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Evening star., 1927-02-08
C|TY-W|DE AFFAIRS
ASSOCIATIONS AIM
President of Federation
Urges Outlying Communities
to Back D. c. Measure.

J. G.. Yaden, president of the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations, in al
address last night on Organized Citl
Renship, Its Opportunities and Respon
Eibilities" before the members OF the
Citizens Association of Takoma, II. &.
urged his auditors to display a greater
interest in general civic affairs IN the
National Capital and not conhne thehl
to individual communities. In this
manner, he argued, more could be ac-
complished for the city by this broader
view of public affairs and benefit to a
greater extent the whole city.
Study District Affairs.
The speaker stated that the organ
ized citizenship of the District was
very strong and that its course would
be safe and sane as long as 1t rem
dered service to the community, Few
of the citizens associations, he con
tinued, were dealing with city-wide af-
fairs, judging from the few recon-
mendations being presented to the fed
Grafton for action. While the first duty
of the local association was in the in
terest of their immediate neighbor-
hood, he suggested that the affairs of
the District as a whole should not be
overlooked by the citizens associa-
tionS.
In referring to school affairs, he re-
GREETED that the Bureau of the Bud
get had failed To include an assembly
hall for the Takoma School. although
the Board of Education. he said had
recommended it. He said he was par
tial to assembly halls and Fairgrounds
and that he would put forth an effort
when the matter was presented to the
Bureau of the Budget next year.
Zoning Law May BE Changed.
In speaking of the coming law, he
stated that while the District had a
good law. there were many desirable
changes needed, which. if they met
with the desire of the citizens of the
District, would be presented TO the
next Congress.
1t was announced that the annual
celebration of Washington's birthday
would take place in the Trinity Parish
Hall. February %, in conjunction with
the other civic organizations in Ia
koma Park.
The association unanimously adopted
q resolution urging the retention of
Lieut.. Col. ]. Franklin Bell as En-
gineer Commissioner of the District.
The meeting was presided over by s.
H. McCrory. with Roy G.. Pierce re-
cording the minutes.
Evening star., 1927-02-08
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Evening star., 1927-02-08

waive all claims TO any rights either
IN wave lengths or Use Of the ether.
The second motion would have III
structed the C0uferees 20 insist on en-
amendment under which licenses
granted by the commission would
have automatically expired on the last
day Of the FIRST session OF the Sew
entieth Congress.
Senator Din. Democrat. Washing
ton, in charge Of the bill. warned that
II either motion prevailed radio legis-
lation could not be put through al
this session.
Evening star., 1927-02-08
Statement of Position of
Parent-Teacher Group

The following letter has been re-
ceived by The Star from Mrs. Giles
Scott Rafter, president of the District
of Columbia Congress of Parent
Teacher Associations.
To the Editor of The Star:
Since the District of Columbia Con
gress of ParentTeacher Associations
has repeatedly been held re-
sponsible in the public press for the
elimination of an item providing "a
additional teachers in the public
schools for 1928, may I request your
Evening star., 1927-02-08
Officers Here Transferred.

Several officers at the Army War
College. Washington Barracks, have
been ordered to Fort Leavenworth
Kan, for duty at the General Staff
College. Included in the number are:
Maj. James A. O'Connor, Corps of
Engineers, and Majs. Edmund L.
Gruber and Robert G. Kirkwood, Field
Artillery.
Evening star., 1927-02-08
QUICK RELIEF FROM
CONSTIPATION

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I since DIR. Edwards produced Olive Tab
/ lets, the substitute for ealOmel.
Il DIR. Edwards, pfacticing physician
/ for 20 years and eal0mels Oid-time
I enemy. discovered the formula for Olive
l Tablets while treating patients for
1 chronic constipation and torpid livers.
/ olive Tablets do not contain cal0mel,
/ just healing. soothing vegetable laxa-
1 isN Ia& wiih olive oil.
No gripping Is the keynote" of these
/ little sugar-c0ated, Olive-cOiOred tablets.
/ They cause the bowels and liver to act
normally. They never force them to un-
( natural action.
/ If You have a ozark brown mouth"-
! bad breatt--a dull, tired feeling-sick
headache - torpid liver constipation,
| y0uH find quick. sure and pleasant re-
suits from one or two of DIR. Edwards
/ Olive Tablets at bedtime.
| Thousands take them every night to
kep right Try them. I5c, SOC, 6Oc.
Keep youth and its many gifts. Take
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets nightly. How
much better yOu will feel--and look.
I5c. SOC, 6Oc. All druggists.
Evening star., 1927-02-08

The Japanese department of com
munications has issued a warning
that broadcasting of political speech
es is prohibited.
Evening star., 1927-02-08
Personalities Injected.

Injection of personalities tinged a
warm general discussion prior to the
vote on the resolution which came
only after a motion to table it had
been defeated, but proponents of the
resolution explained that it was not
Intended as personal reflection upon
aither Mrs Rafter of Mrs. Bannerman,
but directed purely at the scope of
lheir Offices
The text of the resolution, which was
Introduced by Mrs. L. o. Gray and
urthered by Mrs. E. J. Way, presi-
1T of the association, is as follows:
Whereas, we, the members of the
lenley-Janney Parent-Teacher Asso
ation, have Endorsed the administra.
ton of the superintendent of the
chools md the Board of Education;
Whereas we believe that the re-
uest to the appropriations committees
of Congress for the IA additional
teachers for the public schools of the
D'strict of Columbia was fully justified
by conditions that exist and was
lel.he extravagant BILE
Whereas we deny the right of any
members NJ the District Congress of
Parent-Teacher Associations to repre-
ent the Tenley-Janney Parent-Teach.
er Association on any subject that has
Tot previously been indorsed by this
association;
Therefore be it resolved, That we
ot-.test the action of the president of
he District Congress of Parent-Teach-
ar Associations and the. chairman OF
he committee on legislation of the
above association in securing the
elimination of the "A teachers from
he appropriation for the the schools.
Furthermore be it resolved, That
his resolution be spread on the min
utes of this meeting and copies sent
the secretary of the District Con
rress and the newspapers.
During the debate which preceded
the passage of the resolution 1T was
harged from the floor that the figures
presented by Mrs. Bannerman were
"juggled" and that an attempt had
Evening star., 1927-02-08
HaycOck Gives Data.

Complying with a special request
that he make q statement regarding
the number of teachers in the Dis
tr1ct public schools, Assistant Super
lntendent of Schools Robert L. Hay
cock said:
IF the citizens of the District of
Columbia feel that the school officials
have been too extravagant in main.
tanning special teachers to meet the
individual needs of pupils, then we
should retrench, but if we have built
up good school system. we feel that
we are justified" He also emphasized
that 1t is the desire of the school of
t1cials to please the people of the Dis.
trict and to build up as good a school
system as possible
Mr. Haycock said it has been the
policy of the school officials to main
tain sufficient corps of teachers to
give special instruction to those pupils
who have failed to pass a sufficient
number Of studies during a semester
to advance to higher grade.
With the teachers for special in
struction available, he continued, the
pupils are prevented from having to
again go over the subjects in which
they have passed. This work, he add
ed. will be greatly hampered without
the additional IA teachers asked for
Evening star., 1927-02-08
CITIZENS PROTEST
LOSS OF TEACHERS
Mrs. Rafter Denies Blame in
Elimination of IA From
Appropriation Bill.

Elimination from the school appro-
priation bill of provision for "a addi
tional teachers had its echo today in a
chorus of protest from civic organiza.
lions, which sought to fix responsible
ity for the action of Congress, and
from Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, presi-
dent Of the Congress Of Parent Teach
er Associations, who is determined
that the blame shall not be placed on
ner shoulders or those of Mrs w. r.
Zimmerman, legislative chairman of
The parent-teacher body.
In the face of resolutions adopted
last night by two civic groups. de-
plorlng the action of the House, Mrs.
Rafter appeared before third meet
ing and declared that neither she nor
Mrs. Bannerman had anything to do
with elimination of the teacher item
from the hill
Evening star., 1927-02-08
Explains Visit to Capitol.

Il know nothing about the "A teach
ers left out of the appropriation act
of 1925" Mrs. Rafter told members Of
the Kenilworth Citizens Association
at their regular meeting last night.
Mrs. Bannerman and / went to
Capitol Hill just to ask for auditori-
ums and other things for your little
children" Mrs. Rafter declared. She
outlined accomplishments of the par
ent-teacher congress during the past
i3 years and announced that she
would continue to work for School
bettelment. The association later
adopted a resolution supporting the
program of the congress
Meanwhile the Tenley-Janney Par
ent-Teacher Association, which is af-
iiliated with the congress, was adopt
ing resolutions protesting "the action
of the president of the District Con-
gress of Parent-Teacher Association
md the chairman of the committee on
egislation of the congress in secur-
ng the elimination of the IA teachers
from the appropriation for the
schools"
Despite the opposition of a deter
mined band of seven, including Mrs.
H. S. Parson, secretary Of the con-
gress and nominee for corresponding
secretary of the Janney association,
and members of the executive COM
mittee of the congress, the resolution
was passed by a standing vote of As
to z
Evening star., 1927-02-08
DISABILITY AID FIXED.
Senate Approves House Bill FOR
Federal workers.

The Senate last night paused O.
House bill fixing compensation for
total disability of Government en-
ployes injured in the performance of
their duties at a maximum of $11666
and a minimum OF $3.50 monthly,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17
Nine. Sun Thanks IVA
For Aid to Revolution;
A. l.. Strong COOperates

CHICAGO, June Thanking the
International Workers Aid for its
campaign to raise funds for aid to
wounded Nationalist soldiers, Nine
Sun Yat-sen, in charge of Nationalist
relief work, has sent the following
cable to the International Relief head
quarters at Berlin:
with great pleasure | greet the
relief action undertaken by the /. w
A. on behalf of the Chinese people
The millions of Chinese workers and
peasants await the help of the inter-
national working class. We fight for
liberty, our victory will be your vic
tory"
Among the distinguished foreigners
aiding Nine. Sut Yat-sen in her relief
work is Anna Louise Strong, Ameri-
can journalist. The l. w. A. urges
those Interested in the success of the
Nationalist revolution in China to
send donations to the Chinese Revo-
lutionary Aid to the International
Workers Aid, 1853 West Madison ST.,
Chicago, Ill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17

! IF a maidservant is beaten or
+ injured by her master, the judge Of
the court should order the master to
pay the medical fees.
ga master cannot take his maid
servant as his concubine. If the maid
servant is under the age of fifteen,
the master may choose "a husband for
her if she agrees with his choice.
Article 4. Prostitutes should be
emaneipated from the oppression of
their PROGRESSES. In order to extend
legal assistance to them, the local
court may fine the oppressor or can
eel the slavish contract so that the
oppressed may marry or find some
other work.
Article 5. With reference to the
selling of an oppressed woman as a
wife or to house of prostitution,
when such cases are detected by the
Women's Union, the INSCRIPTIONS
sellers will be severely punished by
the court. Same punishment to those
who sell the widows or orphan girls.
Article 6. The right of inheritance
in acquiring property of deceased per-
sons should be extended to women as
announced by the administrative
organs
2.-The only daughter has the
right of inheritance in acquiring the
property of her deceased father. None
other can acquire it unless he OBJ
tanned the will OF. the deceased.
3.-The son or the daughter of
widow has the full right to acquire
his or her mothers property. If
widow does not want to remarry, the
family of her deceased husband should
give her pension, if they can af-
ford to.
Art. 7. With reference to the re-
lation between the women's union
and the peasants union, the labor
union and the students union, the
regulations are as follows:
Ask Protection.
IA village woman who is a con-
current member of the peasants
union and under the direction of wo
mems department of the peasants
union, may ask the peasants union
to protect her when she is oppressed
by land owners, local rowdies or the
gentry.
Amy women who is a concur
rent member of the labor union, may
ask the labor union to protect her
when she is oppressed by her en-
ployer.
3.-Any woman who is a concurrent
member Of the students union, may
ask the latter to support her if she
is not satisfied with her school.
Art. 8. AS to the educational
movement five points were made.
Ito give relief to ignorant wo-
men and educate them.
To organize reading committees
and to give vocational education to
ignorant women if possible.
3.-To educate ignorant women UNI
til they can read and write.
4.-Those interested in educational
affairs, are expected TO open schools
for women, or write to the women's
union, which may urge the govern
ment to open the schools.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17
Pinedo Limps Into Ostia.

ROME, June 16.-Premier Musso-
linz will go to 0stia tomorrow to well
come Commander De Pinedo on his
return from four-continent flight
A great reception for De Pinedo is
being planned at the Chigi Palace on
the Flyers arrival in Rome. and
premier Mussolini will pay him tri-
butte from the balcony, with cabinet
ministers and diplomats present. De-
Pinedo has been turnout the flight
n Dragging, clustering advocate of
fascism, and win be made into one
Of the newspaper heroes of modern
italy, despite the relative unimpor-
lance of his exploits and his frequent
forced landings. At the time Pinedo
was taking tow from a sailing ship,
the Lindbergh flight took place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17
British Labor in Protest Over Backlog Bill

LONDON, June 16.-Mass demon
STATIONS are taking place all over
England against the black-leg trade
union bill Of the tory government, and
resolutions for a general strike are
being passed by the more militant
labor groups, who are not under the
complete domination of Eggleston
Square fright wing labor officials) or
have deliberately broken with the
milk-and-water policy of the labor
bureaucracy in their soft-spoken op-
position to the labor-strangling bill.
Urge General Strike.
The South London delegate meet
ing of building workers, in a united
front conference held by the Borough
Labor Party, the Bethnal Green
Trades Council (disaffiliated for it's
refusal to GUST Communist members),
Chiswick Branch of the National So
ciety of Painters, Liverpool No. 9
branch Of the N. U. G. N. W., Methil
District Trades and Labor Council.
miners meetings at Kimberley. Motifs.
and Hetton, Durham, and Waltham-
stow 657 branch Of the Workers
Union, passed resolutions urging a
general strike as the only effective
protest.
For SaccO-V anzetti.
Nearly hundred delegates attend
ed a conference Of the I. C. w. P. A.
international Class War Prisoners
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17
New Workers Going
to u. S, S. R. viii
Visit Cars Villa

The world-famous Tzarskoye Selo
Gears Village) near Leningrad is
to be one Of the many points Of
beauty and historic interests visited
by the American party, which viii
leave for Russia, July 14th, on the
six weeks tour arranged by the
World Tourists. Inc, Of Al Union
Square, New York City.
This was for many years the sum-
mer palace Of the Car, and it had
the first electric light plant in Eur
ope, and the first railway in Russia,
which was built in 1897 to connect It
with Ieningrad formerly Petrograd)
Health Resort.
Because Of the dryness of its eli
mate and its excellent sanitary con-
ditions, this is considered the healthi-
est resort in Soviet Russia. It's form
er palaces and villas have been turned
over to the children, and have be-
come museums, schools, hospitals and
sanitariums for their exclusive use.
Because in the summer the town
seems to be one big colony of young
sters, it has been renamed DetsSoye
Selo (Children's VILLAGE.
In the trip arranged by the World
Tourists, Inc, the party will be en-
tertained at Detskoye Selo. and
special dinner has been arranged
there by the U. S. S. r. Society for
Cultural Relations with Foreign
Countries under whose guidance the
tourists are to travel in Leningrad
and Moscow.
This committee has also planned
to care for all details Of travel on
the trip, provide interpreters, rooms,
meals, transportation, visits to mu-
seums, factories and to theatres and
concerts. All expense for this services
are included in the cost Of the six
weeks tour-S575.00.
This is one of the first opportun-
tiles offered to Americans to see
Soviet Russia and It is rousing ire
mendous interest everywhere. Fur
Their information about all details of
the trip can be obtained from the
office Of the World Tourists. Al
Union Square, Room SOB, phone Stuy-
vesant 7251. 1t is open daily from
0 to T.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17

BUY THE DAILY WORKER
AT TILE NEWSsTANDs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17
Unions Represented.

Among the unions represented by
delegates were the machinsts, rail-
road signalmen, painters, hosting en-
gineers, teachers, metal polshers
switchmen, steam and operating en-.
gineers, window washers, ladies' gar
ment workers, Amalgamated Clothing
workers, wood carvers and fathers. A
score of labor fraterna and other or
CARNATIONS also credentialed dele
gates. Several social centers, the
Women's Init. League for Peace and
Freedom, the Workers party, Proleta-
ran party, All-America Anti-Imperi-
alist league and the Kuomintang of
China, Chicago branch, participated.
The office of the Hands Off China
conference is care of VIM. II. Holly,
100 W. Monroe St., Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17

Add to discuss arrangements for a
monster demonstration in Trafalgar
Square, on Sunday, June 26th. After
submitting resolutions on the bill, on
China, the persecution Of the workers
in England, and the attack on Russia,
the demonstration will march to the
American embassy to demand the re-
lease of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Splitting Tactics.
At the annual conference Of trades
councils held at Westminster, it was
disclosed that Labor Party officials in
the National Trade Union Defense
Committee had been using the ma
chinery Of the party to weed out the
more militant councils from among
those invited to conferences, or to-
whom campaign material had been
sent. 1t appeared that Wood, Green.
Woolwich, Leeds, Manchester, Bethnal|
Green, and Hull Trades Councils, in
all of which there is a strong minority
movement group, had been more or
less Ignored.
Strong resentment was manifested
OF the conference, against the anti
working-class splitting tactics of the
labor officials, and against the circu-
lar of the General Council addressed
to the trades councils, threatening to
exeommunicate all those who re-
manned in touch with the national
minority movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17
Rumanian White Terror
Raids Workers Clubs

AMSTERDAM, OPP June 16.-In-
formation received by the Inter
national Federation of Trade Unions
from Bucharest is that the Rumanian
secret police at Temesvar raided a
workers club and seized and de-
stroyed 1000 "seditious" books.
Among these were the works of Du-
mas, Victor Hugo, Bslzac. Schiller.
Goethe, Lenau, Cervantes, Marx, and
other standard European authors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17
Philadelphia Labor to
Meet on Unemployment

PHILADELPHIA, (FP) June H.
A trade union conference on unem-
ployment will shortly be called by
the Philadelphia Labor College.
Place and date will soon be an
nounced. The Labor College re-
Gently held a 2-day conference on
waste elimination that attracted ma
tional labor heads, technicians and
representative Philadelphia union
chiefs TO its speakers platform.
Israel Mufson, college secretary, is
making arrangements.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17

Weather conditions will be the only
factors determining the hour when
Commander Richard +. Byrd, famous
North Pole flyer, will hop off in the
Fokker monoplane, America" for
Europe. it was said yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17
Three MILLION
CHINA FARMERS
NOW UNIONIzED

BY LELAND 0LDS. Federated Press
Development of farmer unions in
China is paralleling the rapid organ
ization Of Chinese industrial work
ers, according to a report in the Chi
nese Economic Bulletin. The bulletin
estimates that the number of organ
lied farmers has reached 100000.
There are country Districts" saws
the report, "in which already tens
and hundreds of thousands of men,
bers are united in farmers unions.
Without the least doubt these unions
will continue to increase within the
next few months. During the last
month it has been reported that the
first farmer organizations in the pro-
vince of Anhwei have come into be-
ing. They number tens Of thousands.
The increasing power of the So
called Red Spears of Honar, the
farmers movements in Chilli and
Shantung, prove that there is ma
teria1 ready for organization into
unions"
The report shows the largest men,
bership in Human province where or
ganized farmers number more than
100000
For representative districts the per
cent Of the farmers who can be
classed as independent farmers, ten
ant farmers and agricultural laborers
IS given as follows:
ChiDasa forroars
Human
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17
Nungesser Renort FaLn

OTTAWA, Canada, June 16.-A
message received at government head
quarters from Chicoutimitate TODAY
say that the report Of Nungesser and
Coli being found is untrue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17
Independent
Laborer
Tenant

The vast majority of Chinese farm
ers either possess no land or so little
that they must rent additional
ground to support their families. The
customary rent is paid in farm pro-
ducts and ranges from so per cent to
60 per cent of the harvest. In many
cases, according to the report, it is
40 per cent to rs per cent, leaving
the renter les than the barest sub
sistence.
Usurer EFFORTS.
The average Independent farm is
so small that single bad year
places the farmer at the mercy of the
village moneylender who normally
charges interest at per cent to 10
per cent a month.
"The demands of the farmers, -
says the report, chiefly center round
the following points: reduction of
rent; abolition of taxes on tenants
reduction of interest on loans; aboli-
tion of illegal contributions and ex-
cessive taxes; storage of grain for
times Of drought and flood; reform
of present official system; the organ
izing of self-governing board
elected by the people in every vii
lage; the disar1ning of the village po-
lice and the formation of a peoples
militia"
The present upheaval in China
has roots that extend below the new
er industrial proletariat, into the
great mass of 36O,00O,OOO peasants.