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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-09-18
CERTAINLY CHANGE 1T

The recent suggestion of Secretary
Daniel P. Wine of the Shenandoah
Valley, Inc, that the proposed Shen-
andoah National Park be renamed
the THE Shenandoah National Park
of Virginia, is a good one.
1t is tantamount to a confession
that, after the expenditure of tens of
thousands of real good dollars for
publicity purposes, there are benight-
ed ones who may think that the park
area is in Rhode Island or some
where along the Rio Grande.
Just why the incorporators of the
park should have overlooked a more
specific designation of geographical
location is hard to understand, and
unless early action is taken to correct
the error millions of dollars of dam
ages will have been done.
1t might be well, too, to start a
publicity and educational campaign
to detour the deluded who might
think that the Blue Ridge Mountains
are part of the Andes and that
Stonewall' Jackson's campaigns
were staged somewhere east of Suez.
Certainly it is no reflection on the
intelligence of the American people
that they are unaware of the fact
that Shenandoah is in Virginia, and
this ignorance should be cured by
adopting the wise suggestion of the
secretary of Shenandoah Valley, Inc.
To make certainty doubly sure. we
would suggest that the name of the
park for which we are striving should
cite that Virginia is part of the Unit
ed States, was one of the thirteen
original States and the seat of the
first English settlement in America
Let's make it plain so that in wears
to come the radiators of Lizzies and
limousines will not be turned toward
Alaska as the tourist seeks the syI-
van slopes of the Shenandoah Nation
al Park
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-09-18
KNOCKING AT ST. PETERS GATE

| used to take my gas-fed steed,
And see how fast that l could speed;
I'd challenge all to come and race
Who owned a bus about the place.
Asd then I'd drive, with thoughtless
mind,
A menacer, to all mankind.
When folks would see me tearing by,
They'd breathe long, contemptuous
sigh,
And say in tones that smacked of
scorn,
.oh! what a shame that he was
born"
But things have changed since those
wild days;
Lots better sense, has turned my
ways,
And now l drive my old machine
With little spark and gas cut lean.
For l have learned that these wise
chaps
Who always speed, will have mishaps
And should they keep this bughouse
fault,
They'll stow their carcass in some
vault
I've seen so many reckless guys
With broken legs and puffed-up eyes
With glass jammed in their solar
pick,
And tenders wrapped around theil
necks,
That l have come to realize
A speedster simply tempts and vies
Old white-faced death, the worth!
gent
Who haunts our days as they ar,
spent.
Each time l see some foolish bird
Performing at speed absurd,
The scent of flowers comes to me
And tombstones loom up on the lea
For l must know that sure as fate
He's knocking at st. Peters gate.
j. j. S.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-09-18
VALLEY SCHOOLS
BRING MILLIONS
Six Thousand Students Will Spend
Between $4,000, 900 and S5,OOO,OOO

AS the Shenandoah Valleys twenty
odd institutions of higher learning
and preparatory schools throw open
their doors for. the season, the next
week will find about 5000 young
men and women from every State in
the Union and many foreign coun-
tries at their books. Before this as
semblage departs for home next June,
between 100000 and 100000
will be spent. These figures give
some idea as to the extent of the
Valley of Virginia school industry"
Some of these institutions already
have begun the new session. The ma
jority are scheduled to start next
week, while the others will not get
under way for two weeks.
Probably no similar section of the
country has as great variety of ed
ucational institutions as that stretch
of the Shenandoah Valley from Lex
ington on the south to Winchester
on the north. There are three State
institutions, six military academies,
five UNCONVENTIONAL colleges, four ex-
elusive girls schools, one business
college and one university in the
area. One new private institution
has been added this year in Luray
College.
nj Of mn h1r.e Iynx .,-sc l,,x,
State Teachers College and Wash
ington and Lee University are the
largest in the Valley, each having a
registration of about 500 students.
Then comes Virginia Military Insti-
tute, with 665 cadets. The others
go all the way down the line to 100
students.
Were the cadet corps of the six
military prep" schools combined,
they would form a regiment of 1900.
Staunton Military Academy heads the
list with an enrolment of 600: Au-
gusta Military Academy, Fort Def
ance, 800; Randolph-Macon Acad-
envy, Front Royal, 100; Fishburne
Military School. Waynesbore, 100;
Massanutten Academy. Woodstock,
140, and Shenandoah Valley Acad-
envy, Winchester, 10.
Among the UNCONVENTIONAL COL
leges Bridgewater College has 275l
students; Shenandoah College, Day
ton, 200; Eastern Mennonite School,
Harrisonburg, 1875; Mary Baldwin
College, Staunton, $50, and Shenan-
doah Valley Institute, New Market,
100.
The fashionable girls schools in
elude Stuart Hall, Staunton; Fairfax
Hall, Waynesboro; Fort Loudoun
Seminary, Winchester, and Southern
College, Buena Vista.
There is also the Virginia School
for the Deaf and Blind at Staunton.
with 800 students
Staunton is the center of the Shen-
andoah Valleys educational institu-
tions. Located in the city limits are
stanton Military Acadmy, Mary
Baldwin College, Stuart Hall, v. s,
D. b., Dunsmore's Business College,
while close by are Fishburne and Au-
gusta military schools. Within a ra-
dius of 25 miles of Stanton there
are 10 other schools.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-09-18
BALTIMORE LIVESTOCK MARKET
(Report by c. Driver & Co.

(Report by G. Driver & Coz
Baltimore, Sept. 14-C t / e.
Heavy choice butcher steers, $50 to
10; good butcher steers SIS to S.25;
medium butcher steers, 5.25 to 6 (;
light butcher steers, to 5; good fat
heifers, to 8; light heifers, to s.;
fat cows, 4 to s; pudding cows, to
8; bulls, to $50; oxen, to 6.
thanksgiving lambs, tops. 16 to
1925; lambs, light, to 1880; fat
sheep, to $50.
Calves-Good fat calves, IA; light
common calves, s to IL; heavy calves
to z.
Remarks-54 loads cattle. A |
grades cattle quarter to half dollar
lower and extremely dull.
Hogs-Lights, 14.40; heavies, 200
to 275 lbs, IA; mediums, 100 to 200
lbs. 1850; oily and soft hogs, 1850;
roughs, according to quality, 1915
to IL; pigs, so to 115 lbs, 3 to
14.10; stays, S.75.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-09-18
ANOTHER BARN
BURNS IN COUNTY
Omar o. Stickley Loss $4,000
Insurance $500

The epidemic of barn burning in
shenandoah and adjoining counties
continues. The fires have been at
tributed to spontaneous combustion,
sparks from engines and other
causes.
The latest fire of this character
was in the north end of the county
on Saturday, when the large barn of
Omar o. Stickley, living between
Oranda and Clary was a prey to the
flames.
The fire broke out while silo
was being filled and the blaze is at
tributed to back fire from a tractor.
All live stock was saved, but 40
bushels of wheat, machinery, har-
ness and quantity of straw were
burned
The estimated loss is $4,000, with
insurance of $500 The Strasburg
Fire Company responded to the
alarm, but owing to a shortage OF
water it's efforts were confined to saw
ing adjoining buildings.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-09-18
FOR RENT

New house on East Foundry Street
Woodstock.
Sep. IL BRANSON MYERS.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-09-18
A SHAME

1t is a shame the way the pave
ment surrounding the County Court
House is being neglected. The brick
are uneven and broken, many are out
entirely and the whole thing is al
most covered with dirt, sand and
grass. II is discouraging to the citi-
zens of Woodstock who are striving
for better streets and walks to have
this unsightly piece of pavement
right in the center of the town. II
certainly looks like the supervisors
or whoever is responsible should take
more interest and pride in seeing that
our public building surroundings are
at least respectable-looking IL not
modern. Shenandoah County is not
so poor that it has to let this piece
OF pavement look like the remains of
ancient Rome. and surely our good
people are not so unprogressive as
TO overlook the Importance Of having
1t put in proper shape again.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-09-18

of Albemarle and Frederick; no to-
baeco lands like those of Pittsylvania
and Halifax.
We have natural resources super
ior to those of any other stage. We
have sentimental and historic attrac-
tions second to none. We have
jamestown and Williamsburg, York
town and Appomattox: we have Mon
ticello and Mount Vernon, Arlington
and Montpelier.
We have opportunities for the
greatest national park in the coun-
try, in the Shenandoah region, within
500 miles of more than half the pop
ulation of the United Staes; we have
the great Caverns, the Natural
Bridge. We have wonders of noun
tain scenery scarcely yet touched by
the hand of man; within SO miles of
Danville there are locations suited to
development superior to anything in
Western North Carolina; we have a
driveway over the mountains by Bal
eony Falls that, when paved, will
equal any scenic highway in the East;
we have a seacoast that offers I'M
limited opportunities for furnishing
the playground of the nation.
We need for our development out
side capital, which the tax laws of
Florida are framed to attract, and
which the tax laws of Virginia seem
framed to repel. But above all, we
need confidence in ourselves, we need
to renew our faith in Virginia, and
its future. We have state well
worth working for--one that will re-
pay in large measure our best efforts
for it's upbuilding.
We have no criticism of those
young men who go out to seek their
fortune in the boomland of today
just as those of another generation
pushed beyond the Mississippi for the
winning of the West But it is our
earnest and sincere belief that fol-
those who stay by Virginia, and labor
earnestly for her upbuilding, there is
the larger reward.-Danville Regis.
ter.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-09-18
SIGNS AND LETTERING
C. C. wAGNE

Neatly done: workmanship guaran-
teed.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-09-18
MORE OILING
IN THE SPRING
Chairman Shirley Says Turnpike Due
For Vernal Dose

Chairman H. G. Shirley, of the Vir-
ginia State Highway Commission, in
a letter to D. P Wine, secretary of
Shenandoah Valley, Inc, declares the
Valley Pike will be given another
coat of oil and rock early next spring.
In order to make the roads as COM
Portable as possible for travel dur
ing the oiling period, Mr. Shirley says
larger stone chips will be used and
these will be packed on the road with
roller. By doing this, Mr.. Shirley
says he hopes to lessen the evils of
tire punctures among the motorists
using the Valley Pike.
Chairman Shirley also suggests
that if it is possible a detour from
the Valley Pike via Front Royal may
be arranged during the oiling period.
He has asked Shenandoah Valley,
Inc, officials to give him all informa-
ton and advice possible in regard to
his plan to re-oil the Pike next year.
His letter is as follows:
81 know you are interested in the
Valley road and it's proper upkeep as
much as we are A close study of
this road indicates in another year
We will have to give it another treat
ment of oil l am going to make ar
engagements to do this just as early
in the spring as possible. OF course
we have to have hot weather to put
on oil, and what | am writing to you
for is to get your views on the ques-
ton of whether it would not be ad-
visable to close this road to tourist
traffic for about 80 or 40 days and
send this traffic from Winchester
through Front Royal and over an.
other route.
I'VE have had so much criticism in
regard to applying oil just at the
time we did, that l am anxious to
avoid this, if possible, and it can be
handled very nicely by turning all
tourist travel over this and other
routes for the period above men,
toned.
No doubt we would have some
complaints from the local business
people, and l am anxious to get your
views and what you may know from
your contact with the local interests
as to this method.
I'VE expect to use a high priced
oil and one that will dry as quickly
as possible, larger stone chips and
roll them in, which will very quickly
reduce the numbers of punctures
somewhat, but for the first three OIL
four days the same disagreeable spat.
tering of oil and stone chips will take
place.
The manufacturers of road oils
and the highway engineers have not
been able to find a reasonably priced
oil that can be applied to the road
cold that will set up quickly and not
spatter on vehicles going over it fol-
the first four or five days. The very
best chemists and engineers of the
country are working on this, hoping
it may be solved later on, but at the
present time We are using practically
the same methods used in other
states.
Il am going to give a great deal
of personal thought to this and see
if some improvement cannot be work.
ed out, but l would like to have your
views on the above"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-09-18
FOR SALE

Pure Tested Seed Wheat v. P. 1.
liz. Grown by S. E. Boyer, Pelton,
Va. See sample.
FARMERS UNION.
Sp. 3-p. Woodstock, Va.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-09-18
GOOD FARMS FOR SALE

We have some very good dairy,
stock, grain, fruit and poultry farms
for sale. Prices very low. We can
suit you. Farm lands have reached
iow-water mark ROW and are advanc-
ing. Also some very good business
propositions. Come to see us. Call
or write
w. III. BRUMBACK,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-16

permanent organ and at the same
time the execution of actual work on
the organization of unemployed, such
as the registration of unemployed, ne
COLLATION. with other labor organiza-
tons, etc, were started.
The unemployment movement in
Osaka OSAKA is the largest Industrial
center of Japan, while Toxic is the
political center), under the auspices
of the Hyogizai strated on July 10
with the broadcasting of leaflets and
placarding. On the 18th a mass meet
ing was held in the city park. On
the following day the Osaka branch Of
the Hyogikai invited all the local
trade unions as well as the Japan
Peasant Union for a conference on
unemployment problems" On July
TO- answering the CYL Of the Hyogikai,
II delegates representing 81 different
labor organizations met and agreed
unanimously to carry on the move
ment against unemployment and to
establish permanent organ for the
purpose.
TT is significant that to this memoir
= able conference the Japanese Fed
Grafton Of Labor did not send its rep
resentatives. Since the recent split.
the federation has entirely been sub
iected under the control Of the reform
istic bureaucrats, who, from their ha-
tired of left wingers. have been OBJ
structing all the attempts in which
the latter are active.
At the conference, great indigna-
ton was expressed by some of the
delegates at the non-attendance of the
Japanese Federation of Labor, but at
the suggestion of the Hyogikai and
peasant representatives delegation
was elected TO induce the federation
to cooperate. The delegation sue
ceeded and at the second meeting Of
the committee on July 26, the repre-
sentatives of the federation we're
present.
At that meeting several committees
Of action were elected and actual work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-16
JUDGE ENJOINS U. M. W.
BECAUSE IT is BUILT
ON INDUSTRIAL LINES

WHEELING, w. Va, Dec. IA. -
Few workers among the ones outside
those Immediately engaged in the
the battle against the non-unlon OPP
orators Of West Virginia realize the
significance Of the recent Injunction
Of Judge Mcclintle against the Unit
ed Mine Workers.
Judge MecIintle, in issuing the in
Junction, said that he based his ac-
ton upon the clause in the Y. M.
w. of A. constitution which, in his
view, makes the union a monopoly.
the clause is as follows:
"To unite in one organization re-
gardless of creed, color or nationaIi-
ty, all workmen eligible for member
ship employed in or around coal
mines, washeries and coke ovens on
the American continent"
This is industrial unlonsm, which
William Green, president Of the
American Federation is set against
as an upholder Of craft unionIsm.
Green, although he has issued state
ments of opposition to MecIintlc's
injunction, has no room to quarrel
with a capitalist court for forbiddlng
industrial unionism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-16

A MOTHER point to be remembered
"A is the dual purpose of the move
ment, which its promoters are think
ing to attain. The All-Japan Fedora
ton Of Labor, that is, the national
unity Of labor, has had no opportun-
ity Of realization since it's first abor-
ton in 1929. The failure was partly
due to the failure on the part Of the
leaders to base the unity movement
on concrete and practical problems.
This mistake has lately been ac-
knowledged by the left wing leaders
and the unemployment movement has
at once been grasped by them for the
basis for the national unity of the
trade union movement. This is why
the present unemployment movement
started by the Hyogikai is so inn
portant and needs close attention.
Proletarian Party.
TN Japan there is no workers par
l. ty" nor any party legally represent
ing the interests of Incorporated
Nldsocs ~ lhO pi1oNAAt ADAh1S AnAo
was written The Proletarian or Labor
Parry has been formed early in Decem-
ber.-Editor DAILY WoRKER.) The
cry for a "Proletarian Party, how
ever. has become loud since a year
before last when the extention OF
franchise became evident. This year
in May the so-called universal suf-
frage" Ga manhood suffrage with
many limitations) was passed through
the diet and the number Of voters for
parliamentary elections was increas-
ed from 100000 to 100000.
The new political factor thus Great
ed is already becoming the object of
exploitation by bourgeois politicians
on the one hand and on the other has
become the basis OF a new political
force OF the oppressed class. The
bourgeoisie. who have still to fight
against feudalistic aristocracy and
landlordism, want to exploit the new
political factor for the warfare against
their internal enemies.
For this purpose they are giving or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-16
LABOR IN THE FAR EAST OAPAN)

the 25th a permanent local committee
on unemployment was elected.
Similar attempts by the left wing ele
ments in the trade union have also
been made in other industrial centers
and similar results have been arrived
at 1t is erroneous to suppose, how
ever, that all these attempts have
been carried on smoothly. On the
contrary every forward step taken by
left wing organizations has met with
obstacles laid by reformists and with
suppression by the government.
Arrests and bloodshed are usual oc-
currences at mass meetings. Often
the speakers are not allowed to speak
more than few opening words before
they are pulled down from the plat
form by armed police. However, the
brutal measures of suppression exer-
cised by police and the gendarmerie
are serving as oil on fire. The revo-
lutionary leaders of Japan are finding
unexpected promoters Of their agita-
tional work in the very suppression by
the police administration.
60 far the writer has not received
~ information as to the completion
of the organization Of the National
League Of Unemployed; or the opening
Of the National Congress of Unem-
ployed, which is the immediate aim
Of the unemployment movement so en-
energetically started by the Hyogikai
But II is simply a matter OF time.
There are yet two points to be re-
membered in observing the future de-
velopment of this unemployment
movement of the left wingers. AT the
Oska conference held July &c, It was
decided that "the movement shall not
concern itself with the work bearing a
character of mutual aid, but ii shall
be protest movement against the
government and other sources on the
question Of unemployment" This
statement clearly indicates the char
acter OF the movement as a political
movement. fundamentally differing
from the movement Of reformists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-16

and aggravated by labar disputes, the
present period is SAID to be the worst
nationwide depression that this coun-
try has yet experienced, according to
a statement issued by the social work
bureau of the department of home af-
fairs yesterday. A radical movement
such as has never before been felt in
Japan is expected to result from the
constant wrangling between labor and
capital and the prolonged unemploy-
ment."
THIS is rather a bold admittance of
4 fact on the part of the bourgeois
organ. Under such circumstances
the leaders OF the trade unions were
for some time feeling the necessity
OF organizing the unemployed on a ma
tional scale, but owing to the So
called internal trouble" which finally
split the General Federation OF Labor,
they were not able to take con-
certed action on even such a grave
and common problem as unemploy-
ment. The initiative for organizing
the unemployed on a national scale,
however was taken by the left wing
leaders in July, soon after the con-
clusion Of the internal trouble"
On July z, the eastern section OF the
aforementioned Hyogikai (Tokio)
elected COMMITTEE Of Action Against
Unemployment" and started to work
out a wide-scale project for agitation
and organization against unemploy-
ment. At the mass meeting held on
July IS in Toxic under the auspices
of the Hyogikai resolution to organ
jze National League Of Unemploy-
ed" was unanimously passed.
Following this first successful meet.
ing on the problem of unemployment
IL similar mass meetings we're held in
various quarters of Toxic and it's vi
entity within three weeks, all under
the auspices Of the Hyogikai.
MEANWHILE, at the executive
A'A meeting of,the said Hyogikai held
on July q, the Committee of Action
against Unemployment was made a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-16
ByTANI

ders to their reformist lackeys to or
ganize the new voters into an Illusion
airy social-democratic party. Against
such danger and betrayal, the left
wing leaders in the trade union move
ment are striving to organize the new
political elements into a "proletarian
party on the basis of class distinc-
tion.
7 ATE last year preliminary work
II for the practical organization Of
a Workers and Peasants Party"
were started by Communist elements
within the labor organizations. Parti-
culaTly in the Japanese Federation OF
Labor the work was going on with
definite results, until the so-called Gin
ternal trouble" put temporary check
upon IT,
During and after the split. the cen
ter Of the oganizational work Of the
political party has shifted from the
Federation to the Japan Peasants
Union and to the newly organized
Nihon Rodokumiai Hyogikai.
The reformistic leaders of the fed
GRAFTON, now being free to exercise
their will after the expulsion of COM
munists, have consciously attemted 10
lead the party movement into chaos,
thereby to sabotage OF the interests
Of the working masses. Instead OF
one national party OF workers and
peasants, which up to recently they
advocated, they have begun to author
lie the formation Of local independent
parties.
Thus, under the tacit guidance OF
the political committee OF the Japan
ese Federation Of Labor, several small
local parties have already sprung up
in different parts OF the country. As
a matter Of course, these mushroom
parties are OF no great force, but
their appearance at the critical mo-
ment Of the founding Of a national
party is certainly an obstacle and an
active sabotage on the part OF the re-
formists against the coming "Pro.
letarian Party"
Go be continued in next issSe.)