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Carolina competitors. This increased
production has been piling up a con-
Stantly increasing surplus OF raw to-
bacco until many farmers are unable
to sell it at profitable price.
So both cotton and tobacco farmers
have been caught in vicious circle
constantly raising more and making
less. In 1923 the North Carolina far
mers received $20,375 900 less for their
And in 1929 they received $23, 063, 900
less than in 1928 At that rate they
would soon be receiving less than cost.
Some of them already were. The stu
alton was desperate. The chief means
of support of half the inhabitants of
the State was rapidly failing to be a
means of support.
1t vas then that Gov Gardner pro-
posed the "live-at-home" policy as the
remedy. 1t had been advocated by the
sound agricultural leaders of the Sta.e,
such as DIR. Eugene G. BranSon of the
University of North Carolina for years.
The proclamation with which he
launched the "live-at-home" campaign
last December is unique document,
both because of its complete lack of
formal and political language and be-
cause of the way it gets down to brass
tacks and stays there.
1.-The people of North Carolina" 1t
reads, "are sending out of the State an
nually for the purchase of food and
foodstuffS q sum in excess of $3.50, 000,-
000y An idea of the extent of this
colossal drain upon our resources and
earnings may be obtained from some
sirfpie comparative statistics. 1t would,
for example, be sufficient to pay the
total property tax, town and country,
for four years. 1t Is nearly twice as
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the Althing was established. But the
original Althing was pre-eminently a
judicial body or system of ''moots," and
the original functions were largely sus-
pended or fell into deSuetude over the
rolling and mostly unhappy years, es-
pecially from the subsection to Norway
followed by Danish rule from 1280)
The present Althing is genuine legis-
lative parliament of the modern type
and the old moots have given place
to modern courts.
~ ~
INDIA-Says vallaghai Patel, act
ing president of the Indian National
Congress: 1--WE have no quarrel with
Englishmen or with England. All we
want is the definite promise that our
demands will be met, and If this
compromise" This is delightful
language reminding one of a famous
Lincoln story.
Fourteen delegates have been chosen
by the Indian states to attend the
round table conference to meet In
London in october to consider the In
dian situation. They include the
Maharajahs of Patiala, Kashmir, BIZ
kaner, Alwar and Rewa, the Nawab
OF Bhopal, the GaekWar OF Baroda, and
the Diwan of Mysore.
X X X
EGYPT.-Mosto of the members of the
Egyptian Parliament are Wafdists ma
tionalists). The Wafdist executive had
entertained the idea of reopening
Parliament in the teeth of King Faud
and the government, but they wisely
decided instead to use the constitu-
tional rights of petitioning the King,
In document signed by two-thirds of
the members of both houses, to re-
convene Parliament. The King, how
ever, turned down the petition, alleg-
ing that it did not conform to con-
stitutional requirements.
There was rioting in Cairo, Portsaid
and Suez on July 81. At Cairo
rioters were killed and about 100 per-
sons injured. including 80 or more
policemen. At PorSsaid 3 rioters were
killed and % injured and about so
policemen were injured At Suez about
a score of rioters were injured and
about the same number of police. Alto
gether, z persons were killed and
237 injured. The PortSaid disturbances
continued the next day. police volley
killing one and wounding several rioters.
X \ 4 v
UNITED STATES.-On July 81 the
Senate, So to 8, ratified the London
naval treaty.
Glenn H. Curtiss is dead at 52-a
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Chicago University to Conduct Tests
OF 3Lie Detector'' for Use of Courts

tigating the reliability of the device in
marginal cases involving abnormal
minds as well as normal minds under
usual and abnormal conditions
The lie detector commonly used is a
portable device which registers on q
moving graph the respiration and blood
pressure of the person questioned, sharp
variations in the record of these two
functions giving proof of detection. The
university investigators have available.
however, a more elaborate stationary
apparatus in the laboratory which also
gives changes in the electric currents
of the body under emotional stress.
This machine win be used to check
against the results produced on the
portable detector.
Should the comprehensive investiga-
ton, which will involve tests of more
than a thousand individuals, show that
the detector is accurate under all con-
ditions, the way will be open for It's
recognition by the courts. Its intro
iuction into criminal Jurisprudence
doubtness would mean striking changes
In the administration Of the law.
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Investigating the reliability of the
"lie detector," SO that it may make the
determination of positive guilt in a
criminal matter Of standardized
technique. will be the work of the re-
search committee of the University of
Chicago. it Is announced.
Elaborate tests based upon a scien-
tific background will be undertaken at
the suggestion of August Vollmer, chief
of police of Berkeley, Calf. Chief Voll-
mer was the first police oficial to use
the lie detector. and is said to have
successfully employed 1t n many cases.
A court test Of the admissibility of the
evidence OF the lie detector has been
avoided by him, pending demonstra-
ton OF its scientific exactness.
Tests Will be made under all possible
conditions to determine how much in
terest person must have In concealing
facts before he shows a pronounced
deception response. Cooperation az
public authorities will be sought 10
make tests in actual criminal cases.
Especial attention will be paid to inves-
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BY HENRY w. BUM.

TINE following is a brief summary
Of the most important news of
the world for the seven days
ended July Is:
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Nicholi stops short and darts back
into the house. rushing out in moment
with gayly colored pamphlet. To-
gether the two round-headed youngsters
trot down the wide clay roadway to the
settlement, turn through rickety gate
and, yelling like Indians. romp across a
muddy barnyard into the low doorway
Of peasants hut. Here, in the dim
light of the setting sun that streams in
through tiny windows, they are greeted
by their parents with laughter, chatter
and shouts. The bristle-haired father
in clumsy boots and the husky mother,
| q wide-faced woman with brown cheeks
rouged by the winds of the steppes. are
excited at the first visit their children
have made in three days.
| The family life of the model Russian
is in progress. A neighbor calls, toting
a battered accordion from which he
pumps the wild, gay folksongs of ancient
days. The music over, little Nichon pro-
duces the book, and the illiterate older
folk sit spellbound while the boy reads
Of Lenin and the Red days Of 1917. The
Continued on Fourth Page.)
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AhyNc Nausco VI DtsOtuefs'
ITO what" I asked. do you ascrfbe
4he rising tide Of nervous diseases and
mental disorders that are spreading
with such rapidity throughout the
United States?"
The Soviet scientists were reluctant to
generalize on so broad a question. but
after much qualifying and defining
they set out q few of their OBJ
servations of the effects of our complex
industrialized lives upon natural health
To the furious tempo of existence and
the swift pace of life here they &C
credited many forms of neurasthenia
and nervous exhaustion. And the more
devastating forms of nelirosis they &C
counted for by the completely Of oui
life that blocks many channels Of ex-
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"A WORTH CAROLINA has been de-
N scribed by a North Carolinian
as "a valley Of humility be-
/ tween two mountains of con-
a.;+,, fyyirCinia and Cn..fh Caro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-20
The Bunk About Over
population

THE theory that wars are caused by "over-
population" which is very common falacy
and which is advanced by bourgeois theoreti-
clans for the purpose of misleading the work
ers as to the real cause of war was again pro-
nounced a few days ago by Baptist pastor,
Macarthur, in a speech at a dinner of the
American Eugenic Society and the Eugenics
Research Association.
He sad there must be legalized control of
human race increase before the saturation point
leads to on the part of Italy, under its
saber-rattling dictator, or on the part of Japan
and China with oncir teeming Millions
1t should be remembered that Italian fas-
cism and japanese imperialism will go to war
not because they want to dispose of their Sc
called Surplus" population but because the
exploiting classes in these countries want more
colonies for exploitation.
AS for China it is obvious that wars and
revolutions are caused by the contradictions in
herent in imperialism and native reaction and
are not due to ver-population."
TO get profits, and more profits is the driv-
ing force behind the war for the colonies and
the real cause for war. The theory of "sur-
plus population has been used by the imperial
lists merely as cover and an argument" for
the real purpose Of their colonial policies and
no class conscious worker should be fooled by
it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-20
By EARL BROWDER.

WHEN the Party Convention meets on June
" goth, one of the most important problems
which it must pass Judgment on is our trade
union work. The main line proposed by the
Central Committee, in its thesis and in the
trade union resolution, is the organization OF
the unorganzed into the revolutionary unions,
and the independent leadership of economic
struggles This line, the product of our past
years of experience and of the leadership OF
the Red International of Labor Unions, I'M
doubtedly has the support of the overwhelming
majority of the Party In the main, the at
tacks made upon it come from outside the
Party, from the renegades of the Lovestone
and Trotskyite groups and from the fascists
and social-fascists. There is, however, still
some uncarity among some Party members,
and an occasional voice is raised against this
line For example, in discussing trade union
problems, Comrade Kurt Stahl Tin Der Ar
better on May 81, comes out most sharply with
the conclusion that "it must be our task and
duty to mobilize the membership of the Party
against this wrong line"
Comrade Stahl by thus challenging the line
of the Central Committee, lays upon it the
task and duty to convince him (if that is pos
sibe) that he is wrong and that the Party
is correct Such task can also be the occa-
sion for restatement of the trade union policy
in way calculated to clear up some mlscon-
ceptions more widely held among the member
ship than those of Comrade Stahl.
Development of the New Line.
The present policy of the Party represents
a sharp turn from that followed for many
years Approximately from 1922 to 1929,
which made the center of all trade union work
the penetration of the A. F. of L. and the
building of eft-wing groups therein, upon a
program of Transforming the A. F. of l.. unions
into organs of the class struggle for the work
ers. The former policy was, in general cor
rect for the period in which it was applied.
But in the course of those seven years, certain
changes took place, first in the general condi-
tions of the class struggle (transtion from the
second to the third period of postwar CAPT
talism), and second in the transformation of
the trade union bureaucracy into fascist shock
troops of the capitalist class. With the chang
ing conditions, our policy changed Also 1t is
true, not fast enough, however, the change
in policy was accomplished only under the blows
of sharp defeat. Two experiences stand out
as the most effective in bringing up sharply
to face the necessities of the newly developing
conditions of the class struggle. These were
the Passaic strike and the Colorado coal strike.
In Passac our Party made one of its first
steps in directly organizing the unorganized
workers. 1t did this falteringly, without any
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-20
PRE-CONVENTION DISCUSSION
How Shall We Organize the
Unorganized?

clear boldly-conceved policy, but the pressure
of the movement of the workers quickly carried
US into great strike, in which the Party was
recognized by the workers and the world
the unquestioned leader. Faced with the ques-
ton, how to organize the unorganized, in this
concrete form, tried to fit it into our es-
tabshed policy of working within the main
stream" of the labor movement, the A. F. Of
l.. We set ourselves the task of bringing these
workers into the United Textile Workers.
1t is unnecessary at this moment to recall
all the incidental plumbers that were made in
this great struggle. 1t was a magnificent class
fight, in which the Party organized national
movement of masses in support, over many long
months. But the basically wrong conception
of the A. F. of L. as "the main stream" into
which all efforts must flow led US finally to a
disastrous and shameful captulation to the A
+. of L. bureaucracy. We delivered the Pas
sale workers over to the United Textile Work
ers Union, which destroyed all organization
within few months.
In Colorado the coal miners came out on
STRIKE under the nominal leadership of the l.
W. W. We had great left-wing mass move
ment on within the United Mine Workers at
the time, and national strike was going on
We could have united the Colorado movement
of hitherto unorganized miners with our left
they should join the UNIV. But we were
afraid of organizing any workers outside the
A. f. of L.; consequently the Colorado miners
continued their movement isolated from the
main body of the left wing, and under the
disastrously laundering leadership of the I. W.
w. to final defeat and breakup of their organ
ization. At the same time, our left wing in
the UNIV. had been paralyzed by the united
front with Brophy, Howat and Hapgood, who
effectively prevented any independent leader
ship.
Shortly afterward, came the Ninth Plenum
of the Comintern and the Fourth World Con-
gress of the Red International of Labor Unions.
These international gatherings registered the
first practical recognition of the Third Per-
iod," which was only established theoretically
year and half later at the Sixth World
Congress of the Conlintern. This international
reorentation, expressed in the slogan "Class
against class" and the sharper fight against
social-democracy and it's fake left wing, when
applied to the examination of our experiences
in America, produced the program for the in
dependent organization of the unorganized into
revolutionary trade unions given US by the
Fourth Congress of the R.LL.U. (1928). This
soon resulted in the foundation of the National
Textile Workers Union, the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, and. the National
Miners Union.
Ito Be Continued)
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es over the quality of the films produced is
composed of the following organizations:
National Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution
National Education Association.
Federal Council of Churches Of Christ of
America.
International Committee of the YM.C.A.
Boy Scouts of America.
Girl Scouts of America.
American Legion.
American Federation of Labor.
National Community Center Association.
Camp Fire Girls
American Sunday School Union.
Chatauqua Institute.
Daughters of the American Revolution.
National Board of the Y.M,C.A.
International Federation of Catholic Alumnae
Russell Sage Foundation
Central Conference of American Rabbls.
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
National Catholic Welfare Conference.
American Library Association, etc.
In 1926 this committee became permanent
and actual part of the motion picture industry
In other words, every lingo and fascist organ
ization in the country has say as to what
pictures the workers are to see. After this,
of pictures shown.
Censorship in the United States is from day
to day becoming more vicious. Despite the fact
that strict control is exercised at the point of
production, the great danger remains the news
reel, which for technical reasons cannot very
easily be overseen Gar Hays, can, however
cause any dangerous" newsreel to be burned
at a moments notice, as in the case of the
Sacco- Vanzetti films, the movie records of
which have been destroyed. Also the police
commissioner of any city is empowered with
the privilege of ruling out whatever he may
think Objectionable in newsreel. fragrant
example of this was the action of Forgery
Whalen, who saw to it that the films of the
March demonstration in New York not
shown. | want once more to emphasize the
news-film is the important thing; that the cap
talist class knows that there are certain things
that it cannot afford to have shown. 1t is
afraid of some pictures. On the other hand, it
has learned to use this kind of film to its own
advantage. Hence the concentration on the news
reel in the past year.
American capitalism has also learned to use
the movies for directly mlitarst purposes
There are 81 army motion picture theatres
showing films from twice to seven times week
ly They are under the supreme supervision
of Major General Charles H. Bridges, with
branch managers in the five army territorial
divisions throughout the country. Before long
every army post will be equipped with sound
projection apparatus as means of instructing
soldiers in up-to-date mass murder technique.
We must challenge this pernicious use of
the film against us. We must openly fight
against lingo films by kissing them off the
screen. Films are being used against the work
ers like police clubs, only more subty--like
the reactionary press. If the capitalist class
fears pictures and prevents us from seing rec
ords of events like the March unemployment
demonstration and the Sacco-Vanzetti trial we
will equip our own cameramen and make our
own films. The vogue of sound films, and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-20

tremendous expense that goes with it by no
means make this impossible In their present
state, the talkies are by far inferior in their
technical value to even the old silent films.
made in Hollywood. Moreover, we have in the
labor movement individuals who have absorbed
and studied the best in the Russian methods
and can produce films more economically and
effectively than the capitalist studios.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-20

Demand the release of Eos.
ter, Minor, Amter and Ray
mond, in prison for fighting
for unemployment insurance.
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Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!
Communist Party U. S. A.
43 East l25th Street,
New York City.
!, the undersigned, want to join the Commu.
mist Party. Send me more information.
name .......................
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Mail this to the Central Office, Communist
Party, 40 East 125th ST.. New York. N. 7.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
CHARLES H. WHORRALL
SECRETARY TO DOAK
Former Executive Assistant to New
Cabinet Member-Will Take Up
Duties January !.

Charles H Whorrall, who was execu-
tive assistant to William N. Doak before
the latter became Secretary of Labor,
has been appointed private secretary to
Secretary Doak.
Whorrall will take over his new duties
with the advent of the new year.
Whorrall is thoroughly conversant
with labor affairs, particularly as they
pertain to transportation. He had been
associated with Doak in a secretarial
capacity for about seven years, and is
a member of the Brotherhood Of Rail-
road Trainmen, of which Doak was the
national legislative representative.
He is 81 years old and maintains a
legal residence in Illinois. His career
has been varied one. He is graduate
Of the School of Foreign Service of
Georgetown University, served In France
and was cited for meritorious service
during the World War, and has held
numerous posts in the Government
service.
After the war he was employed for a
short period at police headquarters here
as secretary to the late Inspector Grant
chief of detectives.
While in France Whorrall married
Jeanette Louc of Nice. They have an
infant daughter and reside at 444 Manor
place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
FOUR GET TREATMENT
FOR FIGHT INJURIES
Three White Men and Colored
Woman Go to Hospitals as
Result of Alterations.

Three white men and one colored
woman received hospital treatment as
the result of injuries sustained in
fights last night.
William l.. Jenkins, 81 years old. of
1444 w street, and Wesley M. Dander-
cook, 20 years old. of 1882 Clifton street,
were treated at Emergency Hospital for
scalp wounds as the result of an alter
cation with a colored man at Four
tenth and Fairmont streets early this
morning. No arrests were made.
About the same time two young col
ored women staged battle in the 1900
block of Half street southeast, with one
Of the participants, Geneva Haithman
80, of 1924 Half street southeast, re-
ceiving cuts about the body. She was
treated at Casualty Hospital.
The fourth victim, Frank L. Edwards,
80 years old, Of 1745 First street, was
treated at Emergency Hospital for a
stab wound in his back, sustained in
an alteration with a colored man in
Pierce court. His condition was said to
be not serious.