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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04
CHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
NUTMEGs

THE popular superstition about nut
i megs is that, pierced and hung
about the neck In the manner Of a
charm, they are a cure for various
physical ills. Not long ago school
teacher advised her pupils to wear
nutmegs in this manner to prevent
coldsores, and the daughter Of New
Hampshire legislator wore one for a
night and day to cure earache.
Though different sections select DIFF
ferent diseases for which the nutmeg
is most recommended the general be-
lief Is that nutmegs are efticacious In
all diseases. The key to the supersti-
ton is found in the name Of the
genus Of plants to which the nutmeg
belongs, which is myristica from the
Greek work myristikos, meaning eft
for amounting" Though a native OF
the islands Of the Indian seas the nut
meg, or it's kin, appears to have found
Its way, though sparingly, to Egypt
and the eastern shores Of the Mediter-
ranean when it became known to the
Greek communities Of Asia Minor and
received its Greek name. 1t was the
oil produced from the covering Of the
kernel of the nutmeg which was "suit-
able for amounting" and it was that
figure of speech known as metonomy
which extended the name myristikos
to the whole fruit.
Originally amounting had three pur-
poses-bodily health and comfort,
honor, and conservation. Reasoning
by analogy the best authorities con-
slider the most ancient use to have
been for purposes Of health. The
"school-marm" advising her pupils
to wear nutmegs around their necks
to prevent coldsores furnishes an ex-
ample of primitive sanitary idea de-
generated through the long ages into
popular superstition.
t@ by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.l
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04

One appeals to your imagination so
that you are able to feel what he feels,
the other fails to convince you. The
difference again is Reality. Because
Kreisler lived his music it was real.
Only that which is real in the moment
Of execution, whether in art, music
or literature, lives. The artificial and
unreal is soon forgotten. Sham and
pretense is shuff1ed off in the strug-
gle. Only the real is permanent.
In the business world, as we'll as in
the world Of art and music, Reality
Is most important asset. Once
1t becomes known that you are not on
the level, that you are endeavoring to
sham, that your merchandise If not as
Observation-Disclosures has already begun.
In craftsmanship the agent must him.
self be convinced both of the quality
and need for the merchandise he has
to sell. If he does not believe this he
will not sell his goods. He cannot
convince another of something that is
not real to him. He must first actual
~ believe as true what he would have
his customer believe. The world Of
friendship rests entirely upon reality.
Once you prove yourself false to
trust or confidence or endeavor to pass
off imitation for reality-the mystic
chord Of friendship snaps. The home
is built upon reality. Love is the most
real thing in the world. When love
dies the home is gone. It is impos-
sible to maintain home upon the
basis Of sham, imitation, or pretense.
"That the people want to be fooled"
may serve we'll enough as a creed for
a circus world, but fails in the mod.
ern world Of stern realities.
To thine own self be true;
And 1t must follow. as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
(@. 1929. Western Newspaper uJnion.)
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04

This was the verse sent by Princess
JOY:
You're a friend Of mine, you Jolly wee
May you always. always. always be
Unless by Fairyland you are near
We can't be SO joyous. you know,
fear.
This was the verse sent by Fairy
Princess Twilight-Bell
When the cool of evening comes
And the sun sinks DER the West,
And the twilight shadows dance.
We'd like you to be our guest.
This was the verse sent by little
Efie Elf:
Heigh-ho, Maggie,
Heigh-ho, Maggie.
Heigh-ho, Maggie,
That's all I know how to say!
This was Billy Brownies verse:
Old Mother Nature asked me to say
That as she moved about your way.
She always sent you the sweet scent OF
the day,
For she loves you. she asked me to say
In my lay.
This was Bonnie Brownies verse:
Three cheers for Maggie.
Three cheers for Maggie,
Three cheers for Maggie.
She is such a dear,
And she, too, Is full Of cheer.
This was Witty Witch's verse:
oh, Maggie loves her eating,
She really loves her feed!
But the most amazing thing
Is that she really hasn't greed.
This was Old Mr.. Giants verse:
I am big and Maggie is small,
But that doesn't make any difference at
all,
For ! can look down and at Maggie
smile,
Hoping she'll look up Just once in q
while.
This was Ollie OARS verse:
Maggie, Maggie is full Of fun,
How on her little feet she can run!
But It hasn't kept her from getting fat,
Mercy me, it hasn't done that!
This was the Fairy Wondrous Sc
crets' verse:
know secret,
But you must know It, too.
It's that all who know Maggie
Just love her through and through.
(Copyright)
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04
Champion Egg Tester

The 'egg wizard" is the name given
Miss May Norton of the United
Diaries, London. She can toss them
about as juggler does billiard balls,
but her speciality is passing them in
front of light at the rate Of LAO
an hour. Miss Norton's official title
Is egg tester. It is her job to see
whether an egg is new laid, fresh, or
on the stale side. She does it by
present-day Gambling method, which
consists Of putting black metal box
with hole at one end around an cleo
trio globe and letting the rays strike
through the eggs when held up to the
aperture. In response to challenge
by farmer, Miss Norton once tested
300 eggs in twelve minutes. Since
she started she has not had a single
break.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04
Other Senses Of Blind
Not Overly Developed

Blind persons do not hear better,
they simply seem to because they lis
ten harder, Mrs. Winifred Hathaway,
Of the National Society for the Pre-
vention of Blindness, told members OF
the Michigan Educational institute.
The popular belief that blind people
have more acuity Of other senses, such
as hearing and touch, Is not exactly
correct. The special senses Of blind
people, aside from sight, are no bet
ter in the beginning than those of
other people, sometimes not SO good.
But experience and specialization on
the part Of the blind persons enable
them to make their other senses take
the place Of sight, SO that their senses
are better developed than those Of
normal people. The same thing APP
plies to deaf persons who appear to
have much keener vision than normal.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04
For Meditation
100000.
By LEONARD A. BARRETT
REALITY

Cutting under the spell Of the mu-
y sic Of Kreisler's violin for an en-
tire evenings concert gives rise to in
teresting questions concerning the
cause Of the power which the music
had over us. Was it genius? Can 1t
be attributed to perfection in tech
nique? Was it the superior instru-
ment used upon this particular occa-
sion, a Stradivarius perhaps? Yes,
all Of these. plus something more, and
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04

t h at something
more was doubt
less the most i'm
por t mt factor,
without which the
other qualifications
would have been
barren of results.
7 b at something
more was Reality.
Two persons at
different times play
upon the same in
s tru m e n t, both
reading from the
same sheet Of mu-
sic; one moves you,
the other does not.
What causes the
nysI
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04
Marvel Hands in Bridge

In bridge game at Fort Madison,
iowa, Judge John Craig shuffled the
cards, then handed them to Miss
Ehart, to be cut and shuffled again.
When the cards were dealt Craig
found he had 10 spades, Miss Ehart
had all the hearts and Mr.. and Mrs.
A. r. Buy held full suits of diamonds
and clubs respectively. In the law Of
averages that can happen but once in
millions Of -Capper's Weekly.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04
Virtue. Of .sneexe" Ca.

The danger of asphyxiation by IL
Eliminating gas would be virtually
eliminated through the use Of a
"sneeze" gas which she has invented,
Miss Mary L. Sheriff. of Mt. Holyoke
college faculty believes. The new gas,
when mixed with Illuminating gas,
produces fumes which would arouse a
sleeper and bring from him an inv0-
untary cry Of alarm, according to the
inventor.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04
ABOUT MAGGIE'S POEMS

hTOW there was a great stir in
~ Fairyland. All Of the little Fairies
we're busy writing verses. They had
heard that little friend Of theirs
was going to have a birthday and
they wanted to have some verses for
her.
"She must have verses" said the
Fairies. And though none Of them were
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04
Not 10 Stay

Host (grandly)-Yes. there's no
doubt that the radio has come to stay.
What is it, Hortense?
Hortense-It's the collector, sir. Ha
says If you don't pay up your INSTALL
ments he'll have to take your radio
baek.-Ottawa Citizen.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04

really poets they all tried their best
to write some verses.
The Breeze Brothers had promised
to take their verses and to let Maggie
hear them, and so the Fairies chewed
at the ends Of their pussy-willow pen
ellis and thought and thought and
finally each one had a little verse
ready.
The Fairy Queen sent this verse:
From one who is Queen Of F,airyland
send you this verse today,
May you live forever. you dear little
thing,
10 we will be happy Away!
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04
Don't BE pis1fgured.

Keep Coles Carbolisalve in the house.
It stops pain from burn or cut quickly
and heals without scars. At all good
druggists, 80c and 60c, or J. W. Cole Co.,
Rockford, nl-Advertisement.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04

Necessity is the mother Of doing
things that you never thought you
could do.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04
Largest Cattle Herd

The King ranch, in Texas, has the
largest herd Of cattle in this country.
This herd numbers about 100000.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04
Not Very

Not Very
Blinks-Is he safe to trust?
Jinks-Well, about as safe to trust
as a badly worn tire on long trip.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04

Many find Russ Ball Blue good tonic
for chickens. Large package at Gro
cerS-Adv.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04
WhoWantsto beBa1d?
compulsion Gains Nothing

One fact stands out in bold relief IN
the history of mems attempt for bet
terment That is, that when compul-
sion is used, only resentment IS
aroused, and the end is not gained.
Only through moral suasion and APP
neal to mems reason can movement
succeed.-Gompers
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04

Accidentally an Arkansas lady cured
fits in valuable dog with Russ Ball
Blue. Many others now use 1t. New
er fails, she says.-Adv.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-02
lBn u Worker Correspondentl

(DB u ~ OihCI COiitSpOHutHJI
VAN VOORHIS, W. Va. (By MaiD
i must write again to let you
know more about the workers wages
and working conditions in Northern
West Virginia, District 81.
We haven any conditions-we only
work, to keep the bosses smiling,
from eight to sixteen hours daily.
What about wages? We never
saw wages for so long-the coal
operators believe there is no such
thing as wages, except the little
given US by the boss so we can work
some more tomorrow and get to-
baccO sometimes.
One miner WORKED ten hours in
the mine at Paramount, w. Va, to
get himself some tobacco and enough
to get an extra pound of soup beans
for his wife. But the beans took
all the wages he had coming and he
could not get any tobacco that day.
Next day he stood in front of the
coal company store, waiting for the
store clerk to get him some tobacco
which cost 10 cents. The clerk
looked at his book and said "You
have no ten cents coming-I can't
give you any tobacco. But you
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-02
IN THE SHOP
Walters in Big
Whyte Restaurant
Bitterly Exploited

(By q Worker Correspondent
Tonight, boys, don't grumbIe if
you stay late. You will go when 1
tell you to go, when Mrs. Whyte
wants you to go, l stay as long as
my boss wants me to stay and you
should do the same if you want to
work here"
Thus spoke julius, headwaiter Of
Whytes Restaurant, 43d Street and
Fifth Avenue, to about eighty-five
walters who on election day ex-
pressed their feeling by grumbling
secretly sand Individually.
AS in the old house the same in
the new, the headwaiter tells the
walters every morning not to grum-
BILE if they have to stay few hours
late, or of any other mistreatments
they get from the bosses, and at the
same time warns them that if any
body comes a minute late or makes
a single mistake, out he goes.
"You should do what Mrs. Whyte
tells you to do" he tells them, but
he has never asked them whether
they make money to keep themselves
and their families in existance, or
whether they eat anything and
what, or if they have any complaint
to make.
He only tells them how to be
mice" slave. The walters under
stand that but they are afraid to
talk openly because they have no
union in the Whyte shop to back
them up.
Fellow workers, wake up! Face
the reality! Your bosses got rich
and are getting richer from your
labor, from the cooks labor and
from the rest of the workers that
slave for them. Without you they
cannot make a step. Organize your
selves and demand openly for your
rights. Enough of inhuman slavery.
The Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria
Workers Branch of the Amalga-
mated Food Workers Union, 1873 w.
51st Street is your union. Join it,"
A UNION WAITER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-02
More Raids on MWL
Office in New Orleans

Continued from Page Onc)
the American Legionaires to "do bet
ter"
A branch of the International La
Dor Defense, newly formed in New
Orleans, is fighting the cases, and
has already supplied legal defense
for the workers.
M. W. l.. Suspects Furuseth.
'The ews that the federal govern
ment's department of justice is TAX
ing part in the attack on the M. w.
l.. by the New Orleans police and the
American Legion" said George Mink,
national secretary of the Marine
Workers League, strongly suggests
the hand of Andrew Furuseth also.
Furuseth has many times demanded
action against militants, and stations
himself in Washington, in close touch
with the government. His program
is not for an industrial union seamen,
it is for government support of his
own company unionized Interna-
tional Seamen's Union.
"The New Orleans press talks as
though the arrested organizers, in
Guiding Brown, the Negro seaman
jailed, were Being turned over to
The department of justice.
"The federal government, as the
agent of all big business, particularly
of U. s. imperialism's merchant
marine, of course would try to
smash the Marine Workers League,
which is organizing seamen Cor re-
gional, and finally a national con-
ference to create a fighting indus
trial union. But Furuseth is u. S.
imperialism's watch dog on the sea,
and we suspect his hand in the ar
rest Of Morgan and the other or
GAMERS in New Orleans.
"More organizers are headed for
New Orleans, and the M. w. L. will
fight this thing out. There are
thousands of white and Negro long
shoremen and seamen in this port,
and they are working for outra-
geously low wages. They need or
ganization, they want organization
ane they are going to get it, in spite
of American Legion shop owners, the
federal government and the lF r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-02
High Treason
to Criticize
Politicians!
(WreLess By IllDrecorr)

BERLIN, Nov. 29.-The Prussian
parliament, the Reichsrat, at yes
terday's session amended the draft
of the proposed defense law" by
Severing, the socialist-fascist minis
ter of finance of the German repub-
lie, to make the clause dealing with
repressive measures against workers
organizations still more harsh.
1t is now standing as an unparal-
leled anti-Communist piece of legis-
laion due for passage also by the
Reichstag, the national parliament.
The Communist Party is appealing
to the working class against the
Reichstag adopting the draft and is
calling for the workers to show
by demonstrations their opposition
to the bill becoming law.
The anti-working class nature of
the proposed defense law" of Ger
many, written by Severing the $50
clallst," not only lays penalties
against physical attacks on any one,
even city officials who hold political
office, but Furnishes as high treason
any insulting or slandering or in
citing to attack against any political
office-holder."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-02
Wages? They're Almost q
Myth TO ". Va. Miners

might see the general manager. If
he gives you note for the tobacco,
m give you some"
But the general manager said,
"You go in the mine, load your coal,
and as soon as the coal comes out,
I'll send you and your wife some
tobacco" That's all the coal loader
can do.
In the Continental Mine, Rivers
vile, W. Va, miner was going
home from work. The mine foreman
yelled out, Hey, you come here. If
you can't load bigger cars of coal
you can't work here"
THE bigger I load the cars, the
less they weigh" the miner said.
rs that So" the mine foreman
said. "Then how about not loading
coal here any more ?" And he dis
charged him.
This miner never drew wages be-
cause he was dealing in the coal
company store. But they would not
let him work even for beans only.
Why? Because the mine foreman
thought This miner was getting wise
tc something and some day he may
rebel against the weight of the coal
he receives now and join the Ma
tional Miners Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-02

A new trial started started immed-
lately on the rioting charge.
Hoffman was allowed to spout his
class collaboration and social paci-
fist theories from the witness stand
and to separate himself from the
rest of the defendants. The verdict
and sentence, with discrimination in
favor of Hoffman, followed. Dur
ing the trial, all other charges
against Hoffman were dropped.
There are still fifty rank and
filters, real strikers, coming to trial,
with chain gang or prison sentences
facing them.
> The favorable treatment of U. T.
W. officials in the. Marion case con-
trasts sharply with the attitude of
the courts toward the N.T.W. lead
ers in the Gastonia case, where the
union officials got the longest SEN
fences.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-02
Miller Bailed Jumps Strikers to Chain Gang
Into Leaksvile Strike Hoffman Let Off Fasv
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stated that he was an eyewitness to
the lynchers' raid on the union head
quarters and the kidnapping and
flogging of wells. He repeated the
testimony he has given on four diff
ferent occasions in court, that he
saw Carpenter and BulWinkle. He
said: owe will continue to expose
these two participants in the mill
owners gang, and the I. L. D. will
back me up to the finish. What
they are trying to do is to frame
me because of my activity 7nbehalf
of the workers.
Lawyer Tom Unison, who be-
trayed the Gastonia case defendants
and tied up through legal chicanery
the $4,000 that was to be used for
bail, has recently issued a statement
joining with Carpenter and Bull
Wrinkle in an attack on Saylors and
the l. L. d.
/. l.. u. OOnt efence.
Today in the United States, con-
ferences for the purpose of mobil-
izing for further aid for the Gas
tonia strikers, for Salvatore Accorsi
and the other class war prisoners,
are being held in Detroit, Scranton
and Boston. Next Sunday similar
conferences will be held in Charlotte,
N. c., and Chicago.
All are leading up to the fourth
national convention Of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense at Pittsburgh,
December 20, 80 and 81. Sixteen
conferences in every region of the
country will be held before the ma
tional convention.
Gastonia and Anti-T error Drive.
The Gastonia and Anti Terror
Drive Of the International Labor De-
Tense has begun and 100000 pieces
of literature have been sent out from
the national office incidental to the
Speakers and organizers
are touring the land for the cam
paign.
Nor has the international protest
let down. From the agrarian COM
mune 'Tyo" in the Soviet Union,
composed of Finnish American revo-
lutionary workers who have emf
grated to the Soviet Union in recent
years comes message of solidarity
and greeting to the Gastonia defend
ants, applauding their stand. with
and pride we have read
of their valient struggle in this
strike, how they heroically defended
their elementary rights against cap
talisms's tyrannical exploitation and
bloody terror" say Tyo, and prom
Uses full support.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-02

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tives of Governor Gardner, made an
agreement behind the backs of the
strikers, and sent them all back to
work, without telling them that
there was a blacklist provision.
Marion Massacre.
When the night shift in the
Marion mill found that the blacklist
was being used, they struck spon-
taneously, Oct, l, and were mass
picketing when the day shift came.
Sheriff Adkins brought a score of
deputises mill thugs to the gates,
and opened fire on the pickets, made
defenseless by Hoffman's orders.
Six pickets were killed and some 20
wounded, The U.TW. tried to send
the strikers back to work while pools
Of blood still lay before the mill
gates.
The militia came, Hearings were
started before the governors APP
pCintee, Judge Harding. a reaction
airy so well known that it had been
thought advisable by the mill own
err that he be withdrawn from the
Gastonia case and some one more
subtle used.
Sheriff Never Tried.
Adkins and most of his gunner
were freed of all charges, testimony
of strikers that they saw Adkins
firing his revolver into the crowd
being simply disregarded. Adkins
went back to his job of evicting the
families of the men he killed. Eight
deputies who were so stupid as to
admit they killed strikers were held
on murder charges, and will be
whitewashed at a trial coming soon
in Yancey Co. court.
Hoffman and several others were
put on trial, but the escape of one
prisoner stopped proceedings, and
the trial began again. The charges
were "rioting, rebellion and insur-
rection." By this time the position
of the U.T.W., II conjunction with
the A.F,L. Southern organization
campaign" had so well proved that
the U.T.W. was q friend of the boss
es, and that it served them as
weapon against the real textile
workers organization, the National
Textile Workers Union, that a series
of maneuvers by the prosecution be-
gan to save Hoffman, while still
furnishing the strikers.
Hoffman Plays Safe.
After the testimony was in, Judge
Cowper appointed to try the case,
stopped the trial and threw out the
rebellion and instruction charges.