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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20
CHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
BREAKING A MIRROR
BY H. IRVING KING

THE primitive man looking at his
L own reflection in still pool be-
held phenomenon he could not ex-
plain. He saw something which was
not himself but which must be so
closely related to himself that there
was no Joke in it. That's the way a
savage feels today when he looks into
mirror for the first time. We are
all descended from primitive man and
savages and their ideas, Professor
Freaud would say, "persist in our I'M
conscious ego" Even in the Middle
Ages mirror was regarded as not
altogether "canny" by the lower
classes. What is known as sympa-
thetic magic has always regarded q
close connection as existing between
a person and his counterfeit present
ment." We know better now but our
"subconscious" our Unconscious"
as some Of the psychologists say
self has not fully shaken off the effect
Of long ages Of superstition and who
Is there who can see a mirror acct
OCAIdlly DAOhCA W1IAOuL a SCCl CT I'LL
easiness? He may boast that he can
do so-but can he? The smashing
Of the mirror destroys the reflected
image-his counterfeit self or a sur
face which has born 1t, as 1t has also
borne the image of the other members
Of his family. Therefore he-himself
or some member Of his family, whis-
pers the lingering voice of despised,
forgotten but inherited belief In SYM
pathetic magic, is in danger. All of
which accounts for the very prevalent
superstition that If you break look
ing glass there will be death in the
family within the year. If no death
occurs the breaking of the glass Is
forgotten. But suppose one does &C.
cur? All, then 1t Is remembered and
mirrors are handled very carefully in
that household thereafter.
t@ by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20
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sand I wanted to come here to talk
about her with all of you. 1t seemed
only right that l should come here.
You know we days have noticed at
different times how very lovely and
how much loved Dolly is, and we've
all, at different times, had the JOY of
celebrating her birthday.
years." Tuesday continued, 81 want
to talk to you because here, In this
Valley of Beautiful Memories, you
know so much about the happiness
and the beauty and the richness and
the Joy to be had from happy men,
cries.
"You can throw away ugly men,
cries in your old bundle as you come
into this lovely valley, but In the
world they can't do that so well. Mem
cries have way Of sticking whether
they are good or bad, pleasant or I'M
pleasant.
"And that Is why it is so important,
so tremendously important that people
see that what they do and the way
they act and the way their hearts
feel will only cause love and happi-
ness in the world.
"That is the way with Dolly. About
her are only wonderful memories.
She has never caused unhappiness,
she has always made happiness and
love. There is something in the way
she moves, the way she smiles, the
way she laughs, the way she talks,
that make those around her SO happy
that their happiness goes deep into
their hearts and stays there. Beauti-
full, beautiful memories are always to
be had when those who know Dolly
think Of her.
$50 have come here, as you see.
But not only does Dolly give people
happiness when they think about her.
All, all the time she is giving happi-
ness How? you may ask. Just by
being herself. That Is the way she
is. It is her secret I only know it
is SO.
eyes, shall go forth on her birth
day tomorrow and l shall see her
from the moment she opens her eyes
until she goes to bed again at night.
l shall be there when the earliest bird
will sing her birthday greeting.
shall be there as she eats her break
fast on the pink dishes she always
uses. shall be there right through
the whole day until, at night, she gets
into her tub and washes with bright
pink washcloth and later dries her.
self with bright pink bath towel.
II shall be there all of tomorrow.
And shall see from the expression
In the eyes of those who love her what
is in their hearts and how they mean
the jolly, jolly wishes Of many happy
returns"
And as Tuesday left all sang
birthday greeting:
Dolly, beloved, so fair and so gay,
We wish you SO many happy returns
Of the day!
(Copyright1
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20
WHERE THE YEARS co

iDACK in the Valley Of Beautiful
ID Memories, where the years go
when they have finished their work In
the big world, there is always a great
deal Of happy talk going on Often
the days go there to talk when they
are waiting for their time to come
forth before the world people.
And at this time Tuesday was up
there. Tuesday was having a little
holiday while Monday was on duty.
The years that had gone before
were there, for you know when the
Old Year died he always goes to the
Valley of Beautiful Memories There
he is always so delighted that he does
not feel sad when he welcomes his
successor-the little young New Year.
The years tell Of the beautiful
things that have happened while they
were about-and the sad things they
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20
Past or Future?

Whether this story is an indication
Of worship of past style or anticipa-
ton of styles possibly just around the
corner, is a matter Of opinion. 1t is
the source Of much amusement for q
group Of girls The other day one of
the girls told a woman who has never
been known to wear a kneelength
dress, that her petticoat was showing.
Her laconic reply was, (which one?''
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20

1OrK SLOcK eX'
change clearly in
Dictated how GER
tain are some
things which are
regarded as per-
fectly safe and
secure. Inquiry as
to the cause of
the crash brings
out many s u g.
g e 8 t e d reasons,
which are of lit
tie help save as
guide posts in fu-
ture transactions,
with special en-
phasis upon the
folly Of buying
mora than one
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20
Punished for Cluttony

Illustrating the truth of some old
adage, a tiny mouse, after eating tc
capacity of popcorn in Kennewich
(Wash.) electric light and power com
pany Office window, ran around the
display form for an hour in an agony
Of fright, In full view Of the amused
Saturday night crowds. The mouse
had eaten so much popcorn that It was
unable to make it's exit through the
tiny hole which it had entered.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20
Dear &ditor:

I'VE learned not to jay-walk when
in Indianapolis. The cops let you
get way across and then make you go
clear back where you started from.
It's embarrassing.
A big central sign stated that 60
people had been killed in year by
local street accidents. During our halt
day there they chalked it up to "a.
That was moving too fast for me. and
/ hustled along to safer place.
Today's observation in the hotel +:
Cowboys with balloon tire stetsons
should use the freight elevatcr.-Fred
Barton.
(Copyright)
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20
Put. Swindler. at Million

More than a million persons In the
United States are living entirely on
the proceeds Of confidence games and
other dishonest schemes of obtaining
money, the vice president of New
York surety company is quoted. These
leeches actually take more than three
and onehalf billion dollars from un-
suspecting wage earners, he says.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20

Fashion.
leave behind in a great big old bundle
to be thrown away, for only the lovely
memories can be taken along with
them. So it is in Fairyland.
The years had been talking quite a
little when Tuesday came along. He
was dressed in a rather wild and
windy fashion, for he was working
now in rather wild and windy month.
He sat down in beautiful green
moss chair while the years gathered
about him.
"What is the news of the big worldY'
they asked. els the New Year doing
well? Not such New Year by now"
they added.
"How the little years do grow up"
said one old year, just as though he
would have liked to add now, II re-
member that little year when it was
only so high"
But they all listened to what Tues
day was saying.
Tomorrow" said Tuesday, when
i shall be on duty, is the birthday of
little Dolly.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20

the most permeating butter color and
therefore the most economical. 1t col
prs uniformly and never streaks. It's
purely vegetable, wholesome and
tasteless, and doesn't color buttermilk.
It meets all State and National Food
Laws. Large bottles are $50 at all drug
and grocery stores. Write for FREE
SAMPLE to Wells and Richardson
Co., Inc, Burlington, Vermont.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20
For Meditation
100000.
By LEONARD A. BARRETT
THINGS THAT REMAIN

THE recent crash on the stock mar
i ket brought about serious TRACE
dies. Persons unable to protect their
marginal accounts were numerically
sold out by brokers, and In many cases
an entire investment was lost. When
this investment represented savings
accumulated through number of
years, it was all the more pathetic.
This unprecedented event on the New
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20

Daughter Of Mrs. Eva Wood Howe
1905 South H. Street, Danville, ILL
II praise Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound for what
it has done for my fourteen
year-old daughter as well as for
me. It has helped her growth
and her nerves and she has a
good appetite now and sleeps
well. She has gone to school
every day since beginning the
medicine. / will continue to
give it to her at regular in
tervals and will recommend it
to other mothers who have
daughters with similar trou-
bles." -Mrs. Evd Wood Howe.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20

Daughter of Mrs. Catherine Lamuth
Boz ~, Mohawk, Michigan
eAfter my daughter grew
into womanhood she began to
feel rundown and weak and a
friend asked me to get her
your medicine. She took Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and Lydia E. Pink
hams Herb Medicine. Her
nerves are better, her appetite
is good, she Is in good spirits
and able to work every day.
We recommend the Vegetable
Compound to other girls and
to their mothers.'-Mxs. Cath
crime Lamuth.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20
Butter Brings
Higher Prices
Biggest Creameries Say FeW
Cents Worth of 'sDandelion
Butter Color" Is Best
Investment.

Dairymen everywhere
are making bigger prof
it's from their butter,
now a days. They're
keeping their product
that Golden June Color,
which brings top prices
the year round, by u.s.
ing ''Dandelion Butter
Color" It takes just
half a teaspoonful to
%bo ,oJJop of oroom Tt'S
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20
Manv GRANDMOTHER

1t is not unusual for great grand
mother to have many daughters, grand
daughters, and great-granddaughters:
but it Is surely very unusual for a
baby to have two grandmothers, four
great-grandmothers and one great
great-grandmother all alive. Yet at
Mailly- Champagne, France, there is q
baby boy who has all these ances
tresses alive and living near him.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20
His Occupation

.Nosey Old Gent-What are you do.
Ing, my little man? Fishing?
Disguised Boy-Nawl Drowndin
fishworms."
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20

Russ Ball Blue goes farther, makes
clothes whittier than liquid Blue. Large
package at Grocers.-Adv.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20
UseIes. Subject

Useless Subject
Teacher-You1 son is very back
ward in geography.
Father-That doesn't matter. We
have no money for travelling.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20
Convicted

The boys in the sheriff's Office were
commenting on the apparent discrep-
ancy in the statements of many acct
dent witnesses and the subject veered
to accidents in general and finally to
the hit and run driver. Sheriff Traeger
said with grin:
perhaps we could pass law fore
ing auto drivers to rub a little print
er's ink on their license plates. Then
the number would be stamped on the
seat Of the pedestrians trousers auto
matically."- Angeles Times.
One who feels solidly grounded in
his religion doesn't want to argue
about it.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-20
SIX CYLINDER.-
SENTENCES

DY ANs 0OAAAN we AAOAAAS<AANA
900
The do-nothing becomes an is-
nothing.
Our richest gold mines are just
above our own ears.
Whoever honestly tries to hoe
his row Is a hero.
Tomorrow Is day written In
letters of gold in the calen-
dar of fools.
One thing that un-does the
Church Is that so few peo-
pie try to Guido each other
In loving.
"a. 1929. Western Newspaper Union.) a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
Company Sports Corrupt Youth

Philippines - Baseball Season All
Year." Another picture shows a
circle of marines watching the
Hawaiian girls dancing the Hula
dance. The military authorities are
using all means to draw the youth
into the service. Anything from
sports to inviting. the youth to
visit" the girls in Hawaii.
The corruption and commercial
ism of the Amateur Athletic Union,
exposed by the charges of Ray Bar
butti, Olympic champion, and the
importation of Paavo Nurmi from
Finland to fill the Golfers of this
commercial sport organization re-
veal to worker athletes the position
of the A. A. U. The role of sports
en- the industrial field and the use
of sports to lure the youth into the
military service mean that all class
conscious workers must expose and
fight against this. The building of
workers sport movement will
counterfeit the evils of bourgeois
sports. To fight against the prep
aration for war the Labor Sports
Union must be strengthened and
broadened.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
Speeded-up Industries Use Sports to Keep the
Minds of Young Workers from Struggle

falls, etc, facing American youth.
He stated that labor propaganda
and Communistic principles were
creeping into the public schools. To
counteract this poison" Sewers
stated that it is the duty of the
legion to organize sports. He said
that a junior baseball league CORE
spending to the American and Ma
tional Leagues, must be organized.
Sports, he claimed, will block the
progressive and Communistic ten
denotes among the youth.
Army Uses Sports as Basis.
The role of sports in such mill
tary organizations as the Citizens
Military Training Camps, R. o. T.
c., Boy Scouts and National Guards
is evident. Sport is the bait that
lures the youth into these organiza-
tons. The posters of the marines,
appealing for recruits into the SER
vice, contain large pictures showing
marines engaged in sports. Slogans
such as "Join the Marines-Go to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15

employers several years ago robbed
the workers of thousands of dollars
by selling stock, the company has
given orders that all workers en-
ployed must join the Booster Club
and pay a fee of one dollar. Several
towns report that workers have
been dismissed because they have
refused to support the Booster
Clubs. The purpose of the Booster
Clubs is to buy athletic grounds and
organize "town" sport teams con-
trolled by the company.
There is also the question of the
militarization of the youth and it's
relation to sports. The campaign
CT the American Legion serves as a
good example of the use of sports
to block the progressive ideas and
militancy of the youth. Just re-
Gently, Dan Sewers, representa-
tive of the American Legion, spoke
in Cleveland before the officials Of
the legion. In the course of his
talk he pointed out the dangers, pit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
Carolina Textile Mills
Give Lowest Pay Next
Ito Tobacco Industry's

WASHINGTON, (LRA). Aver
age wages of cotton goods workers
are practically as low as the lowest
wage industry, tobacco. Workers in
the wooden and worsted goods in
dustry averaged less in 1927 than
two years before.
These facts are revealed by the
U. S. Department of Commerce in
its report of the 1927 census of man
ufactures. While tobacco workers
averaged about 1914 year, cotton
mill workers averaged $814.61 or
about 1856 a week for 81 weeks.
AS North Carolina is now the lead,
ing state in cotton manufacture, its
low wage scale is reflected in these
figures.
North Carolina, with % per cent
of the country's cotton mills, en-
ploying 95,7S6 workers or POS per
cent of the industry's total, produced
20 per cent of the cotton goods value.
Massachusetts, first in 1925, is now
second with IL per cent of the mills,
employing 90,875 or 10 per cent Of
the workers, and producing IS per
cent of the goods. South Carolina
comes third with 1900 workers and
Is per cent of production.
Yearly average for 154,361 wooden
and worsted workers was $1,125.37
or $21.64 a week for 81 weeks. This
S per cent less than in 1925 or a
loss of over $22 in average wages.
Massachusetts is still the leading
state in wool manufactures.
Even Dyers Get Little.
Dyeing and finishing of textiles
reports average wages higher than
other textile industries. Yearly
average of $1,241.65 for 1851
workers, or $23.S7 week, reflects
the fact that skilled dyers are paid
more than most textile workers and
so bring up the average. But the
average in this industry is still less
than the general average of $1,297
for all manufacturing industries.
Half of Living Wage.
For 190,2S3 knit goods workers
the average in 1927 was S9SS.S6 or
$19.01 a week for So weeks.
The general average in the tex
tile industry as whole was $1,040
or just about $50 week for 81
weeks.
This general average for textile
workers is less than half the amount
estimated as necessary for the low
est minimum family budget to pro-
vide forsa man and wife and three
small children, in any one of the in
dustrial centers of the United States.
This lowest minimum budget Of at
least Sal a week still provides for
! only the barest necessaries
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
Union Boys

To the tune of Sonny Boy"
Crowd around me here, union boys
And lend me your ears, union boys
You've way of knowing
I've way of showing
What the union means union boys.
Beal was sent from Bedford and we know his worth
He will make heaven for us here on earth.
We've all worked for low pay right here in Loray.
Our union will stay, union boys
Manve Jencs betrays but the workers all stand by
We still have the union, union boys
And when get high pay will never, stray
From eight-hour day. union boys.
I. A Smith will squeal and squeal
Painter he will steal and steal
With Our union will go, union boys
The Gazette is against US,
Pershing is with us. Choose of the two, union boys
Smith will grow lonely want us and us only.
With union will go union boys.
(Same as first verse)
So climb up on the ties, union boys
Show up all their lies, union boys,
Jencks may lie and cheat US, but he'll never beat
Until we've strike, union boys
Written by Kermit Harden,
Young Loray striker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
Pooling the Farmers Some More.

Congress convenes again today and it's main task to
fool the the question of relief The
session called for the purpose of taking up the question
of farm relief and the tariff in both of which, the farmers
have been led to believe there panacea for their
many ills 1t be said with certainty before single word
Of debate uttered vote taken that any legislation adopted
will not in the least benefit the millions of agricultural work.
the tenant and mortgage farmers share choppers
The great of the agrarian population would have
received benefit from the so-caled McNaryHaugen BILL
twice vetoed by Coolidge while president and bitterly de-
nounced by Silent CAP in the best language of ANDY Mel
lon and J. Pierpont Morgan.
Even the bunted teeth of the McNary-Haug legsa-
ton have been extracted and the proposed relief bill that
goes congress this week will have said the approval
of the White House, which Hoover himself 1t will be
bill beneftng the food gamblers exporters the bankers,
great landlords and rich farmers This fraudulent "elef
b continues to carry the of Senator McNary, of
Oregon and Representative Haugen, of Iowa. McNary and
Haugen the champions of the Equalization fee have
deserted this much abused child of theirs effort being
made to offer "debenture plan" something "just
good"
Dirt farmers and agricultural workers will reject this
brand Of lightning rod legislation that the Hoover bg
business administration is trying to sell them. That must
also complete break with the capitalist political par
ties that urge this fraud The working farm population
large numbers well join with the city workers May
First in international Labor Day Demonstrations unmask
the capitalist congress that matches the legislative plots
great financial interests against them This exposure will
also reveal the hdeous features of the progressves from
Norris to LaFolee Jr and the absolute hostility to the
interests of the farmers and farm workers of the reform
list dupity that parades under the banner of the socialist
party and the American Federation of Labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
LOyuv Workers

We work from week end to week end and lost day.
But when that awful pay day draw little pay
Then home day night and sit down chairs
The merchant the door, he's to get his share
When all our little debts paid and nothing left behind
We turn pockets wrong side out and not cent find
We get up early in the morning work all day real hard
To buy little meat and bread tea and lard
Our children they up and have time to to school,
Almost before they learn to walk they learn 70 spin and spool
Written by Christene Patton,
Young Loray Striker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
A Dramatic Appeal to- the Workers of the
World to Organize as Class; Again
i'm Europe; an Old COmmunard

HayUood has told of his long ononst He became
Western Federation of Miners his Youh AID led
seS of that organization including Cripple
Creek employers used gunner rekssy Hayood shot
sheriff Denver operated his office IN the Jail for
many arrested IN 1905 Bora special
prosecutor tried conUict him framed charge of killing
Stenberg Nth bomb After the failure of the frame
up Haycood spent organizing speaking
leading strikes for the w w. (which he prime mover IN
orqanizinq expelled socialist party qvhen the
yeoU constitutional against direct
action He expelled from F. NJ the nisleGds
got of organization He orng IN the last issue
about the Paterson strike. Noo go reading.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15

The injunction the strike breaking weapon put in the
hands of the expoers by their capitalist courts must
be fought by the violations of the workers To submit
nuncons is to accept the slave conditions offered by the
Bosses The fight against njunctons is important part
of the fight against wage slavery.