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Evening star., 1928-10-21
BRITAIN ENLISTS FRANCE
AGAINST i. S. SEA POLICY
England Overthrows Every Naval Prin.
ciple Advocated in Postwar Years
to Retain Cruiser Supremacy.

British policy, itself, is already awak-
ening general criticism and deep ap-
prehension among the British people,
who have no desire to quarrel with us.
But the policy is there.
They don't accept it, they never have
accepted it and they will only yield if
equality in cruisers is forced upon them
in the same fashion equality in battle
ships was, namely, by the clear evidence
that parity is the single escape from in
feriority
AS long as we have not physical
equality they will continue to calculate
that such a catastrophe can be avoided
either by insisting upon kind of parity
which would insure their own superb
ority or by combination with France
and with Italy as Well-which would
give them paper superiority. although.
of course, even the admiralty realizes
that neither the French nor the Ital-
ians, much less their own people, would
follow them into war with us.
But as long as we have not parity
something may happen to prevent our
getting it. Our pacifists may rebel, our
Middle West may refuse, our financial
situation may prevent.
French Profiting.
AS for the French. they are playing
o. pIOllbdDlG game. 1n6y nave eXplO1LeQ
the British naval apprehensions to get
for themselves recognition of their sub
marine policy, consent and therefore
support for their military policy, sub
mission to their non-evacuation policy
and tremendous access of prestige
growing out of the patent fashion in
which British continental policy con-
forms to French wishes. Never was
revenge more complete than that by
which the French have made the Bri-
tish publicly eat dirt over all the things
which they said and did in the Wash
ington conference.
But while there is not the smallest
reason for becoming excited or even
angry over British operations, it is
clear that the full import of the ma
neuvering should be appreciated. The
Baldwin government has thrown over
board every principle which successive
governments have advocated in the
porst-war years in their relations with
France, solely and simply to enlist the
French support and that of the allies of
France in Europe against the American
naval policy, which is based upon the
demand for parity in cruisers estab-
lished on the same line as that for
battleships. That's the Anglo-French
agreement in nutshell.
(Copyright. 192S)
Evening star., 1928-10-21
Tourist Pays $4,000
For Old Stradivarius

Picking up a forgotten violin in a
corner of an old farmhouse, seeing
therein an opportunity to exchange
it for few pennies and help recoup
the vanished family fortunes, and then
having a vacationing foreigner pleased
TO take 1t for a mere S35.000--this
ought to be just dream, but it is what
really befell lowly peasant of the
town of 'Bolzano, in the Italianized
South Tyrol
Harassed by the wolf at the taresh-
old. the peasant unexpectedly came
upon the instrument and cleaned it up
for possible sale. Luckily an agent of
the English firm of Hill, enjoying his
vacation in Tyrol, encountered the
Tryolean and his marketable fiddle.
The man from London carefully in
Spected the violin and recognized 1t
as Stradivarius, one of the crea-
tionS of the famous Antonio Stradi-
vari of Cremona. 1t therefore was
really some 200 years old and, of
course, had the exceptional tone of
beauty and the finish made from a
secret formula-qualitieS that to this
day have not been achieved in this
most human of musical devices.
The EngliShman was glad to pay 35
grand for 1t, but not less happy was
the jubilant owner thus to part with
the prize. If the peasants of the
region are now ransacking their homes,
the reason Is not far to find.
Evening star., 1928-10-21

it's present-day superiority over heavier
than-air craft for transoceanic travel
After four trips over the North Atlantic,
the Zeppelin still holds 100 per cent
record, whereas such flights by plane
are at best hazardous undertakings and
only too often result in the loss of both
craft and crew.
BY her last accomplishment Germany
has added greatly to the progress of in
ternational communication. She has
brought nearer the time when ancient
international boundaries will disappear
in the bottom of new sea of commerce.
The aircraft coupled with the radio
will soon bring the remotest corner of
the world close to the center of modern
civilization. Every country looks for
ward to the time when aircraft will be
unhampered by thousands of miles of
ocean and when the planes of foreign
nations make ports of inland cities.
In our enthusiasm, however. we should
not overlook the necessity for sound
development. We are not ready for pas
senger traffic over the North Atlantic
Evening star., 1928-10-21

try which is at least 80 per cent Catho-
Tic and In movement which has so
much in common with Catholicism.
AS far back as 1921, Mussolini. then
a Republican, declared in the Chamber
that "the Latin and imperial tradition
OF Rome (Which is the Fascist tradition)
is today represented by Catholicism;
year later he assumed Office by in
voking the assistance of God. And
Minister of Justice Roco, one of the
keenest intellects in the Fascist ranks,
adds that religion is too fundamental
an element in the life of the Italian
people, and the Catholic Church too es-
sential an institution, for the Fascist
state to ignore one or the. other"
Attitude Is Appreciated.
The Holy See naturally appreciates
the policy of the government and the
Pope himself has often expressed this
appreciation. But, strange to say, the
spokesmen of the Vatican assume the
rather disconcerting attitude that the
government is simply restoring to the
church, and in the interest of the state,
what was originally and rightfully hers
In other words, the church does not feel
in any way indebted to the Fascist for
the many privileges" to use the Fas-
cist term, which have been extended to
her since 1922, In reply to an article
Evening star., 1928-10-21

III: s::: :':'. ): question: ;s: :e::ss "s,. s
sure to be asked in any dis
cussion of the italian situa-
tion. And it is a difficult question even
for one who, like the writer, has studied
it on the spot and talked it over with
men who are high up in the circles of
both the Vatican and the government.
1t is a difficult question, not only
because it is very intricate, but because
there is really nothing very definite
about it, except that it exists and that
for the first time in almost 60 years
Italy has government which has been
making a sincere effort to solve it.
Has Confidence of All Leaders.
Mussolinis one ambition is to go down
into history as the man who restored
peace between the Holy See and the
italian government. It is common gos
sip in Rome that he has made repeated
attempts to induce both Fascist and
churchmen to agree on some sort of a
compromise which will release the Pope
from his self-imposed exile and heal the
breach created by Victor Emmanuel's
troops in 1870.
The Duce's trusted adviser on church
matters is a Jesuit priest, one Father
Tacchi Ventura former secretary gen.
eral of the Society of Jesus. Father
Ventura has the confidence of the lead
ers of both church and state, and he
is reputed to be one of the ableSt diplo
mats in the Jesuit order.
About 10 months ago an attempt was
made on Father Ventura's life and the
Fascist press accused the MaSons of
promoting 1t. The charge was never
SubStantiated.
The question of the church in Italy
has a double aspect. First there is the
political aspect, which relates to the
sovereignty of the Pope and then the
religious aspect, which has to do with
the status of Catholicism as the faith
of the Italian people of state. The
problem of the Pope'S sovereignty is
still unsettled. This is what is known
as the Roman question" which grew
out of the governments appropriation
of the papal state in 1870. The re-
| ligious problem, which was a product
of the liberal and radical PHILOSOPHERS
that ruled Italy until the march of the
Black Shirts in 1922, has been solved.
Now Religion of the State.
For the first time in so years the
italian government accepts the Catho-
lie faith as the religion of the state.
| Mussolini, who was formerly an enemy
of the church but is now its friend,
| has made religion an integral part of
| his Fascist program. He has destroyed
| it's enemies. notably the Socialists and
! Masons and brought it back into the
schools. colleges and universities OF the
Evening star., 1928-10-21
BY COL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH.

BY COL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH.
uTHE Graf Zeppelin lands at
- Lakehurst.'
Giant ship delayed by
l. storms and damaged stabil-
izer.''
Twenty passengers and crew of 40
disembark 110 hours after leaving Ger
many
The above headlines and similar ones
ran across every important newspaper
in the world last week.
"The Graf Zeppelin lands at Lake
hurst"
What significance lies behind these
words. The first commercial fight
across the Atlantic completed. The
fourth successful voyage between the
Old World and the New World by air.
ship.
Giant ship delayed by storms and
damaged stabilizer"
Detouring storms, buffeted by head
winds, flying far off the course and
hampered by broken control-still the
Graf Zeppelin landed at Lakehurst in
Evening star., 1928-10-21
Vatican Telephone
System Revamped

Telephone calls have been increas-
ing at such a rate in the Vatican as to
necessitate complete reorganization Of
its telephone system. After much time
and work the network of telephones. of
utmost Importance to the Holy See, has
been modernized with central of 100
numbers. 1t is now possible to make
connections with the Vatican or for
the Vatican to get outside parties"
without the aid of an operator. Four
numbers are reserved for the Pope'S
personal use, since his transactions over
the wire involve host of dignitaries,
including the papal secretary of state.
the master of ceremonies, the titular
cardinals and other officials. The
Vatican's telephone system, as we'll as
the entire elevator service, is main
tanned by the firemen on the grounds
whose work as flame extinguishers Is
Insignificant.
Evening star., 1928-10-21

either by airship or airplane. First we
should obtain more experience from op-
Grafton over safer routes.
Regular transoceanic fight is in the
near future, but there are two steps to
be completed before it arrives.
First, both America and Europe will
be covered by network of airlines from
which much operating experience will be
gained.
Second, these lines will be extended
between North and South America and
between Europe, Asia, Africa and Au-
stralia. After these routes are under
operation and aircraft have been de-
veloped to meet the problems which they
will bring, then we will be on the
threshold of transoceanic flight.
The first of these phases is nearing
completion. Thousands of miles are
flown daily by European air transports
and the United States is covered by
network of passenger and mail lines,
with others being inaugurated as rapidly
Evening star., 1928-10-21

NoTE-The Star today presents the
second OF series OF articles dealing
With MuSsolini and the operation in
Italy OF FnciSm. At the request OF
the Italian Government, Ed,1drd
CorSi uistted Italy and made COM
plete surrey OF the country, its po-
liticdl, social, religious and industrial
conditions. He interviewed Premier
MussoIni at length. The Star, in
publishing this series, does not COM
NIT itself in any Day to the conclu-
SionS OF the author.
In this connection it must be added
that Mr.. CorSi, director OF Harlem,
House, is an italian of prominence in
America. He has been a resident
here all his life, Is q graduate of
Fordhdnt and editor of La Follin, the
largest Italian weekly in the United
States. In his otDn UordS he is
"neitter a FGcist nor an 1nti-Fdcist,"
and these articles Diu reflect his otDn
observations,
Evening star., 1928-10-21
NestOr of Canadian Body
Observes lOlst Birthday

Hon. George Casimir DesSaulles
member of the Canadian senate since
1907, nestor of the dominion's parlia-
mentarians, and probably the oldest
living legislator in the world, celebrated
the 101st anniversary of his birth at
his home in st. Hyacinthe, Quebec, on
Sept. 90. Canada's grand old man is
hale and hearty and possesses all his
natural faculties, while his mind, hear
ing and sight are as keen as that of
men sevaral decades younger
just one of Senator DessaulleS' char
acteristics is that he never has head
aches. Doesn't, in fact, know what
they are except from hearsay. He eX-
poets to legislate until he is 125.
"Senility," he says, sis a state of mind"
Evening star., 1928-10-21
Rum Row" i'm Baltic
Perplexes Officials

The rum row" of the Baltic. from
which thirsty Firms and Swedes have
been securing liquor for several years.
has officials of both countries guess
ing. The Aland Islands appear to be
the center of their operations. while
countless small islands lying to the
east furnish hiding places in time of
trouble.
Realizing that the long Fall nights
Will make detection more difficult, the
officials have increased their efforts to
capture the small ship-to-shore speed
boats, which the bootleggers use, but
none OF their efforts have met with re-
suit. The rum row, according to Baltic
sea captains, now consists of IA ships
three OF which are now in the vicinity
of Aland with 400 900 quarts of LIQUOR
apiece, while a fourth, the Nadiyidat.
which flies the Chilean flag is reported
to be bound for the north coast of
Sweden with 100000 quarts in its hold.
Evening star., 1928-10-21

Continued on Fifth Page.)
Evening star., 1928-10-21
BY EDWARD CORSI.

w YHAT about the church In
Italy?
wv Here is question which is
sure to be asked in any dis
Evening star., 1928-10-21


Another great problem which de-
serves serious consideration is that of
immigration. The Latin American
quota is very inadequate, thereby
severely restraining the immigration
of Latin Americans into the United
States This materially impairs the
| mutual understanding between the
people of the South and the North,
and has a tendency to influence the
economic relations of our countries.
To these principal problems we may
add a few factors of secondary i'm
portance, such as the inadequate
maritime service maintained by the
United States with South America,
which is much inferior to that in
operation by Europe; the lack of
properly advertising the North Ameri-
can commerce in many of the
southern republics; the exhorbitant
| interest charged by some bankers of
Wall Street on loans made to certain
Latin American governments and the
absence of press cooperation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-10
new HAMPSHIRE
RED DRIVE CROWS
Workers Speed Up the
Election Campaign
Continued from Page Cne

Continued from Page Che
In Nashua, Comrades Bloomfield
and Kangas covered the McElwain
and Thorn Mean shoe shops, the
Nashua Manufacturing Company's
textile mills, car barns, round
houses, street railway transfer sta
tons, etc. In Manchester, despite
the heavy guard and other meas
ures employed by the huge Amos
keag Mills, Comrade Bloomfield sue
ceeded in getting into the mills and
covered the entire weaving depart
ment during one noon-hour, receiv-
ing the cooperation of all the work.
ers in that department who, when
asked by Bloomfield if his presence
in the mills would endanger the jobs
Of these workers, all replied almost
unanimously, "To hell with over
seers," "We can't be any worse off
anyway, there is nothing worse than
working in the Amoskeag." Com
rade Kangas was taken into the
bleaching department of the Amos
keag at the same time by another
group of workers who also expressed
their contempt for the bosses.
Besides canvassing the Amoskeag
they covered the large plant of the
international Shoe Corporation and
similar places covered in Nashua
The workers in this textile territory
are viciously exploited. The Jackson
Mills which is part of the Nashua
Manufacturing Company gave it's
employees a vacation" for ten days
during which time the entire plant
was put on a so-called efficiency
basis, When the workers returned
from their forced vacation" they
were told they must operate sixteen
looms, at the same time about one
third of the workers were told that
their services were no longer re-
quired since the looms upon which
they worked were added to those
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-10

who were taken back to work. In
the Amoskeag some weavers are
running as many as seventy-two
looms each, while in Dover, New
Hampshire, the workers are running
ninety and one hundred looms each.
When asked how they managed to
run so many looms these workers
replied that they take care of as
many as they possibly can and do
not do what is physically impossible
for them to do. One of the workers
said that the mill barons expects
each worker to be an all-round COM
bination marathon runner, broad
jumper, boxer, fencer, ETC., in order
to be able to take care of so many
looms. A cigar-maker who talked
with Comrade Bloomfield at the
7-20-4 cigar factory said that he
does not make enough so his wife
must work nine hours on a night
shift in the Amoskeag for from
thirteen dollars to fifteen dollars per
week. He further stated that when
she comes home in the morning she
goes right to bed for a few hours,
being so tired, and then she gets up
to take bite, and many time she
comes home and falls on the bed in
an unconscious condition. Such are
the conditions of the textile workers
in New England. Not being satisfied
with speeding up the workers at a
deathly pace, they cut the wages
the more the workers show can be
produced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-10
HOOVER is FOR
POWER CONTROL
But He Does Not Mean
by Workers

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-Herbert
Hoover, whose vote in the Coolidge
Cabinet helped to defeat the Muscle
Shoals public power project, and
who sat beside Andrew Mellon, one
of the largest power magnates in
the country while millions of dollars
of public rights were side-tracked
into the Golfers of the power trust,
has come out for something or other
on this issue. Only the power gang,
however, knows just what it is!
In an announcement made here
today which is stated to be an ad-
vance notice of his program, Hoover
declared himself in favor of en-
phasizing the agricultural research
phase of power development rather
than the power phase. He also
pledged himself to "cheap power"
that is, "as cheap as it can be pro-
duced."
While he is being quoted as favor
ing government ownership f o.
muscle shoals, he actually made his
usually equivocal statement on this
issue by saying: "There is no ques-
ton of government ownership on
Muscle Shoals as the government al
ready owns Muscle Shoals" For
the power interests assurance, he
spoke more definitely by saying: 81
do not favor any general extension
of the federal government into the
operation of business in competition
Of it's citizens"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-10
SPEAKEkSIES
RUN wide OPEN;
POLITIC!ANSAID
518 Die From Jan. | to
Sept. |

With the total of deaths from
poisoned alcohol mounting to "a and
more than 100 victims under medi-
cal treatment, the Tammany city Of
ficials have started a frantic cam
paign of raids to cover their own
criminal responsibility for thc
deaths.
One thousand plainclothes men
and eight federal agents are now
working in the lower East Side,
where more than 40 speakeasies
have been raided and their pro-
prietors arrested. As there are 49,
900 bars and speakeasies in the city
which operate under what amounts
to police protection, only a small
proportion of the vendors of poi
soned liquor are likely to be rounded
up.
There are more than 1000 speak
easies in the section of the East
Side between Old Slip and Catherine
st. alone. Out of this section has
come flood of undiluted wood al
cohol during the last three days
which has been responsible for prac-
tically all the fatalities.
The route of the police raids was
dotted with persons on the sidewalks
and in the cutters writing in the
pain of acute alcoholism. Many of
the persons in the hospitals are not
expected to live.
From Jan. to Sept. l, 518 per-
sons died of alcoholism in New
York. The newest victims are ex-
pected to bring the years total
above that for 1927 when 719 per
sons died. In the year before prohi-
bition became effective only 95 per-
sons died of alcoholism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-10
NIGHr woRkERs MEET.

A special meeting of the Night
Workers will be held at 26 Union
Square, sixth floor, this after
noon at $50 sharp. This meeting is
called in accordance with the c. e. c.
instructions. Your presence is obliga-
tory.
Morning International Branch.
A meeting of the Morning Inter
national Branch of the Workers
(CommunisD Party will be held
today at 10 a. M at the Workers
Center. 26-2S Union Square. Plans
for Red Sunday will be discussed.
Attendance is urgent
IS, Subsection BE Meet.
A meeting of Shop Nucleus AS,
Subsection BE of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party will be held Friday,
p. m. at 101 w. 27th st. All mem
bers must attend.
Unit 4, Section 7 Meet.
A membership meeting of Unit 4,
Section Z of the Workers (Commu-
nist Party will be held today
at $3.50 p. m, at 1860 Bath Ave. All
members must attend.
Bath Beach Y. w. L.
There will be comeraderie under
the auspices of the Bath Beach sec
ton of the Young Workers Com
munist) League on Saturday, Oct.
-, at 1887 seth St, at p m. All
are invited to attend.
Lower Bronx unit of Y. w. C. l..
will hold very important open air
meeting tomorrow at 13Sth Street
and Willis Ave. Speakers. Adler,
Cohen, others. All comrades who can
attend must do so, in view of the
trouble we have had at last meeting.
Lower Bronx unit Y. w. C. L. open
air meeting will be held on Friday
at 138th St. and Brooh Ave. Speak
ers; Smith, Weiss, Geffin, Stein.
Y. w. l.. Open Air Meet.
An open air meeting will be held
tomorrow at $3.50 p. m. at seth St.
and End Ave. under the auspices of
the Downtown Section of Young
Workers League. Speakers: Jensky.
Helfand, Brusteln, Rothman, Fox.
Duke.
Brownsville Red Sunday.
Members of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party in Brownsville will mob
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-10
BrOker-CrOok Worked
Under PhOney Names

HARTFORD, Conn.,, Oct. 9 (UP).
Testimony that Roger W. Wat
kins operated under at least two as
sumed names before coming to Con-
necticut was presented by state wit
nesses today at the opening Of the
former brokers' trial on 26 counts
Of embezzlement.
The former fiscal agent Of the
defunct National Associated Inves-
tors, Inc, and his alleged accom-
nlices, Mrs. Margaret E. Watkins,
his wife, and Guy and Maynard
Tresslar, his brother-in-law. pleaded
not guilty and chose joint trial be-
fore Judge Allyn L. Brown in lieu
Of y jury.