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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
Senate Again
Changes Mind on
Muscles Shoals

WASHINGTON. D. c., Jan. a.
The senate today passed the bill of
Senator Norris, providing for the gov
eminent ownership of Muscles Shoals,
after having earlier in the day pass
ed the Jones bill, amending the I'm
derwood bill by postponing action on
Muscle Shoals until next December.
The Norris bill which was passed by
vote of 40 to SO, provides for the
operation of the $150,OO0,OO power
and nitrate project under direction of
federal corporation for the manu-
facture of nitrates and fertilizer.
Norris proposes to establish a fed
eral chemical corporation to develop
power at Muscle Shoals and to carry
on the manufacture. of nitrates for
sale to farmers. The Jones bill pro-
vided for a commission of three to
investigate ways of disposing of
Muscle Shoals and reporting back to
the senate in December.
The Underwood bill provided for
the sale of Muscle Shoals to private
interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
FARMERS PLEAD
VAINLY FOR AID
FROM COOLIDGE
No Relief Is Expected
From Congress

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan.
14.-The plan of President
Coolidge to quietly sidetrack all
legislation for relief of the farm
ers received a setback in the
senate when democrats and in
dependent republicans, many of
whom must cater to their rural
constituency, raised a plea for
farm relief legislation.
Senator Borah of Idaho, who recent.
ly aided Coolidge in defeating the pay
raise for postal employees, called for
Legislation to provide for immediate
relief for the farmers. Borah's action
will not cause any definite break with
the Coolidge administration, it is thot
here, as Coolidge understands thai
Borah must make grandstand play
for the benefit of his farmer support
ers in Idaho, even if his talk brings
no beneficial results to the farmers
Administration leaders are trying tc
prevent the calling of an extra session
Of congress to deal with farm relief
Coolidge made embarrassing promises
to the farmers in his recent election
campaign, and in order to save his
face, the bankers and industrial CAPT
talists who are in control of the ma
tional council of the farmers cooper.
alive marketing association have been
spreading propaganda that the farm
ers do not want government relief.
Former Governor Lowden of Illinois,
Barnard Baruch and other Wall Street
men are officers in this association
which in no way represents the voice
Of the farmers.
1.-THE voters were assured last No
vember that (le fundamentals of agri,
culture would be settled Immediately
to their full satisfaction" Senator
Swanson, democrat from Virginia
said in bringing the subject to the
attention of the senate. There ought
to be an extra session of congress to
provide relief for the farmers" Borah
added that further disaster threatens
the farmers unless congress provides
some basic remedies for poor market
ing facilities.
These senators, however admit pri
vately, when not talking to build their
political fences, that congress can d
nothing, even if Coolidge wanted to
to save the thousands of bankrupt
farmers in this country.
The only thing that will finally save
the farmers who are now destitute
will be when they are given the own
ership of their land and allowed to
participate in a workers and farmers
Soviet government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15

what Dewoif Hopper does.
AS for the rest OF the cast, they
were all very good except for Miss
Ethel Walker, who played Yum-Yum
Her acting is unconvincing, and her
voice harsh and unpleasant and not
always in tune.
George Shields as the Mikado was
a pleasantly bloodthirsty monarch
Poo-Bah, Lord High Everything Else
who was born sneering at persons 0,
lower rank than himself. was taken by
Herbert Waterous. Miss Ethel Clark
who played Pitti-Sing, Yum-Yum's
companion. was a delight to the eye
and the ear.
One fault the entire company has
only Hopper excepted. They can no.
sing English UNDERSTANDABLE. That Is
a great pity, because some OF the
cleverest verses in the language are
in Gilbert's lIbretto for THE Mikado.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS

Saturday, Jan. "a Seattle, Wash
Hall to be announced. Speaker, Nor
man H. Tallentire.
Sunday, Jan. IS.
st. Paul., MINI. Commonwealth
Hall, 435 Rice St. at ~. m. Speaker:
Earl Browder.
Minneapolis, MINI. Humboldt Gin
nish), Hall, 1917 Western Ave-, No.,
at 2 p. m,> Speaker: Earl Browder.
Grand Rapids, Mich, at $3.50 p. m.
Workmen's Circle Temple, S47 Mt.
Vernon Ave. Speaker to be an
nounced.
Hartford, Conn. Hall to be an
nounced. Speaker, Joseph Manley.
Detroit, Mich, at p. m, House of
the Masses, 2101 Gratiot Ave. Speak
er, Robert Minor.
Boston, Mass, at D. M, Scenic
Auditorium, IL Berkeley st. Speaker,
John ]. Ballam
Cleveland, ohio. Hall to be announc-
ed later. Speaker, Benjamin Gitlow
Los Angeles, CAL, at 2 p. M, Blanch-
ard Hall, 2S3 S. Broadway. Speaker
to be announced.
Easton, Pa, at 2 p. m, Lithuanian
(Bakers) Hall, N. 7th st., near North
ampton St. Speaker to be announced
DoweII, Ill.,, at p. M, Rex Theater,
Union Ave. Speaker to be announced.
Bridgeport, Conn.,, at p. M, Work
mems Circle Hail. S1O State st. Speak
er to be announced.
Akron, Ohio, at p. m, Zeigler Hall,
corner Voris and Miami SITS.
Superior, Wis.,, Workers Hall, cor
ner Tower and 9Th. Speaker to be
announced.
Tacoma, WASH, Hall to be announc-
ed. Speaker, Norman H. Tallentire.
Sunday, Feb. I.
New York, N. ", at 2 p. M, Madi-
son Square Garden. Speakers: Foster
and Ruthenberg.
New Haven, Conn. Hall to be an
nounced. Speaker, Joseph Marley.
Buffalo, N. ", at p. m, Labor Ly-
ceum, 376 William st. Speaker to be
announced.
Portland, Ore. Hall to be announc-
ed. Speaker, Stanley Clark.
Patronize our Advertisers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
The MouieS-An Industry

When the motion picture industry is mentioned
one is inclined TO think only of Hollywood and its
contributions to the first pages of the yellow press
Nevertheless, the production cost Of the industry
amounts paid out for labor and materials in max
ing pictures, reached a total of $S6,41S,470 last
year-an increase of ILL., per cent over 1921.
1t is evident from the above that there are great
numbers of workers exploited in this industry
altho the figures on profits are not given. Most
of them are unOrganized and are fed on romance
rather than wages. Strikes not of frequent oc-
currence in the movie industry, but as standardized
ton and specialization make progress in line with
all industrial development in the United States
the romance will depart and the same sordidness
of all of capitalisms undertakings will show thru
the silver screen that hides from the movie
fans the exploitation of thousands of workers that
makes possible their pleasure.
We will soon begin to hear Of union and non
union films and read appeals from the workers
who, in the popular conception of the movie in
dustry, are supposed to feed on nectar and am
brosa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
DeWolf Hopper Company at Great
Northern Theater.
BY ALFRED v. FRANKENsTEIN.

That most astounding Of comedians
DeWolf Hopper, and his company
have hoped into the Great Northern
theater to give a series of revivals OF
more or less old time musical com
edies.
They opened last Sunday with "The
by William S. Gilbert anC
Arthur S. Sullivan. The story of this
operetta will not be sketched here. In
the first eplace II is too well known
and N the second | don't know what
II is myself. After two careful read.
ing of the libretto and painstalSing
attention TO what was going on on
the stage | still can't figure out how
the thing is untangled.
Old Man Ko.Ko, lord high execution
er in Titipu is engaged to marry his
ward Yum-Yum. She is in love with
Nanki-Poo. a strollIng trombonist, who
proves to be the mIkado's son. Nanki
Poo is supposedly executed by Ko-Ko
An element OF danger to Nanki-Poo Il
brot In the shape Of an elderly lady
Katisha, who is on his trail with mat
rimonial intentions. or all Of Gilbert
plots this is the most elaborate. mos
involved, and, while not the funniest
filed with that particularly sarcastic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
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burlesque on politics as they are play
ed in London or Washington or Der
lin, Of which Gilbert was a master.
Sullivan's score is, OF course, bright
and catchy and very English. Here
was man with happy genius for
light opera. Outside OF Onward
Christian Soldiers" and 1.-THE Lost
Chord" for which he is to be for
given, these operas to Gilbert's texts
arc the only compositions of his that
are played any more. Why this should
be It is difficult to explain. II one will
turn to the musical journals OF thirty
and forty years ago. one will find IA.
vorabl reviews OF a great deal OF
music OF diversified types by this man
Sullivan.
The work OF the cast centered en-.
tiroly around Hopper himself, who
played Ko-Ko. Exactly how old Hop
per is the press agent doesn't make
known, but he looks seventy or over
He seems TO have lost none OF his
vigor and youth. He has the same
terrible bass voice. the same squais
ing falsetto, the same drunkenness o
style. Imagine a man seventy years
OF age lying on his side on the pros
cenium. warming his hands at thu
footllghts. singing the famous foolisl
song THE Flowers That Bloom II
the Spring" in that position. and, a
the end rolling of the stagel That
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
HOLIDAY GREETINGS
FROM LOWER DEPTHS
OF FRISCO, CALF.

SAN FRANclsco.-The merry
holiday season in San Francisco is
over. A girl drowned herself be-
cause she faced Christmas without
funds or home; a man shot himself
because he could not get job. A
convict serving a Jail sentence for a
petty offense was refused permits
sion to attend his baby's funeral;
weII-known gambler serving time for
bootIegging was given leave Of alb
senee from the same jail to enjoy
Christmas dinner with his family.
The usual New Year entertainment
at San Quentin penitentiary was
held without the $50 Negro prison.
ers, who were kept in their cells all
day because two of them had a quar-
rel in the dining hall and the new
warden thought an example must be
set. The week was marked by the
coolest spef1 of the season, and the
jobIess men on the skid-road-How-
ard ST., the employment office dis
triet-enjoyed chilly, dinnerless
Christmas and New Years. A dry
agent was killed while on a booze
party. Several denominations an
nounce the beginning of a special
week of prayer. The new year has
begun.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15

The party has decided to devote one whole page
weekly to the work of the Trade Union Educational
League and the activities of the militants in the
trade union movement of the United States. This
is very important innovation in developing the
industrial work of our party, and the Communists
active in the economic organizations of the work
ers should assist in making the proposed page the
Invest department of the DAILY WORKER and a
powerful stimulant to our Industrial activities.
What we want for this page is news of the class
struggle, Strikes lockouts stories of left wing
battles with the reactionaries elections in unions
everything that deals with the struggle of the
workers in the industries
As our industrial director, COmrade Foster
points out the success of this innovation will be
tribute to the efficiency of our young organization
on the industrial field. The appeal to participate
in making this page success is directed to every
reader of this paper and particularly to active
leaders of the Trade Union Educational League
All material intended for our special page should
be sent directly to the national office of the r. IT,
e. L., lib West Washington Blvd, Chicago, ILL.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
Cracking the Lands Award

The Lands award, touted by the open shoppers
as the harbinger of peace in the Chicago building
industry has tied up the work on nine school
buildings. The school board has let contracts for
glass work to firm employing scabs and the in
evitable result has been strike by the Glaciers
Union.
The contracting firm in question, William HALLS
ana company, has broken its agreement with the
uiaziers' Union to employ no Lands award scabs
and there will be no glass work done until the
agreement is lived up to-.
The strike comes shortly after the glowing re.
view of the work Of the scab Lands award board
Tor the past year, prepared by its secretary, and
shows that contrary to the boast made that the
building trades unions had been whipped into line.
there is still considerable fight left in them and
that only the traitorous conduct of some union Of
icials has made it possible for the Lands award
to be factor of any strength whatever in Chicago
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
War Vet Pleads Insanity.

George Shaw, war veteran who kill
er his father, Bruce Shaw. with sa-
Der, in quarrel at their Oak Park
home on the night of December ID,
was arraigned in criminal court today
and pleaded mot guilty" His attor-
new, Robert e. Cantwell, is expected
to present petition for an insanity
hearing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15

Herbert Hoover, our wellknown secretary of
commerce, has had another brainstorm. He claims
to have found a method Of lowering the high cost
Of living without reducing either wages profits.
We venture the prediction that he will revise his
plan to allow for the reduction of wages but that
profits will be let severely alone to soar to new
heights in company with the aforesaid h. C. l.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
Railroads Put II Over on Law.

WASHINGTON, Jan. IA. = The
great railroad mergers being carried
out by the Van Sweringen brothers
are illegal under strict interpreta-
ton of the Esch-Cummins Transports
ton act, Ben B. Cain, counsel for the
American Short Line Railroad asso-
citation charged today before the SEN
ate interstate commerce commission.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15

banker in Bloomington, Illinois, was fooled
by two robbers into believing they were bank
examiners He should be expelled from the bankers
union at once under the bylaw which provides
that bankers are to do all the fooling
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
NO JAIL FOR CALLING SCAB
Especial to The Daily Worker,


TOLEDO JAM t4chare printer
spend two days jail for accusing kcbakes
OF being The
Nine other Of
nenty restrained
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
Davis Keeps His Job,
Leaving John L. Lewis
Holding the Big Bag

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-James ].
Davis, secretary of labor, has with
drawn his tentative resignation, sub
mitted some time ago, and will re-
main in the cabinet, it was announc-
ed at the White House today.
simultaneously with this announce
ment it was stated that President
Coolidge expected no other cabinet
changes"
Skeptical observers, however, re-
called that the same announcement
was made only few days before Sec
rotary Hughes resigned and Attorney
General Stone was named for the SUI
preme court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15

The expectation of monkeys from India for the
gland trade in Europe comedies with the frantic
ehorts OF European capitalism to restore its virility
by the injection of such desperate remedy as the
Dawes plan into its rapidly hardening arteries
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
Bronx, New York, Attention.

Class In A. 3. C. Of Communism
every Tuesday night at 1347 Boston
Road. DIR. ]. Stamler, instructor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
FOSTERS Vote
IN west SHOWS
PARTY grows
Communist Strength in.
Agrarian Districts
Especial to The Daily workerY

OMAHA, Nebr., Jan. IA
The vote for the Workers Party
candidates, as recorded by
counties, shows a surprising
Communist strength in the in
dustrial centers of the state.
Dubuque, where we have not
single party member, heads
the list with 668 votes. Next
comes Polk County (Des
Moines) with 513 and Webster
County (Fort Dodge) with 430.
Votes in other industrial centers is
given as follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15

"ln Memoriam--Lenin" to be shown
TONIGHT at Gartner's Theater.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15

Send in that new sub todayl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15

"Polikushka' Is coming to certner's
independent Theater, TONIGHT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15

Patronize our Advertisers.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
PROHIBITION BLAMED
FOR HASTY WEDDINGS
New York Legislator Sees Dry Law
and Vice Crusade Causing Ill
Advised Marriages.
By the Associate Press.


NEW YORK, March 11-Prohibition
and vice crusades were blamed yes
terday by State Senator Benjamin
Antin for the many under-age and
hasty marriages which a Bronx grand
jury is investigating.
The Senator and Mary E. Richmond
director of the Russell Sage Founda-
tion, were principal witnesses be-
fore the jury, which is seeking suf-
ment to Supreme Court Justice Tier
ney, suggesting remedies.
Four girl brides were among others
District Attorney Mcclellan, who tes-
titled yesterday.
prohibition has caused, a loosen
ing of moral standards among young
people" Mr.. Antin said after he left
the jury room. The success of vice
crusades has forced many men of
low types into civil marriage con-
tracts which they did not intend to
continue"
Senator Antin is author of two bills
now pending before the State Legis-
lature. One would prevent minors
from marrying without the permis-
sion of a court of record. The sec
ond would compel a five-day lapse
between the application for and the
issuance of a marriage license.
Miss Richmond said that she had
placed before the grand jury some
of the evidence gathered by the Rus
sell Sage Foundation in New York
State.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
DAVIS CALLS PARLEY
ON IMMIGRATION LAW
Officials of Bureau to Formulate
Policy Based Upon Legislation
Affecting Borders.

Secretary Davis has called a con-
ference of immigration officials to dis
cuss the formulation of a general
policy based upon late legislation,
particularly with a view to closing
the gaps in the Mexican and Canadian
border patrols. The meeting will be
held here during the Summer.
Announcing the plan today, the
Secretary said. while the border
patrols and the general immigra-
tion service are now at a higher point
of efficiency than they have ever been
before, further efforts to improve
upon them will be made.
Smuggling, at the Canadian and
Mexican borders, he said, has been
materially reduced, but it is to stop
the comparatively few leaks that now
exist that he seeks the advice of
those more intimately in touch with
the situation.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
Regular 81. .25 and Sl.5O Curtains

Marque Curtains, by the plain white with hemsitched
and plaid effects with rud edges ~ yards long Also
window, White and
al of designs
Goldserxs- -rourhF Floor.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
DRY BILL WINS.
Measure Passes New York House
After Bitter Debate.

ALBANY, March 1.-THE Jenks
bill, which seeks to re-enact a State
prohibition enforcement measure in
New York, won its first battle in the
Legislature yesterday when the as
sembly, after long and bitter debate,
passed it by vote of S3 to 81. Eleven
Republicans aligned thems selves with
all the Democrats present in voting
against the measure. The bill now
goes to the Senate.
Gov. Smith, it is generally believed,
will veto the bill If it passes In the
Senate unless sufficient appropri-
atoms to enforce il are also passed.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
URGES CURB ON RADIO.
De Forest Regrets Use for Adver-
Using Schemes.

NEW YORK, March 11.-Govern-
ment censorship of radio to curb the
activities of those who seek to COM
mercialize it through advertising was
urged by DIR. Lee De Forest IN an
address at the Harvard Club last
night.
DR.. De Forest condemned as trash
many of the "advertising programs
sent out by radio stations.
Radio is not a legitimate medium
for advertising" he declared.
Radio advertising rates, he said,
ran as high as $3.50 a minute at
one New York station, while a hook
up of several stations cost s1,750 an
hour.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
WOULD FREE FUNERALS.

STOCKHOLM, March lin an ef-
fort to work toward the ideal of COM
plete religious liberty the social demo
cratic government has secured the pas
sage by both chambers of the Riksdag
of its dill permitting the civil funeral
rites. Civil marriages have long been
established in Sweden, but the state
church authorities had retained their
right to conduct burial ceremonies. Be
fore the law becomes valid, however, 1t
must obtain the sanction of the state
church convention.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
TIGHTER DRY LAW
FIGHT IS RESUMED
House Subcommittee 0p-
poses Heavier Alcoholic
Content.

Enactment by the next Congress of
legislation imposing heavier penalties
for vioIators of the prohibition law
and opposing any increase above one
half of one per cent in the alcoholic
content of beverages is urged In a re-
port made public last night by sub
committee of the House committee on
alcoholic liquor traffic.
The subcommittee expressed the
opinion that "to increase the alcoholic
content, but not to point where 1t
would become intoxicating in fact,
would not satisfy those who demand
alcoholic stimulants and would great
ly increase the difficulties of law en-
forcement."
Amendment of existing law to fix
a minimum fine and mandatory prison
sentence for first offenses for manu-
facture and sale of alcoholic liquor,
and increasing fine for transportation
and possession of liquors, was recon-
mended.
The subcommittee, which was head
ed by Representative Hudson, Repub-
lican, Michigan, also proposed estab-
lishment of prohibition agency sep
arate from any other bureau, that
prohibition agents be selected under
civil service, that the Government buy
all DOnQeG liquors IN government
warehouses, and that appropriations
for prohibition enforcement be suf-
ficient to place an adequate number
of agents in areas where enforcement
is difficult
Sees DihicuIties Magnif1ed.
The problem of enforcement, the
report said. is not as great as many
sources antagonistic to prohibition
would infer The difficulties have
been magnified, while the benefits
have been taken for granted, it stated,
adding that there is no evidence to
justify any hope that the eighteenth
amendment will be repealed"
Enumerating results of prohibition,
which the report said were secured
with inadequate organization and law
enforcement machinery" it listed re-
ductions in violent crimes. a decrease
in the number of paupers, an increase
in thrift, improvement of the realty
market, a lower death rate, improve
ment of the general health of the Ma
tfon and a decrease in insanity
The total number of arrests in
most cities shows a considerable in
crease over preceding years." it said,
but violation of automobile or traffic
laws, sanitary regulations, school
laws and other minor ordinances
make up the larger proportion or
these arrests"
Evening star., 1925-03-11

Chiffon Wolfe, fine two-ply quail
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25c Pajama Checks, 18c
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Zoe Longcloth, 15c
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39c Batiste, 25c
36-inch Batiste, white and
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Evening star., 1925-03-11
N1R!@Ise 5MthElool-
surprises There-Cet Your Share

Clever new Spring models in
Oliver Twist styles, pretty COM
bination colorings; all fast col
ors; sizes to years.
Surprise Fifth Floor
Evening star., 1925-03-11

Got a red pencil, dad?'
Il think l have a red pencil, my
boy. What do you want it for?'
II want to write a threatenin' let
ter to Santa Claus"