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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-01
BY WILLIAM r.
Written for the Associated Press.

Written for the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 1.-Armchair
spectators and investors throughout
the country will be able to watch the
progress of their favorite stocks in
comfort when the new automatic stock
quotation boards have been installed
from coast to coast.
Ten-million-share days will be run
through this electrical masterpiece
with no more commotion than hat of
a taximeter clicking the passing miles.
The Western Union Telegraph Co.,
which will control the distribution and
operation of the new boards through
its subsidiary, the Teleregister Corpo-
ration, is combining its plans for the
present to the New York metropolitan
district.
Frenchman Perfects Machine.
Ultimately, however, a transcon-
tinental circuit will be set up.
Robert l.. Dame, a French war
time aviation officer and electrical en-
gineer, perfected the apparatus after
working on it since 1922. He now is
president of the Teleregister Corpora
ton, having demonstrated administra-
tive capacity.
He was born IS years ago. and is a
graduate of the universities of Lille
and Paris. His record with the French
air corps until he was wounded at
Verdun is an extraordinary series of
achievements, for which he received
decorations from several allied armies.
One central operating station is all
that is needed to record simultaneously
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
AMERICAN WINS AWARD

An arbiter's award, made public
by the State Department yesterday.
gives Walter Fletcher Smith, an
American, $4,000 damages against
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
EPISCOPA PALIANS
ELECT

Adoption of a rule to seat only
communicates Of the church at
future diocesan conventions, chang
ing the date Of the diocesan meet
ings and the election of officers
featured yesterdays sessions OF the
annual diocesan convention OF
Washington Episcopal Church, held
in st. Stephen and Incarnation
Parish Fall.
Bishop James f. Freeman as re.
elected president of the diocese;
the Rev. Allen II. Griffith, secre-
tary, and H. l.. Rust, treasurer. !,
The next convention will be heId
in February at st. PauPs Church.
The plan to change the meeting
dates was adopted after consider
able discussion.
Women of the parishes of st.
Thomas. Croome. Prince Georges
county, and st. Johns, Prince
Georges and Charles counties, won
the right to vote in church affairs
and hold equality with the men
of the parishes, following a vote
at the meeting yesterday.
Bladensburg will house a new
parish, to be known as st. Luke's
Parish. A resolution favoring
SO, 200 as the minimum salary for
clergy in the diocese was adopted.
A resolution of thanks to the Rev.
DR., George Fiske Dudley, rector OF
st. Stephen and Incarnation, Tor
the hospitality to the delegates was
also adopted.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
Music Lover Steals
PhOnOgraph And
Goes to Jail

PHILADELPHIA, May IT.
When James williams wants to
hear music he's just gotta Lave
music.
So, when the urge came on him
just before dawn yesterday, he
broke into the home of Mrs.
Mary Gains, 2345 Turner st., and
got himself a phonograph and an
armful of records.
Ten minutes later Patrolman
John Murphy heard I'm Wild
About Horns That Go Ta-rat ta-ta."
He found Williams playing him
self a little concert on the running
board of a parked automobile.
So last night Williams, who is
%, colored. and lives on Twenty
third Street near Oxford, was
playing the prisoners CSong" on
a pocket comb.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
PLAN HOSPITAL
PLAYGROUND

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, May
17.-A playground for sick and
crippled children being treated at
the University Of Virginia Hospital,
usually numbering between rs and
40, Is to be constructed on the roof
of the teachers preventorium, the
newest wing of the hospital group.
Part OF the roof space, which is
$50 feet long and SO feet wide, will
be covered by a large circus tent,
with a section left open to the wind
and sun. A smaller section will be
transformed into a solarium for the
use of those children too weak TO
endure exposure to the open air,
but who need the curative power of
the suns rays shut out by ordinary
glass. The solarium will haye a
roof of ultraviolet glass.
The Charlottesville Kiwanis Club
and the Elks have contributed large.
ly to the fund for the construction
OF this children's roof playground
and the women of the hospital
leagues have aided in the financing
and have given other aid to the
project.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
Assistant War Secretary
Great User of Planes

While F. Trubee Dawson Is sup
posed to be the civilian flyer of
the Army by virtue of his office
as Assistant Secretary of War for
Aviation, Col. Patrick J. Hurley.
Assistant Secretary, who becomes
acting secretary when Secretary
Good Is away, is running in close
competition for flying honors.
Scarcely two months in office,
Hurley has used the train only
once in many official trips out of
Washington. He went to Louisville,
KY, April on a railroad train,
but returned by air.
Colonel Hurley is an enthusiastic
nier and a licensed pilot. For
merly he owned his own plane. lie
now uses Army planes and pilots,
so that he can transact some busi-
ness during his flights.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
Tax Collector to Aid
In Making Out Papers

ARLINGTON COUNTY, Va, May
17.-County Commissioner of Reve-
nue. Harry K. Green, announced to.
day that he and his assistants will
be at the Lyon Park community
house tonight from to 8 o'clock
to assist taxpayers in filling out
their personal property and income
tax returns.
Commissioner Green said that all
tax returns must be in his office at
the courthouse on or before June 1.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
BIOLOGISTS TO ELECT

The election Of officers and
vote on proposed constitutional
changes will feature the fiftieth an
nual meeting Of the Biological So
ciety of Washington at the Cosmos
Club at 8 o'clock tomorrow night.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
THREE SEEK HOMES

WINCHESTER, Va. May IT,
The local chapter of the American
Red Cross has in charge three
sisters. whose ages are 5, 2 and 3
years, for whom homes are being
sought. The father is dead, and
the mother Ia incapable of pro.
viding for the children.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
COSTELLO POST TO MEET

Vincent B. Costello Post No. IS
will meet Tuesday night in the
hoard room of the District Building.
Plans for Memorial will be dis
cussed.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17

the Cuban government for Havana
property wrongfully taken from him
In 1919.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17

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nda.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15
PAINTERS WIN
When Suit to Prevent Walk
out is Dismissed

New York City Supreme
Court Justice Humphrey in Brooklyn
has dismissed a suit brought by the
Nassau County Chapter of the So
ciety of Master Painters and Decor
ators to prevent a strike of union
painters in Queens and Nassau coun-
ties mad vacated an injunction pre-
viously obtained by Carlstrom Bros,
a contracting firm, against District
Council 2S of Queens and Nassau
counties of the Brotherhood of Paint
ers, Decorators and Paperhangers of
America restraining the union men
from quitting work.
The master painters alleged that a
walkout had been threatened because
they refused to sign contract with
the union to keep shop stewards on
each job. If the men actually stop
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15
times of catastrophe and disaster,

times of catastrophe and disaster
storm, fire, flood, earthquake, etc.
An army of men and women, loyal
and faithful workers are in the field
making strenuous effort that the
quota fixed for Hamilton and vicinity
may be reached. Hamilton must not
fail-the goal must be reached and
should be passed. Everyone ought tC
respond and assist the workers that
their unselfsh efforts be not in vain.
All it takes to enroll for membership
is heart and dollar. But this
doesn't necessarily mean that those
who can afford to do so should con-
tribute but a dollar-they ought to
give more 1t takes vast sum of
money to carry on the great work
throughout the year.
The Press feels sure that union
men and women will respond, as they
are always to be counted on in times
of need and distress, most generously.
But don't wait to be solicited-save
the workers the job of calling on you,
and join-JOIN NOW
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER Is, 1929
PATRONIZE YOURSELF

At the meeting of Trades Council
two weeks ago, the delegates present
unanimously adopted resolutions urg-
ing every trade unionist and the citi-
zens in general to purchase their elec
tric current from the city plant
To casual observer, it wouldn't
seem possible that such action on the
part of Trades Council would be deem
ed necessary when one considers thai
every inhabitant of the city is really
a part owner of and stockholder in
the local plant. For, whether a user
or not of electric current, every citi-
zen, in one way or another, helps to
defray the expense of the city plant.
So then, why not cooperate with
the city and patronize yourself at the
same time by buying your electric
current from the home plant? In
this way you help to make the plant
tter-paying proposition than it
already is, and this, eventually,
means bringing on lower rate for
electric current for every user of it.
BUY AT HOME AND PATRON
IZE YOURSELF!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15
BIG BUSINESS PROSPEROUS;
PAY ENVELOPES SLIM

Business keeps on booming, but the
South keeps on needing trade union
organization. Business, speaking
through Allard Smith, careful stats
tic vice president of the Union Trust
Company of Cleveland, tells us that
corporation profits for the first half
of the year amount to $2,449, ,907 900
against a mere 1924, 900 for the first
half of last year,
So we see that business, in the cor
porate sense, is booming along on a
high tide of profits. These totals are
the figures for 916 big corporations.
Manufacturing, trading and rail
roads showed best gains.
Organization helps these big cor
porations pile up profits.
The relatively good wages paid to
the organized trades help, too, be-
cause they afford a good market for
mass production commodities.
The unorganized mill workers, how
ever, stand still. SO do most other
unorganized workers.
1t is shown that only 35 of every
1000 persons file an income tax re-
turn. To file an income tax return a
single man must earn net income
of S1.500. The overwhelming major
ity of Americans do not earn enough
money to bring them within the in
come tax law. Not all those who file
returns pay a tax. That brings the
untaxed percentage still higher.
California, New York, Nevada,
Massachusetts and Illinois lead, in
that order. Arkansas and Mississippi
are tied at the bottom of the list,
with 10 per thousand!
The South needs trade unonism.
Every state needs trade unionism, but
it is needed worse where the wages
and conditions of the people are low
est in the scale. In come tax returns
are a good index of that.
The American Federation of Labor
has embarked upon a campaign of
organization and of liberation from
industrial bondage. Makers of enor-
nous profits will object; those who
cling to the feudal tradition will OBJ
iect. But the workers look toward
the rising sun in the East and the
prayers of the oppressed are upon
their lips. Let US go the task!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15
CALL OF THE RED CROSS

The thirteenth annual roll call of
the American Red Cross started eff
Monday, Armistice Day. with bang,
and will continue until Thanksgiving
Day. Attesting the deep interest of
the American people in the great
work of this popular and most worthy
organization, though the official open
ing date for the annual drive for
funds and membership was set fer
Monday, many contributions were
sent in last week, contributors seem
ing anxious to be among the first
ones in.
Americas Greatest Mother calls
for funds and support that she may
continue in her work of succoring the
needy and unfortunate in distress in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15
GOVERNOR GARDNER,
WHAT ABOUT IT?

| coye,por q May Gardner Of
North Carolina has sensiblv said YOU
can,t b,iId a qood citizenshin on low
yaoas and overlono hours of work
That i unouest;onablv right Even
the real bard-boiled ones are coming
70 admit that openly.
Rnt n;serablv low wages and IN
tolarahlv long work davs exist in
North Carolina as they do in other
Southern states and in all too MANY
industries in too manv Northern
states
Anv governor has a lot of power.
Governor Gardner has a lot Of power.
A governor can cause MANY things
to be done. He can arouse the citi-
zenship Of his state to a new moral
itv. if he will. He can call for legis-
lation that will free children from the
mills and that will safeguard women
We have had governors that have
done such things.
North Carolina got tired of bad
roads and built fine ones, about which
there is much proper boasting.
If North Carolina could get excited
about roads and fix them, can not
Governor Gardner get North Caro-
lima excited enough about humanity
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15
OLIGARCH. SPEAKS FRANKLY

Joseph r. Grundy, president Penn.
sylvania Manufacturers Association
told a senate committee that the rich
and powerful should write tariff laws
and that backward states have no
chips in the game" He dislikes that
portion of the constitution which
gives two senators to each state.
Grundy is a textile manufacturer
in Bristol, Penn. He owns and CON
trolls that town, and he can't under
stand why this system should not be
nation wide He is opposed to organ
lied labor and logically insists that
this feudalism be applied on the
political field.
People who stand on the side lines
while trade unionsts give battle to
these autocrats are wrathful at
Grundy's senate declaration.
These people believe we can have
an industrial plutocracy and a polit-
ical democracy. They do not under
stand that if the plutocratic ideal
prevails in industry it will be ex-
tended, automatically to government.
Grundy only differs from his kind
in that he frankly tells what he be-
lieves. The average oligarch conceals
his views by harmless generalities
that please those who refuse to see
or think.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15
FORCED LABOR MUST GO

In an age of airplanes, electric
dynamos and radio, the subject of
slave labor is being considered so as
to discover some way of bringing
about its eventual adjustment
There are vast areas of the worlds
surface where forced labor still exists
and fourishes, amazing as that may
seem.
The nations are to be asked to
agree on method of stopping this
imposition of forced toll
For two years a commission has
been gathering information about
forced labor. Some of its findings
are all but beyond belief There are
peoples that do not know the rest Of
the world rejects forced labor. There
are peoples that do not know any
thing about the right to organize, the
right to protest, the right to work or
quit work-that do not know about
any rights whatever.
The findings of the survey commit
tee show the tragic effects of forcea
labor. Natives, used to their own
customs, die like flies under forced
labor. Death rates run as high as
10 per cent, steadily
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15

is not "just another governor" but
he hasn't yet done enough to show
that he is going to be great gov
ernor.
A state can not live by roads alone.
1t is good to get the automobile out
of the mire, but it is even better to
get humanity out of it.
So now we ask Governor Gardner
just what about it?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15
A CHALLENGE TO SOUTHERN
FEUDALISM

FEUDALISM
Executives of A. r. of l.. national
and international affiliates began a
conference in Washington, Thursday,
on an organizing movement in the
South that will include every craft
and calling
This is the most extensive move
ment of its kind ever proposed by
organized labor.
Trade unionists have no illusion
regarding this problem. They know
they must carry the story of organ
lied labor to thousands of workers
who have abandoned primitive methods
of life for life amidst roaring ma
chinery.
Preiudices and individualism inher-
ent in mountain and agricultural folk
must be changed to community
spirit and a knowledge of the value
of teamwork.
The South is being industrialized
Cotton and coal, textiles and lumber
turpentine and sugar, autos and air
planes are entering markets for
merly supplied in most cases by
plants in other sections of the coun-
try.
No trade union is immune from this
low-wage, long-hour condition that
challenges every other area.
Lincoln's dictum that a country
can not remain half free and halt
slave is as true today as it was ir
the COS.
Wage earners in the South seek
freedom Duty and self-interest i'm
pels every organized wage Garner tc
aid them.
A chain is no stronger than its
weakest link. The story of unionism
must be carried into the Southland
in an intensified manner. The mer
and women who have so long and sc
gallanty battled in that section
should be given every assistance
not in a perfunctory manner, but
whole heartedly and determined.
Strong forces are arrayed against
labor, but we are not alone in tni:
fight Powerful moral forces through
out the country-and especially in the
South-will aid our campaign for {
fuller life to the men and women OF
toll.
This is no job for weaklings.
We should dig in" for an organic
ing an deducational siege that vii
eventually unhorse those who aim t
entrench Southern feudalism.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15

guaranteed rights under the laws of
his country. In the state of Wiscon-
sin, the legislature outlawed it and
battle is on in many others. 1t is
another of those inhuman instru-
ments whose only aim and purpose is
retarding the labor movement. 1t is
only another member of the ''illegiti-
mate" family of company unions, in
functions, spies, etc, conceived and
housed by those of the same, caliber.
1t was even too vile for the corpora
ton governor of Wisconsin, who sign
its first death warrant.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15

When all the poor idiots had been
forced to let go of their little hand
fuls of stock and their little vest
pockets full, then along came John d..
Rockefeller and his dearly beloved
son and the two of th m went down
into Wall street and G thered up the
wreckage.
They said to the multitude, BE we
of great faith all is we'll and we be-
seech calmness and confidence; now is
a good time for all who are thrifty
to unite the old sock and partake of
securities"
1t was great and touching pic
ture. The elder Rockefeller came
back into the picture as hero, brav-
ing the rushing torrent, stemming the
tide of panic, showing his countrymen
an example of valor and wisdom and
even generosity. He was, by gosh,
patriot.
Let's cut out the bunk. He was out
picking up his neighbors' crippled
chickens after the cyclone and he was
taking them back to his own yard.
He was out getting choice bargains
on which he will make oodles of prof
it's. He was picking them off like Sc
many sure shots in fixed race. He
was wise, no doubt, but a deuce of q
long way from being philanthro-
pist.
After everybody was properly sunk
ana done for he went out with life
boat. An old saying is that "them as
has gifts"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15
CREW LAW APPLIED
TO MOTOR TRAINS

Austin, Texas Motor cars oper-
ated on Texas railroads come under
the law requiring trains to be manned
by full crews, according to an oral
statement by Attorney General Bob
lit.
The attorney general also said that
the Texas & Pacific Transport Com
pany, Delaware corporation provid-
ing a house toulouse pickup and de-
livery by motor trucks of goods trans
ported by train, is an express com
pany and comes under the supervision
of the railroad commission. 1t is the
first company of its kind operating
in Texas, he said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15

ped work, they contentled, work on
hospitals, schools and Dther public
buildings would be delayed.
The union replied that its men
would not be taken off public jobs
and said the contract the employers
had refused to sign was identical IN
form with contracts they had signed
for years.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15
YELLOW DOG CONTRACT

The yellow dog contract is an in
strument the employe is asked to sign
before he is hired. In it he agrees
not to join a union and many other
promises that strip him Of all of his
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15
The Cherry
" Where with our
we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pro-
foundly. sometimes fippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

The passing of Brother Bill' Lee
recalls the hostility between that vet
eran head of the trainmen and
another strong man, Warren S. Stone,
so long head of the engineers.
Lee was much more the Simon
pure" trade unionist. Stone, big of
build and with a head spinning full of
large dreams, liked to be thought of
as lord of the railroad union world
and he wanted to cut big figure in
the financial world.
How big he dreamed! And what a
crash. Time was when Warren Stone
stood at the desk of Samuel Gompers
and proudly exhibited a bank note
bearing his picture as president of the
Brotherhood Bank of Cleveland.
That typifed something Stone
wanted. Up and up and up-and
then, wham
Lee wanted to see his way through
what he started. That was why he
stood against the proposal of Stone
for a general strike in 1921. Both
Stone and Lee ended life in disap-
pointment, but Lee left a record
clean and clear to the end He was
known as conservative, but properly
interpreted that meant he was care
full not to take risks beyond the
bounds of wisdom and a decent re-
gard for the chances and fortunes of
others
1t will be we'll if the clatter and
chatter about the Gastonia trial stays
on an even keel. Disbarring a wit
ness because of atheism, an otherwise
evidently fair judge has given folks
lot to talk about.
The incident is being used to the
advantage of communist propagan-
dists.
1t was vital that the Gastonia COM
munists-the communists who went
into Gastonia-have fair trial.
All the parlor pinks and the poseurs
and the piddlers are wrought up by
the Gastonia affair. They go beyond
the case itself and invoke sympathy
| for the whole communist game.
Let's get this straight: Communism
is as dangerous thing as ever got
its foot into any free country The
trial of accused persons in Gastonia
is one thing; the communist move
ment must not be confused with the
trial. That must stand by itself.
That communists went into the
South long ago for distinctly COM
munist purposes is no secret to those
who want to know That Moscow di-
reefs the movements of the commu-
mist propaganda in the United States
! is no secret.
That the communist propaganda
has for its purpose the destruction of
the American trade union movement
| and the American government is the
brag of the whole communist ma
chine. There are some facts we dc
not have to forget, unless we want to
and if we want to forget then we shall
deserve just what we shall inevitably
get.
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