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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28
Illinois JObless Benefits
Show Sharp Increase

Chicago (ILNS).-While jobless in
surance benefits in June were 25 per
cent below payments in the same
month last year, they increased Z per
cent over May figures, State Director
of Labor Francis B. Murphy stated.
June's total payments to 1929 work
ers were $755,921, compared with
$705,588 during May to 10,524 eligi-
BILE claimants.
''The increase was uniform for Chi
cago and downstate areas" Murphy
said. "The areas most affected by cur
rent unemployment include Montgom-
cry and Macoupin counties and the
territory south of the Kentucky bor-
der. Analysis of the causes of unem-
ployment show marked increase in
layoffs due to cutbacks and cancella-
tion of war contracts"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28
DO DOGS CROWL
AT YOU?
BY RUTH TAYLOR

Ever noticed how much nicer your
dog is than the dog next door? Your
neighbor's dog is mean critter, and
you hurry past the lawn where he is
chained. He growls at you, so you
don't like him. But one of the rea-
sons he growls at you is because he
senses your dislike. Your step sounds
as though you were afraid, and there
is a little of the bully in the best of
us-even the best of dogs.
On the other hand, your own dog is
a mighty fine, intelligent animal-be-
cause he runs to greet you and makes
a fuss over you, fattering your ego.
He knows you like him, and dog is
always ready to answer friendliness
with friendship.
So it is with the people you meet.
Take my own case. / used to dread
speaking in public. wasn't just timid.
l was plain scared of my Audience.
In that last glance over what /
planned to say, always found innum-
cradle things was sure would be
criticized. But I've finally found a cure
for stage fright. At the last moment /
remind myself that they wouldn't
have asked me to speak if they hadn't
wanted to hear me! l have never been
really afraid since-though / do find
myself starting out by talking to any
one in the audience who smiles at me.
fortunately there is always at least
one friendly soul among each crowd
Most of the time how people feel
about you is predetermined by how
you feel about them. Like your dog,
they will greet friendship with friend
ship-but also like your neighbor's
dog, they will snarl if they think you
are afraid, or fight back if you are
militant.
What is true Of individuals is also
true of groups. There is one labor
leader / know who is usually called
in when the going gets rough and
who generally finds a solution to the
most difficult problem. heard one
hide-bound reactionary say of him
once-"If there were more men like
so-and-so, there wouldn't be any la
Dor troubled" And yet, he is hun
dred per cent pro-union fighter.
How does he do it? First, he be-
lieves in the cause for which he is
fighting. BUT-he also respects his
opponents integrity, and his right to
his own opinion. He knows he himself
is reasonable, and he assumes that
the man to whom he talks is as reas-
onble, that they wouldn't be talking
if they weren't looking for way out
that would be fair to both. The result
is. that the contracts he makes, last,
with satisfaction to both sides, and he
makes friends for Labor wherever he
goes.
What one man does, can be done by
other men for themselves and for the
groups of which they are part but
the place to begin is inside ourselves,
in our own thoughts. We cannot leg
islate friendship, but we can cultivate
it by our own attitudes. Friendliness
begets friendliness. Good will begets
good will. Try it out in your shop or
community, in school or at home. Drop
your defensive air. Be willing to make
the first move. It works. I've proved
it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28
Veterans Vote Against
Anti-LabOr Amendment

Los Angeles.-The Veterans of For
eign Wars in their annual encamp-
ment here passed a resolution fatty
opposing the fright -to-work" amend
ment sponsored by the anti-labor
Merchants & Manufacturers Associa-
ton.
The VFW branded the measure,
which would wreck all existing union
shop contracts, as potential incite-
ment to industrial warfare, if enacted.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28
LET'S GIVE THEM ALL
THEY NEED

"We're the boys who can do it"
was the battle cry of American troops
dashing into the teeth of enemy fire
on D-day. Those boys will need plenty
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28

of support to keep the invasion roll
ing Whatever they ask in the way of
production, let's make the answer of
every plant, "We're the boys who can
do it,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28

Free French leaders who now want
to dictate invasion plans merely want
to make the rules by which others
play the game.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28
WISDOM

The will of the people as the only
legitimate foundation of any govern
ment, and to protect it's free express
sion should be our first object.
Thomas Jefferson.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28

This war may be important to you,
but the national conventions are more
important to members of Congress.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28

Daily newspapers hammer FDR
without realizing that few readers
place any confidence in daily news
papers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28

Jumping at conclusions is not half
as good exercise as digging for facts
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28

No man has become failure with
out his own consent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28

YOUR CHOICE Car loans livestock oans signatures
and other personal security up $1,000 Long easy
terms, short money any
way you require. It's up to you.
trsstH Hsnntsn.
THE CRY LOAN
and Guaranty Company
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02

during convalescence that he administers in a life-and-death crisis. Perhaps made work" is the tonic of convalescence. But neither made work nor relief can subSti- ute for a responsible job, secured on merit, held through ability, and per- formed with some creative satisfaction.
 This has not been stressed in talk of postwar jobs But certainly it is potent argument for unity among all groups concerned with building strong busi- ness and social structure after victory. It is most unlikely that, without unem- ployment after the last war, the Conl- munist Party would have secured it's stubborn foothold in America or that the Ku Klux Klan would have written its shameful page in our history. We can not afford the poisonous disruption of such groups after this war. The stake is too great. And we need not have it if government and business and labor lead CTS will recognize the long-range human need and day-to-day enjoyment of good job well done, and if they will work in the knowledge that on them depends the nations mental and spiritual as well as economic health.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
Everybody Worked-Even Father

The wheels of industry and full employ ment for all persons wanting to work have been travelling at top speed for three full years. In the final quarter of 1943 war production reached it's peak when it was 73 per cent higher than the 1922 annual rate. Refined petroleum and rubber products forged ahead to remark able gains-even if rationing regulations and car-driving and mileage were not eased. The big question that hits work CTS is how, when and where they are go- ing to get jobs, in basic industries, large and small, after the fighting.
 Fourteen and one-half million women pitched in and were working with Al ,200,- GOO men this year, keeping the wheels going round; 5,00000O boys and girls from the ages of IA through IT joined the ranks of workers. School work was in- terrupted, and terminated, in many local ities; juvenile delinquency assumed seri- ous proportions. Longer hours and higher wages added to the complications. Nevertheless, Government and political jobs jumped one-third to six million, and it is very questionable whether such in- creases were at all necessary. Labor ana stabilization were described as having become confused.
 MOSC scraps DeCWeen p1S OuolAeoS o1Au small business can be traced to the puerile attempts of brass-hatters in the Federal Government, who hold control over the workers of the nation, and per petuate quarrels by dragging in non essentials by and with the assistance ana interference of too many of the aforesaid millions of political jobholders.
 If our collective bargaining" laws and provisions were left free and used for normal use, there would certainly be no trouble for employers and workers to come to >, reasonable understandings without strikes, without bothering the President, and without the President bothering the boards, agencies, brass hats and members of the palace guard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
Deep in the Heart of

When the French city of Die was liber- ated, the first outfit to enter in pursuit of the fleeing Germans was the Seth Di- vision The grateful mayor wanted a victory parade and review, but time was too short. The S6th had to push on swiftly. Yet it's members, in their speedy passing, seem to have paused long enough to impress the local citizenry with the virtues and importance of their major ity'S point of origin.
 Today the main street of Die has been renamed Avenue de la Division du Texas. This certainly ought to aid and comfort all Texans It shows that their soldiers state pride is still functioning, even in the midst of war and on foreign soil Not only that, but it has given at least one French city constant reminder of the Lone Star axiom that, though all Texans are Americans, the vice versa proposition doesn't hold true-not by alarmed sight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
The "Get-Rich-Q Quick" Idea

In the years following the first World War hundreds of thousands of American citizens planned to get-rich-quick through trading on the stock markets But they didn't!
 Now the New York market is fluctuat- ing up and down. In the heat of the national political campaign over thou sand stocks declined in two days. The speculators put in their money to back their belief that boom times were just around the corner But thinking changes as fast as the ticker tape. In the last week of October most of the Speculators agreed that there would be an European victory, "rnost any dayfi now" and that such a victory would be accompanied by reconversion troubles. It was all poor gueSS-work.
 Will our people never learn that dabbling in stocks is business in which professionals prepare to win or lose, and in which amateurs strew the casualty lists almost unanimously. Buy Government bonds which will always be good as long as the United States exists.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
Girl Scout Week

Girl Scout Week is nationally observed this week. The birthday anniversary of its founder, Juliette Low, was an occasion to merit due consideration. Locally the unit is proud of an increased member ship, 1,700 now belonging to the organiza- tion in this city.
 The Girl Scout theme for this week is Service to Hospitals. Here and else where the Scouts have given their serv- ices to hospital work. Other Girl Scouts, according to announcement made by local officials have given time to such important social organizations as the Tuberculosis League, and Red Cross and the Child Welfare Centre.
 This week the Girl Scouts have issued their attractive calendar and diary. It IS nicely illustrated and pictures the story of Girl Scouts, their activities and their pleasures.
 Nationally, we read, 2,500,000 hours of service have been donated by the Girl Scouts since the start of the war to hos pitals. This is record to be proud of. Always their work is voluntary. During this week, especially devoted to Girl Scouts let us wish them good luck and a bigger and bigger organization as time marches or
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
Roosevelt or Dewey

Will it be Roosevelt or Dewey? The American people will decide that queS- ton. That's what Democracy means. War or no war, our leaders are chosen by popular vote. But, will the majority of the people elect the president this year The answer is mo-" if the present voting trend continues.
 Fewer and fewer Americans have been going to the polls in recent years. Citi- zens are forgetting the first duty and privilege of citizenship. The trend is toward an alarmingly light vote in Mo- vember The Gallup poll and other po- litical dopeSterS say not more than 40 mean minority rule. That would be a terrific blow to Democracy in America. There are 88 million American citizens of voting age-8 million more than in 1940. Fifty million voted in 1940. Normal ly 55 million should vote this year Yet every indication points toward less than 40 million.
 True, there are many who can't vote this year. There are men in service and migrant war workers for whom the mili- tary and civilian voting laws are too complicated. But, there are millions at home who can vote in their places, who can rise to the occasion and express the will of the people.
 Who is elected president, or senator, or sheriff, is no less important than how he is elected. If we can preserve free election by majority of the people, we can preserve Democracy. No matter how we cast our ballots, it is a solemn war time duty to get out and vote.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
Occupational Therapy

Handicapped persons have taught American industry valuable lesson since the war began. Employed at time of labor scarcity, they have shown that men and women once claSSed as permanently disabled" can do great variety of jobs, and establish excellent records for high production and low abSenteeiSm and job turnover in the process. A recent Civil Service study reveals that handicapped persons can do nearly 4,000 different kinds of work satisfactorily. Obviously 1t is the humanitarian obligation of em- ployers and unions to protect the jobs of these people to the greatest practicable extent in times of plentiful labor. For surely their wartime experience as em- ployables has done handicapped workers an incalculable amount of good. There is no need to argue the virtues of occu- pational therapy. It has been used Suc- cessfully for years to aid the recovery of mental patients and to restore the spirits as well as the muscles in slow recupera- ton from physical disease and injury. So why should we not consider employment of the able bodied as well as the handi- capped, and on national scale, as form If "occupational therapy" The view noint is eminently practical as well as humane.
 A normal man becomes mentally sick Through prolonged unemployment. He loses self-confidence and self-respect, and the actual physical benefit that comes from congeniai work. He thinks himself failure and often looks about for scape eOat on which to fasten the cause for these fancied shortcomings. Multiply such thinking by millions and you have fertile ground for the growth of isrnS and racial and religious bigotry, of unrest and 4Iglence If widespread unemplo loyment
 comes. relief is a necessity. But 1t is not
 permanent prescription ne doctor
 51s Y eIts t6t nef'tni the me drug
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02

Iivering the knockout blow.
 ''did you know that had six friends of mine working around the White House and in your headquarters?"
 JAP FLEET DAMAGED BUT NOT DESTROYED
 Top military observers, viewing the Philippine naval victory in retrospect, now emphasize that t.le Japanese Navy has not been destroyed. However, enough key battle wagons and aircraft car- riers have been sunk or severely damaged to render the rest of the Jap forces relatively inef- fective for at least the next six months.
 Japanese shipyards attempting to turn out enough vessels to keep Japan's long supply line1 going will have to devote them selves almost entirely to repair ing the damage caused in last weeks historic naval engagement. In addition, the already over pressed Jap steel industry. with a production of only 9,000,000 tons a year, will be thrown out of gear.
 Thus the U. s. Navy has much less to fear in the Philippine wa terS.
 Copyright. 1914, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
United States could then work with both.

This was what U. S. AmbasSa- dor Gaunss and General Stilwell were trying to do = to get the Generalissimo to work with the Communists. The Ambassador tried diplomacy. The General served an ultimatum. Unfortun- ately, Chiang and Stilwell hat rubbed each other the wrong way for long while. Stilwells blunt. brusuue manner also had caused friction with General Claire Chen nault, Lord Mountbatten and Chi ang.
 AMERICAN CHINESE IMPASSE
 Chennault battled with Stilwell over greater use of the air, called Stilwell an old-fashioned trench fighter. Stilwell battled Mountbat- ten over British slowness in Burma.
 Trouble with those two is not so serious. However, when you tell the head of an important AL lied government flatly that he has to do thing and he won't do it, then you put yourself in an impossible position-eSpecially in the Orient, where "face" is all inn portant.
 All this came to a showdown when Donald Nelson and Gen. eraI Patrick J. Hurley arrived back from China and reported to Roosevelt that an unbreak- able American Chinese deadlock existed in Chungking.
 NOTE: There is no question about Stilwell getting good job, though first. he will get long rest. Months in the Orient, buck ing terrific obstacles, have made his nerves edgy. Meanwhile, 1 is hoped that new, more diplo- matic Major General Al Wede- meyer, who worked closely with the Chinese military mission in Washington, will persuade Chiang to cooperate with the Northern Communist Army.
 WILLKIE HAD INFORMANTS
 One of the most humorous aS- poets of the present political bat tie is guerrilla warfare and "spy work" going on inside the oppos- tion lines.
 Both Democratic and Republi- can big-wigs brag secretly about having planted men close to Republican Chairman BroWneu and Democratic Boss Bob Han negan. Result is, there are few secrets, much scrambling, many laughs.
 The same thing happened in 1940, when the Democrats had in- formants close to Wendell Willkie. About a year after that election, Willkie was sitting around with a group of New Dealers, having friendly discussion. One of Will kie's guests thought it would be a good joke to tell him how many ways they had of getting infor- nation from the Willkie camp during the last campaign.
 we had three men close to you all the time," volunteered the Roosevelt supporter.
 Hell, that's nothing" replied WilIkie. "I knew who they were and I occasionally deliberately fed them mlsinformatlou, which promptly got back to yOu.
 s'Buts eelainue1 WlIkie. Qe-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
Pearson Called Chinese Turn Back In July

General Stwell with all its Chinese pO
 a surprise Last July 10 Drew Chinese political nagng and unvarnhed that this brought storm of criticism Now however StWes startling revelations of Brooks Atkinson of the New Times disclosures to the hi
 Among other things Pearson charged that U lend lease being against the Japs but against the Ch army the fighting against the Japs He made startling statement that "Chnese lords getting concerned the Paic that would almost prefer to fight the S. A. than the Jap Pear censorship which revealed by the associations when they tried to cable the Chungkng and he also told of the GestapO guards bounded Americans in Chungking.
 Times correspondent Brooks Atkinson haS kept sad lis returning home the New print his diary, it will blow the lid Off
 SlweH recall, Brooks Atkinson has blown stating other things that Chang Kai-shek has fighting the and how the Chinese COm- munists from fighting the Japs because the Generassimo half million of his Ownt troops o blockade the Communists
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02

they did. They planned 1t this way because they knew that in wet and icy weather car would have better chance to hold the road if the surface were rough than if it were smooth.
 Thus was reminded of great truth, namely, that the Lord has to make the pathway of life pretty rough for us sometimes to hold us on the road. to keep us from slip- ping and oVerturning i'd the ditch. xt my hs hard to endure many
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
Current Comment

All the Japanese have to do in future operations is to project their indomitable spirits at the enemy and they will suffer internal fear that will defeat them before they get into the fight. The Occidental mind of course will not understand this great Oriental power.
 -Toyko Radio. Even the totally irresponsible and deceiving propaganda of the Japanese government could not keer all the peoples of the Far East including the Japanese, from see- ing that liberation of the Philip pines meant the bisecting of the hoped-for Japanese Empire. Secretary of War Henry L. Stim-
 son.
 Coming on the heels of the un. believable tragedy of Warsaw, the refusal of the Soviet government to permit UNRRA to operate ir
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
1FI WERE TO HAVE A BABY

IF I WERE TO HAVE bAbx
 Shall we consider the obvious wisecracks as made? With that out of the way we may get down to brass tacks.
 I'm as great coward as one can be without incurring popular oblo- uuy. In my early professional life, believe it or not. felt sorry for patients who had to submit to ma jor operation, often wondered how. even without anaesthesia such as is now generally employed, they could face the experience so brave ly. But luckily my own turn came in due course, acute gangrenouS appendicitis, and after five hours of anxiety or distress (not pain), instead of being fearful I was greatly relieved when the doctor de- cided on immediate operation. The experience taught me good deal I could never have learned objec- lively. I have never wasted much sympathy on such patients since. Any one who undergoes such an operation must thank his lucky stars for American surgery, and especially any one who knows what may happen without it.
 I've been around - intern in 8 large city hospital, country practi- tioner, city practitioner, hospital staff service, accoucheur at the birth of my own children, kibitzer in absentia at the birth of my grandchildren, so I'm entitled to have an opinion about childbirth.
 If were to have baby I'd pre- fer my own home for the event to any hospital. That is, provided I had home fit to have { baby in. And provided I could afford the at- tendance of a trained nurse. And provided my doctor and nurse were available. And provided I could take time out to lie abed for three or four days. And provided
 Come to tot up all the incidentalS it is not so remarkable that the Joneses and their friends or neigh bors are so easily persuaded to go to the hospital to have their babies. And of course the obstetrician has things much easier in the hospital
 indeed can materially shorten his working time, thanks to the nurSea and interns, and the neat rule ex- cluding the expectant father from the delivery room.
 There is one factor of vital ir1- portance which we have not con- sidered here at all. That is the factor of safety from septicenia puerperal or childbed fever, infec- tion. blood poisoning. I believe I'd be much safer having my baby at home than I would in any hos pital-provided I had a home it to have a baby in, doctor and 8 trained nurse in attendance, and time to lie abed for three or four days.
 If seem to want but little time out to have a baby. that is not be- cause I'm so old-fasinioned, but because I am convinced. by my own professional observation and experience and by the newer con- ceptS of physicians, surgeons and obstetricians, that one gets along better and gets back in the game earlier if one lies abed only three or four days after childbirth than if one lies abed two or three times as long.