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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-10
The Once Over
WHEN MIR. FoRD's SET A DAY MINIMUM wAGl
OME TRUE

Copyright, 1880, BY The Associated Newspapers)
CThe automobile magnate predicts a SGT a day
minimum wage for the wozkingman by 1850 with q
five-day week.
Scene: The lobby Of an exclusive hotel. Two
workingmen, Gus and Steve, who have gone there for
a s. lunch. meet and chat.
Gus: Hello. Steve. How are things?
Steve: Oh, just fair.
Gus: Anything wrong down at the shop?
Steve: Oh. no. the jobs all right. but I'm having
trouble with my polo ponies.
Gus: Risky hobby, this raising polo ponies, Steve.
Steve: Yes. it's too much worry.
Gus: You're still working down at the gas works,
I suppose.
Steve: Oh, yes.
Gus: Like it?
steve: Pretty well, but the plant garages are in
adequate.
Gus: What's wrong?
Steve: They're too short for the mems cars.
Gus: Eow's the wife?
Steve: Fine. I heard from her today. She's win
tering on the Riviera. And yours?
Gus: She's at Baden-Baden.
Steve: Are the kiddies with her7
Gus: No, the two boys are on a trip around the
world and the daughter is doing the Italian Lake
region. Travel broadens one so.
Steve: It's one Of the few satisfactions a working
mans family gets out Of life.
Gus: Are you still living at the same place?
Steve: No. I left the Ritz last spring. I'm in a
penthouse now.
Gus: Like il?
Steve: I wasn't crazy for 1t, but the boss thought
I ought to have 1t. He insists there's nothing like a
river view to bring out the best that's in a work
ingman.
Gus: Pretty good boss, Ell?
Steve: Yes. but he's funny about some things.
Gus: How so?
Steve: Doesn't like it If the men come to work
without their raccoon coats. Odd Dick. But means
well. How're things down at the brass mill?
Gus: We're having a little union trouble now.
Steve: What about?
Gus: The union wants a golf links connected with
the grounds.
Steve: Won't the employer agree to that?
Gus: Sure. but he wants the men to BUY THEIR
OWN GOLF BALLS
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TIE NAN STEM
Intimate Glimpses of the Valleys Alley

Along Elizabeth -. Billy Burnett Wants to Know .... A Nice Joke
About n Headless Man .- Dog Days and Fido 49,.
About Mushrooms ~ An idea. !. And Roads
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Enough 70 turn around right
now and smile?"
There was no use. she couldn't
pretend to quarrel. Celia didn't
want to quarrel with Jordan any
way. she wanted to 90 on talking.
saying little things In a way which
meant so much.
The resolves Of last night were
forgotten. When the tennis players
were exhausted and they all walk
ed back TO the house tc--ther. Celia
was addressing Jordan ms Tod
Mrs. Parsons met them on the
porch.
Celia she said. * have news
for YOU"
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said. 1T will be all right II I don't
go with the others. won't it? I'm
really sleepy"
Just as you wish, OF course"
Celia disappeared. A little later
from her upstairs window she heard
shouts Of laughter and then the
sound Of the car going down the
driveway.
SO this was a fashionable house
party! The evening had been MOTH
ing at all like Celia had imagined 1t
beforehand. She stood BY the win
dow q moment looking out at the
bright moonlight. Then she went
To the dressing table, slipped out Of
her lovely pink frock and presently
was ready for bed.
With her chiffon negligee about
her Celia perched on the foot OF
the bed. feet curled beneath her.
She took Barney'S letter from her
purse and spread out the pages.
Then she re-read the whole letter
carefully.
Barney" she whispered softly
when she had finished. "Oh, Bar
neyl"
For a Tor. time Celia sat looking
at the cruz. pied envelope. Finally
she folded the pages. tucked them
away and put the letter again IN her
purse. After that she turned the
light out and slipped into bed.
She lay with her eyes open, star
inE I'D az the black ceiling. There
was so much in this new world that
Celia Mitchell did not understand.
She went to sleep az last. but 1t
raj not Barney Shields the girl
was thinking OF as she dropped off
to slumhcr. 1t was Tod jordan and
that unIorgettable moment in the
moonlight.
When Celia came downstairs next
morning, wearing the little white
tennis frock Mrs. Parsons had
bought for her. there was no one
else in sight.
Hilda. the maid she had seen the
day before. told her that breakfast
was ready. Celia went into the
dining room and Hilda brought her
fruit. toast and coffee.
After that Celia wandered out on
the big porch. II was after nine
o'clock. but she saw no one. The
garden was beautiful in the sun
light. Celia followed the cobble-
stone path, pausing 70 watch the
goldfish in their pool. and then
strolling on among the flowers. II
was an informal garden. perfectly
suited TO the rambling house and
broad grounds.
The day would be warm. no doubt,
but the morning breeze made IL
perfect. There was a path Celia
had not inspected the day before.
Now she followed IL.
She heard a shout and looked
about quickly. Over the shrubbery
ahead she caught sight Of a flash
ing bit of motion.
Tennisl OF course. These must
be the tennis courts she had heard
Jimmie Webster talking about last
night.
Now she saw them. "A man and
a girl on either side of the net in
frantic pursuit Of the tiny. spin
ming ball. III was Lisi and Web
ster. The players were too intent
on their game TO note the specta-
tor. Lisi served smashingly. and
Webster's racket sent the ball spin
ming back into an impossible COR
ner. List returned 1t. over and
back again. Over and back.
Celia watched. spellbound. She
had never seen such skillful ten
mis- playing. Az last. when the game
was finished she waved and came
forward.
Lisi paused a moment to call a
cheerful greeting. and then the set
was resumed. Celia sat on a bench
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She knew Tod Jordan had come up
behind her even before he spoke,
and she had made UP her mind not
to dance again with Jordan.
mo, thanks" she said. Tim
t-st q little tired"
He stood IN front OF her then so
she could not avoid his eyes. Per
fectly straightforward his gaze
w=s. One might have thought they
had just met.
Then let's sit over there" he
suggested. nodding toward a rat
tan porch seat in the shadows
Il prefer the moonlight"
In that case SO do T."
The porch rail was wide enough
to make a comfortable seat. Celia
had seated herself and was lean
ing against the corner pillar. She
had no idea how becoming the pose
was. Jordan looked down on her
I j.: a few moments, then dropped
to the rail and sat facing her. He
studied her face before he spoke.
Eve BROOKS thinks / like you
too we'll" he said in that slow, oddly
stirring tone.
The girl eyed him inquiringly
Surely you understand that little
scene OF Ewes" he went on. Il
hope you didn't let IL disturb you
No n else would, that Is, no one
who knows Eve Brooks"
"Oh, mol didn't mind"
Celia spoke quite as casually now
as the man.
\ That's right" Jordan said. You
see Eve. poor thing. is somewhat OF
a cat. It's just as well to know that
II you're going 10 be around her
much. She's got the idea that I'm
interested in you"
There was a pause. timed roman
tically, then Jordan added softly,
N"there's someone else not very far
away ! wish I could persuade to
believe the same thing"
Celia was IN her feet.
Excuse me. please" she said. Il
almost forgot There's something
I want to speak to Lisi about"
Then, with her heart pounding.
she hurried away. Celia could not
risk coming under Tod Jordan's
spell again. His presence made her
feel guilty.
She avoided him the rest of the
evening. This, she was a bit sur
prised 10 learn, was not difficult.
Jordan did not even ask her TO
dance again.
Celia joined Lisi and Walter Carr.
who was describing his experiences
as an amateur airplane pilot. Lisi
declared she too was going TO enter
q lying school. Already she had a
fund of technical information and
asked Carr q great many questions.
The radio program switched from
dance music TO monologue and q
member Of the party, in disgust.
turned IL off. Jordan had been
dancing with Kate Duncan. Now
they joined the group.
Listen" Lisi looked I'D impul-
sively. The party's getting stale.
I know what let's do-let's 60 SWIM
mingl"
But Lisi!" demonstrated her sis
ter. its midnight"
WAA1b "a AZ Aln Oily lWO ull4cS
to the club. And there won't be a
crowd around. / want a swim. Who
else is going2
Courtney Brooks and Webster were
enthusiastic over the idea. There
was some discussion and then the
two men yer off to get cars. Celia
Mitchell, who had been listening in
alarm, looked about for Mrs. Par
sons. She was chatting with Jor-
dan, apparently content to see her
guests take entertainment into their
own hands.
Celia edged away. When the OPP
p~ortunity came, before the cars had
arrived, she touched Mrs. Parsons
arm.
Il think I'll slip upstairs she
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O<&hA AAELG 4008y
Celia Mitchell, IL. faces q new
life when she leaves the home in
Baltimore Of her widowed mother,
Margaret Rogers. to join her faith
er, John Mitchell, and her grand
mother in a stately New York
dwelling.
The girl had not even known
her father was living until the day
he came to the Baltimore apart
ment. Celia had supposed Bob Rog-
ers, her mothers second husband, TO
be her father. Mitchell offers the
girl a life of wealth and imme-
diately everything changes. She
leaves her mother, unaware that
Mrs. Rogers is seriously III and she
leaves Barney Shields, ambitious
young newspaper photographer, who
swears that some day he and Celia
will be married.
The girl is lonely and iii at ease
in her new home. Mitchell finds
her in tears and is worried. He ap-
peals to Mrs. Evelyn Parsons. beau
tiful widow whose husand had been
Mitchell's close friend. Mrs. Par
sons agrees to introduce Celia TO
the right set Of young people though
1t Is obvious she regards the girl
as a means TO gain Mitchfll's af-
fectionS.
To this end she invites Celia to
spend a weekend at her Long
Island home. Among the other
guests Is Tod Jordan, a handsome
and fascinating young man who
devotes himself to Celia.
Now Go On With The Story
CHAPTER XIX
Jordan drew the girl quickly to-
ward him. In that swift instant
Celia was conscious only Of the
hypnotic gaze that held her. She
had no thought Of resisting as Jor-
dams arm pressed closer. He bent
his head
AT that very moment. as though
timed by a stage director, the
French windows were thrown back
and a figure appeared. silhouetted
IN a flood OF light. Eve Brooks
throaty laughter pealed out on the
night.
Look at what I've found!" she
cried. "Romeo-and II it isn't little
Juliet out here rehearsing the bal
cony scenei Come on, everybody,
this Is a better place to dance than
inside"
The others crowded after Eve.
Celia had drawn away from Jordan
IN embarrassment. The young man,
entirely undisturbed, remained
where he was. cody smiling. Eve
Brooks approached him, her eyes
mccking.
Your turn next. Jordan said
casually. and as the radio orches-
ira again began its tempestuous
blues harmonies, the pair moved
off in a fox trot.
Want to dance?" Jimmie Web
steT asked Celia.
She didn't want to. What Celia
wanted was to slip away where no
one could see how her cheeks were
burning and ask herself how in the
world she had come so near 10
forgetting herself. forgetting Bar
ney Shields. forgetting everythingl
She knew Jordan had been about
TO kiss her. She had not even tried
to stop him! The swift reaction was
shame and remorse.
Gradually Celia was able to con-
quer her confusion. She danced
with Walter Carr and again with
Webster.
Mrs. Parsons had disappeared.
Kate Duncan and Courtney Brooks
were sitting in the shadows al the
far end OF the porch. Lisi was try
ing TO perform a sailors hornpipe
with coaching from the sidelines.
Try this with me?"
The orchestra tnd begun another
waltz. Celia did not turn her head.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-10
Elmer Twitchen's Daily Editorial No. S


The country Is now showing keen interest in the
Worlds Series. This is an annual event. It is par
ticipated in by two teams Of athletes. The game is
known as baseball. The team winning the most
games becomes the champion. This is as it should
be and the country will offer no serious criticism.
Outdoor sports are good for athletes and for spec
tators. They do the average man no harm and may
do him good. This is a matter for scientists to de-
termine.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. People
who do not enjoy themselves occasionally are apt
to be unhappy. Sunshine and fresh air are helpful
TO the human system. When a man is sitting in a
baseball park watching a ball game he is away from
the office or shop. He is not confined indoors. HI
can't be reached by telephone. This Is a pleasant SEN
sation- If more people went to ball games there
would be fewer people In offices. This would make
them less crowded. The elevators would be less con-
gested at the close Of the business day. People herd
ed into elevators feel uncomfortable. In making the
Worlds Series an annual event. America Is on the
right track. We are a free people. We would do
well TO contemplate on that.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-10

Nearly 100000 persons have
visited the washington monument
since IL was opened TO the public In
1879.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-10

The United States spends three billion dollars a
year for bootleg drinks. Don't sell the varnish. piano
polish and cleaning fluid stocks shortl
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Mussolini is for the death penalty for spectators
who bring on a financial crisis. He would possibly
execute them by a firing squad composed Of midgets
SO they would be with the shorts" to a finish.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13
Shot That Killed Ella May
Still Echoes Round the World
BY ALFRED WAGENKNECHT

Fila MAY lived in a small factory town.
When the National Textile Workers Union
AMI the International Labor Defense began
their "speakings" in Bessemer City, N. c., first
upon rear lot and then right out upon the
main road, facing Godbergs textile mills
where Ella May worked, it was then that Ella
May began to live.
She lived an eventful year, crowded with
union and |. L. d. tasks and the achievements
which her strongly awakened class conscious
ness allowed her frail body to carry as "work,"
which although more difficult and dangerous,
more important and necessary to her than
the best job in the mill. She became part of
the revolutionary tide that is sweeping the
South.
Ella May and the Gastonia strike are like
the two eyes in your head They belong to-
gether; they have one focal point deep down
among the broad masses of workers in many
countries who daily, with growing revolution
amy understanding, are fighting and striking
as Ella May knew so well how to do.
The textile bosses shot Ella May. The bour-
geois city of Gastonia shot Ella May. The
State of North Carolina shot Ella May. Wash
ington, D. c., shot Ella May. And since the
Gastonia strike and the shooting of Ella May?
In India, in French Indo- China, in South
America in the Philippines, everywhere, the
enslaved colonial workers and peasants are
fighting or preparing to fight under the red
banner of revolt. The immense strikes in i'm
perialist countries and the wave of strikes in
this country-all this is lifting of the sod
to dig the grave for capitalism. All these
struggles AMI battles are part of Ella May
Ella May stands out as a revolutionary
working class symbol upon which is engraved
Workers, join the red trade unions of the
Trade Union Unity League! Organize and strike
against wage cuts! Workers, build the Inter
national Labor Defense into a mass organza-
ton to keep class war fighters out of JAIL to
release the class war fighters in Jail"
Ella May will speak at all l. L. d. meetings
on September Ia, held to commemorate the
first anniversary of her murder by the south
ern bosses. She'll speak about the South, the
oppression of the workers and farmers, the
mill slavery, the arrests and convictions and
possible death sentences organizers face,
about the Negro lynchings sponsored by bosses
and their political lackeys in an attempt to
stem the tide of working class loyalty among
the Negro race
The shot that killed Ella May is still being
heard from coast to coast yes, around the
world and will continue to be heard until the
workers win the world
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13

are breaking out at the present time are strug-
gle against wage cuts, fight against the clear
up system, which is one of the forms of ra-
tionalization introduced in the mines, for recog
milton Of the M.O.S.W.I.U. which includes the
recognition of mine committees. the establish
ment of check weighmen, the establishment of
the 6-hour day and 5-day week in the mining
industry.
The coal operators have organized wage
cutting campaign to reduce to a still lower
level the present low standard of living of the
coal miners. The main task of the union in the
present period is to organize the struggle of
the miners against these wage-cuts, and to
turn the struggle into fight for higher wages
This must be connected with the struggle
for the Workers Social Insurance Bill and par
ticularly with the demand that the war funds
be used for social insurance The correction
of the major shortcomings mentioned above
is a prerequisite for the development of the
MO.S.W.IU. into mass organization in the
mining industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13

"Pcor Fish," G'wan.
Rv JORGE

The unemployed workers may starve to
death and to the devil with them. But fish
have special privileges. A comrade who reads
the capitalist press with an eye for our sort
of thing happened to be reading some July
papers, and found that on July the New
JERSEY senate "sheved" resolution to in
vestigate" the unemployment situation Even
investigation" was too much for Dwight Nor
rows state to give the unemployed. But that
is not to say that Jersey capitalists have
no heart, They have. But it's for fish. Be
cause the Evening Graphic on July 9, the next
day after the iobless were told to go hungry,
ran the following news item;
Trenton. N. Trout and bass which
are being brought up by the State Fish and
Game Commissioner to provide sport for
fishermen, dine on steak and buttermilk,
Budget Commissioner John Reddan told to-
day. Reddan said that recently bill for
$4,000 for fish food seemed to him high
enough TO feed the fish pOrterhOuse steaks"
SO the venerable commissioner investigated
he said and-well, let him tell it, because he's
no Bolshevill and can't be accused of "exag
geration." He said:
''We went up there (to the home for I'M
employed fish--EdtOr0 and were convinced
they were actually feeding the fish porter
house steaks. They also feed them butter
milk. 1t is an interesting thing"
We should say it is interesting! You job
less workers! Don't you wish you were fish,
to get porterhouse But then capitalist
"sportsmen" aren't cunning for you--yet.
But they will if you get rebellous next Win
ter
Still not all. But the Hoover government,
not that of mere state, is responsible, though
the story begins in New Jersey, as follows:
NEWARK, n MANY ex-sodiers
come crying that their families have absO-
lutely nothing to eat says Harry c. Eaton
of the L. S. employment office for veterans
here Many of them threatened with
eviction for non-payment of rent
Meanwhile, an Associated Press dispatch
from Washington on Sept. 5, tells us:
Fifty million fish whose lives were en-
dangered by the drought have been saved by
the government. Lewis Radcliffe deputy
commissioner of the Bureau of Fisheries,
said that this number of fish had been taken
from the streams in the Upper Mississippi
Valley and transplanted into the Mississippi
River"
Who says poor Fish?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13
The Programmatic Declaration OF
! the German Communist Party

of the Versailles Treaty, the Dawes Pact, the
Locarno Treaty, the Kellogg Pact and the
Young Plan expressed the same ideas? Does
not this manifesto breathe the same spirit of
living Leninism which has realized national
and also social emancipation for $50 peoples
constituting the population of the Soviet
Union? The ideas contained in the program
matte declaration not new. This does not,
however, lessen the great international i'm
portance of this manifesto, which consists of
the fact that, while ruthlessly exposing the
national and social-fascist agents of the ex
plotting class it sets forth the task of the
social and national emancipation of the toilers
of Germany as one and indivisible whole.
International Struggle.
The Communist Party of Germany declares
plainly and openly: The German working class
will win its national and social emancipation
in brotherly alliance with the proletariat of
other countries. The inner-political develop
ment of Germany is matter which concerns
to very great extent the working class of
the other countries. There is no need to point
out what disastrous consequences the setting
up of a fascist dictatorship in Germany would
have for the workers of France, Belgium Eng
land and other countries. But at the same
time 1T is equally obvious that the setting up
OF Socialist Soviet State in Germany would
open up a new phase of world historical de-
velopment for the workers of all countries
The national fascist agents of German cap
italism wish by lying nationalist and anti
semitic phrases to divert the toiling masses
from their task-the social revolution Against
them there is opposed the Manifesto of the
Communist Party of Germany. The Commu-
mist Party of Germany says: where is your
program of national and social emancipation?
You have none; you have only phrases, only
deception But here is our program, which we
shall realize just as it has always been realized
by victorious Bolshevism over one-sixth of the
globe. Here is our program of emancipation;
now you must show your colors."
Won't Defend Exporters
There can be no national emancipation with