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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-01-25
The Easy Chinese Language.


Chinese in its spoken form is a
simpler language than even English.
There are none of the terrors of con-
jugation, declension or the infections
that mark European languages. West
ern children born in China with equal
opportunities of hearing Chinese and
English spoken in the home learn
Chinese first because 1t Is easier. In
year of earnest study a good foun-
dation can be laid. knowledge of
the new Chinese alphabet enables the
beginner to use the characters with
out the aid of oral instruction. 1t
is thus possible for the student to
carry on his own study after start
has been made with an instructor.
Columbia Alumni News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-01-25

A tailor took his wife to the thea
ter and before the curtain rose pro-
ceeded to glance around the audi
torium.
"Well," asked his wife, show many
people do you see whom you known"
Whereupon he tool more DELHI
crate census and reported: 81 count
fourteen suits am owed for and six
overcoats. All of them have better
seats than we have"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-01-25
FRIDAY. JANUARY IS. 1924.
Winners In Highway Safety
Contest Are honored At Capital

Washington, d. c., January
50. In recognition of conspic-
uous service in highway safety
educa tion, a school teacher and
two pupils were received recently
by President Coolidge aud pre-
scented with certificates of award
provided bv the Highway Edit
cation Board and the Nation; !
Grange, P. of H. while in Wash
ihgton as the guests OF the
National Automobile Chamber OF
Commerce, during the week OF
January II to 19.
The teacher is Miss Teresa NJ.
Lenney, New Rochelle New
York, whose lesson on highway
safety was chosen as the best o.
$4,000 submitted in a national
contest, winning a prize of five
hundred dollars. She was pre-
scented to the President by SCH
ator Royal S. Copeland, of New
York, and Representive Bersral d
ii. Shell, of New York. The
pupils are Miss Theodore Poole
Lansing, Michigan. who was
presented by John n. WHY'S, OF
Michigan, aud Miss Mildred
Soper, Seneca Castle, New York
presented by Representative John
Taber.
Miss Poole wrote the best essay
on highway safety i'll contest
in which more than 400. 000
pupils participated, and received
from the automobile organization
a gold watch and medal, and a
trip to Washington with all ex-
penses paid. Miss Soper repre-
sentiug Grange children. also re-
ceives prizes and the trip. Miss
Poole was accompanied to Wash
ington by her father, c. L. poole
as chaperon, while Miss Soper's
father. Ebert G, Soper, accom-
panied her.
The prizes were won in the
1922 national contests, conducted
under the auspices of the High
way Education Board and the
National Grange. Similar con-
tests are now in progress, the
winners to be announced soon.
Miss Lenny, Miss Poole aud
Miss Soper were also the guests
OF honor at luncheon given by
DIR. John ]. Tiger. Winners at
Capital-2U. s. Commissioner of
Education. and also chairman Of
the Board.
A portion of the intinerary
during the week in Washington
included visits to the White
House, Mount Vernon, tue Senate
and House, the Smithsonian H.
stitution, the parks and art
galleries, the Washington Mont
ment, and all the outstanding
place of historic interest in the
Capital.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-01-25
RUMMAGE SALE.

The ladies of St. Andrews Episcopal
Church, OF Mount Jackson, Virginia
will hold a rummage sale at Mr..
Magnus Moore's Store Saturday,
Jan. 18th, continuing all day There
will be for sale stoves, stove pipe, oil
lamps and chimneys, chandeliers,
pieces of carpet, books, and numerous
other articles too numerous to men,
ton and cheap.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-01-25
Language Proves Aae Of Indians.

1t is said that in North and South
America no less than 100 or $50 abb
solutely distinct languages exist. AS
the growth Of language is very slow,
1t is thought that the fact of the
existence of so great a variety of
speech on the western continents
proves that the native red men have
inhabited them for many thousands of
years. Another proof of the antiquity
of the American Indians, according to
some authorities, is the fact that they
represent distinct human type, and
the formation of such a type requires
thousands of years.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-01-25
Removal Nnfire

Having vacated j. F. Ramey's Room
on Court Street, am temporarily To-
Gated. Until permanently located, work
left at F. S. Bowman's Department
Store, or Arthur Boyer's Variety Store
will be given prompt attention.
Dec. 14-tf. B. F. HISEY.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-01-25
w. N. CALVERT,
=,
DRESShAKING

Dressmaking and all kinds of fine
sewing will be promptly done at my
usual reasonable prices.
Allie Hannah, Muhlenberg Street,
Nov. Woodstock Va.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-01-25

Maud--Major. Is Il tue that cucs
during the war one Of the enemy died
to save your life7
Maj. Bluntly-YeS
Maud--How nobel How did~itshap.
penn
MAJ R|Fnfs5--x kflla6 a1ArRpar
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-01-25

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package or ON tablets you are not get
ting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved
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Toothache Lumbago
Neuritis Rheumatism
Neuralgia Pain, Pain
Accept "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin"
only. Each unbroken package con-
tains proven directions. Handy boxes
of twelve tablets cost few cents.
Druggists also sell bottles of "a and 100.
Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer
of Monoaceticacidester OF
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FOR SALE

Small farm "a acres. q miles west of
Toms Brook, Va, well watered, nine
room house, good out buildings, one
mile from store and school, mile from
church, on State road, bargain if sold
at once.
w. M. CALVERT,
Everything in Real Estate.
Nov. 30
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-01-25
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The first dose astonishes the invalid,
giving immediate relief. regulating
bowels and digestive organs, inducing
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THIS PArra REPRESENTED ron FoRI,Gr,
ADVERTISING By The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23
Special Indiana Communist Election Campaign Page
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en- go back to where you came from if
you want a revolution. This country
is for Americans only, but If the for
eigners and Negroes behaved them
selves we'd let them stay here"
have snooped around the steel
mills quite bit in the last few weeks.
After several failures succeeded in
eluding the chief watchdog, Egeberg,
and his 1s9 snarling, private police as
sistants, and went into the steel
mills. / watched the steel workers,
thru an entire afternoon, standing a
few inches from the molten metal,
undergoing the tortures Of hell ana
the constant danger Of horrible death,
for forty-four cents an hour.
was drawn to the steel mills be-
cause had read a lot about the "Ro-
nance Of Steel" a phrase popularized
by the biographer of Andrew Car
negie, and by Arundel Cotter who
wrote an Authentic History Of the
United States Steel Corporation, on
steel trust money supplied to glorify
the name of Ebert Gary.
But what romance did find in
these mills? The sweat OF tortured
bodies, the noise Of steam hammers
whacking down the molten steel, and
with it the lives of the workers, into
profits for the steel trust. l found the
open hearths" which take the virgin
iron ore, dug by workers out of the
ranges of Minnesota and transported
across the lakes by other workers,
into flood Of liquid gold for the steel
barons.
What is this romance of steel,''
which the capitalist prostitute writer's
glorify? Cotters history is supposed
to be authentic. Let us hear him
damn the steel trust with his. own
words.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23

He tells of the romance in the
founding Of Gary in 1906. "In 1906
the U. S. Steel corporations fur
naces," Cotter writes, poured out
11,2s7,377 tons of pigiron while its
steel plants produced over 100000
tons Of ingots and ten million tons of
finished material The gross sales of
the year amounted to s6Ss,756,962 and
the net profits $3.50, 624,273.
1.-THE. corporations capital is ST.
404,000,0O0. The interest on this sum
would keep $4,000 American families
in comfort without touching the CAPT
tai"
The ]. P. Morgan interests; the Car
negie interests; the Rockefeller inter
ests; Ebert H. Gary and his satellites
are the ones who, bathing their hands
in the gold pieces poured out of the
steel mills 70 them by the life blood
Of the workers, find romance in steel.
1.-THE majority Of the steel workers
collapsed early under strain and were
thrown on the human scrap pile, their
vitality Slapped and their youth gone"
writes Cotter Of the time of the found.
ing Of the steel trust under the
most favorable conditions the steel
mill is far from being drawing
room"
And iceberg, backed by the col
losal fortune of the steel trust, backed
by the thugs, the newspapers, the
chamber Of commerce and the control
of the workers job, browbeats, fires,
slugs and beats the rebel worker
And the rebel worker, dumbly real
izing that his is the historically rising
class, bides his time, awaiting the day
when the workers will take over the
Industries, and Egeberg and his mas
ters are themselves thrown on the hui
man refuse heap.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23

early militant days SO vigorously de.
nounced.
Into the midst of Indiana's politi-
cally corrupt struggle. is projected the
candidacy of the Communist standard
bearers, William 2. Foster, and Ben.
jamin Gitlow. Republican, democrat
ic and LaFollette politicians can we'll
be alarmed by the first CommEnist
election campaign and its program
now being spread broadcast b,Y the
Workers Party. The Workers Party
and its candidates, Foster and Gitlow,
appeal to the workers in the steel
mills coal mines, and factories of In
diana to recognize their real class in
terests and ignore the glib phrases of
the Indianapolis labor leaders, Lewis,
Hutchinson and their kind. The Work.
ers Party is laying the foundation for
mass Communist movement in In.
diana that will be complete answer
to the corruption of the parties that
protect the interests of the Indiana
capitalists. Thousands of workers in
the hoosier state have their first CD.
portunity to vote Communist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23

want to. You fellows are nothing but
dam scoundrels and the Communists
are still worse. Do you know what ]
do with men that belong to the l. w.
w. and the Workers Party? / take
them by the ear and kick them to hell
out of here, and they'd better not
come back again If they don't want to
serve time"
Asked About Their Membership.
Every clerk in the employment Of
fee is instructed to ask the applicant
for a job il he belongs to union, to
the /. w. w. or the Workers Party,
and IL he does. the unemployed
worker is kicked into the street.
This Egeberg has able assistants
inside the mills. A worker who was
seen by his foreman, Matt McCor-
mick, reading a DAILY WORKER in
the TO- l" merchant mills, was i'm
mediately discharged, this week. The
worker, who asked that his name be
kept secret owing to fear of the black
list, bought the paper on the way to
his work. Mccormick, the roller
boss, after discharging the worker,
warned the rest of the crew that any
one bringing the DAILY WORKER
into the mills would be fred at once.
Mccormick then went into bitter
TRADE, and praised the Gary Post
Tribune, which is controlled by the
steel trust. Mccormick, under the
heat Of the moment. admitted he is a
member of the Ku Klux Khan, and de-
clared himself opposed to any radical
paper.
"Ill not have any Of you damn Boil
sheviks bringing paper into the
mills which is against the Ku Klux
I1lan," Mccormick beloved, as the
discharged worker started for his pay.
"You damned hunkeys and Niggers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23

They say he ID backed by the Ku
Klux Klan," says a Negro worker in
awed tones. And he always carries
two guns with him wherever he goes
Eyes, had a Job here two years
ago." chimes in an Italian laborer.
"Egeberg took me into his ONCE,
pulled out a gun from his hip-pocket,
laid it on his desk, and started to
swear at me. Son Of a bitch was
the mildest he called me. I couldn't
say a word. I hadn't had a square
meal in two days and needed that
Job. Egeberg told me If he ever
caught me at a radical meeting, or
heard me talking unionism, / could
collect my time next day. said yes
SIR wanted that job"
Scene Not Imaginary.
This is not an imaginary scene, but
the real thing, in which the DAILY
WORKER reporter took part, and all
you have to do to hear awe-stricken
whispers about Egeberg is to talk to
the workers in the Gary steel mills.
Egeberg visits all the Communist and
radical public meetings, putting his
phenomenal memory to the test, and
separating the goats from the sheep,
finding out who are the docile slaves
OF the steel trust and who still have
their manhood left in them.
And here is another true scene in
which the snarling watch dog Of the
steel trust took part. Two unemploy-
ed Spanish wobblies were standing in
front of the employment Office gates
reading Spanish I. w. w. newspa-
per. Egeberg rushed out, tore the
paper from the hands Of one Of the
wobblies, kicked the other one, and
yelled, Get to hell out OF here, with
your I. W. w. literature. Go back to
Spain and start revolution il you
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23
BY JOSEPH MANLEY.

Campaign Manager, Workers Party.
INDIANA, the hoosier state, is the
embodiment of corruption in Ameri-
can social and political life. It con-
tains a plethora of incidents and in
dividuals typifying the struggles of
the workers against their masters, the
capitalists.
The senior senator from Indiana,
Tom Watson, is the mouthpiece Of the
National Manufacturers Association.
He is bitter enemy of organized la
Dor and the workers generally. He is
generally recognized as the senatorial
voice in the senate of the otherwise
dumb and silent Coolidge.
Tom Taggart, Indiana's democratic
boss, has made an enormous fortune
out of his management of the demo-
cratic party in the state. His pala-
tial resort, French Lick Springs,
where prohibition never enters, has
been the scene Of many gabfests be.
tween its owner, the late Roger Sui
Ivan, George Brennan, Charlie Muir
ply and the inner circle that bosses
the democratic show, selling the votes
of misguided workers to the highest
bidder.
A sample Of political corruption in
Indiana can be cited in the case Of
Governor McCray, now serving FIVE
years at Atlanta penitentisry, for mis-
appropriation of funds and using the
mails to defraud the bankers Had
he been guilty Of defrauding the work
ers. he might not be in Atlanta, but
would perhaps have been a success
full senatorial candidate. His crime
was. that he cheated on his own class.
Indiana's largest city, Indianapolis
houses the national headquarters Of
the largest trade unions in the coun-
try. Millions of dollars from these
workers organizations pass thru the
banks Of this leading open shop town.
1t was an indianapolis Judge, Ander-
son. who sent the Mcnamara brothers
and the other officials OF the Structur.
al Iron Workers Union to the peniten.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23

schedule Of work, mapped out by the
boss. "They allow us minutes every
three hours to 60 to wash rooms, and
if we stay away any longer we are
given a red card which means a bad
mark against us" another young girl
told me. when a girl receives three
Of these red cads she is fred. would
rather go to prison than slave here,
but what can 1 do? There are no
Standard OIL"
Fill Library With Trash
The large library maintained at
other factories in Whiting besides the
Whiting by the Standard Oil company
is filed with capitalist magazines and
trashy middle class books. Only those
books that poison the minds of the
workers are permitted In this library.
There is not one book dealing with
the everyday problems Of the work
ers.- Each employee of the company is
forced to give IS to $40 Of his wages
to the upkeep of the community house
run by the company.
Altho the workers have already
paid for this beautiful house several
times over, they are not permitted to
run any affairs Of their own there.
The company runs all dances and
entertainments, and makes sure that
the profits 90 to feeding more poison
Gus propaganda about the Standard
Oil to the employees. If anyone re-
fuses to contribute his five or ten dol
lars, he is Immediately discharged.
No Aid for Injured
talked to one worker whose son
fell down and broke his back, costing
the Standard Oil employee $4,000 in
doctors bills and expenses to send the
lad away to better climate. The
worker was forced to bring his boy
back for lack Of funds. As soon as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23

Vote Communist This Time!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23
Chinese Appreciate
Sympathy of Soviet. j
Rule in Red Russia
(By Rosta News Agency

MOSCOW, Oct. %. = In an inter
view granted TO correspondent Of the
Resta Nsws Agency regarding thu in
undaiion in China, Mr.. ii Chia-ao
lated that he was most thankful to
the Soviet government for he sym
aathy expressed and its willingness
70 come TO the relief of the Chinese
people.
MY government"-said the Chinese
'Hpressntative-"has charged me to
sonvey its gratitude 20 the Soviet
government for the latter's sympathy
which Is a token of the deep feel.
ing OF love OF the governments and
peoples OF the Union of Soviet ~.
publics for the Chinese nation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23
BY KARL REEVE.
(Staff Writer, Daily Worker

GARY, Ind, Oct. 22.-Every
morning at 7 o'clock, from one
to three thousand unemployed
workers gather in the chilly
dawn before the gates of the
United States Steel corporation
and try to sell themselves In re-
turn for food.
Inside the employment office
sits a tall, beefy man with a
baggy gray coat, and slouchy
pants, reading a newspaper.
This is Mr.. Egeberg, terrorizing
employment agent, who holds
destiny of thousands of workers
in his uncouth paw.
The God Of the Mills.
Many are the terrible tales whis-
pered from one worker to another
about this god of the mills, as they
cover in the icy air. Hes in there
now, warming himself. He wants to
wait until we get the CUTS frozen out
of us, then we'll be willing to work
for his lousy forty-four cents an hour"
whispers Spanish 1. w. w. member
to his companion.
"You can't put. anything over on
Egeberg," whispers another steel
worker, splitting tobacco juice. "He
looks you thru and thru. Do you
know why he has that job, with its
fat salary? Egeberg never forgsts a
face. II worker is fired from the
mills for talking unionism or belong
ing to radical party, he never gets
re-hired, All new employees pass thru
Egeberg's hands, and he weeds out
the rebels" B .4-e- s.ss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23

Labor SIGUeS for JohnD.
at Pauper Wages
BY JACOB RUSAK.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

GARY, Ind, Oct. 22.-The
Standard Oil company, with its
huge refinery in Whiting, is TAX
Ing drastic measures to exploit
the workers to the limit and get
the most work out of the young
girls who slave there at paup-
er's wages.
/ talked to many male and
female workers at the plant,
and they all have hard luck
stories to tell:
Partners of "John D."
The average wage of the male
workers is so cents and of the female
35 cents an hour. The bosses are
spreading propaganda that the work
ers should become partner OF
John D. Rockefeller and buy a share
of stock in the Standard Oil. This
keeps them satisfied with their low
wages, until they get wise, and keeps
them working their heads off to get
q "share of the profits"
The Standard Oil company makes
the workers Join union" but it is
the company union. organized and
controlled by the officials Of the com.
yany. The workers have nothing to
say as to what their hours and wages
shall be, or what working conditions
shall be like. The company does the
debating and not the workers.
Some Of the girls told me they work
SO hard and fast for their measly
thirty-five cents an hour, that when
they come home from work they drop
into bed without eating any supper,
One girl said, We've got to work on
a schedule and every girl must pro-
duce a certain number candles per
day, in the candle making depart
ment, or she is fred. The foreladies
are on a constant watch over us and
we aren't ever allowed to talk to each
other during working hours, altho we
stand only foot apart at our work.
The girl who told me this has been in
the employ of the company four years.
Never Got An Increase
No matter how long girl works
for the Standard Oil company she
never gets an advance in wages.
when we are hired they tell US there
is always a chance for advancement"
this candle maker said. "They tell us
we can become foreladies or super
visors if we only work hard enough,
and behave ourselves, and comply
with the rules and regulations Of the
company. I've worked here for four
years and every time it was my turn
to be advanced was transferred to an.
other department with the excuse
that the previous department was
Blackening down. am so tired of
waiting to be promoted, that l have
given up all hope"
The female employees are not per
mitted to go to the wash rooms dur.
ing working hours, because they
would get behind in their regular
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23
GOLDEN CALF IS THE
GOD TODAY AND ONLY
HATE FOR COMMUNISTS

Especial to The DAILY WORKER
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 22.-
The heather have descended on
X. C. IIteraIIyl Fifteen hundred
years ago a christian mob in Alex
andrIa dragged HypatIa, a girl phil
osopher, to the temple Of their god,
stripped her and tore her to pieces
with their finger nails before the
altar.
This week we are having pae.
eants, parades and big balls staged
by the Priests Of PalIas and Pallas
Athene herself, In person. Do the
Christians propose to mob and out
rage her as their fathers would?
Do they even protest. They do not.
Their God Is the golden caIf--and
the bIasphemers they hate are the
Communists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23

the boy returned to Whiting he grew
worse. This worker, who has for
several years loyalty given his five
dollars every pay day to the upkeep
OF the community house, appealed to
the committee in charge of it for aid
They bluntly refused, on the ground
that all money collected must go to
"the welfare OF the community house.
Nor could the worker get any help
from the Standard Oil company for
which he had shaved so long.
One Of the officials of the company
told this father it would be useless to
send the boy away as he probably
would not recover anyhow.
Savings Stolen From Them.
Three bankers in Whiting, SchroIl,
Smith, and Davis, own practically all
the land in Whiting, and it is rumored
that these bankers have connections
with the Standard OIL company. The
only way a worker can build a house
is to see one OF these three bankers
First they are exploited and plum.
dered of their energy by the Standard
Oil barons, then their savings are
robbed from them by the land shark.
bankers, and by the combined force
Of the Chamber OF commerce OF Whit
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23
Indiana--A Nest of Corruption

tiary. It was the same Judge Ander.
son from this noble state, who granted
the famous injunction against the min.
ers, who. have their headquarters in
indianapolis, tying up their funds and
abridging their rights TO strike.
Indiana is the home of Eugene "
Debs. The same Debs who formerly
fought for the workers and who now
finds himself in the camp Of LaFol-
lette and his kind, whom Debs, in his