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The Washington times., 1938-02-16

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ment.
Eden's evasive tactics were re-
garded in opposition quarters as
admission of Britain's desertion of
Austria and acceptance Of Ger
many's power there as an accom-
plished fact.
Asked whether Britain's policy
regarding the integrity and indie
pendence of Austria remains un-
changed" the foreign secretary
refused a direct answer.
"PEACE DESIRED" Is REPLY
His majesty's government de-
sireS in Central Europe, as else
where, peace and good under
standing" said Eden.
London and other European
capitals nervously took stock of
the overnight Transformation of
Austria into what some quarters
termed a virtual Nazi German
province"
CALLANG BLUFF
Diplomatic advices to London
and Paris, it was revealed, indi.
Gated Hitler, in his dealings with
Austria, was definitely calling Eu-
ropes bluff" and was prepared to
fight to bring Austria under Nazi
influence.
Britain was unwilling to risk
such war over Austrian indie
pendence in view Of the situations
in the Mediterranean and Far East
and the most Britain and France
were prepared to do was to send
a demarche to Berlin expressing
their concern regarding Austria's
sovereignty.
This demarche, it was learned
probably will be sent, though
officials here are privately recon
ciled to the belief that Austria is
"lost."
DUCE DESERTS"
Premier Mussolini's desertion Of
Austria, permitting it to bow be-
fore Chancellor Hitler, is re-
garded here as the result Of Italy's
internal weakness" and the pres
ent position of the Anglo Italian
negotiations toward an under
standing in the Mediterranean and
elsewhere.
These factors are said to have
made it necessary for Il Duce to
cling to the Berlin Rome axis,
since a break with Germany
would leave Mussolini friendless
in Europe-a fact of which Hitler
is fully aware.
Austria'S capitulation to Hitler
is seen here as marking beginning
of the restoration of the German
empire" and consolidation of the
position of Hitler - once an
Austrian house painter-as the
strongest man in all Europe.
AUSTRIA TO BE VASSAL
Independence of Austria is now
regarded by British authorities as
definitely doomed"-particularly
in view of MusSolini's desertion
and Anglo French unwillingnesS to
risk a European war to save it.
1t is considered a foregone con-
clusion that Austria will now be-
come a "vassal state" of Germany
and form the opening wedge Of a
P a n-Germanic hedgemony in
Central Europe.
Belief prevails in some quarters
that Hitler offered to support
Mussolini in Spain in return for
II Duce's desertion Of Austria.
This has led to fear in London
that Italy will not withdraw her
volunteers from the Spanish
Insurgent military forces, since a
victory in Spain is considered
here as essential to save the
remnants of Mussolini's prestige" j"
The British cabinet met this
morning to confer on the new
situation and possibly to draw up
terms of a communication to
Berlin. But it appeared certain
the government will take no
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-02-18
Mississippi Planter
Convicted of Peonage

New Orleans (ILNS) Joseph Shell
ley Decker, Tallahatchia county, Mis-
sissippi planter, charged with enslave-
ment of a Negro man and woman in
violation of the federal peonage law,
was convicted by an 11-man jury in
United States district court at Clarks-
dale, Miss, and sentenced to three
years in the federal penitentiary at
Atlanta and in addition fined $1,000.
Judge Allen Cox, in his charge to the
jury, asserted that three elements
must exist to constitute violation
of the peonage law. A debt must ex-
list, he asserted, person must be held
in a state of involuntary service and
the service, or the intent of service,
must be performed in discharge of a
debt
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Punish LaWlessness
(By Fred X. Ross, in The Union, Van
couver, Wash.)

(By Fred K. Ross, in The Union, Van
couver, Wash.)
If the thirty-two union men rounded
up in Portland, Oregon, are guilty
of the crimes charged they should be
punished to the full extent of the law.
All right thinking union members will
agree to that.
Violence has never accomplished
anything in organized labor. You can't
convert man to your way of thinking
by beating him up. Leaders in the la
Dor movement learned that years ago,
and any unions that stand for vio-
lence are giving all organized labor a
black eye.
Lawlessness on the part of few
individuals will be magnified by the
anti-labor press and used as an in
dictment against all unionism. That
is why union men are anxious that
the guilty be punished in this case.
Every union member will be forced to
wear the stigma of the affair, no mat
ter how peaceful and law-abiding his
union may be.
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COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

Hitler has assumed direct command
of the army. A bunch of older officers
has been replaced by younger and
therefore less conservative ones.
Twenty of the older officers have gone
to Switzerland probably have
been told not to come back. Nazzism,
freed at last from any but military
counsel, is seemingly marching to-
ward its goal of war.
1t might be well if some of our
experts on air and water fighting
would take few lessons from Mother
Nature.
Some of them are pleading for more
dirigibles. The dirigible is lighter
than air, and holds the worlds rec
ord for getting wrecked. Of course
Nature, making experiments for a
million cons, has never devised a
strong and durable flyer lighter than
air. All her best fyers-bats, some
insects and birds are heavier than
air. They depend on their motors
and the humming bird has motor
whose efficiency is the depair of hu-
man engineers.
Ten or fifteen million years ago, the
larger dinosaurs seemed masters OF
the earth. They were ninety feet long
with the weight of half dozen ele-
plants, cased from nose to tail II
tooth proof armor. Yet they all per.
ished- possibly because the measlS
little mammals of that day found ane
ate the dinosaur eggs.
The battleship is sea-going me
chanical dinosaur; and its enemies
instead of eating eggs, lay eggs
that explode hard enough to breal
any armor.
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An American citizen, Mrs. Ruth
Marie Rubens, has been getting a
taste of what happens to the individ-
ual under despotism.
Mrs. Rubents was arrested in Mos
cow with her husband on charges of
alleged espionage. She has not been
permitted to consult an attorney.
Soviet authorities for days even de-
MED the United States representative
in Moscow a chance to see her, in
violation of an agreement with Rus
sia made when this country recog-
nized the societ government in 1888.
In democratic countries there are
legal safeguards which in the main
protect individuals from arbitrary
tyranny. Not so in relationships,
where there is little if any security
for the individual.
Of course, Mrs. Rubens' case is
nothing in comparison with the sys-
tematic campaign of determination
against opponents which the soviet
regime has waged for years.
However, it will serve to stiffen de-
termination of Americans to fight i'm
position of dictatorship in any form,
whether from cleft" fright" or mid
de-"
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY is, 1888
KILL THE HILL-sHEpPARD BILL.

The military affairs committee of
the house is scheming to push through
the Sheppard bill before the SEN
ate gets around to pass a nilder meas
ure. # this is done, all the forces
which American labor can muster
should converge on the senate to kill
this vicious measure at once.
The Hill-sheppard bill, H. r. 67o4,
is merely the latest Of the many bills
that have been introduced at one time
or another to put labor under a Fas-
cist dictatorship in war time. It gives
the president power to fix the price
and compensation for all services.
Labor is service; so the president is
empowered to fix wages; and any re-
fusal to work would be punishable
by a $1,000 fine o. a years imprison-
ment.
The plan to provide a direct draft
for labor has been tried and has failed
several times before on Capitol Hill.
This plans a labor draft BY indirec-
ton. But the disguise is too thin to
deceive anybody
In reality, this bill would be a grant
to industrial magnates Of all but un-
limited powers over labor during war
time. Nominally, the powers are given
to the president Is anyone idiot
enough to suppose that the president
Of the United States, under the driving
need Of haste which always comes with
war, can personally decide on all such
matters? Hardly The power is
bound to be delegated; and big busi-
ness will be On hand with ready
made list of delegates.
The Hill Sheppard bill must not
pass. It's forerunners have been
beaten, and this must be beaten, too.
The pretense that it win stop profit
eering is idle. Nothing viii stop all
profteering in time Of war; experience
indicates that the best method is to
hold it down as much as possible, and
take back the loot by a swinging ex-
cess profits and war profits tax.
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WHAT NEXT?

A submarine Of the air. designed
to fy through the sub-stratosphere
far above present air lines, is nearing
completion at Los Angeles. The new
super-line has fuselage sealed like a
submarine hull This will permit the
passengers to be flown at an altitude
Of four miles where the air is too thin
to breathe The air resistance at that
height is less, and the ship can attain
greater speeds. The cabin will be kept
at normal ground level air pressure
and the passengers will fly in com
fort
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LEGAL NOTICE

Myron Morris and Marcella Morris who re-
side at 6043 Hartwell Ave. Dearborn, Michi-
gan Cora Morris Ellis, Edna Morris, Elda
Morris, minor over the age of fourteen years.
Calvin Morris. minor over the age of four
teen years, and Cora Morris Ellis mother and
custodian of Elda Morris and Calvin Morris
whose father is dead, and all of whom reside
at 419 N. 11th Street, Richmond Ind will
take notice that the 18th day of January,
1888, Ella NJ. Schu administrators of the
estate of Margaret Mcconnell. deceased, filed
her petition in the Court of Common Pleas of
Butler County. Ohio. being case No. 49115 in
said court, for the foreclosure of mortgage
and sale of the following described real estate
to-wit:
Being lot No. (27) in said village of
New London Butler County, Ohio. The
same being in Section 25. Town North
Range l east of the Meridian line drawn
from the mouth of the Great Miami River.
and in Morgan Township. Being the same
premises decided to George w. and Mary
Rothermel, by William S. Griffin by deed
dated March 8, 1883, recorded in deed
record No. 81, page SO, Butler County,
Ohio, records.
The prayer of said petition is that there
is due to plaintiff as administrative of the estate
of Margaret Mcconnell deceased the sum of
Three Hundred Dollars (S300.00) with inter-
est at the rate of six 60 per cent per annum
from September 20, 1929, foreclosure of mort
gage on the above described real estate, sale of
real estate and other relief.
Said defendants required TO answer said
petition on or before the 2Sth day of March
1888, or judgment will be taken accordingly
ELLA M. SCHULZ
Administrators of the estate of
Margaret Mcconnell, deceased.
Ben A. Buckley. Atty.
Jan. 2S-6t
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There has been what used to be
called a palace revolution" in Berlin.
1t has followed the usual pattern. The
king was not changed in the older
palace revolution; only some of his
advisers or deputies were changed.
The "Fuhrer" is the same would-be
Napoleon with toothbrush mus
tache" that he always was. But the
change in his advisers and deputies,
while long foreshadowed and not
great, is we'll worth noting.
Naziism came into power by CO.
alition or rather a conspiracy between
the big industrialists and the profess
sional military group. There were
other factors; but these are the big
ones. The industrial magnates furnis-
ed the money for propaganda and
demonstrations the military furnish
ed the murders. Much was done that
pleased the industrialists. The Ger
man labor unions-the best things in
Germany for at least a generation
were abolished, their treasures con-
fscated, their leaders cowed or killed.
The big industrialists were happy.
But from the very start, the scales
began to tip toward the military side
Nazzism could rule only by brute
force, and the military furnished that
Every step in the rearming of Ger
many gave the military caste more
power. The palace revolution made il
plain that from this time forth, the
army clique runs Germany, in little
things as in big, without any annoying
protests from the interests which put
up the money for this dirty work al
the start.
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Canada to Probe Fascist
Drill in Montreal

Ottawa (ILNS) - The Canadian
government will conduct an investi-
cation to determine whether the
training and military drill given Fas-
cists in Montreal is unlawful, Minis
ter of Justice Lapointe announces.
The criminal code empowered the
government to prohibit drilling, mill
tary exercises and training without
lawful authority, he said
1t was the duty of the Quebec pro-
vincial authorities to prosecute if an
offense was being committed, but as
the question of military exercises by
political groups is one which may in
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Logic of Dictatorship


(From New Leader, New York City,
Now that most of the old Bolshe-
viks in Russia have been killed it ap-
pears that quite number Of the kill
ers are to be killed. The central
committee of the communist party
denounces "careerist communists
trying to advance their own interests
by expelling members They are
masked enemies" and are to be
purged. This may seem to be a
grotesque turn of the dictatorship,
and yet it is the logic of arbitrary
power. The dictatorship devours its
own partisans.
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Washington, D. C.-Returns now
almost swapping the staff in the of
flee of the labor division of the nation
al committee for the celebration of the
Presidents Birthday show that labor
has made a record contribution to the
fight against infantile paralysis.
More than $4,000 has been receiv-
ed Oh birthday greeting blanks and
founders certificates and the money
is still coming in and promises to
continue for some time
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PRESIDENT ASKS
CONGRESS
To Vote S25O,OOO,OOO Addi
tiOnal for Unemployed

Washington, D. G. (ILNS)--Presi-
dent Roosevelt has made the expected
request for added relief funds in a
letter to Speaker Bankhead, of the
house. The letter says:
II have the honor to submit here
with for your consideration a supple
mental estimate of appropriation of
$50, 100000 for relief of the unem-
ployed.
According to the best estimate
available at this time it appears that,
during the past three months, approx
imately 100000 persons have lost
their jobs with private employers.
This increase in unemployment could
not, of course, have been foreseen
at the time the last relief appropria-
ton was under consideration.
Relief Need Great
Hundreds of thousands of needy
unemployed persons have recently ap-
piled for relief work which could not
be provided for them with the funds
on hand.
'The funds available on January l.,
1888, would permit employment of an
average of only 100000 persons for
the six months ending June 80, 1888.
The number of person on the works
progress administration rolls today is
100000 Funds available at this
time will not only not take care of the
additional burden caused by the recent
increase in unemployment but will re-
quire sharp reduction in the near
future of the number on the WPA
rolls.
"This estimate of $250,000,000 will
permit the continued employment for
the next five months of the number
now on such rolls, and will provide
reasonable measure of relief for
those who have recently become I'M
employed and are in need"
Mayors Ask Larger Fund
This action of the president un-
doubtedly was FASTENED by the recent
conference of Middle West mayors,
and the delegation which that confer
ence sent to the White House.
Mayors from IL cities Chicago,
Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo, Indianap-
oils, Milwaukee, ST Louis, Des Moines,
st. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha
met in Chicago at the request of
Mayor Kelly, of that city, and held
counsel on what was to be done about
the sudden increase in demands for
relief eve can't finance relief on
real estate taxes" said Mayor Hoan,
of Milwaukee, $50 the money will have
to come from the federal government
A statement was adopted unani-
mously, and Mayors Edward j. Kelly,
of Chicago; Richard w. Reading, of
Detroit; B. F. Dickman, of st. Louis,
and Harold H. Burton, of Cleveland,
brought the message to Washington,
and called for an immediate deficiency
appropriation of S400,000,000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-02-18
THE HUMAN COST OF MACHINES

The WPA has just issued report
on unemployed cigar makers which
dramatizes the tragedy Of unemploy-
ment through the passing Of a trade.
These men are being thrown out Of
wor, partly because the cigarette IS
displacing the cigar, partly because
to compete with cigarettes, cigar man
ufacturers are using more and more
machines instead Of hand workers.
A study of group laid off in one
plant by machines shows that in five
years, that group was unemployed 50
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-02-18

Widespread claims that increased
costs and the consequently increased
prices were caused originally by no
other factor but wage increases, are
nothing short Of deliberate propa-
ganda for the obvious purposes Of
intimidating the workers into accept
ance Of drastic wage reductions. But
those who resort to such method Of
exerting psychological pressure in
order to secure wage cuts for the
sake Of the immediate gain, lose sight
of the fact that it is the maintenance
of these high wages that provides
the broader basis, and in fact, the
only basis, on which recovery can be
re-established.- William Green.
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GEO. KAPPEL

Practical all-around tailor, would like
to be favored with your patronage, for
Repairing, Altering, Cleaning, Press
ing, removing wearshine and Refining.
1862 N. B street. 1887 w. Will call for.
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per cent of the time, and II per cent
Of the time was working at other
and unfamiliar occupations To face
such prospect in middle age, with
no savings or chance to make them,
is simply CHASTITY
Society must make up its mind to
bear in decent fashion the human
cost Of labor saving machines. At
present, that cost falls almost en-
tirely on the worker In the long run,
such a course is not only bitterly I'M
just, but utterly stupid.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-02-18

New York City (ILNS)- Eight
hundred and fifty members of Photo
Engravers Union No. 1, employed in
81 commercial plants, have won the
schedule of work hours asked by the
union, after short strike, President
Edward White announces. All the
plants involved agreed to the settle
ment. The agreement is for two
years.
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volve the Dominion as whole, the
federal authorities would investigate.
The minister's announcement was
provoked by charges of ]. S. Woods
worth, leader of the Cooperative
Commonwealth Federation.
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The Cherry
SYv Where with sur
roo Little Hatchet
ws tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pre-
fsundly, sometimes eiRpantly,
sometimes recklessly. II.

Where's our foreign policy taking
us? To war or peace?
A lot of people would like to know.
Most people, in fact.
Ferment in congress on foreign re-
lations shows what people are think
ing. Many are uneasy. They seek
light.
A congressional fight is looming
against increased naval authorize
tions unless President Roosevelt clari-
fies his foreign policy
Building Of battleships is the nub
of controversy.
Plenty of folks see no need for
battleships unless the United States
plans to use them in aggressive war
fare, far from its shores.
Then, too, there is a feeling that
building of battleships is a waste of
money, as it has been contended by
good authorities they are obsolete and
can be destroyed by airplanes before
they have struck a blow.
Senator La Toilette is asking fur
ther explanation of the administra-
tons aims before congress passes
armament bills.
Maury Maverick, of the house, says
battleships are mot necessary under
any concept of national defense, or
upon any theory of peaceful interna-
tional relations"
Demand is growing that the
administration re-define it's for
eign policy in terms that cannot
be misunderstood.
1t is hard for any government to
tell exactly where it is headed in such
matters, as events may force a change
of direction at any hour.
But at least an attempt could be
made to satisfy what seems an un-
mistakable national demand.
American Federation of Labor is
bound to be criticized for joining in
the cry for modification or repeal of
the capital gains and undistributed
profits taxes.
Well, the A. F. of L. has been criti-
cized before and survived
The charge will be made that be-
cause business asks modification or
repeal of the capital gains and undis-
tributed profits taxes, this would be
wrong.
That is not so.
It is barely possible that business
may be right in the present instance
and government wrong. Government
lis not always right.
The thing to do is to examine care
fully ANY proposal, NO MATTER
WHO MAKES 1T.
That is the intelligent thing to do.
To do otherwise is childish.
Incidentally, it is Of interest that
at its recent Washington conference
small business took virtually the same
taxation stand as big business.
And the small business man who
attended the conference, from every
part of the nation, were picked by ad-
ministration officials, who certainly
were not disposed to pack" the meet
ing with administration enemies.
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Friend And so you have a sweet
heart in every port?
Sailor-Yes. / got 400 ports, too.
Friend-Say, you're not sailor,
you're a wholesaler.
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