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The Washington times., 1929-07-12
ONCE-OVERS
yo,,r Opportunity

Your opportunity
NSHERE are times when you
Il want to do something to make
a longer and a wider mark in the
world.
You feel a lot of stored up en-.
ergy and think it hard luck that
you don't get an opportunity to
show the stuff you have in you.
You. think all you need Is op-
portunity and you look at the men
about you who have made some
thing fine and big of themselves
and you call it luck.
Some day you think that this
opportunity, which you will recog-
nize as your opportunity, will come
and you will seize it.
So. without making an EFFORT to
create an opportunity, your en-.
thusiasm dies and again you curse
the bad luck, which seems always
against you.
But how much time have you
given to hard and persistent et-
fort. to prolonged pursuit OF .
chance for your own betterment?
You have excused yourself hun
dreds of times by saying that
things don't come your way or
that they don't break right for
YOU, but you did nothing.
Hard work and self-denial you
are unwilling to give and you
don't want to get out and hustle
so YOU can stay where you are.
You are after a good time. little
personal effort, easy money. out
YOU won't get anywhere worth
while on those lines, and Il Is your
self to blames
The Washington times., 1929-07-12
Do You Know

A parachute completely cover
ing the wearer's back and only
two inches thick has been deveI.
oped by aviators in the United
States Army.
The smallest distance yet meas.
ured is the distance between the
atoms in a crystal of common
salt, 1t is about 1000, ,000. .0OOth OF
an inch.
The kernel of the seed of a
California big tree Is less than
quarter of an inch in length and
is only as thick as a medium
needle. Yet from this infini
tesinial germ may grow a tree
that weighs more than 1000 tons.
The Franklin institute. in Phila.
delphia. plans to erect a. planet
arium. The synthetic sky" as
il is also known, is a representa-
tion Of the heavens at night. its
diameter 80 feet, and its zenith
80 feet above the Heess
The Washington times., 1929-07-12
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Simplicity is the exact medium
between too little and too much.
Reynolds.
The secret of happiness is not
in doing what one likes, but in
liking what one has to do.
Barrie.
Industry. economy. honesty and
kindness form a quarter of virtues
that will nevar be improved upon.
oliver
The Washington times., 1929-07-12

The tiger,
born a killer,
lives and dies a
killer.
Those heavy
pa W s W onl d
$ strike d o W n
without renorse,
and the long,
s harp teeth
would tear fero-
ciously the ma
tive that cared
for him when he
was a baby.
We human be-
ings mpro We,
but only as a
The Washington times., 1929-07-12

If the danger seems slight, then
It is not slight. Bacon
The worst of having a romance
IS that it leaves you so unro-
mantle. Wilde.
Those who give base counsel
to men of discretion. both lose
their labor and get themselves
ahamefully laughed at.
APhaedPus.
The Washington times., 1929-07-12
Born A Killer
One Generation Can I Change i.

This is the story of baby tiger and how he grew
It has meaning, not merely for tigers, lions and
other beasts known to be savage, but meaning for human
beings and those that try TO improve them, SUDDENLY
The Washington times., 1929-07-12

the mob spirit
will not seize
him.
With few ex-
ceptions he is
never absolutely
safe.
Man is BORN
s fish an d
u $ u a lily RE-
MAINS selfish.
When he gets
rich he gives
away money and
the world calls
IL ttnhilanthro.
py."
Sometimes it
is philanthropy.
More often it is
an expression of
the desire to be
praised and ad-
n1ired.
The Washington times., 1929-07-12

The first picture
shows q " cunning :
baby tiger, found
in the jungle at
Rajputana.
The tiger baby
was notherless, no
mother in sight, at
least.
It was taken to
the native ruler,
raised on rnilkllo
kitten could have
been gentler.
The next age
shows the tiger
with stripes de-
veloped, already
an animal to be
The Washington times., 1929-07-12

There is a les
son in this FOR all
0f us.
Tigers, horses,
m on k e Us and
NJ q N re ma j n
thro ough lif 9
pretty m u G b
The Washington times., 1929-07-12

sAAA AA@AS @&e@AASAAS
heavy stick, in
case the savage
little beast should
turn upon him.
The third pic
ture shows the
half-grown ami
NAL, powe erf ul
enough to kill a
man. He doesn T
know it yet, but
only his keeper
dares touch him.
Finally, you see
the tiger, grown
so big that no
man could safely
20 into his cage,
in the Geological
Gardens of the
Maharana.
The Washington times., 1929-07-12

feared. .s
The native keeper holds him by two chains and holds
The Washington times., 1929-07-12

WHAT THEY WERE BORN.
man may seem civilized but you be sure that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Workers Lives Cheap On This Golden Island

-Four workers were slaughtered outright and eleven
others were injured very seriously in the collapse of
derrick the floor the new Western Union
Building of the most serious catasrophes in consruc
ton work in New York City in years.
The Daily Worker has had opportunity as yet to carry
on an independent investigation. worker correspondent
however, sends in the following:
"The Western Union great hurry to complete its "a
story building. As result of this speed
tractors have been promised building completed
ahead OF the assigned time The foreman ordered
two grdes in place of time. snapped
hit part OF the affOd its flight the
This reads like the usual cause for accidents that take
huge tolls of fe in building subways in tunneng the river
building bridges and especially in running up syscrapers
where every new floor is the tombstone of worker
murdered The causes cited by worker correspondent
have been verified from other Here is ratonaza-
ton in the building industry with its speedup and over
loading
Not the contractors, the officials of the Western
Union demanding speed put under arrest but Police
Commissioner Whaen ordered that four workers. one of them
the derrick engineer be held for criminal negligence on
account of this accident That also the usual capitalist
practice.
In the Soviet Union every building accident is looked
preventabe The great achievement in the Workers
Republic is not how quickly building be erected Sue
cess in building construction registered by the number of
accidents that avoided The magnificent new telegraph
building Moscow was put up without the loss of single
life This celebrated great triumph How different
with New Yorks telegraph building already clothed with
workers blood
The ruthless disregard for labor that the Western
Union has shown in the killing and injury of these Is workers.
also displayed in the replacement operators with
simplex machines resulting in unemployment and all its re-
sutng evils to large numbers of workers The great tee
graph monopoly assumes responsibility. In the Soviet
Union workers displaced by laborsaving machinery are
taken of in other industries the government in the
meantime being responsible for their welfare Or the shorter
workday is quickly instituted in the of the six and
sevenhou workday now being put into effect everywhere
Workers lives cheap Manhattan-the island of
gold Here the interests of property and profit come first
Workers lives in the Soviet Union first Their protec
ton against hazard is the first the Soviet
Power The Communist Party leads the fight in this con
try for the protection of labor for the emancipation of the
working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Former Member of Sinclair Gang Real Author
of Hoover's Conservation Program

into production in the event of
war. :"
Army and navy circles hailed
these sentiments with considerable
Joy. The Ordnance Chief prepared
a brief which Hoffman is using for
his guidance. The brief stressed the
alleged inadequacy of government
arsenals to provide wartime needs.
So we find the much concerned Mr..
Hoffman saying: "(Under the pro-
posed billy arsenals are given their
maximum capacity but these will
by no means meet our requirements,
for the arsenals in general, can
make only from one half of one
per cent to 10 per cent of the vari-
Gus items required in a war of
major effort. :"
A war of major effort! Against
whom may this be directed. The
shower of peace pacts in themselves
may not tell US but let other facts
speak: There is the development
Of the new oil Conservation" policy.
Out in Piedmont, California there
dwells--when the gentleman is not
in Washington holding conferences
with Mr.. Hoover-an engineer by
the name of Mark L. Requa. We
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

stopped Mr.. Requa about a week
ago to inquire as we do of all Wis
itors to the president if he would
tell us about his conversation with
the chief executive. Some of the
"boys" who did not remember him
from wartime days not having been
here perhaps asked his name and
business. "Mr. Requa of California,
mining engineer. I urged oil con-
servation upon the President. Good
day, gentlemen" Mr.. Requa had
been interviewed" before.
One of Starvation Hoovers.
But some of us did remember him.
During the war he was chief of the
Gil division following an apprentice
ship under Mr.. Hoover, when the
latter was Food Administrator.
(Strange how many now carry the
label: Served Under Hoover, Here
Or There.) Mr.. Requa studied oil
in the Department of Mines and
like many good public servants was
graduated. His reward came from
no less a parsonage than Harry
Sinclair. So in 1920 you find Mr..
Requa Vice-president of the Sin
clair Consolidated Oil Corporation,
organizer of the American Petrol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
The Treachery of Cook.

The poison press in this country trying to douby ex
plot the reachery of Arthur Cook secretary of the
sh Miners Federation to the working class Great Britain
by claiming that he Communist Cook was never mem
Der of the British Communist Party He always against
Communism.
Like other former left wing leaders in the British
labor movement purcell Bramley Swales, Smith, etc. Cook
has gradually dfted to the right since the British general
strike and the struggle of the miners that fol-
loved that brought him into prominence. q
The British Communist Party the first to denounce
the nauseatlng savshnes with which Cook groveed at
the feet of the Prince of Wales who put misery of the
starving coal miners charity basis fund to pre-
tend that royalty interested in the lot the workers
all for the purpose of winning muchneeded pres
tge Tor His MaJestys government This royal
seems to have completely capvaed Cook who all times
dominated by his emotions with the result that he
announced II have departed from my revolutionary opn
ons'
Cooks treachery in the hour of the worsenng oppres
sion of British labor shows concusivey that he never had
any revolutionary opinions Like many other renegades
he rode the rising of abors discomfort only to
peray 1t at what he considered the opporune The
fact that ne waited little longer than Purcell and the Others
does not alter the facts Cooks treason manifested itself in
recent times in asking the prince join petty bourgeois
socialist party and in writing articles the capitalist press
gratefully collecting his pieces of silver The British Com
munlst Party will continue expose Cook the full before
the masses just has successfully fought his k before
The experience of the British working class with Cook
should be warning to American workers to watch more
closely the Cooks the Purces and Maxons who appear in
their midst small reflections and limitations appearing
here in the socalled "Muste group
The American Federation of Labor has found another
spokesman in Charles G. Wood the representative of the
Hoover srkebreakng government in the Carolina strike
Wood he voices the sentiment of the Charlotte
n c., Central Labor Union affiliated with the A. F. of L.
when he that has publicly refused either financial
moral support to the strikers The reason offered is the
fact that the strikers have accepted the leadership of the Ma
tiona Textile Workers Union. The A. F. of L. offers de-
feat disruption and starvation under its leadership place
of victory and growing solidarity under the leadership of left
wing industrial unonism But the workers show every in
dcaton that they are in mood to win and they have hoen
their leadership accordingly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Oil Barons Push War Orders
By Fred Ellis

cum Institute, big mover for oil
conservation"
Mr.. Requa got from under before
the oil began to smear the Harding
administration. Look for his Sin
clair connections today. You will
find no trace. Recently he wrote a
book unfolding individualism and
knocking the "Reds" something
awful. He describes himself as
mining engineer, farmer, consult
ing engineer, student of govern
ment, railway executive and public
official No mention of oil. He
has been writing for the oil jour-
rails and lecturing to the oil men
but always as Mining Engineer"
Policy From Oil Men.
All this would have very little
significance except that Mr.. Requa
is known to be the author of the
rev oil leasing policy and is said
to have written the new report of
the. Federal Oil Conservation Board
of which Hoover was member. Mr..
Hoover's policy was announced the
day after a week end of confer
ences with Mr.. Requa. So.
The new report of the Oil Con-
servation Board advocates govern
ment help to American oil investors
in foreign fields. The whole thing
is move to centralize control of
this now disorganized industry as
means of overcoming the advantage
row possessed by British controlled
oil monopolies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Winning Some Demands From the Steel Trus1
the Preparedness Campaign; Mooney
and Billings Arrested

Haywood has told far of his oykod of TOLL his becoming
reoutonist has leading strikes the
Miners of founding the IWW. OF standing
framed murder CHARGE of the Laurence STRIKE the
strike the Paterson the Akron strike Mother
and Debs and Borah Gompes trip
Europe delegate speaker ere he Tom Manu. Len
others. In the
Range strike led By the IW and the Imprisonment of the strikers
governor investigated go on reading
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
The "ShF'
By JAMES A. MILLER.

There was going away sound about him.
a chug-a-chug noise of trains
and steam twisting up in a funnel to the sky
and long lines of track behind
with sign posts that say:
it's so many miles to Seattle or Spokane
There was tugging of chains
and steam boat whistly air about him
Newport News to Shanghai something or other
that seemed to say:
"Wel, s'long gang"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
By "PENMAN SLAVE"

WASHINGTON, April 21.-Pre-
parations for "a war of major eff
fort" behind the screen of imposing
peace pacts are the order of the day
for the new administration at Wash
ington. Two developments row in
process indicate clearly the major
emphasis to be placed on readiness
fer the coming conflict which in
formed circles understand to be in
evitable sooner of later with one or
{. combination of European powers.
The new Educational Orders"
munitions bill, designed to keep the
muscles of peace-time factories in
trim for prompt conversion into war
organs is on the cards to pass the
next session of Congress. Its advo-
Gates under the spur of the Dupont
and other munitions interests have
let it be known that all energies
will be mustered to this end.
Saving" Oil for War.
No less significant is the new oil
conservation" policy of our chief
efficiency engineer for Big Business
with headquarters at the White
House. Behind the Hoover oil leas-
ing program, hailed as the first
great step in conserving one of the
country's most precious natural re-
sources, is longtime policy of
decentralization" of the industry, the
squeezing out of many small pros
pectors, and the coordination of the
large producers under government
direction into single force to COM
bat British controlled oil interests.
The administration is understood
to be behind the new Educational
Orders munitions bill. This bill
introduced late in the last session
by close administration spokesman
in the House of Representatives
would leave to the discretion of the
Secretary of the Navy to give out
sample orders for the manufacture
of war munitions from time to time
to peace" industries in order to
keep these concerns always in read
mess tor instant conversion to
war time basis-for "a war of
major effort" as its chief spokes-
man has declared.
Yes, War Is Coming.
at is today recognized" Rep
fesentative Harold G. Hoffman,
Republican of New Jersey, declared
in recent burst of oratory, "that
the training of industrial soldiers
is no less important than the train
ing of those men who may be called
upon to do the actual fighting in the
event of war;"
Hoffman during the late world
war was captain in the army; is
a well known lingo, an American
Legionist and a member of the
House Military Committee. This is
less important than the fact that he
is Vice-President and Treasurer of
the South Amboy Trust Company,
bank in which Dupont influence is
said to hold sway. Another sponsor
of the bill is Franklin w. Fort,
Republican also from New Jersey.
Fort is Secretary to the Republican
National Committee. His activities
in behalf of the measure leave no
doubt that the Hoover administra-
ton is behind it. Fort stayed away
from the fighting front during the
war but Served" under Hoover in
the U. S. Food Administration.
"Under the program" says Hoff-
man, "there will be prepared in our
industries nucleus of men skilled
in the production Of the particular
type of munitions required. our
plants will be able to get speedily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
By WILLIAM d HAYWOOD.
PART SO.

DURING the strike Governor Burnqu sent commission
- iron the condition
investigation and hearing before the Minnesota legislature
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23


miners returned to work, and strange to say every
demand that had been made granted by the Steel
Trust without conference, settlement agree
ment of any kind The miners got an increase in
wages, eight-hour day, and better working condi-
tons generally. This the second time that the
great steel corporation had granted demands made by
the I. w. w. while the officials and members of the
organization better acquainted with the Off
of that concern than they had been before the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14
Snapshots Made for Holiday Use
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

should the photographs be taken while
friends are with you, for whom some
Of these pictorial gifts are intended, or
II they themselves are in the snap
shots, avoid having the Aims developed
until some time when they are away.
Afterwards diplomacy must come to
your aid should the friends ask to see
them-the pictures can be put I'm some
out-of. the-way place, hard to get at
have been seen the element of surprise
that forms large part Of the pleasure
at Christmas time Is lacking.
The reason why vacation time Is
recommended as particularly good for
taking gift snapshots is that the photo
graphs taken while away will have the
benefit Of novelty to those living in the
home town, or be happy reminders of
occasions enjoyed together during the
outing for those old or new friends
who were with you at the time.
Some of the ways in which the pic
lures taken by yourself or bought for
the purpose can be utilized for gifts
are familiar. such as using them as
"paste-ons" for calendars and blotters.
1t is a fashion to use photographs of
the doorway to ones Summer cottage
or Winter residence as individual
Christmas cards. These can be printed
in sepia on q light brown card, or dark
grey, green, blue, ETC., on self-toned
cards Of lighter hue than the ink. Any
glimpse of ones garden or interior
views can be effectively so used. Some
words of greeting should be printed
on the cards.
A rather unusual way to make use of
snapshots is to ornament boxes as in
by-gone days. A cigar box can be used.
or plain boxes found in fancy work
or art embroidery stores and depart
ments. The box should be stained or
painted first, and then picture be
glued to the top and edged with the
narroweSt Of narrow molding previously
stained or painted to match the box
Afterwards the entire box should be
gone over with varnish. Eggshen var
niSh Is recommended.
More ornate boxes have pictures on
three side portions as we'll as on the
top. Gilt paper binding can be used
in place of the wooden molding to sur
round the pictures as in a frame. II
the box is lined with satin, q fancy
textile gimp is often glued about the
pictures. This should have some tone
matching or closely harmonizing with
the shade Of the lining interviewer with
the gold or other metallic strands of
the gimp.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14

made man and patriot who appeals
most to the American people.
Once he was q bitter enemy of the
United States. Today he is one of this
countrys Stanchest friends, and is
known in Washington as outspoken In
his desire TO strengthen the CONNER
cial bonds between his native land and
the United States.
A powerful figure in the political
councils of his own country, during the
six years he has been resident commits
sioner Of the Philippines much of the
prestige gained for the islands while
Manuel Quezon was Gentleman of the
Philippines" has been extended.
Guevara has the combined qualities
Of the soldier, the statesman and the
journalist.
He had just been graduated from a
university in Manila-paying his way
by serving as q house boy-when the
revolution of the Filipinos against
Spain was in progress. He enlisted
served with his countrymen, and In
1897 played prominent part in pro-
noting peace.
Thinking that peace would be last
ing. he turned to the practice of law
But the revolution hared again and
once more he joined the Filipino colors.
While he and his comrades were en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14
Today in
Washington History
BY DONALD A. CRAIG.

August II. 1863.-The several railroad
companies whose tracks constitute the
line between Washington and New York.
now temporarily represented here by
their agents, are busily engaged in
carrying out their promises made last
Winter for the construction Of q double
track along the entire route.
The double track between Trenton
and New York will soon be completed
and large force Is now at work be-
tween Trenton and Philadelphia, 1t was
learned here today.
From Philadelphia southwark the
double track Is complete part Of the
way, to Baltimore. The approximately
40 miles between Baltimore and Wash
ington will be speedily finished.
Work is also progressing upon the
bridge across the Susquehanna River.
There is every prospect that trains will
soon be running on a double-track line
between the National Capital and New
York, and passengers will no longer
have to change cars anywhere. The
various railroad companies have ordered
80 new and up-to-date cars for this
service.
The reports in circulation that a
second draft has been ordered for the
District of Columbia were declared to
be untrue today by the authorities, who
SAID LIlaL no new QraIC u III COnCcnpla-
ton here at this time. The Board of
Enrolment considers, from the expert
ence Of the last few days, that 1t Is
doing very we'll in obtaining men for
the Union Army, especially In the way
of substitutes.
It is not believed from present indica-
lions that the number of men who will
be exempted here on account Of dis
ability, erroneous enrolment, or for
other causes, will exceed the so per
cent which was added to the quota.
UP to the present time only a few are
paying communication, most persons pre-
ferring to purchase substitutes at less
than $500 But the price of substitutes
is going up. The average today was
1925.
The work on the new ordnance
foundry at the Navy Yard Is progressing
slowly owing to the necessity Of erect
ing 1t on piles. The six large furnaces
are finished and the stacks, which will
be about 100 feet high, are now above
80 feet. The six furnaces are capable
of melting 100000 pounds of metal at
one time.