman, who died
Monday night of pneumonia. Services
at the home and in ST. Peaer's Church
were followed by burial in Calvary
Cemetery, Cincinnati.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17

A FTER cooking his first meal
"A with the assistance of a mod
ern gas range, Bruce Cunningham,
Texas editor, says he discovered
why so many homemakers have
time to enjoy outside interests.
Hours are not wasted in the kitchen,
for the food is prepared for cook
ing, is placed in or on the range,
the gas burners turned to the heat
speeds required, and the cooking
time set on the automatic time
clock. Then the range does the
rest. It's up to the cook to season
the food properly, that's all.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17
Postal Receipts Increase

A five per cent increase in postal
receipts for the first II months of
this year over the corresponding per-
iod in 1886 was reported by George
Zettler, assistant postmaster. The to-
tai this year has been $208, ,661.25,
compared with $198, 162.05 for last
year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17

the exclusive bargaining agency for
the employees of the Westinghouse
Airbrakes plant, Wilmerding, Pa.
Since November /, $4,000 soft coal
and steel workers have been laid off
in Pennsylvania; and the result is
relief crisis for the state government
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17

It was brought out at a NLRB
hearing in Reading, Pa. that textile
manufacturers have been writing to
Remington Rand for confidential
booklet" on how to break strikes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17

Mr.. Cunningham, at right, Is pic
tured above taking his initial culi-
nary lesson from Frank Decatur
White, nationally known cooking
expert who believes that every man
should learn to cook; there is no
telling when he might have to pitch
in and prepare meal. Besides,
the husband who can cook Is sure
to make hit at home. Mr.. White
claims that any novice can broil a
steak, bake potatoes and cook green
beans for the main course Of a
tfp-top dinner; salad, dessert and
coffee are easily mastered.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17

Documentary evidence on the anti
labor and anti Wagner law policy of
Frank Hague, mayor of Jersey City,
has been sent to the La Toilette Civil
Liberties Committee.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17

Kansas City ploice have come to the
tear gas stage of breaking the picket
line in front Of the Ford plant in that
city
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17

United Electrical & Radio Workers
have been certified by the NLRB at
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-17

tain operations The workers refused
to call their movement strike.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
Home Work Burden More
Serious Than Appendicitis

10 the Editor OF The Star:
Efforts of District of Columbia sur
geons to project an appendicitis scare
into the public schools raises a question
as to whether they are sincerely inter-
eSted in the general health of our stu
dent bodies. Tenfold greater than the
dangers from appendicitis are the twin
curSes-enSlaving and nerve-w -wrecking
homework and postural distortions re-
sultlng from carrying loads of books to
and from school each day. The entire
school year consists of 14-hour day of
study and school worries, with only time
OH for getting to and from school. No
other city, to our knowledge has evolved
program of education that bears down
SO heavlly upon the health of children.
Ihere is never free evening Home
lie is destroyed because of the stern
vigilance OF education, which holds the
students to their tasks during those
erStWhlle pleasant after-dinner hours.
when family life can be cemented into a
cultural experience. We employ teach
erS to instruct our children, but in
washington the burden has been shifted
to the parents. Children in Washing
ton are growing lop-sided from the bur-
den OF book-bearing. Never can they
walk to and from school with the arms
free-and their days work done. Let
these appendix-minded surgeons stand
before any high or junior high school in
the District and watch these vigorous
boys and girls pour out with their phys
1cal burdens and with their study period
looming on the after dinner horizon, and
they will realize that here is real health
problem worthy of their attention.
MRS. F. M. ASHER.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
Public Policy.

A well established principle of law is
evidently being overlooked in the furore
Of denunciation occasioned by the recent
instance of contract invalidation by the
National Labor Relations Board. In
brief, it is that legal precedent upholds
the voiding of contracts If found to be in
contradiction of public policy.
In its action against the Consolidated
Edison Company and the Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, parties to closed
shop contract, the board made a finding
OF fact that the company had violated
section 90 of the Labor Relations Act
which specifies that it shall be an unfair
labor practice for an employer to encour-
age or discourage membership in any
labor organization.
AS part of the validated Labor Rela-
tions Act, section s CD now stands as
statement of public policy, to be inter-
preted through the findings of the labor
board. In this instance, it is not the
actual finding of fact that is in dispute
but rather the authority of the board to
60 beyond that finding and abrogate a
contract.
In defense, a spokesman of the board
cites as precedent not only the sanctioned
disapproval by other Federal or State
agencies, of utility and transportation
rate contracts on the grounds of their
being contrary to publicly policy, but also
calls attention to the first instance of
such contract abrogation by the pres
ent Labor Relations Board.
Handed down on December 81, 1895,
the quoted decision voided a closed-shop
contract between the Clinton Cotton
Mills and an employe representation
organization, the ruling being based upon
finding of an unfair labor practice by
the employer in encouraging a so-called
company union.
Subsequently, tine boards ruling was
upheld through consent decree in the
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and
the company complied with the direc-
tions OF the Federal agency.
While the variation in circumstances
always found in different cases may
eventually lead to some other result in
court test of the Consolidated case,
the board apparently does have sup
portable basis for its most recent action.
Further strengthening its foundation,
the board also has in section 10 (c) of
the act the power upon finding an un-
fair labor practice to take such aff1rma-
tive action = as will effectuate the
policies of this act"
Evening star., 1937-11-13
Untaxed Securities.

In connection with the Government's s
quest for new sources of revenue, q sub
committee of the House Ways and
Means Committee has begun signifi-
can't investigation of the vast field of
tax-exempt securities.
Apparently both Congress and the
executive branch of the Government are
desirous of reducing the business tax
burden, but the Treasury Department is
reported to have sent word to Capitol
Hill that any modification of existing
taxes must be compensated for by other
levieS 1t would be difficult to find q
more productive source than the tax
exempt bonds, provided some consti-
tutional means of taxing them can he
devised.
Wholly Or partially tax-exempt Sc
curlties outstanding on June 80, 1896,
totaled $63, ,S43 100000 Of this total,
1851 100000 was wholly exempt from
Federal income tax and $26, 1882, 900, 900
was exempt from the normal tax but
not from surtaxes.
Obviously, the Government would
profit greatly if a valid tax could be
levied on the income from these securi-
ties. 1t was understood the House sub
committee has no specific plan in mind,
but Is casting about for a tax that would
be likely to survive legal attacks on it's
constitutionality. If this be true, the
committee members in all likelihood are
giving careful study to recent tax deci-
sion of the Supreme Court
The case involved the constitutionality
Of net income tax imposed by the
State of Iowa on the income of bonds
Issued by the State or its political sub
divisions prior to the enactment of the
tax. At the time of issuance it was
specified that the bonds ARE not to be
taxed" or shall be exempt from taxa
ton" Despite this exemption the State
Supreme Court and the United States
Supreme Court upheld the tax, declar-
Ing the exemption was applicable only
to ad valorem taxes, or taxes on the
principal of the bonds, and not to the
Interest paid on the securities.
Three justices of the Supreme Court
dissented vigorously, declaring them
selves unable to subscribe to that
philosophy which seems to teach that
forbidden result may nevertheless be
achieved if only some delusive and
devious way of achieving it can be
found"
But the reasoning of the majority is
now the law of the land, and the ques-
ton being asked is whether a Federal
tax on the income of its own tax-exempt
securities might not also be upheld.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
Good Work Well Done.

One Of the most significant contribu-
tions of the American Legion to this
country and one for which they, perhaps,
receive less credit than for anything else
they have done, is the initiation of the
National Education Week project.
Any effort in behalf of education is a
worthy one, but commentator cannot
be too high for movement which last
year, according to figures compiled by
the National Education Association,
drew 100000 people into the schools
during a single week to see just what
and how children were learning and to
appreciate facilities offered by the mod
ern school.
And yet, as this years American Edu-
cation Week draws to close, many peo-
pie do not know the Legion had anything
to do with 1t. 1t was the discovery that
twenty-five per cent of the American
doughboys were illiterate that prompted
the Legion soon after It's organization to
appoint committee on education and
1t was not long after that that Henry j.
Ryan, committee chairman, met dele
gates OF the National Education Asso-
ciation in Washington and proposed the
setting aside of week for national OBJ
servance of education.
Annually, since 1921, therefore, the
week which includes Armistice Day has
been set aside to focus national attention
on the work being done in the schools.
and Governors in nearly every State put
forth proclamations urging celebration.
The idea was splendid; the execution has
been ever better.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
Visit With Pachyderms
Good for Frayed Nerves

To the Editor Of The star:
If you're a sweet thing in hower-bed
hat,
Or her best fellow with your tie
tucked in,
Don't squander loves brief springtime
girding at
There may be hidden meaning in his
grin!
So wrote William Vaughn Moody a
generation ago in his great poem, 'The
Menagerie." Styles have changed as to
ties and hats-especially hats-but the
chimp still wears his Irish grin. For no.
body seems to have taken the poets ad-
vice, so perennial is our desire to know
how the other half of the animal king
dom lives.
Not badly in Washington. Its Senators
are not more adequately housed or
PACED, nor do they give us better show.
From squirrel to mastodon these speech
less cousins of ours are here to please.
Sedately the gentle giraffe convinces us
four times over that he is very real
impossibility. Unperturbed by tail he
cannot see the cary elephant intrigues
us with his 1.-the proboscts; while the
streamlined sea otter in his tank of
glass makes clear what truly generous
tail can be--and do. But the greatest
Snowman of them all is the hideous hippo
with his monstrous hell-mouth emerging
for peanuts.
When weary of the antics OF our bud
ding Mussolinis, spend peaceful after
noon with the pachyderms Of the Zoo.
They will quiet your nerves.
r. D. MILLER.