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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
v. s. LAND OFFICE
 . IS LIKELY TO GO
Congressman Hill to Try and
 Save It for Capital

WASHINGTON. Jan. 21.-(Spe- cial. )-The interior department appro- priation bill, pending before the House, provides for the abolition of the federal land office at Montgomery. In con sideration of the, bill. the House will reach that item in the morning.
 Representative Lister Hill of the second Alabama district will make an effort to defeat this provision. He stated tonight his conviction that it was important that the land office be detained. He will have the support Of all other Alabama members, it is indicated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
SCHOOL BURNS

PORT GIBSON, Miss, Jan. 21.- The main brick building of Chamber lian-Hhnt academy here was destroyed last night by fire which is believed to have originated in a basement store- room. The building was valued at ap- proximately $1O0.O00.
 Capt. J. W. Kennedy, president of the academy was slightly burned about the face and hands in an attempt to extinguish the flames. All of the students escaped without ,injury.
 Philip Best, 12 years old, of New port, Ark, who was asleep in his room on an upper floor when the fire was discovered, was rescued by l.. B. Ter rell, student of Texas, who climbed through window and crawled along a cornice to another section of the build- ing with the child in his arms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
s,ss2 LOCOMOTIVES
More Than Twice As Many For 1928
 Than Preceding Year

More than twice as mayn locomotives were built for American railroads dur ing 1923 than the previous year, ac- cording to information given out by the Bureau of Railway Economies. Lo- comotiyes built totaled 3,362. against 1903 in 1922. Freight care built num- bered 175,T4S while 66,747 were built in 1922; and passenger, cars numbered 1,507, as compared to the total of 747 built in 1922.
 Locomotives ordered from builders totaled 1,9S4, as against 2,600 in 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
WANT BETTER HEALTH Commission Or Inter-raciaI. Co-opera
 tion Will Meet Tuesday

The commission on inter-racial CO., operation will meet in the Chamber of Commerce at 2 o'clock Tuesday after noon with Judge J. D. Rather of Mont gomery presiding. There vii be mum Der of informal talks from prominent local men.
 The commission proposes to improve the health conditions in the negro sec tions of the state and is in no sense advocating racial equality, its secre- tary announced.
 The south will probably be the home of the majority of the negro race for some time and efforts should be made to reduce the mortality and to thus bet ter health conditions, he said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
COnUenient
 To EUerything---

It is so easy to put your want ads in the paper now. The Age Herald Want Ad Department is located in the heart of the city, on the ground floor of the new Age-Herald building, corner Sec ond avenue and Twenty-first street. Use the main entrance and turn in the first office to the right. No long walks and no steps to climb. In this same of- flee you can also leave subscrip- tions and secure information.
 Call in person when you are downtown-telephone your ads when you are home.
 MAIN 40OO
 calls the Want Ad Department of "the south's 'pullingest' paper.
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HEAD MEN OF THREE
 TRIBES WILL GATHER

PENDLETON, Ore, Dec. 23-Head men and chiefs of the three Indian tribes on the Umatilla reservation Umatilla, Walla Walla and Cayuse, will gather this afternoon to receive at the hands of Major Byron Sharp special certificates thanking the In dians for their participation in the World war, bearing the arms of the United States.
 The certificates are signed by Cal win Coolidge as president of the United States, and will be issued to- morrow to all Indian tribes whose members served in the late war A program is planned in connection with the presentation and Pendle- to civic and patriotic organizations will be represeted.
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CEISHA GIRL PARTIES ARE DRIVING LAPS
 TO FINANCIAL RUIN

LOS ANGELES, Gal, Dec. 23.- Geisha girl parties arc driving Japan to the verge of economic ruin and if nancial collapse, according to c. H. Hodgson, woolen mills owner, ol Yorkshire, England, who is a visitor here on his way home from the Ori ent.
 "The Japanese are living on scale that the srlallness of their country cannot stand" he declared. "They are iLlbued with a spirit of high and costly living, giving huge parties and spending money recklessly. The av. craze man in Japan who makes $4,- 900 or more in business deal de cides right away to give a geisha par ty and spend more than half or all his money that way"
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RATES ON PERiSHABLE
 FRUITS ARE PROTESTED

LOS ANGELES, Dec 23-Protests against the proposed trans-conti mental freight rate increase on per ishable fruits and vegetables will be presented here today before John Nc Chord, examiner for the interstate commerce commission.
 The carriers propose to make a charge equivalent to 20 per cent oi the standard refrigeration charge when ice is placed on top of or within the crates of produce. Should this charge be allowed, produce men declare it would cost them an az gregate of about $3,0O0,000 a year additional to ship their commodities east.
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tomologists say, there are probably more of the 1S,OOO known varieties of beetles than in any other area in the world. With the permission of the Bureau of National Parks these girls gathered several thousand beetles. They will exhibit them at the Ameri- can Chronological society gathering in Washington this month and expect to show one of the largest exhibits made this year.
 These girls are graduates of Holy oke university and have done consid- erable entomology work at Cornell where they are we'll known.
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mandeered. It may be taken, as is cften the case, forty or fifty miles across country to a railroad and there abandoned Suffering of ami mals is such as humane societies in America has never seen.
 After long pull at an unoiled squeaking cart, the animal is turned out to graze on land that has been gone over, not only with a rake, but thumb and finger. It is up to the holse whether he reaches the jour- neys end. He is hauling wheat, corn kaoliang, great delicacies for a horse, but none of it for him.
 Back on the farm he might stand a show at the bumper crop which now lies in the fields.
 The Comic Side.
 War in China has it's comic opera side, but that consists only ln seeing the militarists strut in the crowded streets or ride in limousines with  armed outriders on his running boards. It consists in watching pitt full attempts to run trains, to organ i.e commissary, to replace ragged cco,ie clothes with uniforms and to teach the Chinese clod to fire rifle without shutting his eyes.
 ,),:r;te the guns that ha , roared at Shs nghai and Shanha,tuan, com paratively few will be fou Id suffer ing fem bullet wounds aad the widow list will be low. | the fight proceeds with the usua, Chinese vigor, d few thousands may be killed. The diplomatic GODS in Pe- king know about how many, for i'll other V ars it's memt >r2 have been asked tc release c'l~toms funds to oury the dead. The dcaG were hard to prorce in grea- numbers.
 But there will b2 suffering and deaths. The man whJ put his all in aE OK q a camel only to see it led away to war will suffer, as will his wife and children. The OK meani q lifetime effort. He hasn't another span of years that long in which to get another OK. Those who lost food and those who will be unable to get food from others because their income has gone to war, will suffer.
 The Tragic Side.
 There is nothing comical about this war to those who pulled weeds, carried water and fought locusts to bring a little crop through, nor to tn emerchant who had bought part of the crop and now holds military note as payment.
 In other cities and villages where men gather they can not complain. It is a punitive expedition to put down rebels, to say otherwise means prison. The villagers or farmer may have an idea about the militarist who gave thousand taels to flood and famine relief in August and took the village oxen and the wheat in September, but he won't say any, thing, except what he has been told to say. His wheat is filling tle bellies of patriots and his oxen is helping put down the rebels.
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Chink Prices Jump As Crops Rot Because Warning Faction Grabbed Men; Draft Animals

PEKING, China, Dec. 23-Economic depression as a result of China's so- called punitive war is bound to be more far reaching this winter than any distress resulting from floods or famine. Floods and famine are usually localized, but the present war has disrupted business everywhere in the area between Yangtz river and the Manchurian border Actual suf- fering is bound to come later
 Never before, according to busi- ness men, was man and animal pow CT so generally recruited nor so wantonly wasted.
 Farmers have been taken from the fields with their animals to haul war supplies. Oxen, camels, mules and horses, that in China serve as common carriers, taking the crops to market, have been commandeered. Crops likewise in many cases have been taken, to be paid for if the mili- taist taking them wins the war and feels like paying afterward.
 Peking is said to be typical of the general situation. China generally is a land of abundance. Vegetables, poultry and Chinese products gen. orally are extremely cheap compared to prices in other countries.
 Prices Are Jumping.
 Cities in North China today are facing a serious food situa tion Crops are lying in the fields because they are neither men nor beasts to get them to market. Women and child ren are carrying the food in and are getting a good price because the whole crop will not be sold Prices in the cities have risen thirty per cent in month.
 Conservation work on rivers to prevent further flood damage, which should be done this winter, will not be done. The animals have gone to war, the coolies also and taxes have been collected ahead to pay for the fighting.
 Tientsin faces a severe coal fam inc. Tientsin gets its coal from Chinwangtao, Tangshan, and other places in the Northern war zone. It comes down by native steamers, by junks on the canals and by train and by foreign ships. Only the lat ter are now in service. The other transportation facilities have gone to war.
 Mules Gone to War.
 Peking has sufficient coal to get we'll into the winter and has mines in the mountains outside but there are no carts to deliver the stocks in the city nor to bring fresh stocks from the hills. The mules have gone to war.
 Carts, wheelbarrows, rickshas, everything that will carry soldiers or their equipment has been com
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"NO CRIME" RECORD OF
 KENTlSH TOWN BROKEN

LONDON, Dec. 23.-The twelve years mo crime" record of the small town of Tenterden, Kent county, was all shot to pieces when one of the towns youngest citizens was convict ed of housebreaking.
 The judge remarked that it was the first time court had set for twelve years.
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GIRLS ROAM WlLDS MONTANA
 IN SEARCH RARE BEETLES

LAWRENCE, Mass, Dec. 23.-Most girls would run from a big black bee tie, but there are two sisters who run after them and catch them by thou sands to keep as a collection.
 Helen and Edith Mauk live in Law renee and they spent six weeks chas ing beetles in Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana, where en
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A plague of moths, which have wrought destruction in the forests of Germany and Poland is being con- quered by powerful lights made from uncovered incandescent cartoons. which attract the insects at night and cremate them.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-24

Dr. Allen W. Freeman of Johns Hopkins spoke encouragingly regard ing new compound for destroying germs of tuberculosis in a recent re- port.
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Suits made to measure. See Ur- bach. f
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-27
Another StrikebreGker

Strikebreaker Coolidge and "Open Shop" Dawes
have drawn to their support labor agent of
theirs John L. Lewis breaker of the Nova Scotia
strike betrayer of Alex Howat and servant of CAPT
tai under the title of president of the United Mine
Workers of America Lewis has joined the "board
of strategy" according to undenied reports, that is
headed by William Morgan Butler, the "open
shop spyusing, sweater of labor in the textile in
Fdustry, and chairman of the Republican National
Committee. The company is fitting all around, and
it is hard to Judge which is the worst scoundrel
of the lot.
Rumor has been going the rounds of the labor
movement for quite some time, that John L. Lewis,
expecting Coolidge to get back into Office, and
doubling his own ability to hold on long where he
now is had made arrangements for soft place to
light. The story that Lewis will support
Coolidge, and that the agreed-upon price is, that
Lewis is to become Secretary of Labor if Coolidge
is elected. John L., by going on the Butler "board
of strategy" has certainly not given the lie to that
rumor.
We wonder what the miners think about it?
After all, the miners among the most political
ly developed and classconscious workers in the
American movement. They know that Coolidge
makes his bid for fame principally upon the claim
that he broke a strike; they know that Dawes is
a Fascist an "open shopper" and an imperialst
agent of Morgan. They also know, by bitter per-
sonal experience that John L. Lewis is a PREACHER
GUS autocrat. Under the circumstances it probably
is the better part of wisdom Lewis part that he
is looking for an appointive job in Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-27
Piracy and Imperialism

When VIM. s. CulbertsOn, of the Tariff Commits
sion, denounced economic piracy" in the undevel-
oped sections of the world he raised very delicate
issue. Where does Legitimate" Imperialism end,
and economic piracy" begin? All nations of the
capitalist world will agree that Imperialism is
kosher but economic piracy is taboo. But the de-
fnition of these terms-ah, there's the rubI Who
will decide it, and how?
1t is in the very nature of imperialism that all
rivals for the control of markets are economic
pirates" Our own imperalsts are always good,
kind, chivalrous, gentlemen who are working more
for the benefit of the colonial natives than of them
selves. The foreign imperialists are a no-good
bunch of pirates, who menace the peace of the
world. That's why we have to go to war regularly
every few years The story is the same within each
capitalist country.
For the workers the truth is on neither side;
rather, they must declare that imperialism and
piracy are synonymous; that our own imperialists
are of the same stripe of economic brigands as
those of other lands, tho powerful today, and
therefore more dangerous to the working class of
the world. American gunboats in South America
are performing the same "piracy" as British '1a
Dor" government aerial bombs in Irak, as the
French troops in Africa, the Belgian exploiters
In the Congo. Imperialism is a gigantic robbery
for the benefit of a small class, destructive alike
to the subjects in the colonial countries and to the
working class of the "fatherand" 1t is all piracy
to the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-27
On Glenn Young's Bond

It was very Illuminating to find out who went on
the bonds for S. Glenn Young, ex-prohibition Of
fcer of the U. S. government, Ku Kluxer, dictator
of Williamson County, and aspiring Fascist extra
ordinary, who has been freed on quarter million
dollars bail to answer for his crimes at Herrin.
Who else should it have been to buy freedom for
Young, but the coal operators of Illinois? That's
who it was
Now that Young is away down south in Georgia.
and is armed with battery of physicians certi-
cates that he cannot travel, of the coal oper
ators seem bit worried about all the valuable
coal lands they put in hook for the super gunman
But, of course, they need not worry. Glenn Young
may skip the country for a while since he has made
it so hot for himself, but no forfeiture of bonds
in Southern Illinois will be allowed to injure the
coal operators so long these operators own the
state government so completely as they do today.
No, the coal operators will undoubtedly keep
their rich lands no matter how deep they are in
volved in the murderer Young, who seems to be
hitting it out for parts unknown. But at least we
have some information as a result, which is really
very Illuminating, and which should help to
educate the Miners of Illinois on the exact meaning
of the Ku Kluxers in relation to unionism in the
coal fields.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-27

man workers will become the white
slaves of democracy, the coolies of
pacifism, compulsory trike-breakers
on world scale.
The 12-Hour Day In Germany means
the introduction of the ten-hour day
in France. The abolition of legal pro.
lection for labor in Germany will be
followed by its abolition in France,
England, Czecho-Slovalxia, Poland and
other countries. Starvation wages in
Germany will lead to unemployment
in England.
The London Conference can lead to
new attempt to form an imperialist
united front for the Exploitation o.
Soviet Russia and for the introduction
of imperialist control over Germany's
foreign trade with Russia.
Workers, ProIetarlans Of all Countrlesg
Tear the bandage of illusions from
your eyes! Do not allow a repetition
Of the August Days of 1914! See the
position with your own eyes and do
not allow yourselves to be deceived
by the professional betrayers OF the
workersl
Workers of England, America and
France! The German proletarians.
who are fighting against Entente capi-
tai, will not attain victory without
your help.
Render active support to every ef.
fort of the fighting German proletari.
at against the sweating exploitation
by the Entente and against the preda-
tory policy of America.
May the murderers Of the German
proletariat hear with utmost clear
ness the. voice of all the hundreds Of
thousands of workers:
Hands off the German proletariatl
Away with imperialist slavery un.
der the flag of pacifsml +.
Forward with the proletarian revo-
ution!
Down with the dictatorship of Nor.
gan and of finance capital!
Long live the dictatorship Of The
proletariati
Down with the international stock
exchange and its agents, the Second
International!
Down with the Versailles Peace
Treaty!
Workers Of Germany! Forward
with the struggle to preserve the
eight-hour day!
Proletarians Of all countriesl Form.
a frp proletarian united front with
Soviet Russia!
w. -
Protect the German revolution as
you protect the Russian revolution!
Form protective wall of millions
round the center Of the world revolu-
tion-round the German proletariat!
The Executive commItte Of the
Communist international.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-27

The spectre Of an economic crisis is
knocking at the door; the absorbing
power OF the home market is decreas-
ing, ruined Europe is not In posi-
tion to purchase American goods;
South America forms too restrict
ed field for. investment of capital in
view Of the furious pace in the de-
velopment Of productive forces. Nor
gan imposes his will on America and
in the name Of Morgan, Dawes and
Hughes dictate to Europe.
American Dictatorship.
The .first assault Of the democratic
pacifist era will be the nearer ap-
proach of the
Dictatorship Of American Finance
Capital, sr
which has set itself the aim of con-
verting Europe into colony. AS a
screen there serves the labor govern
meHt and the left bloc; sham democ-
racy and sham paciflsm. In the back
ground the fascist watchdog is on
guard.
Germany is to be made an interna-
tional colony, an exploitation field for
the robbers Of all countries. All bour-
geois parties in Germany are heart
and soul for the Experts Report. The
German fascists cry out against the
conversion Of Germany into col
ony, but in the parliaments they sup
port the state governments Of Thur
ingia, Mecklenburg and Wurttemberg,
the premiers of which have come
from the ranks of the German nation
alists, and in spite OF all their lying
pledges have voted for the Dawes Re-
port. The London conference impos-
es exhausting taxes upon German in
dustry, but these taxes, right up to
the last penny, will be entirely and
Internationally transferred TO the
working masses, the middle class of
the towns and the working peasants.
For this reason all the bourgeois par
ties Of Germany are in favor Of the
Experts Report and only carry on a
sham fight against Entente capital.
The Social Democrats and the trade
union bureaucrats,-these profession
al traitors-have this time also offer.
ed their services to world capital and
render practical assistance in the set.
ting up Of the dictatorship of Ameri.
can imperialism over the whole of
Europe. sn
TweIve-flour Day.
The London Conferences will mean
for the German proletariat the twelve.
hour day, the dismissal of so per cent
OIL all railway workers, more dras.
tic reduction of the civil service stan
than hitherto, extortionate taxation.
increase OF custom duties, Of the rail-
way rates and food prices. The Ger
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-27

even its left wing failed to utter q
syllable as to the necessity OF liquid
ating the Versailles Treaty. The
Dawes plan was subjected to a for.
NAL criticism, but then at the joint
conference of the Amsterdam and
London Internationals in London, was
declared to be "the only possible So
luton"
What Is French Imperialism Aiming
at in London7
It is seeking to set up for all time
the political and military hegemony
of France upon the European main
land.
1t wishes to perpetuate the Versail-
les Peace Treaty; it desires to render
permanent the enslavement of the
German proletariat; it wishes to arm
for new war.
1t wishes to suck the blood from the
veins and the marrow from the bones
Of the German proletariat in order to
guarantee the reparation payments,
as it knows, that the French finances
are completely shattered and that the
revenue for the year, 1924, will scarce
ly suffice to cover the interest on the
state debts. The burden Of taxation
in France is continually growing, the
Franc is deteriorating (the French
petty bourgeoisie and peasants at the
recent elections gave their answer to
Poincare regarding this). Behind Her
riot stands Poincare with his whip.
Both of them are only representa-
tiyes of French imperialism
What Is English Imperialism Aiming
At?
1t wishes in its own interests to
wreck and shatter French hegemony.
Macdonald is carrying out the pro-
gram which the Conservative Baldwin
drew up for the construction of the
air fleet and only cancels a paltry
sum from the old armament budget.
The Allies, France and England, can
neither agree with one another nor
can they separate from each other.
For the time being they are COM
PEELED to avoid a war, because neither
OF the two countries are ready with
their armament preparations, but be-
fore all because America has not yet
decided which of the two hostile i'm
perialist groups she will support.
English capital has to spread new H.
lusions among the English proletariat,
because the number of the unem-
ployed has again reached a million
and because the wave Of aggressive
mass strikes, despite the will of the
trade union leaders, is advancing.
Salvation is expected from Ameri-
ca. But America herself is suffering
from an agrarian crisis. Two million
farmers have abandoned their farms.