Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-09-06

THE COMMUNISTS beat all other
parties to it by breaking into Wash
ington with the first stump speaker of
the presidential campaign. He was
Ben Gitlow, who is running for Vice
President on the ticket with William
z. Foster. Gitlow was run out of
the Knights of Pythias hall just as he
was starting to speak, but accumula-
ted an audience in a dark and musty
hall on Seventh Street, where he pro-
ceeded to tear into the other parties
and denounced Senator LaFollette as
a "reactiorary."
GITLOW'S SPEECH unloosed
flood of political oratory in the CAPT
tOl with the result that both Presi-
dent Coolidge and Senator LaFollette
have jumped actively into campaign
via the radio. The President makes
his speeches to various national or
CARNATIONS meeting in the capitol
while LaFollette spoke directly for
the radio, his first speech having been
delivered on Labor Day.
SENATOR WHEELER has been
selected to do most of the cross-coun-
try stumping for the Progressives,
just as General Dawes will do it for
the Republicans. Wheeler is now in
New England and after he winds up
there he will strike westward "A
mong the other things he has to wor-
ry about is a demand for his appear
ance in Butte, Mont, to answer to
federal charge for accepting money
to appear before a federal depart
ment after he was elected to the
Senate.
RETURNING FROM a ten-day va
cation in Vermont, President Cool
idge win remain in Washington for
some weeks, although he plans to
make at least one speech in the Mid
die West before November, probably
at Kansas City or Chicago For the
next week or so he will be engaged in
organizing the federal commission
which will investigate the farming in
dustry
ALTHOUGH THE Democratic ma
tional campaign is being directed
from headquarters here, Nominee
Davis has not put in his appearance
here this far He is expected to stop
off in Washington during his cam
paigning, but finds this city out of
the beaten path in his trips East to
West.
EDWARD, PRINCE of Wales, has
come and gone, his brief visit serv-
ing to forge another link in the chain
binding the two great English-speak-
ing nations. Aside from having
luncheon with the President and a
few officials at the Executive Man
sion, the Prince had no other engage
ments here, leaving for Long Island to
witness the International polo
matches. Capitol debutantes, who
had expected to have an opportunity
to meet the Prince at some social
affair, were therefore greatly disap-
pointed
THE DAUGHTERS OF the Amer
lean Revolution are taking a promin-
ent part in the plans for the nation
al defense mobilization on September
II. Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,
president of the Daughters, was
named by Secretary Weeks as Chair
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operate with the War Department
in perfecting the Defense Day plans.
She has turned over Memorial Hall
here for the use of the committee and
all the organizations energies are
being directed toward making the de
Tense test a success.
THE STATEMENT that many
Government employees have to go
hungry because of the small salaries
they receive is made by the Fedora
ton of Federal Employees, which will
urge the next Congress to grant pay
increases in some departments.
Pointing out that the guards in the
Library Of Congress receive only
slightly more than a thousand dollars
year and have to buy their own
brass-buttoned uniforms, the Fedora
ton declares that their motto is to be
less mural decorations and more
corn beef and cabbage "
First it was necessary to save the
world from Germany and now save