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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
PAINTERS VOTE
TO GUST VOL
ALL. Local Sends Two
to F.S.U. Conference

NEW YORK.-Painters Union,
Local 499, affiliated with the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, at its last
regular meeting elected two dele
gates to the Friends of the Soviet
Union conference to be held at the
Manhattan Lyceum, &C East Fourth
St., Thursday, September 4, at 1880
p. m. In spite of the objection and
intrigues of the reactionary forces
in the local, two rank and fill work
ers were elected. Representatives
of industrial and trade unions,
fraternal organizations, workers
clubs and Negro organizations will
be at the conference which will
mobilize for the defense of the
Soviet Union and for the success of
the Five-Yea Plan.
Demand to Gust WOll.
The meeting of Painters Local
400 also went on record in favor
of the removal of Matthew Woll,
as vice president of the A. F. of l..
The resolution points out that by
his anti-Soviet Union stand, Woll
has branded himself as an enemy
of the working class movement.
Painters Local 400 has about 900
members. Fully 60 per cent are
unemployed. The local not only
ordered its resolution sent to Green
and Vol, but to the Painters dis
trict council, controlled by Zausner.
What Zausner's gang will do with
it is predetermined, but the bylaws
require that they send copies of it
to every local in the district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

NEW YORk.-All preparations
are now complete for the fall ant
winter terms for the Workers
School, the central school OF the
Communist Party. The study
courses have been carefully organ
lied to fill the needs of every mln-
tant working class organization, and
of every revolutionary worker. This
year the school has succeeded in
finally grading the courses so as to
provide workers with a systematic
training in the fundamental theory
and practice of Marxism and Lenin-
ism. The many Important and care
fully selected courses are graded
also for the purpose of establishing
a complete MarXian.Leninist educa-
ton, leading from the elementary
principles to advanced study OF
theoretical and tactical problems
The school has selected groups OF
courses for workers active in par
ticular fields of activity in the class
struggle.
One of the essential features OF
the school this year, instituted fol-
the first time, is the two years
functionaries course. The curricu-
lum for this course is arranged tc
give functionaries in the Communist
Party training which will equip
them with the essentials of Marxist-
feminist theory for more politically
competent and important work
Similarly with the other courses fol-
functionaties in the revolutionary
unions, for workers active in work
among Negroes, women and youth
as well as for workers in mass or
ganizations generally.
Group Scholarships.
The Trade Union UniJy League
and workers mass organizations art
especially invited to discuss with
the Workers School the question Of
establishing group scholarships toi
their fanetionaries, especially fol
promising militant worker capable
of being trained for important posts
in their organization.
In line with the concentration Of
the school on its central aim, t
supply the needs of the revolution
ary movement, many new course;
have been established, while tht
rest have been adopted to the re
ouirements Of the class struggle il
this period Of the rapid decline o.
capitalism, and sharp m a
struggles. Some of the most i'm
portant courses, besides "Organlza
ton Principles" Fundamentals o
Communism" IS h p Methods,
Public Speaking" "rrade Unioi
Problems" principles of Marxisr
and Leninism," "MarXism Econ
omics," program Of the Conlmu
mist International" Finance Cay
ital and Imperialism" ETC., Ell
Among the instructors this year az
some Of the best known headers Q
the revolutionary moyem-nt, ans
Marxists in this country. Ear
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
Labor ard F~"tnrnf

Midnight Performance.
"The End of st. Petersburg" /;
Sovkino movie, Saturday, August ,
1890, 1880 p. m. at Brighton Plas
house, 273 Brighton Beach Ave, un
der auspices of Women's Council
No. II, Brighton Beach.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

Demand the release of Eos
ter, Minor. Amter and Ray
mond, in prison for fightine
for unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

"A tnf ma nm concerned cam
.aIn 10 hase discovered the ex
strnce OF rlnssPS in modern S0ciefN
r their strife against one another
Iiddle Glass historiaDs lang aGi
;eSrrIbed the evolution ~ the elias
strHggiPS and poIitirn, pr0nomists
showed the ec0nouir phy sioiOgg a
The classes ! have added az q new
'OntrihntiOD the Following prGpo%i
iionsi ~ that the existence oi
-lnssPs IL bound up With rerfniI
ohn<es Of materinI pfoductians 2
thpt the class struggle leads peces
snr1Is TO the dictatorship Of tbt
srnietnrfai 81 that this dictatorshit
= hut the transition 80 the. nboli
lion Hi nil Glasses and the or
ttinn oi n sorfpty OF FREE and rausl
Marx
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-10
Today in
Washington History
BY DONALD A. CRAIG.

February 10, IS64.-A fire broke out
in the private stables of President Lin
coin about $50 o'clock tonight, and all
OF the building except the part used
for carriage house was destroyed Six
horses-all that were in the brick build
ing at the time-were burned to death.
Two of the horses, of a brown color
we're the private property of the Presi-
cent. pair OF blooded bay horses
was owned by Mr.. Nicolay, the Presi
dents private secretary. The other two
animals were the ponies used by the
Presidents son, Tad" Lincoln. One
of these ponies was all the more highly
priced because it was once the prop
erty of Willie Lincoln, the Presidents
deceased son. Three carriages were
saved from destruction.
Cooper, the Presidents private COACH
man, left the stable to get his supper
about 8 o'clock. He was first notified of
the fire by the President himself, who
discovered the smoke. Before any one
could reach the stable it was in flames.
Early in the evening Mr.. Nicolay had
given orders to the coachman to have
his carriage in readiness at 8 o'clock,
put the order was countermanded be-
fore the coachman left the stable. But
for that fact he might have been in the
stable at the time the fire started and
lts origin and perhaps would have been
able to put it out quickly.
A large crowd collected as soon as
the alarm was given, and the different
engines and fire companies we're on the
ground in short time. Owing to the
combustible nature of the material in
the stable, little could be accomplished
other than prevent the further spread
OF the flames. The large quantity of
old timber in the rear of the Treasury
Building made this task. 1t is esti-
mated that it will cost about $4,000
to replace the stables.
Cooper, the Presidents hackman, lost
between 5000 and $500 in gold which
he had in a trunk in the stable, and
most of his clothing.
During the fire Col. L. c. Baker, pro-
vost marshal of the War Department.
was seriously injured by the explosion
Of a gas pipe, the building having been
lighted by gas.
The fire is supposed to have been the
work of an incendiary. The police ar
rested man named Patterson MCGEE
on suspicion. He was formerly coach
man for the President and was seen
hanging around the stables during the
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-10
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and Wife
Aided By
This Plan
Newlyweds Who Vowed to Speak Only to Each
Other for Six Months Are Attempting
Dangerous Enterprise.

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for nS too a s At @ the R B Seaua face s too Wg'a Of m
defects fleets listen to
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strange that a s0S a 0o' WS D5ac Ss' married life and
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count on him to complete twosome or
foursome.
And his secretary and others of his
office force will unheSitatingly tell you
that he works necessarily.
Senator Capper is not the type of man
who would attract the attention of a
visitor to the Senate gallery very quick
ly. In the first place, he has very little
10 say on the floor. He sits quietly at
his desk, few feet from the Vice Presi-
dent, either listening casually to debate
or else lingering sheaf of papers. He
pays little attention to dress. usually
wearing blue serge suit and soft shirt,
the color OF the shirt sometimes a light
blue.
His most outstanding physical char
acter1stlc, apart from his slight figure,
IS his eyes. They are large and help to
accentuate the nildness of his face.
At heart he is still the newspaper
man more than the politician. and he
delights in talking of his experiences
as a printers devil, then reporter, then
editor and publisher.
One of his favorite stories is how he
was sent to cover a yacht race while
reporting fer a New York newspaper
when he had never seen the sea, and
the closest thing to a boat he knew
anything about was a prairie schooner.
But he got the story nevertheless, and
his fresh viewpoint made a decided hit
with his city editor.
He owes his first job on a newspaper
that OF typeSetter-to the fact that he
applied for it on pay day. It was in
the days before prohibition, when print
ers had a habit of not showing up for
work on the day they got their pay.
Today he owns a daily newspaper in
topeka, hanS., as well as several other
He got his start in life
with $3.50 in cash and a watch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-10
AS ON MANY OTHER OCCASIONS UNLOOsE
TEMPEST

Abraham Lincoln accepted the way
ward manifestations of Mrs. Lincolns
temper with patient calm.
During an important state confer
ence the door opened and a servant said
to the President, Mrs. Lincoln wants
YOU"
Yes, yes" replied Mr.. Lincoln with
out Impotence.
The conference continued. Quickly
the door reopened. There was the same
servant.
"she wants you right away" he re-
peated earnestly.
The imperious disposition Of Mrs.
Lincoln was largely to blame for such
unhappineSs as came to her But her
marriage was of the sort that produces
events to try the temper.
She came of an aristocratic, cultured
family. Abraham Lincoln's birth and
upbringing were humble. He was from
first to last a man of homely action and
speech.
After he had won her hand from his
rival-in politics as well as in love-
Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln so doubted
his ability to make Mary Todd happy
that he failed to show up for his we'd
ding. 1t speaks volumes for her faith
in him and her love for him that she
forgave this humiliation and became
his wife.
She seems actually to have believed
her husband would become President.
But while she waited for the realization
of her ambitions Mr.. Lincoln wandered
in the foreground Of her consciousness,
guilty of a succession of acts antitheti-
cal to her ariStocratic notions.
He answered the doorbell in his shirt
sleeves instead of sending a servant
He used his own knife in the butter
instead of the silver handled one in
tended for the purpose. When he read
he liked to lie on the floor with the
back of an upturned chair for a pillow.
Two ladies once knocked at the door
of the Lincoln home In Springfield. Mr.
Lincoln, coatleSs and vestless, admitted
them and escorted them to the parlor.
Take a seat" he said, land I'll trot
the women folks out"
Mrs. Lincoln overheard this ungrace-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-10
WINTERTIME
BY ID. c. PEATTnE.

A walk through the Winter woods
can grow swiftly dreary. A mans foot
steps, cracking on the twigs. rustling
through the leaves, sound to the wood
inhabiting wild things as loud as the
footballs of an army going down steel
corridors.
A man can create a desert and a
total silence around him very easily,
and If he takes a dog and a gun, he
will not see a squirrel or a tree-creeper,
nor hear even crow. Presently the
silvery monotony of dead branches
the pail OF dead leaves on the forest
floor becomes almost hostile, and final
ly even the twirling of a little rudy,
brown leaf. caught on some spiders
thread, seems like something alive and
therefore comforting.
To escape the sense of being lonely
in a crowd, it is necessary to have
speaking acquaintance with the plant
people, whose faces, looking up at you,
are really very friendly if you have
eyes for them. Though almost the
last partridge-berry has been devoured
by the birds, and scarce seed pod has
not scattered its contents, there are
many living plants in the Winter woods
and though l am not sure, think
they do some growing even at this
season of year.
Not only are there the MOSES and
the lichens. but there is far more
amusing and important class of plants,
the fungi. Winter is not a time to
see mushrooms, but it is a splendid
time of year for bracket fungi, those
thick, shelf-like, drab-colored fellows
growing out from StumpS and trunks,
While it is true that these fantastic
fungi are parasitiZing the heartwood,
slowly decomposing it to state pic
turesquely called "touch-wood," the
decorative fungus may not be doing
any great harm. The sap wood grows
on unframed. and the tree may finally
be quite followed out by the bracket
fungi. and still sand firm.
There seems to be no limit to the
size that. around my house, bracket
fungi will sometimes attain. 1 once
found one, covered with snow, that was
as large and heavy as an ordinary
mattress. Theoretically, a bracket
fungus might live several centuries, and
probably they do for if they attacked
| young oak. grew up with the oak, and
| lived on 1t during its long decay, they
might easily go back to the days be-
fore Columbus.
No sooner do people hear that a
plant is parasite, than the are filled
with a horror of 1t. I see nothing
! particularly disgraceful in the condi-
! ton itself. We all live by killing and
eating other organisms. A parasite Is
different only in this, that it settles
down on its food and lives there-a
! mode of life that many humans would
follow if it were possible.
All things, oaks and nations alike,
have their forces of decay destruction
or removal This is indeed necessarily
so, since it is an axiom in the phi
losophy of biology that nothing shall
live forever, that all things change, that
change is progress, or, if it is not
progress. it is at least not stagnation.
AS between an oak and a thieving, &C.
centric, fat, delicious old bracket
fungus, find that the fungus, on a
Winters walk. proves to be the more
entertaining companion.
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city, quite far enough away to make
the whole thing delightfully."- comfort
able at salary of $4,000!
Almost any husband who knows he
has lost the lady. anyway, will say what
he's told to for $50 900 per. And ]
have dim, silly feeling that 1 was
fooled when the collegiates all yelled
that there was no other man or woman
in the case. College spirit is all right
now ard then. But journalism is Jour-
nalism, even If 1t can't survive this
higher education without becoming very
denatured.
Then there's the blond comedienne
who has ropes of pearls, chains of dia-
monds, more cars than she can count
on the rosy fingertips of both hands,
houses here and apartments there, the
court OF queen. And-a neat little
gold case built into the back of her
super-limousine to hold several pack
ages of her favorite gum!
Hollywood has gone in for ice sculp-
ture in great big way. Favorite cafes
specialize in glacial swans sitting down
In lakes of lettuce leaves, elephants
carved In Ice, and such fancies.
But when Oscar Strauss was to be
honored at luncheon there was moth
ing to it but to have a chocolate SOL
der" in ice for the center of the table
A sculptor in fur mittens worked all
night in room just 10 degrees above
Zero But the ice soldier was there,
splck and span, and languidly melting
IN the warmth of the brilliant repartee.
You can get a new face in Hollywood
this week for SIS. The Spring sale is
on. Peeling generally costs SIS. 1.-The
chance OF lifetime" says the adj
Shed that old skin"
Why not? It's been done in the best
reptilian circles for years and years.
tCopyrtght. 1890. by North American News
paper Alliance.)
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smart, not concerning themselves at all
about its individual application. So
while in any group of well dressed
Frenchwomen you may count a dozen
different shapes and notifications, in a
group of as many well dressed Ameri-
leans some one or two standardized
types of hat prevail.
This season there are many smart
shapes from which to choose. There
are the new cloches that shade the fore
head; there are turbans and berets of
many sorts. as we'll as the bonnetlike
hats that leave the forehead bare. So
even though you do not take the time
to have your hats made to order, there
is really no excuse for not selecting a
shape that is becoming.
This weeks help for the home dress
maker shows how a large silk or cotton
square may be used to make a smart
collar and cuff trimming for the Spring
If you would like copy, please send
your stamped. self-addressed envelope
to Mary Marshall, care of this paper
and it will be forwarded to you at once
(Copyright, 1902
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-10
A Sermon for Today
Christian COURTESY.
By REV. JOHN r. GUM.


BE courteous."-I Pet. iii. 8.
Hail, We small sweet courtesies of
life, for smooth do We make the road
Of it."
If there is any place where we have
the right to expect these small sweet
courtesies," certainly it is among Chris
tian people.
One writes: christianity is designed
to refine and soften; to take away the
heart OF stone and to give us hearts
of flesh; to polish off the rudeness and
arrogance Of our manners and temperS,
and to make us blameless and harm
less, the sons of God, without rebuke."
1t is disappointing, therefore, to find
the grace of courtesy wanting in Chris
upon ones religion, If he has not
learned to be gracious and polite.
Politeness is not always a sign of
goodness, but the want of it always
leaves room for suspicion of mean
ness. One cannot escape this suspi-
cion, even though a good man, If he
makes a practice of disregarding the
puts 1t, THE wisest and best are re-
pulstve IL they are characterized by re-
pulsive manners"
Virtue Is by no means sufficient
without the supplemental quality of po-
likeness. The Christian virtues should
be made attractive by the practice of
Christian manners. It is not enough
TO be benevolent: we should be benevo-
lent in a refined way.
"Politness is to goodness what words
are to thought" saws Joubert. We are
greatly handicapped in expressing our
thoughts unless we have at our COM
mand proper and appropriate words
And without proper and appropriate
politeness, how poorly we are able to
express the spirit of goodness and be-
nevolence. How important and urgent
then. that we cultivate Christian cour-
tesy.
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full greeting. AS on many other occa-
sions, she did not wait to unloose the
tempest of her wrath. The story goes
that Mr.. Lincoln retreated from the
house and did not return until a late
hour.
But the wife of Honest Abe" had
greater trials than these to bear. q
Southerner by birth, she was parted
from her sisters by the Civil War. Shs
had brothers in the Southern army.
One of them lay dying after the battle
of Vicksburg while Mrs. LINCOLN, 1t
Washington, listened to Northern rA.
joicing over Grants victory. Anothe.
was killed at Shiloh.
Some critics think Lincoln might
have remained an obscure country law
yer If Mrs. Lincoln had not spurred
him to greater things. This may have
been true. We do know he had deep
respect for her Judgment. particularly
of men, and that he accepted her advice
on many important appointments.
The browning unhappiness of Mrs
Lincoln's life came in the tragic deaths
Of her son Willie and of Mr.. Lincoln. 1t
is little wonder that in her last years
her mind wandered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-10
Special DAYS.

special days hold much entertain
n1ent OF cultural value for children.
some OF them are peculiarly suited to
the home and others are for school As
well as home. Every special day marks
some nigh moment in the lives of peo-
pie and that is Of interest to all of us.
Our Fourth Of July, Flag day, Memo
riai Gay, Armistice day, Washington's
birthday, Lincoln'S birthday have ire
mendous meaning to us. About each of
them is clustered enough history, enough
fine patriotism to thrill the children
through and through.
Christmas and Easter are in a class
Dy themselves. They offer a rich con-
tripution of music. painting, literature.
renglon, culture of the highest sort to
children of all ages.
The study of each day as it comes
along Is one Of the best ways of inter-
estmg young children in their history.
Beglnnlng with the simplest facts in
the lower grades and broadening into
WorIo events and associated causes In
the higher grades, we instil life and
interests into what otherwise tends to
become dry-aS-dust matter.
There are many good stories for each
special day. Tell the children the old
folk tales and don't shy at the hatchet
story. 1t lies within the field of expert
ence OF the kindergarten and first-year
children. It can do them no harm and
Is bound to do them good. It is good
Tor children to hear that the Father of
their Country could not tell a lie when
he was little.
While accenting the great days take
heed OF the lesser ones also. The story
and Legend songs and poetry that are
associated with them are of real i'm
portance in the cultural education of
children. They open fields of knowl-
edge to inquiring childhood, and the
knowledge gained teaches understand
ing and admiration for the fine quail
tiles Of other peoples.
st. Patrick opens the way to the
legends and songs of Ireland That in
itself is an illumination of great beauty.