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The Washington times., 1930-12-03

Bath tubs-yes, we have 'em,
we Americans. Jade green ones,
orchid and peach. Ritzy radios
and automobiles. Trick vacuum
cleaners and washing machines.
DelicatesSen food in the frigid-
aire-everything to make life
easy and luxurious. And, even
if we haven't these things, we
want to have them, expect to
have them. stake all we have
on getting them.
For they're part of the Ameri-
can standard of living. And
we're proud Of that standard.
We boast about it - make
Snooty remarks about it to the
other nations. We say it's the
best and only way for cililized
humans to live
But is it? Is it really wise to
put on such a front-and to
pay so much for that front?
Banker Eugene r. Black,
governor of the Atlanta Federal
Reserve Bank, says it isn't! He
thinks very little of our boasted
A. S. O. Land says so. It
takes nerve to say that, in the
face of our present prosperity
ballyhoo.
Out In Meeting
It takes nerve at any time, to
tell the American people that
they're not as smart as they
think they are. But he told
them. Right out straight, to an
amazed convention of the In
veStment Bankers Association
he announced that instead of
buying now and spending more,
we'd better. spend less and get
out of debt.
And then stay out of debt, by
scrapping our extravagant ideas
and practicing thrift. Which
would certainly put a cramp in
our style. But this, according to
Banker Black, is what American
individuals and American bust
ness need.
"I do not agree" says he,
with those who say that in
America there must be no re-
The Washington times., 1930-12-03
WISE MEN

What must be shall be and
that which Is a necessity to
him that struggles is little more
than choice to him that is will
ling.-Seneca.
He that cannot forgive others
breaks the bridge over which
he must pass himself, for every
man has need to be forgiven.
Herbert.
Would you have your songs
endure?
Build on the human heart.
Browning.
He that from his childhood
has made rising betimes famil-
lar to him will not waste the
best part of his life in drowsi-
ness and lying abed.-Locke.
I, in my own house, am an en-
peror,
And will 4efend what's mine.
-Masstnger.
The Washington times., 1930-12-03
ONCE-OVERS
Who's Out of Step?

If you find it impossible to
claim one friend with whom you
can associate with, there is
something wrong with you.
You like to think the others
are out of step in a case Of this
kind, but there are too many on
the other side.
Strange how inclined some
folk are to think that only
their own ideas, whims, desires,
manners, likes and diSlikeS are
the correct thing.
If you are the kind who is
always right and everyone else
wrong, it is no wonder that few
persons entertain a warm feel
ing for you.
The span of life is not long
enough to make more than a
few friends.
But there should be several
at least whose sympathies are
more or less In harmony with
yours.
The Washington times., 1930-12-03
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Table linen in use at Buck
ingham Palace, England, is
valued at $4,000.
Twenty-Five cents a day is
the pay for a private in the
Mexican army.
~ Before the revolution there
were IS mobiles to every 1000
population in Russia.
Incomes Of less than 1000
lire (roughly $1,000 a year are
exempt from taxation in Italy.
The Washington times., 1930-12-03
Will 'MOtOrcide' Be Adopted?

Washngtons traffic experts and theorists invited
rese with the coming Of word designed to take the
place of otorvehicle fatality other combinations that
express the frequent killings of human beings by automobiles
'Suicide is the killing of ones self. Autocide would
fit The object to find something that expressive in
the first syables Massachusetts traffic official favors
"1notorcide," and there you
That does not settle the matter and word phrasrs will have
to pursue the subject further.
The Washington times., 1930-12-03

make all the money they can
make. We all do the same
thing. If we can increase our
salary, speculate on stocks, win
money on a horse race, or do
anything to make more money,
we are all ready and eager. Why
deny the ambitious members of
the D. C. Fire Department the
chance by the sweat Of their
The Washington times., 1930-12-03
TIMES KNOWLEDGE TEST

Fill each blank:
/. is noted as the
old capital of the Nation.
2. Shooting stars are hot be.
cause of the resistance Of the
3. "How sweet the
sleeps upon this bank"
4. The hero of "As You Like
S. Johns Hopkins University
is located in
Match correctly:
6. participant subordinate
7. dependent offensive
3. unpleasant opposition
3. exorbitant partaker
The Washington times., 1930-12-03

Rumania is the only country
with a king and queen who
are divorced.
There are more than 5000
persons in Bulgaria past 100
years of age.
Colored ice is one of the
latest novelties for household
use.
An electric hammer has been
designed for removing dents in
automobile tenders.
The Washington times., 1930-12-03

brows to make a few extra dol
lars, in an honest way?
If it were investigated, it
would be found that the men
who have been doing outside
work are the men who are
alert, always up at the stroke Of
the bell, the backbone Of the
department, and very seldom on
sick leave.
The Washington times., 1930-12-03
Hearst Papers Advocate

"onest friendship NTH all nations entdn0n0 alliances
NTH none."-Teoroe Washington
Proporona representation the United States Senate
State to haze Senator's Legislation to enforce
prompt constitutional redpportonment IN the House OF
Representatives.
Separate departments the Army of the NdOy and OF the
Air Forces united under Secretary OF National Defense
Federal action to the limit of Federal poUers to abolish
GiterncV under Secretary of Education
Installation of President first of January folo
ING the November election
SelectiU immigration to admit only those suited for Aner
can citizenship and American needs.
Deportation OF undesirable aliens and extension of citizen
ship period to 10 years.
Complete publicity for income prevent big tar
dodgers from escaping taxation
Modification of Volstead permit light wines and
beers under Federal regulation.
The Washington times., 1930-12-03
Suggests Free Govt.
Employment Bureau

Editor Times:
Am submitting a plan regard
ing the unemployment situa.
ton which we hope you will
take time to analyze.
The plan is based on a trans
fer of 3 per cent Of all earn
ings to a common bureau in
each city-thiS bureau to rec
ord and distribute labor, dollar
for dollar, to those who made
the transfer.
The plan follows:
Cd To establish (where there
is none) government free
employment bureau.
(2) All persons to transfer 3
per cent of their gross earn
ingS to the bureau each month.
90 Any persons making such
a transfer would be entitled to
a like amount in labor, by
virtue of their 3 per cent Of
gross income transfer, the
labor to be furnished by the
bureau. For example: If a
person earns 5000 per month
this payment to. the bureau
would be $6 per month. For
this amount the person who
made the 8 per cent transfer
would be entitled to Sc worth
of labor to be supplied through
the bureau.
"a The bureau to establish
a record of all unemployed.
90 Those who are entitled
to receive labor would be ex-
pected to use that labor within
thirty days from the date of
transfer.
It is the writer's idea that
such a plan should be used
only as an emergency measure,
perhaps for six months or a
year, just to give an honest per-
son an honest way to earn a
living.
EARL KENNEL,
Seattle, Wash,
The Washington times., 1930-12-03

Concerning Outside
Work of Firemen
Editor Times:
Why criticize our firemen be-
cause they are ambitious?
It is q credit to any one to
The Washington times., 1930-12-03

10. resistance extravagant
Match correctly:
II. NeriSSa
The Last Of the MO-
hicanS.
IL. Magua
The Legend Of Sleepy
Hollow
13. Godfrey
The Merchant Of Ven
ice
ID. Brom Bones
Tale of Two Cities
IS. Jerry Cruneher
Silas Mariner
(Answers On Magazine Psge')
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

share in the adventure. Three of the party
waited for them, but Balmat, impatient for
action, forged on ahead to explore the route.
At this point there is a narrow snow ridge
along the crest of which one has to walk.
Balmat negotiated part of it, then being barred
by some protruding rock, he returned to get
the aid of the others. But the latter had felt
their hearts grow faint with the terror of the
ridge. Without waiting for Balmat, they had
turned their faces homeward.
His first impulse was to hurry down and re-
join them. Then his combative spirit reas-
serted itself. He would go on alone and show
them how to do it. He crossed the white plain
of the Grand Plateau and went as far as the
Bronva Glacier. Here bad luck again found
him out. Heavy mists rolled over the summit
OF Mont Blanc, and the ascent had to be
abandoned again.
A ND now Balnat was in for another night
that promised to be even worse than his
first above the Grand MuletS. Another trouble
had assailed him. At that time no one under
stood the necessity of protecting the eyes
against the fierce glare of the sun reflected
from the snow Balmat had been exposed to
1T for four days and now the penalty was ex-
acted. Sharp pain shot through his eyes,
Soon he could see nothing and was forced to
sit down with his head in his hands, deep
crevaSSes stretching on every side of him The
and his blindness passed away but now it was
too dark to see the way
He stumbled along, feeling his way slowly
Suddenly the staff, thrust down ahead of him.
found only emptiness. 1t was crevasse broad
and deep, one that he had crossed in the morn
ing by frail bridge of snow. Now it was too
dark to find the bridge. Only one course was
left-he YEARLY settled himself in the snow for
another night on the face of the mountain.
The cold was more intense than at any time
before, and fne driving particles of snow pene-
trated his wet garments Ten thousand feet
below him. the lights of Chamonix were visible
showing where his companions had found their
warm fresideS Toward midnight, the lights
blinked out and the stiffness that he dreaded
was everywhere. He drew his handkerchief
over his head hunched his shoulders down and
doggedly sat the night through.
The dawn showed the storm clouds still
ruling the summit Balmat, with stiff and
aching body, made his way painfully down the
long, perilous slopes, and late in the day
stumbled into his chalet
Now another antagonist presented himself in
the battle with Mont Blanc. The village doctor
of Chamonix Michael Gabriel Paccard a
vigorous gentleman of &c years. All of his
youth had been spent in the village and the
great white mountain exercised an influence on
him no less than on the scientist of Geneva or
the peasant Bamat He knew that he could
never reach the summit alone so he fixed on
Balmat the strongest companion available.
He was no equal of the peasant in strength.
physical courage and endurance but he had
steadfaSt zeal.
try the mountain together. Baimat hesitated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

BEFORE starting he had fixed on the Grands
MuletS rocks as his overnight resting place.
But now as he saw how small a distance he
had come compared with the great way yet to
go, he began to think that he must find
higher bivouac But that would mean a long
night in the snow at height of more than
10000 fetal the wise men of Chamonix had
agreed that that would be death to any man.
Well no. Jacques Balmat, would see So he
started out afresh.
Far above he found rock that gave him
few square feet of precarious surface. There,
at o'clock, he settled himself to spend the
night. There was no question of sleeping
for at his side was an S00-foot precipice down
which he would roll if he should let sleep
relax his grip.
About o'clock the night came rolling up
from the valley and the air grew rapidly colder.
He began striking his hands and feet to-
gether TO keep them from freezing. mist
crept down on him from the Aiguille de Goute
and, as soon as it reached him, it began to spit
snow in his face. He wrapped his handker-
chief about his head and moved his hands
and feet the faster His clothes were satu-
rated then frozen and a dull pain hammered
at his head crowd of gloomy fancies set
tied on his brain, thoughts of death and
desolation. To drive them out, ne began to
sing. But his voice was a thin piping, lost
and frozen in the endless wilderness of snow
and ice, and he fell silent.
Ho, Jacques Balmat, was afraid
But at last a whitish streak appeared in
the East. The sky was grey. then brighter, and
the sun touched the summit of the mountain.
With its coming, courage flowed back into
his body and he turned resoluteIy to his work.
For while he was hopeful of success. Then
the weather thickened and storm clouds rolled
over the SUM- To climb higher in the threaten
ing weather was impossible.
For this time he was beaten But there
would be another time and he could do much
to prepare for it. Accordingly, he spent the
whole day exploring the slopes. Another night
he spent on the mountain, this time lower
down. in place where he could sleep a little
Next morning he resumed his way toward
the valley. But half way down the ridge of
La Coto he saw three men approaching. They
were three neighbors and he OWNED the fact
that they, too, were making the trial of the
summit They admitted 1t and invited him
TO come along.
wet and half frozen he had eaten little for
three days, and a profound WEAKNESS was in
his very bones. But those men might actually
reach the top, and that was something that
should not be done without Jacques Balmat.
He would go along.
After arranging to meet them at the point
where he had spent his second night, he hur-
ried down to his bone, where he treasured his
wife, changed his wet clothes and, at IL o'clock
in the evening, started again without taking
time to rest. Before dawn he reached the
rendezvous, where he woke his sleeping COM
rades, and the four started on their way
They reached the top of the Dome de Goute
and there they heard shouts behind them that
proved to be two other Chamoniards eager to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
Scaling the Icy Cliffs Of Mont Blanc

The Struggle Ub70md Through Sno70
mdAe, Lashed BY the MINI, Gasp
ing for Air, Heroes ofLong Ago
Fought Valiantly to Conquer the
Monarch of the Alps-7He First
EtJorts to Reach the Heights.
By Edwin Muller, Jr.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
The Farmers and the Elections

.v.BE farmers are today selling bushe
price of wheat today has been the last sixteen
price for his products is much below
of production the prices of the commodities which ne needs
continuously mounting and now much above 1914
working however, do not benefit from the fall in the
agricultural products Bread is no cheaper ana e cost OF
living remains the same if not higher
the grain packing who enrichng them
by of the appropriation of the farmer
The agricultural did suddenly Capitalist agricu
has been chronic crisis throughout the entire postwar period
culture.
Capitalism can not remedy this crisis capitalists
forced failure the Farm Board could not halt the
prices, determined by the the world market
over bushels of wheat are stored in the grain elevators
SoOOoOO bushels in Canada The oversuppy
will be still: further augmented by the spring and winter CROP e
mated to be sis,o0yOOo bushels.
the chief the election of President Hoover
aed could not be otherwise capitalism lives the plight of the
farmer and the misery of the Otherwise would not be CAPT
the
American capitalists
government growing TIE
elections approaching appear
before the farmers with fake issues AS solution of the
sowing BY 20 per cent How this will remedy the conditions
the farmers difficult understand Even with the maximum
that this will raise the price of their products This
the capitalist economists know this we'll They know that the
and Southern American countries also increasing their wheat
market and not by individual
We presume that since the government interested in less
the logical conclusions the policy
Of the 1t not sound logical But the entire
parasitic nature of capitalism becomes still clearer when
consideration the fact that millions starving
millions of bushels of wheat in the the
results capitalism No matter what schemes and
will make they will not be able solve the agricultural crisis
prolctarian revolution will do that
For this end in the election campaign bring the
issues OF the class struggle the agricultural orers
gave lip service to the poor farmers but
very little was done to organize the farmers to build the Party
agricultural districts Our election campaign must not be confined
the industrial proletaria though is
the class struggle but must also reach the agricultural
and the farmers More activity the countryside Special ag
tators must he into the Daily Worker
among the farmers Make the Communists in
ths coming elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
FIGHT FISH CONSPIRACY BY AUGUST FIRST PROTEST
Virginia Miners Battle Wage Cxts Starvation; Need Relief
Prepare for August First!

T-XPRESIDENT COOLIDGE writing Herald-Tribu
Z today, Conference
other fake conferences clearly lays down perspective OF
He
spite high resolutions, solemn treaties,
all the carefully prepared organizations the peaable
adjustments of international disputes the world is arming
heavily than before the and hear distinct ut
greatly changed the spirit of the nations"
This is Coodge statement of the for the American
bourgeoisie
London simultaneously Robert Cecil speaking
before the annual conference of the nterParamenary Unon de-
clared
e. old tendencies which ultimately lead to be-
ginning themselves and indeed there
that there trend in this direction that we should
be foolish to ignore them"
Speaking further of the London
ment" he
No negotiations failed to
how much they conducted in a atmosphere
These the statements of two outstanding spokesman of the
5curgeosie of the two greatest merst nations These statements
simultaneously warnings of the coeness of and phase OF
the preparations for They efforts convince the of
that inevitable and that all phases of
th military and other preparations must be rushed
be warning to the workers Just the capitalists
feverhy their preparations
calling special of the United States Senate
ay naval building agreed at London must
have the task bringing about
the Wall Street bankers and ndustrass when they at
mp TO mobilize the masses bloody protect
de profits; task Transforming their
civil against the
Establishment of workers government in the United States
accomplish task rapidly Our work
specially the shops and factories and among the unemployed must
strengthened shop nuclei of the Party shop committees OF the
of its affiliated revolutionary unions,
special united front anwar committees must be set up IN the
shops, mills and mines Unemployed councils must be established
struggle with the workers from the shops
the activities iii the shops and the
employed the basis of close linking of the struggle against
and for unemployment insurance with
mpeast and for the defense OF the Soviet
must bring great utpourng OF workers INTO the streets as
of struggle against impeaist
Under the slogans: "Oganze Strike Against Wage Cuts
Aaments; All Funds for the Unemployed SO
a workers. must for August 1st and
the of the against the mpest which
the bourgeoisie are frantcaly preparing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
Demonstrate August list!
LYNCHERS HUNT
NEGRO IN TEXAS

HOUSTON, Texas, July IT.
Uniformed and bossmen lynch gangs
are raking Houston and vicinity,
seeking an unarmed Negro worker
who, half starved from lack of en-
ployment, sought relief at the home
of a wealthy mel chant this morning.
The wife of the merchant accuses
the Negro worker of robbing and
attacking her.
The police officials have arranged
with the merchant to have the Ne
gro worker legally lynched if not
burned as John Hughes was at
Sherman, Texas, or as William
Rainey was at Beaumont.
Four Negro workers have been
lynched in this state within the last
seven months. One Negro worker,
Jesse Washington, is being held in
state prison in Oklahoma, after
a mob failed to get him in Sham
rock, Texas, last Saturday. More
than so Negro workers and their
families were driven from Sham
rock. A large number of Negro
workers were forced to flee from
Erick, Oklahoma, last Monday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
STRIKE COMMITTEES IN
MEET TO SPREAD STRIKE
and BUILD THE N. M. j.
Nearly 1000 Miners, so Per Cent Negroes, in
Strike; Prepare Anti-War Protest Aug. |
U.M.W.A. Company Agents Aim to Bring in a
No-Strike Betrayal Policy With Relief

JERE, West Virginia, July IT,
A joint meeting of the strike COM
mittee from sixteen mines of this
section assemblies here tonight to
adopt plan of spreading the strike
and building the National Miners
Union. They will also take up
preparations for protesting against
imperialist war on August 1.
From seventy -five to one hundred
delegates will be present represent
ing the workers of the following
mires: Cassville, Shriver, Bunker,
four Pursglove properties, Connels-
vile, Osaga, Chaplin, Kelley Greek,
Ros ed a ! e, Harmar, Arkwright,
Throop and Butler. There are from
six to seven thousand men in these
mines, about fifty per cent being
Negro miners.
The last wage cut brought the
tonnage rate down to % cents, the
day rate is from 1920 to $500
There is no check weighmen and the
miners are forced to load 'two for
one" All payment for dead work
has been abolished.
A conference called by Van Bit.
tner, fascist chief of the UNI. WA.
company union, is meeting at Fair
way today, consisting of subsidized
officials and gangster elements of
the old U.M.W.A. districts of West
ern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Southern
West Virginia, Maryland, South
eastern Kentucky and Tennessee
and Northern West Virginia.
The main question at the UMWA
meeting is relief, with which these
operators agents plan to penetrate
the strike districts, hoping through
the. terrible starvation conditions to
win or neutralize the miners and
their families against the National
Miners Union.
The poverty of the miners of this
region must be seen to be under
stood. 1t is comparable only to the
situation prevailing in the pellagra-
ridden districts of the Southern tex
tile mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18

the Soviet Union. The demon
stration will be held this COM
ing Saturday at IL o'clock at
the Finnish Consulate, at 5
State St., near Whitehall.
The most brutal campaign of
fascist violence against the working
class is raging throughout Finland,
The diet was abolished officially
several days ago. The Finnish
government of the bourgeois parties
in collision with the social-demo-
Gratis capitulated and turned the
official government over to the
fascist bands. The most ruthless
war of determination is organized
against the Communist Party, revo-
lutionary unions, and all class or
CARNATIONS of the workers. The
workers press has been suppressed,
the right to organization, trade
unions and cooperatives completely
abolished. Armed bands of fascist
kidnap and murder workers and
peasants deputies, and working
class leaders.
The effects of the crisis of cap
italism in Finland are now so in
tense, with the economic situation
worse than it has ever been before
and the rehabilitation of the
masses increasing, that the capt.
alists have decided it is high time
to give the fighting organizations
of the workers and peasants death
blow. Thus they hope to prolong
their rule and also shift the whole
burden of the crisis onto the