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Evening star., 1924-09-02
LABOR DAY CROWDS
FLEE BRO|L|NG SUN
Thousands Seek Rest in
Country or at Beaches
While City SWeIters.

Labor day swooped down on Wash
ington yesterday and shooed the citi-
zenry of the National Capital away
from their usual Monday tasks and
into fields of rest, recreation and.
withal. greater endeavor.
broiling sun that harked not to
the call for cessation of duty helped
chase the thousands countryward to
seek cooling breezes in picnic groves
or dashing spray, such as it was. at
nearby shore resorts. Many others
remained in the seclusion of shaded
porches or betook themselves to COM
munity celebrations or city amuse-
ment places.
The Tidal Basin received hundreds
into it's watery lap and Manager
Leech today was figuring to see
whether records had been broken
with respect to crowds. The movies
piled up a healthy total of receipts
for the day and such popular parks
as the Zoo and Rock Creek issued
passes to unusual numbers of holiday
pleasure-seekers.
Community Celebrations.
The principal community celebration
took place at Congress Heights and
Capitol Heights, while the Central
Labor Union, properly enough, Joined
in festivities at Arlington Beach.
Parade at Congress Heights.
Nearly all of the people of Congress
Heights journeyed to Wilson Park
during the afternoon to witness ath-
letic events and an automobile pa
rade, under the auspices of the Con-
gress Heights Citizens Association.
Marking the opening of the pro-
gram were addresses by M. Sanger,
assistant superintendent of st. Eliza
beth's Hospital; George M. Yeatman,
president of the South Washington
Citizens Association; DR.. George G..
Havenner, president of the Anacostia
Citizens Association, and Bill Price of
the Washington Times. All were
unanimous in their praise for Con-
gress Heights and the celebration be-
ing held by it's citizens.
The next event of the afternoon was
a 100-yard dash for boys, won by Ber-
nard Long, with John Long second.
Other events were:
100-yard dash for girls-Miss AL.
berta Scott, first, and Miss Marearet
Scott, second.
Race for young men-Theodore
Gossett, first. and Dominic Caparotta,
second.
Race for young ladies-Miss Gladys
Hultgren, first, and Miss Annie Love-
lace, second.
Sack race-Alfred Reynolds, f1rst,
and Harry Selby. second.
Skipping race-I1ou Snyder, ftrSt,
and Esther Cf1mer, second.
three.legged race-G. l. Smith
Evening star., 1924-09-02
FINDS BUSINESS BACKS
AMERICAN SHIPPING
O'Connor Assured of Support to
Secure Cargoes in Replies
to Letters.

Virtually unanimous support of the
effort to obtain 81 per cent of all
American foreign commerce for
American vessels is expressed in
more than 1000 replies Chairman T.
v. O'Connor of the Shipping Board
has received to approximately 10000
letters he has addressed to American
manufacturers and shippers.
The principal reason assigned by
Mr.. O'Connor for the use Of foreign
ships was the Indifference of most Of
the manufacturers as to the method
of shipment of their goods after they
leave the factory or reach the sea-
port
There is a general awakening of
interest, as shown by the many 'ex-
pressions of intention to cooperate
with the Shipping Board in securing
for American vessels fair share of
the commerce" the chairman said
yesterday. THE commission agents
or brokers and forwarding agents
from whom replies have been re-
ceived express their personal interest
and offer cooperation to the extent
of their powers, but state that they
are to large extent controlled by
the desires of the foreign agencies in
selection of the means of transport,
and in many cases are instructed. to
use the vessels sailing under the flag
Of the purchaser"
Evening star., 1924-09-02
4 Ten-TOn Marble
Columns for Arch
In Shrine at C.. u,

Four marble columns. each
weighing 10 tons. have been re-
ceived at the National Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception, now
under construction at Catholic
University. They came from Nor
way, and are to be installed in
the crypt of the national shrine
and upon them will rest the center
arch of Guastivino ceiling. Each
column will sustain a weight of
more than 100000 pounds.
Work is being pushed on the
temporary altars to be used dur
ing the convention of the Holy
Name Society, the latter part of
this month. One hundred and
twenty masses will be said in the
crypt during the convention period.
Three hundred spiritual directors
of the Holy Name Society will be
guartered in the buildings of the
Catholic University.
Evening star., 1924-09-02
YOUR BONUS
Questions That Bother You
Will Be Answered in
This Column.
Address, Room s22. News De-
partment. The Evening Star,
Washington, ID. c.

Q. 1 am applying for my adjustment
of compensation. Will the War De-
partment reveal the amount of COM
pensation which is due to any in
quirer? Will the Veterans Bureau
tell any person who might make in
quiry whom I have named as my
beneficiary? will appreciate your
published answer.-J. j. G..
A. The War Department holds it's
records Of service men as confidential.
1t will not give out any information
regarding your services unless you
make the request yourself The Vet
erans' Bureau does not reveal to any
inquirer the person named as bene-
nclary OF term or converted inSur-
ance, and it will not reveal the name
of any person named as beneficiary
of an adjusted compensation certif-
cate.
Q. What is the average of veter-
ans applying for adjusted compensa-
ton? What is the death rate now
and what will it be 20 years from
now?-T. b.
A. 1t is estimated that the aver
age age of veterans now applying
for adjusted compensation is 80 years.
The death rate for the year following
the passage of the adjusted compensa-
ton act is estimated to be $500. In
the year 1914 it is estimated that
1888 veterans will die.
=. During the war / served at
Camp Meade, and while there was
visited by my sister, who then and
now resides in Washington. AS she
was my closest relative, I gave her
address as the person to be notified
in case of death or wounds. Now
actually enlisted in New York State
n
reason my service is credited to the
District of Columbia. The bonus
bureau of the adjutant generals of
hce at Albany, N. Y, has denied my
claim for the State bonus. Is there
any way in which I might have my
record card of service transferred to
Albany?-An ex-Solder.
A. It may be possible to have your
record card of service credit to the
District of Columbia transferred to
Albany, N. Y. If you will send us
your full name and all the partic,i-
lars regarding your case we will see
that your request is laid before the
proper authorities.
@. You did not fully understand
my inquiry, and therefore did not
answer one question which is very
important to me. AS you know. my
husband died right after filing his
application for the bonus. He named
his sister as his beneficiary That
prevents me from receiving the bene-
fits of the bonus. Under what cir
cumstances would the application
which he filed be declared invalid and
therefore of no effect? If the appli-
cation should be declared invalid, then
would L have a good claim-is that
correct?-Mrs. o. X. c.
the onrIicof f;nr xr,hfoh x,1nr
husband filed were declared to be
invalid By tho War Department you
would have q good claim for the
Evening star., 1924-09-02
MACHINERY KILLS BOY.

Raymond Ball, 13 years old of
Gaithersburg, Md, was fatally in
jured yesterday afternoon, in a can
ming factory near his home, when
his clothing caught in the machinery.
and he was cut and crushed before
it could be stopped. He died on the
operating table at Georgetown Univer-
sity Hospital. The body was taken to
the home Of the child's grandparents.
Mr.. and MrE Joseph Gardner.
GaithersburI.
Evening star., 1924-09-02

bonus as a dependent. He had the
rtght to name any person as his bene-
ficfary, and you have no rights if the
application which he filed is a valid
one. If the application which he
1led was not signed, or If he did not
put his fingerprints upon it, then it
would probably be declared invalid.
Other mistakes in filing applications
will be considered as Irregularities,
and will not invalidate applications
which are properly signed. Finger
pdints are virtually considered as
part Of the signature.
Evening star., 1924-09-02
POST OFFICIAL RESIGNS,
A. d. Marks to Take Position in
Baltimore,

Arthur D. Marks, business manager
of the Washington Post and who has
been in the service of that newspaper
for 1S years, announced his resigna-
tion yesterday. He will take a posi-
ton in Baltimore with the William
Randolph Hearst Organization.
Mr.. Marks has been a resident of
this city for q years. He is a
director of the Federal National
Bank and is prominent in club and
Masonic circles. He is q past presi-
dent OF the Washington Rotary Club.
Donald A. Wiley, 1t Is announced,
win succeed Mr.. Marks
Evening star., 1924-09-02
Balloonist Injured, May Die.

WOBURN. Mass, September q
Joseph j. Cannon, a baiIoonist, was
so seriously injured that he may die
when, after casting away two para
chutes in a triple jump, his third
umbrella failed to open and he
plunged through q roof here yester-
day. Gannon's jump was the feature
Of q balloon ascension which was
part Of q holiday program arranged
by an American Legion post here
Evening star., 1924-09-02
DROUGHT IN MARYLAND
IS COSTING THOUSANDS
Melons, Fruit and Garden Produce
Dead-Record Heat in
Hagerstown.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. September O.
Heat records for the past decade were
broken yesterday, when the mercury
scared to 10S degrees. Accompanying
the heat is a parching drought, which
is burning up corn and garden produce
The damage here already has been
estimated at thousands Of dollars. The
corn crop will be only 20 per cent nor
NAL, farmers declare, while cantaloupes,
fruit and all garden produce has per-
ished. Not since 1853 has there been
such drought, old residents say.
Evening star., 1924-09-02

and r. E. Lee. first. and Henr.
Yanicky and Howley Tally, second.
Evening star., 1924-09-02
Man Driving Ford
Sought by Police
IL, Store Robbery
Special Dispatch to The Star.

FREDERICKSBURG Va, Sep
tember Chief of Police S. B.
Perry has a fine chance to fill the
Fredericksburg Jail and all other
available buildings II he proceeds
to round up suspects" in the rob-
berry of mercantile establish
ment at Mount Landing, Essex
County.
The chief was notified to look
for a man of medium build, driv-
ing a Ford car.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
H / N DU REBELS
DENIED ASYLUM
BY The FRENCH
Action Due to Pressure
of British

MADRAS, India, Feb. 28.-Acting
under British pressure, French au-
thorities have expelled from Pom
dicherry, Indian nationalists who
sought refuge as political exiles on
French soil. Thus the right of poll
teal asylum, additionally respected
in France, is violated by her colonial
officials. During twenty years, In
dian nationalist have found protec-
ton in the French settlements Of
Pondicherry and Chandernagere.
Even during the war, when all con-
stitutional rights were set aside, In
dian refugees were not expelled from
the French settlements.
No reason has been given for this
expulsion. Since the victims can
not go to any other country without
crossing British territory, expulsion
means practically their extraJition,
which is a direct contravention of all
codes and usages of international
Law. The expelled refugees will try
to reach France, there to claim the
right Of refuge which belongs to
them. Will the French Government
and public vindicate this right?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
The Difference Between Child
Labor and Youth Labor.
BY HARRY CANNES

ny HAM UAlNNEO
HERE is much confusion in the
1 minds of many workers between
child labor and youth labor. The
regular party politicians, especially
those active in some attempt to
squelch the child labor protest, COM
pletely becloud the entire issue of
the exploitation of the children and
the youth.
Sam Gompers, the National Child
Labor Committee, the United States
Department of Labor, and every
other agency carrying on some form
of anti-child labor agitation, make
it clear that the exploitation of the
youth over IA years of age with
some form of regulations, and over
16 unlimitedly, is proper.
Ordinarily child labor is meant
the exploiting of children under IA
years of age. The United States
census classes all those Is and I'M
der in it's child labor figures of
over 100000. This, incidentally,
does not take count Of children
under 6, tho investigations by the
Children's Bureau of the Depart
ment Of Labor itself, have brought
to light the fact that thousands
upon thousands Of children 4, 5, and
6, and in one instance 2, work, some
Of them very long hours. A con-
sentative figure of the number of
children of all ages up to is en-
ployed and exploited in some form
or other in the United States is
100000. This does not include the
part-time, home working children,
great portion of the children en-
gagged in street occupations is I'M
counted, and the thousands who
illegally give higher ages in order
to get working certificates are not
taken into account. Then 1928
showed a 38 per cent increase Of
child workers in the industrial CEN
ters.
So much for the bare phases of
child labor.
AS workers, we are naturally
against the exploitation of all chill
dren Up TO the age of 16, and ex-
hort all the forces Of labor with
an end to the immediate stoppage
Of the employment Of children in
any manner whatsoever. That is
our goal. But that alone does not
solve the problem. The fight
against child labor is part of the
general struggle of the
workers for higher wages, lower
hours, better standards Of work,
and ultimately the destruction Of
capitalism.
Now to the confused youth la
bor." There is no hue and cry
against exploitation Of the youth on
the part Of the politicians, philan-
thropists and labor takers. 1t is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29

that the fighting unity, the psychic
logical and political peculiArities pos
sessed by our Party during the civil
war a few years ago, still remain
with US.
If we do not deliberately close our
eyes, and try to pretend that every
thing is in order; if we admit that
we are bound to regard our own O.
perience with a critical eye; then we
must come to the following conclu-
sions: OF course not. And for the
very sufficient reason that our Party
consists of three parts Of the prole-
tariat, the peasants, and the en-
ployes-the intelligenzia, and that it
is impossible to imagine that these
three special groups are not subject
to the corresponding influences
brought to bear upon them from di-
rections outside Of our Party.
Psychology Of Party Groups.
Thus the proletarian wing Of our
Party, under constant pressure from
the masses in the works and fac
tories, possesses an entirely differ
ent Psychological conception Of
things than, for instance, the intel
lectual wing, consisting of employees,
which latter wing is again living in
quite another atmosphere to that Of
the peasant wing of the Party, which
has mentality Of its own.
Without going further into details,
we can see clearly that this NEP IL
bound to have different effect on
the different wings Of our Party, es-
pecially on the first wing, that wing
which we have sent along with you
far into the camp of enemy in the
NEP.
Those of our Party who have thus
been sent into the camp of the enemy
must receive our full support in
every respect, but we must not for
get that we have placed them in
position in which they cannot shut
themselves off from the atmosphere
so different to that breathed by our
Party.
If we take a workman, Commun-
list from the ranks of the intelli-
genzia, and appoint him director Of
q OAhng RAScAOCnO VI q lIdu6 VAN
change, or give him a leading and
responsible position, or place him at
the head of a syndicate, we must
admit to ourselves that we are send
ing our comrade to a very dangerous
position, for we are not sending him
out to fight hand to hand with the
bourgeoisie, but to make agreements
with it, to sign contracts with it, to
carry on commerce, etc.
i repeat, that we should be blind
were we to forget here Marxism, or
to forget that the division which we
have sent forward to occupy this
post is much more liable than any
other division-much more than the
workman at his bench-to degenera-
ton as Communists, and to succumb
to the NEP. And we should be act
ing crinlinally with regard to these
comrades if we did not adopt meas
ures for neutralizing this influence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
Cleveland Firms
Organize Council
for Foreign-Born
Especial to The Daily wsrk.r)

CLEVELAND. Ohio, Feb, 27.-
The local Finnish branch of the
Workers Party decided in its last
regular meeting to call a massmeet-
ing among the Firms here, prospect
i've of political views, in order to
form a council for the protection Of
foreign-born workers.
The aim of this council will be a
fight, the laws against registration
and fingerprinting Of those foreign
born workers who have not taken
citizen papers in the United States
Of America. The Finnish branch,
therefore will combine with other To-
cal organizations, for the formation
Of above named council, which will
carry on an aggressive campaign
against the proposed laws.
The undersigned also wishes to say
that all Firms in this locality should
be subscribers Of The Daily Work
err. We can become subscribers by
just letting our literature agent
Com. Matt Peltonen take our names
and addresses when Matt comes
around, Of course he wants a little
money, too, for the sub, but that is
so little that everybody can give
without any excuse
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
Hardy Annual Bill
for State Insurance
ArOuSes Some Interest

NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-A bill es-
tablishing state monopoly in work
mems compensation insurance intro
duced in the New York state legis-
lature this year as it has been every
session regularly for years, has for
the first time aroused some interest.
Replying to the criticism of P. T.
Sherman, former head, state labor
department and now a representa-
tive of insurance companies, in which
the bill was described as dangerous
political experiment as we'll as bad
economics, Frederick L. Hackenburg,
sponsor Of the measure in the lower
house, asserts that the change from
a competitive to a centralized system
for insuring working men or women
would be as beneficial to the comnul-
nifty as the parcel post has been.
II believe" he said, "that state
monopoly in this matter is coming
maybe not this year, maybe not in
the next, but certainly it is not far
of. 1t am sure that It will be even.
tually just as cheap as insurance by
competing private companies, more
efficient, and a great deal fairer to
the workers" The bill, he said, has
the support of organized labor.
Sherman's main argument is the
curious one that the bill would put
too great a sum--$200, 900 ,00O--ip
the hands Of the state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29

ling process in the proletariat. the
fundamental process of the inner life
of our Party from 1919 till 1920 and
1921, has ceased, and that we ara
now experiencing the reversed pro-
cess-the process Of consolidation, of
Improvement, of return Of the hon
est native proletariat to the city. of
revival in the inner life Of the work
ing class, and Of improvement in its
material position.
And upon this basis. the basis of
the consolidation of the working
class, of the comparative improve
ment of its material position, we find
an awakening in the inner ideologi-
cal, cultural, and political life Of the
working class, a growth of demands
put upon life, a rise of cultural level,
and an increase Of the political de-
mands put upon us, the Communists.
Thus the Party is faced by the
task Of not being behind-hand, of
adapting its inner life with all speed,
if it is to be equal to meeting these
fresh tasks imposed by the higher
standards and advanced consolidation
of the working class. Should the
Central and other Party organiza-
tons respond to these facts by clos
ing their eyes, or by maintaining
that everything is in perfect order.
there is no doubt but that they would
be the greatest criminals; their as
sumption Of an official and authorita-
tive satisfactory state. of affairs
might plunge the Party into the
abyss.
The Dangers of the N. E. P.
But in actual fact nothing of the
kind has happened, and the struc-
ture and traditions of our Party rem
der it impossible for it to happen.
The above facts simply became the
objective motives for the movement
which became apparent in all our or
CARNATIONS, beginning with the Cen
trail, and based on the endeavor to
enhance political activity within our
Party itself, and to raise it to the
required level.
To this another circumstance must
be added, one which becomes increas-
ingly prominent, and to which we
must devote much more attention in
the future than in the past, for it
concerns US more and more. We are
living under the conditions of the
New Economic Policy. I shall not
deal with the new economic policy
at this meeting, but l am aware that
energetic attacks are being made
upon it and upon the public economic
policy pursued by the Central, and I
am convinced that we shall presently
have to thrash out this matter at
similar meeting to this, and come to
decision as to who is right-the
Central which pursues a definite eco
nomic line, or the assailants attack
ing this policy from the districts.
At the present moment I shall
merely touch upon the question of
the Influence exercised by the NEP,
at our own level, upon the question
as to whether we are able to boast
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29

America. The resolution follows:
WHEREAS, the workers in the basic in
dHstries where the chief wealth Of the country
is produced, are largely foreign born; and
WHEREAS, these workers, altho producing
the products that make possible the running
Of industry and interchange Of products, are
subjected to the most miserable conditions
and low wages, and
WHEREAS, there are already introduced
In Congress vicious laws intended to brand
aliens as criminals, by registering. finger
printing and photographing them, thus
bringing to these shores the detestable, auto
cratic methods in use in Kaiserist Germany
and Czarist Russia, and
WHEREAS. the Government officials have
openly and brazenly endorsed such measures,
which aim to punish any attempt of the
suffering foreisn-born to engage in strikes
or other working class activity; therefore be it
RESOLVED. that we, the workers Of May
nard, in mass meeting assembled. protest
vigorously against the proposed laws aimed
at fcreign-born, and be it further
RESOLVED, that copy of this resolution
be sent to the officials Of Maynard. to the
Stats Governor Of Massachusetts,, the May
nard re3rs sentatves in the State legislature,
the Congressman for Maynard, the State
Senators in Washington, TO the local press
and to the DAILY WORKER.
(Sgned) J. Weikinen. Chairman
A. Suihkonen, Secretary.