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, teachers Of the school system. The
superintendent used a novel method,
calling the roll Of teachers and rs
each responded to her name. the su-
rcrintendent offered an appropriate
lcmark. much to the amusement OF
the audience and occasionally to the
discomfort of the teacher.
He was followed by Professor j.
L. House, principal OF Central Union
high school, who presented the mem
bers of the high school and junior
college faculties.
Having suffered considerable en-
previous wears when they were held
up rs "horriblc examples, y the
bachelor minority Of the club, which
was in control at last nights affair,
made things rather interesting and
expensive fer their crstwhile tormen-
tors.
Others to experience shrinking
in the pocketbooh included Rota
iians, who introducing themselves,
lad the misfortune to make any sort
Of slip.
Under the direction of Ben He
ring, a delightful entertainment pro
cram was presented, including violin
numbers by Mrs. Helen Heald Been
tai. Spanish solos by Miss Martinez.
tcgnet solos by Addison Carter and
trio number by Mrs. Bechtal. Add
son Carter and Nina Canton. John
c. Canton delighted the audience
with three solos, sung in his usually
effective manner. his splendid voice
never being in better form. Nina
Canton acted as his accompanies and
for the other artists.
Percie Thacker led Rotarians. Ro.
tary-Anns and teachers in several
songs, the teachers proving that they
are good singers as well as good
teachers.
Following the program an infor.
NAL reception was held in the hotel
lobby 10 permit Rotarians, Rotary
AIMS and teachers to become ac-
quainted with each other.
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SANS SOCCI CLUB
ELECTS OFFICERS

Mrs. John TYLER entertained the
/ members OF the Sans Souci club last
nighy at the her home. 6S0 Brighton
avenue, the house being attractively
decorated with bright colored fall
flowers
Mrs. Harold Tyler Jr. was elected
president at the business meeting
which preceded the card game, and
Mrs. Calvin G. Mousseau was chosen
president.
Following this. the members en-
Ioyed their usual bridge game, Mrs.
William c. Reed winning the high
score prize, Supper was served to
the following members present:
Mesdames Kendall B. Perkins,
Harold Tyler Jr., ?. A. Thaanum,
!. B. McNeecc, John r. McNeecc.
Evalvn Boman Westerfield, Harry
Horton, William c. Reed, J. keyes
Mitchell, Calvin G. Mousseau, Har-
I'D Tyler Jr., Fred p. Nuttall, and
The hostess.
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GENTLE
BUT
FIRM

To FILL every household need, 4
soap must be safe for the filmiest
fabrics and yet be stern with the
grease on dishes, the hidden dust
in heavy blankets. It's a combina-
ton you don't often find.
White King Granula,cd Soap
plays both parts. Made from fine
vegetable and nut oils good
enough TO eat, its purity keeps it
from injuring anything that can be
safely dipped in water. Use it in
washing your most delicate ging-
hams and prints-note the fresh
ness and renewed brightness of
the colors. White King is prompt
thorough and effective.
White King solves every wash
ing problen-dishes, fabrics, sill
yer, glass, floors and woodwork.
And it's kind 10 the skin of tender
hands because it works so we'll
in lukewarm water. It's economi-
cal TOO. Try il today. Sold by your
grocer.
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Guild
Seeks Members

\ list Of dairymcn who would
qualify for membership in the Gull"
of Gopatis is desired by g. h. Cor
don, extension specialist in dairying,
according to letter received today
By George l.. Wiuwright, as.tant
farm advisor.
Eligibility requirements are four
told: Membership in = cow testing
association. an average Of 300 pounds
Of butter fat per COW for The herd
during the past year, r. =. free
herd, and a herd headed by Il pure
bred sire, are the necessary condi-
ton to bc fulfilled for entrance in
this honor society.
II is anticipated that a number os
the local dairymca win be Interested
in the Guild Of Gopatis as il is a
mark Of the excellence Of the herd,
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Potato Nut Balls

Four medium sized potatoes. .
tablespoons melted butter, l tea
spoon salt. milk, ! cup nut meats.
eggs.
Scrub potatoes and boil until
tender. Peel and mash. Add melt
ed butter. salt and enough milk
to make moist. Beat we'll and
add one-half nut meats and one
egg we'll beaten. Shape into small
balls. roll in remaining nuts fine
~ chopped. dip in egg slightly
beaten and roll again in nuts
Bake on a buttered baking sheet
in hot even until delicateiy
brown. Serve with curly endiye
dipped in French dressing.
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plantings were not so heavy and the
weld was 2l6 ears of 4 value OF
$332,052.
Chamber of commerce executives
hope that tomatoes for bottling and
cannino, as well as early ripe to-
matoCs for table use, can become an
important source of revenue here.
Mick states he has ample finances
to 90 ahead with the erection of n
plant if he finds that tomatoes can
be produced here chcaply enough to
make operations profitable. The
season of the year is unimportant as
tomatoes keep and store well.
The chamber of commerce is offer
ING its cooperation in establishing 4
plant here if growing conditions are
found to be suitable.
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Mendez Held For
Superior Court

Brought before Judge /. Mayficld
or n charge Of grand theft, Manuel
Mandcz, alias Manuel Bravo, was
held on $1,000 bail yesterday Cor ac-
tion by the superior court.
Bravo is charged with having
stolen an automobile. He is sus-
pectcd to be member Of band
f automobile thieves operating
across the international line, ac-
cordin9 to deputy shcriffs.
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Lack To Appeal
Local Judgment

Appealing to the state supreme
court, George NJ. Lack yesterday
afternoon filed the necessary pa
pcrs to obtain a hearing on the case
in which Judgment was granted by
Judge A. c. Finney of the superior
court to f. A. Allen, plaintiff.
Allen claimed $4,000 as rent duo
him on a ranch he had leased ~
Lack. Lack, in cross complaint,
stated that he had rescinded the
lease, and that balance Of $533.33
was due him from rent he had al
ready paid.
In his appeal Lack urges the su-
prcmc court to reverse the iudg-
mcnt.
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Old Bones Will
Rattle Sunday

Ghosts. in Wac if not in body,
viii walk on the east side baseball
grounds. al the end of Commercial
street, sunday when the team of old
timers. under the name Of Ghosts OF
the Past. meet p team of Gilmore
Lions.
The game will start at 10 . clock.
PLAYING intield positions for the
Ghosts will be Russell kliegcl, Tom
NY Jones, Bill Tackett, Pat Patter
son. Jack Tackett, and Johnnie Car
roil
In the outsield. At Glasgow, JohA
Is cp!ev. Buck Oakley, Frank Smyt
and Jimmy Holcomb viii chase
baseballs.
Ready to uphold the glory Of the
past in the twirling department viii
he Amos Chick, Joe steele. PaddT
Livingston and Joe Greeley.
Admission to the game will be
:ivc cents per head, the money ac-
Quired to be used IN purchasing lint
ment for use after the game.
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Ex-COngressman
Sent TO Jail

BALTIMORE. Md, oct. 10. U.P)
Manuel llcrrick, former Oklahoma
congressman, arrested by prohibi.
ton agents August Q in liquor
raid on 4 ST. Mary's county still,
today was sentenced 10 six months
in the Baltimore city jail by Federal
Judge Soper.
Two companions, one colorcd, re.
ceiyed sentences Of six and three
months.
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THE WEATHER

Los Angeles and Vicinity FAN
tonight and Saturday with temper.
ature near the normal; gentle north
erly winds.
Southern Californa-Fair tonight
and Saturday; warmer east portion
Saturday; gentle variable winds.
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MENUS FOR THE FAMILY
Daily Menu

BREAKFAST - B q k d
pears. salt goldfish hash, corn
meat truffins. milk. coffee.
LUNCHEON-Savory eggs,
toasted mullins. fruit jelly
with whipped cream, crisp
cookies. milk. tea.
DINNER-Hamburg roast,
rice with tomato sauce. baked
and mashed squash, stuffed
pepper salad. apple sauce with
ginger bread. milk, coffee.
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Social BrevitieS

Women of Moo>chcart Legion VII
meet tonight at ; @ clock in the bal
room of the California hotel Al
members are urged % be present.
At the end Of the business meeting,
Mrs. j. Middaugh will give an inter
esting talk on Mooseheart and thu
Mooseheart Haven home:
Members Of thn executive board
OF the American Legion Auxiliary
are asked to meet tonight al $50 At
the home Of Mrs. Harvery KENYON
IL North Tenth Avenue.
McCabe home department held d
successful meeting Yesterday at tn
home Of Mrs. Clara b. Fox. number
Of hats being made, and several old
ones being remodelled along more
modish lines.
Preliminary steps in the formation
Of a new club were taken last night
when 10 players of string instru-
ments met at the John R. Wilson
residence. S73 Woodward avenue.
The group plans to practice music,
primarily dance numbers. to be used
in radio concerts and for entertain
ment purposes.
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STOCK QUOTATIONS.

The main crop being shipped ons
Of the Lompoc Valley, Santa Bar.
hara County, is green peas.
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During the orange season to open
November i it is estimated Central
California will ship 1000 cars of
oranges.
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LIVESTOCK

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10. UP)--
Hogs, receipts 100; load 40 lb.
fasteners bought to arrive at
$ll.l5.
Cattle, receipts, 300; mostly
steers; steady; three loads good
central California fed steers $3.50.
Two loads Idahos $50; medium
cows $500 to $3.50; calves 800;
slow; bulk unsold Few good veal
crs up to $ll00, Oregon calves $3.50
10 $3.50.
Sheep, receipts, none; medium to
choice lambs quoted $500 to - so;
medium to choice ewes quoted $2.7J
10 S3.1J.
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BUTTER
EGGS

EXtras 5sc. Frcsh flrsts, J5c
Medium, Sic. Small 2lc.
The locs1 price on eggs, furnish
ed through the courtesy Of Zurcher
Bros, is as follows: Medium or
pullet, 32c. Select 40c.
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M1allr!tt2 1all!t

= 7sa 49,. 'S4s7.s'T -
Los ANGELES, Oct. 10. U.H-
Following are tocay's market quota
tions:
POULTRY
Hens, Leghorns, unde: 3h lbs.
lie.
Hens, colored, 4 lbs and up, 2Sc.
Fryers, colored "a to lbs. each
26c.
Roosters, soft bone, 3 lbs. up, 26c.
Duckhngs, Pekin, Sia lbs. up Ice.
Geese, l2c.
Young Tom turkeys, 12 lbs. and
up SAC.
Old Tom turkeys, 25c.
Small hen turkeys, under 8 lbs.
15c.
Hen turkeys, 8 lbs. and up 2Sc.
Small Tom turkeys, under l3 lbs.
15c.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
Riding the Rods to
St. Louis Convention

I War and during the crisis OF 1921,
| the St. Louis convention of the
League Of Struggle for Negro Rights
affords sharp contrast between the
militancy of the Negro masses, who
are actually clamoring for courage
Gus leadership in the struggle against
their terrible conditions and fright
full oppression at the hands of the
white ruling class, and the belly
crawling exhibition of the Negro
petty bourgeoisie preachers, land
lords, shop keepers, etc) such as
these miSleaders are even now per-
forming in fake anti-lynching con-
ference at Washington, D. c. under
the leadership of the Equal Rights
League of Boston.
Just as during the riots, it was the
y Negro workers who met the boss
inspired, boss-led mobs with guns in
their hands and beat down the terror
by grim notice to the mobs that
Negroes were ready to defend them
selves, so today it is again the Negro
masses who give militant voice to
their protests against the wrongs in
f1icted upon them by the imperialists
of this country, against wage cuts,
lay-offs, unemployment, mass starva-
ton and misery. Just as during the
riots, the so-called leaders from the
petty Negro bourgeoisie betray the
masses the Negro workers are mob
ilizing for militant struggle against
the imperialists and are voicing their
demands for the right of self-deter-
mination for state unity of the Black
Belt, for confiscation of the land for
the Negro workers who work the land
as the only solution of lynching and
Negro oppression.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
BY BILL COOPER


Frank Vikukel came to America
about three years ago. Behind him,
permanently he was hoping, was Te-
mesvar, Czecho-Slovakia. Temesvar
was the memory of a continuous
battle against every misery of the
workers life; Shaving. hunger. Te-
mesvar, he put behind him.
AS the boat steamed into New York
harbor, steerage passenger Vikukel
realized the objective fulfilment OF
years of saving, hoping. planning.
Here at last was America, the one
sustaining hope, the one reckoning
light in a dark life of slavery and
struggle. Here was the promised land
where workers lived like men; lived
secure from the miserable want, got
money, could store it. All, he would
work, he would store money, preci-
Gus money which would buy freedom
and bring to his side the young wife
and the child still in Temesvar. All
was promise of happiness. 1t was
almost within his grasp. He should
have been warned by the sight of
the massive forbidding lady who
looked down on him from her pedes-
tai in the bay.
Vikukel had no trouble getting
through Ellis Island. He was big,
broad, strong looking. America and
its owners knew his type; the type
which built the wealth of the coun-
try and kept 1t alive and vital He
wound up in Gary, puddler in the
steel mills. His fresh enthusiastic
energy was quickly seized upon and
utilized in replacing the older,
Within a short time Vikukel had
lost his strongest deepest illusions
He worked long six and seven-day
weeks. Ten to twelve hours a day
he sweated and strained in hells of
heat and molten metal Weeks and
months passed by and skimp and
deny himself as he might, he was
never encouragingly closer to that
precious store, never closer to his
loved ones. The town itself snoth-
cred the brightest rays of hope. True
there were in Gary some fine homes
and buildings, fine streets and parks,
stores and restaurants, but these
were not for the workers. Vikukel
and his fellow toilers lived in another
town, apart within Gary. They
lived in transplanted Temesvar,
in poverty and squalor.
Vikukel turned his energy in a.
mother direction. He became an act
i've Communist stirring to organize
his fellow workers for the struggle
for freedom and their rights to live.
He helped build up workers organiza-
tons and devoted all his available
moments in their behalf. He fought
tooth and nail against the local
Hungarian Fascists, the imported
weapon of the mill bosses. He ex-
posed and foiled them at every $
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.Vikukel Fights On,
.Ousted for Militancy

sible opportunity. He became
marked man.
After while his energy and de-
velopment became so marked, he
was elected National Organizational
Secretary of his Hungarian Workers
Educational, Sick and Benevolent
Society and was sent to New York.
From there he went on a speaking
tour for the National Hungarian
Workers School.
Gary was on his tour schedule.
The police, at the instigation of the
Fascists, arrested him on the trupm-
ed up charge of illegal entry into
the country. This was easily dis
proven by his passport and first nat
uralization papers. But the rats
were not to be baked, and they per-
petrated one of the rottenest frame"
ups in a long history of rotten anti~
working class frame-ups. The court
interpreters deliberately lied, trans
lating Vikukels statements of his
views as aiming at the assassination
Of high government officials. On
these grounds he was deported as an
undesirable alien.
Protest meetings were held all
over the country. The I. L. D. fought
desperately for an appeal, but he was
struggled off and deported in Sec
recy.
He is now on his way back to
Europe but not to Tenn esvar.
Through postwar complications he
will beconsidered a Rumanian sub
ject. On his entry there he will be
seized and consigned to death by
torture in the dungeons of King
Carol
American bosses are doing this to
Frank vikukel, they are doing this
because he would not submit pas
sively to their exploitation and OPP
preston of him and his class; be-
cause he fought and led the workers
in struggle against them. They are
killing him in vain. The blood Of
Frank Vikukel will only dye the
workers flag deeper red. Other
leaders will take his place and the
fight he fought in will go on until
that banner waves on high in tri-
umph.
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AN AMERICAN FARMER
SINGS AT THE PLOW

Then came two foreign felIers' act
ing droll
With a look-thru dingus and
painted pole.
Then numerous choppers clearing out
gap.
Then hosts of Irish fond Of exercise,
Filling the lows and ditching thru
the highs
Twelve hours day beneath a boss's
zap.
Then spike to rail And then, with
a harsh squat
And a hot hiss and mighty turn
of wheel
The loco motive brute, the Age Of
Steel!
Like dangerous Caesar farcing into
Gaul.
Until the hoary settlers learned
again
The ways of money with the ways
of men. :"
THIS is vivid, this is worth reading,
and creates an unforgettable pic
ture of what actually took place when
the railroads pierced the American
west Lewis has the faculty of Great
ing an atmosphere of reality. He
does 1t again in "Bumdeath," mid
night Mission" 1.-THE Wall" He does
it in all of the poems in this PAM
phlet. And as a consequence all Of
the poems are worth reading-and II
am not mistaken will be read-but
probably not by the soulful bards Of
Greenwich Village, or by the blase
souls who meet in Grub st. Easements
and are quantity decadent and oh,
so sophisticated and bored.
No, Lewis will find himself increas-
ingly read by honest-to-god working
stiffs, toilers inarticulate themselves.
yet longing to see their own hopes,
aspirations, rebellions, sufferings put
in memorable rime-and this will
please Lewis. The high-brow intel
lectuals will hardly know that a
mighty good poet is in their midst
until the acclaim of the mass wakes
them up. For this, since time i'm
memorial, has been the way of high
brow intellectuals. But we working
stiffs hail Lewis now, and 1 for one
one cry: Fellow workers, here is a
proletarian poet not balled up in the
mazes of radical" art utilities, one
of ourselves, an artist we can take to
our bosoms and cherish. Let us
show our appreciation by buying the
pamphlet of poems and sowing them
broadcast. :.
co much for the poems and the
v poet. But in closing let me state
that hope the publishers will issue
more of those pamphlets in popular
25-cent form. But only of strictly
working-class poets and poems. A.
B. Magill has written some mighty
fine stuff, Myron Chaffee, and there
are others, Conroy, Cheyney, Trent.
Let the voice Of the workers be heardi
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mothers we're born in eastern Ken
lucky.
My mothers father was born and
lived all his life in large log house
that is still standing. 1t was built
by my great grandfather in 1924, a
hundred and six years ago.
I was born in 1895. My parents
owned a hillside farm. I can re-
member working in the cornfield
when I was four years of age. We
arose every morning at four o'clock
winter and summer. When I was a
boy carried eggs and butter fiji
teen miles to market riding horse
back. In the summer we would get
ten cents dozen fer our eggs. fif-
teen cents a pound for the butter.
I have made this trip many times,
thirty miles round trip, with less than
one dollars worth of commodities.
We also had to work fourteen hours
to produce.
We still live the same primitive life
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miles to walk to school, Several chill
dren had further to walk than I.
Men are glad to get work so cents
day. $13 a month was their wages
here in the GUNNER as long as they
could work IA hours day and e,t!,
day in the month. In the winter a
good many men worked for Is cents
day. This was the condition of
this country from 1900 up to 1917.
Conditions are really worse today.
Many able-bodied men today are
working for farmers for their board.
Conditions were slightly improved
here during the war, but have been
getting worse in recent years.
Many men and women are unable
to read and write.
When was a boy all OF the young
boys were crazy to join the army, but
they are not so patriotic today. When
the war broke out I had two BROTH
ers already in the army, and there
was not an American in Kentucky
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more patriotic than was. So imme-
diately enlisted in the army and
went to France with the first brigade
of the first division. Both of my
brothers we're killed in France, I was
seriously wounded. After the war /
tried to get compensation but the
veteran bureau says am still able to
work and refuses to give me anything.
None Of us up here are going to
the next capitalist war. Few of us
ever heard about the Communists.
I have never met a member of your
party. Four young lads from up here
have been working away from home
in Pennsylvania, they just recently
came home and they brought several
copies of the Daily Worker and some
of your pamphlets back with them.
I have read your paper and some OF
your pamphlets.
A boy came back from the navy
this fall. he told me he was going to
enlist in the army and I asked him
what he had to fight for. He said
freedom" I asked him how was he
going to fight for freedom in the
army. He said, "in the next war we
are going to turn our guns on our
real enemy, and that is the moneyed
man. When I am in the army I'll
have three meals day and I can't
get that on the outside because the
average workingman only gets one
sixth Of what he produces, and with
the machinery we have today one
man in civilized country can pro-
duce enough to feed hundred"
There are many people in this part
Of the country that have never seen
an automobile nor been ten miles
from home in 20 years. Lots of grown
people in this country never rode on
a train nor been in a town above
1000 inhabitants. When the world
war broke out was % years of age.
The day enlisted was my first time
to ride on train. I saw my first
street car in Ashland that day, but
never rode on a street car until the
day ! was discharged % months later.
We never had any telephones up
here, few of us if any ever talk over
a telephone, nor have ever listened
to radio. have never driven an
automobile, but I am not alone.
There are men my age up here that
never rode in an automobile.
Lots of poor families up here have
not had money for several winters to
buy shoes for their children to 60 to
school. 1t is not uncommon to see
children running around in their bare
feet in the snow during the winter
months A good many families live
on cornbread and turnips here. this
being all the food they have. There
is no meat to season the turnips, the
corn bread is made of cornneal, salt
and water. They have killed all the
wild game, there is scarcely rabbit
left, the fish have all been caught.
So these people are becoming dis
contented.
We wish workers in other parts of
the country success in their struggle
against capitalism. I am with you
for worldwide revolution between
capital and labor.
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today. 1t is even worse now, for all
our good land is worn out. During
the summer months the hours of
labor are from twelve and fourteen
per day in the tobacco and corn
fields. 1t is not uncommon to see
the father, mother and children from
six up, hoeing corn, cane, and tobac-
co, the whole family in their bare
feet.
WE have no paved roads and in
" winter time we haul our groceries
over muddy roads IL miles from the
nearest paved road. I live nearer
to the railroad than the majority, as
I live at the edge of the county line.
When I went to school we had 6
months Of school and I had ~