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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
ernmental and business appeal OF

ernmental and business appeal OF
Washington.
Mr.. Foster succeeds S. Il. Lavigne
as executive secretary of the local blu.
reau. Since Mr.. Lavigne's resignation
about a month ago. the bureau has
been in charge of his assistant for
the last two years. Warren M. Eaton,
a native Washingtonian, who has had
wide experience in convention work.
MIR. Eaton will continue as assistant
secretary and Mrs. Frances Brobst
also will continue in her duties in the
bureau.
AS former business man who has
devoted more than 90 years to con-
vention work. Mr.. Foster Is alive to
the opportunities that lie within reach
of the Capital as a convention city.
1.-THE day Of convention joy riders
is past" he said today, land the era
of serious conventions has dawned."
Modern conditions. he declared, have
placed the work of advertising a con-
vention city on a strictly business
like basis. While going after the big
conventions he stressed that the
Washington bureau will not neglect
the Importance of bringing to Wash
ington as many of the smaller con-
ventions as possible.
Some of the smaller conventions
with only four or five hundred dele
gates, Mr.. Foster believes, actually
serve to advertise the city better than
many of the larger bodies, since the
delegates usually take away with
them a distinct impression of the
many advantages that Washington
offers from a governmental and bust
ness viewpoint.
With the advantages of Washing.
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ton properly advertised. Mr.. Foster
believes, the Capital in time will be-
come the greatest convention city in
the country. especially if the public
and business organizations cooperate
toward this end.
Mr.. Foster comes to Washington
with the experience, gained as a for
mer organizer of the Atlanta Con-
vention Bureau and also one more
recently in Chattanooga, Tenn. In
late years he has been in charge of
a general clearing house in Atlanta
in bringing conventions to the South.
In this way he has become familiar
as a former competitor of Wash
ington with the general scope of
work necessary to put the Capital
in the front rank of convention
cities.
With the Spring season opening
the bureau is looking forward to an
unprecedented number of conven-
tons here next month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01

Lieut. Col. u. S. Grant. 3d. director
of public buildings and public parks,
who acts as president of the welfare
association. explained that the taking
of a charter as an incorporated agency
means no change in the service the
association has always performed, but
simply places it on a more business
like basis.
The association operates certain of
the cafeterias and newstands in some
of the Government buildings, directs
the operation of some of the tennis
courts. for which appropriations are
not made. and has charge of the
tourist camp. The other officers of
the association are Maj. Cary FL.
Brown, vice president: Capt. f. w.
Hoover, secretary. and E. f. Concklin,
treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01

ment were in violation of police regu-
lations.
After some maneuvering. unofficial
permission was obtained by the rep
resentatives OF the three organism
tons to stand on the Treasury steps,
which are outside local police jurisdic-
ton. until Treasury employees, who
had been paid yesterday had all left
the building.
The three organizations were plan
ming what steps would be taken today.
Representatives declare that the solic
itation of funds in front of Govern
ment departments on payday have
been a source of rvenue for the con-
tinuance of charitable work in Wash
ington and an endeavor will be made
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
CAPITAL HELD BEST
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Foster Takes Over Washing.
ton Bureau and Says He
viii Press Advantages.

Determined to press a vigorous
campaign to make the National Cap.
ital supreme in the field of convention
cities, Frank O. Foster, formerly of
Atlanta, today took charge of the
Washington Convention Bureau
Widely known through the South
fer his convention activities and or
ganization work, Mr.. Foster assumes
his new duties here as executive sec
rotary of the local bureau with an
abiding faith in Washington future
as a convention city.
Mr.. Foster arrived in Washington
last night from Atlanta and immedi-
ately began on his new duties. He
made it clear that while there is to
be no reerganizati ton of the bureau it
self, that efforts would be concen-
trated on the work of advertising in
a business-ike manner the civic, gov
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
HUME SPEAKS ON CHINA.

DR.. Edward Fl. Hume, former presi-
dent of Yale in China, addressed stu
dents of George Washington Univers-
ity yesterday on present conditions in
China. The hostilities, he said, are
not primarily between the north and
the south, but are essentially a strug-
gle for new social order.
He advocated a series of conferences
to be held in this country by Chinese
and Americans for the solution of
present and future Chinese difficulties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
SOLICITORS WARNED
OFF TREASURY WALK
Charity Agents, However. Get Per
mission to Seek Funds on
Steps of Buildings.

Acting on complaints received by
the first precinct, policemen yesterday
Salvation Army, the Little Sisters of
the Poor and the Volunteer Workers
of America that sidewalk appeal for
funds in front of the Treasury Depart.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
RECREATIONAL AGENCY
RECEIVES NEW NAME
Welfare Association, in Charge OF
Miscellaneous Activities Here,
Is incorporated.

The Joint Welfare Service, an UNI
official and non-profit making organi-
zation, which came into existence DUR
ing the World War to handle certain
facilities and recreational activities in
Government buildings and grounds,
will operate from today on as an in
corporated agency under the new
name of the Welfare and Recreational
Association, Public Buildings and
Grounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01

When asked i'm London court re
Gently how old a person born in 1898
would be a witness asked. rs the per
son a man or a woman"
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to continue such solicitation, IL was
declared. without violating police reg.
uiations
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-05
FROM A GALLERY OF FUTILITIES.

She sprang from the asphalt of city streets. She
up among tenements and skyscrapers thunderous
traffic and shoals of humans But these things could
not crush her poetic SOUL Her thoughts fragrant
lovely countryside Her inner vision saw green
fields spread rolling hlsides like cloths for picnic
of the gods. 1t virgin forests buzzng with an in
tense animal life 1t concentrated upon the exqusteness
of single flower, the tracery of veins on a single
petal
But having been raised in the city she had no words
for these visions However vast it might be to her
honaly, tree but tree to her verbally. Except
for the domesticated roses sweet peas carnations one
may buy at florists she could not call flowers familiar
ly by their On the other hand she knew from
her reading the of trees and flowers which she
had never seen such exquisite exotic some
Of them too
And how is to write poetry without these
things? Where she asked herself in dsmay will you
find poem worthy of the name without birds and
flowers and brooks and cows in it?
Which explains what her admiring friends for long
time failed to understandher sudden devotion to the
natural sciences 1t practical masculine sort Of
interest wholly at variance with her poetic nature they
said The fact though is that she has thrown herself
ardently into the study of biology botany, zoology
devours articles on agronomy and animal husbandry
In word, she is acquiring the material of
poesy and she feels that she knows her ground will
step out boldly as a poetess.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-05
The Farmers Dilemma and the Way Out

IN recent the Washington bureau of the Fed
Grated Press W. A Anderson chairman of the FarmerLabo
Party of Minnesota the following for the steadily
decreasing living standards of the farmers:
) High protective tariff manufactured goods ncreas
ing the prices farmers pay for these commodities
(2) Excessive transportation charges.
~ Nonopoies which arbitrarily fix prices of commodities
another and rather roundabout way of saying that
the farmer is in the grip of system in which he exercises but
little influence
Anderson should also have given another and perhaps
important the fact that the farmers class paying
interest than SSOO0OO0OOO mortgag-rying to
bear burden which is crushing them to the earth which they
till for little reward This burden grows heavier year by
days of cheap land gone well America, while the
products of the immense rich Russian coming into
the world markets in greater quantities.
survey Of the position of the American farmer
is sufficient to disclose the utterly foolish method followed by
the great majority of them to better their conditions They
port except Minnesota either the democrat
republican parthe parties which the class political
preston of the railroad banking and manufacturing interests
the instruments by which they manipulate the of the
eminent in their own behalf.
Most farming sections stronghods republican
parthe party of high tariff The farmers have switched at
times to the democrat party only to find that the legislation it
passed everybody except the workers and farmers The
democrat administration drove the into the
of the house of Morgan the biggest banking in
world the farmers and workers still paying for this
remarkably profitable behalf their
Tradition has strong hold the American farmer. He is
afraid of all capitalism but this is the
responsible for his
continue support the parties of American capt.
tasm without becoming peasantzed-reduced to serfdom.
Traditions hard break when the whole propaganda
chney powerful ruling class the world devote its
maintaining the fiction of the
in America and the identity of interest of all members of
that great glorious and free famythe American peepu.
iron logic economic pressure is breaking the hold
tradition Minnesota and with trade union leader
ship which fights the idea of break with the parties of capital
ism and the organization of powerful party of workers and
farmers farmer coming realize that he must fight side
by side with the industrial workers against enemy.
militant leadership for the labor movement and the farm
will be found aligned with the workers
producers been showed by false leaders and the
system organized for bankers and industrial lords
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-05
since 1913 were:
1862. $4,000

Total. .... SAL 1862 236,00O
Dividend payments in 1926 taken separately amounted
to $1120,392000 while interest totaled 1925 00O
Corresponding figures for 1913 1S,0560O0 div
dends and $3.50 interest Dividend payments have
increased only 1870 while interest payments have in
creased 235 In other words the owning class in Amer
lea is becoming coupon-clipping class without direct
responsibility toward the people which produce its lavish
income.
The average rate of dividends industrial stocks has
been slowly but steadily increasing In 1918 the average
annual return 1923 share. In 1917 it reached
wartime peak of $66S and again $3.50 in 1920 Then
the rate sumped to low of $4.40 share in 1922. In
1926 however, it passed all previous records with $7O9
share. In 1926 it reached $7.5S share. If account
taken of the stock dividends which have interviewed
the return actual investment would show much higher
Railroad dividends at $S9O,3S6OOO surpass all previous
records.
The cash income of stock and bond holders over the
14year period covered by the table totaled SAL $685.
100000 About 1919 of this stream of gold flowed to
less than 19 of the population, the class which can
live in luxury without giving any service in return
Attempts to justify such huge payments to the idle
rich the ground that they furnish capital break
down because corporations today retaining enough
in undivided profits to provide for all necessary expan
sion of the countrys industrial plant The country
day faces not a shortage but a surplus of capital
The resulting crisis be avoided only by dvertng
large part of the profit stream into wages
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-05
Foreign Afairs-The New Taboo Of Wall Streets
Medicine Men

Private meddng with the vital foreign relations of
try something that cannot be tolerated. says the New York
Tribune editorial casgang Senator Borah for daring
attempt the truth concerning American relations with
Mexico be said passing that the very cursory nvest
cation by Borah disclosed the fact that American diplomacy
differs nowise from the diplomacy of other capitalist countries
e. that the state department from Kellogg down combina
Of skilled sem-sed and unsed liars and ckspttles of
the industrial and financial lords
Borah investigation is hardly private meddng" since he
chairman of the Senate Committee Foreign Relations but
if he only private citizen it still would be his duty
if possible conspiracy against another nation and the
American conspiracy which and is leading
with Mexico in behalf of Standard Oil and Of Dohenyone of
Americas MOTT outstanding crooks and gafter whose methods
of accumulation little too for his fellow robbers.
Just the mperast press directing its fire at Borah
But target is really the right of criticism of government by
the governed The restriction of this privilege to low minimum
and its final abolition something desired most ardenty by the
capitalist class.
In this period of imperiast adventures when the
tve for conquest of weaker peoples and the brutal facts of the
conquest itself need concealment expect drive
such liberties free speech press and assembage,
The field of foreign affairs to become sort of forbidden
territory Great Britain since her rise a ruler of colonies
into which venture except those considered 100
loyal AS American Imperialism expands and consequence
oener into conflict with colonial peoples mperast
rivals foreign affairs take precedence all but the
portant matters of domestic policy.
There be timidity exposing the plots of Wall
Streets state department and capituaton the desire
the ruling for the boto Of all restrictions upon power
of its servants to lie browbeat and finally make war;
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-05
FOOTNOTESsR3sEH7gs
By EUGENE LYONS =

How To Abolish CrmeThe pres-and in particular
its Washington corespondentsare utterly lacking of
humor They report without flicker of
most farcca official documents the history
perasm The creature of the American
Nicaragua Diaz, has sent formal request"
States establish protecoate his country treaty
in which the should guarantee the sovereignty of Nicaragua
In return for this he willing give preense
of sovereignty For instance the u S. legal right
to intervene at time; put its people charge
the financial and technical affairs of that country,
logic is exquisite.
GAS matters stand" he writes h frequent intervention
of American armed forces in territory is directed exclusively
for the protection of American and foreign lives property
We have therefore reached the
for ourselves benefit and advantage from
intervention which have thus found
time transfer from its present vague
basis well defined de ure status with clearly response
btes and benefits for the
vened"
That's great stuff There turks in it suggestion cities
like New York and Chicago where rampant egazng
(gving well defined de jure status" robbery murder
all crime and criminals would automatically be abolished
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-05
RECORD TRIBUTE IN 1926
BY LELAND OLps (Federated Press).

DIVIDEND and interest payments by American cor
- porations in 1926 amounted to $4,335,912000, ac
cordng to the u S. department of The huge
distributed to the of America in cash ex-
ceeds by SOOO or than SO, the cash hand
out of the previous year. 1t is without question the
largest cash tribute exacted by owning class in
the history of the world.
This enormous return the small class which lives by
owning stocks and bonds would have provided a full
years wage to about 325O,OOO factory workers. If
divided equally among all the farmers factory workers.
railroad workers and miners employed throughout the
country it would have added than $3.50 to each
family budget.
The 1926 dividend and interest payments mark gain
of 279o 1920 They represent increase of 144
1918 when stock and bond holders received cash
income of 1,777 236,000.
Total dividend and interest payments in each year
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-05

In Defense of New animal
protesting the
These critics should harsh
undertaken Jersey
The critics exciting
ness recently and we had better recall their minds Over in New
feeding
him. State arrived the
farmer hetated it they shot him.
his house and barred the The animal
They laid the house, crippled the
nearly destroyed the house But they saved the cows! So there
The Society the Prevention defending
charge murder aforementioned
martyrs to the of kindness animals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-05

Workers Theatre The
Of the New Playwghts Theatre
"prOletaran art Communist Interpretation workers
MaehOd technique I'VE
theatre their said statement We want to write
the workers. who the
ciy department this epOchmakng completely
its official opening.
fashion
at the whole thing quite labor
labor forgotten The
bureau the publications of the unions ignored The conductors
capitalist invited
cverer columns the workers
aSerhOd will
will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-05

Twelve monocled parasites
Stand ina row
Be-spatted, high-hatted
But nowhere to go.
Twelve silly young asses
Tired, yawning and bored
Every damned one of them,
Gentleman Lord.
Like Gilbert and Sullivan's
Burlesquish fools,
They vow that they want to be
Chang Tso Lin's tools.
They've chosen their company
Better than they knew.
Chang and these gentlemen
Make jolly fine crew.
Twelve British carcasses
SUPERIOR, you know
May soon rot in China-land
Where bright poppies grow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-05
TWELVE

On reading IN the papers about taOelve
haze applied for permission to fight for Chang Tso Linz the
ManchY1on DICTATOR against the Chinese Nationalist army
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-25
Khan Dissolution Bill Is
Center Of N. G.. Battle

RALEIGH. N. c.. Feb. 25.-The
North Carolina KHAN situation" to.
day hinged on the hearing at $50
p. m. OF the Johnson. Haywood anti.
mask bill by House judiciary CON-
mittee No. 2.
The bin, passed by the senate in
less than two minutes. was not
placed upon its immediate passage
in the lower house. despi's the ct.
forts of DR.. Oscar Haywood. former
Khan lecturer, to expedite its enact.
ment.
Opposition to the bill which would
dissolve the Ku Klux Kan and
other secret orders IN North Carolina
was expected to be made by Khan
IayaHeks,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-25
JUDGE FINDS HIS
ROAMING GIRL
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
CoHoES. N. Y. Feb. 25.-"I guess
it was wanderlust."
This was the explanation given to-
day by Kasia Mahoney. 15.year.old
daughter OF Supreme Court Justice
jeremiah r. Mahoney. Of New York
city, found here today after being
mysteriously missing from her home
since Monday morning.
Il have seen some OF the world
and will be glad to return home
and start in school again." said
Kasia.
Miss Mahoney walked into police
headquarters last night and asked
for nights lodging.
Police Chief King communicated
with the New York city police de-
partment as soon as the girl admitted
her identity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-25
Ex. Judge, Home Bombed BZqcknaiZers
DEMANDED
$4,000
By YnternationaT News Service

BY international News Service
NEW YORK. Feb. 25.-Former
City Court Justice John Palmieri.
Sc. his wife and their four children
narrowly escaped death early today
when a time bomb wrecked the
front OF their home In Ocean Park
way. Brooklyn.
The force OF the internal machine
hurled all six from their beds and
threw terror into the residents Of
this fashionable section.
Two men in sedan were seen
to drive up to the house about is
minutes before the explosion; one
walked up to the porch, dropped
Something" and hurried back to
the machine. which sped off.
Every window in the house, in
which there are about fifteen rooms,
was shattered The front OF the
house was total wreck.
A large squad Of detectives are
securing the city for these two
men. who police are certain were
the writer's Of two threatening le..
ters which Palmieri received about
two months ago.
The letters warned the former
judge that his house would be
blown up unless he compiled with
their demand at once for $50, 900.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-25
CAPITAL WOMAN
HURT ON BAY


Federal investigation started this
morning to determine the cause
Of the collision between the steam.
ship City OF Richmond and her sister
ship. the City of Annapolis. at the
mouth Of the Potomac river yester.
day morning.
Miss Virginia starkey, Of Balti-
more. is dead and four others, among
them Mrs. Mary Williams, 1903
Ninth st. N. W., reported them.
selves injured. Mrs. Williams. It
was learned. is not seriously injured
and proceeded to her home In this
city. The other injured are:
Marshall Lee, Of Baltimore: Miss
Mozelle Collier. 20 years old, Rich.
mond. Va; J. D. Land, Of Richmond.
bruised. and Abraham Polan, Charles.
ton, w. Va. Land and Polan were
passengers on the City Of Richmond.
The tragic death Of Miss Starkey
adds pathos to story replete with
heToism and cool elaboration In
crisis. So far 1t Is agreed that by
holding his ship In the breach Of
the Annapolis until the survivors
had been removed, Capt. H. z. Well
Ing. OF thel City OF Richmond. saved
the lives OF many who WOULD not
have had time toescape before the
Annapolis went down.
An unnamed hero jumped into
the icy waters Of the bay and
rescued Miss Collier when she was
accidently pushed overheard while
attempting to board the rescuing
ship.
Both the captain of the S. s.
District Of Columbia. Of the Norfolk
and Washington line, and the cap.
tain OF the s. s. City OF Baltimore,
who stood By during the trsRsfsr
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-25
DIRECTOR
ENDS LIFE
BY international News Service


LOS ANGELES. Seb. 25.-Lynn
y. Reynolds. S6. widely known Hol.
lywood motion picture director. hus.
band Of Kathleen o'Connor Rey.
ilolds beautiful screen actress. died
in q Los Angeles emergency hospi.
tai today from a wound in his head.
said by police to have been. caused
by q bullet fired by Reynolds with
suicidal intent.
The directors desperate act.
according to his pretty wife. Kath.
Teen O'Connor, was committed in a
fit Of dependency Immediately after
his return last night from the high
Sierra Nevada mountains.
He had been on location directing
Renee Adoree.
Reynolds suddenly left his dinner
table. went to the sunroom Of his
home and shot himself with q .SS
pistol.
District Attorney Asa. Keyes
announced today he was satisfied
Reynolds act was a suicide attempt.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-25
SHANGHAI
GUARDED

LONDON. Feb. 25.-The Can.
tOnese have captured SunIkiang,
the last stronghold outside OF
! Shanghai. according to q Shang-
hal dispatch to the Central News.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-25
Marjorie Rambeau, Star,
COllapses in Theater

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.-Mar-
Jorte Rambeau. the actress, who
collapsed on the stage of a theater
here last night. was reported much
improved this morning.
She is suffering from sciatica.
She probably viii resume her part
today.