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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
INCREASES
SPUR TO
WORK
Citizens Associations Are Be-
coming interested in
Tenants Case

Spurred by reports of rent in
creases in apartment houses
throughout the city, a score of
quietly working but powerful civic
organizations are planning to have
presented to Congress early in
December a bin to provide a
permanent remedy, for exorbitant
rents in the District of Columbia,
Tenants League Busy.
The Tenants League. the organi.
zation which grew out of recent
dissatisfaction, Is increasing its
membership daily, and soon will an
nounce its intention of bringing to
the eyes Of Congress a proposed bill
establishing a permanent rent COM
mission.
The District Federation Of Fed
eral Employees, numbering thousands
of Government workers In its men,
bership, is working TO the same end.
and will have the backing of the
National Federation of Federal EN-.
ployes in its campaign for rent leg.
islation.
Several citizens associations are
interested in the progress made by
the organized tenants, and are ask
Ing officials of the Tenants League
| Tor further enlightenment on the
subject.
Rent Board Inactive.
The District Rent Commission
itself will take no part in the
drive, but may assist tenants and
landlords alike. in their capacity
as private citizens, from the public
records of the rent board.
At present, the principal prob
lem OF the various organizations
is to draft a. bill upon which all
will stand united. Two or three
bills of this kind are in preparation,
and in the next week or two, at
a joint meeting, 1t is likely that
the best features of each measure
will be nodded into one.
While the bills are receiving the
attention o those interested in rent
legislation, some leaders are won
pion the measures in the Senate
and House.
. Ball Out of 1t
Senator L. Heisler Ball Of Della
attention Of those interested in rent
law, is apparently no longer inter-
ested in the existence of the Rent
Commission. He fell by the way.
side" in the last. Capitol campaign,
when he allowed the new rent bill,
which clipped the wings of the COM
mission. to carry a one-year-of-life
amendment.
Congressman F'lorian Lampert,
of Wisconsin, is a friend of the
commission, and probably would be
| glad to handle the bill. But he
has been identified so closely with
the Progressive movement that his
influence in the House may be
little.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
POLICE CRUELTY CASE
POSTPONED ONE WEEK

Trial Of Lieutenant j. w. Pierson
and five policemen of the Seventh
precinct, charged with beating
Charles Arthur Davis, OF George.
town, was postponed from tonor-
row until Saturday, November 90.
Davis alleges that he was ar.
rested, thrown in cell. and then
beaten over the head ami body bv
police of the Seventh precinct.
He declares they sought revenge
Tor the threshing he gave a mem
Der OF the Seventh precinct. At
torneys George c. Page and p. j..
Ryan are pushing the case against
the policemen.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
MAN FALLS DEAD ON.
WAY TO HIS WORK

Albert 9. Schulz. fifty-eighta 4sOs
chesapeake street northwest. an
instrument maker for the Bureau
OF Mines, was found dead TODAY in
an alley beside ala Chesapeake
street northwest. He had lust left
MS home to go to work when he
was seized with a heart attack and
oled before aid reached him.
Tne body was found by Reginald
b. LOCKER, 4212 River road north.
west. Schulz was pronounced dead
oy Doctor Anthony Ray, 1900 Mas.
sachusetts avenue northwest. The
pody was ordered removed to the
mans home by the coroner. Inter.
ment will be in indianapolis. A
wife and daughter survive.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
TWO BOY BURGLARS
FATALLY WOUNDED

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. i21.---
Two boy burglars were captured in
Kansas City today after they had
been shot and fatally wounded in a
battle with j.. l.. Rice, night watch
man, at Lone Jack, a suburb.
The Waterman caught the boys
as they were attempting to loot a
garage and opened fire.
The boys gave their names as
Perry Ipgold. nineteen, and Charles
Carroll twenty-one.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
tx PASTOR
FOUND
DEAD
Former President of Howard
University Succumbs While
Reading in Room

The lifeless body Of Doctor
Stephen M. Newman, for twenty
eight years pastor Of the First
Congregational Church, and presi-
dent Of Howard University from
1918 to 1918, was discovered re-
Ginning in a chair in his room at
the Manchester apartments, 1426
NJ street northwest, shortly before
noon today.
Novel Lay On Lap.
The body was fully clothed and
a Locke novel. 1.-THE Lengthening
Shadow lay opened in his lap. Be
cause Doctor Newman had failed to
visit the dining room of the apart.
ment house since Wednesday morn
Ing at breakfast time, he is believed
to have died sometime before noon
Of that day.
Physicians. who viewed the body
today expressed the belief that death
had been caused either by paralysis
or an attack Of the heart.
On Doctor Newman's table, be-
fore which he was sitting when
he died, was clipping from a
Tuesday afternoon paper, stating
that a back dividend had just been
ordered by the international Fin
ance Corporation. A letter address.
ed to the Consolidated Mines Synd!.
cate, Boise, Idaho, and written by
Doctor Newman also lay on the
table.
1t was thought possible that Doc.
tor Newman may have owned stock
in the Finance Corporation and the
news of the dividend may have pro-
duced sufficient excitement to have
caused death.
Daughter Survives.
Doctor Newman, who would have
been seventy-nine years old today.
is survived only by a daughter,
Mrs. Helen Newman Cook, wife of
Doctor Cook. Yale University pro.
lessor. She has been notified of
the death Of her father.
Doctor Newman resigned the
pastorate of the First Congrega.
tional Church to become the presi.
dent of Eastern College for Girls,
at Front Royal, Va. From Front
Royal, Doctor Newman went to
accept the presidency Of Keenan,
College, Hagerstown, Nd, coming
from there to Howard University
in 1918. He resigned from the
latter position in 1918 and had the
been active in any work since
that time.
He had been living at the Man.
chester apartments for the past
three years. passing the summers
with his daughter in the Adiron-
dacks.
When Doctor Newman failed to
appear for breakfast today, Mrs.
J.. r. Manville. proprietress OF the
Manchester, and close, personal
friend Of the dead man and his
daughter, went to his rooms, which
she found locked.
Discovers body.
Calling servants to break. down
the door, she discovered Doctor
NeWman's lifeleSs body
According to Mrs. Manville, Doc
or Newman had suffered a slight
stroke of paralysis last summer.
Since that time. she said, he had
Guarded his health and had not
been confined to his bed since
hat time.
Funeral services will be. held
or Doctor Newman Monday after.
1oon at o'clock at the First Con-
gregational Church. Burial win be
n Rock Creek Cemetery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
MAN SUccUMBS TO
BURNS IN GAS" FIRE

Edward ]. Hancock twenty-one,
died this morning at Sibley Hos.
pital as the result Of burns received
in a fire yesterday at his home,
705 Twelfth street northeast.
Hancock was carrying jar OF
glsoline which fell on stove
igniting his clothing and severely
burning him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
FIREPRooF DECORATIONS
FOR XMAS DEMANDED

Christmas decorations in Wash.
ington stores must be. fireproof,
George, $. Watson, fire chief an.
nounced today.
He said that fire inspectors
would comb the city before Christ
mas and inspect all decorations. If
they do not comply with fire regu.
lations, they will be ordered taken
down, he said.
Last year Fire Marshal L. ".
Sleb said many business men were
compelled to redecorate their stores
BECAUSE they used inflammable ma
terial.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
THE FINAL CHOICE.

Her eyes have never charmed me. and
her smile has ne'er disarmed me,
/ have never raved about her golden
hair.
She Is not confused with beauty, but,
oh, boy! she does her duty
When she bakes those pies so truly
She isn't any scholar. You can bet
your bottom dollar.
That she never reads the classics, for
instead
She spends her time In looking after
things that she r. cooking,
And she charms ma with her most
delicious bread.
There are others. admire them,
But I can't seem to inspire them,
To attain the well-knOwn higher things
Of life,
But sally satisfies me,
with the food that gFatifies me,
So I'm going to ask this girl to be
my wife! JOE H. HOLMAN.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21

around the block and back into the
same place. Once in a while some.
body swipes my place, while I'm
going around the block. Then I
have to sit and wait for somebody
else to move out.
I've got lot of customers, and
what / charge them Is lot less
than they might have to pay in
traffic fines. None of my, Gus.
toners ever lost a cent yet. Yes, in.
deed, auto.shifting's my game"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
(a1IEARlppSEERN(9.
= ~ BILL PRICE L.''D
DO LIKE YOUR MOTHER SEE.

DO LIKE YOUR MOTHER SEE.
IA Moral Tala ~ JACK HENRY
PART i
b, little hoga, sweet little boys,
With checks 10 pink and fair,
with eyes 40 cIeaF and inleFcent.
With pure unfrD4zied hair,
Augustus Hokenjexx--
And don't fogget p aIlus, boys,
Do like yer mother segs
q. IL wa8 many years arc
LETT my mothers knee
,49ssall aboard q clipper ship
Fer fur-0ff Afrikyi
pez she, Augustus: be yourself,
Don't fall for f0lkses lies;
&Or there II crooks, ae you will find.
Beneath most any skies.
ssDon't take no fOrrln' money, SON,
Without a-bitin' It;
Don't drink nor chaw nor smoke nor
And never married git"
with them few words she kissed my
And then i. went away.
Ana never saw my mother dear
since that there fur-Off day.
was . young and trustin' lad,
And easy to be led.
ANA 20 ! done o lot Of things
Not like my. mother said;
got 20 cllaWin' plug and twist,
And snolxin' bum cigars,
AnGs little boys, l have been kissed
ny them that wasn't stars!
PART II.
~ foot has been upon the rail-
OF many q saloon,
And I've dropped lots Of nlckels in
:. To start o bOx's tune
I've busted guys upon the beak
Ana got my IOw-dOwn share
VI scars In big and little brawIs
4hat TOOK place here and there.
And I've been married, little bows,
FOR quite Q purey spell,
ana since ! thot I settled down
amt been quite SO well;
I've suffered more since Mary Ann
Become my welded WIFI
Xnan did all them sinful years
Anat made up my Past Life.
And have tllot lot Of times
About my mothers words,
- nave heard the hOwIs and cries
" folks and beasts and birSist
and see now how wise she was
VOW know what she knew,
And 80 4 pass her wisdom on,
Q, little boys. to you.
Don't fan for Iyin' licIkln, toprue,.t
Don't drink no ragin' booze;
D9m,t burn your little insidee ont
with pipes and cfgarOos;
UOs TOOL with gals-they'll marry
From Fifty-four to Fey.
DO like didn't, little boys
10 nko yer mother ser!
--1
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
SHOP BLAZE CAUSES
DAMAGE OF 1000

Damage estimated by police at
$4,000 was caused by a fire early
today in carpenter shop in the
rear Of 7Os and TO o street north
west, known as the o street arm
DRY.
The fire damaged the feed. store
IF Carl B. Ritter. 706 o street,
dance halls on the second and third
,loors Of the armory building, and
the automobile repair shop of j.
C. Crabb, ITO o street. Water and
smoke caused the greater part Of
the damage.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21

training period, was posted at Four
teenth street and New York avenue,
regarded by the traffic force as a
BAD corner. His record there was
excellent. He was moved on Sep
TENDER ! to the Avenue post, which,
at certain periods of the day, is one
OF the most difficult traffic posts in
the city.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
CONSCIENCE STRICKEN
CONTRIBS--Wl1AT SHALL
WE DO WITH THEM?

- - 80 WI - = AAASlAht
Dear Blu: / haze been bitten
by the crossword bug for a
1VeeE, during sOhich Heard and
Seen has been shGmefulIN pushed
aside. With prizes 6eimo offered
IN all directions for original pstz-
zLes, It takes q Verg conscientious
sense Of loyalty to the great old
cOlMnl1s to keep from dGbbling III
these offers. But Pm not going
back on II and S. SO count me
as q regular contrib and faithful
member Of the b. BIS.
SILICLlS.
The crossword bug has doubtless
bitten many other cOntribs, but
the good old column survives i'm
the loyal hearts Of thousands Of
fans. 1t will take more than the
crossword bug to lessen interest
in this institution. Fads come and
go, divert attention for while and
then they all turn back to H and s
as furnishing the best and most
llealthful diversion of a mental
nature. BILL.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
Pedestrian Traffic
Control Urged

Installation of traffic semaphores carrying third light
and signal for the guidance of pedestrians and the
enactment OF legislation giving the traffic policeman power
direct pedestrian well vehcuar traffic. is urged bv
Traffic Policeman Hubert W. Estes on duty at Ninth street
and Pennsylvania northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21

The motto of the District
Of Columbia, I find, is Gus
titiG Omnibus" Justice to
/ GLL. The nag the poor pedes-
TRANS haze been bumped
Oft lately BIZ reckless drivers,
the motto should be chonged
to "JustitiGS PedestriCmiibms."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
A DEAD LANGUAGE.

"Willie, come ont to the wood
shed Nth me and when I'm
through l don't think you'll do 1t
again" DAD.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21

Are you drinking any mOre?" said
the minister to the village soak.
impossible, was the terse reply.
Pardon me- said the slightly i'm
ebriated gentleman to a passer by,
Wish you please tell me wish ts
the other side of the street?"
why. over there" said the one
addressed, pointing.
Excuse me. but sIOmeOne mus be
mistaken. / asked q gent'man over
there. and he (hicl told me ish over
"Ephfaim, do you drink" said the
Judge to the prisoner.
sJedge, yer hOnah, is dat an imvi-
tatlOn or an inquiry"
.sOfficer. was this man drunk when
you arrested him p" asked the Judge.
your honor. he was very
chow do YOU know he was very
dfMnk4" inquired the Judge.
Because, your honor, he wanted
% Kiss me good night"
Drunk again ?s said Mike to Pat.
Wisy the devil don't yeE stop 1rinlx-
ing. Don't yex know IL will drag yer
down to the gutteP?"
Kez llar," was Pats reply. s1If
was sober We wouldn't dare tell
the likes OF me ! was drunk"
~ yez was sober, We poor fool, yesd
nave einse enough to. know yez was
OLD SOCKS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21

SOtUirg crossword puzzles
may be made inexpensive If
yoat do 1t on somebody eLse's
light bill. GENEVIEVE.
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BEFORE THE GREAT
DROUGHT.

Are you drinking any mOre?" said
the minister to the village soak.
''ImpOsslble, :" was the terse reply.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21

SMOKED SHOULDERS
Small, lean and tender;
3 to 5 lbs. aver IT,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-12
WaHoce's Tricks

Every member of the Coolidge millionaire
cabinet seems to have his speciality in mislead-
ing the masses of this country. Upon the
shoulders of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
has fallen the arduous task of misleading the
poor farmers.
Of late Mr.. Wallace has been working nom
union hours in desperate prediction effort
to bluff especially the wheat farmers into the
ridiculous notion that their conditions are on
the upgrade. The latest lullaby sung by
Wallace to the farmers of the wheat belt Is
that some improvement in the wheat situa-
ton this year is indicated by apparent in
crease in consumption and by smaller winter
wheat acreages in most of the leading produc-
ing countries"
Here we have raw case of blinking the
facts and fooling the farmers deliberately
The facts of the present agricultural crisis
particularly insofar as the wheat farmers are
concerned, are these: The principal wheat
consuming countries will have greater un-
used surplus crop on hand this year than last
year In 1928, Europe increased its wheat
crop by 240, 000,00 bushels. Outside of the
United States the reduction of winter wheat
has reached the tremendously insignifc ant
height of per cent
More than that Many countries are using
rye INTERCHANGEABLE with wheat and have
large crops of rye on hand which they will
consume before they will make new purchases
of wheat. The curse of our wheat farmers is
that they are blessed with fertile soil. Pres
ent indications point to greater 1924 yieldage
per acre which will more than overcome the
reduction of wheat supply that might be en-
tailed by the smaller acreage.
Wallaces propaganda will not help the
farmers. No matter how roseate they be, lies
false impressions, and fake figures will not
help the wheat and other farmers In the past
five years the farmers and ranchers livestock
has decreased S3,914,887 900 in value. At the
same time their land deprecated more than
thirteen billion dollars in value. The farmers
economic and political ills are too fundamental
and too ingrained in the very capitalist system
itself to be ended or evsn relieved by Wallace
and his tricks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-12
Communists and the
Coming Crisis

Car loadings decreased last week by 28,726
az compared with the same week in 1928.
Untitled steel tonnage decreased by $780,
525 as compared with this time last year.
In addition to the fall in these two barom-
eters it has been discovered recently that the
carloads have been averaging ten per cent less
than normal in weight for several months
in other words ten per cent should be deducted
from the peak carload tonnage figures.
Figures such as these coupled with reports
of unemployment in other than basic industries
shows that production is to make an Irish
bull slowing down with considerable speed.
Flourishing industry requires something
more substantial than optimistic prognostica-
tons emanating from the Rotary and Kiwanis
clubs and other haunts of the babbittry. 1t
requires markets and these the capitalist sys
tenn is finding it increasingly hard to dis
cover and exploit
Before the first fall frost the capitalist press
will be carrying explanations of the conditions
underlying business stagnation" instead of
the glowing reports of profit-making activities
The coming winter will be a terrible one for
the workers of this nation and many of them,
mised by their ignorant leaders, will be blam-
ing the unemployment on the depression that
always comes in a presidential year" The
farmers are no longer fooled by this hokum
and this myth will be pretty we'll exploded in
many industrial centers during the coming
campaign in which the Workers (Communist)
Party will be active The Workers (Commun-
ist) Party is the only organization participat-
ing in the united front farmer-labor movement
that has clear understanding of the unem-
ployment problem.
The capitalist class of the United States, if
figures mean anything, is going to give the
Workers Party the opportunity of organizing
unemployed councils before the year is out
and of explaining to the workers that unem-
ployment is inseperable from a system that
takes from the workers the greater portion of
their product.
In the coming industrial and financial crisis
both the workers and farmers will be entirely
without financial resources-the farmers are
already bankrupt and the high cost of living
has prevented the workers from accumulat-
ing any substantial savings. 1t will be the
most far-reaching and critical situation that
American capitalism has yet faced because it
is directly linked up with the worldwide
breakdown of capitalism, because it is symp-
tomato of an organic lesion of the system.
The Communists alone of the organized
groups within society face the coming crisis
with entire confidence They know that out
of the misery and struggle for the necessities
of life which capitalism cannot supply comes
the broader movement of the workers, that
gradually becomes force challenging capital
ism in all its ctadels, the movement for which
the Communists have a program that means
victory for the workers and farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-12
Socialists and Democracy

Among the common pactices of the
Communist terror, the author names the
following: Violation of women, driving
sharpened poles thru bodies, breaking
bodies the Wheel choking people to
death, burning and burying people alive,
cutting of limbs, noses or ears, branding
people with dishguring marks, hogginR
women and stripping them naked in pub
lie places.
Do not be hasty, dear reader, and jump to
the conclusion that the above is from the
Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times or
some other capitalist sheet. Oh, dear, mol 1t
is from the socialist Milwaukee Leader, Of
April 8, 1924, and is merely part of an article
resurrecting the hoary lies that even the cap
ltallst press is ashamed to print
Curiously enough this article is published in
juXtaposition to another which, in attempting
to explain the tactics of the Socialist party of
Bulgaria, acknowledges that it supported the
bloody Zankof government and even formed
a coalition with it. The mass murders of
workers and peasants perpetrated by the gov
eminent Of which they are a part and the
apology for their reasonable activities by the
leading organ of the Socialist party in America
is sufficient to show that this shameless crew
of the Second International is the same in
every country in the world
The article says:
When the danger of chaotic anarchy
was past, the Socialists left the coalition
with the Zankof government and assumed
the opposition on a constitutional basis
Thanks to this Socialist opposition, the
fundamentals of democratic government
have been saved.
Translating the above into the language of
class-conscious workers it means that the Bull
garian socialists supported the counter-revolu-
tionary Zankoff government until enough
workers and peasants had been butchered to
make Bulgaria temporarily safe for capitalists
landlords, socialists and other vermin.
1t does not take much to satisfy the yearning
of this crew of phrasemongering traitors for
democracy the fundamentals of democratic
government" that have been preserved in Bull
garia are few and far between; like the loyal
ty of the socialists to the workingcass they are
meaningless terms and in Bulgaria it was by
mass murder of the workers and peasants that
the socialists demonstrated their loyalty to
them.
BY the testimony of their own organ in
America the socialists have convicted them
selves not only of slanderng the Communist
Party of Russia and the workers and peasants
government Of Russia, but of supporting coun-
ter-revolution and condoning the terroristic
acts of a capitalist government by pleading
that in Bulgaria the socialists were preserving
the fundamentals of democracy"
This is exactly the same excuse that was
given by the allied imperialists when they sent
millions to the slaughter in the world war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-12
Wild Joy Rides With University
Girls Outdoor Sport of Burns
Department of Justice Stools

William J. Burns department of
justice dicks whom he sent to Arizona
to assist his private agency in labor
spy work for the copper companies,
had such wild parties with university
girls that a disasterous scandal was
feared, we learned from confidential
Burns agency, now in the possession
of the Industrial Workers of the
World, and made public thru Indus
trial Solidarity.
Another letter, which follows, tells
the federal district attorney at Phoe-
nix, Arizona, TO make discreet in
quiries about one Of these Joy rides
where three labor spies spilled out
of car with girl students and warns
him against the reports getting into
the hands of an agent named Jones