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Evening star., 1924-08-03
BY EDWARD F. ROBERTS.

A million Americans are today buy
ing automobiles on the installment
plan and are proving incidentally
that the average citizen OF the United
States is an honest man. for in this
vast business involving in the neigh
borhood of a million dollars in credit
yearly bad debts are almost unknown.
America is a nation on wheels
riding to its work and pleasure in So
| per cent of all the motor-driven
vehicles in the world, and the in
stallment plan is one of the biggest
factors that has brought about this
condition. Just how big a factor was
what / went to Alfred Ii. Swayne,
vice president Of the General Motors
Corporation, to find out. In addition
to being vice president to General
Motors, Mr. Swayne is chairman of
the board of the General Motors Ac-
ceptance Corporation, an organization
which handles the sales on time pay
| ments Of all the parent body cars.
How many automobiles are sold on
the installment pIan?' was my first
question.
4 anu HaI turnover.
Nobody knows the exact figure
| replied Mr.. Swayne promptly" How
| ever. / can give you a fair estimate
Of the money involved and you can
arrive at a figure for yourself which
| ] think will be approximately correct.
| Selling automobiles on the install
| ment plan is comparatively new
development in the industry, but it
/ raD =
pidity that there has not been time
1 to compile exact statistics in regard
| to it. The actual turnover in the au
| tomobile industry for cars and trucks
is something more than $1,500, ,000. 900,
| exclusive of spare parts. yearly and
| the amount of that business which is
| done on time would be at least 40
| per cent. AS matter of fact, oSer
| 60 per cent of all cars sold today are
| purchased on the installment plan
| The total amount involved would be
| somewhere between $S0O,o0o,o0O and
| $1,000. 100000 yearly. and as the very
| great ma jority of cars bought on in
| stallment are in the $1,000 or under
| class you can estimate for yourself
| about the number of automobile buy
ers who are Interested.
! 'Somew here about million. then,
/ haZarded.
Million Buyers, Roughly Stated.
1T would be roughly about that
number assented Mr.. Swayne. "As a
matter of fact, our own customers
number between 100000 and 100000
and we do about a third of the entire
| volume ] should say about millior
| would be fairly accurate guess; but
as the business is growing, wha
would be a good guess today would
not be a good guess tomorrow"
How about bad debts?" ! asked
Il suppose you have to deal with {
number of optimists who find wheT
Evening star., 1924-08-03

A trip through the River Rouge Plant,
where the process of Ford car manufac-
ture is begun, is revelation in scien-
tifically guided human endeavor.
The methods, alone, are of startling
interest. One does not merely marvel
at what is being done - one thrills at
how it is done.
Here it is evident that Man has con-
quered machinery. Science has sup
planted muscle with mechanical power,
and brain has conquered Drawn!
Everywhere materials are on the
move and men standing still at their
Evening star., 1924-08-03

Continued on Sixth Page.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-26
THE THEATRE
By D'FERRIER

The Freiheit Workers Art The
alter of Chicago produced it's first
play, "Menschen," by Sholom Alei-
chem. The production was a great
success.
Those who took part in the play
are all devoted comrades, workers
who have to labor hard during the
day for their existence and that of
their families, active union workers,
members of the Arbeiter Ring
(Workmen's Circle), all of them
Workers Party comrades. And with
all these activities they find time to
devote themselves to culture, to
drama. 1t is hard work preparing
plays and producing them, but these
workers do it all with enthusiasm,
because in this way, they can dispel
the black-yellow Socialist Forward"
atmosphere which hovers so thickly
about the Jewish workers.
After the highly successful pro-
duction Of the first play, the "Frei-
heit Workers Art Theatre" is pre-
pairing to produce the newest revo-
lutionary drama, and those taking
part will go into the work with the
same devotion, energy and idealism
as they did for the first play.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-26
0c0NkUhyE CAIlDDElteVLuHli

have very little, and sometimes even
starve or die young because they live
IN such. poor homes and work in fac
tories where they get all sorts of dis
eases. So Karl Marx thought of a
way that the poor people could take
the factories and farms for them
selves and not let one man be the
boss over many workers, while he
does nothing but enjoy himself. He
thought of way that all the good
things in the world could belong to
the workers who make them, so that
their children would not have to 90
to work while they are very young,
but could go to school and grow up
to be clever and educated and healthy
men and women. And Karl Marx
wrote about these things in books so
that workers could read about them
and learn how they themselves can
make this world a better world. /
hope that each one Of US, when we
grow up, will read these books and
teach our comrades, the other work.
ers, to read them.
Another great man was Nicolai
AeAhis NO houDL you nave All HedTu
about him. Millions of workers in
Russia are mourning for him as they
would for a father, for it was he who
taught them how TO make Russia
their very own land. Many workers
in other countries Of the world are
also very sad because this great man
died.
Lenin was the head Of the Russian
government--and, guess how much
pay he got? Just $50 a week. Do
you know that President Coolidge
gets about $4,000 week? Lenin was
great because he did not care 10 get
things only for himself. He wanted
all the workers Of Russia and all the
workers Of the world TO get the good
things, and he did not care If he had
to die to help them.
We should learn all about the lives
Of these great heroes Of the working
class and try TO grow up TO be more
like them, and not like the great man
who killed for money or power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-26
Old Guard Gloomy
at Mellon Bills
Defeat In House
lBr me Fed.rstsd Pr...l

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 25.--
Deep dependency has settled upon
Gillett, Longworth and the Old Guard
hierarchy in the House, at their de-
feat on every outstanding issue Of the
tax bill by the combined progressives
and democrats. The vote Of 221 to
1876 by which the Mellon surtax rates
were rejected in favor of the "a per
cent proposed by the Democrats, was
a fatal blow to the morale of the
administration crowd. This was fol-
lowed by a vote of 1852 to 112, by
which the progressives and democrats
made the income tax rates apply to
profits from the sale of stock divi-
dends, regardless of when sold. Then
they whipped the administration a
third time, by extending the benefits
of the 25 per cent reduction on
earned income to farmers and small
business men. The vote was 141. to
134.
A feature of the tax debate has
been the frank discussion of the Big
Business character of Secretary Mel
Ion. the extent of his bank and oil
and rail holdings, and the enormous
profits he has recently received from
ventures that depend upon favorable
Legislation. Frear of Wisconsin ex-
planned how Melons Gulf Oil Co.,
for example, had paid a stock divi-
dend of 200 per cent, and that the
value of the stock then jumped from
s400 to $500 per share. Rainey of
Illinois pointed out that $2,10o,000,
900 of stock dividends were distri-
buted in 1922, following the leader
ship Of Mellon in his oil company in
fiation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-26
Free Lance Writers
Declare w ar on
Moron Scenarios

Charging that closed monopoly ex-
lists in the scenario field, which oper-
ates in favor of few authors who
are supplying 80 per cent of the
screen stories that are produced, one
hundred free lance authors have
joined in the incorporation of the
American League of Freelance
Authors" which will have its ma
tional headquarters in Chicago, in
the Capitol building.
Short story and scenario writers
all over the country will be asked to
cooperate in a national campaign to
break the alleged monopoly which is
declared to be keeping the names of
new writers off the screen, and which
is also accused of being responsible
for ian epidemic of immoral, censor
able, and mediocre films which have
aroused the antagonism of movie
patrons everywhere"
1t is understood that an organized
drive will be made on film producers
who are said to have permitted an
association of professional scenario
writers to establish an "open shop
which closes the big studios to new
writers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-26
GREAT MEN.
By IDA DAILES


When we hear about great men
what do we think of? Most of us
think of the great men our teachers
tell US about in school, and we be-
lieve that these men are great be-
cause our teachers tell US about them
in such a wonderful way. These
great .nen that we learn about are
usually great soldiers, generals and
colonies. Let US think hard and try
to find out whether these men really
are great.
George Washington, General Lee
General Grant, General Sherman, Ma
poleon, and such men are the ones we
hear most about. Do you know what
1t means to be a great man like this?
It means to be a great killer to know
how to kill more men than others
know how to kill. That may be ter
rible, but our teachers tell us that
these men killed because, at that
time, it was right to kill. Was IL?
Yes, 1t was right for them to kill be-
cause they killed for their country,
our teachers say.
What was their country? Usually
NAAIAA NoAAbhl was q VI a
group Of rich people who wanted to
become more powerful OF more rich.
So they gave these killers a lot Of
money and praised them very much,
and made great men Of them.
But there are other great men that
our teachers don't speak about. There
are great men who are very poor
while they live and who work hard
helping other men, like themselves,
to make the world better place to
live in for those who work in the fac
tories and on the farms.
One Of these great men was Kari
Marx. He was never very rich, and
he did not care to make a billion
dollars and have all the teachers in
his country talking to the children
about him as they talk about kings
apd generals. He saw that the work
ers Of tho world are the ones who
work hard to make all the good
ihinak. and that thsy, themselves
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-26
Ukrdinidns Will
Start Tri-Wee
Paper in Canada

WINNIPEG, Man, Feb. 25.-The
Ukrainian workers and farmers Of
Canada are going TO have a tri-
weekly newspaper beginning March
/. It was decided at the convention
Of the Uhrainian Labor Temple As
sociation here recently to issue the
"Ukrainian Labor News" which has
been published since 1919 as a semi
weekly, three times a week. This
paper serves the third largest ma
tional group in Canada.
The convention also adopted reso-
lutions protesting against the treat
ment Of Ukrainian populations Of
western Uxrainia which is under the
domination Of reactionary Poland
and Roumania. In these districts
tine Ukrainian workers and peasants
arc being oppressed by the reac-
tionary governments.
The resolutions were addressed TO
J.. Ramsay Macdonald, premier Of
England, and the workers Of the
world, asking them to protest
against the treatment Of the Tx
rainian workers and farmers In Po-
land and Roumania.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-26
B RITISH RULE
IN INDIA FACES
SERIOUS CRISIS
Government Defeated
on Important Measure
tspseI.I to The Daily werksrl

CALCUTTA, India, Feb. 25.-A
crisis that may shake British rule in
India to its foundations has broken
here on the morning of the British
Labor Party's coming into office. The
political future of Ramsay Mac
Donald and the conservative wing Of
the British Labor Party depends to a
great degree on the way in which he
handles this powder magazine.
The Government of India was de-
feated in the Imperial Assembly Of
Delhi on the Home Rule issue. The
Swarjists or Dominion Home Rule
Party introduced a resolution calling
upon the viceroy to initiate a round
table conference representing all In
dian political parties and the Indian
government. This would draft con-
stitution to be submitted for approval
to the newly elected Indian Parlia-
ment and to the British Parliament
The British government opposed
this and were aided by conservative
Swarjists. The progressives won by
vote of 76 to AZ. The British gov
eminent as usual offered a milk and
water sop in the form of fake in
quiry to determine whether the
present constitution was working all
right or not and to learn whether
it was possible to amend it or not
This was similar to Macdonald
proposition.
European papers favoring the
British government predict a COM
plete breakdown of the present adj
ministration.
The bill which brought aboutN the
defeat of the government provided
for the immediate transfer Of all de-
partments of government to the con-
troll of the Indian Legislature. For
eign affairs and defense were except
ed, the former being delayed pend
ing reconstruction Of the British
Empire and the latter for a period of
ten years.
Sir Malcolm Haley, representing
the British Government was the
chief spokesman against the resolu-
ton for more freedom for the Hin
dus. He read a statement from
Ramsay Macdonald which shows
conclusively that colonial subjects Of
OltdJ DIlIdhl Sdn cApCNb AlO aAACNAd-
ton Of their conditions from that
Observation-Disclosures capitalist
lackey. The statement is as follows:
"The British Government notes
with great concern the distrust shown
by advocates of constitutional reform
regarding the good faith Of the Brit
ish Government and its attitude tow
ard constitutional progress. The
British Government associates itself
with Indian constitutionalists toward
responsible government, but that
aim can only be realized by co-opera-
ton in enabling the act to be admin
istered as efficiently as possible in
the interests Of good government"
In other word Mr.. Macdonald is
strong for Hindoo patriots so long as
they assist the British capitalists in
robbing their countrymen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-26
REBEL MIN { RS
B ETRAY Ed B Y
LABOR RENEGADES
West Va. Victims De-
clared Guilty"
By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH.
Especial to The Daily Workerl

The delegates to the recent miners
convention had to wait till they got
home and back to the picks before
they knew what business was trans
acted during the two hours of the
last days session. Not only did they
fail to hear any ruling made on the
vote on the Howat case, but they
also failed to hear the reading of the
most brazen document of all that
were read into the records of that
ne'er to be forgotten convention.
This document, labeled resolution
No. 7S4 and signed by P. 7. Pagan,
VIM. Patton, VIM. largest and Carl
Wolcutt, all of District No. 5, Pitts
burgh, is the rankest kind of be-
trayal of the men who led the strug-
gle for the preservation of their
union in the little 1soiated mining
town of Cliftonville, w. Va, during
the 1922 strike. This is another
sample Of the begging that makes
it impossible for workers to do any
thing besides beg.
Here is the resolution addressed
to Gov. Morgan:
WHEREAS, There are forty-two
men incareerated in the Moundsville,
w. Va, penitentiary charged with
completely in the march of the min
ers in Brooke County, West Vir-
ginia, and
WHEREAS, These men have now
been in prison for many months leav-
ing their families and dependents in
want and restitution; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That we petition the
Honorable Z. P. Morgan, Governor of
West Virginia, to pardon these men
: so that they may take care of their
families, and can again mingle with
their fellow men, as we believe they
have been sufficiently punished, as
they were victims of communistic
and anarchistic propaganda. Hence,
we appeal to you to temper justice
with mercy, and iberate these broth
ers now in the penitentiary at
Moundsville, in your state"
1t is hard to understand the acts
Of men whose duty it is to protect
our membership, yet who, in a docu-
ment like the resolution addressed to
Gov. Morgan, of West Virginia, adj
nit that the men were guilty when
they ask that "justice be tempered
with mercy" What do they mean by
justice? What do they mean by
mercy? The Cossacks of Pennsyl-
vania elaborated with their like
from West Virginia, they bounded
the miners on both sides of the bor-
DER the. Pennsy Cossacks in West
Virginia and the West Virginians in
Pennsylvania, and it made no differ
ence to them, they took all the min
ers who didn't look good to them
regardless Of whether they took part
in the riot OK MOI
They picked them up on the Penn
sylvania side of the border, drove
them to the line and pushed them
into the waiting arms Of the West
Virginia authorities. It wouldn't be
so bad if the men who signed the
resolution were ignorant Of the facts
in the case, but it appears that it
suddenly dawned on them that they
were in a red batting society and
that they could put it over. They
didn't even think of the poor pris-
oners before they left their homes.
else the resolution would have come
up when the committee was making
its report.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-26
Fe0thery Robot Comes
Near Singing S u an
S Ong of Pekin Ruler
By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN.

By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN.
Igor Stravinski's symphonic poem,
"The Song of the Nightingale" was
played for the first time in Chicago
at the concert of the Chicago Sym
phony orchestra, at Orchestra Hall
last Friday and Saturday. The pro-
gram of the work is almost as beauti-
full as the music. 1t tells how the
emperor of China holds audience
with nightingale, and is charmed
by his music. But when the emperor
of Japan sends the Chinese ruler
mechanical nightingale, the living
bird is discarded. But the potentate
falls on evil days, and death sits on
his pillow, while phantoms haunt his
room. He calls for music, but the
mechanical song bird is broken. Sud-
denly appears the banished singer,
who charms Death and his evil
spirits away, and revives the life of
the emperor. The courtiers come to
bury him, but remain to celebrate his
recovery, while from far away comes
the song Of fisherman, welcoming
home his nightingale.
Now the remarkable thing is that
StravinsH tells this story, consider
ably in detail, in his music, so that it
is a marvel of modernism. Weird
and peculiar h9rmonic progressions.
new and wonderful, but terrifcally
difficult instrumental effects abound,
while the Chinese scale is frequently
used. The whole effect is that of a
whimsical tale, told by figures cut
out of green jade.
Big Man--Much Sound.
The soloist of the day was Felix
Salnond, a British cellist, and a
newcomer to Chicago. Salmond is a
big man, tho probably not more than
seven feet tall. His musicianship is
as big as his physical makeup, for he
possesses a tone huge in volume, and
exceptionally fine and clear in quail
ity. His execution, as he leans way
over the big sound box of his instru
ment and seems to embrace it, is brill
liant and perfect. Salmond played
concerto by Lado. 1t is dark, sooth-
ing and restful music, tho not par
ticularly great.
The concert opened with a Scotch
march by Debussy 1t is attractive
music, spirited yet delicate. Rather
than a piece of Scotch music, it is
the impression of an exceedingly re-
fined Frenchman Of the coarse tunes
of the bagpipes.
Got His Germans Mixed.
Following was Beethoven's first
symphony. Had this not been la
beled Beethoven on the program, it
would not have been recognized as
such. 1t is perfectly good Mozart,
and, like Mozart, it is light hearted,
joyous music, and delightfully."- old
fashioned and out of date. Here is
not trace of the sombre and pas
sionate soul that was the mature
Beethoven.
The concert closed with excerpts
from "The Damnation of Faust" by
Hector Berlioz. The unimpressive
invocation of Mephistopheles, two
graceful and pleasant little dances,
and the tremendous, fiery, Rakoczy
march constituted this number.
Next week Claire Dux will be the
soloist. She will sing arias by Mo-
Fart and Bizet. The orchestra will
play Mahler's fourth symphony, ex-
cerpts from Schrecker's opera 1.-THE
Treasure Hunters" in which Miss
Dux will assist, and small works by
Mozart, Satie, and Schillings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-26
Send The Daily Worker To
Victims of Capitalist L0w
Now In United States Prisons

If you of those persons who would like to boost
the DAILY WORKER but think that all the people you know
would be against it, here chance subscriber for the
DAILY WORKER at bargain rates. We will send the DAILY
WORKER any political prisoner the United States for
for $3 You send So and that political
prisoner gets the DAILY WORKER for a year.
The who in prison for their activities behalf
workers deserve your consideration help
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HE above are the reproductions of the first the combined
extra editions the Moscow "Pravda"
Communist daes containing the first NkO Lenn death
Copies of these
These issues dated Tuesday o. Wednesday,
Lenin died 21
22nd issue with the
of
Preside Kainin ont of Lenin.
full
with the
declaring JAM 21st day of and the
Soviet closing all places
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-26

of committee for the organization the funeral
in this
The combined edition Of Prayd and Ivesta and
lated 23rd This edition The first
with the
the the world The 18th of Sovies
Republics
appealed
of their organization.
The Red soldiers and sailors asked observe revolutionary discipline
the mighty the The
taken with Of the ARRANGEMENTS for the funeral
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-26

Geo. Ryan, No. 35567
VIM. Baker, No. 35713
Henry Matlin. No. 357I7
James Olson, No. 3571s
Frank Sherman, No. 3576s
Jim Roe, No. 357s5
Ramon j. Sanchez, No. 1881
w. l. Fruit, No. 357l5
Ben whiting. No. 35721
Omar ]. Eaton, No. 3ss27
r. w. Minton, No. 37492
G. A. Drew, No. 1864
C. +. McGrath, No. s77O2
r. Kuilmen, No. 377e3
Frank Cox, No. 377O1
Laurri Msmmi. No. 377O4
+. Franklin, No. 1885
James Martin, No. 1856
p. Mellman, No. 376s7
Frank Bailey, No. 37647
r. A. Gibson, No. 376tS
VIM. JOosdeff. No. s7e4s
John Orlando, No. 37s50
Joe VarRa, No. 37752
Claude Erwin, No. 37SS2
Roy Leonard, No. 37s24
Lawrence Gross, No. 37s2S
VIM. Flanagan, No. 1887
John Nolan, No. 37907
Paul Ware, No. 3790S
Herbert c. White, No. $1,000
Charles Andrews, No. 38lO7
II. Cederholm, No. 3slOs
j. b. ChiIds. No. 3sl10
II. X. Hanson, No. 3s1l4
Francis Hart, 3S115
J. c. Hollis, No. 3sll6
Pierre Jams. No. 3sl17
J. J. Johnson, No. 361lS
J. j. Kleiberg, No. 3s1ls
Walter k0hrs, No. $500
Tom Lyons, No. 3sl2l
Jas. LaLonde, No. 1922
G.. Lindsfors, No. 3SI23
VIM. Minton, No. 3sl2l
~ McClenniRau No 3S125
I. Pugh, No. 3Si26
j c. Robinson, No. 1927
Geo. Roeschlau, No. 3sl2S
Chas. }. Smith, No. 3sls1
C. ]. Terrill, No. 3Sl32
Fox Varella, No. 3s133
AT REQUA, CALF. ROAD CAMP "A"
Edw. X. Peters
AT FOLSOM PRISON, REPRESA. CALF
James Mclaughlin
James Price
Louis Allen
Earl frey
Richard Ford
Herman Suhr
John Hiza
Joe Wagner
Joe Clohessy
Albert Stangeland
c. J. Sullivan
II. &. Duke
p. J. Gordon
This list includes the boys who were
sent to prison in California for viola
ton of the criminal syndicalisn
law, the men who were in the armed
march into Logan County, West Vir
ginia and were sent to prison as 1
result, it includes the boys from Cen
tralia who by defending their unioI
hall against the American LegioI
once for all stopped the American
Legion from raiding union and radica
halls, and beating up the workers they
found there.
Don't forget the workers in prison
Send them the DAILY WORKER fol
a year. Do it now.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill, Feb. 25.--
John p. Adams, who left a suicide
note in 1915 following an alleged
shortage in his accounts with the
Century Boat Club where he was Q
bookkeeper, was home today. He re-
turned just in time to prevent Mrs
Cora Adams, whom he divorced two
years before he disappeared, from
collecting on $1,000 life insurance
policy she still held on his life.