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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
TheCherry
1" Where with our
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly. Sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly. -. =.

Curious what a change there is in
the United States about communism
and the operations of the red prop
agandists among us.
But the change isn't complete yet.
1t now is being suggested that there
are reds in important posts in some
of the unions. Mr.. Dies is making the
discovery.
The charge is true and it isn't news,
except to those who either haven't OBJ
served or wouldn't be convinced.
Mr.. Dies hasn't caught them all.
Let him have good look at Mr..
Lewis American Communications As
sociation, which is his union of radio
operators and land wire telegraphers.
The condition there is something to
worry about-something for the gov
ernment to worry about.
And the sad thing about it all is
that too many A. F. of L. leaders (not
including President Green) have re-
garded the whole thing as no concern
of theirs.
A lot of persons picked on John
Frey when he took his charges to the
Dies committee. They thought John
was at least bit over jealous.
But he wasn't.
He merely began the uncovering
process.
The reds, with a sinister role to
play, were and are planted in too
many places.
And with the state of the world
what it is, these fifth columns"
have no place in any American
labor organization, be it A. F. of
L. or CLIO.
Of course John L. Lewis proceeded
on the theory that you can play with
fire and put it out when you don't
want it around any more.
He used reds as organizers, hell
raisers and rabble rousers. He seemed
to be sucker for communists. And
he played the soviet embassy fairly
strong. Reporters with a leftward
tendency seemed to be his favorites.
+
Lewis probably thought he was
simply being a realist.
He was either gambling on a ter
ribly long chance, using the tools that
offered, or he was deliberately infil-
trating his unions with Stain shock
troops for some purpose other than
one Immediately visible.
Perhaps some day he will say which
it was-AND is.
There will be counter talk of rack
eteers. That's all right. It's fair.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
WHAT NEXT?

Eventual entry of nylon into the
field now reached by wool was pre-
dicted when E. /. DUPONT de Nemours
and Company announced that a pat
ent covering production and process
ing of crimped wool-like fiber made
of nylon had been issued to John
Blanchard Miles, Jr., DUPONT scientist,
and assigned to the company. The
nylon crimped fiber is made from the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
Ohio Federal Labor
Union Parley Planned

Cleveland, Ohio.-A statewide con-
ference of Ohio Federal Labor Unions
is scheduled for June Is and 16 at
Gibbons Hotel, Dayton, Coleman Cla-
herty, Ohio American Federation of
Labor director Of organization, an
nounced this week.
Establishment Of a general policy
for Ohio Federal Labor Union locals
to conform with the laws and policies
Of the American Federation of Labor
will be the main business Of the con-
ference. Other matters Of impor-
tance to the welfare and progress OF
locals also will be discussed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
Campaign To Organize
Chemical Plants Begun

Washington, D. C.-An organizing
drive in the chemical industry was
launched by the American Federation
of Labor. Frank p Fenton, national
director of organization, called on all
central labor unions to cooperate in
the campaign.
Fenton declared the chemical indus
try is "key" industry in war time
and in peace. 1t must be organized,
he said, for the protection of workers
in other industries as well as for the
advancement of those engaged in the
chemical plants.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
House Passes Measure
Curbing U. S. Agencies

Washington, D. C.-The House ap-
proved and sent to the Senate the
Walter-Logan bill which was unani-
mously endorsed at the 1889 conven-
tion of the American Federation of
Labor.
The bill provides that rules and
regulations issued by the National
Labor Relations Board and other in
dependent f deral administrative
agencies must be approved by the
United States Circuit Court of APP
peals here before they become eff
fective. 1t is intended to curb bu-
reaucratic mistakes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
FEDERAL UNIONS TO MEET

Dayton, o. (ILNS) Coleman Cla-
herty, Ohio American Federation OF
Labor director of organization, an
nounces that a statewide conference
of Ohio federal labor unions will be
held here June Is and 16 Establish
ment of a general policy for Ohio
federal labor union locals to conform
with the laws and policies of the A.
F. of L. will be the main business of
the conference.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
PICTURE NOT ALL BLACK

Business has been falling since the
end of last year, and the industrial
picture is far from what it should be.
But pessimism has seemingly been
overdone. For some time, there have
been indications that the downward
curve of business activity has been
flattening out and latest reports show
the curve turning upward again, with
gains in various industries.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
Loss OF FARM JOBS
DUE TO MACHINERY
WILL GO ON, REPORT

Washington, d. C. (ILNS). = Job
losses in agriculture caused by new
machinery and other chronological ad-
vances were described by farm ex-
perts before the Temporary National
Economic Committee. The witnesses
agreed that the trend toward farming
unemployment promises to continue.
Louis H. Bean of the United States
Department of Agriculture, told the
committee 32,000,000 persons living
on farms in this country last year
were able to supply the needs of so
to 70 per cent more city, town and
village dwellers than the same num-
ber of farm producers supplied 80
years ago. The variation in the ur-
ban percentage, he explained, lay in
the uncertainty of how much more
farm produce went abroad then than
now and how much more, of any of
the nations farm needs now are met
from abroad.
Machines Displace Men
chronological progress is not re-
sponsible for all of the increased farm
productivity per unit of labor, Bean
and other Department of Agriculture
experts said. Improvements in live
stock breeding, farming practices,
seeds and labor efficiency have also
been factors in the increase.
The witnesses presented many
charts and graphs to show that intro
duction of such machines as the COM
bine, the corn picker, the motor truck,
the large and the small all-purpose
tractors and other farm tools had con-
tributed largely to the change.
1t was testified that the statistics
seemed to show that of the 100000
persons now living on farms, undoubt-
edly larger proportion were unem-
ployed, underemployed or economic
ally underefficient than was the case
thirty years ago. One reason for
this, it was stated, was the larger
proportion of aged and economically
incompetent persons in the farm pop
ulation in proportion to the whole
Seasonal Jobs Eliminated
Sherman F. Johnson, another wit
ness, said the new machinery had al
most eliminated opportunities for sea-
sonal employment formerly found by
migratory workers in the wheat lelds.
The tractor and the combine, he said,
permitted the wheat farmer in 1886
to produce his crop with half the la
Dor used per acre in 1909 The COM
bine, operated by three men, he said,
could do the work formerly requiring
ten men.
Johnson submitted charts to show
that the capital investment required
for tractor operation of farm was
often greater than for horse or mule
operation.
He offered another table showing
that tractor operation on a 320-acre
Kansas farm reduced the need for a
hired man from 80 days year in 1920
to 10 in 1889. Quite likely this extra
work, the witness said, could be OBJ
tanned on a labor exchange basis with
neighboring farmers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03

The delegation investigated not only
the war situation, but also the po-
litical situation and industrial, social
and economic conditions in Finland.
Of the political situation the dele
cation says: "Our investigation proved
conclusively that the people of Fin
land enjoy freedom and speech. and
extensive democratic liberties.
"It is utterly untrue to say that
anything in the nature of a dictator
ship exists at the present time in
Finland"
In their review of social conditions
the delegation records the various
measures taken by the Finnish gov
ernment to restrict the working-day
to limit overtime, and to protect
women and children in industry
Legislation provides extensive pro-
lection against labor risks, while
there is state scheme of old-age and
disablement insurance.
Latest reports indicate that there
is grave peril of disease breaking out
among the 100000 children made
homeless by aerial bombardments and
by emigration from the territory
ceded to the Soviets. Adequate food
and shelter is urgently needed fol
these victims of "totalitarian war"
"There is reason to believe that
public opinion is becoming more awak-
ened to the seriousness of the prob
lem of protecting civil liberty. This
public concern has been heightened
by the possible imminence of war
People increasingly realize that civil
liberties were sacrificed during the
World War and that that sacrifice
was national calamity" From
Safeguarding Our Civil Liberties
published by Public Affairs Commit
tee, New York.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03

Nobody can or is likely to apologize
for racketeering. But, in the long
view of history there may be things
worse than racketeering.
Racketeering generally runs coun-
ter to statute laws. 1t writes it's own
doom the minute the first crooked
play is made.
You know that in the end it has to
stop.
But political intrigue is not in that
class. Even political intrigue aiming
at revolution is not in that class. Ii
CAN go on and on and stay clear OF
the law.
Communist intrigue can be met and
smashed only by alert, aggressive and
informed opinion. 1t happens that il
is legal to be communist.
1t isn't lawful to be a crook.
The only reds that have thus far
been tried and found guilty are those
whose international pilgrimages to
the shrine of father Joseph have led
them to violate passport laws. Not
one has been clinked for being com
munist.
Nor is likely to be.
Of ccourse the villainous conduct OF
the soviets in international relations
has opened the eyes of thousands
mostly sympathizers.
But it hasn't stopped for an instant
the organized, Moscow directed cam.
paign of the communist machine
which from within and from across
our border in Mexico, continues its
Vaccinations for the overthrow of the
United States and the destruction Of
its democratic life.
And you can't laugh it off by yap
ping that ''it can't succeed"
1t has succeeded too much already
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
WISDOM

Genius can only breathe freely in
an atmosphere of freedom. = John
Stuart Mill.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03

same basic elebents obtained from
coal, air and water as other nylon
products.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03

Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
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Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton. Ohio
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-02-16
Sunday School
Lesson
BY Rev. R L. Young, P. E

Is, 1919
GOOD CITIZENS AND GOOD
NIGHBORS- Mathew 22:15; 23:39
Printed Text: Matt. 22:15-22, $40
Golden Text Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thysef.-Matt. 22:39.
Matthew 22:15. Then went the Phe-
risees, and took counsel how they
might ensnare him in his talk.
l6. And they send to him their dis
csples, with the Herodtans, saying,
Teacher, we know that thou are true,
and teachest the way Of God in truth.
and carest not for any one: for thou
regardest not the person of men.
IT. Tell US therefore, What thinkest
thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto
Caesar, or not?
1B. But Jesus perceived their wick
edness, and said, Why make We trial
of me, we hypocrites?
10. Show me the tribute money.
And they bnought unto him a de-
narius.
20, And he saith unto them, Whose
is this image and superscription?
81. They say unto him, Caesars.
Then saith he unto them, Render
therefore unto Caesar the things that
are Caesars; and unto God the things
that are Gods.
%. And when they heard it, they
marwelled, and left him, and went
away.
"a. But the Pharasees, when they
heard that he had put the Saddusees
to silence, gathered themselves to-
gether.
35 And one of them, lawyer, ask
ed him a question, trying him:
26. Teacher, which is the great CON-
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-02-16

Miss IVY underwent a local operation
last week and her condition seems
to be much better.
The East End School according 10
reports from Miss Helen Hamilton,
Assistant Principal, is celebrating
Negro History Week.
Mesdames Lucy Brown president OF
Lodge No. 80 and Mary Jane Moore,
president of Lodge No. 70 were in
the office iris week on business per
tanning to their particular lodges.
Little Annie Laura Young, dau-
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Young of
1906 18th Ave-, has been spending a
while with her aunts, Mesdames
Ethel Young and Lenora Elliott at
POOL 31st Ave.
Misses Lillian Brown, Annie Reed
and Benjiman Taylor were idnner
guests Of Mrs. Lula LAraSin and
family Sunday.
AIRS. r. c. Williams of Route 4, is
critically i'll from her residence. Her
two daughters Mra D. /. Jordan of
Youngstown, Ohio and Mrs. Vitrula
Murry of Kansas City, Kansas, to-
gther with her grandson, Mr.. Sigmond
Williams r, of Kansas City, Kansas
are at her bedside.
Rev. R. l.. Young, presiding elder
of the Meridian District, c. M. E
Church has his program for Easte'
in the hands of all his pastors.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-02-16
Editorial
In The Same Hour Came Forth Fingers
Of A Mans Hand And Wrote
Daniel 5th Chapter & 5th Verse
Editorial

would read the 5 Chapter and sh Verse of the book
of Daniel he Will ind the above this editorial should
like to call the races attention the hand writing the wall
Beazzsr the king having feast and while tasting the
himself and while making preparation his princesses his
wives and his cOncubins drink also hand getting READY
wall able the
handwriting After reading the week and aen
versine with Of adne citizens both white and oored.
about the McCoyOwen book bill and noting casfy that
II the desire of of the leading white educators in Miss to
forth effort prevent the Negroes of Mississippi from
studying the principles of voting rights and responsibilities that
taught the white pupils forced ask the members of
the hand writing the wall? The attempt
amend the McCoywens bill order
pupils rights going payers Miss
amend this bill this unfair unconstitutional
and unbrohery amendment
There were nine M representatives of our group who WERE
OF education with reference this particular feel that
the conference with superintendent will way much
to minority We do infer that the bill
amended will not be passed and matter of fact believe that
the white educators with many Others think that should
however, the nine members of the Negro CONFERENCE with
the superintendent feel deep their should
and the bill destined become law
well wake and reading the handwriting the
wall We wish that could the resemblance OF thing
the bill that will the quite in the
bill that will tend toward HOLDING him down and red
booded Mississippi begin this
day if he has already begun to look for himself
attempt do thing
be done prevail and with the south
be liberal its attitude from educational standpoint
will get anywhere
Statistics
Statistics people Mississippi
have O978 Negroes 1899 whites $12035969
81 there spent for Negores 81 491 1929 There spent
Mississippi in 1899 S05403698 for white than for oored Or
other there spent practically white child
and 800 the child with about 1882 cored people
in Mississippi than white.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-02-16
BOARDS

Dear Presidents: The March boaros
ore scheduled to meet as follows:
Friday, March 1, Dekalb, Miss H. c
Jennings, president.
Saturday, March 2, 0uitman' Mss
Brown McRee, president
The Boadr will open at 800 A H.
., SATURDAY. in order that We might
Wind ,tp our business by Loo O'Clock
Monday, March 4. Collins Miss WIN
Boykins, president
Wednesday. March 6, Deerbrook' AAiss
I n Moore, president
Thursday, March 7, Braxton. sssss-
A C Kennedy, president.
BOARD COLLECTION
All presidents are requested %
collect $125 per member and report
same in the March Board We are
hope to pay more Death Claims In
the March Boards than We paid IN
December. IN order to do this h b
going to be necessary that we grow
our LODGES and collect from ALL q
IT nrembsfA +, l., j. =
SECRETARY. -, rs.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-02-16
About Folk We
Know
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Continued frsm page One)
two things that he is interested in
and they are, a large membership
land round report.
Mrs. Jennie Moore, president Of
Lodge No. 1l9 at Waynesboro, wants
the readers to know that she has lost
a faithful members, in the person of
Brother Taylor Howard.
Mr.. Green" (Rev. z. D. Brent
was in the Office Monday of this
week on business pertaining to the
Good Hope Circuit.
Mrs. Cora Mcdonald, secretary Of
Lodge No. "a states that they have
lost a faithful member in the person
of Brother Will Willis. This lodge is
located at Stonewall.
MIR. w. E. Edwards of Shubuta
wants the other presidents and office
to know that he is still in the race
to reach the required number of Is
members. He states that he is send
ing in one application and has one
on file. These will give him the re-
uired number Hurrah for Brother
Edwards.
Miss Emma B. Ivy, principal OF the
East End School is improving from
her home after a lengthy illness.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-02-16

Mississippi white have
29S47 coored The white have ISIS teachers to teach
pupils pupils
Will you please study
We informed that the Negro teachers salary
issppi from $780, $500 In little
and of the Negroes Mississippi
by the hundreds seeking paying work
right in Mississippi Coored the hand writing
ont the wall? 9,J
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-02-16
mandment in the law?

nandment in the law?
81. An dhe said unto him, Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy mind
38. This is the great an dfirst COM
mandment.
50. And a second like unto it is this,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self sx,ss,s
TO- On these two commandments the
Whole law hangeth, and the prophets.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-02-16

America celebrates o.
Thursday February all of the 100000 Scouts
characterized the Movement for three decades Scouting offers
Observation-Disclosures all boyshrough
Hmocrac life of the Scout Troop and Patrol essential ngred
charaCteTtnfuencng
rich local
tn. opportunity
Smyrna times., 1940-08-08

ANY man may make mistake,
but none but a fool will continue
in it.
We should not concern ourselves
too severely for making mistakes.
Every time you venture into some
thing new to you, you open your
self to the liability of making mis-
takes. Yet if you through fear of
making a mistake, never try some
thing new, you will never accom-
plish anything.
The only person who never
makes any more mistakes is a
dead one Life itself is full of mis-
takes; it is made up of mistakes
Life progresses by the knowledge
and the wisdom that is derived
from mistakes. The pinnacle OF
success rests upon the foundation
composed of the mistakes of the
past. The man who never made
any mistakes, never made any
thing else, except failure out OF
his life.
A bad mistake is not always q
total loss! It is not all negative
Smyrna times., 1940-08-08

in its aspect. There is a positive
side to every mistake. In our dis
couragement, however, we very
often fail to see it. Yet it is there,
like pure gold hidden away in a
rough nugget.
One of the worse mistakes to
make about your mistakes is to
console yourself with some excuse
and to let it go at that. Rather,
you should try to extract that pure
gold hidden within, which is the
valuable lesson that it has to teach
you.
1t is out of the mistakes made
living wrongly that we discover
the secrets that make life radiant
Yesterdays mistakes have pre-
pared us to better cope with to-
days problems. And strengthened
by the experiences of today, we
shall make tomorrow a day of vic
tory.
Are you longing to have a more
radiant life? Write to Rev. G. M
Griffeth, Cecilton, Md, concerning
your difficulty, enclosing a Sc
stamp for return postage.
Smyrna times., 1940-08-08

sential in the manufacture of
aluminium, in the United States is
found in Arkansas. Along with the
deposits of bauxite found in this
area are deposits of cement, lead,
novaculite, zinc, some manganese,
cinnabar from which quicksilver is
extracted, and an unlimited supply
of oil and coal, both bituminous
and anthracite. In spite of opposi-
ton, the measure passed by a vote
of 265 to SO.
COMPULSORY MIL 1T A r Y
National Guard
bill, requested by the President,
permitting him to call out the Ma
tional Guard for active service,
was reported favorably on Tues
day, July 80, by the Senate Mill
tary Affairs Committee. The Com
mittee shunted aside the draft bill
that it had planned to report out
for consideration last week Mem
bers of Congress are obviously
frightened over the home reaction
to the draft bill. In spite of the
Gallup Polls report that cross
section is 2 to 1 for the draft, con-
stituents are writing their Sen
ators and Representatives in Con-
gress in opposition to the bill. Be
sides the mail from constituents,
religious and labor groups have
gone on record against it, and anti
draft senators are beginning to
talk filibuster. A great many mem
bers of both houses believe a draft
is necessary, but they want to wait
a little longer until their constitu-
ents understand the problem better
and understand that men with de-
pendents are not to be called The
Committee rewrote the controver-
sial conscription bill to limit its ap-
plication to men between the ages
of 21 and 81 Before reaching
agreement on the measures major
provisions, the committee inserted
a provision which would enable all
men between 18 and 35 to volun-
teer in the Army for one-year per-
iods. Further amendments will be
added to the bill in both the House
and Senate when it is presented
for consideration.
ADJOURNMENT - Regardless
of the insistent call of the political
hustlings, the heat of Washington
summer, or demands by personal
business affairs, members of Con
gress realize that there can be nc
adjournment of the present session
until a number of legislative prob
lens have been solved. Apart from
the latest additional request for de-
fense appropriations, before the
House on its calendar the House
approved the Walter-Logan Bill
the amendments to theWagner La
Dor Relations Act, and it will bt
difficult to avoid a showdown mucl
! longer. There are still IL bills be
fore the House which already hav,
preferred status by action of tn
Rules Committee. Members o
Congress realize that these meas
ures must be cleaned up before ad
journment and so will settle dow
to do business at a much NOR,
rapid pace than they have set TO
themselves since they recessed TO
the Republican National Conven
tion ON June %, 1910.