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Evening star., 1925-04-05
1taly's Artificial Silk.

Manufacture of artificial silk. an in
dustry virtually created since the war,
has become one of the most important
in Italy. In 1922 Italy was seventh in
production of artificial silk. This year
it Is second, producing more than half
as much as the United States 1t is
confident of continued strides A
Turin corporation manufacturing arti-
fcial silk has raised it's capital from
S00,0oo.000 to 1000, ,000, 900 lire. "a lire
is worth a little more than centsD
1t proposes 10 increase it's gross out
put fourfold. Artificial silk sells at
about one-third the cost of real silk
but this price represents between two
and three times the actual cost. OF
manufacture. Hence there is an ex-
traordinary profit. The fabric is
based on wood fiber. The celluloid
element, which formerly made II in
flammable. has been rendered innoc-
uous. The better qualities are, to the
naked eye, indistinguishable from real
silk. Artificial silk has almost en-
tirely conquered the Italian domestic
market. Real silk is now a luxury.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
Holds Ban on Evolution Study
Is Apt to Prove a Boomerang

clergymen of Nashville. The opposi-
ton of teachers and school officers is
practically universal
The effect of the bill will probably
be insignificant. 1t is piece of stage
play, and the parties most concerned
look for other benefits rather than the
enforcement of the law. In the opin-
ion of many, the law is unconstitu-
tional and will be so declared IL any
effort is made to enforce 1t. In the
opinion of others, the law will be-
come a dead letter from the day of
its passage No one believes that the
advancement of scientific truth will
be arrested in Tennessee any more
than in the rest of the world.
One effect the law is sure to have
is that 1t will direct far more in
quiry into the theory of evolution on
the part of young people than has
ever been made before. Consequently,
those who are responsible for this
propaganda will reap a harvest that
they did not expect. In the mean
time those Of us who have spent our
lives working for the promotion of
education in Tennessee are forced to
cover our faces in shame that the
State has gone on record in man
.ner so discreditable, both to religion
and science.
Copyright, ioNJ
Evening star., 1925-04-05

the crisis and missed immortality He
might have been another John, and
| had his name coupled with Christs
as one of the band that turned the
world upside down" and changed the
course of human history. He failed
tragically failed, IN the great crisis of
his life. He put his hand out for
| the great gift of immortality and
drew it back when the price was
country" he is the man without a
| Master. Better is 1t that his name
is not recorded. From the Masters
presence he passed into oblivion.
x X X
There was once in our own ma
tional history one, who for a space
served his country heroically and
valiantly, but at length his armor
of security disclosed its weakest spot,
was pierced by the enemy, and he
sold his birthright for mess of pot
tage. On the walls of the chapel at
West Point, a tablet records the dates
of his birth and death. but his name
is omitted. 1t is better so. for his
name is synonymous with disloyalty
and treason. That Christ laid upon
those who would accept His leader
ship some definite form of discipline
would make His followers fit for His
service. He would have them prove
their disciplehood, or to use the
apostles words, endure hardness as
good soldiers"
1t was to no soft, enervating, easy
service He called them. Those who
became ultimately His exponents
came to know that service involved
sacrifice. Everywhere and always
they have been His greatest and most
eminently successful disciples, who
were willing to pay the price. When
the test has been severest they have
never failed, and their valor has given
the Christian cause its most conspicuous
distinction.
Christianity cannot be enjoyed as
a luxury or as an aesthetic adorn-
ment If basically 1t lies at the very
foundation of our most cherished
ideals, if it secures TO us the finest
things in our individual and corporate
life, If at the bottom of our boasted
civilization we are really Christian,
then let us recognize that sacrifice
is one Of its most indispensable and
essential element Our modern ex-
preston of faith makes little Or no
demand upon the heroic or stronger
virtues in our nature. Like the young
man We may be reverent and highly
moral, yes, erstwhile members of good
society, and yet fail of disciplehood
The indictment. 'one thing thou lack
est" may be severe, but it touches
a vital If vulnerable spot in each of
US. The large question is, are we
ready to pay the price which follow
ing Christ involves? Is his plan of
life so indispensable to our peace and
largest happiness, that we will take
up our cross, whatever that cross may
be and follow Him? The words of
the poet come back to US with re-
newed significance and force:
The cross on Golgotha can never save thy soul
The cross in thine own heart alone can make
thee whole.
Copyright, 1929
Evening star., 1925-04-05
BY HENRY w. EUNN.


1~HE following is a brief sum,
mary of the most important
| news of the world for the
seven days ended April 4.
France.--On April NJ. Clementel
| the finance minister informed the
| Senate that the government had de-
| cided to submit a bill authorizing
increase of the note circulation of the
Bank of France by limited amount
| to meet commercial needs. News OF
! this statement, coming TO the ears
| of Premier Herriot, then in the Cham
| Der, he rushed to the Senate and con-
tradicted 1t Cor seemed to do so, for
the premier's speech was far from
lucid. At any rate. NJ. Clementel was
not authorized to make such a state
menD. Thereupon. of course, NJ
Clementel resigned.
The fiscal and financial situation
is most critical, and by the same
token so is the situation of the gov
eminent. The government is about
to make important proposals, and
highly interesting developments are
likely According to NJ. Clementel, a
temporary increase of note emission
is necessitated by boarding. and.
the replacement" notes under the
measure indicated. being issued only
for a discount of sound commercial
paper, such a measure should not
be styled "inflat ton
1t seems, however. to this writer
that imitation" is the correct term
M. Anatole De Monzie is the new
finance minister. 1t is rumored that
under pressure from the Socialists
the government will propose a capital
levy. Not liking the looks of things,
toh hac 40 H. n ri,
port from the government, dra wing
with him a radical following num-
erous enough to reduce the govern
ment's majority to a precarious
margin.
The franc, of course, has been
wabbling on exchange, but. the cir
cumstances considered, within sur
prisingly narrow limits
1t is stated that NJ De Monte. who
is of strong clerical sympathies,
made 1t condition of his acceptance
of the portfolio of finance that the
government should agree to a COM
promise on the question of rep
resentation at the Vatican. This is
very important, if true.
+ y X
Germany.-The first popular cleo
Ftion for a President of Germany was
held on March %. The late Herr
Ebert was elected Provisional Presi-
dent by the National Assembly in
1919. The provisional was changed to
regular" status by act of the Reichs-
tag in October, 1921, the term to ex-
pire June 80, 1925; an irregular ar
rangement adopted because of the
general fear that a popular election
in that troubulous time would result
in a general shindy. Under the Wei
mar constitution if none of the can
didates in a popular election for
President receives a majority of votes
second election must be held. The
winner or a plurality of votes on
this occasion becomes President.
None of the candidates won a ma
jority on March %, as appears from
the following returns (approximate
figures):
Evening star., 1925-04-05

T HE story of "The Man without
a Country" is a striking ex.
ample of one who signalIy
4. failed in an emergency, whose
character and loyalty were
shattered in a moment of unre.
strained passion. 1t is the tragic an.
nal of one who forfeited his oppor-
tunity and lost his place in the time
of testing.
He lost at flood tide, and all his after
life was characterized by disappoint-
ment and regret Repeatedly in the
course of life we witness the results
OF lost or indifferently regarded op-
portunities. The words of the poe,
are ture:
of all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these: 1t might have been -
X X
No character is presented on the
New Testament page that so strik-
ingly portrays this as that of the cul-
tivated, reverent and rich young man
who voluntarily sought Christ to ask
linn the great question: What shall
l do that l may inherit eternal life %
He was doubtless drawn to the Mas
ter by the beauty of His teaching and
the Sublimity of His character AS a
matter of fact, he came in haste. run
ming to Him, he also knelt before
Him, he betrayed every evidence of
4 sincere desire to follow Him It
was in his life the moment of supreme
opportunity. Christ's immediate an
swcr found him responsive. for II
touched upon obedi-nce of the moral
law, to which the youth gladly re-
sponded that he had scrupulously OBJ
served it.
There was eagerness in his accept
ance of this obligation. Then fol-
lowed the searching and severe test.
The Master discovered the one great
weakness in his character. 1t re-
lated to his love of things material,
his selfish passion for his riches. Go
and sell whatsoever thou hast, and
give to the poor, and come, take up
the cross and follow me"
x x X X
Christ made no such demand of an
other who had large worldly posses
sions, namely, Zaccheus, but here, in
the case of the young man, He dis
covered that his riches constituted his
Impedfments. They were the real
hindrance to his highest fulfillment
They blocked the way to disciplehood.
To follow Christ meant sacrifice, it
meant acceptance of the cross with
all its implications. 1t was here the
Young man failed-"He went away
sorrowful; for he had great posses
sions." He wished to be a disciple,
ibut he could not pay the price. He
weighed his material things over
against the satisfactions of character
and the fulfllment of his highest
ideals, and he could not make the
exchange. Jesus was so appealed to
by him that it is recorded that He
loved him."
The young mans name is unknown,
and his story as given is singularly
brief, but it Is the case of one who
acting upon fine impulses, failed in
Evening star., 1925-04-05
Child Marriages Declared
Menace to Nations Future

eases that find their way into these
tribunals of family misery are due 10
youthful marriages-even above is
years of age. And the divorce courts
have similar statistics. Everywhere We
are insisting on laws that will protect
children in industry. We have generally
prohibited children under Is from going
to work. Yet we have been woefullS
lacking in safeguarding children from
going into the biggest and most difficult
JOB of all-producing the family And il
Is upon this and the home that all So
cial progress and civilization is based.
historians will record child mar
rlages in the same category with the
Dark Ages-a blot on humanity
Every legislature of every State needs
an awakening on this evil.
Copyright, 1881
Evening star., 1925-04-05
BY SOPHIE IRENE LOEB.

The New York State Senate in its
closing days of the recent Legislature
marked to its credit the passage of
bill that would prohibit the marriage of
children under 16 years of age. This
measure, however, was stifled in a COM
mittee in the Assembly in the dying
hours of the session and therefore has
to go over until next January.
But that such a bill must pass not
only in New York but in every other
State is evidenced by the mass of facts
and statistics that have been advanced
by various social agencies such as the
Russell Sage Foundation and the New
York State Commission to Examine
Laws Relating to Child Welfare-the
latter having sponsored the bill. In
most instances, only consent of the
parents was necessary to the marriage
of child under is. And the unscrupu-
lous parents are legion. In very few To-
calitiesxh have public officers any choice
but to grant marriage certificates. In
one county of New York, however,
very wise provision has been instituted
that parent who seeks a license for
the marriage of a child under 16 is at
once regarded as an improper guardian
and so adjudged.
There is only one possible reason in
this enlightened age for a child under
Is to maryland that is where a girl
is about to become a mother. But when
parents go so far in the case of a girl
as to make up their minds. and the
child's as well, to marry her off to some
body, 1t is then of vital Importance that
the community step in and protect the
child.
One has only to read the pathetic
histories of these unfortunate young
people to realize that concentrated
effort must be made throughout the
country to stop bartering the lives
and souls of young children into a
union that in the majority OF cases
proves unbearable and is nothing
short of barbarous.
Fancy the sorry spectacle of par
ents of a 13-year-old bride Furnishing
her after the nuptials for playing
with other children in the street and
insisting that when she jump rope
sire do so in the back yard, because
she is now a married woman" or
the intelerant condit tion of where a
stepmother marries off little girl
of II to a man Of 40!
Aside from the physical aspect of
the situation. every child has the
right to go through the growing Pc
RODS of youth and all that 1t implies
of joy and freedom and develop
ment of physical and mental capa-
bilities, later to decide for itself as
to whom each will choose for his or
her life partner.
To say nothing of the importance
of safeguarding childhood, society
must protect itself from the commu-
ni.y burdens and public charges that
always follow mismated marriages
and wrongful unions.
A survey of the domestic rela ations
courts shows that the majority of
Evening star., 1925-04-05
Medieval Cage Abolished.

There still exist in corners of the
British isles customs and laws left
over from the Dark Ages Usually
these have fallen into disuse, but oc-
casionally some ancient practice Is
evoked that seems even more cruel
against the background of enlight-
ened modern civilization. For ex-
ample, last August, in Jersey, a wom-
an convicted of a minor offense was
publicly exhibited in an iron cage In
accordance with an ancient law. Her
shrieks caused an investigation to be
made into the practice, with the re-
suit that Sir William Venables-Ver-
non. bailli6 Of Jersey, has announced
that the oAEs has been abolished.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
Greek Slaves in Turkey.

According to reports submitted to
the League of Nations. upward of
SO, 1000 Greek and Armenian women
and children are retained as slaves
in the interior Of Turkey. Europeans
who have Investigated this question
assert that about 10000 of these
slaves can be brought out for approx
imately $40 each. Five. dollars buys
liberty and the remainder is required
for medical care. food and travelling
expenses Charitable societies en-
saged In attempts to free these
Greeks and Armenians assert that the
league has not given the financial as
sistance it should give. especially
since the Treaty of Lausanne safe
guards the rights of Christians living
In Turkey.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
Mexico's Costly Strikes.

Strikes in Mexico in 1924 numbered
13S. according to a report by the
statistical department of the Minis
try of Industry. The total loss to the
strikers was s1,so5. 1o1, Mexican gold,
while the industrial employers suf-
fered to the extent of s4,627,34S The
total number OF strikers during the
year was 1885, of whom 2s,244 were
men, 3.615 were women and LIPS were
under age. Failure on the part of
industl ialists to observe the eight
hour law accounted for the majority
of the strikes, while demands for in
creases of pay accounted for many
Non-recognition of organized labor
unions WAS the cause of some of the
strikes, while unjustifed dismissals
caused numerous walkouts.
Evening star., 1925-04-05

b "The Man Who Failed
st. Mark r.21-"Onc thing thou
gdekest." -
Evening star., 1925-04-05

\ ROBABLY every one longs TO
write a book to be printed only
after his death, because of its
startling revelations and devo-
The daily worker., 1925-07-29

mo COAL MOVED WHILE
MINERS STRIKE" /" WARN
BRITISH RAILWAY men

LONDON, England, July Pit is
generally agreed that the labor ST.
tuaton Is bad as the crucial week
opens before Fridays threatened
waIkout in the coal industry. There
is serious threat Of a general
strike, as the railroad men have
agreed not to move any coal II the
miners 90 out.
Prime Minister Baldwin admitted
in a speech he made Saturday that
I'VE are faced either by an abyss
Of despotism or an abyss of anar-
chy." Yet all responsible parties
hope that the strike will be STAYED
off and that some last-minute COM
promise will be effected.
Lord Stamfordham, the kings
private secretary, visited the prime
minister, who spent all Of Sunday at
Downing street, and presented the
royal views and desire for media
tion to prevent strike.
The daily worker., 1925-07-29
The Present Situation and Immediate Tasks of the Par

list era cannot be solved by the cap
italists. The temporary adjustment of
the conflict over German reparations
thru the Dawes plan and the tempo
rary and partial sterilization of the
capitalist economic order in Europe
had no soner been accomplished than
the imperialist conflict broke out in
a new form in the struggle of the
suppressed peoples of Morocco and
China to free themselves from the
exploitation and political domination
of the great imperialist powers. ~
. The war in Morocco and the strux
u gle in China emphasize the i'd
stability Of the capitalist social or
der. They are the outcome of conflict
ing interests which characterize the
imperialist era of capitalism. The peo-
pie Of Morocco and China are fighting
against imperialist exploitation. with
out which capitalism cannot exist in
the present period of its development.
Capitalism must have investment op-
portunities which exist in the spheres
OF influence of undeveloped countries
and II must have the raw materials
of these countries. The struggle for
these between the imperialist powers
and the struggle against exploitation
and oppression by the suppressed peo-
The daily worker., 1925-07-29
Much Fuss Over White
Guard Agent Who Took
All He Could in China
lspeeiaI 70 The paIIy Workerl

PEKING, July 27.--American Con
sui Sokobin from Harbin, Manchuria,
with General Chang Kwong- g-Shang,
highest military authority of the three
eastern Chinese provinces, today was
attempting to secure the release of
DR. Harvey Howard of the Rockefel-
Ter Institute, kidnapped by Chinese
last week.
Howards place of Imprisonment
was not known.
A representative of the Foreign Al
fairs Commission at Hardin is assist
ing the consul and General Chang.
Consul Sokonin reported that Muir
ray Palmer, who was murdered at the
same time DR.. Howard was taken pris-
oner, died in defense of his Manchur-
ian farm. His Chinese assistant was
killed and Russian white guard was
wounded by the Chinese.
The daily worker., 1925-07-29

pies of these countries are the shark 4
which light the powdered magazine of
capitalism, resulting in the explosion
which brings the destruction of mil.
ions Of lives and billions of wealth
as in the world war, and the con
sequent reduction in production and
the standard of life of the workers.
"A The present world situation OF
Il capitalism again proves that the
only force which can avert the men,
ace Of new wars is the working class.
1t is only thru victorious revolution
ary struggle against the imperialist
capitalist governments that the work
ing class can escape from the suffer
ing which the imperialist era of cap
italism brings upon II.
x In contrast to this situation in
- the capitalist world, stands the
Soviet Union. In spite Of all the at.
tacks of international capitalism made
in an effort to destroy the Soviet gov
ernment and prevent the creation of a
new social order, the creation of that
new social order goes forward step
by step. Already Soviet Russia has
been able to raise the standard OF
life OF its workers higher than IN 1914
while the balance OF Europe-cap.
italist Europeans reduced the stand
The daily worker., 1925-07-29
Challenge Brookhart
Ballots in Effort to
Make Steck Senator

WASHINGTON, July 27.-Attorneys
for Daniel F. Steck, democrat, who is
contesting the election of the in.
surgent republican, Smith w. Brook
hart, to the United States senate
from Iowa, today challenged fifty bal
lots which had been counted fol-
Brookhart in Cedar and Serro Gordc
counties The ballots were marked al
the top as straight republican ticket
and also had Brookhart's name writ
ten into the progressive column.
Several clerical errors were found
but the general situation was un
changed with Brookhart substantially
in the lead
The daily worker., 1925-07-29
STAFFORD TORN
FROM HIS Family
BYDEPORTATION
Mystery Surrounds the
Action Against Miner

The why and wherefore of the hasty
and secret deportation to Italy of
Tony Stafford is still shrouded in
mystery. Stafford was a labor prisoner
serving a long sentence in Mounds
Vile penitentiary. He wac one of the
eight hundred coal miners indicted
following the mine war in West Vir-
ginia in the fall of 1921 during which
a number of miners and company
aunrnen were killed. Three men, Tony
Stafford, Edgar Combs and George
Barrett were picked as the victims.
Suddenly, on July II, Torv Stafford
was removed from Moundsville by
Federal officers and taken to Pitts
burgh County. Jail. He was hess 49,
40 more than few hours when he
vas shipped off to Ellis .Esland. There
he sent the following telegram to his
wife, AT Ellis Island, can do nothing
myself, do your best" Shortly after
sending this Telegram he was put
aboard the Giuseppe Verdi. bound
for Naples.
Stafford leaves behind a wife and
four children whom he had not seen
for years. Mrs. Matte Stafford was
destitute and powerless to help her
husband She wrote letter to the
National Office Of the international
Labor Defense in Chicago asking for
help. The l. L. D. Immediately noti-
fed its New Yo < representatives. II
was too late.
A letter just received from Beckley
w. Va, by International Labor De-
Tense was written by Sadie stafford
A photograph Of the four children was
enclosed. Sadie, the only girl, ap-
pears to be no more than nine or ten
years Of age. Here is the letter.
Letter from Miners Daughter.
Dear Sir:-We have just received
your letter. Mother is not able to
write just at present, but she asked
me to send these pictures and cards
to you at once. We are afraid il is
too late now We send you the last
word we had from father Telegram
enclosed). You may be able to see
him yet. We wrote Secretary Davis
the day we received wire from father.
Mother will write you soon. We truly
Continued on page -
The daily worker., 1925-07-29

for interventions and military aggresf
sion by the United States against the
republics OF Latin-America II also
creates the basis for anti-imperialist
and at the same time nationalist revo-
lutionary movements among the peas
ants and workers of South America.
> The, export Of capital from Amer
80 lea into Europe. thru the opera
ton of the Dawes plan and otherwise.
has created new contradictions and
conflicts. American Imperialism in
Europe is reaching stage when Do
litical and military interference in the
affairs Of Europe is becoming the or
der Of the day. Hence, the tremendous
growth Of militaristic propaganda and
preparations in the United States.
= American imperialism is also
- heavily increasing its export of
capital to China and the whole Far
East. America is winning a frmer
hold on the great Far Eastern market
The increasing interest OF American
Imperialism in the Far East is shown
by the recent gigantic American naval
maneuvers In the Pacific and the visit
of the United States Pacific feet 10
Australia. In the present Chinese
crisis the American imperlalist gov.
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