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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
PROTEST AGAINST
COULD'S SEATING
COMES FIRST DAY
Walsh Throws Bomb In
Opening Session

WASHINGTON, Dec. g. Twenty
minutes after the final session OF the
sixty-ninth congress was convened
Monday, machinery was set in motion
to consider the busting of Arthur R.
Gould, Maine senator-elect, charged
with Illegal expenditures and bribery.
Senator Walsh introduced a resolu-
ton calling for an investigation Of
Gould's activities in the Maine cleo
ton last month This action in the
Goth congress forecasts the certainty
it is felt, that the seventeen congress
will refuse to seat Smith of Illinois
and Ware Of Pennsylvania on similar
charges.
The resolution did not prevent
Gould being sworn in to fill the va
cancy of the late Senator Fernald, but
a fight over Gould is scheduled.
Won't Accomplish Much.
The opening of congress is mark
ed by general opinion that the ses-
sion will accomplish little except the
lroutine. Discredited at the last cleo
lion, the congress will devote most
of its efforts to keep legislation off
the books.
More than 1900 bills are on the
senate and house calendars. Most of
them are of local and sectional sig.
nifcance, but many are pressing for
action.
Three Main Issues.
After appropriation bills and execu-
tive appointments are dispensed with
there will be three main issues to be
considered-tax reduction, farm relief
and radio regulstion. All three of
these will provoke bitter fights.
Hardly had congress met when the
democrats forecasted that an extra
session after March A would be fore
ed. The democrats feel they will be
much stronger then, and will try to
block legislation in this session to
make the extra congress necessary.
Coolidge's message will be read
Tuesday. His budget message will
be read Wednesday.
Radio Bothers Coolidge.
The Importance attached to radio
legislation by the administration is
indicated by .Coolidge's personal in
PREVENTION in the matter. Coolidge call
ed group Of senators and represent
atives to the White House for break
fast Monday and radio regulation was
the discussion subject. A deadlock
exists over whether Secretary Hoover
or an Independent bureau should have
power over the air.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
Hankow Strike General.

HANKoW, Dec. s. The strike
against the foreign concessions de-
clared here by all workers involved in
foreign trade, commerce and service
became general on Sunday. The strike
Is 100 per cent effective. The foreign
concessions are heavily guarded by
American, British and French ma
rines. II is rumored that an Italian
warship has been ordered here to join
the eleven destroyers and gunboats OF
the foreign powers now riding in the
Yangtze.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
10000 MINERS
TALK OF STRIKE
IN PITTSTON, PA,
Penna. Coal Co. Miners
Await Developments

PTTTSTON. Pa, Dec. g. The
10000 miners in and around Pittston,
mostly all employed by the Penna
Coal company, are now waiting with
interest the next link in the long
chain of developments which will
make for the building or the destruc-
ton Of the United Mine Workers Of
America in this region.
cappellini BaIks.
Brazenly refusing to give Alexander
Campbell, ex-member Of the Interna-
tional Executive Board of the U. M. w.
A. a credential to act as checkweigh-
man for the miners of Number s col
Iiery of Pittston, Rinaldo Cappellini,
district president, is bringing to head
a very serious situation.
Campbell was elected by an over
whelming majority at the local Jun
ion elections some time ago to serve
the men as checkweighman. Camp
bell has long been known as an enemy
Of the hated contractors which are
in vogue in the mines Of the Penna
Coal Co. and it was Campbell who led
the big 1920 strike to eliminate the
contractors. The local union leader
ship, and Number Six, the key local
of the Penna general grievance com.
mittee, is the basis of the rule and
existence of the hated contractors
and we're a clean, militant leadership
10 take control of the local the con
tractor system would soon be wiped
out. This fact the contractors are
well aware of and so go to all ex
tremes to keep control of the local
union leadership
Threatens Contractors.
Campbell has Oftentimes threatened
to wipe out the contractors once in a
position to do so, and that he would
do it the contractors know very well.
To keep Campbell from assuming any
responsible position then has been the
aim of the contractors, assisted by the
district office. Cappellini ordered the
local sec'y. not to issue to Campbell
the necessary credential, despite the
specifications of the anthracite con-
tract and district constitution of the
miners, that the selection of a check
weighman to serve them is a sole
prerogative Of the miners.
Cappellini has assumed the power
TO dictate to the local union just who
snail and who shall not serve the
miners Of Number 6. Cappellini got
in touch with his henchmen, the local
officers, and oYerrulsd the decision of
the union meeting. Campbell, as a
consequences of the foregoing, could
not commence his duties Dec. LIST.
Drive Out Veteran.
The. local union sedfetary made a
statement that he was instructed by
Ceppellini not to accept dues from
Alexander Campbell when he appear
ed TO pay them. This is a move on
the part of Cappellini to drive from
the union Campbell and all opposition
miners in Number g.
At the following local union meet
ing, the question of checkweighman
was again brought up and after a
heated meeting Campbell was again
elected b va very large majority.
When the count was made showing
Campbell victor the Capabilities and
contractors smashed the lights, broke
chairs and created a free for all, which
succeeded in giving the chairman an
excuse Of adjourning the meeting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
Discuss Colonization
of Jews in Russia at
Mothers League Meet

Jewish colonization in Soviet Russia
will be discussed at meeting of the
Mothers League Tuesday night, at 8
o'clock. at Talmud Torah Hall, Hirsch
and Rockwell streets.
M. Schuchter will be the speaker
and lead the discussion. This is
matter that is OF interest to Jewish
people thruout the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
CASE OF JAIL SCANDAL
DEFENDANTS HELD UP

Trial of Sheriff Peter M. Holman
and other defendants in the Terence
Druggan-Frankie Lake jail scandal
case was held up when counsel for
the reputed beer barons filed a plea
OF prior conviction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
FOUR KILLED IN BLAST
AT DEPONT De NEMOURS
CARNEY POWDER PLANT

WILMINGTON, DEL, Dec. 6--Four
men are known to have been killed
and several others injured this after
noon when 5000 pounds Of smoke
less powder in the "dry house" of
the Dupont de Nemours powder
plant at carney's Point exploded.
Fire Immediately followed the ex-
pIosion.
The bodies of four men are said
to have been recovered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
SEX SCIENCE.

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Contains 20 complete articles. l54 pages.
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without credentialing Campbell who
was again elected.
The following night, or rather al
2 a. m, the house of an active opposi
ton miner in Pittston, John Coombe,
was wrecked by a blast of dynamite
This miner is we'll known for his long
fight to wipe out the contractors. A
year or so ago the house of Campbell
was demolished by dynamite, endan-
gering the lives of his wife and seven
children.
The miners today are discussing
what shall be done now. On all sides
the unanimous opinion is another
1920" which means a general strike
to wipe out the contractors and sci
the union on a proper path again.
The discomfort of the rank and file
Of the Pittston miners will burst into
flame at any moment, and at any mo-
ment a general strike can be-expected.
It is expected that if the Penna goes
on a general strike, the Hudson Coal
Co. general grievance committee, OF
10000 miners, and the Lehigh Valley
Coal Co. general committee Of $4,000
miners will also declare a general
walkout.
Brennan to Pittsburgh District.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 6. - Viii.
liam ]. Brennan, former president of
District l, United Mine Workers OF
America, and at present candidate for
international Secretary treasurer OF
the miners union is coming to the
Pittsburgh District to address two
mass meetings arranged for him by
progressives.
The first meeting will be held in the
Croatian Hall, Slovan, Pa, on Wed.
nesday, Dec. s, at p. m. The second
meeting will be held in Brownsville,
Pa, on Thursday, Dec. 3. He will also
address several mass meetings IN
Brophy's District 2. The elections in
the miners union in District 5 have
stirred up the entire district
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08

the living dead. But the bond Of
communication was restored.
Evening star., 1926-09-29
SOCIETY

{Continued from Page Twenty
Evening star., 1926-09-29

health of Peru: Prof. Leitao da Cunha
of Brazil and DIR. Jablo Garcia Medina.
director general of public health of
Colombia.
Those named members of the COM
mittee on permanent orga ganization
were: DIR. Sebastian Lorente of Peru,
DR.. Lucas SiarIa of Chile. DIR.
Fernando Rensoli. director of public
health and welfare of Cuba: DIR.
Garcia of Colombia and DIR. Bolivar J..
Lloyd, assistant surgeon general.
United States Public Health Service.
4 cable expressing admiration of
the great work of Pasteur was ad-
dressed to the Pasteur Institute.
Paris. The message read: THE
national directors of health Of the
American nations assembled in Wash
ington send on this anniversary their
profound respects and admiration to
the memory of the benefactor whose
name Is carried by your institute
Evening star., 1926-09-29

CONTINUED from Page TwentyD
will receive cordial welcome. Mrs.
Willis. wife Of Senator Frank B.
Willis from Ohio, is the clubs spon-
sor.
Mrs. c. D. Bowen and daughter,
Miss Betty Bowen, have arrived at
the Willard from their home in
Washington with her daughter, who
has entered school here.
Miss Estelle Germain has returned
to her home in Burlington, VT, after
a visit with her cousin, Mrs. Stanley,
wife Of Capt. John L. Stanley, U. S.
A. Mrs. Caroline z. Holloran, sister
Of Mrs. Stanley, accompanied Miss
German on her return to Burlington,
where she will remain few weeks.
Maj. and Mrs. r. P. Cousins enter.
tanned a company Of 1s at lie Paradis
last night.
Mrs. Frank B. Shuts and daughter
of Miami, Fla, are passing a few
days at the Willard, where they ar.
rived today.
Miss Adelaide Spreckelmyer is
spending several weeks in Wahpeton,
N. OAK, as the guest Of her brother
in-law and sister, DIR. and Mrs. Ben
jamin Thans. and their two young
sons.
Mr.. F. F. Lee entertained a party
of 10 at the Club Chantecler last
night.
Mr.. Godfrey Davies has arrived
from his home in Cirincester, Eng.
land, and Is at the Hotel Mayflower
Evening star., 1926-09-29
Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been issued to the
following:
Charles NJ. Laupheimer and Margaret f
Reed. both of Baltimore, Md.
James N. Braxton and Hattie 3. Grce.
Folmer Menne and Agnes NJ. Robbie:
William j. Allen and Virginia j. Wallace
Slas Hebron and Louisa Tates.
Fred s. Traughber and Estelle Chism
both of Radnor Heights. Va.
Ernest F.. Risdon of this city and Hazel
E. Lambert of Alexandria. Va.
Richard W. Tllman and Sarah A. NARROW.
Howard Stadelnlan Of Syracuse, n. Y.
George T. Fulford. jr Ontario. Canada
and Josephine {. Weller of this city.
Evening star., 1926-09-29
FIVE POLICEMEN HURT
AS AUTO LEAVES ROAD
Were Answering Riot Call in Test
Race to Officers State
Convention.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE. y. C., September 20.
Five Charlotte policemen We're in
jured near China Grove. \. c., yes
terday when their automobile left the
road and crashed over an embank-
ment.
They We're: J. NJ. Byers, Joseph
f. Orr, chief of detectives; II. NJ.
Joyner, Don Bake and A. NJ. Rogers.
The men were en- route to High Point
to attend a policemens convention.
A contest was being held to deter
mine how long 1t would take police
men from various cities of the
State to reach High Point. A riot
CALI had been issued to inaugurate
the test.
When the automobile left the road
it is said to have been travelling so
miles an hour.
Evening star., 1926-09-29
Births Reported.

John and Mary Murphy. girl.
Raymond and Emily Oliver. boy.
Hustler and Lillian De Boe. girl.
Thomas and Emma Smith. boy.
Charles S. and Marguerite Bohn. girl.
Clarence H. and Ratchet kasch; girl
James j. and Margaret A. Cranston boy.
Clifton and Harriet Busby. boy.
Harry and Mabel Contos boy.
William T. and Helen A. Lawrence. girl
Joseph j. and Minnie /. Shallcross, boy
Jesse 8. and Grace E: Rogers. girl.
Clifford H. and Wanda V. Sparks, giri
Charles NJ and Madeline N; Ke'ser; girl.
George c. and Mary E. Walling. gIri.
Hugh s and Lois l. Torbert: girl
Loran P. and Harriet n Winings; boy
Walter K and Lelah N: Jones: glrl.
Milton D. and Loretta Meyerson. BOY
Samuel and Elizabeth Sisco. boy.
RAYMOND C. and Louise Miller. boy.
nOmeniecO and Dominica Perrone. ooy
Willie and Elizabeth Anderson. girl
George and Viola Ford. girl. -.
Robert and Henrietta Robinson. girl
Edie and EnOtress Mercer. boy.
. IZaiah and Roberta Grice, boy.
Samuel and Myrtle Patterson. girl.
lanes and Clementina Lee. boy
John z. and Ossie E. Hardy. boy.
Sedwick and Odelia Pearson boy
Evening star., 1926-09-29
Deaths Reported.

The following deaths have been reported
TO the Health Department i'll the last "a
hours:
Ellen Virginia Knorr So 34o5 Fessendcn
Charles Huttenberger, 10. United States
Soldiers Home Hospital.
Thomas Martin Foley, So. 34l4 Rodman
William II. Baker. 81. S12 "lst.
Harry Brown. 80. Monument grounds
Laura s Mankin. 80. 3Oi4 Dent pl.
Henry Nerr. SO. 54fl Sth ST.
willard +. WyTie 40. St. Elizabeths Hos
William Howard. 30. l624 Covington.
Walter Turner. 81. Freedmen's Hospital
Or. Lucius H. Brown. 3f Freedmen's Hos
pital. ,
Lola DYSON. ri Galinger Hospital.
Alfred Burrows g. 13; Girard ST.
Robert Kemp. II months, PA F St ne.
justph Carter :. months. Freedmen Hos
pitai
Evening star., 1926-09-29
PROTEST CALL FAILS.

PARIS, September 20 @.-Fewer
than 40 Of the 500 members of the
Chamber Of Deputies answered the
call for q meeting today to protest
against the government suppression
of provincial courts and administra-
tive Offices as an economy measure.
OF the 40. not more than 20 signed
a formal protest against the govern
ment measures.
Evening star., 1926-09-29
36 HURT IN CRASH
IN new YORK "SUB"
Two Seriously Injured as One
Train Crashes Into
Another.

NEW YORK, September 20 P).-
Thirty-six persons were injured. two
seriously, when one subway train
crashed into the rear Of another
standing at the Bliss avenue station
on the elevated extension of the sub
way in Long Island City last night.
Joseph Connaughton, %, of Flush
infr was pinned in the wreckage for
and hour and a half while a workman
cue through wood and steel to ex-
tricate him. His ankle was crushed.
William Diston. motorman of one of
the trains, also was hurt seriously.
Slippery rails due to rain were blamed
for the accident.
Evening star., 1926-09-29
FREED IN SLAYING.
A. F. A. Smith Is Not Held by
Coroner's Jury in England.

WHITSTABLE England. Septem-
ber 29 LR.-A coroner's jury render
ed it's verdict yesterday in the inquiry
into the death of John Thomas Der
ham, who was killed August IL in q
quarrel with Alphonse F. A. Smith at
Smiths villa. Stella Maris. at this
place.
Smith, who is a grandson of the
late Hugh Ryan of Canadian railroad
building fame and a former officer of
the Dragon Guards, was charged
with murder. but the jury found yes.
terday that insufficient evidence had
been presented to show who fired the
shot and whether it was by accident
or design.
Evening star., 1926-09-29

Scientists have evolved a secret
method of Identifying finger marks on
steel by a. criminal even though he
may have apparently polished off the
incriminating prints.
Evening star., 1926-09-29

A pitcher. explains the La Plata
Home Press, is vessel that's always
full Of water when you upset it and
always empty when you need water.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-12-08
New Orleans Creole
Proud and Cldnnish

The ire Of many a "Creole" has
been provoked because the innocent
tourist thinks the word means "of
colored blood" say the Pendleton
East Oregonian.
"Creole," the native Orleanian will
tell you, means "of French and Span
ish." The Creole Is one who Is born
away from his country-whatever
that country may be. The New Or
leans Creole Is considered the city's
finest product The women are love-
ly. The men are brave. They have
charming manners. They are exclusive.
They are clannish. They have their
own language, their own society, and
their own customs.
The New Orleans Creole speaks a
pure French The reason Creole" has
been misunderstood Is because their
slaves spoke a Creole dialect, bearing
about the same relation to pure
French as the southern Negro talk
does to English purely spoken. Then
there was the Acadian French, or
"Cajean" French. as spoken in the
outlying districts Of Louisiana. And
"GumbO" French-that means simply
French incorrectly spoken.
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THE CHILD'S TEETH.
Effect of Bad Teeth on Mental
Ability Demonstrated.

That the condition of a child's
teeth has any effect upon the work
that the child is capable of doing in
school does not seem possible, unless
one stops to find out just why such
statement has any basis.
About sixteen years ago group
of dentists and school authorities in
Cleveland became interested to find
out just what effect bad teeth have
upon child's mental ability. They
selected class of forty school chill
dren with very bad mouth conditions.
These children were given a series
of mental tests to determine exactly
what they were capable of doing.
Then they were taken to various
dentists until their teeth were
put into the best possible condition.
In many cases the work was extern
sive and required great deal of
time.
During period of fourteen
months, these children kept on with
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-12-08
Odd Rain-Mokin2 Device

AS pendant to the reaction Of
plants to weather the curious Seven
teenth century belief in the weather's
reaction to plants might be mentioned.
Then 1t was the common practice to
set fire to growing ferns in the be-
lief that rain would follow.
Such implicit faith was placed in
this expedient that when Charles I.
arranged to visit Staffordshire, the
earl of PembrJAe and Montgomery
wrote to the high sheriff Of the coun-
ty commanding him to stop the burn
ing of ferns as his majesty was de
sirous that the country and himself
should enjoy fair weather as long az
he remains In these parts"
In this custom, by the way, the
Devonshire practice Of firing the
bracken" took Its rise-London Mail,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-12-08
Accounts for Fools Day

But for the changing of the calen-
dar in 1894, April / might never have
become All Fools day. Several ex-
plantations have been offered as to
the fixing of April l as the date for
perpetrating practical Jokes, but the
changed calendar appears to be most
probable. In 1884 New Years day
was shifted from March 25 to January
l. Before the alteration, the New
Year festivities lasted eight days, end
ing on April l. This final day was
one set apart for paying visits and
making gifts. When the alteration
was made muddle-headed folk be-
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-12-08

their regular classes, but were en-
couraged and taught to properly
brush their teeth and to eat a whole
some balanced diet. At the end of
this time they were again tested to
see if there had been any mental
improvement. The average gain in
mental ability was 99.S per cent.
per child. That is, the children had
practically doubled their mental
ability by just having the needed
dental work attended to and by CIV
ing daily care to their teeth.
This test proved conclusively that
the child with teeth well cared for
will do much better work than the
child whose teeth are badly decayed,
abscessed or uncared for.
Last year in examining the first
grade children in one city within
the State, the Maine Department of
Health found that SO per cent. of the
children had decayed teeth. These
children were prevented from doing
their best work by their handicap.
If all the parents of school chill
dren would have their teeth cared
for, there would be comparatively
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O. LITTLE CHILD
OF BETHLEHEM
BY Katherine Edelman

n LITTLE child of Bethlehem
", Come to the earth today,
Come to a weary, care-6lled world
This blessed Christmas Day.
Fill every heart with newborn hope.
Fill every home with cheer,
Bring peace TO troubled, burdened souls.
Bring brotherhood more near.
Seek out the weary, worn ones,
The grieved, the hurt, the weak.
And in Thy tender pity bend
A loving word to speak.
Bless those who walked Thy loved waya.
And pity those who strayed,
Bring them within Thy mercy now.
And mako them unafraid.
Blot out the hurts and hates and fears
That rent and severed mon,
Let understandings blessed light
Unite their hearts again.
Encircle all the earth with love,
Let holy peace abide.
That all may know in measure full
A happy Christmastide.
Co. 1926. Western Newspaper Union-)
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Christmas, a goldman,
Said John Wanamaker

"Ohr1stmas Is a man born-not q
sentiment" said John Wanamaker.
Too often we think Of the birth Of the
Ohrist-child a. a beautiful story, and
We are apt to forget that the event
we celebrate at the Ohristmastide Is
q historical fact. So many fairy tales
have been woven into the original
fabric that the truth Is in danger Of
being obseured. Christmas Is not a
beautiful legend about plump old
man with white whiskers and a pack
Of toys on his back. Christmas Is
Goodman born into the world to give
light and life, peace and joy-a reality
that tops all realities.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-12-08

either an organ or hurdy-gurdy,, VII
lage church choirs usually relied on
two or three-piece orchestras for Sun
day services. These orchestras were
placed In the gallery over the en-
trance.
Trottiscliffes barrel organ must
have been one Of the finest In its hey
day, for 1t has a repertory Of sixty
hymn tunes. 1t has recently been re-
paired and Its handle is still turned
by the sexton for Sunday services and
weddings. The tone Of this ancient
instrument is unusually sweet
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-12-08
English Choir Sings
to Old Hurdy-Gurdy

Barrel organs or hurdy-gurdies were
used in English churches in the early
Eighteenth century to support the
choir. The only elaborate specimen
surviving today, and still in use, Is
to be found in the parish church OF
Trottiscliffe, near Wrotham, in Kent.
These barrel organs were quite a.
popular In rural churches that could
not afford the luxury of an organ as
were the music boxes Of the period in
European drawtRg rooms. Failing
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-12-08
Owls Ended Mice Plaques

Great Britain throughout the cen
turtles has suffered from many perl
odic plaques of mice. In 1880 and at In
tervals during the next three centuries
hordes of these small rodents ap-
peared in one or another part Of Eng
land, says Gas Logic. These multi
tudes of mice were invariably fol-
lowed by great flights Of owls which
entirely DESTROYED them.