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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
MENTIONING THE MOVIES
WEST OF THE WATER TOWER.
By PROTECTOR.


A real story of Main Street, but
infinitely more dramatic than Warn
er's picture of the Lewis classic. A
very young couple tumble along to
a realization of love under the utter
ly deadening surroundings of the
small town. Their fathers disagree
in matters concerning the next world,
therefore the minister's son and his
baby bride enlist the services of the
towns worst character, the pool-room
keeper, to help them get married.
They become pawns in the clash of
belief and interest and very great
and touching unhappiness results. In
the end, the town has to come to the
boy, it spurned and ostracised because
he is its only good speaker, and as the
druggist says, "if a speecher can
make real estate values go up, why
let him speech"
Glenn Hunter plays the gawky, in
decisive boy almost to perfection,
while May McAvoy puts over one OF
the finest ingenue "new women" ever
screened. George Fawcett, playing
ASA AdIAACAg tnC dLHEiotlC lawyer, Is
the only human being among the ole
folks of the town. But the girl is a
brick. After symptoms of pregnancy
develop she is told that the pool-roon
keeper, to hit back at the minister
thru his son, has arranged a mock
marriage. They cannot find tn,
Squire" to get the precious license
to bear children, so she bravely sug
gests trip to the city. In due tim,
she returns with her baby and wher
the startled boy shows no affection
for his offspring, she fatty refuses t.
marry him and goes off with her fine
ly tolerant father.
The boy loses his job, the fathe
his pulpit, the gambler his pool hall
the lawyer his practise,-all because
a mumbling of words was supposed t,
be not according to Hoyle. In tn,
end 1t turns out that everything wa
all right, they were married all tn
time, and the town-well, it staye,
the same old town just the same. Tn,
picture is one of the keenes
psychological studies ever screene,
and some Of the actors Fave don,
wonders with essentially Difficult
roles. It is well worth seeing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
ArUO e. UseniuS,
ActiUe Member,
Dies in Superior

SUPERIOR, Wis, Mar. 13.-Arvs
E. Usenius, well-known Superior par
ty member, died Monday evening,
March 10th, after an illness of four
years. Comrade Usenius was born in
Finland in 1892, and migrated to this
country IL years ago. He took ac-
tive part in the labor movement in
Finland as well as in America. He is
survived by a widow in Superior, a
mother and sister in Finland, and
two brothers, one in Fitchburg,
Mass, and one in Soviet Karelia.
Usenius has been employed as asso-
ciate editor of the Tyomies, Finnish
daily, for the past three years. Pre-
vious to that he was employed in a
machine shop where he contracted
tuberculosis, while working under I'M
sanitary conditions which was the
cause of his death.
Despite his illness, the deceased
comrade was one of the most ardent
workers in the movement and was
instrumental in organizing an Eng
fish branch here.
In him the Superior branches have
lost a valued comrade and his death
will be felt keenly thruout the dis
trict.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Zinoviev's Speech to Leningrad Communists

the non-partlsan worker can afford,
and he has besides less time.
Thus It happens that we have re-
NAMED behind here and there, but
not by any means everywhere. We
must recognize this, or we shall
earn that reproach of despicable
Communist Boosting against which
Comrade Lenin so rightly warned us.
We must draw two conclusions.
Firstly, those non-partisan work
ers, who have gone thru every mag
Unable course of instruction and who
have now, in the seventh year of the
revolution, approached very nearly to
US must be admitted into the Party.
This is one solution. The other
consists of the following: to exert
every effort in aid of the Party or
CARNATIONS, to make up for lost
time, so that the Party rank and file
may be raised to higher lever OF
culture and knowledge.
Necessity of Workers Education.
We can already record definite
successes. A considerable stratum
of Party members is receiving in
struction in the workers UNIVERSE
ties, in the Communist universities.
and in the state Party schools; but
this is not enough, it is only a drop
in the ocean. The better we get
things in order, the more Importance
we shall attach to this.
(To Be Continued Saturday,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
LithuGniG'S White
Dictatorship III as
Killed All Liberties
az The Fedsratsd Pres.l

hOVNO, Lithuania, March 13.-
Arrests Of Socialists and Commun-
lists, especially of Jews, suppressions
of free speech and press, and search
without warrants are the order of
the day in Lithuania. This country
ike various other European countries
is being governed under a "stato. Of
emergency" law, a form of martial
law. Trial by jury is practically
abrogated and persons who are ar
rested on the suspicion of radical
tendencies are judged without re.
course to higher authority. This APP
plies especially to editors, who are
sent off to Jail as soon as the gov.
eminent does not like what they
write.
During the night Of February Git
mass arrests took place Of activ,
members of the jewish Cultura
league and Of teachers Of the Jewisl
non-sectarian schools. The Cultura
league is largely made up of work
ers, and it insists that Yiddish b.
taught in the non-sectarian schools.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
War With Japan
If We Bar Japs,
Warns DR.. GuLick

WASHINGTON, March 13.-Total
exclusion of Japanese from the
United States by the insertion Of a
clause in the new immigration bill
denying admission to persons in
eligible for citizenship will arouse
war talk and perhaps encourage pre-
parations for a war in Japan, DR..
Luther Gulick of the Federal Council
of Churches, warned the senate i'm
migration committee today.
Gulick pleaded for elimination Of
the clause from the bill and urged
settlement Of the japanese immigra-
ton question by direct conference
with Japan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Church With Bosses
Against Workers,
Says Chief Stone

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 49,
Charging the Protestant churches
with supporting capital against labor
in most industrial disputes, Grand
Chief Warren S. Stone, Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers, speaking
before the seventh annual meeting of
the Council Of Cities Of the Methodist
Episcopal church in session here,
said the churches lack the courage TO
apply their creeds Of brotherhood and
justice. Stone said the churches
would have to choose between their
large capitalist contributors and the
support of the workers:
81 do not need to warn you that the
church will have to pay the price If
it is going to take a stand on eco
nomic and social questions. You
can't expect large benefactions from
Judge Gary if you are too critical Of
the 12-hour day in the steel industry,
which l understand still prevails for
more than $3.50 of the workers, des-
pite promises and pledges to the con-
trary"
"You want to know what labor
thinks of the church." Stone con-
tinued. 81 tell you, very frankly, that
labor does not think very much Of
the church, because the church does
not think very much Of labor. Al
ways in any trouble between labor
and capital, the influence Of the
church has largely been on the side
of capital"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
NeIU Trial Is Denied
1. w. WIS Connected
In SyndicaIism Case
my The Federated Press)

SACRAMENTO, Cal, March 49,
Following a like decision in the Vargo
ct al case, the third appellate court
has confirmed conviction and denied
new trial in the criminal syndical-
ism cases of Frank Bailey, +. Frank
lin, r. A. Gibson, John Hiza, William
Joozdeff, James Martin, p. Mellman,
and John Orlando. The court admit
ted that the man had not advocated
violence, and that the judge and jury
displayed prejudice, but nevertheless
confirmed sentence
The case will be carried TO the state
supreme court. All Of the men ex-
cept Hiza, who is in Folsom prison,
have been sentenced 10 II years each
in San Quentin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Nick LOnglUOrth
Objects to House
Probing BriberS

WASHINGTON, March 19.-The
House today adopted the Garrett
resolution providing for full investi-
cation of the charges before a Chi
cago grand jury that 1.-TWO congress-
men" had improperly accepted
money.
A motion by Republican Leader
Longworth to postpone action by re-
ferring the resolution to the rules
committee was defeated 1877 to 1853.
Thereupon the resolution was passed
by viva voce vote.
Yesterday the House refused to
pass a resolution insisting that At
torney General Daughtery furnish the
names of the accused members and
the nature Of the charges against
them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14

absorbed 10000 of the best forces Of
the Party nuclei in the shops and
factories. / have seen the brief sta
tistical survey Of the election to the
Petrograd Soviet, in which we see
that out of somewhat more than 800
persons, I'll were wornmen who had
been workmen until the year 1914,
and are now engaged in organizatory
and administrative work.
What kind Of people are these {?
They are the same people who were
formerly in the nuclei, and now form
part of the state apparatus, since the
dictatorship of the proletariat re-
quires it.
Sacrifice by Party Members.
It naturally follows that if we
withdraw tens of thousands Of yhe
best workers from the nuclei, the
latter are politically at lower level.
This is our misfortune, but not our
fault.
Another circumstance must be adj
ded: the lack of time. 1t has been
rightly pointed out here that the
non-partisan workman has more
time at his disposal than our Party
comrade, who is frequently burden
ed far beyond his powers, and whose
material position is often not so good
he has more financial obligations,
more material sacrifices for the
Party, for the trade unions, etc. Very
often he cannot afford that which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14

partisans count over 71.43 per cent.
In Petrograd the higher educa-
tional institutions register % per
cent Party members and Russian
Communist Youth, and "a per cent
non BIPARTISAN. These are the COM
parative figures. 1t will be said that
it is only the comparative figures.
It is one of the questions in which
quantity passes over in quality.
How can the cultural standard be
raised? Solely by the perusal Of
books? mol
Active Participation Necessary.
We can only gain the culture
which we require by means of per-
sonal and active participation Of
Party members in public life-in the
state, the trade unions, and the
Party.
If the cultural standard Of the
Party members is to be raised to the
level which we require, we need
books as well, and courses of instruc-
ton, and Soviet Party schools and
workers universities, besides news
paper and other aids. But this is
only one-half of what we require, the
other 80 per cent consists in the in
tense participation in the work OF
the trade unions and Soviets, that is
in the work of the State and the
Party.
Why are we so backward? For
very simple reasons. The Party has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
BELGIAN RULERS
WOULD BETRAY
LAND TO FRANCE
Economic Agreement
Brings Hot Dispute


BRUSSELS, March 13.-The Bel
gian chambers are discussing at
present with much violence the ratifi-
cation of the Franco-Belgian econom-
ic agreement which was signed last
year by the two governments.
Some members of the bourgeosie
are Directing to the terms of this
agreement. Many industrial associa-
tions whose interests are wronged by
the new custom tariffs, are against
the government; their objections have
been voiced thru the Catholic party
by Renkin.
On the other hand the Socialists
are against any kind of agreement
which should unite Belgium to pro
lection of France.
Further, some political magnates
are against this said agreement be-
cause they are striking out for a
closer and even more complete Gus
toms union with France.
Secret Arrangement.
The great Importance the govern
ment is giving to simple question
concerning an economic agreement
shows that besides this agreement
there must be some secret arrange
ment or some engagement which are
of much greater importance, with the
French government.
The policy of the Belgian govern
ment during the last five years end
ed-at the time of the occupation of
the Ruhr-in the total submission
to the aims of the French imperial
ism.
1t is a fact that France is trying
to compel Belgium to submit to her
in order to strengthen her primacy
on the European continent.
Steel Trust Rule.
As a matter of fact, the economic
agreement is only aiming to compe
Belgium to ask for a closer union
with France, which means the 0tirt
submission to the interests Of the
"Comite de Forges," the big stee
trust which is managing everything
in Paris. Belgium has signed will
several countries some commercial
treaties which bear the clause Of tn.
most favorized nation. Therefore
unless Belgium cancels these trea
ties, she will be compelled to gran
to all these foreign countries thu
same advantages as she is giving t,
France.
To cancel the treaties now in fore
is to lose all the foreign markets
To give every country the same ad
vantages as those granted to Franc
is of course to authorize an invasion
of foreign products. In both cases
the results are the same: The Bel
gian industry will have to face sue
difficulties that the only means I
find way out will be to cling close
to France.
At that time, Belgium will have t
accept the customs union which wi
be offered by France and make thi
small country the tool Of the Frenc
capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
RUINED FARMERS
U UNABLE TO BUY
new MACHINERY
Implement Sales Down
To 30 Per Cent
By LELAND oLDs
v
,derated Press Industrial Editor,

~ G0GNaNE0 EGbA L<1AAQEy
The sharp drop in the demand for
agricultural implements in 1922 and
1923 as compared with pre-war years
presents striking evidence Of the low
purchasing power of farmers since
their defation by banking interests
in 1920.
According to government figures
the production of farm implements in
1922 amounted to less than 80 per
cent Of the 1914 volume. Official re-
ports from the industry show that
during the last months of 1923 farm
implement makers were using only
about one-third Of the capacity of
their plants.
Agriculture Is Secondary.
This apparent halt in farm prog
ress along mechanical lines is just
one stage in the slow subordination
of agriculture to the interests of in
dustrial capital. Prior to the war
the world position of the United
States was associated with its export
of surplus food products. But the
war brought two revolutionary
changes, the enormous expansion of
major industries and the change from
debtor to a creditor nation.
From now on export of capital in
the form of the products of manu-
facture viii shape national policy. A
foreign market for the products of
industry will take precedence over
market for the products of agri-
culture.
Just As In England.
The transition has meant crisis.
Secretary of Agriculture H. c. Wal
lace showed what the attitude of the
government toward this crisis would
be when he addressed the Chicago
Association of Credit Men more than
year ago. He said that England
once stood at the same parting of
the ways and decided to sacrifice
agriculture to industry. History"
he added, ''has proved the wisdom of
that choice"
Actual figures covering % varie-
ties of farm implements show a pro-
duction of 4,119,537 in 1914 as COM
pared with a production of 1,2O6,059
in 1922. The number of plows pro-
duced fell from 1850 in 1914 to
491, 400 in 1922. The decline in pro-
duction of some Of the other more
important implements is shown as
follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Old TAR
TALKS OF WAR
TO union LEAGUE
Admiral Tips Rich Pals
To Naval Strategy
By FREDERICK KUN

(StaR Correspondent of the Federated Press)
NEW YORK, March 13.-Rear Ad-
miral Cole is a jolly old soul He is
chief of staff to the admiral COM
manding the United States fleet, and
has been addressing a few peculiarly
chosen words to members and guests
of the Union League Club in this
city.
Admiral Cole delivered several
well-aimed uppercuts to the naval
disarmament treaty, drawn up at the
Washington conference of sad mem
DRY. That treaty, said Cole, had
failed lamentably in the prevention
of International naval competition.
Disarmament Failed.
Moreover, continued the critical
tar, the United States had sought to
apply disarmament to all classes of
vessels; but there is keen rivalry in
the construction of submarines and
scout cruisers. The admiral added
that the United States was obliged
to maintain the 5-5-3 naval ration
towards Britain and Japan, but haA
failed to do so.
Now, you will begin to wonder
where you have heard these charges
before. You will have realized that
the admiraPs statements are remin-
iscent of utterances of socialists,
pacifsts and similar wicked groups,
usually branded as pro-Geman, Sc
dition mongers, red-liver'd revolu-
shunists," and their ilk. What's up,
then? Have we, at long last, dis
covered a u. s. admiral who is in
earnest about this disarmament bust
ness?
No, the providential ways of the
naval mind are inscrutable. Here
are a few of the remarkable conclu-
sions which our very rear admiral
draws from his observations:
Gravy for Merchant Marine.
The United States navy must be
kept mobile. We must have an ade-
quate naval base on the Pacific, pre-
ferably at Alameda in San Francisco
bay We should supply ships that
could cruise with the fleet at a speed
that would nullify attacks from pur-
suing submarines. We ought to put
all our support behind merchant
marine that could operate with the
navy. We require warships of long
cruising radius.
Possibly you fail to understand
how we can enforce the broken dis
armament treaty by violating it a
little more? But that only goes to
show that you haven't the right sort
of naval mind.
On the immense gate that leads ia
the castle of the demobilized Aus
trian kaiser, a Latin proverb is en-
graved which says, in effect, an time
of peace, prepare for war" That, OF
course, is the gist of Admiral Coles
remarks. You probably have not for
gotten that the same kaiser, who was
also a naval officer, lost his navy
along with a handful of other ap-
purtenances, such as thrones, empires
and gold-braided jobs. But Rear AID.
miral Cole, it seems, has learned
nothing and forgotten everything
You will agree, tho, that that is what
naval minds are for, after all.
How many of your shop-mates read
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14

(NOTE The DAILY WORKER
today publishes the fifth INSTALL
ment of the great speech delivered
by Gregory Zinoviev to the party
conference of the Leningrad Dis
trict. Those of our readers who
have read lurid reports Of war be-
tween Communist leaders should
follow this discussion closely. It is
true that Trotsky had difference
Of opinion over questions of party
organization with Zinoviev and
others. But the enemies of the
Soviet Republic may rest assured
that discussion on tactics will not
give them the opening to rush in
their war dogs and lap up the blood
of the emancipated Russian work
ers. A further installment will be
published tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14

The importance Of improved farm
implements is discussed By E. r.
Gross, professor of rural engineer
ing, State College of New Jersey. In
an article for New Jersey agri-
cultural publication he says: "To pro-
duce bushel of wheat by hand re-
quired hours and 3 minutes, but
with machinery it can be done in Ass
than 10 minutes.
Ia Hours For Ton of Hay.
"The cutting and curing of a ton
of hay used to take II hours of man
labor; now it requires about an hour
and half"
The present condition does not
mean that the Observation-Disclosures of
agriculture is going to stop, or even
slow down for any appreciate per-
iod. AS a matter of fact it probably
represents a definite step toward the
day when agriculture will be an in
dustry operated by large aggrega-
tons of capital according to the most
modern methods of mass production.
For to bring about that condition
requires a period in which small in
dependent farmers are forced into
bankruptcy and dispossessed. Their
places will be taken by wage earners
working under agricultural engineers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
zINovIEY CONTINUES:

n OMRADES, this has to be ac-
~ corded sober consideration, Com
rade Sarkis laid before you convinc-
ing figures from the Moscow Narva
district. But / have other figures to
Law before you; there are, for in
stance, 32,004 students in the educa-
tional establishments of Moscow,
among whom 10 per cent are mem
bers of the R. C. p, 1871 per cent of
the r. C. Y. P, making to all 28.7
per cent Communists, whilst the nom
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
,ommunists Gain In Ukraine

KREMENCHUG, Ukraine, March
13.-For the last two weeks the local
organization Of the Communist party
increased its membership AZ per
cent.
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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-07-03
BisEOpville

Miss Mabel Lefever who is attend
ing college in Columbus, and her sis
ter Miss Ernestine of Walnut Hill
spent Friday with their grandmoth-
er Mrs. Emily Clark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merrill Adrian and
little daughter visited Mrs. Adrian's
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Chas Price of
Elliott, from Friday until Monday.
Miss Edna Shepard of Burr Oak
is visiting her grandparents Mr.. and
Mrs. Ira Kasler
Isaac Wagner and his son-in-law
and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Mulligan, visited with p. M. Smith
and family Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Hoon called
to see Mrs. Nathan Kasler of Jack
sonville, Saturday Mrs Kasler fell
and broke her hip seven weeks ago.
She is slowly improving.
Mrs. Fred Kittle and children of
Athens visited over the week end
with Mrs Kittle's parents Mr.. and
Mrs. l. l.. Falls,
The Bishopville Country club was
pleasantly entertained by Mrs. Jane
LefeYer at her home at Blackwood.
Nine members were present. Mrs.
John Price was a visitor
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-07-03
WOOdgrOye

Clancy Woodward of this place
motored to McCgnneIsv1lle Saturday
on business.
Dorothy Rex spent Saturday night
ard Sunday with her cousin Doris
Rex
Miss Alta Cain is visiting at Buff
falo.
The invoice of the store at this
place began on Wednesday morn
ing, July 2, Nelson Bros. taking
charge as soon as the invoice is
completed.
James Nelson spent Saturday ev-
ening and Sunday with friends in
Center township.
Robert and Sylvia Kildow of Me-
Connelsyille are visiting friends and
relatives of this vicinity.
P. S. Brooks was in McConnels-
vile on business Saturday.
Sabbath school next Sunday morn
ing at $3.50, followed by preaching.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-07-03
PUBLIC SALE

THE undersigned will offer for
sale at public auction, at the late
residence of Belle Ridgley, deceased,
in the village of Chesterhill, Morgan
county, Ohio, IN the 10Th day of
July, 1924, the personal property of
said Belle Ridgley, deceased, con-
sisting in part of one lot of house
hold goods composed of kitchen fur
niture, stoves, cooking utensils,
dishes, chairs, tables; dining room
furniture, clock, coal heater, gas
heater, rockers and straight chairs,
living and bedroom furniture, beds
chairs, pictures, mirrors, cot, bed
lounge, carpets, rugs, dressers, sew
ing machine, music rack; 25 bushels
of coal, brass kettles, garden tools,
sundry tools, fruit cans, canned
fruit and other sundry and divers
articles too numerous to mention
Sale to commence at II O'Clock,
noon.
Terms:-Purchase to be paid in
cash.
o. o. KINSEY,
Administrator of the estate of
Belle Ridgley, deceased. 3j3