davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-30

"Oh. dear" complained Mrs.
Featherly. when a short woman
like me hangs out the wash, she
needs arms like a giraffe"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-30

ToOAY'S GAMES
Washington at Boston.
New York at Philadelphia,
Evening star., 1924-12-01

The eaSymnrk doesn't know how
easy he In until some salesman Of
worthless stock or bonds has his
moneN.
Evening star., 1924-12-01
DECISION REVERSED
TN PARENTAGE CASE
Appeals Court Holds Exhibit Of
Infant Should Show Like
ness in Detail.

g. The District Court of Appeals today
reversed the action of Judge Rather
Inc Sellers OF the Juvenile Court, who
had required Rocco Filllpcne to give
a bond Of 100 to secure the payment
of IS per week to Marcelle Viacara
for the support of her infant child
until it becomes Il years old. jury
had found Fillipona to be the father
of the infant after the child had been
exhibited to them as evidence of re-
semblance to it's supposed father.
The Court of Appeals, through
Judge Smith. declares that when an
infant is exhibited to the jury the
court should explain to the Jurors
that to give a resemblance evidenti-
ary value sit should be the reproduc-
tion of a physical characteristic Pc
culiar to the alleged father and
should be SO striking as to leave no
reasonable doubt as to its existence.
The lower" court also erred, 1T IL
stated, in ruling out the evidence OF
a witness as to his relations with the
mother of the child. While one cam
not be compelled to testify to incrimi-
mating evidence he may willingly do
50. the court holds and 1t is for the
jury to decide whether he is telling
the truth. r., -.
Evening star., 1924-12-01
BRITISH OPPOSE !.
j. S. OPIUM STAND
Take Position Against Inter
ferences With Internal
Affairs of Country.
Br the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press:
GENEVA, December 1.-England
came out strongly in support of In
dia today ,at the International Opium
Conference contending that representa-
tive Stephen C. Porter. head of the
American delegation to the conference,
had given a clear impression that aues-
tions of the domestic use of opium in
India would not be pressed, as the
Americans now were attempting to
press IT.
Sir Malcolm Delevigne read extracts
from the records Of meetings of the
opium advisory committee last year
to show that both he (Delevigne) and
Sir John Jordan had made statements
that in conversations with Mr.. Porter
they had been led to believe that the
American delegation had no fHten-
ton of interfering with the internal
practices Of India or any other coun-
try. like Bolivia and Peru, where the
coca leaf is eaten.
Scope or Asenia.
Sir Malcolm insisted that the mat
ter was entirely outside the scope
of the agenda, and that if the Amer
leans insisted upon its consideration
there was danger of the conference
not achieving helpful results on other
questions. such limiting the manu-
facture of narcotic drugs. ="
The American delegation has been
seeking the right to discuss the pro-,
duction of opium in all it's aspects.
whether the opium is intended for
export or for domestic use. On Sat
urday India charged that the Amer
leans had agreed not to raise the
question of opium eating.
Delegate Van Wettum of Holland.
following Sir Michael. said he backed
the position sketched by the British
delegate.
Stand Of Japan.
For Japan. Delegate SuGimura de-
clared that the conference could not
be bound by alleged private Conrer-
sations He empha sized the fact that
last week the conference had declared
itself competent to discuss heroin,
as suggested by the Americans.
although htroin did not figure on
the agenda. and he considered there
was no reason why II could not dis
cuss opium and coca in all aspects.
Mr. Sugimura said the Americans
were right and that the opium drug
evil should be attacked as an undi-
vided whole in order that the world
scourge might be mastered. Mr..
Sugimura conceived humanity Is en-
gagged in a kind of holy war under
the leadership of America and he
bcsought all the nations to contribute
all their religious and moral force so
that victory might be achieved.
Poland, like Japan. supported the
American view. Her pie nipoteutiary
characterized Indias attitude as an
attempt to muZZle the conference
which he argued. under the terms of
all the preparatory documents. had
a clear right to consider the Amer
lean proposals.
Evening star., 1924-12-01
Hat Hints fer Gentlemen.
From the Dodo.


Without consulting any OF the au
thorities on etiquette, we will answer
the question. When is the proper
time for a man to lift or remove his
hat?" for the benefit of our readers.
At the following times and on the
following occasions. respectfully, the
hat should be removed or lifted as
the circumstances indicate: When
mopping the brow, when taking a
bath, when eating, when going to
bed, when taking up collection,
when having the hair trimmed, when
being shampooed and when standing
on the head.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
5000 Tenants Plan
To Strike Against
Landlords MAY Day

Forty Jewish trade unions with a
membership of over 5000 we're repre-
sented at meeting which organized
Tor a rent strike against the MAY lat
increase in rents. A Tenants League
was organized at the meeting, held AZ
2242 lie Moyne street. and the union
representatives decided to advise
their members not TO pay the increase
In rents and not to move.
Until we force measures thru the
legislature curbing the rent-hogs, we
must refuse to pay the advance in
rent Louis Benanshon, chairman.
told his audience.
J. Richie Patterson declared in an
address before the women's CITY
Club that coal is no higher, janitor
service Is no higher, labor Is no
higher, and taxes are no higher. SO
there is no reason for the Increase
In the rents this year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28

groups. The West Coast Lumbermen
second in Importance only to the
Southern Pine, were brought into al
lance with the latter, and no GRIM
inal or civil action has even been
begun against them.
Daugherty Yields to Conspiracy.
Senator Wheeler brought out, by
questions to Thompson and to his
assistant, w. B. Wooden. VINO has
spent several years on these cases,
that Daugherty lost all interest in
prosecution of the lumber crowd when
two lawyers from Columbus, O., came
here and consulted him on behalf of
the conspirators. 1t was reported that
Daugherty seemed exceedingly init
mate with these visitors, and that
one of them was ]. E. Todd, his for
mer law partner. This ]. e. Todd
has appeared in many lines Of activ-
ity requiring the delivery of the favor
OF Daugherty as shown in testimony
before the committee.
Either l am crazy or the world is
crazy" jubilantly wrote Manager Case
of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., in one
of the letters read by Thompson,
showing that pine flooring had sold
at $50 a thousand in Nebraska.
A big campaign on the part Of cler.
gymen, school teachers and women's
clubs, to own your own home" was
financed by the Southern Pine Associ.
ation-and then it boosted the price
of lumber few more points.
Leaders of Crooked Combine.
Leaders in the Western Pine Assn,
Wooden said, are the Anaconda Cop.
per Mining Co., Blackwell Lumber Co.,
Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., Boise-Pay.
cite Lumber Co. and Crookston Lum.
Der Co. The statute Of limitations
against the officers of these and other
companies guilty of criminal con.
spiracy has not expired. But the fed,
eral trade commission does not ex.
pect to see the criminals punished
nor price-fxing against the public
curbed, under existing conditions in
the administration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
BY JAY LovEsToNE,

in the United States have been ex-
hausted. Thus about rs OF the esti-
mated world oil resources now lie out
side Of the United States. This ac-
counts for the growing attention that
the United States is paying to Mexico.
the Caribbean republics. and the
South American republics which fall
in the second greatest oil area in the
world.
OF the supply of corn estimated as
having been raised in the world in
1928, the United States produced a
quantity more than three times as
great as that of all the other produc-
ing countries combined.
Nearly three-fourths of the worlds
known coal reserves are in North
America. More than half of the
worlds supply is in the United States.
Out of the estimated supply of coal
produced in the world in 1923, 1885,
100000 metric tons, 43.5 per cent were
produced in the United States. A
noted French economist summed up
the European view Of the American
imperialist power in this fashion,
"One fact dominates all others: the
rise of the United States to world
hegemony. Lord Robert Cecil has
compared the position of the United
States after the great war with Great
Britain after the Napoleonic wars.
That comparison is not quite exact;
because the British hegemony was
even essentially European while that
of the United States today is univer-
sal, controlling an immense reservoir
of raw materials of manufactured pro-
ducts, and of capital, the United
States has. become an economic
centre in connection with which all
the world must work and trade"
Ito Be Continued tuesday,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
ANTI-CHILD LABOR
Fight AGAIN BEFORE
CONGRESS- FOR ACTION

WASHINGTON, April 27.-Twice
thwarted by decisions of the Supreme
court, federal regulations of child
labor was to be taken up by the house
in the form of constitutional amend
ment. -
Congress previously passed laws reg
ulating interstate commerce in child
labor products and taxing commodi-
ties producted by child labor, but in
each case the Supreme Court ruled
the Legislation unconstitutional.
A large majority in the house had
declared itself in favor of the resolu-
ton when it was brought UP, but con-
siderable doubt existed as to whether
the majority was sufficient to secure
the necessary two-thirds vote.
Under the special rule granted for
consideration six hours debate will be
before the vote.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28

dinavian loans have been placed in
London at the total value of $1,000
600. At the same time there were
ten loans placed in dollars in New
York at the total value of S162, 1000 900.
America has been turned from
debtor nation into a creditor nation.
In 1915 the European capitalists held
S2,704,000,000 worth of United States
railway stocks and securities. Two
years afterwards more than half of
these holdings were transferred to
American hands. In 1914 more than
Il of the stocks of the United States
Steel Corporation were held in Eur
ope. Today the proportion is less
than one tenth. Because of the great
need for credit for their huge Dor
rowings, France and England sent
over the best of their gilt edge secur-
tiles during the war. Thru the invest
ment Of capital abroad the United
States has become the silent partner
in the fate Of every established order
in the world. In 1923 alone American
capitalists bought foreign securities
to the value Of $4,000, 900. Our
foreign trade has increased from ST.
25O,S22 in 1913 to $7,5OS,424, imports
from $1,6OS.57O to $5,O1S,2 99. In 1917
the United States exercised political
or territorial control over 67 per cent
of the petroleum produced thruout the
world, and over 70 per cent of
the petroleum produced was in the
financial grip of Wall Street. The
1913 oil production reports show that
72.5 per cent of the total world oil
supply estimated produced was in the
United States. Adding the quantity
OF crude oil imported, one finds that
the United States today controls at
least so per cent of the worlds avail
able oil supply. But nearly so per
cent of our own petroleum resources
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
American Dollar Diplomacy in Action :. :.:...:

600; mineral output increased from
$2,11S,3OO,00O to $5,6O7, 100000; forest
products $56S,S2O,OOO to $1,6SO,9OO,-
600.
The national income of the United
States has increased from $33,2O0,-
100000 to S52,457 100000 in this
period. From 1912 to 1922 the total
national wealth of the country in
creased from $1S6, 299, 100000 to $780,
500, $4,000 or a gain of more than 70
per cent.
Our merchant marine has grown
from 5,427,53 tons in 1914 to 1902
AGO in 1922. Ships of American re-
gistry carried 45.5 per cent of our
foreign trade during the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1928. In 1918 ships
of American registry carried only IL
per cent of our imports and per cent
of our exports.
America has become the banker of
the world. The Department Of Com
merce in its annual report has stated
that the world required no less than
S4,692,000,000 to pay it's current COM
mercial obligation to the United
States. Since the armistice Novem-
Der II, 1918, European loans to the
extent of $1,146,75O,OOO have been
floated in the United States. In war
debts alone the allies owe America
over $11,0O0,00O,OOO. America has
more than half the worlds gold. In
the last calendar year alone the world
has imported $332,715,S12 in gold.
How rapidly the worlds gold has
been drifting into the United States
can be seen from the latest figures
of the Department of Commerce show
ing that for the IL months ending
November 1923, we imported $685.
57O,9O9 worth of gold. For the same
period in 1928 we imported $780,, $780,
OBJ. Since the war only four Scan
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
Poor Man To Pay !,
Rich Mans Family
For His Accident

OAKLAND, Cal, April 27.-What.
happens when a rich man runs down
and kills poor man You know the.
answer-his insurance company set
ties the matter out of court and the
rich man gets off with fine or q
light term in Jail. But when Peter
Torres, poor man with family to
support, accidentally caused the death
of Antoine D'Avila, wealthy San Lean,
dro banker, Judge Wood ordered him
to serve five years on probation, tG
pay $265 court costs and his board
while in jail awaiting trial, never I'd
drive an automobile in his life again,
and to pay SIS month to D'Avilaa
family for 20 months. The slain mans
attorney objected that the relatives
did not wish to accept this money, but
the judge waved him aside and said
to Torres: "Altho you are poor
man and D'Avila's family Il rich, I
want you to make this payment SO
that you will be reminded each month
Of your responsibility for the acci
dent"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
Money Oligarchy's
Record In Ancient
Judea Is Exhumed
tny rhe Eederated Press,

WASHINGTON, April 27.-Striking
parallels to modern economic cycles
are found in the development of cap
italism and despotism in ancient
Judea, as shown in the book Bible and
Labor, by Father Joseph Husslein, s.
j., editor of America, and published by
Macmillans.
1.-THE long arm of the heartless ex-
ploiter of the poor reached to every
corner of the land" he says, dealing
with the period after the breakdown
of the primitive land laws. "Exorbi-
tant profits remained in the hands of
INSCRIPTIONS middlemen. Great for
tunes were accumulated by princes
and merchants, while the people sank
into the poverty that degrades. Col
fusion was common between the men
in public positions and the oppressors
of the poor. Not merely were judges
bribed, but the laws themselves were
written to accommodate rich clients.
False prophets and idolatrous priests
brought the power of religion to the
support of the moneyed oligarchy. -.
The last stage had been reached into
which the great nations have drifted
in their turn, a stage OF national
wealth and national corruption, with
excessive riches in the hands of few
and excessive poverty the lot of the
many. The Hebrew nomad, the He
brew farmer, the Hebrew empire
builder, had now at length become the
Hebrew proletarian."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
ARTICLE V.
The World Banker and Manufacture

The World Banker and Manufacturer.
The World War has given tremen-
dous impetus to the expansion of
American industry. America has be-
come the leading industrial, trading
and banking nation of the world
Abstractly one might still contend
that the United States is a self-sus-
tanning nation. But we are already
dependent. if not for our livelihood,
at least for our prosperity, on the
world market Our wheat growers
look toward Liverpool for the price
they are to receive for their produce.
The cotton growers of the South, as
well as the steel workers of Pitts
burgh are closely interviewer with the
markets of Europe. The World War
has increased the dependence of the
United States on the world for the dis
posal Of its surplus.
The tremendous increase Of Ame-
rican industrial Enterprises since the
war can best be seen from the follow
ing figures. From 1914 to 1919 the
number Of establishments in our in
dustries rose from 275,791 to 290,1O5.
At the same time the number Of
wage earners in these establishments
increased from 7,036.247 to 9,O96, 1872.
The capital invested in these in
dustries rose from S22,79O,979,9S7 to
S44,569, 59S,771, during this period
The value of the products rose from
S246,4S4,724, to S62,418,O7S,77S. For
instance our iron and steel and their
products increased from $4,2S1, 997 ,S16
to $S,711,S43, POI. The value Of our
crops leaped from $6,112,OOO,OOO to
$S,133,0 46,00O; animal products So
7SS,OOO,OOO to S6,513, 100000; manu-
features $9,S7S,S46,OOO to 1887 ,OOO,-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
Slogans Of Yellow Unions.

BERLIN,-Three slogans will mark
the celebration of May /, the interna-
tional workers day, in Germany this
year, according to the May day proc
lamation issued by the General Fed
Grafton of Trade Unions. These slo-
gans are: Maintenance and Restora-
ton of the Eight-Hour Day." "Rees-
tablishment of Social Legislation"
and Defense Of the Democratic-Re-
publican Constitution"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28

deceSSor, Palmer, in the war
they have waged upon organ
lied labor, and upon the l. w. w.
especially, as they secured the
help of these officials in robbing
the general public, was not
brought out in testimony.
Hanged Frank Little.
1t is significant, however, that the
conspicuous leaders of this steal,
which involved literally hundreds of
millions of dollars taken from the
pockets of the home-builders, tenants
and the consumers who pay all the
costs Of business, were the dark fore
es behind the lynching of Frank Lit
tie, in Butte, the jailings and killings
thruout the northwest and California
and Utah, and are the forces that
stood behind Palmer and Daugherty
in their lies concerning the evidence
upon which the /. w. w. political pris-
oners were sent behind the iron bars.
conspired to Restrict Production.
Thompson explained that the South
ern Pine Association of which John
Kirby of Texas, has been one Of the
chiefs, was Investigated by the COM
mission in 1920, and in the summer
OF that year formal report was
made to the department of justice.
The commission urged Palmer to be-
gin criminal prosecution of Kirby and
his associates under the Sherman law.
The commission gathered, analysed
and turned over to the department of
justice some $4,000 letters and docu-
ments, proving a conspiracy to fix
prices of lumber to the retailers .6nld
to restrict production.
Thompson handed to Senator
Brookhart, Senator Jones, Senator
Wheeler and Senator Moses a series
of big charts, sent out weekly to all
members of the Southern Pine Asso-
citation, showing three red-filled tubes
in a trade barometer" The three
columns represented orders, ship
ments and production. There was a
key which explained to the manu-
facturer that when shipments or or
ders increased, lower production
and higher prices were indicated. BY
the use Of this price-fxing scheme.
which had been agreed upon in meet
ings Of the association, the average
price Of southern pine was moved up
from $15.29 a thousand in 1915 to
$50 a thousand at the period of the in.
quiry. The profits OF the manufao
turers were SIS a thousand higher
than they had been at the time the
price-hxing was begun.
Daugherty Wouldn't Prosecute.
Daugherty came into Office in Mar
1921, to find that one Mitchell, law
yer under Palmer, had filed a bill in
equity in court at st. Louis, to enjoin
this Illegal setting OF prices. Mitchell
had started several other cases. on
less evidence and won them in the
United States supreme court. But
Daugherty failed to take any further
action. The price-fixing still goes on.
Similar schemes were worked. and
are still being worked, by the West
Coast Lumbermen's Association. the
Western Pine Association, the Hem.
lock and Hard Wood Association. the
Maple Flooring Association. and other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
Jap Labor seeks suffraue.

TOKIO.-The worldwide agitation
among labor organizations for action
on the political field is reflected in the
resolution of the Japanese General
Federation of Labor to. work for uni
versal suffrage. A reactionary mill
tarist cabinet is blocking the 18th an
nual convention of the federation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
LUMBER TRUST CONSPIRACY
AIDED BY DAUGHERTY, FEDERAL
TRADE COMMISSIONER SHOWS
By LAURENCE TODD
Federated Press Staff COrrespondentl

WASHINGTON, April 27-Every man, woman child in
the United States has been compelled
OF the lumber trust shielded by the department
taking ateas $25 900 board profit during
last four five years. Chairman Huston Thompson
era trade commission told the probing
lawlessness of former Attorney General Daugherty
Whether the Weyerhaeusers the Kirbys the other
lumber barons the collision Daugherty his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
BRIDGEPORT, CONN.
vINELAND, NEW JERSEY

NlNEIAIN0g NEW JEn0EI
Samuel N. Barns
Josephine PlIla
II. Roman
James Badame
Pantine Romeo
Sohotess EmburgIo
Tina Masseno
Gertrude SehofieId
Max Summergrad
Angels Rossi
Ellie Anvergsias
Pete Chinnia
Elliss
1. Bank
o. Bank
J. Justin
Antonino Fotera
John DeBlaso
Frank Ferione
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
cANARp. NEW HAMP.

CANARD, NEW HAMP.
Eric Carlson
Manifold Anfenan
Gust Cartmon
AIgot Hervikson
S. r. A.
Carl A. Fridlund
Ed. Ganson
Ernest FrisIund
Gust Allen
AxeI Gadisstram
Carl Edmar
A. Turnquist
Aug. Jurissa
Gust. johnson
{. 3. Andersos
Hatmar Larson
Ernest Kenay
Pearson
John Minden
Fred Swanson
Alfred Harry
Emil r. Johnson
Robert johnson
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
wAukEeAN, Ill.

WAUkEGAN, ILL.
kalle koski
Axel Finnita
J. Mclki
VIM. Nykanen
Tome Jacobson
Mike Harju
vllho PekkaIa
Anti HrihtsIa
Otto katalnen
Ilmar Aunio
August Murto
August Niemi
chas. Lame
Matt Lame
Hilma kolvula
r. Leikas
Walter Fors
Peter Schvonen
Matt Nenonen
Laimi Ell Simpson
Adolf Hannula
Revert Tuomi
J. Halikka
Frank Benhe
Waino Lehto
MEANWHILE, CONN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28

coLLINsvILLE, CONN.

coLLINsVILLE, CONN.
William Jardstrom
Anna Jardstrom
Henry Ruska
Hedge Ruska
Ida Ola
August Maxi
Henry Ahgren and Family
Minnie and Martin Jarvi
BRIDGEPORT, CONN.
p. Hecun
F. YounkaIskl
J. ModzeIewski
A. Zaremski
=. Szematowich
w. Nemec
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28

MARENGo, Wise.
Joseph Hill
Walter Somppi
Jalmer Mastta
John Mary & Voitto Waisanen
Mr.. & Mrs. John kaaraia
Miss Ellen Malta
Matt J. Mattson
Nick Pumala
John Reini
Lila Ofala
MIR. & Mrs. n. Maatta
Steve Turk
Luje Maronichzc
M. Butonack
John .. Nutshell
Nick Diskon
Alex Lindgren
Matt simoffover
Joe Del
J. Sver
{. c. Rasita
Auserevitz Zaritz