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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
Science
Electrical Robot Responds
Like Human Mind.

The robot" with an electrical brain
capable of most of the mental proc
esSes of man, in a greatly simplified
FORM may be close at hand.
That lifeleSs matter can be made to
act very much like mems minds is
demonstrated by Robert G. Kruger and
Clark L. Hull of the Yale Institute of
Human Relations. They have con-
structed an electrical model which acts
in much the same way as those con
ditioned responses" which are presumed
to be the basis of human and animal
mental behavior. unchanged storage
batteries take the place of unstimulated
brain cells These are made to light
an electric light by receiving an over
flow of current from two dry-cell bat
teries attached to the light. This is
close to the process of learning. BY
reverse action the model duplicates in
a simplified way the reverse psychic
phenomenon Of forgetting.
This psychic machine" is intended
only for instruction purposes. But. say
the inventors in a report in the Ameri-
can Journal of Psychology, in the de-
fnands for higher and higher degree
of Automatically in machines constantly
being made for industry the ultra
automaticity Of the machine considered
here may have an important place.
II. r. H.
Copyright. 1872
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
CRITICS At ODDS
OVER MODERN ART
Chicago "Grain Elevator
Motif" Debated in Face
of 1888 Exposition.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 81. = The grain
elevator motif is providing fertile ma
terial for debate among ChicagoS art
critics. real and pseudo.
The intensely modern architectural
scheme of the 1888 Century of Progress
Exposition. beginning to take form along
the lake front, is inspiring a wide
divergence of opinions as to its suit
ability. beauty and es hetic effects.
Two of the structures-the admins
tration building and the travel ana
transport hall-have been completed,
and their cubistic designs have moved
nearly every beholder to expression OF
strong opinions. Some of the laity have
already taken to writing to the news
papers about it.
Four Groups Heard.
Generally. those speaking forth or
writing fall into four classes:
Cd Those who intensely dislike the,
to them. grotesuue note;
~ These who are not favorably i'm
pressed but decline to take the build
1ngs seriously because they are only
temporary:
90 Those who are confident that
the ultimate effect. in ensemble, will be
magnificent and gay, and
"a Those who are more concerned
with the effect these buildings and dis
cusSion of them will have on future
architecture than with the buildings
themselves.
Sacrificing of art, beauty and grace
for the rigid effect symbolic of the
machine age is deplorcd by some:
others. including Irving *. Pond. for
mer president of the American Institute
Of Architects, refuse to consider the fair
structures AS architecture" regarding
them merely as shelters for the expo
sition.
It was Ralph Clarkson, painter Of
come distinction. who deserted the
grain elevator motif" He said the
style Of the buildings may be described
as founded on the Egyptian, filtered
through the modern German, and with
the grain elevator motif back Of it ALL"
Suspended Roof Section.
1t is the suspended-roof section of
the rambling transportation building
that inspires the most wOnderment
Rising like an overgrown and glorified
silo, some 125 feet high and 900 feet
in diameter, it is surmounted by a
series of steel frames which look like
q cluster of derricks.
From these steel cables extend. on
the outside down to the ground, and
inside to the dome roof which they
support The cables and derrick-like
superstructure ale all part of the per-
manent aspect of the building.
The administration building, on the
lakes edge opposite the Field Museum.
has many of the outward aspects of
q modern factory building
Exposition architects take the stand
that the whole scheme cannot be ca
pably judged until the group is COM
pleted. and ultra modern lighting and
coloring effects installed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

when light bulb burns out a new one
can be purchased and screwed IN The
socket.
This patent was very valuable to its
owners, and its defense was vigorously
fought to and through the court Of
last resort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
Violent Quakes Noted.

NEW YORK, July 81 P.-The seis-
mograph at the Fordham Universit y
observatory recorded two fairly
violent" earthquakes today about l.
900 miles from New York and prob
ably in the Caribbean. The first shock
was at 2:21 am. and the second at
1925 eastern standard time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

The numerous swamps, bayous, lakes
and rivers of Louisiana provide ideal
breeding places for frogs, so that the
raising of them has become an i'm
portant industry of the State. In
1880 more than 100000 pounds of the
frogs were sent to markets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29
WEDNESDAY TOTALS STILL OFF:
FULFILL QUOTAS THRU TAG DAYS!

A new series on war preparation
against the Soviet Union, by A.
Bittleman, started yesterday in the
Daily Worker. Continuation of these
articles is dependent, of course, on
the success of the Tag Days. Pres
sure of campaign business is respon-
sible for the late announcement of
this series. Complete synopsis viii
preeede each article.
Districts! Involve the Bittleman
series in all mass street, shop and
neighborhOOd meetings! Wire ex-
ira orders to the National office
Immediately! Monograph leaf
let's announcing series at once!
Send out appeals to all sections,
units, asking them to order extra
bundles also. This new series
should not be allowed to interfere
with compaign activities. On the
contrary, IL is important to inten-
sify the $4,000 Drive for funds to
include this new DEVELOPMENT.
Prepare for International Red Day,
August LIST, by prOpagandizinE the
hfttleman series on War Prepare
uons among the masses. Wire or
ders now!
A Daily Worker Club has been
formed I'm Oxford Miss, with four
members. While no committee has
been appointed, all the members are
readers of the Daily and fully re-
a NE the Importance of keeping the
lighting organ of the workers in
uninterrupted circulation. The mem
bers have pledged themselves to nav
70 cents month each to the sun
port or the paper, but realizing tho
urgent need of quick financial sup
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29

port they have decided to pay four
months in advance each. They also
expect TO do their best to keep this
up as long as they can spare the
money.
How about news of other Daily"
Clubs that have been established
Don't keep it a secret. Let's hear
about 1t so we can tell othersi
Enclosed find $50 in donations"
writes r. S., District d. W. Rep.
Philadelphia TWENTY-FIVE dollars
of this was turned over by tbs
Mems Clothing Section of the N.
T. w. I. u, which completes quota
assigned to the Mems Clothing Sec
ton of the Union. The Union, as
n whole, has pledged to raise $780,
Coed work, VI. C. S. of the N. r. W.
/. ..
A collection Of s27 was raised at a
farewell party given by the Bronx
Anna Weisberg, leaving for the U. S.
6. r. A rousing appeal was made
for the Daily Worker and from q.
small crowd liberal contributions
were made to the Sustaining Fund.
Writes F. F., SOP Quentin Rd., Brook
lyn: Every friend of mine who can
afford to give a dollar can have no
oetter cause to give it to than the
Daily Worker. So here's another
dollar from S. r., Brooklyn.
Five-dollar donation received from
Monmouth Co. N. J. Committee. In
spirit of socialist competition, A. P,
Rumson. N, j., who donates IS, chals
lenges M. L., 308 Elm St. Perth AM
boy, N. J., to match it. What about
e comrade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29
Wickersham Hides the
Evidence of Frame-Up
Of Mooney and Billings

, WASHINGTON, ID. CA Sec
ton of the Wickershana report
dealing with the Imprisonment of
Mooney and Billings and headed
"the lawlessness of the law will
not be made public according to
George w. Wickersham and Dean
kRoscoe Pound, members Of Hoov-
er's "crirne" commission. A min
ority of the commission Is in
favor of having it published. The
report has already been printed.
That the Wickersham Commits
sion has evidence Of the Frame up
of Mooney and Billings is evident
from the sub heading it gave to
that part of the report, "The
LawIessness of the Law"
Fear has been expressed that
the frame-up system, more and |
more used against the workers.
will be exposed sufficiently for
the masses to realize why Mooney
an dBillings were framed up and |
Jailed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29
Warren, Mich. Jobless March on
Supervisors Office; Demand Relief
Especial to the Daily worker

Especial to the Daily Worker)
Protesting against relief cuts. and
demanding sufficient relief to feed
their starving families, who have
been cut in relief from a to | and
three quarter cents per meal, by the
Maconib County Board of Super
visors, the Warren Township Unem-
ployed Council lead hunger march
on the Township Supervisor Office in
Centerline.
Speeches in front OF the Centerline
Board of Commerce, after a delega-
ton had been refused a crendential
from them, so that one thousand
starving children might get milk,
exposed them openly as murdarers
of these unemployed workers chill
dren. Police were called to halt the
march" at this point, but it con-
tiaued in a military fashion, until
the Township Supervisors office was
reached
Supervisor Trembles
Again a delegation was sent in to
see Supervisor Frank LIGHT, who was
tremers, thanked on both sides by
police. He said: HE could do no.
thing" nor would he sign creden-
tial so the starving children could
get milk The delegation than re-
ported to the crowd of unemployed
workers, which had now grown to
about 500, that the County officials
intended to starve the workers with
out any further consideration.
In the meantime a riot call was
sent out over the telephone and radio
by the yellow officials, for Governor
Brucker's cossacks, police from Det-
roit, and Mt. Clemens, with their
tear gas, machine guns etc. This
was their answer to the demands for
bread and milk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29
Police Of Other Towns
Slug Workers Demand
ing Food for Children

AS carload after carload of police
arrived. disguised as workers, the
militant demonstration continued,
but they found the workers growing
hostile, and the speeches went on.
Finally they decided to send in a
stool to start hurting insults at the
workers. That was the signal for a
general assault by the army of police,
it was most cowardly and brutal
attack, black jacks flew right and
left, guns were drawn on defendless
workers, women we're mauled, and
children pushed and knocked around.
Nine unemployed workers including
women were brutaly beaten and
dragged to jail. One an invalid ex-
service man, Henry j. Salzman, was
Knocked into insensibility by Chef
Theut of Centerline, Dove Provost
and Toothless Thornton deputies of
Sheriff Wilkensons office, in Mt.
Clemens. He was kicked and beaten
by them after he was Unconscious.
He was then dragged to the hospital
and is perhaps fatally injured
Plan Frame-up Nifitants
A frame-up is being planned
against the militant workers, who
take part each week in demonstra-
lions. They were taken to Mt. Gle
mems under heavy guard Of state
cossacks.
But the following day the unem.
oloyed were again on the march to
he County seat at MT. Clemens, 20
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29

will be unable to cope with the stu
alton this winter. The A. F. of L.,
tries to organize fake United Timber
Worker unions. They see the dan
ger of the old militant spirit of the
lumber workers reviving. They, pro-
tecting the bosses interest, try to
stem off the tide that will bring
back the days of the Seattle general
strike, that will carry vengeance for
the victims of Everett massacre, that
will steel the lumber workers to re-
sist the war attack on the Soviet
Union.
So they try to work but fail. Three
hundred unemployed in Everett, ask
the city for work. They ask for "citi-
zens" only and the governor of
Washington rules that aliens cannot
be employed on road work, and so
hundreds will lose their jobs. The
mass know however, that foreign
born and natiye-born must fight to-
gether.
What will solve our problem?
That's the question on every workers
lips. Who is leading the miners?
The militant union of the Trade
Union Unity Leage, the National
Miners Union. The National LufY1-
Der Workers Union, has the fighting
programme that will lead the work
ers to victory. Every lumber worker
must became union organizer, off
the JOB and on the job. Write to the
National Lumber Workers Union at
Howard building, 61S LIST Ave, Seat
tie, Wash. Your families are starving.
The boss is preparing for war. Ans
wer him. Against starvation--Strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29

our struggle for better working con-
ditions and living conditions that
was committed in wildwood only a
day before.
On Tuesday morning, at the order
of the superintendent, the deputies
deliberately and without cause, be-
gan firing at our peaceful and un-
armed striking comrades.
When Comrade Michael Filipovich
heard the firing he ran OUT ana be-
seeched the deputies to cease the
murderous firing which which was
also endangering his wife and babiesa
in his home. Il
No sooner had he spoke a fem
words when he was struck by fdlr
bullets, deliberately aimed at nirn
by the deputies, and killed. Here
today as we mourn at the grave of
our friend and fear for the lives of
our wounded striking comrades who
are in a critical condition in the hos.
pital we learn that the colnpanys
killers have been released from iail,
We protest most emphatically at
this action. We demand that the
coal company be held responsible for
the support of the family of their
murdered victim and for the sup
port Of the wounded and their fam
lilies. We demand punishment of the
company superintendent who di-
rected the massacre. We demand
the immediate removal of all COM
pany deputies and their governments
police, the state police, from the
strike area.
Strikers and sympathiEers at the
funeral of Mike Filipovich at Gelle
Vernon Cemetery.
A terrific rainstorm broke loose AZ
the funeral was being conducted. La
spite of this, thousands marched to
the cemetery, including group OF
200 striking miners children carry
ing big sign: I'VE will carry on the
fight where our brother left off"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29

The gunner then drove away.
Thornton, in spite of his terrible
wound, managed to rise, stagger
unaided to his car. and drive into
Clarksville, where he collapsed at the
store of Hupp & Son. Just before
he tainted he said. "Only a deputy
sheriff would do that" His condi-
ton is extremely serious. The Pitts
burgh papers pay little attention to
the case, and publish garbled &C
counts, saying IAN unidentified man
was picked up in a ditch with a
bullet wound" etc. No one has been
arrested for the shooting.
Joseph Vargo, 16-year-old boy shot
near Crescent Friday, is still alive,
but is reported sinking. Further
facts have come out about his shoot
ing, showing that it was a more at
trocious crime than even first ac-
counts indicated. When the Scab,
Clyde (''Woodrow') Wilson, descend
ed from his car to open fire ON the
group of boys picketing on Maiden
Hills, Vargo was seated on a fence.
The first shot that hit him from the
scabs revolver struck him in the
arm and knocked him over by the
force Of impact of the heavy bullet.
Then while vargo lay on the ground,
Wilson walked up to him, and DELHI
erately shot him through the chest.
The scab was finally arrested,
hours later. though his whereabouts
in the vesta mine where he was
strike breaking we're known at all
times. But no charge has been
placed against him.
COVERDALE, Pa, June 29.-The
greatest efforts are being made here
to work up a framed case against
National Miners Union leaders and
strikers over what is claimed to have
been a bomb explosion in the house
of one of the U. M. w. petty officials,
q man named Victor Gazoni. The
reactionary Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
only morning paper in that city. calls
editorially today for hiring of a crowd
of detectives, and tracing down of
all implicated
There is no assurance that there
was any bomb. A harmless charge
Of some explosive, making a noise
and smoke but doing no damage.
exploded in the porch of the scab |
officials house. Let the striker, Joe
Doliner. of the Pittsburgh Terminal
Coal Co. Mine No. s, here tell the
rest of the story. He and his wife
we're the only victims-so far-until |
;he frame-up gets going.
Doliner says: II went to bed at |
II O'Clock Thursday night. I heard |
the explosion. and looked out the |
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29

window and said, whats the mat
ter?" Noliner and Gazoni live near
each other). t
Then Frank Metz, a scab for the
United Mine Workers, yelled: Joe
Doliner done it!' Then the other
scabs began to say the same thing.
Then Victor Gazoni hollered: TIN
going to get you-going to get you
right in your house!'
Then gang. of scabs came to-
wards the house. I went out on the
road, they saw me and began to run
after me.
'"Then Metz shot me in the face
with shot gun, and my wife was
was shot too.
Estate police we're called. They
asked what union I belonged to.
told them the National Miners
Union. The state police got mad.
County detectives took me to the AL
legheny county jail, where I was re-
leased on $1,000 bonds. They did
not arrest the scab who shot me in
the face.
Some people say that Victor
bombed his own house in order to
blame the National Miners Union
that he was paid by the company
to do it and blame the strikers. Be-
cause as soon as the explosion hap
pened at 1870 in the night, all of
victors gang of scabs came running
up and picked on me, as if the whole
thing was made up beforehand what
to do"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29
ONE MORE MINER SHOT
ON PENNSYLVANIA PICKET LINE

PITTSBURGH, Pa June 2s.-One
more striker shot! Perhaps fatality
Joseph Thornton, a striker of west
Virginia, who was in Greene County
working with the strike committees
there, using his car to transport Or
ganizers and literature. is the latest
victim in an organized campaign of
assassination instigated by the coal
operators. Friday Thornton was
driving his car alone on the Clarks-
vile road near the CHARTERS mine.
Two men in another auto blocked
his way. and when he stopped they
rushed him, dragged him from his
machine, and one of them black
lacked him.
Thornton broke away and started
to run. When he had got about DO
feet from the two men, one of them
simply shot him in the back. The
bullet tore clear through his body
and came out his chest in front.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29


An employed worker in the Robin
son mills at Everett, Wash, comes
to work with dinner pail full of
fried potatoe Feelings. His wife and
kids eat the "spuds." Another pass
es out on the Job in the same town,
from starvation, according to the
company doctor, who examined him.
Wages go down TO as low as $l.80 in
this town alone. All the mills closed
on the Goth of June for an 'inde-
finite period" Only about half of
the mill workers have been working
since last year, anyway. OF the job,
on the job, in Everett, it is starvation.
Two mills are running in BelIng-
ham, Wash. They are going to shut
down soon. Wages in there are at
starvation levels Unemployed who
have been getting a few dollars q
week on reoad work, get a two day
lay-off of a five day week or a 40
percent wage cut from $1,000 TO $500.
The local papers say that the unem-
ployed have been making a perma-
1lent good thing out Of the relief
work instead of looking for work"
Three wage-cuts in one month at
Clear Lake, make half of the work
ers walk out in spontaneous strike
last week. Walk-outs are occurring
all over the northwest. Sixty percent
of the lumber workers are unemploy-
ed. Instances can be sited all over
the northwest. There is starvation
in this country. Pellagra, never
heard of until 1890 in this section,
now has regular death toll among
the masses.
Charity agencies, state that they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29
BAKERS PLEDGE
MINERS RELIEF
Hear Avella Miner and
Vote 500

NEW YORK. AT a meeting Of
the Bakers Local No. SOC, Clyde AL.
len1an an Avella miner, appealed fol
aid for the Miners Strike. One hun
dred dollars was voted immediately
and a fifty cent tax assessment pas
sed, which will mean nearly another
hundred dollars. The vote was tax
en- not until the social-fascists re-
ceived q bitter defeat at the hands
of the rank and file membership of
the union
When Comrade Alleman finished
making his appeal, two yellow-social-
lists asked him whether he spoke
Jewish or German He saidno. Then
they took the floor, and launched
heated harangue, in Jewish, in
which Alleman recognized such
words as Socialist Party" "Faker
Reds" etc. The workers, in bitter
indignation at this treacherous at
tack, shouted the Socialist down and
would not let him finish. A baker
protested against the Socialist lies,
and made motion that every mem
Der of the local pay fifty cents for
miners relief. This motion was warm
ly applauded and an additional hun
dred dollars was pledged. One work
er said, 'The miners are fighting for
the right to live, and every worker
must help them" So these two yell
low Social-faScists, who approve the
murder and-starvation program of
the coal barons, and tried to deny
the miners the help yhic hthey need
desperately, learned their lesson. The
bakers quickly recognized, in the sly
tricksters, vicious enemies of the
working class and denounced them.
At the Protest Demonstration held
in Union Square Thursday, to pro-
test the Staying of two miners and
wounding of many others by the Coal
and Iron police and state troopers,
workers showered bills on Comrade
A1nter's platform, and $139.79 was
raised for miners relief.
Workers! Give your answer to the
yellow socialists, to the murderous
Coal and Iron Police of the Coal
Barons! Come to the mass meeting
called by the Pennsylvania and
Ohio Striking Miners Relief Com
mittee on July 2, 1881, at Webster
Hall.
Fellow Workers. Show your SOL
idarity with the forty thousand who
are striking against starvation! Agi-
tate in your shop, in your neighbour
hood, I'm your clubs, unions, frater-
nal organizations, for miners relief. |
Send food and clothing to the de-
pot nearest your home, which is an
nounced in another part of this
paper.
Rush funds to. District Penn. and |
Ohio Striking Miners Relief Com |
mittee, 100 Broadway, New York,
Room Ga.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29

miles away, to demand these workers
be released.
After seeing the determination and
militant spirit of the unemployed
workers could not be easily broken,
and that a frame-up would be quite
difficult, owing to the aroused SEN
timent against the coward brutality
of the police, the prosecution after
a all day conference ordered all re-
leased.
They do not wish TO have court
trials as it might expose the terrible
misery and starvation the workers
are forced to undergo and the open
brutality of the police.
After the release of the workers,
a large protest mass meeting was
called by the Warren Township I'm
employed Council, to- meet at the
police station at Nirie Mile Road and
Van Dyke Avenue. Cossacks and
police were there, but the meeting
took place as scheduled.
Workers Demands
A resolution was adopted by the
crowd of 500 workers, demanding
the dismissal of those responsible
for the attack and those participating
In the attack, cancellation of relief
cuts, that credential be issued to
the Warren Township Unemployed
by Supervisor LIGHT, that the invest
igator Leo Jean, be discharged, and
that the Board of Supervisors i'm
demand that Governor
Brucksr call a special session of the
legislature to take up the workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill.
These attacks will be followed by
more organization more determine
ton. and a large and more militant
Hunger March" on the County sect,
Mt. Clemens --------e = !