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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-06
METHODIST


 Rev. William M. Nesbit, Pastor,
 Sunday School 9:45: public wor- ship Il a. m. to 12 noon. The sermon topic will be, "The Reality of the Unseen" and this will be followed by communion for all Christians. The choir will resume its work at this service and all members are urged to attend.
 Monday at 8p m. the Fourth Quarterly Conference will be held at the church. Tuesday at p. m. the Epworth League will convene at the church. Thursday at p. m. the Ladies' Aid will meet and Mrs. Earl Valentine president, desires a full attendance as plans for Harvest Supper are to be made at this meeting.
 Thursday at 7:3O p. m. the choir will rehearse.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-06

Beginning Sept. T, our Sunday morning Church Service and our Church School will be brought Into closer organic connection. An 1n- elusive Service will be held regu- larly each Sunday morning from i0:S0 to 12:l6. Members of the Church School join, in the Church worship at i0:30. About II o'clock, during the singing of the second hymn, the younger members of the church School will withdraw to their study period. Following the benedictlon at li:30 all the other members of the Church School will at once take up their work in their class rooms. All will be dismissed at l2:16. Parents arc invited 10 come with their children at 10:30 and If possible, remain until they can all 90 home together. The young Adult Fellowship, the Wood- ruff Assembly for men, and the women's classes will be glad to well come all attendants ct their ses- sionS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-06

and church groups. Many have been deeply impressed by the power of this simply dressed woman, her hair drawn severely into two knots on either side of her expressive face, who talks SO surely of the power of prayer and the reality of God.
 Even hard-boiled reporters "cov- ering" her meetings have been struck by her spirituality, her directness, her enjoyment of life.
 Often accused of vagueness in her personal habits-she Is always leav-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-06
EpwOrth League

The League will hold its first meeting of the fall Sunday evening at 6 o'clock. Plans will be made for the fall work. Young people of League age are requested to be present.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-06
'tEngL0nd's June Addanls" Is A PdcifISt In a Nation At Wdr
MurieI Lester Fights Poverty and Greed
6 6 s
# MM

By ELEANOR RAGsDALE (NEA Service Stan COrrespOndentl
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
FIGHT MUST GO ON

State labor departments have re-
Gently directed attention to the need
for continuing the fight on industrial
homework, which apparently is grow
ing, despite the long war against it.
That the battle is not won is empha-
sized by surveys showing that 80
states still have no homework laws.
U. S. Department of Labor investi-
cations have shown that homeworkers
making complete artificial flowers earn
as low as 6 cents an hour. Parts MAX
ers in the same trade earn as little as
8 cents an hour. Children who sew
buttons on cards average s cents an
hour; quick woman putting dots on
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
CONSERVING MAN-POWER

In modern war it is safer today to
be a soldier than a civilian. And fac
tory workers have come to be ma
tion's shock troops who fight by being
kept on the job If they are bombed,
guns may be silenced and hangers
empty.
In modern defense, production can
be stopped just as fast by bad acci-
dents as it can by bombs-and valu-
able skilled workers lost. The nation
wide demand to conserve man-power
makes it imperative to give factory
workers every protection against in
dustrial accidents and occupational
disease.-Friedo S. Miller, Industrial
Commissioner, New York State De-
partment of Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02

aments, plus conviction. 1t would be
worse than folly to weaken that con-
viction by legislation that would de-
stroy priceless benefit that flows
only from democracy.
Enemy alien Vaccinations that
stop work fall in another category
and they must be stopped by
whatever means are necessary.
The public-and the government it.
self-have been slow to wake up to
the awful menace of sabotage in in
dustry. Both the sabotage that slows
operations or destroys things; and the
sabotage that breaks down the think
ing power of Americans, that twists
their thinking and leads them to
foolishness.
But that is danger to watch with
hawk eyes. The ring-tailed hellcats of
Hitlerism are, you can be sure, busy
with their sabotage plans and they
are in deadly earnest. THAT'S THE
THING TO WATCH FOR WITH THE
EYES OF TRAINED SUSPICION
AND TO MEET WITH BLASTING
PUNISHMENT.-O. NJ w.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

president, Walter Citrine, recently
stated in an article that the fact that,
at a time when Nazism is fostering
racial hatred, and is seeking to pop
ularize it by clever propaganda
throughout the world, two trade union
national bodies in South Africa Zone
organizing Europeans only, and the
other European and African workers)
have succeeded in reaching unity, is
proof that it is our trade unions which
can overcome difficulties of race"
British labor is out to show that
it has no sympathy for the Peoples
Convention, which held a much -adver-
tised meeting in London, at which
speakers denounced the British gov
ernment.
The National Council of Labor, rep
resenting the Trades Union Congress,
the Labor party and the Parliamen-
tary Labor party, has issued state
ment to dispel all MISUNDERSTANDING
about the Peoples Convention and
make it clear that support for this or
s'anization is inconsistent with loyalty
to the labor movement.
The manifesto charges the Peoples
Convention carries on disruptive and
defeatist propaganda and says that it
is, in effect, inspired by Communists.
It describes organizations set up by
the Communists to push their propa-
ganda among the unwary and says of
these 'Innocents' Clubs: "Over and
over again, in this and other countries,
good intentioned Socialists, tr a e
unionists and labor supporters have
been inveigled on one passing pretext
or other to forsake or slacken in their
normal work in their respective unions
or parties and lend their names to and
exercise their influence in these vary
ing phases of Communist activity
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
BEATING THE RENT GOUGER

Complaints of exorbitant rent are
beginning to appear in the press with
disquieting frequency. From many
sections, particularly those affected by
expanding defense industries, come
protests against soaring rents. Or
ganized labor has spoken its mind on
this subject and urged trade unionists
and unions to watch the situation
closely and take action wherever the
rent gouger appears.
Labor can help by getting behind
proposed state rent legislation to
maintain fair rents in defense areas.
Fair rents are vitally important at
this time, as pointed out recently by
Miss Harriet Elliott, Consumer Com
missioner of the National Defense Ad-
visory Commission
"If living standards are to be pro-
tected during the emergency" said
Miss Elliott, 'there is imperative need
to maintain fair rents. The best way
to do this is by providing an adequate
supply of permanent or temporary
housing, rather than by regulating the
rent of existing dwellings,. But it has
become increasingly apparent that
legal machinery is necessary in GER
tain congested localities where rents
are reported to be skyrocketing."
Miss Elliott suggests bill designed
to prevent unreasonable rent increases
as we'll as correct abuses which may
occur. 1t therefore provides two steps;
one, the creation of state rent COM
mission with power to investigate
rental conditions and designate areas
within a state as emergency regions,
and two, the actual application of rent
control within those regions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
RACIAL ISSUE IS
NOT INVOLVED IN
PROTEST OF PLAN
Secretary of War Stimson Gets Letter
from Colored Peoples Association.

New York City (ILNS).-A protest
against the injection of the race issue
into a plan by the War Department to
send a labor battalion to Honolulu
T. H., was voiced in letter to Secre-
tary of War Stimson by the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People.
The N.A.A.C.P. protested against
a statement of Lieutenant General
Walter Short which seemed to empha-
size and express regret for the pro-
posed plan of the War Department to
send 900 members of a negro labor
battalion to Honolulu to handle army
and navy cargo.
The N.AA.C.P. cited clippings from
Honolulu newspapers indicating that
civic organizations had taken the cue
from Short and had filed protests on
the basis of race.
Union labor representatives in Hon
olulu, however, were reported in Hon
olulu papers as issuing the following
statement:
"It should be clear that we resent
the explanation of Lieutenant General
Walter Short, commanding the Ha-
waiian department of the army, for
it's implications that our protest is be-
cause negro laborers are the soldiers
involved. Our protest has no racial
connotation whatsoever; it is against
all forced or militarized labor. The
general seems to say that he is sorry
it is necessary to bring negro work
ers. If workers are needed, we would
welcome negroes as we would all
races, creeds and colors."
The N.A.A.C.P. letter to Secretary
Stimson also protested the sending of
military labor battalions to compete
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02

The international Federation of
Trade Unions, though badly handi-
capped by the suppression or control
of it's European affiliates by the Nazi
conquerors, is making courageous
effort to maintain its organization and
continue its activities. Surprising to
relate, the I. F. T. U. is even growing,
the South African labor movement
just having affiliated.
There are two national labor organ
izations in South Africa, the South
African Trades and Labor Council and
the Cape Federation of Labor Unions,
one confined to European workers and
the others admitting both Europeans
and Africans. The organizations CO.
operate through national joint COM
mittee. Secretary De Vries has noti-
fed the |. F. T. U. headquarters in
London of the decision to affiliate,
saying:
"This decision will serve to show
that we fully realize the necessity of
assisting our comrades in these de-
mocracies who are fighting and work
ing so valiantly to retain their Identity
and freedom. The South African trade
unionist realizes what Nazism means,
and the fate that awaits him should
Germany get the upper hand"
Commenting on the significance OF
the South African affiliation, the |. +.
T. U. bulletin says:
"This means an increase in affiliated
membership of $4,000. The l. F. I. U.
thus gains another national center
This afiliation is all the more lmpor-
tant just now, because it is not simply
an expression of workers solidarity
of the sense of all belonging to one
family, and contribution of the work
ers to fight against Fascism.
at is also symbolic of victory over
the idea of racialism. About this, our
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
Unions Push Campaign
To Organize Shipyards

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-George
A. McKinon, American Federation of
Labor organizer, is directing drive
to organize the shipyards within the
port of New York, the A. F. of l..
Metal Trades Department reports.
The department says McKinon has
met with very good cooperation from
the Metal Trades Council, the Build
ing and Construction Trades Council
and local unions.
international unions are helping by
assigning their men from time to time
to work with Organizer McKinon in
the drive
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
State Employment Units
List Five Million JObless

Washington, D. C. - Announcing
that 345,0O0 jobs were filled by the
state employment Offices in February,
Federal Security Administrator Paul
V. McNutt said that approximately
Ia million applicants for jobs were
received by state employment Offices
during the month and that the num-
Der of men and women registered
with state employment Offices as ac-
lively seeking work totaled 81 million.
Payments for unemployment COM
pensation declined I2 per cent to $34.6
million with an average of 100000
individuals receiving benefit payments
during the month.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
Cost OF Living Facts
Available For Unions

Washington, D. C.-The Bureau of
Labor Statistics announced that in
response to large increase in the
number of requests from local unions
for data on the cost of living the
bureau had decided to carry in each
issue of the Labor Information Bull
letin" an article and chart devoted
to the trend Of the cost of living in
the United States. The Bulletin is
distributed free of charge and local
unions may request that they be placed
on the mailing list by writing directly
to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, De-
partment of Labor, Washington, D. G.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
Lumber Workers Council
Now Covers Three States

Seattle, Wash. (ILNS). = Homer
Haney of Tacoma has begun his third
term as president of the Northwestern
Council Oregon Washington Councll)
of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers
Union. A. F. of L. Kenneth Davis of
Seattle has been reelected as exec
utive secretary. o. H. Hill of Port
land is president. The member
ship voted to adopt the Northwestern
Council as the name for their organ
ization in referendum vote. The
move was deemed necessary due to
the fact the council has outgrown its
original name and has affiliate locals
in Idaho, Montana and California.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
Federal Pension System
Adds 100000 Workers

Washington, D. ca factual proof
of increased industrial employment
under the national defense program
was revealed in the report of the So
cial Security Board that nearly 2,700,-
900 more workers were employed in
occupations covered by the old-age
and survivors insurance system during
the last three months of 1910 than
were employed in the same months
of 1889. For the three-months period
the workers in covered industry to-
tailed 31,017, 900, but some 35,000,000
workers were employed in covered in
dustries sometime during the year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
PNEUMONIA DEATH RATE CUT

New York City. The pneumonia
death rate among the millions of
wage earners and their families who
are industrial policy holders of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, has been almost halved in the
last three years, the company reports.
The improvement was ascribed prin-
cipally to advances in pneumonia
treatment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
Perkins Warns of Labor
Shortage Due to Accidents

Columbus, 0. (ILNS). = Asking
greater efforts for industrial safety,
message from Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins, read to the All-Ohio
Safety Congress, said: "Any let-down
in worker production means a let
down in defense production. Indus
trial accidents or on-the-job injuries
are today more damaging to produc-
tion than any form of labor wastage,
even including strikes"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
WHAT NEXT?

Florists, in seven cities, are now
selling "love insurance: For fiat
fee, flowers are sent to loved ones at
designated birthdays, anniver-
saries-for the year 1941. - Forbes
Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02

wells can sometimes make IA cents in
the same time.
There are several things to be done
before we can point with too much
pride to our achievements.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02

60 per cent in the amount of compen-
sation to be paid workers in several
types of more serious injuries. This
is effected by lengthening the time
over which such payments would be
made.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
THE -
CHERRY TREE
Where with our Little Hatchet we tell
the truth about many things, sometimes
profoundly, sometimes fippantly. some
times recklessly. t..

1t didn't take the President long to
let the world know that reverses in
Greece would have no effect toward
slowing United States help to Britain
1t must have been the thought of
almost all Americans that our word
was NOT given on the strength of
military victories by Britain or Greece;
but that it WAS given because of
profound and eternal belief in a
principle.
A military defeat cannot de-
stroy a principle. 1t CAN compel
us to work harder in support of
that principle.
That is just what must now hap
pen, throughout America.
1t has taken great many Ameri-
cans a long time to understand how
serious a situation this country faces.
BY now it should be clear to all.
Nothing less than the most heroic
effort will do Nothing less can be ac-
cepted by the American people.
Money, work, tears, sweat and blood
will have to go into this great cause
the earnest and eager contribution of
the people of this nation.
Can any person be half-hearted? !?
Or faint-hearted?
Not if we, as people, mean what
we say; not if we keep the pledge we
have made
And who is there that would have
the nation go back on it's most solemn
pledge?
Surely not the overwhelming ma
jority of our people. If they had not
meant what they said they would
never have said it. Having said it
having pledged-they must and will
insist upon performing.
The President has served notice
upon the dictators to that effect.
We do not need to put straight
jacket upon ourselves in order to make
good our word. We do not need to de-
stroy our own liberties in order to do
our part in the battle for the liberties
of the world.
We do not need such perverse
suggestions as those found in
bills proposing to outlaw strikes.
One employer said to this writer
this very day, "I'd much rather have
a strike in our plant than to have a
law forbidding strike. I'd lose much
less production"
He was right on two counts. First,
it is the worst kind of public policy.
Second, it is the worst kind of public
relations. 1t would create resent
ment that would slow down and lose
more production than all the strikes
that could possibly happen.
We can have continuous production
stupid legislation. We can
have voluntary and free cooperation
and there are ways to get it.
A Hitler wouldn't know how to
achieve that, but Americans know how.
This great and epic struggle will
be won by democracy because of arm
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
GAIN FOR LABOR SEEN

Baltimore, Md.-Amendments to the
Maryland workmen's compensation
law, just approved by the Legislature,
are substantial gain for labor, says
Charles E. Moyland, State Industrial
Accident Commission chairman. The
bill provides increases ranging up to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02
WISDOM

The commonest things, such as lie
within everybody's grasp, are more
valuable than the riches so many NOR
tails sigh and struggle after.-Haw-
thorne.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02

Maud Muller on a summer day
Raked the meadow sweet with hay
There being no more A. A. A.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-05-02

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Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
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with civilian labor unless it is DEM
onstrated that there is shortage OF
labor in the area concerned.
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Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
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A Hitler wouldn't know how to
achieve that, but Americans know how.
This great and epic struggle will
be won by democracy because of arm
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-10
House VII! 0kay
Senate Version
OF Aid Measure
Continued frCm Page One)
w. Barley of Kentucky.

y
Besides this conference. the presi-
dent arranged for a meeting with
Budget Director Harold Smith
whose bureau already is preparing
some of the British-aid estimates
which MI Roosevelt will send up
TO congress soon.
White House Secretary stephen
T. Early indicated any arrange
ments for a fireSide chat still are
problematical. but said il was like
" he would issue a statement IN
some form after signing the bill
y suppose ne will need some form
of further assistance from congress
which he will ask for when the bill
is passed" Early said.
Taking it merely as a guess, I
think the bill will probably be sign
ed some time Wednesday unless we
hit a snag not now foreseen.'
Other administration aides speed
ed completion of inventories and
balance sheets. showing clearly what
materials are on hand and on order
both for United States defense forces
and Britains.
The president repeatedly had the
outline of his lend-lease setup viz
tually complete, and work was press
ed steadily forward on its details.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-10
Use of Warships
May Lead Vichy
Against England
CONTINUED frQm Page one

Continued from Page One
according TO many Balkan sources
will be a German-Jugoslav non
aggression pact. Jugoslavia was re-
ported to be taking widespread de-
Tense measures and there were re-
ports that there might be slight
delay on the n-aggression pact.
Other reports said high JugoslaV
statesmen may go TO Germany
Tuesday.
Turkish reports said Germ n
diVe-bombers have arrived in the
Dodecanese islands just off the
Turkish coast. Athens reported
fresh victories over the Italians in
the Tepelini area of Albania.
In Africa the British drive against
italian East Africa made fresh
inroads. A column from Italian
Somaliland has pushed 1876 miles
into Ethiopia in thrust toward
the Adds Ababa Djibouti railroad.
The Germans made their second
heavy air attack on London in two
nights, causing a number of cas-
ualties, and long range German
guns from the French coast blasted
at a convoy in. the English channel.
British planes smashed heavily at
the invasion coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-10
Army Commander
Guest at Dinner
In EI Centre

Lieut.. Gen. j. L. Dewitt. COM
mander OF the fourth army area,
was guest of honor Saturday night
at a dinner given by residents OF
Imperial county.
The dinner was given in the small
dining room on the second floor of
the Barbara Worth hotel in FL Cen
tro. John w. Donohue, president
of the Fl Centre chamber of COM
merce. presided. Informal talks
were given.
Those present were Lieut.. Gen
Dewitt, Major N. NJ. Brinson. Col
j. L. Bradley, Major J. L. Hatha-
way, Captain H. J. Rosenberg, Col
H. M. Raynor. Col. Alton Howard
Col. A. w. Melchoir, Major w. j.
Bradley. Mayor Robert w. Hatton
DR.. N. E. Dupont, Judge Vaughn
N. Thompson. j. Russell Scott. Jerry
Egan, Supervisor Hugh T. Osborne,
Walter B. Havekorst, Mark E. Ma
gee, Charles A. Bratton, H. R. And
erson and Robert Hays.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-10
5. Anderson
Passes Away

CRISTOBAL, c. T., March 10.
CUP) - Arrangements were COM
pleted today to return the body Of
Sherwood Anderson, noted author,
10 the United States.
Anderson, "a, died at the Colon
hospital Saturday night from an
abdominal ailment complicated by
peritonitis. He was on a tour Of
South America, accompanied by
Mrs. Anderson, and was removed to
the hospital from the Grace liner
Santa Lucia when he was stricken
last Wednesday.
Mrs. Anderson was with him
when he died.
Anderson first attracted wide at
tention as a writer when he pub
lished "Winesburg, Ohio" in 1919.
He later produced what critics re-
garded as his best works, including
Poor White" Triumph of the
Egg" and Dark Laughter"