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a. 81 per cent increase over February
and a 16 per- cent decrease from
March, 1924 Building work started
In the first quarter of 1925 has
amounted to $16,s76,s00, a decrease of
8 per cent from the first three months
Of last year.
Last months record included s3,515,
500, or ~ per cent Of the total, for
residential buildings: $1,409,6 500, or
10 per cent. for public works and
utilities; s601,500, or 8 per cent, for
commercial buildings; $525,00o. or Z
per cent, for educational buildings
and z$513,90G, or per cent, for in
.dustrial buildings.
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over the first quarter OF last year
being 20 per cent.
The more important items in the
March record were S64 ,476,500, or 48
per cent of all construction, for resi-
Dental buildings; $17,517,500, or 13
per cent, for public works and utiii-
ties; $12,601, 400, or 9 per cent, for
educational buildings; s12,539,000. or
per cent, for social and recreational
projects, and $1o.73s,200, or s per
cent, for commercial buildings.
March building contracts in Mime
sofa, the Dakotas and northern Mich
gan amounted to s7,235,300. This was
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ARKANSAS ORGANIZED.
State Body of Real Estate Men to
Study Problems.

State organization to unite men in
the business of real estate for concerted
action on professional matters and on
matters of public policy affecting real
estate has just been formed in Arkansas
The new Arkansas Real Estate Asso-
citation has adopted the model constftu
tion for State real estate bodies sug-
gested by the National Association o.
Real Estate Boards. L. c. Holman O.
Little Rock has been elected president.
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Made Major General.

Mai. Gen. George c. Richards, for
merly of the Pennsylvania National
Guard, who will complete four
year term as chief of the Militia
Bureau June 81, next, has been COM
missioned by the War Department a
major general in the Officers Re-
serve Corps of the Army. He lives
at 1920 / street
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(mainly one and two-family houses) :
$9,257,200, or IA per cent, for public
works and utilities; S7,50S,500, or II
per cent for commercial buildings
and 81 ,009, 700. or per cent, for edu-
cational buildings.
Construction started last month in
the Southeastern States (the Caro-
linas, Georgia, Florida. Tennessee.
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and
Louisiana) amounted to 50,503, 400
This was per cent over February
and per cent over March of last
year. The increase for the first quar-
ter of 1925 over the first quarter
of last year was also s per cent, new
construction during the past three
months having amounted to $685.
207,500.
Leading Items for Month.
The March record included the fol-
lowing important items: $2o,379,5 500,
or 40 per cent of all construction. for
residential buildings; $11,S55,70O, or
% per cent, for public works and
utilities; s7,o11,900, or IA per cent,
for commercial buildings: $5,615,500,
or IL per cent, for industrial build
ings. and s1,652. 900, or 8 per cent, for
educational buildings.
The March total for building con-
tracts in the Pittsburgh district
(western Pennsylvania. West Vir-
ginia. Ohio and Kentucky amounting
to $105,600,000, was the largest
monthly figure recorded for this dis
trict since July, 1918. 1t was more
than double the amounts for the
previous month and for the cor
responding month of last year. This
huge total was largely brought about
by the letting of contracts for $780,
100000 power project in West Vir-
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HEAVY BUILDING GAIN
MADE In DISTRICT
AND NEARBY STATES

CONTINUED from Seventeenth Page.)
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ginia and a number of public works s
and utility projects of considerable
size. Total construction started In
this district during the first quarter
of this year has amounted to $l91,-
$4,000. an increase of 72 per cent
over the first quarter of last year.
The principal items in last months
record were $32,544,600, or 81 per
cent of all construction, for industrial
projects Gncluding the S30,o00,000
power development mentioned above);
$40, 0,949, 200, or % per cent, for resi-
Dental buildings; 23,s77,S00, or %
per cent. for public works and utili-
ties: $6,643,000, or per cent, for
educational buildings, and $5,S62 100,
or per cent, for commercial build
ings.
Central West Figures.
Construction started in March in
the Central West Ollinois, Indiana,
Iowa, wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri,
Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska)
amounted to $133,651, 500. This was
the largest monthly total recorded
since July. 1922. 1t was 70 per cent
over February and 46 per cent over
March, 1924. Total work started in
the first quarter of this year has
amounted to $267.s 900, the increase
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Pennsylvania 10000 miners are on strike against
the attempts Of the coal barons force lower wages
working CONDITIONS upon them Attic profits for the anthracite
have been greater during the past ten
conditions for the miners have been growing continuously
Despite the struggles carried on by the United
Mine Workers have always Jagged the rising cost
OF living during this period = -
Already living under such conditions who do the
work m the anthracite accept any wage cuts and at the
CONTINUED 81 - -
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British Labor Breaks With Imperialism

messed constantly growing unemploy-
ment and misery, wage-cuts and I'M
ion-smashing campaigns-all directly
traceable to the effects of imperial
ism.
A. B. Swales, chairman of the Trade
Union Congress, expressed this in an
article written before the congress,
in Trade Union Unity (September is.
sue). He said:
"The British empire, by its very
nature, makes 1t possible for the EN-
ployers to divide up the workers and
other toilers such .sas the small peas
antry, into different camps. Hence,
up till now. it has been an easy game
to the employers to use one section
Of the workers, particularly the de-
tendencies in crown colonies, against
the workers of the mother country,
and vice versa, so that on the one
hand it was the business of the
colonial slaves to work below any
possible standard. and on the other
hand it was the business of the work
ers in uniform to fight all the en-
shaved nations struggling for their
freedom.
THE main business of this confer
ence should be to put an end to this,
and to bring together the workers and
the oppressed against their common
oppressors.
1T is a great tragedy that the en-
shaved nations which are fighting for
their freedom look upon the British
empire as a whole, and consider all
of us are responsible for their suffer
ngs. But we must clear ourselves of
this responsibility. This conference
must declare openly and clearly that
the working classes of our. country
are in no way responsible for the
crimes committed by our ruling class"
The economic forces undermining
the empire are dealt with by A. A.
Purcell, who is the chairman of the
International Federation of Trade I'm
ions (Amsterdam). Here are few
sentences from his article, Against
Imperialism-Trade Union Unity"
What actually has the empire
meant and what does it mean to the
workers? What does all the wealth
of the Indies mean to the slum-dwell-
ing workers of the East End?
take Lancashire =. For genera
tons the most hideous wage-slayery
has existed there s. :. Those Lam
cashire workers have piled up mil
lions for the mill owners What for?
So that the selfsame owners can es-
tablish mills in Bombay, Calcutta,
and Cawnpore, in Shanghai. in Egypt,
to carry on the same process of ex-
ploitation with the workers in those
places, denying by that very act the
workers OF Lancashire the means Of
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OUldluAuS a AlNStlHOOu.
Right well and truly has it been
said that the British empire is one
huge slave plantation of the British
ruling class"
And then listen to John Bromley
NJ. p, general secretary of the Asso-
ciated Society of Locomotive Engi-
Reers and Firemen:
THE British empire, which may by
its expansion in the past have made
work for the workers of this country,
lis now turning in on itself, feeding on
its own center, by virtue of the prod
uct of sweated goods made by slave
labor. underselling the products of
the British worker. and throwing him
into unemployment by the utilization
of the very capital which he created"
The Fascist Peril.
A ND what is the reaction of the
"A bourgeosie to these developments?
1t is in the direction Of white terror
and fascism.
In the London Daily Herald of Sept.
2, in the column next to the announce
ment that the unemployed registered
for August was 1.343,70O or an in
crease of 1882 over year ago.
there is an exposure of a secret army
order, creating new police force to
be controlled by the army.
An announcement was issued the
same week that the National Citizens
Union is enrolling volunteers" to
maintain national services in emery
ency."
The functions of the newly-created
war. department. constabulary are ex-
posed in one of its regulations, which
reads:
mo member of the war depart
ment constabulary may also be or re-
main member of any trade or SINH
lar union, association, or society,
other than any association formed
within the constabulary in accordance
with rules approved by the competent
authority"
Then, in addition to many organiza-
tons on the lines of the Citizens
Union and supplementary armed
forces of the state, the fascist move
ment is growing at a great pace. The
labor movement is slowly awakening
to its menace. Thus is to be found
in the Labor Weekly of Lansbury, a
pronounced pacifist, the following let
ter:
"Sir, AS one in daily touch with
business men;,eI am compelled to
spend my working hours in an at
mosphere of class hatred, and the
reality OF the danger of fascism is
constantly being brot home to me.
There are two mistakes which many
socialists make in regard to this move
ment: that it will not have the sup
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19

tnat IL is aimed only at the COmmun-
lists. These ideas are soothing to the
constitutional socialists, but they
have no foundation in reality. MY
business friends and acquaintance
are heart and soul with the fascist,
and will support them in the most
drastic and violent action against the
Reds They will stop at nothing:
no scruples of justice, humanity or
fair play assail them when their class
consciousness is reused. Any treat
ment of a 'revolutionist' is iustif-
able; he is beyond the pale. And,
unfortunately for our labor mod
crates, they class as revolutionary
any genuine leader Of the working
class or any genuine action in defense
of that class. The tragedy is that
many of these business men are low
able and upright personalities in priv
ate life, charitable and generous, ac-
cording to their lights, and soft
hearted enuf to the sufferings of the
poor when concrete individual case
comes to their notice.
"The plain lesson of my experiences
is that we shall have to reckon with
really serious fascist movement
some day-probably at the next big
strike. if not before. / would there
fore plead earnestly with all who have
the labor cause at heart that they pre-
pare to meet this danger while they
have still time. Force must be met
by force. Fascism is purely and
simply a military organization, and is
not amenable TO argument II can
only be successfully countered by
similar Organization on the other side.
With luck, we shall have nine months
to perfect our arrangements, so there
is no time to be lost. The thing must
be properly organized on a national
basis, and l would propose that the
T. U. c. General Council take up inn
mediately the creation OF a labor de-
tense corps. centrally controlled with
local headquarters under each trades
council The fascist organization is
a splendid example for them to fol-
low as regards details. The immedi-
ate objects of our defense corps would
be:
"Q) Maintaining order at all work
ing class public meetings.
"(2) Providing a permanent body
guard for all labor leaders threatened
by the attentions of the B. F's.
"(S) Protecting strike pickets from
fascist violence. -ss
Il trust that other readers will be
able to make valuable suggestions
to supplement and improve this
scheme"
The Big Showdown.
ITO what point are all these forces
= leading in Great Britain!
Without attempting profound an
alysis at this moment, it is possible
to draw few conclusions:
I. The British proletariat has
broken loose from the moorings Of
"eIass collaboration" and nothing,
not even Macdonald a Co, can re-
store It's former conservatism.
2. II Is definitely absorbing and
expressing as its own the 1unda-
mentals Of LeninIsm. b
3. The British bourueolsie Is pre-
pairing for revolutionary upheav-
al and Is mobiizing armed forces to
repress IL, while at the same time
trying to pacify the enraged work
ers.
:. The economic position Of the.
empire makes Il almost impossible
that concessions" can be made be-
fore next May list, which will avoid
decisive struggle.
5. II Is quite probable that the big
showdown will begin next May Day
appropriate timely when the pres.
...laL Al. ...fll
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SECOND SECTION

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Worker.
Evening star., 1925-06-18
TUNNEY NOT LIKELY
TO TAKE ON WILLS
By FAIR PLAY.

NEW YORK. June 19.-In all the
talk of Gene Tunney meeting Harry
Wills several facts should be borne
in mind. One is that never in his
life has Tunney fought a colored man.
Another Is that no necessity is
imposed upon him to fight Wills un-
less he wishes TO do so for financial
and other reasons.
He has defeated a man who went
the 15-round limit with the champion
who made a better showing against
him than any contender that Demp-
sey has met.
II he, Tunney. wants to try his
luck against Dempsey and can in
duce the champion to meet him. he
has every right to clinch the battle.
turning n deaf ear to demands that
he meet any one else.
Then. of course, should he defeat
the champion and take over the title.
his status would change and he would
be called upon to listen to the claims
of all challengers, Wills among others.
Tunney's manager is busy picking
up easy matches for his man. That
is all right, too. AS for Dempsey. Tun-
ney probably would rather fight him
a year from now than. say, next Sep
tember. Just now there is a lot of
easy money in sight for the con-
queror of Gibbons and besides he is
picking up weight.
When he is heavier he will gain
more supporters Of his standing as
a rival Of Dempsey's than he now has.
Tunney figures that by the time an
other IL months have passed he will
have brought his fighting weight up
to 189 pounds. which he regards as
the limit of his possibilities.
He believes. and justly. that he will
never need to be any heavier than
this. that tipping the beam just short
of 100 pounds he will be big enough
to meet any opponent. no matter how
much he weighs. All of which Is
fair enough.
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ignorance or thoug ghtlessness OF the
The following directions will
come proficient in pitching tent al
Cruising tents are generally made
be cut Al the camp site. The ridge
pole is attached TO the tent ridge by
means of cords or tapes, fastened at
intervals of about three feet. and Is
supported by crotched poles or shears
at each end. This arrangement rem
ders adjustments easy, provides an
unobstructed doorway and requires
but one person to set up.
After unrolling the tent, tie the
doorflaps together and place the ridge
pole in position. Using an extra turn
of the cords to prevent slipping, fasten
the rear end peak to the ridge. Then
go to the front peak and do likewise,
making sure that the tent ridge is
stretched as tightly as possible. The
other cords should then be tied to the
ridge pole, using simple bowknots.
Stake down the two rear corners.
making sure that the bottom edge is
fully stretched. Find one of the front
corners next, and after taking up all
the slack, stake it down at a right
angle to the rear stakes. The place
for the fourth corner is then easily
found by pulling taut the two loose
edges. These four corner stakes will
hold the tent in position while 1t is
being raised. Place the two crotches
or the jaw of the shears under the
rear end of the ridge pole and raise 1t
Evening star., 1925-06-18
YALE NEAR CLEANUP
OVER HARVARD TEAMS

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June IS (P-
Only the crew race stands between
Yale and a clean sweep over Harvard
in the major sports this year. The
wearers of the blue have triumphed in
foot ball. track and hockey. which is
classed as a jor sport at Harvard,
although minor at Yale, and an Eli
victory at the Thames regatta tomor-
row will make it a complete Yale
year.
The base ball championship went to
Yale here yesterday when the Ell
boatmen, continuing their terrific
slugging of Tuesday at New Haven,
clouted two Harvard pitchers for
total of II hits and took the second
and deciding game of the 1925 series
by a score of IS to 4.
The Yale hit-and-run carnival at
Soldiers Field gave the New Haven
team grand total of 43 runs for the
two games of the series.
Ducky Pond, present Eli base ball
captain. who pitched the game at
New Haven last Tuesday, and Harry
Scott, who hurled the entire distance
yesterday, were factors in Yale's foot
ball triumph last Fall.
Harvard, with a better varsity crew
than has been its wont lately, has
hopes for tomorrow.
Evening star., 1925-06-18
BRITISH BEAT YANkS
IN NET COMPETITION
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EASTBOURNE, England, June IS.
America lost, three matches to two,
in the three-day international tennis
competition played against Great Brit
ain. The series of six matches was
decided today by the final singles, in
which J. B. Gilbert or England de-
feated Ray Casey of San Francisco,
81, 81, 6-3.
John Hennessy of Indianapolis
earlier defeated w. D. Wheatley, Is,
60, a, IS.
Casey and Hennessy were beaten
in the doubles yesterday by Godfree
and Wheatley, 4-6, Ga, 11-9, 4-6,
6-3.
The American pair lost largely
through errors on Hennessy's part.
Throughout the match he was over
anxious to make kills, which resulted
in frequent hits into the net and
outside the court.
The Americans played more bril-
liantly than did the Englishmen, but
Godfree and Wheatley hung on with
tenacity, took advantage OF every
error and concentrated on Hennessy.
Casey was the star of the match.
He played dazzling game.
In the critical games of both the
third and the last sets the Britishers
broke through Hennessy's service by
concentrating their returns on him
and waiting for him to make one OF
his frequent net shots from midcourt.
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severe for the contestants who do not
keep the ball in the fairway.
Course Is Very Fast.
The qualifying round today is over
a very fast course, with every pos
sible factor lending aid to the long
drivers, and the probability was that
a score of 80 or better would be re-
quired to make the first flight. Par
for the course is 71-34 out and 81 in
but with fast green's and baked fair
ways the scoring is expected to be
low.
Although the fast course helped the
long hitterS in one way, 1t worked
against them in another, for the ball
took erratic bounces and on some of
the holes where the out of bounds
stakes parallel the fairway closely a
stroke and distance penalty was in
CURED.
Chance for a Record.
If Roland Mackenzie wins this
tournament. he will have made the
finest record any man has ever made
in the history of the Middle Atlantic
Golf Association, for no one man has
ever won five major tournaments In
one season in this territory, and Mac
Kenzie has already won four during
the Spring season.
B. Warren Corkran Of Rolling
Road. winner of the recent Baltimore
Country Club tournament and victor
in the Middle Atlantic classic four
years ago, is not an entrant.
Tom Moore, president of the Indian
Spring club, and Maj. H. A. Knox of
Indian Spring entered the tournament
last night and were paired in the
medal round today.
In conjunction with the qualifying
round, the team championship of the
Middle Atlantic Golf Association was
scheduled with teams entered from
three Washington clubs. Columbia
has been uniformly successful in the
team championships over the last few
years, and should repeat this year
with a team picked from the Macken-
Zies, Stevenson, Davis, Kellerman and
Brawner.
Sixteen are entered from the Column
bia Country Club, which will have
three teams in the field, while Wash
ington and Bannockburn each have
team. Burning Tree and Indian
Spring are represented by a few men,
not enough for team of five.
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He had made the new hole and had
removed the cup and flag from the old
one. without getting them into the
other, as kanrich's ball neared the
green. 1t dropped a couple of yards
from the old hole and rolled in.
Which hole was the hole? Could
Kanrich be credited with hole-in-
one?
1; seems that he should be. The
old hole, not having been filed. was
not Vet our Of commission. The can
and flag not having been put in the
fresh hole il really was not yet ready
for use.
Let's give kanrich his hole in-one.
Scotch Terrier That Went Wrong.
If the above is a hard one upon
which TO rule how about the follow
Ing.
Years. ago. in my Younger days in
Sco1land | used tn play with n friend
who was always followed around by
his Scotch terrier.
The dog was a quiet well hammered
animal. He never created the slight
est disturbance. always kept out of
the way of the balls and never
thought apparently. of picking one
up. He had been following his master
around the course for many seasons.
friend had made a good second shot
to the edge of the fifth green, we
walked up to find that his terrier had
picked up his ball and was holding
ii determinedly between his red chops.
He refused absolutely TO give it up,
either. My friends pleas and com
mands availed nothing. When we
tried TO catch the terrier and take
the ball way from him, he ran way.
This necessitated putting another
ball into play. But / must confess /
was less puzzled by the manner of the
play than in the action of the dog
Why had he nullitied years of per
feet behavior by picking up that ball?
Was a. vaSrant fancy, springing
into his dogs head, responsible?
Had he, perhaps, been hit by the
ball as it bounded upon the green,
moving him to seize it in vengeance?
Or had a bird or some small animal
tried 10 pick it up, causing him to
safeguard it by taking it in charge
himself?
We never knew the answer. SO far
as ! know. his conduct following this
incident was as exemplary as it had
been before.
Evening star., 1925-06-18
De PAOLO TO DRIVE
IN RACE AT LAUREL

Peter de Paolo, famous racing driv-
er, who has the American champion
ship virtually within his grasp, will
compete with nearly a score of other
drivers contending for the crown in
the dedication classic at the Washing
ton Speedway, near Laurel, July II, 1t
was announced today by Richard Ken
nerdell chairman of the contest board
Of the American Automobile Associa.
ton.
De Paolo's early departure for Eu-
rope to compete for the Grand Prix
at Vernair, Belgium. next month, had
been reported, but when informed this
would disqualify him for the cham
pionship he began making plans to ap-
pear in the dedication race of the To-
cal track.
BY winning the recent sweepstakes
at Indianapolis and last weeks Flag
day event at Altoona, Pa, the daring
young Italian has garnered enough
points, barring unforeseen upsets, to
give him a long lead over other con-
tenders for the championship.
Other racers high in contest points
who are to run at the Washington
Speedway July II include Tommy Mil
ton, holder of the 25O.mile record on a
board track; Frank Elliott, Fred Co.
mer, Bennie Hill, Harry HartZ, Earl
Cooper, Bob McDonogh and Jerry
Wonderlich.
Prizes totaling s25 900 for the Laurel
track dedication were announced today
by officials of the speedway as fol-
lows:
First prize, $40 200; second, $1,000;
third, $2,750; fourth, $4,000, and six
others ranging downward from $4,000
to $500. Additional prizes may be
awarded under approval of the A. A.
A. contest board.
Tickets for the classic have been
placed on sale at Spalding's, G street
near Fourteenth street: the Quality
Shop, Fourteenth and F streets, and
at 500 North Capitol street. The
grandstand will accommodate 25,000
fans