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Evening star., 1924-10-10
BREWERY OFFICERS WIN
IMPORTANT DECISION
Net Responsible in. Law Violations
Without knowledge of Acts.
Court Holds.
Er the Associated Press

Fr IN" Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. October IO-Judge
j. Whitaker Thompson in the United
states District Court yesterday held
that officers and directors of brewing
companies cannot be convicted of
criminal act by the corporation unless
the Government shows they had
knowledge of the commission of the
oHenSe
In rendering his decision Judge
Thompson ordered the acquittal of
julius Glass. president: NJ. J. Cooper
wee president. and Edward Naumann,
Sccretary-treasurer of the Rising Sun
Brewing Company, of charges of
manufacturing and diSpoSing of
Illegal beer
. The court refused TO. dismiss the in
dictment against the Sorporatfon, al
though Judge Thompson Quashed
three of the six counts, declaring the
Government had failed to sustain
them by proof The defense had not
completed its testimony when court
adjourned until tomorrow Five
women are members of the jury
Government counsel is being assisted
by Mrs. Agnes 3. Stallings, chief Of
the bureau of wine and beer at Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1924-10-10
Car improvements.

l go forth to beg and borrow coin
to buy modern vain, but I'm only
buying sorrow and nine kinds of
convex pain, for they'll spring a car
tomorrow that will make mine look
insane Engineers and great inven-
tors would improve the choo-fna-
chine; every passing day there en-
ters some new marvel on the scene,
and the worlds attention centers on
the latest bus, ween. Only plutes
with piled up millions can keep up,
and pay the freight; autos fooled
by plain civilians look as badly out
of date as the paifreys and the pill
lions, on the which our forbears
safe. My large bus was thought a
wonder just few brief weeks ago,
as it split the breeze asunder. as it
staggered to and fro, and | felt as
big as thunder when / made the
blamed thing go. And my neighbors
used to view it with some envy in
their gaze; II we owned that car,
beshrew it," would remark those
jealous jays, with what honest
pride we'd choo it up and down the
crowded ways!" Still it's new and
still it glitters. it is still sight to
see, but the talk l hear embitters
every hour and kills my glee; It's a
has been" say the critters who but
lately envied me. For the later cars
have splendors which to mine are
quite unknown; they have richly in
laid tenders, they have horns of
dulcet tone, and the sight of them
engenders in my breast much grief
and groan.
(Copyright.) WALT MASON.
Evening star., 1924-10-10
VIRGINIANS TO BEGIN
3OO-MILE HORSE RIDE
Colored Arrows Mark Long Rov e
Through Virginia From
Warrenton.
Special Dispatch 10 The star.

Special Dispatch TO The star.
WARRENTON, Va, October 10
Official dates for 4 S00-mile endurance
ride have been announced. The pre-
liminary judging will be at the War
rcnton show grounds October 10
October 20 to "A, inclusive, are the
October 25 and 26 for the final judg
ing. All courses start and terminate
at the Warrenton show grounds.
The first days course, marked by
red arrows, is via Baldwins Ridge
Church, Buckland. Gainesville, Stone
House and Manassas, thence south
near Bristow and Nokesville, Weav-
trsville Midland and Opal.
White arrows mark the second
days course, blue the third, green
the fourth and yellow the fifth.
The arrows will be posted between
October il and 10. All persons are
urgently requested not to tamper
with the arrows or to take them
down until after October 2o. ITO do
80 would ruin the ride the judges
say.
Contestants will start between
$50 and am. daily. If a contestant
starts later than Z am. his time will
be reckoned from I am. Time on
the road is reckoned from check out"
at the start to CHECK in at the fin
ish The minimum time permitted on
any day is nine hours. The maximum
time allowed on any day is Ii hours.
The maximum time allowed for the
entire ride of five days is so hours.
Evening star., 1924-10-10
CALLS AGED HORSE
SADDEST EXAMPLE
Humane Society Head Pleads
for Punishment of Cruel
Masters.
Iy the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
TORONTO. October l0-The aged
horse and his life in the cities is the
saddest of all neglected animals, de-
.5clared j. NJ. Wilson, general manager
of Toronto Humane Society, at the
convention of the American Humane
Association today.
When we are asked where our
-sympathies are most needed he said
~ where the welter of cruelty is long
-rSt, and heaviest, and most unyield-
ing we answer without hesitation.
the old horse
1T is that faithful. indispensa BILE.
54rverburdened galley slave that bears
the brunt of mans inhumanity to
l"ast. His extreme usefulness is his
misfortune. He is a commodity, and
his place in the world of business is
=So important that it is hopeless to
=think of his being discarded.
The only thing to do is to fight
his battles and tighten his burdens,
and this we propose to do. in spite
of the wrath of man.
"A young horse usually receives, if
not always affection, at least reason
able care and attention. 1t represents
dollars and cents 1t is upon the aged
horse that the mercilcSS man shows
his art
"Cruelty must he made unprofit-
q BILE. When necessary the cruel must
be forbidden to keep a horse. The
ignorant ones must be educated, and
thiS can only be accomplished by
constant vigilance, by doing. in fact
N"rHthing we can think Of to i'm
prove conditions for these tortured,
patient creatures.
"RuSkiu says He who iS not ac-
lively Kind is cruel If we are not
Wiling to sacrifice something of our
pwr comfort and pleasure, not willing
10 give up something OF our leisure
and sports and paStimcS to this work
oi helping these pitifUl animals we
are unworthy to call themselves hu-
nanitdrianS"
Evening star., 1924-10-10
CHURCH IN HONOLULU
CALLS REV. DR.. F0SDICK
New York Pastors Resignation
Will Be Voted on by Con-
gregation October 90.

BY the Associa ted Press.
HONOLULU. October 10.-A radio
gram was yesterday sent DR.. Harry
Emerson Fosdick, who Monday re-
signed as associate pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of New York
City, asking if he would accept call
from the Central Union Church of
this city.
The message was signed by two
members of the church's congrega
ton. The present pastor of the Cen
trail Union. the Rev. A. w. Palmer
has accepted a call to the Oak Park
Gllinois) Congregational Church.
NEW YORK. October "a special
meeting of the session of the First
Presbyterian Church last night set
October % as the date on which the
congregation will vote on the resig-
nation of DIR. Harry Emerson FoS-
dick as special preacher.
DR.. Fosdick rendered his resigna
ton some time. ago after the Presby
terian General Assembly had indicat-
ed that his failure to join the Presby-
terian Church and his modernist
views would make it acceptable. DR..
FoSdick is d Baptist.
The congregation has not indicated
whether it is agreeable to the assem-
bly's ruling or whether it wishes to
retain its present pastor who has
not announced his plans for the flu
ture.
Evening star., 1924-10-10
ITALY DENIES RUMOR.
Not Intending to Present Island
Of Capri to League.

ROME, October 10.-Official denial
was made yesterday of the reports
printed in Paris that the Italian gov
ernment will give the Island of Capri
to the League of Nations as center
for tired intellectuals" Of the world.
An idea of this kind existed several
months ago, but was abandoned when
it was decided to present to the
league the project for establishing
an international institute of common
law in Rome, which the League of
Nations approved.
Evening star., 1924-10-10
FORM NEW ORGANIZATION,
Heads of State Chambers of Com
merce Begin New Federation.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. October 10
The Association of Officials of State
Chambers of Commerce was organized
yesterday at the annual convention
OF the State Chambers of Commerce
IN the United States. Stanley f. Bull
iard and George Is. Chandler, presi-
oent and secretary, respectively. of the
Connecticut Chamber. We're named to
The same positions in the new organ
Aatlon which has for it's purpose the
exchange of ideas among various
state chambers. Affiliating with the
new organization yesterday were the
State Chambers of Pennsylvania, Con?
necticut, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon
and Indiana.
An old lighthouse in the Scilly Islands
has been converted into Summer home
by the Earl of Onslow
Evening star., 1924-10-10

The holy Carpet" which pious
Mohammedans carry to Mecca every
year from Cairo, where it is manu-
factured. is a very elaborate piece of
work 1t takes a great part of the
year to prepare and costs, when COM
plete, about S2,500,00O the greater
part of this expense being due to the
enormous amount of precious metal
required for the wire used in the en-
broidery of such a huge piece of work
Evening star., 1924-10-10
Rockville Woman Dies.
nisnatch 20 The Star

SIfClaI UISpHIH IT % IHt SIdr
ROCKVILLE, Md, October 10
Mrs Mary Elizabeth Spencer, widow
of Hiram Spencer and sister of Gen.
N. y. Maus and Col l.. NJ. Maus, both
of the United States Army. died at her
home here early this morning of COM
plications due to her age. She was SO
years old She was the daughter of
the late Isaac r. Maus of Rockville
and a resident here for many years.
Evening star., 1924-10-10

for the services and sacrifices of those
yho defended their country i'm its time
of most pressing necessity
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Present indications point to a substantial col
lapse of the recent wheat boom Canadian reports
show very much less of a reduction of the wheat
crop than was expected few weeks ago. Corn has
also suffered decline owing to the fact that the
hot weather necessary to save the crop in the mid
die western states has appeared Thus the farmers
will have more corn to sell than it seemed at first
Consequently, they will have to sell it at lower
price.
AS we have seen, the maximum net advance In
wheat and corn prices totalled two hundred million
dollars Most of this sum has gone to bankers,
mortgage holders, bond sharks, and machinery
owners Then, within the last three months the
wage workers who buy substantial portion of the
farm crop have lost no less than six hundred
million dollars in wages and purchasing power.
We need not emphasize the point that this gigantic
loss of the workers more than counter balance the
gains that the farmers might have made from the
wheat and corn spurts.
And now we have the survey of the United States
Department of Agriculture, showing that the
American farmer is receiving totally inadequate
return for his personal labor as well his invest
ments. The findings of the official investigation
towering a period of five years indicate that in
most cases the farmers make no profit at all and
that in those cases where there is slight profit
lit is than eaten up by burdensome interest
charges which must be paid to the capitalists.
From 1920 to 1922 the interest paid on the total
farm Indebtedness consumed all the capital earn
ings of the crops Today the earnings of farms are
ESTIMATED at 81 per cent on the invested capital
and wages for the average farm operator and his
family.
The gross income of the American farmer has
been declining definitely within the last five years.
For instance, from 1920 to the present day good
pillow lands in Iowa, the banner farming state,
shrank from two hundred and ffty-seven dollars to
one hundred and sixty-nine dollars per acre.
We wonder whether the railway magnates,
spending February in Palm Beach and July in
Europe, could vacation these months in those
whereabouts on such dividends. OF course we do
not ask how long they could live on the fat of the
land for the remuneration they are worthy of on
the basis of working hard as the average farmer
does.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
LaFollette in Autocrat Rule Over Nebraska

fires, openly and unscrupulously, any
appointee who dares to enforce the
state female labor regulations to the
dislike of large department stores.
Such is the character of this Main
Street politician whom LaFollette and
Wheeler would thrust upon the work
ers and farmers of this country as
their President"
Against the LaFollettes and Wheel
ers and organs the Communists alone
raise the struggle Of revolutionary
class struggle. Foster and Gitlow are
the only candidates who stand up
staunchly for the interest Of the work.
ers and exploited farmers and refuse
to be party to any of the deals"
such as only middle class politicians
so ably manipulate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
Newspaper Lies

Capitalist newspapers have reduced lying to a
science. Particularly in dealing with labor and
revolutionary subjects, their methods range from
the deliberate establishment of lie factories that
manufacture stories out of whole cloth, thru the
subtle distortion of actual facts to the delicate
manipulation of opinion thru headlines prize
sample is to be found in the Neto York Times Of
August %, in connection with a story from Russia
by Walter Duranty.
"Speeding up Labor Under Soviet Rule" reads
the headline in the Times. What a picture this
Immediately raises in the mind of the innocent
reader! A sweating SYSTEM slavedrivers cracking
the lash over trembling victims at the machine and
bench-al the vicious and horrible practices of
American industry under it's "speedup systems,
plus all the added oriental horrors that from
the occidental imaginations of a capitalist propa-
eandist Such is the intention of that headline.
But what is the story? Duranty starts out one
of the most optimistic surveys of Russian industry
that has ever appeared in capitalist paper in
America He says: "The Bosheviki appear to have
taken step forward overcoming what are perhaps
the most serious obstacles in the path of the Social
list state, low productivity Of labor, lack of mi
tiative and the bureaucracy which generally char
acterize Staterun enterprises"
While Duranty's story is filed with all the bour
geos prejudices against socialism and against the
Communist Party, his facts substantiate those
brought back by William u. Foster from his recen
trip to Russia and printed in the DAILY
WORKER And the improvement in the conditions
Of the Russian workers is brought out in bright
clear light, by one sentence of Durantys; 1T must
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28

ers, so that they can force the en-
ployers and the government to pay
unemployment benefits; to bring
about a general reduction in hours?
What is Sweeney doing to further the
Amalgamation of the Craft Unions in
to bodies powerful enough to meet
Capital on something like it's own
terms? What is he doing to help in
the establishment of Labor Party to
provide the workers with weapon to
exert in political affairs the influence
which the producers Of wealth ought
to exert? Sweeney will not do any
thing to help these progressive move
ments; he has had his chance, and
failed miserably.
The members Of the J.. T.. u. of A..
should bestir themselves. This cleo
ton is not merely personal contest.
Vital principles are involved. Sillin-
sky has come out unequivocally for a
progressive program, for extension of
the organization, for militant fight
for improved conditions, for Amalgam.
ation,, Labor Party, Recognition of
Soviet Russia. His record shows him
to be militant fighter against the
bosses.
Sweeney Votes With Reactlonarles.
Sweeney showed where he stands
when at the Portland Convention in
the A. F. Of L., in 1928, he voted to
unseat VIM. F. Dunno, the Communist,
and at the same convention, he ap-
plauded the American Legion whose
anti-labor principles and record are
wellknown to all militant workers
The FL Paso Convention Of the A. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28

long editorials, rambling replies to
letters from members, articles by his
friends which read like a gypsy card
reader, boosting his candidacy.
The issue in this election is clear
cut between Sweeney the reactionary,
and Sillinsky the progressive. What
does Sweeney care if the Union en-
braces but a fraction of the worker1
eligible to membership, and even loses
members it once had, so long as
enough members are kept to provide
dues for salary and expenses and
keep up machine for use in the next
election. OF the membership decreas-
es too much, there is always the pos
sibility of getting the dues raised, so
why worry
Tens of thousands of tailors, clean.
ers, dyers and pressers ought to be
gathered into the j. T. U. of A. Will
Sweeney bring them in? He even
lost the Chicago Local of the Cleaners
and Dyers by neglecting their inter-
ests The conditions of the organized
tailors are none too good. Will Swee-
ney fight for improvements? He be-
lieves in compromise rather than fight.
He counseled the Pittsburgh tailors
to give up the struggle for week-work
and accept paltry and insignificant
increase in the piece rate.
Unemployment Widespread.
Millions are out of work, and per
manent army Of the unemployed is a
certainty. No work, short time, un.
certainty, irregularity, confront the
tailors. Is Sweeney doing anything
to strengthen the power of the work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
Getting the Party Into Action

That the Workers Party membership is getting
into action in the present political campaign is
evidenced by the New York comrades action in
mobilizing the whole party for distribution of the
Special Campaign Issue of the DAILY WORKER
on August 30. With every member of the party
doing his bit as outlined by the party organiza-
ton in that city, the campaign will start off with
a spirit and fire that will push it well on the way
toward a creditabe achievement. New York has
shown that it understands the needs of the move
ment at the present time.
The Chicago organization, not content with con-
centrating only upon the special editions for wide
spread distribution is taking thousands of copies
of the DAILY WORKER each week. reaching as
many workers who have hitherto been untouched
by the message of Communism. The Special Cam
paign Issue is going across big in Chicago also.
Probably there larger circles of new readers
being reached at this time by many fold, than ever
before in the history of the movement. This is the
way it should be- for never was there greater
opportunity Is your party unit on the job?
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still governor of Massachusetts,. Dur.
ing a strike of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers in Philadelphia
when an organizer criticised the bru-
tally of the Philadelphia police and
mentioned that the Boston police had
been organized, even if CoIlidge had
broken their strike with troops, the
Sherman stool-pigeon who covered the
meeting, reported what was said and
what was done about it as follows:
"Such statements as were made
by this Individual you can see are
extremely radical, particularly in
reference to the police strike in 6os-
ton. No time has been lost in coun-
teractinq the effect that might have
been made on the minds of the
workers, by advising them that Gov
erncr Coolidge was again elected
for another term after he had
thrown the striking police officials
out of their jobs. Everything, pos
sibIe is being done to discredit
these radicals"
The "Open Shop" Gang.
The chairman of the Republican
party, Mr.. Butler, introduced Briga
der General Charles G. Dawes to the
audience which gathered at Evanston
Illinois, on August 10, to listen &c
open Shop" Charley denounce the
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little gumption on Bigelow's part, as
he must depend upon the takers in
the local unions for his livelihood.
Taylor to Bat.
w. ]. Taylor of Merna, Jesse Jandy,
and others protested against the La
Toilette Wheeler policies. Taylor,
who tried to battle the Communists at
st. Paul, stated that IF LaFollette is
to be king, then not much support
can be expected from the farmers in
Nebraska" Taylor put up a lone
fight against the hand-picked "LaFol-
lette Convention" for his program of
state ticket, and endorsement of La
Follette's Highlander, Senator Nor
ris. He was doomed to defeat, since
Taylor's ideas would interfere with
the LaFollette-Bryan swindle.
Takers After Theirs.
It is reliably reported that deal
is on between leaders of the Nebraska
/ Conference for Progressive Political
Action (alias for railroad brother
hoods) and A. C. Townley, discredited
head of the old Nonpartisan League,
whereby slate of candidates will be
endorsed, and thrust upon the workers
and farmers of this state as the can
didates favorable to LaFollette and
Wheeler"
This scheme, If it goes thru, will
mean an enlargement Of the La-Fol
lette-Bryan swindle to read: "LaFol
e-Bryan-Norris," "a three way
straddle from Republican Party, to
democratic Party, to LaFollette. The
mouths Of the local Labor takers
water richly at this thot, for 1t will
mean political pie in heaps IL the
deal" goes thru.
To Communists, this may seem g
dry account, but remember that the
LaFollette movement, so-called, hai
produced such political trickery ant
skullduggery thruout the nation. The
LaFollette movement is not one OF the
masses OF workers and exploited farm
ers, but simply a feeding ground FOL
political vultures and labor takers o.
the most discredited type. Into thu
LaFollette movement are focking thu
birds Of prey, and when they have
picked dry the bones of the suckers
the workers and poor farmers whit
are deceived by the LaFoliette sirer
song-they will fly away to othel
lhelds, leaving only the manglet
lcorpsss Of the innocent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
Nova Scotia Miners Reject O. B. U.

The current issue of the Maritime Labor Herald,
organ of the Nova Scotia miners, faces the issue
squarey that has been raised by the so-called One
Big Union of Winnipeg 1t declares against the
old and discredited policy of secession from the
United Mine Workers of America. 1t sets its face
firmly toward the policy worked out by the revO-
lutionary experience of the world, the policy of
winning the masses for revolutionary struggle,
inside of the established unions.
Thus have the Nova Scotia miners shown to the
whole labor movement that they have become
mature revolutionists. The infantile sickness does
not infect them. They have learned to look behind
surface arguments to the realities of the class
struggle; and therefore know that projects OF
finding shortcut to the revolution, lead only to
the swamps of opportunism and confusion They
see their revolutionary duty clearly, and have
shouldered it without finching.
The maturity of the Nova Scotia miners has
been brought about mainly thru their own bitter
experience But credit for the solidifyng of their
ranks and the Qualification of their ideas, goes
in a considerable degree to the Communist Party OF
Canada on the executive committee of which jim
McLachlan, of the Nova Scotia miners, is a member
1t promises well for the future of the Canadian
movement.
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increase output or cut costs, save
time and money-for the boss. This
work was carried on right in the New
Bedford Textile Council by the stool.
pigeons OF the Sherman agency who
took orders from w. M. Butler as to
what they were to do in the union.
Besides the Secretary of the Council,
Silver, its president, Abraham Binns,
was also Sherman spy, who sat as a
delegate from the Weaver's Union of
which he was secretary. With them
as member on the Council was a
Portuguese named Silva.
Buffers Stools Flood Union.
One would think that the Sherman
Service would feel satisfied with this
delegation on the New Bedford Work
ers' Textile Council. But Mr.. Butler,
who was in training for controlling
the Cleveland convention and putting
over a strike-breaker for president,
thought that more finks we're needed.
So he decided, after consultation with
the Sherman superintendent in Bos
ton, to have the stool-pigeons already
in the Textile Council, start a new
craft union for the Spinners so that
another fink could get into the Tex
tile Council as a representative from
the Spinners' Union. Mr.. Butler, you
will observe, started this union by this
means. Capitalists are favorable to
unions they can control with stool