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The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-03-25
estate RIVERS
PACT UP IN UTAH
UTAH WATER STORAGE COM
MISSION is BEHIND
MOVEMENT
Bill introduced in Senate Preliminary
Step to Colorado Adjudi-
cation Without Arizona
As Party

Salt Lake.-Utah will become
party to a six-state compact for tn,
equitable distribution of the water,
Of the Colorado river if bill intro
| duced in the state senate by Sena
tor Robinson, at the request Of the
Utah water storage commission, be
comes a law. The bill would have
the river treaty become effective up
on approval by six states and is the
outgrowth of Arizona's delay in act
ing upon the seven-state compact
drawn at Santa Fe more than two
years ago. Arizona is the only state
to fail so far to ratify the seven-state
compact.
There are, 1t is said several meas
ures pending before the Arizona leg
islature with regard to the river
agreement. One of these would re-
ject the compact A second would
appropriate 100000 for thorough
investigation. A third would adopt
the pact with amendments, fourth
would ratify without change, and a
fifth seeks to break up the seven
state alliance and form three-state
compact between Arizona, California
and Nevada.
At a recent conference In the Of
flee Of Governor George H. Dern and
attended, among others, by William
X. Wallace, chairman of the water
storage commission, ]. Reuben Clark,
member of the commission; Dr. John
A. Widtsoe, who was associated with
the Utah representation at the Santa
Pc conference; President A. b. IT.
vine, of the state senate; Speaker |
William E. McKell, of the house of |
representatives and DELPHI Carpenter,
Iolorado's representative at Santa
&c, 1t was decided to bring out the
ix-state compact measure. A sim.
lar bill is now before committee
Il the Colorado state senate.
The measure would provide that
pom enactment, certified copies of
he Utah bill be forwarded by Gov
rnor Dern to the president of the
United States, the secretary of state
Dr. the United States and the COVER
ors of each of the other states in the
riginal seven-state treaty. Arizona,
olorado, California, New Mexico,
'yoming and Nevada.
In this way, it is believed, difficult
es, encountered, by Arizonas stand
the question would be averted and
lie six states willing to abide the
scision at Santa Fe will be able
proceed with the adjudication of
e stream and to delayed develop 8
ent, should the necessary congress r
onal sanction follow the six-state a
LITIGATION. I
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-03-25
Alaska Aaain Sees Smoke

Seward, Alaska.-The Valley of
Ten Thousand Smokes, an area of
balmy summer climate in the heart
OF frozen Alaska, was reported &C.
tive by Roy Gilley, explorer and
guide, who has arrived here. This
district, which is fifty miles wide, was
formed when Mount Katmai, a vol
cano, exploded, forming a myriad of
hot orifices in the earth. These open
ings continue to form in large num-
bers in the valley. During his re-
cent trip Gilley found a spring with
water close to boiling temperature.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-03-25
Salt Lake Has bakery Fire

Salt Lake.-Between 100000 and
$4,000 damage, most of which was
to large stock of flour, Is the esti.
mated loss resulting from a fire in
the second story OF the bread Dak.
ing department of the Royal Baking
company, 232 South Main street Cap
tain A. L. Thorstrum of No. nre
station suffered deep laceration on
the face when he was strick by a
fragment Of glass from falling SKY.
light. The captain WAS treated in the
emergency hospital
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-03-25
Orange Show Opens

San Bernardino, Cal.-The Fifteenth
National Orange show has opened
here. This year the citrus exposition
which has been one Of southern Cal
ifornfa's greatest tourist attractions
for the past fourteen years, will be
staged in permanent exposition
building which has just been COM
pleted at cost OF $15O,OO0.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-03-25
Shortest Poem

ONOTte1I TOcH1
The shortest poem In the English
language, so far as we know, Is en-
titled ''The Origin of Microbes" The
poem Is as follows: adam had EN-"
Pathfinder Magazine.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-03-25
Ezra Meeker to Join Show

Seattle, Wash.--Ezra Meeker, 81,
Oregon trail blazer and pioneer Of
Washington, announced here he had
signed an agreement with ]. C. Mil
Ter, former proprietor of wild west
show, to join a new travelling wild
west company scheduled to leave Ok.
lahoma City April % for a tour of the
United States and Canada.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-03-25
GENERAL

DIR. Francis Peabody said that
James M. Rolph, son of the mayor
Of San Francisco, whom he has been
attending at the City hospital at
Boston, Mass. for four months was
progressing favorably after his recu-
peration from two recent relapses.
he added that at no time had he been
IN doubt as to the diagnosis Of the
Illness rs a severe one of typhoid fe-
yer, and expressed the opinion that
there was little doubt as to Rolph's
ultimate recovery.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-03-25
Lorry Crash Is Serious

Bombay.-Twenty-six persons were
killed and 15 badly injured when a
motor lorry, carrying wedding par
ty toppled over an incline from a
dark and narrow road, says a dis
patch from Indore
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-03-25

Foolish ideas prosper for years.
Sometimes, II takes later generation
to explode them.
The daily worker., 1925-01-23
HUGHES PASSING
Me- ANS RELATIONS
With SOVIETS
Sen. Borah's Influence Is
Seemingly Growing

WASHINGTON-While Col. George
Harvey, Sen. Hiram Johnson and
Chairman Borah Of the senate foreign
relations committee are opening
another technical dispute with Secre-
tary Hughes and Ambassador kellogg
over the agreement signed in Paris for
division Of the payments which Ger
many may make. the consequence of
the Paris incident is the STRENGTHENING
of the hand Of Borah in dealing with
American foreign policy.
1t is not too much to say that the
foreign policy Of the United States has
passed from the autocratic control of
Hughes to the dominant direction of
the Idaho senator Russian recogni-
iton, is on the way.
The corner was turned when Hughes
resigned. That there would be no
return to the Hughes attitude was
made clear by the storm Of criticism
which met the last act Of Hughes
European program-the signing of the
reparations allotment pact in Paris
Whatever the outcome Of this dispute
public sentiment is preparing to well
come a wide swing away from Hughes
in our foreign policy. Borah, the new
leader of public opinion on foreign
affairs, will be ready, after March 4,
to take up with Coolidge the framing
of program of action.
Whether recognition will be direct
through discussions between the
American and Russian diplomats in
London, Paris or Berlin, or will come
after special commission shall have
studied and reported to Coolidge. is
not yet being considered. Borah
wants direct recognition, based on the
right of any people to have what tyne
of government they may choose. The
commission idea is promoted by
diplomats in Washington as a rear
guard action. Borah would accept 1t
as better than no action, but thinks it
waste of time.
The daily worker., 1925-01-23
Bankers Dictate Own
Traction Terms to
City; Dever Quiet

The bankers controlling the stock of
Chicago's traction lines will deliver
their ultimatum to the city of Chicago
this afternoon, when they tell the city
council whether or not they will con-
cede the city control of the street car
properties when half the debt is paid
the bankers by the city.
The bankers insist upon a control
ling voice in the operation of the
lines until the last cent has been paid
by the city, Silas Strawn, attorney for
the traction lines, told the city council
on Monday. A final answer will be
given the city today.
No thot has been expressed in the
city council it seems, that the city has
the right to confiscate the traction
franchises and dictate the terms of the
people of Chicago to the bankers. The
candidates for aldermen running on
the Workers (Communist) Party
platform, demand, on the other hand
that all public utilities be Immediately
taken over by the city and run not for
profit, but for the use of the people of
Chicago.
The daily worker., 1925-01-23

Amter and GitIow Speak
The Communist message together
with Communist activity will now
penetrate the many workers who toll
the early hours Of the morning in the
pleasure palaces of New York's gay
white way while the dollars wrung
from the sweat and toll of the work
ers is being squandered.
The party members took up the
work of organizing themselves into
a shop nucleus with enthusiasm. After
they had elected an organizer, sec
retary and financial secretary they
listened with interest to a short
talk that Comrade Israel Amter gave
them on the activities of the shop nue.
lei in the Soviet Union and in Ger
many.
Comrade Ben Gitlow who is carry
ing on the work of organizing the par
ty shop nuclei stated that the organ
ization of the shop nucleus is only a
start. He said that the work will con-
tinue in a systematic manner. He ex-
planned how the D. e. c. had adopted
plans for campaign of work that
would lead to the reorganization of
the whole district on the basis Of shop
nuclei.
When the meeting was over the
workers returned to work greatly
pleased with what had been accomp-
lished. They stated that they would
make the Communist shop nucleus the
center Of all activities in the interests
of the workers in that restaurant. The
organizer said "By our activities in
behalf of the workers not only do we
expect to make the shop nucleus the
center Of fighting shop committee in
cluding the most militant workers in
the shop but also to draw many of
these into the Communist Party by
making them members Of our Com.
munist shop nucleus"
The daily worker., 1925-01-23
CONTINUED from page u

AIOlA page
ences Of opinion and the personal con.
fcts which arise from prejudice and
passion. Meantime the more vital
truths Of the spirit, upon which we
are all willing to agree, tend to be
forgotten.
"The rulers Of the greatest Of Euro
pean nations have proclaimed atheism
as the doctrine Of the state and are
urging it upon their millions of peo-
pie with vast propaganda. In our
own country materialism grows
strong.
"A nation cannot live without nobler
ideals than mere material prosperity.
It's people must have beliefs. They
must have aims beyond mere security
or comfort or luxury. Without faith
a nation is sure to die.
"It is not enuf that truth be de.
clared and then left to be taken for
granted. Men forget. Truth must be
continually redeclared and kept in the
mind If it is to be maintained as a
living force. Words are feeble in.
struments to affect the human mind
and heart"
Nicholas Murray Butler warbled
forth the following and lot more of
the same lofty nature, which most. of
the audience seemed to believe wat
true:
New York, the great burden-bearer
Of the western world, toiling while
others sleep that it may render ser.
vice to the poor and unfortunate, to
those ravaged by fire, by famine or
by flood, and to those whose noble as
pirations far outrun their unaided ca.
pacity to achieve, and which strives
year in and year out to mold into hon.
orable and serviceable American citi.
zenship the myriads from all lands
speaking many tongues and have
come to Americas shores to the gate
way to New York, is now laying the
foundations Of its lasting fame"
Realizing that no big capitalist coup
can be quite artistic without a labor
faker, the bishop had provided for
this by introducing Hugh Frayne, gen.
The daily worker., 1925-01-23
Bechtold and
Kosten Speak at
Lenin Meeting
Especial to The Daily wOrksr)

especial TO The Daily Worker)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Jan. 21-
The local Workers Party has just
completed plans for an effective Lenin
Memorial meeting to be held Sunday,
JAM 25th-2:30 p M. at the Work
mems Circle Temple, 347 Mt. Vernon
Ave. N. w.
The principal speakers for that event
are both from the local ranks.
Comrade h. A. Kosten, for many years
an active participant in the revo-
lutionary and general labor movement
will depict the class struggle Of
present day America, while Comrade
Engene Bechtold, general organizer of
the local W. p. will speak on Lenin
and the Communist International.
Among other features the program
consists of revolutionary songs sung
by the childrens group and the Y. w.
l.. recently formed. Comrade Jacob
Korf will preside over the meeting.
A committee will be on hand to
manage the Lenin enrolment for
membership in the Workers Party and
Young Workers League and to make
this the chief center of interest for
the day.
The daily worker., 1925-01-23
.REICHSTAG HEARS
COMMUNIST CRIES
AGAINST KAISER
Expose L nth er an d
Dawes Plan
tspeoIaI q The oaIIy Worksrl

Especial to The Daily Worker)
BERLIN, Jan. 21.-one of the most
comical scenes in the history of the
German republic occurred when Presi.
dent Loebe of the reichstag read the
chancellor's cabinet list.
AS the president paused to empha-
size each name the Communists
shouted an insult Thus the parlia-
mentary stenographers could list the
cabinet as follows: Foreign minister.
Stresemann, "turncoat"; minister of
the interior, Schiele, "monarchist";
minister Of economics, Neuhaus. ''re-
actionary"; minister OF food. Count
Won Kanitz, hunger minister: min
lister Of war; Gessler, traitor; min
lister of justice, Frenken, crook;
minister Of labor, Brauns, foolish
ness; minister of finance, Won Schlei-
ben, down with the monarchits,
down with men like him."
The hypocritical statement of
Chancellor Luther that his regime is
not so awfully reactionary because of
his first gesture of official action was
a restoration" of the eight-hour day
Of a few workers in certain indus.
tries, is laughed at by the Commun-
lists, who point out that reaction is
always willing to give economic con
cessions to block and divert the class
struggle for political power just as
they did IN the beginning of the 1918
revolution, giving way in industry to
the workers but keeping them out of
state power.
By this means the revolutionary
spirit which first existed was diverted
into practical channels. That is
when the workers OF. Germany got the
eight-hour day written into the con-
stitution. But after the revolution
spirit, the fighting spirit had subsidized
again, and the traitorous socialists
were left in full power in the govern
ment to do the wish Of the bour-
geoisie, then the employers compelled
the workers again to work 10, IL or
more hours, and had them shot down
by the government troops if they pro-
tested. So Luther's eight-hour hoax is
seen for what it is, a trap.
Furthermore, no government Of
Germany can make the workers be-
lieve that it stands for the workers
interests, so long as it approves of the
Dawes plan, as Luther has openly and
hagrantly stated that he was among
the leading fighters for this slave plan.
With 1000 Communists in prison.
with trials to come up at Leipsic on
Feb. IL, and the Dawes plan crush
ing German labor, the Communists
paint Luther as a monarchist hypo-
crite, and in the great demonstration
on Saturday q Communist impersonat.
ing Uncle Sam led a shackled Ger
man worker by a chain tru the
streets to show what the Dawes plan
means. $4,000 were in line, and ban
ners crying civil war against capi-
talists!" were faunted openly under
the noses Of the authorities.
The daily worker., 1925-01-23
Views of Our Readers

To the DAILY WORKER:-In the
state of LaFollette few months ago
at the T. B. Yeates factory, an open
shop, began to examine every new
coming employe, also every person
who was employed in the same shop.
A good number of employees got
6red last week because they happen
ed to hive one eye, either by ma.
ture or by accident, and some Of them
lost one eye in the same shop and. tho
they worked in the same shop for
over 5, 10 or Is years.
The reason for this Is, the employer
and the insurance company are afraid
that these workers might lose their
other eye by another accident and the
companies may be compelled to pay
compensation.
Today, as I write this letter, Fair.
banks. Morse C Co., another open
shop (they are all open shop in
Beloit), laid off about ESQ men, with
the fake promise that after New Years
there will be lots of work and they
will be called on the job.
All in the home state Of LaFollette.
Fraternally yours,
GUST PHILLIPS.
Patronize our advertisers.
The daily worker., 1925-01-23

10. Brownsville-Foster, 1874 Pit.
kin avenue.
IL. Boro Park. 74s, doth St., Brook
lyn.
12. Upper Downtown, 2Os East
18th st.
10. Williamsburg, No. 2. GA Gra,
ham Ave-, Brooklyn.
All the Groups meet Saturday af-
ternoon.
These are our Groups; see that all
working class children you know be-
come Juniors and members Of these
Groups.
Leaders Training Class.
As comrades interested in the work
are aware. we organized last spring
a class for Junior Leaders that has
already completed its first term. The
second term, however, was interrupt.
ed thru the establishment OF the
League Training School. This class
is now being reorganized and will
hold its first session OF the new term
on Thursday, Jan. 20 from 6 to
y. m. at 20S East 18th street, and
every other Thursday thereafter.
All comrades interested In Junior
work should come TO these classes.
All leaders must attend
The daily worker., 1925-01-23
Muscle Shoals Soon
Goes to Morgan's
Electric Trust

WASHINGTON, d. G. Jan. 21-The
Underwood Muscle Shoals Bill will be
permitted to slumber on speaker Gill
let's table in the house until the
senate decides on its program for the
cnference of the Joint senate and house
committee. Senate Republican leaders
failed to give the house assurances as
to its conferences on the bill, and the
house leaders decided they would not
"go where they could not breath their
legislative desides"
A report issued here by the national
catholic welfare council declares, "In
all probability some branch or affilia-
tion Of the General Electric company
will understake the operation of the
property" Coolidge and his hackers
are winking their eyes at the turning
of the s150,OOO,OOO plant over to the
Morgan power trust, and are taking
their time about it.
However, it is agreed by politicians
that the power trust is influential
enuf to push a bill thru the house
similar to the senate Underwood bill
turning the project over to them.
The daily worker., 1925-01-23
RUTHENBERG TO
Be RELEASED ON
Bail next Week
Labor Defense COmpIet-
ing Bail Arrangements

c. E. Ruthenberg, national
executive secretary of the
Workers (Communist) Party
will probably be released from
jackson, Mich, prison on Mon
day.
The $500 bail required by
Justice Louis Brandeis of the
U. S. supreme court, who issued
the order for a writ of super
sedeas releasing Comrade Ru-
thenberg, has been raised.
Yesterday George Maurer, secretary
Of the Labor Defense Council, was in
st. Joseph, Michigan, deposited the re-
naming $2,500.00 bail required, with
the court at st. Joseph, Mich, where
Comrade Ruthenberg was sentenced
to from to 10 years in prison for as
sembling with other Communists at
the Bridgeman convention.
The bail bond will then be taken to
Lansing, Michigan, where the attor-
ney general must sign it. The bail
bond must then go to Justice Louis
Brandeis at Washington. AS soon as
the bail bond is signed by Justice
Brandeis, 1t will be taken back to
Lansing and deposited with the Michi-
gan supreme court. Justice Brandeis
will then formally issue the writ and
Comrade Ruthenberg will be released
pending hearing before the q. s.
supreme court.
The daily worker., 1925-01-23
MILK WAGON
DRIVERS BOOST
BOSSES union
In Fact, They Strike to
Make Boss Join

The attempt of the Milk Wagon
Drivers Union to organize a so-called
Regular Fellowship Club" consisting
of milk dealers of the city and sub
urbs, may result in various strikes
this year, the North Shore Dairy com
pany said today.
The purpose behind the fellowship
club is to cut out competition among
milk firms and make a monopoly re-
tail and wholesale price. Soliciting
business from stores already buying
from one company is prohibited, ac-
cording to club regulations.
The Drivers Union kept the North
Shore drivers from distributing on
tehir routes yesterday until the firm
came to terms and paid $50 initia-
ton fee and two months dues to the
club.
Insist Bosses Must Organize.
The dues of the so-called club, it
was said, are so cents a month for
each retail delivery wagon and So a
month for each wholesale wagon.
Dairy owners said that spasmodic
strikes of drivers might be expected
unless the club fails because of in
ability to get majority Of the dairy
concerns on its rolls.
This is the latest idiocy of the Milk
Wagon Drivers Union, known as one
of the most reactionary bodies of the
whole labor movement At short
time ago the officials Of the union
were elected to hold their jobs for
life, and their salary raised, with per-
mission given so that they may go to
European resorts, to Florida or Calf
ornia and still draw their pay.
A Hard Question to Answer
Now they are trying to organize
their bosses. A member of the union
who disagrees with this class coIlabo-
ration program, says he does not know
which is the more foolish, the drivers
for trying to organize their bosses. or
the bosses who resist being organized.
The daily worker., 1925-01-23
Report on Junior
Work in New York
And Leaders Class

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-Comrades
our Children's Work is one OF our
most important branches Of work.
To carry It on successfully we need
your full support. Comrades, send
all children you know between the
ages of ten to fourteen to the Com.
munist Children's Groups--to the Jun
. ior Sections.
1. Bronx No 1-Karl Liebknecht,
1347 Boston Road.
2. Bronx No. 2-Rosa Luxemburg,
1347 Boston Road.
3. Harlem-Karl Marx, Ga II. 104th
ST.
4. Lower Bronx-535 II. 146 st.
s. Yorkville-350 East s1st ST.
Q. Downtown--John Reed, 105
Eldridge Street.
7. Williamsburg-Re Guard, $40
Grand st., Brooklyn.
s. Bath Beach--Lenin, 1910 Benson
avenue.
Q. coney Island-Young Guards.
men.
The daily worker., 1925-01-23
Lenln Meeting In Washington.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21-Arrange-
ments have been completed for the
Lenin memorial meeting to be held in
this city Sunday evening, Jan. 25 at tn
Play House. Comrade Macintosh will
be chairman and Comrade Oliver
Carlson, from Philadelphia, will b,
the speaker. A musical program hai
been arranged. circulars have beer
distributed and announcements will
be inserted in the local papers. A
large attendance is expected.