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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17
WinteriZe Homes Now
Ickes Urges Workers

Washington, D. C.-Stating that
the "worst fuel shortage of the war"
threatens, Solid Fuels Administrator
Harold l.. Ickes announced that his
office has requested fuel conservation
directors of 25 states to launch local
drives Immediately to place homes and
other buildings in condition to enable
people to stay warm on short fuel
quotas next winter. Ickes said that
the program was designed to have
every possible home, shop or other
building made "heat-tight" by insula-
tion, storm doors and windows wealth
er-stripping, caulking up cracks and
by other means, and to have furnaces
and other heating equipment put in
efficient condition to save fuel.
Much Of the job must be done thos
Summer, Ickes said. Next fall will be
too late to start.
The projected drive also embraces
steps to get consumers to store what
ever coal or coke dealers can let them
have this summer, the Secretary an
nounced, and to accept alternative
fuels when regular kinds are not i'm
mediately available.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17

1t was good deal like the situation
in Wisconsin when the late elder La
Toilette was governor, while Victor
L. Berger was boss of a powerful
Social Democratic party, with Emil
Seidel and later Dan Hoan, mayors
of Milwaukee.
More than once the two forces aid
ed and abetted each other, willingly
or otherwise.
Such were the vagaries of politics in
those years when rising social con-
sciousness was beginning to kick the
old-line politicos in the seats of their
fat pants.
In 1916 Hiram Johnson resigned as
governor, was elected to the Senate
and has been in it ever since living
a strange life of doing his job on
purely state matters and swinging to
the extremes of isolationism through
two world wars.
One OF the most potent OF all the
group branded by Woodrow Wilson
as "that little band of wilful men,,
Hiram Johnson held to the isolationist
line until the end.
His two words, II object" held over
for day the bill to permit sending
United States soldiers overseas.
Consistent to the end, he was pair
ed against the United Nations chart
ter-paired because he was too weak
to take his seat and vote against it.
The career of Hiram Johnson has
been a strange one-a larger example
of several men who have been elected
to the Senate as liberal, or progress
sive in home affairs, turning extreme
on the issue Of isolationism, going to
the very limits of reaction.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17
EN- GARDE!
BY Ruth Taylor

"What house is SO strong or what
state so enduring that it cannot be ut
terly overthrown by animosities and
divisions ?" So wrote Cicero nearly
two thousand years ago.
"a warning against division tactics
again. you will say. "But don't you
know the war is won?"
Of course it is won, but in the win
ming we can suffer a bitter defeat. Of
what avail is Pyrrhic victory? The
unity which grew up overnight when
we were attacked is showing signs of
being too quick construction job.
There are cracks across it and the
breaches in the walls brought about
by group hatreds and prejudices have
not been mended
Listen to people talk today. Notice
how quick they are to blame their
neighbors for all that is troublesome.
I've had three examples of this re-
Gently. A labor man, whom l had al
ways counted on as being as conser-
vative as myself, showed me flag
rant example of self-interest on the
part of one firm, and said "This is the
attitude of industry" Another man
whom | have always respected for his
fairness, startled me by his generaliz-
ed denunciation of all labor after an
outlaw strike condemned by labor it.
self. A third man, liberal of liberals,
made me sick at heart by virulent
! diatribe against minority groups.
These are cracks in the wall. These
are signs of danger. The greatest
peril, however, will come when the
siege halts and the men are with
drawn from the walls. Then, if we let
it happen, disunity will divide us into
small, self-seeking groups. Then will
the breaches widen until small force
can march in and seize the state.
1t has happened before. 1t can hap
pen again. And it will happen to US
unless we use care in preventing it.
We must man the ramparts in the
hour of calm as watchfully as in the
heat of battle. We must stand shoulder
to shoulder in the reconstruction of
the world, never slackening in our
fight against divisive influences. We
must remain on guard to preserve our
unity.
In the words of that great spokes-
man of unity, General Smuts-"Let US
go forward in peace as we did in our
adversity-as united fellow citizens in
| free world"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17
More Social Security
An Editorial

August IA marks the tenth anniver-
sary of the Social Security Act. With
in the short span of single decade,
social security" has come to mean,
to millions of Americans, insurance
against the loss of income in times of
unemployment ,old age and death; and
financial assistance for the old, the
young and the blind when they are in
need.
1t is hard, now, to recall the re-
marks some people made about social
security back in the early 1930s. "Un-
constitutional" - unavoidable" "un-
American" were among the adjectives
they used. But these were terms we
had heard before. Similar attacks had
been made against earlier social re-
forms which sought to provide public
education, to control conditions and
hours of work, to establish minimum
wages and workmen's compensation.
To all these charges the answer re-
mains the same: freedom to be hun
cry, or sick or illiterate are not free
doms to be cherished by democratic
people.
When the war ends, the American
people will want more social security,
not less. They will want the benefits
OF health insurance and more adequate
unemployment compensation. They will
want the broader coverage assured by
the Wagner-Murray- -Dingell bill.
Members of Congress, please take
note!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17

possible the great reform enacted un-
der Woodrow Wilson and again under
Franklin d. Roosevelt.
There has been a rolling wave in
our national life and it has been roll
ing through these years.
Most Of the time it didn't seem as
if there was any wave, but looking
back over thirty years and more it is
clear that it has been rolling varying
in speed, but always rolling.
The wave keeps on rolling, though
there are days when it doesn't seem
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17
THE -
CHERRY TREE
Where with eur Little Hatchet we tell
the truth about many things. sometimes
profoundly, sometimes aippsntiy. some
times recklessly.

The passing of Senator Hiram John
son is matter that requires talk
and doubtless there will be lot of it
in various quarters.
When Hiram Johnson was elected
governor Of California in 1910 the cit
les and state of the country were be-
ing shaken by demands for reform.
The young governor found this rising
tide to his liking and he went into
office as a reform governor.
Labor was his friend and he was
labor's friend
California was stirred by labor con-
flicts of size while he was governor
There were riots in the hop picking
area and the Los Angeles Times build
ing was blown up.
Hiram Johnson kept a pretty level
head. When two lawyers, doing stump
speaking for the Socialist party, got
themselves locked up in very clean
and very white jail house, Hiram John
son gave them pardon after couple
of months.
As a matter of fact, during the early
years of Hiram Johnson's power the
Socialist party was quite factor in
California, with such names as those
of Job Hartman and J. Stitt Wilson
g.,tting very respectful attention.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17

so.
The historians of couple Of decades
hence will see it and they will write of
the growth of safeguards for the COM
mon man and the betterment of his
life.
A lot of men who are dead have
contributed to the progress of this
day and the progress yet to come.
If in his later years Hiram John
sons 81 object" served to run against
the tide Of common interest, in those
earlier years that same cry helped
halt privilege and greed and exploita-
tion.-CMW.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17

But these men, how hopelessly out
numbered on international relations,
did a great job of turning the minds
Of the people toward liberal thinking
in the years from around 1910 on
ward.
It was largely the work Of such
men as johnson and La Toilette and
Tom johnson Of Cleveland and New
ton D. Baker and many others, that
built the foundation of thought and
conscience and demand that made
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17
Barrier To Wage Cuts

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-"The
demand for union labels, shop cards
and service buttons prevents infla-
ton OF prices and reduction Of wages"
says the AFL Union Label Trades De-
partment, urging Importance Of buy
ing union label goods and services.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17

II consumers will continue buying
only Union Label goods and use only
Union services, they will require no
bureaucratic RECOMMENDATION.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17
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Detroit evening times., 1945-06-24

br1ng visions or palm-speclSicd South Sea
y isles and tattered parchment charts and
naked cutlasses. But just off the tip of Long
Island, practically at New York Citys doorstep
a search for pirate treasure has been carried on
for years so secretly that even the most gossipy
residents of the vicinity hardly realized what was
going on.
The prize is Captain Kidd's accumulated loot
which, at one time another, has been sought in
almost every corner of the globe, and the spot
that has been receiving the most recent attention
from pirate gold seekers is Gardeners Island
which is just an easy jaunt in a motor launch
from Manhattan.
In fact the belief that the bulk of Captain
Kidds treasure stilllies buried on Gardeners Isl
and has been pergistcHttfIat during The past
few years a number of stock companies have been
organized with the aVowcd purpose Of finding and
sharing his hidden wealth.
The renewal of a qCost more than two cen
turics old was inspired not only by the convenience
of MEDICATION -Ai-tu4 !cal- fact
that Captain K.dd actually did bury at least a
portion Of his treasure there. Evcn before he
swung from the gallows-in what some historians
now contend was gross miscarriage Of Justice
At chest containing about S56t50 worth OF gold,
silver and jewels were dug up from its hiding
place the island and Immediately surrendered
10 the British Government.
In view OF the fact that the proceeds were
given by Queen Anne toward the establishment ota
Greenwich Hospital, that much Of the loot is boy
yond recovery. Perhaps il was all that Kidd had
at the time of his arrest, but that doesn't seem
very likely
There is document supposedly well authent.
Gated, which says that Sl,250OO0 in diamonds,
pearls and other jewels numbering more than 900;
watches rings and brooches, carved and embossed
ornaments unset bracelets and buckles. we'll
as gold ingots and current Gold' aboard the
sloop Antonio when Kidd and few faithful mem
bcrs of his crew made their last trip 10 New York.
1T WAS in the hope OF finding share Of this
! fabulous fortune that the various modern
panieS have been organized with officers, stock
holders and other habilimcnts Of unrOmantic
corporations Some Of them have gone boldly
ashore with their complete equipment confident
that onlookcrs would suspect nothing more than
a construction job. Others have smuggled their
picks and shovcls 10 the island and have operated
only when they were sure no one was watching
But whether they worked openly or surrept
tiously, they have had one characteristic in
mon-complcte silence about what they found if
To understand why they felt so confident and
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-24

And the Happy Hunting
Grounds for Pirate Gold Dig
gers Is So Hondy-onIy 100
Miles From New York City
BY WARREN HALL

TREASURE hunts for pirates booty usually
bring visions Of palm.speckled South Sea
iclnc Il
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-24

These pirates were TO be treated -in-thc
same fashion as they treated others, and the
bulging cargocs of their ships were TO be sent
back to England to be sold.
One of the heaviest investors in the syndicate
the King, the others were the chancellor, Lord
June III, 1915
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-24

IOW UCy OUIIIICu pCIINIssIOn 10 uIB, II
r3ight be well TO 90 hack 10 New York
City of the late 18th century, where
William Kidd was respectable burgher
of more than average means.
The son Of non-conformist minister
he had become a sea captain and had
done very well at it, Ills affluence
and also his social position were con.
siderably enhanced when he married
Mrs. Sarah Oort, n widow whose pre-
vious husband had left her very nicely
endowed with land and money.
In 1866 Captain Kidd made trad
ing voyage to London, and while he
was there a syndicate was organized
TO undertake what seemed like a very
profitable venture. The plan was TO
send a ship 10 the Indian Ocean to
war against the buccaneers who hae
Lnnn nneralino so successfully out
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16

H ASHINGTON- This is not 20 be construed
~ as knock al the Government Printing
80 Office which may be the soul of discretion
for all know But the Justices of the Supreme
Court do not trust il 10 print their decisions.
At first glance this may seem TO be carrying
suspicion too far Other agencies OF the Govern
ment apparently find II quite trustworthy, even
the Treasury. which entrusts il with printing all
paper money. including $1,000 bills.
But the boys in the black robes have reasons
for their caution They can't afford TO place their
work with any printer who would know in ad
vance that he was going to get IT,
II Is Vitally necessary for the Supreme Court
10 observe the greatest secrecy In the printing OF
its decisions and IL you will only stop and think
for a minute you will understand why. Advance In.
formation on most decisions would give specula
tor tremendous advantage. In some cases lie
could literally clean up millions.
Spectators would pay fortunes for even an
hours advance notice Of certain decisions Think
what they could do TO the market on some Of our
big economic ventures?
For this reason-and now quote-"The print.
ing for the Supreme Court is left under absolute
control Of the Justices, and is done by such
printer as the Court may designate"
This means that the Judges render their deci.
sions then 60 into huddle on who gets the
printing job
There have been occasional leaks but here's
the amazing part. Not one leak has ever been
traced to the printer
Looks as If Massachusetts has set up nonop
oily Of It's own on Capitol Hill For the first time
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16


MIR j. p Yoder one Of our local bankers
opened up conversation in very peculiar way
the other night. He said IL had always been his
ambition TO have something happen 10 him so ht
could sue restaurant, such as swallowing nail
in his soup
deed an ambitious man and credit TO the bank
ing profession. Another observed that restaurants
must positively clamor for his patronage
When you have all finished" said MIR loder.
ooldly Il would like 10 tell you something
thought my dream had come true The Other
evening / was dining at the Carlton and ordered
half dozen Lynn Haven oysters on the half shell
And what do you think found"
That's easy" we scoffed, "a pearl"
Mr. Yoder waited for the nerriment 70 sub
SIDE then said "As it happens you are half night
found two pearls"
II sounded so pat We all laughed heartily
again Somebody started a story about itnow
who knew a fellow who knew girl whose mother
nlaw knew an oyster shucker who once found
pearl, but Mr. Yoder cut him short.
Il found two pearls In two oysters out q ny
half dozen. Furthermore, have witnesses And il
may help stife your childish bellylsuehter 70
know that a jeweler has just assayed The pearls
and offered me $500 for them"
We checked the story-and BY eolly II turned
out 10 be literally and absolutely true.
!, could happen only 10 banker. confound ~
Miss Reid please call up the Carlton srd order
three bushels OF oysters
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16

IN history. the Majority Leader and the Minority
Leader Of the House of Representatives are from
the same state-same being Massachusetts
Furthermore the Majority Leader. John w
Mccormack and the Minority Leader Joseph w
achusetts Legislature
Mccormack is a Democrat Martin belongs 70
that other party
Every visitor 10 Washington. with drop Of
sesthetcism in his soul has admired the Lincoln
Memorial Most OF US think ii is the most beauti.
iul structure in Washington, If not the world
But what has never been publicized about the
magnificent edifce Is this II has a small flood
every morning
] am indebted for this intelligence 10 my Old
friend Doug Larsen, who spends his time ferret.
ing out the most unusual facts Mr.. Larsen also
discovered that a shipment Of tulip bulbs 70 The
White House vanished somewhere en- route from
Holland mystifying all concerned but that is get.
ting off the subject
The Lincoln Memorial has had flood every
morning since IL built adding years 10 the
caretakers who have TO mop up This is why.
When the sun comes out it warns the air
don't warm as fast as the air This causes conden.
sation into pool OF water, which il not mopped
up would give the early visitor soegy shoes
The designers never intended anything like
this. The memorial was built with an elaborate
heating system But il has never been connected
TO the Central Heating System which keeps al
Government buildings warm.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16

The Lineoln Memorial hos
had O flood every morning.
adding yeors 70 the care
tokers who hove 70 mop up.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16

After a huddIe, the Su.
preme Court Justices decide
who gets the printing Job.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16

n ASHINGTON.-Thi is not 10 be construed
as a knock at the Government Printing
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-13
NEW ORLEANS COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, May 12-(P)-
Cotton futures advanced here to-
day on trade buying and weekend
short covering. Closing prices were
very steady, S to rs cents a bale
higher.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-13
u. S. Carrier Tarawa
Launched At Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH,. Va Nav I;

PORTSMOUTH, Va, May r.
R-Haued as "a living symbol of
Americas determination to see
this war through to a successful
end" the aircraft carrier Tarawa
was launched into the Elizabeth
river today from her building ways
at the Norfolk Navy Yard.
Twenty-four men Of the Second
Marine Division which wrested the
Central Pacific Atou Of Tarawa
from its Japanese defenders in
Nov, 1913, formed an honor guard
for the man who led them in the
historic battle, Major General Jul
ian c. Smith, as he told a crowd
Of approximately 100000 persons
that the new flattop islands as
proof that the courage Of our an
cestors still lives, and Of our will
to fight for the heritage they be-
queathed us"
The generals wife cracked q
Of foaming champaign on
the bow of the 27,100-ton Essex
class carrier.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-13
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, May 12.-tRLSalable
cattle 800, calves none; compared
Friday last week: strictly choice
steers and yearlings steady, &C
tive; all other grades weak to Is
lower, with strictly good to aver
age choice offerings showing full
decline; top 1890; very moderate
supply above 1850; Bulk 1900
1925 best long yearlings .17.75-but
zoos lb. heifer yearlings reached
100; Heifers strong; bulk 14.00-
1900; Several loads 1850 and 1880
in addition to top offerings at II. 80;
COW market very irregular, mostly
steady to rs higher on Gamers,
cutters and common b e e + cows,
with medium and good beef cows
fully Is higher; bulls $3.50 higher,
despite late reaction; vealers 25-
so, higher at. 1880, mostly 1900
down; stockers and feeders steady
to Is lower, medium to good grades
scaling 700-850 lbs. showing most
decline; bulk replacement cattle
13.5O-15.00; strongweight cutter
cows closed at 8.75 down; most
cannersan d cutter 7.25-8.50; good
beef cows to 1900 and better, bulk
9.50-13.75; heavy sausage bulls
reached 1880 and heavy beef bulls
14.75; fed steers predominated dur
ing week, COW and bull receipts be-
ing acutely scarce.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-13
NAMES ASSIGNED
TO new CARRIERS

WASHINGTON, May H. F) -
Four major battles Of the Pacific
were commemorated today by the
Navy in the assignment Of names
to new aircraft carriers now I'M
der construction or being QUILTED.
The last Of three $4,000 ton car.
riers, under construction at the
Newport News, Va, Shipbuilding
and Drydock company, has been
assigned the name Coral Sea-" for
the decisive battle of May 7-8, 1912,
which stopped the Japanese south.
ward advance.
The name was originally assign.
ed the second of the group of three,
recently launched at the New York
Navy Yard, but that vessels name
was changed to Franklin D. Roose.
welt, in honor Of the late Presi.
dent.
The first of the group, launched
several weeks ago at Newport
News, was named the Midway
The names of 1.-Two Jima' and
''Leyte" have been assigned to 9th
er smaller Essex.type carriers also
Under construction at Newport
News.
The Leyte was previously named
the Crown Point. A repair ship,
previously named the Leyte, has
been renamed the U. S. S. Maui.
for the Hawaii island Of that name.
An escort carrier, under constcuc-
ticn at the Todd Pacific Ship Yards,
Tacoma, Washington, has been as.
signed, the name "Lingayen," in
comrnemoration Of the landings in
Lingayen Gulf, on Luzon island, in
the Philippines.