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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-15
Seekers Can the apartment Home" They
Automobiles lss

|Cheyrolets-Fords
All Low-priced and in Won
derful Condition - Come
Early While the selec-
ton Is Complete.
1925 Chevrolet Coupe.
Driven little: condition D. K: $50 eash
balance in 10 months. -.'
1925 Chevrolet Coach.
oalance in 10 months.
1925 Ford Tudor Sedan.
Full equipment and OTIS Of extras: &12B
cash. balance IL months.
1925 Chevrolet Sedan.
Looks 1000. runs better: all extras and
yours for $50 cash. balance il 10 months.
1925 Chevrolet Touring.
:. Very low mileage: leffect condition
throughout: 500 cash. balance 10 months.
1927 Chevrolet TOURING.
Demonstration: new-car guarantees. lota AZ
extras: S17b cash. balances az months.
1925 Ford Coupe.
Fully equipped and 10 in perfect comb.
ton; 500 cash. balance 10 months.
1925 Ford Touring.
Latest model: fully equipned ana driven
~ careful owner; SIS cash. balance 10
IR. l.. Taylor Motor Co.
1927 18th st. N. w.
18th and lists N. w.
lOpen evenings and Sunday.
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Automobiles Is
S-T-U-D-E-B-A-K-E-R
Worthwhile Bargains

1925 Buick Coach, Master q
Original finish like new; bumpers front
and rear, mOtometer: tires good, $500 down
and $3.50 per month
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1924 Stude. Big g Speedster
Tires and paint like new. in Al running
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1928 Hudson Coach
Runs like new: good tree. paint and IN
holslery; $23b down and $34 80 per month
The producers news., 1927-04-15
MILLIONAIRE'S PICKINGS
IMPROVE
By LELAND oLDs, Federated Press

BY LELAND OLDS, Federated Press
2O7 persons are reported by the u S. commits
sioner of internal revenue with incomes in 1926
of more than $1,OOO,OOO apiece They averaged
more than 1000 times what they would have got
if the national income had been distributed equal
ly among the 44,OOO,OOO gainfully employed as
reckoned by the national bureau of economic re-
search. These multimillionaires received a COM
bined gross income of $465, OIL 633 equivalent to
236,0OO shares of national income estimated at
$866OO 100000.
The 2O7 personal incomes of more than $1,0OO,-
600 apiece mark 1925 as a record in the outpour-
mgs of blessings upon the investing class In
1924 only "a incomes of this size were reported
In 1916 the peak year of war profits, there were
2O6 miliOn-dOllar incomes.
AT the very top of the country's pyramid of
wealth the commissioner shows financial barons
whose net incomes after all deductions exceeded
$5,OOO,OOO each. They reported combined net
income Of SCI ,382,683. In 1924 only 3 such man.
moth incomes were reported and their total net
was $27,955,319. What the largest incomes to-
tailed before deduction is not shown but if the per-
centage deducted was about the same as in 1924
the gross would be $75,OOO,OOO In other words
these 7 averaged more than $1O,OOO,OOO apiece in
1928 Each one grabbed more than 5000 shares
of the national income of that year.
There were also 9 individuals reporting net
incomes between $4OOOOOO and $5,OOO,OOO, IS
with net incomes between $3,OOO,OOO and $4,000
900, 20 between 100000 and $3,OOO.OOO and AZ
between $1,5OO,OOO and $2,OOOOOO The remain
ing 1O4 reported incomes between $1,OOOOOO and
$15OO,OOO
The bulk of these very large individual incomes
comes from profit the sale of securities held
Tor more than years and from dividends Of the
total income of the 2O7 having net of over ST.
100000 wages and salaries represented only $3.50
They were only 4.57a6 of the incomes between
$5OOOOO and $1OOOOOO. Yet they averaged more
than $4,000. If we include only the income from
wages, salaries, business and partnerships these
6S5 persons would have averaged over S125.OOO
apiece, undoubtedly all they could claim to be
worth to the cbuntry
The huge remaining income from property.
about 9O6 of the total, comes as gift from
the workers out of surplus production, or rather
as tribute eXacted from the workers by men
who control the country's economic arteries.
The producers news., 1927-04-15
NO REFERENDUM AT ANY PRICE

Pittsburgh-(FP)- Gov. Fisher,
under warning from William Mellon,
state republican boss, that he must
veto the bill permitting a referen-
DUN in Pittsburgh on a wage in
crease for policemen and fire fighters
has adopted strong-arm methods to
save himself from responsibility. He
has notified the Pittsburgh board of
aldermen that unless they promptly
vote the wage increase, thereby re-
moving the motive for the demanded
referendum, he will veto the alder
mems own bill granting them a sal
ary boost from $4,000 to $4,000 each.
For twelve weeks the police and
firemen's committee has fought Mel
Ions machine in the legislature at
Harrisburgh, forcing the Senate and
House to adopt their referendum-per-
mission measure. The wage asked is
$500 in place of the present S2,O4O.
Fisher will veto their bill in any
event; he will permit no voting on
laws in Pennsylvania.
The producers news., 1927-04-15
HARVESTER TRUST REAPS REC
ORD CROP OF PROFITS

RECORD profits fell to wealthy stockholders in
the harvester trust result of its 1926 dipnino
INTO the skinny purses of farmers the world over
1t appears from the annual report of the Init Har-
vester Co. The operating profits was S28. .956. .967
leaving $22658,891 for the stockholders after de-
auctions for interest, depreciation, reserves. ctr
ms gave the common stockholders a return of
$1612 share
The common stock has been largely built IN bv
STOCK dividends. Since 1910 it increased from
$6O,OOO,OOO to $99,876,772 by this process If we
take the 1910 figures as representing the money
actually put into the business the 1926 profit
means that the owners are getting at least 3Oe5
on their investment
lntl. Harvester has an extraordinary profit
record showing net return each year since 1919
without break. In the last years alone # has
made an operating profit of S1O5, 1852 and has
turned over to common stockholders after all de-
auctions, including preferred dividends. total Of
@4|,H3,693 on actual investment of not more
than $6O,OOO,OOO.
The operating profits of Init. Harvester and
the net profits for stockholders year bv wear
since 1912 were:
The producers news., 1927-04-15
(To Be Continued
OUR SOCIETY COLUMN

a Dank note dinner for partv of two
A few odd coppers for a cheap beef stew:
just few thousands for Jewels to choose
Less than ten shillings to buy children's shoes;
= mansion OF marble with servants score
= COT OF three rooms with a bare, cold floor;
one thousand acres to make golf course
Corn on hillside an old bony horse;
a yacht on blue water, raft on a pond;
a debit-on one side-on the other bond;
Good food and warm clothing and muses. to
please
r'agged =. and threadbare, cough and a sneeze;
riVlera and sunshine-snow drifts and cold
olliilng =, and happy-despondent and old;
me Inc contrast lengths and fills us with woe
win plenty for all, why should it be so?
The Scoop Shovel, Farm Union Journal,
Winnipeg
The producers news., 1927-04-15
MINERS CHOICE.
Bv IFTAND OTDc Eo5. ,

by LELAND OLDS, Federated Press
Inc present crisis in the coal industry raises
tne problem of CONTROL altho wages appear to be
the issue. The opposition of the United Mine
Workers to competitive wages can onlv be made
effectlve through the elimination of connective
private capitalism.
Inc miners have two alternatives: TO deva1on
along with the rest of organized labor nolitica1
power sufficient to put over NATURALIZATION or
10 seek control by the workers themselves ,,n,so,
worker government. A third alternative -
cooperate with capital while it consolidatas tho
industry into great coal trusts. is ruled ont b,,
tne TACT that such giant corporations would Ger
tainly be nonunion
Inc last years have seen MANY hints that
the bltumnous coal problem was about +o v;o1d
to large-scale mergers. These MERGERS wonld
eliminate the higher cost mines and curtai nro-
ducuon to insure return on the entire value in
Guiding the closed properties, written into the re-
capitalization of the industry.
Why hasn't this developed? Why have the onlv
important mergers been carried out in West Vir-
glna Not because the coal properties of the
central competitive field have lost their tremend-
Gus economic Importance, but because the battle
with the union in the central field still has to bo
fought
Inc financial manipulations out of which trusts
are born always center around corporations nrac-
ucally bankrupted by cutthroat competition The
trend IN the coal industry has been toward isolat
ing and bankrupting mines which remained on
union basis, The Hoover-Mellon government Of
Washington has cooperated in this. Hoover on
couraged the making of the Jacksonville apree-
ment which Melons Pittsburgh Coal Co. promnt-
~ broke, while the packed interstate commerce
commission arranged railroad rates, which en-
couraged the entry of nonunion coal into import-
ant union markets
Inc dominant coal trust, like the steel trust
with which it will be closely related, will be non
union If it can defeat the United Mine Workers
IN pennsylvania and Ohio. It will include mines IN
tne central competitive field as well as in West
Virginia and Kentucky. Illinois alone NAV re-
man stronghold of mionsm in the bituminons
industry with some sort of agreement enabling
II TO serve the great utility, rail and steel corpor
atlons which control the entire output of MANY Of
its mines. -
Whatever the result of the strike the union will
TACT the colossal task of extending its lines in tba
The producers news., 1927-04-15
WASHINGTON WEEKLY LETTER

lens which affect industry. Our
viewpoint and understanding of the
effect of industrial processes upon the
welfare of all associated with indus
try have undergone a most revolution
ary change. We now find that the
line OF separation cannot be drawn
between any group or groups either
interested in or connected with the
producing forces of industy. There
is not point which can be definitely
fixed where the interest of one group
begins or ends-One group cannot
permanently prosper at the expense
of the other nor is any one group
immune from the evil consequences of
uneconomic industrial operation. In
dustry is made profitable and the re-
wards of industrial effort are in
creased in proportion to the coopera-
tion established between employers,
and management"
The producers news., 1927-04-15
UNEMPLOYMENT MOST VICIOUS
WASTE, Says Green.
Bv Federated Press

Dy reuefaCeQ HreSS.
Philadelphia. = (FP) - Unemploy-
ment IS waste of the most vicious
KIND, William Green, president of the
american Federation of Labor, told
the Conference of Elimination of
waste In Industry, on April 10. The
conference College of Philadelphia.
"One of the most difficult prob
lens associated with industry is the
problem of unemployment, Green
said. 1T is of such grave conse-
quence as to demand the best of our
thought and judgment in trying to
find a solution. We cannot evade or
ignore it. When acute it is a menace
to society and if permitted to con-
tlnue over widespread area it serves
to threaten the security of govern
ment. Reasonably steady, regular
and continuous employment creates a
happy state Of mind, removes the
spectre of want, hunger and misery,
begets a feeling of confidence, and
permits workers to make orderly plan
ming for the future.
Surely stabilized, continuous poll
cy of employment is in the range of
human possibilities. Unemployment
is waste Of the most vicious kind. 1t
constitutes a waste of human oppor-
tunity, of effort and of human crea-
tive capacity"
The most tragic feature of Amer
ican industrial development, Green
declared, is connected with the loss of
life and the mental and physical suf-
fering due to industrial accidents and
unemployment.
Much of the loss of life caused by
industrial accidents, he asserted, "is
morally indefensible and we'll nigh
criminal. For instance, science has
demonstrated that dust explosions
which result in tn loss of hundreds of
lives could be avoided by the simple
process of rock busting. Notwith-
standing the fact that we are in full
possession of this scientific knowledge
it is not used except to a limited ex-
tent, consequently an appalling loss
of life occurs in the mining industry
through gas and coal dust explosions.
The death rate from accidents is con-
slderably higher in the mining indus
try in our country than it is in the
mining industry of any other nation
in the word"
In opening his address, Green said:
Time and experience have developed
a new conception of the vital prob
The producers news., 1927-04-15

that natural resources must be held
for the permanent benefit of the peo-
pie at large, now joins the imperial
concesslon-hunting experts corps. He
goes to Nicaragua to arrange for
new loans on the mahogany and other
resources which will be taken from
the Nlcaraguan people and given ito
American corporations favored bvl an
Ameencan-made government support
ed by American machine gun com
panles of American marines. Rut
Kellogg adds Stimson's errand to the
long list of official mysteries piled
up since he took office.
lronlc humor is added to the Slim
son affair by the fact that in the
same week another of the conserva-
CIonlst crusaders of 191O-"J Jimmy
GARFIELD, afterward Secretary of the
1nterlor-was named by Secretary
Work as member of his special
commission to Study the Boulder
Dam project once more. That is to
say, Garfield is to serve COOLIDGE and
mellon by rendering a report hostile
TO public ownership and operation of
the Boulder Dam power plant and
dlstributive system.
Sen. King of Utah, returned form
MS futile attempt to enter Haiti. is
charged by the super-patriot Mai
Gen: Eli Helmick, inspector general
OF the army, with having made a Sc
utous speech to 400 soldiers and
The producers news., 1927-04-15
BRITISH LIES ABOUT CHINA

Ananlas may have been the father of lies ant
liars but the agents of the British foreign offic,
never intend to let the old biblical character es
cape with unquestioned sway in the realm ot
talsehood In the last issue of the Chicago Her.
aid and Examiner appeared an article supposed
to have been written by Joseph Stain, which was
nothing but tissue of falsehood from beginning
to end
The Daily press has been full of accounts of al
legged Chinese atrocities in the Nanking terrain
This was done for the purpose of infIaminp the
minds of young Americans so that they would be
available as good cannon fodder should the Brit
lsh Foreign office overcome the fears of Kellogg
and Coolidge of the common people, and plunge
this country into far eastern war;
The NATION sent special investigation 70
Nankng to get the truth about the affair and here
1t IS as sent out by the Federated Press:
New YOrk-FP) American killed in Nan
king, j. Z. Williams, Vice President of Nanking
University, was shot as he drew a revolver on
the threatening Chinese soldiers, according to a
report cabled to THE NATION from Shanghai
-Four other Americans who were with Williams
when the shooting occurred were not injured G.
A. Kennedy an American resident in China and
graduate of the Columbia School of journalism
is responsible for the statement Mr.. Kennedy
went to Marking for the purpose of Investigating
the outrage. His report states that there were
over $1,000 soldiers of the Northern army IN Nan
king when the first Nationalist soldiers entered
the city at A. M. on the 24th of March. and that
II Is impossible therefore to hold the Nationalists
responsible for what occurred.
The attacks on foreigners in the morning
and afternoon of that day, resulting in the
deaths Of one American two British. and one
Japanese and the loOting of the consulates
OF Inose countries, cannot be conclusivelv fix
ed upon the Nationalist soldiers.
lhe first of the four foreign deaths that
OF ). +. Williams, vice-president of Nankno
University, occurred at a. m on the twen
Iy-Iourth. 1t has been proved that four 9th
er Americans were with Williams at the time
the soldiers threatened. Williams drew his
revolver and was Immediately shot dead The
others were not hurt. The three other for
elgn deaths occurred in the late afternoon
before the bombardment, which was at 4:3O
p m. The Nationalist general entered the
city at $50.
The foreign houses burned or looted were
all on the route taken by the Nortberners in
their efforts to escape from the CITY. For
elgn houses were not the only houses looted
Hundreds of Chinese were robbed and manv
Killed by the soldiers, presumably, again,
NOrtherners running amuck.
The physical effects of the bombardment
by the British and American war vessels are
comparatively slight. About fifty Chinese
houses were wrecked, and one foreign-nbab-
tied home was demolished The number Of
Cmnese casualties was probably under one
hundred But this is uncertain, as thew have
not yet been recorded
The producers news., 1927-04-15
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
By LAURENCE TODD. Federated Press

Washington (FP) - Secretary of
i State Kellogg got into very hot water
last November when his assistant and
former law partner, Robert Olds,
tried to frame" press sentiment by
his confidential charge that Mexico
was seeking to foment a bolshevist
bloc from the Rio Grande to the Pan
anna Canal Zone.
On that ill-fated occasion Olds
whispered into the ear of the three
chief telegraph news associations.
Someone afterwards gave away the
game. Public opinion ran strongly
against Kellogg and the Baltimore
Sun demanded that he, as "a discred-
tied foreign minister" resign.
=
Now the whispering into the ear of
a selected agency of the press is be-
ing tried again. Richard V. Oulaban
veteran Washington correspondent of
the New York Times speaks authora-
tatlvely of the alleged theft of a lot
OF documents from either the Ameri-
can embassy in Mexico CITY or the
State department on the one hand.
and from the War department on the
other Just as in the Olds incident
correspondents for the Hearst and
Pulitzer papers have been unable to
locate the same information, hard as
they may try. 1t is possible that the
rumor of visit by Oulahan to Kel-
loggs home, just before the story Of
stolen documents was published, NAV
be true? ''i'''
kellogg has informed his press
bureau that no part of the Times
yarn came from himself or from his
department. This denial is met with
the assertion that a better witness
mas ma asserted that Kellogg did give
the story to the Times. Kellogg's
repeated performances in misleading
newspaper men have made them very
doubtful of his frankness, especially
when he is anxious to put the Mexi-
can government in an unfavorable
light before the American people.
AS TO these mysterious stolen ma
pers and these alleged forgeries of
papers, said to have been delivered 70
President Gales and by Gales report-
eu 70 washington with a request for
explanation of the real intentions of
the Coolidge administration. KELLOGG
remains mum. Equally silent is he on
ehe mission of Henry L. Stimson. who
is gong to Nicaragua to "studv the
situation" for President Coolidge.
Stlmson, who in 1910 was one of
Roosevelt's eloquent spokesman in
the conservation campaign, pleading
The producers news., 1927-04-15
ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL FDTr
CATION
NO0IIVlIIueu IIOIl last WeekJ
3. WHAT INFLUENCE HAS THE DEVELOP
MENT OF MACHINE PRODUCTION ON
THE STRUCTURE OF CAPTTAL7
Continued from last week)

The development of machine prodnction s,,n
planting the present labor power of human be;nos
decreases the expenditure of the canital;s+ 81
wages (the variable part of capitaD and increases
the expenses on that portion of capital which i
called constant capital (machines raw roatarioI
e'''' Inls growth of the constant part of capital
'CNPared TO the variable part is called the rise
u 'ne organic composition of capital and has
y, 1reendous significance in the life of capitalism
me important point IS that the surplus value is
created only by labor power, e., by the variable
part Oh capital and for this reason the decrease
ol ene portion of capital that goes for wages
compels tne capitalists to develop machine pro-
The producers news., 1927-04-15
SACCO-VANZETTI SCARE AT
STATE DEPARTMENT

Washington (FP)-Because of Of
ficial fear that someone may bring
to the State Department a protest
against the death sentences pro-
nOunced on Sacco and Vanzetti, spe-
cial police guards have been posted
in the office building occupied by the
State and War departments, adjoin-
inlg the White House.
The producers news., 1927-04-15
Total. 1851, ,39O.447

- - TI'O0O'#F' 9zU3,U41 300
lntl. Harvester in 1926 sold the farmers we'll
over $2OO,OOO,OOO of implements. 1t has more
than 100 distributing houses in the United States
Il IN Canada, 63 in Europe 20 in Asia. 20 in
South America, 12 in Africa, IL in Australia and
New Zealand, in Mexico and in Central Ameri-
ca.
Init. Harvester aims to keeps its EMPLOYEES do
Gle with pension scheme and an anemic form of
employe representation. The control is entirely
IN the hands of the big bankers with Thomas w
Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Co. as an OUTSTANDING
director '''''O''is
The producers news., 1927-04-15
MEDICINE LAKE PRIN-
CIPAL is REELECTED

Medicine Lake, April S.-The
school board at regular meeting Tues
day evening reelected Prof. W. H.
May as principal of the local schools.
This will be Professor Mays third
term at Medicine Lake.
The producers news., 1927-04-15

face of active resistance by organized capital.
Then the problem of attacking capitalist control
will have to be met.
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BIG s-ROOM HOME.
LIST COMMERCIAL ZONE.
4 BARG AT So $50.

Splendid big brick home with hay window
good II ". location. on car line in first com
merc!al zone: can easily he rcmodeled and
used az store and residence: in excellent
condition. with all modern improvements; q
large rooms and bath. hardwood floors and
concrete cellar. good ward to 20-ft paved
alley with room for garage screens and
awnings. Easily worth $4,000; will sell to
immediate purchaser for SS.95n. terms can
re arranged. This is real bargain: see II
tndav- Call dams 5TN2.W for details.
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FACING SHERMAN CIRCLE.
q cOOMS-BIG GARAGE.
PRICED FOR IMMEDIATE SALE.

wonderful colt. home. facing large
circle in a splendid nv. community, priced
Tor quick sale ny owner. unusually large
rooms lied bath with bullt-ln tub and
shower. 3 large porches. rear porchcs lnclosed
for use as room big kitchen with hullt-ln
refrigerator. pantry ample wardrobe closets.
coat closet on first floor instantaneous hot
water heater servants toilet. laundry trays.
concrete cellar. electricity. gas, not-~s ,i.
decoration: in excellent condition. screened
and weather tripped. Don't overlook THIS
opportunity. Very good terms. az owner
must leave city. Address Box l9b-J. star
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SALE-HOUSES.
Coutinue1.l
DrG 4.BEDRooM CORNER HOME.
LARGE PQRCHES AND GARAGE.

wonderful corner home in the most de-
rooms a big bedroomsl white tiled bath
with built-in tub. shower and fixtures:
large covered porches. pantry and garase:
electricity. hot-water heat. This home is in
splendid condition and modern in every de-
tail of equipment. OF tapestry brick. 20x35
IT.. il has an attractive exterior. and in floor
plan and arrangement leaves nothing to b
desired in comfort and efficiency. This II an
unusual home in every respect and is priced
TO sell AZ once. Will arrange terms Call
Adams Az for further dntails
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SALE-SUBURBAN PROPERTY.
RARGAIN

mace heat lot 4Ox115 TT: one.fare zone.
$500 cash S42 so per mo. Call Hyatts. $50.
or inquire $500 33rd ST.. Mt Rainier. Md.