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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-10
Many Birds Killed

BIZ HIt'd IJtTa
BUENOS AIRES. Jan. l0.-The
innocent parrot suddenly has be-
come a bird Of i'll omen, dealing
death, many believe, to its captors.
The reason for this almost mystic
dread has been traced to a mild
epidemic" of parrot disease" in
the Argentina.
In the middle Of October men,
bers of a stock company at the
Niece theater became Ill of a mys-
terious malady. The leading man
and the leading lady died. Both ill
nesses were diagnosed as parrot
disease" Five other actors recov-
cred.
It is recalled the parrot, which
had been used in the conlpany's
plays. since has died of p~5ittacosis-
The result was a nationwide
scare. during which literally hun
dreds of parrots were killed.
The doctors described the Svmp-
toms to be somewhat like a head
cold. also characterized by major
intestinal disturbances.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-10
Four Cases in East

BIZ tHttFd Press
BALTIMORE, Jan. 10.-The bat
tie to prevent spread of the deadly
parrot disease reached Baltimore to-
day, with word that a fourth per-
son had become a victim Of the
mysterious fever.
DR.. N. H. Whitehill, Baltimore
veterinarian, is the latest to ne re-
ported infected with psittacos,s. or
parrot fever"
The other three, all residents of
Annapolis, are Mrs. Simon S. Mar
tin. go, wife of the secretary OF the
Chamber of Commerce there. and
her son-in-law and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. Lee NJ. Kalmey.
The latter are seriously i'll in An
napolis emergency hospital. while
both DR.. Whitehill and Mrs. Martin
are confined at their homes.
The same parrot is blamed by
health officers for all four cases. 1t
was purchased at a pet shop here
by Mr.. and Mrs. Kalmey, on Dec. 4.
It became i'll a few days later and
died on Christmas We. Members
Of the Martin household became i'll
on New Years day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-10
PARROT FEVER
NOW THREAT TO
FOUR COUNTRIES
International Effort Made
for Control of MaIady
Defined PSittaCoSiS.
BY United Press

The mysterious spread Of the
dread parrot disease" which in
recent months has been found in
four countries, including the United
States. often with deadly effects
has conferred international atten-
ton in an effort to explain and
control the malady.
It has been defined now as psitta-
COSTS, an often fatal disease, marked
By nausea and fainting spells.
II first was heard Of last October
IN Buenos Aires, when four persons,
members of a theatrical troupe, died
there. They often had caressed a
pet parrot owned by a member Of
the troupe.
The disease next was heard OF in
Berlin, where four deaths have been
reported.
Last week two cases we're identi-
fed in Prague. and this week doc
tors at Annapolis reported several
cases.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-10
HOOSlER GOES TO PERI
Columbus High School Graduate in
Mining Company's Employ.

BIZ Times SpCcidt
COLUMBUS, Ind, Jan. 10.-Leon
P. Morris, son of Mrs. Della P.
Morris of Columbus, is en- route to
Lima, Peru, where he will spend the
next three years as assistant min
ing engineer for the Cerro de Pasco
Mining Company.
The engineer, a native of the
Sandcreek section of Bartholomew
county was graduated from Column
bus high school in 1914. Five years
ago he was graduated from the
Oakland Scnool Of Mines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-10
STOP-GO BOILED EGGS
Wives in Washington Use Traffic
Lights as Time Check.

WASHINGTON. Jan. lots a
cinch for newlyweds in this city.
There's absolutely no excuse for
hubby to complain about his eggs
being too soft or too hard. For
traffic lights regulate the time an
egg is boiled in homes along city
streets.
The interval required for the
lights to change from green to
amber to red is exactly the time to
cook oft-boiled eggs, the house,
wives have found.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-10

tlOnal Topographic
cal Union, as a
member Of the
board of directors
of the Marion
County Tuberculo-
sis Association, was
announced today.
Perry will fill the
%uneXpired term Of
Wo odruff Ran
dolph, Topographic
cal Union secre-
tary-treasurer who
resigned.
Perry lives at
AnAn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-10

nue. and has been active for many
years in the unions Republication
work for those afflicted with tuber-
cuiosis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-10
APPOINTED TO
TUBERCULOSIS BOARD
Typographical Union Official VIII
Fill Unexpired Term.

Appointment of Theodore Perry,
frs vice-president Of the Interna-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
A. F. of L. Convention Side
Lights
By A. r. MAGIL.

One of the most pathetic sights your cor
respondent has ever witnessed was the meet
ing called by the Music outfit (the Trade
Union Unity League meeting two nights later
offered stirring contrast). After thousands
of handbills had been distributed unmolested
in the Hotel Statler and other places, seventy
"Ypsls," school teachers and antique liberal
ladies trickled into the hall. And not real
proletarian among them. The voices of the
fake progressives resounded dismally through
the hall. They tried to blame the Legion par
ade for the flop, but it was like whistling in
the dark to keep up their courage Their
speeches consisted of mixture of the vilest
belly-crawling before the A. F. of L. betray-
ers and the striking of pseudo-militant atti-
tudes. And at the bottom of it all note of
futility and despair. 1t was scene to make
stones weep.
The gentlemen of the press were in charge
of John Leary, the "labor" reporter of the New
York World. This somewhat elderly bird of
prey is one of the most diligent lickers of the
boots of the Greens and Wols in the country
and of course a sworn enemy of everything
Red. 1t is an open secret that Leary is on
the A. F. of L. payroll And what he gets
from Tammany is of course nobodys business
was Louis Stark of the New York Times,
whose hatred of the Communists is more ere
fined" than Leary's. OF course Stark is a
former socialist" What else would you ex-
pect?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
Tt Gets Four Out of Five

We are obliged to q Red Sparks fan for
calling our attention to the journal of the
American Dental Association, Coral Hygiene"
One would never suspect that these modern
Torquemadas who draw molars could also
draw laugh, and we assure you that they
never intended it.
It's this way. The Association held con-
vention recently in Denver, and elected as
president ranting, roaring "red- batter" Col
onel Robert Todd Oliver, veteran of four I'M
perialist wars beginning with grabbing the
Philippines, then the massacre of Chinese in
the Boxer rebellion, then invading Mexico with
Pershng and finally the World War. He is
still an army colonel.
This bird, coral Hygiene" tells us in his
speeches at the dentists convention, told
about the increasing amount of Red propa-
ganda disseminated throughout the country to
undermine the structure of our government"
Then Coral Hygiene" goes on to say:
"The dentist, due to his intimate associa-
ton with his patients, is in particularly
advantageous position to counterfeit much of
this harmful propaganda and Colonel Oliver
called upon the entire profession to aid in
this work."
Now we'll know, when a dentist gets us
down in chair, with our jaws propped open
with a bootjack a pair of pliers pinched
down on our tongue and rubber thingumbob
showed down our throat with foot of barbed
wire, that he's taking what the colonel called
"a particularly advantageous position" to hand
out argument against Communism with not
the slightest chance in the world of us saying
anything back but grunts like "Ahyawah,"
"Oohah" and other such vowels.
But we give 'em fair warning! The first
moment he lets us come up for air, we'll re-
vert to mayhem and take off couple of joints
of his nearest finger.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20


the trade union bureaucracy and capitalist
politicians. Beginning under his Chairman
ship" the leaders have completed the trans
formation of the socialist party into party
of social fascisnl, so that now it fits snugly
into the capitalist state machine
In 1905 Debs wrote on the place of the
class struggle in the program of the labor
movement, to say nothing, of socialist party:
I'VE insist that there is class struggle; that
the working class must recognize it; that they
must organize economically and politically upon
the basis of that struggle; and that when they
do so organize they will then have the power
to free themselves and put an end to that
struggle forever"
Having really lost every other vestige of
Socialism or semblance to workingclass par
ty the S. P. decided at recent convention also
to delete from it's membership application blank
the clause dealing with adherence to the prin-
ciple of the class struggle. The class-conscous
workers know that the S. P. has not thereby
removed itself from participation in the class
struggle. 1t is simply fighting on the other
side the side of the bosses. Since the workers
are learning more and more of its true charac-
ter, the S. P. now offers itself as political
haven to all and sundry liberals, trade union
bureaucrats, small and big business men and
deserters from the class struggle Of all hues,
including renegades from Communism.
Debs saw this degeneration coming. It was,
therefore, his historic mistake not to break
with the moribund organization and join the
narty of the proetarian class strugge-the
Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
&A<>..*4
10y
Wynne Wins
By JORGE

The so-called "Health Commissioner" or
New York is but one more of those Tam
many grafters who strut around under
veneer of dignity.
Back in July, this animal, DR.. Shirley W.
Wynne, was forced by the protest OF the
masses of the poor, to make pretense at
Investigating" the reason why the Milk Truse
thieves, who pay the farmers cents ana
cents quart for milk delivered right here at
New York City, charged from 16 cents to ~
cents for it.
There was terrible roar of investigation"
and DR.. Wynne "made a trip around the milk
she'd" mo, dear reader, the milk shed" IS
not building full of cows, but the area from
whence DR.. Wynne permits milk to come for
sale in New York;
And Wynne came back from the milk shed
without committing himself on whether the
raise in price then made was Justified" or
not But one thing he was sure on, he would
not under any circumstances, allow the Milk
Trust that holds New York in its grip, be
broken by allowing the milk shed to be en-
larged, so as to let milk, just as good or bad,
come in from Pennsylvania or Wisconsin.
Undoubtedly the Doc is interested in public
health" but we'll bet that he got fat
"honorarium' from the Trust for saying that
he bars "outside" milk "for reasons of health"
Its his own health he's thinking about.
But now, while the milk investigation" has
fallen into utter oblivion old Doc Wynne tried
another graft and got caught at it. certain
brand of tooth paste put up ads in the sub
way trains, with Doc Wynnes picture and
recommendation attached. This got the goat
of the other tooth paste companies, and
through the N. Y. County Medical Society he
put on the pan.
But he comes back with the defense that all
that he said in the recommendation was that
"Cean teeth are essential to health" Which
is a dodge, of course, but which he uses as
defiance to his fellow crooks: "How can they
stop Health Commissioner from saying what
is essential to health?"
Then he resigns in high moral indignation
from the Medical Association, not from the
City Graft Somebody looked up the ethical
rules of physicians as established in the fifth
century by Hippocrates, which has served
hypocrites ever since. It says:
''With purity and with holiness / will pass
my life and practice my art" But that was
said long time before Tammany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20

This does not mean the ignoring or blurring
of other tremendously important defense ac-
tions in other sections of the country (Im-
perial Valley, California; New York and Mil
waukee Unemployed Delegations, Mooney and
Billings; Centralia; numerous sedition perss-
cutions, deportations). By carefully co-ordi-
mating these defense activities with the Allan
ia the axis, and linking them all up
with struggle against prosecutions in other
countries Fascist countries in Europe, India,
China, Latin America) the greatest mass
campaign can be developed in resistance to the
whole wave of capitalist class persecution
against the working class.
The trial of Newton and Story has been de-
layed for but few days. The International
Labor Defense fights for complete dismissal
of all charges. Failing in this it demands
mass trial. 1t fights against Jim Grow
trial under lynch law justice. No railroading
of the two Negro workers to the electric chair.
Against this attack the mass mobilization
of workers everywhere on Tuesday, October 81,
the day that three members of the New York
Unemployed Delegation, William z. Foster,
Robert Minor and Israel Amter, will be re-
leased from prison after serving six months
for leading the March Sixth Unemployed Dem
onstration in New York City,
For Immediate Release
Tammany Hall, with its dancing mayor,
Jimmie" Walker, and it's peddler of forged
Russian documents, the ex-police commissioner,
Whalen, hoped to send the Unemployed Dele
cation to prison for long terms, at least three
years, on the unlawful assembly" charge;
eight years on the felonious assault charge.
But Lesten freed after 80 days in prison.
Foster, Minor and Amter will be released after
having served the minimum time on the Gun
lawful assembly" charge while the Tammany
courts have been forced to drop the felonous
assault charge. The United States Supreme
Court did not dare touch the appeal that the
International Labor Defense demanded that it
hear. October 21st will therefore be a day
of working class rejoicing Foster, Minor and
Amter will be torn from the grip of capitalist
class justice. Raymond has been sentenced to
a full year. We demand that Raymon
be released with the others on October 21st
While October 21st will therefore be day Of
rejoicing it will also be- day for greater
notifications in resistance to all prosecutions
of the unemployed in resistance to the
planned Atlanta judicial lynchiag; for strug-
gle against all lynchings; an effective con-
tribution to the United Front Election Cam
paign of the Communist Party that fights for
the release of all class war prisoners; for the
protection of foreign-born workers; for most
energetic attack against the infamous Fish
Committee of the United States Congress, de-
handing its immediate dissolution.
Labor must give its answer now to the 4319
lynch murders that have been perpetrated
against Negro and white workers in America
since the days when the Chicago police clashed
with striking, demonstrating workers in "The
Haymarket" struggling for the eght-hour day.
More than four regiments slain! But the
struggle goes on and grows!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
A Good Student But
A Bad Example

We didn't know what to make of it at first,
when we got the following document, enclosed
with a letter which didn't make the matter
any clearer:
Eureka, Mont, Oct. 9th, 1880; Bank Of
England, London. England; Please pay to the
Order of the Daily Worker, New York, N. Y,
or bearer, One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00)
out of any money due the United States Gov
eminent, and deduct it from my bill against
the United States Government that was placed
in your hands for colection.-Signed, Ben
janlm Stewart"
We were, we repeat puzzled Then we
got it. This man Stewart has been taking up
courses in the Workers School of Detroit,
where the Agit-Proper has the custom Of
sending the Daily Worker rubber checks. That
explains it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
Culture and Canaries

The Nation" which endorses Mayor Muir.
phys plan of building wall around Detroit
to keep out "the rabble" from entering the
heavenly gates of General Motors and Henry
Ford, is the only paper where one could find
such an ad as the following:
professional girl, student, can have board
and share homely apartment near City College
with cultured woman and two canaries, mod
crate price,"
We could stand the canaries, but lord de-
liver us from the "Nation" brand of culture
and the budding metropolitan Rabbits of City
College.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
1918 Lynch Murders in America

versary of the death of Sacco and Vanzetti,
August 22nd, 10000 members of the newly or
ganized American Fascist Association and
Blackshirts' League modified in the streets
of Atlanta to prevent the Sacco-Vanzetti Mem
orial, the Atlanta campaign. must be developed
Immediately into really mass proportions. 1t
must arouse the workers of the whole world.
1t is today's Sacco-Vanzetti case, today's
Gastonia case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
EUGENE DEBS AND THE
SOCIALIST PARTY

Editors Note: Eugene Victor Debs died
October 30, 1926. The socialist party, true to
its role of the n1isIeoder of the 10orking class
is attempting to use Debs to coyer its constant
5etrayaIs. We reprint beIow chapter from,
Comrade Truchtenberg's pamphlet "The Herr
tage of Gene Debs", Just published by Inter
national Pamphlets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20

81 was weeks in the hospital and could
not send money on time. am sending Sc
Worker" John Wild, Gloversville, N. Y.
for another IL months for the Daily
READERS! BUILD HOUSE TO HOUSE
ROUTES!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
Anxious To Get Daily.

81 am looking forward to this newspaper
which l am more than anxious to receive"
D. Milan, Worthwhile, Michigan. PUSH THE
$4,000 CIRCULATION DRIVE!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16

thousand cars is increasing, which in
turn means that there Is less care in
driving or in walking, or more con-
gestion, or all of these.
Is there a remedy? That question is
troubling municipal authorities and or
CARNATIONS of motorists and safety coun-
ellis the country over. Efforts are made
to improve traffic rules. But the best
trafic rules will not correct character
faults, will not make reckless drivers
more careful, will not make pedestrians
more attentive to conditions and more
painstaking in making their way across
traffic lines. No traffic rules ever writ
ten will of themselves cheek the GRIM
inal folly Of the driver who fails to take
proper care at railroad grade crossings.
And the embarrassing fatalities alone
constitute very large factor in the ma
tional casualty list.
There is no lack of educational effort,
to teach drivers care and to teach pc
destrians caution In self-protection.
The necessity Of being considerate, the
danger of being too speedy, the risk of
running improperly equipped cars, the
peril of stepping blindly into traffic
streams, these are all constantly iterated
and proclaimed, with pictures to accent
the tragic results Of failure in any and
all of these lines. And still the traffic
toll mounts, at a ratio of deaths per car
that becomes larger in gravely menac-
ing degree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
LIBERALIZATION of Police
Forces in States Urged

TO the Editor Of The Star:
The clever advantage you have taken
Of the Seat Pleasant affair to drive home
the lesson Of boundaries and Crime" is
beyond admiration. May we not hope
that you viii follow this up with as
capable an explanation of other phases
Of this question? The process of ex-
tradition, for instance, puts in the hands
Of the governor OF each State a judicial
function respecting crimes with which
he should have no concern at all, and
adds q useless element of inefhciency
and expense to the long trail of loop
holes which the criminal finds in Ameri-
can jurisprudence. The liberalization
Of the police system also would make
possible many other improvements in
the enforcement of the law, such as the
provision OF uniform type of armored
car to deal with the criminal use of
automobiles and remove the danger to
both ofiicer and citizen which exists in
the present method of stopping an
automobile on the highway. and it
would add a uniformity to law enforce
nent which Is sadly needed in displac-
ing hatred with popular support and re-
spect for the administration of justice.
May we not, indeed, properly conclude
that the peculiarities Of the unfavorable
criminal situation In the United States
are largely attributable to the system Of
dual sovereignty accumulated by the
prevalence Of the use Of the automobile?
The "damnable afiiction" in American
politics today is not prohibition, but
ALDEN A. POTTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
Hubert Will Stirs Interest i'm
Methods of Aiding Charity

IS likely that the effects of the testator's
generosity are going to be more widely
and generally felt than If he had relied
upon his own knowledge and impulses"
+ X X y
1.-THE work was we'll DONE" states the
Birmingham News, with the. further
comment: Hubert was Russian-born.
Before he came to this country he lived
in Germany. But 1t was in America
that his fortune was made. 1t is to
American institutions that his wealth is
awarded Russians by birth, like Hubert.
should be welcomed in Hubert's adopted
country. Who knows that more than
one mute, inglorious Conrad Hubert is
not being excluded from these shores by
severely stringent immigration laws?"
The personnel of the committee is
praised by the Rock Island Argus, which
recalls. as throwing light on their labors,
that "Mr. Rosenwald journeyed from
Chicago to New York every two weeks
In the time since last July, to attend the
committee meetings, and that Mr..
Coolidge attended every session"
mot every benevolent person Of
wealth who desires that his fortune be
disposed of wisely for the benefit Of hui
mainly after his death can command in
the execution of his will the services
of a former President of the United
States, a former Governor of New York
and an eminent philanthropist of orig
inal ideals and rare executive ability"
says the Chicago Daily News. That
paper recognizes that "a high degree Of
public benefit was the result aimed at
and attained" The Hartford Times feels
that Mr.. Hubert used remarkable in
genuity toward securing fine useful
ness for the large contribution he
wished to make to the national well
fare"