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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-08
Out With Petty Bourgeois theology
in Our Language Press

case because the energies and the strength Of
the American working class now more than
ever before is directed towards great mass
class battles against the capitalist class in or
der to repulse the attacks Of capital and to
launch the offensive for better standard Of
living. Z,
More Progressive Dentists"
1t is not to the interest of Lithuanian work
ers in the U. S. A. to read long columns of
text of self-advertisement that one is a more
progressive" dentist than others. The world
outlook of the American proletarian is that
from which he can draw lessons to raise his
struggles from those for purely economic de-
mands to struggles directing him towards the
establishment of a government for the working
class. The source from which he can draw
these lessons is the world revolutionary move
ment It is the duty of our press to be the
medium through which the American proleta-
riat can gain this information
Ideas which compare the Specialization of the,
medical service in the interests of the working
class as it exists in the U. S. S. R. today, where
the proletariat have overthrow the bourgeoisie
and established their own government, with the
possibilities to do the same in the U. S. A. un-
der the regime of capital las compared in the
article Of DR.. A. Potrik). is nothing else but
propaganda to divert the American workers
from the path of class struggle to that Of re-
formism This is the view Of bourgeois liberal
and has absolutely nothing to do with Commu-
nism.
Impermissible Advertisements
=. In the issue Of "Laisve" for January I. 1880
and in later issue of the "vilnis" there an
peared an advertisement in the form Of an
article which speaks about too much eluttony.
too little religion, too little peaceful self-con-
dnct as the reason for most Of the failures in
life. fht
In the present conditions when millions Of
American workers are walking the streets in
vain search for work, half starved homeless,
when there has been started worldwide cam
paign against the u. s.. S. Il. as preparation
for war and intervention in the u. S. S. R.,
alegedly on the basis of protection Of religion,
but in reality because the proletariat in the
U. s. S. R. is successfully destroying the kulak
as class-the last support Of world imperial
ism in the u. S. S. R.; when the wave Of the
class struggle is rising higher, to put forth
such ideas as above mentioned even in the
form OF advertisement in our Communist press
is absolutely impermissble.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-08

The Daily Worker is the Party's
best instrument to make contacts
among tie masses of wo, kers, TO
build mass Communis, Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-08

TALK to your fellow worker IN
your shop about the Daily
Worker. Sell him q copy every
day for . week. Then ask him -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-08
By GILBERT LEWIS.

THIS Is tie second part Of CoWFdde Le10lS'S
article. The first part dealt Nth the vicious
attack Of the Negro bourgeoisie and the Ia
Dor bureaucrats against the Trade Union
Unity eLague and the activities Of the reUo-
lutiona,g lcorkers in the South
The Editor.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Magic Power Ascribed
to Mirrors, Long Ago


Mirrors In ancient times were not
as nowadays dedicated exclusively to
the service Of vanity. but also largely
to that Of magic.
Their power Of rejecting real things
In vague silvery depths bred an awed
wonder. which echoed down the CEN
turtles In mystic rites wherein they
played an important part. A mirror
was used to focus the scattered beams
iofsmidday heat In one dazzling point
OF flame, drawing the pure fire Of
heaven down to the affairs Of this
earth. Or hung up at evening dusk
IN the foliage Of high trees, 1t was left
to gather dewdrops from the cool
radiance Of the moon. For the dew
gathering on objects, as 1t were out
of infinite space, seemed full of sacred
significance. oeg
Ham WI III, much given to belief
in the occult, erected a pillar Of
bronze on the Terrace Of Fragrant &C.
dar Beams. On the summit Of its 200
feet spirit with outstretched hands
held shallow dish, to receive the pre-
cious moisture. And there were psychic
mirrors for evoking apparitions, for
rejecting shadows from the events to
come. Often they were buried with
the dead, to dispel the gloom Of the
grave, for the light they had so faith
fully reflected on earth was by some
weird process supposed to dwell In
them still.-From Porcelain Pagodas
and Palaces of jade" by A. q. Grant
ham.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
French Superstitions

To a considerable extent, the French
peasants still attach credence to the
evil eye, to witches, to were-wolves and
to other weird medieval superstitions,
in spite of years of persistent effort to
eradicate these primitive beliefs. In
many remote villages of Normandy
and Brittany belief in heather deities
also survives. Sacred trees are the
object of midnight worship, when
young girls gather to dance In the
moonlight, as in the days of Druidical
heathenism. Healers and medicine
men abound in the rural districts and
certain animals still are treated with
reverential awe. Cases involving SUI
perstitiOn are constantly coming to
the attention of the French courts.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28

net gain OF one. The Chesapeake ana
Potomac Telephone Companies sery
Ing this area operated 61S.710 tele
phones on January /. The increase
last year was 1929. To make this net
gain 110.742 telephones were install
ed. while 7s.503 were disconnected.
The ever increasing requirements fol
telephone service in these three States
and the District Of Columbia call for
extensive construction programs on
the part OF the telephone system. In
the next five years expenditures OF
more than $100.000.000 are contem
plated for additions and improve ments
to the telephone plant During 1880 the
Chesapeake and Potomac Companies
expect to spend more than $22. 900, 900
Last year such additions and improve
ments in this area involved expendi
lures OF S16.4SS,547. Construction
projects this year will include the pur
chase of land, the erection OF buildings
additions to buildings. additional out
side plant, including pole lines, wire
and cable, central Office equipment
consisting OF switchboards and associ
ated apparatus. and the installation OF
telephones and private branch exchange
switchboards on the subscribers
premises.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
u. S. Directories
Make Immense Book
Telephone Companies In This
Country Now Issue 3,100
Books Annually

Telephone directories in some OF
the larger cities of the country now
contain so many names and numbers
that 1t has become necessary TO issue
these books in more than one volume
An enterprising newspaper man on
the Boston Post has figured out that
II all of the $500 separate issues Of
100000 copies OF directories issued
annually In the United States were
combined in one volume, It would con
tain 100000 lines printed on $1,000
pages and would be eleven feet thick
To keep the names, addresses ano
telephone numbers In these director
les up to date. necessitates 10000, 1000
printing changes a year In printing
these books $4,000 tons of paper are
used annually.
II a single telephone directory wer,
issued to include the names and nun
hers OF all the books printed by tn,
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephon,
Companies In Maryland. Virginia
West Virginia and the District of Go
lumbia, II would contain 700 900 lines
IN 5000 pages. These companies nov
issue SO different directories twice
year, with total OF 1857 ,0uO copies
In the course of year about 550.O0l
changes are necessary to keep the list
ings up to date, while the printing g
these books require s the use Of IL"
tons of paper.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Desolation in Wake of
Gigantic Gold Dredges

Automobile tourists through the
northern part Of California are liable
to have their attention attracted to
mountains Of cobblestones frequently
seen. Sometimes these piles are 80 or
go feet high and several hundred feet
long. They are never beautiful and
they add nothing to the landscape In
fact, they are eyesores, but there Is
little prospect of their removal. These
piles are the accumulation Of the gold
dredges, gigantic constructions which
eat their way through the land and
leave trail Of desolation. Farm lands
and orchards are brought up by the
operators and left in ruin, for the land
is useless for any purpose whatever
after the passage of the dredger.
These machines cost about a quarter
Of million dollars, but the cost of
operation is very small. A large guam
tity of the earth must be treated to
recover small quantity Of the yellow
metal, but at that the business is very
profitable. The stones taken from the
soil are useful only to grind up for
cement, but the piles standing today
will offer crushed stone sufficient for
the demands of the entire country for
many years.-Washington Star.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
English Poets Laureate

The origin of the poet laureatship of
England Is involved in obscurity. In
early days the word laureate" came
to mean in English "eminent." It was
thus generally, although not always.
applied in literary sense. Medieval
kings had poets or minstrels attached
to their households. who received pen
slons. although their appointment was
not official. In this way Ben Jonson
was looked upon as the first laureate,
but the title seems never to have been
really conferred on him. John Dry.
den was the first English poet to re-
celve the title by letters-patent in 1870
From that time the post became a reg
ular institution.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Take Us or Leave Us,
Saws Ed, Howe to Women

Women know perfectly well what
they are getting into when they marry.
All their lives they have heard the
subject discussed, and witnessed over
and over all its phases. They know
precisely what men are; they know
they cannot be anything else. They
may say they do not, but they do;
they cannot help learning a lesson
presented without variation for thou
sands of years; therefore ] object to
their threshing the same old straw
over and over. In finding fault with
men. Let them take US as we are, or
let US alone. Every month, every day,
every hour, hear of marriages fall
ing, and women chattering that wives
always get the worst Of 1t. Why do
they not talk this way to brides, in
stead of acting as marriage agentsl
Women get precisely what Nature
provides, and they know 1t before
they make the contract.-E. W. Howe
in Howe's Monthly.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Where Ocean I. Blues,

Authorities on oceanography say
that the purest and deepest blue Of the
ocean is found in the Sargasso sea, in
the South Atlantic, Indian and Pacific
oceans. 1t has BEEN found that these
parts Of the, ocean contain very little
plankton, whose presence minimizes
the transparency of the water and
makes It, appear greener. The gulf
stream is also very blue. In the open
ocean the water is blush. Nearer the
land it becomes green or gray. With
in the thirtieth parallels north and
south of the equator, the color is
brilliant ultramarine, and south Of lat
itude 80 degrees 1t changes to deep
indigo, which continues as far as the
Antarctic circle, where 1t changes to
an olive green. The blue color Is at
tributed to the rays Of light being un-
equally absorbed by the water. Var3-
atoms may also be due to materials
in suspension or solution.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Bay Rum


The original bay rum is made by
distilling the juice of the leaves of
the bayberry. tree which grows ex-
tensively in the West Indies No
particular attention Is given to the
cultivation of the tree. The making
of bay rum was formerly chiefly u
seasonal. local industry in the islands
like the preparation of maple syrup
in this country.
The distilled oil Of the bay, how.
ever, is only one ingredient of the
commercial bay rum of the present
day. 1t includes also alcohol, water,
oil of orange peel and oil of nimnn+n
Most of tha4-~"'u III Tile united states
Is mixed In this country by drug
firms, hair tonic manufacturers, etc.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Custom of Challenge
=. by Gauntlet Kent Up

Tossing gauntlets to the ground In
challenge was not nearly so common
in the old days as some novelists
would have US think. In the first days
of chain armor, there were no gaunt-
let's at all. The hand was protected
by mitten attached to the sleeve.
When gauntlets did begin to appear. in
the days Of the Fourth and Fifth cru
sades, they were cumbersome things
which were strapped to the wrist SO
firmly that issuing q challenge by
means Of them would be more Of a
job than lhot-headed knight would
care to undertake. a i
1t was not until plate armOr had
reached Its full glory that the gaunt-
let became symbolic Of challenge. And
It has rarely been anything else but
a symbol. Even today, there is a per-
sonage in England-the king cham
pion-whose duty 1t Is to cast glove
in Westminster abbey during the cere-
monies attendant upon the coronation
Of king, and to cry loudly his WILL
ingness to fight any man who denies
the new kings title.-Popular Biog-
raphy. ~
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
No "Frills," but Real
Meals in Lumber Camps

Some one recently writing OF Maine
lumber camp feeds describes the table
in rather interesting terms: "The
food Is all on before the cook shouts:
Come and get iti' You will not 6nd
finger bowls. white napkins or dozen
knives and forks to every person. but
you'n find real grub. the kind that
delights the stomach Of every woods
man. There are no courses You
eat as much as you want Of anything
that is on the table. The dishes are
kept filed by the cookies. Coffee,
milk and tea are In large pitchers.
Other food Is In tins or enameled bas-
ms and In large quantities The cups
are Of tin and hold pint--a real man.
size cup. Knives. forks, spoons and
plates are also of tin or enameled
ware. Some Of the men mix beans,
bread, pickles, potatoes and onions
together and then cover 1t with mo-
lasses. AS soon as man has eaten,
he takes his dishes and deposits them
In one of the huge dlshpans that Is
usually In the sink at one end Of the
cookroom. To leave your dishes on
the table would be-a certain sign OF
'greenhorn.' "-Lewiston Journal.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Scottish Judge Noted
for Bathos on Bench

Newly appointed judges are invari'
ably warned against undue loquacity
on the bench. A dreadful example Of
such verbosity is found in the case Of
Lord Eskgrove, Scots Judge of hun
dred years ago. Eskgrove could never
be content with plain statement, and
his efforts to adorn the tale often led
him into almost incredible depths of
bathos. Condemning tailor to death
for numbering a soldier he declared:
mot only did you murder him, where
by he was bereaved Of life. but you
did thrust, or push, or pierce, or pro-
ject, or propel the lethal weapon
through his regimental breeches. which
were his majesty's." On another oc-
casion. sentencing two criminals for
housebreaking with violence, he end
ed a long recital of their crimes by
deploring: "And all this you did, God
preserve US, just as the family were
sitting down to dlnner."-Montreal
Star.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Letter Shows Edison's
Keen Sense of Humor

Thomas A. Edison once wrote his
intimate friend, Albert B. Chandler,
requesting facetiously that "A. B. O."
pay certain Of his bills. The letter,
the first lines of which Edison had
crossed out lightly, with the obvious
intention Of their being read by
Chandler, was written November II,
1875. 1t follows:
"a. B. c.: Have you any ideai OF
course you have. Do you Think OF
course you think. What I want to
say dramatically is: Can you pay
one Of the smallest of my bills to-
morrow If you can't It won't work
extraordinary hardship to me, but If
you could, / think under the benign
influence of the comely greenbacks
this beautiful world Of ours would en-
nance in beauty. New wonders in the
never-ending evolution, revolution and
cycloIdical transformation Of things in
organic into things organic would be-
come conspicuously apparent to my op-
teal nerves."-Kansas City Star.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Eliminating Ground Ivy

A simple and effective remedy for
ground ivy on lawns has been found.
This consists Of a single spraying
with sodium chlorate, using 1 to 2
ounces per gallon of water, and that
quantity of solution is sufficient to
cover 100 square feet providing a
pressure sprayer is used. If applied
with a sprinkling can, trifie more
solution will he needed, as that method
Of application is somewhat wasteful Of
material. The leaves should be thor
oughly covered The spray can be ap-
piled any time during the summer
or fall. Since the spray discolors the
grass for a short time, II is perhaps
best to defer application until late
fall.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
A HUMDINGER
CIGAR FOR &c
Greatest Five-cent Cigar That
Ever Came Your Wayl

Have five-cent cigars been leav-
ing a bad taste in your mouth and
a poor impression on your mind?
Are you willing to start all over
again-just once? Shove a nickel
across the nearest cigar counter
with this password: Havana Rib
toH. Back will come the proof that
five cents does huy not only a good
cigar, but the finest cigar that small
sum ever bought. And why not /?
In our determination to put "a good
five-cent cigar" back on the map,
we use nothing but long-filler, fully
ripe tobacco. No short ends to come
out in your mouth. No bitter, under-
ripe nor flat-tasting oper-ripe
leaves. But the true-tasting, mel
low-miid, tiavorful middle leaves of
,hoice tobacco plants. How do we
do 1t? Volume production. Try one
Havana Ribbon and you'll tie to it
regularly.o Also Prdctiedl. Pocket
Packages Of five cigars. y
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Earliest English Clock?

In the first chamber of the great
tower of Salisbury cathedral lies n
rusty. odd-loolling piece of mechanism
which may prove to he the earliest
turret clock in England dating back
to 1886, or six years before the earll-
est record Of the Wells clock. now In
the Science museum at South Kensing-
ton.
An interesting feature OF the Salisbury
clock is the hand wheel for winding
the going las distinct from the strik-
ing) part Only little work at a
trifling cost would he required to
make the clock go again.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
On the Menu

The portly gentleman who had been
engaged to sing in. the musical pro-
gram following a dinner at a large
restaurant was loking very enraged.
He was scanning the list of musical
items, and, to his CONSERVATION, his
name had been omitted!
Approaching one of the organizers
he brandished the program furiously,
and demanded the reason Of the omis-
sion. The young fellow whom he APP
preached glanced down at the card,
then laughed nervously. "Aren't you
Signor Jelly, the singer?" he asked.
EYES," was the reply.
"Well-er-your name being jelly"
said the young chap. at appears to
have been put on the menu by mis-
take."-Montreal Star.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
-
Rated as "R.d WIFI

When somewhat mature in years
John Wesley, the famous founder Of
Wesleyan Methodism, married very
illiterate widow with four children and
a comfortable income. She was "a
woman of sorrowful spirits" The
courtship lasted 16 days at most.
The widow was no angel; she was,
indeed, in the language of st. Paul
"a messenger Of Satan sent to buf.
fet her unfortunate husband. Southey
who wrote Wesley's life, says of her
"She deserves to be classed with Kan.
tippe and the wife of Job as one of the
three bad wives."-Detroit News.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Puzzle Presented to
English Legal Minds


A barrister contributes to the Times,
in letter, an ingenious and appar-
emily insoluble puzzle, which may be
summarized thus: A says to B, will
teach you to be barrister; half fee
now, and the other half If you win
your first case. B was taught, and
called to the bar, but failed to do any
thing at all for two years. A then
said to himself: If I sue him for the
installment of my fee, and win the
case, he will have to pay me; If I
lose, then he has won his first case,
and will therefore have to pay me.
That seems unanswerable until we get
BIS view: If A wins, then / have lost
my first case and need not pay him;
and If he loses, then by the judgment
of the court need not pay him. So
that is that; and there is no evident
solution.-Weekly Scotsman.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Good Idea

Harringby was trying hard to listen
to the speakers eloquence at a poll
tical meeting, but the squalling of an
infant directly in front of him gave
him little chance. At length he leaned
forward, touched the mother on the
shoulder, and asked: HAS your baby
been chrlstened YETI" mo, sir. Why
do you ask?" Merely because ] was
about to suggest that If he had not
been chirstened you might name him
Good Tdea.'" sand why Good Idea'?"
asked the woman. Because" replied
Harringby, sit should be carried out ~
Vancouver Province.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Love Apple"

Thomas Jefferson recorded the grow
ing of tomatoes in Virginia in 1881,
yet 1t is said that an Italian could
not persuade the people of Salem,
Mass. to taste the tomato In 1902.
But the 'love apple" or gold ap.
pie" of the herbaists soon after be-
gan to appear as market vegetable.
In the early part of the Eighteenth
century the tomato was subject
of general field culture in Italy and
1t is to the people of that country
that we must accord its highest and
earliest appreciation.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Robin at cruci6xion

The old belief that the robin will
sing near the window of dying per-
son Is founded on legend which tells
how the bird perched on the Cross
when our Lord was dying, and tried
to comfort His last moments with its
song. 1t is said to have got Its red
breast from the blood which came
from the wounds as 1t endeavored
vainly to pick the crown of thorns
from His head ..-..... .....
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28
Fearsome Creature

Maud Rex Allen says: "As known
in Japan, the conception of the dragon
is undoubtedly derived from the prod
ucts of the Imagination OF th~ SeFty
chinese, who were especially fond of
evolving supernatural forms by COM
bining parts of various animals. 1t is
essentially serpent, with horns of
deer, the head Of horse, eyes like
that of red worm, scales like those
of carp, ears like a COW, paws like
a tiger and claws like an eagle. 1t has
flamelike appendages on shoulders and
hips. On either foot are three, four
or five claws-the imperial dragon of
China has five; that of Japan three"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-28

If IA vote was ever taken anon,
trout fishermen there would be con.
tinuous open season on great blue
herons for this hrigand of the trout
streams ESQ named for the reason that
fishermen won't become convinced the
heron eats anything but small trout,
annoys the fly casting and plunker by
its mere presence on trout stream.
AS a patient, honest fisherman, how
ever, the heron has it all over his hui
man contenders and 1t fishes for food
alone, not sport.