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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26
ERIE WORKERS
FIGHT TERROR
Demand the Release of
Serio, Mittelmeier

ERIE, Pa, May 25-At a mass
Meeting of the International Labor
Defense on May 18 resolution was
adopted against Erie Fascism and
U. S. ruling class terrorism in gen
,ral, demanding the immediate re-
ease of Guido Saerio and Leo Nit
.elmeier, protesting against the at
.enpt to deport them and the other
provocative arrests and acts Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26

appeal reached a certain stage, and
then were bailed out. The appeal
was on the basis of unconstitution-
atty of the criminal syndicalism
law. The Appellate Court did not
rule on constitutionality.
Workers Won Reversal.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 25,-
District 6 of the Communist Party
has issued the following statement:
"The wide response of the workers
to the call of the Communist Party
in this state to struggle against the
infamous criminal syndicalism law.
Continued on Page ThreeI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26
SENTENCE SHOE WORKERS.

Six members of the Independent
Shoe Workers Union were sem
fenced Friday to six months in jail
for their activity in the recent
strike. The case against them was
based on frame-up charges brought
by the bosses, police and scabs.
Sentence was suspended.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26
SLAVERY IN MISSISSIPPI.

. TUPELO, Miss. - Cotton mill
hands here receive an average wage
of $3.50, on top of which the bosses
"check off" so cents a month for
doctor fees, 60 cents for 81 CUP in
$ lance, IS cents for a clubhouse
ard yet another sum for house rent
What remains?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26
Write About Your Conditions
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Worker Correspondent.
May Issue Party
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ganizer is off the press and those
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Those districts that did not settle
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26
TRY ,KrRn NATIoNALIsrs.

ISTANBUL. Turkey The trial Ct
the Turkish chiettam, Selaeddine, on
charges Of attempting to create an
independent Turkish state will be
held in Angors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26

Demand the release of Eos
ter, Minor, Amter and Ray.
mond, in prison for fighting
for unemployment insurance.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-12-18
ADDITIONAL TAXES WHERE 1T
WILL NOT HURT

In a recent statement ]. G. Arm
son. member of the Minnesota Tax
Commission. advocates an increase of
tax rates on gross earnings of rail-
roads and telephone companies in
Minnesota to Sc, the former now
paying sc while the latter pays 40.
He also advocates a state income tax.
an increase on taxable value of mon
eys and credits. and state sales tax.
We agree with Mr.. Armson in the
main in his analysis and the remedy
or solution of the important tax prob
lem, but take exception to the levy
ing of a sales tax which we regard
as another burden on the already
too highly taxed consumer.
Minnesota laws governing tax as
sessment enacted about 60 years ago
are too old fashioned to provide for
proper taxing of modern business.
Minnesota needs law like the fed
eral income tax law.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-12-18

the report states, the farmer pays
tremendous sum in taxes that are
shifted to him by other taxpaying
groups, while all authorities are
agreed that the farmer is unable to
shift any substantial part of his taxes
to others, because he does not control
the prices of his products.
Supports Other Studies.
The report of the Rawleigh Foun-
dation, signed by Basil Manly and c.
M. Kelley, is in harmony with the
findings of the business mems COM
mission on taxation, organized and
financed jointly by the U. S. Chamber
of Commerce and the national indus
trial conference board, and with the
Independent studies made by the q. 5.
department of agriculture, by various
tax commissions and economists. The
facts developed are also in line with
findings of the principal organizations
of farmers, some of which have re-
Gently adopted resolutions urging tax
relief of farmers by state legislatures.
During the decade which has
marked the decline of agriculture"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-12-18
SOME DAY WE'LL TRAVEL FAST

1t looks like we are going to travel
even faster but let us hope that there
will be time to breathe. The predic-
tion that rocket science" planes 20
years hence will carry tourists from
America to Europe in three hours at
less than the present fare from New
York to Chicago, was made the other
day by Fritz Won Opel of Germany.
Won Opel. who is in America to study
automobile manufacturing methods,
was the first to drive the famous
rocket car and later rocket plane.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-12-18
Income Tax Helps Farmers.

date for lieutenant governor, the
greatest prosecutor in all America.
has made statements regarding sales
tax to the effect that it is an unjust
nuisance tax. He maintains that it
would discriminate against Minnesota
retailers in favor of outside states not
under this system, also that it is an
other tax on the already too highly
taxed consumer. We agree with him.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-12-18
Rawleigh Foundation Calls
For Cut In Taxes Of Farmer
Governors and State Legislatures are Asked to Help
in A Drive for Equitable REIMBURSEMENT of
the Much Muddled Problem.

ers may be placed on an equality with
other economic groups. This is a
means of direct farm relief"
1t is pointed out in the report of
the Rawleigh Foundation that, in ad-
dition to the general property taxes
paid by farmers, they pay other di-
rect taxes on automobiles, gasoline,
etc., and a proportional share of in
direct taxes collected through the
tariff, the tobacco tax, and excise
levies.
On top of this heavy burden, esti-
mated at 1,13O million dollars yearly
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-12-18
Asks Immediate Action.

"Such a situation" Mr.. Rawleigh
says in his letter to the governors,
calls for immediate remedial action
by the state legislatures, through
whom alone relief can be given. Ev-
cry conclusion reached in the investi-
cation is supported almost unnai-
mously by every authority that has
considered the problem. Without ex-
ception these authorities declare that
unless the taxing system is reformed,
the crushing burden upon the farm
ers must inevitably become heavier.
1t is imperative, that appropriate ac-
ton be undertaken without delay.
agriculture is the basic industry
of the nation. For 10 years it has
been suffering from drastic deflation
while it's tax burdens have increased.
1t is time that this process should
be reversed so that American farm
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-12-18
The Right Place.

Visitor: why do you call that
column, In Lighter Vein'?"
Office Boy: Because so many vain
things try to light there!'
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-12-18

The following article on taxes,
prepared by the Rawleigh Foun-
dation and published in the Cap
ital Times of Madison, is recon-
mended to the readers of the
Askov American for their study
and thought:
Declaring that American farmers
are bearing an unequal and unjust
share of the nations taxes, w. L.
Rawleigh, prominent Illinois manu-
facturer, has launched a nationwide
campaign to secure readjustment or
the billion dollar tax burden now
resting on agriculture.
In a letter to the governors and
governors-elect of the As states, the
legislatures of AZ of which will meet
in January, Mr.. Rawleigh summarizes
the findings of an investigation OF
farm taxes just completed by the
Rawleigh Foundation, recently estab-
lished to investigate and report on
questions of broad public interest
These findings show:
1. The total tax burden upon the
farmers of the L. 5. now amounts
to more than a billion dollars a
year.
=. Direct taxes imposed by the
states and local subdivisions now
equal One-third (31 per cent? of
the net rent of farms OIL an av-
erage, and in some cases more
than so per cent. In many states
the farmers are now working two
days a week to pay the cost Of
government, leaving only four for
the support of themselves and their
families.
3. American farmers are now
paying i'm taxes more than four
times as much as they spend for
seed, two and a half times as much
as they spend for fertilizer, one
and a half times the cost of all
farm improvements and substan-
TALLY more than their total eXpend-
lures for machinery and tools.
4. This burden is steadily increas-
ing and is now more than two and
half times the 1914 level. At the
same time the net income of farm
ers, from which taxes must be paid.
has steadily declined.
5. Farmers pay In taxes a great
err proportion of their net incomes
than other economic groups. Even
, the highest super-tax brackets of
the federal income tax take a
smaller percentage of the net in
come than Is paid by the average
farmer through the general proper
ty tax.
6. The existing tax systems of
most, II not all, of the states are
unscientif1c, ineQuitable, and I'M
duly burdensOme to those who are
least able to pay.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-12-18
On Basis of Ability to Pay.

believe that the federal govern
ment is correct in its attitude of ex-
empting the income of persons to the
Milford chronicle., 1930-09-19
@&SE]

THE PROFESSIONAL criminal
will always get his gun, by theft,
through a fence or from a gun
boOtlegger' regardless of any legis-
lation," says Captain Charles L. Gill
man, i'll commenting on a proposed
anti-revolver law.
"In all, it appears to the writer
that the possible public benefit from
police selection of those who can
purchase arms is so slight and the
advantage accruing to the crook
from the restriction of arms in the
homes and in the cars of law
abiding citizens is so obviously
great as to cast doubt upon the de-
sirability of the proposed ordinance"
The anti-gun agitatOrs fall into
the error of believing that the pas
sage of law is directly followed by
its enforcement. Our experience
with other kinds of restrictive leg
islatiOn shows that this is far from
the truth. An anti-revOlver law
would be no exception to the general
rule; it would be obeyed by good
citizens and laughed at by the un-
derworld. 1t would amount, in eff
feet, to protection for the criminal.
Crime has become a major issue
largely because of the activities of
reformers who have been unable to
separate fact from fancy. Every new
law breeds new crimes. What Amer
ica needs is a campaign of crime
suppression that will go after the
criminals and leave the rights and |
liberties of law-abiding citizens
alone.
Milford chronicle., 1930-09-19

THE LACK OF YEAR-ROUND,
weatherproof, surfaced highways is
a tremendous murden to the farmer.
He is forced to move his produce
during the few weeks of the year
when his dirt roads are firm and
hard, thus causing glutted market
ing conditions. Poor roads prevent
adequate rural fire protection, in
crease the cost of medical attention
and are barrier to the development
Of modern school systems. They re-
tard the mOtorization of farm equip
ment and keep business stagnant
during many months of the year in
small towns and villages.
Good farm-to-market roads would
benefit not only the farmer, but local
merchants of all kinds. They would
be an attraction to tourists and
would help relieve the traffic con-
gestion of main highways. In short,
they would pay tangible dividends
far in excess of their cost.
Long-wearing, low-cost surfaces
have been developed which make it
possible to build many miles of farm
to-market roads without incurring
heavy indebtedness. Every state
owes agriculture an adequate high
way system.
Milford chronicle., 1930-09-19
SUPPLY AND DEMAND-A

The business experts tell us that
prices are made by the law of sup
ply and demand. These great factors
also have much to do with business
prosperity. If the makers or grow
ers of anything produce more of
that staple than the market de-
mands, then prices fall, and people
are thrown out of work. The prod
uct has to sell for low prices which
do not pay the producer. He cuts
short his operations, which helps
dislocate the business machine.
If we had some superhuman intel
ligence running the business of the
country, and gave him dictatorial
power, he would have all trades so
adjusted that they would only pro-
duce just what was required. Then
there would be work for everyone,
and no one would have to lie idle.
AS things are now, it is impossi-
BILE to foresee what the demand will
be. The merchant can't tell how
many shoes or dresses he can sell.
1t depends upon the weather, peo-
pies whims, prevailing styles, and
100 causes. So he has to guess at it.
If he over orders, he has to cut down
on his purchases, which throws peo-
pie out of work.
The farmer has worse position
than anyone else. The weather and
insect pests create conditions he can
not possibly foresee. Also he has no
means of knowing positively how
much farmers in foreign lands will
raise.
The nearest possible solution of |
the problem, is for every business
man and every farmer to study trade |
reports, and follow the best expert !
advice. If they would all do that,
much wasteful over production |
would be avoided.
Also if the people, in buying their
supplies, would anticipate their
needs little, buy when things are
cheapest, and not buy so much in
1ne grand rush, merchandise could
be produced and delivered more reg
Ilarly. 1t would not at tones be-
,ome so much in excess of the de-
nand.
Milford chronicle., 1930-09-19
THE STRAW HAT BELL

A young woman remarks, that for
many years, when her father said
that the bell had rung on Septem-
ber IS to call the straw hats in, she
took it literally, and thought the
hollis really rang for this purpose.
anyway, the suddenness with which
s raw hats disappear on that date,
or a later one in some southern To-
calities, is a sign that fashion has
its power over the men folks as well
as the women.
1t may be more than hat on some
days following the straw hat bell.
But not many men have as yet de-
veloped independence enough to fail
to conform to this custom. Anyway
many very faded straws have been
parading the streets, and curfew
should ring for them.
The men look quite finished and
dignified when they get their new
headgear on. The fall hat parade
is a sign that the frivOlities of the
summer are over, and we must all
take life a little more seriously and
get busy.
Milford chronicle., 1930-09-19
@~G=
10000 HOMELESS PEOPLE

People without homes are a path
etic class of folks. When people see
their dwellings devastated by fire,
wind, or flood, and nothing left of
the shelter that guarded them from
storm, cold and heat, but a pitiful
heap of ruins, it is not strange that
their thoughts turn to despair.
In poor stricken Santa Domingo,
victim of a terrific wind storm,
there are 10000 people now bereft
of shelter These poor folks have
not had much of the prosperity that
blesses our country, which is part
ly due to their own fault, but more
to the hot and muggy climate in
which they live. They now lie help
less among their ruins, and in dan
ger of the diseases that are apt to
follow such destruction. They need
generous help, and our country
should not stint it's gifts.
Milford chronicle., 1930-09-19
QUALITY OF OUR PEOPLE

The development of a town de-
pends in the last analysis on the
personal qualities of its people. If
they are enterprising and ambitious
folks, capable of achieving useful
results, they will carry on business
successfully. They will live in a
self respecting and pleasing way,
and they will maintain a handsome
and attractive community.
We have very fine set of folks
in Milford, we have achieved a great
deal here, but there are many
things we might still do for COM
munity progress. If our people have
any fault at all, it is in some dis
position to accept things as they
are too complacently. 1t is a fine
thing to be contented with our fine
town, but still finer to determine to
make it still better.
Milford chronicle., 1930-09-19
El&&El

INTENSIVE CAMPAIGNS are now
being conducted throughout the ma
tion to make the public highways
safe for careful, competent and re-
sponsible motorists, and to Danish
the danger presented-tO life and
property by the reckless.
1t is to be hoped that the cam
paigns will be successful. But in the
meantime, the careful motorists can
themselves do much to lower the ac-
cident toll by expecting the other
driver to do something dangerous.
In the words of Charles F. Ketter-
ing, vice-president, General Motors
Research Corporation, ut has been
my experience in a great many years
of driving that if you will consider
the other fellow is likely to do some
thing which he may not do, it is a
great safety factor. 1 believe that
we should always be upon the look
out and expect that somebody will
come out of every blind alley and
make the wrong turn, because if we
are assuming that, we are always on
the alert and know just exactly how
to stop and when to stop"
This is sage advice. When assum-
ing all other drivers are capable,
the most competent and careful
driver is often powerless to avert an
accident. And, when lives and prop
erty are destroyed, the blame is of
only secondary Importance.
Every state should do its best to
formulate modern, enforceable and
adequate traffic laws that will pro-
tect the careful and punish and elm
mate the reckless. But until UtOpian
conditions arrive, we should
all be pessimistic of the other fell
lows ability at the wheel.
Milford chronicle., 1930-09-19
ONE.ROOM SCHOOLS
ARE DISAPPEARING
THROUGH MERGERS
Pavements Stimulate Better Schools.
$4,000 Buses Carry Children
By E. E. Duffy

The one-room schoolhouse is pass
ing, and at fairly rapid rate. At
the close of the 1928 school year
there were 1896, a drop of S,225
over the 1925-1926 school year.
Consolidation of schools is the
reason, for there are now in the
neighborhood of 10000 educational
mergers"
Education and roads, the two
prime requisites of a progressive
community, go hand in hand. Until
the coming of the motor transporta-
ito nera consolidated schools were
practically unknown. But today with
some hundred thousand miles of
hard surfaced pavements in service,
small communities in great numbers
are grouping their school activities
and installing bus service for carry
ing children much longer distances
than father and grandfather trudged
or "buggied" over not so long ago.
These 10000 consolidated schools
employ some $4,000 buses to carry
one and a quarter million country
children to schOol-schools which,
through pooled money, for the most
part are as thorough and efficient as
those in cities.
And believe it or not, the old
fashioned horse is still playing
part in educating the youth of the
land In 1928 no less than 5,691
horse drawn vehicles were carting
children to school. These horse
drawn vehicles for the most part
are in Connecticut, Indiana (where
authors are made), Maine, Mime
sofa, New Hampshire, Tennessee and
But like the one-room
schoolhouse time consuming Dobbin
is also passing out of the picture.
But pavements are stimulating ed
ucation in another way aside from :
heir influence in consolidating
schools. Gypsies are spoken of as
the leading nomads, but neither they
nor any other people on earth see as
much of the open country as the
motoring tribe. This con-
slant shifting about has given the
,ity an understanding of the coOun-
ry and the country of the city. Ge-
,graphy and business have been
made open books by the open road.
If there is one significant thread
through history it is that no
country has prospered mentally, So
tally or commercially without
oads. This is one fact that should
elp communities decide their road
roblems.
Milford chronicle., 1930-09-19
COVERING THE LOCAL FIELD

If a person were to compare the
newspapers in almost any city with
the same or other newspapers pub
lished in the same communities %
years ago, he would find in most
cases that these newspapers had in
creased in size. They print very
much more general news, they have
lot more advertising, and the
cover local news much mo
thoroughly. Their better advcr' =
ing patronage usually en-" .es
them to report the local doi7.., in
more satisfactory way.
Where 25 years ago a local event
might be reported with only few
lines or perhaps omitted altogether,
now it will be well covered and all
its interesting features brought out.
Most cities have gone ahead a lot
in 25 years. Improved newspaper
service has been a most important
factor in that advance. When a
newspaper reports thoroughly the
proceedings and plans of its local
organizations, the efforts of its peo-
pie for community gains, favorable
attention is excited.
People get interested in these ac-
tivities. They attend community
meetings, they join the Organiza-
tions formed for public and social
purposes. The community life be-
comes more active and interesting.
People like the city better, they
make more friends, the town seems
more of live center, and its prog
ress is accelerated.
It is extremely difficult for a town
to go ahead unless it has a good |
live newspaper And the influence
which the newspaper exerts does /
not consist merely in any appeals
and arguments that it may present,
urging people to take hold of COM
munity movements. The mere print
ing of the news about things going
on in that place is a tremendous
force. It wakes people up to the i'm
portance and interest of local move
ments, and induces them to join and
cooperate.
Milford chronicle., 1930-09-19
=NG-

IF YOU FAIL to see a friend for
a long time, your interest in that
friend tends to be Obliterated. Other
things come in to take its place. PeO-
pie have to visit each other, have
somewhat frequent meetings, or ex-
change letters, or they drift apart.
The same principle applies in the
business world. If a concern does
not remind the public of its exist
ence and fails to tell them what it
is doing, it's existence tends to be
forgotten. 1t drops out of sight in
the public mind. 1t may be per-
fectly good concern, but it has given
the public no reminders of its exist
ence, and the public thought turns in
some other direction. Advertising is
the means by which business keeps
the interest of the public.