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The Coconino sun., 1927-10-07
Missouri Makes
Corncob Pipes
By the Million

Another $4,000 corncob pipes were
made today in Franklin county, Mo.
That, however, is not news, for that
number is turned out every day in the
year. Thirty million of the tobacco
incinerators, in $50 varieties, are
made each year for distribution in
this country and all parts of the
world
The industry is almost as typical
ly Missourian as Embarrassing, for
only in this state and county does
the BUSINESS flourish. The cobs must
come from selected seed and long
growing corn. .Seventy-five carloads
are used every year; the cobs are
sorted, cut, bored and polished by the
most modern mechanical methods.
Some of the choicest cobs are treat
ed by as many as % operations and
bring good price on the market.
President Harding smoked the larg
est cob pipe ever made-the bowl be-
ing two and one-half inches in dia-
meter.
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that the women folks were beginning
to get fed up on the job, and insisting
that the men should help them out.
Now, you know from wide experience
just what man will do when you put
a job of hard work in front of him.
His dislike for the job itself is only
equalled by his love for tinkering out
some kind of machine that will do
it for him. To this combination,
without doubt, although history is ST.
lent on the point, this enlightened
twentieth century owes the great
laundry industry in particular.
The modern power laundry, with
rainsoft water, pure, neutral soaps,
washes the white clothes in from four
to five suds (Which is three or four
more than they get at home) rinses
them in five or six hot and cold water
rinses (which is also three or four
more than they get at home); steril-
ICES them with the same chlorine that
makes drinking water safe and cures
President Coolidge's cold, rinses out
every trace of anything but the purest
of pure water, so that the last rinse
is actually cleaner than the water you
drink from the city mains; whirls
them dry in spinning baskets that
hold them steadily in one place, as
with powerful hands, until the flat
work is dry enough to iron in the flat
work ironers, the largest of which,
with complete crew of eighteen, can
iron as many as six sheets minute.
These flat-work ironers are wider
than the sheets, and therefore, as the
sheets are fed between the great
softly padded rolls and the polished
ironing surfaces of the 1roners, there
are run along with them at the side
towels, pillow cases, and other flat
pieces, with separate feeders on one
side Of the machine and takers-off on
the other. These and other machines
are carefully guarded to prevent in
jury to the operators.
By the way, you are mistaken about
the meaning of the term "mangle" in
a laundry. 1t comes from the Dutch
word "mangelen,' which means ito
roll with rolling pin" The ancient
processes of ironing were performed
on just about that principle, and in
the modern machines there have been
substituted metal cylinders, heated, in
place of wooden ones, and padded rolls
to press the fabric smoothly up
against the heated surfaces. Laun-
dries dislike the term "mangle," and
most of them have discarded it. They
say "flat-work ironers" instead, and
through these machines can be passed
tissue paper without injury.
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There are special shirt, collar,
handkerchief and garment presses in
modern laundries, as well as batteries
of hand ironers who turn out the
most exquisite work on fine pieces.
There are steam-heated curtain dry
ers, holding two curtains at time,
on opposite sides, not with blood
thirsty hooks, like the home equipment
has, but with rows of rustless metal
brushes along the sides that catch the
delicate edges of the curtains and hold
them smoothly until dry. While one
curtain is being dried on one side,
another one is being adjusted on the
other. There are seven machines
used in ironing shirt, besides touch
ing up by hand, and collar goes
through some twenty-three processes,
including collection and delivery, and
requires eleven machines for ironing
alone, including one that polishes out
side edges, and another that polishes
the folded edge, thus silencing forever
the slander that laundries put saw
edges on collars Scientific test has
proven that it is the beard of the
wearer that sharpens collars, and that
| collars last more than twice as long
when not used between launderings.
The editor of the New York World
said in a recent editorial, entitled
''The Man With the Apron" that men
are taking the place of women very
effectively in the routine of home
labor, and opening up the careers that
women are coming to love, through
| the various industries that had been
established to do the work formerly
| done by women. He added that "The
steam laundry, manned in part by
males, has easily done as much for the
emancipation of women as the suf-
/ frage amendment"
| Mrs. Elizabeth Macdonald, Of the
department of consumer research,
Boston university, says:
I aside from the weight of tradition,
there is no fundamental argument for
washing at home. From social
point of view it means extra expense,
and from an individual standpoint
much waste of labor. Laundry is a
portable problem. 1t can be bundled
up, transported, and delivered to the
customer as easily as department
store package. With increased scien-
tific knowledge, careful processes
overcome the objections of lessened
durability. Also, increased patronage
lowers laundry prices. From the
larger economic point of view, the
commercial laundry will be supported
by the progressive woman who wants
| to see home work brought to higher
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-07
level of harmony with our present in
dustrial development"

| am the laundry man. come
Around each week and get the wash,
And, if I'm rather glum,
have a right to be, b'gosh.
I've come around certain day
For six or seven seasons steady;
1t doesn't matter anyway,
They seldom have the laundry ready.
"They also serve who stand and wait, !"
Once Milton said, and, if it's true,
The laundry service must be great,
For that's the biggest thing we do.
A FELLOWSHIP she has to get,
She has to run and find teddy,
/ seldom saw a woman yet
Who ever had the laundry ready.
The Day of Judgment will occur
Some morning, am sure Of that,
But / am worried over her,
The woman in the second flat.
Although on high she'd like to go,
Although her faith is strong and
steady,
She'll have no snowwhite garments
though
She didn't get her laundry ready.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-07
The Fights Over but They're Still Counting

The Dempsey-Tunney battle for
the heavyweight championship OF
the world went into history when
Tunney's hand was held high in the
air after their ten rounds of fierce
battling at Soldiers Field, Chicago.
But Dempsey fans still are arguing
over that "long count" that Tunney
got in the seventh round. They say
the referee did not begin to count
until Tunney had been on the floor
for at least four seconds. Leo P.
Flynn, acting for Dempsey, filed
protest with the Illinois boxing
commission, but the plea was de-
MED, it being held that Dempsey
should have retired to a neutral
corner sooner, in accordance with
the rules. To the left Tunney is
shown on the floor in the seventh
round, and the referee has not be-
gun to count. Below, it's Jacks
turn to hit the canvas, but the for
mer champion stayed down only for
the count of one. Tunney is willing
to fight Dempsey again, and Tex
Rickard says he is willing to pro-
mote such bout, provided Demp-
sey proves the right first by meet
ing other good Onu0nantS
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-07
History of The American
Laundry Industry

our times who wash their own" would
agree with the ancient inscriptions.
So would the poor souls who "take in
washing" to do for their more FORUM
ate neighbors.
In Roman civilization, the fullers
did such laundering as was done, and
they derived their title, not from the
laundering or cleaning process, but
because it was their job to "full' the
wooden cloth-that is, to shrink it up
so that it wouldn't shrink any more
with wear and washing. Their power
machinery consisted of their feet and
hands.
They conditioned the new cloth from
the loom, as we'll as the soiled gar
ments for cleansing. We suspect that
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A Talk by Henry Albers before Flag
staff Rotary Club on October

Like many other great industries,
in America especially. the power laun-
dry was designed to take the place of
woman labor in the home. Most of
these other industries have to do with
the spinning, weaving and dyeing of
textiles, and with the preparation or
preserving of food, as in the baking
and canning industries.
Laundering is as old as civilization,
and in the earliest records on the sub
ject, taken from Egyptian tombs Of
about the time Joseph was sold into
Egypt by his brothers, it is shown
as the work of slaves. The women of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-13
FARMER -LABORITE
CONF ERENCE WILL
MEET XMAS week
To Discuss 1928 Ticket;
National Meeting Later

ST. PAUL, Sept. 12.-During the
Christmas holidays a conference in
st. Paul or Minneapolis Ct delegates
from states with farmer labor organ
izations will lay plans for a national
Farmer-I.abor ticket to run against
the republican and democratic tickets
in the 1923 presidential campaign. The
conference is called by the Minnesota
Farmer-Labor Assn. which met in St.
Paul to discuss the state and national
situation.
National Convention In Spring.
Invitations will go only to such
states in the northwest, west and
southwest as have shown farmer or
labor political strength in recent
years. The eastern states, whose third
party showing has been negligible,
will not be invited to the December
conference. But it is expected that
call will then be issued for a con-
vention on a national basis to meet in
the spring which will formally place
the presidential Farmer-Labor ticket
in the field,
No candidates loom as likely timber
at the present moment though there
is some talk of U. S. Sen. George W.
Norris Of Nebraska, nominally a re-
publican but actually active as an
agrarian and foe of the private hydro
electric monopoly.
Minnesota farmer-labor problems
occupied most of the time of the meet
ing. Henrik Shipstead, the only
Farmer-Laborite in the U. S. senate,
who is rumored in hostile quarters to
be flirting with the republican party
in connection with the 1928 senatorial
campaign, was unable to attend but
sent his greetings. A resolution, was
passed requiring candidates for office
to file as Farmer-Laborites if they
wish Farmer-Labor Endorsement. Can
didates must also state Farmer-Labor
affiliation in their campaign litera-
ture or the Endorsement, if already
given, will be withdrawn.
Would Tax Industry.
The conference declared in favor of
a state income tax, increased state tax
on iron ore to make the steel trust
bear its share of public burdens, NUM-
cipal home rule, lower prices to farm
ers on state prison products like bind
er Irvine and guaranty of bank de-
posits. On national issues it demand
ed repeal of the federal reserve act,
passage of the McNary- Haugen farm
relief bin, repeal of the guarantee to
railroad investors in the transporta-
ton act and an end to the govern
ment's use of force to further the in
terests of American investors in for
eign lands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-13
Weak Evidence" in
Bomb Frame-up May
Delay Indictments

The scarcity of evidence against the
six young Latin-Americans whom the
police department are frantically try
ing to connect with the bomb explosion
near the Brooklyn court house last
Monday morning has resulted again
in decision on the part of District
Attorney Dodd to postpone his request
for indictments.
Dodd had announced that he would
ask the grand jury for the indict-
ments this morning, but has decided
to wait until Wednesday or Thursday.
At the same time he declared that
call the evidence was in" with the
exception of the report of the chem
lists on some "white liquid" found in
the rooms of one of the men.
This report was said to have been
ready last week, but due to the fact
that it is reported to have been I'M
favorable to the prosecution, it was
not made public.
Only two Of the defendants, Jesus
de Silva and Julian de Hoyas are di-
rectly charged with the explosion. The
others are charged with possessing
explosives" carrying concealed wea-
pons," etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-13
Workers Organizations
Discuss Press Bazaar
At Irving Plaza Rally

Fifty organizations met in Irving
Plaza recently and discussed the
question of the National Press Bazaar
being held in Madison Square Gar
den on October 6, 7, 8, and 8.
Women's Councils from New York
and New Jersey reported that Sew
ing Circles had been formed and that
many fine useful articles will be
ready for the wonderful booths be-
ing arranged by their general body.
Horticulturists will be pleased to
know that regular Horticultural
Booth is being arranged by Leo King
of Section No. /.
Capmakers, Millinery, Raincoatmak-
ers, Jewellers, Shirt Makers, ETC., all
declared that booths were being ar
ranged by their respective trades.
Workmen Circle delegates reported
on the distribution of Red Honor
Rolls. Much has been done and prob
ably few booths will be arranged.
1t was reported that Unity House
had set aside a substantial sum of
money for supplies of a comprehen-
sive booth carrying full lines of all
the seasons best garments. etc.
Workers Clubs from various dis
tricts declared their intention to have
booths worthy of a National Bazaar.
The fact that only four more weeks
are left till the Bazaar was stressed
by many delegates and an urgent APP
peal made for intensive activity from
now on until then. Bazaar Commit
tees are formed in every organization
and those organizations not at the
Bazaar are urged to follow suit
Labor's press depends upon the Baz-
aar, putting it on its feet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-13
COAL BARONS SPREAD ANTI-UNION PROPAGANDA
IN ANTHRACITE; MINE WORKERS FACE HUNGER

stormy as accusations fly back and
forth.
Slack time still hangs like a pail
over the anthracite region. Money is
tight, and long days give men plenty
of time to reflect on empty purses,
and hungry families. The strain Gre
ates psychology that is ideal for
the dark purposes of the operator
whose greatest enemy is the miners
union. -..... ...
Familiar whistles keep silent on
idle days. But the squeak of boots
on the street can be heard as some
men pass on their way to work. These
men have been issued permits by the
committeeman, granting them the
right to perform emergency work. By
emergency work is understood such
work as, if delayed, might prevent
the coliery from starting up when
such orders come in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-13

SHENANDOAH, Pa, Sept. H.
Anthracite operators plotting the
gradual disintegration of the United
Mine Workers of the anthracite
have begun different set Of tactics.
Their colliery superintendent are
spreading ISLANDERS among the miners
in gangways and, breasts about the
mine committee men, who, according
to these rumors, accept brides, show
partialities, and under certain cir
cumstances, '1ay down on the job"
The superintendent floating these
vicious reports usually size up their
mon, before talking. AS rule they
pick out men who. seldom attend
union meetings, and express more
concern for their button than for the
union. These men fall easy dupes to
false stories, causing the innocent
committeeman much trouble, and MAX
ing local union sessions frequently
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-13
Young Workers Mass
Meeting on Friday to
Protest Mi|itariSnl

The effort to foist compulsory mill
tary training upon the young work
ers of the country will be one Of the
problems discussed at a mass meeting
of young workers at So Liberty Ave,
Brooklyn, Friday evening. The meet
ing will mark the beginning of the fall
organization drive of the Young
Workers League, under whose auspices
the meeting will be held.
The refusal Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor officialdom and the
socialist party to work for the or
ganization of young workers thruout
the United States will also be dis
cussed at the meeting
Herbert Fam, H. Enrich, Sam Don,
all of the Young Workers League,
and Anthony Bimba, representing the
Workers (Communist) Party will be
the speakers. R. Spector will act as
chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-13
HEARING or MILK
CRAFT EVIDENCE
MONDAY MORNING.
Bring Charges Against
Few Higher-Ups

The evidence gathered in the Kelby
report against the small fry involved
in the giant milk fraud that has
boosted sky-high the price of milk
for New York workers is >being pre-
pared by District Attorney Banton.
That even small fry will be indicted
is regarded as doubtful by persons
who have closely followed the milk
situation. The higher-ups escaped
censure in the Kelby report.
The John Doe hearings which will
take place before Supreme Court JUS
tice Tompkins next Monday morning,
will cover charges of graft in the
Health Department, including graft
in milk, butter, cream and cheese.
Favor By Producers.
A number of officials have already
been convicted for having accepted
brides for the importation of milk
and cream, below the department of
health standards.
The investigation will cover the
record of the Health Department dur
ing the Hylan administration. Hylan
issued counter-charges against the
present administration asserting that
it was excluding milk that came from
producers other than few favored
by the administration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-13
Celebrate OIgin'S
Twenty-Five Years
in Labor Movement

The celebration of the 18th an
niversary of M. ]. Olgin's revolu-
tionary and literary activities will
take place this coming Saturday
evening at Carnegie Hall.
For the first time, the Freiheit
Singing Society and the Freiheit
Mandolin Orchestra will appear in a
united program.
The well-known Jewish artists of
the Jewish stage, Maurice Schwartz,
Jacob Ben-Ami, Bertha Kalish, will
participate in the program. Nina
Wolf, violinist will play. Leaders of
the American labor movement will
greet Olgin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-13
ALL-UNION PARTY
.ExPELS FIVE OF
OPPOSING GROUP

MOSCOW, Sept. IL. - Several
members Of the opposition have been
excluded from the All-Union Com
munist Party by decisions of the Cen
trail Control Commission and the
Leningrad Provincial Control Com
mission because IF their persistence
in following aEti-Leninist tactics and
because they defended the discredited
and repudiated platform of fifteen"
They were eliminated from the Party
because they are considered degener-
ated elements who place factionalism
above every other consideration.
Pravda, in publishing the decisions
of the Control Commissions, refers in
particular to Dashkovsky who sent to
the editor for publication "Bolshe-
vik" article defending the fractional
platform now rejected by the opposi-
ton. The decision declares that
"Dashkovsky at the sessions of the
Central Control Commission refused
to abandon his anti-Leninist views,
therefore he has been excluded from
the Party as a degenerated element,
absolutely hostile to the proletarian
party"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-13
Federal Rum Prober
Faces Suit; Charged
With Cruel Torture

Augustus Heise, former assistant
federal prohibition administrator, is
charged with torturing one of his
subordinates.
Arthur Briggs, former federal
agent, yesterday started suit for
100000 in the supreme court against
Heise. He claims that Heise gave
him the third degree in an effort to
make him confess certain matters.
Briggs, who last year was ac-
quilted of bribery charges says that
Heise, who at that time was attached
to the staff of Major Chester P.
Mills, took him on the night of De-
cember IS, 1926, to prohibition head
quarters, l Park Ave, and kept them
prisoner until eight the next morn
ing. He said that at Heise's order
he was tied to a chair and a towel
wrapped around his face, and that
then they began twisting the towel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-13
Wife and 3 Children
Starving, Unemployed
Worker Steals S2.95

His wife and three children facing
starvation and eviction from his base
ment ROOM, Arthur Sandoval, "a, I'M
employed dishwasher snatched a
purse from Anna Howard Sunday af-
ternoon. Sandoval, who lives with his
wife and undernourished children at
229 West 23d St., faces a charge of
grand larceny.
The purse taken by Sandoval con-
tanned only $2.95, but he faces a long
jail term if convicted. The unem-
ployed worker told the police that his
rent was overdue and that he was
forced to extreme measures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-13
Wreck Of Old Glory
Is Found Near Spot
Where She Vanished

The wreck of the monoplane "Old
Glory" was found late yesterday af-
ternoon in the north Atlantic.
The following radio message was
received here from the S. S. Kyle,
Canadian government steamer which
was chartered by the Daily Mirror to
search for the missing plane:
Located wreck of Old Glory,
latitude Silly, north; longitude 1928
west, at 1920 p. m. But no sign of
crew. Particulars follow"
Muir, is Douglas Muir, st. Johns,
Newfoundland newspaper man who is
aboard the S. S. Kyle as repre-
sentative of the Daily Mirror, the
newspaper of which Philip Payne,
who was aboard the i'll fated "Old
Glory" was managing editor.
The location given in the dispatch
is in the vicinity from where the S.
O. S. from Old Glory was received
when she vanished more than a week
ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-13
Babe Ruth
WaIIOpGd CrippIe;
Police Wouldn't Act

Babe Ruth, baseball's most popular
idol was brot to court yesterday
charged with cowardly hitting a
cripple.
Bernard Neimeyer recently out of
a hospital where he was treated for
fracture of his spine, told
Magistrate Stern in the West Side
Court that on July 4th the bambino
hit him in the eye. When Neimeyer
demanded that traffic cop arrest
the ball player, he refused on recog-
nizing him.
Neimeyeh said that he was looking
into a window of a restaurant at
Broadway and 74th street, when two
young women passed him. Ruth,
followed few steps behind them.
did this guy insult YOU, the
cripple said the Babe asked one of
them.
"Why no." he quoted one of them
as replying.
Without another word, Neimeyer
said, Ruth swung on his heel and
hit him in the eye. ~-,.-.
81 was stunned" said Neimeyer,
"and at first l didn't recognize who
had struck me. l recovered enough
to run to the traffic cop on the
corner. He walked over with me but
when he saw the Babe he told me he
had no time to make an arrest and
advised me to get summons"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-13
Start Offensive to
Defeat I.L.G.W. Rights

Continued from Page One)
Square Garden meeting has been the
one absorbing topic of conversation
among the cloak and dressmakers.
Foolish Statement.
A great deal of merriment has been
caused by Sigman's statement which
appeared in the press on Sunday, in
which he claimed that the Joint
Board had filled the Garden by bring
ing people from New Jersey and
Connecticut. The workers realize
that only a desperate man could
make such a ridiculous statement.
The workers are expressing graft
fication over the fact that the Joint
Board has begun this present often
sive, and great masses of them are
coming to the Joint Board offices and
paying their dues so that the Joint
Board will not be lacking in funds.
The Joint Board is continuing it's
propaganda campaign along the same
lines as last week. A leaflet was dis
tributed in the market yesterday call
ing for the election of shop commit
tees, and reminding the workers that
the best way of protecting their in
terests in the shops is that there
should be unity in their own ranks.
The leaflet calls upon the workers
to continue not to pay dues to Sic
man and his agents, but to pay dues
to the Joint Board so that the
pogrom can be finished before an
other season passes.