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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-27

d'affaires of Norway and Nine. Lundh
are among those who will attend the
opening Of Broadway" at the Rialto
Theater Friday evening.
The first secretary of the legation of
Portugal. MIR. Augusta de Mendes 1eal
has taken an apartment at the Ward
man Park Hotel.
Mr.. Raymond Bousquet, third secre-
tary of the French embassy, was host
to several Of the younger diplomatic set
at dinner last evening at the PLACE
Deauville, at the Wardman Park Hotel
His guests included Mr.. Jules Henry,
first secretary Of the French embassy;
Signor Luciano Mascia. secretary of the
italian embassy. and Senior Don Mari
ano de Amoedo Of the Spanish embassy.
In the absence of the Secretary Mr..
Ray Lyman Wilbur, from the city. MIR.
Jchn H. Edwards. Assistant Secretary,
is Acting Secretary Of the Interior.
Mr.. Everett Sanders has returned to
the Mayflower, from his trip West.
Mr.. william c. Deming. president of
the United States Civil Service Com
mission. who lives at the Mayhower. left
Monday for Ottawa. Canada. where he
will address the annual meeting of the
SNA 0cANNC AOccHluly VI tLlo OHiVcu
States and Canada.
Mrs. George w. Wickersham will
close her Summer home at Bar Harbor
next week and will Join Mr.. Wickersham
in Washington for the Winter.
Mrs. Edward Beale Mclean will be
hostess to q company at dinner this
evening in her villa, By-the-S az
Newport. A program Of music will
follow the dinner.
washingtonians who had boxes for
the women's championship tennis
matches at Newport yesterday included
Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, Mrs. Wood
bury Blair. Mrs. William S. Sims, Mrs.
Smith Hempstone, Mrs. Lamar r.
Leahy, Mrs. Maxim Karolik and Miss
Edith Wetmore.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Charles H.
Bridges and Mai. Gen. Cyrus S. Rad
ford are among the guests OF Col. and
Mrs. Edward F.. Simms. who are enter
tanning a house party in their villa at
Saratoga Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Cleveland.
son and daughter-in-law OF the late
former President Grover Cleveland.
have opened their Summer homie at
Tamworth in the White Mountains.
adjoining the Summer place Of Mr..
Clevelands mother. Mrs. Thomas j.
Preston, jr., Of Princeton. N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. jackson Elliott of New
York accompanied by their son and
daughter, Mr. Jackson Elliott, jr.. and
La "a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-27

Mr.. and Mrs. jackson Elliott of New
York. accompanied by their son and
daughter, Mr.. Jackson Elliott. jr.. and
Miss JoJyce Elliott. have gone to Lake
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-27

Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Charles H
Bridges and Maj Gen. Cyrus S. Rad
ford are among the guests Of Col. and
Mrs. Edward F. Simms. who are enter
tanning house party in their villa at
Saratoga Springs.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929
MURDER MOST FOUL

The struggle of the textile workers of Gastonia,
North Carolina, for something approaching liv-
ing wage and tolerable working conditions has been
marked since its inception by violence initiated by
the textile barons and carried out by officers of
the law we'll by unofficial thugs. Infatuated
because the mill workers defended their right to
strike for bread, the capitalists turned loose
a reign of terror the latest victim of which is
Mrs. Ellie Virgins, 35-year-old textile striker
and mother of five small children.
The murdered mother with several other strik-
ers was en- route from the tent colony at Bessemer
to South Gastonia to attend strike rally when
they met by an automobile loaded with thugs
hired by the textile barons The thugs compelled
the strikers to turn back. Shortly afterwards an
other auto poured hail of bullets into it as it
passed the truck. Mrs. Virgins fell dead.
An investigation of the murder immediate
ly started by local authorities but nobody takes
the investigation seriously. The officers of the
law in Gastonia are the minons of the textile
barons, whose aim is to break the strike and they
have not stopped a murder in pursuit of their aim
For years they have been sucking the life blood
out of children and mothers well out of adult
males. But child slavery is legal in North Caro-
lima and apparently murder is also on the free list
Those patriots" howled to high heaven when
police officer accompanied by drunken companions
got killed while making illegal raid the strik
tent colony where they lived after they had
been ousted from their homes by the employers
How they going to justify the murder of Mrs
Virgins, the mother of five children?
The struggle of the mill workers in Gastonia is
one of the most challenging calls to the support
of American farmers and workers that ever rang
out in the history of the country Fearful that
their attempt to send thirteen Strikers now under
indictment the electric chair for the shooting of
Police Chief Aderholt might not be successful the
mill owners seem to be now bent on a policy of
wholesale murder. Every worker in the United
States, whether he be ter of the soil or en-
ployed in factory should rally the side of the
textile workers in the battle The interests of the
farmers and workers are one as against the inter
ests of the finance capitalists The latter rob the
slaves of the factory machine as they rob the
farmer of fair price for his crops through their
mOnopolistc grip marketing facilities
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20
HENDERSON STATES
]. BULL WILL HANG
ON TO PALESTINE

Geneva, Sept. = Arthur Hen
derson, British foreign secretary
has pledged his country's efforts TO
the fulfillment of it's mandate over
Palestine.
Mr.. Henderson made his state
ment before the council of the
league during discussion of the
Palestine situation.
Express Sympathy
Speakers expressed deep sympa-
thy for the victims of the out
RACES, also confidence that Great
Britain as the mandatory power
will maintain order and conduct an
impartial investigation.
The British foreign secretary
said Great Britain had no inten-
ton of abandoning the mandate
for Palestine. One of the basic
principles of British policy in the
country is the famous Balfour dec.
laration of 1917, in which the then
foreign secretary called for tn.
establishment of a national home
for Jews in Palestine.
The general tenor of the dis,
cussions emphasized the Sacred
responsibility" of the league of ma.
tions in connection with the prop
er conduct in the inundated tern
tory.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20

ures but could not deny that there was much un-
employment. Yet both claimed that this is a rich
country rich enough to supply every human being
In the land with the necessities of life and indeed
with what termed Injuries
Since the election of Hoover there has been no
reduction in the ranks of the unemployed. Yet
prosperity" reigns. 1t is true that the average
farmer would give you rather queer look if you
insisted this contention. He would probably
ask you: "Where?" But it cannot be denied that
the rich Citing richer and the poor in the
grip of the status quo if not more so. Why this
contradiction?
The answer is machinery and the fact that this
labor-savng machinery is in the hands of the
capitalist class Machinery is steadily displacing
human labor not only in the factories but on the
land. Take the combine for instance.
C. R. F. Smith, of Iowa State College, writing
in the current issue of the Farm Journal says:
"The agricultural progress of the past so years
will be little when compared with the revolution
that will take place in the next so years." He is
correct.
Mr.. Smith tells of the driverless pillow in oper-
alton in Iowa and Nebraska. Guided around
field it shifts automatically from furrow to fur
row holding its course as long as there is ground
left to plow.
ner of family of farm machines that will be di-
rected automatically by guide posts, and which
will be run "a hours day if necessary under the
occasional supervision of single man. A feeder
grinder starts automatically at certain time, is
fed automatically and stops automatically when
the grain runs out. 1t is operated by electricity
at night when a cheap power rate is available.
This gives food for thought. The automatic
machine is a blessing and curse. blessing be-
cause it points to a day when the machine will
perform the arduous toll that is now done by man.
But until the machine is socialized and profit TAX
out of production, distribution and exchange,
labor-saving machinery will only mean unemploy-
ment and hunger for millions while it piles up I'M
told wealth for the few
And what does it benefit the farmer if auto
matte machinery saves him money on his labor
bill if this saving is lost to him in prices the ogi
cal result of decrease in consumption due to
mass unemployment?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20
FACE-SAVING

Again China seems to have prevented
settlement of the Manchurian war danger.
When the provisional Chinese Russian
agreement in Berlin to negotiate was an
nounced last week, it was assumed that the
peace parleys would be under way by this
time and both armies withdrawn from the
frontier.
Instead the Marking foreign minister
now says he agreed to nothing.
On top of that he has put northwestern
Manchuria under martial law
All because China is insisting on even
more than the usual amount of a face-sav-
ing so important to the Orienatl To save
China's face Moscow compromised and
agreed to the Russian officials of the Chi
nese Eastern Railway. 1t was the arrest
of those officials and seizure of the road
by China, in violation of the treaty under
which. the road is jointly operated, that
caused the war threat
But having won her point for the perman-
ent discharge of the Russian officials
charged with propaganda, China now balks
at removing the Chinese official who broke
the treaty
China is lucky to be dealing with ma
>tlon like Russia, which for economic and
political reasons has to be long-suffering
If China for instance had violated Jap
anese consulate, arrested Japanese officials,
seized Japanese property, and torn up
IdPdneSe treaty, VICTORIOUS Japanese army
would be OCCUPYING China today.
But China is unlucky in risking war ev-
en- with Russia. Once the Russians get
started they may not stop. And occidental
military observers on the spot say that the
Red army is far superior to the Chinese,
indeed that it is next to the French the
best in the world today.
Unfortunately peace pleas so far have
failed with China. Now it is time for her
to think, and think fast, of what would han
pen to her in a war
Helena Daily Indenenden
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20
1Z,AaRo8
Producers News Is
Intellectual Cocktail

Butte, Montana.
Sept. IL, 1929.
Chas. E. Taylor,
Dear Sir and Friend:
Enclosed find $500 for renewal
of subscription, also 10 cents in
stamps for which please send me
copy of the Producers News is
sued some six or eight weeks age
containing Paddy Wallace's article
against Senator 7. J. Walsh pub
lished in the last right hand col
umns of the first page.
Your paper is an intellectual
cocktail in the dry desert of Mon
tana corporate journalism and
enjoy every issue of it. Keep /
up.
Respectfully,
WARREN G. DAVENPORT,
Lock Box 1906, Butte, Mont
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20
BOOTLEGGERY AND WAR ARMA-
MENT FROM SAME ROOT

When private profit is removed from production
and sale of liquor and war supplies the solution Of
the problems of Prohibition and Peace will be sim
plified Private profit or hope of individual re,
ward will warp the judgment of the volunteer
analyst, who might otherwise be inspired by
thoughts of patriotic duty.
Private profit means, "What is there in it for
ne?" Of the liquor and ordnance classes their
lumber is legionnary, and these profiteers not
ASSOCIATED from governmental power The remov-
al of private profit, by any method, will prepare
the way for rational cogitation in matters relating
to booze, guns and gases. AS to private profits in
slaughtering devices, we quote from the Detroit
News:
Senator George w. Norris of Nebraska
gets to the meat usually. eff there was
no profit in preparing for war;" he said
in an address at Freeport, Ill, August 81,
"the universal international armament
race would be unknown" The Lincoln
Douglas debates began at Freeport and
the NebrasRan, now probably the fore
radical in present-day public life, was a
principal speaker at the unwilling of a
statute, Lincoln The Debater" Among
other things, he said:
"A great nation ought to set an example
to the world, and in order to make it pos
sible to make such an example effective,
it ought to announce that even in the
preparation for war there shall be no
private profit, gain or enrichment; that
the weapons of human destruction, if they
must be made, will be prepared by the
government; that naval vessels will be
built In government navy yards, and that
private corporations and private monopo-
Iy shall have no opportunity to be en-
riched by the expenditure of these vast
sums of money. If our nation took this
stand, the universal propaganda for a
larger army and bigger navy would dis
appear. If the civilized world once knew
that America was taking such step, this
universal race for military supremacy
would vanish"
This Norris speech amounted to a sum-
nation of radical purposes today Yet
among such undertakings as adjustment
OF the electoral college, elimination of in
functions in labor disputes and life terms
OF United States judges, a progressive
inheritance tax and public ownership of
water power sites, mis- stake the profit out
OF war" stands out as far the most ire
mendous and useful platform for the
craftsmanship of the age. AS challenge
rises above even Abraham Lincoln's
cnalenge OF the institution of slavery.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20
FEAR OF UNION
FORCES STATE TO
CONTINUE CASE

Charlotte, N. C.-The blOw-up
of the far-fetched trial of the six
teen Gastonia strikers for con-
spiracy to murder seemed so emf
nently suitable and fitting that Dne
involuntarily asks, "Why don't
they dismiss the case?" The quail
ity of the states evidence may be
judged from the fact that II sane
and hitherto unprecedented men
passed as such by the state-were
unanimous after three days hear
ing of the states star witnesses
that the defendants should be ac-
Quilted. This before the defense
has had a chance to introduce
word of testimony.
Disbelieves Drunken Officers
"The good men and true" OF
Mecklenburg county were evident
ly not impressed by officers who
swore they had never touched a
drop of liquor III eight years, YET
were under indictment for a drunk.
en- assault-nOr by a policeman
who heard exhortations to "shoot
to kill" yet refused to walk a block
/ to tell his chief. Nor by "conspir-
acies" held mysteriously behind E
foot-square piece of cardboard SCI
up, it was contended, to cover {
three by two foot window.
Even before any one had talked
to the jurors, there were persist
ent rumors that at the close of the
states testimony the Judge would
dismiss some of the defendants, Of
possibly order the charge changed
from first to second degree muir
der. Now, seeing the pitiful effec
of their logic and all their wa1
horrors upon the jurors, one would
think the prosecution would taxi
the chance to do something sen
sible and give up.
Who's Footing Bills?
This trial, they allege, is no
paid by Manville-Jenckes: but it i
mighty expensive to somebody
judging by the fact that one of tn,
lawyers, Clyde Hoey, has beer
known to charge thousand dol
lars for case that only lasts on,
day. One would think the con
venient retainer, the city of Gas
tonia, would turn like the proven
bal worm, and it probably woult
if it had to foot the bills. VIII!
carry on when the chances look 81
dubious?
The answer is to be found in tn,
condition of the city of Gastonia
( Thousands of people in that cit!
are hanging upon the fate of thu
sixteen strikers, waiting only fo
their acquittal to join the uniol
and put up "the biggest fight vol
ever saw" Both non-union work
ers and small store-keepers assur
ed me of this. That is why tn,
prosecution dares not go back.
County Split Open
Gastonia is cleft from top t,
bottom by one issue. One feel,
there the nervousness and single
mindedness of a state of war. Ev
erybody is talking union and non
union. A bus driver overhearing :
remark of ours about a union cal
in the ditch interrupts to curse
bitterly.
A non-union worker, on the 9th.
er hand, declares, "The crowd run.
ming this town is the rottenest fo1
miles around. That's why we're
for the union. They try to scare
us sayin' the union leaders have
no religion. What of it? they're
a decent gang. Not like this gang
I'm tellin' YOU, if all the religion
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20

Boy page A. J. Wisch, Denver, Colorado A
messenger dashed into New York city hall recent
~ with telegram for Mayor Walker water
orpped from his uniform and gurgled in his shoes
Inc message read as follows: evil bring rain and
reduce temperature in New York within eiob+r-
four hours. Fee, 100000. If | do NOT srccssd
within this time all ask is my expenses 70 and
from New York'-Signed A. J. wiscb Denver
We wish Mr. Wisch would include Sheridan Conn.
IN MS itinerary. But if he didn't make pood WA
night sue him for breach of promise.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20

Chicago -(FP) - The Chicago
forum council under whose aus.
pieces, for several years past, such
well known labor speakers as An
ma Louise Strong, Victor A. Olan-
der and Scott Nearing have spok-
en-, is being merged with a new
central community agency called
the Adult Education Council.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20

in nc G 9.stt was nitroglvceri-
wouldn't be enough Is So''SSerln, il
mans nose" " blow one
Talking kin about the trial. III.
said, "They have to On l'' q, TINS man
fra fTaid to look like fools ''TT5a Time
like they don't know tbo,.;1e5y act
like fools anyway" Il look
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20

victor Won Gerhard sued his mail order bride
1oi divorce on the ground that she took snuff. Il
was learned that she also fired shots at him occa-
sonally But that would not be considered ground
ior divorce in Chicago What irked Mr.. Won Ger
nardt was the sneezing. 1t hurt his pride A
further reason why he was sore at his frau was
that she leaped off bridge into the Chicago river
but was rescued
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20

Sir Harry Lauder, who is here on one of his
annual farewell tours, must be given credit for
having an excellent press agent Legend has It
that while on his way from Australia to the United
States Harry had birthday and ordered drinks
for all the souls on board ship, crew as well as
passengers. Hooch monl
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20

Henry Ford swears by the skull and cross bones
that in the event of booze staging comeback in
this country he will refrain from producing more
automobiles. Which would be a sad blow to scott
laws who have been using Henry's flivvers for
cocktail shakers
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20

Frohlbltfon Commissioner Doran deposeth and
sayeth: that California grape-producing interests
have agreed to cooperate with him to prevent
grapes going into bootleg wine. Watchers will be
placed in New York to prevent diversion of grapes
into illegal channels Write your own editorial
about this.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20
TOM AYRESOF SOUTH DAKOTABOOSTS
AMERICAN TEMPERANCE LEAGUE

- +omperate, just, clean, first
o &c III remove the temptation to
~ aata money by being cruel, gree
d iI,rN noean and intolerant. Moral
S s;y,as;on is the only means by
which neople may be induced to do
the right thing.
Then what? Repeal the Vol
stead act. Amend the constitution
50 that the government of the
limited States may have COM
nlete monopoly of the sale Of Ii
go SELL THE STUFF THRU
TIOTVI,ERNMENT STORES AT AC-
T III COST. A QUART OF THE
REST TEN YEAR OLD Wits
KEY FOR A DOLLAR! Place the
most conscientious prohibitionist in
charge of the sales. Sell to peo-
nile without distinction of color, but
not to minors or habitual soaks
When the profit is knocked out OF
the business the bootlegger will
disappear over night. Keep the
government out of the manufac
turing end. Let the distillers com
pete for the sale of only such stuff
as will pass inspection. Poison Ii
mor will vanish. Bootleg rings
now running our politics in tn
! larger cities will dissolve. Whel
the government drives all competi
tion out of the field, moral restric
lions can be enforced. Not til
then.
The Canadians have adopted
different system. There the gov
eminent is making money out o
the sales. The prices are so hig
that bootleggers flourish and wa
rich while the governments of Can
ada make millions for their reve
nue.. That is not the system W
want. We must knock the profit
out of the liquor business or tn
profit-making bootleggers wi
eventually run the government an
our rising generation will be
} mOngrel mass of degenerates.
Government sale of liquor A
COST, is the program of the An
! erican Temperance League now b.
ing promoted by A. c. Townle
: It is the greatest and most wOrtl
| while movement that the countl
: has ever had an opportunity
, participate in. 1t should result
a moral revival in the nation al
t is deserving the support of ever
4 citizen who wants to see Amerit
? dragged out of the desperate 81
uation into which we have be-
plunged by the noble error of pr
hibition.
i Think it over Herbert and gi'
i the movement a boost.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20
THE VANISHING WORKER

:. During the election campaign that placed Hoover
N tne White House there was considerable talk
ABOUT unemployment chiefly by the publicity men
Oh the Democratic Party All Smith and HE go
porters claimed that over 100000 workers ~
unemployed The Republicans debated those fig-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20

Mr. Roger Babson, the noted economist and in
dustrial prophet, who makes part of his living ex
penses advising the populace how TO invest their
money plunged heavily in the Florida land boom.
Believe it or not, Roger "faw down and went
boom"