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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-24
STATE MEDDLING
IN TRADE union
WORK is THREAT
Especial to The Daily wOrker)


SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. 22.-As-
semblymen in the Illinois legislature
today launched an attack on the la
Dor unions, and threatened to, enact
Legislative control of the unions y,
James Curran of Chicago, one of
the representatives making the at
tack gave as his reason that "a man
cannot join a union, no matter how
skilled he may be, unless some Of his
relatives belong to the union" Rep
'resentatives Lee Brown of Ottawa,
and John Clark of Decatur, also at
tackled the unions.
The reasons given for the attack,
trade union members stated, were
used as a cloak TO hide an attempt TO
break up the trade unions by means
of state regulation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-24
REPORT TOMORROW
AT WORKERS PARTY
OFFICE FOR POLL DUTY

The local office OF the Workers
(communist) Party calls on all
party members available to report
at the local office, 1865 W. Washing
ton St., Room 300, for duty as poll
watchers. The four Communist
candidates are expected to receive
an excellent vote, and II ls up to US
10 see that this vote Is counted.
Watchers are needed thruout the
day, from nine In the morning until
elk at night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-24
WEEKLY YOUNG WORKER
CELEBRATION

Sunday, March 8, $3.50 p. M.
at the
WORK ERS HALL
722 Blue Island Ave.
Mass Meeting Banquet Dance
- Admission Free - i-'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-24
still Have Hopes.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. a. ILL.,
nois yet may collect the $4,000 in
heritance tax claimed to be due from
the estate Of the late Delavan Smith,
Lake Forest millionaire publisher OF
the Indianapolis News. 1t became
known at the Office Of the attorney
general today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-24
Our Dead

Especial to The Daily Worker)
SULLIVAN, Ind, Feb. 22.--FoIlow-
ing is revised list Of the dead and
missing in the Sullivan mine disaster:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

n WILL grant you that there
are any number of women
who, by the aid of cosmetics
and other gay ruses, hope to create
the impression of perennial youth,
but they are not one bit funnier
than the sight of an aged man try
ing to kid himself back to boyhood
by having a love affair.
Plump n1iddle-aged fathers cavort-
ing about and preening themselves
like cockatoos, attempting to fool
the world into believing them gay
young dogs, are about the most
amusing thing that life offers for
our diversion.
And the strange thing about this
joke is that the men can never see
it. They are forever poking fun at
us because we attempt to stop the
ravages of time by artificial aid.
They admonish us to resign our
selves to the inevitable and grow old
gracefully. But how about their
growing old morally?
A man is never so ancient that he
does not nurse the fond delusion
that if he were foolish enough to
do it, he could step right out and
fascinate any woman who happened
to take his eye. He actually be-
lieves that any member Of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17
$5OO-a-Day Men on
Your Pay Roll
r. economy is Government is a good thing
Il Where should it end9

Should it end with the $5-a-day Govern
sion Eastman thinks not He thinks it should in
clude the $5O0-a-day men, too.
The Interstate Commerce Commission has
just awarded 81, 100000 to certain New York
bankers and lawyers for their services in re-
organizing a Southwestern railroad. That u.s.
the commission has o. KID the expenditure by
this very hard-up line. Eastman thinks the re-
organizers did poor job, but apart from that
he is shocked at the $500-a-day fees asked by
some of the bankers and lawyers and granted
by the commission. He dissented but the ma
jority was against him. The bankers and law
yers got their fees
Who pays for Government extravaganza
The taxpayers.
Who pays for railroad extravaganza
The same taxpayers. That is the point East
man makes. They pay directly when they pay
excessive freight rates and indirectly even
more when they pay for the necessities of life
Walker D. Hines, former railroad administra-
tor and for years railroad executive, once es-
timated that the ultimate consumer actually
pays not the mere freight rate, but the sum
of the freight rate multiplied five times.
Those $50O-a-day fees naturally will come
out of freight rates. They will come out of the
public s pocket Which is why Commissioner
Eastman, in his dissenting opinion, said:
Economy in Government service is much
stressed at present and quite properly so, but
economy in public service, interpreting the
term broadly to include all private corpora
tons engaged therein, is no less important "
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17
MORE AUTOS IN
INDIANA

RI ICHARD BREUNE, head
Xxi of the State automobile
IL license department, reports
that during the first seven months
this year $4,000 more automobiles
were registered in Indiana than
for the entire year 1924. In the
first seven months this year
5S1,S5S passenger autos were
registered.
The entire population of Indiana
could pile into the automobiles
owned in the State and take to
the highways at the same time
and apparently does.
Motor vehicle registration in
every State shows substantial in
crease over last year-and that
oyer the preceding and so on back
to the beginning when the horse
less carriage first sputtered and
died on the highway. In New
York city alone there are $4,000
more automobiles and trucks than
last year.
Where will the end be?
Ten years ago conservative
statisticians proclaimed that auto
mobile production was rapidly APP
preaching the saturation point. In
a few years at most, they said,
every possible purchaser would
have a car, and the industry
would reach the limit of ex-
pansion.
Ten years ago there were
96,615 automobiles in Indiana. To-
day there are six times that num-
Der and apparently the satura-
ton point in automobile pro-
duction is as far off as it was ten
years ago.
Until every Ford owner pos
sesses a Rolls-Royce or a Pierce
\ Arrow and every member OF every
family owns a Ford the saturation
point in automobile production will
not be reached. The only real
limit to the number of possible
automobile owners in this country
seems to be the capacity Of the
highways.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17
Men Are Funny!

feminine sex would not only receive
graciously, but be highly fattered
with, his attentions. In spite of all
their proud boasts regarding reason
and logic and superior mental
qualities, the men go on blandly
thinking that all the pretty girls who
laugh so innocently into their eyes
are doing so because they are held
spellbound by their masculine
charms. 1t seldom occursl to them
that their purses may often be more
precious than their persons.
Yes, God was kind to the men.
Besides giving them brains and
Drawn he endowed them with this
vanity which makes their pathway
pleasant wherever they may go. The
majority Of them go to their graves
trusting implicitly in their ,own per
sonal fascination for women.
Like his Neanderthal forefather,
modern man believes that anything
male is condescending and consider
ate when he notices anything female.
Somehow they can't get over the
idea that they are always doing us
a bit of favor when they seek our
society, and that they have conferred
a magnificent benefit upon us when
ever they marry us.
The dear, big, funny babiesi And
the older they get the funnier they
grow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17

in homes and development of SUI
burban areas revealed by the sur
vey.
Since 1920, $500 dwellings, and
apartments have been constructed
In the city-more than enough to
house the additional population.
Yet now the number Of vacant
houses is only normal.
The workers without family and
the f1oaters, drawn to the city in
the opulent industrial years imme-
diately preceding 1920, have been
replaced by sober family men who
come to live and rear families not
to work a few months and move
on. The Indianapolis population
here today, will be here tomorrow.
Suburban development also in
dicates the solid character. Of the
citys growth and expansion. Cot
tages and bungalows of determined
and ambitious home owners dot a
landscape where yesteryear were
weed patches and corn fields.
While the population of the city
proper only increased Is per cent
between 1920 and 1925, the COM
bined population of Warren, Perry,
Washington and Wayne townships
outide the city increased so per
cent.
Homes and families are the
basic factors that make Indian
apolis greater, and it is the steady
Increase in homes and families
that will make it greater.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17

wants room for her emigrants now barred from
the United States
This was the real cause of Secretary Kel-
logg's sharp warning to Mexico, we are told,
and so dark clouds are piling up over the
Rio Grande
The biggest menace to the friendship be-
tween the United States and japan comes from
the outside. What chance have they of getting
together when the rest of the world keeps put
ting chips ON their shoulders and showing them
together?
We've seen schoolboys egged on to fight
by just such tactics when at heart they d much
rather shake hands
And nations are just like schoolboys.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17
FARM ERS
ON TOUR

TER a week spent tour
N ing Kentucky, Ohio and
southern Indiana a motor
caravan carrying 100 Hoosier
farmers and wives. from jackson,
Clark, Harrison and Floyd Coun-
ties, returned home yesterday.
More than 60 miles were COW
cred in the jaunt. Famous estates.
stock farms, dairy farms and
progressive agricultural enter
prises were visited and inspected
4 as we'll as scenery.
The trip combined business and
pleasure, instruction and enjoy
ment-an ideal vacation.
Every summer more Of these
farm caravans set forth to tour
adjacent States and study i'm
proved agricultural methods. Some
of these tours are large undertake
ings on a big scale, as the impos-
ing cavalcade of Iowa farmers who
recently visited Washington and
the East.
The movement Is one Of the
most hopeful signs Of the times
in farming. Seeing how the other
fellow does it. inspecting first
hand big farms and estates en-
ploying most up-to--date methods,
will do more for the professional
education of the individual farmer
than a ton Of literature. as in Other
lines is, after all, primarily a
visual process.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17
What Is a Public Utility?

TF7OR a bit of diversion between debates on
II the big league pennant races, the relative
merits of different motor cars, and the sins of
the younger generation, ask your neighbor
what it is that causes an enterprise to be
public utility.
After you have failed to find out, as you
undoubtedly WILL ask why it is that courts
seem to be universally agreed that the furnish
ing of unfrozen water is public utility service,
while the distributing Of ice, or frozen water,
is generally regarded as private undertake
ing, with which public regulating authorities
can not properly concern themselves.
After that question is answered. if your
neighbor hasn' t slain you or gone to sleep, ask
him why the business of providing gas and
electricity for heat and power is public util-
ity almost everywhere in this country, while
the coal business which is concerned with heat
and power in another form, is strictly private.
If power and heat, in the form of COAL is
carried to your house in truck or wagon,
the business is private, and you have nothing
directly to say about how it is managed. If,
however, the heat and power comes to your
house in wires above or pipes below the street,
the courts say that it is matter of public con-
Germ, and prices as well as the quality of the
service and product can be regulated
There may be logical answers to these
questions. A few of the consumers of anthra-
cite coal, however, are wondering as they
dream of smoky or chilly Christmas, just why
they are allowed to regulate fuel distribution
over wires and through pipe lines, but not
when it comes in chunks
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17

science. 1t is now organized and
leaping from crag to crag in it's as
cent Of the Hill Of Knowledge The
other day it took another leap in a
statement made to the National
Academy Of Science in Washington.
A Yale scientist announced that an
intoxicated person may sober himself
up If he so desires by working his
lungs rather violently for half an
hour. Deep, rapid breathing will
carry the alcohol off in the expired
air.
How 1t May Be Used
This is a very gratifying thought,
the Volstead forces insist, a belated
discovery. We may expect to see
men painting violently at the APP
proach of a policeman while lean
ing against a lamp-post. Even Ia
dies, when overtaken by unwise in
diligence at evening hip-pocket par
ties, can achieve sobriety by burst
ing into pants. There will be, as
might have been expected. some dis
advantages to the bystanders or by
sitters in the utilizing of this new
discovery. The air in street cars
may become so surcharged with the I
expired alcohol as to become not
only disagreeable, which is some
thing to which we are accustomed,
but, in view of the fact that lungs
absorb as well as give forth, actu-
ally intoxicating.
If your husband comes home and
says the car was full Of men painting
away their loads and that he had
absorbed a jag by breathing, you
may not sneer the thing lightly off,
He may be drunk one degree re-
moved from the violation Of the
law Be kind to him. And magis-
trates will be forced to recognize the
state of drunkenness by inhalation.
OF course the stuff which is used to-
day in the place Of alcohol will
often be painted off; and If your back
hair happens to be scorched by the
bootlegged breath of the person be-
hind you, you may be vexed, but
you need not be surprised.
Has Been Done Before
The idea is new only in its clear
statement. For ages men have
worked their lungs violently as soon
as the alcohol they drank began to
produce its deadly effect. The writer
once saw a powerful brandy punch
served through the natural error of
the Kentucky lady who furnished
it to a company made up largely of
Methodist preachers. They drank it
in their innocence, thinking it their
usual fruit-juice punch. Almost at
once they began working their lungs
violently. AS the expelled air went
through theil larynxes it was auto
matically turned into voice and
carved by the organs Of speech into
words. What ensued was not con-
versation, for nobody paid any at
tention to what any one said Most
Of their utterances were filled with
love for every one and appreciation
Of the value of such social relations
as this which they were enjoying.
And the Yale man is right. They
very soon became sober. I am glad
to give this testimonial from expert
ence to the truth of this new, epoch
al, though, let us hope, belated
discovery of science. The secret Of
sobriety is a combination Of pants
and conversation-or oratory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17

abrupt hillside to Wheeling Creek,
and made his escape. 1t was a most
daring exploit and is commemorated
by a monument there.
Why does Great Britain control
the rubber market? Why have
prices risen so much within the
past few months?
Practically all the rubber con-
sumed in industry now comes from
plantations in the British posses
sions in Ceylon and Malay PENN
sula and tho British government
limits the amount that can be ex-
ported, so that automatically short
age has occurred which causes the
price to increase. The embargo on
exports was ordered to protect the
plantation owners and enable them
to get higher prices.
Is there anything that one can
do to keep pigeons from roosting
on the fence and hedge.
The best method of discouraging
them is to have sharp spikes stick
ing up sufficiently close togather to
make it difficult for the birds to
find footing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17
Kellogg, Mexico and
Japan

n ROM Germany comes the low-dOwn on
Secretary of State Kellogg's explosion
over Mexico
Japan was at the bottom of it, says the
"Deutsche Allgemeine Zietung'
The activities of Soviet propagandists in
Mexico, the confscation of foreign property
under the new agrarian law; the murder of
Mrs Evans and all that sort of thing could
have been quietly adjusted, says that paper,
but the presence Of deeper hurt still, ma 1ely,
the friendship between Mexico and Japan.
Japan, the writer explains, is busy court
ing President Callos' favor. She alone of slle
powers waived all claims to compensation for
injuries done her citizens during the revolu
ton She wants to colonize in Mexico-she
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17
BY David Dietz

NEA S6TDIc6 WTfI6T
HE historian sometimes d.
II vided his subject into the
- Age of Stone, the Age of
Bronze and the Age of Iron.
But that pioneer on the last from
tier, the research worker on the
frontier Of science, has now come to
the conclusion that from one point
of view at least, we have always
lived in the iron age.
In fact, he believes now that with
out iron, life itself could not exist.
The reason for this was explained
recently in a lecture before the
Rockefeller Institute by Professor
Otto Warburg of Berlin. Germany.
Life, as everyone knows, is I'M
possible without oxygen. The oxy-
gen we breathe is carried to every
cell Of the body. The action of
respiration, that is the absorption of
oxygen and the giving off of carbon
in the body.
Just how this occurred has been
puzzle but DR.. Warburg Is believed
to have solved 1t.
DR.. Warburg points out that every
living cell contains iron. The iron is
not a part of the cell itself but is
contained in the cell.
The iron, DIR. Warburg believes,
reacts with the oxygen to form
very complex iron oxide. This in
turn reacts with the organic parts
of the cell, giving up the oxygen TO
them and returning the iron to it's
original state. The cycle then begins
all over again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17
SMOKE ARRESTS

To the Editor of The Times:
I saw in the paper that Mr.. R.
Sinclair Of Kingan & Co. has been
arrested for violating the smoke
ordinance.
Previous to that I saw that Sol
Meyer was willing to donate $685.
600 toward betterment of Indian
apolis.
Now to sum it all up. can we make
this an industrial center by Great
ing useless jobs or favoring the in
dustries themselves?
We elect a bunch Of pin heads to
the legislature and those same pin
hea6s make lot Of laws which
benefit nobody.
I am told that the sun can't be
seen in Pittsburgh before noon be-
cause of the smoke. If they put a
ban on SNAKE where would Pitts.
burgh he?
Kingan & Co. could move its
plant out Of town and still operate
imagine. It's the same with the
Chamber of Commerce. When there
is money on the board they notify
Mr.. Meyer that they have a com
nnittee to take care of such funds
The smoke inspector has a job
to hold down so he has somebody
arrested. Such useless laws inter.
fere with business and are liable to
hurt thousands of working people
who depend on factories for a liv.
ing, If remember rightly. someone
put a bill before the last legislature
to force all factories having offens
i've odor out Of town. That would
just about leave us the soda parlors
and hot houses.
The idea is this, give the factories
a boost and not interfere with them
continually. We can't all live on the
smoke inspectors salary.
POOR PEOPLE.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

ern hospitals. it is said. The proc
ess consists simply of inoculat
ing paresis sufferers with malaria
germs.
Apparently the malaria germs
chase the paresis germs into a
corner then kill and eat them.
After which quinine is fed to the
malaria germs and they turn up
their toes. Freed thus from both
groups Of devastating organisms
the patient regains mental and
physical health.
Attempting to cure one i'll by
giving another in one of the most
ancient medical practices. Most
Of such systems merely served to
distract the patients attention
from his original complaint. The
old Incas of Peru to cure head
aches and brain disorders scraped
holes in the sufferers skulls.
They thought the hole would let
out the evil spirit causing the
disturbance.
AS they USED no anaeStheClcS
for the operation. doubtless the
method was effective At least he
patient undergoing the operation
temporarily forgot his headache
even if he later died from the hole
in his skull
At first glance giving a patient
malaria to cure paresis seems to
belong to that same system of
therapeutics. But it's based on
scientific Investigation. Eat and
be eaten is the law of nature.
Big bugs eat little bugs and so
on ad infiinitum. A good deal Of
the attention of modern medicine
is devoted to finding the bug with
the proper appetite and training
him to do his bit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17
Taking a Dip
BY Hal Cochran

If you want to see grace, that is
right in its place, it is best that you
HE to the beaches. For there,
'mong the women, who really go
swimmin', you're sure to be eyein
some peaches.
In bathing suits neat, they are
really a treat; quite the best you can
find in the land. Cute capers they
cutting while doing their struttin',
and playin' around in the sand.
They'll shivver and shake when
the first step they take and they II
shout that the water is colder. And
then, in a minute they're all the way
in it and feein' much holder and
holder.
At last they are swimmin' and
gracefully skimmin' through water
that leads to a log. The divin'
boards ready. They pose bit,
steady, then leap through the air
like a frog.
The beach folks enjoy it for, really.
oh, boy, it's a treat for the eyes that
are sore. We hope, when they're
done, they get half as much fun as
the people who sit on the shore.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17

When jerking a chair out from
under a lady friend it isn't polite to
sit on her head as she falls.
A girl with sharp f1ngernails can
scratch man for kissing her, or for
not kissing her.
You can make dishwashing easy
by cooking something sticky so all
dishes will have to soak
If you drop dish on the floor and
it doesn't bounce 1t is best not to
try again that day.
Never cry over spilled milk. Keep
a cat to lick it up.
You may keep the children from
making marks on the wall paper by
hanging it on the ceiling.
Autos are changing this world.
Once love made the world go around,
Now love makes it park.
One can make ones hair thick by
swimming in muddy water.
Things are so complicated. Narrow
minded people are thick headed.
Laughing may make one fat, but
being fat in this weather is no
laughing matter.
The college graduates are working
until something turns up.
No telling what would happen If
you were rich. You might have a
daughter E1arry your butler.
Copyright 1925. NEA Service, Inc.)