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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-07-22

except some kinds of lumber; chem
ieals and drugs; and under the head
of miscellaneous" are classed cof-
fins, matches, soap, cigarettes, cigars,
plug tobacco and snuff.
The same bulletin gives a list Of
l89 articles whose prices went down
farthest in the depression. Taking
1926 as 100, these commodities
dropped in February, 1888, to 34.6
fall Of 65.4 per cent Farm prod
ucts led this toboggan slide; and here
are some things that everyone should
learn and remember:
Wheat dropped on the Chicago mar
let in this period from $1.31 a bushel
to AZ cents; but bread and wheat GER
eals stayed practically the same.
Corn fell till corn rotted in the field
as not worth husking; but corn flakes
hardly changed Tobacco dropped till
the tobacco farmer hardly got enough
for his crop to pay for his fertilizer;
but cigarettes stayed at the same
price, and the Big Four tobacco COM
panies scored their highest profits in
the worst years. Cowhides, steer
hides, calf skins, sheep skins, all are
in the list of articles whose prices
dropped farthest; and shoes are in
the list of articles whose prices
dropped least.
A monopoly doesn't need to be under
one head. All it needs is to be able
to take hard times out on its workers; !;
to shut down its plants when demand
slackens, instead of shading its prices.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-07-22
Imports Of Japanese Products
Suffer Heavy Decline For Year

delegate to the British Trades Union
Congress in September.
A committee Of representatives Of
the Iron Workers District Councils Of
New York and Northern New Jersey
rendered Morrin a bon Voyage din
ner and dance in Hotel New Yorker,
which was attended by over zoo
guests, including many notables in
union labor, political, professional and
business circles.
co-delegate with Morrin to the
British Trades Council is Daniel j..
Tobin, president Of the international
Brotherhood Of Transfers, Chauf-
fers, Stablemen and Helpers. They
were elected at the 1887 convention Of
the American Federation Of Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-07-22
Canadian Socialist Party Rejects
Proposed Collaboration With
Communist Organization

Ottawa (ILNS) Questioning the
sincerity of the new line Of the Com
munist Party, the Canadian Cooper
ative Commonwealth Federation has
again rejected overtures for united
front The Communists are told that
they have a record of double-crossing
and back-stabbing, which is entirely
incompatible with the trust and con-
fidence in their honesty of purpose
that is the indispensable condition
precedent to any collaboration with
them, formal or informal.
Since the Comintern became the
champion Of political democracy as a
bulwark against Fascism, the Com
munist party in Canada has been seek
ing allies in strange quarters. Its
organ, the Daily Worker, has even
hailed Major w. II. Herridge, former
Canadian Minister to Washington,
who advocates a New Capitalism run
by the better elements, as comrade
in the good fight. Officially, the party
lined up with Mr.. Aaerhart's social
credit candidates in the recent pro-
vincial elections in Saskatchewan,
though Aberhart admits no democracy
in his organization, but selects can
didates himself, and otherwise dis
plays the "fuehrer" psychology - a
mystical vagueness, an unprincipled
demagogY. and crude intolerance.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-07-22
OUSTED OFFICERS
ASK CONVENTION

Washington, d. G. (ILNs).-Three
officers Of the United Automobile
Workers Union are asking John L.
Lewis to use his influence to secure a
special convention in the UAWU,
which has been refused by the execu-
tive board of that order.
The three officials are Richard T.
Frankensteen, Wyndham Mortimer,
and Ed Hall. All are opposed to
Homer Martin, president of the order.
All have been suspended from their
posts BY the executive board. And all
insist that only BY 4 special conven-
tion can the row be Strengthened out.
The constitution of the union re-
quires that 10 per cent Of the mem
bers in three states must sign a petit
tion for referendum. When the
referendum is called, 25 per cent of
the members must vote, and ma
Jority Of these must favor a special
convention.
Frankensteen charges that Martin
and his hackers are using the Com
munist" cry as red herring.
IN reality" he says, there are not
1000 radicals Of all shades in the
union, whether they be stalinites,
Lovestoneites, Trotskyites or Alter
ties
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-07-22
WASHINGTON FACTS
Cardozo Was One of Ma
tion's Great Liberalists
Monopoly Investigation
Has Road Clearly Charted
In Known Economic Data.
By GEORGE L. KNAPP

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was one
great man whom no one was able to
hate. Probably not even Justice Nc
Reynolds, who read newspaper when
Cardozo was being sworn into the SUI
preme Court.
1t is not easy to explain this; for
few men have dealt sharper thrusts
at privilege from the bench than he.
A corporation claimed that boy was
a trespasser, and that though killed
by falling electric wire when ready
to dive in the Hudson, his parents
could not recover. Cardozo saw no
trespass in approaching the navigable
waters Of the United States. The
Buick Motor Company pleaded that its
guarantee ran only to the dealer. Car
dozo pointed out that the dealer, who
would get rid of the machine at the
earliest possible moment, was the one
to whom guarantee was OF least
value, and that the guarantee plainly
ran to the real buyer.
And few dissents from the U. s.
Supreme Court have been more scath-
ing than the one which Cardozo wrote
for himself, Brandeis and Stone, when
the majority of the court stopped the
Securities and Exchange Commission
in running down what it believed to
be a swindle.
He is irreplaceable, as a great judge
always is.
An amusing newspaper stunt IN
Washington is in guessing or seek
ing "inside information" as to the in
dustries which will be studied by the
monopoly investigation now under
way.
Neither guessing nor prying IS es-
sential. An index may be found IN a
bulletin published by the Bureau OF
Labor Statistics months ago, show
ing 100 articles whose wholesale
prices dropped at most IL per cent
from the glad boom days of 1926 to
the bottom of the depression in the
early part of 1888 Control of prices
is the essence of monopoly. The COM
mittee may not get through probing
all the industries which make these
articles; but it cannot help starting
on them.
And the list Of fixed prices includes
many prepared foods; hide and leather
products, including shoes; metal prod
ucts 81 Of them; building materials,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-07-22
Report of Department of Commerce Shows Loss of One
Half of Japanese Trade With United States in 1898
Against 1887 American Exports to Japan Fall Off Too

Washington, d. C. (ILNS) I'M
ports Of Japanese goods into the
United States in the five months end
ing with May declined by one-half
from the marks shown at the end of
the five months of 1887, according to
the latest report of the Department
Of Commerce. For the first five
months Of this year these imports
amounted to $47,848,000, while for
the first five months Of 1897 their
value was $92, 2,386,000
The basic cause for the heavy de-
cline in these imports is attributed
both to the revulsion of feeling among
the American people for japanese
atrocities in China, and to the con-
certed campaign which has been car
ried on by labor union groups and IN
terests to put a stop to the flow of
cheaply produced and low-wage goods
from Japan. Indications point to this
campaign as one of the most effective
that has been conducted in the United
States in recent years.
Food Products Decline
A breakdown of the items coming
into the United States from Japan in
the first five months of this year show
that cheap food products and electric
bulbs and devices, which usually sell
well in a season of business recession,
fell off even more than the so-called
luxury" products.
Raw silk imports show the smallest
per cent in decline, and attributable
possibly to the fact that the process
ing and wage cost Of silk goods in the
United States is approximately eight
times the original cost of the raw
silk. In the first FIVE months of this
year 1882, 900 pounds of raw silk
came in from Japan, while in the
same period in 1887, the raw silk i'm
ports amounted to 23,664,000 pounds.
The recent trend is in marked con-
trast with trade data for the early
stages of Sino-Japanese hostilities.
During the first seven months of 1887
imports of the United States from
Japan actually increased by SO per
cent. During the next four months
the increase continued, but was only
| per cent.
Decline May Increase
The explanation is that orders are
placed months in advance, and are
never Immediately reflected in i'm
ports. This being true, the sharp de-
cline of the last five months could
continue with even more severity on
the basis of trade advices from Japan
estimating April orders at 80 per cent
below the same month last year.
Observers in Washington say the
business recession cannot account for
more severe declines in imports of
such Japanese items as canned tuna
fish and electric lamps, competitively
shipped for a low price market.
Imports of canned japanese tuna
dropped from 6,144,000 pounds in the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-07-22
Iron Workers Head
Leaves For Europe

NEW YORK CITY (ILNs)-P. J.
Morrin, president of the international
Association of Bridge, Structural and
Ornamental Iron Workers and editor
and manager of the Trades Council
Union News Of st. Louis, accompanied
by Mrs. Morrin, sailed on July for
Blackpool, England, where President
Morrin will represent the American
Federation of Labor as fraternal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-07-22
Previous Declaration Cited


In it's manifesto on the united front
proposals, the G. G. F. points out that
the Communist party in a declaration
of policy in 1884 said: s'The utopian
social credit doctrine is a theory
against the working class; it is a
theory of regulated capitalism by
which the workers would be regi-
mented under the lash of capital
through state regulation of credit"
The G. G. F. declares that as So
cialist party it stands for the fullest
democracy and the rule of the ma
iority. 1t expresses doubt of the bona
fides of the Communist party's re-
cently-found devotion to democracy
because the c. p. is not democratic,
but takes dictation from Moscow and
is thus not free agent.
No Collaboration Possible
Moreover, the COMMUNISTS belief in
rule by an idealogical aristocracy
sanctions the idea of the seizure of
power by minority. This means the
rejection of appeals to reason in favor
Of the appeal to force.
The G. G. f. therefore affirms that
its tenets and policies are so sharply
in contrast with those of the Com
munists that no plan Of collaboration
is possible.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-07-22
STEEL LAWYER
OUSTED BY NLRB

Steubenville, o. (ILNS) Clyde A.
Armstrong, chief attorney for the
Weirton Steel Company, was dis
barred from further participation in
the hearing of the National Labor
Relations Board on charges that the
company has violated the Wagner La
Dor Relations Act. The disbarment
was announced by Trial Examiner
E. G. Smith after a long series of dis
putes between Armstrong and officials
of the board.
Immediately after the disbarment,
Examiner Smith adjourned the hear
ing for two days and left The room.
He rejected Armstrong; request to
make a statement 'for the record" !"
The action means that Armstrong
cannot appear before the board as an
attorney until the ban is removed
Many improvements have been
made in agricultural implements, but
wild oats are still sowed the same
old way.
The Washington times., 1938-05-06
Insurance Union
Group to Speak

Designed to make Washington
insurance and union conscious, a
flying squadron Of Is men from
the Industrial and Ordinary In
surance Union, Local No. 2l,354,
will speak briefly at all union
meetings during National In
surance Week, which begins Mon
day.
Their purpose is to familiarize
persons affiliated with labor or
RanizationS with the workings OF
the recently formed insurance
mems union and to urge them to
purchase insurance from union
saleSmen only. James A. Balder-
son is president of the Union.
The Washington times., 1938-05-06
GARBO DENIES
SHE is MARRIED
TO STOKOWSK|.
Nothing Has Taken
Place." She Says

STOCKHOLM, May 8 GNS0.
If Greta Garbo and Leopold
Stokowski are married, the actress
won't admit it. In fact. she was
rather vigorous today in denying
that her friendship with the
famous symphony orchestra con-
ductor had led to the altar.
Nothing has taken place
absolutely nothing" she said in
q written reply to reporters
questions.
She would not talk about
charges of New York film ex-
hibitors that she is no longer a
box-office draw.
Back from Italy, Garbo and
Gtokowski were at the home Of
the stars mother at Haarby.
To Gretas denial that she IS
married was added that of her
brother, Sven Gustafsson, who
said:
"I've heard nothing about it."
The Washington times., 1938-05-06
The Weather

District of Columbia and
cooler tonight and Saturday; dl-
minishing northwest winds, be-
coming gentle variable.
Maryland and Virginia-Gener-
ally fair and cooler tonight and
Saturday.
TIDE TABLE
High tides today at 1852 a. nj.
and 1:13 p. m.
High tides tomorrow at 1:57
O. m. and 2:20 p. m.
Low tides today at 7:3l a. m.
and 8:07 p. m.
Low tides tomorrow at S:37 a. m.
and 9:07 p. m.
SUN AND MOON
The sun rises today at 5:O4 a. m.
and sets at 7:05 p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow at sos
a. m, and sets at 7:06 p. m.
The moon rises today at 11:27
O. m. and sets at 1929 p. m.
The moon rises tomorrow 1t
1924 p. m. and sets at 1:Uo a. Hl'
TEMPERATURES
4p. m. ..82 4 a. m. .."..67
So. m. .....74 Sa. ...... 10
Midnight :. 68 Noon .....'.7S
DEPARTURES
Accumulated excess Of tempera-
ture since January /, 1888, GA.
Excess Of temperature since May
!, 1888, AZ.
Accumulated deficiency of preci-
pitation since January l, 1888, 5.27.
Deficiency of precipitation since
May l, 1888, O.44.
TEMPERATURE SAME DATE
LAST YEAR
Highest. "a; lowest, So.
TEMPERATURES
The Washington times., 1938-05-06
cZECHS TO DANCE

Members Of the American
CEechoslovak Center will hold
q benefit dance Saturday night
from 8 to IL O'Clock at Pythian
Temple, 1912 Ninth st. N. w. Both
American and Czech music will be
played.
Smyrna times., 1938-08-04

o'clock Sunday morning. He had
been afflicted with consumption for
Is years but retired on Saturday
night, apparently as well as usual.
The deceased was born in Salem
County, n. j., February 8th, 1884,
but he removed to Delaware while
still young and learned the car
rage business with Benson & Cal
houn at Smyrna He removed and
after working as journeyman with
Gregg and Bowe, started in bust
ness for himself about p years
ago, from which he retired about
6 years ago on account of bad
health. In May, 1868, he married
Miss Addie Moore, daughter Of the
Rev. Charles Moore, one of the old
est ship builders in the State. Mr..
Wright was of a quiet and retiring
disposition. He was member of
the Central Church and an officer
in the Sunday School. He leaves
a widow and one son, William H.
Wright, Jr. The elder son died in
March last. The funeral took place
yesterday at Wilmington and
Brandywine cemetery.
Smyrna times., 1938-08-04
FATAL ACCIDENT AT CAMP
NEAR DOVER

The Penrose or Modoc camp
meeting, about seven miles from
Dover, opened on Thursday last
and Sunday it is estimated that
10000 people congregated on the
camp grounds, coming from within
a radius of 35 miles. There were
visitors from as far as Centerville,
Md. Religious services were held
all day. a number of accidents
occurred among this immense mass
Of people. A little girl named
Davis from Philadelphia, aged z
years, got too near a vicious horse
and was kicked so badly that it
died from the effects of its injur-
5es. The mother tainted from the
shick of her child's sudden death
and at last accounts she had not
revived and her own life was de-
SPARED Of Another child was
also badly kicked but will recover.
John Daley, of Persons Corner,
near Dover, while alighting from
his carriage at the camp grounds
broke his ankle.
Smyrna times., 1938-08-04
GRAIN CROP CUT
IN DELAWARE
Corn and Wheat Shows Small
er Acreage While Rye
and Oats Gain
ECONOMIC REPORT

Prospects for grain crops in Del
aware show that a decrease in the
total production of corn and oats
over last years crops is indicated
while increases over last wears
harvests of wheat and rye may be
expected, according to the July 1
report of the Crop Reporting Board
of the Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics Of the U. S. Department Of
Agriculture. Corn, the most i'm
portant grain crop in the State
from an income standpoint, show
ed a reduction in the number of
acres seeded. This year there We're
$4,000 acres of this crop as COM
pared to 143, 900 acres last year.
The reduction in acreage is par
TALLY responsible for the predicted
drop in production to an expected
total of 100000 bushels from last
years total of 4,147, 900 bushels.
This years crop, however, is ex-
pected to be above the 1927-37 av-
.erage of 1888, 900 bushels. Pros
poets for wheat, Delaware's second
most important grain crop, are for
a total production of 1,61S.0O0
bushels, an increase from the 1887
total of 1876, 900 bushels but less
than the 1927-37 average crop of
1855 900 bushels. Wheat seeding
in Delaware this year totaled 49,
900 acres as compared to $4,000
acres last year, but indicated per
acre yields are higher, being 1875
bushels per acre this year as com
pared to 16 bushels per acre in
1887.
Rye and oats, the other two i'm
portant grain crops respectively
show gains and losses over last
years totals For rye the indicat-
ed production this year will total
$4,000 bushels as compared to 3d.
900 bushels last year. The oats
crop is expected to total $1,000
bushels this year while the 1887 /,
crop was 10000 bushels. Rye
seedlings jumped 1000 acres this
year to total of 5000 acres while
oats seedlings were the same as
last year, 5000 acres.
For the United States as a whole,
the 1888 predictions are in general
the same as for Delaware, with in
creases indicated for wheat and rye |
and decreases for corn and oats.
The 1888 U. S. wheat crop is ex-
pected to be one of the largest on
Smyrna times., 1938-08-04

record, with total Indicated b.
duction of 967,412 goo bushels Tast
years crop amounted to 8-3 q92
600 bushels. The corn c.op ta.s
year shows an Indicated product 4
Of 2,482 100000 bushels while tra
total last year was 2644. 995 00a
bushels.
Rye expectations on July / wera
for a crop Of 51,327 900 bushels 4.
compared to the 1887 crop of 40
$4,000 bushels. Oats indicate )
decline to total production IF
093, $4,000 bushels from the 1927
figure of 1,146, 258, 900 bushels
Smyrna times., 1938-08-04
SPOTTED FEVER VACCINE
New Discovery Claimed to Check
Spread of Disease

A new vaccine to prevent Rocky
Mountain spotted fever from de-
veloping in persons bitten by wood
ticks undoubtedly is a major fac
tor" in a reduction this year in the
number of cases of fever in Wy
oming, DR.. C. NJ. Anderson, state
health officer, reports. So far this
year only 20 Wyoming cases have
been noticed, compared with SO in
1885; At in 1886, and 81 in 1887
The worst of the tick fever season
usually is over by July, although
last year cases were reported as
late as August The vaccine was
developed by the United States
public health services laboratory
at Hamilton, Mont. and is used
widely in the West where the fever
is prevalent.
Smyrna times., 1938-08-04
STAFFORD WINS
POWER RULING
State Supreme Court Orders
Eastern Shore Company to
Move Lines From Town
LONG DRAWN OUT CASE

The Eastern Shore Public Ser.
vice Company, which formerly SUP
piled electric power to Seaford. vii,
have to remove its lines and equip
ment from that town This was de-
cided Thursday in a ruling handed
down by the State Supreme Court
meeting at Dover The court del
cision upheld a ruling made last
year by Chancellor Wolcott in the
suit, which has provided a legal
battle for the past two years and
attracted wide interest. Two years
ago the Town Council of Seaford
awarded a 2O-year franchise to the
Seaford Power and Light Company
to furnish the power, the franchise
carrying an optional clause which
would give the city the right to
buy the plant within five years.
The Eastern Shore Company furn-
ishes power to many other towns
on the Peninsula.
Decisions in two other cases were
given by the Supreme Court. In
the case of Bernard Peyton V. Viii
liam c. Peyton, corporation. the
court over-ruled Chancellor VOL
colt. The issue involved a trans
fer Of certain stock The other de-
cision was in the case of the Metro
politan Insurance Company '. JOS
eph Jacobs, relative to payment Of
a certain insurance policy The
court decided in Jacobs favor
An anticipated ruling in the IN
dustrial Accident Board case was
not made by the court. which ad-
journed until August IL
Smyrna times., 1938-08-04
ust to determine its future

ust to determine its future
course.
State Board Avoids WrangIe
Stressing that the Board of
Game and Fish Commissioners is
a department of the state govern
ment, Leonard K. Yergar, presi-
dent of the board, Monday point
ed out it had no part in the con-
troversy between voluntary organ
izations on the wildlife situation in
Delaware. He did not mention the
Delaware Game and Fish Protec-
tive Association and the newly
formed United Farmers and
Sportsmen of Delaware. THE of
ficers and directors of the volun-
tary groups Of sportsmen involved
in the controversy have no connec-
tion with the State Board of Game
and Fish Commissioners, nor do
they serve on the board" Mr..
Yerger said.
Smyrna times., 1938-08-04
DEMOCRATIC CLUB FORMED
IN SMYRNA

The Democrats of Duck Creek
Hundred assembled in the Opera
House last evening to form a Dem
ocratic Club. After some little
wrangling Benjamin Hazel was
made temporary chairman and
William d. Holding temporary
secretary. A committee Of seven
was then appointed by the chair
on permanent organization. They
reported the following officers, who
were duly elected: President, Rob
ert Hill; Vice-presidents, William
e. Hall and B. B. Allen; Secretary,
William Polk Cummins. The club
was named the Cleveland and
Thurman Democratic Club of Duck
Creek Hundred.
Smyrna times., 1938-08-04
WILMINGTON DOLLAR DAY
Semi-AnnuaI Event Will Be Held
on Wednesday, August 10th

The Mercantile Section of the
Wilmington Chamber of Commerce
has released an announcement of
real interest to every housewife in
this vicinity when it made public
the date of the semi-annual Dollar
Day in Wilmington, which will be
observed on Wednesday. August
10. AS usual, practically every re-
tail merchant in Wilmington will
participate in the event, which will
be under the auspices and supervi-
sion of special committee, of
which Edward A. Munich, a we'll
known business executive. is chair
man. Cooperation of the Bureau
of Police has been accorded to pro-
tect out-of-town motorists from
the normal restrictions of the
parking regulations, which will be
courtesy highly appreciated by
shoppers There is published in
this issue a coupon which, if clip
ped out and pasted on the wind
chield, will permit parking in Will
mington as long as necessary with
out police interference This is a
real accommodation since it will
permit the thoughts of the shopper
to be concentrated on her purchas-
es and not on her watch. Chair
man Munich reports that Whining
ton merchants never before have
offered such bargains and such
values as will be on Dollar Day,
August 10. Official Dollar Day
stores, as usual, will display dis
tinctive emblems and price cards,
both of which bear the copyright
ed emblem of the Chamber of
Commerce. Stores will open by
o'clock, daylight saving time.
Smyrna times., 1938-08-04
PERSONALS

Mrs. Lizzie r. Maloy and daugh-
ter, Miss Lizzie, are visiting friends
in town.
Miss Annie and Winnie Lynch, of
Mount Pleasant, are visiting Mrs.
John p. Hudson.
Miss Maggie Smithers, of Phila-
delphia, is home on a visit.
George Jones and Garrett S.
Harrington, Of Harrington, spent
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