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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
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8YNOPSIS OF PRECEDING Inns IhL1SdEN4
Helen Heather was young and attrac-
tive-and in love. As she came down
the steps OF the bank in the little Penn,
sylvania town OF Kingsway, all the world
was rosy in her eyes.
Helen was not only a typist in the
bank but was social secretary to her
cousin, Nina HigginSon. She lived with
Nina in one of the Oldest, finest houses
in Kingsway. Nina herself was young,
with plenty of means left her by her
AGED and doting husband, now defunct.
Half the eligible young men in Kings
way wanted to marry Helen, but her
father she took dictation in the bank.
but Helen found IL thrilling to bring him
out Of his petulant flts.
Tommys latest enthusiasm, besides
Helen, was moving pictures He was
chief cameraman for the young people
Of the town. Helen waited for him at
Nina's, but instead of Tommy. Ethan
Kingsway appeared-one of the Kings
ways for whom the town was named.
Ethan had been tilted by Nina for the
rich Mr.. Hisginson, but he still called
at Nina's home. This time it was TO tell
her that he must decline dinner invt-
tation as he was going to Europe.
Helen took the MESSAGE, but not until
she had done her best to shock the
handsome, cavalier-like Ethan.
Tommy appears as kingSWay leaves
ana frankly says he hates Ethan: Does
Tommy sense a possible rival in the de-
gcenGant of the cavaliers?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26

GOOD Lord, Helen. what did you
turn of the car for? I've been 20 min
utes in there. and we're latel"
Helen giggled. Tomnly's calm as
sumption that other people were always
to blame had not ceased to amuse her
Darling. it will only take q half
hour to turn 1t on. Get right at it and
we may be there for the benediction."
He laughed unwillingly, and got in
beside her.
You're a peach, Helen" He
squeezed her hand forgivingly, and they
were OF again.
(To be continued)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
ALLEGED CONVENTION
OF BOOTLEGGERS RAIDED

Arrest of 30 Men Reveals Police
Belief "Reign of Terror" Planned
to End Price Cuts.
BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, January ga police
blotter yesterday registered a visit of
detectives and patrolmen to what A. T.
Clark, chief of detectives. described as
q bootleggers' convention, held at a
road house.
Behind the arrest yesterday of 2e men
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
INSTALLMENT ii.

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26

WithVapex you are protected
ssainst snifAes and discomfort
NorHrNe dulls the edge of fun SO
quickly as clogged>up head, a
watery nose, and the distress of a
cold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
Capitalism Apologies for It's
Existence

boycott by supporting counter-revolution and by
war.
In order to hearten the Pennsylvania bankers
in their struggle against Communism, United
States Senator David A. Reed, of Pennsylvania
did little prophesying for them. He said that
the Soviet Union would collapse utterly" by
1886. Senator Reed has learned by Sir Henri
Deterding's mistakes. Deterding used to prophesy
the collapse of the Soviet Union regularly every
six months But this finally turned out to be
embarrassing. Senator Reed prophesies the col
lapse far enough ahead so that all his listeners
can conveniently forget about it when the event
is scheduled to take place. Senator Reed is no
"sixty-day' promliser
At the same time, Reed told the bankers none
of them believed it, but it was supported to
make an impression on the workers through the
press) that the nation is now rounding the
corner to normally without being conscious of
the fact" Which is something on the order of
Fords whitticism uttered about year ago that
prosperity is here but few know it." Certainly,
the 100000 unemployed are not conscious that
their hunger is lessened, nor are the employed
very conscious of any slackening in the wage
slashing campaign Even the stock market won't
believe Senator Reed and continues to be I'M
conscious of normally"
Capitalisms apologies for its existence, which
come thicker and faster as the crisis deepens-
from the popes to presidents, from socialists to
fascists-are intended to revive the dying faith
of the workers in the present system. They do
not proceed as mere campaign of ideas, but go
along with drastic attack against the entire
working class especially against its vanguard, the
Communist Party, and with the utmost virulence
and hatred against the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
May Day in Illegality

secondly, sufficient preparations were not made
for transportation to the demonstration.
Party Program Proven Correct.
Symbolic of the demonstration and the COR
rectness of the party program was the following:
After the meeting white worker of about 40
rushed up to the speaker shook his hand, and
said: Son, when l came here I was hell set
against you but now I'm 100 per cent with you
l couldn't get the niger proposition through
my head, but I understand it now" He used
another peculiar expression on this.
This example of the awakening of the white
workers to the necessity for organizing side by
side with the Negro toilers, arises out of the
worsening conditions of the workers and the
correctness of the party program in dealing with
these problems.
The speaker was supposed to leave at once,
but he was surrounded by an eager crowd of
about rs, mostly whites, who listened and asked
questions for about 20 minutes before he could
break away and beat it before the cops came.
This was a serious mistake and unnecessary
risk-the speaker should have in a few words
told the workers about the foolishnesS of risking
an unnecessary arrest and that he would be
around to see them all later and that our party
comrades would get in touch with them and
then beat it out
AS result of the meeting, five whites joined
the Communist Party two whites and two Ne
groes joined the Young Communist League The
meeting had very enthusing and inspiring eff
feet on the party and league memberships
the coming together of white and Negro-se-
y-though-small-in a common meeting
showed them that with work we can get results,
and the comrades have asked that in the future
more neighborhood demonstrations be held
Some Lessons.
Some lessons to be drawn are
1, Widespread agitation is necessary as prep
aratory groundwork. 2. Well organized indivd-
on organization of campaign, particularly in the
units. Well arranged transportation and direc-
ton. 5. Preparations for contingencies (if cops
are there at start, speaker and comrades do not
stop but keep going-if cops come when speaker
is speaking-to try to rally workers to resist.
comrades instructed beforehand etc. 6. The
holding of more well-organzed, snappy Though
illegal neighborhood demonstrations. 7. The
winning over of the white workers for our pro-
gram through clear, concise explanation of
the party program. g. For other sections to look
their ground over and NOW to review their own
situation and plans for organization of such
demonstrations if driven to illegality 9. The
extreme Importance of shop contributions,
papers, leaflets and Importance of getting work.
ers NOW, even on a small scale, to come to
demonstrations directly from the shops.
Through a careful analysis of our mistakes
and shortcomings, in the party units, we have
been able to see how, in the next demonstration
we will be better able to mobilize wider masses
for direct participation in our demonstrations
and growing activities
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
Negro Women Workers Get
Lowest Pay

CYBIL PATTERSON, sister of Haywood Pat
terson, one of the nine Negro boys in the
Scottsboro case, works in the house of coal
yard boss, two days a week, and gets $1.50 day,
or about Is cents an hour.
She is one of 100000 Negro women workers
in the United States-20oO,OOO unorganized Ne
gro women working on farms, in mills and shops,
or serving the rich. Nearly million are in
domestic and personal service" over half
million are farm laborers and the rest are in
tobacco factories, textile mills, laundries ana
clothing plants, always forced to do the dirtiest,
busiest, heaviest work for the longest hours at
lowest wages
How little they earn is admitted by the U. S.
Women's Bureau in studies OF Negro women in
Is states, giving the median weekly earnings In
different occupations. "Median" earnings mean
that one half the women were earning less than
the amount listed:
Tobacco bunchers, s1.85: boxers and craters,
1915; chicken pickers, SITS; oyster chrtkers,
s11.5O: tobacco twisters, $780, tobacco feeders,
sl400.
White women workers earn little enough, as
we well know but Negro women earn far less.
The striking difference is clearly seen in the
following statements: In Florida, for white
women workers ths medjan eas1slnx we1g a.
~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
How the Pope Helps You

You jobless workers in the Pittsburgh district
where the influence of the local duck that wears
his collar the wrong way round may be thought
to reach-if it reaches anywhere, kindly let lis
know if you see any difference between being
hungry before prayers and being hungry after
prayers
The reason we ask is the following item from
the Pittsburgh Press of May 12
Special prayers for unemployed will be said
daily at Epiphany Catholic Church in a novena
honoring st. Rita, beginning tomorrow and
ending May ~
You ought to know whether the prayers had
any effect on unemployment by about D. M
on May %. If they have no effect we suggest
that you march up TO Harrisburg again and ask
Governor Pinchot for something real to eat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
Guess Who?

The N. Y. Sun of Friday, May Is, quotes
famous capitalist newspaper correspondent who
has been in the Soviet Union for some years as
saying the following:
"The most ridiculous propaganda was spread
abroad. My articles from Russia, although they
gave the only facts available concerning what
actually was happening in Russia at the time,
most newspapers in America and Europe be-
leved to be Bolshevik propaganda"
Who is this corresondent? We are sure that
some who themselves are all too reliant on the
N, Y. Times will jump to the conclusion that
the correspondent is Walter Duranty. Well, it
isn't. But it is Isaac Don Levine, who once was
held in about the same estimation as the above
quotation states. But now =.
Now Levne's period as an impartial" reporter
is over. Now he is writing a book entitled
Stain" which Dorothy Dayton. fellow scribe,
is boosting in an advance review. Now he re-
veals his own position through this reviewers
words as follows:
Levine shared some of the high hopes
which every Russian held, hope of liberty
which was blasted when Russia fell under the
sway of one-party rule, under a dictatorship
which was to tighten through the years until
today it is the dictatorship of one man."
So this is the "Bolshevik propaganda" of yes
terday! He also piles in an opinion that the
Five-Year Plan is "infantile and insane" and
re-discovers, for Trotskys benefit, the yarn about
"Lenin's will" But no book can contradict life
enough to make Trotsky anything more than
what he is a disappointed egoist engaged in
counter revolution; no book can defy success
fully the fact that the Five Year Plan is al
ready ASSURED victory
Levine's book might contribute, however, to
the enlightenment of some fuzzy witted people
who think that Walter Duranty is "Bolshe-
vk propaganda" Such a belief we hear. is
shared by the U. S. State Department, which
places reliance on Soviet events only when it
hears from its spy agency az Riga in.Latvia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21

Sweet Land of Liberty
By JORGE

We wondered for some time why all the msv-
ors President Hoover and assorted Capitalist
crooks turned out to kowtow to the King of
Siam
OF course we know that the United States Is
the refuge for all nter-revolutionaries, and
that any slant-witted pervert with a royal title
at whom the rest of the world hurls bricks and
stale eggs, can always depend on an official re-
ception by American government officials, ac-
companied by fanfares of publicity and roto=
gravure photos in the Sunday supplements.
But we wondered why all the fuss over ths
King of Siam, who is blind in one eye, can't
see with the other and is physically not fit for
dog meat. Then we noted that Current History
gives us more light on the subject in advertise
ing its article on Siam, as follows
"Siam-The only absolute monarchy in Asia
"Siam-Where the law permits man to have
as many wives as he support.
"Siam-Where Americans, exclusively, are
the Foreign Minister'S advisers
"Siam-Where the state religion Is 3udd-
hism. and its defender is at present our ma
TONS guest"
Well that's nice list, isn't it, The third
item, revealing the fact that Americans Eek
clusively' are the advisers" to his Buddhist.
polygamous despotic majesty, explains all the
rest.
Only the apoogists for Yankee imperialism
who can strut around Dragging that it is in
charge of and approves of this despotic poly
gamous, Buddhist government ought-at least
to let us up for air before they ask us to get
a temperature over the terrible Soviet Gov
eminent" where there atheism has the same
freedom as Buddhism to agitate, where there
amt no monarchy, where harems are abolished
and-ah there's the rub-where there are no
American advisers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21

week, but for Negro women less than half as
much-only $685..
Less than $40 weekly Less than S. weekly
State Negro White Negro White
Georgia. 800 21qo 35co 1917
Missouri .81es 27eo 5oeo 27es
Tennessee. $50 41g 2scs 1879
These exploited Negro women workers,
throughout the South and North, too have been
aroused during this past month by the Scots
boro case to see what mass organization can
accomplish All workers together Negro and
white, men and women, unite in solidarity 10
demand higher wages, the 7-hour day and un-
employment insurance OF SIS week for each
single WORKER. with S. additional dor each De-
psndsut 80 Y :
~ hs.sT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
From Apologies to Attack.
BY HARRY CANNES.


1T is soon evident to every worker that the
1 capitalists defense of their dying system
quickly turns into an attack against the So
wet Union.
The very same bankers whom William Green
president of the A. F. of L. bames exclusively
for the wage-cutting drive in the United States,
at the same time make the heaviest attack
against the Soviet Union.
The basic reasons are the same. 1t is a smash
ing attack of capitalism against the working
class in the United States and against the van
guard of the world working class, the victorious
workers of the Soviet Union.
After miserable apology for capitalism, the
National City Bank Bulletin for May says that
this most perfect of systems, which is in the
deepest of crises could get by all right if it didn't
have SO formidable rival in the Soviet Union.
THE most conspicuous rival of the system
listing in the United States is the Soviet system
of Russia" is their conclusion after listing the
blessings of capitalism.
Why can this imperialist bank talk of the
Soviet system rival Of American capitalism,
formerly the hope of world socialists" With
100000,000 unemployed and industry declining,
starvation in the midst of plenty with the
parasites gorging themselves while the workers
suffer want in the richest country in the world"
Wllle IN the soviet Union Unemployment has
disappeared, industry flourishes for the Masses,
there is no wonder that the leading imperialist
bank in the United States considers the Soviet
Union the foremost rival of the most highly de-
veloped capitalism.
But others, speaking more frankly, consider
the Soviet Union as more than rival AT the
thirty-seventh annual convention of the Penn
sylvania Bankers Association the Soviet Union
was one of the leading TOPICS of discussion w
Walter Wilson, president of the association, made
it the keynote of his main address
This Communist experiment he warned lis
loaded with dynamite and every effort should be
made by the members OF this association and
their business interests against its possible adj
verse results
These close associates Of Andrew Mellon Sec
rotary OF the treasury of the United States
made IT clear that they would put forward every
effort" to smash the soyet Union hy economic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
American Imperalism's
"MOdel Colony"

American imperialism boasts Of its beneficial
work in Porto Rico as an example Of what it
does for those countries which come under its
control, This mask OF falsehoods is torn off,
exposing the real situation, with the intense mis-
cry Of the masses. in an analysis of this Model
Colony of Yankee Imperialism in the May
Communist
Another concrete picture Of the workings Of
American Imperialism in Latin America is given
by Albert Moreau's article. "Bood-staiped Ni-
trates of Chiley In the same issue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
IF Blood Be the Price"

Dear Jorge-I wish to call your attention
to the irony of the recent picture exhibition
shown in the windows of the Empire State
Building. They are 'art-photos' of the proleta-
rians who constructed the skyscraper Now they
are out of work And all the benefit and value
of their labor goes to Al. Smith and company.
incidentally, over ninety men were killed on the
job
"Again-a contrast. At 10th st. and Fifth
Ave. there is withstand, which is supposed
to distribute free milk to the under-nourished
children of that locality 1t stands at the end
of the richest street in the world"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21

secondly, sufficient preparations were not made
for transportation to the demonstration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
IQuantico Activities
Are Climaxed by Dance,
10 Guests Attending
Maj. and Mrs. Sebree and
Lieut.. and Mrs. Ansel Are
Hosts at Officers Club
Event.

QUANTICO, Va, April 18.-The cli-
max of this weeks social activities was
the dance at the Ofhcers' Club tonight,
given by Maj. and Mrs. John B. Sebree
and Lieut.. and Mrs. Walter G. Ansel,
an event enjoyed by great company OF
their friends, there being ITO guests
There were several surprises in the
form of feature dances, one being a
comedy dance in which all the dancers
wore false noses; another, a lucky
number" waltz. The big surprise of the
evening came during the supper served
at midnight when several of the guests
were presented with birthday anniver-
Sary cakes. There were several out-of-
town guests who came especially for the
affair. These included Mrs. Sebree's
cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Holler
from the American consulate in Venice,
italy, where Mr.. Holler has served as
American consul. From Washington
came Capt. and Mrs. Lester A. Dessez,
and Maj. and Mrs. David L. S. Brew
Ster. The ballroom at the club was
brilliant with the gay colors of signal
flags.
Mai and Mrs. Pedro A. del Vale gave
buffet supper at their quarters to-
night before the Sebree-Ansel dance,
having 16 guests.
Last Tuesday at the Officers Club a
luncheon followed by bridge was given
by Mrs. Corbett, wife of Capt. Murl Cor
bett, and Mrs. Miller, wife of Lieut..
Edwin D. Miller of the Navy. They en-
tertained Al guests.
Mrs. Berry, wife of Maj. Maurice S.
Berry, and Mrs. Utley, wife of Maj. Har-
old H. Utley, were hostesses at one of
the most interesting parties of the week.
They entertained at the officers Club
Wednesday afternoon, having 10 tables
of bridge. Tea followed the game. A
profusion Of Spring flowers were used
at the tea table at which Mrs. Randolph
C. Berkeley and Mrs. William G. Haw-
thorne presided. Mrs. William G. Hall,
wife of Capt. Hall, Mrs. Robert M. War
field, wife of Comdr. Warfield, and Mrs.
Warfield's mother, Mrs. Marine, motored
down from Washington Wednesday to
attend the Berry-Utley party.
Another important event of the week
was the bridge tea given by Mrs. Waller,
wife of Lieut.. James d. Waller, and
Mrs. Cowley, wife of Lieut.. Paul r.
Cowley, at the officers Club Thursday
afternoon. Their guests numbered 54.
Mrs. Andrew B. Drum and Mrs. William
G. Hawthorne presided at the tea, to
which came several additional guests.
Out-of-town guests included Mrs. Will
liam C. Hall, Mrs. Charles C. Gill and
Mrs. Harry Burr of Washington, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
State Society Arranging
Program for Tuesday

The Massachusetts, State Society of
Washington will give the sixth and last
entertainment for the 1930-31 season
Tuesday evening in the main ball room
OF the Shoreham Hotel. Dancing will
oegin promptly at 9 and continue until
/ o'clock. The dancing will be inter-
spersed with a program Members will
be admitted by membership card.
On the program will be Miss Florence
Yocun1, Soprano winner of the Atwater
Kent contests for the last two years,
and Lee and Cody O'Neill, New York
artists.
The entertainment committee in
cludes: Mr. Lewis w. Hart, chairman;
Mr.. John L. Mcdonald, Mr.. Charles F.
Sharkey, Mr.. William r. Russell, Miss
Eleanor Carleton, Miss Barbara w.
Butler, Mrs. Patrick j. Murray. Miss
Ruth M. Noyes. Mr.. John F. Nesline,
Mr.. John T. Slattery and Mr.. Wilson
McCray.
Mr.. Robert H. Kempton Is chairman
of the reception committee, and Mr..
William T. Simpson treasurer.
The director of Federal prisons, Mr..
Sanford Bates, is president Of the So
ciety, and Mr.. George A. Herman is
secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
Hunt Ball May Is Ends
First Dav of Horse Show

The Hunt Ball." week of the Ma
tional Capital Horse Show, will give to
Washington one of its most brilliant
late Spring events and will happen the
night of the opening day of the show,
Nav 10. with the beautiful ball room
of the Mayflower as its setting. The
usual Hunt Breakfast will be served at
midnight.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur, chief of
staff, heads the list of those on the
General Committee in charge of the
Grayson, Maj Gen. George owen
Squier, Brig Gen. William E. Horton,
Col Robert Patterson, Col. Campbell B.
Hodges, Col. Harry N. Cootes. Maj.
George L. Patten, Mr. EnnallS Wagga-
man, Maj. Frank c. Scofield, Mr.. Will
liam Phelps Emo Mr.. William F. Hit,
Mr.. Sterling l.. Larrabee, Mr.. Arthur
White, Mr.. Ronald Fairfax, Mr.. Carter
Lee Bowie, Mr.. Wilton j. Lambert, Mr..
Oscar T. Crosby, Mr.. William Bowie
Clarke, Mr.. Clarence NJ. Roberts. Mr..
H. B. Hayden, Mr.. Melvin Hazen, Mr..
William Jefr1es Chewing, jr.; Mr..
Charles Delmar, Mr.. John F1nerty,
Lieut.. James White, Lieut.. James Re-
gan, Mr.. e. P. Shattuck and Mr.. Syl-
VanuS Stokes
PatroneSses for the affair are Mrs.
Jacob Leander Loose, Mrs. j. Wilmer
Biddle, Mrs. Thomas w. Phillips, jr.;
Mrs. William Jeffries Chewing, jr.; Mrs
Ronald Fairfax, Mrs. Robert Hinckley,
Mrs. Francis S. Written, Mrs. William
M. Ritter, Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh Mrs.
Ralph Worthington, Mrs. Francis T. F.
Junkin, Mrs. Henry L. Doherty and
Mrs. John Allan Dougherty.
Whips from various hunt teams of
Virginia and Maryland will lead the
brilliant hunting scene with the young
society girls Of Washington and their
escorts, all attired in hunting toys, and
prizes will be awarded as heretofore to
those wearing the most chic attire.