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ers mixed it for two days in the
streets OF Canton, with result of per-
maps a thousand casualties, a very
considerable destruction from incen-
diary fires, much looting, and final
victory for the reds, who seem to be
phase of bolshevism.
More trouble is expected.
x X *
United States OF Americn.-Our
Preparations" Zeppelin ZR-3 did not
take OF as scheduled from the Zeppe-
lin works at FriedrichShafen on the
18th. She took off about $50 am. on
the 18th. Columbus day. and arrived
at LAakehurst, n. J., at 9:52 am. the
18th. The distance covered was 1850
miles; the time of flight approximate
ly 81 hours. The best speed was 90
mics per hour; the average was 60,
when there were no head winds.
The Zeppelin patents have been
transferred to the Goodyear ZenpeIin
Company, which is a Subsidiary of
the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com
pany. and future construction of rigid
dirigibles under these patents viii
take place at Akron, Ohio. Twelve
Zeppelin experts from Germany are
construction.
The American and Continental Cor
poration, with an initial subscribed
capital of ten million dollars. has
been organized in New York CITY
for the purpose Of making American
capital available for financing in
dustries IN Europe. European appli-
cations for American money are ar
irving in mighty numbers.
Jackie Coogan has been made an
officer OF the Order of St George by
the Greek government in apprecia-
ton of his Humanitarian work" The
ceremony of decoration with the
medal of the order took place on the
Acropolis. The American minister.
the members of the Greek govern
ment and 1000 orphans under the
care OF the Near East relief organiza-
ton were present. Afterwards,
Jackie was entertained by the pro-
visional president of Greece. Admiral
kountouriotes. Jackie has been
similarly honored elsewhere in
Europe, everywhere hobnobbing with
kings. dictators and big wigs in
general. X X +
Miscellaneous.-The Swedish Con-
servative cabinet, headed by Ernst
Trigger. has resigned. and DR..
Branting, the Socialist Democratic
new cabinet.
Only one item of news from the
Spanish zone of Morocco, minor
Spanish reverse.
Mussolini has quite recovered his
old vigor and confidence; he is him
self again, his ancient trenchancy of
phrase has returned. He dubs the
Liberals "a middle of the-road party,
melancholy zealots of super-con-
stitutionalism." He has just approved
the plans for erection in Rome of
the hugest building in the world, as
a monument to fascism.
A report from Bucharest tells of
several hundred casualties resulting
from recent bolshevist raids across the
|. Dniester into Bessarabia.
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clerk at the salary of 1900. but never
did any clerical work. for he was inn
mediately assigned TO duty az an acting
fourth assistant examiner. He worked
his way steadily UP through the grades
until he stood first in an examination
for promotion to principal examiner,
and received the appointment on Au-
gust Z, 1855.
His record is the best ever made for
he climbed through all the grades in
little more than four years when ii
usually takes man - years to travel
the distance.
At first he had charge of household
furniture applica tions, and in the Spring
of 1889 took charge of the division of
harvesting machinery, then probably the
most important schedule in the entire
scope of the Patent Office. The work OF
this division was woefuiIy behind. and
some of the cases had been pending IL
to 10 years Within one year Skinner
had brought all cases uD to date and
took over other work.
During this period there passed
through Mr.. SINNERS hands and re-
ceived his o. X many of the patents
on harvester machinery that have revo-
lutionized agriculture, particularly in
the great grain acreage of the West. es
peClalIy on mowers, 1SdpeFS anu sell
binders.
Taking a long look backward, Mr..
Skinner finds that he was greatly inn
pressed by one incident which showed
the perseverance of some inventors. a
young man in Illinois invented a har-
vesting machine with a seif-binde- at
tachment With tremendous labor and
skill he had whitfield the model with
jack knife, and it stood about the size
of a large fiat-top desk. 1t was very
complicated. but SO well done that the
wooden model actually worked and Mr..
Skinner got a real kick out of approx
ing his patent
He recalls also a case of "interfer-
ence" which illustrates the impor-
tance and value of patents which
came to him for decision. This one
was on the first bundle carrier for
attachment TO grain binders. Four
parties were involved in the interfer-
ence contest. One of the attorneys
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A BETTER HOPE.

q ONE time ago an unknown
Hstener-in on our radio ser
mons wrote us letter that
~ disclosed a situation that Dor
oered on the tragic. The writer
happened to be a young woman whose
early life had been Swallowed by a
nome In which divisions had occurred
mat resulted in wide breach between
idlner and mother. Following this
Iniortunate incident the writer had
bcen thrown out upon the world at
the tender age of II, and in the hope
"l oetterlng conditions had married at
Ahsfortune followed hard upon mis-
fortune, and these, coupled with re-
Peated slckneSses. had SO clouded her
sky that there seemed little hope here
or hereafter. The writer went on to
say that the simple message that
had come through the air had renew
ed IN her the desire to recover what
She called her lost faith" She
stated that suddenly there had been
revealed qualities in her nature that
Tor years had been lost to her, and
mat with the resolve to start upon
tho better way she had experienced
tranquility and peace of mind that
she mad not known for years.
Needed n Word OF Hope.
I believe her case is one that rep
resents the situation in which null
tltudes of men and women find them
selves The thing that had arrested
her was word of hope. She had
so long been suffering from the
worlds stern criticism, and from "a
conscience that condemned her, that
The thought of divine forgiveness as
given to man by the great Master had
bcen wholly lost to her.
The longer | study and observe hui
man nature the stronger is my con-
Elctlon that our whole method Of
dealing with mistaken and sinful
men and women is largely. if not
holly, out OF conSonance with the
method employed by Christ. One of
the finest examples of the recognition
of His method is found in Jerome
X. Jerome'S suggestive play THE
Passing of the Third Floor Back"
| was talking some years ago with
the d}stinguishdd EnsliShman, Sir
Forbes Robertson. who made this
play famous, and in our conversation
he told me that he had never per
formed his striking part without
realizing its deep significance, and the
GhriStly method by which the author
had sought to portray the Masters
way of regenerating human life. IL
one of the most striking PASSAGE,
where the stranger deals with a man
whose life had grown coarse and cal
ious, he so stirred his deeped and
finer qualities that he brought forth
from him this striking statement,
You have always taken it for grant
I'D. Sir, in all our conversations. that
| was d fine fellow, in sympathy with
fine ideals. But that is not what
surprises me: it is to find that you
are right" Here was one who only
needed the hopeful word of another
to rediscover the finer. if latent. quail
tiles of his better nature. Another
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~ HE Following is a brief sum-
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended October 1S:
Great Britain-It is signI-
cant that imperial conference of pre-
miers. which was to be held in Lon
don this Fall, has been indefinitely
postponed The atmosphere is not
promotions for such conference:
neither in the tight little isle nor
in the empire at large.
On October the Labor party con-
ference in London voted (each dele
gate casting a number of votes cor
responding to the number of persons
by him) as follows:
Against the application OF the Com
munist party for affiliation with the
Labor party, 3,1s5,000 to 193.00o:
against Endorsement of Communists
as Labor candidates, 2.456,000 to ST.
900: against eligibility of Communists
for membership in the Labor party,
100000 to 100000. The conference
representatives included representa-
tjyes of trade unions, trade councils.
local labor parties, and Soclahst
parties. The conference passed
resolution calling for Naturalization
of the Bank of England.
The coming British general cleo
tons Will De INC lhiiu "
years.
seryative. He is leading the Con-
servative party's fight in the election
campaign against Socialism.
The Conservatives and Liberals
have come to an agreement regarding
2 number of seats in the new Parila-
ment. under which either the Liberal
or the Conservative candidate Will
withdraw so as to avoid triangular
contest to the advantage OF Labor.
Erance.-Anatole France died on
October IS, at the age of 80. HIS
real name was Jacques Anatole Thl-
bault. He was a humorist and stylist
of the first rank. The statement will
scarcely be disputed that no living
writer except Thomas Hardy may
challenge him for greatness. The
Able Jerome Coignard will live for
ever.
In his election campaign Premier
Herriot promised to raise the pay of
state employees. Unable to carry out
his promise by adding to the budget,
he is doing so by discharging 10000
employees. 1t is thought that trans
action Of the public business will not
suffer thereby.
One hears that the French and Ger
man representatives who have been
negotiating with a view to a Franco
German trade treaty have reached
"a satisfactory basis of accord"
A French polar airplane expedition
is planned for next Spring. 1t Is pro-
posed to use Franz Josef Land as a
base, fly to the pole, survey the
circumpolar region, then fly on to
Alaska Presumably there would be
swift preliminary flights to the pole
and return, for the purpose of estab-
fishing caches at the pole.
+ 80
Germany.-The German loan OF
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U. S. Foreign Service Draws
Many More Applicants Now

Continued from First Page)
by Executive order after five years
service in the Department of State.
The salaries will permit a man to live
modestly and appropriately The
provisions of the act and of the
Executive order providing that the
personnel board shall recommend, in
the event of vacancies in the grade
of minister, foreign service officers
to fill these vacancies. will, it is hoped.
eventually demonstrate that such
positions can be more satisfactorily
filled by trained men. And it is ex-
pected that there will be an ever in
crea.ing number of men promoted
from the foreign service to serve as
chiefs of mission"
Wedding Ont Is Needed.
Personnel in both the consular and
diplomatic branches of the new uni
fled service have come under the
control of the new foreign service
personnel board, which already has
made several changes. A total of 80
diplomatic and consular officers have
been eliminated, since the board first
met in June. OF these "a consula r
and one diplomatic officer were re-
tired under the provisions Of the act,
and there have been four resigna-
tions
Careful scrutiny of the records of
the personnel 100 diplomatic. $40
consular, resulted in the demotion of
s members Of the diplomatic branch,
and 20 members of the consular
branch, with warning that their work
was unsatisfactory, and would he eX-
pected to improve. This disciplinary
method of demotion was resorted to
in lieu of the dismissal authorized by
the act, as according to Secretary
Hughes, 1.-The board was of the opin-
ion that unfairness and hardship
would result from immediate separa-
ton from the service with no warn
ing.'
The board is further considering
the matter of assigning diplomatic
officers as inspectors-at-large, and
hopes eventually to consolidate the
inspection of diplomatic missions and
consular missions under one set of of
ficers. The consular association has
been abolished. and the Foreign
Service Association to WHICH all Of
ficers commissioned under the Rogers
act, are eligible, has been established.
G Abolish "SpoiIs'' System.
Among the virtues of the new or
der, department officials and friends
of the reform believe the final re-
moval of diplomatic and consular po-
sitions fro mthe status of the "spoils
of politics" to be among the most
beneficial
Down to the administrations of
Presidents Roosevelt and Taft" &C
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The Story the Week Has Told

500, 900, 900 marks (s200. 900, Ooo) has
been floated: $4,000, 600 was appor-
toned to the United States: il was
oversubscribed five times. The ma
chinery of Notation was the result
Of negotiations between the president
of the Reichsbank and the German
finance minister on the one part and
the Morgans and other great banking
houses on the other. The object of
the loan, according to the language
of the Dawes report, is the double
one "of assuring currency stability
and financing essential deliveries in
kind during the preliminary period
of economic rehabilitation" The
Bankers Trust Company has made
a pretty analysis, as follows: The
wealth OF the German people is about
$55 900, 100000, so that "A loan of
$200, 100000 is less than four tenths
of L per cent of the national wealth.
The complete service of the loan will
cost about s2O,o00.001 in the earlier
years, whereas the national income
of Germany is about $1,000, 900, 900.
The sinking fund will retire one
twenty-fifth of the loan yearly.
The bonds being rcdeemable in %
years. and offered at %, give yield
of about "a per cent.
The bonds will constitute a first
general charge on all German reve-
nues and a prior lien on certain rev.
enues specified in the international
agreements. Never was loan so
heavily secured.
All tho conditions attached to
the Dawes plan have now been
complied with. The reparations COM
mission trustees have in their hands
German railway securities for ST.
10000. 600, industrial obligations for
81, 500, 600. 900 and bankers contracts
for 100000 900.
The Versailles treaty calls for de-
struction of the Zeppelin works at
Friedrichshafen. on Lake Constance
Germany, where our ZR-3 was built
The ambassadors conference, at the
request of the American Government
postponed the destruction until such
time as the ZR-3 should be completed
1t is understood that the French
government will insist that the YER
sailles treaty be now complied with.
Germany may build airships not to
exceed 10000 cubic meters in ca
pacity.
x X X X
Iraq.-There is little furry on
the Turkish frontier on Mosul Prov
ince, Kingdom of Iraq, British man.
dated territory; the province, the
future possession of which is in dis
pute between Great Britain and
Turkey-that is, as to whether it
shall continue a part of Iraq, as since
the Mudros armistice, or go back to
Turkey.
AS provided for in the Lausanne
treaty, the settlement of the con-
troversy is in the hands of the council
of the League of Nations.
On September 80 the league coun-
Gil enjoined British and Turks (the
Iraq forces are under British officers
and are supported by a British air
force) ito observe the status quo"
pending tho councils decision. Now
It seems that the Lausanne treaty
required observance Of the then
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Always Busy.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
"How,s life?". we asked of the movie
director.
"A continuous grind" replied he
Camera :"
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As to Poets.

From the Louisvilie Courier Journal.
poets are born and not made
rs that d boast or an alibi:''
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Employees of the Government
Barred From Active Politics

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ny HENRY w. BUM.

@HE following is a brief sum-
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended October is:
The daily worker., 1924-01-25

The latter bill was less drastic than
Senator Capper's proposed measure
and less Objectionable to the wooden
interests.
After having introduced his own
bill, Senator Lodge then went ahead
to substitute one including some pro-
visions of the Capper bill, it is al
ieged. Now the wooden manufactur-
ers are opposing it. They are limiting
bad faith on the part of Lodge. But
the men on the inside of Washing
toms great game of politics look
upon the allaged understanding be-
tween Senator Lodge and Senator
Capper as only an ordinary episode
IN the scheme to make use of the
latter's socalled progressive label in
the interests of the reactionary Cool
idge.
Whatever doubts one might have
had as to where Capper really
stands are dismissed in tae follow
The daily worker., 1924-01-25
Archie and Teddy
Office Boys

Political regulations and prestige of those
involved in the Teapot Oil Dome Steal are
suffering and will suffer more. The morality
of capitalism penalyzes those who are found
to have sinned against their fellow-plunderers
by coarse work and carelessness. A presl-
Dental year has made it impossible to smother
the smell arising from the oily mess or to adj
minister the usual coat of whitewash.
Of all the revelations that have been made,
however, none so shattering of a carefully cul-
tivated myth as the connection of the offspring
of the toothful Teddy win grafters on both the
giving and receiving end.
Theodore Roosevelt is assistant secretary of
the navy department whose head, Edward
DENLY, approved the leases to Sinclair and
Doheny. He signed the leases for DENLY.
Archie Roosevelt until few days ago, was
vice-president of one Sinclair company and
director in many others.
His actual work seems to have consisted, by
his own testimony, of buying steamship tickets
and running other errands for Harry F. Sim
clair.
Young Teddy fills similar berth in the navy
department He attends semi-oficial func-
tions as a representative of the administration,
makes the most asinine speeches in the memory
of man and has his picture taken for the roto-
gravure sections-wherein the Roosevelt name
is prominently displayed.
For Theodore Roosevelt alive we had no
more respect than we have for any other polit-
ical mountebank; dead, we do not mourn, but
this we will say: he stood on his own feet and
did not live on the memory of others.
His sons, have simply capitalized his reputa-
ton and have used the family name to add
what lustre it could to the tarnished tinsel of
the Coolidges, Denbys, MELONS, Falls and
Daughertys.
A Roosevelt heir running down to the dock
and buying steamship tickets for an escaping
CRATER is not so strange after ALL
The dynasty that the father planned to found
has found it's niche; the heirs are now the office
boys of the real rulers-and they are little
frightened at the company in which they find
themselves
The Roosevelt tradition has been drowned
in OIL
The daily worker., 1924-01-25
YOU SAID TT

In answer to Lord Allenby's re-
Gently expressed regret that ~we
(the British) have not even a pa
triotic song" the Manchester Guar
dian takes pride in this condition.
"For all the cynics may say" they
write, "love of our country Is 50
essentially part of us that il
seems to us a moral indecency to
expose it."
The hesitancy to sing is thus re-
vealed as the BVD Of British pa
triotism.
In Russia soldiers and workers al
ways sing, whether they 60 to fight
or work or play. But then the
barbarous Russians go swinging
without bathing suits.
The same article contains shis
gem:
"We suffer acutely under any at
tempt to put patriotism into words.s
In the memory of the war "sorgs"
you said it.
The daily worker., 1924-01-25

There are IL Of these besides the
Muscle Shoals plants.
(3) Circles indicate the hydro-elec-
trio resources in each state; the shad-
ed portion indicating roughly the pro-
portion that has been developed and
the unshaded portion that which is
still undeveloped. Every state has
some water power althc in the small
Ter ones the circles have been omitted.
superpower system. Here 265 cities
and II rural communities are cooper
ating together in q system operated
on the principle of service at cost.
Seattle has interconnected her NUM-
cipal power system with that of Ta-
coma, and these two in turn have
arranged to interconnect with Aber-
deem. Los Angeles, CAL; Spring
field, H.; Wahoo, Neb.; Granite Falls,
Mimi, and scores Of other cities have
caught the superpower idea.
IL Plants In 10 States.
Besides the municipal plants there
are IL hydro-electric plants that are
owned by the U. S. government, II
connected with reclamation projects
III the western states The 18th is
the government plant at Muscle
Shoals. Indicated by stars on the
map.) On or adjacent to these pro.
jects, located in ten states, are over
100000 horse power of hydro-elec-
trio energy available that may be de-
veloped.
Next are the water resources Of
the nation that can nc used to de-
veiop electric power: Rivers like the
Columbia, 100000 horse power;
great cataracts like Niagara; the
rapids of st. Lawrence; Muscle
Shoals, and literally hundreds of
other streams, rapids and falls of
smaller potentialities. Indicated on
map by circles, unshaded portion un-
developed.) Probably less than one
eighth of the total potential hydro
electric power has been taken by pri-
vate companies.
Finally, there are the fuel re-
sources of coal and oil. Indicated
by shaded patches on map.) Tho
these resources are largely privately
owned, some still remain under pub
The daily worker., 1924-01-25

Explanation-(1) The figures in
boxes indicate the number of muni-
cipally owned electric light and power
plants in each state and province.
They are 2,31s in the United States
and 401 in Canada.
ca The stars indicate the hydro
electric power plants owned and oper-
ated by the U. S. government in con-
neetion with the reclamation projects.
HERE is arising in America the
4 mightiest monopoly the world has
ever seen-the power trust. This
monopoly will be more powerful than
any that has ever existed before be-
cause it will include them all; it will
own and control the power without
which none of them can exist and
without which modern civilization
cannot proceed. Electric power is the
key to the coming civilization. The
power trust is monopolizing the cleo
trio power and the source of electric
power of the continent.
The private electric power COM
panies already boast of their chain of
interconnected power systems that
stretch like nightly tentacles from
southern California to northern
Washington, from Niagara to the
factories of Massachusetts,, from Min
esota to Tennessee, from North Caro-
lima to the Everglades of Florida.
Over $50 municipality owned electric
light and power plants in various
parts of the United States, they say,
have succumbed to their superpower
organization within the last few
months.
5000 MunicipalIy Owned Plants
There are first of all the 2318
municipality owned and operated
electric light and power plants in the
United States and 401 in Canada.
Indicated on accompanying map by
the figures in squares). In these is
the nucleus of nationwide, publicly
owned superpower system. True,
scarcely day passes now that pri-
vate companies do not announce the
taking over" of some municipal
plant. But on the whole, the muni-
cipally owned plants are holding their
own or gaining a bit.
In Ontario, there already exists
successful, firmly established public