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ct Tu HerriotI

He saw Herriot of France getting
ready to resume negotiations with
the Workers Republic. He saw every
little country in Europe making a bee
line for Moscow, His wrath can be
imagined.
1t is no secret that Mr.. Hughes at
tempted to hatch another anti-Soviet
conspiracy while in Europe. But his
failure was so complete that his latest
outburst may be a physicians pre-
scription to relieve his system of the
anti-Soviet poisons which Burns,
Gompers and other stool pigeons of
capitalism have injected into him.
Mr.. Hughes is hard put for anti
Soviet ammunition when he is com
PEELED to use the offal that Chester
M. Wright has spread over the pages
of the Gompers' chart showing the in
terlocking directorate, which connects
the various radical organizations with
the Third (CommunisD International.
But he uses the yarns supplied by
Gompers and Wright, which were
bought by Gompers from the Burns
Detective Agency.
Fear Workers Party.
That the Workers Communist Par
ty is the only revolutionary organiza-
ton feared by the American capital
lists is shown by the following passage
from the Hughes TRADE:
Hughes Speaks His Fears.
While there may have existed In
the. United States individuals and
even groups imbued with Marxist
doctrines prior to the advent Of the
Communist international, the exist.
enee Of disciplined party equipped
with program aiming at the over.
throw Of the institutions Of this
country by force and violence is due
to the Intervention Of the BoIshe.
vlk organizations In the domestic
Continued on page p
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AS for instance. 1t is reported on
~ authority usually found reliable,
that the Prince of Wales, heir to the
throne OF Great Britain and Northern
Ireland (Southern Ireland having a
decided taste for raw prince. is left
Continued on Page 81
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Vote Communist This Time!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09

THE DAILY WORKER
RAISES THE STANDARD
FOR A WORKERS AND
FARMERS GOVERNMENT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09

For Vice-President:
BENJAMIN GlTLoW.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-08-20
Weather.

Comment is not now chow warm it
Is" but "how cool it is" From DAYS
that were oppressive to man, but
stimulating to corn, we have come
to "spelr' of weather which is in
MIGRATING to men and discouraging,
and almost threatening, to corn and
most other food plants. The prophets
Of an early Fall are busy, but it is
generally hoped that the prophets will
miss their guess and that Fall will
not be too early. For the good of the
farms, orchards and truck gardens
near Washington, Fall should not
come too soon. A little hardness in
its approach would be appreciated.
Spring was late. 1t made many false
starts, and true Spring was far be-
hind it's schedule. When it came it
was almost summertime, and there
was excessive heat and not enough
rain. 1t was not the best growing
weather" and corn, tobacco, fruit and
table vegetables have generally had
hard going. Things that grow in the
fields need a little time to catch up,
and an early Fall would not help
matters.
It is usual in Washington to have
cool nights in August, but during
some of our recent nights the tenn
E1Do has gone unusually low.
1900 VEiDas points north and west
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Reparations and Politics.

Reports from Berlin and Paris
Indicate that the two ministries will
be fully supported by their respective
parliaments on the Preparations agree
ment In neither Germany nor
France does the opposition wish to
"go to the country on the issue of
ratification of measure which
means the final settlement of the
war questions and the rehabilitation
of both nations.
The German Nationalist, it is re-
ported, will caucus on the subject
before the Reichstag meets. They
are in a difficult position. If they
as a party seek the defeat of the
government on this subject they will
appear at a disadvantage on any
subsequent balloting. For the people
of Germany want this question
settled, and evidently realize that
the present settlement is as greatly
advantageous to them as any plan
could possibly be. They will have
little patience with a purely political
opposition.
In France much the same condition
prevails Poincare would, of course,
like to see Herriot displaced from the
premiership, especially as he has
consented to the withdrawal of troops
from the Ruhr as one of the condi-
tions of German acceptance of the
Preparations plan. Poincare stood to
the last moment of his career as
premier for the retention Of the
troops in the Ruhr. He feared, with
an evidently mistaken measurement
of the public sentiment, that re-
linauishment of this policy would
cost him the leadership. He lost the
leadership, and his successor appears
likely to retain it after consenting to
a reversal of the occupation policy.
The plain truth seems to be that
both Germany and France want
settlement, and regard this present
proposal as the best possible IN the
circumstances. Domestic politics in
both Germany and France has
greatly delayed the adjustment.
Perhaps it has been to good end,
after all, for this present plan is
believed to be sounder and more GER
tain to work out in lasting results
than any preceding proposal. 1t was
worth waiting for.
If there is in the making in Ger
many a Nationalist reaction, which
aims at the 0yerturn of the republic
and the restoration of the monarchy,
acceptance of the Dawes plan will
not delay or hinder it. But it would
hardly seem likely that such re-
action will closely follow the final
adoption of the measures designed to
put the plan into effect. The Ebert
government will have survived long
enough to- put Germany in the way
of rehabilitation. 1t will deserve a
further lease of life, perhaps a
definite and lasting commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-08-20
A Dangerous Lapse.

Some of the good women Of Maine
who are strongly anti-tobacco object
to a picture of Gen. Dawes smoking
his celebrated pipe. So the picture
is to be withdrawn as a campaign
poster. But will this end the opposi-
ton to the General? A new danger
has arisen. His speech of acceptance
furnishes material for severe criticism
in the culture belt, which centers
around Boston. No less than two split
infinitives appear in it. Maybe there
are more than two. But of those two
there is no doubt. ITO again enter
that fog of debate" he says, referring
to the proposed referendum on the
league question. ITO morally rot in
a policy of national isolation" he says
later. Pipes and split infinitives are
not supposed to go in the same com
pany. Yet here they are in fragrant
evidence. The pipe picture has been
turned to the wall. Will the General
send out an apology for his two soul
piercing phrases?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-08-20
A Sorry Spectacle.

An Argentine pugilist who per-
formed here unsuccessfulIy as chal-
lenger of the champion a season or 50
ago has recently returned to these
shores to engage in a bout with a
lesser light of the prize ring for the
privilege Of again meeting the cham
pion. When he arrived he was found
to be in the company of young
woman, and the question of this as
ISOLATION was raised. He was finally
admitted, Protest was made by the
American Civic League, which seeks
to correct improper conditions in
modern life, but it was ineffective.
The head of the organization per-
sisted, and finally sought the arrest
of the pugilist on the score that in
swearing to his relationship with the
young woman he had committed per-
jury. 1t was obvious that the real
purpose of this move was to prevent
the fight itself, for if the pugilist
was arrested and found to be guilty
of perjury he would necessarily be
subject to deportation. Much feeling
was aroused in the sporting circles of
New York by this move. Much bitter
talk emanated from both sides. Yes
terday the date for the hearing on the
perjury charge was set for Septem-
Der 20. Inasmuch as the bout is
scheduled for September Ii, it will not
matter much if deportation is ordered.
Now the clerical head of, the league
is expressing tremendous, indignation,
while the fight promoters and patrons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-08-20
As to Noise on the
Washington Streets
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Your comments now and then as to
unnecessary noise on Washington
streets are noteworthy, but-the
inquiry is made in all kindness of
spiritr-why do you not go after the
real noises?
Instead of hammering away at
the inoffensive huckster and the
pushcart man who are in the legiti-
mate business of selling their wares,
and whose noise in any case would be
futile against the remainder of the
din, consider the unnecessary dis
turbanees made by utterly obtrusive
people. who may be presumed to
have had at some time in their lives
the advantages of cultural surround
ings and good association.
One of the real noises and a highly
annoying one is the screening that
car owners are permitted to indulge
in when they are held for few
moments at crossings for the safety
of the pedestrians and the trolley
patrons. Nothing could be more
unnecessary, not to say inexcusable,
for one can get anywhere in the
city in a car within a few minutes.
The grins on the faces of these
people are hardly less exasperating
than their offending noise.
One of the most unenlightened dis
turbanceS, to say this least, that a
city like Washington, boastful of it's
educational advantages, can have is
the honking of idlers along the
curbS who are out to entrap girls and
young women into compromising
situations. At the hands of these
irresponsibles, insults and offenses
happen regularly to women who walk
along the streets or wait at car stops.
While the writer stood with a
young woman at car stop on last
Thursday evening, one of these eve
do not like to accord to him the
dignity of manhood) started his car
into the curb, but was instantly made
aware of his mistake. The same
week horn after horn was footed at a
young woman who walked only a
block to call on friend at a hotel.
Some time ago a story of terror was
related by two young women as the
result of being followed and yelled
at for blocks by such creatures in a
car.
Every woman who is required to
meet this experience at the hands of
these subnormals should make every
effort to take the number of the car
and put the facts in possession of the
police, so that the owners of cars
thus used may be as definitely spotted
as If their pictures were in the
rogues gallery, for that is certainly
where they should be. Their licenses
should be revoked. for they are as
dangerous to civilization as are the
white Slavers.
Another offense to decency is the
prevailing practice of advertising a
wedding by a snorting, madly honk-
ing procession of automobiles trail
ing a cluster of tin cans through the
streets, especially on Sunday, when it
is presumed that human beings Will
at least try to demand a little more
of themselves in the direction of
decency. 1t may be that the rural
districts and the main street towns
are still addicted to this low-brow
practice, but it is doubtful if it is
more prevalent in those sections than
in Washington.
No group of people should be per-
mitted to- take possession of the
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of us, but not many miles away, light
frosts and a thin dropping of snow
have been reported. These common
heralds Of Fall have appeared in the
hill country, where frost always
comes earlier than in our immediate
neighborhood. There is comfort in
the weather forecast for the next
"a hours, and the indications are that
showers will be followed by warmer
weather.
There are signs that the trees and
birds are on the lookout for Fall.
Foliage in the woods is still green, but
yellow leaves are numerous, and many
of the green boughs are not far from
the point of color change. Birds are
silent. Little song is heard, and even
the chip-chip and other alarm notes
Spring migrants have gone South, and
most of those that are with us seem
to be gathering in small fiocks and
making other preparations for depar-
ture. Whether this is because Of the
recent cool nights, or because their
instinct tells them that Fall is near, is
one of the many things man does not
know. Few of the wild flowers of
early Summer remain, and the golden
rod, asters and sunflowers of late
Summer and early Fall do not seem
az bopefuJ and proSperiouc &C ,S,,aI
There is no way to have nature sup
ply us with the kind of weather we
want, but most of us probably hope
for a long succession of warm, bright
days with no night frosts in Septem-
Der and October.
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Paw of Substitute Teachers.
10 the Editor of The Star: ,

10 the Editor of The Star:
When the agitation for higher
wages for teachers was on. / won
der why the substitute teachers were
not mentioned. The substitute teach
ers with whom 1 am acquainted are
housekeepers, primarily, and they
teach to add to the income of the
home, but they are experienced teach
ers. They drop their home work at a
moments notice and go wherever
they are needed in athe city schools,
They are paid S2.40 per day. Out OF
this sum they pay two car fares and
sometimes two additional bus fares,
and furnish their own lunch. If the
substitute teacher could afford it, she
might hire a maid to do her house
work while she teaches, but she would
have to pay the maid $3.50 per day, her
carfare both coming and going and
give the girl her lunch. So the house
work waits until the teacher gets
home in the evening. She then gets
dinner and finishes up after night.
Sometimes the teaching job lasts a
half day, sometimes two or three
days, sometimes a week.
do not know who sets the price
on the substitute teachers services.
with what they compare the value Of
her work to be able to set that price
at $2.40 and still retain their own
self respect.
,..... -. MRS. A. n. GARDNER.
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RUSSIA SINCE LENIN
The truth about that of uncen,ored
by Observer STUDYING condon
BY SEYMOUR B. CONCER.

| than 700 Russian and German Com
munists, is undergoing a trade bow
colt and rupture of normal diplomatic
relations for an attempt to interfere
with revolutionary activities con-
Quoted from the trade offices in
Berlin.
Shall we get any larger proportion
or Russia trade if we recognize Rus
Sla? Scarcely. The Russian govern
ment buys our cotton because it must
nave 1t. Our agricultural machinery
because the Russian factories are not
able now, any more than before the
war, to manufacture successfully the
more complicated types of machines,
such as reapers, binders, thrashing
machines and tractors. 1t has am
bilious plans to supplant American
by RUSSIAN cotton, grown on irrigated
lands in Turkestan and the Caucasus
ana TO manufacture our perfected and
patented farm machinery in Russian
factories, and will dispense with
these American imports as fast, but
only as fast, as it can realize these
, plans.
More Trade Now Than Before.
We already have a larger share.
well over 25 per cent, of the restricted
Russian import trade than we could
normally expect, considering the
geographic propinquity and superior
knowledge of Russian conditions of
Germany, England and Scandinavia
1t is a greater proportion than we
had before the war. The amount of
licensed imports is not ant to in
crease materially for a long time.
The bolshevist authorities are
firmly committed to the policy of linn
1tIng imports to a minimum and
keeping well within the proceeds
from their exports. The development
of the export trade, which thew
hoped to bring up to $4,000. 900
rubles (s225, 100000 during the cur
rent fiscal year, promises to be too
slow to permit any large increase
in the program for some time.
This years favorable trade balance
is built almost entirely on grain ex-
ports, grain and timber being the
only exports showing an increase
over last year, and grain exports, as
I indicated in a. previous article, are
not apt to increase quickly beyond
! the 1924 mark. Exports of all
other commodities, including fax.
hemp, hides and furs, are smaller
this year than last.
Another limiting factor is the very
narrow buying power of the peas
antry, who make up 80 per cent of
the Russian population. Americans
hoping TO develop trade with Russia
must eliminate from their minds the
idea that the Russian millions can in
any way be compared as spenders
with similar millions of Americans,
Germans or other races.
Textile Purchases Small.
The statisticians of the Russian
textile industry found, after careful
investigation, that the annual buying
power of the peasantry for textiles
per capita was only II cents. Two
bolshevist experts on the govern
mental commercial and industrial
program committees, attacking the
problem of peasant purchasing power
for all commodities from different
angles, placed it at 500,000,00O and
800, 100000 rubles, respectively.
Even according to the more opti-
mistic professor, who was interested
in making out as large a market for
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Let the Treasury
Probe Be Thorough
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
I wish to express through your
worthy columns a protest against
the hostile attitude assumed in GER
tain quarters toward the investiga-
ton into the affairs of the Treasury
Department now being conducted by
a Senate committee.
After the Fall, Forbes and Daugh-
erty affairs such an air of outraged
innocence is grossly hypocritical, es-
pecially where the millions of dol
lars of public funds are being paid
to influential corporations as tax re-
funds. From personal observation
I know that by far the great majority
of men employed in the Treasury De-
partment are honest and miserably
paid public servants. They should
not be condemned because there may
be a few men who are unworthy of
public confidence. For the vindica
ton of these men a full, open and
thorough investigation should be con-
Quoted. If as a result a few more
heads have to fall, and it matters not
whether they be Republicans or Dem
ocrats, / am sure that this country
will survive also this calamity.
DAVID GRAND.
New York City.
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are equally indignant at the attempt
to stop the match and jubilant over
the decision to postpone the hearing.
AS much energy has been expended in
this case already as would be re-
quired to float great corporation.
But large interests are involved. The
prize fight game is no small affair
nowadays. 1t is a big money" enter
prise. That is one reason why the
clergyman leader of the league is SO
indignant. He AYERS that money has
been used In this case. And the other
side ayers that the whole affair is an
unsuccessful attempt at blackmail. 1t
is sorry spectacle, anyway.
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the Russian state industry as possi-
BILE, the individual peasant will buy
in all not more than $3.50 per annum.
The other says 81 is all. The boil
shevist program counts on supplying
this to the last possible copeck from
the state-controlled industries The
grasping pressure of taxation, which
takes more than 80 per cent OF the
marketable surplus of the peasants
crops, will keep this buying power
down permanently.
OF course, the exporter who will
sell his goods on long-term credits,
the nation which will loan the Soviet
government the money to buy in
dustrial commodities, can sell any
desired quantity on these terms. There
is also the way of concessions. of
mixed companies with the bolshevist
government as senior partner, but as
shall show in the next article, the
experience of those who have tried
them has been far from satisfactory.
Copyright. 1924, by Public Ledger Co..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-08-20
ARTICLE XVI.

The main argument of advocates
OF American recognition of Soviet
Russia, aside from the Eventually,
why not now?" phrase, is the great
commercial opportunity which the
United States is losing by delay in
establishing friendly relations with
the bolshevist empire and admitting
bolshevist representatives with dip
lomatic privileges and immunities
into our country.
But is the commercial opportunity
as brilliant and enticing as it is
painted: VIII trade follow the flag,
once floating above an embassy in
Moscow, to any considera BILE extent
more than without that symbol? Are
the experiences of foreign business
men who have ventured into Soviet
Russia of a sort to encourage Ameri-
can business to try it's luck there?
l devoted special attention to this
problem during my stay in Russia
and am strongly inclined to answer
all the above questions in the mega
tive. Possibly we ultimately shall
come to recognize the Soviet. Per-
haps we shall not have the same
sad experiences of admitting
swarm of bolshevist propagandists
and agitators to work up a Red revo-
luton and shelter domestic plotters
in diplomatic and trade bureaus as
Germany, Latvia, Esthonia and
Lithuania, all countries in my ter
ritory which have extended friendly
recognition to the new Russia. Leav-
the recognition problem, let us con-
slider what the United States can or
Will gain from recognition.
In the first place, the trade oppor-
tunity is far smaller than would be
expected. The Soviet government, in
order to get the necessary foundation
for it's financial reform and to raise
funds to finance foreign propaganda,
has adopted a policy of relentlessly
throttling imports to an absolute
minimum.
Soviet Restricts Imports.
The import program for the fiscal
year beginning October l, 1928, re-
stricts imports to $153, 76S,00o, which
up to the present time has been
strictly adhered to. Included in this
$153,76S 900 we already have sold to
Russia 3S,7SO,O0O worth of American
cotton, considerable consignments of
agricultural machinery q have not
been able to get exact figures, but
a sum of approximately $1,0OO,OOO
has been mentioned) and enough
sundries to bring the total to more
than $40,000,00O.
We therefore are getting our share
or something more, regardless OF
Americas refusal to recognize Rus
sia- The bolshevist foreign trade
monopoly follows the sound capital
istic principle of buying where it can
do so to best advantage. 1t has
gone even farther and established
agencies in the United States to bus
cotton and agricultural implements
direct, although in its negotiations
with European powers for recogni-
ton Russia insists that it cannot and
will not do business unless the
bureaus of the foreign trade monop-
oily are given extraterritoriality and
exempted from the legal and police
Jurisdiction of the country in Ques-
ton.
Germany, where the trade monop-
sly's Offices sheltered a staff Of more
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AS the planet Mars draws nearer,
interest in the possibility of COM
munition with it grows more intense.
Good mon ming" from that distant
world would mean more to human
ingenious campaign speech. 1t is the
privilege of Science TO remind us
now and then that we may be eXas-
gerating the Importance of intellec-
tual utterances evolved for the bene-
fit of comparatively limited audi
ence.
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atmosphere with the expressed inten-
ton of making of themselves public
pests and nuisances. Proper ordi-
nances would have an ameliorative
effect on the whole population. The
types who have no regard for society
as a whole must be taught it by the
opinion of the majority of decency-
loving citizens. Whether they be
bootleggers or what not, they must
be restrained by the voice of society
in the form of law until they achieve
a sense of responsibility toward the
public good j. c. GRAY.
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1t is apparently considered a mat
ter of duty by several campaign
orators to show that they are in
touch with the mental processes of
the plain people by splitting an in.
finitive verb now and then.