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Evening star., 1924-05-02
WHAT TODAY MEANS
TO YOU.
BY MARY BLAKE.
Taurus.

Today is inauspicious for all i'm
portant matters. Haste, nervousness
and unwonted aggressiveness should
be. as far as possible, avoided. and
every effort should be made to keep
cheerful and to create harmony and
good feeling. No undertaking of any
great significance should either be
Initiated or consummated
A child born today will have to COM
bat serious sickness in early life and
attention should be paid to physical
rather than mental development dur
ing childhood. The child will have
an unusually retentive memory and a
powerful intellect.
If today is your birthday, you pos
SeSs a very attractive personality and
simplicity of character that en-
dears you to all those that know you.
There is no duplicity in your make
up, you are open and above-board."
You are truthful to the nth degree,
put are willing to conceal truth when
1t Will cause heartache or distress.
our characteristics command more
respect from those around you than
they win approval from you
You are. unfortunately, disposed to
bellttle your own virtues, and are
handicapped so much by this tendency
that you feel awkward and out of
unconsciously, are always doing the
wrong thing at the wrong time, or
saying things which had better have
been left unsaid. These lapses hurt
no one, as they are not prompted by
malice, but attributable solely to a
lack of poise; but they cause you
mental anguish. If you could only
overcome fear of unfamiliar sur
roundings and of new people, and act
and talk naturally, as you do in your
own home, where you are seen at your
best you would be relieved of lot
of unnecessary worry and trepidation.
You are a great reader, and your
preference is for solid literature, as
distinguished from light, novels and
short stories.
You derive much pleasure and COM
fort from solitary walks and ram
bles in the country, but your chief
delight is fishing.
Successful people born on this date
are: William Taylor Methodist Epis-
copal bishop; William L. Elkins,
fianancier; Albion w. Tourgee, author
and journalist; r. b. Birch, artist;
Clyde Fitch, author and playwright; /;
Harold Mccormick, capitalist.
Evening star., 1924-05-02
ForIorn,
Lonesome and
Afraid.
Give not way to grim despair.
For he is lost who desn't care.
La NJ nj =.

Jerry MlSkFdt.
1t is true that there is such q thing
as too much of a good thing. Yes,
sir, it is true. Jerry Muskrat was find
ing it out. Jerry Muskrat loves the
water. All his life he had spent the
greater part of his time in the water.
You know, he built his house in the
Smiling Pool. But now Jerry was
finding out that there can be too much
water. A great flood had covered the
Green Meadows. 1t seemed as if the
whole Great World had turned to wa
ter. Jerry had first been driven from
his house in the Smiling Pool. Then
he had been driven from his castle in
the bank. Both were now under wa
ter, and Jerry was homeless
He sat hunched up on an old log
been the Green Meadows. Every mo-
ment he grew more forlorn, more
lonesome and more afraid. Look
where he would he could see nothing
familiar. The very trees standing in
the water were unfamiliar because
they no longer seemed to be growing
out of the ground. Only once in his
life had he been so far from his home.
Always he had plenty of safe places
in which to hide from enemies. Now
all those hiding places We're covered
with water, and he knew not where
to go.
So he didn't go anywhere. He just
remained hunched up on that old log
and wondered what would happen
next He didn't like being right out
in plain sight as he was. He grew
more and more anxious every minute.
Should one of his enemies of the
Hawk family come along he would
almost surely be seen.
I'm afraid" sobbed Jerry. This
Evening star., 1924-05-02

Ma took me down town this aftir-
buying some things for herself while
she was down there sutch as n new
waist and another waist to go gith it,
and we was wawking along and some
lady stopped and started to tawk to
ma on account of knowing her, say
ing, Well, you're certeny putting on
weight, my deer. l wouldent call you
fat but some people would.
An she kepp on going, ma saying,
The very ideer, she never did have
eny sents and she's getting verse in
sted of better. / don't bleeve L way an
-oupce more than l waved 3 munths
ago, Id bet enybody q dollar / don't,
she sed.
Well bleeve 1 will way myself to
prove I'M rite, the redickuliss thing
ma Sed.
Meening the lady that sed she was
heavier and jest then we came to a
scale outside Of the and 10 cent
store. me saying, There's one now,
like Il nice new one.
That's jest the trubbIe, it looks too
new, I'm afraid il may still have stiff
joints or something and make me out
more than | reely am, ma sed.
And pritty soon we came to another
one in frunt or Il cigar store, me say
ing, Well then try this one, ma, this
one aint new, look ma, its so old you
cant hardly reed the sine on it telling
you to get waved. Get on ma, heer, /
got a cent, L sed.
Keep it, I'm not going to get on that
old scale, its proberly so loose and
ricketty with age L couident depend
on thing it set, ma sed.
We'll q WIZ. ma, how do you wunt
it" sed If find one about 6 munths
old will you get on it? l sed.
Don't be abserd, how can anybody
tell the age of q waying machine, and
enyWay l know quite well l haven't
increased eny without Waying myself
heers ware we take the car home, ma
Sed.
Wlch we did.
Evening star., 1924-05-02

fright Jerry plunged into the water.
He swan under water just as long
as he could hold his breath. When at
last he had to put his head out for
fresh air the first thing he did was to
look around in the sky
Huh" he muttered. That was
only Plunger the Fish Hawk. |
needn't have been afraid of him. 1
guess | was so upset that didn't rec
ognize him. | suppose 1 can go back
to that old log, but somehow L don't
want to. There's 4 tree just ahead
of me. I'll try that"
So Jerry swan straight for that
tree. When he got to it he found that
lot OF rubbish had caught in a
crotch of it and made a little plat
form there. He climbed up on this.
Then he sat there for a long time as
forlorn and lonesome and miserable
s ever. And all the time he grew
hungrier and hungrier 1t got so that
at last he felt as if he didn't much
care what became of him.
Copyright 1924. by T. W. Burgess
Evening star., 1924-05-02

accessible and the most alluring.
Crowded rooms, insufficient air and
privacy, ill-chosen and badly cooked
food, these are few Of the causes
that may lead to criminal associa-
tions; and perhaps the greatest of
these is food.
SO, while we are planning so care
fuily the diets of our own sheltered
youngsters, let US give a thought to
the children who are in fair way
TO become charges of the state un-
less we. as citizens, do some prevent
i've work in public education along
the lines of diet and health. To use
our influence in the promotion of all
community projects having to do
with nutrition is to make the world.
potentially, a better place for our
own children when they shall have
reached maturity.
Milk and green vegetables and
fresh butter and fruits may be more
closely connected with the control Of
crime waves" than we now dream
Evening star., 1924-05-02

! eating very laxative food because of
! constipation. If so. do not worry
| about it. On the other hand. if it
| comes from an irritation in the bow
| els, then you must look a little more
| carefully to your diet.
| 1t may seem too general a state
| ment to be of any help, but the fact
| is that one thing will 'do more for
you than anything else, and that is
to secure a perfect digestion of your
! food as possible.
If it is necessary for short time
! to control the condition of the bow
| els by food, then try scalded milk or
| butter milk with rice or caulif1ower
puree or potatoes and other vegeta-
| bles, mildly favored jellies made
| from agar and sweetened with malt
sugar instead of plain sugar.
On the other hand, if this condition
is simply the cause of undigested
food. then L should advise that you
continue the laxative diet with plenty
| of fresh fruits and vegetables
You see, without knowing more
about you and your general condi-
tion it is impossible for me to get
at the real cause of your difficulty,
although | do think it comes from
general indigestion.
note that your age is fifty years
and it occurs to me that you may be
suffering temporarily from disturb
anceS which come generally at this
age, in which case it is merely Il mat
ter of patience.
Please send me list of food for my
mother who has gall stones and
everything she is eating now causes
gas. Also send me a list of food. |
am over thirty years, weigh about
100 pounds and work in an office; in
clined to liver trouble-T. D.
Water drinking is very important
and there should be five or six pints
taken daily. Give the food in small
quantities four times day rather
than larger meals at less frequent
intervals. Two of these meals may
consist chiefly of fruit if this does
not cause trouble. The other two
meals may be of slightly more hearty
food.
Meat must be omitted and the chief
foods besides fruit should be a por-
! ridge of oatmeal and bran and as
soon as possible the following foods
should be added.
A puree of potatoes, rice cruel and
whatever vegetables agree best with
the patient.
You will understand that in any
case of disease L can only make
take the responsibility of describing
the actual diet, but merely indicate
the best foods. Only some one who is
personally in contact with the person
can properly describe a diet.
AS to your own diet, I sugges.
merely a good all round mixed diet
with special attention to fruit, vege-
tables, whole wheat cereal, including
| bran, every day, very little tea or
coffee, glass of milk to take the
place of this if possible, soups made
of strained vegetable pulp combined
with milk, very simple desserts, pref
erably a fruit; bread at least TWEEN
tyfour hours old and crusty, and
plain broiled or roasted meats or soft
cooked eggs, leaving out all fried
foods.
Evening star., 1924-05-02
A SermOnette.
BY wINIF'RED STUART GIBBS.
Food Specialist.

We have learned thoroughly the
lesson of caring for the children's nu-
triton and have come to look upon
this as a good investment in the flu
ture. This is as it should be, for
healthy children will make good cit
izens for the coming generation.
Are we equally alive to our oppor-
potential criminals?
True, we must face squarely the
fact that there are degenerates on
whom the most carefully planned Of
diets might be wasted, and these are
problems for the specialists.
There are, however, in the families
of our less fortunate groups Of chill
dren who "go wrong" largely because
the path to wrongdoing is the most
Evening star., 1924-05-02
Unusual Trimming.
one mother SAYS:

Rows of bias tape make a very eff
feCtive trimming for the little spring
dress. ! made my daughter a dress
from a straight one-piece pattern
with kimona sleeves, then trimmed
the neck with rows of whAe tape and
put two sets of rows up the front and
back. as shown in the sketch. Then
| put on little white bone rings, such
as may be bought at any variety
store, 10 run a sash through. The
material I used was blue poplin, sash
of the same.
Evening star., 1924-05-02
Baked Tongue.

Place slices OF boiled tongue in a
buttered casserole with bread crumbs,
chopped onions, parsley and mush-
rooms il liked. Cover with brown
sauce and bake in d quick oven.
Hard boiled egg yolks make a good
garnish for this dish Another way
Ia prepare tongue is to cover il with
white sauce, grated Parmcsan cheese.
bread crumbs, sliced onions and but
ter.
Evening star., 1924-05-02
,Lemon-Cocoanut Pie.

Beat two eggs until very light Mix
two tablespoonfuls of -four and one
cup of sugar, melt one tablespoonful
of butter and then stir in the eggs.
Thoroughly mix the juice of one large
lemon extract and three tablespoon
fuls of water and add to the other in
gradients. Stir in one-half cup of
grated cocoanut, fill the pie crust and
bake.
Evening star., 1924-05-02
REiICINE SInRVES BY THORNTON
A1A|A~ Il AA'AAA ~ - oASAAo W. BURGESS

IS dreadful. 1 don't want to stay here.
put there is nowhere to go. am
hungry, but there is nothing to eat
l never was lonesome in my life be-
fore, but l am now"
lie looked longingly where in the
distance he could see dry land. But
Evening star., 1924-05-02

it was such long distance away that
jerry hadn't the courage to try to
swim to it,. Good swimmer that he is,
he was afraid to try it.
For long. long time nothing hap
pened. Then happening TO look up he
saw Il broad winged bird high in the
air above HIM. With a squeak OF
Evening star., 1924-05-02

The day after the May fete Lillian
entertained her six flower attendants
by taking them as her guests to see
magician.
Lillian and her friends walked out
to the magicians tent. declaring all
the way that they didn't believe in
magic and just knew they could tell
how everything was done. But when
the funny little man with the whisk-
ers started pulling rabbits out of
empty hats they changed their minds.
He turned a handkerchief into a
string of flags from every country.
He even waved his hands over an
empty basket and a hen and fifteen
little chicks appeared.
Il liked it better than two circuses
or ten picture shows" cried Betty
Cut-out. 7 wish we could play
magic"
Lillians street dress is blue with tan trim
ming. She wears a tan hat with blue bow.
Tomorrow she'll be a magician herself.
Evening star., 1924-05-02
Caramel Custard.

Scald 1 large cup of milk and
thicken with / large spoon of
cornstarch. Caramel 1 cup of
brown sugar, stir all together
and beat well. When cool,
flavor. Serve with whipped
cream and sprinkle with wal
nut meats.
Evening star., 1924-05-02
Creamed Eggs, Anvhovy Sauce.

Mix together / tablespoon of
anchovy paste, l tablespoon of
chopped capers and sufficient
lemon juice to moisten, spread
on slices of toasted bread and
keep hot until needed. Beat
6 eggs, add Il cup of thin
cream and season with pepper
and salt. Melt / large table,
spoon of butter. add the egg
mixture, stir until creamy, then
turn out on the prepared
toast and serve at once.
Evening star., 1924-05-02
JohAnycake.

Mix together 1 cup of rye
-four, IL cups of cornmeal, Il
cup of cornstarch II cup of
brown sugar, 4 teaspoons of
baking powder and " teaspoon
of salt. Add IL cups of milk
or cold water, 1 tablespoon of
molasses and I tablespoon of
melted fat, turn into creased,
shallow pans and bake about
twenty-five minutes.
Evening star., 1924-05-02
Menu for a Day.


Strawberries
Rolled Oats with Cream
Herring and Potato Hash
Hot Johnnycake
Coffee
LUNCHEON
Clam Bouillon
Creamed Eggs, Anchovy Sauce
Rolls
Canned Pineapple
Cookies Tea
DINNER.
Dried Pea Soup CroutonS
Stuffed Tomatoes
Boiled Rice
Coleslaw
Caramel CuStard
Coffee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-13
By Earl R. Browder

industry, as well as backing the GEN
eral publications. Thus the Railroad
Committee publishes the RAILROAD
AMALGAMATION ADVOCATE; the
Needle Trades Committee publishes
the NEEDLE WORKER; the Metal
Trades Committee issues the ANAL
GAMATION BULLETIN; the Print
ing Trades Committee is responsible
for THE INDUSTRIALIST; the
Building Trades Committee has
a un c h d the PROGRESSIVE
BUILDING TRADES WORKER; and
the Mining Committee publishes in
seven languages the PROGRESSIVE
MINER. A complete network of or
ganization and press is thus being
woven throughout the labor move
ment, consolidating and centraliz-
ing the left wing movement.
The Trade Union Educational
League has also published books and
pamphlets covering all phases of the
labor movem ent, national and inter
national, in the Labor Herald
Library. Nine publications have heen
issued, the circulation of which have
run into hundreds Of thousands. This
library constitutes a arsenal Of facts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-13

and arguments for militants, arming
them for the struggle.
Every city and town has its local
general group of the 7. U. E. L.,
where the militants gather from all
sections of the labor movement; each
industry in each center has it's in
dustrial group working with its inter-
national committee; and III each
union the League militants cooper
ate to carry on their vital educational
work. There is a place for every
live wire and militant, and task for
each one to carry out. The Trade
Union Educational League is thus
made the most interesting and active
section of the labor movement.
In Chicago the general group of
the 7. U. E. L., meets once a month,
on the fourth Wednesday, at Wicker
Park Hall, 2040 West North St
Every progressive, militant, and
revolutionary worker in Chicago
should be interested in getting into
the work of the Trade Union Educa-
tional League. Such a bunch of live
wires, electrifying the labar move
ment and charging it with new life,
will naturally draw to itself all the
other live wires in the movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-13
A Bunch of Live Wires - By Earl R. 3

T HE Invest bunch Of live wires
to be found in the trade unions
of this country, is in the Trade
Union Educational League. The
center of discussion whenever pro-
gressive policies are being advocated.
All over the country the trade unions
are being stirred into new life by this
band of militants, with their uniform
program Of progress, and their fight
ing spirit directed against the en-
ployers and their agents. The t. U.
E. L., the left wing of the American
labor movement. 1t is the one out
standing promise of bigger and
stronger labor movement in the near
future.
Central and important in the work
Of the I. U. E. L., is THE LABOR
HERALD, monthly magazine of the
league, which has been published
for the past two years. This maya
zine has established itself as an
authority on trade union problems in
America, as well as the guide and in
SEPARATION for the fighting left wing
militants. Interesting and well-writ-
ten, in contains from month to. month
the most fundamental information
and analysis of the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-13

movement in America and of the
world Even its enemies read it,
which proves that THE LABOR
HERALD is an established institu-
ton.
Grouped around the Trade Union
Educational League are the left wing
organizations in the various indus
tries. Some of them, such as in the
needle trades, are sections of the T..
U. E. L. Others are. independent,
and the members of the League work
with them along with many non-mem-
bers in that industry Such industrial
committees, directing the left-wing
on a national scale within the broad
scope of each industry, are function
ing in the Railroad, Metal, Needle
Trades, Printing Trades, Food and
Leather, Textile, Marine Transport,
Tobacco, and Coal Mining Industries.
Around each committee is being built
sp larger group of workers who
propagate and organize for industrial
unionism, the labor party, militant
leadership, and the other phases of
the League program.
These left-wing live wires are also
building up their own press in each
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-13
By ALFRED KNUTsON.

Within so-called farmers and work
ers' movements, Ike the Nonpartisan
League and several state Farmer
Labor parties, there have not been.
heretofore, hardly any distinction
between the makeup of their mem
bership. In the Nonpartisan League,
for instance, it was usually felt That
hired men on the farms, the tenants,
the small farm owner, the well-to-do
farmer, the small banker and the
small business man, had common
economic interests. The enemy of all
these was thought to be big busi-
ness, and for that reason they were
urged to unite their political forces,
IN order to administer a death blow
to this one monster-the exploiter Of
them all. Such was the talk of
League organizers in the northwest.
However, with the advent of more
acute economic conditions, we are be-
ginning to witness a different hne-up
between these various elements. At
the recent Nonpartisan League con-
vention, held at Bismarck, N. d.,
when such fundamental matters as
recognition of Soviet Russia, Gland
for the users, and "a five year mora
forum for working farmers, were
brought to the attention of the dele
gates, the oficialdom Of the League,
the Observation-Disclosures, show
ed their disapproval by refusing to
consider them at all, while some fifty
or sixty honest delegates, hard pres
sed financially, manifested their sym
pathy with these necessary demands
Of the farmers and the workers.
just recently r. w. Frazier Zone
Ct the prominent old-time leaguers)
chairman of the republican party in
North Dakota, announced that, "for
the sake of harmony" he was in
favor of the candidacy of Coolidge.
This is a brazen betrayal of the real
interests Of the rank and file of the
farmers and the workers in North
Dakota, and can only serve to separ-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-13

ers in some way or other live on the
bounty of the white capitalist class.
Most Negro higher schools and col
leges are supported by the contribu-
tions of white philanthropists; also
his Y. M. G. AS and a number of
other institutions either Of an ethical
or non-descript character. The Negro
heads of these institutions are the
accepted leaders of the Race. They
dare not support labor unionism
among Negroes, they dare not adj
vocate other than a capitalist ticket
in politics. The Negro leader has sold
out the manhood of the Race.
Yet slowly but surely we of the
working class are coming to see that
the Negro cannot be man and a
beggar at the same time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-13

"ODAY the Negro misses are
yet in tie clutches Of the I'M
- scrupulous politician of both
Races. From year to year he votes
on the simple faith that tie goodness
in character Of the candidate is suf-
ficient force to improve his social
conditions. There is something
pathetic in the child-like way the
Negro voter looks at politics. The
entire Race is without any political
ideals. Its professional politicians
are solely interested in politics only
in so far as they may derive graft
and lucrative jobs. The platform or
program of candidate is never con-
sidered. but the extent of his power
to purchase votes.
Nevertheless, there are manifest
here and there among the younger
men and women against this condi-
ton. They make up as yet the few
who are able to understand that poll
tics is but reflection Of economic
conditions, that government today is
but an instrument in the hands Of
the rich or capitalist class, and that
its laws and policies are evolved
primarily in the interest of its class.
The Negro who advocates among
his people the necessity of breaking
away from the oldline parties faces
much opposition from the present set
Of Negro leaders. A simple explana-
ton of this opposition Is that the
majority Of recognized Negro lead