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STRIK EBREAKERS

'The time is rapidly arriving-ir
the older trade unions has already ar
rived-when the fact that a workman
is non-unionist is prima facie evil
dence that he is also an incompetent, y
declares David Evans, editor of the
International Engineer, the official or
gan of the International Union of
Steam and Operating Engineers.
"Non-union labor is usually over
worked and underpaid labor.
"The very instinct of self-preserva-
ton, therefore, justifes the union
workman in condemning the strike
breaker.
"The strikebreaker occupies in the
industrial world a position precisely
analogous to that of the regenade and
traitor
"He represents type of man uni
versally condemned in any other
sphere of human activity.
"He sells himself for less than the
thirty pieces of silver, but too often
lacks the grace which caused Iscariot
to go and hang himself.
"He commits the objectionable sin
of betraying his fellows.
"He purloins that to which he has
no claim and is the one stumbling
block in the path of the onward ad-
vance of the wage earners.
"The attempt to make him respec-
table reflects discredit upon those en-
gagged in it.
"For all practical purposes in civil
lized lands, we may hold that the test
of the Golden Rule furnishes a suf-
fciently accurate measurement of the
morality of any present-day code of
action.
IF the code does not meet the test,
it is not moral, no matter if it be
legal.
"How does the act of the strike
breaker square with the sublime in
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CUBA FOR CUBANs? PERHAPS!

Just as President Machado, of Cuba,
completes the job of getting himself
made dictator until 1882, without an
election, and with absolute powers
there comes another item of news that
will give Cubans something to think
about
A nephew of President Machado
has been appointed vice president
of the Chase National Bank, one of the
big New York financial houses
heavily interested in Cuba.
This appointment may mean nothing
at all except that an ambitious young
man is rising in the world, by his
own sterling character. But, on the
other hand, it may mean much more
than that. Every reader can write
his own last paragraph for this edi-
tOrial.
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The Cherry
" Where with our
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
f0undly, sometimes fippantl-.
sometimes recklessly.

The capital of the United States
has recently put itself through its
handsomest PAGES for one Gerardo
Machado, president and boss of the
so-called Republic Of Cuba, and, can
didly speaking, Washington, D. c.,
ought to be ashamed of itself.
Boss Machado came on his delayed
visit to Washington and New York
and found the solid gold plate all ready
for him, the military escort all brush
ed up and the high hats furnished and
busted. 1t was great show and it
all goes to show that Washington
rates men by their titles and not by
their characters.
There were banquets, receptions,
luncheons and what-nots, and nobody
knows what goings on and "con-
ferences" not on the published cal
endar.
Washington would never be dis
courteous to distinguished" visi-
tor. Not under any circumstances.
But, to speak plainly, as the philoso-
pliers say one should do, to render
homage to this dictator was to insult
the Cuban people whom he dominates
and over whom he tyrannizes until the
last shred of freedom has gone from
their midst.
Why is it that Washington, D. c.,
must toady to every tyrant that comes
along, just because he happens to
rate rank in some public office?
Doesn't the matter Of how he got that
office cut any figure? Doesn't his con-
duct in that office make any differ
ence?
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS

| Mates, the sad truth is, it does not.
And it was not only the official plug
hats of Washington, D. c., that jam
med their way into the reception lines
to grab the fat paw of this tyrant.
There were others on hand who should
have been bowling to high heaven
about the outrages which he has COM
mitted. And that's a fact, let the
chips fall in whatever basket may be
handy for them.
Is it so soon forgotten that this
amazing boss has put out of business
every free trade union in Cuba, that
he has deported, exiled and imprison-
ed scores of men for daring to be
union men, and that under his Caesar
like domination of the Pearl of the
Antilles assassination of workmen and
their leaders has been as blithly re-
sorted to as though human life were
commodity to be dispensed for the
amusement of the paying customers
Are these things so easily forgotten?
Apparently they are, for Gerardo
Machado, who once was vice presi-
dent of subsidiary of General Elec-
trio in Cuba, came to the American
capital and was feted and recepted
and waltzed around like a returning
hero with record of purity and valor
and great public service.
Does democracy have to parade such
rank and rotten hypocrisy? Does this
opera bouffe dictator have to be shown
the kindness and the respect and the
courtesy due an honorable visitor? !?
Is there no difference between visi-
tors !?
Or, was all this show staged with
fingers crossed? If that was the case
then the shame of it is the more sting
ing, the more disgrace.
For the high hats of the Coolidge
administration to trot out the sol
diers and the bands and the dinner
brigade was to have been expected,
for the Coolidge crowd knows its own
and no mistake about that. Machado
is friend of the New York bankers,
and so is the Honorable Calvin Cool
idge.
But did Secretary of Labor James
J. Davis have to rush in as relief man
and stage a luncheon? Did the Pan
American Union have to stage its
great ballyhoo? Did others whose al
legiance is to humanitarian ideals
have to parade and gable and bow
and scrape to this Cuban imitator of
Mussolini and de Rivera, this brother
of Weyler? Rats!
We have seen something the smell
of which will long linger to taint the
air. But here is one small voice that
does not join in chanting psalms and
singing hymns of welcome to the de-
stroyer of the freedom of the Cuban
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LET THE BIRDS LIVE

Science has come to the rescue of
many industries that faced injury or
determination. The invention of
cheap, sure metal extraction from
ores has remade the world; cheap
transportation has prevented indus
trial stagnation. Electricity has per-
mitted the performance of more prodi-
gies in the past generation than all
the wand-waving magicians of history.
But science is still one jump behind
on one of the most important prob
lens of American life-the eradication
of the white beetle that has so ravaged
the sugar beet fields of the nation,
and has stopped beet growing in many
once important districts.
The scientist who can find way to
eradicate this white plague, may con-
fer a greater economic blessing on
America than if he had found and an
nexed a new continent.
Incidentally, the beet fly seems to
be immune to bird attack. But many
other insects are not; the birds are
their one great check The country
has ignorantly killed off it's bird life,
until it is a close race between man
and the bugs as to which shall con-
troll.
Birds are the cheapest, surest, SAT-
est, most attractive remedies for most
insect infestations. 1t is more than
sentiment that calls for bird protec-
ton; it is the knowledge that without
them the country may be smothered by
crawling, flying, burrowing bugs, in
sects and worms that birds would
gladly destroy, if we'd only let the
birds live.
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DONNELLY HERE

Thos. J. Donnelly, secretary of the
Ohio State Federation of Labor, was
a visitor in Hamilton, Tuesday. After
a hard winters work looking after
Legislation in Columbus beneficial to
the working men and women of Ohio,
Tom left his home town for a few
days jaunt While in Hamilton and
Cincy, his old home town, he called
on many of his friends and associates.
The Hamilton friends always enjoy
visit from Tom and we feel that
Tom feels the same way about it..
Donnelly left early Wednesday MORN
ing for Columbus, and by now is tax
ing up his official duties just where
he left off before making the trip.
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junction, DO unto others is ye would
have them do unto you?
"By what tortuous logic can it be
asserted that the man who, from sell
fish personal interest, seeks to profit
by the industrial difficulties of his
fellow-men, is acting in accordance
with the Golden Rule?"
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CHRIST FOR ALL-ALL FOR CHRIST
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RULES FOR RIGHT LIVING
Let all bitterness and wrath and
anger and clamor and evil speaking
be put away from you, with all NAL
ice: and be We kind one to another,
tender-hearted, forgiving one another,
even as God for Christ's sake hath
forgiven you. Ephesians 4: 81, 80.
PRAYER Fill our hearts, o
Lord, with thy love wherewith Thou
hast loved US, and then we will think
no evil.
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people. What should have been done !?
The answer is easy. He should have
been stopped at Key West and told to
get the hell out of the United States!
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force lot of ancient laws forbidding
virtually everything except breathing
eating and sleeping on Sunday. Now
Pittsburgh follows suit and makes a
bid for the crown of foolishness by
arresting officers and musicians of the
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra fo1
giving Sunday concert.
Can you beat it! Pittsburgh has its
share of law violations-murders
robberies, assaults and violations of
sanitary, health and child labor laws.
But instead of devoting its entire en-
ergies to preventing and Furnishing
law violations that really matter,
Pittsburgh spends valuable time at
tempting to enforce the Sabbath law
of 1894.
And yet Americans boast of how
up to date they are! They are up to
date in material achievement, but as
long as they fool away time on old
'blue laws" it will be hard for them
to prove they are up to date in their
thinking.
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NEXT!
Prohibition in Canada is going the
way of all unpopular laws. BY vote
of 27 to 20 the legislature in the
province of New Brunswick has voted
to abandon prohibition.
This action is taken to eliminate
hypocrisy, political interference and
private gain"
1t is easier to abandon prohibition
in New Brunswick than in the United
States. Here, the same number of
states that ratified the eighteenth
amendment would have to act favor
ably on a bill to repeal the law.
That will probably not take place,
unless we concur in statement at
tributed to General Grant and act
accordingly. 1t is alleged he once re-
marked that "The best way to get
rid of bad law is to enforce it."
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NOW COMES THE IRON HEEL!
Mussolini scores again. He has just
proclaimed his miscalled Charter of
labor" Under this new regulation
strikes, lockouts and boycotts are for
hidden. Only Fascist unions" may
make lawful agreements with employ
ers. Other union may exist, but
without power or rights.
Any move of protest on the part
of labor is now catalogued as rebel
hon against the state. Labor is nall
ed town, tight.
In every essential this is chattel
slavery, involuntary servitude, and
government without the consent of
the governed.
The territory under the iron heel of
despetism spreads. Today it in i
,ludes Italy, Russia, Spain and Cuba,
as the countries where it is perfected. |
Other nations have less vigorous man.
festations.
What has democracy to say about
t?
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TWISTING THE YELLOW
DOGS TAIL
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DOGS TAIL
| Whether success will crown the
efforts of the three state federations
of labor-Ohio, California and Illinois
that have been heroically fighting to
put the vicious yellow dog contract
out of business it is yet too early to
say.
But the fight has been glorious and
certain substantial gains have been
made. The Ohio attorney general has
handed down an opinion which amply
supports the constitutionality of the
measure. That is something very
much worth having.
And one house of each of two states
has passed the bill, reconsideration
move having failed in both cases. That
is something more worth having. If
this year yields no more than these
gains, there is something very vital
upon which to start in the next ses-
sions.
Perhaps most important of all, how
ever, is the demonstration of what
state federations can do by organi-
zation of their forces, by good gener-
alship and by determination. After
all, the states do have some fields not
yet destroyed by federal invasion, and
in these states federations may plow
with profit. International Labor
News Service.
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MALICIOUS" is NOT THE WORD
President Coolidge, in his New York
speech, condemns newspapers guilty
of partisan" and malicious" attacks
on his foreign policies, cataloguing
them as pro-foreign, which means
nti-American.
While all will agree that malicious
ness where it exists is objectionable,
most folks will assume that the presi-
dent was condemning ALL papers
that attack his policies, and he prob
ably meant that impression to go
abroad
But most American newspapers, in
Guiding all American labor papers,
will resent the idea that criticism
means malice or that it means parti-
sanship.
1t will not get any president any
thing to seek to silence the press.
White House correspondents may be
silenced, but the press itself will not
be silenced. On the contrary, veiled
of improper partisanship
and of malice will only bring on add
ed criticism, and rightly so.
We maintain that criticism of the
policies in Latin Amer
lea, for example, does not imply NAL
ice, but on the contrary may imply a
pretty healthy and decent American
SIN and pretty healthy and decent
regard for human rights, here and in
Latin America.
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PITTSBURGH UP TO DATE?
How some Americans love to waste
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If you believe in unionism, smoke a
SC Standard cigar.
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PITTSBURGH UP TO DATE?
How some Americans love to waste
precious time and energy invoking
"blue laws" that long ago should have
been forgotten by all except students
of history!
A few weeks ago it was South Car
Evening star., 1927-10-14
MARRYING PARS0N"
GUILTY; FINED $500
Attorney for Western Intimates
Appeal Will Be Taken From
Verdict at Elkton.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ELKTON, Md, October 14.-Rich'
ard T. Western, dethroned marrying
parson" here, today was found guilty
by the Cecil County Circuit Court of
performing a marriage ceremony with
ont authority and fined $500 and costs.
Joshua Clayton, his attorney, inti-
mated he would place the case before
the Maryland Court of Appeals.
The verdict of the court was an
nounced by Associate Judge Levin w.
Wickes, who declared Mr.. Westren
was under the jurisdiction of the VIII
mington Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, which Cancelled his
orders as a minister in 1921. With his
orders Cancelled, Judge Wickes ex'
planned, Mr.. Western had no authority
to perform marriages.
Though the legality of the thousand
and some marriage ceremonies Mr..
Western performed from January
to June last, when church authorities
preferred charges against him. was
not decided in the trial. Judge Wickes
said the marriages were legal. He
cited a IieviouS case, which showed
that under the Maryland law mar
riage ceremony was legal Ii, the con-
tracing parties were of the opinion
that the man officiating was q min
lister.
Mr.. Western was convicted on a
charge of performing one specific mar
riage-that Of Allen Dickerson and
Claire Mccall of this county-without
legal authority.
Evening star., 1927-10-14

The new apparatus at the DaIecarIia
Reservoir, which automatically an
nOunCcS the height of water In the
reservoir. 4 regular telephone mum.
ber, known only to the engineers in
charge of the plant, is called from any
point in the DistriCt-say the home of
the chief engineer-the incoming call
causes the hook holding the receiver
to raise automatically and set in mo-
tion a device which announces by
means of buzzing signals the number
of feet of water shown by the gauge
on the reservoir.
Below: Dewey NJ. Radcliffe, the In
Evening star., 1927-10-14

The first church in the new world
was built at Tlaxcala. Mexico. in 1920.
Evening star., 1927-10-14
COURT WRIT ASKED
AGAINST POTOMAC
Alexandrian Seeks Appeal After
Conviction on a Charge of
Intoxication.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
CLARENDON, Va, October a.
Preparing to appeal the ::ese in which
he alleges he was convicted in the
town of Potomac without the formal.
ity of a trial. d. J. Alexander of Alex
andria yesterday petitioned the Cir
cult Court of Arlington County for
writ OF mandamas against the Po-
tomac authorities for surrender Of the
warrant on which he was charged,
which must be in evidence for an APP
peal to be heard.
Should the case go to the higher
court, Alexander. according to his at.
torney. James Reese Duncan. will at
tempt to show that he was arrested
on a charge of alleged intoxicat!on
outside the jurisdiction of the arrest.
Ing officer, Pettigrew of Potomac.
Alexander claims he was arrested in
Alexandria and the pursuit of his au-
tomobile by Pettigrew began outside
the limits of Potomac.
He will also enter a claim, accord
ing to Duncan, that the money taken
Evening star., 1927-10-14
FLYER FACES LOSS OF LICENSE
AFTER PROPELLER KILLS PONY
Stewart ReiSs Also Liable to
Fine as Result of Low
Sailing.
Accident Follows Attempt Of
Aviator to Frighten Animal
From Hoover Field.

Stewart Reiss, youthful pilot, in the
employ Of the Potomac Flying Service.
Inc, at Hoover Field, South Washing
ton. Va. until yesterday, today stands
liable, to a fine of $500 or suspension
of his Government pilots license or
both, as q result Of his alleged reck.
less flying at the field yesterday, which
resulted in the death OF a pony.
A report Of the incident, signed by
Henry A. Behliner, president Of the
flying service. today was before Maj.
Clarence NJ. Young. director of aero.
nautics Of the Department of Com
merce, for his consideration. Mr..
Berliner, after discharging Reiss from
his employ, notified the Department Of
Commerce Of his action.
The circumstances surrounding the
death OF the pony, as related by Mr..
Berliner, were that several horses
had wandered on the field yesterday
and the ground force succeeded in
chasing all but one of them from the
premises. A pony, one of a half dozen
owned by William Barr, and kept at
the old National Capital Horse Show
grounds. lodged itself in tho southeast
corner of the field.
Evening star., 1927-10-14
earth without a scratch on II or even
shake-up for the passengers.
Graduate Of Training Schools.


Reiss is a graduate of the Army
Air Corps primary and advanced
training schools at Kelly Field. San
Antonio, Tex, and is regarded as a
skilled pilot.
It was predicted at the Department
of Commerce today that IL Maj. Young
imposes the $500 fine on the pilot. it
will be mitigated to one half or less.
as is possible under the law. Suspen-
sion of the pilots license would not
involve complete revocation or per.
manent wing clipping" but would
serve to keep the young flyer on the
ground for a period.
81 saw the attendants were unable
to chase the animal away" said ReIss
today, land. knowing that Its pres.
ence made it unsafe for landing and
carrying of passengers. flew over
it in an effort to scare it from the
field. Attracted by the noise Of the
motor. the pony reared and tossed It's
head into the undercarriage. Had the
plane been of modern type, with ".
type landing gear. the accident wonld
never have occurred"
Reiss said he resigned from the
Potomac Flying Service preparatory
to opening q new flying field in the
near future.
Evening star., 1927-10-14
Makes Dives to Scare Pony.

Reiss took off in one of the Waco
planes alone in an effort to scare the
pony away by diving at it. 1t made
several dives. and on the last one
either a wheel or tail skid struck the
little animal and killed 1t. Reiss ap.
parently did not know about the con.
tact made by the plane with the pony
as 1t in no way interrupted his fight.
He flew around and made a normal
landing.
In dismissing Reiss, Mr.. Berliner
held that the pilot violated regulations
Evening star., 1927-10-14

which have been rigidly enforced at
Hoover Field against any type of fly
ing other than normal straightaway
take.offs and landings. Although the
pilot never displayed any recklessness
while carrying passengers. Mr.. Ber.
liner said, he was prone to perform
acrobatics when flying alone, which
type of flying the flying service presi-
dent has prohibited.
Reiss, while serving as a temporary
pilot at the field on July s. won a per.
manent position on the pay roll of the
company by making a successful one.
wheel landing with two woman passen.
gers aboard. Seldom are these types Of
landings negotiated without some dam.
age to the plane, but Reiss, with one
wheel gone. got his plane back to
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MECHANICAL MAN
RESPONDS TO VOICE
OVER TELEPHONE
Continued from First Page.l

to sound transmitted by telephone and
only to sounds pitched in certain keys.
In the demonstration, at the first
sound sent over the televoX, the auto
matte slave lit a series of lights; at
the second, it turned on an electric
fan, at the third, it switched on a
searchlight.
Three of the machines are in active
use by the War Department, stationed
at the three reservoirs that supply
water to Washington, D. c. There
they watch over water levels. perform
ing perfectly on q 24-hour-a-day basis
the duties the same number of human
workmen would be called upon to do
in eight hours.
Evening star., 1927-10-14

the device were Mr.. Macqueen and E.
D. Hardy. senior engineer in charge.
Mai. Brehon B. Somervell, United
States District Engineer. has taken
an active interest in the invention.
Dispatches today from New York
indicate that the Westinghouse Co. Is
adapting the device to number OF
varied purposes, by adding certain
features for use in electrical sub
station work.
Evening star., 1927-10-14

from him at the time Of his arrest.
St4l.S5. was IS short when returned
on his release on bond.
Mayor William Kleysteuber OF Po-
tomac. Walter U. varney. corporation
counsel. and A. F. DriscoIl. town ser.
geant. are named in the application
for the writ. The case will come be.
fore Judge Samuel G.. Brent at the
opening of the October term of the
Circuit Court Monday.