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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20
LABOR
RESPONDS

From The Magazine of Wall Street,
We have had our quarrels with the
professional leaders of organized Ia
bor and we still think this stable is
much in need of thorough cleaning
"a matter of internal reform quite
apart from the question of defense
strikes which, of course, will no longer
be much of a problem, if any.
But we have never doubted the es-
sential decency and patriotism OF the
average individual American worker.
Now that war is an actuality, his re-
sponse has been instant. Here are
few samples taken from one newspaper
on one day: Foundry workers of the
Portsmouth Navy Yard volunteered to
work Sunday without pay; workers OF
the David Bradley Manufacturing
Company, Kankakee, ILL.,, offered to
work an extra day each week and do
nate their pay for that day to the
government; workers in the Lockland
plant of Wright Aeronautical Corpora
tion worked an eight-hour Sunday
shift and will donate more than
100000 of wages to the government;
at the A. G. A. Aviation Corporation,
Hatboro, Pa, the men worked New
Years Day and turned over their pay
to the government; local of the
United Mine Workers Union collected
So, ,282 from fines imposed on members
for an unauthorized strike and has
sent the money to the government.
You will hear much more of this
sort of thing What is more important,
you will see "team spirit" develop,
with inter-plant and innerplant COM
petition to set production records.
These free men are going to do pro-
duction job that Germany's wage
slaves can never match.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20

It's no argument against democracy.
This whole picture of ours grew out
of democracy. Macarthur is product
of democracy-so is Roosevelt and so
is Nelson.
Democracy can do job. 1t can take
the form needed to do job. The job
has arrived and it is going to be done.
AS time passes the country will
spot the takers and incompetents and
ways will be found to throw them out
Mistakes will be made and corrected
But meanwhile this nation will be
pouring out the most goshawful noun
tain of fighting stuff the world ever
saw - because democracy built this
nation that way.
Hitler and clustering Mussolini and
funny little Hirohito couldn't know
about that, couldn't see it coming.
And in the end they will wonder just
what the hell it was that hit them!-
C. M. w.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

Therefore the least that can be ex-
pected is that other European coun-
tries should aid Germany" The Gym
ical attitude of the German author
tiles can be summed up thus: Ger
many provides soldiers to fight for
Europe; Europe must provide workers
to work for their soldiers"
The plan also envisages the employ
ment of Dutch, Belgians, Danes, and
others from occupied countries as
overseers of the Russian workers en-
ployed on land.
Among the reasons that have con-
tributed to the German failure of vol
untary enlistment of foreign labor are
insufficiency of food and law wages
When foreign workers accepted en-
ployment in Germany. they were prom
ised that they would be able to send
most of their wages back home for
the support of their starving families
Now, most workers complain of being
underfed and forced to buy food fo1
themselves in the black markets. Any
help for their families is at the ex-
pense of their own food consumption
and consequently reduction of theil
working capacity.
Coincident with the Nazi conscrip-
tion of labor goes starvation, described
as increasing in German-ruled lands.
Outstanding examples, though by ne
means the only ones, are Greece ano
Belgium, where the mortality rate is
sky-rocketing. Raging famine anc
plague are reported to take a daily
deaht toll of 1,700 human beings il
Athens alone No figures are avail
able for the rest of the country. Al
staple foods have disappeared, ant
even the well-to-do have no longer tn,
opportunity to buy foodstuffs from
profteering Germans and Italians
| The workers and rural populace sub
sist almost entirely on herbs, roots
mussels and the like.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20
THE -
CHERRY TREE
THE
Where with our Little Hatchet we tell
the truth about many things, sometimes
profoundly, sometimes aippantly, some
times recklessly. -.

Not much use trying to get your
mind off the war. The war creeps
into every phase of life.
1t cannot be duckedi
Nor should it be ducked.
On the outcome depends the whole
future of mankind-the whole way of
life.
Meanwhile the demands of war are
SO sweeping that they revolutionize
our way of life "for the duration"
Imagine the stoppage of our great
automobile industry! 1t staggers the
mind. You can't believe it.
But there it is. The whole machin-
cry for making automobiles has been
stripped from the huge plants.
Now we shall have only the things
for war.
That's symbol of what's going to
happen already is happening in
other giant industries.
Today you can't have what you want
just because you can pay for it.
That, too, is something new in
America.
You can have what you want only
if the transaction doesn't hurt the
war job.
Soon you'll have your sugar ration
cards-later other ration cards.
Soon, too, your tires will go blooey
and you'll walk, or ride a bicycle,
or take a bus, if and when there is one.
Street cars are coming back strong,
of necessity.
These things mean shifting union
memberships, among other things.
Try to duck the thought of war
yes, try and do it.
But why try? Why not think about
it, frankly, boldly, to help win it?
1t has to be won and it will take
all of US to win.
Meanwhile more and more power
goes into the hands of the federal
government.
This has been country in which
every damn man could tell every
other damn man to go to hell"
That's out. The federal government
is made up of men. The federal gov
ernment will have millions of men in
uniform and the needs of these men
in uniform must come ahead of every
thing else. 1t will be Eyes sir" instead
of Ego to hell" AS it should be.
Not that we can't sputter and kick
but that stuff doesn't rule any more
It's incidental, like walk around the
block.
Team work is the big thing from
here on. Team work pretty much al
government command
And the people are set for it. They
aren't arguing with Franklin Roose-
velt or Donald Nelson or Leon Hen
derson. Or with the big generals and
admirals
We shall show that we, too, know
how to boil down the power and put
it under centralized control, in orde,
to make the most speed.
On Batan Peninsula one man is boss
Look at the result!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20
Educator Named Chairman
Of Fair Employment Group

Washington, d. C. (ILNS). - NAL
colin S. MacLean, head of Hampton
Institute, Hampton, Va, has been ap-
pointed by President Roosevelt as
chairman of the Presidents Committee
on Fair Employment Practice, which
was set up to investigate charges of
discrimination in employment because
of race, color, creed or national origin.
MacLean succeeds Mark Etheridge,
general manager of the Louisville
Courier-J Journal and Times, who said
that he was compelled to give up the
Craftsmanship because SO many execu-
tives of the two newspapers were
away from their posts in government
war work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20
WASHINGTON LABOR
RAISES BIG FUND FOR
AIR RAID EQUIPMENT
Organized Labor Comes to Front in
Response to Appeal for Help.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). = The
unions affiliated with the Washington
Central Labor Union are raising a
huge fund to purchase equipment for
air-raid defense. Only string to the
donation for civilian protection is that
it must be used for needed and useful
items
Authorized to date is purchase of
four blood banks for local hospitals,
which will be available during and
after the war. Five more may be
purchased.
Starting with the appointment of a
committee four weeks ago, which rec
commended a goal of $4,000, pledges
thus far are in excess of $4,000 and
is still going strong. Many unions,
especially construction organizations,
are pledging days pay, and others
all the way from 81 per member up.
Unions Press Drive
The Central Labor Union committee
HiCSto SfCly lHul oudy HiSIlI dilu maps
plans to excite interest in the cam
paign. While daily papers give little
help by publicity, the A. F. of l..
unions are quietly augmenting the
fund, and AFRAID officials are aston
ished at the response of organized la
Dor to the appeal for help in purchas-
,,,cr for oil -
metropolitan area.
Besides blood banks, for which there
are no public funds available, many
needed articles will be purchased, in
cluding mobile kitchens, movie films
instructing in proper behavior during
air raids, ambulances, etc. No pur-
chase will be made until approved by
the C. L. U. committee
The whole idea started when a few
union officials realized the necessity
for equipping AFRAID wardens, and
the practically impossible job of get
ting money from Congress. Every
body gives advice as to what should
be done, but organized labor goes
ahead and does it.
Building Workers Ready
According to latest figures the fund
will easily reach 100000 before the
campaign ends March 2.
The local Building Trades Council
is the backbone of the public works
section of civilian defense. Men of all
trades have been classified, machinery
is spotted, and material on hand for
instant response if buildings, bridges
or roads are damaged by bombs.
John Locher, secretary of the council,
is prepared to rush help to any sec
tion of the city, and officials of all
unions are ready to have men at work
in the shortest possible time.
Local labor unions also have pur-
chased almost half million dollars
in defense bonds.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20
SAVING YOUR CAR

Safety saves your car, the National
Safety Council points out
The safest way to make certain that
you won't have car to drive one of
these days is to have a smash-up, the
council says. The drastic curtailment
of cars and tires adds up to just one
thing you'd better take care of the
car you have.
Its smart business to nurse your
car by driving carefully" says Col.
John Stilwell, president of the council.
even if you don't value your life, you
surely want to save your car If you
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20
Railway Clerks Roster
Hits Twenty-Year Peak

Cincinnati, Ohio.-President George
M. Harrison of the Brotherhood of
Railway Clerks revealed that the
unions membership has gone over the
$4,000 mark, hitting a new twenty
year peak In January alone, 5000
new and reinstated members were
added by the Brotherhood. He said
that all major railroads except one,
the Nashville, Chattanooga & ST.
Louis, are under the Clerks banner
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20
WHAT NEXT?

Faucet washers of synthetic rubber
are now made which are said to out
last natural rubber washers many
times, particularly in hot water fau-
Gets subject to much use, says Ma
tion's Business.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20
War Labor Board Ends
Many Labor Disputes

Washington, d. ca 100 per cent
batting average in ending or averting
strikes was scored by the new Ma
tional War Labor Board as it rounded
out the third week of it's activities.
In three walkouts, and one threat
ened stoppage, the boards appeals
brought immediate results, and pro
duction continued pending hearings by
the board on the issues in dispute.
Cases before the board rose to 40
with close to 100000 workers involved
but not one man among these was out
on a picket line.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20

HIGANTIC conscription of labor
VI throughout Europe in the service
of the German war machine has been
planned and is now probably going
forward, reliable reports say. This
conscription means strengthening of
the Nazis' ability to wage war but is
at the same time an indication they
are short of man power.
Reports received by the New York
office of the International Transport
Workers Federation throw light on
the situation The reports say that
2,140,00O alien workers, both men and
women, as we'll as 100000 war pris-
oners, are already working in Ger
many. Strenuous efforts are being
made to lure additional foreign work.
ers into the Reich for war production.
Nevertheless, the Transport Work
ers' Federation comments, the short
age of man power at the service OF
the Nazis has become so great that
official German circles seriously con-
slider a system of labor conscription
in all German occupied countries. Ap-
peals for voluntary labor having
proven largely futile, main attention
is now centered on the question of
how to exploit to the utmost the labor
of millions of workers in conquered
Russian territory.
According to one proposal said to
have been drafted by the Nazi Min
istry of Labor, a seven-fold increase
in the numbers Of deported Russian
workers is contemplated. They will
be shipped to forced labor within Ger.
many or wherever the German masters
may want to use them. No officia'
action has been taken as yet.
The general trend, however, is in
dicated by semi-official press utter
ances such as in the Allgemeine lei
tung which states: Germany is de
Tending Europe against Bolshevism
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20
Grain Elevator Employees
Win Higher Pay Strike

New Orleans (ILNS) Eighty en-
ployes of New Orleans Dock Board
grain elevator have been granted 10
per cent increase in salaries Fifty
walked out for wage increase and
80 remained at work saying they were
satisfied with wages and conditions.
They received the same advance as the
SO who said they could not live on
their wages.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20

wreck it, you may not be able to get
another.
This may seem cold-blooded ap-
proach to safety, but it's a fact that
a certain type of driver thinks more
of his car than he does of his life or
the life of the other fellow.
''To this driver we say - Drive
safely, brother, you can't get another" "
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20

Among the eliminated for 1912:
Auto Shows, 500-mile Memorial Day
Race at Indianapolis, the Soap Box
Derby, Good Drivers League, Major
Golf Championships. advertising
Age)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20

STYLE NOTE: O.P. M. has sug-
gested to hosiery manufacturers that
they simplify and reduce the color
lines of hosiery. (Victory)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20
Photo Engravers Buy
$4,000 Defense Bonds

Philadelphia, Pa.-Local Z, Interna-
tional Photo Engravers' Union of
North America, voted to buy $4,000
in defense bonds
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20
WISDOM

The greatest glory of free-born
people is to transmit that freedom to
their children.-John Harvard.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20

Issued Weekly at s26 Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Glass Mail Matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-02-20

slaves can never match.
Evening star., 1942-01-10
Grace Lutheran
To Present Candle
Light Service
Church Organizations
To InstuII Officers
Tomorrow Night

DR.. Gerhard E. Lenski will
preach at II am. tomorrow in
Grace Lutheran Church on "A
Year Called 1912 and Road Called
Sacrifice"
A candle-light installation service
will be neld at pm, when officers
OF the Senior League will be in
Quoted into Office. They are: June
Mathes, president; Helen Miller,
vice president; Kathryn Horner
secretary Ray Leininger, treasurer
Emma Petersen, hospice secretary;
Dick Hansen, Pocket Testament
League, and Thelma Propst, edu-
cation secretary.
The Women's Guild will meet
Monday at pm. Mrs. William
Lehman, newly chosen president
will be in charge The Fidelity
Club will unite with the guild, be.
coming a working circle in the
same. Officers are: Mrs. William
Lehman, president; Mrs. Dora
Brown and Mrs. j. G.. Werner, vice
presidents; Mrs. Anna Cambell
Mrs. Frederick Winkelman anC
Mrs. Lula Davis, secretaries; Mrs
William Ruckert, treasurer, anc
Mrs. John Mathes, thanko1erine
chairman.
DR.. William Hieronymus, direc.
tor of religious education of tn.
American Lutheran Church, viii
speak to church school teachers
workers and parents at 8 pm
Tuesday. He will present a colo
film, "The Browns Go to Church.
Evening star., 1942-01-10
First Congregational
Themes Announced

At the First Congregational
Church tomorrow at II am. the
Rev. Howard Stone Anderson will
preach on THE Unreasonableness
of Christianity" Music will be
furnished by the A Cappella Choir.
A book sermon will feature the
service at pm. The pastor will
preach on "One Increasing Pur-
pose," a message of conversion
based on the novel by A. S. M.
Hutchinson. The choir will sing.
The Scrooby Club will meet at
6 pm. and the TuXiS Club at $50
pm.
The Fortnightly Club will have
a dinner meeting at 6 pm. Monday.
The Women's Society meeting will
be held at 10 am. Tuesday. The
Young Women's Club dinner meet
ing will be held at pm. Tuesday.
At the dinner at 6 pm. Thursday
the nominations meeting for church
officers will be held.
A church social for the family
will be held from 7:30 to 10 pm.
Friday.
Evening star., 1942-01-10

These reports mentioned some
100000 fully trained and equipped
soldiers as well as 100000 home
guards. These men had to be
kept drilling constantly and, ac-
cording to English newspapers,
there was q certain amount OF
dissatisfaction, especially among
the Canadian contingents, over
the army's forced inactivity.
Troops Needed in Pacific.
The Germans have made no
attempt to invade the islands
and the soldiers were bored
with mere routine. Although
some trained men have been
sent to Egypt in the last few
months to fight the Nazis in
Libya, it is probable that a siz-
able force OF trained regulars re-
mains in England.
Furthermore, the number Of
men who have completed their
training has increased substan-
TALLY in recent months. Thus it
is safe to assume that many Of
the troops who were sent to
Egypt and other theaters Of
operations were replaced by
trained recruits.
Unless there were a strong
probability of an early attempt
to invade the continent OF Eu-
rope, there would seem to be no
reason for American forces, so
badly needed in the South Pa
cific, to be sent to the British
Isles.
That an American Expedi-
tionary Force would be sent to
England had been anticipated
for some time is evidenced by Or
ders given certain meat packers
in Chicago. They were instructed
to deliver substantial quantities
of meat and were advised by the
War Department that tfC type
to be sent should be thaf used
by American forces and not
English.
Evening star., 1942-01-10
History Professor
To Address Glass
AT All Souls Church
Dr.. Prong Will Discuss
Background Of HitIerism'
Other Programs Listed

The Background of Hitlerism"
Will be discussed before the class in
current problems at All Souls. Uni
tartan Church at 10 am. Sunday
by DR.. Gordon w. Prang, professor
OF history, University of Maryland.
At the same time before the Com
parative Religion Class Stanwood
Cobb will speak on "The Religious
Foundations of Character"
DR.. Ulysses G. B. Pierce will
preach at II am. on "The Luxury
OF Religion" At 5 pm. will be 8
program of American music. At $50
pm. color film Around the Sea-
sons In Washington" will be shown
by Mrs. w. Ridgely Chapline.
Mrs. Laurence c. Staples and Mrs
Edward M. Little will act as host
esses at the fellowship tea from 6 tc
pm. The young people will leave
the church at 2:30 pm. for a hike
and will return for supper and meet
ing at 6 pm. Senator Burton Of
Ohio will speak at 6:45 pm. or
impressions of a Senator" Mer
| OF Boys Town" will be the feature
at the 7:30 pm. motion picture hour
A dinner meeting of the 25-3s
Club will take place at $50 pm
Tuesday. At meeting of the Ark
at the Rollingwood Field House
Wednesday, W. A. Wheeler will
show his pictures in color of lou
National Parks" A Russian, film
"Chapeyev." will be the feature Jan.
uary II. This evening the Argentine
film, "Caminito de Gloria" will bt
shown.
Evening star., 1942-01-10
National Baptist Theme:
Jesus Shall Reiqn

For the morning service at Ma
tional Baptist Memorial Church DR..
Cove G. Johnson will preach on
Jesus Shall Reign"
The Rev. A. Lincoln Smith, as
sistant pastor, will continue series
of sermons, Beginning Anew With
Christ" at the evening service. His
topic will be Begin Anew-In Spite
of the Devil" The Misses Madelyn
Allen and Mary James will assist
in the service. Miss Marjorie Flan-
agan will answer the question, why
Began Anew With Christ"
At 2 pm. Tuesday the Prayer
League will meet with Mrs. G. G.
Johnson as the speaker.
An important joint meeting Of
the Boards of Deacons and Dea-
conesses is scheduled for 8 pm.
Tuesday.
A business and social meeting Of
the Egbert Glass will be held Tues
day evening at the home Of Mrs.
D. c. Bradley, with Miss Pearl
Ferguson's group as hostesses.
There will be White Cross meet.
ing at 10 am. Wednesday.
The Church Board Of Christian
Education will meet at 7:30 pm.
Wednesday.
The service at 7:45 pm. Thursday
will be In charge Of the young
people.
Evening star., 1942-01-10

wounds later on In the front line.
For a war within a war, in confusion
of cross purposes. overlapping and
waste effort for want of authoritive
central direction. still continues
under the o. P. M.
The wish. the prayer, in the name
of those who do the fighting, was
that we should not repeat the mis-
takes of World War I. We have re-
peated many of them in our indus
trial war organization and made q
number Of new ones.
Then and Now.
Now, for some then-and-now
comparisons which hoped should
never have to make:
In April, 1917, we started abso-
lutely from scratch. Let us say we
started from scratch for this war in
September. 1910, two months after
the fall of France, when actually we
had begun preparing before this war
began.
1t was 16 months from April. 1917
to August, 1918, and 16 months from
September, 1910, to January. 1912
BY August, 1918. we had more than
100000 men In France and were
sending them over at the rate OF
300 900 q month.
In France we had built the enor-
nous Service of Supply plant with
its piers. yards and depots Enormous
amounts Of material were going
across the Atlantic from our home
plants to the aid of Britain and
France. We had helped relieve
stricken Italy after her Caporetto
disaster.
1t is my Judgment that We an
sending less material in tonnage t<
the aid of Russia and our allies to-
day than We did in August, 1918
when the expeditions to Murmansk
and Siberia were on the way. I say
my judgment because We get only
vague production figures as a whole
from the O. P. M. The civilian o
P. NJ is our real center OF military
secrecy.
Administrative Methods Compared.
Next, personnel and administra-
tive methods than and now. In the
start from absolute scratch in 1917
Frank A. Scott was the first indus
trial chief. He was head Of a big
machine tool plant. had served as q
soldier was military student anc
had been abroad during World Wal
I to study problems of supply.
After SCOTS health broke under
the strain his successor was gallant
Daniel Willard, whose experience a.
a railroad president had brought
him into close contact with al
branches of industrial production
The foundations were well laid.
Bernard Baruch was the thire
chief, and with full power. Barucf