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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-10
Chestnut Hill News

Miss Glenna Vaught and Miss
Hazel Deane Garvey, of Washing
ton, D, c., spent a few days here
recently with their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Pugh and
twin daughters, of Rocks, Md,
spent last week with Mrs. Pugh's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Stur-
gill.
Miss Sue Atwood, of Scottville,
spent Saturday night with Miss
Dorothy Brown.
Mrs. Edwin Sheriff., of Sails
bury, spent the week end with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-10
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our friends
and neighbors for their kindness
and sympathy shown us during
the illness and death of our dear
husband and father. We want
especially to thank the Masonic
Lodge for their kindness and SYM
pathy.
Mrs. ]. G.. Cooper and
children.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-10
MUSICAL PROGRAM AT
COURTHOUSE ON SAT

The Famous Four" a colored
quartet from Galax, Va, and the
Crumpler Colored Quartet will
present a musical program at the
courthouse in jefferson on Sat-
urday night, May IL, at eight o.
clock.
The program will be sponsored
by the Bristol Colored Church.
and the public is cordially invited
to attend. A small admission
charge will be made.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-10
ANNOUNCE SERVICES

A series of revival services will
begin at the Sturgills Baptist
Church on Sunday night, May Is,
with the Rev. E. w. Powers, pas
tor Of the West jefferson Baptist
Church, delivering the message,
it has been announced by the pas
tor, Rev. M. D. Hart.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-10
YOUTH FELLOWSHIP
MEETS NEXT MONDAY

The Ashe County Youth Fellow
ship Union will meet at the West
Jefferson Methodist Church, on
Monday night, May ii, at 800 o.
clock, at which time the Jefferson
group will have charge of the
program.
Other Youth Fellowship groups
in the county are urged to attend.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-10
MISS GRAPHICAL IS
ACTIVE AT w. G. u. N. C..

Greensboro - Technicians, who
make the performance possible
but never themselves appear on
stage, are busily at work on the
next production of The Woman's
College Play-Likers, "The Cradle
Song" to be given Saturday night
| in Aycock auditorium.
Costume mistress is Miss Myr-
tie GRAPHICAL, of West Jefferson.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-10
Classified Ads

FOR SALE-Household fEnn-
ishings, including bedroom and
dining room suites, Warm Morn
ing heater and numerous GafaEr
articles, until June L. Sea Mrs
Laura Goss, West Jefferson, NJ
c.. S-RN-ftps
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-10

liam Jones.
Mrs. Lonnie Jones asa1 49,
dren, of West Virginia. are s~
ing sometime here visiting Reaa~
tives and friends. Lonnie Is wath
the armed forces, staticmsd I'M
Germany.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23
AFL Man Named Head
OF Ohio Industrial Dept

Columbus, Ohio.-Governor Frank
J. Lausche announced appointment Of
J. Harry Moore, of Cincinnati, as the
new Director Of the Department of
Industrial Relations. Mr.. Moore is a
member Of the American Federation
of Radio Artists, an AFL affiliate, and
has been serving his lacal union as a
delegate to the Cincinnati Central La
Dor Council.
Mr.. Moore has had considerable ex-
perience as an instructor in Cincin-
natl schools and for the last two years
has been a newscaster for a Cincin-
natl radio station In addition to this
experience, he has been active in Dem
ocratic political circles. Last year he
was an unsuccessful candidate for
Congress. He is married and the
father Of four children.
The Ohio State Federation of Labor
commended the appointment and ex.
pressed confidence "Mr. Moore will
administer his new duties in a fair anG
efficient manner"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23

The Executive Council left no room
for doubt on its stand with regard to
the so-called work or fight legislation
which is considered the most danger
out blow directed at labor's basic free
doms in many years.
| BY unanimous vote the Council con-
demned the May Bill as precursor
to slave labor in America and urged
the U. S. Senate to defeat it.
Emphasizing that the May Bill
would hurt war production, instead of
increasing it, the Council strongly
recommended adoption of the Taft
substitute. This measure, which lost
by only handful Of votes in the
House where it was introduced by
Rep. Barrett of Wyoming, would leave
administration of manpower problems
where it is now lodged-with the
War Manpower Commission.
But the bill goes much further. 1t
empowers the War Manpower Com
mission for the first time with au-
thority to go into war plants and in
vestigate labor waste and boarding.
If such investigation shows that sur
plus manpower exists, the Commission
would be empowered to order the re-
lease of workers not needed SO that
they could be funneled into other war
plants where actual shortages may
exist.
The Executive Council firmly denied
that real or dangerous manpower
shortage exists in war plants gener-
ally throughout the country. 1t held
that the few local and sporadic labor
shortages which develop from time to
time can best be adjusted by voluntary
methods, rather than the unframed
and inefficient machinery of draft
boards.
i With regard to the re-affiliation OF
the United Mine Workers, Mr.. Green
told newspaper reporters that he ex-
pected the Council to make final de-
cision one way or another at this
meeting. He said he would submit to
the Council correspondence which has
taken place with officers of the miners
union since the last AFL convention
During the next few days the Coun-
Gil will give it's consideration to long
list of vital legislative proposals af-
fecting the labor movement.
1t will also draft reports on post
war action necessary to establish eco
nomic and social security in America
when the fighting ends.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23
AFL Leaders Demand
Defeat OF May Bill
And Favor Taft Bill

Manufacturing it's annual mid
winter session with bang, the AFL
Executive Council took these imme-
date actions:
1t called upon the U. S. Senate
to reject the House-approved May
Bill, calling for a labor draft, and
adopted instead the Taft substitute
which retains voluntary controls and
is aimed at elimination of labor waste
and boarding.
Pit prepared to settle once and
for all the question Of reaffiliation Of
the United Mine Workers Union.
3-It accepted President William
Green's report on the amicable adj
justment Of long standing jurisdic-
tional differences between the Inter
national Association Of Machinists on
one side and the international Brother
hood Of Carpenters and the Interna-
tional Union Of Operating Engineers
on the other.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23
Permanent Freeze
Remains Says SOhngen

Columbus. Liquor Director
Robert Sohngen this week declared
he will not tinker with the order is
sued by former Director Jacob B.
Taylor, as war emergency measure
some two years ago, freezing the
number of beer and liquor permits in
Ohio "for the duration" His state
ment, reply to a direct query by a
Columbus newspaper, dashed hopes
of many who had thought the new
administration would make new per-
mits available. Tavern.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23
ARMY ERROR CONFESSED

Army officialdom has confessed it's
error in the sentensing to death of
Pvt Harry P. Weber by successfully
reducing the sentence until it now
stands at years Imprisonment. AS
Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who as
sailed the savage and barbarous first
sentence, said, developments in the
case justified his scathing criticism
of the original sentence.
After Senator Wheeler and Rep.
Savage of Washington directed the
attention of Congress and the nation
to the death sentence, imposed for
refusal to take part in military drill
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23
TELL-AND ACT-THE
TRUTH!
by Ruth Taylor

by Ruth Taylor
Truth is generally the best vindi-
cation against SANDER"
Abraham Lincoln.
No-I did not pick a text from one
of Lincoln't great speeches on free
dom for a holiday article. My text is
not from the immortal Gettysburg adj
dress-nor from any state document.
1t is not even from his statement on
labor which you all print so proudly.
But just the same it is one of the
finest statements for Labor that can
be made-this remark of the man who
suffered more from slurs and ISLANDERS
than most men ever do and who re-
mained unembittered to the end.
Truth is generally the best vindi-
cation against slander.
But the truth must be the truth"
and not just our own views colored to
suit the circumstances.
/ hold that Organized Labor has
nothing to fear if it expresses in ac-
tion the truth as shown in it's own
vows, it's own expressed ideals, if it
speaks the truth according to the
whole facts-neither glossing over
faults nor minimizing virtues.
Truth is generally the best vindi-
cation against SANDER.
Organized Labor has done job on
production of which it can be proud.
The record on authorized strikes is
clear. The only way it can be pre-
sented is by the truth and the official
stand on each strike.
Organized Labor has done a job
against discrimination and racial and
religious prejudice second to none.
The truth will prove this. Let's state
the facts
The best defense against adverse
labor legislation is fair presentation
of all the facts-following fair study
of the entire situation and clearing
up of whatever is not in accord with
the best interests Of all the workers
Truth is generally the best vindi-
cation against slander.
But no one is going to hunt up the
| truth for US. We have to tell our own
story! Don't forget that.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1916
BUNK FROM TOLEDANO

The so-called "World Trade Union
Conference" in London has been re-
galed with some choice ''bunko pro-
fundo" but none was worse than that
spoken by Vincent Lombardo Toledo
no, cleft wing" Mexican labor leader
and aspirant for leadership of all
Latin American labor. Toledano told
the meeting that the American Fed
Grafton of Labor was s'the most dis
ruptive force on the American contin-
ent.''
This was not the only attack on
the AFL. Sidney Hillman took a
fling at the federation, as did others,
plainly revealing their resentment at
the refusal of the federation to take
part in the conference, in which the
Soviet "trade unions" are heavily rep
resented.
Toledano was rebuked by a dele
gate fthe International Transport
Workers Federation but none of the
delegates had the decency to denounce
the childish absurdity of the Toleda-
no charge and to point out that if
the AFL was really disruptive force
it would long since have ceased to
exist. Instead, it has had a steady
and consistent growth until it has
become the most representative labor
body in North America.
Time after time in the more than
so years history of the AFL, it's doom
has been pronounced by it's enemies
but it is still doing business and it
will be serving Americas toilers long
after Toledano and his Communist
cronies have disappeared for good
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23
WHAT NEXT?

Research has made it possible to
convert wood into high yields of wood
sugar and war-vital alcohol in only
one-fourth to one-half the time re-
uuired by similar German process,
says report to the American Chem
ical Society. AS much as 60 gallons
of industrial adcohol can be made
from l ton of wood wastes (sawdust
and chips) by the new methods.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23
GOT FED UP

When a worried-looking man ap-
piled for settlement Of claim for
fire insurance, the agent asked:
much damage?"
"Not much," the man said, "just a
door,"
"How much would new door cost ?"
"About five dollars"
when did the fire happen?"
The man hesitated a moment, and
then replied: "About 80 years ago."
EYES,"
"And you've waited all these years
to report it?"
eyes"
"How did that happen?"
"Well," said the man, "my wife has
been at me to do something about that
door ever since it was burned, and
couldn't stand it any longer"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23
l6,5OO DISPUTES
SETTLED TRACY

Washington, D. C.-The U. S. Con-
ciliation Service settled 16,500 labor
industrial disputes involving more
than six million workers, thus pre-
venting many strikes, Assistant Sec
retary of Labor Dan w. Tracy de-
clared in a radio review of the de-
partment's activities during the past
fiscal year.
"Bear in mind that the working
time saved in this way went into pro-
duction of war material for all our
fighting fronts" he emphasized.
Attacking propaganda about high
wartime wages, Mr.. Tracy pointed out
that the Wage-Hour and Public Con-
tracts Division in the past year found
that more than 18 million dollars in
back wages was due to more than a
half million workers, many of whom
had been paid less than the 40 cent an
hour minimum required by the Fair
Labor Standards Act
He pointed out that women workers
have been rendered important services
by the Women's Bureau of the de-
partment which kept watchful eye
over conditions of employment and
helped to increase production.
The safety activities of the Division
of Labor Standards, Mr.. Tracy said
resulted in marked reduction of on
the-job accidents in the three-quarters
of the plants that enlisted the depart
ment's help. This reduction of acci-
dents, he explained, constituted q
great saving in human suffering ano
in labor avilable for the war pro.
gram.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23

at Camp Roberts, Calf, the tria
court itself rescinded the death pen.
atty and decreed life at hard labor
Then the commanding officer at Camp
Roberts reduced the sentence to 2C
wears. The record was next sent to
Washington, where Maj. Gen. Myron
C. Cramer, Army Judge Advocate
General cut the sentence to 5 years
Told of Cramer's decision, Wheeler
commented he still did not know all
the facts in the case but that 5 years
seemed severe to him, unless there
are circumstances that have not been
brought to his attention. Many will
agree with him.
Weber is member of the Socialist
Labor party, which opposes capital
ist" war. He explained he was opposed
to killing people but would serve in
on-combatant duty. His scruples were
not based on religious grounds, which
the Selective Service law recognizes,
and apparently the army gave him nc
opportunity to serve as non-com-
batant.
The whole case reflects no credit
on the milithy system and will hard
ly be an argument for imposing per-
manent military conscription on the
American people.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23

This column cannot join in what
seems to be the largely unthinking
chorus of approval of the decisions OF
the Yalta conference of the "Big
Three" 1t believes that bad, if not
terrible, mistakes were made at Yalta
and presents here some opinions ex-
pressed by Socialist party spokesmen
as worthy of study and consideration.
The Socialists are not the only ones
who are criticizing the Yalta program.
Some commentators who are nowise
sympathetic to the Socialists are ex-
pressing similar or somewhat similar
views. 1t is probable their point of
view will gain strength as the nation
and world has a chance for further
consideration of what was proposed
by Messers, Roosevelt, Churchill and
Stain.
Yalta will "tend to make more
speedy and certain the arrival of the
next war;" is the alarming indictment
of the Socialist party, expressed in a
statement by Prof. Maynard c. Krue-
ger of the University of Chicago ano
Harry Fleischman of New York, the
party's national secretary.
ssThe most decisive failure OF the
Yalta conference was it's refusal tt
take even the first step toward ending
the war;" the Socialist spokesme1
said. "It offers no hope that demo
cratic German revolt against Nazisn
would be met with sympathy on tht
part of the Allies. Instead the Bis
Three repeat the bankrupt slogan O.
unconditional surrender, which ha'
already heightened the war;"
"Only men with touching faith il
the ignorance Of the public" addet
Krueger and Fleischman, could a
the same time agree to one-sided Rus
sian annexation of a third of Polant
and reaffirm their belief in the At
lantic Charter which condemns ter
ritorial changes that do not accort
with the freely expressed wishes OF
the peoples concerned"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS.

The Socialists insisted that the Yal-
ia decisions were "a program for
World War ILL.," and warned that
while Sustained protest from liberty
loving people everywhere" would be
needed to change it, the alternative
would be misery and war for years
to come"
On the matter of the fifth parti-
ton of Poland and the terms for Ger
man surrender, Krueger and Fleisch-
man said:
The Crimea conferees have an
nounced that the Lublin Provisional
Government" is to be "reorganized
by adding to it 'other Polish demo
cratic leaders, What degree of in
dependence the resulting government
will have can be seen from the fact
that it will be formed in Moscow and
operate under the supervision of the
Red Army and the GPU. Nor does il
seem likely that the free and unfet-
tered elections which it will hole
under these circumstances will near
any more than the free and unfet
tered elections held in the Soviet
Union itself.
"The Powers also pledge themselves
to consult the other United Nation:
and provisional authorities of othel
governments in Europe when matter!
of direct interest to them are under
consideration Was it because theil
boundaries and future government
were not of direct interest to them
that the Poles were not consulted a
| Teheran and Yalta?
'The conferees announce that tn,
unconditional surrender terms will
not be made known until the final de
feat of Germany. Perhaps the clue tt
this strange silence can be found il
the fact that, while stating that they
have agreed on the enforcement o.
the terms to be imposed, they no
where claim to have agreed on the
terms themselves"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23
Brewery Workers Union
POstpOnes Convention

Cincinnati, O. (ILNS).-In accord
ance with the Office Of Defense Trans
portation order against the holding of
conventions or conferences of over 80
persons, the general executive board
of the international Union of United
Brewery, Flour, Cereal, and Soft Drink
Workers has voted that the unions
1915 convention be postponed for a
year.
The convention had been scheduled
for September, in Galveston, Texas.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23
SOHNGEN TO STUDY
ALLEGATIONS

lumbus.-Director Sohngcl prom
ised a thorough-going investigation
into the ALLEGATION method under which
various brands of whiskcy have been
distributed among state stores.
He declared this investigation
would be started Immediately because
he said he had received several COM
plants that persons have not been
able to buy certain brands of liquor
through state stores but the brands
are available by the drink in taverns
in the same city.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23

A girl showed up for work the other
morning wearing two officers silver
bars pinned to her sweater. One of her
office mates asked: "Is your boy friend
captain?"
Goodness, no." she said. 1.-TWO lieu
tenants"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23
WISDOM

The punishment of criminals should
be of use; when man is hanged he
is good for nothing. Voltaire.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23
WINE GLASS PULPIT

All over New England stand white
churches, emblematic of Freedom
of Religion. Nowhere is there a
more impressive shrine than the
wine glass pulpit in the Sandown,
N. H., meeting house, erected about
1773. The original peWs are there,
too, where the congregation listened
to sermons more than ITO years ago
that would have brought Punishment
to concentration camps under Nazi
dominion. That's the American
way; liberty for each to worship
God in his own way. That is one of
the reasons why our men are fight
ing-and one more reason why we
must buy War Bonds to the limit to
keep them winning:
U. S. Tre0ssry Department
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23

Advertise in The Press.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23

Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-23

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Glass Mail Matter.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Americans Favor World Set-Up
Survey Shows Great Majority Want Some Form Security Organization
to Outbreaks of in and Want Now

at the outset. They are aware that there
must be spirit of give and take which
will produce compromises. Still they
want the start made. The 71.8 per cent
who voted for active American partici-
patton in an international organization
were asked:
Which would you prefer?
Per cent.
To get an international organi-
zation started right away, even
though 1t may not suit some
Americans in the beginning 744
To wait and try to get one almost
every one will like before start
ing, even If this takes several
years ----------------- 1873
Don't know ST.
This means that more than half of
all our people want start made at once,
even if all Americans are not happy
over the specific document which first
emerges. Not all of the balance are op-
posed-many are simply uncertain.
There is more than a demand for a
world rganization-there is hope we
will have one. All of the people in our
sample were queried as to their ex-
pectations:
What do you think is most likely to
happen to this idea of an internation-
al organization?
Per cent.
That one is really going to get
started 54.6
That there may be something
that will be called an interna-
tional organization, but it
won't have any real power or
effect 1873
or
That an international organiza-
ton won't even get started ---- SIS
Don't know 24.1
All Of these results seem to indicate