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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-14

meating scent all around and about:
"a scent of saffron and musk and san
dalwood; it was heavy, thick, almost
oppressive; it made him cough. There
had been an unearthly silence about
that place until then: Hankinson's
cough sounded like report Of a re-
volver let off in a vault. And when
it died away and silence fell once more,
Hankinson heard the shifting and
snuffling of a dog somewhere close by.
Then he remembered everything and
a cold sweat broke out all over him.
And at that moment flood Of light
was turned on, silently, and Hankin-
son, blinking upward, saw standing
at his side, a gigantic Chinaman, clad
III the costume of his own country,
who looked down upon him with an
expression which would have sat well
on the face of sphinx. This eXtraor-
binary vision SO frightened Hankinson
that he Immediately closed his eyes
and shut it out. Then he felt cool
ha nd laid on his forehead and heard a
voice Speaking in perfect English and
soft, mellifiuouS tones.
"How do you feel now" asked the
voice.
HANkINSON made SO bold as to
l. open his eyes again. He took
another, longer look at the China
man. The Chinaman wore spectacles,
and It was Impossible to see his eyes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-14

~ ENG a middle-aged bachelor
- is one of the most hazardous
careers in the world. Any
IL man who has placed his right
hand on a bachelor button
and vowed never to be a target for
hand-thrown rice is respectfully in
vited to consider the risks he runs.
According to DR.. Eugene l.. Fisk,
medical director of the Life Extension
Institute, single men over 80 have a
talent for dying that could almost be
| envied by Hindu infants. Their death
| rate, in fact, is over double that of
married men of the same age.
The findings of Prof. Walter F. Will
/ cox of Cornell University have shown
that the death rate of married men
| between 80 and 80 is So, while that
| for bachelors is 1873. From 40 to 40
bachelors die off at the rate Of 1873,
while the benedicts' figure Is only 9.5.
Even at the ripe age of 70 to IS the
| married man still has notable edge
on the vital statistics.
| Being of an analytical turn of mind,
DR.. Fisk Is not satisfied merely with
| waving a stethoscope in the general
direction of the figures. This fond
ness which bachelors show for riding
under purple ribboned Wreaths has
| been subjected to microscopic study,
and the results have not been flatter-
ing to the disciples of single blessed
| ness.
In the first place, says DIR. Fisk,
| most bachelors represent rejected
| goods on the matrimonial market
The class includes the mental, physi
cal and financial cripples-the men
| who can't make enough to support a
| wife or whose conversation is so Dor
! ing that a woman can't listen to 1t for
more than 10 minutes without emit
ting long and piercing shrieks for
| help.
| Naturally, no unmarried man Will
admit this, even to himself. He thinks
he is what he is because of the great
force Of his will power and his ability
to recognize q snare, no matter how
rosy its color or how dim the light.
AS matter Of fact, nearly every
young fellow faces 81 with the breezy
assertion that no baby carriage will
ever use him for motor power. Those
who don't change their minds are
largely the men whom no attractive
girl ever thought it worth her while
| to wage a campaign for.
| According to DIR. Fisk, one reason
why bachelors are such promising un.
dertakers' prospects is that they are
| without that great conserver OF
health-a naggiDg wife, The married
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-14

I til ne had walked on 20 the wharf
! deserted deSoIate, cold expauSe a.
I timber, on which there was no bus
( ness doing al that hour Of the eve
ming. There was u pale CLEAN of We
/ low from the window cf "a watersjIc
/ inn at the other end of the wharf. 4
! half-moon was far UP in the cloud,
| sky. here and there Il faint gas flame
! burned. In this poor light Hankinsor
/ suddenly saw the yellow dogs one
! eye-haleful, malevolent. II turned
| him hot ana cold. ana he could d.
/ nothing but stare at it.
/ lie saw nothing Of a boat putting
off from any vessel. Thereahout, in
/ deed. nothing Of any sort seemed -
| be doing. There was. III fact, no S!Cl
| of life on the wharf hut in his own
! and in the DOGS presence. And tn
| dog had sat down now and did moth
| ing but watch him. When The clouds
| cleared off the moon IIankinson saw
| the dogs one eye. and he cursed j,
! under his breath in plain CoCkney
/ English.
| 1t was in the midst of these NUT
tered curses that the two sinking fig
! ureS suddenly leaped ont on Hankiu
son as he passed the stack Of timber
| There was a flashing Of steel in the
/ moonlight and the soft silks in which
| Hankinson was maSquerading. lie
/ fell over on his back IS the knives
were Withdrawn and conyulsiVelv
/ twisted up AMI on to his side. He
( knew that blood was running from
| him like the spurts from a suddenly
| pricked wineskin, but his brain was
| clear enough yet, and he mechanically
SnatChed at his revolver and fired, left
and right. at the two figures which
/ We're drawing back from him. AnG
| as his own eyes began to glaze h
/ saw the two figures sway and fall
/ fall in the unmistakahIe fashion.
/ Hankinsun gasped as his heaa
! dropped: 'Got-em-bOth"'
| Then Hankinson died, and the Vel
low dog came near and looked a him
! Where you find the bodies Of three
| dead men living in the moonlight on i
! ThameS-side wharf. one of them al
! EnEHShman dressed IN Chinese garb
/ Two OF them Chinese men attired IL
| reaCh-me-down slup suits. the Eng.
J lishman stabbed, the Chinese shor
! the Englshman with a collection of
| paste diamonds on him. the Chinese
| with next to nothing, and all three
| watched by a miserable one-eyed
! yellow dog-you have all the element
| OF frSt-clasS mystery. There We're
| two OrlentalS in different places who
| could have solved that mystery. brTt
| your true Oriental knows how to keen
| a Stlll tongue, and the yellow doc
| unfortunately. was unable TO make
| humans comprehend him.
fCopyriEht 1891
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-14

OF the unmarried woman The truth
OF the matter Is that the spinster
adapts herself to single life with a
readiness that should draw green
tears OF envy from her bachelor
brother. Up to the age of As, she has
a mortality rate lower than that of
the married woman; during later life
her rate is somewhat higher but even
then the difference is so slight that
one would need magnifying glass TO
see 1t. Most spinsters have the knack
OF making snug little homes for them
selves, and usually they can render
culinary sonataS on the gas stove
Besides, spinsters are superior as
a class to the masculine discardS i'll
the bachelor group. Many splendid
women are left single through some
mere extraneouS circumstance
through little accident of facial ar
rangement, or by a fiuke of geog-
raphy that caused them to be brought
up IN a man-lacking neighborhood.
There are superior women who refuse
to compromise with their standards
by marrying the only kind of men
who happen to be accessible. A man
can roam the world In his search for a
wife, but the average woman's hunt
ing ground is almost as restricted as
city lot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-14

son was hidden to look in mirror,
and he looked and stared. II did not
aIuaZe him that he did not know him
self: what astonlShed him was that the
crattsman's cunning had transformed
him into the double of the other
Chinaman, The big man, with sly
smile. had twisted his compatrint
round so that he stood side by side
with Hankinson. facing the mirror
and Hankinson easped as he eaZed at
the two yellow faces.
"Whv-it's inn" he said.
The big Chinanan allowed himself
to laugh He put few finishing
touches TO his work, adjusted the cap
and false pigtail. finally produced "a
truly Chinese umbrella. And then he
gave Hankinson his Instructions He
was to make his way 10 a certain
wharf in the neighborhood of London
docks. There he would be met by a
boats crew and taken on board the
through the streets he was to preserve
a sober, grave demeanor-above
everything, he was not to hold con
verse with any one, especially a police
man. If anybody accosted him he
was TO smile hlandly and shake hts
head
Right. guv'nor"' said Hankinson.
/ N 0fl-lnG!n the word. Now them
sinners
The big man produced small bag.
Haukinson saw CLEANS of sparkling
fire. He made haste to stow it away
in the pocket wherein he had already
put his money. Then he gave the big
man q firm look
There's another thing" he said
I'm goin' amongst strange folks.
And I amt a-goin' wivout my revolt
Yer. Hand II over. gUv'nor. AS ii
was. mind"
The big Chinaman produced the re-
volver, showed Hankinson that it was
fully loaded. and calmly dropped It
into his own pocket.
Il will hand that to YOU in the
street" he said Il am going TO walk
little way with you. Now let us go"
x x
WITHOUT more ado he led Hank
W inson out of the house into the
night. And as they passed out the
younger Chinaman FASTENED to win
dow which commanded the way by
which they Went. He saw them pass
i'll and out Of The lights of the lamp,
and suddenly he saw a couple Of
vague. ShadoWy figures emerge from
dark place and steal after them. In
his eagerneSS and excitement to see
that part of the proceedings he threw
up the sash of the window and leaned
out. And in that instant the yellow
room, completed its days task of eat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-14
BY ELSIE MCCORMICK.

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-28
Presence of American
Troops and Gunboats
In China Denounced

SEATTLE, Oct. 26.-At meeting in
celebration of the 18th anniversary of
tho founding of the Republic of South
China under the late DR.. Sun Vat Sen
held by the Labor College here, a
resolution was adopted denouncing the
presence of American troops and gun
boats in China and calling for their
withdrawal.
Y. Y. Tsan, graduate student OF the
University Of Washington, in making
the principal address, declared that
the Cantonese forces would have over
come all opposition and established a
united and democratic republic in Chi
ma before this had IL not been for
the support furnished by the United
States, Great Britain, Japan, Italy and
other impcrIallst governments TO the
various partisan Chinese generals.
lie predicted that victory would
come to the revolutionary forces be.
cause they had the support of the
great mass Of the Chinese
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-28
WET-DRY ISSUE
FACES QUARTER
OF u. S. VOTERS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-Discard-
ing their reported indifference to
ward liquor referendums the drys
have opened a smashing ofensive 10
win in five states on November z.
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel
for the Anti-Saloon League Of Amer
lea, disclosed today.
The drys have named California.
Colorado, Montana, Nevada and Mn
souri, as their battle-ground. Wheeler
said. He declared prohibition forces
are making no fight IN New York.
Illinois and Wisconsin.
Nearly one-fourth of the voters Of
the country will face the wet and dry
question when they enter the voting
booth in the referendum states.
The drys favor holding Of a rafer-
endum in Missouri, Wheeler said. He
limited at the possibility Of court
action to force the question on cha
ballot.
The wet and dry fight Is particular
ly bitter in California and Colorado.
Repeal OF state enforcement laws
is proposed in California, Colorado
and Montana and this question is
included with others in Missouri.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-28
Officers of Ships in
Neptune Association
Kick at Low Sea Wage

NEW YORK, Oct. 2e.-sea wages
are too low to hold the skilled men.
Both Captain John F. Milliken, secre.
tary-treasurer of the Neptune Asso.
citation OF Masters, Mates and Pilots.
and Bert L. Todd, secretary-treasurer
of the ocean Association of Marine
Engineers, report that their members
are leaving the sea for shore jobs in
considerable numbers.
There Is some strike talk and within
a month the two unions are expected
either to call a strike or to advise
their members to leave the sea un.
less the companies consent to open
negotiations.
Shipping is relative good. The re-
ports OF the U. S. shipping board cite
an increase of 100000 tons more Of
waterborse United States commerce
for the second quarter of 1926 thar
in the nrst, or total OF 24,2s0, oOc
tons, as compared with 20,os0, 900 tons
An Increase Of 100000 tons Is reported
over the second quarter OF last year
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-28
AL SMITH STRIKEBREAKING GOVERNOR

A LFRED r. SMITH is the candidate
"A of Tammany Hall for governor Of
New York state He seeks to remain
in office by parading as the friend of
labor. He wants the support Of the
workers of the state because he pro-
claims himself labor man."
cloakmakers' Injunction.
The injunction against the cloak
makers, issued by the administration
henchman, Judge Guy, gives the lie
to the governors pretensions. That
vicious order against the 10000 strik-
ing cloakmakers Of New York City is
the blow aimed by Governor Smith in
revenge for their refusal to submit to
his shameful scheme to impose com
pulsory arbitration upon them.
THE Tammany Hall governor now
4 stands revealed as the open enemy
of labor, sanctioning the obnoxious
injunction weapon in an effort to aid
the employers fight against the thou
sands of strikers who are fighting
against the chaotic and enslaving con-
ditions of the women's garment in
dustry.
Governors Hand Seen.
The injunction is part of the
whole infamous scheme to reduce the
living standards Of the cloakmakers
and bring back the hideousness of
sweatshop labor. In this scheme the
governors commission played the
role of aids to the employers. This
commission gave moral support to the
bosses in their attempt to break the
union by rejecting the fundamental
demands Of the workers and trying
to befog the real issues.
n oVERNoR SMITH is the boss Of
OTammany Hall. He was responsible
for the selection Of the present mayor
and police commissioner OF the city
OF New York, who. in the present
strike, have caused wholesale arrests
on the merest technical pretexts in
order to bleed the treasury OF the
union, to intlmidate the workers and
break the strike thru terror.
Governor Smith, the boss Of the
democratic party, is responsible for
the establishment OF the present city
which aided the trac-
ton interests Of New York against the
traction workers who rebelled against
the vicious company union. His po-
lice commissioner and his mayor were
efficient tools in breaking the strike
of the traction slaves o. New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-28

While Ohio has been experiencing
so per cent decrease in tonnage out
put, non-union Kentucky, to the south.
has increased from $4,000 900 to So.
100000 while non-union West Virginia
has shot up from 90,000,OO0 to 1885,
100000. AS a result $4,000 Ohio min.
ers have been cut completely off the
payroll in two short years and another
$4,000 given less than FIVE days work
month. Average employment has
been 151 days, altho in Hooking Val
ley the average was but 100 days.
Governor Donahey, closely in touch
9th the coal situation, predicts that
production for 1925 will be cut to 81
100000 tons, the lowest in the present
century.
Probe Union Strength.
Ohio operators, checkmated in their
decision to open this fall ON the 1917
scale Of SIS a day by the iron wall de-
termination of the miners to save
their union, are seeking weak spots
in the union armor. Already sue
cessful in the Pomeroy district Of
southern Ohio and in the West Vir-
ginia panhandle-under Ohio jurisdic-
tion-they are probing union strength
in Hooking and Belmont fields.
]. A. Paisley, tri-state operator, who
defeld the union in the panhandle,
tried recently to open his Ohio mine
across the Ohio river from his scab
properties. Sub-district officers or
dered the union day men not to clean
up the mines until they had conferred
with Paisley at his Cleveland offices.
Hard hit by the failure of his non.
union panhandle mines to average
more than one-third of union produc-
ton, due to the employment of I'M
skilled coal diggers, Paisley offered
to pay the Jacksonville scale in Ohio.
Union officials made it plain that he
could not try the old game, worked
successfully in other districts. of OPP
Grating half his mines union and the
other half scab. The conference
broke up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-28
District of Columbia
Denies Trial by jury
Despite Old Decision

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.-Whether
police, courts in the District of Co
lumbia can continue to deny jury
trials to defendants who demand
them Is soon to be fought out in the
higher court and will probably go
to the federal supreme court. The
present case involves violation Of
traffic regulations, but back OF the
defense Is the sentiment of organized
labor, which repeatedly has been de-
MED jury trials in time OF strike.
Many years ago Charles A. Dana
OF the New York Sun was sued for IL
bel and an attempt was made to bring
him before a police judge IN the dis.
trict because copy OF the paper
containing the alleged libel was de-
livered in Washington. The federal
court refused to honor the writ is
sued for him, declaring that he could
not be made TO answer for libel in
the first instance unless given trial
before a jury. ~~
s Afterward the federal supreme
court decided IN a conspiracy case
that persons charged with that crime
are entitled to jury IN the district.
On still another occasion the local
Musicians Union fought out the issue
when charged with Illegally filming
some OF ats members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-28
DEMOCRACY IN
PA Seems TO
Be SHOP WORN
Election Campaign Liter
allure Leads to Jail
BY J. o. 5ENTALL.
peefai TO The Daily Workerl

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. 20
Bernard Morgenstern. member Of the
Young Workers League, was arrested
on a charge of Distribution OF Red
Literature" and held in $1,000 bail
by the police magistrate, who went
into rage using language that would
do credit to a gang OF hoodlums in
the underworld So this is DsmoarR-
ey7
The "Red Literature" consists OF
very innocent announcement OF the
big election campaign meeting SEIZED
uled for tonight, at which the speak
ers are G. z. Ruthenberg, general sec
rotary OF the Workers Party; A. ].
Carey, Workers Party candidate for
~. S. senate, and J. o. Bentau, or
ganizer District 9.
The reddest part OF the announce
ment is still a riddle unless It 10 the
headline, which reads: What Price
Senator Vare?" subheaded "$5 900, 900
Political Pot to Boil the Workers Of
Pennsylvania"
The police magistrate in question
is Ware fan, and he is sore ct any
reflection made against the chief elec.
ton thief Of this commonwealth.
The language OF the magistrate IN
committing Morgenstern to bail Is I'M
printable, so the readers must draw
upon their imagination and whatever
memory they may have of any pro-
fame conversation among crapshoot-
ers and horsetraders, whose vocabu-
larry Of the obscene, however, is nat
urally more limited than that OF the
dignified individual designated as 20
lice judge.
free country"-f
Only an hour after this episode in
the police court the government dis
covered that Benjamin Slegel was
selling Daily Worker certificates. He
was promptly arrested, but up to the
time Of sending this message no
charge has been preferred against
this DAILY WORKER hustler, so ms
simply decorates the jail till the cops
and the Ware crew invent one Of their
unholy pretexts on which a man in
free" country may be deprived OF
his liberty without any given reason
whatsoever.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-28
Eyes on Washington.

Governor Smith seeks to get into
the White House. He is showing the
bankers and industrial lords of the
country that he is a man after their
own hearts, who can be depended
upon to break strikes, suppress union
organization, impose fake arbitration
conditions, extend company unions
and keep workers in subsection to in
dustrial tyranny. Governor Smith
knows that Coolidge rode into the
White House on the record of his
strike-breaking activities in Boston
and he seeks to establish his claim to
be considered a rival for the presi-
dency by equalling the strikebreaking
record Of Coolidge.
THE democratic party, like the re-
l. publican party, is friend of CAPT
tai and an enemy OF labor. Both par
ties are responsible for injunctions,
suppression of free speech. denial OF
the right to picket, state constabulary
terror and all other devices used
against labor.
Workers Must Flight.
New York labor must clean the
strikebreakers out of office. Workers
on strike must not fear to use their
mass power and to take up the fight
with these strikebreaking ofiicehold-
ers.
The power Of labor is mighty
When united. labor can defeat in.
junction judges, strikebreaking gov
errors and their malicious schemes to
destroy organized labor thru breaking
strikes.
TN the present elections there should
L be united labor ticket in New
York to challenge the united capitalist
power. This the socialist party turned
down. Unity OF labor on the political
field can defeat the strikebreakers and
wipe out injunctions against strikers
and in general put a stop to the
strikebreaking activities OF the gov.
eminent.
Support and vote for the candidates
of the Workers (Communist) Party
who stand against injunctions, against
the strikebreaking officeholders, for
the unity OF labor and a labor party.
Support the solidarity and unity OF
labor. Defeat the open-shopper Mills.
Defeat the strfkebreaker Smith.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-28
CRISIS FORCING UNITED
STATES TOWARD RECOGNITION OF
SOVIET UNION TO GET A MARKET

ganizing a counter-offensive in which
they would revive the old anti-bolshe.
yik DOGGY.
Yet even If Russia does buy millions
of bales of American cotton in add
ton to the amount she can now
finance, the cotton growers of the
south are faced by a bad situation.
The market will apparently remain
lower than their production cost this
year. Acute suffering will be felt from
the Carolinas to Oklahoma and Texas
This will make easier the job of soviet
settlement and recognition.
Secretary of state Kellogg has in
structed the American consul in Can
ton to protest the laying of an addi-
tional tax on imports and exports
above the customs rates permitted by
the foreign powers-in those parts of
China controlled by the Canton ma
tional government.
Other powers have made similar
protest, but the new taxes are being
collected by the radical government
in its ports. Canton takes the posi-
ton that it is a sovereign Chinese gov
ernment with which the powers will
have to negotiate. Washington is be-
ginning to think it may.
Concealing its identity behind the
name of professional publicity agent,
a group of chemical warfare enthu-
siasts whose names are not disclosed
has begun an attack on the Geneva
protocol, now awaiting ratification by
the senate, abolishing the use Of poi
son gas in war. Inquiry by The Fed
Grated Press brought from the public
ity Office the statement that the Ameri-
can Association for Chemical Defense
is paying for this propaganda, and
that among its members are some
former officers of the Chemical War
fare Service, but the name of no officer
of the association was forthcoming.