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convention voted. It is true The platform committee
rejected a proposal calling for a modification Of the
Volstead Act. but il is also true that 1t rejected one
calling for the retention of it unmodified. The two
actions of the committee signify logically a determine
ton to leave the question Of the volstead Act an open
one toward which individuals might assume either OF
the two possible attitudes without being disloyal to
the platform. Governor Smith exercised the freedom
thus given him in making the statement he did.
There can be no quarrel with those who feel that
Governor Smiths position with respect to the Volstead
Act makes it their duty to vote against him, or at least
their duty not to vote for him. But there can be quar-
rel with the argument that Governor Smith first bolted
the platform and thus left them free to bolt the ticket.
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The World and All
WHAT TO DO WITH sHYsTERs
By Charles r. Oriscon

The word shyster is used by lawyers to designate
a member Of thei. profession who is unethical or
crooked. A shyster is a lawyer who takes fees from
both sides in a divorce case, for instance, and, knowing
the man to be tie weather. of the two parties to the
suit, rigs. the case in the mans favor, although the
woman may have been his client. A shyster will stoop
to anything. IL will rob orphans who have committed
to his care by the court. He will bluff widows out Of
their inheritance.
Bar associations are concerned about upholding the
dignity and honor Of the profession, and they are con
tinually worried about shysters. Once in a while they
get one disbarred.
But there are shysters in all professions and bust
nesses. The reputable matchmaker, for instance, must
have an awful time competing with the shyster watch
makers. A friend was telling me this morning that
he took his watch to n jeweler to be cleaned, paid $3.50
for the job, and when he got the watch back it
wouldn't run. He took it to another jeweler, who
told him that the watch had not been cleaned and had
been improperly put together. This fellow charged
him $3.50, and the watch won't run. Also, the crystal
fell out. Ny friend is in a fair way to lose faith in
watchmakers and jewellers. And yet ! know that there
are thoroughly reputable repairmen who will clean a
watch carefully, piece by piece, and assemble it prop
erly. They generally charge a little more than the
shysters, and they ought to charge more. Also, they
ought to be patronized.
shyster bankers cast diseredit upon trustworthy
bankers by robbing banks from within and then buy
ing off justice if it is for sale. These shysters 90 IN
told damage to an honorable business. If l were a
reputable banker | would work night and day for state
and national laws that would inflict at least life inn
prisonment upon any banker who betrays the trust Of
his depositors.
There are shyster druggists who water their drugs
of strong alcoholic content, and in a hundred petty
ways bamboozle their customers. Usually they are
t%rifling tradesmen, robbing their ~neighbors Of small
sums and furnishing inferior goods. But all in all
they constitute a serious problem for the public, which
wants good drugs just as earnestly as it wants good
un6ertakers, and a serious problem for the reputable
druggists, who have TO face this unfair competition.
Every trade, business and profession ought to be
organized against the shysters in its own body. Law
years should be employed BY the reputable tradesman
and professional man to prosecute the disreputable
competitor. Good dentists should be merciless in COM
bined effort to scotch the quacks in their own profess
sion, and certainly reputable doctors should never
testify 70 save from justice a doctor guilty Of NAL
practice.
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What DR.. Caldwell Learned
In AZ Years Practice

DR.. Caldwell watched the results
OF constipation for AZ years, and
believed that no matter how careful
people are Of their health, diet and
exercise, constipation will occur
from time to time regardless of how
much one tries 10 avoid it. Of next
Importance, then, is how TO treat it
when il comes. DR.. Caldwell always
was III favor Of getting a. close 70
nature as possible, hence his remedy
for constipation, known as DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin, is a mild veCe-
table compound. IL can not harm
The most delicate system and is not
A habit forming preparation. Syrup
Pepsin j. pleasant-tasting, and
youngsters love il. IL does not grippe.
Thousands OF mothers have written
Us to that effect.
DR.. Caldwell did not approve of
drastic physics and purges. He did
not believe they were good for hui
man beings to put into their system.
In a practice Of ~ years he never
saw n reason for their use when
4 medicine like Syrup Pepsin will
empty the bowels Just as promptly,
more Clearly and gently, without
gripping and harm to the system.
Keep free from constipation IL
robs your strength, hardens your
arteries and brings on premature
Did age. Do not let a day 90 by
without a bowel movement. Do not
sit and hope, but 90 to a druggist
md get one Of the generous bottles
IF DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. Take
The proper dose that night and by
morning YOU will feel like a differ
mt person. Use Syrup Pepsin for
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WASHINGTON, July 9.-The re-
publican convention at Kansas City
was a flop, as a show, from the day
IL opened.
The democratic convention at
Houston was q flop dating from two
or three days before II opened.
The democratic stage management
was a little better than the repub
licans'. There was a better imitation
OF enthusiasm. The oratory at Hous-
ton was superior u the Kansas City
article. Still, you can't disguise it
"oratory'' is a rotund word, but ali
it means is talk"
II just SINNERS down to this
All the pep's gone out ~ "A melo-
drama III you've been told the plot IN
advance.
The only element of suspense
either at kansas City or Houston
was
Who draws the BOBBY prize?-the
vice presidency?
Even the platforms were cut-and-
dried.
Everybody knew all along what
the republicans were going 10 have
TO say about agriculture at Kansas
City.
Ii became evident at a very early
stage Of the game AZ Houston that
the drys' punch had been pulled.
II doesn't follow. because the con-
ventions were tame, that the coming
campaign won't be red hot.
On the contrary there's a great
deal Of bitterness. not only between
the two major parties. but inside Of
each Of them. Thereu he many de-
fections on both sides.
Republican states are likely ~ 20
democratic. Democratic states are
apt to 20 republican.
II undoubtedly will be a badly
scrambled as we'll as a mighty vicious
fight.
The democrats naturally will direct
their heaviest artillery against the
weakest spot in the republican, for
tifications-that j. TO say. the lat
ters' lack Of sympathy. as il will be
represented. with agriculture.
The republicans fiercest drives
will be against the democrats as
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Other Papers
PLATFORM AND TICKET Boiling

Some Texas democrats who have left the reserva-
ton, as respects their partys national ticket. are
j~ustifying themselves and trying to entice others 70
join them by saying that Gobernor Smith bolted he
party platform when he declared that he would advo-
cate modification Of the v~olstead Act if elected. The
argument that when the nominee bolts the platform the
rank and file are morally free to bolt the ticket is log
ical enough. But before it could be allowed in this
case as a justification Of those who have bottled the
ticket, better proof than has been offered would have
to be demanded the Governor Smith did in fact bolt
the platform.
II has been said by one Of those who are trying to
convict Governor Smith of disloyalty to the platform
that the convention rejected a plank expressing the
v;aw Of the volstead Act which he voiced in his tele-
"a to Senator Robinson. The intention must have
been to attribute that action to the platform commit
i. since undeniably the question of adopting the
~,s.torr, az presented was the only one on which the
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CHAPTER TX

&AAaNA liz -
What do these people do? Who
ar. they?" she inquired, turning to
Flavia, seriously. They look so
strange"
Flavia concealed a smile.
"They are artists, my dear. Some
write, others draw or 'sculp,' sing,
play. But they all belong to the
arts"
"Oh. long-haired g~eniuses." Janet's
voice held a note Of scorn in it. 1--WE
heard that, but ! thought il was
merely a figure Of speech"
Don't you like them?" Sir Henry
asked.
I'D like them better If they didn't
try to look too theatrical. / hate peo-
pie who don't look clean, and | like
to see men look like men, and women
like themselves"
Flavia shook with mirth.
Never mind, honey. everybody
doesn't look like this in the Village.
This is one Of the places where the
funny-looking people hang out. That
is why we brought you here. There
are plenty of other places that are
interesting, but where people shave
and have hair cuts, and the women
look like themselves"
They were in and out OF several
interesting places during the eve
ming. Flavia seemed to know some
n everywhere they went. Janet
was having a lovely time. But her
escorts were a trifle disappointed.
Instead OF the funny remarks and
questions they expected to hear,
Janet was solemn a. an owl. She
looked on wonderingly.
As the four were driving 70 the
hotel in a cab, Flavia, feeling she
would rather not send Janet home
alone with Sir Henry, Janet surprised
them with suddenly asking seriously,
as though she were talking TO her
self:
do you suppose those funny-look-
ing people enjoy themselves? They
don't look happy"
Flavia explained:
They take themselves very seri-
ously. Janet. / guess they would feel
insulted If you thought them happy.
A great many Of them like to feel
they are martyrs to the cause Of art"
Janet puzzled about the new at
mosphere long after she should have
been asleep. The next day she had
promised Flavia she would come
down in the afternoon and look for a
studio. Flavia seemed to feel that
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Her heart beat madly. II was Ballard Riley.

was where she should be, and she
really had been lovely TO her.
Janet told herself maybe there was
something wrong with her, because
she didn't feel she could like those
kind Of people. IL was just because
everyone she had always known were
just plain old stick-in-the-muds.
She hadn't begun living yeti She
shook off the feeling Of uncertainty
and fell asleep. There were muddled
dreams of freakish looking men and
women, cellars and caves where they
dwelt. and Janet had a dreadful
nightmare. She dreamed she was
being chased BY an old bag who kept
trying To catch her to make her 20
back home.
Janet awakened late in the norm
ing with the first headache she had
ever had, and an unpleasant taste in
her mouth that made her thoroughly
miserable until late in the afternoon.
She decided she did not like cock
tails. They were all right when you
were drinking them. But she had
read enough about the after effects
of indulgence to know that what she
had was a slight hangover.
Flavia had called a renting agent
early in the morning, and had given
him some idea about the sort Of a
studio Janet would need. a large
room with an open fireplace, perhaps
a small kitchen and a bath, furnished.
By the time Janet arrived. he had
called Flavia and assured her they
had located just what her friend
would want.
Janet looked about her uncertainty,
as Flavia led her through dirty
streets filled with ragged children
and listless, unkempt grown-ups. Her
small nose was offended with the
odor Of the place, and her refined ma
ture rebelled against the general sur
r%oundings. But Flavia seemed TO
take il all as a matter Of course, and
explained, as they went along:
These streets aren't very nice,
I'll admit-and the people look pretty
terrible. But nobody thinks a thing
Of it down here. Why, these studios
are at a premium. II | didn't know
this agent il would have taken days
TO find even a prospect"
They entered a shack that looked
as though it had once been a private
house and mounted stairs that were
not any too well kept. Flavia opened
a door, and exclaimed on the thresh-
old:
"Pricelessi Oh, Janet, don't you
love this? It's perfect for you'll"
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Who am /? What office do ! hold?
Whom did ! oppose as democratic
presidential nominee?
a certain type Of boat has been
used in Venice. Italy, for centuries.
What Is il called?
Name the person responsible for
the founding and organizing Of the
National Red Cross in the United
States.
Where did our present system Of
arithmetic characters come from?
"They that observe lying vanities
forsake their own mercy" Where
does this passage appear in the
Bible?
Today in the Past
On this date, in 1867. John Quincy
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WashimgEom Letter
By CHARLES P. STEWART

wets-the accusation certain to be
made against them.
Now, as we all know, there are
plenty OF farm relief republicans and
whole statesful Of dry democrats. To
what extent they'll forget old po-
litical affiliations, change ranks and
scratch tickets Ia a~nyhody's guess.
The logical thing wuHld be for
them 10 Join forces, which they could
quite easily 40 for the farm relief
folk are generally dry and the drys'
strength is on the farms. And that's
what may happen yet, but hardly
this year-the movement 70 CONSOLE
date them didn't start soon enough
To perfect the machinery for n third
party requires more time than re-
mains.
From the tumble Of criss-cross vot-
ing which must ensue il would take
a nervy individual to predict the out
come-at least until the situation has
had a few weeks 20 clarity itself.
The democratic ticket. classified
as moist. ought 10 he strong in the
wet eastern states. with lots or cleo
toral votes. They should make in
roads in the generally republican but
now Disconnected midwest. But they
suffer severe losses in the tradi-
~tionally democratic but dry and re-
liziously prejudiced south.
Any precedent To judge by is lack
inE.
IN the main. IL looks as IL Aunty
democracy's chance was good TO poll
more than her normal vote.
However, Aunty's normal vote
never Is as large as the G.. O. P.'r.
She may exceed her normal con-
slider ably without wiping out the
normal margin against her. About
the most tits safe 20 say yet in that
the q. o. r. doesn't appear to have
the cineh that it did four years ago.
Protect your beauty in all kinds Of
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Yourself and members or the family
III constipation, biliousness, sour and
crampy stomach, bad breath, no
appetite, headaches, and to break up
fevers and colds. Always have a
bottle in the house, and observe
these three rules Of health: Keep
the head cool, the feet warm, the
bowels open.
We would be glad TO have you
prove at our expense how much DR..
Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin can mean
to YOU and yours. just write
Syrup Pepsin," Monticello, Illinois,
and we will send you prepaid n
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MOODY GUEST AT McALLEN

McALLEN, July 11.-Gov. Moody.
who was in the Valley in the cam
p~aigring for reelection 70 the office
of governor was the guest of McAllel
supporters at a luncheon at the Casa
de Palmss hotel Tuesday July 10.
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Q ID POUND BOY

SAN BENITO. July ia 2 -
round boy has been born 70 Mr.. and
Mrs. Terry Nesmith or this city, 10
has been announced BY the family.
They are staying with Mrs. Nesmith's
mother. Mrs. Cowart, in Harlingen-
Both mother and son are reported rs
fninr nicely.
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Persons born under this sign would
make good physicians, al they are
gentle, sympathetic, thoughtful, but
determined. Even though they listen
patiently 10 advice. they generally
have settled convictions and do d.
they see fit.
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Timely Views
RESTRICTED IMMIGRATION REGARDED AS
NATIONAL SAFEGUARD
BY HARRY X. HULL
By HARRY Z. HULL

1864. He was educated in grammar and high
schools at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. After for some
years pursuing a business career, Hull was elected
mayor Of williamsburg, Iowa, for one term, 1857
to 1883, and served as postmaster Of the town from
1901 to 1914. He served later as representative in
the Sixty-fourth TO sixty-eighth congresses from
the Second Iowa district. Hull has been commits
sioner general Of immigration since 1929.
The greatest need Of any country is a high order u
citizenship. That fact is beyond dispute. The citi-
zens Of any nation are factors which prescribe to what
heights that nation may hope to rise. On the other
hand, any country in which high standards of citizen
ship are forsaken is sure to decline. History tells
this story in no uncertain language. Nations which
were once foremost in the annals Of world progress
have fallen in ruin when their people allowed their
national vigor to lapse.
Many years had passed before America began to
realize that it was of utmost importance to preserve
the fiber Of her citizens, by adding to that fiber only
such human stock as would strengthen it. rather than
intersperse il with weakening elements. When We
realized that careless immigration supervision during
past years had permitted too much human dross to seep
into the melting pot of American civilization, VIC de-
termined that from that time forward eternal vigil
ance should be our watchword.
The knowledge has come to our national mind that
social and economic dangers lie in a tide Of immirra-
ton which Is not vigorously censored. The Injustice
has been a double one-to the native American and TO
the newcomer; and the congress has wisely limited
the admission Of aliens seeking opportunity and en-
ployment among US.
Without such limitations we should have been soon
submerged in social decay; and our unemployment
ranks would have grown to distressing proportions. q
say nothing of the economic waste and expense of con-
tributing to the upkeep of many groups who were not
yet ready to enter fully into our national life. Pbvs-
ieal' mental, and moral detectives have also been put
under ban BY the restrictive immigration laws, thus
lessening our responsibility to society in general for
the type Of people and the kind Of citizens which CASE
the mold Of our national life.
And thus we have begun to preserve the standards
Of American civilization by enacting immigration laws
Of exclusion, kindly tempered, but disqualifyng Ger
tain types Of immigrant aliens who would. if admitted.
become a lasting menace to manp Of the things which
We hold most dear.
Our immigration laws, as they stand today, cover
two general classes of aliens: First, those whom we
exclude, regardless Of nationality, because Of some dis
qualification. mental, moral, physical or racial; Sec
ond' those who are natives Of countries upon which we
place a numerical restrict coming in excess Of those
quotas.
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stil' the fellow who believes in predestination
jumps Just as far as the sound of a honk-Schenectady
Gazette.
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The Grab Bag


Adams, sixth president Of the United
States, was born.
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There's nothing against the inferiority complex. ex-
cept that it doesn't affect the right people.-Pubishsr
Syndicate.
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Answers to Foregoing Questions
/. Thomas Heflin; United States
senator from Alabama; governor
f. Smith Of New York.
8. Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
a. From Arabia.
-. Jonah, III, s.
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IN the main, IL looks as IL Aunty
democracy's chance was good to poll
r,nrn 4hnr hnr rnr-nal NnIa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-04
WORKERS PARTY OPEN
AIR MEETINGS HERE

The following open-air meetings
have been arranged by the Workers
(Communist) Party, to take place
at various points throughout the
city for the next two days:
Today.
13Sth St. and st. AIMS Ave-,
Bronx.-Baum, Martin, WEIGH, Coli
ger, Lillian Stein.
40th st. and 9Th Ave.-Solon De
Leon, Joe Cohen, Peer, Cibulsky.
Steinway and Jamaica AYES, AS
toria, l.. I.-G. Powers, Mcdonald
P. Muller, A. Heder.
Tomorrow.
National Biscuit Co., noon
Frankfeld, Rose Rubin.
9Th Ave. and 10th St.-Blake,
Moreau, Fishman.
7th ST. and Ave. A.-Zeikowskv.
Alderman, SLIDER, Vera Smith,
Summer.
Market Plaza, Newark.-Lloyd,
Pearlman, Stanley.
Bliss Factory, noon.-B. Lifshitz,
Chalupski.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-04
Plan Many Red
Nights in N. Y. City

Continued from Page One
George Padmore, Alexander, Pad
gug, S. Leroy, M. Taft, Philip
Frankfeld, Charles Winters, Liebo-
WITT, Boruchowitz, M. Epstein, Ju-
Illus Codl1ind. Albert Moreau, A.
Gussakof, Victor Cibulsky, Lloyd,
Louis Baum, Gil Green, Arthur
Stein, Eddie Epstein, Cyo. Gerson,
Miriam Silvis, Vosk.
After these twenty-minute meet
ings are over, the Williamsburg
groups will meet at Grand St. Ex-
tension and Havemeyer St.; the
the Bronx group will meet at Long
wood and Prospect AYES, and the
Brownsville group at Bristol and
Pitkin Ave.
All workers in the city are urged
to attend these Red Nights.
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MEET APPROVES
C. |. DECISIONS
Pledge Support to Fight
War Danger

Continued from Page One
termined struggle against the i'm
perialist war and against the poi
sonous pacifism of the social dem
ocracy. In view of the rapidly
growing imperialist war danger the
Congress justly emphasized the
necessity of tightening the Bolsne-
visit discipline of all Communist Par
ties and increasing the struggle
against right opportunist errors.
"The colonial question, in other
words, the struggle for the liberia
ton of the colonial and semi-colo-
NAL countries from imperialist OPP
preston and the solidarity Of the
international working class with the
oppressed peasant masses of the
colonial countries, played a great
role in the deliberations of the World
Congress. Great Roadway was made
in the solution Of the questions of
L.atin-America and the problems of
the Negro masses Of the United
States.
"The adoption of the program of
the Communist International by the
World Congress marks an event of
world historic Significance. The pro-
gram gives a Marxist-Leninist an
alysis Of our whole period. 1t is a
magnificent fighting weapon in the
hands Of the world proletariat.
"The World Congress manifested
the determined will of the working
class of the world to defend the U.
s. s. R.-the only fatherland of the
proletariat. The World Congress
approved the decisions Of the E. G.
G. /. and the Communist Party Of
the Soviet Union, condemning and
uprooting the international Trotsky-
ist opposition.
"The membership meeting of the
N. Y. District expresses it's deep
going conviction that the work Of
the World Congress will link up the
Comintern with the broadcast prole-
tariat more than ever before.
"Long live the Communist Inter-
national!
"Hsil the work of the Sixth Con-
gross!
Hail the world program of the
Communist proletariatI
Long live the proletarian revolu-
tion!"
Before the vote was taken at the
meeting, Comrade Gomez, in the
name of himself, Grecht, Wagon
knecht, Franlfeld and Aronberg
read statement declaring:
an view of the fact that discus
sion on the American Question is
held in allegiance until the opening
of the convention period, we vote
for the resolution before the meet
ing with reservations on issues per.
tanning to the American Party.
(Signed) Manuel Gomez
Alfred Wagenlnecht
Philip Aronbcrg
Philip Frankfeld
Rebecca Grecht"