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The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-09-04
TALKS
WITH AUNT EMMY
ON PLAUSIBLE YOUNG MEN

isn't it dreadful about poor Mrs
Fuller, Aunt Emmy!" exclaimed
Molly. THAT company she bought
those bonds in has failed and she has
lost nearly every cen she had"
do you know how it happened? 2"
asked Aunt Emmy. "She got a let
ter from some so-called investment
house she knew nothing about. She
answered it and they sent a plausible
young man to her and he persuaded
her that the company he was selling
bonds for was a seventh wonder.
The carelessness Of some people is
really criminal. Mrs. Fuller might
have gone to her bank, asked for re-
liable information and saved her
money. Any bank has or can get the
facts about business concerns show
ing their condition. Had she bought
bonds in a company hat the facts
showed had been meeting it's Obliga-
tons for years, had a good surplus
and good business prospects, she
would not be in trouble today. In
stead, she look the word of that
plausible mar who was either de-
ceived himself, or who willfully de-
ceived her, or at least was nOt SO
much interested in protecting her as
in selling bonds to her. There is
really very little excuse for the Mrs.
Fullers of today because reliable in
formation on financial matters may
be had s. easily"
"If she only hadn't put so much
money in those bonds!" commented
sympathetic Molly.
'4That's another thing it is unwise
to do" replied Aunt Emmy. ut is
in one basket. Now if she had put
only part of her money in those bonds
instead of all she had, she could have
stood the loss. AS it is there is no
telling what straits the poor little
woman has got herself into. Like
every one else Mrs. Fuller was too
greatly tempted by the promise of a
high rate Of interest on her invest
ment. Her extreme ignorance of
finance coupled with the desire for
high interest caused all her trouble.
'There are few things more dan
gerous than thinking you can do
something you know nothing about as
well as somebody who knows all
about it. How foolish that sounds
just to say it, Mrs. Fuller may be
able to go to the butcher and because
of her judgment of cuts Of meat, get
the very best and most for her money
but that is no sign that she can judge
securities. Buying bonds is no diff
ferent from buying meat You simply
must understand your subject. You
must know how to select good bonds,
and you must know when to sell and
when to buy. The only way you can
this is to take the advice of some
one whose business it is to study the
bond market. Any bank large or
small will gladly discuss investments
with its depositors. When you have
earned enough to depend somewhat
on your own Judgment make your
1wn decision as to what to buy
hen talk it over with your banker to
make ure. Should he say, Don't
1uy,' abide by his decision"
Mrs. Fuller's case has taught me
lesson, Aunty," said Molly, "PH
take any chances like she did"
ANNE B. AYMES.
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co.oPs SELL BILLIONS WORTH

According to the 1920 census fig
ures, 1921, $685. worth Of farm prod
ucts was sold through cooperative
marketing associations. The great
est growth in cooperative marketing
has come since that time, SO that 1t
is safe to assume that much more
than a billion dollars worth Of prod
ucts are sold comparatively at the
present time. A general survey
shows that the larger co-operatives
in fruit are handling nearly $20c ,000,-
600 worth OF business annually. The
large scale milk co-operatives do a
total business Of about $3.50, 900, 900
annually, while the tobacco group is
doing a combined business OF more
than 500, 100000 annually. The cot
group has also passed the $780,
900, 900 mark.
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LESSON vi
BY J. Il. PUELICHER, Chairman,
on Public Education, American Bankers Associat

We hear of bank capital, Surplus and stockholders.
nomic services do they render the community?
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Sunday School each Sunday at
200 p. m.
A Sunday Evening Service each
Sunday at 500 p. m, consisting of
Scripture reading, Song Service,
Prayer and Testimony.
Preaching Service each Sunday
at 300 p. m.
All the above services are held
in the Kelvin Church and a cor
dial welcome is extended to every
body in town.
REV. D. A. KROFT, Pastor.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-09-04

our Warren County, Illinois, banks
g offered a total of 5000 in prizes
he beef cattle club In that county.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-09-04

C~hambersburg, Pennsylvania, banks
and Chamber of Commerce at the be-
ginning of 1928 mapped out a vigor-
Gus program for the promotion of
agriculture in the county. Through
out the year they assisted in keeping
the farm organizations functioning
and distributed to them agricultural
bulletins and information of interest.
They held rural community meetings
and entertainments, exhibits of farm
and home products, and advertised
home products. One specific result
was to induce a milk receiving station
to locate in the vicinity, and during
the first month $4,000 was paid the
farmers for their milk. This marked
the turning point in the farmers
business.
California bankers created an emer-
gency fund of 81, 900 900 at a meeting
recently in San Francisco to combat
the foot-and-mouth disease which has
broken out in that State. The Federal
and State governments each pay one
half of the appraised value Of the ami
mails slaughtered, and the State gov
eminent was not prepared to meet
unexpected expense. The bank
ers agreed to supply the funds needed
a loan to the State government.
The Vermont Bankers Association
offered $1,000 to winning club men,
bers in 1923. Part of the funds was
used for prizes for project leaders,
out between five and six hundred dol
.ars was awarded to outstanding boys
girls winning in the various
projects.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-11
Would LaFOlIette FolloW
Macdonald?

Mr. Willard editor of the Nation, thinks that if
LaFolIette should be president, ''we should have
in Washington the same spirit of amity in the con-
duct of our international affairs which so glorifes
the ministry of Ramsay Macdonald"
We are not sure of just which GLORIOUS" items
in the record of Macdonald Mr. Willard refers to.
Perhaps he means that just as Macdonald has fol-
lowed the principle of continuity OF policy, car
rying out the established course of British i'm
perialsm as laid down by the Conservative and
Liberal parties also would Mr.. LaFollette con-
tinue the imperialism of the U. S. as applied by
Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge
Or. it NAV be that Mr.. Willard remembering that
Macdonald has continued the practice of dropping
bombs from aeropanes upon the villages of Meso-
potamia one of the chief 'glories" of the Labor
government record is rejoiced in the thought that
LaFollette will continue to shell the defenseless
cities of Latin America if they do not come across
for the American capitalists
AID then again, it is probable that what Mr..
Willard has in mind, in looking for LaFollette to
repeat the "glories" of the Macdonald regime, the
fact that it was Macdonald who the chief
instrument in putting into effect the Dawes plan,
otherwise Known as the Morgan plan. Mr.. Willard
evidently expects, and with good reasons, that
LaFollette would follow Macdonald in this also,
and support the project of Coolidge's running
mate.
All in all, it is quite probable that LaFollette
will not thank Willard for raising these questions
They are just the kind of questions which he does
not wish to answer during the campaign, prefer
ring that they be left for the practical exegencies
Of the moment to determine them. Mr.. LaFollette
wants to cash in on all the Macdonald sentiment
that he can and Willard has much grounds in
thinking that he would repeat the Scotch Sunday
school teachers record rather closely, but it is
rather embarrassing to have the thing put so
bluntly, at a time when Battling Bob" must make
a pretense at least of being different from Dawes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-11
Politics in the Unions

Republican and democratic politics are more
than ever the determining factors in union affairs
LaFollette has given a new lease of life to the
we see in the illinois miners union the most flag
rant trading going on the result of which has been
the settlement of a misunderstanding" between
Harrington and Len Small, completing the united
front of all takers in the state.
Farrington's announcement that he is candi-
date for reelection as president of District II,
gives new interest to republican party politics for
the miners Len Small had been holding a whip
over harrington to force his support in the shape
of the candidacy of William Sneed, Small bench
man and member of the miners union, for Far
ringtOn's job After Harrington finally united
with the other takers behind Small Sneed an.
nounced his withdrawal in favor of Harrington.
Thus is the fate of the unions made the object
of trading in the offices Of the capitalist parties
In his announcement of his candidacy, Earring
ton promises to lambast a "deadly enemy" that
is working stealthily against him in the miners
union. He certainly does not mean the K. K. K.
for he has the support of that organization Per
haps he means the Communists who are certainly
against this prince of labor takers, but very pub
licly and openly The Communists will have a
good deal to say about Harrington before the
miners elections are over. But that is another
story to be told in full at another time. Suffice
it now to note how republican politicians like Len
Small have a great deal to say about who shall
control the affairs of the miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-11
Stir the Shops!

The very best place to carry on working class
campaign is in the shops and factories where the
workers gather to earn their living. 1t is there
that minds are open to the measures, parties, and
candidates that stand for concrete solutions of
the problems of bread and butter facing the work
ing class 1t is in the shops that the workers will
see most clearly, for example, the difference be-
tween Foster, the union organizer and fighter for
the workers, and LaFollette the lawyer and fighter
for the middle class.
And the very best instrument right now for stir
ring up discussion in the shops the class issues
is the workers. straw vote. 1t opens the discus
sion places the issues before thousands of work
ers who would otherwise not think or who would
take their opinions from the capitalist papers, and
crystallizes their class convictions that they
will register and vote for Communism when elec-
ton day comes
An example is seen in the vote taken in car
riage shop in Kansas City The results were: Davis
votes, Foster T. LaFolette 5, and Coolidge 5. The
office force was reported unanimous for Davis
and the K. K. K went entirely for Coolidge. The
other workers divided between Foster and LaFol-
lette with Foster having the edge. That vote was
undoubtedly quite educational factor in the life
of the shop where it was taken.
This week another method of shop voting is be-
ing tried in Chicago. Ballots are being distributed
at shop gates, and boxes carried there for de-
posting the votes the workers leave their jobs.
1t is not only excellent propaganda means, stir
ring up all sorts of discussion but the results will
be of great interest. Every supporter of Foster
and Gitow should stir the shops of the nation with
the workers straw vote.
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dumb who will vote for Coolidge are
not those afflicted ones who cannot
speak. but the dumbells who cannot
think. OF the latter kind there are
millions and tho New York has its
share, other states are equally pro
life in producing the species.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-11
white Supremacy and Working Class Sports

that time, altho the law is still in
force, no great trouble has been
found to evade it--but the spectacle
of Negro defeating a white pugilist
has never been shown widely in this
country. Perhaps the politicians are
solicitious lest white supremacy be
reasserted by burning. skinning alive,
and boiling in oil hundred or so of
Negro grandmothers and babies in
arms.
The Real Issue.
The Negro worker, especially in the
industrial centers of the North toward
which he migrates in ever larger mum.
bers, is beginning to realize his true
class status. He knows that it is i'm
material to the machine or its prod
uct whether the hand that tends it be
dark or fair. And he knows, too, that
on the Industrial battlefields, the
words, "black' or white" make no
difference; 1t is the terms striker
or "scab" that tilt the balance of vic
tory either to the workers or to their
enemy. the boss. Not the fistic prov.
ess of the professional pugilist set
ties the question Of racial equality
the inventor of the steam engine and
the electric motor had much more to
do with 1t.
Every phase of social life must re.
fleet the basic economic conditions OF
it's epoch. Thus sport today clearly
shows capitalism on its every side
lin itself big business, it at the
same time serves we'll the interest OF
the business elements at large. II
Harry Wills will promise to allow him
self to be beaten by the "Wild Bull''
there is not likely to be any deporta'
ton. Otherwise there will be a tug
of-war between the fight promoters on
the one hand, and the Khan politicians
on the other to see which Of the con
flicting business interests shall be
served by the immigration officials
"The Fight Game" is phase of cap
italist society and obviously has close
economic and political relationship to
the present order.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sport.
Commercialized sport is the prosti
tuition to capitalist ends of the healthy
play and combat instincts Of the mass
es. The American labor movement
and especially its more progressive
sections, should answer by building
up a sports movement Of its own in
which the workers would build VI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-11
Why So Tender with Lewis?

John L. Lewis. one of the foremost labor takers
of America, was one of the group of "trade union
lists" Who on Labor Day, paid their respects to
Strikebreaker Coolidge and pledged the support
Of "labor" to the republican department OF Wall
Street.
That little pilgrimage got the LaFollette hackers
all peeved. The current issue of Labor, weekly
organ of the railroad unions and principal adj
vocate of the C. P. P. A. plays up big front page
story denouncing and exposing that group of
.1eaders," claiming that it organized by I. V.
O'Connor. former president of the Longshoremens
Union and now, by appointment of Coolidge, chair
man of the U. S. Shipping Board and claiming
further that OConnor paid the expenses of all those
mot on the government payroll"
Strangely enough the name of John l.. Lewis is
not mentioned, either in the story or In the long
editorial that follows Lewis is not, so far as public
knowledge goes as yet on the government payroll,
altho rumor has it that Coolidge has promised to
make him Secretary of Labor if reelected. Did
Lewis have his expenses paid by T. " O'Connor?
And if so, why does not Labor mention his name
and come out with the facts about Lewis? The
miners would like to know.
Perhaps one reason for the tenderness towards
Mr. Lewis is the fact that Lewis is exposing War
rem S. Stone, grand chief of the Engineers Union
and pillar of Mr.. LaFollettes church, as the oper
ator Of scab mines in West Virginia. Mr.. Lewis is
not putting up any kind of fight for the 100000
Illinois miners who are being starved to death by
the coal operators but, since joining the camp OF
Coolidge and needing weapon against the LaFol
letteites he has become ardent champion of the
sweated slaves Of Warren Stone.
81 will be fair enough to presume" writes Lewis
to Stone, dealing with Stones coal mines, "that
you are speaking as a coal operator and not as q
trade unionist IT must be interesting TO nave such
a dual personality"
Why is Stone so tender with Lewis? We are in
terested to hear the retort courteous? For it is
when thieves fall out that honest men learn some
thing about the ways and means used to rob them
Let the controversy 20 on unhindered What do
you know about Lewis, Mr.. Stone?
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| their bodies, revivify their minds, and
develop their own team spirit and
champions in an atmosphere of their
own theology. And on the negative
side of the workers answer should
be an absolute boycott on all capital
lied play, all newspaper space devot
ed to it, and everything connected
thereto.
There are hundreds of working
class athletic societies in the United
States, they should be combined into
a workers sport federation for pur.
pose of mutual support and contest.
Most of them have been formed by
different foreign language speaking
elements; the meeting and mingling
Of, these workers on the playground
would help melt down the barriers
Of racial difference which now hamper
class organization effort. These ele-
ments are among the most virile and
energetic in the whole working class,
given revolutionary theology this
splendid physical energy could be
Transmitted into terms of revolution.
airy activity.
The Communist International has
called to the attention of its various
national sections the Importance Of
this field Of workers sport In Europe
the greater development of the move
ment is reflected in immediate re-
suits. In this country the lack OF
class.consciousness even among exist.
ing workers athletic societies makes
our task more difiicult-on the other
hand the intense, avid interest of the
workers generally in all branches OF
athletics makes our field much more
promising once we get sufficient
start. Any reader having inside in.
formation on conditions of workers
sport organizations in his locality
would do well to get in touch with the
Young Workers League which is in
charge of this work
No avenue ot workers mass activ.
fly can be overlooked by the Commu.
nists. Our motto in the struggle
must be: class Industrial organiza.
tion, class politics. class education,
class sport, class life, class struggle,
class victory!
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morale Of its few remaining members
by holding before them vision of a
labor party, following the November
elections. you are sure to hear
more of this in due time. Nothing
small is contemplated No
little plans can be tolerated at this
time. And the situation calls for
every comrade to stretch his soul and
vision for greater things" This is a
political confidence game. The social
list party members must have elastic
political souls unless they have not
already cracked under the strain Of
deferred hope. Simple Simon was a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-11
~ - W. SFF ByT.L OFnhert
By T. J. O'FIuherty

cent came from the socialists. La
Toilette was disappointed in the re-
suits of the Maine election. 1t was
hoped the victory would go to the
Democrats after Wheeler's New Eng
land campaign. But it didn't. An.
other important adjunct to the LaFol-
lette conglomeration is Ex-United
States Senator Moses Clapp of Min
nesota. The Republican party, how
ever, claims that Clapp was never
anything but liability in the Mime
sofa machine for several years and
glad to be rid of him.
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membered that in his early training
the wild Bull of the Pampas" looked
good. He was fat and slow, but the
sport writer's were not worried-had
not the "Bull' knocked the mighty
Dempsey clear out of the ring?
Then the experts went over to the
Wills camp to hand the razz to the
dusky champ. Wills had not done so
very well in his last few fights against
comparative second-raters, reports had
1t that he was getting old as fighters
go, and that dissipation had taken
heavy toll of this former longshore-
man. They were in for big surprise.
According to their own stories they
found clean-limbed fighter with the
body of Johnson and the brain Of
Cans. They found that his age had
been Exaggerated" Instead of a
toothless old man with one foot in
the grave and the other on a cake of
wet soap they saw an athlete training
to the pink to remove the last logical
obstacle to his meeting the white
champion.
Keep Down the Black Mani
In this country it is not good form
that black man meet a white man
in the ring on equal terms. Fight
fans may point out numerous mixed
battles but there generally was a
catch somewhere. Thus Battling
Nelson's business manager made Joe
Cans boil down to skin and bones in
his Goldfeld battle by his unprece-
denied and unsportsmanlike demand
that weight be made in full fighting
toys, instead Of stripped as was the
custom. The fight lasted forty-two
rounds and Cans died of consumption,
penniless, some years later, partly due
to this terrible sweating. And fight
fans still raise their eyebrows over
the way in which "Lil Arthur" John.
son lost the title to Jess Willard,
Johnson himself admits he laid down.
It will also be remembered that
when Jim Jeffreys sacrificed white
supremacy" TO the dollar sign he had
TO go to country where human
equality is proclaimed less and
practiced more than in these United
States. Immediately after the crown
ing OF black man as king OF the
heavyweights Congress passed law
forbidding the importation or inter
state shipment Of fight films. Had the
black man been beaten that law
would never have been thot Of. Since
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-11
BY WILLIAM F. KRUsE.

CPORTING news seldom finds its
- way into the DAILY WORKER
the life and struggle in the labor
world have such urgent claim on
every inch of space that there is none
to spare for the masters or mannikins
of the profitable business of COM
mercialized sport. We realize that
the master class, like the Caesars of
ancient Rome, keep the workers in
terest riveted to the myriad-ringed
circus of professional sport, for pur-
poses of it's own. A mind stepped in
batting averages has little room for
unemployment statistics; head
filled with ponies past performances
seldom thinks of past performances,
or present day problems, of human So
ciety.
1t is much safer for capitalism to
have the primitive combative insticts
vicariously expended at prize-fight
or football game than to face the pos
sibility of the same instincts finding
direct expression thru the labor and
revolutionary movements. The work
ing class sports" who spend good
money for bleacher seats and general
admissions are foolish A thirty-day
ticket-office boycott would bring free
admission to every form of profes-
sional sport, paid for by the reaction
airy elements whose interests are
served.
A Political Angle.
But when a sporting item assumes
directly political character, as in the
case OF the belated arrest OF Luis An
gela Firpo on an immortality charge,
on the eve of his battle with the col
ored heavyweight champion, Harry
Wills, there is good reason for the
workers press to take interest. This
is not the first charge OF its kind to
be directed against Firpo-or against
others Of his profession. So hardened
have we become to these charges that
q primitive disregard for law and con-
vention in the realm Of sex relation
ship is almost expected in prizefght-
ers, perhaps as reflex of their print
tive method of getting a livelihood.
When Firpo was training for his
fight with Dempsey he was not men
aced with deportation proceedings.
When he first began to train for the
Wills fight there was a little furry
but It soon subsidized. 1t must be re.