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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10
PEANUTS

SUFFOLK, Va, April 9.-R-
Peanut quotations; Jumbos 3 rs
to 4; bunch 8 IL to $50; runners
2 ia to q a.S. Market dull.
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y. 0. CnTTONSEEn OIL.

h" ORLEANS, April 9.-[P-
Nh, oil closed steady; bleach.
nr,n PRIME summer yellow 6.35b;
,1n,. crude 5.S7 10. May 6.35b.
'13; Sep s.48b; Oct SAID.
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON

new ORLEANS, April 9.-GP-
ry,lon futures worked upward here
louay along with trade and foreign
o4Elng influences. Strength in
"sd' and securities helped the ad-
'ilt' Closing prices were steady
net cams Of . TO 8 points.
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CHICAGO LARD

CHICAGO. April g. Lard
tierces 500; loose 5.25; bellies 0'oo'
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BALTIMORE, April 9.-CP-Po-
tatoes unchanged.
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CHARLOTTE COTTON
CHARLOTTE, April 9.-QP-Spot
cotton 1915.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
Miss Perkins Reports
Employment Gains

Boston, Mass. = Secretary Perkins,
reporting an increase of more than
100000 in non-agricultural employ
ment in the last year, asserted that
"this employment is some 100000
greater than it was seven years ago,
exclusive of some 100000 additional
men and women engaged on W.P.A." ]"
She forecast that employment and
payrolls would rise in the coming
months "as industries expand under
the comprehensive defense program. Z"
In her Labor Day address Miss Per-
kins reported that the year had seen
a marked improvement in industrial
relations and that wage earners and
business were cooperating whole
heartedly in carrying out defense
tasks.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
GOOD MOVE

Spread of knowledge among the
people of the working of government
makes for better understanding and
cooperation between government and
citizens, with consequent benefit to
both. So the International City Man
ayers Association brings good news
when it reports that American cities
are making greater efforts to inform
their citizens about local government
and the way it is run.
In addition to issuing more detailed
and informative annual reports, many
cities are using motion pictures and
the radio as mediums for bringing the
city hall and citizens closer together,
the City Managers Association finds.
Of the 100 or more annual munich
pal reports studied by the association,
some were merely financial state
ments, while 81 include discussions of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20

The Social Security Boards report
on employment-service activities for
July showed, according to McNutt,
that more private placements were
made by public employment offices
than in any previous July; this total
was, however, 10 per cent below that
for June. Due chiefly to the reduced
demand for agricultural labor, there
was also decline, the first in five
months, in the number of supplement
tai placements those in which the
employment office takes some, but not
all, of the steps to complete placement.
For the first seven months OF 194O,
the public employment offices com
pleted more than 100000 placements
in private employment, a gain OF
nearly 27 per cent over the corre-
spending period of 1889. Only five
states filled fewer private jobs dur
ing January-July of this year than IN
the same months last year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
JOB PLACEMENTS
AT RECORD HIGH

Washington, D. c. (ILNS). - De-
spite the normal July decline in place
ments, 100000 jobs in private indus
try were filled by the state-operated
employment offices during the month,
Federal Security Administrator Paul
V. McNutt announces. The number
was the largest July total in the his
tory of the United States Employment
Service.
At the same time, he said, out-of-
work benefits paid to unemployed
workers by the states increased a per
cent over June payments. The July
total of $55, 100000 represented new
high, although there is evidence of
increasing employment in certain de-
fense and related industries. He
pointed out that this trend had been
anticipated, and explained it as due to
several factors-among them, the nor
NAL seasonal falling off in some lines
Of employment, the greater number
of working days in the month, and the
initiation of new beneft-years in a
number of states.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1910.
A UNION SEES THE LIGHT

The American Federation of Teach
ers has apparently finally thrown off
the Communist grip and as conse-
quence faces the opportunity for
greater usefulness in the American
labor movement than ever before.
At it's recent Buffalo convention,
the teachers union elected a set of
anti-Communist vice-presidents and
reelected its president, DR.. George S.
Counts, who has made no secret of
his hostility to the Communist infu-
ence in his organization. The action
is hailed by Mark Starr, one of the
new presidents, as proof that the
members want genuine trade union
working in conjunction with the
American Federation of Labor and
with a policy corresponding to the
needs of the American labor move
ment."
The temper of the convention was
also revealed by it's action in condemn
ing all relationships, including that of
Communist Russia
Due largely to the Communist in
cubus, the American Federation of
Teachers has fallen far short of its
opportunities for betterment of the
condition of teachers. Now that the
Communist officials have been kicked
out, the organization should take its
rightful place in the labor movement.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

In summers past, Copenhagen's res
idents enjoyed watching thousands of
visiting country children gazing in
rapture at points of interest as they
were being expertly guided through
the city's streets, while Danish farm
ers chuckled over the inept attempts
at milking made by children reared
in the capital.
This interchange, during summer
vacations, of city and country children
has done much to further the demo-
cratic ideals of Denmark and to
broaden the vision of the children of
the nation.
Whether these children of Denmark
will continue their carefree happy
holidays depends entirely on the eff
feet of the present Nazi invasion of
that peaceful little country.
The origin of what is now known
by the unwieldy name of the Copen-
hagen Communal Teachers Society's
Colonies started in the cholera year
of 1853, when humane and hospitable
farmers all over the country invited
poor city children to vacation with
them. Since then the idea has grown
to such proportions that until today
vacation time has meant mass migra-
tion of school children from city to
country and from country to city.
Teachers of Denmark both spon-
sored and supervised the plan. Con-
tributions were gathered through the
Copenhagen press. The state rail-
ways gave transportation, for which
the city paid 1919; private railways
and steamship companies granted
large reductions in fare.
The Society for Provincial Chill
dren's Holidays in Copenhagen has
been able to send approximately 25,-
900 country children to Copenhagen
each summer at almost no cost to the
children. School dormitories, other
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
Board To Investigate
Rail Dispute Asked

Rutland, vt. (ILNS). - Governor
George D. Aiken has asked President
Roosevelt to appoint fact-finding
board under provisions of the Rail
road Labor Act, to investigate the
situation leading to threatened
strike on the Rutland Railroad.
Appointment of such board would
allow so days of grace before the
strike could get under way. The gov
ernor said that both the workers and
the railroad management were agree
able to the plan.
Employees of the road voted to
strike September II in protest against
a 10 to 80 per cent wage cut.
The wage cut, announced by the
railroad receiver, was scheduled to
become effective September IL.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20

The House provision was the equiv
alent of saying, eve have a capitalist
economy, but by this amendment we
will change it to state socialist econ
omy, and nobody will know it until
they wake up"
Neither house has been any too
honest about telling the people just
what the proposals were intended to
men, if indeed, they knew.
Of course the defense program will
go on, in spite of all obstacles.
The Defense Advisory Commission,
working honestly without political
partisanship, is doing a whale of a
good job.
But somehow, lot of men who are
elected to office think the main issue
is that they get reelected.
Whether any member gets re-
elected is the least important of
all the issues.
Whether America gets her de-
fense machinery built is the one
really big issue.
There are plenty of reasons for say
ing that, with all possible speed, there
may not be time enough.
Democracy can work with speed
and efficiency, if office-holders can be
made to understand that the people
really want speed and efficiency and
will tolerate nothing less.
1t might be good idea for OUR
Congressman and Senators to show,
next time, how wise they can be, how
fast they can act, rather than how
stupid they can Bee. M. w.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
GUARANTEE OF DEMOCRACY

The establishment and preservation
of a strong, effective, aggressive
trade-union movement constitutes the
best guarantee for the preservation
of democracy, both in governmental
affairs and in human relationships.
Through the establishment of our
trade unions we are seeking to erect
a barrier against the invasion of Fas-
cism, Communism, Nazism-and for
the perpetuation of democracy, demo-
cratic principles and democratic pro-
William Green.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
Wisconsin City Helps Pay
Employees Hospital Care

Chicago NS).-Reported as the
first city to contribute municipal funds
to group disqualification plan for
employees, Two Rivers, Wis, through
recent council action, voted to pay so
cents a month of a Slip premium
charge for this insurance, the Inter
national City Managers Association
says.
Under the plan, the employe is en-
titled to 81 days in the city hospital,
plus a provision for X-rays, anes-
thetics and surgical fees. For an
added fee, employees can cover other
members Of their families. Two Riv-
ers also allows employees seven days
sick leave a year with full pay.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
EYE ACCIDENTS

Eye accidents in industry entail a
cost far greater than the direct none
tary cost. The accumulated social
cost of such accidents is tremendous
and the cost to the individual worker
in pain and both physical and psychic
suffering is devastating in many cases.
BY no means available at this time
can the total cost of eye injuries be
eyaluated with any degree of accuracy.
DR.. Leonard Greenburg.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20

wise closed for the summer, were
made available, and although the
trips were short-from three days to
week-the itinerary was SO care
fully planned that the more impor-
tant educational institutions were Wis
tied.
About half of Copenhagen's $4,000
school children spent several weeks
of their vacation in the country either
at holiday colonies or at private
farms. And if their outfit was not all
that could be desired for sturdy coun-
try living, the Children's Bureau gave
a helping hand
Year after year the teachers or
ganizations expanded their holiday
colonies until there were special colo
nies for a large number of weakly
children. In various parts of the
country where the colonies were sit
uated, local people displayed warm
hearted sympathy through gifts to
the commissariat, and local doctors
gave freely of their professional serv-
ices. The holiday places have usually
been at the seaside, and each group
was in charge of two teachers.
After three weeks of fun and frolic
the child was returned home, but rec
ords kept of increase of weight dur
ing the holiday acted as guide for
the school doctor. The questions of
nutrition and hygienic care were con-
sidedred just as important in the
Danish school as was the instruction,
and it is in this regard that the holi-
day colonies made one of their great
contributions.
Holiday Homes among the farm
ers of the country has become an in
stitution in Denmark. This, too, was
organized by the teachers. Often a
child returned to the same farm year
after year, and was followed by a
younger sister or brother.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20

expenditures and services performed.
The typical 1889 report, the associa-
tion said, was a 6-by-9-inch printed
publication with picture of a land
mark or view of the city on its
cover. 1t contained charts which out
lined the municipal organization, and
the relationships between city depart
ments. The written report discussed
all phases of municipal activity. FL
nancial data were presented on the
final pages.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
Workers In u. S. Rubber
Company Plant Organize

Winnsboro, S. Employees of the
United States Rubber Company's tex
tile plant here have formed local
union and applied to the United Tex
tile Workers of America for a char
ter. Gordon L. Chastain, president
of the Southern Cotton Textile Fed
GRAFTON; John W. Pollard, first vice
president of the United Textile Work
ers Of America, and other U. 7. w.
of A., have assisted the employees of
the plant in forming the new local
union which promises to become one
of the strongest textile locals in the
state.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
WHAT NEXT?

A new paint, designed for use in
industrial plants, is said to take the
slip" out of slippery floors. The paint
can be applied to any type of wood,
metal or concrete floor, says the man
ufacturer, and forms a durable, gran
ular surface. 1t is not abrasive, con-
tains no sand or ground glass, but is
tough and resilient.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
The Cherry
vYv Where with our
roo Little Hatchet we
tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly. Sometimes fippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Of course it's just about all over
now, but that doesn't prevent a good
husky yell of rebellion at the manner
in which the United States Congress
has been behaving itself, while the
world tottered.
There have been few political exhi-
bitions worse than the exhibition of
political partisan jockeying for place
than we have been going through.
The universal selective service bill,
one of the most important pieces of
legislation ever written in America,
has been debated on a level with the
worst mud gutter politics.
Rank isolationists and lame ducks
have made crazy holiday out of what
should have been a very solemn pro-
ceeding. Names have been called and
blows have been struck by men who
ought to be out of their diapers, but
who have given US an exhibition of
mental infantilism-or worse.
And the worst of it is that we shall,
because nothing better is available,
have to vote for some of these men
again!
If it is to be said that the President
resorted to devious procedure to make
the trade with Britain for naval and
air bases, what is to be said of the
devious reasoning, for example, of
Hamilton Fish, the great, big strap
ping New York ex-football player
who slid the sixty-day clause through
the House?
That amendment just about marks
low tide for politics, unless it can be
claimed that some of those who fol-
lowed him hit lower level.
The excuse for all of the antics is
that campaign is on.
So that's it. Because a campaign
is on, legislators have to show the
voters how foolish they can be- They
have to show how afraid of their own
shadows they can be. They have to
show how little sense they have, fear
ing that if they show some sense they
will lose some votes. THEY OUGHT
TO LOSE VOTES.
A choicer brand of monkeyshines
isn't to be found, even in the biggest
of ZOOS.
If Congress has been silly about the
provisions governing selection of men,
it has been as silly about the provi-
sions relating to industry perhaps
sillier.
AS matter of fact. neither the
House provision nor the Senate provi-
sion was an actual draft of industry,
even though the political snake charm
ers, anxious to cater to supposedly
intelligent voters, sought to make it
appear so.
One proposal was tantamount to
confiscation; the other was the equal
of a proposal to rent--on a compul-
sorry basis, it is true, but to rent. just
the same.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
FARM SAFETY IGNORED

Washington, d. C.-Despite the fact
that many accidents occur in agricul-
ture, especially where machinery is
used, no state has issued code of
safety regulations especially designed
to apply to farm machinery, the U. S.
Labor Department says. Records show
that machine operation on farms, such
as threshing and hay baling, rank with
the most hazardous industrial work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
LABOR LED THE WAY

Legislation recognizing labor's legal
right to bargain collectively and to
organize is an outgrowth of the labor
movements efforts to prove they could
be trusted at the council table, and
the public's recognition of the sound
ness of labor's program. In other
words, the law followed the trail which
labor had blazed. Matthew Woll.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
AGREEMENTS MADE

ST. Paul, Mimi Minnesota is the
third state to sign an agreement with
the Wage and Hour Division and the
Children's Bureau of the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor to cooperate in max
ing inspections and Investigations un-
der the Wage-Hour Act. Similar
agreements have also been made by
Connecticut and North Carolina.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
MAINTAINING LIBERTIES

AS one of the few industrial coun-
tries of the world where labor is not
on a war footing or deprived of the
right to organize by government con-
troll, this year we must give serious
thought to maintaining our liberties.
We still have those rights and ma
terial advantages that have made the
United States land of opportunity
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20

and a haven for persons of all ma
tionalities, and if we have the wisdom
and the will to maintain those rights
the future will find them still in our
hands.-American Federationist
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20
WISDOM

Democracy must be progressive or
die-Samuel Gompers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-20

Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1886 Hamilton Ohio
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Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
By LILLIAN cox ATHEY.

"The stupidest thing in the
woods seems to be the consensus
of all who have had an intimate
acquaintance with the porcupine
Since he has had the right of way
so long, he never senses danger,
and as for food, he eats or samples
everything. There does not seem to
be any way by which he can be i'm
pressed with the idea that he must
let certain things alone. Pain does
not teach him or is his memory
very short?
1t has been said by a famous
naturalist that Porky defes all to
learn something or to acquire that
which he most desires Whatever
1t is, we do know that the quill-pig
has very unsociable habits and he
is a most noisy fellow to have
around.
Once he finds you have salt, you
Just cannot get rid of him. Around
camps he has become a grand
nuisance. He is noisy, as you know
when he is on the premises, for he
squeakS, shifts, Chatters. shrieks,
grunts. whines and even cries, until
In desperation you try to solace him
We have been told that his love-
song in spring sounds like wailipg
infant. The scream, with its far
reaching notes, is called his war
CRY.
AS far as is known, most por-
cupines take their pleasures and
playtime most solemnly. A few who
have tried to study the porcupine at
first hand say he responds to your
affection and can even stand up or
his hind legs. balance himself with
the aid of his tall and open his
Jaws, to make believe he is going
to bite, when this is not his in
tention at all
The complaint man has against
this animal, economically, is the
way the porcupine destroys trees
The number of them a hungry
quill-pig can kill by girdling is
amazing. 1t has been found that
one good-sized porcupine will girdle
100 large trees during the winter
Where this happens something has
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Natures Children
Canadian Porcupine
(ErethizOn dOrSatum)

to be done to check the activities
of such bark consumers. and for
esters have devised several methods
to discourage them.
There is story told of the meet
ing of a skunk and a porcupine-
head-on. Neither of these animals
had been used to swerving 1-inch
on the highway for any one. So
each one was determined to have
the right-of way. But the skunk
in pushing forward, found himself
with several sharp quills in his
tender flesh and this was too much!
So he flashed about without taking
time for customary warnings and
let the quill-pig have gas attack,
full in the face! According to the
report, both decided to part COM
pany without further arguments.
The fisher is one animal which
does not hesitate to attack the
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Mystery Camping Trip
Planned for Week End

A mystery camping trip" open to
the public as we'll as to members of
the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club,
is planned by the club for next week
end.
Announced as a new venture in
camping, the destination Is known
only to the leader, Herman F. Nolte
of 1876 G. street NV.
The party will 60 by bus, leaving
Pennsylvania avenue and Eighteenth
street NV. Saturday at 230 pm,
and will drive to the camp site in
time for dinner.
Evening star., 1940-08-13

almost completely demolished and
Immediately caught fire. Dazed and
badly cut, he was pulled from the
wreckage by one of the passengers,
who was uninjured.
Capt. Mcclure, with utter disre-
gard of his personal safety and ig-
noring his own injuries" rushed
back to the ship and freed the
trapped officer just before the gaso-
line tank exploded A native Of
Coffeyville, Kans., he entered the
military service from Kansas.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Capt. Mcclure Awarded
Medal for Heroism

Capt. George F. MCGUIRE, Air
Corps, now serving at Boiling Field,
has been awarded the Soldiers Med
al "for heroism displayed in rescu-
ing an officer from a burning air.
plane at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio
April II, 1882" the War Depart
ment announced yesterday.
Capt. MCGUIRE, a first lieutenant
at the time of the accident, was
plotting an experimental plane car
rying two other officers as passen-
gers. On crashing the ship was
Evening star., 1940-08-13

spear bearer. He Is fond of the
porcupine's tender meat. and the
bayonets do not trouble him in the
least.
The old idea that this animal
throws his quilts at foes has long
been exploded. The truth is they
are so lightly imbedded in his skin
thai they come out very easily.
When the animal is in a corner,
he buries his head under some
object or even between his fore
legs and lashes his tail madly about.
Anything the tail strikes is pune
tured with the spines. Once in the
flesh, the quills keep making their
way in deeper and deeper, causing
the death of the victim.