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Evening star., 1924-08-17
LABOR ATTITUDE
OF DAVIS DEFENDED
Virginia Commissioner Cites
Records to Show Candi-
date a Friend.
Ey the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, August 16-John
w. Davis, Democratic presidential
nominee. is a true and tried friend
of labor Commissioner of Labor
John Hopkins Hall, jr., of Virginia,
declared tonight in a formal state
ment announcing his support
My attention has been called to a
published article. purporting to ema-
nate from members Of organized la
Dor, relative to what stand the Vir-
ginia Federation of Labor and the
Virginia commissioner of labor will
take on the Endorsement of La Fol-
lette and Wheeler by the American n
Federation of Labor" said the COM
missioner, who is a former president
OF the state federation.
AS to the stand of the Virginia
Federation of Labor. being composed
of men and women of intellect and
character, they will doubtless study
the question, canvass the public re-
cords of the candidates and act as
their best judgment dictates. There
is no other binding political force in
the action of the executive council
Of the American Federation of Labor
Friendship For Masses.
THE traditional policy of the dem
ocratic party has always been one
Of friendship and aid for the masses.
The Republican party, as such, has
al~ ayS catered to special interests.
50 much SO. that Il few conscientious
leaders of the party. led by Senator
La Toilette. have rnvolted and as
sisted the Democrats in Republican
Congress to continue legiSlating for
the general good. The record of 80
favorable labor Legislative acts en-
acted during the Democratic admins
tration preceding PRESIDENT Wilson's
favorable Legislative laws passed and
tainly merit the utmost consideration
of every laboring man and woman.
both organized and unorganized.
Davis. first as a volunteer defender
of striking miners in West Virginia,
then as a Representative, he drew up
the famous Clayton antitrust law.
declaring that the labor of human
being is not Il commodity or article
of commerce.: AM later, AS solicitor
general prepared and presented to
the Supreme Court such a strong case
for the eight-hour law that it re-
suited in a favorable decision in
time to prevent the threatened strike.
He fought to uphold the first child
labor law. In addition. We find him
no longer than November, 1928, sue
cesSfully defending the Window Glass
Workers Union in case before the
courts. These and other public acts
certainly stamp John w. Davis as a
true and tried friend of la Dor as
we'll as consistent disciple of the
Democratic party.
Evening star., 1924-08-17
Cake Weighs 300 Pounds.

An Oneonta On. W department
store gave birthday party and
baked a birthday cake for its custom
ers. Every one who called at the
store could obtain a morsel. The
cake weighed 800 pounds, was 2Sx36
inches square and % inches high. 1t
was cut into 5000 pieces. 1t took 60
pounds of sugar, Is pounds of butter
and 48 dozen eggs. with other in
gradients in proportion, to bake it.
Evening star., 1924-08-17
WOUNDED GIRLS
FRIEND IS VIOLENT.
Florida Youth Attacks Doc.
tors in CeII-Motive of
Shooting Obscure.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GAINESVILLE, Fla, August 10
The motive and details of the shoot
ing of Miss Viola Nash, pretty young
Hawthorne school teacher, near here
last night were still mystery to-
night. Robert j. Whiddon. Univer-
sity of Florida vocational student.
her companion at the time of the
shooting, held in the Alachua County
Jail, is apparently insane or feigning
insanity. according to local officials.
Whiddon, officers said, has refused
to talk to any one today, or to wear
clothing or eat food brought to him
in Jail. The only statement he made
Evening star., 1924-08-17
WORKING. CHILDREN
UNA|DED BY LAW
Maryland Citizens Plan Ap.
peal to Next Legislature
for Amendment.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE. Md, August 10
Maryland children illegally worked
are unprotected by the State indus
trial accident law.
If a boy or girl is hurt, the en-
ployer has only to prove the child
was working illegally to have the
claim for damage thrown out by the
Industrial Accident Commission.
Persons interested in child protec-
ton are already preparing to ask the
next Legislature to amend the law.
They probably will ask that double
or triple damages be assessed on the
employer where he has hired a child
illegally and the child is hurt.
Several other States have such laws.
Children whom the law does not
protect are those under IA, who are
not permitted to work, with or with
out permit. and any child between
IA and 16 working without permit or
at work not covered by the permit.
Evening star., 1924-08-17
Senator Colt Loses Ground.

BRISTOL, r. l.. August 16.-The
condition Of United States Senator
LIE Baron B. Colt, critically i'll at
his home here, was described as mot
so favorable in bulletin issued
by the attending physician at 10
o'clock tonight. The bulletin states
that the Senator is resting comfort
ably, however
Evening star., 1924-08-17

to officers, who attempted to ques-
tfon him. was:
Il did not do it,"
Shortly after the shooting late yes
terday afternoon, which occurred on
the Lake City highway about a half
mile north of Gainesville, Whiddon,
according 10 officers, told them that
Miss Nash was shot down by a man
who drove by as he and Miss Nash
were standing near his car. The
man, Whiddon said. leaned from his
car, fired a shot from his revolver
and speeded on toward Lake City.
Whiddon brought Miss Nash to
Gainesville
While Whiddon denies the shoot
ing. the girls mother, officers say,
asserted that her daughter murmured, |,
"Whiddon shot me-" during one of
her conscious moments.
Girls Chances Slim.
Physicians attending Miss Nash
hold out little hope for her recovery.
Examination indicated, they say. that
Miss Nash had been shot from be-
hind, the bullet entering the back
and coming out in the center of the
chest.
Doctors who entered Whiddon's
cell late today said that they were
attacked and that 1t was necessary
to hold Whiddon down by force to
make an examination.
Whiddon and Miss Nash, according
to the girls parents. had been close
friends for more than a year. Whid-
don's family lives in Sycamore, Ga.
Evening star., 1924-08-17
Lightning Bolt Very Wide.

A lightning bolt that must have
been at least 140 rods wide struck
near Elkader, Iowa, recently. hitting
a tree on one side of the river and a
house on the other at exactly the
same time, but doing no further
damage. Heavy storms have been
frequent in that vicinity this year.
Evening star., 1924-08-17
Book Bound in Human Skin.

NJ Flammarion. the eminent French
writer, once remarked on the beauti-
full shoulders Of one of his woman
acquaintances. When she died she
left the skin of her shoulders to him
as a legacy. He used it for the bind
ing of his "Ciel ct Terre."
Evening star., 1924-08-17
Woman Jailed for Silence.

In Mason City. Iowa, a woman has
recently served a term in Jail rather
than tell on a friend who, she says,
was unjustly accused Of shoplifting
She is said to be the wife of a
electrical engineer, but she
took her Jail sentence rather than
tell what she knew.
Evening star., 1924-08-17
0kapi Declared Shyest Animal.

OF all wild animals the okapi,
which is about the size of large
stag, but hornless, is said to be the
shyest. 1t lives in Central Africa in
the country peopled by pigmies. The
okapfs head taperS to a point and it's
lips are soft and flexible. In it's up
per jaw it has no teeth. 1t is vari-
colored, being yellowish white about
the head and chestnut brown and red
dish black in other parts of the body.
Evening star., 1924-08-17

Taxicabs had their origin in China
about 500 years ago, when natives
carried passengers in a vehicle and
dropped pebble in receptacle to
measure off every mile that was
travelled.
Evening star., 1924-08-17
Lightning Burns Line of Clothes.

Lightning struck in a peculiar way
at Goshen, N. Y, not long ago. The
bolt. hit a wire clothes line and in
that was hanging out to dry. The
freak Of nature trick occurred at the
Green farm near Goshen.
Evening star., 1924-08-17
McLare1, to Make
Ne,c Flight Trial
If americans Fail
By the Associated Press.

Dy inc ASSOcI1ted PFfS8.
PRINCE RUPERT. b. c., Au-
gust 16.-Maj. A. Stuart MacLaren,
leader of a party Of British SOL
diers defeated in an attempt to fly
around the world. said here today.
that he would try again If Amerin -
can planes that have reached Ice
land from Seattle in a similar en-
terprise fail to complete the flight.
Evening star., 1924-08-17

Women wearing low-necked dresses
or sleeves that do not cover the
elbows are to be barred from the
within the biShopric of
Clermont- Ferrant, in France.
Evening star., 1924-08-17

Princess Mary of England is an en-
thusiastic girl guide.
The Washington times., 1924-05-09
Business Service

ANTS. Bedbugs. Reaches Rats. all pests
destroyed. expert workman. Acme m.
terminating Co. Ses eth NV. W 1fGO.
The Washington times., 1924-05-09
M e N

WHY not get out Of the rut and get
into the selling game. We train you
in the field and pay you well while
doing so. After you show us you
can sell we pay you $500 per week
minimum wages. Three men have
been promoted from this office re-
Gently to managers of our branch
offices. We have been In business
for 81 years and growing stronger
every day. Apply between and
sol, Stewart Bldg. 9Th and d SITS,
N. w. Ask for MR.. LOVE.
The Washington times., 1924-05-09
Wharf Property on Railroad.
CONVENIENT HAUL CENTER OF CITY

Rear 1915 22nd st. N. w.
Two-story garage or shop. A chanc"
TO buy on rental basis.
The Washington times., 1924-05-09

ROOMS partly furn., cleo. DIX S..
N. E.. $500 block, $35 per month.
10 ROOMS. 2 baths. ami, 6th st. y.
W., 1900 block.
6 ROOMS and bath garage: Hobart
Place N. w
The Washington times., 1924-05-09
WOMAN--Colored; to help in dining
room and kitchen. No. Q 6th ST. N. q.

The rate for advertising under
ing Herald and The Afternoon
Times 10 only 1Sc per line. This
10 considerably lower than rates
CHARGED for other Want Ads. This
very low rate Of 16c per line in.
cludes insertion in BOTH papers.
The Herald In the morning and
The Times in the afternoon. Results
are practically certain when you
Put It In The Herald and The
TimOa."
The Washington times., 1924-05-09

MEN wanting positions, riremen brake
men, colored train or sleeping car
porters. write for application blank
experience unnecessary; first ella So
roads; no strike; name position
wanted. Railway Institute, Dept 8,
Indianapolis. Ind.
PRESSER, experienced; wanted at once.
Apply 227 d St. ~ w
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-05

ment. Actual settlements will be
made only after careful consideration
of each individual application by the
union.
Bosses Association Weakens.
The Clothing Manufacturers Credit
Association, which at the beginning
refused to deal with the union, sought
to reach an agreement today. Con-
ferences were terminated because the
association wanted some concessions
which the union could not afford to
give and refused to accept the same
agreement the union has made with
the Clothing Manufacturers Elk
change.
In spite Of the wholesale arrests
that took place yesterday, the work
ers this morning demonstrated on the
picket lines that they could not be
intimidated by the police. Many non
union shops have been completely
shut down by the pickets. The strik-
ers are determined that New York
shall have a hundred per cent Anal
gamated organization in the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-05

LaFollette and the consequent like
lihood Of the presidential election be-
ing thrown into the House, have pre-
cipitated a conference Of the big
bosses over the second choice. The
political bosses here feel that no time
should be lost in picking a running
mate for their standard bearer.
Senator Walsh of Montana, is be-
ing spoken of by many as the likely
choice. Walsh has received a few
scattering votes in the presidential
race, though he was not entered form
ally. But the machine leaders here
feel that there is little they can do
now to prevent the LaFollette group
from making its own campaign. They
realize that their program has not
met with the response hoped for.
Cleveland observers here have frank
ly expressed their disappointment
with its evasions and empty plati-
tudes. Even Sam Gompers has as
yet been unable to muster sufficient
gall to indorse the democratic pro-
gram and the strong race that Davis
is making is sufficient evidence to
many of the disappointed liberals
hanging around the democratic hotel
Hobbies, that Wall Streets interests
are dominant in the innermost coun-
sells of the democratic convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-05
TEACHERS SLAM
PLATOON SYSTEM
OF BUSINESS men

Denunciation Of the use of the pla-
toon system in public schools and full
approval of the formation of teach
ers' councils closed the annual con-
vention of the American Federation
Of Teachers, assembled at the Web
ster Hotel this week.
Chicago business men who hope to
introduce the platoon system here as
a means Of saving money, have not
been complimented or encouraged by
the Chicago Teachers Federation,
thru the opposition voiced by its
spokesman, Miss Margaret Haley. or
by the national teachers union.
Spreads Disease.
Members OF the American Fedora
ton OF Teachers contended that the
platoon system makes for centralized
control OF subject matter, thereby kill
ing children's initiative and standard
izing them intellectually. That the
constant passing TO and from class
rooms--a state OF affairs necessary
under the system-helps to spread
contagious diseases was also brought
out in the course OF the discussion.
Formal instruction as substitute for
free play, was criticized as a decided
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-05
Donkey Bosses
Bartering With
Donkey Feeders

Continued from preceding page.)
diana governor takes neither a public
attitude of support for the Khan nor
a public attitude of hostility. He
quietly makes use of the Khan, which
has proved such useful machine for
dividing the forces of labor in his
state, setting some of the American
born workers against those from for
eign lands.
Using the Fascists.
The idea of Big Business is a
man who can make use of all the rival
American fascist organizations with
out arousing the hostility of any of
them. Ralston fills the bill in this
respect. The chief objections to him
are that he is old and lacks person
ality. In the case of a big imperial
istic crisis. such as that of the last
war, a man is desired who can swing
things. But, taking him all in all,
the big campaign contributors feel
that they will be doing very we'll in
deed with Ralston.
But to put Ralston or any others
Of their favorites over requires the
assent of the state bosses. 1t is a
question of getting united support for
Ralston, Davis, or any other Wall
Street favorite, a transaction that
is taking time-and money.
McAdoo Getting MINDED.
The 54th ballot taken just before
adjournment until $3.50 at night,
showed McAdoo running himself out
of wind and registering only 427 and
Ralston coming forward to SO.
John w Davis, Morgan's lawyer,
ambled along at So. with a lot Of re-
serve for later sprint, his boosters
said. Underwood, the stodgy repre-
sentative of steel and iron in Alabama
reached 40; Glass, the financiers en-
try from Virginia hung at "a and Rob-
inson hit 40.
According to William ]. Bryan Rob-
inson is a progressive from a progress
sive state-Arkansas Ku Kluxers
like his record. When nearly a hun
dred Negro tenant farmers were MUIR
dered in the Elaine county fighting
in 1919, Robinson did not potest.
Coxs modest 81 shows this has
been still has his Ohio legs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-05
MCDONALD OPENS FL. P. CAMPAIGN

to get the truth"
He admitted that the present cool
idge regime was the best business
administration the United States had
ever had.
"The attorney general was in the
bootlegging business, the red batting
and the injunction business" he said.
Fall sold out S10O,OOO,OOO worth of
oil lands for 100000 before he got
out. DENLY also sneaked out of the
cabinet for being mixed up in this
same business. Secretary Of State
Hughes sends the marines to South
America to protect Wall Street money
invested there. The secretary of the
treasury helps the big business in
terests escape hundreds of millions in
taxes. That is good business for
them. And at the head of this re-
gime, the chief of them all, is Cool
idge, a strike breaker in the smash
ing of the Boston policemen's strike.
1.-THE Farmer-Labor Party does not
pledge itself to business admins
tration," said Mcdonald. eve want
a working class administration"
Mcdonald pointed out there was no
room for third party in this coun-
try, that there should only be two
parties, the party of the working class
on the one side, and the party of the
exploiting interests on the other.
"This struggle is class struggle, "
he said.
Joseph Manley, secretary Of the
Federated Farmer-Labor Party, acted
as chairman of the meeting, with Miss
Alice Lorraine DAILY, of South Dakota,
one of the delegates to st. Paul, also
among the speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-05
LAFOLLETTE IS
WAITING result
OF DONKEY MEET.
FOLLOWERS Up Very Far
in the Clouds

Especial to the DAILY WoRKER)
WASHINGTON, July A. LaFol-
lette's policy SO far is one of running
with the hare and hunting with the
hounds. He is engaged in the great
est fence-straddling contest in politi-
cal history. Nobody seems to know
exactly where he is at. Reports as to
his future course are issued by Sin
siders" and then as quickly denied
by his son who is his official spokes-
man.
The latest decision of the Wis
consin senator is to keep out of the
race until he sees what the Demo
cratic convention offers in the way Of
a presidential candidate. That deci-
sion may cause the Cleveland Confer
ence to engage in waiting contest.
AS these lines are written the donkey
circus in New York is balloting aim
lessly and ineffectively.
The report that LaFolIette had
given so-called progressive leaders a
signed and sealed acceptance of the
progressive nomination, was denied
here today by Robert LaFollette, Jr.
There is no foundation for these re-
ports" said Bob junior.
1t is also reported that LaFollette,
in the event of the democrats nomi-
mating progressive for vice-presi-
dent, might decide to endorse him as
his running mate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-05
ALPS BOOSTERS JUST GOT DIZZY

in Wall Street is beginning to favor
Davis. OF course many of the re-
ported bets on this probable donkey
standard bearer, are only fictitious
and are circulated in order to psy-
chologize the delegates into a more
favorable voting mood for the corpora
tion lawyer.
Davis, in passing, it must be said,
is one of the ablest spokesman of the
democratic party. He makes no bones
about his being on the payroll of the
biggest corporations in the country.
When John Bassett Moore gave up
his position as lawyer for the Stand
ard Oil Co., in charge of international
transactions, in order to represent
the United States at the Hague, it
was John W. Davis who took his
place. AS ambassador to the Court of
st. James, American ambassador to
England, Davis cemented more firmly
his friendship with the House of Nor.
gan. Today he is the brains of their
powerful battery of counsel
VIII il Never End?
The delegates are plainly tired
Struggling through the tedium Of SO
many ballots with so little in sight
has taken the life out of them. They
are all anxious to go home. Many
have already quit. They are develop
ing ear trouble from listening to the
monotonous drone of the clerk, INC
'churse' having been reached on the
1234....-.ballot, the clerk will call the
roll........"
This is precisely the situation that
the bosses here are looking for. Some
Of the delegates have been rather re
calcitrant at being ordered about
They are now too weary to resist
Any moment is likely to witness big
change. Should the convention, how
ever. not end before the 4th, then
Smiths chances will be greatly en-
HANGED. Tammany hospitality will
reap a harvest on independence Day
The morning Of the 5th will find the
delegates not unfriendly to Rum, Ro
manism and Rebellion"
Vlce-PresIdent Chatter.
The political manipulators Of this
gathering like Brennan, Moore, Cuff
fey, Haig, etc, are now seriously
talking about vice-presidential timber
The increasing certainty that the
Cleveland Conference will nominate
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Continued from page IL
to break strikes, and then reviewed
the present industrial situation, with
shoe and textile factories closing
down, the clothing trade never SO
dull, with every worker and farmer
in the nation broke or almost broke
They Freeze and starve.
"At the recent convention in St
Paul 1 asked some Of the farmers
what they have to pay for coal
'Coal?' they asked. We can't afford
to buy COAL They said they burned
corn cobs, and not many Of these
They said they had to go to bed
early in order not to freeze. And at
the same time the coal miners are
starving because they can't get work
to mine the coal that the farmers
need"
Macdonald showed that the CAPT
talist triumvirate, Standard Oil. U. S.
Steel and the Morgan bankers, con
trolled not only the coal mines and
the railroads, but all the great in
dustries.
1.-THE trust busters busted the
Standard Oil Co. into nine parts,
said Macdonald. "But today each
tentacle is taking in more coin than
the original Standard Oil Co. ]
wouldn't mind being busted that way
myself"
st. Paul Convention Harmonious.
Macdonald declared that the st.
Paul convention was the most har-
monious gathering he had ever at
tended. He denounced the misrepre-
sensations Of it, and of himself, by
the subsidized press, pointing out
that, "The workers and farmers must
control their own press if they wish
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-05

Wh0A NhCe NAAC I'll 0SbSA " manu- Apb
coats sent there from New York. They
forced the boss to return the coats to
New York.
No N. Y. Work During Strike.
In Vineland, N. J., the workers went
on strike when they discovered that
they were ordered to do scab work
for ]. Friedman, a big New York
manufacturer. They called for union
organizer, held a mass meeting and
decided not to do any work for New
York manufacturers until the strike
is settled.
Ten thousand New York workers
who have returned to the settled
shops of the New York Clothing
Manufacturers Exchange will pay five
per cent Of their wages to the support
of the strike against the unsettled
shops. Over 10000 workers are still
on strike.
Union offices were besieged this
morning by many manufacturers who
sought individual settlements with
the union. The union, however, only
accepted their applications for settle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-05

evil Of platoons.
Fear was expressed that junior high
schools, as they are designed in some
cities, tend to abridge the period Of
schooling and to train pupils into mar
row vocational lines. The junior high
school system is heartily recommend
ed by business men who wish to see
business efficiency" introduced into
the schools.
The resolution on teachers councils
adopted by the convention reads as
follows:
Support Teachers Councils.
"In view Of a movement in some
cities to abolish teachers councils
where they have been actively func-
tioning, we reafiirm the stand we have
taken on the subject at various times
since 1916. We believe that they
should form an integral part Of the
school organization; that they should
be recognized by boards Of education
and not be subject to the whims OF
changing administrative and super
visory officials; that the influence Of
these councils in increasing efficiency,
in raising the morale OF the teaching
force and disseminating information
among the bodies Of teachers is so
great as to Justify fully their meet
ing on school time, especially in sys-
TENS which are so large that the
teachers are not normally drawn TO-
gether in a compact group by their
common calling"