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The Washington times., 1927-06-01
BUG HOLLOW NOTES

Born, to Pop Flies and wife. Sum
day, May 20, 1927, 12-lb. SON, who
has been appropriately christeTied
Iindberwh. just 10 show his heart
was in the right place Pop got two
hits, q triple, and q homo rum on
Kane at TallshOrt. The Bears won
the game, however, 8 to 3, punching
the hits on Bush Whacker in the
seventh for three runs. This II only
the third game the All-Stars have lost
In the league 50 far them now Lead
ing with q percentage Of 1855. One
and all wish little "IIuclIy" all the
luck his name would indicate.
Amonx the guests at the Comfort
House ares Henry BustakOW, OF De-
frOit; Miss Itza snOne, Of Away. SRsk..
Canada; Mrs. Washa Shebanek, of
Ohek, HeckoslOvalIia; Trundlett Inn,
NJ BiPdievaIe; knight PrOwleF. Of
Cats Corners, and Wratt Bisldtt, Of
Crawdad.
Married. Wednesday. May rs. at st.
Maud's, Glossier Printz and Miss
Wuna Veach, Of Kodak. Alaska, by
the Rev. Dubblen Rockford. These
young people made pilgrimage here
to visit the GOOfy Water BottlInE
Arctic Fever by the use Of this fla
nous water. The bride was given
away by VIM. snubgrass, who pre-
scented tho happy couple with solid
silver watering and full case of
GOofy Water. Immediately following
the ceremony Mr.. and Mrs. PrintE
left for honeymoon in the Sand
witch Islands.
Green Corn . la Phidias at the O. Il
Restaurant. A souvenir to every lady
Sunday .--Advt. GENE BLOSSOM.
The Washington times., 1927-06-01
ELDR|DGE NJ AY
LOSE JOB

The final report Of the Bureau
Of Efficiency on Its investigation
Of the traffic light scandal, which
may result in the complete sever.
ance from the District service of
Assistant Traffic Director NJ. o.
Eldridge, is being studied by the
District Commissioners today.
Even friends OF the former traf-
fic car now fear that he will
have to get out of the traffic of.
flee. The report charged him with
wilful knowledge and approval of
all the major Irregularities charged
against Col. ]. e. Moller, his former
assistant.
And whereas Moller admitted his
part in the irregularities during
the course of the investigation
Eldridge emphatically denied any
knowledge of them, so the report
yesterday was not only an attack
on his administration, but also on
his veracity.
Mr.. Eldridge refused today to
comment on the bureaus report.
His friends, however, were bitter
in their attack on the bureau, de-
claring the report was biased, par.
tial. inaccurate and unfair.
They pointed to the results Of tina
administration of the Traffic Blu.
reau under Mr.. Eldridge's director.
ship in refutation of the charges
OF inefficiency.
Traffic fatalities here, they
pointed out, were cut down under
Mr.. Eldridge's administration. from
81 in 1928 and 1924 to "a In 1925
when he took office and 76 last
year. Traffic injuries last year
dropped from around 5000 and 5000
Tor previous years to about 5000.
The Washington times., 1927-06-01
Four Children Are
Bitten By Dogs
In District

Four children yesterday were
bitten by dogs.
Richard White, 10, IS B st.
N. W., was bitten by a dog
owned by orlando Brinza, 217
First st. N. W.; Harry Mudd,
8, 1911 Pennsylvania Ave. S. E.,
was bitten by a dog belonging
to D. E. Curtis, 1915 Pennsyls
vania Ave. S. E.; Henry KIM
ball, s, 1854 Twenty-eighth st.
N. W., was bitten by the dog Of
Noel F. Rasasco, 1920 Twenty
eighth st. N. W., and Reginald
Pleasant, colored, 10, 4O51 Ben
ming Rd. N. E.. was bitten by
dog owned by Mamie Christian,
4105 Benning Rd. N, r.
The Washington times., 1927-06-01
Merchants "Sell OUT
For Big Booster Trim

Practically every ticket for the
Merchants and Manufacturers Asso.
cation Booster" trip, June II to
20, has been sold, Lewis A. Payne,
in charge of the reservations, an.
nounced today.
Sailing on the Northland steam.
ship, the boosters will first visit
Old Point Comfort, Langley Field
and then Norfolk and Ocean View,
reaching Yorktown Sunday, accord.
ing to present plans.
The Washington times., 1927-06-01
BALL STAR COP
FINDS STILL

The smell Of liquor morning after
morning, emanating from a garage
at AT C st. S. W., proved too much
today for Policeman X. o. Specie,
star outfielder of the police base
ball team, so he climbed a telegraph
pole. then over the tin roof and took
one look at the interior.
Then he rushed to the Fourth
precinct station house, got Captain
Bremmerman, Detective Ogle and
Sergeant Les and went back.
Bursting into the room over the
CARA ge they found a 250-gallon still
in operation, 35 barrels of mash
ready to run and so much alleged
liquor that they have not been able
The Washington times., 1927-06-01
All Old ID. c.. Automobile
Permits Are Now Void
staff Photo

All old automobile operators per-
mits became invalid today. Traffic
authorities estimate that about
$4,000 dead permits are still in use.
A conference was held between
Major Edwin B. Hesse, superin-
tendent of police. and Traffic Di-
rector William II. Harland today
to work out methods for enforcing
the regulations and preventing the
use of old permits.
The Washington times., 1927-06-01
Tall Cedars Take in
Many New Members

A large number of local Masons
took the degrees in Capitol Forest.
No. 1O4. Tall Cedars of Lebanon, at
ceremonial held in the ball room
Of the Willard Hotel, last evening.
Alvah w. Patterson, grand tan
cedar, and Fl. NJ. Vandevort. Nenior
deputy grand tall cedar were in
charge. M. L. Hart, treasurer, and
F. r. Steffens. secretary, took an
active part.
The Washington times., 1927-06-01
COLORs IN OUR TAXIs

A grand color seheme has been
thrust upon the unsuspecting
public.
Brown Bros. O1Uners Of the
Black and White Cab Co., hare
purchased the YELLOW cabs and
are dickering for the Red cabs.
Bro1On, Black, White, YELLOW and
Red. And the end is not net.
How about passing bill in
Congress to paint the cabs of
the mean company a nice sky blue
pink, pr1ssiGn blue or russian
red? This, along Nth green
driVers, aOould be wonderful
color. combination. And SOEen
pedestrians haze to tell the tart
traffic 4aGnip1I0tors directions,
this last statement can nell be
understood.
l fear the neat RAINBOW which
bedecks the henVens Gboue oar
fair Washington soiH blush tUhsn
u sees itself outdone IN such a
UtHnner.
A q name for the nep firm
The Washington times., 1927-06-01
65-FOOt Yacht, Reveler,
Is Damaged by Fire

Fire last night damaged the So.
foot cruiser. ReveIer, owned by
John w. Thompson. local real
estate operator. OF the Dresden
Apartments. as the yacht was lying
at anchor off Annapolis, Nd.
No one was aboard the yacht at
the time of the fire as Mr.. Thomp-
son and guests had returned to
Washington. The damage is esti-
mated at $4,000. The flames were
extinguished by sailors from the
Reina Mercedes.
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to make an accurate count to date.
The room was cluttered with
numerous bags Of sugar and corn
meal, yeast cakes and empty fruit
jars and cartons. The operator, who
was there when Specie looked in,
had grown suspicious and made his
escape.
The Washington times., 1927-06-01

MussoIiai says Italy soiH be
ready to fight anything or
anybody IN ten gears. Ger
many 10Gs once animated by
the same spirit and got all
the fighting she WGnted. The
big bully With a chip on his
shoulder is sure to get a
licking. D. S. R.
The Washington times., 1927-06-01

Poets are born, not made"
Said the composer of verse,
And then he produced some lines
That couldn't have been worse.
"Yes, they're born" said his friend.
But he had had q relapse.
And IL IL my humble opinion
That he tops all the poetic saps. ~
GINGER jim.
The Washington times., 1927-06-01

I 4Could suggest, The Greater
RGinbO0s TG1i Company.
In the interest of louder and
gGyer tG1is, | remain, Whdt
there is of me,
ROBERT SCOTT.
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PARTICLES CRIMINIS
The Washington times., 1927-06-01

A X. K. K. parade at
Lynch6arg sang: Hang Car
ter Glass on a Sour Apple
Tree" They also consigned
Al Smith to the same tree.
Carter had said the Khan
aOas dead In Virginia" Those
1Cho liUe in Glass houses
shouldn't throU stones.
G.. H. d.
The Washington times., 1927-06-01
CHILD HURT IN FALL

Falling forty feet from a second.
story window in her home late yes.
terday, Carolyn RAIDER, two years
old, escaped with slight bruises to
the body. The child landed on the
cement pavement.
The Washington times., 1927-06-01

A case within which chalk line is
reeled has been invented that con-
tains chalk to coat the line as 1t is
withdrawn.
The Washington times., 1927-06-01
II SOMETIMES HAPPENS

When Marie married Rennie
She thought he'd fill all desire,
But she noW tells her friends
He is just flat tire.
johnny johnson, 1r,
The Washington times., 1927-06-01

ESPECIALLY THE BARE"
Che was Juat chorus girl;
Clothes her charms did not enhance.
"I'n make a big hit," she said,
eft 1 get q bare chance"
FRONT ROW.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15

Only through unity Of action on the
part of the two great exploited groups
Ct the nation, the useful members of
society, the workers and farmers, can
their economic problems be solved.
The terrific drive on the part of the
Wall Street government against la
hor, and the prolongation and inten-
sification Of the agricultural crisis
furnishes the basis for an aggressive
class party of labor, appealing for
the cooperation of the farmers, that
will challenge both the old parties and
raise the issue of a workers and
farmers government.
This IS the only adequate reply to
the arrogance of Coolidge and all the
ether old party politicians who try
to capitalize the misery of the ex-
plotted masses of the United States,
while driving them ever lower in the
scale of misery, suffering and de-
graduation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
By H. NJ. WICKS.

FARMERS are entitled to any salts
faction they can derive from the
opening statement of Calvin Coolidge
in that section OF his message to con-
gress dealing with agriculture, where
in he states that the past year has
seen marked Improvement in the
general condition of agriculture" In
stead of admitting that production of
corn, oats and cotton is smaller this
year than last, which was itself far
below that Of the five-year average,
Coolidge INDUCES in the customary
sophistry of the republican platform
orators who try to perpetuate the ex-
ploded fallacy Of Coolidge prosper
/. ity," by declaring that production
is better balanced and without acute
shortage or heavy surplus" He is
careful not to refer to the fact that
the shortage of the total agricultural
production is to be explained by the
fact that there is an absolute decline
in acreage under cultivation, due to
the fact that hundreds of thousands
have been driven from the land by
the mortgage foreclosures enforced
by the banks.
With the most sardonic cynicism
this puppet of Wall Street asserts that
''the individual farmer is entitled to
great credit for the progress made
since 1921" This can be viewed by
the farmer who is at all familiar
with the economic condition of agri-
culture as studied affront, flip
pant reference to the unbearable bur-
den borne by the vast majority of
impoverished farmers. For it is pre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
Assistant Manager,
Ukrainian News, and
Wife Dead from Gas

Two young comrades, Daniel
Yurkevitch, assistant manager of the
Ukrainian Daily News, and his bride
of six month, Phyllis, are dead from
carbon monoxide asphyxiation. They
died in their small apartment at 232A
Sumpter St., Brooklyn, Sunday night.
Yurkevitch was in his thirtieth and
Phyllis in her twenty-second year.
Both came to New York City from
Rochester, N. Y. Previously Yurke-
witch, native of western Ukraine,
lived in Canada.
Phyllis Yurkevitch was shop
worker. Both were active members
of local Ukrainian workers organ
izations, and Yurkevitch since com
ing to Canada and thence to this
country was always active in the la
Dor movement. He was widely known
among Ukrainian working people. In
Canada he was a member of the
Communist Party of Canada and for
some time secretary of the Ukrainian
bureau of the Party. In this country
he was a militant member Of the
Workers (Communist) Party.
Funeral services will be held Sat
urday afternoon at the Ukrainian
Labor Home Manhattan Lyceum),
66-68 E. 4th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15

DEPLYING to the demand of a
~ number of farm organizations for
government subsidies to financially
aid the farmers. Coolidge states that
such a proposition is unsound and
would also result in production Of
a surplus that cannot be disposed Of
Nowhere in his message to congress
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15

spontaneous and the life depicted,
though it belongs to a time that has
been swept away, is full of roots that
dig deep.
Sholom Aleichem, the lover of
simplicity and genuineness, would
have taken little joy in Sam Ostrow-
sky's settings for the play. They are
prettified and self-consciously arty.
Maurice Schwartz's direction was
thoroughly incompetent The acting
was pitched in an assiduous scream,
with intermittent shouts and gesti-
culations that were supposedly en-
semble. Schwartz's own acting, which
is usually so resourceful, was also
decidedly below par. Excellent in
dividual bits were contributed by
number of members of the cast, par
ticularly by Jechiel Goldsmith, who
gave an unusually subtle portrayal
of Iddel Torba, the money changer.
Among the women Bina Abramowitz
and Bertha Gersten did the best work.
Miss Gersten's acting was full of
verve. She is, moreover, decidedly
easy to look at, which is more than
can be said about lots and lots Of
Yiddish actresses.-A. B. Magil.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
X DRAMA IN
THE Gold Diggers"
Sholom Aleichem's Satirical Play Presented by
Yiddsh Art Players

THE gold diggers of Sholom AL
! eichem's play at the Yiddish Art The
atre are not of the species SO familiar
to the American male. They are just
ordinary men and women in an or
binary town in Czarist Russia, who
are led by the nose by an old waves
tale and behave like damn fools. A
boy whose mentality seems trifle
subnormal finds an old coin that a
widow mourning her husband has lost
in graveyard This revives an old
legend about treasure supposedly
buried there, precipitating a grand
rush to the graveyard, where the
bones of many ancient and dis
tinguished rabbis are given quite a
busting. But evidently God, as well
as stewards and gendarmes, can be
bribed to overlook this dissertation.
The late Sholom Aleichem (Sholom
Rabinowitz), greatest of Yiddish
humorists and, in my opinion, one of
the giant figures in the literature of
the world, wrote his comedy, Gold
Diggers," about 20 years ago. 1t has
been adapted for the present produc-
ton by his son-in-law, l. d. Berko-
WITT, who has taken such liberties
with the text that the play has really
become collaboration. No Yiddish
writer is so beloved and so widely
read as Sholom Aleichem because
none has come so close to the every
day lives and emotions of the great
Jewish masses. His was a great
child-spirit that merged itself COM
pletely with his characters. He
doesn't talk about them or even
through them; he always talks with
them. They are his comrades; they
have suffered with him, hoped and
struggled with him, but most of all
laughed with him his large earthly
laughter.
Sholom Aleichem was, however, not
significant as a dramatist. His end
lessly fertile genius constantly over
flowed the rigid bounds of drama
turgic form and the naive plots that
he used merely served as pegs for
him to hang his humor on.
The story of Gold Diggers" might
easily have been treated as satire.
But direct satire requires a certain
intellectual condescension, and Sholom
Aleichem was incapable of this
though he often achieves indirect and
implied satiric effects. In Gold
Dlggers," as in all of Sholom
Aleichem's work, we have the
pathetic-comic desolation, the laughter
in rags of the Jewish small town in
czarist Russia. The humor is rich and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
Families of 81 Dead
Seamen to Be Aided

A fund of $4,000 to aid the fam
lilies of 81 fishermen, crews of the
Columbia and Avalon, who lost their
lives when these vessels foundered
last August, is being raised by fish
ermen under the leadership of the
Middle Atlantic Fisheries Association
Ill Cliff st. The lives of the drowned
seamen were not insured, and their
families are in had straits.
Columbia, a Gloucester schooner,
met her doom in a hurricane that
swept the North Atlantic coast just
as she was about to reach Canadian
port. The Avalon went down when
she was rammed off Cape Cod by an
Italian schooner. She as headed for
Boston, her home port.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15

Save Greco and Garlic!
Work Daily for the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
-Cooldge's Message for the American Farmers

4 Their reduction OF the surplus acre
age. The further reduction Of farm
acreages is to be achieved with prac-
| tically the same methods used since
the war to drive hundreds OF thou
sands from the land The Coolidge
solution was plainly stated in his
message to congress. 1t should be
framed alongside the mortgages that
are plastered upon the farms by the
banks and should be carefully studied
when again some political agent of
capitalism, whether he be called Cool
idge, OF Smith, or Lowden, or Dawes
or Hoover, appeals for their support
on election day. After repeating the
observation that it is necessary to re-
duce the crop acreage, Coolidge tells
congress how it should be done in the
following words:
I While this cannot be done by the
individual farmer, it can be done
through the organizations already
in existence, through the informa-
ton furnished by the department of
agriculture, and especially through
banks and others who supply credit
refusing to finance an acreage
manifestly too large"
Let the farmers ponder these words
What is to become of him when the
acreage is further reduced is not re-
vealed by Coolidge. But one other
fact that constitutes a damning in
dictment of the Coolidge agricultural
policy is clearly revealed. In plain
words, out of Coolidge's own mouth
is the bald statement in the above
quotation that the department of ag-
riculture, in theory supposed to aid
the farmers, will be used as an in
formation department for the bank
ers so that they will not lend money
to farmers who many not be able tC
dispose of their crops. This plan pro-
tects the banks in the agricultural
belts, the same as the great statistical
bureaus of Wall Street protect the
banks that make industrial loans by
furnishing them advance information
on the state of the world market fol-
industrial products so that they may
withhold loans from industrialists who
may not be able to dispose of thei,
products. 1t is an excellent device fol
protecting the banks so that they will
not suffer bankruptcy from unwise
loans to impoverished farmers.
There is another aspect of TIE Cool.
idge policy and that is the dictator,
ship of the bankers over the farmers
Upon the basis of information sup.
piled by the department of agricul-
ture system will be evolved where.
by the bankers dictate to the farmers
precisely what crops they shall anc
shall not plant. Under an ordered
system of production for the use OF
the population instead of for the pro
fit of the loan mongers, the grair
trust and the railroads, such regula.
/ ton will be essential, though not
however, administered by banks. but
! under the Coolidge system the result
will be the reduction Of the farm popu.
lation to the level of serfs who toll
only under orders for the benefit OF
their exploiters.
DEPLYING' to the demand of q
IN number of farm organizations fol
government subsidies to financially
aid the farmers. Coolidge states that
such a proposition is unsound anc
would also result in a production OF
surplus that cannot be disposed of
! Nowhere in his message to congress
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15

does he mention the fact that count
less numbers of workers in cities and
towns throughout the country are un-
able, because of the low wages they
receive, to purchase the farm products
that they need for proper nourish-
ment, He carefully avoids the con-
clusion that the surplus is due to the
fact that the purchasing power of
other victims of capitalism does not
permit them to buy what they ought
to have. Under production for use
and not for profit there would be no
surplus problem
Then again, a government subsidy
for the impoverished farmers, if ad
ministered directly, would enable them
to free themselves from the clutches
of the bankers and it is absurd to
expect a government that exists for
the purpose of defending the inter-
csts of the bankers to interfere with
their business.
NEVER for moment does Cool
~ idge forget the interests of the
bankers, while protesting to grope
for solution of the farm problem.
He proposes government assistance
to cooperative associations" But
such "cooperatives" are to be estab-
lished gradually by empowering fed
eral board or commission "of able
oDJ oDyno,,iaoooJ ,,,o,, -, ,,oo,,Iya of ipcr -
and providing a revolving fund at a
moderate rate of interest "for the
necessary financing" This proposal
is for the purpose Of lending money
temporarily to experimental market
ing associations which will no doubt
ultimately be financed by the regu-
larly established banks"
Thus we come to another joker,
which again proves that Coolidge has
no intention of aiding the farmers.
The Coolidge "cooperatives" are in
reality to be marketing organizations
under the domination of the banks,
which will give the bankers control
of the disposal Of farm products so
that the individual farmer will be I'M
able to dispose privately Of his crop
and thereby hold out interest on the
banker. The farmers job is to pro-
duce. The bankers will take care of
the marketing.
All in all the Coolidge proposals
for Solving" the farm crisis is one
Of the dirtiest, most contemplate and
viciously despotic documents ever con-
footed by the mind of man. Under
the pretext Of aiding the farmer a
program is enunciated for reducing
him to a condition of absolute serf-
dom, vassal OF those parasites who
have brought him to- his present
plight.
When all the implications Of the
agricultural section of the message
are perceived by the farmers it will
fan the flames Of the farm revolt.
But already the Lowdens, the Daweses
and the so-called farm bloc in con-
gress are busy trying to play the
part of lightning rods to avoid the
SCATTERING Of the old parties when
the storm breaks. In place of the
Coolidge viciousness this ncoherent
opposition, both republican and demo-
crat, would substitute a vacuum and
try to fill it with their vapid rawlings
and in the end the farmers would
meet the same fate that is indicated
in the Coolidge message, which, after
all, is but brazen expousal of what
capitalism holds in store for the farm
ers.