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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-19
SUPPORT GALES
IN Fight WITH
REACTIONARIES
Farmers Ask Arms to
Fight Church
especial TO The Daily worker)

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 17.-President
Gales today called upon the aarar-
ians to aid in suppressing the rebel
lion of "clerleals and reactionaries'
and sent Secretary Of Agriculture Luis
Leon to Guanajuato TO distribute 1000
rifles to farmers in the neghborhood.
The president wrote letter to the
agrarians who had asked for arms for
self-defense, and declared that stern
action will be taken to put down the
uprisings turnout the country.
Defend Revolution.
These government arms are sent
to sustain the institutions of the re-
public now menaced by clerical and
reactionary groups, at time when
the foreign situation contains serious
complications for u.s." he said.
These arms should serve only and
exclusively to protect the life and
honor of the homes of farmers and
to save once more, by defending the
government, the principles of the
revolution"
Evening star., 1927-08-21
HIkER MAKES CANES
ON UNUSUAL LINES
Retired Printer Carves Intricate
Designs On All Kinds of
Sticks.

COLORADO, SPRINGS. Colo. Au-
gust 20.-When p. II. Curtis, veteran
New York printer, laid aside his com.
positor's stick a year and a half ago
and came to reside in the Union
Printers Home here, he took up walk
ing as a pleasant, healthful pastime.
He needed a walking stick, SO he
carved one with a jackknife.
That was the beginning. Soon he
had the walking-stick habit. The
walking itself became a way of find
ing sticks to whittle. Long since he
lost count of the number of canes he
had given away. Two a week is an
average of his carving. In his room,
Which is stacked with complete carved
creations, he has so canes in various
stages Of completion. When he gets
tired of whiting on one he turns to
another Of different design.
Mr.. Curtis rapidly gained in artistry.
The heads of his sticks now make up
Weritable menagerie of snakes, birds
and grotesAue humans, intricately
carved. His masterpiece is made of an
old hickory billiard cue. The head is
a bust of Gutenberg, the inventor of
printing, and the shaft is fretted with
printers tools and symbols
But most of them are worked with
knife, file and Sandpaper from dead
limbs the carver saws from trees while
on long hikes. Oak, cedar, peach,
yucca. almost every kind of wood is in
his work. He will see stick with
twisted end and in a few hours it will
have a mouth with a forked tongue,
shining crystal eyes and the expree-
sion of most malicious snake. With
bits Of brass pipe, old rife shells and
other odds and ends he has made fine
copper bands and brass ferrules for his
sticks. The crystals he uses are part
Of fine mineral collection he had
picked up in his hiking.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
! [IRG|N|k TO MARK
SHENANDOAH DATE.
Historic Valley Discovery 257
Years Ago and Road Plan
to Be Celebrated.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special DlSpatcn 10 Inc otdI
FRONT ROYAL. Va, August 90
The two hundred and tifty-seVenth an
niversary of the discovery of Shenan
doah Valley will be celebrated Wednes
day at Linden, Va. and in connection
Herewith work will be begun on the
Shenandoah Park highway from TINS
city toward Washington as the f1rst
link of a proposed John Marshall
coast to coast highway.
In the name of Warren County
citizens invitations have been extend
ed to Gov. Byrd, State Highway Com
missioner Henry G. Shirley. Maj. w.
a. Welch. Mai. T.. W. r. Ewing ana
Secretary Hubert Work of the Int
rior Department to speak, and citizens
generally to attend the gathering. ne
Virginia State Conservation ana DE
yelopment Commission will place a
granite marker at Linden to com
memorate the discovery, which was
made by John Lederer, Franciscan
monk The joint celebration will be
held at Applewood.
Basket Picnic Planned.
Men and women of the Il counties
of region No | represented at the
meeting at purCellVille August l.,
called by Gov. Byrd and addressed by
the Governor and the highway com
missioner, will be at the Linden gath
ering. A basket picnic will be held.
and there will be a round of social
affairs Applewood is a beauty spot,
with shade trees and particularly fine
water.
The celebration will he the first of
the discovery of the valley. Lederer
received his first view of Shenandoah
Valley from Linden Pass.
The celebration also will mark the
beginning of Virginia s intensive road
building program. The routes from
Front Royal to Washington will be
through Linden, Markham, Manassas
Gap, Delaplane, Oak Hill, Fairfax,
Clarendon and Memorial Bridge to
John Marshall Statue in Washington.
1t is called the shortest route to the
heart of the Shenandoah Valley.
which lies between Front Royal and
StraSburg.
Saving of Many Miles.
Hugh Z. Naylor, president of the
Shenandoah National Park Highway
Association. who. with others of the
invitation committee, has called upon
the public for a large attendance at
the celebration. points out that 25
miles of retracing will be saved travel
ers going south through the park by
entering at Front Royal. Fourteen
additional miles will be saved, he says,
between Washington, d. c., and Sky
line Trail over the next nearest en-
trance, and $1.274,375 will be saved
in cost to these travellers annually.
Pamphlets have been issued giving
data on the highway undertaking.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
CAB STOLEN AS DRIVER
GOES TO CALL AMBULANCE
Fare, Wounded in Shoulder, Takes
Taxi While Chauffeur Is
Telephoning.

While he went to call an ambulance
after a passenger had staggered from
his taxicab with blood flowing from a
wound in his shoulder his taxicab was
stolen. at North Capitol and II streets,
Thomas Singleton, colored 316 u
street, a driver for the Red Auto Co.,
reported to the police last night. The
wounded passenger also had disap.
peared when he returned. the driver
reported.
Singleton said he picked up col
ored man and took him to houses on
@, o and II streets. Returning to
North Capitol and II streets the pas
senger paid his fare and then was OBJ
served to be bleeding from wound in
the shoulder. Going into a drug store
to call an ambulance. Singleton said
some one outside called to him that
his taxicab was leaving and he rushed
out to find both passenger and ma
chine gone.
The nearer you get to some people
the. smaller they seem.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
BY A. G. GARDINER.
By Radio 10 The Star.

BY A. G. GARDINER.
By Radio TO The Star
LONDON. August 2o.--In view of
the approaching meeting of the AS.
sembly Of the League of Nations.
there is much discussion here of the
resignation of Henri de Jouvenel as Il
member Of the French delegation. and
his attack on the French attitude
toward the league.
Much satisfaction is expressed In
Liberal circles that a protest against
the sandbagging of the league should
come from a representative of France,
which has never been enthusiastic
for the leauge and which, under the
influence of Premier Poincare. has be-
come almost frankly contemptuous.
British Cited for Stand.
Sincere supporters of the league
also feel that the leagues cause has
suffered greatly under the present
British government and the diplomacy
of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who leans
to the foreign office tradition which
| is VIGOROUSLY hostile to the league.
The tendency to exclude the league
from all but subordinate functions has
grown steadily and the triviality of
the subjects submitted to the as
sembly is much resented. as indicating
a deliberate policy of restoring the
methods of the old diplomacy.
1t is pointed out that the league
machinery Is ignored on all great mat
ters and only employed when the sit
u2tion has become hopeless and the
credit Of failure can be attributed to
the league. Mr.. Chamberlain's reply
to attacks on the speech in which he
discounteranced the idea of the
leagues becoming a sort of "meddle-
some Matty" in foreign affairs has
accentuated distrust of his attitude.
League Last Resort.
According to this view, the league
is only last desperate resort when
the old diplomacy has failed. And
1t is against this that M. Jouvenej
| protests, as constituting reputation
| of the whole purpose and intention
Of the league.
The coming meeting of the as
sembly. with a repetition of last year s
trumpery agenda, will bring the ques'
| ton of loyalty to the league into
prominence, probably on Mr.. Chamber
| lain's proposal to reduce the meetings
| of the league council from four to
three each year. This is regarded rs
definitely reactionary move, de-
signed further to clip the wings of
| the league.
The small nations are especially re.
sentful of the policy which is fast con.
verting the league into a mere stage
setting for representatives Of three or
| four great powers to settle the af-
fairs of Europe-or unsettle them
| behind closed doors.
M. Jouvenel's bold challenge has
made the question of the league i
| future a capital issue in European
politics. If it is to become merely an
elaborate fiction, a piece of stage
scenery intended to deceive the eye,
behind which all the old principals
are engaged in the old games, the
! sooner 1t disappears the better. If il
is to become reality. M. Jouyenels
lead must be followed by emphatic
action by the countries which have
become idle supers on the stage.
tCopyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-08-21
POLITICAL WRITER'S DISAGREE
ON FUTURE SERVICE OF LEAGUE
European Body Viewed as on Verge, Of
Ruin by'One, While Another Sees 1t
as Mainstay of Peace.

politics is ivcning the September
meeting of the League of Nations approaches
rather divergent
following dispatches A. Gardiner from London and
by Gervile Reache from Paris
Gardiner takes the pessimsic attitude that the coming meeting
raught
body He uds nf de Jouven French delegate to the
French
British clip Leagues declares unless
followed will be nothing
a stage setting" for the old diplomacy
Gervl coming meeting
which French
world public
Evening star., 1927-08-21
Cinderella Role
Reversed as Girl
Waits ON Coolidge

By the Associated Press.
RAPID CITY, S. Oak, August
20.-From princess TO Cinderella
seems to have been the lot of Doro-
thy McMaster, 17.year-old daugh-
Ter Of the South Dakota Senator,
with President Coolidge in the role
of Prince Charming. Thursday
she sat next to Mr.. Coolidge at
luncheon in the Hot Springs Coun-
try Club. about the finest compl-
ment which might be paid one of
her years. Last night she waited
on his table.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge
were dinner guests OF Senator and
Mrs. Norbeck at their rustic cot
tage near the Summer White
House. Miss McMaster and Miss
Sally Norbeck passed the food.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
MAY CALL GRAND Jury.
Chic Judge Expected to Act in
Strangling Case.

GALLIPOLIS, Ohio, August 20 (P
Judge w. r. White Of the Gallia
County Common Pleas Court was ex
pected back from a vacation tonight
and county authorities said it was
possible he would summon a special
session Of the county grand jury tc
hear the case Of Eddy Peppers, 21
yearold negro, charged with the mur
der of Mrs. Florence Buck, 81, oi
Grimms Landing. w. Va. The next
regular session is next month.
Peppers, porter at the Park Cen
trail Hotel here, was said by county
officers to have confessed early today
that he strangled Mrs. Buck, a guest
at the hotel. last Monday after ar
unsuccessful effort to assault her.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
PINK DRINK GETS INSECTS
Denver Forester Describes Mix
ture Which Attracts Grasshoppers.

DENVER, August 20.-Want TO get
rid of grasshoppers? Feed 'em pink
lemonade. says Gus Klaiber. city
forester.
Here's the way Klaiber works IT.:
To IL pounds Of paris green add 25
pounds of bran. Mix dry. Then the
pink lemonade is added.
Grasshoppers go as crazy as a cir
Gus boy about lemonade, Kdaiber says.
After the lemonade is added, an ad.
ditional quantity of cheap sorghum or
mola asses may be mixed in. The sub
stance is then scatterc,. thinly on the
ground.
According to klaiber, the mixture
will not harm children or animals.
Chickens should not be allowed to eat
it, however.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
"MOOn Sections
Youthful Craze
InCrimean Resorts

BY the Associated Press.
LIVADIA, Crimea.-"Moon sec
tions" for young men and women
spending their short Summer vaca-
tions in the government-owned
recreation centers are the latest
craze in the Crimea.
No communists. old or young. are
admitted, nor any persons over 80.
Clad in bathing suits, the dwellers
in the sections" pass the balmy
nights in wandering through trop-
ical gardens or in rowing parties on
the Black Sea.
Communists deprecate these
futile" amusements, and choose
rather to pass their time in lying
on the seashore studying Karl
Marx and Lenine doctrines.
Evening star., 1927-08-21

committees of parliaments everywhere.
The assemblies of popular repre-
sentatives Of various nations. who can
speak freely without diplomatic reser
vations. can assist greatly in reaching
international understandings. They
prepare the ground for later govern
ment action and help insure subse-
quent parliamentary ratification. They
place a finger on the pulse OF democ
racy's progress throughout the world
and add one more hope that the world
may find other means than war for
settling international differences.
iCopyright 1927.l
Evening star., 1927-08-21
Once Oldest u. S.
Postmaster Hale
And Active at lO2
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
PURCELLVILLE, Va. August
20.-David J. Tavenner today cele'
brated the 1929 anniversary Of his
birth. Despite his advanced years
he is hearty and retains possession
of all his faculties. Last Spring
his neighbors saw him at the top
of a 14-foot ladder picking cherries.
He was the olderst postmaster in
the United States, resigning a few
months before he reached his Tooth
birthday. MIR. Tavenner was born
and has lived in Philomont prac-
tically all his life and served as
postmaster there for nearly 50
years.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
AZ Men Guard Emperor.

During the recent visit of the En-
peror of Japan to the Bonin Islands.
he was guarded by AZ plain clothes
men. They were the pick of detec-
tives of Toxic, and were headed by
Inspector Yamada of the TolIo
metropolitan police. They sailed for
the islands in advance Of the En-
peror, and prepared for his coming.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
Church Has Old Bell,
Correspondence to The Star

Special Correspondence to The Star
CHICAGO.-A 60-year-old bell. rusted
and weather-beaten. reminiscent of
Civil War days and the early develop
ment of West Side suburbs, has been
rescued by Christ Episcopal Church,
River Forest, and is again to call resi-
dents of the village to worship. Hid.
den away in the belfry of an old
church at Bonnie Brae avenue and
Lake street, in River Forest, and en-
tirely forgotten, it was discovered re-
Gently when workmen were demoIish-
ing the First Christ Church to make
way for a modern apartment building.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
MAN HIT BY AUTO.
Virginian Taken to Gallinger Hos.
pital After Accident

Aubrey A. Cook, 3S years old, Fair
fax, Va. was knocked .tiown last night
while crossing Maryland avenue at
-Four and a Half street southwest bv
an automobile driven by Karl Am
berger Mount Rainier, Md.
He was treated at Providence Hos.
pital for minor injuries and later wa )
removed to Gallinger Hospital in the
patrol wagon of No. precinct.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
Cat Thefts Bother London.

London has a wave of thefts Of cats
that is bothering the police. During
the past few months many valuable
pets have disappeared, and neither
owners nor police have been able to
recover them. 1t is believed that they
are stolen for the value of their skins.
London had a similar feline theft
epidemic 10 years ago.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
EDUCATIONAL.

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Evening star., 1927-08-21

The nearer you get to some people
the. smaller they seem.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-09-15

ton of their people as well as others
interested, and it helps to place such
communities on the map so that out
siders will know that there are such
places and that the folks are alert
and awake. 1t is not the remunera-
ton that interests the correspondents
as that is meager, and they are there
for due considerable credit and thanks
for their helpful work.
The year of 1926 was the most
eventful year in the history of the
American so far, when the new home
was built and moved into The build
ing is 41X90 feet, practically fireproof,
and affords ample room for expansion
of the business.
We wish at this time to thank the
many loyal friends and supporters for
the thirteen years that have now been
rounded out in Pine county and we
look into the future with hope, cheer,
optimism, and thankfulness for living
under the protection of the Stars and
Stripes and in the state of Minnesota
and Pine county.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-09-15
FARMERS ARE VISITING
ARROWHEAD COUNTRY

Duluth, Minn.-Sept. Farmers of
the Northwest have started their an
nual trek into the Minnesota Arrow
head country.
Up to this time most of the tourists
have been from Central, Eastern,
Southern and Coast states, with ILL
nois far in the lead. However, a
check of the cars coming through
Duluth enroute to the lakes and ri
vers in the Arrowhead and along the
lakeshore drive to Canada shows
many from Iowa, the Dakotas, Mon
tana, and Nebraska, with farmers
predOminating.
Farmers are starting on their vaca-
ton tours and they are expected to
continue as the crop season advances
until the cool weather sets in some
time during October.
Illinois cars have set new high
mark this year, almost every other
car along the highways during the
summer being from that state. Off
Gals of the Arrowhead association
credit the Arrowhead exhibit at the
Outdoor exposition in Chicago last
spring with attracting the record
number of Illinois residents to Mime
sofa this year, in addition to the
boost given this vacation region by
visitors here last year.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-09-15
TEN WAYS TO GO BROKE

The Agricultural College of Tennes-
see has suggested the following ways
for man to go broke farming. They
are not guaranteed except for Ten
nessee, but most likely they will work
any place.
1. Grow only one crop
2. Keep no livestock. a.,
3. Regard chickens and a garden az
nuisances.
4. Take everything from the soil
and return nothing.
5. Don't stop gullies or grow cover
crops-let the topsoil wash away,
then you will have bottom land"
s. Don't plan your farm operations.
It's hard work thinking-trust to
luck.
Z. Regard your woodland as you
would coal mine; cut every tree, sell
the timber, and wear out the cleared
land by cultivating it in corn.
8. Hold fast to the idea that the
methods of farming employed by your
grandfather are good enough for you.
9. Be independent--don't join with
your neighbors in any form of CO.
operation.
10. Mortgage your farm for every
dollar it will stand to buy things you
would have cash to buy if you follow
ed a good system of farming.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-09-15

will place the price received by ex-
porters on parity with the domestic
price.
To illustrate: Suppose the nations
annual wheat crop totaled 500 bushels,
of which 100 bushels were exported
The price of the 700 bushels used here
would be placed at $1.42, but stab
ilizing tax of 6 cents a bushel would
be collected by the government board
through wheat elevators and co-opera-
tive associations. This would leave
$1.36 net for domestic wheat.
The Scent tax on the 700 bushels
would total $42. This would be used
by the government board to equalize
the difference between what the ex-
porters are forced to accept and the
domestic price.
The tax would also pay operating
expenses of the board and would guar
antee repayment of the S250.00O,000
government loan.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-09-15

Now that the Elwell road between
Sandstone and Askov and few miles
north of 'Askov has been regarded
and a good job has been done, it
would seem almost a shame if it was
not graveled A wide and hard clay
road like this is almost impossible
to keep up if it is not graveled and
years or so before it shows bad wear
and will commence to fall to pieces
again. The county commissioners of
course get much good" advice but
it would seem that if this suggestion
can be carried out it will spell econ
omy County funds are short but
they will be shorter if we have to
keep on regarding every few years.
This Elwell road stretches from Sand
stone village. or Highway No. 1. to
the county line, little beyond Nick
erson. To gravel the entire 80 miles
siderable expense. But likely ten
miles can be graveled each year and in
time it will all be finished. The re-
grading as above stated, has now been
done between Sandstone and Askov
and a little beyond and if it would
seem reasonable that that portion
should be graveled first. The gravel
ing should also core first to the pOr-
tion most travelled when the road bed
has been prepared for it. Those up
the line at Bruno, kerrick,, Duquette.
and Nickerson, we believe, would
agree to this plan and when the re-
grading has been done there they
would also follow with gravel. Even
if only five miles can be graveled each
year it is better than none at all and
will spell economy in the long run.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-09-15
A LITTLE TALK ON THRIFT
By s, w. STRAITS

President American Society for Thrift
Public thought at this time turns
naturally to the subject of labor, and
the present period should be a re-
minder both of the necessity and the
dignity of toll.
1t is unfortunate that any false
pride should exist with regard to the
honored place held by those engaged
in manual pursuits or that any young
man should choose as his life's work
line of endeavor for which he is i'll
fitted, simply because of illusions re-
garding the status of those who work
with their hands.
The young man who takes up an
honorable trade has by no means
lowered himself in what should be
his rightful standing in society, nor
has he taken a step that means the
end of ambition for great personal
success.
There is much sound common sense
in some of the so-called old-fashioned
customs and practices. Many of our
most successful men were originally
farms hands or factory boys.
1t is not merely an idle platitude to
speak of the dignity of labor. The
skilled artisan who is willing to give
an honest days work for an honest
days pay holds second place to no one
in the scheme of human progress.
We can well afford to get back to
some of the ideals of our forefathers
with regard to the rightful place of
physical labor. Let those of our
younger generation who are today
choosing their lifes work understand
and there are opportunities of worthy
and creditable employment under adj
vantageous conditions in many
of the trades, and that in going into
these positions they will be sacrific-
ing nothing in the estimation of SEN
sible people.
False pride in these matters has
cost many a young man a successful
and useful career.
Lack of thrift on the part of many
is due to this same erroneous view
point. 1t is worthy and honorable to
be engaged in honest work of any
kind. Those who despise hard work
despise real thrift.