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Evening star., 1927-09-10
CUSTOMER STOCK SALES.

NEW YORK, September 10 R.-
Sales Of stock to customers, employees
and other individuals in the COM
munities served by central-station
companies in June amounted to $780,
100000 and consisted of 361,000
shares, sold in 28,800 transactions.
This estimate is based on data COM
piled by Electrical World for COM
panies serving about IS per cent Of
the total number of customers on the
lines of all companies making prac7
tice of selling stock locally. Gus
toner ownership stock sales by GEN.
tral-station companies for the first
half Of 1927 totaled $139 100000.
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POTATO MARKET STEADY.

CHICAGO, September 10 R.-Pota-
toes-Receipts, SO cars; on track, 17S;
total United States shipments, $40
cars; trading slow; market about
steady; Wisconsin sacked Irish cob
blers, 1S0a2.15, according to quality;
Minnesota sacked round whites, $50
also; sacked sandland Ohios, LISA
las; sacked Red Rivers Ohios, 1.55a
LES; Idaho sacked rurals, 1.90a2.00.
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-,REIGN EXCHANGE.

NEW YORK. September 10 R.-
Foreign exchanges. heavy. Quotations
lin cents) Britain, demand.
4s5 1916; cables. 486 3-16; 60-day bills
on banks, 4S1 1915. France, demand.
1919; cables, 392. Italy, demand.
5.43la; cables, 5.44.
Demand--B Belgium. 1914: Ger.
many, 23.77h; Holland. 40.04h; Nor
way. 26.34h: Sewden, 26.S5: Denmark,
26.75; Switzerland 19.2SA; Spain.
16.s6ls: Greece, 1921: Poland. 1920:
Czechoslovakia, 2.96; Jugoslavia, It's;
Austria, 14.0S; Rumania. .6lh; Ar.
gentina. 42.75; Brazil, 11.s1A; Toxic.
4712a Shanghai. 6l37h; Montreal.
100.03ls.
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RUBBER DECLINES.

NEW YORK, September 10 (Spe-
ciaD.-Crude rubber, smoked ribbed
sheets, declined a quarter of a cent
at today's noon quotation OF 33A
This compared with 35A month ago
and 40 a year ago.
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BURROUGHS EARNINGS UP.

NEW YORK, September 10 R.-
Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
earned $3.S9 share on 100000 shares
of stock in the first half of 1927,
against $3.99 a share on 100000
shares in the first half Of 1926.
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COAL SHIPMENTS DOWN.

NEW YORK, September 10 R.-
Shipments Of bituminous coal over
the Reading system in July were
1,346,479 tons against 1,476,238 in
July, last year.
Evening star., 1927-09-10
Have Y0u Been Stung Yet?

Some men have to get stung good
and hard before they learn to be eau.
tious in making investments. Before
you invest-investigate
Evening star., 1927-09-10
RED|SCOUNT CUT
POWER At ISSUE
Action of Board on Chicago
Bank Stirs Senator Glass.
Sargent's Ruling Asked.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Under what economic circumstances
the Federal Reserve Board has the
power to fix rediscount rates at Fed
eraI Reserve Banks appears likely to
develop into an issue upon which At
torney General Sargent is likely to be
asked to render an opinion and Con-
gress may be called upon to define by
legislation.
The Board recently established re-
discount rate of three and one-half per
cent for the Chicago Federal Reserve
Bank in place of four per cent rate.
The action was understood to have
been based on the desire of the Board
to institute the rate reduction in the
Chicago district, which has been adopt
ed by most Of the Federal Reserve
Banks of the country.
Disagreement Said to Result.
However, from several sources dis
agreement to the Boards order is in
dicated to have resulted, including the
disclosures that the Board itself was
not unanimous in it's decision and that
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia,
Democrat OF the Senate Banking Com
mittee and co-author of the Federal
Reserve Act. had protested against
the T6uuCLlOfl DIS al UlILdIy uliu nv
within the meaning Of the act. The
Virginia Senator in statement later
at his Lynchburg, Va, home, eX-
pressed the view that Congress should
promptly enact legislation on the
Boards rights, (which nobody will
misinterpret."
The executive committee OF the
Chicago bank has instructed its attor-
ney to request the Attorney General
to render an opinion on the right of
the board to establish the reduction.
At the time of the reduction in the
other banks, the Chicago banks direc-
tors were said to have declined to
make the reduction.
The boards vice governor, Edmund
Platt, revealed that there was lack
Of unanimity in the reduction order.
saying he had opposed the action and
at the same time said Senator Glass
had visited a number of the boards
members and voiced the opinion that
the reduction was in contravention to
the meaning of the Federal Reserve
act.
Doubt About Court Test.
Mr.. Platt said Senator Glass was
advised then that the board had the
power for such action under a ruling
by the Attorney General In 1919. The
Virginia Senator replied that he had
never heard of the ruling, according
to Mr.. Platt, and doubted if it could
stand a court test.
Senator Glass in his statement said
it was never the intention of Congress
in the act that the authority for rate
reduction by the board should be used
except under exceptional circum-
stances such as maintaining danger
ously low" rate or rate so high as
to hinder commerce. The action in
the present reduction, he added, lis
| and was intended to be long stride
| in the direction of making the Federal
! Reserve Board a central bank with
| the Reserve Banks as mere branches. '"
Secretary Mellon, ex-officio chairman
| of the board, said he had not conferred
| with the board nor with the Chicago
banks representatives on the situa'
ton.
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FAILURES INCREASE.

NEW YORK, September 10 @.-
Commercial failures in the United
States this week are put at $40 by
r. G. Dun & Co., al more than a
year ago.
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SILVER QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK, September 10 R).-
Bar silver, 55A; Mexican dollars,
41A.
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office

Following is the list of bonds and
stocks traded in on the New York
Curb Market today:
Evening star., 1927-09-10
MINING STOCKS.
Sales INDEPENDENT OIL STOCKS.
in,

100 Am Con oilhds, .s4 79,, "a ,,
5 Ark Nat Gas. -. 9A OK 9h
4 Carib Synd. -. 23 23 23
13 City Serv n..... 49A 40 49H
3 Cit Serv pfd. 90M 00% 90h
2 Columbia Synd.. 2M 2n ga
2 Creole Synd. -. IL 10M IL
2 En- G & rs pfd 09% 99M 99%
3 EN- G Ss pfd Iii Il 11114 1l1K
g Gibson Oil cor. liz
Hous Gulf Gas OF Oh Oh
/ Intercontl Pet. IL IA IN
% Leonard Oil -. 8 8
Magdal Synd :. .0S .9S
8 Nat Fuel Gas n 27 25% ~
Pandem Oil -. 2h 2h 2h
8 SPantepec Oil. :. 10 on 10
8 Reiter-Foster Oil 4S AS
Salt OK Prod 30 20 29
Venezuelan Pet. 5% 5% 5%
Evening star., 1927-09-10

,ouoted by Alex. Brown x Sons, Closing.l
TREASURY CERTIFICATES.

fp.norted hy J.&W. seIigman & CO.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-21

raw material has been with formation of
government Baron Tanaa former leader the opposition
now premier is military despot and according reliable in
formation renowned exponent of patron
bureaucracy"
He the agent of the big ndurasts finance cap
ltaists who have heavy investments in China
change of Japanese policy China will be enforced by the
regime Instead of the handso policy
lied the last government there will be aggressive intervention
with possible revival of the old Angoapanese Alliance that
was formally dissolved at the Washington conference in
1871 lanaka is the political heir of the late Prince Yamagata
who was always defender of the alliance the Pacific between
England and Japan against the United States
The nept of politicians at Washington have one
more problem confronting them in the Pacific Britain thus
far been successful in using American forces for its
China But British statesmen know full well that the
situation is abnormal anachronsm Of the worldwide
antagonlsm between England and the United States will
welcome change of front the part Japan such
change makes more imminent another World War
ever historical events call for united action the part
the working class of the mperas countries the oppressed
peoples of the colonies that time is hand To fulfill our
historical mission the Communist Parties of the world
leadership Of the Communist International mobilize all
forces to challenge the impending catacysm. =
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-21
Patronize Our Advertisers.

the Macdonald cabinet was fighting
for the leadership of the party:
"As to his fighting for the leader
ship of the party: this is all pure
bunkum. The question at issue does
not concern the National Labor Par
ty, but is simply one for the |. L. p,
and resolves itself into the question,
Shall James Maxton, chairman of
that party, speak for and declare it's
policy, or shall j. r. Macdonald do
SOP
"The National Council of the |. L..
p. has refused to nominate MacDon-
aid as treasurer of the National La
Dor Party because Of his attitude to-
wards the /. l.. p. policy and pro-
gramme as passed last Easter. He
does not represent |. l.. p. policy,
and therefore, it is held, should not
be recognized as one of its leaders.
This question will be decided at the
conference Of the |. l.. p. which takes
place at Easter"
Voice of Healthy Elements.
Despite the honeyed words used by
the official organ of the |. l.. p. and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-21
~ DRAMA ~
The Playwright as Surgeon
Translator of Rapid Transit Finds Petty Ridiculous
DRAMATIC Editor:

Dramatic Editor:
Concerning "Rapid Transit" and
the review of it in today's DAILY
WORKER:
You complain Of the absence of
warm emotional pull" Could you
really expect to find it in a play of
this character? Rapid Transit is a
reductio ad absurdam not only of the
antics of life, but of the emotions of
life. 1t is necessarily an Olympian
comic. Or better still, it is a page
out of Jove's diary, recounting visit
Of his on this funny little planet,
Earth. One does not grow SYM
pathetic over things one finds laugh
able and petty.
Love Is Ridiculous
Egri's intention is plainly to turn
the hose on our ardors," whether
these are of the heart or brain. You
may have observed that he himself
laughs up his sleeve at the love-
episodes between the hero and
heroine, because love too is ridiculous
in the way we live it. The hero, in
deed, strains for something higher,
but he is helpless and futile, because
one man in a million is always help
less and futile.
You complain that all the figures
remain shadowy and do not come to
life. You are right. But that is
something that might be said in favor
of the play, rather than against it.
All the characters We're meant to be
puppets.
Electrified Puppets.
In another version of the play, the
prologue showed the Great Wheel
parting curtains and exposing
group Of mannikins. When he winds
up his clock and the pendulum is set
swinging, a galyanic shock runs
through these inanimate figures, in
fusing them with the current of life.
These mannikins, later, become the
inhabitants of Hekuba-H akuba.
lmre, the hero, is employed merely
as gauge against which the rapid
passage Of time may be measured and
made vivid. The author is by no
means sympathetic with his hero, or
with any of his characters. Nor is
it his intention to be. He has the
attitude of an eminent surgeon to-
wards his patient-truth tout prix.
If you should suddenly transplant
a Hindu mystic to Times Square, he
would get about the same reaction
that an average audience gets watch
ing the mad cavortings in rapid
Transit" None of us have a thou
sand years to live; if we had, then the
ambitions which claim US and the
time we give to them, might be
justified But against the so or go
years, practically all our activities
are ludicrous. We ought to get back
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-21
The Cabinet Crisis in Japan.

The socaed japanese financial NANTES
taon of which the closing of number of prominent banks
causing pheava the that resulted the down
fall of the cabinet is directly connected with the revolutionary
situation in China
reeXes of industrial crises In Japan the industrial crisis
of the periodic dpresons has been intensified the inability
material from China and has produced the greatest
collapse since the earthquake 1928 All large banks that have
closed represented powerful industrial groups the smaller banks
simply auxiliaries of the larger ones.
The former opposition which claimed that the Japanese pol
China would ruin the industries by destroying the of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-21

to the fundamentals, to recognition of
true values. Life is certainly not the
indignity we live it as.
You complain that che feeds you
too fast" That is exactly what Egri
complains of our existence. We are
fed too fast.-GUSTAV DAVIDSON,
Translator of rapid Transit"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-21

Community" And the community,
as you know, is none other than our
dear friend the public" who is sup
posed to be the injured person in all
struggles between the capitalists and
the workers.
Denounced Striker.
Macdonald, in this book, denounced
strikes and referred to the leaders of
his party as "easie-oosie asses" for
taking socialism seriously. The LIP.
leaders bowed like gentlemen and
maintained their dignity. Macdonald
stuck to his knee breeches. and his
presbyterian socialism. The Com
munists split the air with raucous
laughter and ribald jest at the ex-
pense of the LIP. leaders and called
on them to line up in a real struggle
against the capitalists. Nothing
happened just then at the top, but
way down in the depths of the LIP,
ship the firemen were splitting on
their fists and muttering.
Then the great General Strike
broke out. The British trade union
ists-all those who were called
came out and stood to their positions
like disciplined soldiers. The Com
munist Party demanded complete
solidarity of all labor's forces.
They demanded concrete measures
to make the strike effective.
Half Hearted Solidarity.
The LIP. leaders were content
with half measures. Macdonald,
Thomas and Clynes sabotaged from
the start and in conjunction with the
leaders of the General Council finally
broke the ranks with an abject sur
render. 1t was then there really
started the struggle against Mac
Donaldson that came to climax at
the Leicester conference of the LIP.
The Communists reused the masses
and under the influence of the Com
munist propaganda the members Of
the LIP. forced their leaders to act.
The Chinese situation provided the
last straw that broke the Macdonald
back in the LIP.
When the tory government decided
to sent it's naval and military forces
to China the Communist Party called
for the organizations of Hands Off
China" committees. The leaders of
the /. L. p. issued carefully written
manifestoes. They sent greetings to
Eugene Chen, foreign secretary of
the Nationalist Government. Mac
Donald secretly supported Chamber
lain and openly declared that British
interests in China should be protec-
ted. He did not object to the policy
of the tory government but to the
manner in which this policy was
carried out. The Picking CORES
pondent of the London Daily Tele-
graph reported that MacDonald's eff
forts earn appreciation here" and
the editorial writer of the same paper
declared that 1--WE are able to quote
Macdonald with satisfaction"
Here is a sample of the kind of
language used by Macdonald that
the capitalists were able to quote
with approval:
"The force that came into opera
ton in Marking to save the situa-
ton was not the Shanghai Defence
Force, but naval forces who were
in China before our troops left
England.
1.-The Labor Party never said that
the forces in China at the time
should be evacuated. Our view all
along was that if the Chinese situa-
ton was to be handled as a whole
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-21
broadway Briefs

"The Field Cod" by Paul Green,
author of "In Abraham's Bosom,
will have its premiere at the Green
witch Village Theatre tonight.
Two additional companies of 1.-THE
Spider, are now being assembled,
one company will be sent to Chi
cago and the other company is being
recruited for London.
Grade Snatchers" headed by
Mary Boland, will return to New
York for two weeks engagement,
doening at the Century Theatre Mon
day evening, May End.
Clara Verdera is now playing the
role of "Mary Madden" in wooden
Kimono" at the Fulton Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-21

by Lansbury's Weekly it is evident
that the great majority of the forces
that give even lip service to socialism
are against the former premier. The
Communist Party which has a ter
mendous following among the work.
ers and strong influence in the unions
is against him. The minority move
ment which attracted delegates REPRE-
senting almost 100000 to its last
conference is opposed to him.
With the official condemnation of
the |. L. p, his own party ringing in
his ears, Ramsay Macdonald has
heard the angels calling him to his
presbyterian political heaven and the
vision that he saw of return to
Downing Street as labor premier
must now seem as intangible as the
fanciful world of an opium eater.
No matter what we may think of
the motives of the /. l.. p. leaders VIII,
broke with Macdonald there is n
doubt but the action registers a fu
Their leftward step on the part Of \
manner. They don't stroll alog +
British masses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
BEAUTY CHATS
Some Minor Affections.

There is no excuse for superfiuous
hair on the face or under the arms.
and there is no excuse for warts and
moles and such blemishes except the
inability to pay the small sum to have
them removed. In many cases Wart
or a collection or coarse hairs Will
completely spoil an otherwise pretty
face.
The only permanent cure for super
f1uous hair is the electric needle treat
ment The charges for this vary from
81 to SIS an hour and / think during
that time anywhere from 10 to 80
hairs can be removed. OF these about
10 per cent come, back. and it takes
a second treatment to kill them per-
manently. The more skillful the OPP
orator the larger number of hairs are
removed and the fewer return, so
that it never pays to be economical.
You should go always to the best.
Besides, the good operators use The
multiple needle process, which kills
several hairs at q time.
IF you cannot afford this treatment
for the worst of them you can do a
great deal yourself by pulling out the
most noticeable hairs with a pair of
tweeZers and bleaching the light
growth of fuZz round the mouth with
peroxide of hydrogen. Before you use
the tweeZers rub peroxide over the
face, and when you have finished
touch the places with peroxide This
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
Everyday Law Cases
Pitcher Under Contract Refuses
to Pitch; Can He Be Forced
to Do SOP
BY THE COUNSELLOR.

Speed" Kingston, star pitcher for
the Bears, was a quandry. He
was under a three-year contract, and
had just been offered S. 900 more a
year by the jackson Reds.
Speed" sought out Buck" Wal
lace. manager of the Bears. told his
story, and demanded a $4,000 increase
Wallace, regardless Of the contract.
agreed to give him an increase of
$4,000. Speed" refused and dared
anybody make him pitch for the Bears,
contract or no contract.
He went right over to the Jackson
Reds and accepted their offer
Chosen to pitch the game that day.
Speed" donned the Reds uniform and
warmed up. play ballr' the umpire
cried. Speed" raised his arm. but the
ball was never pitched. for just then
a. stranger reached the pitchers box
and handed him a. severe-looking docu-
ment.
Speed" puzzled. read it. 1t was
an injunction, forbidding him to play
or be held in contempt of court. Sui
lenly, he walked off the field.
At the hearing speed" fought bit
terly. The Bears had right to sue
him for violating his contract, but
they could not restrain him from play
ing base ball.
But the court continued the injunc-
ton, stating:
Where a contract stipulates for
skilled personal services. the courts
cannot compel the actual rendering of
ever, restrain the individual by in
junction from performing similar
services for another during the term
of the first contract
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09

there with that baby in your arms
and suggest a thing like that?" | said
II won't give the baby any, She
said Every day you read of men
drinking some Of that vile stuff and
going home and beating their wives
and children, and | said Who has
been beating you and the baby?'
Joan said Il won't have it, / said,
IF / want to cheer the boys up a
little on a raw night. what do YOU
care?" and she said, Il simply won't
have the stuff around my house
When we are arguing over some
thing | want, it is her house, and
when we are arguing over the bills.
it is our house.
l said, why are you so set aginst
a happy thought like that?" and she
said. II do not like anything of that
sort" / said. We'll, when we were
over at the Stewards the other night
and he brought out some of that fig
wine, did you drink those three glasses
by mistaken" and she said THAT is
different" and | said. Il will say it
was. and wait until you taste some of
what ! am going to get and you will
be sure of it,
Joan said, Il am not going to taste
any here | said, Il will buy you
a new hat If you let me get just. one
little bottle" and Joan said. II dom
need a new hat" and | said bitterly.
That is the first time YOU ever sprung
A line like that, and YOU have to pick
on this particular occasion to use it, .
and ! still do not know how / am going
to sneak the boys drink Thursday
night.