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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
Bread Prices Rise.

VANCOUVER. B. c., Aug. s.
Bread prices have already gone up
q cent loaf of IS ounces. The bakers
declare this is because of increased
prices Of -four and wheat. From Sas-
katoon, in the heart Of the wheat
country, bread is 3 loaves for 81 cents,
an increase Of cents per loaves.
The farmers are complaining because
the middle-men, the stock market
gamblers got the increase and they,
being pressed by bankers to sell
early, got poor prices for wheat and
now pay dearly for bread.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
Electric Lamps IN MInes.

Electric lamps for miners are rapid
ly supplanting the old flame safety
lamps, according to bulletin just
published by the United States Blu
reau Of Mines, department Of the In
terror. There are about 100000 cleo
trio lamps in use now in the United
States.
The booklet goes into the history
of coal mining as connected with
lamps and offers much interesting
data. 1t may be secured by writing
for Bulletin 227, Flame Safety
Lamps" superintendent of Docu-
ments, Government Printing Office
Washington, D. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
Radio Makes Prisoners Fans

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Aug. g.
Fame waiting at the prison gates for
Virgil Coombs, came today in a guise
that was unknown when the % year
old boy started serving time for muir
der seven years ago. His Peaceful
Village" prison band is known to ra-
dio audiences as one Of the best in the
country and that acclaim has brought
him fiattering offers.
The boy was sentenced to life for
conspiring with woman for the MUIR
der of her husband He was taking
music lessons from the couple when
the woman became infatuated with
him. Governor Hyde committed his
sentence year ago.
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Mussolini Suppresses
More Newspapers for
Criticizing Fascist
Especial to the Daily Worker,


ROME. Italy, August 5.-Premier
Mussolini has had to back down on
the suppression of the seven Milan
newspapers Gall the city's dailies ex-
5ept his own brother's) and rescind
the order. OF course he charges that
the local authorities interpreted the
censorship decree too broadly"
He has not rescinded the suppress.
sion of "Sereno" here, which started
the trouble by publishing a sensation
al article entitled 1.-The Dramatic Con-
formation of Dumini and Filippelli,'
in which Filippellis letter to a friend
was published. Filippelli wrote that
he expected to be free soon because
he had demonstrated his own in
nocence."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06

The Railroad Labor Board post.
poned until September sth hearings
in the controversy between forty-three
Western railroads and the Brother.
hoods Of Ensinemsn and Firemsn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
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PRETTY CHORUS GIRLS NO LONGER
AT MANAGERS MERCY; ACTORS
UNION GIVES THEM PROTECTION
BY BEATRICE cARLIN
(Eor the Federated Pressl

NEW YORK, Aug 5.zWih the opening of the theatrical
only few weeks off, the Chorus Equity Association
putting into operation its 0year agreement with the
Protective Association The contract provides that
80 cent of chorus shall be Equity members and the
other 20 per shall required Equity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
Flying Again.

BROUGH, England, Aug. s. The
American round the world flyers plan
to hop of Monday for Kirkwall, Scot.
land. where the flight across the At
lantic will begin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
Manganese at Pre-war.

MOSCOW, August 5.-The British
from Poti. Black Sea, that this port is
very active in manganese export trade,
considerable number Of foreign ships
being engaged in loading this eau
casian mineral. It is stated that this
years exports of manganese from
Caucasus will reach the corresponding
pre-war level
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
Another Bird.

LYONS, France. August 5.--Major
zanni, Argentine aviator who is at.
tempting a round-the-world flight, left
at 1885 o'clock for Rome.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
GARY CHUCKLES AS HE RAISES
DIVIDENDS WHILE 10000 STEEL
WORKERS WALK THE STREETS
BY LELAND OLDS
Federated Press Industrial Editor)

Sixty thousand steel workers walking
the earnings of those still with job have shrun 1919 per
but Judge Gary is optimistic Why not? announces with
satisfaction that u Steel will not only the regular quar-
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A DAINTY TEA APRON.

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Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-02-01
Police Find House
Filled With TOYS

Olympia, Wash.-\Nith his house
filled with toys, small articles of mer-
chandise and gimcracks. sufficient al
most to stock small variety store,
Schuyler King. aged twenty years and
married, was placed under arrest after
raid on his place under search war
rant by Deputy Sheriffs Hardwick and
Baker.
King had formerly been employed
at the Hanson Variety store and Con
very's and 10-cent store and was
alleged to have stolen and packed
home weird and amazing collection
of articles, numerous trains of tin cars,
teddy bears, dolls and other toys, In
Guiding little steam engine. which he
had evidently been running for his
own amusement.
All told. ten boxes of the toys were
packed up by the sheriff's force. Even
the doorknobs on the doors of the lit
tie house King had recently built. were
said by officers. to have been stolen.
A charge of grand larceny was died
against him.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-02-01
Big Loads on Highways
Is Scored by Auto Club

Should one-third of one per cent of
the motor vehicles of a city be al
lowed to carry loads heavy enough to
ruin the highways for the remaining
so % per cent?
This question was answered in the
negative by the voters Of Los Angeles
through referendum initiated by the
Automobile Club of Southern Califor-
mia. The city council passed an ordi-
nance increasing the load limits for
trucks to 10000 pounds, which is 1000
pounds more than allowed under the
state law The exhaustive engineer
ing investigation recently conducted
by the automobile club demonstrated
clearly that excessive loading contrib
uted largely to the breaking down OF
roads.
Arguments presented against the
26,0OO-pound load declared that in Los
Angeles only 36 vehicles out of every
10000 could benefit by excessive load
ing. There are 2500OO motor We
hicle owners in the city of Los An
geles alone paying tax of two cents
per gallon TO insure the highways be-
ing maintained.
Inquiries from all parts of the
country indicate that the action of the
Automobile Club of Southern Califor-
mia to protect the roads is being
watched with keen interest throughout
the United States.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-02-01
Good Roads Soon Pay for
Themselves, Says Expert

Tests recently conducted by A. B.
Cutter, city engineer of Everett.
WASH, to determine the effect of
different road types upon gasoline con-
sumption showed that on modern con-
crete and bitulithic asphalt roads
there is no difference in gasoline con-
sumption. On gravel or waterbound
macadam roads In good condition gas
oline consumption is from 10 to 35 per
cent greater.
"Under modern volume of traffic"
says Mr.. Cutter, good roads rapidly
pay for themselves in economy of
gasoline consumption and the same
holds true in economy of tire and
other automobile wear and tear"
The tests were made on roads in
Washington Oregon and California.
They provi,sA distance in each test
of 100 miles of continuous operation
In order accurately to record the gas
oline consumption and produce a fair
average. 1t was required that the
tests be made on road surfaces in good
condition after three years practical
use and that uniform speed of not
less tlan 20 nor more than 30 miles
per hour be maintained.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-02-01

to reach the specimens for close pho
Biography. They may be growing on
the fringe of a strea or right in the
middle of ii swamp. When it Is windy
! may have to wait hours to take luy
picture-uniil the plants stop swaying.
'ln dong my water color sketches,
have TO work at high speed. The
blooms are apt to be very perishable
unless you happen to catch them at
the moment of their full perfection"
Her rarest find was the cypripedium.
little known orchid growing on the
Mexican border. Much of her work
has been done there. Because of the
range of her husbands field of re-
search. her selection is large and
varied. He has followed the Cambrian
formation from Mexico up to the Ca
madam Rockies. and her botanical
studies stretch over the same area.
Mrs. WoIcott has made a delicate
water color of spray taken from the
magnolia tree near the White House
door, which Mrs. Coolidge sent to her
not long ago. Doctor Walcott Is Sec
retary Of the Smithsonian institution
in Washington and his wife works
there with him every day.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-02-01
Finds Delving Into Stones
Fascinating as Gambling.

Cincinnati-The scientific achieve
ments recorded at the convention OF
the American Association for the Ad-
vancenent o. Science are not limited
entirely to men. Out of Il group OF
women who recently read papers, the
most conspicuous Independent research
has been done by Mrs. Charles ID.
Waicott, wife of last years president
of the association. Her work has been
in two fields, geology and botany.
From rocA strata high up in the Cana
dian Rockies she has hammered out
trilobites 70,OOO,000 years old. Some
of these stony remnants of early life
showed organs still intact.
ITS the greatest sport in the world"
she said. THE luck of gambler is
no more uncertain than the luck of Il
geologist. You crack 20 rocks and
then perhaps in the twenty-tirst you
find u marvellous specimen. | am Il
good collector of trilobites. for l have
sharp eyes"
Not a Trained Geologist.
Mrs. Walcott is not trained geolo-
6ict, but lis bCeu uP III 'iic
tains 25 times with her husband. the
dscoverer of fossil life in the Cam
brian range, she has taken an active
part in his research work With
Jonah" and Little Jonah" their geo.
logical hammers, they have contributed
valuable specimens to the world of
science.
ITS not exactly what you might call
a woman's lfe," Mrs. Walcott ex-
planned. But | have found it of eX-
traordinary interest. We have set up
as many as 10 camps in four months.
| know what it is to rise for break
fast at six in tent pitched at an alti-
tude of 1000 feet. break up camp
then ride on horseback all day through
rain with complete sketchng kit
strapped to my saddle. We consider
Cricket, my husbands horse, very
clever geologist When he decides to
stop at rock we usually find that his
instinct has been sound We carry five
cameras with us and have 10 horses in
ALL"
But the geological research they car.
ry on in the mountains is only one
phase of Mrs. Walcott's work. She
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-02-01
Municipalities Increase In
debtedness Per Capita.

Washington.-The cities of the coun-
try generally-there are exceptions
are not living within their incomes
census bureau statistics announced In
dicate.
= compilation of revenues and eX-
penditures in the fiscal year 1872 for
the 261 cities having Il population OF
10000 or more, shows Il total indebted
ness incurred that year amounting to
S5.56 for each resident. The cost of
government per capita, including ex-
penditures for permanent improve
ments amounted to $57.3S for the year,
against revenues of $51.S1, the total
figures being $2,222, ,566,519 and ST.
007 ,00S, ,79G, respectively.
The total net indebtedness at the
close of the year was $3,GlS.967. .272, or
$93.42 per capita.
$5s07 Per Capita Cost.
The total cost of government In
1929 was highest in the cities having
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-02-01
Located So That All Parts
of Country Can Be Served.

Washington.-To meet popular de-
mands the information sent out by the
weather bureau of the United States
Department of Agriculture by radio
phone from several stations has been
amplified, and now includes river fore
casts and stages. conditions Of high
ways as affected by the weather effect
Of weather on crops, weather reports
from the principal crop areas, and spe-
cial forecasts for the guidance of
farmers in harvesting.
Cooperation with a number of small
stations with limited range has been
discontinued and several large and
more powerful stations added. In many
cases forecasts for several states are
now broadcast from single station.
The gradual discontinuance of the
smaller and less powerful stations has
left the bureau with a chain of we'll
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-02-01
v2QAD.M
1ffBU1EDfSG
Asphaltic Concrete Base
Type of Road Pavement

On the Pacific coast there has been
widely developed over period of
twenty-five years a type of pavement
and foundation which is the acme Of
resiliency and flexibility and the ability
to resist the encroachments of water.
This pavement is known as the asphal-
tic concrete base type. Its more COM
mon name is that of "black base"
This type is not patented or controlled
by any company or individual and is
laid at moderate cost.
1t is simply a foundation of three
or four inches of mixed stone and as
phalt on which is placed wearing
course of the recognized sheet asphalt
or asphaltic concrete that is laid in
the East This gives total thickness
of five or six inches of pavement and
ample to meet the heaviest and most
varied traffic known to California high
ways. In Visalia. Cal, is a black
base" pavement that was laid in 1896
and which Is today in excellent condi-
tion. The Visalia pavement is Off
cially reported by the city engineer to
have cost nothing for maintenance.
Where the subgrade is unstable it is
good practice to lay thin insulating
course of four inches of broken stone
Engineers familiar with this type of
construction claim that it is the only
type which will successfully resist the
bombardment of heavy traffic and is,
therefore destined to become standard
in eastern paving practice within
comparatively few years. In the bor-
ough of Manhattan. New York city,
the practice has been adopted of re-
placing foundation cuts in Fifth ave-
nue. with this type of asphaltic base
wherever an opening in the pavement
becomes necessary.
The feature of prime Importance in
this question of design of new pave
ments is that the field is very wide
one, that there are very many types
of pavement, that the engineer and
the taxpayer, can conserve the inter-
ests of good engineering and wise tax
outlay by taking fully into account the
possibilities of these various types Of
paving and avoiding any policy that
Involves placing all the eggs in one
basket.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-02-01

one under the other, lighted by arti-
ficial light. He speculated on the
evolution of swift-growing crops OF
grasses and plants which should sup
ply fuel. textile materials and paper
Haldine foresees the biologist COM
bining strains of lichen into moss
like living structure which will push
out over the deserts of the world,
binding the sand and paving the way
for crops.
Colonel Thompson purposes to try
out the discoveries that science has
already made and to test as far as
possible the visions of the dreamers.
Every possible device for making
healthier plants. faster-growing plants
and bigger crops will be used He
hopes that his and other laboratories
will make it possible for 50O.00O,OO
Americans to live In comfort.
Colonel Thompson, listed as a bank
er in "Who's Who" is man of many
activities. He was born at Virginia
City, Mont, in 1869. and was educated
at Phillips Exeter academy and
Columbia University School of Mines.
He was director of the Federal
Reserve bank of New York from Its
organization until December of 1919.
He is director of big life insur-
ance company. He was Republican
presidential elector in 1912 and dele
gate to the national conventions of
10 20
Roosevelt Memorial association. He
was head of the American Red Cross
mission to Russia in 1917 He was
envoy of the United States to the first
centennial of the proclamation of the
independence of Peru in 1921. He was
member of the advisory committee to
the American delegation In the confer
ence on the limitation of armament in
1921.
Colonel Thompson's large fortune
was made in copper. In a way, Nature
gave him his wealth. He says I. is
quite proper. therefore. that some Of
his millions should be returned to
Nature.
Something like s3.OOO,OOO has al.
ready been expended on the institute
At least as much more will be spent
Dr. William Crocker, head of the
Thompson institute, was formerly pro-
fessor of plant physiology at the Uni
versity of Chicago. He says:
"In twenty-five years the United
States population will equal the ca
pacity of Its land. as now farm
worked. to produce its daily food We
shall have 14OO00.O0O souls to feed In
1850 and 14O.0OO0OO daily rations to
feed them with"
Thereafter, DIR. Crocker's prediction
continued. we shall enter period of
constant famine peril. The population
will go inevitably to 200000.00O-
6O,OO00O0 chairs lacking at the nation
al dinner table
1t will he too late then to regret the
follies that wasted and the rusts that
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-02-01
Cities SpendMore
Than axes Yield

population of 100000 or over, with
per capita cost of $96.SS. The next
highest per capita, $6429. is shown for
cities with population of 100000 to
100000 The per capita cost of cities
from 100000 to 100000 amounted to
S4S.11. of cities from $4,000 to 100000,
S44.94 and in the small cities, having
population of 10000 to $4,000, $44.37.
Comparable statistics for 1899 of the
principal cities show the per capita
cost has increased from $34.6S in 1918
TO $5S.07 in 1922.
An analysis of the costs of the city
governments shows the per capita cost
tor maintenance and operation of gen
eral departments was the principal
item and amounted to 1881 The per
capita cost of permanent Improvements
was $15.95.
New York, the country's largest city,
came through the year with surplus
of revenues of $3.2S per capita over
expenditures, but the Pc, capita net
Indebtedness amounted to S1S272 Chi
Cages revenues lacked 1896 per capita
of meeting her expenditures, but her
net Indebtedness amounts to only $46.-
81 per capita. Philadelphia, third
largest city, ended the year with a
per capita deficit of 1895 and a per
capita net Indebtedness of $1O3.3S.
Largest Per Capita Surplus.
Among cities with population of
100000 or more. Seattle had the high
est per capita revenue receipts,
amounting to S93.s5; Boston was Sec
ond with SS0.55; Los Angeles third
with $79.S1, and New York fourth with
S69.94. The four cities with lowest
per capita revenues were: Birming-
ham, $25.3S; Reading, $2613 San
Antonio, S26.20 and Nashville, S2S.O1.
The highest per capita cost of gov
ernment was at Detroit. where 1t
amounted to $12O30. Seattle was sec
ond with $110.71, and Los Angeles third
with $99.34 In all of these cities large
outlays for permanent improvements
were made in the year. The four
cities with lowest per capita costs
were: San Antonio. S25 65; Birming-
ham, S2s95; Scranton, $29O3. and
Reading, S32.79.
Detroit showed the largest per
capita deficit, with S54.77, Norfolk
was next. with $4962 Rochester third.
with s19.1O. and Youngstown fourth,
with $1S05.
st. Louis had the largest per capita
surplus. with $4.S6. Spokane showed
S4.61. Boston $421 and Cincinnati
S3.43.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-02-01

the diagnosis and treatment of plant
disease.
Doctor Crocker paused before row
of six glass cases containing his most
hopeless diseased patients.
1.-The rest of the building is far from
complete. but we have our isolation
ward in full operation" he said
Plants, he explained, have as many
different and serious ailments as hui
man beings. They are different,
though, In that their caretakers-the
farmer the gardener-have practical
ly no knowledge at all of the nature
of their ailments
Furthermore, the plant Is unequipped
to battle disease, for one very curious
reason which Doctor Crocker ex-
pounded.
1.-THE animal has blood circula-
tion which admirably seconds medical
care A doctor of humans can intro
duce a drug into the arm and know
that in a few seconds it will be trans
ported In the blood stream to the sick
spot. Plants have rudimentary cir
culation, sluggish and full of the no
thoroughfares which block the flow Of
saps."
Because plants are almost totally
unresponsive to treatment after they
have contracted disease, the funda-
mental philosophy of plant physiology
is to ward off disease
One single discovery in the Thomp-
son institute may be worth many
times the millions he is spending Sem
satlonal crop predictions are justified
by the past. Canada has increased the
value of its wheat crop $15,000,OOO to
$20O00,000 because of the work Of
DIR. William Sanders and his two sons
in combining the red Fife wheat with
a strain which increased its resistance
to frost It is said artificial light plays
strange antics with plants. Exhaustive
tests will be made along this line. The
atmosphere of the carboniferous era,
in which grew ferns taller than oaks
that gave us coal, will be reproduced.
Plants will be irrigated with carbon
oxide.
The United States Department Of
Agriculture maintains the "Office Of
Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction"
Its scientists search the world for ma
terial. They have given American
farmers plants which yield crops worth
hundreds of millions annually. Ex-
amples are Durum wheat, $4,000, 900 |;
Japanese rices, S21 100000; Egyptian
cotton, S2OO0O.OO0 sudan grass. $1O.-
100000.
They also search for hardy and dis
ease-resistant strains of familiar
plants.
The great peril of man is the in
sects, which are always threatening to
eat up the food of the world. So in
sect is being set on insact--every In
sect pest seems to have Its insect foe,
according to natures way of maintain
ing the balance.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-02-01
.onanGeologist
Calls Work Sport

has developed 70 IL of botanical
study of her own. In addition to pho
tographins and tinting wild flowers
and plants as she finds them in their
native state. she does water color
sketches of them-not conventional
lied, but botanically correct. Her
work has caused much interest
among botanists that the Smithsonian
Institution expects to bring out a book
with 800 of these nature studies.
Finds Rare Orchids.
My husbands field of exploration
has given me excellent opportunities
to find rare and unusual plants" she
said.
II have all the Alpine flora to work
on as well as the flowers that grow in
the valleys 1t is frequently difficult
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-02-01
BIG RADIO PLANTS NOW
BROADCAST WEATHER

distributed and reliable stations, from
which hearty and continued co-opera.
tion may be expected. They are so 10.
Gated that practically all sections OF
the country are assured of an oppor.
tunity to obtain the forecasts directly.
1t Is impossible to approximately esti-
mate the number of people being
served in this way
In addition to the hundreds of thou.
sands Of receiving-set owners who re-
ceive the forecasts by radiophone, large
numbers Of whom can obtain them In
no other way. many repeat them to
their neighbors by telephone. This
latter form Of service has become so
potential that arrangements are In
hand for definite form of organiza-
tion which may replace the telegraph.
ing of forecast messages now sent to
centers for distribution. 1t is expected
that more effective service will be ac.
complished thereby and that consider.
able economy will result.