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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16

Sometimes cops tried .
70 stop them, some
Times fat restaurant
Owners objected, but
NOTHING could put
The skids on the
Works. And at the
end of the weekend
Every section station
Vas a beehive teeming
With workers anxious
70 find out just
HOW MUCH had been
Done to save the
Daily Workerl
4
Of course, fellow
Worker, this you
Know is not an
die imagined story.
It is a description
Of the events of
TODAY and TOMORROW
Based on the
COMMUNIST dialectic,
Based on an
Analysis of what
Has happened in the
Past in crises when
The Daily Worker has
Been in danger and
What will and MUST
HAPPEN AGAIN!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
Hemstitchers To Strike.

With the call for the dressmak-
ez1 strike meeting such . brilliant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16

SIMON KALOS.
Evening star., 1929-12-12
Five and Ten Fares
Are Not Appreciated

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
The consistency of the S and 10
trolley and bus fares which the public
Utilities Commission of New Jersey has
fixed as an experiment" for the public
service system across the river is not
appreciated. 1t is estimated that 10
per cent OF the riders will pay the 10
cent rate as transients, while the other
90 per cent, as regulars, will enjoy the
use Of tokens at cents, or the present
rate.
The line Of differentiation will not be
as between daily, or otherwise more or
less regular, tripperS and occasional
riders, as is the preference afforded in
Communication rate schedules in railroad
service, but rather between those who
for any reason are willing to buy their
transportation by advance payment and
those who ride for cash. The company
wanted dollar advance purchase as a
prerequisite to a scent ride.
The only consideration in any way
sustaining the proposed schedule is dis
covered from the company'S point OF
view, in that it affords an opportunity
to make 100 per cent boost in the fare
taken from a considerable percentage of
its patrons, with the hope that their
protest will be drowned by the assent
of satisfaction from the greater number
who will buy their tokens in advance
and retain the benefits of the nickel
fare. From the public point OF view the
new schedule is lop-Sided and cannot
stand on its own merits.
Evening star., 1929-12-12
Prison Revolts.

It is easy to say that something must
be wrong with the prison system in this
country when so many desperate out
breaks of revolt and attempts at whole
sale delivery, with numerous fatalities
resulting, have occurred In a short
space Of time. 1t is not easy however,
to say what is wrong, what remedy
is to be provided-indeed whether any
remedy can be provided for the evil
condition.
1t so happened that almost sinul-
taneously with the latest Of the long
list Of 1929 prison riots, that at Auburn,
N. Y, yesterday, meeting was being
held in New York City, under the
craftsmanship of the municipal COM
missioner of the department of cor
rection. 1t was attended by a number
of eminent pSychiatrists, psychologists
and crime experts, who were asked to
discuss a plan to establish a "crime
clinic" TO treat physically and mentally
incapacitated criminals and correct
human defects that now prevent their
return TO society. Naturally they COM
mented on the Auburn tragedy. But
there was no agreement in their con-
clusion, save, it would seem, to one
effect, that most of the trouble in the
prisons arises from the fact that the
inmates are not sufficiently occupied
They are too idle for their own coed
and for the maintenance of discipline,
which means submission to restraint.
At Auburn the comparative idleness
of the prisoners, some of whom yester-
day rebelled, with the loss of nine lives,
was due to the fact that the institution
had not been fully repaired since the
disastrous blaze of last July, when the
buildings were fired in an attempt to
break and several lives we're lost. But
there had been no lack of equipment,
on this particular score, prior to the
July trouble. The fact seems evident
that taken altogether there are too
many prisoners for the opportunities
afforded for their occupation. This Is
Evening star., 1929-12-12
Urges International
Manning of Cruisers
TO the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
The copyrighted article by Paul Scott
Mower of December appearing in
your valuable paper is along the lines
long have been thinking.
It seems to me that If the nations do
not want war they must submit them
selves to some authority and let that
authority have power. This authority
should first of all control the oceans
and international waters. The ships
necessary for this should not be subject
to any nation. They should be manned
and off1cered with many nationalities
on each ship. Training colleges should
be international, with instructors and
pupils from many nations at each tnsti-
tuition. There is no more sense in al
lowing nations to send heavily armed
ships out of their ports than there is
in allowing individual citizens to send
out machine guns and artillery on the
highways to protect their interests or
police the highways. A private corpo-
ration having factories in different parts
of the country may just as well claim
the right to keep the highways open by
its own armed forces between the diff
ferent factories as country that has
possessions in different parts of the
world may claim to keep the highways
open between these possessions. If we
want peace we must submit to the au-
thority of God. P. HANSEN.
Evening star., 1929-12-12
Prerarinp for London,

American preparations for the Five
Power Naval Conference in London are
now formally under way in this city.
At the State Department yesterday
Secretary Stimson, who will head the
United States delegation, assembled
around the council table for the first
time the American representatives who
are in this country besides himself
Secretary of the Navy Adams, AmbaS-
sador Morrow and Senators Robinson
and Reed. These five, together with
Ambassadors Dawes and Gibson, COM
prise the mission which will speak for
the Republic at the historic naval meet
ing on the Thames. After Secretary
StimSon had explained to his colleagues
the purely diplomatic status Of the con-
ference, Admiral Jones, who will be
chief technical adviser to the delegation,
elucidated the naval aspect.
Secretary Stimson made public after
the delegations meeting one gratifying
and significant fact-America's Spokes-
men are going to London with open
minds" They are not committed in
advance to any hard and fast plan."
The United States has its views as to
both naval limitation and naval reduc-
ton, but our delegation apparently will
have no mandate to fight through to
the bitter end for the uncompromising
ratification of our standpoint, Inter-
national intercourse since time began
has been a process of give-and-take.
Arbitrary adherence to an attitude is
generally the mother Of dissension.
That applies in special degree to a
five-power conference dealing with
legitimately controversial matters, on
which each conferee nation has require
mentS, traditions and susceptibilities of
its own to consider.
1t augurs well for success at London
that there has been exhaustive COM
munication between the United States
and Great Britain, France, Italy and
Japan ever since the British govern
ment convened the conference. AS
far as is humanity possible, the ground
for it will have been prepared well in
advance. An extraordinary opportunity
to iron out differences between our own
Government and the Japanese will be
afforded by the presence in Washington
next week of Japan's delegates. A
strenuous program of Official hospitality
awaits MeSSrs. Wakatsuki and Takarabe
here. But there will be ample chance
for thrashing out the thorny questions
Of Nippon's demand for a l0-10-7
cruiser ratio and for 10000 tons Of sub
marines.
President Hoover has selected an
uncommonly strong and sagacious dele
cation to speak for Uncle Sam in Great
Britain next month. The country may
rest assured that, while no vital Ameri-
can interest will be surrendered, the
Republics representatives will ignore no
occasion to pave the way to concilia-
ton and agreement. For on the con-
ference's deliberations depend the future
peace and contentment of the world
Evening star., 1929-12-12
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

It is doubtful If the lawns of Wash
ington ever looked any better at this
season of the year than they do right
now.
The recent cold spell not only did not
hurt the grass, but seemed to do it
good, such is the mysterious action of
Natures forces.
In this case the saving factor was the
thin coat of ice. Sticking fast to all
vegetation, it protected it: when the
thaw came, it led directly to nice days
again.
Thus, save for the five-day interval,
grass has known only the mildest sort
of weather and everywhere has taken
advantage Of It to keep on growing.
With Christmas almost at hand the
city is carpeted with green. Public
parks and lawns of private homes
gleam with fresh green in keeping with
the spirit of the season.
Gardeners, therefore, have more than
ordinary inducement not to forget their
gardens.
Perhaps there are hardy chrysanthe-
NUNS still in bloom. We know gar
den where rosebuds would have un-
folded If it had not been for the SUD-
freezing days.
In this garden buds still show red.
A continuance of warm days mlgnC even
bring some fresh ones into being, ready
to open on Christmas day.
Mostly home gardeners must rely on
the florist at this season. What pleas
ure 1t is for such to wander INTO a
flower shop and treat his eyes to the
sight of gorgeous roses and chrysan-
themurns grown under ideal hot house
conditions Especially does he marvel
at the size of the latter.
Chrysanthemums will last from one
to two weeks as cut flowers. Even the
most tremendous ones will look bright
and fresh for a full week and often VIII
last much longer. And this in warm
house; in a home where the tempera-
ture was not allowed to exceed 60 de-
grees no doubt tAey would do even
better.
Specimens of the cactus family are
to be purchased in bowls at most
florists.
While inspecting the prickly crea-
lures do not insist on touching them,
for their spines are sharp indeed, and
seem to possess almost human IN
genuity.
One can draw blood easily on the
innocent cacu repoSing Snugly in orna-
mental fiat bowls.
Nature did not give the members of
this family spineS for nothing. 1t is
no wonder that they manage to sur
viVe.
The great danger of losing a cactus,
II is said lies in too much water. They
should not be watered very often, and
then only q tiny amount, about half
a teaspoon or so of water.
Those who have tried other plants
with i'll success, owing to the heat of
modern living rooms and the dryness
thereof, might find it profitable to in
stall few of these
If there are children in the house
the cactus bowl should be placed well
out of their reach, as the thorns are
mean both in appearance and use.
u y
Coral berry bushes are looking nice
now, but we have yet to see bird eat
them. Always one reads that birds are
very fond of coral berries. This Is one
form of the snowberry. Such of our
bushes as are supposed to be the gen.
Evening star., 1929-12-12
Cooperative Marketing
Benefits Are Hailed

From the Portland (Oreg) Journal.
Formerly the live stock growers OF
Idaho found that they were not recelv-
ing enough for their product. They
found that part of their losses were
due to odge-podge marketing methods.
Thereupon they created a cooperative
association and since have been dis
posing of their live stock through thaC
medium. The new method Is saving
them 20 to rs cents per 100 pounds,
says a report of the Department OF
Agriculture. Almost equal benefits are
recorded in practically every State
where associations have been formed"
continues the report. Other Dement'S
cited by the department report, and
which have a part in the savings to
producers, are closer contact with mar
ket trends, shipment of stock when 1t
is ready for market and better terminal
facilities.
What the cooperative association has
done for Idaho'S and other cattlemen
it has done in other industries. The
properly organized and operated aSso-
Citations have saved hundreds of thou
sands of dollars to producers In other
industries through reduced costs, better
marketing facilities and increased
prices. They have paid for themselves
many times over.
The Farm Board is asking for more
co-operatives in its effort to aid the
farm problem. 1t is prepared to sup
port them financially and otherwise.
The Idaho record is evidence that sound
co-operatives are effective in helping
meet some of agricultures problems.
Evening star., 1929-12-12
Christabel Pankhurst
Is Tired of Politics

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Christabel Pankhurst is now lectur-
ing on religious subjects to American
audiences. Asked why she did not
stand for seat in the British Parlia-
ment, Miss PankhurSt replied that such
a career would be an anti-climax for
her.
1.-THE great thing" she explained,
was breaking down the barriers"
Christabel is the daughter of the late
Emmel1ne PankhurSt, the most daring
warrior for woman's political eman-
cipation that ever lived. Mother and
daughter fought and smashed windows
together for years. CordonS OF police
could not stop them and jailing did M
good.
The highest moments in the career
of these remarkable women came IN
1912 when liberalism was fashionable
even in America, what with Roosevelt
standing at Armageddon and wilson
proclaiming the new freedom and Gene
DebS rolling up tremendous vote. Ine
women won their political freedom In
America and Great Britain.
After the war the Arn1ageddon fever
subsidized. Some of the radicals found
themselves in jail. Others were frank
ly tired. Normally with Harding ana
the Tory reaction in England brought
respectability back into fashion. the
fashion appears to be as persistent as
short skirts.
Miss Christabel PankhurSt Is now
weary OF politics. Having helped 70
break down the barriers" she Is willing
to let her sisters make the best OF their
freedom. She prefers to lecture on re-
ligion.
She is undoubtedly right in her belief
that life in Parliament would be dull
after the thrilling years she has passed.
Life almost everywhere is dull for rad
icals these days. Respectability and
conformity are highly comforting, but
not particularly exciting.
Evening star., 1929-12-12
Indian Pupils Outstrip
Whites in ClassWOrk
From the Portland oregon Daily Journal.

From the Portland oregon Daily Journal.
Indian children stand higher than
white children on the honor roll, where
the two races attend the same schools,
according to facts brought out at Top
pentsh, the headquarters of the Yakima
Indian reservation.
On the honor roll in the Toppenish
grade schools the Indian and part
Indian children scored 16 and the
white children "a per cent. The honor
roll OF the Toppenish High School was
not in the count, but Inspector Gray
of the Yakima reservation is confident
that the relative percentages in favor
of the Indian pupils would not be
changed If the high school honor roll
had been included.
In working out the percentages all
pupils in the schools were claSSed as
whites" who were not Indians. This
classified Japanese pupils as whites" !"
and the inspector finds that, with the
Japanese pupils not so claSsed, the per-
centage of the Indian children over the
whites would show at a still better
advantage.
There are 564 Indian children from
the Yakima reservation in the public
schools, chiefly in the Toppenish, Wapato
and White Swan districts, according to
the Toppenish Review. Only IL of the
4LiuldII CLllluISn WSLlI AlGO ILlS 1lSL dS
truants last year.
The policy of sending Indian chill
dren to the public instead of Indian
schools was inaugurated seven years
ago The statement of Inspector Gray
to the Toppenish Commercial Club is
that the plan is working out much
better than was anticipated. Attend
ance by Indian children at Indian
schools is in effect chiefly at Chenawa,
Greg, and the Haskell Institute, Law
renee, Kans.
Indian parents opposed the plan when
the policy of sending Indian children
to the white schools was first inaugu-
rated. They feared that their lands
would become liable for taxes If they
sent their children to the white schools.
Moreover, they had become accustomed
to the Indian schools and preferred to
have their children attend them.
But all that is changed. Indian par
entS now see their children make bet
ter progress in the white schools, and
almost without exception they are work.
ing with Indian agency officials to keep
their children in regular attendance
The Federal Government pays the
tuition to all of the districts on the
Yakima reservation where Indian chill
dren are in attendance. The tuition fees
paid by the Government to the three
districts on the reservation last year
were: Toppenish, $3,796; Wapato, $3,956,
and White Swan, 8,427.
Evening star., 1929-12-12
The Merger Is Up to Congress

Timed almost to the day when the
railway companies, their pleas to the
Public Utilities Commission for higher
fare having fallen upon deaf ears, took
their troubles into court, the commits
sion forwarded to the Senate and the
House a rewritten merger agreement for
which the approval Of Congress is asked,
That approval should be given and
as quickly as it is possible to complete
the necessary examination of the plan
and to make the changes that Congress
considers wise.
This is desirable for two reasons. The
first is that the people of Washington
are compelled to put up not only with
the inconvenience but with the waste
full expense Of maintaining two inde-
pendent and competing street railway
lines, when one line under one manage
ment can offer better service at lower
cost.
The second is that the railway COM
panies have adopted the attitude that
until Congress gives its approval to
some form of merger, it is utterly futile
for them to discuss merger plans and
altogether beyond the question to con-
slider merger as an alternative to higher
fare.
Congress, correctly reserving the sole
right Of approval Of merger agreements,
will not allow that power to become the
handicap to merger negotiations that
the corporations have sought to picture
it. More than once the companies have
argued that to obtain necessary con-
gresSional approval of a merger project
is a hopeless undertaking. They stand
aside now, waiting for Congress to act
and plainly indicating that hope Of
congressional action is one of those rosy
bubbles of optimism that float only in
the minds of dreamerS.
Washington asks that Congress make
the proposed merger the subject of
immediate consideration. The Public
Utilities Commission has done its part
ably and well 1t has laid the merger
plan, neatly clothed, on the congress
sional doorstep. Congress must take it
in and nourish it until 1t can speak for
itself.
Evening star., 1929-12-12

uine snowberry persistently refuse to
have any berries at all, so we cannot
praise their waXen beauty.
The snoWberry is regarded by some
as too common for use. but as for us
we like it very much. Perhaps 1t
would suit people more II they would
take the trouble to trim it back severe
ly every Spring.
The ANIMALS have been gone for
many weeks, of course. Only bare
stalks of zinniaS and snapdragonS are
left. Just before the cold spell there
were some petunia plants, growing green
and husky in a sheltered spot. These
are gone now.
The one specimen Of Gamma was TAX
en- in Just few days before the freez-
ing weather. 1t seemed in good shape
and we were cheered by reading in a
gardening book that most people take
them in a great deal too early.
Some gardeners pack Gamma roots in
sand, but this is not necessary, If one
has a basement, attic or closet where
they will not get too hot. They may
be stored in ordinary paper bags. If
mice are present, an inspection should
be made every month or so.
X y x X
Gladiolus bulbs may be stored SINH
necessary to go to extremes in caring
for such things during the Winter
Nature has placed a large tolerance in
them; they are like dogs, they do not
need sweaters unless one insists on
pampering them.
Friends of the gladiolus were inter-
ested recently in reading about the
warfare which is taking place among
the oregon growers. Millions of bulbs
have been destroyed as the result OF
clandestine firing OF storage barns.
Those who love the gladioluS must
regret the destruction of so much
incipient beauty. Those millions of
gladiolus bulbs destroyed by fire might
have gladdened millions of hearts and
eyes. AS fuel they were very poor, but
turned into flowers at the wand Of
Summer they would have come into
their birthright.
1t is difficult for the flower lover to
realize that his precious beauties are
not beautiful to some except for the
money they bring in. To him their
beauty is their sole reason for being.
He forgetS that other human beings use
them for bread and butter
The flower lover must regret, in
his heart Of hearts, that this is true.
He would like to feel that those who
so carefully raise the gladiolus bulbs for
instance, do it out of love for beauty
and for nothing else.
X X X +
Yet the same situation exists in all
things sold. The man who sells them
may or may not love them. Again, he
may unite in himself both the appre-
citation of the amateur and the keen
business sight of the seller.
The ramiflcations of modern business
are so great that no man can say to
another, Here, you must not sell this,
because you do not love it," Such a
command in the market place might
astound some, but it would cause more
to laugh.
Beauty Is as beauty does, it has been
said. Perhaps this may be translated
one way or two ways, or even three
ways, and no one can say that any
translation is wrong.
A gardener, even in Winter, takes his
flowers as he finds them and is glad
even if the grass keeps green. After all,
what is more beautiful than the grass
Evening star., 1929-12-12
Fire Runs.

Press accounts of the recent diSas-
trous fire and panic at the Pathe Talk
ing Studio in New York stressed the
fact that many more lives would have
been lost If it had not been for the
prompt arrival of flremen, who with
characteristic energy and efficiency soon
brought semblance Of order out of the
chaos that existed.
Washington, some weeks ago, suffered
from an explosion in a downtown store
which cost the lives of six persons and
resulted in the injury OF more than a
score. Four fire alarms we're turned
IN. And yet despite the lrct that as
in the New York tragedy 1t has been
demonstrated time and again that speed
is essential for the life-saving and prop
erty-saving apparatus no one witnessing
the runs of the engines was at all i'm
pressed with motorist or pedestrian CO.
operation in getting the heavy vehicles
to the scene of the explosion.
In other cities with far more con-
geSted traffic conditions than obtain
here fire apparatus is almost invariably
accorded a clear right of way. This
makes Washington's record that much
worse. With wide streets and gen.
orally uncongested conditions District
firemen must dodge and swerve and
slow down and take their lives in their
hands every time they encounter the
particular breed Of indifferent motorist
who apparently takes an unholy delight
in finding out how much trouble he
can make.
Twenty years ago 1t was a common
Evening star., 1929-12-12

sight to see a flock Of youngsters on
bicycles pedaling furiously to keep up
with the charging steeds which drew
the apparatus. Today motorists not
only follow close behind the engines,
but others attempt to lead the pro-
cession. The vanguard and the rear
guard combined with the languid ac-
tions of drivers who casually cross at
intersections despite the shrieking sirens
destroy to a large degree the efficiency
of the National Capitals f1re-fghting
department. All blazes or explosions
need the expert services of the men Of
the departments and that need is i'm
mediate. 1t is apparent that much
higher degree of civic consciousness
should be cultivated by those in Wash
ington who are motor car drivers.