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International., 1925-11-08
LOST AND FOUND ON
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Omitted News)

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. z. -
All men know that women are the
most careless creatures n the
world. Now the Southern Pacific
company gives weight to Their arg
uments by revealing an inventory
of it's lost and found department.
Everything from TASKS to poe
try is contained in the small Of
flee where hundreds of articles,
picked up on street cars, waiting
rooms and ferry boats of the COM
pany's transportation system here,
are dumped each day. Most Of the
articles belonged, at some time, to
women.
Umbrellas, rubbers and wo-
mems gloves lead the list.
Cameras, grips, books, baby shoes,
lunch pals, overalls, diaries, and
even bathing suits and tooth
brushes, fill out the odd assort-
menC.
But about the flasks.
They are found in women's
vanity cases WI, h,ch, to an astonish-
ing degree, contain cigarettes,
matches and tiny vials. The
flasks are large or small, of glass
or of silver, empty or partially
filled.
With all these things packed in
alongside the inevitable powder,
rouge and mirror, it is interesting
to note that, as rule, the bags
contain very little money. Per-
haps the women realize their own
shortcomings and, with a resigned
air, resolve that if they must for.
get their belongings, they won't
have lost much.
But after all, a man takes the
real prize for forgetfulness. The
prize exhibit is an expensive lea.
ther bag, packed with gin, YER
mouth and whisky. 1t seems safe
to assume that there was a wall
of anguish when the extent of the
mans Observation-Disclosures came in
Ia sudden flash of recollection that
the bag had been left behind.
Then there's the poetry. On
paper, yellowed with age, it bore
the title, "a Farewell" 1t would
be impossible to exhaust the pos
sib- -lity Of memories that sur
rounded the age-soiled verses.
Farewell, O dream Of mine!
| dare not stay;
The hour has come and time
Will no, oelay."
Every Few days the lost and
found clerks find an amusing sit
uation. They tell bout the green
silk pajamas. A very flustered
young ady called for them, and
fer em5srrass l4vDI did not lessen
when size was lui' ed to describe
them IN dcla;,.
International., 1925-11-08
POSTAL USE OF HIGH
WAYS PASSES MILLION
MILE MARK
Far Flung Lines of Commun-
ication Called Tap Roots
OF Trade

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. z.
-Te postal service of public high
ways in the United States has
passed the million mile mark, ac-
cording to a statement issued by
the American Association of
State Highway Officials.
In delivering NAL to approx
mately 3O,OO0,O00 individuals re-
siding on rural routes, 1,205,572
miles Of highway are used every
day. Notwithstanding the ex-
tent to which rural delivery has
grown" says thehighway officiol
statement, "there are more than
fourteen million patrons to be ad-
ded as soon as the service can be
extended, and this" say the Off
cials, "in the face of the fact
that Uncle Sam is cooperating
with the states in the construction
Of only about 100000 miles of
road. or more than million miles
less than he is actually using"
This point has been brought
out, according TO the highway
statement, to show the we'll nigh
universal relationship which high
ways hold to the public at large
and particularly to commercial
centers Of the country, where a
vast amount of business is con-
Quoted by mail.
IL the far flung lines of high
way communication, according to
the highway official statement,
were not kept open,, commerce in
New York and other states where
large cities are located would
soon find the tap roots Of their
trade affected, with the result
that their boaster revenue titals
would show a corresponding drop,
thus proving again that even
cities are concerned in the year
round service of highways, how
ever far distant they may be To-
Gated.
Furthermore" the statement
adds, zone of the three elements
International., 1925-11-08

used by the Federal government
in the distr button of funds to
states or roads is the mileage of
post roads used in the distribution
of funds to states for roads is the
mileage of post roads used in each
safe for the rural mail delivery.
Some people have been laboring
under the impression that Federal
funds go to states according to
their total road mileage when it is
the Federal use of roads only that
is taken into consideration"
Further inquiry on the part OF
state highway officials has brought
out the fact that 'sin the past five
years, through the Improvement
of roads, the Post Office Depart
ment has been able to add 1850
new rural routes and in doing so
mail service has been extended to
226,3OO families. This improve
ment of the roads has also enabled
the postal department to lengthen
the mileage of 2,449 routes al
ready in existence"
The highway statement con-
cludes by calling attention to the
fact that "the ordinary length Of
a rural route is twenty-four miles.
and where roads are not improved,
this an all day job, but by road
Improvement Uncle Sam has been
able to lengthen the routes and
thereby give additional service to
a number Of families without ad-
d'tional cost. and still enable the
carrier to deliver the mail in one
half the time required on rural
routes ten years ago"
International., 1925-11-08

known this activity has yielded no
noteworthy results. In the fields
where lead is utilized it is a pre-
cious metal. No other metal will
perform its functions as well.
And it is predicted that because
of the amazing many needs for
lead and the inability to replace
it, in the future the hubble gray
metal that "threatenest rather
than doth promise aught" will be-
come more precious. ,r
The tremendous development of
the lead industry can be readily
comprehended from an examina-
ton of the production figures of
the United States since 1860,
when the output consisted of but
16,600 ons. In 1881 output had
advanced to 117,085 tons; 1890,
143630 tons; 1900, 270,824 tons;
1910, 375,402 tons; 1920, 476,849
tons; and 1923, $4,000 tons.
In other words, in a period of
63 ears the output of lead has in
creased $500 per cent, and even
this astounding expansion has not
geen sufficient to care for do
nestle consumption.
Ttake figures which show that
in 1894 consumption totaled 1922
371 tons; 1900, 269,302 tons;
1910, 538, 900 tons; 1920, 538, 900
tons, and 1923, $4,000 tons, or
an increase in 80 years Of 800 per
cent. Prices during that period
have advanced from 1929 cents,
the average fr 1894, to AL cents
in 1900; 4.49 cents in 1910, 8.08
cents in 1920, 7.25 cents in 1928
and 8.97 cents in 1924.
Noturally, the best index to an
increasing demand for and use Of
the gray metal is furnished by
prices A study of the accom-
panying table Of average prices for
the months of 1923, 1924 and
1925 shows that the high of 1923
was but 1882 cents, as compared
with 9.207 cents for 1924 ond TO-
169 cents for 1925. The average
of 1923 was 1927 cents; 1924,
8.097 cents. and for the first eight
months of 1925. 8.7706 cents.
Missouri lead output, while
doubtless it can be sustained for
number of years longer, has reach
ed its zenith.
Output of lead from Spanish
and Australion mines is Gectreas-
ing. Probably Mexico and +ae
United States offer the worlds
hest hope for future lead supplies
But even in these countries
practically all outcrops have been
developed. Henceforth, lead mines
can only be found at e eat ex-
pense by exploring carefully ond
exhaustively favorable minera'
channels.
So that it, is not unreasonable
to believe that unless discoveries
of phenomenal lead ore bodies are
made, unless discoveries revolu-
tionlizing the use of the gray
metol in industry materalize,
quotations for this much needed
metal should advance steadily
above even the present high
prices,
International., 1925-11-08
CITY NOT LIABLE
FOR ACCIDENT, HELD

PHOENIX, Nov. 7. Arizona
munic pal corporations are held
not to be responsible for personal
injuries caused by the municipali-
tvs negligence in an opinion hand
ed down by the state supreme
court.
The ruling of tho court was Civ
en- in the appeal of Oscar Jones,
who was suing the city Of Phoe-
nix for $4,000 damages for in
juries sustained in a leap from a
runaway garbage truck. The de-
cision of the superior court in sus-
tanning demurrer to the COM
plant was upheld by the court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
A John Reed juniors, Affair.

We are glad to announce that our
group has a new leader and is func-
tioning again. We are starting of
with an affair which will be given on
May 3d. OH the fun We'll have! The
entertainment will be composed of the
members of the John Reed group only.
Wen have play, and several more
numbers. OF course, after the pro-
gram, Wen have a dance. But one
thing you must come for. That is the
surprise. We're going to have a sur
prise which If you don't come to get,
you'll regret the rest of your lives.
This grand affair will be held May
%, 1926 at the Workers Home, 1902
w. Division ST., o'clock sharp. The
dancing will come at night Get your
tickets before they are all sold. Ask
members of the John Reed group for
them. Prices: Adults, 20 cents; chill
dren, 10 cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
No One Living in
Chicago Need Be
Lonesome on Nav 9

The Young Workers League, local
Chicago, announces many interesting
features for the entertainment and
dance to be held on the 9Th of May,
at the Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch
Blvd. The hall will resound with
the singing of revolutionary songs,
led off by the chorus and participated
in by all the league and party mem
bers present. Prominent members
will deliver short talks on the activi-
ties of the league. That is the most
promising part of the evenings en-
tertainment for the Y. w. L. is con-
will be dancing-lots of it. =
AT present the league is in need
of funds to print special leaflets in it's
Negro campaign as well as in its
anti-militarist campaign. The readers
of the DAILY WORKER are urged to
give the dance every possible support
SO that local Chicago may be placed
in better position to enlarge upon
its activities.
Come to the dance, Saturday, May
8. Admission is only 35 cents in ad-
vance and so cents at the door. Tick.
cts can be procured at the league of.
flee, 10 So. Lincoln St. and from all
the league members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
RUTHENBERG SPEAKS At
MAY DAY DANCE OF THE
CHICAGO LETTISH. BRANCH

The solidarity Of the working class
Of Soviet Russia, the spirit of Joy
with which the masses Of the Rus
sian workers and peasants go about
their work of running and building
their great working class republic,
10 the same spirit with which
the militant workers OF this country
celebrated May Day, C. E. Ruthen-
berg, executive secretary of the
Workers (communlst) Party, said
in speech at the May Day eelebra-
tlon Of the Lettish branch Of Chi
cago.
comrade Ruthenbera told Of the
huge demonstrations he witnessed
in Moscow, in which more than a
hundred thousand workers took part,
and told Of the enthusiastic spirit
with which the Red Army soldiers
90 about their work of defending
their state.
A revolutionary play, 1.-THE Last
King" which showed how the Com
munist world revolution finally over
comes world Imperialism, was acted
by the Lettlsh comrades.
The Red Let's Junior Group sang
the international and other reVolu-
tionary songs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
FASCIST TERROR
IN BULGARIA IS
HIT BY KOLAROv
Shows Conditions Under
Rule of Whites
lspseIaI to The DaIIy Worksrl

MOSCOW, April 21.-(By NALL y
In connection with the latest happen
in Bulgaria, Comrade Kolarov
secretary of the Communist Interna,
tional, made the following statement:
after the bloodbaths of June and
September, the ruling clique of bank.
ers and miltarists has continued its
policy of physical determination OF
the workers and peasants, and de
struction OF their organizations. II
was obvious that the working masses
would not let the arrests and tortures
go unpublished AS the dissatisfaction
among the masses grew, the govern
ment terror was intensified. A mum
Der Of deputies of the peasant league
and three Communists have recently
been shot in broad daylight, and in
the provinces mass murders, the So
called Suicides, are the order OF
the day. No day passes without the
murder of a workers or peasants
eader.
Such is the situation in Bulgaria.
The prisons are overcrowded; thou
sands were driven into emigration,
and thousands are living in the for
ests. To Justify its terror, the Fan
kov clique is fabricating forged plans.
To furnish proof of the Bolshevist
danger, a sham attempt on the kings
life was organized.
THE Communist Party has made
gigantic efforts to organize the mass
es and to prevent the division and
decentralization of the mass movement
into individual anarchist acts of ter
ror. AS early as February, the cen
trail committee of the Communist
Party issued a call in it's illegal cen
trail organ, for the organization Of a
mass movement, and against terroriz
alton acts.
These efforts of the Communist
Party were rendered very difficult by
the fact that the Communist Party
was outlawed, its press prohibited
and legal activities made impossible
On the pretext that the Communist
Party had prepared an uprising for
April Is, and taking advantage OF
the Sofia explosion, the government
has declared a state of seige. The
court martials are having workers
and peasants shot en- masse. The
lives Of thousands of political prison
ers are in danger. Should the Bull.
garian bourgeoisie fail to appease the
embittered masses by changing its
government policy. all responsibility
for the consequences rest with it
self"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
NEW YORK CELEBRATES DESPITE
THREATS OF BOMB SQUAD" HEAD

der capitalism are bad, but see what
YOU will have to go thru if you at
tempt to overthrow capitalism" But
now the Russian revolution will again
become an inspiration not only to the
Communists but to the broad masses
of the workers. Comrade Foster CON
cluded with fervid appeal to the
militant workers to help build the
Workers Party into mass Commun-
list party.
Jack Stachel, the district organizer
of the Young Workers League, among
other things mentioned the Crouch
Trumbull case and pointed out the
significance of the fact that American
soldiers sent to Honolulu to keep the
native population in subsection took
the initiative in organizing the natives
into a Communist League to fight
American Imperialism. He assured
the audience that the Communists will
continue to carry on revolutionary
propaganda in the army and the navy.
Comrade Olgin, speaking of the
present world situation, pointed out
that the rule of the socialists was in
variably followed by a return of re-
action.
For six years Germany had So
cialist president, socialist premiers,
socialist chiefs of police, who fought
the revolutionary movement and filled
the prisons with Communists working
men. And now Won Hindenburg, the
monarchist, is elected president. Had
the Communists ruled Germany for
six months the monarchists could not
have returned to power"
Successful May Day meetings were
leld by the Workers (Communist)
Party turnout District Two. About a
dozen meetings were held outside Of
Greater New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
FIELD NOTES

denly heard big voice booming out
warning to all Boy Scouts over the
radio, to beware and to prepare to
put down the terrible reds and their
dangerous propaganda being imported
from Moscow to America" This was
In Iowa. Not many weeks ago the
radio broadcasted a vicious attack on
the child labor amendment-calling
the attention of the farmers that their
children were about to be Bolshevized
and that they would not even be al
lowed to do the chores after school,
"The children are to be nationalized!"
shouted the broadcasting savior of the
farmers. This was in Kansas. The
amendment was defeated.
Draw Line Around and Don't Read.
My friend the teacher, in city school,
was holding forth on botany. He
came to paragraph on the evolution
OF plant and animal specie-He stop
ped-"You will not read the next para
graph-please draw line around It and
go on to the next" why so?" asked
a student. a"Why don't you know
there is law against the teaching of
evolution in this state? l would lose
my job IL allowed you TO read that"
That was in Oklahoma.
A Little OF Both.
A socialist was telling me that it
was the proper thing to uphold relig-
ion and socialism and thus mot an
tagonize people as you Communists
do by attacking religion" told him
that he reminded me OF the teacher
who was hunting a teachers job
down in Arkansas. The school board,
where he applied, had turned down
several teachers as the board was
equally divided on very momentous
question Of astronomy. AT last the
question was fred at him: How'd
you teach about the world being fiat
or round7" "oh," said the teacher. II
teach a little Of both"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
BY J. E. SNYDER.

Making nothing this year, just get
ting by and see no future" was the
remark overheard in a conversation
between two Iowa travelling men.
A farmer sitting by asked: When
will it get betteF?"
mot until we have two good crops
sold on a good market. II will take
the first crop TO anywhere near catch
up" answered one of the travelling
men, who then proceeded to tell how
he has been caught in three bank
smash-ups this year. "In one town
two banks failed in one day-they will
not pay twenty per cent on the dol
lar" said the other.
Thus these two former capitalist
funkies and bunk peddlers went on
for two long hours.
IL is the same story in every hotel
lobby whether | am in Iowa, Kansas,
Nebraska or Missouri.
Mines Get New Victims.
My friend at Melcher, Iowa, a coal
digger, tells me that "the new mine
is injuring men nearly every day"
This morning a miner was brot out
with his face horribly cut and his
body all bruised up from falling slate.
Just a few days ago a young man had
his arm cut off "clean." The slate
caught him with his arm across an
iron rail. Another man died of his
injuries last week. "They don't seem
to take much interest in keeping up
the miner these days." says my friend.
Too many miners. In some mines
there are waiting lists" equal to
those working-and this only applies
Of course to forty per cent of the
mines in the state as sixty per cent
OF them are idle.
Radio-Boy Soouts--Reds.
My comrade sitting at his supper
table, when boys are At home--sud-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
North Side Branch
Hears Negro Speaker;
Discussion Lively

At Monday nights meeting of the
North Side Branch a hearty discus
sion arose out of the splendid talk
Of Comrdae Phillips, speaker for the
Young Workers League, on the prob
lem of the Negro worker in the United
States.
The lecture, different from that
usually heard on this subject, proved
of unusual interest because of the
fundamental way in which Comrade
Phillips took up the subject.
mot by a social approach" de-
clared the speaker, NOR by patron
izing or uplift methods will we draw
the Negro into our ranks, where he
must be, instead Of outside of our
ranks and against us as he only too
often is. On the question of bread
and butter, in the shop and on the
job, the Negro can be recruited into
our party.
Reorganization of our party on the
)asis of the shop nuclei" the speaker
.dded, will mean not only a sudden
enthusiastic interest in the Negro, but
Of necessity an approach to this prob
lem by our party, based on careful
study and understanding
Discussion of shop conditions and
work in the shop thru the shop nuclei
will be our most effective means of
organizing the Negro into the ranks
of the militant working class"
Many questions were asked of the
speaker and the coming American
Negro Labor Congress received
large share of discussion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
From a Glass War Prisoner.

70 the DAILY WORKER: Some
time ago | wrote you to the effect
that l would contribute composition
from time to time in exchange for a
subscription to the DAILY WORKER
as that was the only way had of OBJ
tanning the only paper fighting the
workers battles. And want to thank
you and all the other comrades, who
may have assisted in bringing about
such an arrangement.
l received my first copy today, and
it is hardly necessary for me to say
that l enjoyed reading it. May the
DAILY WORKER always stand the
militant supporter of the downtrodden
and exploited. May she stand as a
symbol of loyalty, an inspiration for
the hard battle that the worker is
confronted with. And that the
DAILY WORKER will receive the
workers support in return, grow into
a larger organ and cover a larger
field is my one hope and desire.
Enclosed you will find a literal
copy Oh one or my lectures titled So
ciety vs.. Criminals which l am sub
hitting gratis to the DAILY WORK
Err for publication.
There is little have to say at this
time. There is only one message 1
wish to convey to those on the out
side, my comrades in the class strug-
gle, and that is: from the chaos of
prison, from a living gray hell sur
rounded by prison walls, send greet
ings to all who are fighting the battle
for freedom, and assure them that
while we may linger in the hell holes
of capitalism, we will pick up the fight
where we left it when we are released.
Wishing you success in any and all
of your endeavors thruout, the year
of 1925, l reman sincerely your COM
rade. San Quentin Prison, California.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
Large Bulg arian
Army Makes Balkan
Fascists Nervous

ATHENS, Greece, May 5-The gov
ernments of Greece, Roumania and
Jugo-Slavia have decided to combine
in a note to the Bulgarian govern
ment, calling that government at
tention to the promise made, that the
Bulgarian militia recruited to slaugh.
ter the Communists will be disbanded
before the end of May
These governments take the atti-
tude that 1t is proper to murder Com.
munists. But the fascists of Greece,
Roumania and Jugo-Slavia see a threat
to their own capitalist class in the
large Bulgarian army.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
MELLON WARNS
PLUTES' HEARTS
WITH TAX talk
Would Lower Burden on
Incomes Over 100000
Especial to The Daily worker)

JACKSON, Miss, May 5.-Secretary
of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, multi
millionaire aluminium king and rail-
road magnate, made another speech
here that warmed the hearts of the
country's financiers when he advocat-
ed drastic reduction on the income
surtax now levied on incomes of over
100000. 1t is a shame that these
poor fellows, with only few hundred
thousand dollars income, have to pay
tax to the government treasury,
Mellon said.
Mellon Kind to Himself
OF course, Mellon has not forced his
millionaire friends to pay this tax
anyway, a congressional investigation
having shown that he allowed the
steel trust, his own aluminium trust
and numerous other large corpora
tons to steal millions of dollars from
the government. But Mellon wants
to remove the embarrassment of being
charged every now and then with
crooked work, and wishes THE tax
on high incomes to be removed.
Mellon spoke also against the fed
eral estate tax. The members of the
Mississippi Bankers Association, to
whom Mellon spoke, applauded hearth
ly, all of them having high incomes
themselves.
Mellon Praises Traction Grafters.
In an interview in Chicago, Secre-
tary Mellon praised the public util-
tiles car Of the middle west, Samuel
insult, and urged support of his trac-
ton schemes. insult is now endeavor-
ing to have the Illinois legislature pass
the Barr bill, allowing him a perpe-
tual franchise on Chicago's streets.
Governor Small is backing the deal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
Stanley j. Clark
Speaks at Seattle
May 9th and 18th
tspeoIaI to The paiIy workerl

SEATTLE, Wash, May STANLEY
j. Clark, one of the best speakers on
the Pacific coast, is scheduled for
two meetings early in May, the first
lecture is to be Dictatorship versus
Democracy" on May s, the other, on
May Is, to be upon Communism
versus Capitalism"
The lectures take place in Painters
Hall, Union Record Building, 1915
First avenue. Admission is free and
all are welcome. There are meetings
of similar nature every Friday night
in this hall.