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United States.
TIME crook, if he were honest even
in his thought, would admit that
he gets the breaks" The ad-
l. vantage lies with him because
he attends to his job personally,
while the laW-enforcement power OF the
mass of law-abiding citizens has been
delegated to that impersonal and intrl-
cate mechanism known as the law, upon
which generation after generation OF
law-abiding citizens have imposed what
ever gadgets that seemed best adapted
at the time to act as brakes or governors
in restraining the law from invading
the rights of the individual.
I'm the popular view" says Baron
Raffaele Garofalo, in the preface to the
American edition of his "Criminology,
1.-The substantive law procedure and
the judicial power itself too often seem
to work in combination for the protec-
ton of the criminal against society
rather than society against the GRIM
inal."
Popular though this view of the situa-
ton may be, it is superficial. 1t Is in
spired by a certain feeling of resent
ment that this mechanism of the law.
built " through centuries by the best
thought ct each geners'ton, Is falling
to function efficiently when confronted
by an emergency. Instead OF giving
to the subject the honest amount OF
thought which would reveal the super
ficiality of its first view, the public, in
panic at thought that the forces of law
iessness are defying the forces of law,
hastens to affix new gadgets to what 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
The Story the Week Has Told

900 marks (about $4,000, 900 00o) So
the expert assessment of the total of
German debt turns out not much less
than that of the reparations commits
sion (the issue of the c bonds was
the merest formality and service on
them was never expected), and it ap-
pears that, after all, the reparationS
commissioners were not such nincom-
poops or cruel monsters, 1t being recog-
nized that the Young plan Is very gen.
erous to Germany, fixing the German
burden vel below Germany's "commen-
surate" share of the total taxation i'm
posed by the war upon the participant
peoples.
The report was signed on June 7.
NOTES-Emulating Etna's recent
performance, on June Vesuvius began
to erupt Streams of incandescent lava
poured down the slopes, crops are sub
merged, houses are swallowed up, the
peasantry are sent flying, stopping only
for breath and for prayers. Efficient
rescue measures are taken by the gov
eminent. At last report eruption con-
tinues, but dwindlingly.
There are said to be hundred thou
sand sufferers from desperate under
feeding, not to call 1t famine, in the
district Of Wilma, Poland. For the last
four years the crops have been very
poor.
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Organized Criminals
Seen as Barbarians

When we read of the hordes of bar
barians who swept down upon and
sometimes destroyed ancient civilization
we are likely to congratulate ourselves
that we live when and where we do.
But we have scant justification for that
feeling of smugneSs. Our barbarianS
today are the organized criminals. And
these, with modern weapons in their
hands, are as dangerous to our civiliza-
ton as were the barbarians in other
days, perhaps more so. We may at any
time be rubbing elbows with them in
Subways. We do not have the advan-
tage of recognizing our enemies.
Frank J. Loesch, president of the Chi
cago Crime Commission, to whom goes
credit for this idea, says:
1T cannot be repeated too strongly
that we are in the hands of arch
criminals, countrywide in their law
defying activities and almost free to do
their will upon those whom they mark
for vengeance with scarcely any pros
pect of bringing them to judgment"
That a thorough scientific study of
the criminal and methods of control Is
essential cannot be said too often. A
public bureau, Nationwide in its opera
tons, eventually must be established.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
London Business Bans
Bond Street Buses

Bond street of London Is making
another effort to keep out motor BUSES.
this time with the support of the West
minister council subcommittee, which
recommends requesting the minister of
transport to prohibit the motor BUSES
by order. Bond street merchants are
now bound together in an association,
and have put forward strong case.
Bond Is like the winding street Of an
overgrown village. At its southern end
1t narrows to a width of IS feet and at
the northern end to 20 feet. When the
big modern motor bus passes another,
motor cars are crowded out and hardly
have time for stopping to allow one to
alight or enter, while parking places
are distant. The leisurely, pleasant
Bond street, famous the world over as
the center of the worlds most luxurious
shopping. has almost passed away, and
one can sympathize with the shopkeep-
ers' movement to preserve what they
can of the former conditions. They de-
clare that the buses are half empty in
Bond street. anyway, except during the
rush hours, and that they are Of little
convenience to the people along the
thoroughfafe.
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and cruelty was dished up before you
it was devoured with tremendous
gusto. I am sorry for your readers.
"Of course, it has hurt India, but 1t
has hurt your country even more. For
the author has catered to something
which is wrong in the psychological
makeup of your readers.
do you think I could not collect
enough facts as damaging or even more
so about America? Do you not your
self think that the raking of the gut
tiers of your country would supply
ample data for such a book? But I
could not generalize from these facts,
even though they were documentary"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
BY WILLIAM J. DONOVAN,

Former Assistant Attorney General Of the
United States,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
ECONOMIC DISRUPTION
STTRS INDIA Discomfort
Tagore, Poet and Mystic, Tells of Basic
:, Troubles-Great Changes in
Caste System.
BIT WILBUR FORREST.

V YOKOHAMA Sir Rabin-
" dranath Tagore, the Indian
poet and mystic, visited the
l. United States in April, the
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". >. TTuViucS 1HutpciiucHCCs
BY the Treaty of Paris Spain coded
Cuba to the United States, but the
latter refused to accept sovereignty over
the island, and demanded that she be
given independence and guarantees OF
her existence as a sovereign republic.
In order to pave the way for independ-
ence, and to establish the bases of
national organization, the American
troops remained three years in Cuba.
In this period much was done for the
sanitation of the country, the eStab-
lishment of public schools. the regula-
ton Of taxes, in short, the preparation
of the Cubans for f-government.
This mission having been completed,
the United States in 1902, to the aston
ishment of many skeptical Europeans,
who accused the United States of hav-
ing imperialiStic designs, withdrew from
the island and turned the government
over to the Cubans, with a promise to
guarantee their independence. In ex-
change for this guarantee, and for the
aid given in the liberation of Cuba, the
latter agreed to comply with the pro-
visions of certain clauses known as the
"Platt amendment" Cuba promised
not to grant territory to any foreign
country; not to contract more loans
than could be paid from her income;
to cede to the United States rights to
eStdDllSH naVal StaglonS at CeIId poLAIS
on the island. and also acknowledged !
the right of the United States to inter- |
vene politically when necessary to pro- |
tect the life and property of its citi- |
zens resident in Cuba, and to preserve |
order.
All these facts would be SUFFICIENT in |
themselves to make Cuba feel bound |
to the United States by very special |
ties, and would explain the inclination |
of the Cubans to favor the Saxon CIV |
ilization. But that Is not all. OF even
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Roles Played by Precio4

Of Aaron contained two onyx stones engrav
with the names of the Il tribes of Israel
the Apocalypse of the New Testament there
q description Of the New Jerusalem as follow
And the building Of the wall it was of jaspt
and the foundations of the wall Of the eli
they were garnished with all manner Of precio
stones" In the Had and the odyssey the
are passages describing the jewels of Juno, al
In modern times the display of gems at soci
functions often equals in Splendor the ma,
nificence Of ancient Rome ;.
It Is worth while to know something aboi
the origin OF these highly esteemed objects. J
the first place, all precious stones are transpa
ent, or at least translucent although it Is ir
possible TO distinguish absolutely between cor
mon precious stones and ordinary stones,
the processes OF nature are always gradu
The finer stones are called Oriental. and I'll
inferior ones Occidental. This classification
solely distinction Of quality and has nothiI
to do with the regions in which they are four
The reason for the distinguishing characte
1stic OF transparency or translucency is tn
precious stones are formed through the agen
OF heat or water. The majority are Of sill
or alumina. the diamond only being form
from carbon. These stones are found amo
1greouS rocks which have been pushed up frc
the earth'S interior in plastic state, groul
down through ages Of glacial periods into ii
regular peaks and cones, and reduced to Sal
by the disintegrating influence of ice and Noot
They are rarely found among great masses
rocks the destructive agencies to which I'll
latter have been subjected being evidence
their great age. In fact these much-deSr,
stones are far older than plants animals
man,
While In modern times the value Of ieWt
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VI OOulSS Oh diamond SmORgleTS,
the operations Of these gentry being
many and devious. Trafic in gems
has always been an occupation Of absorbing in
tereSt. and 1t is no wonder that it should attract
the talents Of the INSCRIPTIONS, both on account
OF the economic reward involved as well as the
fascination exerted by the stones themselves.
The fact is that brilliant objects have always
inspired man with passion for their posses
sion, and precious stones have occupied an i'm
portant position on account Of their form and
color. The history Of gems runs parallel to
that OF humanity and has been associated with
tthe development of religion and science from
the most remote times. Their connection with
the church can be traced from the offerings Of
jewels in temples Of the pagan gods to their
place by the end Of the fifteenth century as
the chief possession of the treasury" of Chris
tan churches.
At Rome there Is an emerald which was
sent to the Pope from Peru after the conquest
of that country by the Spaniards. In Egypt
finely cut gems, Skillfully engraved, have been
found beside mummies in tombs dating from
a remote era. The conquerors of Mexico found
many beautifully wrought stones among the
Incas cut and engraved with images from an
early epoch Of their history. The mythology
Of ancient India contains numerous references
to precious stones, and they are frequently
mentioned in the songs and ballads of that
people.
Among biblical references to gems are many
interesting passages. The vesture of the high
priest Ornamented with symbolic stones, was
made "1or beauty and for glory" The ephod
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
BY KATE HACOOD TOBIN.

UTE recently there has been mention
Of the doings Of diamond Smuggers,
the operations Of these gentry being
many and devious. Trafhc in gems
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
This Famous Authoress, Zona Gale,
Has Contributed One of Her Most Startling
Bits Of Fiction in <.BrIdalPoud"- Anofher
ofHe d. Henry Memorial Azvard Selections
Mil APpear in the Magazine of The
Star Next Sunday

"-HE Judge had just said Case dis
missed" and a sharp situation con-
H corning cheese had thus become neg
2, lgible when, before the next case on
=. &ha % Landau could he called IenS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-23

Every day there is some cacident.
l nave seen little girls of IS and
l6 get their hands smashed off and
q friend of mine got her middle
finger cut off and only got SIS
from the company. Every day they
would place new automatic machines
that would take the jobs away from
2 or workers.
Six years ago there were no wo-
men workers there and now there
are hardly any men. The women do
the same work on the machines for
less money. There isn't any organ
ization in this place so that when
there are big orders they hire all
the women they can get and in two
or three days they finish the order
and lay off the help. If there is
a good, strong working slave in the
bunch, they will keep her and put
her in place of the weakest one.
The girls have to push their own
truck full of steel to their working
place. In one word it is true that
this is hell because l am in it.
Only when we organize will we
be able to make this a better place
to work in.
l.. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-23
er1Velg Vote Militant Policy French United Labor Federation Congress
High Maternity Death
Rate Under Il. S. Slavery

The death rate from childbirth
has been higher in the U. S. than
in any other "civilized" country
sinse 1924, according to report
presented to the convention OF OBJ
stetricians at Memphis, Tenn, last
week.
For every 10000 women in the
U. S. giving birth to live infants,
IS of them die during childbirth.
The next highest rate is that of
Scotland, with SO maternal deaths
per 10000 live births. The lowest
rate was reported for The Neither
lands Belgium and Holland), with
% per 10000.
Sixty-five per cent of these deaths
are preventable. They are caused
by poisoning, due to improper care.
Only skilled attention during con-
finement and good care during the
period of pregnancy can prevent
such poisoning. Obviously, women
who are forced to work right up
to the last day cannot have such
care. Extremely high hospital rates
force working women to make use
Of unskilled midwifes.
AS abortlons inc the U. S. are il.
legal, no figures are available as
to the deaths due to this cause. il
is we'll known that many doctors
who have failed, get rich by charg.
ing working women extortionist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-23
WOMEN slave
IN Steel Mill
Wheeling Plant Pays
Low Wages
by a Worker Correspondent

I work in the Wheeling Steel
Corporation ten and a half hours
day, starting at in the morning
until half past five in the evening.
If we are one minute late, one half
hour is taken off from our time.
The wages are $3.50 a day. If
one stops to straighten their back
up or to take a breath the boss
in back of you starts to growl. You
are not allowed to speak to anyone
during working hours, but even if
you try to do so you cannot be
heard because of the terrible noise.
Your ears always hurt on the in
side. 1t is always foggy with
smoke.
Every piece of steel has to be
well-greased before it can go
through the press so that at night
ones body is all greasy and ones
tongue would stick in the mouth.
There is no time to wash the hands
before luch so that we have to eat
with our greasy hands, and our din
ing room is in the ladies toilet, not
dressing room, for there is none.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-23
Women in the Cotton Mills

The brazen clang of a bell rang
out and the children huddled closer
to the door. The great iron gate
swung slowly open to let out a
grimy, greasy horde of underfed
men, women and children. They
walked with shuffling step, as if
mother earth were as Shiny and
slippery as the floors of their mill
prison.
Said the superintendent to me,
married women make the best
workers; they are more docile and
settled" "Yes, children are en-
ployed, under ten years. The law is
nothing. Children are good help,
their fingers are small and can
handle the threads without. break
ing. eyes, 1 believe in children
working in the mills. My boy is in
this mill, couldn't keep him out.
Now, just come in an I'll show you
round" 2 -
followed the shuffling steps OF
the Cracker" superintendent into
the. mills. I looked on as he lifted
the, soft, white cotton from the wick
err crates awaiting the spindle.
"Fine!" said he, "My God! what a
place l cried. I cannot breathe
here. l cannot walk these Shiny
floors"
Clicked With Dust.
The looms started; the deadly buzz
began the atmosphere grew thicker
with the cotton lint. Choking, l
tried to talk, to ask questions, but
in vain. The noise of the machinery
drowned my speech. The smell of
the oil grew more offensive; felt
faint. The superintendent spoke,
"Do yu'uns want tn go out?' 'No,
no, not until I see and know more"
I replied.
Down the long weaving room we
went, between the Draper looms,
noting the very small children at
work. The superintendent boy, a
youngster of ten years, was chew
ing tobacco and splitting as dexter
ously as a bar room loafer. l saw
the STOPPING mothers; saw the
STOPPING fathers; saw the little,
little children, many of them girls,
painfully reaching up their thin
arms to tie the threads. There were
TO smiles on their faces, no hope in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-23
RUBBER WORKERS
81. DAILY
F 0 R SLAVERY
10 Hours Of Speedup
in Akron, Ohio.
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker spondcnD
After working a few weeks in the
large Goodrich Rubber factory, in
Akron, Ohio, l was able to under
stand the intense exploitation that
is prevailing here, where 10000 are
employed by Wall Street Bankers.
We are 20 per cent of women
workers, most of US working piece
work. The wages are very low
there is plenty of speed-up and the
hours are long. We have to work
very hard to earn 81 day for
10 hours work.
The work is dangerous. It con-
tains all sorts of strong gases that
iniure the workers health in a short
period of time. The worker also
contracts a chronic skin disease.
The place of work is hot and the
odor is bad, the air is impure.
The belt system keeps US busy
every minute of the day. The wo-
men workers are much more under
paid then the men workers. Many
of the women workers are the wives
of former employees of the plant,
who are now sick Of the incurable
skin disease and are unable to work.
The women workers became the sup
porters of the whole family; in most
cases very large ones.
The women workers are aware Of
the intense slavery. They are dis
contented. They are also conscious
Of the fact of the millions of profits
they produce for the company; con-
trolIed by Wall Street bankers who
will bring about the coming war.
Then gas masks and other objects
of war will be produced by women
workers mainly, who replace the
men during imperialist wars.
In order to do away with this
brutal exploitation of the women
workers, the long hours and small
wages, the exploitation under the
naturalization system, the women
workers as we'll as the men workers
must unionize their industry and
fight for a living wage and for
better conditions.
A WOMAN WORKER. !
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-23
ATTACK ON SAUD
OPENS WAY FOR
ARAB REBELLION
Yemen, Iraq, Trans
Jordania May Move

Many of the facts back of the
events in Arabistan are now being
admitted by capitalist press report
ers in Jerusalem and Beirut. The
latest is an explanation of the fail
ure of the Transjordanian and Iraq
tribes to invade Palestine in force.
The movement had started, &C
cording to yesterdays dispatches,
when the revolutionists against
British dominion had to stop in or
der to check a contemplated attack
by Ibn Saud, king of the Hedjaz
and Sultan Of Nejd, on Transfer
DANA. The Wahebi ruler has for
some time been pursuing an equi-
vocal course, now apparently in con-
flict with British Imperialism, and
then undoubtedly taking brides
from the British government.
However, his army, now mobil-
lied, of 10000, was such a menace
to the uprising in Transjordania, as
to be of objective aid to England
and helped to participate the rising
against him of the Mutain, Ujman
and Ateiba confederacies of tribes,
who remember aid given Britain in
1927 by this same Ibn Saud.
1t is frankly stated in government
offices in Jerusalem and Beirut
that if the king of the Hedjaz loses
battle which may be fought any
time soon, a gigantic anti-imperi-
alist movement of all Arabs will be
very probable.
The British labor party govern
ment is straining every effort to
save the British mandates in Meso-
potamia and Palestine. Palestine is
flooded with British troor-. In 1raQ
(Mesopotamia, where the Mosul oil
fields are located modifying tactics
are being tried.
A treaty with Iraq similar to that
with Egypt, admitting formal indie
pendence but keeping all the power
in British hands is in process of for
nation. An Iraq nationalist party
is gaining strength every day, how
ever, and has forced its way into
the cabinet, where the proposed min
lister of finance is known as a Wig
irous anti-British man.
The state of Yemen, the only Arab
state which has treaty with the
U. S. S. R., is determinedly against
British influence in Arabistan but
has been cramped under the menace
of Ibn Saud's Wahabi empire to the
northward. If saud collapses, Yem-
en- might add its power to an Ara
bian nationalist government, the i'm
perialist observers fear ~,..-e
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-23
What to Do for the
| Defense of the 16
GastOnia Prisoners

Hold mass protest meet
ings!
2.-Mobilize for the mass col
lection days, Sept. Fl and %!
Send resolutions of protest
and kilograms of greeting to
prisoners at Mecklenburg County
Jail, Charlotte, North Carolina.
4.-Build International Labor
Defense units!
5.-Build Workers International
Relief units!
6.-Tell your neighbors, shop
mates, friends of Gastonia!
Build a united front in the
shops, factories and mines!
8.-No let-up until all the Gas
tonia prisoners are freed from
the danger of lynch-law or legal
lynching!
The Gast0nia Joint Defense
and Relief Campaign Com
mittee, 80 East 18th St.,
New York City.
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rates for abortions. But even so,
it is the only escape for women who
cannot afford large families nor
take advantage of expert birth con-
troll information. Poisoning also
often results from such abortions,
and from women's attempts to
cause miscarriages through artifi-
cial means.
In the Soviet Union, where wo-
men are given every chance for
freedom, working women and the
wives of workers get skilled medical
attention free. During confinement
they are given the best of hospital
service. Working women get six
weeks before and after confinement
release from work with pay.
After a mother in the Soviet IN
ion returns to work, there is clean,
sunny day nursery for the baby.
At the proper time the mother
leaves her work to nurse her child.
She leaves the shop a half an hour
earlier than the other workers, in
order to get home before the crowd,
and to have extra time to care for
the baby.
Only when the workers of the U.
S. establish a Soviet Republic will
the women here be able to have
a chance to have healthy babies
without danger or worry to them
! selves.