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Evening star., 1924-11-14

among school children, the principal
idea being TO educate them against
reading while facing the sun, staring
against glarIng lights and reading
under poorly placed lights In the
home
Evening star., 1924-11-14
Move on to Save Eyesight.

AS part of the modern movement 10
conserve cyesight and promote phys
tcal comfort. allied interests have
started gloom and glare contest
Evening star., 1924-11-14
FOLKS

Col. John Albert Hull, I. :. A..
recently promoted to the rank OF
maj jor general aud to be the judge
advucate general CT the Army, Is one
Evening star., 1924-11-14

In every friendship one iss more
selfish than the other, and the one
who practices self sacrifice is the
ha1piAr.
Evening star., 1924-11-14
CURRENCY
HANGS IN BALANCE
Success or Failure of In
ternaI Loan Holds Fate of
Financial Future.
by CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Gy Gable to The star and Chicago naily News
PARIS, November 14.-UpUn the
success or failure OF the internal loan
issued today depends not only the
tate OF the present French govern
ment. but also the future Of the
French currency.
Lf the French people answer the
pressing calls of Premier Herri"t and
subscribe the loan, the franc will b"
stabilized. If not. the frame may
share the fate Of the Balkan curr"n-
cieS. with far-reachinG consequences
g the country.
Tie government has boen author
lied TO raise $3.50. .G00, 900. but the sec
rotary of the treasury announced
that subscriptions would he closed as
soon as s20O.o 600 was Obtained
this being the amount necessary {"
cover last years deficit and To enable
the government To balanc" his years
budget The loan was issued at par
Yielding , per cent interest. redeem
sb!e in ! 93t with a 30 per cent bonus.
'rhus the yicld is actually So per
cent.
Warning To People.
This ARRANGEMENT was made not
only to facilitate the troaSury'S pay
ing q low rate of interest for the
next 10 years but also as Warning
10 the French people that unless they
accept heavier fiscal sacrifices during
the next few wears and assist in
balancing the budget OF the future
they will risk not only their bonus
iut also the principal Of this attrac-
tive Investment
s Investors must pay spot cash and
FORMER issues of State loans and
bonds are unacceptable. The banks,
however. have been instructed TO
Facilitate the credit Of prospective
purchasers of the new loan by ad-
yancing at low rate of interest the
full value of the other Cove rnment
bonds which have not greatly de-
preciated.
If the present operation is success
full. Premier Herrot intends, after
balancing the budget. to issue several
new loans. He is confident that j.
+. Morgan viii assist in tIoa ting ii
500, 000.o"v loan in the United States,
while another loan OF gold t. the
extent Of Sio0."0o. 900 viii bc laultchc d
III France and European markets.
Copyright. 1921. by chicago Daily News co..
Milford chronicle., 1924-12-12

bers of this group speak to the country. it will
not be as "holier than thou" Republican insur-
gents against a majority, but in their own true
character as enemies of the party in power,
whose words are discounted because of that
known opposition. This is the true portraiture
of their situation, and there is reason for Re-
publican completely in the effort to fool the peo-
pie as to their real motives and affiliations.
Every politician has the unquestioned right to
scorn political parties and to proclaim his inde-
pendence of them. That professed independence
ceases to be admirable, however, when it lacks
the courage to stand on its own feet and take
the consequences of repudiating a given party
designation. The public understands that the
reason these men claim to be Republicans is not
that they believe in Republicanism, but that they
believe in the ability of Republican camouhage
to get something by way of Office, honor and
emolument, and are Machiavellian enough in
their methods to be willing to use a party on
the one hand and betray it on the other.
Politicians of this stripe have gone far by the
use of what may be called their nuisance val
ue." They have fourished through threats and
acts of hostility. They have practiced sort of
terrorism which to Republicans has ceased to
be tolerable. No man and no party can main
tain its integrity and self respect while it is
governed by the fear of minorities or individual
politicians always menacing it with the prospect
of the dread consequence Of failing to yield to
Milford chronicle., 1924-12-12
A LESSON FROM THE ELECTION

The election of President Coolidge is the
greatest evidence yet offered to prove that the
American people think straight on basic ques-
tions The vote for Coolidge was not vote for
the man so much as a vote for sound principles
of government.
The present vote shows that the American
people cannot be stampeded by professional po-
litical practices which seek to cloud the funda-
mental issues.
The election year has also shown that ques-
tions like the tariff and discussion of changes in
the Constitution no longer seriously disturb bus
mess and industries as they have done in the
past. From the day Of the national conventions
Our Country has enjoyed confidence and the
stimulation of rising markets.
Candidates Davis, Coolidge and La Toilette
were all highly respected by the people for their
ability and sincerity as political leaders, but all
Departures from fundamental political traditions
were bitterly opposed and all inclinations to try
experiments at public expense lost the propo-
nents public confidence.
All political parties would do well to learn
lesson from this election, namely, the voters are
able to differentiate between men and measures
and can no longer be so easily fooled as some
persons think
We will continue to advance along the path
way to success under one flag, governed by
constitution the equal Of which has not yet been
written, if we forget not the words of the Great
with Malice Toward None, With
Charity for ALL"
Let the public officials in power remember
hat they are only the servants Of the people and
hot M noIiticaI MARTY nan surViVe eXcept as it
gives better government to citizens who are
-apidly becoming more enlightened on public
luestions.-The Manufacturer.
Milford chronicle., 1924-12-12
Giving a City Good Health
FROM PHILA. NORTH AMERICAN


Fourteen years ago DR.. Charles J. Hastings
was one Of the leading medical practitioners in
Toronto. He was 81 years old, and after twenty
years Of active service as doctor was about to
retire to take up fruit farming in British Colum-
bia.
At that time Toronto was spending $4,000 a
year on its department Of health, manned by
some seventy-ive workers and one health nurse.
The infant mortality rate Of 1892 per 1000 live
births and the tuberculosis death rate of 1SO per
100000 inhabitants were none too good; the ty-
phoid mortality rate Of 442 per 100000 inhabi-
tans was much too high.
There was a vacancy at the desk of the medi-
cal officer Of health. Doctor Hastings was ask
ed to suggest a suitable appointee. He did so,
and went on with his plans for the fruit ranch.
Nothing came of his suggestion at once, and
presently his friends turned to him and said:
'Here you are ready to retire from private prac-
tice. You owe it to Toronto to take this job
yourself"
Doctor Hastings considered He had been in
terested for some years in the problems of milk
supply, and had organized the first milk COM
mission in Canada He knew Toronto needed
better milk and more aggressive health leader
accomplishment; his keen gray eyes under
bushy white brows are those of a shrewd and
determined fighter. He made his terms: the de-
partment of health was to be utterly free from
politics and all varieties of political influence;
on that basis he would take the Office
Doctor Hastings political creed is founded on
a belief that politicians will do what they think
the voters want done-nO more, no less. So in
stead of trying to influence the politicians, he
went directly to the taxpayers and told them
what a real department Of health should and
could do for their benefit, and promised to put
his whole soul into an effort to build such de-
partment If given the necessary financial sup
port
He won the interest Of the public and all the
newspapers backed him. He made people believe
health work pays, and therefore is worth pay
ing for. The most pressing needs Of the city
were pure water and milk. Fortunately, these
needs also offered the best opportunity for
prompt and visible returns, in falling typhoid
and infant mortality rates.
It was not difficult to persuade the city to pro-
vide filtration an dlight chlOrination to purify
the water supply. That was a matter entirely
within city control But It was different with
milk; there were vested rights to deal with. The
local dairy farmers and the distributors, It was
anticipated would resist legislation in the first
place and enforcement afterward, unless they
could be brought to see the need and value OF
regulation.
It was a hard fight with some Of the interests,
but the doctor won. He had the people behind
him. That's power anywhere.
Milford chronicle., 1924-12-12

"When we began testing milk" Doctor Hast
ings says I'VE found that about 40 per cent of
the milk sold in Toronto was watered, and on
an average this Watered milk had 20 per cent Of
water. Some samples were found in restaurants
that were almost half water. We make very
careful estimate of the total amount of water in
the milk supply Of the city and found that in one
year Toronto citizens had paid $275,OOO for water
when they thought they were buying milk. This
was more tina nthe whole expenditure Of the
health department, and the papers gave plenty
of space to this evidence Of what health de-
partment could save in dollars and cents"
The city sent out competent veterinarians to
inspect dairy herds, and quietly advised them
not to attend too exclusively to that particular
task. If a farmer had horses and pigs, as well
as cows the inspector would look them all over
and give him what help he could with them.
Many Of the producers knew little about the ac-
tual productivity Of their COWS. The inspectors
suggested simple records which would enable
them to weed out the improbable ones.
In such ways the farmer was won as an ally
of the health officer. Violations Of the regula-
tions by milk distributors became rare, and the
newspapers helped to make carelessness unpro-
ftable by reporting them fully. And the typhoid
rate was cut from 44.2 in 1910 to 2.5 in 1928. OF
these deaths more than half were non-residents.
Meanwhile Toronto, having good milk to drink
and hearing constantly Of its value drank more
and more Of it; the per capita consumption has
risen to O.S1 pints in 1928.
'This was only the opening salvO Of what the
newsmen came to call the Battle Of Hastings"
says a writer in a recent issue Of the Survey.
year after year the doctor carried his balance
sheet to the people and little larger budget to
the councils. It was not his way to roll up big
delegations Of citizens to storm the council
chamber.
"T wanted to fight that fight single-handed'
he says. But he made sure the people knew what
they were getting for their money. The one
public health nurse was multiplied by forty In
1911 housing inspection service was begun; in
its first year it had 5000 of $4,000 existing privies
replaced by sanitary plumbing. There are bare
ly 500 left now-those in outlying unsewered
sections of the city. In 1915 Toronto led the
way with division Of industrial hygiene, which
stressed ventilation and sanitation in workshops
and tackled the problem Of trade dusts and
gases. The general mortality rate had been
hammered down more than ten points in the
first two years of the new regime, while the per
capita appropriation was increased more than
half"
What has thus been accomplished in Toronto
can be done in any city where men Of Doctor
Hastings stamp can be drafted into public SER
7ise It is a lesson that should be needed by all
cities
Milford chronicle., 1924-12-12
MILFORD. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 12. 1924

THE PROPOSED PLAN for rebuilding the
public schools Of Delaware where needed, which
has been worked out by Pierre S. du Pont, will
be printed in full in the columns of the Milford
Chronicle in its issue Of December 18th. This
plan has been worked out at time and expense,
by Mr.. du Pont and is worth close study.
Milford chronicle., 1924-12-12

DURING THE PAST FEW MONTHS the great
annual flights of migratory birds to the south
has taken place. The honk of wild geese flying
by night mostly was a familiar sound. So the
gathering of great locks of blackbirds and other
varieties preparing to migrate were common
sights. Jim Crow" an occasional bluejay, owl,
sparrow or cardinal, will be the only land birds
left to spend the winter with US. The wonder is
how the birds that remain find food, water and
shelter. We can all help preserve the birds by
placing little food where they can get it, es-
pecially about the house or sheltered places and
let the house cat enjoy seeing them through the
windows from the inside.
Milford chronicle., 1924-12-12

come to with a splitting headache, bad taste
in the mouth and recollectiOns of having been
thrown out of few places, they will be more
"choicy" in their selection of company here
after
Milford chronicle., 1924-12-12

THE PRESENT SESSION OF CONGRESS
cannot be expected to do much besides enact the
supply bills for the next fiscal year. The bal
ance of power in each House is held by few
radicals who have been successful in previous
sessions in upsetting the plans Of the Coolidge
Republicans. If the administration attempted to
put through any major piece of legislation be-
fore adjournment on March 4th, it would very
likely be accorded the same treatment as was
given the Mellon tax plan.
But in the new Congress that will go into
Office next year as a result of the November
elections, the Republicans will command a work.
ing majority in both the Senate and House, and
will be in position to put through recommends
tions that President Coolidge may submit. Tax
reduction and revision is promised as one Of the
major features of the legislative program, with
such other items as have failed to receive favor
able consideration at the hands of the present
Congress.
Milford chronicle., 1924-12-12

THE TRANSMISSION BY WIRELESS from
London to New York of photographs of Presi-
dent Coolidge and other notables is the last
outstanding accomplishment in our electric age
1t teaches a great lesson. Again it demonstrates
that nature holds no secret man cannot wrest
from her bosom when he makes UP his mind to
do so. We are now able to do pretty near what
we will through the air. Why? Because almost
as soon as the aerial impulse was discovered,
the worlds best brains set about to bring 1t in
to useful service. Already we have mastered the
distribution of oral and now pictorial express
sion. In a short time we will be sending wire
less motion pictures. All Of this has been ac-
complished over night, yet in the 1925 years
since the birth Of the Redeemer, we have not
been able to master even the A B Of food dis
tribution, over land, over sea, by train, ship
airship, truck, or in any other way. Apples act
ually rot in New York State while the people so
close to them as Broadway in the great metropo-
lis famish for the fruit and pay extortionate
prices. Oranges rot in the South because the
problem Of distribution has not been solved.
Corn lies waste in the West while the East
famishes for food. What is the answer? The
problem is not unsolvable.
Milford chronicle., 1924-12-12

SENATOR WILLIAM M. BUTLER, Of Massa-
chusetts, the astute chairman of the RepuDli-
can national committee, made a very sensible
comment when asked If he did not think the
non-Republican elements excluded from the Re-
publican caucus might try to make trouble for
the Republican party and the administration.
Let them go ahead and make it." he replied,
in effect: 1.-THE people are tired Of blocs, dis
turbers, obstructionists and trouble makers. The
result of the last election proves this. The more
disturbers try obstructive tactics the sooner
politics will be rid Of them" The time has come
when the exaggerated ego type Of politician who
has the habit Of prOclaiming that If he can't
pitch all the time he will quit the game is going
to have good chance to quit the game, the real
ization having arrived that no matter how bril-
liant player he may be individually, he isn't
worth whoop to any team but the one against
which he is supposed to be playing
It will apparently be easier for the Republi-
cans in Congress to get along with the second
party than with the third party minority. Demo-
Gratis on Capitol Hill realize that their last ses
sion's mesalliance with the La Toilette group
got them nothing but a sound and well-deserved
threshing at the polls. Having made the mis-
take once. and being painfully conscious of the
consequence their disposition will be to let the
La Folletteistitas flock by themselves, rather
than by further fostering of the outfit to raise
again the specter of a third party movement
that will split the Republican opposition rather
than the Republican party. Senate Democrats
are going to patriOtically perform their duty
during the present session by helping pass the
appropriation bills, without using obstructive
methods to prevent legislation desired by the
majority. They will have no part in the plan to
force an extra session Of Congress on the cOun-
try by that form Of bloc rule known as the Ali-
buster, employed to defeat the majority will.
The Senate Democrats did go on political
drunk with this outfit last winter. but having
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-07
LABOR TAKERS
IN VANCOUVER
IN HARLOT ROLE
Sell Political Virtue to
Capitalists
BY SYDNEY WARREN.

(Staff Correspondent OF the Fed Pressl
VANCOUVER, 3. C.-For the first
time in the history Of this province
labor viii have solid front IN the
British Columbia elections now pend
ing. Heretofore Labor candidates
have been opposed by Socialist party
candidates and vice versa, but this
year the various radical and labor po-
liticaI groups decided to form a Brit
ish Columbia section Of the Canadian
Labor party.
At convention in Vancouver, May
24-25 organization of the section was
completed and the prospect Of polit-
ical unity thruout the province assured
ed. Seventeen candidates have been
placed in the field. Prospects are good
to elect six members to the provincial
house.
The action of the political groups
in forming a section Of the Canadian
Labor party will prevent the bogus
Provincial party, organized by old par
ty renegades, political adventurers,
and ex-army officers, from making a
successful bid for the labor vote,
which this party is attempting to do
by placing safe and sane" union men
on the party's ticket in districts where
the labor vote counts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-07
CONCERT,
FOR SOVIET AID
ON This SUNDAY
Technical Aid Society
Plans with Freiheit

The Society for Technical Aid to
Soviet Russia and the Jewish Daily
F'reiheit have arranged together an
open air concert and picnic for this
coming Sunday, June 8, at Stickney
Park, Lyons, III.
The Society for Technical Aid IS
well known in Chicago. Since It's or
ganization few years ago, the So
ciety has prepared and sent to Rus
STA hundreds of skilled workers who
are working and teaching in the shops,
factories and fields of Russia. With
in few weeks another group of the
agricultural Commune "Krasny Lutch"
CRED Ray is leaving for Russia.
Within few months the dairy and
poultry Commune "Herold" is ex-
pected to go to the economic front in
Soviet Russia. The Society has its
headquarters at 1902 w. Division St.,
where it takes up the entire second
floor. Besides the library and the
school rooms, there is big hall for
meetings and lectures, and stage
where popular plays are presented.
1t takes money to run the school
and keep up the headquarters. altho
the Society has no paid officials, and
even the janitors' work is being done
free Of charge. The dues are very
small and do not cover the expenses.
To cover it's expenses the Society runs
affairs similar to this picnic. All who
are in sympathy with Soviet Russia
should come to this picnic and help
keep up the good work Of the Society
for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia.
Tickets are for sale at the Soviet
School, 1902 w. Division St., Russian
Coop. restaurant, 1874 w. Division
St., Freiheit Office, las Blue Island
Ave-, Cheski's restaurant, 1924 w.
Roosevelt Road.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-07
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you will prosper and be promot-
ed. So Joe grit his teeth and
refused to listen to any union
organizer who told him he was
getting half the wages he would
get if the Western Electric was
organized,
That He. Had a chanceI
Joe did his job we'll He used to
stay and work overtime, without ask
ing for extra pay, Just to see that
the machines didn't get rusty or lose
their polish. Joe didn't spare his
muscle at all. He wanted to get mar
ried, but knew his salary. was not
enough to support one, let alone 9
family. Still Joe had been told and
believed It, too, by heck, in his trust
ing rustic mind. that the Western
Electric, with its many employees,
"offered fine chance for advance
ment," as they had advertised, and he
was going to stay on and get that
chance.
BY the time Joe was promoted he
was able to oil UP his machinery with
his eyes shut. He knew he was the
best little old oiler the Western Elec-
trio ever had, and he could make the
big machine monsters fairly whiz
He speeded up the machinery so that
the other employees who had to turn
out the work on the machines would
get sore at him once in while for
making it hard for them. They told
him to thicken his oil up so they
would get chance to rest minute
occasionally. But Joe was wise. He
told them plain out: "I'm not working
for you birds. It's the Western Elec-
trio that pays me my money. You
ought to be glad the machines run