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Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
THE CONFLICTS OF CONGRESS

Those who expected great acts of
legislation to bet finished at the re-
cent special session of congress,
were disappointed when the states
men quit and went home for the holi-
days. The difficulties of farm legis-
lation, wages and hours, and other
things leave these measures still the
subject of controversy.
In our vast country, with its di-
verse and conflicting interests, the
contrary opinions is,tem-
phatic and sharp. The waves Of the
ocean soon quiet down after a storm,
but the waves of political opinion
go too deep to be suddenly quieted
and made to flow peacefully.
The American people are quick on
the trigger. 1t gives them severe
pain to wait for anything. If they
had ever tried to satisfy the con-
fiicting clamor of As different states,
they would have some mercy on con-
gressmen who were glad for a few
days in theif peaceful homes away
from that din.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
THE NATIONS INCOME

President Roosevelt says we shall
have no trouble in financing the
needs of the government, if the ma
tional income can be lifted to $780,
OO,OOO,OOO a year. That income was
$6s 900 ,OOO, 900 in 1887.
Every American citizen ardently
desires such a gain, but it can't be
accomplished merely by spending
government money. If they try to
bring it about by raising wages, the
goods produced will cost so much
more that there will be no gain. Just
now the factories can't run more
regularly, because the people lack
the money to buy, and the people
lack the money to buy, because the
factories don't run regularly. It's
another of those vicious circles.
Meanwhile goods are wearing out,
which makes it necessary to buy and
spend more, which starts up idle
factories. If people don't lose their
heads, they always work out of these
seemingly endless circles.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
STUDYING BUSINESS

Recent college and university sta
tistics show that many more stu
dents are taking courses in COM
merce and business administration
High school courses would probably
show a similar tendency. A great
army Of boys and girls are studying
how to carry on trade and business.
VIII jobs be found for all of themg
Are these young people acquiring
general intelligence?
The country's recent experiences
show the value of practical educa-
tion. While many college graduates
having learned degrees tackled on
their names have been searching in
vain for jobs. the great majority who
learned to do some useful kind Of
work, have been able to find employ
ment.
1t is a fine thing for anyone TO
know French and mathematics and
science. but the prospective employer
does not ask any questions to test
knowledge on these points. He wants
to know whether an applicant can
sell goods, or write a correct letter,
or deal with dissatisfied customers. |
intelligence is one of the
best gifts a youth can acquire, but |
the constant newspaper reader can
always get it.
Someone asks how all these young
people who are training to be ad-
of business, are going
o find a chance to do any such ad-
The number of bosses
yho are being trained seems out of
to the number who are
Wiling to be bossed.
The young men should not despise
lain work with the hands. The boy
gho learn to use tools, and can tell
THAT is the matter with an automo-
lie or shop machine, has some
mes come out better than one
hose head has been stocked with
nancial theories and business statis-
cs. The world values skill more
ian almost anything else.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
WHAT SHALL THE JOBLEss DOT

The report of the unemployment
census taken in November, showing
millions out of work, raises the
question what shall these workless
folks do? With nearly 100000 peo-
pie thus jobless, and perhaps S,OOO,-
900 more in the same condition, here
is the nations greatest unsupplied
want.
The work seeker needs persist
ence. If he goes around few days
and then gets discouraged, his
chances are not good. The people
who settled this country did not
have any problem Of finding work,
hut they had to keep trying through
failure after failure, before they
could make a living with their poor
tools and lack of machinery.
The jobless person should devote
some part of every day to the search
for work He should study to make
himself more desirable as a worker.
What many of them need is training
in some school that would fit them
to give some kind of service that is
needed.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
PERILs OF REPORTING

The recent deaths in the Spanish
war Of Edward J. Neil. Jr., Associ-
ated Press reporter. and Bradish
Johnson Of the magazine Spur and
Newsweek, suggest the tragic side OF
the news profession. While we read
our newspapers and magazines in
our homes, men are facing the
CHASTITY form OF death to give us that
information.
The war correspondent has per-
haps the most perilous task. Strict
censorship is clamped down on all
information, so he has to take per-
sonal risks to learn what is going on.
The fearless courage with which
these men take these chances make
it wonderful that not more of them
are killed.
The reporters in our own cities
and towns often take risks, as they
see how the firemen fight a terrible
blaze, what happened when some
mob became violent, and as they hur-
ry to news events through danger
ous traffic. The zeal Of their occupa-
tion sustains these men through |
many dangers.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
HOMES FOR 100000

According to the National housing
committee, 100000 families need
homes. The income of the typical
family in the boom year of 1929 is
said to have been only $1TOO a year.
Probably it is less now. So that
average family can't afford any large
sum for rent.
II some plan could be evolved for
building dwellings which those g.
100000 families could afford, we
should see the greatest boom in
building that the country ever knew.
When the business man finds his
goods don't sell as they should, be
has his choice, whether to reduce
prices or hold the goods until the
people have more money. That is
the choice which the building indus
try has today.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
HOME TOWN puRLICITY

Cities and towns need publicity
just as much as a business. A city
gets publicity from its home town
newspaper, but if the town is slow
and sleepy, it won't get much from
publications outside.
If the city wakes up and supports
progressives movements, if it has
active people working for the public
good, if it is enlarging its facilities
and taking hold of new movements,
/. attracts attention over wide.
area. Newspapers all over the state
and beyond publish reports of
things that it is doing. Thus the
impression spreads that the burg is
a very go-ahead place. which is a
big help in modern competition.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
M THE PnRLIc RYR

1t is frequently said after elec-
tions. that such and such a losing
candidate did not run well, because
he was not well known. Many very
excellent aspirants for office have
been beaten for that reason. They
had good qualifications, but the peo-
pie did not know much about them,
and hence were not attracted to vote
for them.
That condition also exists in the
business world. Many concerns Of
fer or are willing to offer very
good service, but the people are not
familiar with the goods they offer or
the work they are qualified to do.
Hence they pass them by. The way
to cure that difficulty is by adver-
tising, which calls attention to their
goods and service so they get patron
age.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
WIRE TAPPING

The U. S. Supreme Court rules
that evidence secured by tapping
wires is illegal in federal tribunals.
The public has mixed feelings on this
question. In the ordinary activities
of life and business, wire tapping
would be regarded as an interference
with the rights of the citizen.
When it comes to the powerful
criminal world, the American people
need to hit them with about every
thing in sight. 1t would seem that
laws might be enacted which, while
protecting the ordinary citizen,
would allow the officers of the law.
when dealing with the more aggra-
waited cases of crime, to use some
such methods that would not other
wise be tolerated.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
NO POLITICS IN CRISIS

Ex-Gov. Landon, Republican can
didate for president last year. did
well to issue an appeal to the Ameri-
can people not to allow politics TO
interfere with the settlement of the
critical issue which has arisen be-
tween the United States and Japan.
Whatever differences of opinion peo-
pie may feel on politics, they must
support the government on such
questions of foreign policy.
They have the right to differ with
the government, If it seems to follow
wrong policies. The American peo-
pie are usually pretty good on not
allowing their politics to interfere
with support of the government in
critical situations. Their love for
their country goes far beyond their
desire to administer a licking to the
opposite political party.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
THE FARMER SHOULD SMILE

The farmers have many troubles
and real causes Of complaint. and
do not usually admit they are
prosperous. The figures Of farm
production for 1887 show a big gain
over recent years. The cash income
Of farmers for 1887 is figured at ss.-
5OO,0OO.O0O. where 1t was only s4.s77.-
100000 in 1882.
Opinions will differ as TO whether
this gain is brought about chiefly by
the government policy of reducing
production, or by better times in the
factories which have produced de-
mand for more food. Anyway. the
farms have to be reasonably prosper
Gus, or the whole country suffers. II
the farmer can't buy, the factory
worker has no job. However, farm
prices should not be pushed so high
that the factory worker can't buy.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
REWARDS FOR Study

Some of us were glad to note a
dispatch from Annapolis. Md, telling
how, naval academy cadets having
good scholastic standing had holidays
extending through the evening Of
January 8, while those with deficient
standing had to get back the day af-
ter Christmas.
The modern youth sees rewards
and pleasures heaped by popular
fancy on the winners in athletics.
The rewards given to good students
are relatively so few that the youth
frequently gets the idea that sport is
more vital than study. 1t is a point
of view that needs correction by
handing out some joys to the good
student.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
Milford, Friday, January IA, 1888
our s7.OOO.OOO.OOO GOYERNMENT

President Roosevelt again stated
in his annual message to congress,
his belief that the annual expendi-
lures Of the government can not be
reduced much below $1,000, 1000, 900,
without destroying essential func-
tions or letting the people starve.
The above may be true, and yet
people do not realize how greatly
their attitude has changes on this
question of government expendi-
lures. Twenty-Five years ago it cost
around $7OO,OOO.O0O a year to run the
government. So our government ex-
penses have increased 10 times. Is
that increase justified?
During that period the population
has increased about 45 per cent. We
have taken on vast debt, which
will call for some sSOO. 100000 a year
in interest alone. The care of the vet
Grams makes it necessary to spend
around s7OO00O,OOO year. The per-
lie Of war have increased the neees-
sity for armament expenditure. The
costs Of all materials used, and of all
labor employed by the government,
have greatly increased.
Even if the government took on no
new services additional to those es-
tablished 25 years ago, and made the
same effort for economy that was
made then, and even if all relief ex-
penditures were cut off, it is prob
able that it would still cost $780,
100000 to run the government un-
der present conditions.
Opinions will differ as to whether
all the new burdens that have been
taken on are justified and product
i've. The people should realize that
the government has taken on these
burdens because the people demand
ed them. If the people want these
thinsae thsx. must reali7e they have
to pay and pay heavily, and that all
the people have to contribute. The
ideas of low taxes and high appro-
priations which many folks cherish
Just don't go together.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
ANOTHER BIG DEFICIT

The statesmen at Washington keep
telling us that the government bud
get is going to be balanced, but the
time for this happy result keeps re-
ceding. 1t is like some big mountain
that looks quite near. yet you walk
many miles before you get to its
top.
Now they say there will be a ST.
0O0.0OO,OOO deficit for the fiscal year
beginning next July. The country
does not like to see that load Keep
piling up. People always think it is
going to be easier in future to pay
debts than it is now, but it does not
usually work that way. The man who
has pulled his own business affairs
out Of a hole says the thing to do is
to cut expenses or raise the taxes.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
BUsINEss MAN,s REsOLvEs

If the business man considers
what New Years resolutions he
should make. he might include the
following:-
1. To try to treat the public as he
likes to be treated when he is buy
ing anything.
2. To try to treat his help as he
wanted to be treated when he was
working for somebody else.
8. To be patient and courteous
even when other people do and say
the most unreasonable and provok-
ing things.
4. To remember that It is ex-
tremely difficult to hold ones own
in modern trade without consider
able advertising.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
We GN0D NLn H0MR RTIRa

People sometimes become discon-
tented in their home towns, and
think these places are too dull. and
they would like to go to some place
where there is moret going on.
II work or business forces them
for a time to leave the community
with which they are familiar. they
are usually mighty glad to come
back. The big city may be more ex-
citing. but all those strange and in
different faces convey no thought of
friendship. When such people return
to the old home burg, they are glad
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14

the boss isn't looking as 'ghen he
is.
3. TO maintain such smiling end
pleasant manner that people enjoy
doing business with him.
4. To try to learn more about
the business. SO as to be able 70
answer questions intelhgentiS.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14

to get back. The handcIasp Of this
and that friend. the cordial welcome
home, the regret people express be-
cause these absent ones stayed away
too long. are better than the thrills
and excitements Of the strange city.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14

IF THE organization TO which
you belong does not prosper, It may
be because it has few workers and
many who merely watch what 9th
ers do, and offer advice and criti-
eism.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14

IT TAKES something more than
good people to make a town go
ahead. The good people have to
provide advantages and opportuni-
ties SO that more folks want to live
and work there.
Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14
pUsINRss WORKER,s REs0LYEs

If the business worker has con-
templatad New Year resolutions. the
following would do him good
/. To work just as hard for his
employer as he would for himself #
he were the owner of the business.
2. To work just as earnestly when
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
SHORTS

Incentive taxation" seems to be the
name of the latest scheme by which
big business hopes to dodge it's proper
share of public burdens.
From 1899 to 1897, the manufacture
of glass containers grew 600 per cent
in volume, 700 per cent in value; but
dropped in the number of workers en-
ployed from 28,37O in 1899 to 24,04O in
1887. And still the N. A. M. avows
that machinery makes more jobs!
The Jew with 100000 of property
who wants to leave Germany pays
$25, 900 for a flight tax, $4,000 as a
fine for a murder committed in Paris,
SIS, 900 as contribution to evict other
Jews. The. remaining $4,000 are
held; and per cent of them-S3 200
will be paid to the Jew in his new
place-but only in exported German
goods. Can you beat it?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
FRIDAY, DECEMBER %, 1888.
SLANGING THE WAGE-HOUR
LAW

There are strong signs that the
U. S. Chamber of Commerce is medi-
tating drive against the wage-hour
law The latest of them comes from
Kansas City, and may be taken as a
sort of trial balloon" to test the wind
of public opinion. The local c. of G..
held luncheon meeting, and at that
meeting, Dr. B. NJ Anderson, econ
omist of the biggest bank in the
United States-the Chase National,
gave lengthy discourse on Wages,
Hours and Profits"
Saying that more than 70 per cent
of the national income now goes to
labor though not giving figures on
which this statement is based, DR.. An
derson said that the "strangling ef-
fects" of the Fair Labor Standards
Act might stop the upswing in bust
ness "The most dangerous feature
of that act may well be the statutory
enactment Of the -and-a-half rule
for overtime after 40 hours" The eff
fort to raise labor's share Of the ma
tional income would lead to violent
reductions in payrolls, he argued.
1t is scarcely necessary to refute
this nonsense. Isador Lubin, in open
ing the monopoly committee hearings,
tore to little pieces Anderson's the
ories without knowing they were
there. The point is that high finance
evidently is staging an attack on the
latest great labor reform; that it is
relying, as usual, on the Chamber of
Commerce for help; and that labor
must be on guard
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

Four recent things have reused the
American people to the horrors anc
dangers of Nazism-and three of them
directly affect this country They are;
The Nazi assault on the Jews, un-
matched in organized savagery for
three centuries.
The organization of League for
Human Rights, Freedom and Democ-
racy, of which Matthew Woll of the
A. f. of l.. is the chief, and which APP
peals to all walks of life.
The conviction of four Nazi spies
in federal court, and the fact that
considerably larger number are
waiting trial.
The practically unanimous report
from Lima that Nazi spies are busy
throughout Latin America, trying to
bring the Pan-American conference to
a snarl.
Now comes a fifth event: Rev. L. M
Birkhead, pastor of All Souls Uni
tartan Church at Kansas City and a
delegate to the gathering in New York
of the Institute for Analysis of Propa-
ganda, declares that since Hitler came
into power in Germany, 800 organiza-
tions have been formed in this coun-
try for the purpose of spreading anti
Semitism and undermining democracy
and that a large part of these or
ganizations are receiving direct sub
sides from Hitler.
If this last, or even half of it, can
be proved beyond cavil, it will hit
Nazism a body blow. The spy convic-
tions point that way, and Rev. Birk-
head claims to have the proof.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
Kentucky Labor Opposes
Patman Anti-Cilain Bill

Paducah, KY. (ILNS). The Ken
lucky State Federation Of Labor in
annual convention has just followed
the lead of the A. F. of l.. and two
other state bodies by adopting strong
resolution voicing labor's opposition to
the proposed Patman anti-chain store
bill expected to come before Congress
in January. Texas and Kansas fed
erations have also gone on record in
the same manner.
This state federation also became
the thirty y-frst in the nation to create
a special committee for study of pro-
posed state tax measures, with view
to safeguarding the interests of wage
earners while other organized groups
seek to shift tax burdens from them
selves.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
Committee Approves Plan
For Better Care Of I'LL

New Haven, Conn. (ILNS). The
Committee of Physicians for the I'M
provement of Medical Care has
adopted four recommendations, none
of which will be entirely acceptable
to the more conservative wing of the
American Medical Association. Those
recommendations are:
One, consolidation of government
health services.
Two, better coordination of health
services, with encouragement Of ex-
periments in co-operatives.
Three, standards of administration
that will not obstruct experiments, the
patient as well as the doctor being rep
resented here
Four, generous provisions for edu-
cation and investigation.
The committee started a year ago
as the Committee Of 400" as pro-
test against the ultra conservative
policy of the American Medical Asso-
citation. 1t has more than doubled it's
numbers in IL months.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
Communist Party Backs
Big Armament Program

New York City (ILNS).-The Ma
tional Committee Of the Communist
party Of the United States unani-
mously passed resolution calling for
a heavy armament program in this
country, saying that "only American
arms can prevent the Americans from
conquest by the Berlin Rome Toxic
alliance"
The Daily Worker, Communist
party organ, praises warmly the "drive
for national security"
Earl Browder, general secretary,
said:
IF armaments are for the defense
of the liberty and independence of our
own and other people, emphatically
yes"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23

Labor has received slap in the face
from the United States Circuit Court
of the Third Judicial Circuit, the one
up in Pennsylvania which years ago
earned it's nickname of the "Methus-
aleh Court"
An injunction was granted by the
Federal District Court, forbidding
Mayor Hague and his police to harass
the pickets or run sympathizers out of
town in two strikes then being con-
Quoted by two A. F. of L. unions; the
Boot and Shoe Workers and the Up
holsterers, Carpet and Linoleum Me
chanics.
This injunction was granted in
March, 1887. Note that date. Argu-
ment in the Circuit Court was not
heard until April, 1888 months.
The decision vacating the injunction
was not announced until the middle of
December, 1882 months after the
injunction was granted. The decision
was reached by 2-to-1 vote; Judges
j. Warren Davis and Joseph Buffng-
ton, the last SO years old and since
retired and summoned to serve again
in another labor case!
Judge John Biggs dissented sharply.
He declared that the delay had been
so long that one of the companies in
question had settled with the strikers,
and that the other company had gone
out of business. But the injunction,
Judge Biggs pointed out, went farther
than the strike, and protected the basic
civil rights of citizens; and that part
should have been passed on favorably.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
LOSS
(From the News and Observer,
Raleigh, n. Co

You can have excessive arma-
ments," says John G. Winant, the
American head of the international
Labor Organization, ''or you can have
social progress, but in the long run
you cannot have both" Great ships
and big armies may, as their advo-
Gates insist, be necessary in troubled
world, but in too much poverty
stricken world they are also and al
ways part of the labor and thinking
of man turned to unproductive en-
gines for destructiveness and diverted
from the productive activities which
bring the world and the men in it to-
ward plenty.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
WHAT NEXT2

Chocolate bars" made out of coal
tar and sold in Berlin confectionery
stores show the desperate efforts of
German industry under the Nazi re-
gilne to provide substitutes for scarce
natural products. The bars look like
soap but are said to taste ike choco-
late. There was no attempt by manu-
facturers of synthetic food to color
the bars brown.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23

Just as in the Whitney case and the
insult case and the Ivar Kreuger case
the chief faker was given a glad hand
in Wall Street, and no suspicious were
voiced
And the other reason cannot be re-
peated too often: Grated wealth al
most never gets into the pay envelope.