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90 q Worker CorrespoNdentl

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j.. by Mai) The workers in the
department the Johnson johnson factory here
compelled to work in great heat the sometimes be-
ing high 20 125 degrees The workers cannot go out
and take during working hours One worker in this de-
parmen is WORKING u machines Most cknesses happen in
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ORKERS DRIVEN LONG HOURS IN HEAT OF 125

perhaps yet harder than the in the mixing ROOM The
spedup inhuman Here the plaster rolled on great
cylinders and this work has to be done accurately The
cylinder steady speed If the workers in the mill
in the the calendar workers have
time at all to to the mems room.
-KIVIOTIS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-19
DROPS Off
HANDS
FROM DECK WORK
Red Star Line Gives
Seamen Leftover Food

by Worker Correspondent
have just finished six weeks
trip on the Manchuria of the Red
Star Line, the Panama-Pacific Line.
and, I have to report one of the most
discontinued crews with which have
shipped.
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in some dominating will; but the
leader himself will not believe; he
will be beyond good and evil, above
all theology and all morals.
90 Machiaveli hopes; he filings
- himself angrily against all
moral limitations on the state; laws
are made by the state, not not for
it; they apply within it, not to its
own conduct or its relations outside;
as Bismark will say, there is no
morality among nations.
when it is an absolute question
of the welfare of our country, then
justice or injustice, mercy or cruel
ty must be set aside, and we
must seek only whatever course may
preserve the existence and liberty
of the state"
1t is useless to try to be virtuous
in power; Good men," says Mach
iavelli, ARE always paupers &.
For there is such a distance between
how men do live, and how men
ought to live, that he who leaves
that which is done for that which
ought to be done, learns sooner his
destruction than his preservation;
and the man who follows honesty in
all his actions must needs go to ruin
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to the North Pole but to point some distance from
the North Pole and known the north magnetic
pole. But this statement is only generally true In
all parts of the world, there fluctuations in the
behavior of the compass needle. The needle points
little to the east to the west Of the true north de-
pending upon the locality Moreover the needle swings
back and forth in the of twenty hours al
tering it's position with the time of the day.
This and other peculiarities in the behavior Of the
compass needle make it highly imperative that navi
gators have charts exact it is possible to make
them.
The Carnegie was built to make charts and studies
of the earths magnetic field 1t carries delicate
uring instruments whose precision would be upset by
any iron or steel near them.
The Carnegie was built in 1909 The cruise started
May l is the seventh in its history
In the past it has covered 25300O miles in its cruis
ing around the world up and down the various
This is the fourth expedition commanded by Capt.
Aut He was in charge Of the third fourth and sixth
cruises
A staff of seven scientists and crew Of seventeen
men accompanies Capt Aut
The Carnegie is equipped with radio both as a
means OF keeping in communication with the world
and means of studying radio phenomena upon the
oceans.
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Efficient, Honest Work

Hoover and Smith have made an
impression on the public, not by ar
few spectacular achievements, but
by years of arduous work.
That is not only the deepest kind
of impression that can be made,
but the hardest to overcome.
Smith has been in the public eye
of New York for twenty years, and
in that Of the Nation for more than
half as long.
Hoover has been we'll and favorSi
ably known since the outbreak Of
the World War.
Both men have performed every
task delegated to them with effi-
cheney and despatch, and have
gradually built up an abiding con-
fidence in their honesty and ability.
That confidence is putting them
over in spite Of what practical poli-
ticians thought and worked to ac-
complish, in spite of all the whis-
pering campaigns and presumably
clever alignments, in spite of all
the prejudices and scandals that
have been called forth and in spite
Of the fact that the "pie counters
crowd realizes it will get little butt,
the crust if either becomes Presi-
dent Of the United States.
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In Step With Public

In situations where there is no
well-defned opinion in favor of any
candidate, practical politicians can
often arrange some unexpected deal.
Otherwise they are virtually help
less.
Any one who thinks that publio
opinion is not to be reckoned with
in this country, or that slate maxi,
ers can override it at pleasure, only
needs to attempt the undermining
of some popular favorite to realize.
what a tragic mistake he has made.
Your shrewd politician has his
ear to the ground and does what
he can to keep in step with the
crowd. If he finds himself out Of
line, it is generally due to the fact
that he guessed wrong. That is
what a good many leaders did with
regard to Hoover and Smith.
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Blow to Ware

In naming Hoover as the most
available candidate, Secretary Mel
Ion played a trump card in national
politics but put himself in a good
position to wrest Pennsylvania from
the Ware machine.
Ware took the initiative by MAX
ing Gen. w. w. Atterbury, who has
been an outspoken opponent OF
Hoover, national committeeman.
from that State, instead Of Senator
David Reed, who was Secretary
Melons choice.
This seeming victory makes 1t
possible for Secretary Mellon TO
capitalize the Hoover sentiment
which is known to dominate Penn
sylvania. His campaign, until the
last few weeks, rested largely on
the impression he had created
among ordinary folks.
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BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright, 1928, by The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace; king; O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower
than 10.)
l. First hand bids one spade. Sec
ond hand passes. What should third
hand bid when holding: Spades
x x x; hearts-x x x; diamonds
* x; clubs-A @ x x x?
2. First hand bids one spade.
Second hand passes. What should
third hand bid holding: Spades-A
x; hearts-X x; diamonds-K @
x; clubs-Q j x x x x?
3. Hearts are trumps. Seven cards,
diamonds and trumps, have already
been played and opponents trumps
have been exhausted. The declarer
now holds: Spades-X; hearts-X;
clubs-x x x x. Dummy holds
Spades-K @ ] 10; clubs-A x. How
should the declarer play?
The Answers
l. Pass.
2. Pass.
3. Play spades until you force the
A OF spades and then discard losing
clubs on spades.
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The New Pilot

Tomorrow the Republican State commit
tee will reorganize and select a new pilot.
Sitting this year as a member of the State
committee for the first time will be George V.
Coffin in person.
In the cleanup campaign in Indiana he has
been promoted from the mere county chair
manship of Marion County and now has the
courage to step out into the open in State af-
fairs
1t is true that only very few weeks ago he
was indicted with Governor Ed jackson for
conspiracy to bride Warren T. McCray when
Governor.
1t is true that Governor Jackson escaped
punishment by an appeal to the statute of
limitations after witnesses had testified to his
guilt.
It is a matter of record that the Governor
announced that as soon as the case of Coffin was
settled, he would present to the public the evil
dence he wanted to present to prove his own
innocence-but that as yet, although weeks
have passed, there has been 10 announce
ment.
The Indictment against Coffin has been dis
missed on a statement of Prosecutor Remy that
there was no more evidence Of actual conceal
ment in the case Of Coffin than there was in the
case Of jackson and that therefore he would
not take up the time or the money Of the State
in placing Coffin on trial.
There is no record of protest from Coffin
against securing his own liberty under these
rather humiliating terms.
If the Republican party in the State is in
the mood to approve and indorse all that has
gone on, the State committee should not be
content to have Coffin as a mere member. He
should be chief.
1t is true that he does not represent the
sentiment of Marion County Republicans.
His most arduous efforts to advance Senator
Watson resulted in the defeat of his close Or
ganization, in control of all election machinery,
by the unorganized forces that supported Mr..
Hoover.
His victory for Updike is, Of course, an evil
dence of the power of his machine and the
fact that those who came into power with Ste
phenson still ride high and handsome.
The rule Of the "dotted line" in politics
does not seem to have been erased in Repub-
hcan circles.
There may be some effort at the convention
to introduce a candidate for Governor who has
had no active connection with the crowd, but
who would be grateful and amiable in the
matter Of patronage.
But the real test is the character Of the
organization. The State committee will vote
with or against George v. Coffin, who persona
fes all that the State has come to regard as
an evil.
If it is to be rule of Coffin, why not put
him out in front, where all may see and know?
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60 OJIP,
TREES
THE CHESTNUT TRAGEDY

A TRAGEDY in the stories of
IA American trees is that of the
beautiful and beloved chestnut
whose entire stand in the United
States is threatened with extinc-
ton from fungous disease known
as the chestnut blight"
The blight, first noticed in 1904
near New York City, has spread
over New England and New York
and into Virginia and West Vir-
ginia.
1t is estimated that most of the
remaining stands Of chestnut in the
southern Appalachians will be killed
by the blight during the next twenty
or twenty-five years unless some
thing occurs to stop it.
Useful and beautiful, the chest
nut is valuable for its lumber, tan
min and edible nuts.
Chestnut lumber is used princi-
pally for planning mill products, cas-
kets and collins, musical instru-
ments, boxes and crates. 1t finds a
large use as a core stock for veneers
in the manufacture of furniture.
Tables, desks, bureaus and pianos
frequently are made with a chest
nut backing covered with a thin
veneer of oak, maple, walnut Of ma
hogany. Considerable quantities
are cut for poles, ties, fence posts
and fuel.
The wood is moderately light in
weight brown in color, straight
grained and durable. Chestnut is
the main source of tanning extract
for the leather industry.
Most of the remaining chestnut
timber is located in the southern
Appalachians, where it forms about
25 per cent of the forest.
The Department of Agriculture
recently sent a man to Japan in
the hopes of finding a blight-resist-
ant chestnut to be introduced into
America.
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NJ. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
"HooUer and Smith Haze
Made an Impression on
the Public, Not By a Fen
Spectacular A cb6eVe-
1nents, but By Years Of
ArdUOuS Work."

I'm declaring that Mr.. Hoover
L seems to come closest to the
standard that is set for this high
office" Secretary Mellon may have
left the door open for President
Coolidge, but he certainly closed it
on everyone else.
If the opponents of Hoover can
get any consolation out of that, they
are easily satisfied.
There is not the slightest mystery
in what Secretary Mellon said.
Though willing to accept Hoover,
the Administration is evidently de-
termined to block any other cam
didate now in the field, even if
President Coolidge has to be
drafted. Lowden Dawes, Curtis,
Watson and all the rest who are
trying to prevent Hoover's nomina-
ton are merely put on notice that
if they succeed it will do none of
them any good.
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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION --
Republic Falls Before the MediCi
Written for The Times bu WiM Darant :

among so many that are dishonest"
Obviously, virture must be rede-
fined. We must cleanse and renew
ourselves by going back to our
origins and freshening our roots;
what did the Romans mean by
virtus?
They meant virility; they meant
that masculine combination of in
tellect and power of character, force
of decision and action with clarity
of perception and thought, which
we see in Caesar, the greatest Ro-
man Of them ALL
With Marcus Aurelius, virtue be-
comes Christian, and Rome becomes
senile and weak. The weak are al
ways prey to the strong, and there
is question, in this world, not Of
justice, but of forza ed intelletto.
If the people can overthrow a
government by force or cunning,
very we'll; let them do it and be
praised; but if they are put down,
the government by that very fact
demonstrates it's fitness for rule;
above all things a society needs dis
cipline, obedience and leadership.
Copyright. 1928. by Will DuranO
Ito Be Continued)
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(TO Be Continued

Is enclose" or enclose" correct?
Both, meaning to insert, are cor
rect.
What is the capital of Turkey?
Angora.
Is MussOlini married?
He married Signora Rachele
Guidi. They have three chiludren.
Has successful perpetual motion
machine ever been invented?
No, and it is mechanically inpos-
sible.
Was Captain Webb killed trying
to go over Niagara Falls?
No, he was drowned in an attempt
to swim the Whirlpool of Niagara
Falls.
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Bovcott Nav Bar War

In 1915 when the western world was torn by
war; Japan took advantage Of the turmoil among the
whites and issued her twenty-one demands on China
In return, she got bitter taste OF boycott. The
Chinese government was foxy. 1t did not view with
alarm openly or threaten resistance. For the gov
eminent knew that China incapable of military
defense.
The demands had been delivered in secret. Presi-
dent Yuan Shih-Kai allowed them to leak out They
reached America as In the course of time they
got back to Chna-as news. Spontaneously the
boycott started.
Japan then, as now, was dependent in a large
degree on China as her market. nation of 6OOoO,-
600 population growing at the rate of nearly million
a year. and hedged off by exclusion acts throughout
the white world, Japan must rely on China, both as
her source of raw material and as her outlet for
finished manufactured products.
That is what the present. trouble is all about
And that is what the twentyone demands were issued
for thirteen years ago-in hope of complete economic
and political control vast territory and
vast people.
The Chinese proved themselves the natural mas
tiers of the boycott So effective the relation that
pressure at home Immediately set n-against the Jap
anese government that had issued the demands. The
manufacturers and the merchants of Japan, finding
their Chinese market cut off, cried out against the
move that had been made. ana the CWeIlCy-one de-
mands fell largely of their own weight.
The 1915 situation is analogous to the present
Bitterness against Japan has been fired by the send
ing of troops to Shantung.
If it were conceivable that we depended Mica
ragua as our main commercial outlet, we would to-
day be confronting trade condition similar to the
that is almost certain to develop from the pres
ent Japanese Chinese hostilities
Retaliation by boycott is inevitable.
And therein rests the greatest hope against the
formal declaration of war.
Barring massacre or some other event that would
make both peoples red and forget all consideration
Of economics, it is likely that history will repeat and
instead of declaration that pressure back home
against the policy of imperialistic premier will
bring withdrawal, similar pressure helped to do
In 1915.
-
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l. The idea of letter golf is to
change one word to another and
do it in par, or a given number Of
strokes. Thus, to change COW to
HEN in three strokes, COW, HOW,
HEW HEN.
2. You can change only one let
ter at a time.
3.You must have a complete word
of common usage for each jump.
Slang words and authorizations don't
count.
4. The order of letters can not
be changed.
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Leaves Two for G, @, P,

Secretary Melons statement
clarifies the situation to a measur-
able extent.
He has said as plainly as any
man could, if it is not Hoover, it will
be Coolidge.
This leaves every "favorite son"
and stalking horse" boom up in the
air.
The Midwest, which has been
rallied to the support of Lowden on
the theory that Hoover was against
farm relief, now finds itself faced
with the alternative of having to
accept President Coolidge, who has
not only vetoed its pet measure
once, but seems likely to do so
again.
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David Dietz on Science
A Columbus of Today
No. so

---- No. SO -------
CAPT j. P. AULT was in charge of the non
~ magnetic ship Carnegie when it started down the
Potomac River on May 1, for three-year cruise OF
five oceans
According to present plans before the Carnegie re-
turns to Washington it will have travelled more than
100000 miles, crossing every latitude from Spitzber-
south.
The Carnegie is referred to as a non-magnetic ship
because with the exception of small amount of iron
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This Date. i'm
T. S. History
May Is

May Is
1775-CongresS voted to establish
federal posts from Maine to
Georgia.
l775-ISSuance of paper money was
authorized by Congress to
avoid taxation.
l776-Congress called on the States
to form separate governments
and suppress all royal author
ity.
1776-Virginia convention instructed
its delegates in Congress to
vote for independence.
1847-U. S. Army entered Puebla,
Mexico.
l862-CongreSs established the De-
partment of Agriculture.
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Mellon Holds the WHIP

BY holding the Pennsylvania del4
egation uninstructed, Secretary
Mellon has retained a whip by which
he can virtually force the issue.
Thus the smoke screen is ripped
away from the whole show, and
the grand alliance of Wall Street
and farm politicians finds itself
without leg on which to stand.
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The same thing is true of Cow
ernor Smiths campaign.
A year ago, nine out of every
ten Democratic politicians west of
the Hudson were willing to bet he
could not be nominated.
What is more to the point, they
would have proved true prophets
had it not been for the effect of his
reputation on the people.
He had come to be thought OF
as an able, honest, forceful execu-
tive, and that was something which
politicians could hardly realize,
much less beat.
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w n / C n was
found absolutely
necessary in the
ships engine,
there is no iron
or steel in the
ship or its equip
ment. 1t was
built in t h i S
fashion because
the S h i p has
b e e n used to
cQdrG GI6 VaTld-
ton of the COM
pass needle.
Most people
know that the
compass needle
does not point
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Times. Names ana addresses which
must be given will not be published.
Need for elimination Of "jogs" at
street corners was cited today in
letter from a north side booster.
Dear Mr.. Fixit: I have often
heard indianapolis referred to as
mo mean CITY," and the slogan has
never appealed to me as I've never
heard anyone say it was mean. A
more fitting name would be the
jog city" as there certainly are
plenty Of joggy streets. We all
know how unsightly and dangerous
they are but the city still permits
them in new sections of the city.
This is particularly true in the
new Butler University district at
Fairview.
1--WE pay the highest taxes in the
city. The Fairview district will be
a classy neighborhood some day with
the Butler buildings the show places
of indianapolis.
1.-THE streets leading thereto
should be straight and wide but
Forty Ninth st. at Boulevard Place
already has a jog and we under
stand the same thing will happen
at Forty-Seventh st. and Hinsley
st.
Let's stop it before the neighhor-
hood is built up.
Yours for million population"
Mayor L. Ert Slack has ex-
pressed himself in favor of beauti- .
flying the city and eliminating bad
street intersections and traffic
hazards. The city plan commits
sion and board of works will in
vestigate your letter and see what
steps can be taken to remedy the
situation.
How many species of animals are
there in the world?
Scientists have estimated that
there are about 100000.
Are the Philippines Islands a de-
tendency or a territory of the
United States.
A dependency.
Is the wife of my brother inlaw
any relation TO me?
No.
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Questions and AnSz0e7cS

You can get an answer to any answer
able question of fact OF information by
writing to Frederick M. Kerby. question
Editor, The Indianapolis Times, Wash
Washington. d. c., enclosing two cents
in stamps for reply. Medical and le-
gal advice cannot be given, nor can ex-
tended research be made. All other
questions will receive a personal reply
Unsigned requests cannot be answered
All letters are confidential. You are
free service as often as you please.
EDITOR
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When were postage stamps first

\ When were postage stamps first
used?
The earliest form of postage stamp
was employed in Paris in 1858. Post
age stamps as we now know them
date back to 1910 when the first ad-
hesive stamps came into use in
Great Britain. In the United States
the first stamps were issued in 1945
by individual postmasters at their
own expense, but these were super
seeded in 1847 by the first govern
ment issue.
Does the wife of citizen Of the
United States, who lost his citizen
ship through conviction in a court
martial for deserticn from the
United States Army, also lose her
citizenship?
No, her citizenship would not be
affected.
Does the Covenant Of the League
of Nations name the place where
permanent headquarters for the
League Snau De located!
Article 7 of the Covenant Of the
League of Nations provides: "The
seat of the league is established at
Geneva, Switzerland. The Council
may at any time decide that the
seat Of the League shall be estab-
lished elsewhere"
Which States produces the great
est amount of corn and wheat?
The great corn producing States
are Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
Missouri and Indiana. The chief
wheat growing States are North Da-
kota, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska
and South Dakota.
What was the name of the avia-
ton field at Sacramento, Calf, dur
ing the war?
Mather Field.
What officer issues marriage IL
censes in the State of Indiana?
The clerk of the circuit court Of
the county where the female resides.
What was the total attendance
at football games in the United
States in 1926?
The estimated total was $15,-
100000.
On what date did the Sunday
Immediately preceding Easter come
in 1900?
April 8.
Who were the Hellenes?
The name Hellas means Greek"
and the Hellenes were the ancient
Greeks.
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Daily Thought

Be ye therefore wise as serpents
and harmless as doves.-Matt.
1915.
THE first point Of wisdom is "a
4 discern that which is false: the
second, to know that which is trlel
-Lactantius.
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China and Japan are at war; The Chinese prob
ably will be favorites in the betting they certainly
have had enough practice.