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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20

by committees of Congress may some
times stage a rollicking farce which
debate seldom reaches.
Nothing so good as the show staged
before the Senate subcommittee hold
ing hearings on the appointment OF
Felix Frankfurter has been seen in
Washington for quite a long season.
Two Washington attorneys noted their
chances to advertise; and improved it.
One of them objected to Mr.. Frank
further's 'alien BIRTH" as some folks
at the time of our Revolution objected
that Alexander Hamilton was a ''for-
eigner." Another opponent declared
that he spoke for the Constitutional
Crusaders of America and when
asked for details answered.;
Il am the whole works, myself. !
appointed myself committee to com
bat the evils of this government"
But the star part of the show came
when woman author of book called
"The Red Network" took the stand to
say that not merely Frankfurter, but
Supreme Court Justices Hughes, Bran
deis, Cardozo and Stone, President
Roosevelt and his wife, and as many
lesser persons as she could take time
to mention were all foes of the Consti-
tuition.
It must give one feeling of inde-
pendence to get away from all facts
like that
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20

Several recent incidents of world
Importance should be put together, so
that their bearing on each other may
be plain.
First, Joseph P. Kennedy and Will
liam C. Bullitt, American ambassadors
to Britain and France, went before
the Joint military affairs committees
of House and Senate to tell of present
conditions in Europe. Details were
kept secret; but the main lines of their
evidence are clear. Both expect a
world war to start in Europe not later
than the coming summer. 1t is quite
as likely to come from Mussolini's de-
mands on France as from Hitler's
drive toward the Ukraine.
Next, these ambassadors confirmed
the frequent stories that Germany's
air force gives her present great adj
vantage. Germany is held to have
adopted the mass production of air.
plane parts and putting them together
on an assembly line which enormously
speeds production; and the remarks
of members of the congressional COM
mites who heard the two ambassadors
seem to verify this. Reports from ex-
perts for months have described Ger
man pursuit planes much inferior to
those of Russia in the fighting in
Spain. This would modify but not
abolish the gains from mass pro-
| duction.
A secret document of the German
| secret police has been smuggled out
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1889.
A BAD TIME FOR CHIsELLING

The reactionaries of Congress have
started out to cut down relief. Presi-
dent Roosevelt asked for 1915, 900
for the rest of the present fiscal year
The subcommittee of the House-all
financial bills go first to the House
cut this to $725, 100000; and then in
troduced the bill as rewritten without
reporting it back to the full committee.
The object of this last scheme was
the hope of rushing it through without
a record vote. That was baffed, by
introducing a bill with the original
sum; and the liberals showed deter
mination to make the House go on rec
ord at every vote. But the attack of
the reactionaries on adequate relief
is something that a sensible person
finds trouble in understanding.
In the first place, it is merely silly
to say that $15O,00O,00o chiselled from
relief every six months will make any
visible difference in taxes.
In the next place, it is almost uni
versally agreed that the recession we
have just got through was due, in good
part, to too early cutting down of
relief before.
And in the third place, there never
has been so bad a time to cut as now.
The whole world fears war. The Pres
ident in his message to Congress
warned sharply that the country must
be prepared to defend it's rights
against any aggressor-and pointed
out that no other thing could do so
much to make us invincible as the per-
feet confidence of our people in their
government as working for their own
welfare.
The reactionaries of Congress choose
this date to chisel relief.
"Of evil times that men could choose,
On evil fate to fall,
What brooding judgment let ye
loose
To pick the worst of all?"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20
Trade Pacts Declared
Peril To u. S. Wages

Lansing, Mich. (ILNS).-R. E. Olds,
retired automobile manufacturer, ex-
pressed doubt as to the value of trade
agreements with South American
countries in statement made public
here.
His views were expressed in let
ter to Alf M. Landon, member of the
United States delegation to the Pan
American Conference at Lima.
Olds asserted that the United States
imported 70 per cent of it's sugar in
1897, while sugar factories in Florida
were kept closed, depriving 10000 men
of jobs. He said only LOO cars were
shipped to South America from the
west coast last year.
"When we buy their goods produced
with labor at four cents an hour
against our regulation labor prices in
this country, it is simply suicide for
us to compete" he said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

of the country which shows serious
signs of mutinies in the German army
if the raid on Czechoslovakia had re-
suited in war. This is rather confirmed
and also discounted by the known fact
that the high command of the German
army has been pretty thoroughly re-
organized since that date.
Evidently, the facts cited here-and
others-were known to the White
House many weeks ago.
A seven-mile steel rope has been de-
vised, to explore the bottom of the
ocean. 1t weighs five tons; the gear
and tackle which runs it weighs an
other five tons. 1t has container at
the bottom, into which an explosive
throws some of the sea bed for exam
nation. 1t has been tried before-to
depth of three miles; and reports so
far are that sea mud contains good
deal of radium.
Does this seem any stranger to some
variously dated ancestors of ours who,
at their proper times, would have pro-
nounced it silly,
To make fire,
To find stones that could be Clipped
to knife or ak,
To find other stones that you could
heat in the fire and pound out into
tools?
The strange thing is that man sc
often makes good in his efforts, and
the silly thing is that he doesn't get
used to it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20
PRESS DRIVE FOR
UNION GOODS

Washington, D. G. (ILNS) .-Secre-
Treasurer /. M. Ornburn of the
Union Label Trades Department
American Federation of Labor, urges
members of labor unions, their fam.
lilies and friends to continue the cam
paign against sweatshop and other un-
fair products during 1889.
eff we can keep up the intensity
of our drive for union-made
goods" he said, "we can drive the
importers and all other unfair
merchandisers out of American
trade. With just little more eff
fort on the part of union label
boosters, we can make the union
label most formidable weapon
for American-made goods in our
market places.
1--WE can not afford to slow
down. We, will not let UP for one
minute. We must vigorously con-
tinue our drive for union label
products and union services. The
effect of our efforts is already
being felt by manufacturers and
merchants. Never in history has
there been a greater number OF
union label-conscious consumers"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20
WHAT NEXT?

London chimney smoke is now being
washed to obtain sulphuric acid.
Gases from big power plant chimney
are cleaned at the rate of 100000 cubic
feet per minute. Calcium sulphate
(gypsum) formed in the process is al
lowed to accumulate until it reaches
pea-soup consistency Sixty tones of
sulphuric acid day, or nearly $4,000
tons yearly, is taken from the Chin
ney gases.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20
EMPLOYEES OF BROOKLYN
FIRM CHOOSE A. f. OF L.

Brooklyn, N. Y. (AFLWNS) The
American Federation of Labor Or
ganization Council of 65 Fulton Street,
Brooklyn, has been certified by the
New York State Labor Relations
Board as the collective bargaining
agent for persons employed in the de-
livery, maintenance, store service,
warehousing, receiving and checking
departments of Frederick Loeser and
Company of Brooklyn.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20
A. F. OF L. LAUNDRY UNION
WINS LAKE CHARLES CONTRACT

Lake Charles, La. (AFLWNS).-
Charles R. Goldstein, general repre-
sentative of the Laundry Workers In
ternational Union, affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, an
nounced the ratification by the local
union of an agreement with the laun-
dry owners of Lake Charles for the
coming year. He was assisted by
President w. R. Mayo Of the Central
Trades and Labor Council and sub
committee of the council.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20
THE SHOW OF THE SEASON

President Woodrow Wilson once
said that the powers of investigating
possessed by Congress were some
times more important than it's delib-
erative powers. He was right; but he
did not go far enough. Investigations
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20
SALES TAX HIT

Atlanta, Ga. (AFLWNS).-The i'm
position of any form of sales tax was
opposed by the executive board of the
Georgia State Federation of Labor in
statement issued here
The board also expressed its op-
position to the proposed abolition of
the poll tax.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20

U. S. Department of Labor points
out labor legislation in this country
is woefully inadequate.
Take workmen's compensation laws,
for example.
There is nothing new about such
legislation.
The first workmen's compensation
act was passed in 1910 - nearly 80
years ago-and today there are only
two states lacking compensation laws
Progress? Surely, BUT
The Labor Department finds
that only half our wage earners
have the protection of workmen's
compensation laws.
Laws that provide no compensation
for millions subject to the hazards of
industrial death and accidents are not
all they might be.
Labor Department also finds few
workmen's compensation laws provide
benefits for death or disability due to
occupational diseases.
Only beginning has been made at
compensating for occupational ills.
Twenty eight states," says the de-
partment, "still leave occupational dis
eases uncompensated under workmen's S
compensation laws-and very few of
such laws compensate for all diseases
arising out of employment"
Yet occupational diseases are as
truly result of industrial employment
as industrial accidents.
Compensation for occupational dis
eases presents more difficulties than
compensation for industrial accidents.
Difficulties, however, can be over
come and compensation given victims,
insofar as money and care can COM
pensate them or their relatives.
Other examples of inadequate labor
Legislation are cited by the Labor De-
partment, including 80 states without
legal limits of 8 hours, even for
women, 26 states with legal weekly
limit in excess of 48 hours and eight
states with no legal limit at all.
These facts give an idea of the task
still faced by organized labor in the
legislative field.
Much of the work will fall on state
A. F. of L. bodies.
international Labor News Service
has commented number of times on
the vital need of state labor legislation.
Report of the Labor Department en-
phasizes this need.
State federations of labor are best
fitted to cope with legislative prob
lens in their own territories.
They know conditions and how best
to meet them.
Picture of evicted sharecroppers and
their families camping in the open
air along Missouri highways reminds
of similar pictures from Europe.
In the case of Europe, the pictures
show refugees-feeing from the tyr
amy of dictatorial governments.
Both American and European pic
lures show something is wrong.
Evidently something is decid-
edly wrong when more than 1000
sharecroppers camp in the cold
January air in protest against
their treatment
How about reforming ourselves be-
fore we throw up our hands in holy
horror at the sins of our neighbors?
Missouri would seem to be good
~ l. L e.. L
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20
WISDOM

Great men are they who see that
spiritual is stronger than any material
force; that thoughts rule the world
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20

Goldie: The man I'm going with
now has both money and brains.
Blonde: Gee, that makes it tough!
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20
Opposes Relief Cuts

The budget message left no doubt
that Roosevelt does not intend to
abandon the relief program.
"a violent contraction, before the
expansion of private industry is ready
to take up the slack, would mean, not
only human misery, but disruptive
withdrawal from American industry of
a volume of purchasing power which
business needs at this time" he said.
"Any decision to decrease those ex-
penditures now that recovery has just
started would constitute a new policy
which ought not to be adopted without
full understanding of what may be
the result.
"A year ago, / recommended an in
crease in work relief, public works,
and other related expenditures to
check the downward spiral of business.
The program undertaken at that time
has contributed materially, | believe,
to the existing upward movement of
business and employment, and | feel
that the business men and farmers
and workers of the country, no less
than the unemployed, are entitled to
an assurance that this program will
not be curtailed arbitrarily or vio-
lently"
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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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Big Arms Fund Urged

In his budget message, the President
proposed expenditure of $4,000, 900, 900.
Under the proposed budget, $2,000,-
100000 would go for military and
semi-military projects.
The amount almost doubled this
years appropriations for military and
naval expenditures.
Warning that grave and unsettling
developments" abroad have estab-
lished real necessity" for vast ex-
pansion of the national defense sys-
TEN, Roosevelt urged immediate ap-
preparation of 100000 for
strictly military and naval construc-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-20
RELIEF CUT WOULD
BE- DISASTROUS
PRES. ROOSEVELT
President Asking w. P. A. Fund OF
1915 100000 At Once.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-An inn
mediate $875 100000 appropriation to
provide Works Progress Administra-
tion jobs for between 100000 and
2,700,000 persons until June 80, the end
of the 1889 fiscal year, was asked by
President Roosevelt on January 5.
He asked for these funds in spe-
cial relief message, while in his reg
ular budget message, he projected {,
relief and recovery program of ST.
266, ,165, 900 for the new fiscal year be-
ginning in July.
Taking cognizance of growing con
gressional criticism of administration
of the W. P. A., he called for statutory
restrictions against improper political
practices in relief. Bat he pleaded
against return of relief administration
to local authorities and against i'm
position of restriction that might in
fringe upon political rights of relief
recipients.
The recommendation for $875 100000
for w. P. A. for the five months from
February to June, inclusive, was ma
terially above previous predictions of
the cost of financing the relief pro-
gram for the balance of the fiscal year
Il urge speedy action on the part of
the Congress to provide these addi-
tional funds in order to prevent dis
ruption of the program and consequent
suffering and want on the part of the
-, ~, eaiI
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30

SELL Farm Produce Through
POst-Press Want Ads
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Eight Days Left
In Ham-Eg9 Push

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 80. CUP)
The battle over Ham and Eggs
for California entered the final
week of the election campaign
today.
In just eight days, on Tuesday,
Nov. 7, the 3,606,9O7 voters eligible
to cast ballots in the state will de-
eide, for the second time in two
years, the issue created by the pro-
posal of California life retirement
payments association that the state
pay its retired citizens over so the
equivalent of $50 in state warrants
every Thursday for life.
The sponsors say it will bring un-
precedented prosperity to the state,
end unemployment, stimulate busi-
ness, set a pattern which can be
adopted nationally.
The opponents, headed by Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt and
former President Herbert Hoover
denounce the scheme as illusory
fantastic, ruinous. Business says il
will be ruined and the state will
become bankrupt.
The issue was fought last veal
in connection with a gubernatoria
and senatorial election. The plar
drew 1,143,670 votes; and 1,398,99!
voted against it, sending down tt
defeat by the comparatively marrow
margin of 255,329 votes.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
|Wreckins Crews
Move i'm on Fair
SAN FRANCISCO. oct. 30. CUPl track.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30. (UP)
-Wrecking crews sat in the long
shadows of the Tower of the Sun
today and puffed at their pipes
while men decided the future of
Treasure Island.
The Golden Gate International
Exposition, the pageant of the Pa
cific," which celebrated the COM
pletion of the S67,000,O00 San Fran
cisco Oakland bay bridge-the long
est - and the $33,000000 Golden
Gate bridge-the highest-locxed its
doors at 2 am. with Sheriff Dan
Murphy and his customary attach
1lents absent.
Creditors of the $50, 100000 expo
sition, instead of yammering for
their money-at last reports they
still had $4,606,914 coming to them
were cooperating with a group
which seeks to reopen for a four
month run next year.
The creditors were reported will
ing to toss into the kitty the $780,
600 the exposition has on hand to
pay them. Together with the ST.
100000 pledged or tentatively prom
ised, there thus might be sufficient
funds to assure an extension. Ap-
proximately $1,650,000 is needed to
put the show "on ice" over the
winter.
Exposition officials last week
sought federal court assistance for
an orderly and equitable liquida-
ton of its affairs under a special
section of the emergency bank
ruptcy act. The court froze all fair
assets and forestalled any involun-
Sary bankruptcy action.
OF the debts. about a third was
due to contractors for services and
supplies, the balance for loans from
banks and corporations. The Stand
ard Oil company of California and
the Pacific Gas and Electric Corp
are the two largest creditors.
The exposition was practically
ready for the services of receiver
last May but members of the boaro
of management called in astute DR.
Charles H. Strub, time bal
player and chain dentist, and pres.
ent operator of Santa Anita race
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30

1--WE could have gone on indef-
initely," said Schlieper, "the way
that little old motor was perform
ing"
ClimaXlng their achievement, the
fliers circled over the surf all
morning yesterday giving exhibi-
tions of refueling from speedboat.
During the month they we're cir
cling Rosamond dry lake near Lam
caster on the California desert, Ne
plane was refueled from an auto
mobile.
Schlieper and Carroll were taken
to hotel after landing and were
given thorough physical exami-
nation before they retired. Physl-
clans said they had suffered no i'll
effects from the strenuous hours
aloft and needed only "a little ex-
erciSe.
The long flight, while perhaps
not a dazzling success from the fl
nancial standpoint, was a record
shattering holiday. First to fall was
the 56-hour record for Seaplanes.
This they bettered on Oct. 2. Then
they set their sights on the 343-
hour light plane record of the
Moody brothers of Illinois, told
the Civil Aeronautlcs authority had
refused to recognize their claim to
the light plane record because they
flew a seaplane, Schlieper and Car
roll shrugged and set out for a
harder one.
The third records was bettered
last Thursday when the alrmen
passed the 653-hour mark for all
type craft set by Al and Fred Key
of Meridian, Miss. Just to make it
more difficult for future endurance
record challengers, the men decided
to remain aloft three more days.
The flight was sponsored by a
Ejewelry company, which paid the
fliers at the rate of $25 day after
the 18th day. UP to that time they
got nothing. After the Goth day
the rate was boosted to $50 and
Friday the ante went up to $1O0 a
day. They estimated they would
receive about $500 and hoped pub
licity they had gained would bring
them additional riches from en-
dOrSementS.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Endurance FIierS
Set New Records

LONG BEACH, Cal, Oct. 30 (UP)
Clyde Schlieper and Yves Carroll,
who stayed aloft in tiny seaplane
for 726 hours to claim three world
endurance flight records, renewed
their acquaintance with bed to-
day.
They had wobbled to bed last
night on legs made unsteady by 80
days in the cramped cockpit of their
SO horsepower plane-but compen-
sation enough were the records
they claimed.
They landed before crowd Of
$4,000 at Marine Stadium yesterday.
Ground crews carried them from
the plane. Although nearly exhaust
ed, they were jubilant in a modest
manner and minimized their feat
by good-naturedly boasting they
could have stayed up another two
weeks or more"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Ex-Red DecIdresG.
Soviet Agent in
Charge on Coast

WASHINGTON, Oct. 80. up
william G. McCuiStion, self-identl-
fled former Communist, told the
Dies committee today that "di-
rect agent of the Soviet military in
telligence named George Mink is
the power behind the scenes" among
west coast marine workers.
st understood, McCuistion added,
that he's working more or less on
military and naval lines"
The witness identified Mink as
direct Soviet agent, brother-in-
law of the head of the Communist
international, and Communist lead
er among marine workers in the
United States since 1922.
McCuistion told the committee
that Harry Bridges, west coast labor
leader, proved his membership in
the Communist party by obeying
orders of party leaders.
McCuiStion testified that Bridges
repeatedly had refused to come to
New York to address seamen until
two Communist leaders decided he
should address a Madison Square
Garden rally during the 1896 sea-
mems strike.
The witness said that Bridges
addressed the meeting, which was
held Dec. 16, 1896. He identified the
Communists who brought Bridges
to New York as Tommy Ray and
Roy Hudson Communist party GEN.
trail committee members.
McCuistion. Texan who said he
now lives in Frederick, Md, testi-
fled that he had worked with the
leadership" of the Communist par
ty from 1921 to 1888, although not