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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15

Omitted States and Europe, wherever Chinese
are TO be found, they shoot of their hrecrackers
and stage their banquets by this old lunar
calendar
Last year Peping's farm boy mayor" Chang
Yin-wu. brilliantly compromised the dispute
between Nationalist reformers who wanted TO
abolish the Chinese New Year and the common
people here who insisted upon observing the
ancient festival
To the reformers Mayor Chang said IAN
right, we will abolish the old-fashioned New
Year
To the people the mayor announced: You
cannot celebrate the New Year because
our up-to-date reformers don't want you TO-
But you may celebrate new festival If you
wish, which call the Spring festival
CURIOUSLY enough the new Spring festival
conceded with the dates marked for cele-
bration of the Chinese New Year, so every one
was happy. Even the reformers themselves
were satisfied to observe the Spring festival so
long as it was not called Chinese New Year.
The mayors settlement of the dispute was
typically Chinese, the face" of both parties
being saved, and the people doing just as they
always have done.
For the Chinese people their New Year is
the most important and joyous season OF the
whole IL months, and somehow it does not
seem right TO them to celebrate this on an alien
date. All year long the Chinese work, most Of
them Is hours q day, seven days a week. To
be sure, the work may not be very intensive,
for Oriental people seldom too busy to
stop for a cup of tea a pipe of tobacco, but
still they are all at their jobs day In and day
out
But when the new year comes everybody shuts
up shop for two weeks, pays his bills, cleans
his house puts honey wine on the lips of his
Kitchen God, and the fun begins No one who
has not seen the Chinese celebrate the new
year in their own land can imagine what an
event IL all Is. No one who has not seen a
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This sUas once the Ten, pie of HeaUen,
Ctina's Happy NelU Year Hall. Ii Is
nOsU place of execution of criminals
giUen death sentence.
A T the same time Chambers of Commerce
throughout the country submitted pro-
posals TO the government suggesting that if the
traditional settlement days of the Dragon Boat.
Mid-Autumn and New Year festivals were out
lawed by Marking, new financial periods would
have to be established.
For the merchants of the whole of China
have been accustomed for centuries to paying
their bills three times year, and all accounts
kept this basis.
The Nationalist officials. however, decreed
that legal documents dated according to the
ancient calendar would not be recognized by
the new courts Of law, and they even made the
mere printing of the old calendars penal Of
Tense. But bootleg calendars" like the boot
leg holiday ITSELF have continued to circulate
through the land. Great severity in furnishing
this Offense has been in vain.
So far, this extra holiday in January.
wherever enforced, has been accepted placidly
by the people They accept the alien holiday,
but they also neglect to turn up for work dur
ing the period of the Chinese New Year.
Servants and employees of business houses, all
of whom accustomed to receiving a bonus at
New Years time, have even tried to insist
collecting this "cumShaw" twice also. They
accept the cash present on January first and
then, about the middle of February, set up
clamor for their time-honored New Year bonus
as well
As q solution to this calendar controversy,
which has been pending between the govern
ment and the people of China for nearly two
decades, some very advanced oficials are now
suggesting that the thing to do is for this coun-
Continued on TtDeltth Pa0e
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15

tionalist government to force its citizens to
adopt the calendar of the Western world the
Chinese people still insist on observing the new
year as-and when-their fcrefathers used to do.
For the past 10 Winters since the imperial
Manchu dynasty overthrow the republic
has been telling its taxpayers that they must
step in line with the rest of the world but every
year the people go right ahead celebrating
New Year eve about the middle of February
or whenever it happens to occur according to
the ancient Chinese method of reckoning.
Not only in China itself, but even in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15
Secret.
BY DOROTHY GOULD.

PEIPING, China. January 81 1881
THE Chinese people have made ready
to celebrate GHotller bootleg hoh-
y day" Money February l6l-their
y old beloved Chinese New Year.
- cHrn If laa No
La gaceta., 1931-02-23
LOS REPUBLICANS NO Sc
OPONDRAN AL NOMBRA-
MIENTO h r

Ell san P Sc recibi6 aquf Ia
noticia Of haber ell p~resid6nte
Hoover nominado para juez fe-
deral al Sr. Luis w. Strum, pre-
sidente del tribunal supreme
del estado de Florida.
Sobre ell nombramiento de
Strum, ell Sr. R. E. l.. Pryor,
%presidente del comiG cent? re
publicano del estado, dfy
que los republicanos no
rfan oposici6n. -
BESIDE hace un mes sabiamos
que habfamos perdido-dijo
Pryor. Por decontadoVue no re-
comendamos al msgist1ado
|Strum para la nomination. Els
cierto que sometimes unaSista
de nombres que lutheran sido
aceptables a nuestra organiza-
ci6n, pero ell 1nico que directa-
mente apoyamos para Ell puesto
.fue ell juez Allen E. Walker, de
Winter Haven.
"Creemos que la nomination
de un democratic sc debe a una
obligation del gobierno con los
senadores Fletcher y Trammell,
que han apoyado a la admins,
TRACTION en- muchos de sus actos,
entire ellos la leg de tarifa.
"Tambi6n debe recordarse
que Ell puesto del juez Jones des-
apareci6 con la muerte de este Y
La gaceta., 1931-02-23
p. F. F.

LlMPIA ~ClENTlFICAMENTE
LA SANGRE Y LA TONIFICA
ANADIENDOLE FUERZA Y
P~RODUClENDO CARNE
SOLIDA Y MUSCULO
Durante 40 amos P. P. P. ha
dado alivio @ miles de perso
las que han sufrido de debili
dad, dolores, erupciones de la
piel, granos y p6rdida de pc
SO. Estas molestias han tenid0
orfg9n en- la pobreza y debili-
dad de Ia sAngre.
P. p. p. renueva los cor
p6sculos rojos y hace la sangrs
RIGA y pura. Cuando este Sc
obtiene desaparece ell sufri
mlento, regresan las fuerzas y
Ell sistema recupera su condt
ei6n saludable.
Dele que In devuelva su sa-
Iud.
listed no arriesge un centa
20 on usar p. F. P. Su boti.
carlo tiene instrucciones para
1evolverle su dinero 81 no que
d. satisfecho dsepu6s de uaar
Ia primera botelIa. Tai es la fe
Tue tenemos en- P. P. P.
LConsentirA listed en- se4uir
sufriendo, sintiendcse debil,
Gu ando puede gozar de buena
salud, fuerza y felicidadf
C6mprelo hoy.
La gaceta., 1931-02-23

A la media bora de haberse
caido ell hombre fue extraido del
aqua por una de las personals
que 10 acompanaban con ayuda
de garfios.
Todos los esfuerzos que Sc
hicieron para revivirle resulta-
ron inutiles.
Habia lido ell hombre a pes
car en- companla de los esposos
B. B. Stevens y J. H. Bishop,
de la Gale Lafayette.
Sc halla depositado ell cada-
YER en- la funeraria de j. l..
Reed.
La gaceta., 1931-02-23
MAS DE Glen PIES
ST NABRIR Ell PARACAI-
DAS

Varios centenares de perso.
mas presenciaron aver en- ell ae'
rodromo municipal la competen
cia entire Dich Hunter y A. C.
Porter, dos ciSdadanos que Sc
ganan la existencia lanzandose
con paracaidas desde aeropla
nos.
Para veneer a Porter, Hunter
descendi6 mas de mil pies sin a.
brir su paracaida, conmovien-
do al p1blico.
Los dos Sc ~lanzaron desde las
alas de I'm biplano que volaba
sobre ell terreno y cayerNn a
muy poca distancia Ell uno del
Otro.
Ofreceran ell mismo espec-
taculo ell dia 8 de MARIO.
La gaceta., 1931-02-23
MURIo LA EsPosA bE UN
~EX-GOBERNADOR

LA Sra. Mary Eugenia Nit
ELL, de So amos, viuda de un
exgobernador de Florida, falle-
clio aver en- su domicilio, Septi-
ma avenida 405.
Mazda en- Dade City, la Sra.
Mitchell pas6 la mayor parte de
su vida en- esta ciudad.
Hoy por La tarde, a las tres,
Sc efectuara ell entierro.
La gaceta., 1931-02-23
CENTRIC ESPANOL
DE TAMPA

De orden del ST.. Presidente
otto a los miembros de la Sec.
ci6n de Propaganda para la jun
ia que Sc eelebrara ell lunes, %
del corriente, IN ell lugar y la
bora de costumbre. 80
E SecretGliO.
La gaceta., 1931-02-23
"ENCONTRARON EN- UN CA
RRO REFRIGERATOR 230
CAJAS DE BEBIQAS AL
COHOLICAS

Seis agentes federales de la
prohibition encontraron aver
en- Indiantown, condado de
Okeechobee, a unas so millas
de West Palm Beach, $50 cafes
de bebidas alcoholics, listas pa
ra ser remitidas hacia ell norte
en- I'm caro- refrigerator de los
ferrocarriles.
Los agentes que hicieron ell
servicio realizaron ell viaje has
Ia ese lugar desde Miami y
West Palm Beach.
La gaceta., 1931-02-23

que hubo de al Prise otra ley.
creada por los dores de la
Florida, para Ell nueS p0na va
miento.
10 que corresponds ahofa
hacer al gobernador Carlton es
nombrar a un republican, para
cubrir la vacante de Strum en-
la Corte Suprema."
La gaceta., 1931-02-23
BUSCASE AL SIR. HAMIL-
TON

BESIDE 81 jueves pol ia tarde
desapareci6, sin que Sc haya
vuelto a saber de el, ell Sr. F. G..
Hamilton, de 81 amos vecino de
la Gale Cleveland 400, en- esta
ciudad. 4
Hamilton dijo que iba a dar
un paseo hasta St. Petersburg.
Su madre, Sra. Cox y una her
mana de esta, de 81 y 80 amos
respectivamente, temen que lie
haya ocurrido una desgracia.
Antes de marcharse ell jueves
de su domicilio, Hamilton do a
su madre su reloj, un solitario
de brillante y su dinero, pero
La gaceta., 1931-02-23

esta costumbre la t9nia desde
hacia mucho tempo.
FL desaparecido es de consti-
tuci6n ligera, ojos castanos, pc
10 negro y pesa unas 1870 libras.
La gaceta., 1931-02-23
Sc AHOGO EN- PORT TAM.
PA UN TUR1STA

Al caerse aver dc un muelle
en- Port Tampa, Sc ahog6 en- 20
pies de aqua ell Sr. W. L. Leinen
de 80 amos, un turista vecino de
Chicago Heights, ILL.,, que resi-
dfa temporalmente en- la Gale
East Lafayette COS, en- esta ciu-
dad.
La gaceta., 1931-02-23
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Llegaron aver a Clearwater
nueve pitchers del Brooklyn,
William WatsoRMclark, Clyde
Day, w. p. enc, Freddy
Heimach, John Kffder, Law
renee Mattingly, Austin Moore,
Dan Mungo Y Ray Phelps, con
ell catcher Rube Bressler.
Hoy saldra para ala, en- COM
panfa de Adolfo Luque, Ell cat
cher Alfonso Lopez. 60
La gaceta., 1931-02-23

Las cajas de bebidas habian
sido colocadas en- ell medic del
caro- y en- los extremes jaeas
llenas de nAranjas.
The Washington times., 1931-10-06
Cannon in Capital
On EDe of Hearing

Bishop James Cannon, jr, re-
turned to washington last night
from q Southern Methodist. Con-
ference in Virginia.
A Federal Grand Jury Thurs
day is to begin consideration OF
charges that Cannon violated the
corrupt practices act in his con-
duct Of anti-Smith campaign
The Washington times., 1931-10-06

At a session last night at Ham
line Methodist Episcopal Church,
Miss Frances z. Roberds, 17o5
irving st. \. W., was named mis-
sionary to Algiers. DR.. Frank
Depp delivered the missionary's
charge to Miss Roberds.'
The Washington times., 1931-10-06
SHELTON RENAMED PASTOR

The Rev. DR.. w. A. Shelton
yesterday was reappointed pastor
of the Mount Vernon Church
here, by the officials of Meth
odist Episcopal Church South
Conference, meeting in Roanoke,
Va. DR.. Shelton was recently
acquitted of charges brought
The Washington times., 1931-10-06
BISHOP TO GIVE ADDRESS

Bishop William E. Mcdowell,
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
will deliver the principal address
at tonight's session of the Balti.
more branch Of the Foreign Mis-.
sionary Society in Foundry Meth.
odist Episcopal Church, Sixteenth
and P Streets Northwest.
The Washington times., 1931-10-06

against him by his former secre.
tsry, Miss Carrie williams.
The Rev. DR.. ]. Howard Wells
was named presiding elder of the
Washington district and the Rev.
Dr. Joseph Balthis, Of Washing
ton, was named presiding elder
of the Alexandria district.
The Washington times., 1931-10-06
Wife Charges Mate
Threatened Use Az

Samuel Sweeney, ~, of Belts
vile, faces charges in Hyatts-
vile police court tomorrow Of at
tempted assault with intent to
kill and carrying a concealed
weapon, preferred after an alter
cation with his wife who alleges
he threatened her with an ak.
The Washington times., 1931-10-06
Wells as Dictator

It was to be expected that H. G.. Wells, would CO.
ordinate all his ideas for the future and he has hap
PLY explained them in terms peculiarly appropriate to
the time. Make me dictator for 20 years, says Wells
and will do this and this and this First a more
powerful and less complicated League of Nations Sec
ond world economic council; third, single world
currency; and, finally child and adult education to
break down natonastic habits of mind and to create
a race fit to live in the new world. -
once interviewed a General Younghusband, who
had finished discussing the current war; he said to me-
Why do you think Moses kept the children of Israel
wandering through the desert for forty years when he
could have taken them directly to the land flowing
with milk and honey in forty weeks? It was to kill
off the slavepirit to get rid of those who hankered
for the feshpots of Egypt and to create fresh and
strong race"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
By PAULINE ROGERS

CVEN the capitalist press, which tries TO cover
up the misery of the workers as much as pos
sible cannot hold back all the stories which pour
in about the extreme suffering OF the unen-
ployed and their families. The third winter OF
the crisis with its wage-cuts, lay-offs, freezing
and starvation, is already upon us and with 1t
comes more disease, more deaths from starva-
ton and exposure more suicides-more workers
wrecked and murdered by the capitalist system
While suffering from unemployment is hard
on men, it is doubly hard on women and chill
dren In most cities women cannot even go to
flop houses" or municipal lodging houses, they
cannot bum meals as men often do with the
result that they are left absolutely destitute to
turn to prostitution and to starve and sleep in
the streets
In Pittsburgh, few weeks ago, two little girls
we're found living in ash can because they
had no home and no parents For two weeks
they had lived and slept in this ash can going
to school every day, before they we're finally dis
covered Mothers and babies have been found
sleeping in the park in Pittsburgh and in many
other cities after they we're evicted from their
homes. In the u S. A, the richest country in
the world many workingclass mothers are forced
TO give birth to their babies in the parks, where
they naturally die-from exposure as happened in
Cleveland recently. Every day we hear count
less stories about children who have been aban-
doned, about men and women killing them
selves and Their children because they can no
longer see them suffer the pangs of hunger. The
medical authorities in Detroit claim that every
Z hours and Is minutes worker dies from star
vation in that city.
The only way to stop this capitalist murder
OF our fellow-Workers is to unite all our forces
men, women and children-in the fight against
hunger and starvation and for unemployed in
Er-t IF In
not real mass organizations because they are COM
prised almost entirely of men, They do not as
yet realize that women constitute about one
third Of the 100000 unemployed in this coun-
try, that the wives of unemployed workers must
bear the burdens of unemployment and that
unemployed women have special grievances. The
Unemployed Councils must become fighting Or
CARNATIONS OF women well as men workers,
by drawing the thousands of unemployed women
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
By BURCK

BROCK could not report one miner who accepted
either Of these conditions. The usual answer
was: go to hell! We will build this union in
spite of you and your gun thugs"
Attorney Brock, who says he belonged to the
United Mine Workers Union himself many years
ago when plenty of money could be obtained bv
bleeding the miners, has the strongest hatred for
the National Miners Union. All the while Brock
in his lawyer-lke fashion, tried to hide the open
attack on the NdU by barrage of legal phrases
MS young assistant, Jones' was pacing the floor
barely able to contain himself. He prnctuated
the nearing by his explosive Interruptions
God damn it, I'll tell you what think about
you, you bunch of reds. These guys amt got no
right to ORGANIZED
Brock said he didn't think the miners had
right to make speeches against the rich ex-
plolters, If the speeches led to the workers or
ganizing as class for change in government.
He said he would arrest every man that made
such speech or organized for any such purpose
BROCK always keeps in back of his head the idea
that tfls Justltes him in smashing the NNU the
International Labor DefenSe-even the Civil
AioerCleS Union comes under this cloud. But
Ghere was one man. Brock said, he heard make
speech, he considered sedtious but no one
was able to arrest him.
Ihere were three or four thousand of the
miners down at the court house one day." Brock
related They was talking about the rich rob-
ping the poor, and the miners digging up all the
money the bosses had in the banks and the min
ers now starving. That said Brock 'swasnt
true The money belonged to the coal operators.
would arrest that man." why didn't YOU"
someone asked. Because it would be suicide for
any one to go into that crowd of three or four
thousand miners and try to arrest their speaker
at that time We got him later" Brocked sensed
the effectiveness of the mass struggle against
terror
Inc law OF the Harlan coal operators in the
persons OF the 400 company paid deputy gun
men sheriffs (picking up little change on the
side by killing miners) and of Judge Jones' Sher-
III Blair and Prosecutor Brock felt outraged to
have the terror reign torn up and exposed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
TO THE NATIONAL.
HUNGER MARCH

and wives OF workers into their ranks, and by
fighting for their special demands.
Where women have been drawn into unem-
ployment activities they have shown much mill
fancy and splendid results. In the largest IN
employed Council in Cleveland (about 1000 MEM
bers) women are among the most active men,
bers, and make up about half of the member
ship. The organizer OF this Unemployed Council
is Negro woman, Maggie Jones, who is mill
tant leader of these unemployed workers in their
demonstrations at the charity organizations
eviction cases, etc. After the murder of Jack
son and Rayford, two unemployed workers in
Cleveland group of women in this council de-
cided that they should organize a Nurses Corps
which would study first aid and work together
with the defense corps at demonstrations, meet
ings, etc This group now consists OF IS women
and some men, and they are doing very good
work. Similar first aid" groups of women will
be organized in all the Unemployed Councils of
Cleveland
The preparations for the National Hunger
March to Washington on Dec. should bring
the masses Of women into the fight for free
food and clothing for children for cash relief
and unemployment insurance and into the Un-
employed Councils, Every Unemployed Council
should organize Women's Committees, should
call special women's meetings, should elect
women delegates to the County and the National
Hunger March, should popularize the special
women's demands and around them build wide
movement among the unemployed women
Organize special womens and ahadrens hun
ger marches to demand food and clothing for
children!
Rally working women for the National Hunger
March, Dec. 7, to demand unemployment insur-
ance and to fight for the special women's de-
mands:
Equal Unemployment Insurance for men and
women workers
Equal Unemployment Insurance for single and
married women.
Special free municipal lodging houses for I'M
employed women. --
Free food, clothing and medical care for chill
dren of unemployed and part-tme workers
Free hospital care for unemployed and preg-
nant women.
No dismissals OF married women. ssNn
Equal pay for equal work FSSA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
Flood the Line Of the Hunger March
With Literature

FLOOD the line Of the Hunger March with lit
erature. Recently we had statement on
this We don't want to repeat the statement
again. We only want you comrades to remember:
Masses will march in the hunger march More
masses will line the march. Get our literature
to these militant workers and farmers FLOOD
THE LINE OF THE HUNGER MARCH WITH
LITERATURE
The following literature should be brought TO
the foreground:
Unemployment Relief and Social Insurance OF
Secret Hoover-Laval War Pacts by Earl
Browder Observation-Disclosures. OF
Fight Against Hunger, Statement Of the
Communist Party TO the Fish Committee o
Social Insurance, by Grace M. Burnham . 10
American Working Women and the Glass
struggle Observation-Disclosures. 05
Youth in Industry, by Grace Hutchins ...... 10
Lynch Justice at Work by B D. Amis ...... .os
Race Hatred on Trial .,.......,.. . 10
Communist Call to the Toiling Farmers ~ o3
Revolutionary Struggle Against War VS. Pa
clfism, by Alex Bittelman ........ O5
Anti-Soviet Lies and the Five Year Plan, by
Max Bedacht ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10
Orders should be sent in Immediately TO the
Works.s library Publishers, p. O. Box 14s, sta
tom ., New YORK CITY.
Agit-rrop Department,
Central Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
BY ELLA REEVE BLoOR

THE farmers of North Dakota and eastern Mon
tana, and their brothers across the border in
Canada, are fighting hunger and death in a mil
tant, organized way
The United Farmers League has Just finished
complete survey in this district, and it found
thousands OF men and women and little children
with no food, and their animals diving
Many hons were found where sickness is pe-
culiar to famine ridden countries has already
Frustrated the children Famine. according TO
the Red Cross, is an "act of god and thus we
lind that organization on the scene But the
Red Cross dropped many off its list who had
been getting $3.50 per month Its retrenchinp
began in the counties of Mountrail, williams and
Burke. where starvation is perhaps greater than
in other districts
The militant farmers called mass meetings
spontaneously, coming to the United Farmers
League and asking for leadership Committees
and spokesman we're elected to place demands
before the county commissioners and the Red
Cross
LII Mountrail County, while mass meeting of
the formers was in progress the county chair
man of the Red Cross arrived According to her
announcement, her purpose in coming to the
meeting was ITO quiet those Reds and not TO
find out anything about existing conditions. One
after another, fathers of children told how in the
face Of the most desperate need, the Red Gross
persisted IN dropping farmers from its relief mis-
cradle as this relief YVES. So great was the m
dignation and the pressure OF this mass meet
Ing, that the Red Cross chairman was forced to