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The Washington times., 1938-11-09
Women Wrote Frankly
About Being Unmarried

women OF all ages ana ali walks OF u4S WIoCe
me frankly and told me candidly why they had
not married. All but / per cent of them do or
did want to marry. More than 1000 men wrote
as frankly.
This marriage survey was, believe the most
thorough and exhaustive Of its kind ever held.
Every answer was read and tabuated and the
tables and the story told by them form a very
valuable contribution to the study Of present
day social conditions.
The two main reasons for young people re-
naming single economic insecurity and lack Of
opportunity to meet mateS-are true bills of in
dictment against both society and government.
Revealed in Correspondence
Pitiful Circumstances
Letter after letter told pitiful tales of the de-
sire to marry but the boy friend was out of work,
or his job insecure or his wages too low even for
young love to gamble upon. Hundreds Of letters
told of valiant attempts to save few dollars
so they could get married on incomes (Which is
too arStocratic word for nonliving wage) Of
50, $40, $11 and $12 week.
Our young people deserve better break than
that. If they cannot become home makers the
country economically and morally will suffer.
AS one young woman so ably put it, 1--WE are
the lost generation"
They have been forgotten in the frantic efforts
to beat back from the world depression. Govern
mentS have aided all but the loverS-and love
is blind But not modern lovers. They see sanely
and well. Through all the thousands Of letters
runs fervent plea for help and at the same
time a cheerful, fighting optimism.
Government DOwry
Might Be Solution
Some solution will have to be found-perhaps
even Government dowry. Given enough to start
on, most young couples will fight it through.
Perhaps this survey will bring some Government
recognition Of "The Lost Generation"
The other true bill is an indictment of our
mode of living and our unsocial social life.
When % per cent Of our single women say
they have no adequate opportunity to meet
eligible men something must be wrong. -
We do feed our hungry but we do nothing for
the heart hunger Of our youth. And love and
romance are almost as necessary to happiness
as food and shelter. Our civic organizations and
churches have all fallen down, have failed the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-01-14
FRIDAY, JANUARY Id, 1888
A QUIZ WITH A MORAL

A worker in social research recent
ly asked 100 Washington Newspaper
correspondents series Of questions
Here is the way they answered:
"Eighty-six per cent of the CORES
pondents believe that comparative
" few papers give significant ac-
counts of our basic economic con-
fiicts' while II per cent believe that
the papers do give such accounts
Eighty per cent of the correspondents
believe that some form of govern
ment regulation over big business has
become imperative and II per cent
do not agree that such regulation is
necessary. Forty-eight per cent do not
believe that in general news col
umns are equally fair to big business
and labor and 43 per cent of the cor
respondents do believe that there is
equal fairness. Sixty-three per cent
Of the correspondents believe that
the publishers cry Of freedom of the
press in citing the NRA code was a
rusa' while "A per cent disagree with
this statement. Fifty five per cent Of
the correspondents agree that, in their
own experience, they have had their
own stories played down, cut or Kill
led for policy reasons while Al per
cent said that they had not had such
experiences. Sixty per cent Of the
correspondents said my orders are
to be objective but | know how my
paper wants stories played while 84
per cent did not claim such know
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-01-14
Automat Workers End
Five Months Strike

New York City, )ILNs). The five
months strike of two A. F. of L. unions
against the Horn and Hardart Auto
mat Co. has been settled by the state
mediation board Wages were not
raised. The company agrees to take
back 345 of the $50 strikers; but only
25 are taken back at once, and the
reinstatement Of the rest can be dra,y-
ged out over s months Also, the
selection of those taken back is en-
tirely at the company's discretion.
More than 1850 arrests of persons
charged with "disorderly conduct" Or
unlawful picketing were made during
the strike.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-01-14
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

most expensive labor on earth; and it
costs far more to seize spoils in war
than to make them. Labor in all free
lands has known these things for years
fascists haven't learned them yet.
Forty thousand persons were killed
in motor vehicle accidents in the
United States last year Such, at least,
is the present estimate; and the fig
ures usually go up rather than down
on more careful tabulations of the re-
turns.
This is about 1000 more than were
killed in the same way in 1886. The
bulletin Of the Metropolitan Life In
surance Co. estimates that on an av-
erage, motor vehicle accident killing
5 or more persons at the same time
occurs every 10 days.
All of which goes to prove that the
automobile is the deadliest of all hui
man devices. excepting war. Even
gunpowder does not outrank the mo-
tor car in this regard. In proportion
to numbers engaged, battles were dead
lier in the days of cold steel at arms
length than since men began to rely
chiefly on missiles.
And the conviction is growing and
spreading that until sharp limits are
put on the speed which an automobile
can make, there will be no serious de-
cline in the automobile death rate
which has been mounting pretty stead
lily for thirty years. Speeds now made
on the common road are often so great
that human reactions are not quick
enough to control them Any attempt
to control speeds by controlling the
capacity of the car to make speeds
will raise wild cries of anguish from
many quarters; but the time seems
coming when it will have to be done
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-01-14

We in America demand full liberties
for all Of our people. To US there is
little, if any, difference between Com
munism, Fascism and Nazism Each
system may have a different spelling.
but in practice they mean to those in
control the abject of the mind, the
body and the family of the worker
John B. Haggerty, president Inter
national Brotherhood of Bookbinders.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-01-14
High Finance Doesn't Change

High Finance Doesn't Change
Before any wage Garner weeps too
many briny tears over the present
plight of the railroads, he should read
some excerpts from recent proceed
ings of the Senate committee inves-
tigating railroad finance. Senator
Wheeler declared the other day that
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. made nearly S.
100000 out Of buying for the Pen
nsylvania railroad stock in the Wabash
and the Lehigh railroads. The stock
never should have ben bought; and in
the course Of this and allied deals,
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. sold to the public
$85. 100000 Wabash bonds now in
default.
Probably not a dollar Of that mon
ey ever went into pay envelope
though beyond doubt some Of the dol
lars paid for those bonds came out of
pay envelopes; and would come in han
dy, now that employment on the rail-
roads is dropping again Nor is there
anything new in the statement that
Kuhn, Loeb and ]. p Morgan have a
practical monopoly Of railroad fnanc-
ing. Joseph B. Eastman Of the ICC
pointed out that fact a dozen years
ago.
And that steadfastness in illdoing
is perhaps the most important reve-
lation Of the Senate inquiry. High
finance was the same fifty years age
that it il now. 1t dealt in railroads;
and the New Haven, the Alton, tbs
Milwaukee and the Wabash mark It's
path. 1t turned to electric light com
panies; and gave us insult
And it cannot be repeated too otter
that the money which goes to sucF
lootings is lost to consumers and woe
kers alike.
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The utility industry has been 50
ruined by government oppression that
its revenues last year increased rs
per cent.
The ancient practice of every autoc-
racy which finds itself unpopular at
home is to get into a foreign war.
And autocrats never change.
When the coming crusade against
monopoly is launched its leaders
should remember two things First
that up to date, Federal courts have
generally favored monopoly. Second
that while poison matches have been
taxed out of existence, no one has
tried the same remedy on bloated
business.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-01-14
ORDINANCE No. 1893
Clerk Of Council

ORDINANCE No. 1888
An ordinance to make preliminary appropria-
tions for current expenses chargeable to The
appropriations for the year 1898 when pas
sed sufficient to cover the necessary expenses
of the City until the Annual Appropriating
Ordinance is in force.
BE TT ORDAINED by the Council of the
City of Hamilton Ohio:
Section I: That to temporarily provide for
current city expenses chargeabe to the APP
preparations of the year when passed suf-
city, and until the annual appropriation or
dinanee is in force, the following sums are
hereby appropriated as follows
SINKING FUND ................... $50 244 3S
GENERAL FUND ....................... S4910.82
STREET REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE
GAS WORKS FUND .......... 1882. Sc
WATER WORKS FUND ..,....~.. 38, ,703.05
ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND ......... T1,572.26
Section II: Council does hereby authorize
and direct the proper board or officer to enter
into any contract or contracts involving an
expenditure of more than $4,000 for any or
all the purposes herein provided. Said board
or officer shall execute said contract in ac-
cordance with law.
Section III: The Director Of Finance is here
by authorized to draw his warrants upon the
Treasurer of the City of Hamilton, Ohio, for
the amounts appropriated in this ordinance,
in accordance with the provisions of the Char
ter OF the City of Hamilton, Ohio, when claims
are properly presented and approved. the same
to be chargeable to the appropriations for the
year 1898 when passed and are legally con-
tracted for in accordance with law.
Section " This ordinance shall be in force
and effect from and after the earliest period
allowed by the Charter of the City Of Hamilton,
Ohio.
Passed: January 5. 1888
X. II. BURKE. Mayor
Attest: ADELE EDMONDS,
Clerk of Council.
Jan. l4-It
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A. +. of L. Lumber Workers
Win Warren (Ark.) Vote

Warren, Ark (AFLNS) Lumber
and Sawmill Workers Local No. 2645,
United Brotherhood Of Carpenters and
Joiners Of America, following the re-
cent victory in an employee election at
the Southern Lumber Company here
is now working under union contract
with the company
The local union is recognized as the
exclusive collective bargaining agency
for the company's employees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-01-14
What Next

Non-breakable glass doors operated
automatically have been installed in
a New York City building. Super
strength quarters inch glass is
used in the doors. interruption of an
invisible infra-red light beam works
an electric eye mechanism to open
and close the doors automatically.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-01-14
SHERMAN ROGERS
SPEAKS
AT Mass Meeting
Saturday Night

The local Frank Durwin Post No.
1873 of the American Legion are stag
ing. during the week, an Americanism
campaign which is totally different
than the average campaigns of this
nature. The services of Sherman
Rogers. noted editor and economist,
were secured to speak before the
various organized groups of the city.
Mr.. Rogers has addressed the Trad
es and Labor Assembly, the Hamilton
Rotary Club, the students of the
Catholic High School, and the Fore
mans Meeting at the Y. M. G. A.
Tuesday Night He will address the
Business and Professional Women's
Club Wednesday, the Miami Univer-
sity, and members of Commerce of
Hamilton Thursday, the Merchants
Association Friday night, and will
terminate his activities with a general
Mass Meeting at the Hamilton High
School Auditorium Saturday night
at 800 P NJ.
Mr.. Rogers is an unusual person
ality. He was lumberjack and miner
the early years of his life. He later
took Theodore Roosevelt's contribu-
ting editorial chair on the Outlook,
wrote for the Saturday Evening Post,
the New York World, and the Phila-
delphia Ledger, and the Red Book
Magazine, and held Associate Editor
ial positions on the Success and
Liberty Magazines. Rogers does not
deal in personalities. His speeches
have been exceedingly fair and on the
whole, helpful to all organized groups
in the city He recognizes the ever
encroaching onward march of the COM
munist theory and fatty declares that
the three organizations which do most
to preserve American Institutions and
the system of private enterprise are
the American Federation of Labor,
the American Legion and the Catholic
Church
Mr.. Rogers addresses have been en-
Enthusiastically received by men and
women in many walks of life H
states emphatically that 80 per cent
Of the strength of the communist
movement lies in the apathy of the
constructive forces of the United
States in placing before the peoples
of this country, truth to combat the
fallacies of the extremist. This wants
to be done fairly and talently There
is nothing to be gained by mud sling
ing" is the Rogers theory.
eve are standing on the brink of
great era of prosperity if we can
bring about the proper cooperative
spirit between all of the great fac
tions that go to make up a city. But it
is high time for all of US TO get our
feet under the table; get the truth
out in the open where we can all un-
derstand the rules of the great game
operation. We can't have it without
understanding; and understanding
can only be brought about by talent
and thorough exposition of the truth.
Mr.. Rogers quoted figures of dis
, tribution of the national income re-
Gently published by the United States
Government. IF we will study those
figures the editor declared, eve
will all know what to do and there
will not be much disagreement on what
must be done, to give everybody the
fair deal, they must have, if this
country is to enjoy national security
Everyone is invited . to attend tht
Mass Meeting on Saturday Night.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-01-14
Quarry Workers Said
To Have Joined CIO
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)


The Quarry Workers international
Union of North America has seeded
from the American Federation of La
Dor and joined the Committee for In
dustrial Organization, according to
announcement from CIO headquarters
here.
A. f. of L. officials said the seces-
sion apparently meant that the CIO
had resumed "raiding" Federation
unions. In addition Federation
sources said they believed the move
would virtually assure expulsion of
some or all of the CIO unions form
erly affiliated with the A. F. of L.,
which are now under suspension.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-01-14
Legal Advertisements
LEGAL. NOTICE

sPrinted copies in eaiet form of the City of
No. 1854. passed by the Council of the City of
Hamilton, Ohio, January 5, 1898, are on
file in the office of the Clerk of Council for
inspection, said ordinance being, AN Ordi-
nance amending Section 17.636S of the Ham
ilton Municipal Code of 1881, relating to saar-
les, and repeating existing section 17.636S of
said Hamilton Municipal Code of 1884, ef-
fective and after February 5, 1898.
ADELE EDMONDS
Clerk of Council
Jan l4-It
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ledge

IeuSS.
Moral: Labor needs its own press
representation in Washington
presentation such as that given to
this and other newspapers through
International Labor News Service.
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We do not hold ourselves responsible for any
views or opinions expressed in the articles
communications of correspondents.
Communications solicited from secretaries
of all societies and organizations, and should
be addressed to The Butler County Press, 326
Market Street, Hamilton. Ohio
The publishers reserve the right to reject
any advertisements at any time.
Advertising rates made known appii-
cation.
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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, o.
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Wisdom

Whenever a separation is made be-
tween liberty and justice, neither, in
my mind, is safe Edmund Burke.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-01-14

1t is possible to be happy without
fortune, but no one can be happy
without a friend
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-01-14

Thought for today: Members of the
younger generation are alike in many
disrespects.
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Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1895 Hamilton. Ohio
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Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Glass Mail Matter
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Whatever is intended for insertion must
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the writer, not necessarily for publication but
a guarantee of good faith
Subscribers changing their address will
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address to insure regular delivery of paper.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-01-14

Reports are slowly filtering to the
outer world which indicate that Ethi-
opia is proving an economic white ele-
phant to its Italian conquerors.
In the first place, the war cost quite
a sum of money. The official ad
mission puts that cost at around $780,
100000; a small sum to this nation, a
very large sum to Italy-not to men
tion the probability that official ad-
missions are away below the facts.
No figures have been given on the
cost of maintaining a garrison. About
S160,000,000 has been appropriated for
roads; unusually expensive because
Italian road builders had to be inn
ported to make them. And the devel-
opment in trade which was expected
simply hadn't happened.
A wireless dispatch to the New York
Times gives some facts on that. Be
fore the war, coffee and skins were
the chief exports, and came to about
S5,o00,000 year. Coffee exports have
almost ceased, for the natives have
persisted and still persist in their
passive resistance. Valuable coffee
plantations that they will not cult
vate have been left to lie fallow for
two years
Hides and skins are in not much
better shape Bitterly needing foreign
currency, Italy has decreed that ex-
porters must sell twice as large a
quantity to foreign countries as may
be sold in Italy. Prices in the latter
country have sky-rocketed in conse-
quence No one talks any more about
Ethiopian minerals. Cotton plantations
are miles in the future if anywhere;
and the steady, passive resistance
clogs everything.
In the long run, slave labor is the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-01-14
0RnINANcE No aeas


Amending Section | of Ordinance No. $685.
being an Ordinance to make preliminary
appropriations for current city expenses
chargeabe to the appropriations for the
year 1888 when passed, sufficient to cover
the necessary expenses of the city until the
annual appropriating ordinance is in force
and repeating Section I of Ordinance No
3633.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the
City Of Hamilton, State of Ohio
Section 1 That to temporarily provide
for the current city expenses chargeable to the
appropriations of the year 1888 when passed
the city and until the annual appropriating
ordinance is in force, tine following sums be
and they are hereby set aside and appropriated
for the purposes Indicated as follows:
SINKING FUND
That there be and is appropriated from the
Sinking Fund for the payment of term bonds
and from the Bond Retirement Fund for the
payment of serial bonds the following amounts
Debt Service
Sinking Fund ...........................$ 6145
Bond Retirement Fund ............ So 1872. .93
GENERAL FUND
That there be appropriated from the Cen
eral Fund for the following purposes the sums
set forth herein
100 General Government
10l City Council .......................s 1893. -
l0Z City Clerk 1915
1903 City Manager ............ 253 rs
l04 Municipal Court ..................... 804. 10
l07 Special Appropriations .......... 2,437. .08
l08 Civil Service .......,."............... $3.50
l09 Director of Law ...................a 103.43
Total General Government 3,949. .05
200 Department of Finance
20l Administration ......S l27 95
202 Accounting .......................... 1920
2o3 Purchasing Department .....,... 1916
Total Department of Finance...S 296 81
800 Department of Public Works
SOl Administration .......................S l5045
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Total Parks and Fairgrounds s...$ l,6S0.00
TOTAL GENERAL FUND .......... SS3, ,971. SO
STREET REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE
FUND
That there be appropriated from the Street
Repair and Maintenance Fund the following
sum of money
ll0l Street Repair and Main
tenance sl3, ,72083
1902 Street Cleaning ..a...... l,60S SO
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-16
Wnr Menns Lease On Life ; Of P Chinese Desperddoes

SHANGHAI, Sept. 16.-1n Shang- hai's Ward Road Jail, the world $ largest prison, twenty-two Chinese are living who would long since have been dead and buried but Tor the undeclared Sino-JapaneSe war.
 The tWenty-two Chinese have all been sentenced to death for crlmes committed within the International Concession but execution has been delayed through the fact that Jap anese invaders have occupied all Chinese territory adjacent to the Settlement. Under the arrangement existing between the Settlement and Chinese Government authorities i the executions must be carried out in Chinese territory.
 Shanghai Municipal Police of- ficials are now attempting to solve the jail and execution problem with request to the Chinese Govern ment authorities in Chungking to modify the arrangement so that the men may be executed within the jail grounds.
 If and when the Chinese Gov ernment grants the request the police must also secure approval from the Consular Body, composed of consuls of the various powers who play dominant role in the involved administration of this in ternational settlement in China.
 Prior to the outbreak of hos tilities all Chinese found guilty ot major crimes in the Settlement and ordered executed were-on the day set for their death-turned over to Chinese authorities. They were i'm lmediately taken to the model prison in Chinese territory where the execution occurred.
 Japanese now occupy the mod el prison" and all territory sur rounding Shanghai, so that 1t Is impossible to secure court order or carry out the death sentence.
 The twenty-two prisoners, some of whom have been awaiting death for nearly a year, were all con- victed of armed robbery, murder Kidnapping or other crimes involving the death penalty under Chinese law.