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Evening star., 1924-07-06

The veterans of the world war, who
are about to receive their adjusted
compensation certificates, are in good
company. according to a study made
by Representative Samuel {. Major
of Missouri to see what rewards were
made to those who served their coun-
try in other wars.
Father of His Country" accepted a
bonus for services rendered in the
French and Indian wars and in the
revolutionary war
Gen. Lafayette, by special act of
Congress. received 100000 above all
nav and emoluments due him, besides
$50 acres of land.
Congress in 1879, at the request of
Gen. Washington. allowed 500 to
everv soldier who had enlisted early
in the war.
In the Mexican war of 1876 the
soldiers were compensated in advance.
Congress passed a law proVloing
every soldier who enlisted for twelve
months with a bounty on honorable
discharge of $50 acres of land and
an equivalent of S$100 in Treasury
script bearing per cent interest
Lincoln Applied For Bonus.
Abraham Lincoln applied for COM
pensation for his own military sery-
ice as a captain of mounted volun-
teers in the Black Hawk war, which
application. dated August Fl. 1858. is
recorded in the general land office
here in Washington.
Lincoln also advocated and signed
compensate ton bills for the soldiers
of the civil war.
Gen. U. S. Grant in 1850 applied for
land under the "act granting bounty
lands to certain officers and soldiers
who had been engaged in the military
service of the United States, approved
September %. 1850" This was for his
services i'm the 4th Regiment United
States Infantry. during the war with
Mexico. His application is dated No
vember 6, 1850.
Gen. Robert E. Lee, on February 90,
1854, applied for bounty lands for serv-
Evening star., 1924-07-06

the more entertaining doings at
Cleveland.
A tornado struck Lorain. Ohio. a
city of 1900 population. on June 90,
causing death to more than seventy
persons, injuries to more than 200
and a property loss estimated at up
ward of s30,0oO,0OO
A very large part of the town was
completely wrecked
Our world flyers hoped off from
Calcutta on July 1, and reached ALA
hab that day. Pointing a little west
of north to avoid the terrible heat
D'Oisy, they reached Ambala, south
OF Simla, on the I'd, and Karachi, In
dia on the 4th. Karachi is on the
Arabian sea. a little northwest of the
mouth of the Indus and only a stones
throw from Baluchistan
regular transcontinental air mail
service between New York and San
Francisco. to include night flying be-
tween Chicago and Cheyenne, was in
daily service in both directions
throughout the year. the scheduled
times for relay flights being thirty
four hours from east tos west and
from west 10 east.
The air mail service with daylight
flying only has been remarkably eff
cient.
Notes.-The Chinese cabinet has re-
signed. Wellington Koo. foreign min
lister of the retiring cabinet, has been
appointed acting premier.
Again Prince Matsukata is reported
dead, and this time the report NAV be
assumed. to be correct. He was
eighty-nine years old and has rightly
been called the father of Japanese
finance. The only surviving member
of the genro or elder statesmen Of
Japan is Prince Saionji.
The Olympic contests at Paris are
in full swing. The United States team
won the team rifle championship by
a considera BILE margin, the French he
ing second and the Haitians, trained
by our marines, third by only one
point. In fencing the French, as usual.
have shown themselves supreme. Our
polo team is coming through superb
ly, Hitchcock being the bright par
ticular star. 1t has yet. however, to
face the redoubtable Argentine COM
bination; that clash will be worth
seeing.
In the mems tennis singles at VIM
bledon, England. our hopes were
dashed by the brilliant performances
of two young Frenchmen, Jean Boro-
ira and Rene Lacoste, the former
beating Vincent Richards and the lat
ter X. Norris Williams. In the mems
doubles an American pair won. In
the women's singles Mile. Lenglen was
going strong for another Wimbledon
championship, when she was com
PEELED by illness to retire, leaving our
Miss Willis and Miss Kathleen Nc
Kane to tight 1t out for the title.
The latter won in a very stubborn
ly contested match
Evening star., 1924-07-06
BEING A NEICHBOR.

SAIAH, 41-6. They helped every
one his neighbor; and every one
said to his neighbor, be of good
courage"
Life's lubricants are it's deeds OF
kindly service. Where men and wo-
men are considerate, one of another,
friction does not exist. Our age has
witnessed as no other the knitting
together of the worlds peoples. The
earth has actually shrunk until today
we cannot if we would, live a life of
proud isolation" Every invention. ey-
cry discovery has compelled a greater
lhtegration of human interests. Earth
quake and fire in Toxic one day, and
the next the whole civilized world is
husy with generous hearts and ready
hands to bring relief to the stricken
city.
a famine in Russia or the spread of
A malignant disease in some remote
part of the old world. and with urgent
haste food ships and doctors and
nurses are dispatched and the blessed
work of ministering to the needs of
others goes fo' ward
Never before IN human history has
tne1 neart OF tf-s world been so tender
there been ~ many ready and glad
10 do their t4t for others 1t is all
IN dcmonstt4ito of what some one
mas said: " The nineteenth century
mace the Vrld neighborhood, the
twentieth INST make it brother
hood"
tnfortunates Aided.
When we come to make our reck-
onlng of modern tendencies. to weigh
the worlds virtues and to discover
the volume and extent of its vices it
iS good thing to have in mind the
evidence of what is being done along
humanitarian and Christian lines and
to be informed to the extent of the
charities. the works of mercy that
are today bringing cheer and COM
Tort to the millions of the worlds
unfortunate peoples. There may be
danger in estimating at too high
value our virtues, forgetting the while
that our vices are still conspicuously
with US. On the other hand. there is a
distinct value in weighing consistent
~ all the evidence in the case. and
from the good that we see about US
feel the urge to more Self1eSS living.
We have a long wav still to go be-
fore we reach the millennium. and we
do not need telescope to discover
who is our neighbor and what his
hetu. SoHellineS II "OutO seem that
we respond more readily to the needs
of those who are remote and forget
that next door to where we live there
are conditions that call for the best
we have to give. The great Masters
story of the Good Samaritan is one
of the finest and most discriminating
of which we have knowledge. 1t
illustrates the appeal of one in need
the need is made evident. The fact
that the man on the highway was a
stranger TO those who saw him did
not alter their Responsibilities. Well
Evening star., 1924-07-06
The Story the Week Has Told

coalition government, headed by the
Nationalist champion, Gen. Hertzog.
The Nationalists are for secession
from the British commonwealth of
nations. The Laborites are in agree
ment with the Nationalists on GER
tain domestic issues, both parties
blaming the SHUTS or South Africa n"
party for the economic slump, but
it Isl thought that domestic is
sues the points of disagreement be-
tween these parties are more numer-
Gus and important than the points of
agreement. and though some of the
ously with the idea of secession, it
seems pretty certain that in case Of a
showdown. most of them being Briton,
would vote against secession. At any
tionalists @ Isl ''' the Laberites ber % definitely
stipulated that, in the event of vic
tory of the coalition, the secession
question should not be considered by
then. be little danger of a row on
the secession issue in the near future.
Herriot's tenure of power becomes
more and more apparent. There
would seem to be great significance
in the chambers rejection of NJ. Her
riots. candidate for president of the
army committee of the chamber and
tant office of NJ. Maginot, minister
of war under Poincare. The chamber
did not manifest enthusiasm over NJ.
Herriot's report of his Chequers con-
versations with the British premier.
The price of bread has gone up, the
franc has descended little lower.
There is probability of fierce opposi-
tion in the Senate to NJ Herriot's pro-
posal to withdraw the French am
bassador. from the Vatican, and a
still stronger likelihood that the Sen
ate, which convicted M. Caillaux Of
treason, will turn down that clause
of the governments amnesty bill
which would restore to Caillaux full
civic rights. Parliament has decided
to postpone adjournment until after
the premier's return from the Lon
don conference, which opens on July
16; that. too. would seem to have
considerable significance.
spain.-A brief and foggy report
from Spain informs us that by royal
decree the military directorate has
been "demilitarized" and the dicta-
torial powers of Primo De Rivera,
president of the directorate. "modi-
fed" 1t seems to me possible that
the true account Of the matter is
that the directorate has been abol-
ished, Gen. D. Rivera becoming head
of cabinet. We learn from the same
report of a royal decree of amnesty
to cover misconduct in connection
with the Morocco debacle of 1921,
newspaper libel and political offenses
in general Spain is backing up.
Gernaany.-The German govern
ment has assented to the demand
of the allied powers that it facilitate
thorough inspection by the inter-
allied military control commission for
Germany to ascertain the military
status in Germany.
The note is said to declare that the
alleged military organizations in
Germany have no bellicose intentions,
merely they employ certain military
training methods for the purpose of
physical culture, Germany, asserts
the note, entertains no thoughts OF
revenge, has no camounaged military
forces or organization, has not the
material required to wage war; not
one single pisse of artillery has been
Evening star., 1924-07-06
Foster Dwight coburn, formerly

Foster Dwight Coburn, formerly
secretary of the State Board of Agri-
culture in Kansas, who died this year.
was one of the most famous real
farmers in several decades. He was
the first preacher of the diversified
farming gospel, and discovered the
great future in alfalfa as a crop. A
letter once addressed merely ITO the
man who made Kansas famous" was
promptly delivered to him by the
postal Authorities there.
Evening star., 1924-07-06

United States sf Aneriea.-I post
pone to next week notice of the do
ings at Madison Square Garden and
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among the worst SlaVe-dr1Vlng
lOw-wage concerns in the coun-
try, was arrested by A. Borg,
plainclothes dick, apparently on
the charge of distributing leaf
let's without a permit.
But after being driven to the Cicero
police station in the patrol, locked
for an hour in cell with a man
charged with being a bad check pass
er, and held without the privilege Of
telephoning for bail, Reeve was finally
booked under the charge of disorderly
conduct. The police evidently found
that the Cicero law allows the dis
tribution of leaflets without requir-
ing a permit
10000 Leaflets Distributed.
Barney Mass, who was distributing
the leaflets, which considerably jolt
ed the zone big family" equanimity
of the Western Electric, was threat
ened by a Western Electric boss
shortly before Reeve was picked up.
IF you don't get to hell out of here
with those bills at once, I'll call a
cop" this Western Electric tool said
to Mass
The nine Workers party and Young
workers league members aiding the
DAILY WORKER drive for decent
conditions for the Western Electric
employees. had distributed 10000 leaf
let's before the Cicero cops were told
by the Western Electric oficials to
break up the work.
Desk Sergeant H. s. refused to
show Reeve the written copy Of the
charges against him. Reeve was told
by Borg and by the desk sergeant that
he had been arrested charged with
distributing leaflets. But after
Thomas Myerscough signed the bond.
placed at $26, the desk sergeant said
the charge had been changed to dis
orderly"
YeIIs FOR Douuherty.
Can l call somebody UP to get
bond?" Reeve asked, after being
booked and searched.
mo, you can't call anybody up"
snapped the sergeant. "Dougherty,
take this fellow down to cell. He's
too damn smart"
Reeve was put in narrow cell in
which the toilet was broken and
would not flush. His cellmate was a
young lad who had been arrested in
connection with hotel bill. He hsd
been in the cell for two days. This
youngster was penniless. The Cicero
police had not allowed him to wash
his face during the two days of his
stay in the cell.
Prisoners Mother Dying.
There was foul smell coming from
the cell toilet, which was uncovered.
CONTINUED on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-13

SIDE-SHOWS LOSE
TO DAILY WORKER
AT ELECTRIC SHOP
Western Electric Co
Workers Eat 1t Up

The regular side shows" that 60
on across from the Western Electric
Hawthorne plant, lost their fight for
the workers attention yesterday. AT
noon and at night the DAILY WORK
Err "newsies" captured the crowds OF
workers.
Everyone was buying the DAILY
WORKER to see what the first big
'inside" story on the Western Elec-
trio was. Greedily they grabbed it up
and then turned to laugh at the cam
paign of the Poor Fish for vice-presi-
dent.
DAILY WORKER Beats Dope.
The stole Indian kept on trying to
hand out his yellow ads for "Wi-No-
Ma, the great Indian cure-all," for sale
at Dubb's Drug Store. But the West
ern Electric workers were reaching
for pennies to get their copies of the
DAILY WORKER.
The cowboy squatting in a side
street trying to demonstrate some 9th
er fake device, lost his following when
the DAILY WORKER came on the
scene.
The radio magazine went begging
after the DAILY WORKER arrived.
The DAILY WORKER "newsies" out
shouted the salesman.
Who wanted to look at shoe samples
or cloth samples and be fooled into
paying down the first installment on
suit that never would arrive? The
DAILY WORKER was there, and the
workers wanted to read all about the
Western Electric for three cents"
Workers Show Sense.
A soap-box railing against the two
old oil-soaked parties had quite a
crowd-until he sprang his book on
economics and then all the Western
Electric workers around him got prac.
tical and bought the DAILY WORKER
for three cents instead of the takers
book for SO.
Even the hot-dog man bought the
DAILY WORKER.
And this is only the beginning. The
Western Electric workers, judging by
their eagerness to get the paper, are
going to follow up each day the splen-
did articles which our special investi.
gator is writing on Western Electric
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-13
'STAHL ASSAILS
JENSEN FOR NOT
ORGANIZING CITY
Saturday Daily Worker
is Featuring Election

Chicago carpenters tomorrow are
holding the most important annual
union election they have held in
years.
Twenty-Five thousand members Of
the brotherhood will come down to
their local halls and choose a presi-
dent of the Chicago district council
for the coming year.
Frank Stahl of Local No. 1s, car
penter working at the trade, is chal
longing the regime of Harry Jensen
the present incumbent, who has failed
to organize the thousands of carpen-
ters working under the scab citizens
committee of the infamous Lands
award.
Building Trades Divided.
Stahl places the responsibility fol-
the chaos in the Chicago Building
Trades council on Harry Jensen
This divided condition has weakened
the efforts of building tradesmen
whom the organized employers are
hS AtAA6s
The carpenters union is facing g
crisis in Chicago. The building boom
is coming to an end Unemployment
is looming ahead. If the carpenters
delay the organizing Of the remaining
non-union men they will find their
difficulties enormously increased.
Urge HousecIeaning Saturday.
Jensen, the reactionary, is not push
ing the fight against the boss, his op
ponerts charge Stahls friends urge
a housekeeping at tomorrow's cleo
ton in the interest of the union.
The DAILY WORKER. in Satur
days issue. win feature the issues Of
the carpenters election. 1t will give
the policies to which Stahl commits
himself and will deal with Jensen's
record.
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French DARK
HORSES RACE
TOPRES|DENCY
Many Politicians Seek
MiIIerGnd's Job

PARIS, June 12.-Party taau-
ctfsessut : uiniiss 20 Sg.detrr o.
the French republic were held
today. Leaders of the left, hav-
ing driven Alexander MiIIerand
from the Elysee, sought to COM
bine behind a candidate who
would be certain of a majority
tomorrow.
Paul Painleve's chances still
were considered best, but the
smooth sailing towards the pre-
sidency which appeared to lie
before the present president of
the chamber was ruffled some
what today by the attitude Of
president Doumergue of the SEN
ate.
The latter, who has ambitions to be
thirteenth president of France, even
If elected on Friday the 18th, by the
thirteenth legislature, is reserving his
decision. This suggested the POSSIBLE
ity of his becoming an independent
candidate, which would split the SEN
ate and chamber voters.
The French franc continued today
to improve, touching 1857 TO the dol
lar in the expectation by traders OF
a stable government of the left bour-
geois faction.
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BLAMES
/. KHAN AND ANTS
FOR MURDER RIOT
Trial Will Go Over Into
Next Week

EBENSBURG, Pa, June H. The
state probably will conclude it's testi-
mony late today in the trial Of A men,
most Of them members of the Ku Klux
Khan, who are charged with murder
and melting riot at Lilly.
The state has presented IS wit
nesses in attempting to prove that the
A men caused the trouble which end
ed in the street riot. Some 20 other
witnesses have been summoned by the
state. but they probably will not be
asked to testify.
The trial will continue over to next
week. as the defense has called 100
witnesses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-13
OHIO FINNISH BRANCH
PICNICS SUNDAY FOR
DAILY WORKER Benefit

Especial to the DAILY woRkER.)
coNNEAUT, Ohio, June 12.-The
Finnish Branch Of the Workers
Party, will hold great picnic next
Sunday, June IS, for the benefit Of
the DAILY WORKER, at Branches
Picnic Grounds, the corner OF Lake
Road and Wright Ave. Everyone Is
invited to come ard have the best
time ever, and help the DAILY
WORKER spread it's gospel to the
workers and farmers Of thIs country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-13
N. Y. Educators
Quitting Jobs that
Don't Pay Enough

NEW YORK. June 12.--The short
age in substitute public school teach
ers in New York city is caused by the
withdrawal each year Of 200 teachers
who cannot live on the low wage, ac-
cording to the Substitute Teachers
association. The association is also
protesting against the system Of re-
ducing pay Of substitutes when they
are late, altho often they are not mo-
titled to report for duty until is min
utes before school opens.
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$1,000 GIRLS
Driven IN HUGE
NON-UN|ON SHOP
Investigator Tells What
He Found in Plant

Over rs thousand girls and
women work in the Western
Electric Company plant at Haw-
thome. Their average wages
range from is to 10 dollars a
week, The girls make this
money by the most intense kind
scf speeding under the piece
work system.
On the morning.of July 8, sew
erai hours before / was given a
job in the process inspection
department, / walked past the
guards and thru many of the
departments in the plant.
stopped in many Of the depart
ments and talked with the girls.
The Western Electric is managed
under highly specialized system for
producing standard parts. Whereas
Ford has only few thousand parts
to his 'nivvers," there are over 1907
600 STANDARD parts to the telephone
apparatus and swttchboards manu-
sa6tured in the Hawthorne plant.
The big Hawthorne plant covers 2o7
acges. with>s0 entrances, scopes of de-
partments and many buiidinsg. There
are also SCORES ofsbosses-an average
Continuation page 81
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Western Electric
Talks of Loyalty

While Electric talks employees
cdbooded basis
the possible with the possible production
with given
hiring high school
college at cheap and firing the old employees
Electric full Of who work about
until peddIed their bosses about
getting them higher Then
they quit and Of suckers 10 brought In
employees thirty
skilled IS to 10 dollars week.
slightly higher
the article In this
DAILY WORKER going the
working tells the conditions
think Of their
workers.
DAILY WORKER will tell the
hunting DAILY reporter drafted Into
department
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CAL COOLIDGE, WALL STREETS
FAVORITE SON, IS OFFICIALLY
NOMINATED AT G. 0. P. meet


CONVENTION HALL, CLEVELAND June 12.-caIvin Cool
dge the skebreang of Massachusetts, and
the Of the grim reaper president of the Real Estate firm of
Morgan ct ALL today nominated for the presidency
the osoaked Republican platform which will very likely
his political funeral pyre next November
The speech that launched Coolidge his political
extinction considered by be the --LATEST
collections of nanies hurled at offending convention
Great the crimes of the republican and the principal
criminals the audience the constitutional provision
cruel and unusual punishment ignored by Dr. Marion
L. Burton president of Michigan University he fusomey
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France Sends More
Munitions for Use
Against Russians
Especial to the DAILY Worker.)

PRAGUE, June 12.-France is send
ing munitions in steadily to the Po-
lish and Roumanian governments in
the rebellious Russian territories oc-
cupied by each. Most Of the arms are
being sent from the Skoda works.
The Roumanian premier, M. Brati-
ano, has proclaimed hts intention of
going to the July meeting of the Lit
tie Entente to explain the difficulties
now existing between Roumania, on
the one hand, and Czechoslovakia and
Yugoslavia. on the other over the
Russian situation.
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Rochester Clothing
Bosses Back Down
to Amalgamated

Rochester, N. Y, June 12.-Clothing
manufacturers employing $4,000 work
ers in Rochester have withdrawn
their demands for wage cuts, accord
ing to Max L. Holtz, president OF the
Rochester Clothiers' exchange. I'm
der the contract with the Amalgamat-
ed Clothing Workers union, which
runs until May, 1925, either side has
the right to ask for wage revision
at the end Of each year.
Unemployment is problem in
Rochester. as in other mems clothing
markets, hut the busy season in the
industry opens in few weeks.
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Fascist K. K. X. Fail
to Stop Showing of
Russia, Germany"

CANNONSBURG, Pa, June a.
Workers OF cannonsburg saw the mo.
ton picture film. Russia and Ger.
many, Tale OF Two Republics" de.
spite attempted mobbing by Khan
members. The owners OF the theater
donated s25 to relief OF German chill.
dren in protest against the Khan tao
tics.
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AnoeII Can't Grace occasion.

NEW HAVEN. Conn, June H.
President James Rowland Angel, Of
Yale University, has suffered a nerv-
GUS breakdown and will be unable
to take part in the schools commence
ment exercises.