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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-04
POLICE HEADS
SHIELD KILLERS
OF SHIP fireman
Threaten Witnesses with
Tortures

TAMPA, Fla, March 2-The corrupt
administration of Tampa is doing its
best to exonerate one of its members,
VI. M. Gullette, for the cold-blooded
murder of John Petijohn, fireman on
he Bull line freighter, Barbara. Gull
lette and number of other policemen
we're called aboard the Barbara by
Captain Williams who claimed that
the Sailors had mutinied.
Police Club seamen.
When the police came onto the boat
they found number of sailors argu-
ing among each other about keys to
he ice-box The police Immediately
handcuffed John Petijohn, who was
acting as the pacifier in the dispute,
and Farrell together Then they be-
gan to club able seaman, John Burns.
Petijohn seeing Burns being dubbed
into insensibility shouted to them to
stop beating Burns and that If they
wanted to show how tough they were
they could shoot him.
Patrolman Gullette, whose sobriety
many question, to show how tough
and rough he was stepped back a few
PAGES and shot the ships fireman. AS
son as the shot was fired the cops
backed off the ship and fed. The sail
ors then had to take their dead fellow
worker, who was still shackled to Far
rel and lay him on a board and hin
to the main land. When Petijohn was
brot to the mainland he was already
dead. The police then came back ant
arrested able seaman, John Burns anC
the cook, ]. G. Newman and threw
them into jail
Threaten Witnesses.
In the prison cell both of these
seamen had leg chains placed on then
and were told if they said anything
they would face the music" Whel
reporters tried to board the ship ant
gain the truth Of the cold-blooded muir
der, Captain Williams, master Of tn,
ship, declared that no one except tn
crew would be allowed to be on boar
the ship. All attempts were made Il
bar reporters from the two jailed sea
men.
Immediately after the murder an in
quest was held and the patrolman ez
onerated. Later Chief of Police D. F
York also declared that the policeman
was exonerated and that as far as h
was CONCERNED the incident wa
closed"
Despite the attempts of the polio
heads to cBVer up this murder, a wal
rant was sworn out for the policema
by Sheriff Heirs and at the hearin
the policeman was again set free an
declared innocent Of any wrongdoinl
ship Captain Flees.
In order that the real evidence i
the case should not be heard the shi
Barbara sailed away the day befor
the hearing, with load of phosphate
and when the two seamen that n
manned behind testified in the hea,
ing as to the cold-blooded murder {
their shipmate every attempt wa
made to discredit their testimony.
Attempts will now be made to hav
the grand jury investigate the cas-
and prosecute this policeman TIL
policeman admits that he killed tn
seaman and claims that the han,
cuffed seamen had tried to kill hill
with an axe.
Petijohn is to be buried in the Pc
ter's field.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-04
Foreman of Japanese
Mill Loses Life in
Chinese Strike War
tspeeIaI to Ths Daily WORKED

SHANGHAI, March "A Japanese
foreman has been killed in conflicts
which have arisen in the cotton mill
district between the strikers on the
one side and the employers, backed
by the police on the other. A serious
situation exists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-04

Worldwide storm Of protest
forced military authorities to re-
lease Trumbull. Celebrate with
him next Friday night at North Side
Turner Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-04
Lawyers Form "UnIon."

CINCINNATI-FP)-- Short shrift
Is promised for members of the law
yers union, the Ohio State Bar asso'
citation, who undercut the union scale,
Lawyers employed by auto clubs to
protect members in court will be ex'
PEELED from the bar association for
'scabbing." The auto club lawyers
tlke lower fees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-04

See the motion picture OF
class war prisoners aid in Eu-
rope and America at the Inter.
national Labor Defense COM
memoratlon Of the Paris Com
mvne at Ashland Auditorium on
March To-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-04
The Presidential Bug.
Postal Workers Want Saturday
Holiday.

MIDDLEToWN, Conn, March o.
Saturday afternoons Off and no work
Christmas day were approved by the
state convention, National Federation
OF Post Office Clerks. The Connecti-
cut convention condemned the post
Office speed-up system used in large
cities and favored a time differential
for night workers. The Leoback-Stan-
field retirement bill was endorsed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-04

Watch the Saturday MdgaSine
Section for Reio features every
neck. This is a good issue to give
to your fellOlo iCOrker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-04
Personal Ambitions
of Benes Postpones
Russ Recognition
Especial to The Daily worker)

PRAGUE, March 2-The reason for
the sudden change of mind by DR..
Benes, foreign minister of Czecho-
Slovakia, on the subject Of recognition
Of the Soviet Union is closely connec-
ted with the trend of national politics
in that country. His reversal was the
more remarkable in that he had an
nounced he would bring the matter I'D
at the conference of the little entente
at Temesvar a few weeks ago. The
recent elections to the national par
lament had given such a clear major
ity to the advocates of Russian re-
cognition that it was believed it could
no longer be delayed.
What is evident now is that the
foreign minister, who is one Of the
most prominent as he is certainly one
OF the most ambitious of the states
men Of the smaller nations, is man
euvering for concessions from the
Soviet Republic before an agreement
upon treaty. Neither France nor
Great Britain did this. They negotia.
ted for the settlement of detailed diff
ferences after recognition. If Benes
can extort a favorable settlement in
advance it will boost his personal
stock, and that is what he needs right
now.
The Presidential Bug.
Benes is ambitious to become a cam
didate to succeed President Masaryk
whose term of Office expires next year.
Besides this, there is a strong move
ment on in the agrarian party to
which the prime minister belongs to
GUST Benes from the foreign office.
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20
IF YOU ORDER THE MEAL,
PAY YOUR CHECK

The Colorado Tax Commission re-
Gently made a thorough study of the
taxation situation in that state. Fol-
lowin g is an excerpt from it's re-
port:
eliminating educational and road
funds, of every dollar raised by gen
eral property taxation, less than sew
en- cents goes to the state. The other
SO cents is for home consumption,
and is raised and spent by the local
officials elected by the people for
that purpose. And they in turn spend
the money, as directed by the people
who vote on themselves at least SO
per cent of the taxes which they pay.
Communities, as a rule, vote free
ly; but when the bill is presented in
the shape of an increased tax, it
seems to be lost sight of that these
things were ordered by themselves
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20
OUR INTEREST IN "THE OTHER
FELLOW"

No one man ever made base ball
team, and no one man ever carried
on a successful business by himself.
City carpenters and plumbers may
think they have little interest in the
farmer. The man handling freight
on a city delivery truck or the time
keeper paying off a bunch of steve
dores on a seaport dock, may say:
what do we care about the farm
res problems?"
But the majority of carpenters Sc
cure employment from individuals or
corporations, who, in turn, are de-
pendent for the business they do,
upon the sale or manufacture of pro-
ducts derived from some farm crop.
A large part of the business of the
city drayman and the waterfront ste
vedore, will be handling farm crops,
either in their fresh state, canned, or
in the shape of sugar, flour, cured
meats, etc. The man who says he
is not interested in agriculture,
lacks good sense.
Lack of tariff protection on crops
where it is necessary, simply cuts of
the jobs of thousands of workmen in
other lines of industry besides farm
ing. What good does it do the lab
oring man if he can buy butter, eggs
or sugar for a few cents less each
month, if unrestricted foreign COM
petition causes him to lose his job?
The sooner we all learn that we have
an interest in each others problems,
the sooner will industrial and agri-
cultural stability be assured.
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20
%S@R

A NUMBER of very fine gentlemen
who because of their possession Of
material things in plenty, are able to
give their entire energy to public
service, are agitating the cancella-
ton by the United States of all for
eign debts owing to us. They are
filling the newspapers with their
letters, and are trying to fill some
halls with the echo of their voices
on this argument. The business
men and the workmen, however, who
because of this money which we
loaned to European nations, are
still paying the price and carrying
the burden, have but little sympathy
with this talk And the President
and Secretary Mellon are being daily
sustained in their campaign that
people who borrow money should re-
turn it.
One of the gentlemen who is par
ticularly active in this campaign for
the cancellation of all the debts, has
some millions of Liberty Bonds. 1t
has been suggesting that considering
how intensely he feels on this sub
ject, that while Derhans the United
States may lag in this great step
which he believes should be taken,
that he has an opportunity to per-
sonally follow his arguments with
deeds. If his courage is the equal Of
his tongue, and if he will send to the
Treasury of the United States the
five or six million dollars in Liberty
Bonds he possesses and ask that they
be cancelled, the officials there will
be very happy to do it and apply the
proceeds to the cancellation of that
amount of the foreign debt.
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20

strangely alone. People cannot cooperate
in the dark. When the newspapers sus-
pended, cooperation became diAicult-in
some cases, impossible.
There are communities abroad where
the lack of newspaper may be merely
a vexation. Not so with America, for
America, in a unique sense, is the land of
voluntary cooperation; this is the basic
principle of its wonderful development.
Machines can operate in the dark, but not
men. When judgment and voltion are de-
manded, people must be keenly aware of
one another. The newspaper is a happy in
strument for satisfying human curiosity,
but its real function is to bring about that
awareness so that people, however widely
may work together intelli-
gently and effectively.
The newspaper is in itself a remarkable
example of voluntary cooperation. Not
only is it a complex fabric woven of the
labors and abilities of hundreds within its
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20

plant and of thousands on the outside, but
it usually is part of one of those great
associations of newspapers through which
the news of the world is daily gathered, ex-
changed and made available to all.
Not less significant and quite as import
ant is the triangular cooperation between
publisher, advertiser and public. Once it
ceases, publishing, merchandising and
buying all languish and the wheels of
progress stop.
When it is considered that there are
45,ooo,ooo copies of each issue of I3,4oO
newspapers entering every home, Office.
and workshop of the land, we begin to
realize the vastness of this cooperation.
We begin also to sense the extent of the
constantly renewed influence which brings
our millions of people into continuous con-
scious touch with each other.
(Next article, 'Frou NesUs Later
to New5paper.")
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20
DON'T MAKE CAMEL OF
cow, WARNS INSTITUTE

Don't try to make camel out of
your COW, the LarrOwe Institute Of
Animal Economics warns the dairy
man. A camel can go for days with
out water and does not even have to
eat regularly to do a days work.
But camel is not required to pro-
duce from 25 to so pounds OF milk
per day as is cow.
ITO continue to yield milk in the
quantities asked of her, COW needs
full and regular ration of nOur-
ishing food every day in the year"
the Institute states. "She cannot get
it from August pasture without a
supplementary ration of grain. You
can't make a camel out of a cow,
nor should you ask COW to Craze
all day on land that is nearly as
barren as the desert.
Observations by Professor Wilbur
]. Fraser, of the University of llli-
nois, have shown that in four years
over a period from May to November,
there was a total of only 8 weeks
during which an acre and half of
pasture land was sufficient to sup
port one COW, the Institute declares.
And in two of those periods there
were 27 weeks when 80 acres of pas
ture land were required to yield feed
enongh for one COW. "It is impos-
sible for any COW to Craze over this
amount of land even if the ground
were available. To cover 80 acres a
day. and even granting that she had
a "a inch muzzle, that COW would
have to walk 1S miles a day crop
ping the grass like a lawnmower.
Where pastures are affected by the
dry weather, the dairyman who
wants his COWS in condition for the
biggest production next fall and
winter will see that the herd is kept
on a grain ration sufficient to keep
up milk production"
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20

ture will replant, but slowly. Men
who were careless with fire put to
naught her toll of a century. Be
careful with fire, and then be more
careful than ever. All this green
cry, this GOODNESS, this delightful
beauty may be blackened and made
hideous by a single careless act.
The homes and industries of to-
morrow may never be, if so much as
a spark falls in this midsummer
tinder. Be careful with fire. You
cannot whistle it back.
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20
PRODUCTION MUST DETERMINE
WAGES

Every employer wants to see and
contribute to good working condi-
tions and proper wages. Proper
wages have been defined not as "liv-
ing" wages or even Saving" wages,
but as producing" wages.
The amount any employer can pay
out in wages, depends entirely upon
the amount labor produces. The
foundation principle of wage pay
ment is, that no employer can pay
more for work than the total added
value such work provides.
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20
MILFORD, FRIDAY, AUG. 20, 1926

THOSE WHO ATTENDED the
Centennial Exposition in 1876 during
the summer of that year, will recall
that at the first of July of that year,
the Centennial Grounds and build
ings were far from completed con-
dition. A very large part of the eX-
hibits were not arranged and many
of the largest buildings were in an
unfinished condition. That is not an
unusual condition for great exposl-
tions and national displays of SINH
lar kind, for the Chicago Exposition
San Francisco and other wonderful
displays which attracted people from
all parts of the world, as part OF
their enlightenment as to their own
and other countries products and
manufactures, were in their early
stages after opening, found to be Ear
from a completed show. Those who
NlSlISu Tic OSS4uA az AAAetNSAH
two months ago would scarcely rec
ognize the buildings and grounds as
the same, while the displays as now
arranged will be wonderful. During
the next two months great throngs
of people will each day pass through
the turnstiles in every increasing
numbers, until the closing day puts
an end to the great celebration that
Philadelphia has again staged as the
Sene hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of our national existance as a free
and independent nation. Every boy
and girl who can get there should
visit the Sesqui for at least one
week. It's well worth the time and
expenditure of money.
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20

Store sales sagged abruptly, for only the
show windows remained to tell the daily
bargains. Finance, always dependent on
the latest news, was thrown back upon the
thin stream Of information that came
trickling through the tape. What was hap
peningin Washington, in Chicago, in Lon
donl The world of business was hesitant,
uncertain, because it was poorly informed.
Even for the humblest tradesman this
sudden stoppage of news was an incon-
venience; for many others it was fraught
with the grayest possibilities.
Why was this experience so disconcert-
ingi Because it produced feeling ofisola-
ton; it cut off the city from the outside
wOrld-not physically, but mentally; it
even cut off the residents of the city from
knowledge of each other, because people
have come to rely almost entirely on the
papers for their local news. One may be in
a room with a number Of others, but if the
lights are suddenly turned out, one feels
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20
BE CAREFUL WITH FIRE In
FORESTS

There is this about fire, when it is
loose, you cannot whistle it back
again. Unless it is stayed by enor-
nous toll of men, or halted by ma
tural obstacles, or drenched by rain,
it will burn until it no longer finds
materials for consumption.
Look at the ghosts of trees that
rise from old scars on our mountain
where forest fires have been. Ma
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20
&2oG

THERE ARE six million unem-
ployed in Europe. Another million
at least might be added Of those who
are only partially employed. Unem-
ployment today is the great political
issue in Europe, and in the effort to
correct that situation, all economic
laws and rules are being ignored.
Europe today is frantically manu-
featuring goods with the first and
primary purpose of procuring en-
ployment for it's wOrkmen. In the
sale of these goods. price becomes a
mere incident. European statesmen
figure that as between doles for un-
employment and assuming losses by
sustaining the manufacturers so that
they can sell their goods abroad at
any cost, there is little difference. In
fact, they prefer the latter to the
former.
Democrats, accordingly, in decid-
ing that this is the time to revise the
tariff, would do we'll to give a Sec
ond thought to this matter. The tar
if today is not for the protection OF
industry, it is for the protection of
the wage of the American workman
and the preservation of the American
standard of living and the Republic
can party today stands, not only for
a living wage, but for a saving
wage, one which will enable the
workman, not only to meet the de-
mands of his family, but to safe
guard his family against misfortune
or disaster which may come to the
bread Garner. .>:..
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20
YOU CAN'T BE LOYAL TO TWO
COUNTRIES

"The Good Book says that one
cannot serve two masters. By the
same token one cannot hold sincere
allegiance to two countries-he can
not hold aloft two flags and be loyal
to both at the same time. One or the
other must ride at the top of the
mast. Loyalty is an attribute akin
to godliness. Treason is the out
ward expression of ingratitude.
President Coolidge says that the
greatest danger to our Government
today, lies among those who are
here, but who are unassimilated in
heart and spirit, and whose greater
love is still for the foreign lands
they left to better their condition in
the United States.
1T is not unnatural, nor even
cause for criticism, that person
coming to the United States from
some foreign country, should retain
a certain degree of love for the lana
of his birth. All citizens of the
United States descended from for
eign lands, and there is no disrespect
in this. We love to trace our ances-
try back to the Pilgrim Fathers, and
even beyond. But there is limit to
ancestral boastfulness.
Marital vows remove a young
man or young woman from the pa
ternal home, and new home is cho-
sen. This does not mean that love
and respect for the old home should
be obliterated; but it does mean that
a new altar has been erected-a new
hearthstone built and dedicated to a
new life, and this is the altar and
this is the hearthstone that demands
loyalty above all others.
$50 it is with the country of ones
adoption. No man ever came to the
UulI6Q OIdleS VI AuSlASob OASSPS VI
his own volition, urged by desire
to obtain greater temporal blessings.
The highways of the seas are never
closed against his return, if he finds
himself unhappy under the laws and
under the Constitution of this coun-
try.
Loyalty to God, to country, to
home and to ones self commands
confidence of others and bespeaks
good citizenship"
The Denver Post offers prizes for
the best editorials submitted to it.
This is a good way to encourage the
expression of opinion and comment
in any community. The foregoing
prize-winning editorial was written
by A. U. Mayfeld, editor of the
Mountain States Monitor, of Denver,
and is worthy of reproduction in any
paper.
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20
DO
SHOULD SEE THE "SESQUI"
(From Sunday Starr

NfTOm OuuudJ Old4J
Day by day in every way, the great
Sesqui-Centennial Exposition in the
Quaker City is growing better and
better. This wonderful observance of
the one hundred and fiftieth ami
versary of the founding of the United
States of America is really the no
table event of the year.
The Exposition is now in full
swing, and thousands are coming
from all points of the compass to
view it. They are loud in their
praise, so loud that the mutterings
of the knockers brigade" in the
Quaker City can scarcely be heard,
although seemingly there is con-
certed effort among certain Philadel-
phians to down the historic celebra-
ton as much as possible, and throw
all kinds of monkey wrenches into
the machinery.
Wilmingtonians in particular, who
reside such a scant distance away,
and Delawareans in general, whose
forefathers fought the good fight in
those stirring days of rs, should
make every effort possible to attend
this world exhibition so near at
hand. There are many in this city
and state who were at the great
Centennial in Philadelphia in 1876,
and many were the tales handed
down to the children of the wonders
on display at that time.
The project bears the approval OF
this state, and we have erected on
the grounds a beautiful Delaware
Building" 1t is also a great civic
undertaking by Philadelphia, and de-
serves the stoutest and strongest
support.
We would urge all our people to
attend the Sesqui Centennial, if hui
manly possible. Such affairs come
as it were, once in a lifetime. There
have been expositions at other points
far distant, but here we have one of
the best right at our doorstep, and
it behooves us to take advantage of
the fact. One Wilmingtonian is hav-
ing a fine time over the Saturday
half-holidays. He goes up to the Ses-
qui every Saturday, and looks over
this or that building carefully. He
expects to "do the Sesqui" thorough
ly by the time the leaves fall.
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20
A SAFETY SECTION FOR AUTOS

A SAFETY SECTlON EOR AUIOS
If automobile associations would
take the same interest in educating
automobile drivers in safe practices,
as the railroads take in thus educa-
ting their employees, automobile
travel would be safer and more
pleasant, and there would be fewer
auto accidents on the highway and
at railway grade crossings.
On the Southern Pacific, which is
typical Western road, a passenger
may travel on it's trains distance
equivalent to $4,000 times around
the world without danger of loss of
life in steam train accident. On the
Southern Pacific in 1925, more than
5000, 900 man-hours were worked for
each employee killed on duty. While
this is the best record made by any
of the large railway systems of the
United States having more than 1OO,-
100000 working man-hours for the
year, there were others almost as
good.
This shows what systematic safety
work means in the prevention Of ac-
cidents.
Instead of agitating grade changes,
which would burden the people with
taxes, and then only take care Of
less than 10 per cent of the total
auto accidents-for records show
that more than 80 per cent occur at
street intersections and elsewhere on
the highways-the situation would
be much better cared for and at lit
tie expense, if auto associations
would emulate the example set by
the railroads, and establish Safety
Section to deal with carelcssness
and educate auto drivers in safe
practices, as the railroads have edu-
Gated their employees.
Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20

The average motorists idea of
Heaven is a beautiful country full
of asphalt roads with no detour
signs in sight.