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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18
W. P. A. PROGRAM
WIDE VARIETY OF
PUBLIC FACILITIES

Washington, D. C. (ILNSl.-More
than 1000 miles of new sewer lines,
81 new sewage disposal plants and
1,134 miles of new water mains, in
addition to large amount of repair
work on existing facilities, constitute
the outstanding accomplishments in
the field of public utilities of the w.
P. A. construction program on prof.
ects completed during the eight
months period ending March /, Colo
mel F. C. Harrington, commissioner,
announced The sewer and water
lines alone provided $4,000 new serv-
ice connections, he added
Among other accomplishments of
the construction program, exclusive of
highways and public buildings which
have been reported on previously,
Colonel Harrington cited the compile
tion of 354 new athletic fields, 215
new parks aggregating a total of
5,826 acres, 26 new landing fields, the
drainage of $4,000 acres of mosquito
breeding swamps, and the planting of
3,434, 900 small trees in the reforesta-
tion program.
In addition to the public utility
projects already mentioned, Colonel
Harrington's report showed that w.
P. A. workers had completed IL new
water treatment plants and 81 pump
ing stations in addition to a consid-
cradle amount of repair and modern
ization work. Six hundred forty wells
were dug.
Outstanding conservation activities
include the construction of ,196 miles
of forest trails and frebreaks and
completion of 10,645 check and di-
version dams.
Recreational facilities, other than
new parks and athletic fields, COM
pleted during the period include 286
new Fairgrounds and improvements
to 1,274; 83 new swimming pools and
63 wading pools; 1,065 new tennis
courts and large number of miscel-
laneous facilities such as ice skating
rinks, ski trails, outdoor theatres and
band shells, etc.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18
ATTACKS PLAN TO
LOWER PRODUCTION

New York City (ILNS). - Mayor
La Guardia criticized the theory of
restricted production to raise prices
in an address to the fifty-fourth an
nual convention of the National AS
sociation of Retail Meat Dealers.
"I believe in abundance" the mayor
said. II do not believe in any system
which curtails production or in any
way destroys crops.
81 want to change that system
which is now in reverse and put it in
high forward gear. 1t may be nee
essary to take drastic measures, such
as subsidizing exports and making
good friends of our neighbors. /
would sooner subsidize exports than
destroy what God Almighty intended
people of the world to have"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18
BIG NY. CITY CLUB
SIGNS UNION PACT

New York City (ILNS).-The fa-
nous Bankers Club of America, 12O
Broadway, has become the first large
club in the city to sign a union con-
tract. The agreement was signed
with the Hotel and Club Employees
Union, Local 6, A. F. of L.
With the signing of the agreement
the union withdrew pending charges
of unfair labor practices against the
Bankers Club which were scheduled
to be heard before the New York
State Labor Relations Board. The
union charges had accused the club of
"dilatory and procrastinating tactics
to avoid collective bargaining"
Under the terms of the agreement,
Hotel and Club Employees Union, Lo-
cal 6, is recognized as sole collective
bargaining agency for the clubs en-
ployes, the shop chairman is recog-
nized, pay increases of up to about
7a% are obtained by the employees,
and preferential hiring through the
union is agreed to by the club man
agement, which also agrees to hire
all extra walters and other extra en-
ployes only through the union.
In all, 222 of the 240 employees,
comprising walters, bartenders, cooks,
kitchen workers, hall boys and port
ers, benefit under the contract.
Hotel and Club Employees Union,
Local 6, has been certified as col
lective bargaining agent for the en-
ployes of the Racquet and Tennis
Club, the Harvard Club, the Prince
ton Club, the Drug and Chemical Club
and others.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18
Union Announces
An Unusual Plan

(From The Typographical JournaD
Molders' Union, No. 221, Joliet,
Ill.,, affiliate of the A. F. of L., has
launched a movement whereby it
hopes to greatly improve conditions
by throwing the power of organized
labor into a drive both new and novel
in conception and operation. 1t en-
braces new philosophy in the labor
movement, presenting constructive,
helpful plan, whereby the employer:
who is fully cooperating with or
ganized labor, shall, in return, receive
wholehearted support from trade
unionists.
Molders' Union, No. 221, has the
full cooperation of the Central
Trades and Labor Council of Will
County, Ill.,, in spreading of its new
philosophy of wholeheartedly boost
ing the real friends of organized la
Dor, rather than wasting time and
energy in a negative campaign
against non-union concerns, which, at
the best, are but poor competitors.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

BY ensuring a continuous supply of
good books at cost, this new book
service is expected to be an important
addition to British labor's educational
resources.
The international Federation of
Trade Unions information service
says that an observer in Berlin who
comes into contact with all sections
of the population reports that the
whole of administrative and social life
is rotten with corruption. The lead
ers of the state and the party, whom
everyone knows to have been very
poor people six years ago, rival each
other shamelessly in extravagant liv-
ing. They possess luxurious town
houses, country houses, summer vii
las in the mountains, riding stables,
magnificent cars, etc. No statement
is ever issued of the size of their
SdldIiGSs Dut liO OllC tiide eiSoS
can be so high as to allow of living
on this scale. Everyone believes that
they merely take as much as they
want from public funds.
The plague of corruption has spread
from the Nazi leaders to public of
fees, and bribery is rife everywhere.
This can be seen also in the food
shops. Customers make all kinds OF
presents to shop assistants, not only
of flowers and chocolates, but also
silk stockings, motion picture theatre
tickets, etc., in order to get some OF
the goods available. Such customers
as cannot afford these bribes, have te
be satisfied with two ounces of butter
a week instead of the promised foul
ounces, and only receive the lowest
quality.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18
new DEALER ASKS
NAME-CALLINC END

Denver (ILNS).-Adolph A. Berle,
Jr., Assistant Secretary of State and
strong New Dealer, assailed name
calling at dinner of the National
Conference of Catholic Charities here.
Berle said that experiments being
made by the Roosevelt administration
were "typically American" He sug-
gested that both New Deal friends
and foes give up name-calling and
assume that all groups interested in
the social set-up were honest and
patriotic.
81 refuse to join with the extrem-
lists in abusing either American busi-
ness or my conservative opponents, y
he declared.
"Demagogues may try to raise
tides of class hatred from one side,
or of race hatred from the other,
sometimes (God forgive u.s. by abus-
ing the names of religion or social
justice, or popular front.
Perhaps it is well here to express
a political credo; for am firm in my
faith that the American public is
quite able to give effect to certain
truths: Whoever attempts to build
reforms on hatred of any kind of an
enemy of this Republic. Membership
in the American family belongs to
everyone within our borders"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18

In response to requests from all
parts of Great Britain, plans have
been completed for the launching of
a Labor Book Service. The new or
ganization has the support of the Ma
tional Council of Labor, representing
the British Trades Union Congress
and Labor Party and of men and
women representing many sections of
the movement.
It's aims will be to give every mem
Der an opportunity of building up, on
attractive terms, library of impor-
tant books dealing with national and
international affairs, and of first
class books of general interest, in
cluding fiction, autobiography, travel
and adventure.
The books will be chosen by Sc
lection committee consisting of Sir
Walter Citrine; DR.. Hugh Dalton, M.
P; Prof. R. H. Tawney, the eminent
historian and pioneer of working-class
education; G. D. H. Cole, one of the
labor movements outstanding econ
omists; Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton
the well-known writer and former la
Dor M. P; Francis Williams, editor
of the "Daily Herald" and E. F. M
Durbin, the young labor economist.
This selection committee will work
in consultation with an advisory coun,
Gil, which includes prominent leaders
of the movement, and men and womer
distinguished in the world of litera
ture, science and education.
Members of the Labor Book Service
will be entitled to receive two books
every month-a full-length book b!
famous author and short Fac
Outline" dealing with some particular
economic, political or social question
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18

As their ancestors did, ages ago,
from the time they first stirred out
of that equally forgotten place, some
where deep in the steppes of Asia.
History is repetition. The
droughts came down on the rich
plains of the Central West to which
these children of the nomads had
come, following their racial instinct
So they started to drift away from
the burnt steppes of this land toward
the deep rich soils and the abundant
waters of the irrigated country still
farther west, driven by hunger behind
and lured by abundance ahead.
Not in creaking, clumsy ox-wains
but in equally creaking fiivvers. Not
armed to the teeth, not organized,
with leaders like Hengist and Horsa,
Brennus or Attila, but under the same
urge.
Close to the soil, they obeyed the
urge to seek better soil to replace that
which had betrayed them. Millions
of them.
But, behind them are other millions.
Eight, ten, twelve millions of nomads.
Equally hungry but disrooted from
the soil. With no Mesopotamia or
Canaan or California as an outlet to
their racial restlessness. What are
they going to do? What kind of a
nomad foray will they undertake?
The reason history is monotonous is
that human nature was brewed ages
ago. A nomad in a fiivver is the son
of countless generations of nomads
just the same. A nomad before fac
tory gate is just as much a nomad.
Something to think about?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18
SPEEDING CHIEF AUTO
ACCIDENT CAUSE

What causes traffic accidents? Ev-
eryone has theory and the variety
of these theories is as great as the
problem itself. But the National
Safety Council, Chicago, in the 1888
edition of it's statistical yearbook,
"Accident Facts" presents an analy-
sis of the problem that is based on
cold facts and figures.
According to the records, the great
est single driving sin is speeding
listed in the official summaries of
fatal accidents throughout the coun-
try as exceeding the speed limit" or
'too fast for conditions"
Nineteen per cent of all drivers in
volved in fatal accidents in 1888 were
speeding, the councils figures reveal.
In some states this percentage was
as high as 81 per cent, in others as
low as per cent.
The councils statistics show that
about half of the drivers involved in
fatal accidents violate the law or good
driving practice. Since many acci-
dents involve two vehicles, there prob
ably is violation by one driver or
the other in more than so per cent of
all fatal accidents.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1s, 1899.
EROSION MUST BE FOUGHT

Now that the frontier is gone, and
the New England and Southern farm
ers cannot move out to get new land
Americans are beginning to look back
at the farms they have been leaving.
What they too often see, in the
southeastern states especially, are
quilted, eroded, washed-out farms,
ruined for any ordinary farming pur-
poses. In the north, where the great
timber lands formerly stretched for
hundreds of miles, similar pictures
meet the eye of the traveller.
Virgin timber, standing for hun
dreds of years, unburned and uncut,
laid the foundations deep and rich for
our American farms. The Indians
used the forests only to raise crops
of wild game, excepting for their
little gardens for maize and gourds.
But the white man had a big way
with him, and he went after that
stored-up fertility with big gangs of
ax-men. Burning the timber, for the
greater part, he planted year after
year, and sold his crops in Europe.
America was getting ahead. But
at the same time, America was liter
ally closing ground" And when the
erosion processes started, of wind
and water cutting of the soil, and
black dust storms carrying top lands
away for hundreds of miles, America
began to pay, in the loss of products,
loss of homes, and abandoned COM
munities, for the "cash in hand"
which she had collected for the crops.
Now, it has become necessary for
a governmental policy and program,
to attempt to retrace the steps taken
so hurriedly in the early days. And
this is no fad, no scientific dream. 1t
is a cold necessity, for the fertile soil
that has been washed down into the
Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico must
now be replaced, by the slow proc
esses of soil-building. But happily,
we have the answer. And here's hop
ing we have the good sense to apply it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18

for 18 months were also filed with
the convention
Colonel John J. McDonough, New
England administrator of w. P. A.,
said those claws will create more
hardships for people on w. P. A. and
do more harm to labor than any piece
of legislation we have had"
A resolution condemning "intem-
perate" statements made by John L.
Lewis, concerning Vice. President Gar
ner, was also filed, although Lewis
was not mentioned by name.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18
NLRB RULING FOR MACHINISTS

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). - The
National Labor Relations Board has
ordered the Bussmann Manufacturing
Company, and the McGraw Electric
Company, ST. Louis, to grant bargain
ing rights for tool and die makers to
the international Association of Ma
chinists, A. F. of L. affiliate, and to
reinstate two discharged members
with back pay since June %, 1897.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18
WHAT NEXT?

An exhibition automobile whose
body is made entirely of transparent
plastic material is on exhibition at
the New York Worlds Fair. The
motor and chassis can be clearly seen
through the body.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18
RAIL EMPLOYMENT GOES
OVER MILLION MARK

Washington, d. c. (ILNS).-Rail-
roads during July employed more than
100000 men for the first time since
December, 1887, the Interstate Com
merce Commission reports.
Railway employment in July to-
tailed 1,002,135, an increase of TIT
per cent above July, 1888, and 1.03
per cent above June, 1889.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18
7heCherry
" Where with our
i rec Little I. Hatchet we
tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
fsundly. Sometimes fippantly,
sometimes recklcssly.

History is great stuff, interesting
but monotonous.
Mankind has a history because
some people got hungry and desper-
ate while other people were fat and
secure.
Clumps of people, families, tribes,
nations, wandered searching for food
until they found, in some sheltered
valley or lush plain, assurance against
famine and drought. They settled
down, learned to plant grain and to
store it against the winter and the
dearths, replaced mobile tents and
temporary huts with permanent dwell
ings, turned their thoughts of social
organization from organization for
migration and war to sedentary cities,
constantly growing bigger, and peace
to assure security of their blessings.
Out on the arid plains and up in the
mountains were other folks. Nomads,
following the seasons in search of pas
ture. Lean from headlong marches
and scanty food. Fierce because their
lives were battles, for waterholes, for
grass, for game, against other no
mads crowding in from even less fer
tile regions.
Sometimes, when droughts on the
steppes came with burgeoning har-
vest in the valleys, the nomads gath
cred together, mounted their horses,
lean and tireless as themselves, pour
ing down, ruthless and desperate, on
the soft and peaceful settled people
Conquered them, became their auto
cratic rulers, became soft and COM
placent and peaceful in their turn.
Another drought over wide areas,
another lush harvest and they in turn
went down under wave of nomads,
driven by the hunger behind, lured
by the abundance ahead.
Manchus in China, Saxons in Eng
land, Franks in Gaul, Barbarians of
many kinds in Rome. And away back,
Assyrians and Akkadians and what
not in long succession in Mesopo-
tamia. Israelites in Canaan.
And behind them, the Huns and
Mongols tribes, driven from the
steppes of central Asia.
Pressing on the heels of the Nor
dies and Latins and Slavs who had
made the same great trek before them.
Forcing them westward into England
and Ireland and Scotland and Scan
dinavia and Spain and even across
the Mediterranean into North Africa.
Mingling their blood, conquered and
conquering, repulsed in one genera
tion to return in the next or when the
droughts came down again upon
whatever region in which they may
have halted their age-long drift be-
fore creeping hunger toward food and
comfort and rest ahead.
Across the Atlantic, fleeing from
the man-made droughts of repressive
social conditions, searching for free
lands, for Ell Doradoes, for domains
where they could be free themselves
and, true to their racial habit, at the
same time rule others.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18
GEO. KAPPEL

Practical all-around tailor, would like
to be favored with your patronage, for
Repairing, Altering, Cleaning, Press
ing, Removing Wearshine and Re-
lining, 1862 N. B Street. Will call for.
Give estimates and deliver.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-08-18
WISDOM

Let us raise a standard to which
the wise and honest can repair
George Washington.
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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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Entered at the Postoffce at Hamilton
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-01
. SERIAL STORY
Murder on the Boardwalk sY .I .asos. eowM sosE

ueared--he came to consult me be-
cause---he said, he had dreamed
that he was In great danger. I saw
no threat for him-he went away
treasured that his scheme would
! work.
"The second time I saw him
was yesterday, when our Mr.. VIII
met came here, also apparently to
consult me about his warning
dreams. Perhaps that was what he
really wanted at first; but after !
had again reasured him, and he had
gone, I found my dagger gone, too.
Now
"Just a minutel" the inspector
cut in. "Are you identifying this
man as the person who stole your
dagger?"
II don't think that will be neces-
sary Inspector. Before we are
through, he will identify himself
You see, Inspector, poor eye
sight was another popularity COM
mon to Mrs. Talbert and heI
nephew. At 10, Earl Talbert had
the vision of a man of co."
Inspector" Mr.. Wilmet burst
out, this mans practically ad.
mitted that he doesn't know wht
took his knife. There were dozer
people here that afternoon"
"That is true" Chandra sale
gently. "But only one of them wore
lenses like the pair you dropped
from your pocket No wonder 20,
found 1t impossible to replace then
Immediately after you broke thu
others in that wheel chair"
He took spectacle case from
his pocket and passed 1t to the in
spector.
II think" he said, "that wheI
you have these lenses compared
with the fragments you took from
the chair, you will find that the!
are identical"
"Well, there won't be any ques'
ton about whose these are wheI
we get into touch with the Opt
cian," the inspector said.
He glanced at the label insidt
the case and seemed about to ado
something. Then he broke of.
Ito Be Concluded)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-01
. STORIES
INSTAMPS
Crisis
Worries IceIonders

ALTHOUGH there is little dan,
ger that an aggressor nation
will make any attempt to invade
Iceland, the inhabitants Of thi:
rocky little island, just under the
Arctic Circle, are keeping a close
watch on the European situation
War-if it comes-may mean
life and death to many Of them
even if they never hear a gun OF
see an airplane. For war will
bring blockades, cut off Iceland's
lifeline Of commerce.
Fishing Is the major industry OF
Iceland; cod, herring and sheep Its
principal exports; Italy, Spain and
Sweden its best customers. There
is not enough fertile land to raise
food for Iceland's 100000 inhabit-
ants. so they must depend upon
imports. Italy trades clothing,
vegetables and wines for cod;
Spain sends canned goods and
wines.
Iceland is peaceful. There is
DO crime, no beggars, no jails.
Labor troubles are rare and there
is no unemployment. Iceland has
no army or navy, no Notifications.
Its neutrality is permanently
guaranteed.
In 1910 Iceland is to hold a spe-
cial election to determine whether
It shall continue as monarchy
under Denmark's king or become
wholly independent. It Is ruled
today by the Althing, established
in $50, the oldest surviving Par
Lament in the world.
The Goldfish is shown on the
new Iceland stamp, above.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-01
CHAPTER XVII

Does it occur to you, Inspector,
Chandra went on--still very stiffly-
that there are interesting similar
tiles between Mrs. Talbert's abduc-
ton and that of her nephew"
"Just what do you mean?"
an the case of Earl Talbert,
also, there we're threatening notes.
In that case. too. the victim was
at first thought to have been kid
naped, and perhaps murdered, IN
his own car. In that case the VIC
tim had been drugged-or so 1t
was made to appear. And that
case was confused by misleading
attempts to incriminate others-as
in this one, Captain King, Miss
Thorenson and I have all been de-
liberately involved"
Don't you think you're crowding
this bunch of yours about the
nephew's being alive? You would
not push it so far, I suppose, as