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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
MRS, ELLIOTT IGNORED WITH LUNCHEON

A lovely affair of the past week was A luncheon, at which Mrs. Idyl Sorsby King and her brother, Mir. Sorsby King, entertained in honor of Mrs. Carolyn Brandon Elliott at the Southern club
 Added to the usual artistic decora- tions and music was, a charming sur prise, planned by the host, MT. King the place cards being tied with crlm' son ribbons to white embossed boxes, which held exquisite Alabama Day silver spoons, showing the state seal the capitol, etc., and on the reverse side were the national emblems.
 The coterie of friends included were Mrs. John D. Elliott, Mrs. Dora Cohb Fell. Mrs. Charles l.. Shawhan, Mrs Chdppell Cory and Mrs. George k Stamps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Proving Himself

nF A sudden the man holding the NJ expensive fishing pole out over
 the brownish pool felt as old as he was and that was something Luthur Pitwell was not in the habit of allowing himself to do. Because a man with as many years as Luther owned was in duty bound to stand aside and let the rest of the world triumphantly and busily go by with the reins in it's hands-only he was not built that way.
 He had trained them all well, all those surrounding him in his offices and at home so, that when he had bit off the end of cigar and curtly announced that he thought he'd take run back to the scenes of his boyhood and get some good fishing there had been no dissent. Not soul voiced a worry over the danger of man of his age catching cold or getting his feet wet or forget ting to disembark from the train or tripping over root and breaking his neck. 10 ? ..7l
 There wede no disturbing relatives left in the small town to spoil his wa cation. Luther decided, after the first meal at Peck's boarding house and hotel that he was going to do very well indeed. He sniffed around the town with an ever-growing delight as his re- freshed memory disgorged old scenes and indentified old trails, eyen chuck
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
DIR. CRESLER TO GIVE SECOND LECTURE

Dr. Harrison Cresler of the science department of the Birming South ern will give the second of a series of lectures Wednesday afternoon at 8 o'clock at the Church of the Advent parish house.
 Dr. Harrison is delivering a>series of lectures on the Constitution of the United States. The subject Wednesday afternoon will be How Our Constitu- tion Was Made" These free lectures are being given under the auspices of the League of Women Voters and are being attended by number of women and men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
swE4TFRS FROM PARIs

Designed by one of the most famous French couturieres is a new sweater which is one of the slip-on type. The body of it is of knitted wool, but the full sleeves gathered into a cuff are of white crepe re chine banded with half inch wide grosgrain ribbon. These alternate in color and are arranged at regular spaces between the shoulder and wrist. On one tan and green ribbon is used, on another black and Chinese blue, and there are several color schemes equally effective.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
RICHARDS-BURRIS WEDDING ANNOUNCED

Cards are out announcing the marri, age of Mrs. Thomas Oscar Burris to Mir. John J. Richards, both of Columbus, Miss. The wedding was solemnized on September 24 at the home of Mir. and : Mrs. H. D. West in Washington, D. C.
 After fortnight in the east, Mir. and Mrs. Richards will be at home in Go. lumbus, Miss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
THE YOGTE OF PLAIDS

One of the most striking opponents of the vogue for plaids is seen in a tunic dress of green and blue plaid belted with a wide belt of red leather. There is cape of the plaid cOllared with red leather,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Good Lord deliver me.

From men whose attentions are without intentions; from men who do not want to marry me them selves and yet want to keep all other men away; from men who camp on my parlor chairs and eat the candy other men send me and take me to the movies every six months; from men who monologue about themselves by the hour; from village catups and callow boys and senile grandpas; from men who do not know how to make love at all and men who make love too glibly: Good Lord deliver me.
 From believeing that I am a vamp and copying the earrings of Thedda Bara and the poses of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Good Lord deliver me.

From being catty and scratchy and most dangerous when I purr the softest; from. telling a fat wom- an that she looks so well and must have put on flesh since I saw her; from telling a woman of thirty that her new hat makes her look ten years younger; from telling aD~S other womans real birthday or when she gets her hair done that strawberry jam color:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

A NAhahSN' anu the cuteness and the curls of Mary Pickford:
 Good Lord deliver me.
 From underdressing .or over-' dressing; from wearing clothes. that I cannot afford, and particularly from dressing old sheep up like spring lamb:
 Good Lord deliver me.
 From the temptation of telling the people with whom I live home truths and calling their attention to their weakness and faults: Good Lord deliver me.
 From being a bore and inflicting my fellow creatures with a detailed account of my last major operation or the particulars of my difficulties with my servants or from telling the story of my life to any listener:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Good Lord deliver me.

From flirting with another wom- ans husband just to see how green eyed it makes her and from the mortal sin of encouraging mar ried man to tell me how unhappy he is with a wife who never really understood him as I do:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
COMFORTABTE PAJAMAs

Extremely comfortable are the new pa ajamas made of silk jersey in an apricot shade trimmed with four bands of rainbow colors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

Oh hly
 neighbors, and prevent them from doing the things they want to do, and trying to make them do the things I want then to do: Good Lord deliver me.
 From being a club hound or bridge fiend or a "cause" fanatic: Good Lord deliver me.
 From looking upon the bargain when it is marked down from $2 to $1.98, and buying things for which can have no earthly use because they seem cheap:
 Good Lord deliver me.
 From a handmade complexion that looks as if it had been put on by sign painter and from bobbed hair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

LROM being a high-brow or a low M brow; being a woman who dis
 cusses the theory of relatively at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
MRS. HARRISON HOSTESS Tn WY M VT

Band No. 4 of the Woman's Mis- sionary society of the West End Bap- tist church met Monday with Mrs. c. E. Harrison on Tuscaloosa avenue. After business a study hour was held following which the hostess served re- treatments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

From being a reformer and be- lieving 1t to be my sacred duty to meddle in the affoirs of mv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Good Lord deliver me.
Good Lord deliver me.
Good Lord deliver me.

From a husband who is a grouch or a tightwad; from a philanderer or a fool; from a husband who stays away from his own fireside or one who never comes home to lunch; from a husband who will never notice what I have on or what do, or one who will go with me to my dressmaker and snoop around the icebox; from husband who does not know how to make money or one who is merely an animated cash register from hus- band who is jealous or one who be- lieves that he can't lose me:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Reflections of Dorothy Di1

TypicalJy Feminine Faults and Frailties Are Catalogued By This E@pert Love Doctor. YoWU Find Yourself in the List. Fron, What Sort Would You Like To Be DeLiUered2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Good Lord deliver me.

From being woman whose brains are shirred in the middle and ruffled on the edges and whose god is dress, or a woman who is frumpy and frowsy and looks like a human rag bag:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

U1I1HtT UT OTIE who never talks about anything but clothes I:
 Good Lord de- liver me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
CLUBS TO GIVE SCRIP DANCE AT Y. NJ. H. A.

T
 DANCE AT Y. M. H. A.
 The F. F. F. club and the Shutters club are entertaining with scrip dance at the Y. NJ. H. A. Thursday, Septenl- Der 9. Dancing will start at o'c,oi < and last until 1 D. m. An eajoya'he time is anticipated as good orches ,rs will furnish tn, music.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Good Lord deliver me.

From being sweet and amiable and gay and charming abroad, and saving all of my selfishness and temper and nerves for home con- sumption:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

Norma Talmadge, and initiating the cuteness and the curls of Mary Pickford:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Good Lord deliver me.

From boudoir caps and soiled kimonos and. rundown at-the heel slippers in the home circle:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

From espous- ing a career or marrying just to get a meal ticket Good Lord de. liver me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

Good Lord deliver me. beseech Thee to hear me, o Lord
 DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Good Lord deliver me.

From the hersey of belief that once I have caught my man I can throw away my bait; from forget ting that the only way to keep my husband eating out of my hand is to always have it full of sugar plums:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Good Lord deliver me.

From too much gadding and too little home staying; from too many novels and too many chocolate creams; from laziness and selfish ness and arguments and temper and fatness and dullness:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Good Lord deliver me.

From living with my in-laws or in the same block with my own mother:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Good Lord deliver me.

From bragging about my chil- dren and repeating the smart things they say and do:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

Not only are they practical dresses for nurses, maids, manicurists' and waitresses, but they may be used about the home even when marketing or shopping in the neighborhoOd stores. You will want at least three, and many will not be satisfied with less than a half dozen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

| ling out loud when recollection fur
 nished reason for his amazing mirth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-05
The Growth of Tenancy In Agriculture

or liberals denounce tenancy then
they always speak not about one but
about two things: tenants and hired
labor. Thus the Report Of the Com
mission on Land Colonization and
Rural Credits of the State Of Cali
fornia," of Nov. 20, 1916, complains:
Great properties, owned by nom
residents are being cultivated by
tenants or by nomadic and unsatis-
factory hired labor" (page z, Black
mine. o. P.).
This same danger was noted by
the Report of the Public Lands
Commission, 1906" which an
nounced:
"There exists and is spreading in
the West a tenant of hired labor
system (black mine. o. Pr, which
not only represents a relatively low
industrial development, but whose
further extension carries with it a
THE GROWTH OF TENANCY IN
most serious threat. Politically, So
cially and economically this system
is indefensible." Page xxiv.)
Yes, tenants and hired labor come
together and can remain together in
the most serious threat"
Difference In Systems.
The Characterization of new ten
ant farms by the above report in
substance as capitalistic farms, the
definition of the new tenancy as
tenant or hired labor system. it
seems, is correct. This feature of
the tenant farms is vital and de-
serves attention.
Tenancy, as established at pres
ent in the United States, is created
by different forces and in different
conditions than tenant systems came
into existence in other countries and
IN this same United States in pre-
yious times not so very long ago.
Its development does not depend
from individually accumulated capt.
tai OF tenants, as that was the case
for very long time with tenancy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-05

in England and in other countries.
In considerable extent tenancy is
created here directly by the initia-
tive and means of financial capital.
Bonded tenants, hired tenants, are
here among the different tenant
groups.
Financial capital develops in ten
ancy not only a system but a new
mechanism of exploitation.
The historical duty of the new
tenants before their creator, finan-
cial capital, is to produce more val
ues and more rent and profits than
independent farmers were able to
do even when their farms were in
full order and they were not eco
nomically weak and pauperized. To-
gether with this tenants are doing
a work on which account the "eco-
Monies Of transition period" will be
here simpler.
Financial Capitalists Influence.
Pauperization of farmers owners
do not stay in direct connections
with establishment Of tenancy.
Direct transformation of owners in
tenants, it seems, did not contribute
much to the increase of number Of
tenants. In acquisition of farmers
land by financial capital pauperiza-
ton plays decisive role. For enlarg-
ing and concentration of land hold
ings dispossession of farmers is
enforced by economic means" OF
financial capital as effectively as
that was done by fire, swords and
scaffolds in GLORIOUS revolutions" in
Europe. In the battles with indie
tendency of farmers, financial capt.
tai does not look for captives. When
farm is foreclosed or purchased
by a land company that does not
mean an immediate addition of a
new tenant. It means only an in
crease Of territory for tenancy.
Financial capital separates land
ownership from its cultivation and
dispossession of farmers often is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-05

Owner farms still had in 1920
more '7and values" and held more
Of the values of buildings, machin-
cry and live stock than both the
other groups. But comparing the
figures for owner farms of 1920
with those of 1910 we have to note
that their relative economic force
Is vanishing: in "value" of land and
capitaLbuildings, machinery and
live stock-they had smaller share
in 1920 than they had in 1910.
The strength of tenant farms in.
creased. Their share in "value of
land" and in capital was consider
ably bigger at the end of the
decade.
Tenant Farms Advance First.
Very small changes we can find
in the position of manager farms.
They had turned more to live stock
raising. 1t is impossible to find any
confirmation of the assertions of
pauperization theory in the census
statistics. Tenant farms do not APP
pear as pauperized, weak, economi-
cally exhausted establishments. In
intensiicatiOn of agriculture tenant
farms are advanced before owner
farms. Average values per acre Of
live stock, farm implements and
machinery are higher and had in
creased more in tenant farms than
in owner farms.
The 1920 census report does not
give any direct information about
changes in types of farms by ten
ure. We cannot trace directly in
which groups Of farms simple com.
mercial farming is developed more
in capitalistic farming with hired
labor. But the statistics Of farm
property indicate that in this re-
spect exactly tenant farms are
breaking the way: intensifcation Of
agriculture, in which tenant farms
are the leaders, demands more labor
than extensive farming of owners.
When the backward progressives
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-05
The Story of John Brown %

ran at him with a sword. that
bent double as it pierced to the
old mans breast bone. The young
Southerner then took the bent
weapon in his hands and beat
Browns head numerically with
the hilt, bringing the blood, and
knocking senseless the old unself-
ish and tender champion of poor
Negro men and women. Those
near him thought John Brown
was dead; but he was still alive;
he had still his greatest work to
do.
ITO Be Continued Monday
(John Browns Menu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-05

carried thru or supervised by an
otLer set of offices or agents from
that which takes care about exploit
tation of acquired lands. These are
separate processes and require sepe-
rate consideration. If we mix them
up then It is impossible to recog-
nize their true features. A cruel
attack Of financial capital on land
holdings Of Independent farmers in
some sections can look then as an
expression of crisis in agricultural
production; a victory of financial
capital we may accept then as
sign of decay of capitalism; con-
fiscation of farmers savings in i'm
posed forms of bankruptcy can APP
pear then as another sign of crisis
in production.
Creation of New Farmers Movement.
Acquiring ownership Of land as
means to exempt and to appropriate
in the form of land rent the values
produced in agricultural financial
capital produces the basls for ten
ancy and creates on this basis capt.
talistic tenancy as the typical form
Of relations which insure unceasing
direct flow Of land rent and profits
in the vaults of banks.
AS by the means in acquisition Of
land ownership-mortgages, taxes,
manipulated freight rates, etc.-so
by increased skinning Of people in
the tenant system financial capital
creates a new farmers movement
which can be ended only with the
end Of the system of exploitation in
all its forms. It is impossible for
this new farmers movement to dis
solve itself on individually owned
farms, as that happened with pre-
vious farmers movements. This new
farmers movement has neither the
old traditional economic founda-
tions, nor traditional armies of
prospective settlers. 1t cannot have
their traditional end.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-05
Labor Linericks
By CHARLES ASHLEICH

An earnest young curate, named
Flynn,
Said the workers were living in sin.
So he chased and he harried
Both single and married.
Then died from devotion to gin.
A stout pompous person, named
Bleeder,-
A prominent union leader
Said: "You ssk why l dine
With the boss?-I like wine,
And, then, I'm a vigorous FEEDER
A learned professor, named Bray,
Said: II really can't make teaching
payw
So he lectures on Russia,
And says we must crush 'er.
And guzzles champagne every day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-05

been spread; the church bells
rang, military companies from
Charlestown and other ne;ghbor-
ing towns began pouring in, the
saloons were crowded with nerv-
Gus and hard-drinking men, and
there was the clamor and Juror
of thousands of awe-struck South
erners. No one knew how many
men were in the Arsenal. No one
knew whether the whole South
was not being attacked by Adolf
tionists, or whether or not all the
slaves hadS armed and risen
against their masters, as they had
attempted to years before in Nat
Turner's and other rebellions.
By noon the iSouthcrners had
begun the attack. They killed or
drove out all the guards John
Brown had stationed at various
strategic points in the town; they
murdered two of Browns men
they had taken prisoners, and tor
tured another. They managed to
cut off all of Browns paths of
retreat, and by nightfall, he and
the few survivors of his men were
in a trap.
Robert E. Lee Takes Fort.
His young son, Oliver, only
twenty years old, and recently
married, died in the night. He
had been painfully wounded, and
begged, in his agony, that his
father shoot him and relieve him
from pain. But the old Spartan
held his boys hand and told him
to be calm and to die like a man.
Another young son, Watson, had
been killed earlier in the fighting.
John Brown had now gwen three
sons to freedom, and was soon
himself to be a sacrifice.
There were left alive and un-
wounded but five of Browns men.
The Virginia militia, numbering,
with the civilians in the town, up
to the thousands, seemed afraid
to attack this little group of des-
perate men. In the dawn of the
next morning, however, United
States marines, under the famous
commander, Robert e. Lee then a
Colonel in the Federal forces, at
tackled. the arsenal and captured
it easily. John Brown refused to
surrender to the last; and he
stood waiting proudly for the ma
rines when they broke down the
door and came raging like tigers
at him.
Brown Beaten Mereilessly.
A fierce young Southern officer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-05
The Arsenal Is Captured.

VENTS flashed sharp and ter
H rible and swift as lightning
after this sombre opening of the
storm. The telegraph wires were
cut, the Waterman at the bridge
captured, guards were placed at
the two bridges leading out of the
town, and many citizens were
taken from the streets and held
as prisoners in the Arsenal.
Perhaps the most distinguished
prisoner was Colonel Lewis, w.
w a him G ton, a great-grand-
nephew of the first President, and
like him, a gentleman farmer and
slave owner. He lived five miles
from the Ferry, and with the in
stinct of a dramatist, John Brown
seized him and freed his slaves as
means of impressing on the
American imagination that a new
revolution for human rights was
being ushered in.
Browns Heroic Struggle.
The little town was peaceful
and unprepared for this sudden
attack, as unprepared as it would
be today for a similar raid. By
morning, however, the alarm had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-05

Ivan Moslvin, the star in the great
photoplay, "Polikushka." Moskvin
plays the character of a ragged, ill
kempt stableman and makes an APP
pealing tho tfagically futile figure
out of him. The picture was shown
in Orchestra Hall, recently by the
Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers
Germany. 1t viii be shown over the
nation by the Friends Of Soviet Rus
STA and Workers Germany during the
weeks ahead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-05

This is "The Story Of John
Brown" by Michael Gold. Pub
lished by the DAILY WORKER
thru arrangement with Haldeman-
Julius Company, Of Girard, Kans.
Copyrighted, 1924, by Haldeman-
Julius Company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-05
(Continued from Page 81 .

The statistics of acreage prove
the contrary what is assumed by
ths ''pauperization theory: Tenant
farms are growing not only in
numbers but in sizes as we'll they
exceed the growth Of owner farms
and in considerable parts Of the
country they are bigger than owner
farms:
Let US look what changes have
been made in distribution Of farm
property among the tenure groups:
The total farm property estimat-
ed in 1910 in Al billion dollars and
in 1920 in 70 billion dollars was
distributed as follows in per cents
Of the totals Of each year:
In owner farms 65.1 Gil
In manager farms Al 40
In tenant farms 30.8 $40
The tenant farms appear here as
the only group where the increased
farm property was accumulated
relatively more at the end Of the
decade than that was at the begin.
ming. Owner farms and farms
operated by managers had smaller
part Of farm property in 1920 than
they had in 1910.
Property Subdivision.
The total property in its subdivi-
Ei0ns was distributed among the
main groups of farms lin per cents
of each years total amOunt) as
follows:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-03-31
OPEN THE DOORS!

m HE city council getting off bad in its investi
cation alleged Irregularities in the city hall It's decision
hold hearings behind closed doors and to only such
council members believe should be made public
is mistake
City hall business the pubc business If there have been
irregularities in the administration the public entitled to know
ALL the facs-not just the coucimen believe the public
should know.
Mayor Shank is entirely within his rights when he declares
his opposition private hearings of public matters There is
nothing the city council could do sitting city council
board of investigation which should be known cit
Serious charges have been made against the administration
by councmen If the charges and borne out the
investigation there ustiabe why should
all If they the adj
minration and Mayor Shank should be indicated publicly
What has city council to hide?
Why does it hesitate take the public into its confdence
Why pick part of the facts and make them public and
suppress others2
another?
OPEN THE DOORS TO THE PUBLIC