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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-21
EDITORIAL
THE FERRY QUESTION

Like the poor, the ferry ques-
ton seems to be always with us.
This week the Cove Comment man
takes shot at the matter in his
letter Some things must be re-
mcmbelcd concerning this ferry
question in order to deal Justly
by everyone concerned. In the
first place the county has turned
over the operation of all ferries
belonging to it for a period of ten
years-and little more than two
Years of that time has now passed.
An effort was made at the begin
ming Of Mr.. Paul's administration
TO make a number Of changes re-
gardiug ferry service from wash
on Island to the mainland. Every
opinion handed down by the pros
ecuting attorneys office was in
favor of the present arrangements
and against all changes. The
county has absolutely washed its
hands of the ferry situation until
the term of the lease expires. The
present operation and lease has
sven years to run. The present
policy of the prosecuting attoln-
cy's office ramains unchanged, 1t
IS like butting your head against
a stone wall to undertake to make
radical changes when all the cards
in the deck are running against
you.
The proposed Fauntlaroy run
will in no way interfere with the
present run to the Marion street
dock. This was the first matter
The News-Record took up with the
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-21
DON'T CHANGE

Men interested in the automo-
bile industry in Washington have
been holding meetings this sum
mer to outline proposed changes
affecting the driving and owning
of automobiles. Many of the pro
posed changes are advantageous
to the owners of autos, There is
one change which they propose
to make. however. which will not
be effective and which will cost
automobile owners a great deal
of money to no good result.
That change is a proposed IN
spection Of lights, steering mech
anism and brakes every three
months, a certificate Of inspection
to be carried on the car.
We now have number of laws
regarding lights which are not en-
forced. AT least one-half the lights
on the road are outside any law,
and are a menace to safe driving.
Besides that, many men drive
with only one light, with their
tail lights out and even with no
lights at all. If these existing
laws are not enforced what guar
antee has the public that an in
spection law will be cnforced2
IL every car is TO be inspected
once in three months some one
will have TO pay for that inspec-
lion. There are Approximately
100000 automobiles in Washing
ton, 1t viii take at least an hour
Of auy mechanics time to make
such an inspection. That would
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-21

be worth at least dollar. -Four
inspections n year means Sl.00 Il
year to the autoist who is already
paying more than his share of the
taxes. 1t also means more than
500 men inspecting cars all Of
their time, or more than 500 men
on the state payroll, which is al
ready too large.
In addition to that the inspec-
tor is presmnable working for
some garage, If he can make
work for that garage by not pas
sing equipment ii will be human
nature for him to do so.
A simple way out of this would
be to pass and ENFORCE dim
ming law, They have such o law
in other states and enforce it. If
man dims his lights in passing
another ear both are safe. If he
does not neither are safe, This
law can easily be enforced be-
cause tine neglect is obvious. A
driver either dimS his light or he
does not In the case of inspec-
ton of the light equipment
there would not only be a need
for an army of inspectors in the
shops, but also for another army
on the lead constantly stopping
drivers to see if they had had
their equipment inspected. And
many would get away with it. Al
so there would be many others
who would have friends in gar
ages who would pass their equip
ment without inspection.
On top of that we would have a
flood of tourists on our roads
whose equipment, including lights
would not conform to Washing
ton standards. If they were
forced to have inspection there
would be a howl about taxing
tourists and keeping them out of
the state, where they could simp-
| ly be admonished of the necessity
of dimming their lights on pas
sing another ear and there would
be no kick.
There is no need for inspection
of brakes. If a man is not fool
he will look after his own brakes
in any event, and if he is fool
and driving a car, inspection of
his brakes will not do him amy
good. The state is now burdened
with inspectors, We need to get
rid of some instead of adding
them.-State Chamber News.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-21
His Walk in Life

Worried MOther-Im sure l don't
know what we'll ever do with Harold
when he grows up, John. Did you
ever see such impossibly long legs?
Don't worry, my dear. Perhaps we
can let him out to realtors to prove
that their houses are within easy
walking distance of the station
Life.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-21

2aps of ours community. lie is
ripe in years of experience; ma
ture endowed him with plenty of
good sense, and he is more of a
conservative than radical, The
NcwS-Record would naturally lis.
Ten to n man of this type. He
docsn go off half cooked, but
thinks a matter over pretty care
fully makes up his mind, and
then it takes more than a passing
breeze to change his opinion, This
is the reason for this editorial on
a community home for the Island.
While the NewS-Rccord thought il
favored such a move it now knows
ii does, and this comes about
largely as a result Of our CONVEX
Sation with Mr.. Cook. At the
ferry dock last week we APP
preached Mr.. Cook ON the sub
iect and he told us right off hand
he though it was proper move
A few years ago he said he was
opposed TO the plan. That was
before the general era of the au-
tomobile. Now conditions have
changed, Nearly every family
owns a ear, Five miles now mean
less than half a mile meant TWEEN
ty years ago, This Island is not
too small to maintain a modern
community home, nor too large
to get the support of every neigh
borhood in its activities.
With such a home as contem-
plated, situated as near the cen
ter of the Island as practicable,
supported hv the more than a
score of different bodies such as
clubs, associations, and the like,
and backed ND by every commun.
itv from Dockton and Southern
Heights ON the south, from Ellis
mort and Glen Acres on the east,
fr'm Lisabeula, Cove and Colvas
on the west, from Vashon Heights
on the north, and with Barton
and Vashon in between to keep
mn the middle, supported by Par
adise Valley, Portage. Quarter
master, Maurv center, Vashon
center, and all "way points" not
mentioned, such home could he
made the rendezvous of many
pleasant evenings, many delight
full Sunday afternoons, many glad
holiday festivities, and many
hours of bodily recreation and
mental ease.
Such home must be financed
but ii isn't within the mind OF
single advocate of the cause t1
make such support either legally
or morally obligatory. The sup.
port must come from free will
on the part of those who believe
it would be a good investment
Not that it would return div.
dends in he form of dollars. but
the dividends would come in the
form of happy hours and added
health and life. And these things
mean more than dollars. To have
a place where there is whole,
some atmosphere for wife, and
children, and neighbors, and
friends, and church members and
lodge mamberSS and club mem
bers, and even for those who do
not belong to any of this list, such
as bachelors and maidens, cannot
be appraised in dollars and cents
but adds to the richness and
fullness of living. Already Wash
on Island is the best spot on earth
for o home-what would it be if
we went one better and built a
home for the whole community
To all who have it upon their
heart to do this, the News Record
says: Strength to your right
arm"
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-21
Not That Kind

81 fancy you are a typical Arkansan,
don't you know" said the specialized
tourist
"Wall. any by-gosh time you figger
that I'm typical" grimly replied Gap
johnson of Rumpus Ridge, you just
try to tip me over and-ptu-tind
out."-Kansas City Star.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-21
a COMMUNITY HOME

W. O. Cook, who lives at the
north end Of the Island is one of
the responsible and reliable citi-
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-21

No matter how good bluff you may be put
ting up by keeping up appearances you cannot
deude yourself YOU know whether or not
you are succeeding.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-13

He was duly punished for his sin.
In the privacy of his attic chamber
he turned over the pages of the Daily
News and read in succession a report
of a lecture delivered by Pitirim A.
Sorokine. formerly of Petrograd, and
an article by one Gregor A. Alex
insky, now in Paris. In atonement
for his sin he sent the clippings to
THE DAILY WORKER SO that we
could apply the rod of castigation to
the political hides of the Russian
perverts above mentioned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-13
A NeuU "Hero''

Maudlin sentimentality has found an oppor-
tunity for expression in the welcome accorded
Lieutenant Griffis-the would-be kidnaper of
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll.
The whimperings Of this formerly doughty
and self-appointed avenger of Americas honor
have cluttered up the pages of the capitalist
press ever since his appeal for aid was broad
casted.
He and some others of the American mill
tary caste violated just about all the laws that
Germany has in the endeavor to capture and
bring back for punishment a young man whose
only crime was evasion of military service in a
war that even children now know was a crime
against humanity.
Lieutenant Griffis seems to have reasoned
that so cowardly person as Bergdoll would
be easy to handle, but Bergdoll's pacifsm ap-
parently is confined only to imperialist military
adventures, as he killed one of his attackers
and wounded another.
We have little sympathy for paciists and
none at all for Bergdoll, but Griffis and his
cor"raniors. the type of mintarist that is ter
rorizing the workers in Italy, Greece, Spain
ana only short while ago composed the black
and Tans in Ireland, are deserving of nothing
but contempt.
No sooner was Griffis sentenced than he
whined like spoiled child-which is what he
is. Lionized on his return, the demonstration
in New York is ample proof that the ruling
class of America and its dupes look upon this
country as a sort of international bully, who
needs to pay no attention to the laws of any
country not even its own.
1t is little wonder that Europeans of all
classes look upon Americans as uncouth saw
ages when Griffis gets the front page and a
Steinmetz meager obituary notice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-13

talst class, that it was intended to be such by
its founders and that the sops thrown to the
democratic leanings of the masses have not
weakened but have strengthened this dictator
ship by concealing its real nature.
Woodrow Wilson did much to shatter the
myth of government "of, for and by the peo-
ple'.
Calvin Coolidge has continued the good work
under the pressure of the forces that are work
ing for uprooting of capitalism.
Appealing to the power granted him as pres
ident by the constitution President Coolidge
today is carrying out the historic task of Amer
lean capitalist government-protecting the de-
spoilers of the people from the consequences of
their dishonest and tyrannical acts.
To say that such use of governmental power
was not within the ken of the delegates to the
Constitutional Convention is to admit ignorance
of American history. Not only did they con-
template this possibility but they recognized
the necessity for it by a system of checks and
balances and division of authority which placed
the American government beyond the reach of
the people at the only times great masses are
aroused to action-when corruption, inefficiency
and tyranny have discredited completely the
peoples rulers.
The Workers Party of America calls atten-
ton Of the workers and farmers to the proof
furnished by President Coolidge of the dicta-
torial class character of the United States gov
eminent and urges them to organize for the
establishment of a workers and farmers gov
eminent that will use its power, not to protect
and advance the interests of the capitalists but
in the interests of the working and farming
masses.
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great humanitarians, for instance. It
was not his to give; it was already
the peoples. He was an organic
expression of the revolutionary work
ing class; and he knew it, down to
the deepest places of his conscious
ness, and acted instinctively always
according to this knowledge. His
form of greatness could never have
existed in previous historical per-
lod. He was the product of the mod
ern proletariat, the mass become
conscious. He was the Mass Man.
Comrade Lenin had finished. He
was tired, you could see that. AS
he turned away from the tribune, the
doctor and nurse came anxiouslv for
ward; and he left, rather slowly,
leaning on an arm.
And there were some around me.
who had noted this, who were sob
bing. They were men who had been
imprisoned and tortured by the
master class, and who, dry-eyed and
grim had defied their captives. Yet
now they wept. After years of exile.
Of poverty, Of austereIdevotion to the
cause; and after the five long years
of struggle, when Socialist Russia
was combating, with every sinew.
the enemies within and without: and
now, when more light began to shine
on the way, now when the roads be-
came easier, our Comrade Lenin was
i'll. We feared he might not see the
glorious New Russia, which was now
beginning to be built up. Those
faithful, fearless eyes had seen the
dawn, but they were not to see the
full and beautiful effulgence of the
day. Our soldier was tired, and his
old wounds were bleeding, and he was
not to hear the happy songs of chill
dren, crowning his victory, in a new
world.
We took Lenin to our hearts that
day-our comrade, loyal and unspar-
ing of himself, who had so well
fought the fight Of our class. And
we walked from the Congress Hall,
re-consecrated, strengthened an d
steeled to carry on the work he loved
SO well, hoping only that we, too,
might be fortunate enough to have
the chance of giving all our strength,
all our blood to the struggle which
would one day, make the old earth
blossom with new and radiant life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-13
When COmrade Lenin Spoke

We stood, all of us, and we cheered.
IN heaven knows how many Ian
guages; and we sang the "Interna-
tionale," and then cheered again. It
was a perfectly spontaneous tribute
from this World Congress of season.
ed revolutionists to that man, with
the keen humorous eyes, who stood
quietly, absolutely without pose, wait
ing for us to finish.
Then he spoke. He was dealing
with the question of the New Eco
nomic Policy. But, instead of going
into its many details, as he intended.
he could only speak to us for couple
OF hours. His health would not per-
NIT the great effort he had wished to
make.
Lenin's manner was not oratorical.
He spoke in a conversational tone.
rather as tho he were endeavoring to
convince an intelligent opponent in
a discussion. He was perfectly dis
tlnct; his voice carried, apparently
without effort, to the farthest corners
OF the long and accoustically very
unfavorable, hall.
He had none of the flamboyant ges-
lures of the platform. AS he an
preached crucial point in his ar
gument, he would make a sort OF
little lunge forward His right hand
moved constantly in short, incisive.
crisp gestures, emphasizing, con-
firming.
1t was the tremendous earnestness
and mastery of the man which i'm
pressed one. Thru his GOODNESS. the
unstudied carriage, the pleasant voice
which he went on, reasoning. con-
vincing, was shining, an intense fire
and impeccable will. And it was not
the fire, the will of an individual. II
seemed as tho the aspirations and
determination of a class were in
Lenin. 1t was as tho he had been
made the vehicle for the driving will
of the awakened workers. Thru him
spoke Revolution.
He had that incommunicable quail
ity which is genius, had Lenin. He
had that which we call greatness.
But he was a new kind of great man.
His greatness was part, not Just of
himself, but of a class, the workers;
it was part of the revolution. He did
not give" his greatness to the
people, as did the great saints, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-13

that it is now admitted that the 1923
total scale will exceed that of 1929
when, according TO the governments
figure the total Of logs scaled was
1899 15S,273 board feet. The value
of lumber products for last year is
estimated at nearly $S1, 100000. In
contrast to these figures there has
been no increase in the wages paid
TO loggers. Sawmill workers thru
out the province are paid an average
wage Of from 80 cents to 35 cents an
hour for nine-hour day and in some
places ten hours are worked. In the
logging camps where the speeding up
and piece work system has been in
force most the increase in output has
been accomplished by but a fractiona
increase in the number Of men en-
ployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-13

ISOLATION exceeded the whole
export shipment of 1922 by
over 100000 feet board
measure. The lumber ship
ments from this port to japan
alone have increased during
the past three years as follows :
1921, 100000 board feet F;
1922, 72,0O0,000, and for the
first nine months of 1923, 3d.
100000.
The last three months oA1923 re-
ceived some Of the biggest Japanese
orders which will in all probability
bring up the years total to nearly
100,000,000 board feet.
So intensified has been the speeding
up process in the logging industry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-13
The Negro Assembly

Desire for unity of action for all Negro or
ganizations an intense interest in all labor
problems and a very evident desire to CO.
operate to the fullest extent possible with labor
organizations of white workers are the out
standing characteristics of the All-Race Assem-
bly, which began its session yesterday, at
Wabash avenue and 38th street.
Some idea of the scope of the assembly
agenda is given by the following impressive
list of questions to be discussed: Labor, Educa-
ton, the Negro Press, the African-American'
Relation to Worldwide Race Movements, Fra
ternal and Benevolent Organizations of the
Race, Religion, Inter-Racial Cooperation, AQi-
tation Against Lynching, Segregation, Dis
franchisement, and Peonage.
1t is no tribute to American civilization that
the lynching question will occupy large part
of the assembly's time
Of all committees appointed by the assembly
the most important is the Committee on Labor.
This body will have to consider the all-im-
portant issues raised by the entry of more than
a million southern Negroes into industry dur
ing the last few years and upon the satisfac-
tory solution of this problem depends much of
the success Of the movement for racial eman-
cipation.
The future of the 100000 Negroes in
America, most Of them wage-earners and de-
pendents of wage-earners is indissolubly
linked with that of the white workers and
those who have the interests of the American
labor movement at heart will await with inter-
est the program which the committee on labor
will propose for the endorsement Of the as
semby and the action of the assembly upon it.
The political and oil activities of Coolidge
and McAdoo have made it proper to refer to
-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-13
Loggers Walk Streets as Bosses
Luxuriously Winter in Sunny South
BY SYDNEY WARREN.

VANCOUVER B. c., Feb 12-Whle hundreds of lumber
jacks walking the streets of waiting the
to open for the spring and drawing up their belts
notch each day. the lumber bosses wnterng California
and looking forward to another boom year industry
The first nine months export lumber shipments by mills
belonging to the c. Lumber and Single Manufacturers
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AS WE SEE IT
By T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

THE rabbis have declared for a
1 fve-day week for labor, not
seems because they are very much
concerned with the welfare Of the
workers but for theological reasons.
It hurts the religious sensibilities
Of the whiskered divines to see the
Lords Saturday defiled on the
Rialtos of America but the greed of
the capitalists and the prejudices of
the Christians offer no balm to the
wounded souls Of the Talmudians.
The God of the Christians insists on
being honored by idleness on Sunday
capitalism and other circumstances
permitting-but his double, Jehovah,
has selected Saturday. The division
in the ranks of the followers Of
Jehovah and God was the cause Of
much shedding of blood in ancient
times but in these days of civilization
religious folk take it out in cursing
and prayer rather than in military
combat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-13

The political and oil activities of Coolidge
and McAdoo have made it proper to refer to
them as the two leasing candidates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-13

The rabbis are peaceful people and
they have learned the manly art Of
compromise. Instead of raising
fund of several millions of dollars I
shift the legal Lords day from SuIW
day to Saturday and thus bring joy
to the troubled countenance of Jeho-
yah they offer a compromise of
five-day week. Let the Gods be pro-
pitiated! Give the workers a FIVE
day week. We join in a united front
with the rabbis. Let us have more
Gods, that stand for progress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-13

Lenin's death was not the signal
for a counter-revolution as it might
have been had he died few years
ago. On the contrary it was the
signal for the recognition Of the Sow
Jet Republic by the powerful British
Empire and by Italy, action soon To-
be followed by other important Euro.
pean countries. These are dark DAYS
for Russian stool pigeons Of the
Cars regime.