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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-01-17

speaks to me now. He just lives and
works In kind OF a dream"
The dreary Odyssey developed with
the passing years. Even Joseph WAL
lace would not speak to John Henry
now.
In the ninth year of Lucy's mar
rage Mrs: Driscoll's new task began:
From then on periodically she had
to persuade Lucy to continue to live
with her husband.
You've taken on the obligation and
you've got to see it through" she
usually ended. Lucy always shook her
small head.
He hardly seems to know whether
I'm with him or not" she said duly.
He doesn't care. really. He simply
wants someone to wait on him. Any
one who was quiet around the place
and let him alone would do. He does
lot Of his work in his studio now.
but he won't let me get in 1t to clean
it unless he's there himself. He locks
1t and carries the key in his pocket
When I'm in there cleaning 1t he
turns all his pictures to the wall so
never know what he's doing. But
that doesn't matter" poor Lucy added
gloomily. Il wouldn't know what he
was doing even If I saw it."
ried life that John Henry ceased 70
have any regular work except in his
own studio.
None OF the dealers will have any
more to do with him." Lucy reported.
Neither will anyone else, so he
doesn't sell any of his pictures any
more I don't know whether he won't
or whether he can't. But we've got
almost $4,000 in the savings bank, and
we can live on the interest and on
what I earn. I'm working pretty
steadily now. He doesn't know 1t, but
I work most every day. Most of my
old customers have taken me back
Lucy was thin again and for the
first time in her life was looking
overweight. Mrs. Driscoll reversed
her decision, which was wholly new
In her experience and rather shatter-
ing because Of that.
Leave him. anyway, Lucy" she
suddenly advised. Hes wearing you
down. It isn't Just that fine woman
should sacrifice her life to a worth
less man-though God knows that
many a fine woman does Just that,
the patroneSs added with sudden Bit
terness. But again Lucy was shaking
her small head, on which the brown
hair had turned to silver since he:
marriage.
II left him once, two years ago,
she confessed In a low voice. Il
thought I couldn't stand it any longer
It's like living with busy ghost. But
I couldn't stay away. I don't love him
anymore I never did really. But I've
got sense of duty. If I left him
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-01-17
REPORT ON AID TO
AGED MONTANANS
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC VEL
FARE DISBURSEs s2.e2I,ooo DUR
ING YEAR ENDING JUNE 30
Old-Age Assistance Payments and
Payments for Aid to Dependent
Children in Montana Lower Than
National Average.

Montana's department OF public
welfare disbursed S2,621 ,062.72 for
oid-age assistance during the year
ended June 30. 1870, Administrator
]. NJ. Brandjord reported to Gov.
Roy f. Ayers in a recent report.
Brandjord's report listed the dis
tribution to the aged needy as
follows: From federal funds, ST.
3IO,53l.38; from state funds, s901,-
1885. and from county funds.
409. 1919.
In the report, the administrator
recommended to the 1871 legislature:
AT the present time old-age as
sistance payments and payments for
aid to dependent children in this state
are lower than the national average.
The administrator believes the average
of these payments in Montana should
be above the national average; and
this would require additional funds
both from the counties and from the
state.
Legislation providing additional rev.
enues for county poor funds appears
necessary. The new revenues should b
sufficient to enable the counties Of the
state to pay all their general relief
expenditures In full: to reimburse the
state department one-sixth Of the ex-
penditures for old-age assistance, aid
to dependent children and aid to needy
blind, and to pay one-half the cost OF
county administration Of the public
welfare program.
ut should be only in real emergen-
cies that a county would find 1t neces-
sary to call upon the state department
Of public welfare for additional fundA.
To bring this condition about, addi-
tional revenues must be provided for
county poor funds over and above the
revenues from the 6-mill levy and
miscellaneous items available for that
fund under the present statutes"
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-01-17
Car Plunges $50
Feet; Butte Man and
Milk Bottle Safe

A sedan hurtled down a 250-foot
bank, tumbling end over end. The
driver emerged from the demolished
car with scratch on one finger and
carrying a bottle Of milk.
I'm lucky I'm alive today" the
driver, Theodore Cerise. said after the
accident on the Woodville hill north
OF Butte.
Cerise was returning from Elk Park
when a north-bound car hooked the
rear bumper Of his machine near the
top Of Woodville hill.
Cerise's car skidded out of control
and plunged off the highway.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-01-17

MISSOULA-Montan imported IA
carloads of fruit and vegetables valued
at 1921 1880 during November. the
horticulture division Of the state de-
partment of agriculture reported. Dur
ing the same month, state markets
absorbed LOT carloads Of homegrown
fruits and vegetables valued at $58.-
OBJ so.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-01-17

speaks to me now. He just lives and
works In kind OF a dream"
The dreary Odyssey developed with
the passing years. Even Joseph Wal
lace would not speak to John Henry
now.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21

IDENTIFY have become allied with Abas-
cal's outfit, while the larger group
shuns him like poison. All of the Jew
haters in Mexico are lined up in SYM
pathy with Abascal
Abascal has taken part in several
mob violence actions. In one, thirteen
workers were killed. Here is fire that
needs to be met with something more
than party etiquette. The shock
troops of nazi-ism are not only mo-
bilizing, they are modified The
trouble north of the Rio Grande seems
to be that lot of people haven't yet
got the idea that war is on and that
we have war to win. So they just
look pleasant, talk in generalities and
tell themselves that tomorrow is an
other day.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21
WHY THE WEEKS
DELAY?

(From the Editor and Publisher)
We're looking for information Why,
we ask, was there lag of more than
a week between the first announcement
of the torpedoing of the U. S. S.
Kearny and the disclosure that the
ship had been struck in what amounted
to formal combat with a submarine?
Why was the information fed to the
public piecemeal-frst the announce
ment of the attack, with no casualties
indicated then the report of the cas-
ualties, with uncertainty surrounding
the fate Of the missing" men; finally
the detailed report of Secretary Knox,
with the news that the Kearny had
answered a call for help from another
convoy and was actually bombing
submarine when the torpedo hit.
Conceding the necessity of caution
in releasing naval news, we can't see
that any good purpose was served by
the procedure in this instance.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21

When Roosevelt was elected the first
time John l.. Lewis was just about
hanging on the ropes. Came NRA and
John L. Lewis saw the band wagon
coming down the road. He jumped on,
played his cards with wizardry and
leaped to top position of power.
1t was a great performance Gen.
Hugh Johnson was in his corner all
the way. They ought to still have a
lot in common.
Well, the war came The situation
today is NRA turned around. Now the
nation is supreme. It's needs come
first.
John L. Lewis is learning the lesson
hard. So are great many others.
But Lewis manages to dramatic his
battles where others don't.
Whatever hampers the making of
war materials today has to get out
of the way.
Some labor leaders may think they
are being showed around. Lewis per-
haps more than any other.
If they were wise they wouldn't
have to be showed around. They
would get in there and help the
nation.
Labor has all the guarantees it can
ask. But it can't abuse them and it
can't put them ahead of national
safety. 1t can let the reds push 1T
around, which is what is happening
in plenty of places.
Labor-starting with John l.. Lewis
had better learn to use the machin-
cry created for the purpose to get it's
grievances righted. It's other griev-
ances it had better forget, before
something very forceful happens.
Nations at war don't stand for much
internal monkey business.-C. M. W.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

Nursing Council on National Defense
has been set up composed of repre-
sentatives of the national nursing or
CARNATIONS with ex-officio represen-
tation from the federal government
nursing services. As it's first step,
this council recommended nation
wide survey of registered nurses to
determine where our nurses may be
found and what services they are
equipped to render Immediately in the
event of an acute national emergency.
AS second step, the council is
staging drive for recruiting nurses
along four major fronts. % an in
crease in enrolment of qualified reg
istered nurses in the Red Cross Nurs-
ing Service which, in addition to pro-
viding service in time of disaster,
serves as the First Reserve of the
Army and Navy Nurse Corps; (2) an
increase in enrolment of qualified stu
dents in sound schools of nursing;
(3) development of refresher courses
for graduate nurses who have not been
active recently; and (4) encourage
ment of qualified nurses to enter the
specialized fields of nursing.
1t is estimated that at least 27,OOO
nurses will be required for govern
ment service during the coming year,
and that an additional 10000 are
needed for staff positions in hospitals
and other civilian institutions. A drive
is also under way to enroll at least
$4,000 student nurses. Given this
needed personnel, the profession ap-
pears to be ready for whatever de-
mands may lie ahead.
Better Nursing for America" is
the sixtieth of a series of popular,
factual, 10-cent pamphlets published
by the Public Affairs Committee, 80
Rockefeller Plaza, New York City.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1941.
BOOST FOR VACATIONS

Vacations with pay, now provision
IN many union contracts, are con-
vincingly championed by the presiden-
tial emergency board set up in the
railroad wage dispute The board
strongly supports organized labor's
case for paid vacations, declaring they
have s'become an important element
in our American standard of living .
The boards report, approving a
weeks vacation with pay for members
of the IA unions of non operating rail
road workers, finds that such vaca-
tions "are necessary to the main
tenance of physical and mental we'll
being of workers" The report further
finds that paid vacations improve
workers efficiency and morale. These
are precisely the contentious of or
ganized labor.
Last summer, the Office of Produc-
tion Management sought to discour-
age vacations in defense industry on
the ground that they hampered pro-
duction. While not mentioning the
OPM action, the emergency board
takes issue with this view, saying
that railroad employees should not be
denied weeks vacation ION the
ground that this is not the appropri-
ate time for them to enjoy a period
of relaxation"
The boards finding, it says, is ''based
on the accepted premise that vacation
periods are socially desirable" Labor
believes that the finding is sound and
the nation will be the gamer for uni
versal acceptance of vacations with
pay.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21
WHAT NEXT?

The Chicago Bridge and Iron Com
pany, makers of tanks for storing oil
and water, has applied its own tech
nique to one of its own buildings, a
lunch-room for employees, says Busi-
ness Week. The building is made of
"dished" plates, only three-sixteenths
of an inch thick, welded on the job.
Hailed as the first steel building with
out beams or supports, it is 108 feet
in diameter, % feet high and is fire,
sound, and heat-proof.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21
STRONG ACTION IS
NEEDED TO DEFEAT
SINARCHIST ORDER
BY CHESTER M. WRIGHT

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) At the
risk of being accused of shooting
twice at the same bird, / want to come
back this once more on the subject of
the Sinarchist movement in Mexico.
While the United States plays
around in Mexico pretty much on a
tea table basis, this foe of democracy
goes hell-raising around the place,
creating a shooting army that hates
democracy and that is all tangled up
in web of belief deriving from Fa-
langist, fascist and nazi notions.
The leader, young firebrand and
self-anointed fuehrer named Salvador
Abascal, makes a play upon his first
name to imply that he is the saviour
of Mexico.
Abascal Union Halter
Abascal hates unions, he hates farm
ers' organizations, he hates the pro-
democratic government of Mexico.
And he struts around in the trappings
and with the mouthings of first-rate
imitation of Hitler.
How much power does ne have? You
can get good estimates that run from
100000 to half million. Perhaps
100000 is more likely to be fairly
accurate.
In Mexico City / heard a lot about
the Sinarchist movement - Sinar-
quismo, as it is called there. The cardi-
nal principle is that there must be "a
supreme power charged with ordering
and regulating in the interest of the
common welfare" That's quote, OBJ
serve.
May Revive Church Dispute
One of the worst things, at the mo-
ment, about Sinarquismo, is the chance
that it may revive the church dispute,
since one group of churchmen evil
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21
THEY DON'T LIKE DIRT

New York's able Mayor La Guardia
has no patience with the assertion that
people of low incomes enjoy dirt and
bad housing. Paying his respects to
this old chestnut, he says:
"People are not dirty and unkempt
because they want to be. People do
not crowd into small apartment be-
cause they like it.
"Have you ever been in one of these
tenement houses with its dark rooms
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21
MEANY DISACREES in
CAPTIVE MINES CASE

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-George
Meany, secretary OF tne
American Federation of Labor, has
issued the following statement:
cat the time the case of the United
Mine Workers of America came pe-
fore the full National Defense Medl-
alton Board, made motion that the
boards decision in the case should De
as follows-that the owners of the
captive mines be requested to sign the
Appalachian Agreement without any
reservation or qualification whatso-
ever.
sI made this motion because | was
firmly convinced-and | am still
firmly convinced-that> this decision
was the only proper one that could
be arrived at on the merits OF the
case itself and wholly apart from any
extraneous issue. If / had been IN
Washington at the time the vote OF
the board was taken / would have
voted for the motion.
"T am therefore in absolute dis
agreement with the decision OF the
board. However, the majority has
spoken, and in the interests of ma
tional defense / believe that the par
ties to this controversy should abide
by the decision of the majority"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21
HE WAS king FOR A DAY.

New York City (ILNS).-Carl Mar
tin, Brooklyn iron worker, is not al
lowed to smoke at work, his wife op-
poses his smoking at home and, so he
told the judge, that was. why he
lighted cigar while waiting to vote.
A policeman told him it was against
the law, an argument followed and
he was arrested.
WELL" ruled Magistrate Lehrich,
you're voter and king for the day.
Sentence suspended"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21

Despite a threatened shortage in
personnel, the nursing profession is
fan better prepared for the present
emergency than it was at the time of
the first World War, it is made clear
in a pamphlet, Better Nursing for
America" written by Beulah Amidon
and just published by the Public AT
fairs Committee. This pamphlet was
prepared in cooperation with the
American Nurses Association, the Ma
tional League of Nursing Education,
and the National Organization for
Public Health Nursing.
twenty-five years ago." Miss AM
idon points out, nursing as career
was little sought after. The hospital
schools did not have enough we'll
qualified applicants. Some 60 per cent
of the schools required only one full
year, or even less, of high school, and
there was little pretense that nursing
schools existed primarily for educa-
tional purposes. Many hospitals had
schools simply to obtain cheap nursing
service"
Today nursing schools have rigid
entrance requirements and provide
thorough education. Vast new fields of
specialization have been opened up,
and standards within the profession
have been materially raised.
New responsibilities have been
placed on the profession by the ma
tional defense program. Each month
hundreds of well-qualified nurses are
being drawn into the Army and Navy.
The mushroom growth of communi-
ties in which defense industries and
cantonments are located has been ac-
companied by serious problems of SAN
itation and health.
To meet these needs and the prob
lens of the post-defense period,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21

Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1855 Hamilton. Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21

AS these lines are written, John L.
Lewis has not written the final chapter
in the captive mine dispute. The me-
dlators, or arbitrators, have rendered
their findings and it is up to John.
In the award Lewis was given all
he wanted, except the closed shop,
which to him means the check-off. He
could have had all that before. His
last word on the matter won't mean
much, because there's person called
Uncle Sam who is going to see that
the mines keep running.
Wisdom would be in acceptance of
the award-and yet acceptance has
great risks for Lewis, because lack of
the check-off may kick back into the
free mines.
But whatever happens, isn't the
course run by Lewis in the last quar-
ter of a century an odd one?
Some will remember back to when
he succeeded Frank J. Hayes as presi-
dent of u. M. W. A. Hayes, the mine
leader who looked like college man
just out.
And some will remember when Lewis
was in another jam, faced with an
injunction, the entire A. F. of L. ex-
ecutive council ready to back him
waiting through day and night for the
word.
The word came Lewis said, in eff
feet, II cannot oppose my govern
ment." 1t saved the judge a lot of
bother, but it left the executive coun-
ell fiat.
History is interesting. A great many
public figures bank on the fact that
their followers-and others-will not
look back to other days. Mostly they
don't.
Who remembers the presidential
campaign in which Labor's Non-Par-
tisan League blossomed forth-and
was power. George L. Berry was
the president. He voiced it as the
purpose of the league to help elect the
President and then to walk with him"
through his elected years. John L..
Lewis kicked a half million dollars
into the league-and right after cleo
tion George Berry departed from it's
precincts. Most other A. F. of L. men
went out also. Leaving Lewis, party
liners and some others.
John L. Lewis became, to all intents
and purposes, Labor's Non-P Partisan
League.
1t would hardly be right to say that
ne and his league walked with the
president" They walked until they
got around behind him and there they
seem to have stayed, within kicking
range.
And once Lewis let go with wise
crack-that one about che supped at
Labor's table"-and then served the
nation instead of John L. Lewis.
Probably Lewis has many times
wished he had put that wise crack
ON ice.
Well, it's long road since the
battles of West Virginia and Mother
Jones.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21

Entered at the Postofice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21

without a window in the middle
room-the cooking and the washing
and the sitting room all in one-chil-
dren around, irritable, the mother
frantic? Try to keep a house like
that clean and cheerful
eve take the same family and move
them into our new model low-cost
houses. You see a complete change
The mother has on a clean, pretty
dress; it may be just an apron, but it
is clean and pretty. Her hair is
combed, now that she has some place
to comb her hair. The children are
clean when they sit at the table, be-
cause now they have a place to wash.
They had no place in the old tenement
houses; the only sink was all occupied
with preparing the meal. Now there
is also separate place to wash
clothes, downstairs in the laundry"
Mayor La Guardia has been fighting
for decent housing all his life. He
knows his subject and his statement
should effectually dispose of the idea
that dirt is to the liking of the poor.
But erroneous ideas are tough and
long lived and this particular one will
probably survive for many years.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21
BIG GRADE CROSSING TOLL

Washington, d. c. - More than
10000 persons have lost their lives in
accidents at highway-railroad grade
crossings in the last 10 years, says the
Association of American Railroads.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21
WAREHOUSE WORKERS PACT

Seattle, Wash. (ILNS). - Ware
housemen's local No. lit, affiliated
with the Seattle Joint Council of
Teamsters, A. F. of L., has signed an
agreement with all wholesale hard
ware companies in Seattle and sur
rounding area calling for a minimum
wage of rs cents an hour, or $3.50 per
month.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-21
WISDOM

Enlighten the people generally and
tyranny and oppression of body and
mind will vanish like evil spirits at
the dawn of day.-Thomas Jefferson.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-11-06
OF Course, We Will Obey

Power consumers in North Carolina will,
of course, obey such regulations as the Of
flee of Production Management imposes.
Patriotism will not permit them to do less
even if they are disposed to question the
wisdom or the fairness of the rules.
These regulations, if given effect in all
of their promised rigor, will work hard
ships in North Carolina. This unpleasant
fact can not be blinked
These hardships will be all the more SER
ious in their economic consequences be-
cause the power which we are asked to
save will be transmitted to other states.
North Carolina has sufficient power for the
needs of it's own industries, defense and
non-defense. The shortage which we are
expected to aid in relieving with our own
sacrifices is in other states.
These are times, however, when the
needs of the nation must take precedence
over the economic interests of the Individual
states. Every local consideration must be
subordinated to the necessities of the re-
public. It is to be hoped, however, that the
federal government will not demand of us
more than is absolutely necessary. Unlike
some of the neighboring states, we are so
dependent on our non-defenes activity for
our prosperity that any curtailment in our
non-war industry assumes serious impor-
tance-The Asheville Citizen.