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The Washington times., 1930-09-29
MeteOrites
By Archibald Henderson

called the meteorite. Like all
other bodies in the stellar uni
verse, meteorites move. through
space under the influence of
the force of gravitation.
AS described by Thomas in
Heaven and Earth. meteors are
bodies which rush, say, into
the atmosphere of the earth.
compress the air in front of
them, and striking thus on this
cushion of dense air ignite.
They burn for a few seconds
only; and while they burn they
are meteors. Most meteors burn
to ash, which vanishes in the
air.
Only a few very stubborn me-
teorites fall to earth as ne
teoric stones. In the larger mu-
seums one can often see gi-
gantic specimens of such stones.
Two very large meteoriteS are
those which fell at Youngadin
in Australia and at Tucumana
in Mexico. The first of these
weighs about 1900 pounds, the
second Is tons.
The number of such meteors
travelling through space is al
most unbelievable. It has been
estimated by scientists that a
thousand million meteoric par
ticles collide with the earth's
atmosphere every "a hours. AL
but the very largest of these,
which are moving at the SLOW
est rates of speed, are burned
in the atmosphere.
In 1867 a meteor travelling at
a speed of some 35 miles a Sec
ond caught up with the earth
itself speeding along at the
rate of about 20 miles a second.
A small fragment of this me.
teor, in other words a tiny me
teorite, was picked up where it
landed in Central Poland. This
, meteorite moved toward the
earth in a hyperbolic orbit,
showing that it entered the
solar system from the outer
space. The age of this tiny
meteorite is estimated as about
one hundred thousand million
years. 1t is believed to be older
than the earth itself!
Copyright. 1880. International Feature
Service, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1930-09-29
Capitol Hill Going Forward

What has always been locally called Capitol Hill is going
TO be still important spot in this National City
magnificent House office building costing millions
of dollars is to go south of the Capitol Building Just
of the Capitol Grounds will be the imposing structure Of
the United States Supreme Court with the shakepeaean
library short distance away Then to the north will be
the marvellous Union Station Plaza with modern underground
garages for Senators and their workers and south costly
in the Botanic Garden from which states
get their flowers and plants
That nobody may be neglected in this distribution of
venences and Identification has been set aside for
beauty parlor in the basement of the Senate Office Building
that 200 employees of Senator'S and the Senate
have that stylish they feel to be to the prestige
and dignity Of the great Senate The House will have to do
The thing for its women workers
The Washington times., 1930-09-29

theaters. and of some in the
Fox, Earle and Palace.
But perhaps there are those
who do not recognize that GER
tain institutions that have
stood with us for a long time
have undergone changes that
have seemed at first to be
undesirable.
Canned" music can't be so
bad if the best orchestras in
the country are going TO play
before a machine that will re.
produce the music for millions
Of people. 1t would seem at
least to be better than mediocre
orchestras that don't have the
pick of the country's best musi-
clans.
The day will probably come
when we shan't have to exert
ourselves to the point of oriv-
ing our cars to the movie house
and paying half dollar. Wen
hear canned music come to us
over the air, so why worry now
about a few musicians thrown
out of work?-JAB.
The Washington times., 1930-09-29

Although the universe Is filled
with countless bodies, beyond
our powers of computation, 1t
is an extraordinary fact that
the earth has almost no con-
tact with the outside universe.
The contacts are made through
light, in the form of heat or
solar and stellar radiation, and
through meteors. 1t is Gus
tomary to call meteors by the
popular name. shooting stars:
but this name is properly ap-
piled only to the smaller
raeteors. If the meteors are
exceptionally brilliant, they are
Sometimes called fireballs..
These highly brilliant meteors
travel sometimes with high de-
tonation in the immediate
neighborhood of the earth. For
instance, such a meteor ex-
ploded about l o'clock in the
afternoon of July 13, 1927, in
the neighborhood of Tilden, IL
linois. This meteor was travel.
ing, it was estimated, at the
rate of about 3 miles per sec
ond. It came from the south
east and at an angle of about
SO degrees from the horizontal.
Many people heard the three
explosions and a loud humming
in the air, but thought 1t was
an airplane, backfiring, as it
passed overhead.
Three aerontes were found,
masses weighing g. As. and 110
pounds, respectively. The largest
mass penetrated the hard, vel
low clay to a depth of 4S
inches. The story of this me
teor and the three meteorites
found has been scientifically
told in an interesting mono
graph, The Tilden Meteorites,
by A., r. Crook and O. C. Far
rington. These are the only
meteorites ever known to have
been found in Illinois.
Meteors are confidently be-
lieved by scientists to be frag-
ments of suns or worlds. They
are stones, Jumps of metal-in
general, cosmic particles wan
dering through space in count
less numbers. The visible shoot
ing star or fireball is called a
meteor: the actual mass is
The Washington times., 1930-09-29
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

! nominate for the pet pew in
the Hall of Fame-WALTER
WINCHELL. Not because Waits
the smartest sassbox that ever
broadcast Broadway but solely
because he's had the nerve to
get frank and frivolous about
BLESSED EVENTS.
Hitherto, anyone that men
toned that Mrs. Jones was
Going To Have a Baby was
bounced into the dog-house,
pronto! And as for speaking it
right out loud in public print
-tash! tSh! tSh! OF course, if
the lady was something Splen-
did or remote like a duchess,
the paper might announce, in
very small print, that she was
"enceinte." Even that wasn't
considered quite nice. But as
long as the editor said it in a
foreign language that no one
could understand, he got by.
But only in paper. In private
life. really refined people didn't
even say it in French. A lifted
eyebrow complacent waggle
of the dewlap-might be per
mitted. Otherwise you dasn't
peek or peep.
Nor was the onlooker alone
under this ban. The expectant
mother, herself, was supposed
to act just as if nothing was
happening. Remember the
novels of 1905? G'wan-stop
pretending-you do, too. Re
member how the beautiful Rosa.
mond hid the little garments in
her sewing basket and only con-
feSsed their purpose to her hus-
band, with mantling bushes"
when she practically had to?
Believe me, this sort of play
acting was considerable strain
o1 a sensible young woman
but If she didn't do it she was
considered vulgar. Now, since
blessed events got themselves
syndieated, she can obey her
The Washington times., 1930-09-29
Married Women Tired
Of Being Criticized

Editor, Times
represent a score of mar
ried-and-still-working wives and
we have been following your
column closely. We have all
agreed that we are sick and
tired of this panning. Every
one of us have dependents, and
I, myself, have supported my
mother for 10 years. This IS
our excuse-flimsy though it
may seem to you-and I am
sure there are many more like
us.
If we are saving that imagi-
nary pile, wouldn't we be better
citizens? Who knows but what
sickness, death, disease, may
take away, or render helpless,
that all-providing husband you
rave about-and then where
would we be if we didn't have
our jobs? Charity? Not for
that old mother! Besides, we
of the middle class wouldn't
ask for charity.
You old maids who haven't
the courage to work and also
sport" a husband; you with
your unkept faces and cotton
stockings, are not modern
enough for this day and age.
Crawl into your shells and stay
there with your hobbies, if you
can't keep pace with a modern
world.
How many working wives
don't come home to a small
apartment, cook the dinner,
wash the dishes, do their own
cleaning, their personal laun-
dry and a million other things
required for daily life? Not
many, because I've noted them
in every apartment house I
have ever lived in-and that's
quite a few. What mere man
would work all day and come
home to do another days work?
None-that I ever heard OF.
(He's too tired and must be
The Washington times., 1930-09-29
Hearst Papers Advocate

l. peace and dmty sOitb all nations; entdnglipg
alliances aoith' none," ADVOCATED by George
Washington. t
z. Proportional representation in the United States
Senate, State to haze less than t1Oo Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionment in the House of Representatives.
3. separate Department of the Army, of the Navy
and of the Air Forces, all united under Secre-
tary of National Defense.
4. Federal action to the limit Of Federal powers to
abolish iliterdcy in the United States under a
Secretary of Education
s. Installation Of the President on the first of IAN
uGry following November election.
g. Selective immigration to admit only those suiteo
for American citizenship.
2. Deportation of undesirable Aliens
9. Complete publicity for income taxes.
The Washington times., 1930-09-29

Nothing great was ever
achieved without enthusiasm.
Emerson.
The eagle never lost so much
time as. when he submitted to
learn of the crow. Blake.
Better die once for all than
live in continual terror .-Aesop.
y IT'S my opinion every man
cheats in his way, and only he
Is honest who is not discovered.
-Centlivre.
Hope and fear are insepara.
BILE. There is no hope without
fear and no fearA without hope
La R&hefoucauld.
! Grace y given Of God. kut
The Washington times., 1930-09-29
KNOWLEDGE
TEST

Do you know:
/. Who created Chicago'S Hull
House?
2. What is the great Roman
highway begun before Christ
was born?
3. In "Gulliver's Travels" what
is the name of the country
where everything is on an
enormous scale?
4. What is a free port?'
5. What is the horizon?
Fill each blank: -.
6. Captain Dieudonne --
has flown without stop to
New York from Paris.
Z. Charles Evans is
Chief Justice of the U. S.
8. Gen. John j. is 10
years old.
8. Albert is the ex.
FOUNDER of relativity.
10. The Queen Of the Belgians
is Queen -.
Match correctly:
IL. replace temperament
IL. tempt supersede
Is. brag agreeable
IA. disposition boast
is. amiable entice
(Answess en- Magazine Page.D
The Washington times., 1930-09-29
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

knowledge is bought in the
market. -Clough.
An excuse is worse and more
terrible than a lie; for an ex-
cuse Is a lie guarded.
Pope.
It is not SO easy as people
suppose to hate continuously.
-Talleyrand.
We can hardly hate any one
that We know. -Hazlitt.
He mourns the dead who
live as they desire.
Young.
For health is the second
blessing that we mortals are
capable Of; q blessing that
money can't buy. -WsatAA
The Washington times., 1930-09-29
Defends Canned" Music;
Not Always Mediocre

Editor. Times:
The movie strike is settled
and Washington is now well on
her way to the enjoyment of a
winter of excellent movies
scheduled to appear here. The
ranks of the musicians are
quiet and peace reignS between
the orchestras and the men
who pay the orchestras.
There are those who will
criticize the regime of owners
which has made the musicians
succumb to its reduction in the
numbers of men to play in the
various show houses. There are
those who will grow indignant
because there have been men
thrown out Of work as the re-
suit Of the discharge Of the
services of all musicians in the
Columbia and Metropolitan
The Washington times., 1930-09-29

lCt us have, WITHOUT so
MUCH ARGUMENT, our jobs
that we have spent years to
fit ourselves for.
Now let us alone-lay off
from us, or we have all agreed
to stop reading The Washing
ton Times.
ONE OF MANY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-21
STRIKES IN SPAIN

of the growth Of machine industry and the les
sons of the Bolshevik revolution. Unfortunately,
due partly to a sectarian opportunism allied to
Trotzkyisn and to collateral factonal struggles
up till 1928, the Communist Party of Spain was
unable to consolidate in organization the wide
influence Communism enjoyed among the
masses.
Thus the brazenly reformist socialists" were
able to dominate the labor movement to find a
fitting ally in fascim and collaboration with
Primo de Rivera. The Socialists were over
joyed to set up practical company unions, joint
committees of bosses and socialist" trade union
officials in the factories.
But the growing crisis and the fall of Primo de
Rivera before the tide of mass discomfort is
smashing this wonderful arrangement. The
Communists, united on the correct line of the
w Congress of the Red International of Labor
Unions and the VI Congress of the Communist
international have been burying deep roots in
the factories and mines. The breathing spell of
civil liberty that followed the downfall of de
Rivera was taken advantage of, and the Com
munist Party of Spain won wide adherance in
both the socialist" and anarchist trade unions
The socialists" have, of course been the most
loyal upholders of the bourgeoisie among the
masses. They have been as fearful as their "re-
publican" masters of the revolutionary masses.
When the masses, under Communist influence,
went strike in spite of socialist" leaders and
the masses were already battling in the streets
of Madrid, the socialist" trade union leaders
FASTENED to "ratify" the strike in order to limit
its duration and to betray it.
"The strike is all over" they cried at the end
of 48 hours but it spread to every city and broke
forth in fury. What the Communists are leading
the masses to battle for, and what the social
ists' betraying, is recited reluctantly in the
N, Y. Times of Nov 10, in an obscure paragraph
1t says:
THE general strike has had as its avowed
objective more pay for shorter hours in
all crafts
This is the meat of the argument. The CAPT
talist reporter goes on to add, of course:-"But
underneath that authorities assert, was the agi-
tation Of Communist organizers who were driv-
ing toward revolution"
The Communists of Spain do not, of course,
conceal their revolutionary aims. They arc
leading the fight for bread, but precisely because
they know that bread cannot be won under
either monarchy or a bourgeois republic they
raise the banner of revolution against both.
They call for a Soviet Republic of Workers and
Peasants and for self determination of Catalina
Only under these slogans will bread be assured
to the masses and the vestiges of feudalism re-
manning from the days of Cervantes, give way
to real progress on the Iberian peninsula.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-21
BY HARRISON GEORGE


THE crisis in fascism which sent Primo de
Rivera into oblivion continues and bids fair
to send the monarchy after him. And Spain
today is picture of Italy tomorrow.
The economic crisis which forced Rivera out
continued. Thus, despite all the promises of
resumption of constitutional" government, the
Berenguer regime is exercising precisely the same
methods of fascist terror as did that of Rivera.
The peseta kept falling, and unable as for
merly to depend upon the British pound neither
Rivera nor Berenguer could prevent the rise of
mass discomfort as the workng-class found its
money wage would no longer buy even the mis-
cradle crust of bread it formerly would.
1t is worth noting that in not one of the cap
itaist press dispatches is this basic reason for
the strikes given. The strikers" are, as usual,
represented as mysterious demons Who without
rhyme or reason, are causing the Citizens" use
less discomfort and even danger. Such is the
logic" of the capitalist press
These "ctizens," the good old standby of
apologists for any terror against the workers,
are, upon examination found to be the capital
list exploiters of the working class, a working
class driven to desperation by hunger and mis-
cry which capitalist papers can find only in the
Soviet Union, where it doesn't exist.
1t is true that because of the contradictions
and antagonists inherent in Spanish society,
large sections of the Spanish bourgeoisie are
opposed to the monarchy and other strong rem
nants of feudalism which persist in the form
of the landed nobility.
These are the elements known as the 'repub-
iicans," standing for abolition of the monarchy.
Bourgeois student elements constitute the spear
head of this force, which also has allies among
the army. Also in the bourgeois opposition is
the Catalonian separtists around Barcelona,
Catalina regarding itself as nation oppressed
and unjustly subjected to the Spanish throne.
But the wping out of the decrepit and rotten
monarchy along with all other feudal remains
cannot be successfully accomplished by the cap
italst class which is in its historic decline and
cannot either in Spain or elsewhere, repeat its
progressive role of the French revolution. 1t
cannot BECAUSE a proletariat has arisen which
It fears more than it fears the monarchy and
landed nobility with which it has proprietorial
interests in common in spite of their mutual
struggle for political dominance
1t is the struggle of the Spanish proletariat
which comes as a rude interruption to the pomp
of the syphilitic King, and to shatter alike the
ambitions of the Spanish bourgeoisie, anxious
to establish under the name of a modern re-
public" and reform" their heaven-born destiny
to enslave the working class for their own profit.
Anarctism and pure syndicalsm has lost its
former major influence logical consequence
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-21
Northwest Workers Unite to
Fight Anti-Alien Bills

upon the immigrant can show he is officially
here or be deported." This is the proposal of
Mr. Green, which has the full endorsement of
the $50" rulers of America, who intend to have
it put through when their Congress meets to
make the laws for them.
The contribution, finger-print foreign-born
workers comes from no other than the Steel
Trust. Here is the testimony of steel worker,
delegate to the Duluth conference: 81 am sure
that fnger-prnting originated in the Steel Trust.
When we are hired they take our fingers, and
when fired you must demand them to get it
back"
Here we have the combination of the bosses,
their government and the social fascist agents
all contributing to attack the working class.
The struggle for the protection of the foreign
born workers under the direction Of the pro-
visional committee, for the protection of foreign
born, with headquarters at 80 Union Square,
New York, has gained tremendous response
among the workers in District Nine, comprising
as it does the home of the iron and copper in
dustries, as we'll as lumber camps, steel plants
and packing houses, which employ (whep they
do) the vast majority of foreign-born workers.
1t is estimated that in st. Louis County alone
about 80 per cent of the workers and farmers
are foreign-b born.
The District Conference in Duluth, Oct. 26,
which was greeted with enthusiasm by 88 dele
gates, represented 1890 workers from Northern
Michigan, Northern Wisconsin and the state of
Minnesota, and laid down plan of action to
rouse the entire working class against the vicious
attack of the bosses, to rally mass delegation
to the Washington Convention, to prevent the
passage of the infamous bills to develop strug
gle against the steel trust terror, and to give
aid to the struggle of the workers in European
and Latin American countries in their struggles
against fascisnl
cal conferences be held to rally those workers,
that have not been modified by the District
Conference. series of such conferences have
been arranged for and will be held on Nov. %
in the cities of Hancock, Michigan, rallying work
ers from the copper country; Ironwood, Michi-
gan, iron miners and lumber workers; Northern
Minnesota, taking in the Mesaba Iron Range;
Superior and Duluth ST Paul and Minneapolis.
An extensive leaflet distribution is now in prog
ress to ensure mass conference. The main
task of these conferences will be to broaden the
struggle elect and finance delegates to the
Washington Conference, and to establish flmc-
tioning councils for the protection of the for
eign-born.
All workers organizations are urged to send
their delegates and raise finances Write to
Provisional Secretary, Eric Nilsson, 1928 Cleve-
land St., NJ E. Minneapolis MINI.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-21
"Just AS Good"

Sometimes a capitalist newspaper man accl-
dentally gets an idea and says something. Then
another accident happens and the editor fails
to read copy on it and the darned thing gets into
the paper. This probably accounts for the funny
man on the NJ Y American having sneaked into
his column on Tuesday the following:
Congressman Frisby Can imaginary person,
we hasten to add, but one fully deserving Of
seat in Congress beside Mr.. Fish-Jorge) sums
up the present economic conditions as follows:
1--WE have surplus of wheat. Right? We
have surplus of unemployment. Right? Now,
my idea is to feed the surplus wheat to the
mice The mice will multiply under such adj
vantageous living conditions, We can then put
the unemployed to work setting mouse traps
Furthermore, my program will increase the de-
mand for cheese to bait the mouse traps And
the increased demand for cheese will take care
of the surplus song writer's who are stranded at
Hollywood
Now We reach the point in progressive logic,
where the song writer's are prosperous due to
the demand for cheese. Prosperous song writer's
will be able to buy more berets Demand for
berets revives the wooden textile industry Farm
ers will get top prices for sheep This. means
lamb chops will be out of reach of the masses,
thus forcing them to abandon diet fads Con-
sequently everybody will get fat which puts
an end to all this talk about lean times"
Well, the Americans funny man idea is hardly
likely to be effective in restoring prosperity"
But it's just as good as the insufferably long
columns of hokum about what COL Woods
Hoover Commission and Gov Roosevelt's Com
mission and Mayor Walkers Commission and
all the other commissions are proposing ito re-
lieve unemployment Only the NJ Y American
puts all this hokum out on the front page and
not in its funny column.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-21

and peasant class In China are the same class.
The iraperialsts are depressing you yourselves on
the one side and utilizing and forcing you to
slaughter the Chinese workers, peasants and Red
troops the other. 1t is that your enemies ask
yon to massacre the members of your Glass;.
We know very we'll that in the past months the
mperielist warships have often fired on the Red
armies and revolutionary masses, that it was not
done at your will but that you were forced to do
so by your officers You should unite the work
ers and peasants IN your countries to demand
that your governments at once withdraw ell your
war5hips from the Chinese soil, not to despatch
any more warships or gunboats to China for
attacking the Chinese workers, peasants and Red
troops, and to abolish all the unequal treaties
between China and your countries and returning
all the settlements and concessions to China.
At the same time you ought to defend the Chi
nese revolution and support the revolution and
the establishment Of the Soviet regime in your
countries especially turn back your guns to shoot
your enemies as we'll as our enemics-your off,
GERS and the imrerialists Immediately with
draw your warshps by yourselves from China. :"
Besides, there have been many similar leaflets
sent to various countries in Europe and America,
calling upon the western workers and peaoants to
demand for withdrawing all the warships from
China, for preventing any more battleshps from
being sent to China, for calling back the military
advisers who are helping the Kuo,nntang to
massacre the Chinese masses and calling on
them to wage demonstrations to defend the Chi
nese revolution and oppose the impcriasts in
their countries who directly and indirectly help
the Kuomintang to attack the Red troops and
to demand for abolshing all the special privi-
leges Of the imperalists in China and for CIV
ing up all the settlements and concessions In
this country.