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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
THE FOUR DECENCIES
(From Electrical Workers JournaD

(From Electrical Workers JournaD
For some time labor in the United
States has felt that there could be an
implementation of the four freedoms
in terms of nations, states and reg
ions. Now the British Trade Union
Congress has undertaken to do this
with British labor under the term
"the four decencies."
According to dispatch by David
Anderson to the New York Times the
four decencies are a little closer to
the average man than the loftier four
freedoms "The average Briton wants
a decent home, decent job, decent
education, decent social security which
means cash to pay the doctor and an
independent old age"
Mr.. Anderson goes on to report that
what the British people want is as
plain as day. On the question of the
four decencies there is to be no COM
promise.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

degree if ships were diverted to food
carrying. But is there any good rea-
son for not using some of them?
Incidentally, while civilians starve
in India and the British Government
takes no adequate steps to save them,
Indian troops are fighting with the
utmost bravery and devotion on the
bloody Italian front.
Words fail in denouncing the crimes
of the Germans in Russia and other
German-occupie territory, where it
would seem the ultimate in savage
cruelty and barbarism had been
reached But what of India? Is there
any reason for not denouncing with
equal vehemance the starvation in
India? True, it is not the result of
deliberate action by the British; it is
the result of what they have not done
and apparently will not do.
And the British, it should not be
forgotten, are the enes primarily re-
sponsible for the failure to send food
to civilians in occupied Europe. Men
who should know, such as Hebert
Hoover, say civilians, in particular the
children, can be fed without aiding
the Germans. Yet the Churchill cab
met persistently refuses to lift the
food blockade, in the face of plain evil
dence that it's policy will lead to last
ing bitterness and resentment in Eu-
rope.
AS DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, noted
Catholic educator and clergyman said
recently, in discussing the British pol
icy, 81 greatly fear that the memory
of it in days to come will rise like
the ghost of Banqua to plague the
cabinet which still insists on it."
%. E. C.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
Supreme Court Review Of
Sedition Case Is Again Urged

Washington, d. C. (ILNS).-A sec
ond petition has been presented again
urging the U. IS. Supreme Court to
review the conviction of the Is Min
neapolis members of the Socialist
Workers party under the peace-time
sedition act, with prison sentences i'm
posed the day after Pearl Harbor The
first appeal to the Supreme Court was
turned down without comment Nov.
p and a rehearing denied Dec. 6.
The American Civil Liberties Union
which opposed the prosecution and
the law, will file brief A statement
issued by the union said that "in the
judgment of counsel, the peace time
sedition statute is not only unconsti-
tutional on its face but the prosecu-
tion of the Socialist Workers party
members was unwarranted by any in
depreciation Of a clear and present
danger"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
1nfantile Paralysis Fund
Appeal, January 18th

Americas s production soldiers, the
terials essential for war, were one of
the most outstanding groups to be
aided by The National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis during the 1943
epidemic Of that disease, Basil O'Con-
nor, President of the Foundation, has
just announced
This epidemic-the worst in twelve
years-struck particularly hard at
congested war production centers.
But the National Foundation and it's
network of local chapters blanketing
the entire country had laid plans for
just such an emergency, so that the
best medical care was swiftly given
to every victim needing it.
at is a striking tribute to our
democratic way of life and the Ma
tional Foundation-solely owned and
maintained by the people-that the
dimes and dollars given by millions of
Americans were thus poured swiftly
back into aid for the stricken, espe-
cially those who are helping fight for
the nations life," Mr.. O'Connor
stated.
Labor's contribution alone to the
1943 Fund Raising Appeal would
have been hopelessly inadequate to
provide for the families Of the work
ers had it not been for the generosity
of people in all other walks of life,
Mr.. O'Connor said.
Although many people may not
realize it since the 1943 epidemic has
subsidized, that outbreak of the disease
still places great burden upon the
National Foundation because many of
those stricken will be patients in 1914
and some of them for many years
thereafter This means that an even
greater sum must be raised during the
1914 Fund Raising Appeal, which oc-
ours January 18th to 31st.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
AFL UNIT MEETS WITH
UNIV. REPRESENTATIVES

Washington, D. C.-No conclusive
results were obtained from meeting
held here by members of a special
committee Of the AFL Executive
Council with Representatives of the
United Mine Workers Union on the
application of that organization for
reaffiliation with the Federation.
The. AFL committee submitted to
the UNIV. large number of juris-
dictional complaints filed by affiliated
unions. Officers of the UNIV. will
study these complaints and, presum-
ably, report what action they see fit
to take toward satisfying them.
A full report on the conference will
be made by the committee to the next
meeting of the AFL Executive Coun-
Gil in Miami on Jan. II.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
Admiral Woodward Sends
New Years Greeting To
War Production Workers
By RI. Adm. C.. III. Woodward, USN,
Chief of the Navy Industrial Incentive
Division

The United States Navy looks to
the New Year with confidence and de-
termination that it will be striking
powerful and decisive blows on the
enemy. This will be due, in a large
measure, to the splendid support
given by American workers, and the
important cooperation of labor-man-
agement committees.
In the past year, from Americas
production lines has come the basis of
the greatest naval and air force the
world has ever known. To carry out
the Navy's offensives on the seven
seas and in the air, even greater pro-
duction will be necessary.
The Navy knows it can count on
American workers to continue to back
the fighting men of our fleet in the
coming year as they have in the past.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS
HIT NEW PEAK IN OHIO

Columbus, Ohio-Claims for 90
fatal injuries were filed in August by
20 of the 27 classes of industries, the
Industrial Commission of Ohio re-
ported. "The largest number of non
fatal injuries ever filed in a single
month was received in August when
$4,000 such claims were reported" )" the
commission said "This far this year
over $4,000 non-fatal claims were re-
ceived by the commission, a figure
which is over $4,000 higher than the
record for the same period last year"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
LABOR SHORTS

Government employees will have no
more holidays until next Christmas.
Representative Sauthoff says if
trains had 2-way radios there would
be fewer wrecks.
The MANS free enterprise will
be fine If everyone has a job.
WLB approved So increase for 500
employees of the C&P Telephone Co.
in Baltimore.
Eddy Orcutt, editor of The Labor
Leader, says the OPA did not bomb
Pearl Harbor Well!
Massachusetts court rules mem
bers of union must remain mem
bers, or else.
Henry J. Kaiser says now is not too
soon to think about shifting back to
peacetime production.
National Association of Manufac-
turers has a slogan, "Free enter
PRISE" which of course means a free
hand for manufacturers but not for
workers.
Senator Vandenburg's freeze of So
cial security tax will save employers
about billion dollars and deprive the
social security fund and the govern
ment of about the same billion.
Senator Walsh says profits on
some war contracts will ''shock
America"
Senate committee has postponed ac-
tion on promotion of General Patton.
According to the Wall Street Jour
nal workers have produced so much
war material they have worked them
selves on the street.
We turn out plane every five
minutes. And Hitler thinks he can
win
Some one figures radio advertising
"gyps" the American public out of
$200,00,000 year. But how they love
it!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07

nations. 1t is more than conceivable,
however, that the plans for postwar
peace now shaping up will take into
account actions by any nation, even
those now allied with us in the war.
The President said:
"The overwhelming majority of all
the people in the world want peace.
Most of them are fighting for the at
talnment of peace-not just truce,
not just an armistice-but peace that
is as strongly enforced and as durable
as mortal man can make it. If we are
willing to fight for peace now, is it
not good logic that we should use
force If necessary, in the future, to
keep the peace?
II believe, and | think / can say
that the other three great nations who
are fighting so magnificently to gain
peace are in complete agreement that
we must be prepared to keep the
peace by force If the people of Ger
many and Japan are made to realize
thoroughly that the world is not going
to let them break out again, it is pos
sible, and hope probable, that they
will abandon the philosophy of ag-
gression- the belief that they can
gain the whole world even at the risk
of losing their own souls" To all of
this labor says "Amen."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
DICTURES appearing recently in
i the newspapers gave vivid proof

DICTURES appearing recently in
i the newspapers gave vivid proof
of "man's inhumanity to man."
First are photographs of Nazi bar
barity at Kharkov, typical of what oc-
cured in many other Russian cities
captured by the Germans. Exhibit A
shows long narrow grave filled with
the bodies of Kharkov's citizens.
Thousands were shot or asphyxiated
in special murder vans" which were
filled with gas.
Exhibit No. 2 is picture of two
citizens of Orel who would not work
for the Nazis and were hanged. They
swing from trees in a wintry land
scape. Three thousand war prisoners
and residents of Orel were shot, tor
tured or starved to death, the Rus
slams say. There is no reason to doubt
the figures are substantially correct.
And they are only fraction of the
total of Russians murdered by the
NdZl invaders.
Second are photographs of starva-
ton in India. These pictures are, if
anything, more horrible than those of
the Nazi savagary in Russia. "Street
Scene" shows an emaciated boy and
his faithful dog, dead of starvation on
a street in Calcutta. Another depicts
some of the 100 we are told died daily
at the famine's peak.
In another photo, Hindu mother
keeps watch over her dead baby. Still
another shows an infants body being
loaded on the wagon bearing corpses
to police stations.
The British say they cannot spare
the ships to send food to India. This
seems incredible. Perhaps the war ef-
fort would suffer temporarily to some
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
Soldier on Leaves Takes War Job

Muskegon, William Beckley,
home on furlough after Is months
with the Army in Alaska and the
Aleutians, didn't spend all his time
resting. He applied for his old job
temporarily at the Campbell, Wyant
& Cannon foundry, and worked double
shifts, 16 hours day, turning out
war materials. His earnings he said,
will go into payments on newly pur-
chased home. His wife is an inspector
at another war plant here.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
NAACP URGES SUBSIDIES

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) In a
statement to the Senate Committee on
Banking, the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
urged the continuance of subsidies to
hold down prices and prevent infia-
ton.
Failure to retain subsidies, said the
statement, will start "an endless and
vicious procession until every vestige
of economic stability in the country
is destroyed"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
This Town Taxpayers Heaven

Rio Vista, Calif.-This city is what
property owners call a taxpayers
heaven. The city council, in adopting
the annual budget, fixed the tax rate
at zero. The city has leased withdraw
al rights to gas-bearing sands to oil
companies on royalty basis. In addi-
ton to being absolved of taxation for
city governmental expenses, individ-
ual property owners will receive roy
alties.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
MILLING PLANT WORKERS
ELECT AFL AFFILIATE

Washington, D. C.-The employees
of the Hubbard Milling Co.. Mankato,
Mimi, registered large majority for
AFL Federal Labor Union No. 23552
in an election to select a collective
bargaining representative, Organizer
VIM. F. Wright, ST. Paul, Mimi, re-
ported to AFL President William
Green. The vote was 81 for the AFL
to 10 for no union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
FACING
The
FACTS
xIy.4t nrrrrr IN nrAnr
With PHILIP PEARL

President Roosevelt's Chri tmas
Eve broadcast to the world contained
deep and sustained note of reassur-
ance for those of us who had begun to
wonder whether the United Nations
were preparing to lower their sights
on pre-announced postwar objectives.
Ugly stories had been circulated
while the conferences at Cairo n
Teheran were in progress-stories
which told of demands for human
reparations by the Russians, of plans
to enslave German workers after the
war, of steps which would effectively
prevent a recurrence of war during
the next generation but might pro-
woke new outbreaks of war in the fol-
lowing generation.
These reports were particularly
disturbing to organized labor. They
made us wonder whether the -Four
Freedoms were being abandoned.
They made us ponder on the vality of
our oft-repeated pledges to the op-
pressed workers of the Axis nations
that we were fighting to free them,
not to subject them to another era of
forced labor under new masters.
1t is gratifying to report that Pres
ident Roosevelt in his addres effective
ly dispelled these disquieting reports.
toto f1n
vocal. He upheld the cause of freedom
not on a sentimental basis, but as the
only practical solution of the worlds
ills.
We think that the following para
graphs from his speech. are especially
worth reading and remembering:
The President Reports
During the last two days at Teher-
an, Marshal Stain, Mr. Churchill and
| looked ahead to the days and months
and years which will follow Ger
manys defeat We were united in de-
termination that Germany must be
stripped of her military might and be
given no opportunity within the fore
seeable future to regain that might.
.The United Nations have no inten-
tion to enslave the German people.
We wish them to have a normal
chance to develop, in peace, as useful
and respectable members of the Eu-
ropean family. But we most certainly
emphasize that world respectable
for we intend to rid them once for all
of Nazism and Prussian militarism
and the fantastic and disastrous no.
tion that they constitute the master
race
"We did discuss international rela-
tionships from the point of view of
big, broad detectives, rather than de-
tails. But on the basis of what we
did discuss, can say even today that
l do not think any insoiuble differ
ences will arise among Russia, Great
Britain and the United States.
"In these conferences we were con-
cerned with basic principles-princi-
pies which involve the security and
the welfare and the standard of living
of human beings in countries large
and small"
The Plans For Peace
The President was no less explicit
with regard to postwar peace plans in
his report. He rejected the objective
of temporary peace or twenty
year armistice and insisted that we
must strive for lasting peace-even if
the use of force is necessary to effect
uate it.
Naturally, in discussing the threats
to future peace, the President limited
the scope of his remarks to Germany
and Japan, the perennially aggressor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
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WAR BONDS
Bessie
Bessie

Firing 525 rounds per minute the
80 caliber Heavy Browning machine
gun is standard equipment with
army ground troops wherever they
20. It is effective within 1000 yards
and with its water-cooled barrel can
fre for longer periods than other
similar weapons.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07

The home front also needs untiring
efforts to keep step with the quick
ened pace Of our present campaigns.
We need millions to Back the At
tack" with War Bonds.
We need you.
/ U. S. Treasury Department.
Evening star., 1944-08-27

Ambassador has chartered : plane
for 6enora Dc Plaza and their I'VE
children who also win be accom-
panied by three servants ana prob
ably their handsome dog. They
are expected to come from Quito
direct 70 Washington which will
make the long trip less trying for
the children and less firing for Sc
nora de Plaza.
The Luxembourg Minister and
Nine. LeGallais, who have been in
Maine through the late summer, are
expected back the latter part Of
this week or early next week. The
Grand Duchess Charlotte, who
spent some time In this country
and Canada where her children
attend school, is in London and has
made no plan to come to this coun-
try.
The Iceland Minister, Mr.. Thor
Thors, will 60 to New York today,
accompanying his President, Mr..
Sveinn Bjornsson there for his sew
eral days stay in the metropolis.
The Minister viii return to WASH
ington after the departure of the
President for his northern home
land.
Evening star., 1944-08-27
General Activities in Alexandra
Many Vacati0n Visitors Here
To See. Cabital IN UVartin1e

Mai. and Mrs. Ernest E. Dryer
are entertaining as their guest Miss
Margaret Demshar Of Cleveland.
Miss May Bush OF Greensboro,
N. c., Is the guest OF Comdr. and
Mrs. r. E. Fee.
DR.. and Mrs. H. A. Latane have
as their guests Mr.. and Mrs. Rus
sell Jones Of Phoenix, Ariz.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Duffy of Cfn-
cinnau are visiting Maj. and Mrs.
Charles g. Duffy and their small
son Charles.
Residents who enjoy late summer
vacations and are now getting on
for q rest at the resorts are Mr..
and Mrs. J. M. Dunaway, who left
last week with their small daughter
Pamela for Ocean City, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Page Waller are
at Orkney Springs. Their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Robert r. Gooding, jr., left
Monday to spend some time in Bos-
ton.
Mrs. John Watson is visiting in
Dayton.
Capt. and Mrs. Laurence M. Faith
will leave Saturday for q vacation
on Cape Cod.
Mrs. Stephen Field and her small
daughter, Alice Virginia, have re-
turned from visits In Wilmington
and New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Maxwell
have returned from q vacation In
Florida.
Mrs. Zerelda Mcconnell and her
son, Harrison Fargo Mcconnell, will
return today from Virginia Beach
and Norfolk. where they were the
guests Of Mrs. William r. Wilson.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Gordon Draper
and their son Richard are back
after vacationing in Hershey and
Wilkes Barre.
Evening star., 1944-08-27

Miss Ruth Clara Laubinger,
daughter Of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Laubinger Of this city, was
married yesterday afternoon in
South Bend. Ind, to 1t. William
James Harris. jr., son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harris Of South Bend.
The wedding took place In the
chapel Of the First Methodist
Church, the Rev. E. Burns Martin
ofnciating at the ceremony, and the
bride was escorted and given in mar
riage by her brother, Mr.. Kurt Lau-
binger. Miss Margaret Nebergall
played the wedding music.
The brides gown of white NOUS
seline de sole was worn with veil
Of illusion held by a coronet of
stephanotis and she carried a
shower bouquet of white orchids
and roses.
Mrs, Robert Marsh, the matron
Of honor, was dressed in pale blue
and carried pink roses. Mr.. Marsh
was the best man and the ushers
were Mr.. Paul Brumbaugh, Mr..
Harold Garn and Mr.. Jack Ker-
shaw, all Of South Bend.
The bride attended George WASH
ington University and was grad
uatAd from the Washinpt0n Col.
lege Of Law. She Is q member of
the District Of Columbia Bar and
also the Bar Of the United States
Supreme Court and is an attorney
with the Department Of Justice.
1t. Harris Is q graduate of Pur-
due University and did graduate
work at the Massachusetts, Insti-
tute Of Technology. He is in the
Navy Department. He and his bride
will make their home at 2042 Fort
Davis street Sc.
Evening star., 1944-08-27
Hart
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as well as more recently at Madeira
and Vassar.
Mr.. Sturm, shares his brides in
terest In literature. Now only Il
years Of age he already has written
two books, which have been pub
hshed and received with warm re-
sponse. He was graduated from
the Avon School in Connecticut
and from Davenport College at
Yale. His mother is the former Miss
Katherine Mccormick Of Chicago
and his father is well known
sculptor. author and playwright.
Evening star., 1944-08-27

An unusually large number Of
vacation guests have added consid-
erably this season to the crowds in
this community, many OF the vis-
itors undoubtedly having come to
see their National Capital In war
time as well as to spend some time
with friends or relatives who are
temporarily located here because Of
the war.
Among recent arrivals for visits
here are Mr.. and Mrs. Richard I.
Taylor of Bexley, Ohio, who are the
guests Of 1t. and Mrs. D. H.
Eyman.
Evening star., 1944-08-27
Diplomats
Continued From Page B.S)

selor Of the embassy, DE-. Karol
Cervenka, is charge d'affaires.
The Peruvian Ambassador, Senior
Don Pedro Beltran, Is in New York
over Sunday.
The Ecuador Ambassador, Senior
Gallo Plaza, will be joined the mid
die of September by Sonora de
Plaza and their five children. Elsa
now 10 years old, LUZ, Gallo, jr.,
Rosario and little Marcia. The
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03
New Books for
Honenakers

1.-THE Baby Manual" by
Or. Herman n. Bund-
essen, is a careful and de
tailed guide book for the
bewildered young mother. II
is not supposed TO take the
place of the family doctors
advice and help, but il adds
10 his help while the ply
stefan is busy elsewhere. The
latest information on child
care is given in a simple
and a very practical way.
The manual is divided into
four parts, beginning with
prenatal care and cOntinu-
ing through the baby's first
two years. There are many
h u n dred S OF questions.
given and answered in de-
tail, the questions all
mothers face with their
babies. The answers fall
naturally into groups cover
inR the most important de
tails that will come up dur
ing successive months. The
manual has a complete and
easy index so that iniOrma.
ton can be found without
fuss or bother. tSimon and
SChustcr, Inc. So.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03
Family Clothes

COMPLETE Home Care Of
- Your Family Wardrobe,
by Constance Talbot, is a
book that is the dream
Cofnc.truc and a delight 70
tie busy hOmcmakar who
IuCS her home rs econom
iC,..y and as efficiently as
She can, IL gives tested IN.
formation, strCamllucd and
up 10 The moment. on sew
in &. WcnuIng, cleaning
laundering, stain removal
and Ia!Ch clec. Miss 7lalbo'
Illustrates tlIs book with
cover charts, check lists.
ort cuts and more than
200 Illustrations. published
hv AIro. 4S8 Lexington Ave.
nue.. New York City SITS
Z. n.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03
Mother Hubbard

kAO,THER HUBBARD'S
Nl Cook Book, by Marion
White, is a new kind Of
simple. easy cookbook. The
recipes are foolproof and
they are Of todays vintage,
when neither time nor food
can be wasted Wen named
the Mother Hubbard recipes
are kind 10 the food budget.
Marion White is also au.
thor OF Sweets Without
SUGAR and other books.
published NJ. s. Mill Co,
Inc. 2SG Fifth Avenue, New
York City, n. Y. So