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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
A START ON HOUSING

The federal slum-clearance and
housing project is progressing at q
rapid pace through its first stage
that of ear-marking OF the $500,00o,
900 authorized for the first three
years, s1677lO,ooo has been ear
marked for so projects in 19 states
Three states Michigan, Nebraska
and Louisiana, have only one project
each as yet; Pennsylvania has 9; Ohio
8, and New York 6.
These ear-markings,' said Admin
istrator Straus, do not indicate spe-
cifc projects. They indicate that we
are satisfied that the local authorities
in the cities are qualified and equipped
to do business, and aremaking an earn
est effort effort to meet the conditions
of the act. The ear markings also in
cate that we are satisfied that there
is urgent need for re-housing slum
dwellers in these communities.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
FRIDAY, APRIL Is, 1888
THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL

John Russell Pope has designed a
monument for Thomas jefferson which
is virtual copy of the Roman Pan
theon-which means temple of "all
gods. 1t is not at all popular. The
fine arts commission of Washington
has just pointed out that it is not
fresh" design at all, since Pope
has used the same design in the ar
chives building and is going to use it
in the Mellon art gallery.
There is a better reason. jefferson
and the Pantheon are not bit alike.
The Pantheon had concrete dome,
and Jefferson didn't; he had the most
widely receptive and eager headpiece
of the time, save possibly that of Ben
Franklin. The Pantheon was devoted
to idols; and Jefferson was devoted to
freedom, especially freedom of speech.
The best suggestion yet made is to
build Jefferson auditorium, with no
restriction on speeches. Let the talk
ers say that "de sun do move" or that
Hitler is a gentleman. No one will
believe either, and Jefferson would like
it if he could know.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
Painters Cut Pay
To Aid Building

Clevelan (ILNsl The Painters
Union here has voted to reduce
hourly pay rates by 20 cents and to
increase the work day from seven to
eight, in an effort to aid the Build
America program originated by
Cleveland building trades unions
The wage reduction restores the
$1.30 rate in effect prior to January j
of this year.
The union announces the lower pay
rates will be in effect until January |,
1910, if they inject with public ap-
proval"
Build America" aims to promote
home building throughout the nation
1t seeks to stabilize and lower costs
of building as one Of the means OF
aiding building.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
PICTURE SMUT

There has always been a market
for pictorial bawdiness and pornog-
raphy, and there probably always will
be, but it has generally been furtive
and under cover. Now with the mad
scramble of the picture magazines
for circulation, involving the big ones
as well as their nasty little satellites,
the business of puryeying pictorial
salaciousness on big scale has come
into the open.
We do not know the present mum
Der of picture magazines on the mar
ket, since no one seems TO be keeping
an hour-by-hour total. but the last
half-dozen we have looked through
reveals their editors tunnelling sweat
lily into the smut pile
A few newspapers, perhaps think
ing there is bonanza in this sort of
thing, have recently printed picture
features which are definitely out Of
place in publications going into the
home.
Two facts in the situation are plain
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
Butchers Union To
Hold Regional Meet

Cleveland (OLNS) Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers
Unions here plan to celebrate their
fourth anniversary with joint re-
gional meeting April 10 and 20 at
Swiss Hall.
Delegates from Akron, Youngs-
town, Canton and Sandusky will be
invited to attend the conference by
y. G. Rich, international organizer
and business agent for the local un-
ions, for the purpose of outlining a
program for closer cooperation.
Dennis Lane, Chicago, international
secretary of the union, will address the
Joint meeting.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15

Latest developments of science if
used, could save bill-payers $428,-
100000.
This is the estimate of the Pitts
burgh Testing Laboratory, which has
been testing materials and products
for American industries over a period
Of 81 years.
Why are not consumers given the
opportunity to pocket these tremen-
dous savings? Could the matter of
profits be factor IN denying them
the savings?
Here's a fruitful field for inquiry
and study.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15

to responsible publishers and editors:
First, that national advertisers
wouldn't be caught dead in 80 per
cent of these publications, as THEN.
lack of copy attests;
Second, that a firm groundwork is
being laid for insistent censorship
demands. The printed material al
ready is at hand which, if assembled,
would impress any legislative group.
The censorship implication is by
far the most important, not only to
the newspapers but to the picture
magazines themselves. From the
Editor and Publisher.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
COOPERATIVE Farm
Reports Progress

New Orleans (ILNS)-"We still
pay a miserable wage of II cents an
hour minimum, but at that we offer
the tenant farmer security, and luxu-
ries such as crude medical attention
and schools, which he never had be-
FORE" Elaine Treadway, director of
the Delta cooperative farm in Mis-
sissippi, told a small group of Or
leanians at a gathering at the homie
of f. A. Bultman, Jr
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
1O7,129 Aged Aided

Columbus (OLNS) March report
of the Ohio division of aid for the
aged reveals that 1O7,129 needy aged
in the state were aided by payment
of assistance grants totalling $2,465,-
63421 during that month.
The quarterly so per cent share of
federal funds for the Ohio public as
sistance program was allotted last
week, and totalled $4,214,236, Of which
So 1854, ,034 was for old age assistance.
The remainder is applied to aid for
dependent children and blind relief.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

should have had all the arms and mu-
nitions they wanted long ago. Musso-
lini makes no secret of the fact that
at least 10000 Italian troops are IN
Francois armies. Almost every dis
patch from the war area for weeks
has told of the German tanks, planes
and artillery which were overwhelm-
ing the loyalists. Yet Germany and
Italy agreed to non-intervention IN
Spain, along with France and Britain.
Why should an agreement, openly
fiouted by one party, be kept by the
others?
AS far as the outcome of any war
can be predicted, the loyalsts of Spain
are doomed Only in an extremity can
France act without Britain, and the
tory government of Britain is con-
cluding a treaty of friendship" with
Mussolini
Small wonder that British labor is
furious; but there seems no way in
which it can get action at this time.
The prediction made months ago
that Japan's difficulties would increase
the farther she invaded China are be-
ing fulfilled The direct resistance
grows more and more stubborn; one
japanese army has been held almost
in its tracks for days; and behind the
lines, Chinese irregulars have cut the
roads over which japanese supplies
come again and again.
The Chinese are manifesting a
! fighting spirit higher than they have
lever shown before in modern times,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15

Under an act passed in 1884, the
Philippines will become Independent
on July a, 1916. As the act stands,
all trade preferences between the
United States and the Philippines will
cease on that date But the Filipinos
don't want this to happen. Their priv
ileges in the American market are
very valuable to them.
Manuel Queson has been negotiating
with Secretary Hull and comforting
with the president. Quezon's conten-
tion is that the Philippines will not
be able to stand alone in an economic
sense by that time. President and Sec
rectary of state have agreed that some
of the trade privileges of the Philip
pines in our markets shall be continued
on diminishing scale until 1860. Of
course the change will have to be pass
ed by congress before it can become
effective; and there is no sort of hurry
about getting it through that body.
mo people in history, coming un-
der a foreign flag, have ever been
treated SO generously (as the Fill
pinos)" The words were spoken by
Manuel Quezon four years ago. They
have never been contradicted; and
they seem truer than ever now.
A new Spanish cabinet, backed by
the Catalonian labor unions and COM
posed partly of their representatives,
is preparing for last ditch fight at
Barcelona; and has appealed to France
and England for arms and munitions.
BY all the rules of fair play, they
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15

AS the word sterling, Impressed on
an article of silver, is a hallmark IN
dicating that the silver piece is one
Of highest quality, just 50 the union
label, impressed or printed on any
product is a hallmark indicating the
true worth Of that particular article
Matthew Woll
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
Labor Man Named
To Tax Commission

Cincinnati tILNS) Thomas ].
Donnelly, secretary treasurer of the
Ohio Federation Of Labor, is one Of
fourteen members of the special state
tax and revenue commission appointed
by Gov. Martin L. Davey.
The commission was established to
draft and recommend legislation for
a comprehensive and equitable tax
system for the state and its subdiyi-
sions, counties, and cities. The COM
mission is composed of state sena-
tors, state representatives, business
men, and Mr. Donnelly.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
ELECTION ORDERED

Lima (OLNS) -veral hundred
employees of the Ohio Steel Foundry
here are preparing to vote their
choice between the American Fedora
tion of Labor and the CIO as their
collective bargaining agent, in an
election ordered by theNational La
Dor Relations Board.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
WHAT NEXT?

India's Imperial Institute of Sugar
Research is reported to have discov-
cred a means Of hard-surfacing roads
with molasses mixed with coal tar and
asphalt plus acids The mixture is
said to produce a ton Of road-surfac-
ing material that costs only one-third
as much as ton of asphalt.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15

waged on "Chamberlain's childlike
faith in the dictators-" Hitler and
Mussolini; and the triumphant shout
Of the laborites was Chamberlain
must go!'
Incidentally, the successful candi-
date was a woman, mother and a
physician. There will be II women
now in parliament. West Fulham is
reported to be a workers district,
leaning toward the conservative side.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
TheCherry
- Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly. Sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

April brings memories of Americas
entrance into the World War.
War was declared 81 years ago. The
millions in their 30's and over, re-
member. To many, remembrance
brings pain.
Propaganda, pro and con, whipped
national emotion to fever heat for
before the war declaration.
We know now much of the
propaganda, before, during and
after the war, was false. Much
was 100 per cent hokum.
All that has been exposed since then
by picture and text.
But exposure has not killed war
propaganda 1T is STILL DOING
BUSINESS.
America has kept its head. The
nation is not war-minded and anti
war sentiment is almost universal
How long will that state of mind
last?
War propagandists, here and
abroad, are busy. Old and new shib-
boleths are heard.
The tug is on to swing national SEN
timent.
A colored postcard comes to Inter
national Labor News Service from
Spain.
Uncle Sam, John Bull, France are
shown hand in hand with that shin
ing exponent of democracy, Soviet
Russia.
'The union of the democratic ma
tions will end war forever" says the
card in English, French and Spanish.
Yea, bo, that's what it says. No
fooling.
Strangely like that slogan of 81
years ago:
''The war to end war" Remember
The intent Of the card is plain
Get America in the next world war.
Undoubtedly, politicians abroad
would like to inveigle Uncle Sam into
lining UP with Britain, France and
Russia in war for democracy"
The card is sample of the propa-
ganda with which we are likely to be
deluged, as the war clouds blacken
in Europe.
But America still remembers and is
skeptical. "The burnt child breads
the fire"
A reporter for well known labor
paper was telling a group of his fel-
low workers of incidents of his prop.
uganda work with the American army
in France.
at was damned good propaganda,
he said.
"And some of it was true, too," he
added.
That brought resounding laughter
from the crowd.
If the skeptical sentiment illustrat
ed by that laugh continues to pervade
the American people, there is hope
we may escape war and the ruin that
will follow.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
Governmental red tape can be cut.

Governmental red tape can be cut.
New York's showing the way
A short cut procedure is being used
by the state department of labor to
break the log jam of 10000 claims
for re-checking of workers previous
earning records.
As result, checks for unemploy-
ment insurance benefits are going out
without the delay that has been caus-
ing hardship and suffering.
What New York is doing, others can
do. That goes for state, national and
local governments.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
Chas. NJ.

OF
BROWN COUNTY

Announces his candidacy
for State Senator to rep
resent the Second and
Fourth Senatorial Dis
trict, composed of Brown,
Butler, Clermont and
Warren Counties, sub
ject to the decision of the
Democratic Voters at the
Primary, to be held Au-
gust 9, 1888.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
GEO. KAPPEL

Practical all-around tailor, would like
to be favored with your patronage, for
Repairing, Altering, Cleaning, Press
ing, removing wearshine and Refining
1852 N. B street. 1887 w. Will call for
Give estimates and deliver.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15

Union label buying is the only
method Of the organized worker to
uphold his own wages and also the
wages Of all American workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15

Mccarthy: Did you protest against
the movie that represents the Irish
are disorderly?
Murphy: Did we? We wrecked
the place.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15

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views opinions expressed in the articles
or 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 the right to reject
any advertisements at any time
Advertising rates made known on appli-
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
WISDOM

/ neverlisten to calumnies; because,
if they are untrue, | run the risk Of
being deceived; and if they are true,
of hating persons not worth thinking
about Montesquieu.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15

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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Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton. Ohio
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Entered at the Postoffce at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
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The Lexington advertiser., 1938-04-21
County Council Hears
How Products Judged

The County Council met Thursday,
April Id for the regular meeting; called
to order by our vice president, Mrs. l..
H. Hunter, our president, being absent.
The sum of $l1.70 was made by get
ting subscriptions to Hollands maga-
zine.
Miss Scale gave rules for major and
minor projects; poultry and egg judg-
ing for major and budget canning l and
II and canned products judging for the
minor.
Mrs. T. A. Barrentine explained judg-
ing canned products and told how the
state contest was conducted last year.
Mrs. T. r. Garnett gave very in.
teresting talk on the work of the Red
Gross and how it began. She also gave
the officers of the Red Cross chapte,
organized in Holmes county.
Elliott Hill was hostess of the coun.
ell for April. There were member:
present. The Council adjourned to NEE,
again in May.
MRS. X. d. HENRY, Secretary
ELLEN Scale, Agent.
The Lexington advertiser., 1938-04-21
Shipp Gets Ready
To Sell Butane Gas

L. r. Shipp, who is with The Fincher
Co. in charge Of the sale of Butane gas,
went over to Little Rock, Ark. last week
where he spent two days having the
proper tank put on his truck and receiv-
ing instructions in the handling Of the
gas. He returned by Memphis where
he also spent several days getting in
structions in the installations of the
latest type appliances used in butane
gas. Mr. Shipp reports his visits to
the two cities highly informative and
beneficial to him and is highly enthus-
iastic about the new fuel
The Lexington advertiser., 1938-04-21
EMORY

Mr.. and Mrs. John Fades Coleman
and attractive little daughter, Jane, Of
Greenwood, were overnight guests in the
Cal Coleman home last Wednesday.
Mrs. Harvey Pennington and Mrs. Al
lene Goldman came Wednesday evening
for little visit with loved ones. They
returned to their home in Brazil Thurs
day afternoon.
Jackson's busy marts claimed Mes
danes Esther Hill and Roscoe johnson
recently. On their return they visited
Mrs. Hills sister-in-law, Mrs. Homer
Weeks in Ridgeland.
Beautiful and vivacious little Miss
Eula Coleman Taylor and her parents
were up from Vicksburg for Easter hol-
idays with relatives in the w. &C. Down
er home.
The school children enjoyed an egg
hunt on the school grounds Friday af-
ternoon. Agnes Grantham was the lucky
finder of the prize egg. Visitors for the
occasion were Masters Jimmie Truitt
and Charles Herbert Grantham. Souve-
Mrs we're presented each child.
Mr.. r. S. Cade moved to his new home
last week which was recently completed
by our energetic and efficient carpenter
Estes Hill, who did the finishing worl
for Marvin Cade, nephew of Mr.. Cade
who looks after his interests since his
/ accident last winter, from which he ii
| still lame.
| Hon. and Mrs. E. E. Wynn and daugh.
ters we're visiting Mr.. and Mrs. P. M
Downer Sunday. Friends regretted Mrs
Wynn's inability to attend services al
the Baptist church, where she has been
their faithful pianist since it's re-op
ganization.
Among the visitors at the Easter ser.
vice Sunday were noted: Mr.. and Mrs
Lee Cade and son of Acona, and Mrs
Murley Tate of West, all Of whom were
guests in the L. H. Cade home.
Marion Johnson of Cruger was lunch
con guests of relatives in Emory Sun
day. The farmers in his part of Holmes
county are having their allotments Of
cotton land surveyed to be sure of ne
mistake.
The Lexington advertiser., 1938-04-21
Jaycees Dance Nets
Golfers Nice Amount

Last Saturday night the Junior Cham
Der of Commerce sponsored dance at
the armory featuring Ethel Waters,
famous negro woman blues singer and
her 17-piece orchestra, that attracted
one of the largest crowds seen at
dance here in many years. Aside from
the many dancers, the spectators filled
all available space and the Jaycees
netted a nice profit of around $40
from the proceeds. People from all
parts Of the county attended and pro-
nounced the attraction unusually good.
An evidence of the huge crowd was seen
as cars parked for over two blocks on
both Tchula and Carrollton streets, at
tested to the patronage.
The Lexington advertiser., 1938-04-21
This COlOred Man
Asks Negroes To Pray


There is quite bit of philosophy and
truth in letter received this week by
The Advertiser from one of its colored
friends, S. S. Young, Rt. 8, West. Altho
this message is addressed to the coll
ored, all will enjoy the contents. 1t fol-
lows:
"To The Colored People:
"The President is planning and study
ing how to make things better, and to
help run our government. They are
studying night and day how to help us.
And I believe that the colored folks
ought to pray to God that they may have
success because as much as our white
people have to do, they don't have time
to pray over this and it looks like the
Negro would pray. Do that much to.
help them in their struggles.
S. S. YOUNG"
West, Miss, Rt. 3, Box rs.
The Lexington advertiser., 1938-04-21
Watson Changes Office
In Dyer Building Move

H. w. Watson moved his office this
week from its former location in the
Dyer building, one door further west,
as he had rented the quarters to the
Farm Security Administration where he
had been the past few months. The new
office will cut off a part Of the billiard
parlor operated by B. F. Guy and re-
quired several changes in arrangement
for the billiard parlor. Phil j. Hen
rich, local contractor and his crew OF
workmen, completed the necessary de.
tails to make the new office Monday.
With transfer Of Mr.. Watson to the
new office, the Farm Security Admin
istration office was remodeled and re.
arranged to conform with demands Of
the renters. r. X. Farmer, local con-
tractor, was in charge of the carpenter
work.