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sonable exclamation for their action
in many instances.
When a driver, now afoot, walks
into a safety zone, he stays there
until there is an opportunity to leave
safely. He does not believe that
safety zones are the unsafest places
in the world and that motorists, as
a class, delight in running through
them. He is driver himself. he
understands.
AS a result. he reflects a complete
understanding of his rights and is
accorded respect.
A factor in this definite manifesto
ton of decision. naturally, is his
knowledge of motor cars-thelr IN
herent capacities to stop. start and
swerve. This knowledge has a very
definite role to play in making the
motorist a better pedestrian than
the pedestrian himself. In connec-
ton with his acquaintance with an
automobiles capacities in these re-
spects. the motorist enjoys a big
margin over the pedestrian in his
more highly developed sense of speed
and distance.
He does not, for instance, step
from the curb when he sees an au-
tomobile bearing down on him at
high speed. He knows it cannot
stop and acts accordingly.
There is another point dealing
with a cause for hundreds of acct
dents. On a wet, slippery street,
the motorist knows the additional
troubles that are being encountered
by drivers. He never forces a mo-
torist suddenly to jam on his bra kes
and skid. Every driver knows that
thousands Of pedestrians do. Many
of them know from personal expe-
rience that it is a frequent cause of
serious accidents.
The evidence seems to show that
those who believe motorists have
learned the lessons of safety better
than pedestrians have a great deal
of familiarity with their subject.
x
With mechanical innovations Of
the year coming to light in the form
of vacuum gear shifting, low pres
sure hydraulic brakes. auxiliary oil
ing for starting, single sleeve-valve
engines. new springs. cam and lever
steering and other features, motor
lists are asking what is next i'll
bodies?"
One answer is to be found in the
increasing popularity of the con-
vertible coupe. The chief objection
to the present convertibles seems to
lie in their failure to seat more than
two persons in the inclosed portion
The rear deck seat is left without
protection.
Many observers of automotive
trends are looking for the victoria
type of car to meet this objection.
They expect to see the victoria
given convertible treatment in the
near future. This model seats four
persons in the inclosed portion and
has no rumble seat. Instead, it car
ries a luggage trunk in the rear
The victoria, as many see it, is the
ideal coupe model. All it needs to
become both a sport and family car
for all kinds of weather is to be
given convertible treatment. they
say. -ss--s@
This may offer the body designer
little sitter problem than usual,
but he has yet to fail on a problem.
The odds are against failure here.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
Brakes Are Skid Factor.

Slippery pavements are in season
with the ever-present chance for a
skid. Unqualified brakes are a con-
tributing factor in many skidding &C.
cidents. 1t will pay car owners to
check their brakes before they are
compelled to use them excessively on
Winter highways.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

Growing exports. allowing for
greater production and reduction of
manufacturing costs, account in some
measure for lowered car costs to the
ultimate consumer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

Safe driving is the most efficient
driving in the long run. Reckless, un.
even spurts, actually cut running
time. Maintain an unruffled, steady
pace for greatest mileage in shortest
time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
John Smith and His Car
BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL

John Smith He
selfish; rather he motoring willing and glad
exploited benefit
the other 20O00000 o members of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
Shop Trick Applied to Wrenches.

Unless one resorts To fling. IL isn't
possible to make a small wrench fit
large nut, but by means OF simple
shop trick it is an easy matter to
make a large wrench fit smaller nut.
When you haven't got the right size
wrench for the occasion, select one
that is too large and fit a fiat. small
piece of metal between one side OF
the nut and the inside of the wrench.
The effect is the same as making the
wrench smaller.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
MOTORING

slogan the
but I ia on American highways.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

The motorists failure to show con-
fusion. resulting in getting his rights,
is nowhere better illustrated than
in the case of the safety zone. The
actions of the average walker within
the lines where he is theoretically
safe have been the cause of many
motorists running through these
zones even when their intentions
were TO respect them absolutely.
The uncertain gestures Of the pc
destrian toward leaving the area
first one way, then another. con-
fuse driver. and frequently it is a
case OF stopping or having to run
through the zone While it is not
to the credit of motordom that a
great many drivers resort to the lat
ter course, there is, at least, a rea-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
Political Feud Of
Capitalist Parties
Gets I Two Men Shot

PITTSBURGH, Sept. s. Gang
warfare flared up in the crowded
theater district of the city last night,
when hundreds of persons leaving the
Nixon, one of the city's leading play
houses, were menaced by bullets from
the guns of gunner, two of whom are
in hospitals here today. Three others
are in custody of police.
Police claim the shooting and
swinging of clubs was part of po-
litical fight. Men leaped from auto
chased a fleeing man into
theater lobby and there beat him I'M
mercifully. Outside bullets were fly
ing, while police were shouting COM
mands to the crowds to get them
back to safety.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
he International Red Aid on SaccO and Vanzett Murder

and women have been immurad be-
hind prison walls by bourgeois class
justice. Tens of thousands of men
and women have been tortured by the
executioEers of capitalist society.
Tens of thousands of men and women
have been hunted from "their" coun-
try, deprived of their right of sane
tuary, and declared outlaws at the
mercy of the waiting executioners. In
every capitalist country today the
bloodstained executioners of class
justice lie in wait, and the White Ter
ror turks in ambush till the moment
when it can plunge its merciless
claws into the humanity struggling
for its freedom. All Of you who have
added your voices to the protest
against the execution of Sacco and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
News from b. S. S. R.
American Workers Excursion Leaves
For Moscow

American Workers Excursion Leaves
For Moscow.
The American excursion of work
ers and clerks left Leningrad in the
evening of August 4th for Moscow.
Before leaving the excursion ad-
dressed declaration to the Leningrad
proletariat in which among other
things it is pointed out that the la
Dor leaders of the United States Of
America opposed American workers
coming to the U.S.S.R.. The declara-
ton promises that on their return the
delegates will tell the full truth Of
what they saw in the U.S.S.R.
American Cooperative Delegation in
the U.SS.R.
On invitation of the Centrosoyous
the American cooperators Matti
Tengunen and Excl Rono, who were
sent by the American cooperatives to
the XII International Cooperative
Congress to Stockholm, visited the
U.S.S.R.
Tengunen and Rono made study
of the Soviet cooperatives. All their
conclusions and impressions were
written down in a separate declara-
tion which says:
What we have seen in the U.S.S.R.
was an unexpected surprise to us
who came from America, where we
read in the papers about chaos and
disorder in Russia. We found in the
U.S,S.R. contented and happy people.
Particularly is this true of the youth.
Their vitality and healthy appear
ance is a result of the health protec-
ton given to children and young
workers.
The working conditions and clean
Illness which we have found in the
factories are above the conditions of
an average American factory. The
8-hour day, the annual paid vacation,
the payment of wages during illness,
all these are things of which the
American workers dare not dream.
Speaking about the cooperatives.
the declaration says:
There are II million people in one
organization which does AZ per cent
of all the business in the county.
This is what the Soviet cooperatcrs
have achieved. Such success has be-
come possible only thanks to the close
collaboration between the coopera-
tives, trade unions and the workers
government. Such progress is abso-
lutely impossible in any bourgeois
country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
Tourists in USSR
Don't Worry Much
About "WardrObes''

The problem of what 10 wear and
what clothes to take along in order
not to appear out of fashion, that con-
fronts most tourists, is one that can
be lightly dismissed by those who will
travel to the Soviet Union on the eight
weeks tour being arranged by World
Tourists, Inc, of 90 Fifth Avenue,
New York.
In the Soviet Union there is no
clothing standard. The head Of a state
school system may wear a blue flan-
mel shirt, a pair of old corduroys,
leather boots, a leather coat and a
felt hat.
The World Tourists group will not
be encountered by huge wardrobes of
smartly tailored clothes and will not
spend hours of worry about what to
wear" Every tourist will be fur
nished list of the articles of cloth
ing and personal effects they may
take with them duty free, and though
there is no social code which requires
certain dress for any occasion, the
greatest freedom is allowed the in
dividual.
Algonquin 5000 is quite busy ex-
change in these days of preparation
of the second tour to Soviet Russia.
The party will sail via the Cunard
liner "Carmania" to London, then pro-
coed to Helsingfors, Leningrad and
Moscow.
Of the one hundred to which the
party is limited there are still reser-
vations open, and those who are lured
by the prospect of trip to the U. s.
S. R., must apply at once at SO Fifth
Avenue, New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09

insidious motives. The meeting was
held on an empty lot adjoining the
square despite the aggravation of
Major Robertson, etc
The above Incidents are no doubt
insignificant compared to the legion's
reactionary activities elsewhere. We
only have to reflect bit and think
of their role as strikebraakers and
red-baiters and murderers Of militant
workers. These fascist are as brutal
as their brothers in Italy.
I urge all workers to communicate
with The DAILY WORKER and
make public the legion's dark activi-
ties in their respective sections so
that their role may be seen in its true
perspective.
w. SHAINACK.
Buffalo, New York
September Z, 1927.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09

Vanzetti, join the IRA, strengthen its
ranks, build up mighty wall against
the continuation of the crimes of
bourgeois class justice and the White
Terror. Join your voices to those Of
the IRA!
Down with bourgeois class justice!
Down with the bloody system of
exterminating the champions of lib
erty!
Down with the White Terror!
Free the political prisonersl
Demand unrestricted rights of
sanctuary!
Long live the solidarity of all work
ers in the fight against bourgeois
class justice and the White Terror.
Long live the International Red
Aid!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
Soviet Union About
Ready for Enormous
Building Contract

MOSCOW, Sept. S.-The Soviet
Union government has virtually
reached an agreement with American
interests for a concession involving
$75,000,000 for steel manufacture and
general construction work, it was au-.
thoritatively learned here today The
concession breaks all existing records
for size.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09

from a Buffalo worker.
The incidents described are mild
examples of legionnaire fascism
thruout the country The record of
the legion is far mora vicious in cen
ters of heavy industry.
Workers thruout the country are
urged to send accounts of their ex-
periences with the legion to The
DAILY WORKER at once.
Text of Letter
Editor, Daily Worker,
Dear Comrades,
The infamous acts of the American
Legion are far-reaching and in
furious to the American working
class. Their position as retains to
the black-guards of American pluto
crazy is monstrously wicked and de-
vastating. From Maine to California,
turnout the north and south, labor
and progress has immeasurably suf-
fered from the tyranny of these
champions of American "pay-triot-
ism," instigated and financed by en-
ploying open-shoppers of America.
In this connection allow me to
bring to you and your readers at
tention the following incident. This
happened in Buffalo in 1924. A
speaker of the "Proletarian Party"
was addressing a meeting at a public
square. He spoke of the enormous
sums spent for the maintenance of
army and navy.
Break Up Meeting.
While he was speaking a few le-
gionnaires began heckling him. He
paid no attention to them.
Failing to provoke him the legion
naires withdrew and consulted. They
left the place and in a few minutes
they returned to the scene dressed in
their uniforms and helmets.
Without further discussion, they
rushed up to the stand, dragged down
the speaker, and after destroying all
of the literature at the meeting, beat
up the speaker. The police, as usual,
vanished or proved hard of hearing
atEthe time.
SwivelChair Combatants.
4 That this was a prearranged move
WAS proved the following day. The
legion, headed by Major Robertson,
who served as a swivel-chair COM
Blatant during the war, brought a
resolution before the city council on
the following morning, to forbid radi-
cal speakers from holding meetings
in public thorofares. Fortunately all
radicals and progressives formed a
united front and after a public hear
ing the council defeated the resolu-
ton.
During the Sacco-Vanzetti cam
paign, the legion again took up the
cudgel of reaction. The city admin
istration due to the energetic activity
of the Emergency Committee, as well
as the popular sympathy for the two
workers, behaved decently during the
campaign. Mass demonstrations were
held thruout the city, without police
interference. That fact, however, ag-
gravated the lackeys of Major Rob
ertson and his cohorts and they filed
complaints with the city fathers to
that effect.
Fought SaccO-Vanzetti.
They eventually succeeded in pro-
voking the park commissioner to pre-
vent the use of Mckinley Square for
the August 23rd demonstration.
Fortunately, this time too we were
successful in defeating the legion's
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
Abandoning Hunt for
Hearst's "Old Glory

Continued from Page One)
of priest mounted on barrel at
the start, would make this flight a
success at least.
The failure of this latest publicity
stunt is exerting a demoralizing in
fluence over other trips planned, tho
it did not stop the transatlantic
plane Sir John CARING from setting
out for Ireland This plane, also
feared to be lost, started before it
was known that the Old Glory was
in trouble.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
Moroccan Earthquake.

Madrid, Sept. 8.-A severe earth
quake Of eight seconds duration was
felt at Alhucemas, Morocco, at IL
o'clock this morning, reports here
said. Houses were shaken, but no
casualties were reported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
Junkers Quit.

DESSAU, Germany, Sept. S.-The
Junkers airplane pilots virtually
abandoned their plane today to make
a second attempt to fly across the
Atlantic, as a result Of the apparent
disaster to Old Glory.
The Junkers plane Bremen has been
held here in readiness for a hopoff
for 10 days, the pilots awaiting favor
able weather.
1t is understood that the~Junkers
pilots may now attempt a nonstop
flight to Toxic, postponing the trip
to America until next year~when
giant tripe-motored air pullman"
will be used.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
Canadian Plane Overdue.

LONDON, Sept 8.-The Sir John
CARING, Canadian monoplane bound
from Windsor, Ontario, for England,
was enthusiastically awaited here to-
day, but as time wore on and no news
~'as received, anxiety grew.
No report has been received from
ships in the planes course, but the
machine is believed to be winging
speedily toward its goal, which the
filters, Captain Terry FULLY and Lieut..
James Medcalf, hoped to reach be-
fore noon today.
Lighthouses and coastguard sta
tons on the English coast were keep
ing sharp lookout Tor the plane.
The population planned a great re-
ception for the 1liers If The journey
is successfully completed.
Weather conditions over the Irish
Coast are most unTavorabie. a heavy
rain fell ali night long and showed no
signs OF aDaung TO-DAY. Inc SKY IS
overcast and misty and Visibility IS
low. The winas are moderate and
westerly.
The Sir John earnings route is
over the area where the monoplane
st. Raphael, with Capital Leslie
Hamilton, Lieut.. Col. +. +. Minchin
OF the british Royal Air Force, and
the Princess Lowenstein- Wertheim
ABOARD, is believed to have crashed
into the sea. The filters planned to
keep sharp lookout for some trace
OF the st. Raphael, which disappeared
after it left Upayon, England, on an
attempted flight to ottawa, Canada.
Two ships were supposed to have
been directly in the path of the Sir
John CARING the first 500 miles of
its flight across the Atlantic. They
were the S. S. Newfoundland and the
Furness liner Nova Scotia. The New
foundland arrived at st. Johns, N.
F., last night, without having sighted
the plane. No word has been heard
from the Nova Scotia, which is be-
ieved to be participating in the
search for Old Glory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
eRoyaI windsor waits Fair weather

HARBOR GRACE, N. F., Sept. s.
The Royal Windsor, the monoplane
in which C. A. "Duke Schiller and
Phil wood are attempting flight
from Windsor, Ontario, to Windsor,
England, was poised on the runway
here today, awaiting a favorable
weather report before taking off on
the transatlantic hop.
Wood and Shiller, who arrived here
late yesterday from Old Orchard,
Maine, said they hoped to start their
delayed flight today if weather con-
ditions permit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
Levine Hesitates.

The projected flight of Charles
Levine to New York in the mono
plane Columbia was again postponed
today because Of reports of unfavor-
able weather over the Atlantic.
Levine stated that he will stay here
until September 18th in the hope Of
getting favorable weather for the re-
turn trip.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
Red Aid Appeal.


The executive committee Of the In
ternational Red Aid publishes the fol
lowing appeal;
The incredible has happened. All
humanity is stupefied with horror at
this cruel and brutal murder. Sacco
and Vanzetti have been executed! For
seven long years the American bour-
geoisie and its paid judges have
fought their lying and despicable
fight against the lives Of these two
men. From the first moment of their
arrest bourgeois class justice had
made up its mind about them, and
was resolved that they should end
in the electric chair. The class judges
of the American bourgeoisie have
sought every Imaginable pretext, the
weakest and most threatbare of sub
sanitation, in their efforts to throw
a veil of Justice" over their manip-
ulation of the law But humanity,
whose feeling of right has never be-
fore been so brutally trodden under
foot as in this case of Sacco and
Vanzetti, has torn the mask of hy-
pocrisy from the face of American
class justice. The cry of indignation
at the preparation for the judicial
murder of Sacco and Vanzetti rose
from millions of threats. And the
cry # Indignation at the savage
challenge of the American class exc
cutloners is again a cry of millions,
a cry of realization that here two
human beings have been murdered
whose lives belonged to the fight for
freedom, and have therefore been
sacrificed to the imperialist execu-
TONERS.
Judges Deaf.
The so-called Judges" have re,
manned deaf to all appeals. All over
the world the ambassadors and con-
suls of the United States Of Amer
lea, stigmatized by the shame of this
deliberate and Systematically pre-
pared murder, have been forced to
hide their faces before every right
thinking human being.
Two innocent victims have breathed
Inelf last IN the electric chair In
order that American class justice
might be freed from two witnesses
of their disgraceful penal system.
The American executioners have
hoped to dam the tide of indignation
and anger all over the world by the
mean artifice of first executing Sacco
and Vanzetti and then announcing
the accomplished fact.
All of you who have been witnesses
Of this deed of bloodthirsty class JUS
tice, remember that the case of Sacco
and Vanzetti is no exceptional case,
but represents the system of bour-
geois class justice Thousandfold are
the victims who have been condemned
to death, with or without the aid of
Justice" Tens of thousands of men
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
LEGION TRIED TO Prevent SACCO-
vANzETTI MEETINGS IN BUFFALO, N. Y.
Worker Describes Activities of American
Fascists in Letter to DAILY"

few incidents typical of the aborhating red batting
vities of the American Legion described
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
Courtney DELAYS.

CoRUNNA, Spain, Sept. s.--Frank
T. Courtney, British airman, today
postponed his hopoff for the Azores as 1
the result of unfavorable weather.
forecasts
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Fought Sacco-Yanzetti.

They eventually succeeded in pro-
voking the park commissioner to pre-
vent the use of Mckinley Square for
the August 23rd demonstration.
Fortunately, this time too we were
successful in defeating the legion's
The Washington times., 1927-11-25
Macy Relief SOciety'S Ball
Brilliant and Beautiful

box party, with members or their
Thanksgiving house party among
their guests; and through the
early evening Mrs. Wilbur was in
the receiving line with Mrs. Ed
ward w. Eberle, the very
efficient chairman of the ball
committee, Mrs. Arthur Willard,
Mrs. John A. Lejeune and Mrs.
Charles McVay.
A DMIRAL and Mrs. Eberle
"A were in Secretary and Mrs.
Wilbur's box party, after having
dined with Mrs. James Carroll
Frazer. Mrs. Frazer also had box
and had among her guests Gen.
eral Ferrie, of the French Radio
telegraph conference delegation
very distinguished in his horizon
blue uniform-Mrs. John B. Hen.
derson and Mrs. Thomas f.
Bayard. The Minister Of Switzer.
land and Nine. Peter Joined the
group for a while and so did
Capt. and Nine. Edmond Willm,
of the French embassy, who
seemed, however, to spend most
of the evening among the dancers.
The indefatigable Mrs. Charles
Boughton Wood had a box party,
so did Mrs. Robert Henderson.
Indeed. the boxes which lined both
sides of the ballroom. were filled
with distinguished men and WON.
en- enjoying the gay scene.
Supper was served at midnight
in the small ballroom, a real
honest-to-goodness supper, which
tempted them to linger in animated
groups over their coffee and
cigarettes.
=
The first meeting Of the Mas.
sachusetts Society for the sa"-
son was held at the Washington
Club on Tuesday evening, p~p...,
of the O'Connor School of Elk
preston presenting the pro-
gram. Representative Edith
Nourse Rogers is president of
the society. al