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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Land With a Hi.torv

Denmark is the little old great-great-
grandfather Of the nations. He can
yarn by the hour of past as no one
else his size. He will tell you Of the
old pirate days in 1867 when Copen-
hagen was founded to protect the land
from the Wendish pirates, If that is
the kind of story you wish to hear as
you sit in one Of that city's beautiful
restaurants, or he will narrate the
story of Hamlet, as if he had heard
the Royal Dane cry from the ground
about the castle of KrOnberg close by.
1t is the Oldest existing kingdom of
Europe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19

Many feel themselves very conf
IDENTIFY on safe ground when they say :
1t must be good for man to know
the truth. But it is clearly not good
for a particular man to know some
particular truth, as irremediable
treachery in one whom he cherishes-
better that he should die without
knowing it. OF scientific truth, is 1t
not conceivable that some facts as to
the tendency Of things affecting the
final destination of the race might be
more hurtful when they had entered
into the human consciousness than
they would have been If they had re-
manned purely external In their ac-
tivity?-George Eliot.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Phrases Long Stock Of
Writers and Orators

An alternative sauce for over-state-
ment is hearty and spirited UNDER
statement. mot 'arf," says the COCK
ney, when wishing to say that thing
is an ample whole. "The time has
been," says Macbeth, shat, when the
brains were out, the man would die,
and there an end"
The British schoolboy has no terms
of praise more emphatic than pretty
decent " unless 1t be good enough.
To spring in his audience a vivid
sense of the extreme barrenness or
the Sahara a British statesman de-
scribes it as "very light SOIL" TO q
woman hrawling abuse from the door
of an inn Charles Lamb imputes GER
tain "murmurs not very indistinctly or
ambiguously pronounced"
America does herself equal justice.
She ii was that first called the At
lantic 1.-THE herring pond" and tine
drink" and Noah's flood 1.-THE big
rain" and said that rattlesnake's
bite would do you no good at ALL"
The Greeks had a recognized name
for this ruse of saying much less than
you mean in the hope that your hear.
er's mind will make good even more
than the large percentage Of discount
which you have deducted from the
truth-cunning fellow. casting your
bread on the waters. under the form
of kind of rebate. in sure and GER
tain faith that It will return to you
buttered.-C. e. Montague in the Cen
fury Magazine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Fish Armed With Knives

A physician" fish. acc0utered with
razor-edged lances which are used to
wound. however. instead of heal. has
been listed with the Smithsonian In
stitution's vast Philippine collection
It is known as the surgeon fish. On
each side of it's tail are sharp pieces
of cartilage. so keen that they are
veritable knives. In. an instant they
can be made to stand out from the
body for ripping blow. A slight slap
from the tail Is sufficient to cut
mans hand to the hone. Many of the
lances are poisoned. The surgeon fish
Is confined to the tropical parts of the
Indian and Pacific oceans.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Rusiness Revere

The wayfarer was making an appeal
for charity from well-dressed gentle
man.
SWELL" said the other, II seem to
remember you. Didn't you have lit,
tie business of some sort once upon q
time? Don't tell me you've taken uF
Hegging?"
Eyes, have, sir" returned the 9TH
er. I've got no other way to get
along since lost me business"
sBut how did you come to lose It'll"
", 'My business was a 0ne-hand laun-
dey," said the mournful soul, 'an' one
day my wife just up an left me-"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Dom. Be a Goose

A teacher asked her class to write
an essay on geese. This paper was
turned in by an eight-year-old miss !:
"Geese is a low, heavy-set bird
which Is most meat and feathers. His
head sits on one end and he sits on
the other. He amt got no between
his-toes and he's got balloon in his
stummick to keep him from sinking.
Some geese when they get big has
curls on their tails and is called gan,
ders. Ganders don't half to sit and
hatch but just eat an loaf and go In
swimming. If was goose I'd rather
be a gander. pathfinder Magazine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19

For more than two hours the club
bore had been telling his stories to
the occupant of the chair opposite him
in the smoking room. At last the
victim decided he would have to be
rude If he were to escape at all.
When the next story came to an
end he gave prodigious yawn.
Excuse me-" he said.
But the club bore was match for
the hest where rudeness was con-
cerned.
"That's quite all right" he said. at
doesn bother me at all. You see.
I've lived close to the entrance of a
railway tunnel for the last five years."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Virgin Gold

In an unknown cave on the Auck-
land islands lie the remains of ship
which contained more than $4,000, 900
worth of virgin gold and nuggets. Some
seventy years ago she sailed from
Melbourne, loaded with miners return.
ing with their gold from Ballarat.
Becalmed among the islands, a cur
rent drifted her into great cave.
Her masts. striking the roof, were
driven through the hull and she sank.
A few survivors reached the coast of
New Zealand, but no search has yet
discovered the cave in which lies the
hull of this valuable treasure ship.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Accepted

When little Bobby was taken to the
hospital to see his newly arrived baby
sister he was highly delighted with
her. He regarded her with beaming
approval, taking in the fascinating
details of her fuzzy nails and the lit
tie numbered Identification disk on a
cord around her neck. This last item
he regarded for some time, and then
said: well. when are they going to
take the price-mark off of herr"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Monarch's Logic

st. Olaye, who was a Viking king,
once had an ungainly Icelander in his
train. One morning the king awoke
to see that Thorarin was sleeping
with one clumsy foot sticking out.
When his comrades concluded their
slun ers, Qlaye told them that be had
seaz he ugliest foot in all the town.
ted that he was sure there was
Alier.
re was the king that he pro-
himself ready to bet on the
Ih0rarin took him up; Then,
shoM more ado, the Icelander
tretched out the other foot.
Where, O King" said he, s'that foot
Is every bit as ugly. In fact 1t is
uglier, for one toe Is missing"
"You are wrong" replied the king.
"The first foot has five ugly toes on
1t and this has only four. The first
is, therefore, uglier."-Detroit News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Health Hint

CarboIic acid poisoning Is perhaps
the commonest of all pOisonings. A
half ounce of sulphate of soda In
glass Of warm water should be given
as quickly as possible and physi-
clan called. Afterward, vomiting
should be induced.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Smallest Restaurant

Paris boasts that it has the tiniest
restaurant in the world. It is called
the Petit restaurant, situated in the
Rue Hippolyte Ledas, and seats FIVE
persons, who are accommodated at
one table. In spite of the increasing
popularity, the proprietor refuses to
enlarge the premises.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Cold Baths

Ieifu TITS ~ ms 'Wi lsFes
found his redevery FASTENED BY fresh
Dir which was admitted to his room
despite zero temperature. If the win
dow remained closed long he felt
"wilted." The fresh air was tonic.
Fortunately he had been prepared to
stand cold temperatures by daily cold
plunges. The frequent bath is some
thing which the Western world learned
from the Far East. India taught the
British conquerors the value of the
daily bath. Oriental peoples had been
taking daily baths for thousand
years before Perry visited Japan
Grove Patterson, in the Mobile Reg
lister.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
A Handicap

"But surely" said the naughty pas
sfnger, '.if I pay the fare for my dog
hb win be treated the same as other
passengers and be allowed to occupy
q Nseat?''
'Of course, madam" the guard re.
ri led politely. provided he does not
DIT his feet On it" IA ..aszaa
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19

Old Mul!ruX Want to marry my
daughter do youf Think m make
nice, comfortable father-in-law, Ell?
Young Allnerve-No, ! don't; but
I'm going into this thing with my
eyes open. What worries me Is that
I've picked pretty rough grandfa-
Their for my innocent children.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Automatically

do you always think before you
speak"
mo. answered Senator Sorghum.
''By the time have delivered an opin-
ion two or three times I can turn 1T
into the microphone automatically"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Needed Warmth

Mrs. Benham-"The furnace has
gone out" Benham-"I hope it has
gone out to get warm"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
That's the Point

Magnate-Every shilling I have was
made honestly. !
Friendly whom?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Yeep the Mind Active

Ave- stagnation Of mind as you
would the vilest plague Il you are
content with such, then you are
through. Never forgetraHe who ceases
to grow greater becomes smaller; stag
nation is the beginning of the end
Grit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Where Ring Should Be

Wanda-What's the string around
your finger for? To remind you of
something?
Dora-No, to remind Arthur Of
something.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
MRS. JENNIE TAYLOR

Licensed Funeral Director
Gentleman Embalmer Lie
ensed for Maryland and Penn
sylvania.
Dignified service given all
calls, night or day.
Cor. N. Queen & Walnut SITS.
Phone 1872 Rising Sun, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Echo of Defeat

swell, son, what did your teacher
have to say today?"
''Not much, dad. except that she
had a good laugh out of that essay
You write on CiceE0"-IltA szual...l
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Helping Her Out

She-Ive been trying to think Of O.
word for two weeks.
He-How about fortnight?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Till She Reeled Him In

Charlie-"So you married your em-
ployer! How long did you work for
him?" Myrtle-"Till 7 got him."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Malade a Ia Mode

She-Oh, dear, I've got such nasty
cough.
He-Oversmoking or underdressingn
London Chronicle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Changed Its Tune

"Where did you learn that new,
piece~ "It isn't new-but the piano
has been tuned.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
A. Palm Reach

"You live-savers have good time
here, don't you?" "Oh, yes, we 60 in!
for nything."-Florida Times Union
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Evidently

"Aw, he's not such good CATCH
"Dropped you, did he. girlieY-
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Contrary 60 All Rules

"Why would you rather marry an
aviatorY 'It would be silly to dis
card an ace."-Tit-Bits.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
No Sense to This

"Dad, can get my tan removed for
500 a treatment" "Huh? It cost you
5000 to get that TAM"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
Thoughts ON Other Things

He enthusiastically Some score
80 to nothing!' She-"What's par
for this stadium y"-Stray Stories.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19

The man who is always hunting
trouble never has need to borrow
any.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19

The small boy makes home run
when he hears his mother calling
Kim.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-07-19
MERRY MOMENTS rs
Amenities Of War

"Sir, the enemy are as thick as
peas" "Then shell them, idiot l'-t
Aussie Sydney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-28
NATIONAL MINERS UNION LEADS SPREADING REVOLT
Norman Thomas, Candidate
,of the 3rd Capitalist Party

the big capitalists New York wish
Jimmy Walker mayor York City, Walker
exceeny fulfilled the tasks of the head of the of New
York carrying out the needs of the bourgeos He has utessy
strike organization fight against rationale
He has build welquippd efficient police force and
conducted of terror against striking workers from the traction
mntruggng against unionism the oil mems
strike against Rockefeller He has estabisa successfully the a
a and A. of bureaucracy against militant workers The city
New York has been made model of fascist reaction
against the workers.
Yet the bourgeois newspapers by
of these big capitalists boosting the candidacy Norman
Thomas Has the bougeose socialism? What the
meaning this the capitalist class toward Norman Thomas?
The New York elections demonstrate with crystal carness the role
which the socialist party playing today the third party of the
bourgeosie.
Keny the sharpening class struggle the rising
the the growing the tong
the Left the capitalist class endavorng disguise its reaction
and against the workers under of liberal mask and
is building the socialist last of
dvertng the miancy of the workers into harmless channels The
capitalist party system being
shaken by the growing mancy of the workers and preparing
bait for the 'od trap
The socialist party with its candidate Norman Thomas
spenddy such bait He for efficient police force He for
being taken of poit"-nona government thus
only spreads the myths
this dmaeogv the essential class Of the
and thus enables the bourgeoe
srkbeakng machine And the paist face of Norman Thomas
further affords bourgosie
feverish preparations While Thomas democratic phrases
posey directed
more Tiont fascist '0 % more
The capitalists of the danger Of the Communist
men their plans for intensified naturalization and with which
they seek which
They the socialist
social reformists to bolster their dfens the
thenof the developing rehabilitation of the working class
The situation is Party; to
the socialist party working revolutionary
leadership and by strengthening reformst leadership Illustrate the
uncaon of the workers revolutionary
ne that the aim the capitalist class Elecng Walker
the socialist party its machinery the socialists for their
social fascist role the bougoe that they safely slash
intensity speedup increasing and
for war-primariy against the Soviet Union.
The moment calls for intensified struggle for all around fight
against the bourgeosie and social agents "The
Hammer and Sickle" election fight rationale
zaion preparations the
effecte A F. L. the socialist party; fight the
leadership of the Communists the Shops trade unions and in all
fields class struggle the task which the Communist Party calls
the working to al energies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-28
The Wall Street Crash and
the Working Class

greatest history Street is
verdict of the bourgeois regard the wild panic
Stock chief
capitalist class President industry
rush their class that everything sound With
h hocu pocu OF demagogc verbage the boss class seeking to
fool the workers significance this
the myth of eternal prosperity"
But economic facts be dismissed by of
Hoover exorszed by the
which has been the basis of the hectic speculation close
the beginnings This reality
asserted itself the Stock Exchange This
against the American working and the few of
mendou expansion abroad of American mpera export capital
and commodities.
increasing capitalism secure an
unobucd growth markets both
the crisis of capitalism.
sis) apd the development of the
tiles Shoes building construction agricultural products
Of the evidences of this economic crisis This crisis
itself upon the Stock Exchange.
The New York Times in giving the opinion of unnervd
dent investment this authority
panic growing belief that transtory period of business
esson approaching indicated by he accumulation of stocks
several important commodities such OIL and rubber
continued profits the
production overshadwe by competition
the tendency the workers. with the example of the
struggle against ration
aization and wprsening conditions.
These basic debating market
to the Of the swapping the credit
ndustrys requirements by this speculation.
The events the Stock Exchange profoundly shaking
capitalist system Despite the gains will
financial bougeoisie which
full attempts Of the Federal Reserve hehe speculation
apitams apologists instrument which would Control
late and organize capitalism unable this miracle and
positive that organize itself and that the laws
OF capitalism intensity its contradictions and tearing it's rule
asunder 49,
One immediate result the wping great
adesmen bourgeosie and the further
odaon and concentration big
he to intensity the crisis
further slash wages intensity the speed and by pungng
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-28
WHITE CUARDISTS
TRY TO SABOTAGE
FLIERS' Wei COME
Spread False Rumors
of Arrival in N. Y.
Called by Triumph
Plan Detroit Greeting
20,000W Hail the
Fliers in Chicago

Called by the triumphant passage
of the Soviet world fliers over the
United States, white guardist ele-
ments attempted to sabotage the
Land of the Soviets flight by spread
ing false rumors through the capi-
talist press that the plane would
arrive in New York yesterday.
The huge working class receptions
rendered to the four U. S. S. R.
emissaries in Seattle, San Francisco
and Chicago, overwhelming proof of
the admiration felt by American
workers for the socialistic. achieve
ments fthe Soviet workers and
peasants, goaded the counter-revo-
lutionaries on to sending an anony-
mus phone call from Cleveland to
officials of the Curtiss field at Val
ley Stream, S. l., late Saturday night
Informing" the latter that the fliers
would reach the field at 2 O'Clock
Sunday afternoon.
Ludwig Landy, national organizer
of the Friends of the Soviet Union
the organizatin sponsoring the re.
ceptions, yesterday made public 9
statement denouncing the despicable
white guard hoax, perpetrated with
| the aim of saboting the reception
arrangements of the Friends of the
Soviet. Union and of creating chaos
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-28
; T.U.U,L.. TOURS
BUILD UNIONS
Foster, Labor Jurors
Have Many Dates

The Trade Union Unity League
is pushing it's organization work
through the industrial sections of
the country through continuation
of the tour If William z. Foster, ITS
general secretary, with three other
tours to itart in the very near fu-
ture. One is by Jack tombstone, ma
tional organizer of the league, aand
the other two are by members of
the Labor Jury at the Gastonia case
trial.
Foster, who is now addressing the
coal miners rank and file convention
called by the National Miners Union
in Belleville, to split away the bulk
of the $4,000 Illinois coal miners
from the U. M. w. A., is scheduled
to speak in couple of Pennsylvania
towns next: Charleroi today and
Cannonsburg tomorrow. In Can
onsburg there will be mass meet
ing of the T. U. U. L. leagues.
Foste rthen goes to Chicago for
meetings on he 30th and 31st. The
Continued on Page TWoJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-28
TROOPS STAY IN
MARION DURING
THE Ev|CT|ONS
Company Throw Out
Victims Families

MARION, N. c., Oct. 27.-Gover-
nor Gardner has refused to say how
long the troops will be kept in Mar
ion. They were sent in to overawe
the striking tetile workers imme-
diately after Sheriff Adkins and his
deputized company gunned and
killed six strikers and wounded 20
more in deliberate MASSAGE of those
on the picket line.
The Marion Manufacturing Com
pany is now in the process of evict-
ing from their homes the families
and friends of the murdered men,
and has requested Gardner that the
troops be allowed to remain until
the last of what the company calls
undesirable workers" is thrown out
on the street.
Hoffman in Secret Deal.
Alfred Hoffman, the Southern or
ganizer Of the United Textile Work
ers, the A. F. L. union, is doing moth
ing abut the evictions, and Saturday
held secret and friendly conference
with Judge N. A. Townsend, the Gov
ernor's personal preventative here.
Hoffman, and the other U. T. w.
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-28
K. O. Byers Tells Why DalW
Worker Must Be Rushed South
Must Go to Every Mill Town to Teach Workers
How to Fight Bosses"

The most welcome visitor Mecknburg County
ote where 6 Gastona mill workers National
Union confined in which
prisonment the Daily Worker Byes
Jailed by the hhil BOSSES courts.
Byers New York,
delegate to the Twelfth Anniversary celebration
what the Daily Worker the southern
He told why it immediate
of the Daily Worker be rushed South day.
THE militant American
South the different mill
happening the learn about
fighting the bosses.
The capitalist down South nothing except
bosses them
They print only things written by superintendent or
thug
"The Gastonia Gazette good example calls the mill
workers and union
lynching of the union members.
"When first Daily, last April knew that here
a real workers
Then when looked for
day prison. We wouldn't be without Daily Worker
Over North Charlotte there many mills we have
Continued Page Thrssl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-28
SOVIET INDUSTRY
GROWTH Amazing
u. S. ENGINEERS
N. Y. Workers to Hail
Twelfth Anniversary

MOSCOW, Oct. 27.-Astounding a
large group of American business
men, engineers and journalists to
whom he was speaking, E. j. Kvir-
ing, vice-chairman of the State
Planning Commission, declared that
the Soviet Union would soon surpass
the United States in industrial pro-
duction and would lead the world
in production gain over pre-war
figures.
During the last year," he said,
"our total capital investment in in
dustry was 1,650,00o,000 roubles
while during the coming year it will
be 3,300,000,00O roubles," most of
which will go into heavy industry.
But this, Kviring told his as
tonished hearers, is only part of
the Five-Yea Plan, which itself is
only a step toward a more far
sighted plan for the entire Soviet in
dustry, including agriculture, for
socialist construction in the next fif-
teen or twenty years.
During 1880, Kviring said, sixty
Continued on Page TtOo)
Fight Police Terror! Vote COM
munist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-28

in its desperation intensified
by these to the crisis created by it.
This situation confronts the working with the
ing its fighting capacities broadening its struggles freeing itself
from the cripping influences of the social reorms the
bureaucracy and socialist party and fighting particularly against the
e social reformiststhe Mustetes-of all
a class will forward with the object dvertng
from effective struggle
All along the line the workers must sharpen their fight
the speedup and the danger and develop their fighting
on The unoganzd must be organized broaden
bring these revolutionary action The Union
Unity League be built and everywhere branches
fighting leadership the battles of the All oers
the relationship against
Communist Party the working
the bosses efforts the workers their only effective
ship, she Communist Party.