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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-14
BY ALFRED KNUDsoN.

gle at present is to be able. to pay
taxes and interest and even this, as
far as hundreds of thousands of farm
ers are concerned, has become impos-
sible. So-called prosperity periods"
do not benefit them in reality because
any "extra" money they may make
from an increase in the price of farm
products, is used to pay off debts and
the industrial products the farmers
have to buy are correspondingly high
er during boom periods. The capital
list system is so arranged that the ex-
plotted farmer gets only the crumbs
barely enough to exist on-while the
big slices are gobbled up by food
gamblers, bankers and trust compan-
les.
n WORD should be said about the
IA 1924 crop. The capitalist press
has heralded it all over the country
that the farmer now is on easy street
because he got good crop and a
good price last fall, and even now
with wheat lowering around the So
mark, the inference is that the farm
er is getting rich.
THERE are very few farmers who
| have been able to take advantage
Of the good crops and the good prices
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-14

also of our science and of the treas
ures Of past culture, which on the
whole have been preserved, and which
are kept alive, adjusting themselves
more and more to the tasks of our
revolutionary society. Perhaps by far
the most important of our victories
was the creation of a mighty wave of
worker and peasant students in the
labor colleges and universities. Never
theless we think that the pace of the
work should be and can be speeded
up.
DOTH central and local educational
ID grants are being steadily increased
and altho still insufficient, the re
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-14
The Myth of Rural Prosperity

and they are the best fixed ones, but
the overwhelming majority Of the ten
ant and mortgaged farmers had to
sell their crop about the time it was
ready for market in order to pay
pressing bills. It was the business
men and the bankers who benefited
most from the 1924 crop and not the
struggling farmers In North Dakota
so per cent of the wheat crop was
marketed and soldTbefore December i,
when the price ofswheat at the prim-
airy markets stood between $1.20 and
$3.50 per bushel.
THE tenant and mortgaged farmer
1 cannot beat the capitalist sys-
tenn. What must they do? There is
only one way out for them and that
is to ally themselves with the workers
in the industries in a revolutionary or
ganization for the complete abolition
of the whole capitalist system. They
should join the Workers Party, the
only revolutionary party in the United
States, and subscribe to the DAILY
WORKER and become real fighters in
the movement for the emancipation Of
their class. No time should be wasted
in clearing the decks for action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-14

ly on the various branches Of school
knowledge. The apparatus of popular
education was created, both as re-
CARDS staffs and methods.
Labor Colleges Greatest Achievement.
THE largest possible amount of work
| was done in the maintenance of
the educational front, and in the care
and training Of the children, under
trying conditions when this work
seemed exceptionally difficult. Politi-
cal education amongst other things
was brought into being, work which
hitherto hardly existed. At the same
time it ought not to be forgotten that
on our third front we had to take care
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-14

sources have been increased and en-
able us already to carry on normal
work. General attention has been at
tracted to the educational workers, to
the liquidation of illiteracy, to the viii
lage school, and in the first place to
politico-educationa work in the VIII
lagos. Everybody comedies the inn
portance. of bringing the vast back
ward masses into line with the van
guard. For this work we need first
of all the mass-worker, l. e., the teach
er. Vladimir Ilyitch had long since
said that the party could never rely
on general political and agronomical
education of the peasantry, if it failed
to put itself at the head Of an army of
four hundred thousand teachers, If it
failed to organize them into an appar-
atus which would work freely and en-
Enthusiastically. We have now drawn
near to such a contamination.
Teachers Respond to Communism.
INIHILE the Communist Party and
wv the Soviet government have
come to the conclusion that it is time
to get hold of this apparatus, that tits
time to direct the chief attention to
education work, particularly in the
villages; then on the other hand, there
has been a colossal change of heart
among the teachers themselves. All
trace of deliberate political opposition
or inertia among the teachers has dis
appeared as we'll as the political aloof-
ness Of the teacher in the past, for
which he himself was largely to
blame. The whole mass of the teach
ers has begun to feel the spirit Of the
new times as never before, having
conceived their new obligations and
rights bestowed on them by the Great
i've genius of the people.
THE teachers conference will be a
| parade of the Red Army Of educa-
ton. The representatives Of the mass
teachers will meet face to face with
the leaders Of the work on education,
and what is still more important, with
the leaders of the state and social life
of the Soviet Union.
This conference will mark import
/ ant stages in our onward move
ment. 1t will constitute an event not on
ly on the third front, but on the great
worldwide front Of the trade union
movement marching towards Com
munism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-14

XKTHAF the working farmers are
wv mainly interested in is how
their problems can be solved. They
know by actual experience that some
thing is wrong because no matter how
hard they work and how much they
try to save, it is impossible for them
to make both ends meet The very
conditions under which they are
forced to work and make living are
operating against them. The fact is
that today the working farmer
is beginning to realize that he
is butting his head against the stone
wall of the capitalist system, and as
long as this barrier stands in the way
it is utterly useless for him to expect
any relief.
TO do away with the capitalist sys-
/ tenn, then, Is the important task
for the working farmer, and it should
be clearly understood by all exploited
farmers that this cannot be accom-
plished by trying to purify, improve
or reform the present social order.
Only thru united action with the
workers in the industries and the
building Of real class government
by actual farmers and workers, will
the mortgaged and tenant farmers
ever be able to solve their problems.
NURING the last few years one mil
- lion farmers have lost their en-
tire lifetime savings and still great
er number have debts larger than
their resources. There are about six
and one-half million farmers in the
United States; three million are ten
ants and over one and one-half mil
lion are mortgaged farmers. The
mortgaged owner is often worse of
than the tenant because Of the taxes
and the interest he has to pay for the
privilege Of working his land. The
rapid increase in tenantry and the
mortgaged system will, in the no
distant future, almost completely abol
ish the fiction of farm ownership
in the United States.
TAXES have increased an average
of 1872 per cent from 1914 to 1872.
and the total farm debt has reached
the stupendous sum of IA billion dol
lars. Farmers generally have com
to the conclusion that their debt
never can be paid. Their main strue
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Proaress Was Gradual.

upon this subject.
Progress Was Gradual.
NET there were endless obstacles in
| the way of the realization Of our
extensive plans. Economic impoverish-
ment brought us into such straits that
we simply could not carry on any nor
NAL work. 1t was but gradually that we
achieved victory after victory, and re-
pulsing both our internal and external
enemies, we disposed of the more.
acutesforms Of distress and created
the political and economic postulates
for proper activity on the third front.
This, of course, does not mean to
say that the third front has thus far
been dormant, that there has been no
movement and no important achieve
ments.
I'M the contrary, great tasks have
Obeen performed on the third front,
a general political program has been
unfolded and adapted in a considerable
degree to the requirements Of life;
numerous teachers have been trained
and retrained, being thus equipped to
tackle real Communist educational
work, if not the whole mass Of the
teachers, at least some quite import
ant groups of them. New textbooks
were compiled and published copious-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-14
Hv A. LuNARcHARskY.

Peoples commissar of Education, IN
ion Of Socialist Soviet Republics.
THE first federal conference of the
| teachers of the U. S. S. R. repre-
sents without doubt an event OF ire
mendous significance. There never was
a time when the workers and peas
ants government failed to grasp the
whole import of the task of popular
edunation Adequate testimony to
this fact is furnished by the numerous
articles and speeches of our readers
upon this subject.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-14

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Evening star., 1925-10-26
CUESSES ON CITY'S POPULATION "
AVERAGE 10000 FOR CENSUS
Six Estimate Between AIS, 900 and 100000, TAX
ing Account of Postwar Departures and Getting
Back to Normal Conditons-Police to Count.

police census OF ashington was
ordered Saturday. and the compiled
ana averaged gueSses of half dozen
prominent Wa Washingtonians as to how
many folks the police will find indi-
cate that 1876 900 individuals are ready
70 he counted
The guesses were added up AS fol.
lows:
From DIR. Tindall. former secretary
of the board of Commissioners. recoc-
nized authority on local matters, now
in charge of research and informa-
tion bureau in the District Building
the following estimate was obtained:
Approximately $4,000 This takes
into account the dropping off of pop.
ulation during the postwar let-down
and the normal increa Sc"
From Engineer Commissioner J..
Franklin Bell came the following:
Approximately 500 .0OO. But these in
clude only those in the city | think
that in the territory surrounding
Washington and relying to a large
extent on Washington there are an
additional 100. .000"
Secretary Daniel Garges Of the
Board of Commissioners gave an esti-
mate which was almost the same as
the above. He said: Il would guess
about $4,000. l think it will just fall
short of the 100000 mark. but not far
enough to he keenly noticed"
Harry +. Almond batted for Com.
missioner Rudolph, TO whom he is sec
retary, in the absence OF the Commits.
sloner when the inquiring reporter
drifted around. His estimate wis:
Just around 4SO. 900" He wouldn't
make A detailed analysis of the method
Evening star., 1925-10-26

whereby he arrived a this figure. fol.
lowing his characteristic oracular r
mood.
DIR. j. y. kilroy. polio surgeon.
caught as he was going into the of.
flee of Chief Of Police Edwin Hesse
admitted he had good chance to
observe conditions in the city. since
he had customers in all sections and
some even in the outlying sections,
and he guessed exactly the same as
Harry Almond-4S0,OO0.
Now all these were pure guesses.
They average 1856 900 And that Is
what the next police census is likely
to show. The Census Bureau. how
ever. estimated that there were about
491 1.S06 in town on last July /, and
that AT normal rate more than
500 900 would be in town now. That's
a guess, too, founded on relative in
creases.
Turning from all these interviews.
the inQuiring reporter decided To ask
the oracle who outprediCted the
weather forecaSter several times last
Winter regarding the state Of Wash
inGton weather.
Therefore. shorty, nee Robert, Will
son. janitor on the seventh floor OF
The Evening Star Building was
sought and formally interviewed dur
ing Carpetlaying operations in The
Star library.
How many people do YOU think
there are in Washington. Shorty"
he was asked.
HIM. he remarked with profund.
ity. Il reckon bout 81 .On0, 900 or
"a. 900. 900
Evening star., 1925-10-26

In China wife is never seen by
her husband before marriage. In this
country some wives seldom see theil
hmsba ndS after marriage
Evening star., 1925-10-26
TODAY's ADJUSTMENTS.

Relasco-"Silence." melodrama, at
s:3o pm.
Poli's-"The Love Song" operetta
at SIS pm.
National-"Lady. Be Good" mu,
sical comedy, at $50 pm.
Keith's-Annette Kellerman, vaude-
vile, at 2:l5 and SIS pm.
EarIe-"Visions." vaudeville. con
tinuous from ! to IL pm.
Strand-"Dance Revue" vaudeville.
continuous from 1870 TO II pm.
Gayety-"Step On It" burlesque. at
2:15 and SIS pm.
Mutual-"Chick Chick" burlesque,
at 2:3O and $40 pm.
CoIumbia-"The Gold Rush" at
1o45 am. 1890. 2:20, 4:05, $50, 7:35
and $50 pm.
Palace-"Flower of Night" 1895
AM, 1915, 2:O5, 4.15, 6, 7.45 and $50
pm.
Rialto THE Phantom OF the
Opera" 1915. 1870 am, 1:30, $50,
5:25. 7:25 and $50 pm.
Metropolitan-"The Freshman" at
1875 am, 1:35, 3:35, 5:25, 7:35 and
9:45 pm.
Tivoli-"The Man Who Found Him
self" at 2:20, 4:O5, $50, 7:45 and 9:3a
pm.
Ambassador-''H Headlines, at 6:l5.
and $50 pm.
Central-"The Wizard of o. at
1890, 2, $50. ), $50, and $40 pm.
Train up your child in the way he
should go and keep IN the middle of
the same road yourself.
Evening star., 1925-10-26
S45O,OOO DONATED
TO HEBREW SCHOOL
Adolph S. Oehs Heads Committee
Raising $5.0OO.0 900 for Col
lege at Cincinnati.
Rv the Associated Press

Rv the Associated Press
CINCINNATI. Ohio. October 90
Contributions of N5o.ooo made hv
prominent Jews to a $1,000 900 endow-
ment fund for the Hebrew Union Col
lece here were announced yesterday
at the close of the colleges golden
jubilee celebration by the executive
board of the Union of American He
brew Congregations
The fund is being raised under the
leadership of Adolph :. Ochs. New
\ ork publisher. to extend the work
Evening star., 1925-10-26

of the college. which is a national
theological seminary.
Mr.. and Mrs. OchS headed the list
of contributors with gift of $500 600.
Donations of $50,0O0 each were made
by Felix Warburg, Samuel Untermyer.
Henry MorSenthau. Ludwig Vogel-
stein. chairman of the executive board
and Murry Gusgenheim of New York
a committee of seven will he named
to cooperate with Mr.. OchS in secur-
ing the remainder of the funds Mr..
Ochs announced that he had been as
sured by Judge Horace Stein of Phila !
delphia, that that city will contribute
$500, 900
Evening star., 1925-10-26
REAL ESTATE TAX
BILLS SOON READY
Distribution will Begin on
November 2-0wners Must
Ask for Thers.

Real estate tax bills for the current
fiscal year will he ready To he given
out at the District Building Monday.
November .. according to Assessor
William ?. Richards.
Personal tax bills will he mailed
out. as usual but real estate bills will
be mailed only To property owners
who make written request for their
bills
The first half Of the real estate and
personal tax for the fiscal year which
began July is payable during
November and Mr. Richards estimated
Yesterday that the collections next
month would aggregate somewhere
between s5.000.000 and S6.000.o00.
Lack Full Address List.
When taxes were being paid last
May the clerical force endeavored to
get the addresses of all property
owners with a view 10 inaucurating 4
policy of mailing all real estate bills
as well as personal tax bills. Mr..
Richards stated vest erday. however.
that his office has only about Is per
cent of the addresses of real estate
owners. He said he hoped to be able
to begin mailing all real estate bills
when the second half Of the tax be-
comes due next May.
According to the assessor. the prin-
cipal difficulty in compiling an ad-
dress list of property owners is the
constant change of ownership of
property He estimated that about
20 600 pieces of property change
ownership in year.
Owners Write for Bills.
Many property owners already have
made written request that their rea'
estate bills he mailed to them this
year Mr. Richards will not give out
any of the new tax bills. however,
until November. because. he said.
some persons are still paying the
overdue taxes of last May and the
distribution of the new bills during
the last week of this month would
cause some owners to confuse the new
bills with the payments still being
made on last years account.
The assessor is urging all property
owners to state the square and lot
number of their property, either in
writing or when applying personally
for bills.
ApproXimately $4,000 personal
property tax bills will be mailed in
November.
Evening star., 1925-10-26
FLOOD WATERS RECEDE.
Several Inches Drop Noted Over
Wide Missouri Area.

KENNEL. Mo. October 26 H).-
Flood water from the Narney and st.
Francis rivers in Dunklin County,
which covers about 900 acres of cot
ton and corn. fell several inches yes
terday. Farmers who have been in
spectiuS their property in boats, last
night announced first estimates plac-
ing damage at approximately 100000
probably will prove high. A thorough
survey in under way.
Evening star., 1925-10-26

10 9th II. NV. NJ. 9t5I
school OF high standing Can reach yol
the latest IN few private lessons Assembly
with orchestra Tuesday enInE. Sueciil
rates for ladies 90
Evening star., 1925-10-26

Train up your child in the way he
should go and keep In the middle of
the same road Yourself.
Evening star., 1925-10-26

Teach YOU To dance cor
rectly in \ few lessons
Strictly private any hour
Class and dance SATURDAY
evening with orchestra
m. FoXtrot. Tango. " IT.
1s
Evening star., 1925-10-26
LETTIE MARIE BARRETT
Spanish and Classic Dancing
CATHERINE BALE

MRS. MAE DAWSON STUDIO
1919 NJ 81. NV Nam l9:;2
Private or Class. Glasses Now Forming
Evening star., 1925-11-22

Joanna. that Is just what mean 1t
does interest me tremendously. Won't
you go on--about John? You straight
ened him out. / hope. and it's quite
all right now"
NO" Joanna replied, her voice
quavering d little. II didn't, and 1t
isn't. I'm afraid it's all crooked in
his mind
What are you going to do about
IT."
Just let it stay crooked. guess.
Crooked things that ought to be
straight must get that way by them
selves. ] think. If they have TO be
hammered out, they're only make
believe" She was silent for a min.
ute. then added 30 suddenly that
Graydon was sure she hoped to catch
him off his guard.
What would you do about It II
you were In my placer"
He smiled. THAT is one OF the very
things / mustn't advise you about.
But / shall want to know, very sim
cerely. when it begins to straighten
out-and see what happens then.
shall be interested in John
We'll, that's more than | am right
now" the girl retorted. She was
restless under the keen scrutiny with
which Graydon was suddenly observ-
ing her. She was still uncomfortable
when she said goodbye to him. She
had intended to ask him what part
in her affairs he thought Brandon
was to play. But she concluded that
she would have to find that out for
herself, too. 1t was then that she
resolved that perhaps Brandon could
show her the way to go as we'll
better, perhaps, than John.
tCopyrirht. 1925. H. L. Gates)
Continued in Tomorrow's Star)
Evening star., 1925-11-22

the effect that some people had their
crust. Things came back to her.
especially that she must send word TO
the store that she broke leg, or her
neck. and couldn't show up nt tho silk
counter until the next day. and that
Joanna was going to take her shop
ping. She blotted out her first re
mark with: 'Surest thing you know. .
And, in her own conception OF the
way people kept their affairs straight,
she added
III make the telephone in about
two minutes. What did you say
Johns number is?"
But Joanna decided she wouldn't
telephone to John. The hurt was too
lively. and bitter. She didn't even
want to ever hear from him again
Brandon had said she mustn't make
mistakes. That her perspective was
no longer that Of the shop girls
brandon, Who, and what. was he?
He must be mixed up in this strange
anair or hers in some way, but he
denied it. She didn't like him. Why?
She was afraid OF him. Why?
Wasn't 1t because she was afraid Of
him, OF his association with her un.
eXplainable good fortune, that she
didn't like him? He had been so
quick to begin his acquaintance with
her, and he frankly said he was going
to he devoted to her.
Yet Brandon had nothing to do with
her amended command to George
who had whistled her way into the
few clothes she habitually wore and
who was asking what she'd say to
John when she got him
Nothing" Joanna replied. tartly
Il don't want you to call him. Don't
be silly. l was only joking. Just
get the breakfast. Take u five-hun.
dred-dollar bill and tell me what deli
catessen men look like when they have
fits
Which Georgie gayly did Her re.
port was Historically satisfactory,
sobered only by the discovery that
she'd been Short-changed $40 ont of
the $50 bill she had finally given him.
Let him keep il. Joanna ordered
shortly. It'll he something TO remind
him of the next time he refuses you
credit
IF YOU get me those duds you've
promised me-" George returned, "I'n
never look at a delicatessen door
again. I'll get my herring and dill
Evening star., 1925-11-22


End
Evening star., 1925-11-22

George arrived. carly o'clock.
Her companion of the evening was
sufficiently equipped to supply Jo-
anna s unaccustomed need, and glad
of the excuse for lingering over his
dismissal. Joanna's s bitterness was
mellow, but far from banished. when
streak OF gray. stealing across the
court OF sordid back yards. warned the
two pajama-clad girls propped up in
Joanna's bed. that if they were to
have any sleep at all against the ex-
elements of the day to come they
must get between the covers and trust
to the housemaid to awaken them.
Many houses had been built. some OF
stone that were destined to stand for
ever. some of cards that would be
blown away.
With her awakening 10 the new
day-the first fun day of her new
estate. varying emotions rushed in
confusion into Joanna's s mind Her
first thought was of John. With 1t
came the surge of recollection of the
scene in the drawing room only"
She WINGED at the sudden memory.
she would get hold of him right away.
She wouldn't lose minute-before he
went to his work, She buried her
hand in the hair on the pillow beside
her. George had stubbornly shut