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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-05
WORKERS PARTY
ACTIVITIES
NEw YOaK-N LEW JERsnY

secretaries AttentiOni
All announcements for this column
must, reach The DAILY WORKER Of
ice oetore p m. on the day before
Subsection IA.
9th ST.
Enlarged Executive LIB.
Subsection 1-B win meet tonight at s
p. m. at 79S Broadway, Room 4Ss.
Downtown Concert.
Unit 3, Section /, will hold concert
March II at 60 St Marks Place.
Instructions To All Units.
The membership drive leaflets and
the unemployed leaflets are for sale to
Party units at 81 thousand at 10s
e. 14th St.
The Ruthenberg leaflets must be dis
tributed from March to 8. They can
be secured free Of charge at the dis
trict office. Copies of The DAILY
WORKER should be distributed at all
traction barns and power houses by all
Party units.
Subsection IA.
Subsection IA will distribute 1000
copies of The DAILY WORKER to-
day; Units l and should report
to l0S e. 14th st. Units 3, 4, and
6 viii report to 6 w 21st st.
Subsection BE.
The executive committee of Subsec-
ton BE will meet tonight at 6:15 p.
m. at l01 w 27th St.
Unit BE IF.
Unit BE IF viii meet tomorrow Mt
6:l5 p. m. at 101 w. 9th St.
Unit BE 3-F.
Unit BE S-F will meet tomorrow at
6:l5 p M at IO1 w. 27th st.
Night worker. Meet Tomorrow.
Continuation of the report on tho
Plenum, delivered last Tuesday by H.
NJ. Wicks, will take place tomorrow
afternoon at O'Clock at 60 st. Marks
Place. Discussion viii follow the re-
port. roll call will be taken at this
meeting and membership cards will ba
checked up.
Sewage Scandal Discussion.
The Queens sewer scandal will be
discussed at a mass meeting arranged
at the Long Island Section 4, go
hemian Hall, Woolsey and ssa0na
Ave, Astoria. l.. l., Friday, Mach is.
at $50 =. m. Speakers ~ili be W.
": Weinstone, Bert Miller and H. Nj.
Wicks.
S-E FDJ.
BE FD3 will meet tomorrow at
p. m. at 1o1 W. 9th St:
Traction Stickers Ready.
Traction stickers at 50 thousand
are now for sale at the district office.
All Party units must come for their
quota at once.
2-F I'D.
Unit 2-F I'D will meet at $40
o'clock tonight at so St; Marks Place.
Organizers Neesing Friday.
A meeting of all unit, section and
subsection organizers will be held Fri
day at p. m. at 10S E. 14th st. Unit
organizers will report on their exper-
fences in the membership drive.
Young Workers Dance.
The Young Workers League, Upper
Bronx, will hold a Spring Dance Sat
urday March "a, at 1a4! Boston Road.
Dance For Striking Box Workers.
The Downtown Section, Y w. L.,
will hold a dance Saturday night at 60
st Marks Place for the benefit of the
striking paper box makers. Admis-
sion will be free.
Paris Commune Celebration.
Sections 2 and 3 will celebrate the
Paris Commune at an entertainment
and dance. Saturday evening, March II,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-05
District literature Confererce.

district conference Of literature
agents and members of the literature
squad will be held Thursday, March 8
at 10S E. 14th ST., Room az, at S:15 D.
m The speakers will be William W.
Weinstone, d. Benjamin and A. Gussa-
lkoff.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-05
Advocate Organization.

The need for organization is ur-
gent. Ten thousand workers are sui
fering exploitation, ss1eq subjected
to an intense speed-up system, many
OF them forced to srurk sD poorly ven
uiated, unsanitary rooms, continual
" in abject fear II lssing their jobs
and the miserable pirtance that are
doled out as wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-05
Paris ComInune Celebration.

Sections and 8 will celebrate the
Paris Commune at an entertainment
and dance. Saturday evening, March II,
at New Harlem Casino, 18th st. and
Lenox Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-05
Furrier Open Forum to
Discuss Big Mass Meet

An open forum of registered and
unregistered workers will be held at
The office of the Joint Board of the
Furriers Union, % e. 22d St., today
at p. m. Important questions, par
ticularly the one involving COM
mittee to the Joint Board and the
Joint Council regarding one union,
will be discussed
WORKERS THEATRE PLAYS.
Three one-act plays will be put on
tonight by the Workers Theatre at
the Triangle Theatre, Seventh Ave,
between 18th and Perry SITS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-05

The DAILY WORKER on March
IL viii carry another account of
conditions in the National Biscuit
Company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-05
FreIheit Anniverxary Celebrasion.

The Freiheit sixth anniversary will
be celebrated in Madison Square Gar
den on March rs at p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-05

hold it's fifth annual concert, bazaar
and dance Friday, March 8. at $3.50 p.
m. at Beethoven Hall, 2l0 e. Fifth st.
Proceeds will be used for a new school
building at Peekskill, N, Y.
Evening star., 1928-12-15

Once in a while in our meanderings
around town we run across person
who charges the human race with be-
ing a flock of so-called money-grubbers.
And yet, if one will eXcavate below the
surface he will discover some rather
astonishing things about folks among
whom we live Based on their earning
capacity, hundreds of devoted Washing
ton men and women contribute thou
sands of dollars worth of time to vari-
Gus devices for the aid of the less for
tunate.
Sometimes their beneficence is exer-
cised through the medium of organiza-
tions or through personal contact with
those in need. We heard of business
man the other day who gives one-tenth
of his annual income to charity. In
other words, he contributes more than
one months salary for the purpose
Seldom do such men advertise their
benevolenCe.
If we grub for money 1t is also true
that as Nation of people We dispense
it literally. A certain local woman
places her car and chauffeur at the dis
posal of some elderly and unfortunate
friends two days week. She permits
nothing to interfere with this practice.
II she has need of a car on those days
she engages a taxi The city is filled
with anonymous givers who for rea-
sons best known to themselves are un-
willing to have their names published.
X x y X
A fine looking young chap was 1eav-
ing the office of business friend as
we entered. He was well, if not snap
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Today in
Washington History
By DONALD A. CRAIG.

December Is, 1S58.-It was bad
Judgment, according to the report OF
Commissioner of Public Buildings Blake,
made public today, TO place the Tripoli
Monument in juxtaposition with the
Capitol. where it is overshadowed and
eclipsed by that magnificent building.
As it will soon require repairing any
way, Commissioner Blake recommends
that this monument he removed to the
Navy Yard as peculiarly appropriate
place for it. He says the cost of repair
ing it will be about $500 and the cost
of the removal about $4,000.
Commissioner Blake also recommends
the enactment of law to preserve the
Capitol grounds from treSpass and dis
figurement and he expresses the opin-
ion that the grounds south of the Pres
ident's house should be made part
of the Presidents grounds without an
intervening wall
In regard to the Island-that portion
of the city lying south of the City Canal
Commissioner Blake says the citizens
of the seventh ward are complaining
that they are virtually cut off from the
more thickly settled and business part
of the city on nights when the moon
does not shine He points to the fact
that the streets running through the
Mall, which connect the Island with
that portion of the city directly north
of the canal, are owned by the Federal
Government and that neither the City
Corporation nor the citizens have any
authority to light them. On dark nights
he says there are but few people brave
enough to venture through these dark
streets. where there is always danger
of robbery or assault. He recommends
that the Federal Government appro-
pirate money sufficient to light these
streets adequately on dark nights.
The grading and paving of the east
ern portion of Pennsylvania avenue also
is recommended by the Commissioner.
Referring to the bridges spanning the
Potomac and the Eastern Branch, he
says they have been kept in as good re-
pair as the available money will permit.
The Long Bridge over the Potomac
River. he points out. is in tottering
condition despite the fact that every
thing has been done to put it in repair
within the means available to the Com
missioner of Public Buildings.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
The Sidewalks of Washington
BY THORNTON FISHER.

become specialists. This has created
scores of subdivisions in every occu-
patton. 1t is not unusual for fashion
designers to do but one feature of
figure. One win draw nothing but
heads. Another will add the gowns
and still another the legs and feet. n
this way art resembles the assembling
of an automobile in which hundreds Cf
employees play part.
The story is told of man who was
asked what occupation he was engaged
in.
Manufacturing automobiles" was
the response.
What is your particular Junction.
was the next question.
"Oh, fit the No. bolts," said he.
One local fellow of our acquaintance
draws designs for tombstones. His
hobby is carving designs in cakes of
soap. His deft digits fashion battle
ships and other CURIOUS designs from an
ordinary bar of cleanser.
x X X x
During the late war it was the duty
of Washington man to keep tally on
the movements of the allied and Ger
man forces. This was done by means
of pins or pegs inserted in huge map
Of the continent. BY the aid of dis
patches he was enabled to perform his
duties satisfactorily. One day he said
to several of his associates, ''Ti1:s map
shows England. France, Germany.
Italy, Spain, Austria and Belgium-but
where is this here Europe?"
X X \ X
An old-time boxing referee was dis
cussing the series of articles by Barry,
appearing in The Star.
"Refereeing is not the sinecure 1t Is
Evening star., 1928-12-15

There is an old fairy tale beloved OF
childhood that carries within 1t the
spirit of a great truth. All good fairy
tales beloved of children do. This one
is about the Three Bears.
THAT one was too big, and the other
one too small, but this one was Just
right" All our lives long we have 10
test experiences to find which one IS
lust right for US There is no way OF
knowing until we try.
It is all very we'll for Mrs. Snow to
say. when my Tad began shopping
into every box and bureau about the
house I slapped his hands well with
spatter and he never gave me bit OF
trouble about that afterward. Just
spat him good"
But he had been spatted good" and
he still poked into boxes and bureaus,
so that was not just right for this boy.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
MILADY BEAUTIFUL
BY LOIS LEEDS.

(2) I am Is years old, feet inches
tall and weigh 147l2 pounds. I have
always been large and every one in
my family is also. Am I much over
weight. My measurements are: bust,
35; waist. 81; hips, 40 thigh, %; calf,
13; ankle, Sla. I walk three to five
miles a day and dance and kick lot.
80 have fair complexion, medium
brown hair and grey-blue eyes. What
colors can I wear? KITTY.
Answer-Q) You can gently mold
the tip of your nose by a pulling,
pinching massage. Do not do this too
hard, however, so that the tissues will
become sore. You may be able to
effect an Improvement in the shape of
your nose by this treatment, but, of
course, you cannot entirely alter it
without a surgical operation. (2) Al
though you are over the average weight
for your age and height 1 would not
consider you too heavy for your type.
Your bones and muscles are heavier
than those of the average girl, since you
come of large family. Your measure
ments are not too large for your type.
though your hips might be smaller and
your calf larger. Do not worry about
your size. but keep the muscles around
your waist and hips firm by bending
and trunk-twist exercises every day. Do
not let yourself become flabby. Garry
yourself tall. with abdomen in and
chest out CD Good colors for your
type include pinks, bright red rust,
orchid, gray, dark and medium blues
and greens, yellow, orange. brown. tan,
cream and black. LOIS LEEDS.
Evening star., 1928-12-15

tBill Nye. Is50-18a6, whose real name was
Edgar wilson Nye. was an early american
hu1norist, author of "Baled Hay.o
From the London Lancet We learn
that many years ago o case was re-
corded by Dr.. Otto of Copenhagen,
Denmark, in which 495 needles passed
through the skin of a hysterical girl
who had probably swallowed them
during a, hysterical paroxysm but these
were collected in groups. Whlcn gave
rise to infiammatory swellings OF some
size. One Of these contained loo
needles. !,
quite recently DR.. Bigger described
before the Society of Surgery Of Dublin,
ireland a case in which more than 800
needles were removed from the body
of a woman. 1t is very remarkable IN
how few cases the needles we're the
cause of death. and how slight an IN
terference with function their pres
cnce and movement cause"
It would seem from the cases on
record that needles in the system
rather assist in the digestion and pro-
mote longevity. -
For instance, we will suppose that
the hysterical girl above alluded 10
with 495 needles in her stomach should
absorb the Midsummer cucumber.
Think how interesting those needles
would make it for the great collie pro-
moter!
We can imagine the cheerful smiles
of the cucumber as it enters the ston-
ach and, bowling cheerfully to the tol-
licles standing around, hangs It's nat
upon the walls of the stomach, STANDS
its umbrella in corner and proceeds
to get in its work.
All at once the cucumber looks sur
prised and grieved about something.
It stops in its heavenborn collie gen.
Grafton and pulls rusty needle out
of its person Maddened py the pam
it once more attacks the digestive. ap-
paratus, and once more accumuiates
a choice job lot of needles.
Again and again it enters into the
unequal contest, each time losing
ground and gaining ground, till the
poor cucumber, with assorted hard
ware sticking out in all directions like
the hair on a cats tail, at last curls
up like caterpillar and yields up the
victory
Evening star., 1928-12-15
AND NO JOB


but not sufficient to be of any benefit
to him or to any concern employing
him.
1--WE just given him letter of in
PRODUCTION to friend but my conscience
bothers me about it. Last year he
thought he would enjoy architecture
but it wasn't long before he decided
that he had no natural equipment for
the profession. He tried the selling
game but he was too thin-skinned to
penetrate offices with sales talk. He
could not break down sales resistance.
He is nearly 80 years old and Just
moment ago suggested that if he didn't
land a job soon he would go back to
school again and try something else.
He hasn't the slightest idea where he
is going. His head is filled with pretty
theories, none of which is applicable to
the needs. of modern business. His
case is almost tragic"
X \ X
The general practitioner in law,
medicine and art is no more. We have
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Wide Open Temptation.
Where curiosity doth lead
For caution there is greatest need.
No f,,r


Curiosity is terrible master. Ask
Peter Rabbit If this isn't so. He knows.
Curiosity drives one to do things that
one knows better than to do. 1t al
ways has been so and I suppose it
always will be so.
Just take the case of Buster Bear.
He had watched two men build a queer
little house deep in the woods 1t was
built all of logs Curiosity had led him
to go over there and investigate that
house as soon as the men left. He had
found one end wide open. But the
man smell had been so strong that he
hadn't quite dared to go inside, al
though curiosity and the smell of pig
meat had urged him to do so. He had
left that little house, but curiosity had
urged him back there late the next
afternoon, and then he had discovered
that the little house was no longer open
at one end. 1t had been closed by
log door.
Curiosity drove Buster to investigate
a little more fully and he had discov-
cred that inside that little house was a
Bobcat. His nose told him that Then
curiosity had prompted him to hang
around until the following morning.
One of the builders of that little house
had arrived, bringing with him ter
rible gun He had opened the door to
that little house and then lifted the
gun. Right then fear was greater than
curiosity, and Buster had taken to his
heels. He had heard the bang of that
terrible gun, but he had kept on going
to his home in the ledges. without find
ing out what had happened at that
queer little house. Now curiosity was
urging him to go back.
You ought to know just what hap
oened over there" whispered Curiosity.
IF you're wise you'll keep away from
there" whispered Caution.
1T won't do any harm to go over
near enough to look 1t oyer,' whispered
Curiosity
That Cat got into trouble, and you
may" whispered Caution.
But in the end Curiosity won. Buster
couldn't resist. So along late in the
afternoon he cautiously approached
that queer little house of logs. The
first thing he noticed was that the
front door was open. In fact. it was
the only door Now it was exactly rs
it was when the two men had left it
the day they made it. Buster sat at
hard.
"of course, that Cat isn't in there
now," said Buster to himself, II wonder
what became of him. wonder where
| that man has gone. I think I'll look
| around a little before I go too near
that queer little house" So Buster
prowled around and presently he found
| the trail of the man. 1t led away. II
led toward the distant farm where the
pigs were. Buster followed it little
way. Presently he came to log where
! the man had sat down to rest. Buster
shifted along the old log. There was
Evening star., 1928-12-15

that made folks think of an autumn
day She cut rounds of bread and but
tered them. spreading on top of the
butter softened pimento cheese. Then
she cut ripe olives into petal-like seq
mentS and laid them on with green
pepper stems and with bit of REQ
pimento for the center of the flower.
Another attractive one was made by
cutting rounds of nut bread. These
were spread with butter and then with
orange marmalade. A bit of candied
orange peel was placed in the very CEN
ter and ranging out from it were strips
of steamed and softened prunes.
She used the Christmas spiral for a
third sandwich. Her little cakes were
iced In white with angelica and candied
cherries for decorative flower effects
And her candies were fiat nlints about
an inch in diameter decorated with
Christmas poinsettias of colored icing
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Reducing in the Teens.

Dear Miss Leeds-1) am Is years
old, feet inches tall and weigh 100
pounds. How can I reduce? t2) /
have black eyes, black hair and clear
olive skin. What colors are becoming?
CORINNE e.
Answer-(1) You are only eight
pounds over the average weight for
your age and height. You are toc
young to adopt strict reducing diet
without injury to your health, but you
can keep wour figure trim by taking
plenty of exercise Walk outdoors four
or five miles a day. Attend a gym
nasium class or swimming pool twice a
week. Take setting-up exercises for 10
or Is minutes both night and morning
shall be glad to mail you set of
suitable exercises if you will write for
it and inclose stamped. self-addressed
envelope. Avoid eating between meals.
(2) Bright rose. apricot creamy flesh,
red. dark taupe, orchid, dark bronze
green, bright blue, dark blue, ecru, or
ange, dark brown, golden brown, deep
cream, black. LOIS LEEDS.
Copyright, 1929
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Hats Offered in Great Variety
BY MARY MARSHALL.

year-old woman remembers the hats
she wore when she was 90, and If,
perhaps, she does not find herself look
ing as youthful in the new hats as in
those fussier hats of decade ago,
she is inclined to lay all the blame
on the hats.
Surely we have a wide variety of
hats to choose from. not just single
sort of hat which we must take whether
it becomes us or not. To be sure, We
still have the cloche, but 1t is only
one of many possible sorts of hats
from which we have to choose.
There is something decidedly smart
about the new tricornes, and the breadth
of this hat above the eyebrows sort
of upward flare--is more becoming to
some women than the downward, droop-
ing lines of the cloche type of hat.
There are small, round hats with
narrow cuff brims turned smartly back
without any marked off -the-face tend
ency-closely fitting soft felts of the
skullcap sort-toques draped in va
riety of ways: and for resort wear after
Christmas we shall surely see consider
able interest in lightweight felt shapes
with decidedly wide brims.
A dainty boudoir cap of lace or net
and ribbon
Made of figured muslin or calico, 1t
makes a useful and becoming cap for
the housewife to use when busting or
cooking
Made of rubberized material 1t is just
what you need for the shower bath or to
protect the hair when cleansing the
face.
The diagram pattern from which you
may cut these various caps is given in
this weeks home dressmaker's help. If
you would like a copy with directions
for making, please send me stamped.
self addressed envelope and will send
it to you at once.
Copyright, 1929
Evening star., 1928-12-15
WORLD FAMOUS STORIES
A FATAL THIRST
BY BILL NYE.

Still this needle business will be eX-
pensive to husbands if wives once ac-
uuire the habit and allow it obtain the
mastery over them.
If wife once permits this demon
appetite for cambria needles to get
control of the house, it will soon secure
a majority in the senate, and then
there will be trouble.
The woman who once begins L
tamper with cambria needles is no
safe. She may think that she has
power. to control her appetite, but 1t Is
only step to the maddening thirst 10.
the darning needle. and perhaps TO the
button hook and carpet Stretcher.
1t is safer and better to crush the
first desire for needles than to under
take, when 1t is too late. reformation
from the abject slavery to this thirst.
We once knew a sweet young creature
with dewy eye and breath like TIM
othy hay. Her merry laugh rippled out
upon the Summer air like joyful music
of baldheaded bobolinks.
Everybody loved her. and she loved
everybody, too. But in thoughtless
moment she swallowed cambric nedic.
This did not satisfy her. The cruel
thraldom had begun. Whenever she
felt depressed and gloomy. there was
0OCIlnS IIAdI NDulQ NIL l1SA SllAlIA etAlN
melancholy but the fatal needle
cushion and its thrilling contents.
From this she rapidly became more
reckless, till there was hardly an hour
that she was not under the influence OF
needles She became. in other words
thoroughly intoxicated with needles.
She was full-with needles.
If she couldn't get needles to as
s,laCe her mad thirst she would take
hairpins or door keys. She gradually
pined away to a mere skeleton. She
could no longer sit on one foot and
be happy.
Life for her was filled with Opaque
gloom and sadness. At last she took
an overdose of sheep shears and
monkey wrenches one day. and on tho
following morning her soul had lit out
for the land of eternal Summer.
We should learn lesson from all
this. We should learn to shun the
maddening needle cushion as we would
a viper, and never tell lie.