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Your Own Hope.

The class had been studying Co
1umbus. The story of his great ad-
venture and his struggles and defeats
had made a great impression on Tony.
columbus must have been a great
man. The way he waited and waited
and begged from the kings. In be-
tween ! suppose he worked on on
some little boat just like sailor who
didn't have any Ideas In his head, just
pulling q rope. Gee, I wouldn't like
that if l thought to / could discover a
wouldn't like to be just pulling a
rope"
Huh, he wasn't so much. I don't
think. II he hadn'ta done it, some
other sailor would have"
He couldn't. No other sailor could
have. Only Columbus could. He had
the idea. You gotta have the idea,
and he was the only one that had it.
lie must have been a good sport.
Pulling a rope when he knew in his
head that he could find a new world
and maybe be king of il. Gee, If I
could"
well, You couldn't All the worlds
are found. And anyway, If he hadn'ta
found it, some of us would"
1t was a high school youth who
SAID tnat. he Knew what ne neanr,
too. He was already stepped in the
notion that one man or one woman
doesn't matter much. If one fellow
doesn't do the job, why the next one
will, and it makes no difference. And,
Of course, / think that is all wrong
and especially wrong for high
school boy. 1t won't do to cling to
that sort of a rope. Columbus pull
ing on II rope while he dreamed Of
sailing the unknown seas was a far
better solution of the problem.
believe, and 1 have found it
healthy, that there IS a specified task
for each OF US who comes the way of
the world. And I believe that there
il nobody else who can exactly and
precisely do the task for which we
were placed here. I do not, think it
was an accident that brought Co.
lumbus across the sea in 1892. / do
not believe that it was an accident
that brought the Mayflower over,
either, or that took the long line of
gray ships over in the Great War.
.rust why each Of us is here is not
plain yet. but that we are here for
some destined good Is plain to my
thinking.
While the task may not be clear, or
while 1t may be long in coming, 1t
does no harm and 1t does much good
to pun hard on the rope we hnd at
our hands. Aever mind if it is a
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also take educational extension
courses. The school aims to be coed,
although there are only 20 girls III
the complete courses.
These Haluzim, after serving a
year, are eligible for regular admis-
sion to the school and also are per-
mitted to enter some of the colonies
for practical work. During their serv-
Ice in the school they are paid 10
cents a day, which covers all their ex-
penSes.
Varied Crops for Study.
The school comprises ESQ acres Of
land. On it you will find everything
that grows in Palestine-oranges
olives and all fruits and vegetables
Cereal growing has also become a
feature. The school is especially in
terested in the development of vine
yards and wine pressing, which is Il
profitable enterprise.
There are also stables. cowSheds, Il
modern dairy and q poultry develop
ment and, in fact, everything that
makes a complete agricultural out
fit. The school IS supplied with the
most advanced machinery. thor
oughly equipped laboratory is part
of the school and there experiments
are made on every kind of tree, land
and fertilizer. The drainage work is
progressing and the planting of euca-
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Bistorp Of pour Aan.e
BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOwLAN.
SWARTWOUT.
RACIAL ORRIGIN-Dutch.
SOURCE-A locality, or a descrip-
tive surname.

SOURCE-A locality, or descr1p-
tive surname.
Here Is a family name. part OF
which at least is fairly obvious to
those who are at all familiar with the
Teutonic tongues. "Swart" ought to
be clear in It's meaning when you con-
slider it's similarity to the German
Schwartz" and the En- 6 is h
"swarthy" AS a matter Of fact, even
the spelling "swort" is sometimes met
with in English, though it is now
almost obsolete.
The other element in the name,
''wout." Is not so clear at first. AS
a matter OF fact, 1t may be the devel-
opment of one word or of another;
perhaps one, perhaps both There is
no way of settling the matter defini
tely for the individual bearing this
family name without a genealogical
research.
The family name. of course. is
Dutch. and it means literally either
black wood" or black Walter" If
you find that the older form Of the
family name is "Zwartwoud.' you
may be fairly certain that 1t is sy-
nonymous with the English family
name of Blackwood. If, on the other
hand, the final letter in the older
form is st. the chances are that in
this case the family name Is built
up from the given name Of Walter.
which the Dutch often spelled "Wou-
ter" and contracted by the elimina-
ton of the final FER" just as In Eng
tlsh Walter was shortened into the
forms Walt and Wat.
Copyright. 1889
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HOW THEY MAKE FARMERS.
By Sophie Irene Loeb.
.t,RTLCIE XI
JERUSALEM. October

JERU SALEM, OCTOBER T..
4 y DUNG men between the ages
" of Is and % are going to
school and half Of them work
L ing their own way in the only
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JIM SALIL4h, oClODeT IL.
i ing their own way in the only
school of it's kind existing any
where-the Agricultural School OF
Mikweh-Israel.
Every year between so and 60 boys
have been graduated as scientific,
practical farmers. trained for any
branch of agricultural work. They
have gone forth into all parts of Pales
tine. Hundreds of young pioneers who
are now coming from other countries
are seeking entrance into this school,
which is unable to take all who apply.
That this thing was going to hap
pen--the Jews settling on their own
land-WaS the vision of a few men
like Baron Edmond de Rothschild and
Jacob Meter. so they organized an
agricultural school, which is doing q.
wonderful service.
We have much to learn in our coun-
try from this school, which is unique
IN the history of farm schools. AL
though the Mikweh Israel was found
ed by another organization 81 years
age for purely educational purposes, 1t
was soon realized that the big cry of
the section was for cultivation of the
soil rather than cultural education.
j 4 IL
concession of large tract of land near
Jaffa. where the school Is now situated.
This land was a swamp and infested
with malaria. Great difficulties We're
encountered in securing qualified
agricultural teachers, but the first
failures were overcome. and the school
Is now In a flourishing condition as
far as training and results are con-
cerned.
Scholarships From L. S.
Over 100 young boys are taught the
business Of farming from start to fin
ish. And while I was here l had 81
very interesting mission to perform
TO present five scholarships from
equipped to become good farmers.
These have been presented in the
name of Abraham L. Erlanger. chair
man of the New York Branch of the
National Farm School Of America.
I believe that this is the first time
that American money has been pro
vided for this school. In the words Of
Mr.. Erlanger:
Every boy should have a chance to
equip himself to earn his own support.
The trouble i'll the past has been the
Forthcoming of very little aid to those
who might be inclined to 60 back TO
the soil
1T Is my beiief That there are thou
sands of them everywhere. Especially
am I glad to extend this bit of help
TO boys. many of whom have come
from countries OF great depression
into the Holy Land to make their own
way and perhaps the way OF others
dependent on them
went all through the institution
and studied the conditions. Beside
the regular pupils, the school is train
ing about so to 100 pioneers CHaluzim)
to work their way through. They
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Our Children-By Angelo Patri

frayed and tarry thing without the
slightest relation, to our way of
thinking, to the main job. Just take
hold and pull hard. There's never
any way of telling where the next
haul will land you. Cling to your
idea, cherish your dream and grab a
rope.
Don't let any one tell you that if
you don't attend to your task it won't
matter; that some one else will do it
just as well. Perhaps the sail will
be made taut and the knot slipped
into place by other hands. but your
task, your particular touch, will be
missing. That may not matter to the
voyage in question, but how much it
will matter to you. 1t may mean the
difference between sitting on the piles
watching your ship sail off and stand
ing on the deck in command Just
grab your rope and pull away, no
matter.
Copyright. 1920
Angelo Patri Will give personal attention
to inquiries from parents school teachers
on the care and development of children
Write him in care of The Star, inclosing self
addressed. stamped envelope for reply,
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bEAUl CF1AlS Edna KENT FORBES

should not rub off the lashes on the
skin. 1t takes so little to tint the
edges OF the lashes that you may be
overriding it. so try this out before
making 1t over into a heavier mixture
Blonde Girl.-You can help keen
your hair light by shampooing with a
lemon soap Or by adding the Juice of
half Il lemon to q fun basin OF water
in the last rinse. Dry the hair In the
sun and shake it loose so that the
suns rays will reach every part alike.
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Rice Cakes,

To each cup of boiled rice add two
eggs, pint Of milk, teaspoon Of baking
powder. little salt and flour to make
thin batter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
Scab Hat Man Takes
Job Of Pawnbroker
to White Guardists

WASHINGTON, May ~. Up -
John B. Stetson, Jr., heir to the bust
ness and fortune OF the late anti-union
hat manufacturer of Philadelphia, has
been appointed as American minister
to Finland, whose anti-labor govern
ment was established by joint Amer
lean, allied and German imperial aid
in 1918. American aid in overthrow
ing the Finnish Soviet republic was
exerted thru economic blockade.
Minister Cagey, who now retires
from the Helsingfors job, is reported
to have bought paintings, family heir
looms and other valuables, at bargain
prices from Russian aristocrats as
they fed thru Finland to western
Europe. He will now rest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
Painters Union Joins
Demand for Probe of
Attacks on Insane
tspeoIaI to The .paIIy workerl

MARION, H., May 12.-investiga-
ton into alleged cruelty to inmates of
the Anna state insane asylum was de-
manded by the sheriff Of Williamson
county Noday following the death
there of Walter Fozard, Marion deco
rator, whose body on examination
bore indications of having been beat
en- and trampled to death.
Fozard was committed to the asy-
lum last week He died Sunday and
with the return of the body here It
was found one rib had been broken,
his scalp gashed, both eyes blackened
and his body made mass Of bruises.
Albert Troutman, brother-in-law Of
Fozard, told the sheriff that when he
visited the asylum Sunday morning,
every effort was made to keep him
from seeing Fozard, but finally gain
ing admittance to the mans room, he
asserted Fozard cried: Don't beat
me any more. boys. don't beat me-
All I want is a square deal" That
afternoon Fozard died.
A committee representing the Paint
ers' Union has joined the sheriff In
demanding a state investigation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
COAL OPERATORS
ASK INJUNCTION
AGAINST MINERS
Courts Asked to Issue
New Anti-Picket Order
CspeeIaI 70 rhs paIIy Worksrl

Especial to The Daily Worker)
WHEELING, w. va, May 1.-THE
coal operators today filed bill Of
conn laint asking for new injunction
against members Of the United Mine
Workers of America. to supplant the
present injunction under which the
miners are arraigned in federal court
for contempt.
The new injunction is more drastic
and is modelled after the injunction
granted some years ago to the Hitch
man Coal company against John
Mitchell, then miners union head, and
other mine union officials
The West Virginia courts are at the
beck and call Of the mine operators.
No judge can be elected in the coal
field districts unless he has the back
ing of the coal operators, who control
the politicians
The new injunction, which was ask
ed for by the West Observation-Disclosures
Coal company would forbid all activ-
tiles by the union or its members.
and would supplement the Injunction
now in effect which the cc"rt last
week ruled must be amended to per-
NIT Of peaceful persuasion"
Those named by the operators in
the new bill Of complaint today are
International President John L. Lewis,
Philip Murray, national vice-president,
and Van A. Bittner, national organic
er; President Lee Hall of Sub-District
No. g. of Ohio, his vice-president, Will
lam Roy and Secretary-Treasurer G.
w. Savage; President Frank Ledvin-
ka of Sub-District No. 5: Secretary
Treasurer w T. Roberts and Joseph
Angelo, organizer.
The United Mine Workers called a
strike in the organized w. Va. field,
but no real effort has been made to
get the non-union miners into the
union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
W|NN|E'S BUDGET
JUST like
PHILIP SNOWDEN'S
Right Wingers Threaten
the Left Wingers
BY r. STEWART.
Especial to The. Daily Worksr.l

DUBLIN = (Bya MALI Winston
Churchill who takes Snowdon's place
as chancellor of the exchequer in the
British parliament has introduced his
first budget, which is 80 much like
that of the labor government as
to leave these pitifui revisionists
with scarcely any ground for criti-
cism at all. Social reform at the ex-
pense of the working class with sop
to the boss and his lackeys Of six
pense OF income tax, and also bit
Off the super tax to relieve Winnies'
special millionaire friends, are the
features Of the budget.
Sob stuff around old age pensions
and widows allowances covers the
gifts to the plutes. it is all so irritat-
ingly patent and part OF the game.
The capitalist press shouts, see how
good we are to the poor, to the aged
to the widows, while the Federation
Of British Industries issues a chal-
lenge to the engineers to work fifty
one hours instead of forty-seven. The
mine owners challenge the miners to
work an eight instead OF a seven-hour
day. The railwaymen are attacked
all along the line. Oh, yes the reac-
ton has set in, the British linden
burgs are in the saddle and for the
same reason-that the labor leaders
OF Great Britain like the German so
cial-democrats prepared the way for
them. Still there Is kick left, and
strikes or threats or strikes are COM
mon. A big fight lies straight ahead.
Mcdonald. Thomas & Co., have got
nervy and are threatening to run a
Sunday paper to counteract the new
Sunday Worker of the left wing.
Write for Boss Press.
Internal quarrels in the labor party
are intensifying. There are fierce
complaints against Mcdonald, Clynes,
Thomas, Snowdens Hodges. and the
other "twicers" who add to their parlia-
mentary wages by writing to the cap
italist gutter press, which is prepared
to pay big prices for their attacks on
the Communists and the left wing.
Macdonald declares war to the
death on A. ]. Cook for venturing TO
criticise him in his own parliamentary
constituency.
The Morning Post has got the Red
scare badly, and sees assassins under
the postage stamps. Chamberlain's
life is supposed to be in danger and
the Daily Mail shouts for the deporta-
ton OF the Reds OF which there are
supposed to be millions in these is.
lands.
How we wish there werel
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wife was subsisting on one meal a
day.
The young man explained that he
was unable to do heavy work, due to
an injury received in an automobile
accident, but he said he would well
come a position driving any sort OF
vehicle. But there again lack OF
money stood in the way. There was
none with which to procure a license.
He told of how he had walked more
than 200 city blocks in answer to adj
vertisements, only TO arrive after the
places had been filled. There was no
money for car fare. An out-patient
card from Bellevue Hospital was on
the bureau, calling for treatment for
the injured leg three times weekly,
but the young man explained that the
leg was usually worse after the long
walk to the hospital and back home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
URGES A,F. OF |.
COUNCIL TO BAR
RACE PREJUDICE
But Negro Plea Gets No
Reply
Especial to The Daily worker)

WASHINGTON, May 12.-Whether
the American Federation of Labor is
to become in fact a national labor
movement, or whether it is to remain
a labor movement for the white race,
was again put up to the executive
council of the federation on May Z, by
Negro spokesman, T. Arnold Hill,
director of the industrial relations de-
partment of the Urban League.
Hill testified that the colored work
ers are anxious to organize, and that
the delegation of which he was chief
had come to Washington to meet the
trade union authorities and offer CO.
operation in a campaign of bringing
all the unorganized into the fold of
unionism.
He read to the council a statement
by the National Association for Ad-
yancement of Colored People, in its
18th annual conference:
"lntelIigent Negroes know full
we'll that blow at organized la
Dor is blow at all labor; that
black labor today profits by the
blood aand sweat of the labor
leaders in the past who have
fought oppression and monopoly
by organization
He urged the council to bring about
more tolerant attitude on the part
national unions and local unions
nd central bodies, so that Negroes
you'd feel that they were welcome,
and not that they were unwelcome or
rejected. in the labor movement
No definite reply was given.
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food. The request was so straight
forward that the policeman, without
question, invited. the young man down
the street to a restaurant. The young
man explained to him that the food
was for his wife, younger than he and
about to become a mother.
The young couple occupied a fur.
nlshed room in Lexington avenue.
near 10Th street That they would
much longer occupy even these quar-
ters was extremely doubtful, the
young man explained, as the rent--s7
would be due tomorrow, and there
was no money to meet this item. An
investigation OF the shelves in the cor
ner, on the lower OF which stood a
two-burner gas plate, showed there
was no food. Two small kittens,
their playfulness gone. lay asleep on
the window sill. The young man had
not eaten for three days. His young
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
Metric system on Soviet railways.

HARBIN.-The management OF the
Chinese Eastern Railway has taken up
the question OF introducing the metric
system on the line. Ivanon considers
this matter as an urgent one, since
all the railways OF the Union Of Soviet
Socialist Republics have already
adopted the metric system Of weights
and measures.
In the report submitted to the board
Of directors. It Is proposed to adopt
the following equivalents: / Russian
pound (weight) equals 0.4 Kilograms;
/ pood equals 16 Kilograms; ! metric
ton equals 1000 Kilograms, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
RIFFIANS keep
FRENCH FORTS
DESPITE ATTACK
Moroccan Tribes Join
Anti-Imperialist Move

TETUAN, Spanish Morocco, May ~
Native North Africans living in
French Morocco have Joined the
Riffian rebels who have entered the
French colony from Spanish Morocco
The native Moroccan troops still have
most of the French outposts sur
rounded, despite airplane reinforce
ments which have been brought VI
by the French.
More French troops have arrived,
and now 10000 troops are in northern
Morocco, with the total number soon
to exceed 100000, it is announced
Artillery endorsements have also ar
rived, preparatory to an attack on the
Rifiians along a 6O-mile front.
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tor giving advice to a friend OF mine
to move away If he wanted to have his
children in healthy condition. The
local union Of the United Mine Work
ers Of America is very weak. It used
to be a good local, but when there was
any kind of a grievance it was taken
out of the locals hands and given to
a higher official and that was the last
ever heard of it. If decision was
handed down, accidentally, it favor
ed the coal company.
Union OfficlaIs Desert Miners.
. These elastic interpretations Of the
contract gave the coal company ofi1ci-
ais a chance to chastise the unruly
spirits. Victimizations against indi-
viduals were daily occurrences, and Il
got so that many militants were
driven out to other fields and most of
those that are left are too scared to
say anything, fearing the same treat
ment.
Communists Take Lead.
There Is a big responsibility for our
comrades here, in this local, as condi-
lions are getting worse, and the min
ers VIII be ripe for Communist lead
ership. l hope the comrades will re
spond to the call as Communists
should, that is, be first to respond to
every call to action by which the
working class will profit to any ex-
tent. Some of us will be victims of
the coal company officials, some of
us may lose our jobs, but that should
not stop US.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
New plague at Nome.

NOME. May i2.-Twenty-hve were
sick here today from drinking water
which had been polluted by graveyard
seepage, according 70 Or. Curtis
Welch, assistant United States health
officer in Nome. DR.. WEIGH himself
was sick from this cause. All water
is being boiled and pumps are work
ing night aand day to disinfect the
contaminated supply.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
CONDUCTORS ABSORBED
IN RELIEVING BOSSES
FROM ALL COMPETITORS

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, May ~.
Declaring that thousands Of rail-
road conductors have been forced
out Of their jobs and compelled to
take less lucrative positions as a re-
suit OF alleged unfair bus company
competition with the railroads, del
eaates to the national convention Of
the Order Of Railway Conductors
today mapped out a nationwide
campaign for moro stringent regu-
lation OF buses.
Debate on the question Of meru-
ing the pension and relief depart
ments Of the order was all that pre-
vented delegates from pIunging at
once into the issue Of bus reguIa-
ton after the meeting got under
way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
Soviet Bank In Japan.

MOSCOW It is announced that
the local Japanese authorities have
granted the request OF the Far East
ern Bank OF the Union OF Soviet So
cialist Republics to open branches OF
the bank at Kobe and Tsuruga.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
Britain Keeps Hands of.

LONDON, England, May 12.-Great
Britain will not take part in the
French imperialist action in Morocco,
Austen Chamberlain told the house Of
commons today. The foreign minister
said that while the English govern
ment "sympathized" with the French
troubles, it was a domestic matter"
France is exerting every effort to de-
feat the Rifians, as her foothold on
the continent Of Africa has been
seriously threatened.
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