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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-06-25
u YEAR OLD MAN
NOW IS governor
Takes Oath Today as Executive
Of Georgia

Atlanta. Ca, June IS Rl-When
DR.. Lamartine II. Hardman, IL
year old physician of the town of
Commerce became governor Of
Georgia today the state had in its
new chief executive living proof of
the old adage that "early to bed and
carly to rise makes man healthy,
wealthy and wise"
He rises each morning at the first
crack of dawn and retires a few
hours after sundown-between and
$50 p. nj. He said some time ago
he would not depart from this sched-
ule to speak at banquets or other
evening functions.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-06-25

received and properly recorded.
1t was also reported that Maple
Hill has been divided into several
small sections. each being In charge
Of person living in that section.
The idea was undertaken in order
to assure a better representation at
the town meetings and other import
ant occasions in the town. The
heads of each section canvas that
part in order to have a more repre-
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-06-25

Brilliantly supported by the famous
"Lightnin," the marvellous horse.
The coming attractions for Mon
day are Helen Holmes in The
Train Wrecker's" and Alberta
Vaughn In collegiate" A sweeping.
gripping story Of college life. over
flowing with riotous humor and de-
licious comedy situationa The acme
Of entertainment.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-06-25

sentative showing at town meeting4
William r. Pond reported that
nothing could be done at present
about having city carrier deliver
mail in Maple Hill until the section
had become a part Of New Britain.
The Boy Scents of Maple Hill
held an Ice cream sale at the home
Of DR.. L. Il. Dairy Thursday evening.
They realized about s12 on the sale.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-06-25
Hook, Line andSinker

With soft music and the sound of
muffled sobs, the annual trout sea-
son will pass out of existence IN
Thursday next. June the 3oth at
shutdown. From then on, until the
sun rises upon the morning of April
/. 1928. Mister and Mssus Brook
Trout may feed undisturbed in the
streams of this. our sovereign state.
And now that we have you all in Bit
ter tears, let us cast ruminative
eye over the happenings of the past
season.
II you have good memory and
We're in these parts at the time.
you'll remember that the season
started off with a lot of cold wealth
er that put siZeable crimp in all
trout fishing. You'll remember that
Leon Tint and George Olcott won
the laurels for being the city's first
men on the brock this year. crawl
ing out from between the sheets at
o'clock in order to make the run
to Cherry Brook before dawn.
Then youIl remember that things
began to brighten up during the
latter part of April only to be
drowned with ten days of rain in the
carly part of May that kept the
brooks up and the fish way down
deep. And since then. things have
been $3.50 and the season has
pursued its natural course to the
ending next week.
Personal achievements have been
many. Probably the highest award
OF the year is due Walter Miller for
his 20 Tor was it 24) inch brown
trout. Tom Dolan surely deserves
something for his indisputable limit
catches. which he repeated SO often
that they lost a little of their
flavor in being told and re-told.
Harold Dyken caught a lot of big
fish, and wouldn't tell US where he
caught them. Fred Monier caught
two rainbows-at least they were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-30
State Department
Policy Results i'm
Less Soviet Trade

When the State Department pulls
its head out Of the sand and decides
to recognize" the Soviet Union,
therell be an appreciable gain over
present trade totals. Even so, those
totals amount to a tidy sum, For
example, in the six months ending
last December, we exported goods
valued at S25,F00,000 and imported
~ me 200 worth.
IL America wants the business, it
con.d easily multiply these figures
by 10. That would keep automobile,
tractor, agricultural machinery end
railroad equipment shops humming
at top speed.
Instead, the slow-witted State De-
partment places every impeachment in
the way of any sort Of trade reIaL
tons at all. AS result, exports
dropped $l,350,000 in January as
against s6,l60,000 in January, 1926.
Exports dropped to $525,0O0 against
100000 the previous january.
The Soviet Union is still in the
market, much more so IN fact than
over before. The decline therefore
represents not decline in Russias
business, but rather shifting Of
business from America TO Germany
and England.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-30
BRITISH RAIDING
EXPEDITION RAzES
CHINESE VILLAGES
Nationalist Govt. Makes
Strong Protest
(By Chinese Nationalist News
Agency.

CANTON, March 29.-Four Bri-
tigh warshlps and the aircraft car
rier Hermes, transporting landing
force Of 500 men, raided Chinese
water and territory in the vicinity
Of Bias Bay. The expedition was
secret. The landing force, co-opera-
ting with ailplanes flying over Chi
nese territory, and under the protec-
ton Of naval guns, destroyed several
villages, razing 140 houses and fifty
junks.
The expedition was planned by the
Hongkong British government for the
ostensible purpose Of stopping piracy,
but no pirates were captured. The
official reports appearing in Hong
kong newspapers do not mention the
capture of pirates or the recovery Of
pirated goods. Only inoffensive Chi
nese suffered.
The Canton government received
protest from villagers whose homes
were destroyed by the British bonn
bardment, demanding that strong
protest be lodged against the con-
tinuation of Britain's gunboat policy.
The Canton government handed
note Of protest to the British consul
here, denouncing the violation of Chi
nese territory and making reserwa-
ton for PREPARATIONS which win be de-
manded when the extent of the dam
age suffered by villagers has been
ascertained.
Public opinion here shows deep in
dignation against such a deliberate
violation of China's sovereignty, a
violation which is clearly opposed to
all the principles of international law
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-30
Cotton Surplus to
Be Even Greater, Is
Prospect for 1927

King Cotton viii continue his sorry
reign over the bankrupt south this
year. This much is promised by re-
ports that there will be a slight de-
crease if any in acreage devoted to
that commodity.
Everybody will please brush his
brain and remember that last fall
after the calamity of overproducing
some five million bales had driven the
southern cotton grower into desper-
alton, there was tremendous talk of
reducing acreage. Eugene Meyer, re-
presenting Cal Coolidge himself, went
down below the Mason and Dixon line
and assured the democratic bank
rupts that the republican administra-
ton would solve their problems,
That didn't help out the farmers
much, but being politically backward,
they gobbled the stuff greedily. At
the same time they We're selling their
best cotton for 8 and 10 cents pound
while the second went for 3, and
% cents, or about half the cost Of
production all around.
But the American farmer, God
bless i'm, believes in individualism
And so, by CAD, he's going to raise
as much cotton as he gol darn pleases.
And so now that the spectators are
tossing cotton around at IA cents a
pound, he's going to plant as big a
crop as he did last year.
But take it from Wallprol, he'll get
even less than 8 cents this fall. With
a carryover of 100000 bales in
warehouses when he begins picking
the hollis he will feel himself lucky
if he can sell his cotton at all.
The department of commerce has
released its annual report of cotton
ginned for 1926. Eighteen million
bales, each weighing 500 pounds, con-
stituted the amount ginned l. e., pre-
pared for the market after picking.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-30
STILL ON
DOWNWARD TREND
NEAR 1922 DEPTH
OyerproductiOn Bring
ing on Competition
BY WAI1PRoI..

Downright astonishing to the guar
dams Of the best of all possible sys-
tens is the plumb-like decline Of the
price level. Last week it reached the
lowest level since early in 1922, when
the bottom had completely dropped
out of things.
The price index fell in one week
from 1885 to 142, reflecting further
thuds of wheat and other farm pro-
ducts and a positively PERCEPTIONS de-
cline of seven points in coal. The
decline in coal prices represents the
cut in anthracite prices and the
softening of bituminous prices due to
the tremendous oversupply and the
Judgment of industrial leaders on the
consequences of the coal strike.
The decline points unerTingly to
over-production, so-called, bringing
on sharper and sharper competition.
The decline in interest rates, reflec-
ted when the U. S. Treasury was
able to get S1,00O,000,000 at 31a
per cent. to replace Az bonds is ae-
complaining evidence of the increas-
ing competition, brought about by
the great deluge of new capital being
created out of surplus values wrung
from underpaid workers and. farmers.
The American economic system is
literally staggering under the load of
billions of dollars seeking investment
both at home and abroad and in any
project from unneeded 50-story
apartment palaces to banana rail-
roads in Panama.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-30

others were deprived Of their
homes. No sooner had the revo-
lutiOnary banner risen over Nam
king than the Anglo-American
squadron bOmbarded the city.
MURDER CHILDREN.
These criminals did their lob
neatly; they knew what artillery
to use-heavy guns and incendi-
airy projeetiles; they knew where
to fire--where the population
was thickest, where there were
most women and children, where
Marking workers, whose slavery
earns for them twopence a day,
live in their miserable novels.
"Six-inch guns against infants
such was the gallant, humane
defence of civilization by Ad-
miral Williams = HerOd, who
within twenty minutes covered
the streets of Marking with
corpses, who burned down half
the city.
CHINESE WILL NOT FORGET.
History will not forget the
name of this hero of today; the
Chinese viii not forget, the
pr0letariat the world over will
not forget, this monstrous and
bloody massacre of a peaceful
population.
"The bOurgeOisie is applauding
the massacre, the imperialist
press is rejoicing. and the cor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-30
Chevrolet Nearly
Oyertakes Ford i'm
February's Sales

The news about Henry Ford is
worse even than presumed by Wall
prol in his comments last week on
the terrible slump in fliyyers. The
official February auto figures, avail
able this week, show that Ford lost
5 per cent of American production
in just the month of February and
that now the Ford is little more than
/ per cent ahead of the higher priced
Chevrolet in sales. Here are the
February registration (sales) ex-
pressed in percentages:
Percentages: Feb. Jan.
General Motors Group 1881 34.97
Chevrolet 24.2l 21.99
Ford 26.02 31.80
Hudson Essex, Chrysler, Dodge,
WHY'S Overland, Nash, Studebaker,
Durant and Packard follow, with the
first named possessing only 7.3l per
cent. Ford figures will continue to
drop inasmuch as the auto buying
public will wait for the promised
model in midsummer rather than buy
The present Model 7 which promises
to be discarded in the near future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-30

rupt newspaper meR Gill cOluIuns
with inspired propaganda. Let
Marking burn--tramplsd 'ciyib-
cation has been restored! The
mOneyed mob is rejoicing, the
mistresses of British and Amer
lean officers are reioieing--their
friends will receive orders of
merit for slaughtering little chill
dren with six-inch cannon.
BLACK HUNDREDS
APPLAUD.
'The black hundreds thruout
the world applaud.-the Chinese
revolution has been warned;
Marking may be RACED to the
ground, but imperialist prestige
has been restored.
PROPAGANDA BLOOD
STAINED.
Anglo American henchmen
were only defending themselves,
they were attacked They are
raising the old infamous sing
song. How can we believe the
distorted reports of incendiaries
and murderers? Their propa-
ganda still smells of the warm
blood Of Marking workers, of
their wives, their mothers, their
children-of those who died with
maledictiOn and hatred against
the imperialist rabble on their
lips"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-30
BUILDING RESTS
ON SHAKY BASIS,
SAYS ECONOMIST
But Housing Shortage
More Acute Than Ever

Wallprops warning last week in
this column that the present indus
trial activity is the hectic fever Of a
patient preparing for bad chills is
accepted by BENJAMIN Baker, econ
omist for the Annalist as a correct
statement of the situation. Baker
sees in steel and building activity
merely the usual spring upturn, to
be followed by duller months this
summer and fall. He might have eX-
tended his diagnosis to include the
preparations either for the coal
strike on April /, or the shutdown in
the union fields if there is no actual
strike.
At the expense Of repetition, it is
pointed out again that the undue
squirt in building, entirely unneeded
and unwanted, is not in the least
healthy sign for the business world.
Baker very properly discounts it,
too. Because building has been such
a fundamental factor in prosperity
since 1924, Wallprol emphasizes
again that it reflects merely the
pressure of finance. capital for invest
ment in any venture that shows
promise of making a return. Or to
put it in the more guarded phrase
ology of the Annalist:
"The question of how long this
high volume of building contracts
will continue substantially at last
years level can be answered only by
the future behavior of the cheap
money supply. There is seemingly
little room to doubt that the intense
building activity of the past three
years has been as much due to the
eagelness of investors to acquire GER
tificates of one type or another prom
Using a high rate of return, as to
the real economic need of rentals Of
all sorts above the lower income
levels.
High cost apartments, hotels, Of
flee buildings and various other types
have been provided in such abund-
ance that it is difficult to believe
there is any real shortage in these
types. The returns on low rental
buildings are not great enough to
support the excessive costs of con-
struction and capital, and in this
lowest zone the housing shortage is
probably more acute than ever. But
it is not likely to be met until in
vestors are content with much lower
returns on their capital,
This will probably be forced upon
them within the next decade, unless
the American rate of accumulation
is greatly diminished or actually re-
versed.
Please notice the unpleasant threat
in the last sentence. Talk of the
diminishing or, perish the idea, of
the reversal" of the American rate
of accumulation is downright econ
omic treason when voiced by Scott
Nearing or some other competent la
Dor economist. Coming from the pom
tifical expert Of the New York Times
financial weekly, it may make the
Carvers and the Pollyannas of our
university departments of economies
sit up and take notice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-30
Horrible Crime Sdrs Worlds Workers
(Continl.ed from Paae o.

Continued from Page One)
formation without question from Reu-
ter's, the British official news agen-
cy. Moore's predictions of coming
events in China are standing Jokes
in newspaper circles here.
It is reported here that the Ma
tionalst commander at Wuhu issued
an ultimatum to the British demand
ing an indemnity for the loss of 35
Chinese lives that we're lost when a
Chinese launch was struck by a Brit
ish owned vessel. The Britishers are
said to have deliberately ran down
the Chinese vessel.
Orders have been issued to Ameri-
cans in the centre of China to make
heir way quickly to the coast.
British Using Tea Cups.
The British are using all the arts
at their command to draw Admiral
Williams and General Smedley Butler
into the social net and make them
feel that ''the two Anglo-Saxon peo-
pies" should jointly slaughter the
Chinese. The interests OF Great Brit
ain have been so thoroly blasted in
China by her brutal and murderous
policy that there is now no POSSIBLE
ity Of retrieving the situation. Thus
Britain is angling, and successfully
30 induce the United States govern
mcnt in Washington to sanction the
Nanking slaughter by an official de-
claration Of united front with Great
Britain. 1t Is said that Williams and
Smedley now favor such a course.
japanese are Cautious.
The Japanese naval and land Off
GERS are under the most rigid orders
70 take all possible care to avoid con-
fliet with the Chinese. Especially
The Nationalist military forces. They
have been warned not to open fire
upon the Chinese except as a final
resort. The japanese officers FREE
quently go unarmed when mingIing
with the Chinese to show their friend
liness. It is evident that Toxic is
looking far into the future when the
Cantonese government may be in abb
solute control without danger Of out
side interference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-30
FRANCE ARGUES
WITH ENGLAND
AT PEACE TALK
Wants More Reserves:
Next War a Bad One

GENEVA, March 29.-The United
States delegation to the League Of
Nations preparatory disarmament
conference, headed by Hugh Gibson,
minister to Switzerland, interviewed
today in an effort to break the dead
lock between Great Britain and
France on the matter of land dis
armament.
Viscount Cecil, for Great Britain,
has insisted that land disarmament
proposals shall include reserves as
well as active soldiers.
France Wants Army
M. Boncour, for France, has de-
manded that land disarmament shall
include only peace time soldiers I'M
der arms.
Gibson today offered a compromise
suggesting that limitations be placed
upon men under arms and also upon
a certain proportion of younger re-
servists.
Military experts are prophesying
the next war will last ome third as
long as the last one, but will kill and
tear down property at vastly
greater rate, the chief loss falling on
civilians rather than on soldiers.
Machines and Gas
The development Of the airplane, its
increase Of carrying capacity, and its
greater power to spread poison gas
clouds is part Of the reason, and the
mechanization of artillery, the in
creased speed and usefulness Of the
tank, in both of which England takes
the lead, is the rest Of the reason.
War will be ineonceivably costly in
the future, says these experts, and
vastly more destructive Of life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-30
Kell Talks to Cal
About ''The Letters"

Continued from Page One)
country is entitled to an explanation,
these people say, however sincerely,
and seem to enjoy Kellogg, and the
group of diplomats" nearest to him
squirm at the suggestion.
The latter faction among the public
men Of this capital are not prone to
offer suggestions for publication.
Their speculations start on the prem
Use that the documents actually We're
forged, difficult as it is to realize
how they eoaIdbe forged, or how the
carefully guarded cipher of the state
department could come into the hands
Of interruptions persons, or how the
sealed diplomatic mail pouch, sent by
courier, could be opened by anybody
but Ambassador Sheffield himself,
for the purpose Of inserting forged
documents.
Romance and Magic.
This clique speaks out of Wash
ington thru such newspapers as
the New York Times, organ of big
business and first announcer of the
forgery.
It's argument runs to explanations
which involve mysterious gangs of
international conspirators, eager to
create a war on the American con-
tinent, Mexican enemies Of President
Gales, anxious to destroy him (and
their own country as well?), the
Communist international tits reason
for desiring the strengthening of the
American empire not satisfactorily
indicated by the "explainers") and
finally, in some quarters, timidly, a
suggestion that oil companies might
have something to do with it. Not
the American oil companies, of
course, which refuse to obey the Mex
lean constitutional law or pay their
taxes, but rivals Of theirs, who would
like to get property in Mexico.
Kellogg Stands Mute.
Meanwhile the person most directly
implicated, supposing the documents
were not forged after all, Secretary
of State Kellogg, is silent. He has
nothing TO say.
kellogg Caught Lying.
The newspaper article which first
announced the forgery" was written
by George Barr Baker, who is for
mer assistant to Herbert Hoover, who
directed the press publicity of Calvin
Coolidge in the last presidential cam
paign and has recently gone to Mex
leo on business. 1t was he who pub
lished the figures on the oil COM
papies that accepted and those that
rejected the Mexican oil law, proving
the Kellogg statement on that sub
ject to be grossly inaccurate.
Baker now appears rs the sponsor
of the good name of Kellogg in Mex
leo City. His story offers to the state
department an easy avenue Of retire
ment from any dangerous position
into which it may have walked in
it's eagerness to bulldoze Mexico on
behalf Of the Mellon, Doheny and
Sinclair oil interests.
Gives Kellogg Chance.
II appears that Gales had received
documents which showed that Ambas-
sador Sheffield, in Mexico City, was
receiving from Kellogg advice and
instructions of preparation for a pro-
American revolt OF for war between
the two nations. Baker persuaded
Gales to withhold Judgment until
Kellogg had been given a chance to
disown the documents, which Kellogg
seems to have done. The situation Is
now easier--at least for the moment
land It is Kellogg's next move in
the game Of coercing Mexico as to
her oil law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-30
Americas Wealth
Now 355 Billions

The national wealth amounts to
355 billions, according to the National
Industrial Conference Board. Use the
boards well known device Of dividing
by 110,000,000 and multiplying by
five, and you'll find out how much
YOU and your wife and kids own.
Then compare that with what you
really do own, IL anything.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-30
Pravda, Moscow Communist
Daily, Lashes Imperialist
Massacre at Marking, China

MOSCOW, U. s. r. March of Of
the peaceful Chinese population Marking by British American
bitterly scored in Pravda editorial
PILL0RY"
The bOmbadment Marking CHASTITY in
long bloody history of Imperialism
half million population are by Ango.Ameran waEshps.
Thousands of people killed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-30
French Deny Report.

PARIS, March 29.-The French for
oign office today denied that the
French forces defending the French
concession in Shanghai have been put
under the command Of Major General
Duncan, British Shanghai defense
commander