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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
Dislike Of POLICE
IS LAID TO CARS
Traffic and Criminals Are
Two Problems, Says
GIaSSford.

Automobiles and resultant traffic
problems have brought police depart
ments into a state of unpopularity
with the general public, Brig Gen.
Pelham D. Glassford, superintendent
of police, told the Washington Kiwanis
Club at a luncheon meeting at the
Raleigh Hotel yesterday.
THE police department has two
problems" Gen. Glassford said and
these are criminals and traffic. Fifteen
years ago police officers were more popu-
lar since there were no traffic problems
and they did not come into direct con-
tact and unpleasant association with
the most reputable class of citizens.
Now it has become a case OF making
decisions IN traffic cases. with the re-
suit that with the policeman, it's a
case of damned if you do. and damned
if YOU don't Something is bound to
be wrong and somebody's feelings are
hurt with every decision, and they have
to be made on the basis of which side
is likely to be the least wrong.
so far as the criminal side of the
question is concerned, it is the mission
of the department to make the city a
safe, comfortable and agreeable place
in which to live, and that is what we
are trying to do
speakers table by Inspectors L. I. H.
Edwards, E. W. Brown, F. S. w. Burke,
T. r. Bean and J. F. Beckett and Capt
w E. Holmes of the first precinct. He
referred to the sextet as six Of the
most capable, earnest and honest men
with whom l have ever worked
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

one out of the common run. whose
resourcefulness, judgment, decision and
courage already marked him among
men while he was yet hardly a man.
Washington had returned the year
before from voyage to Barbados with
his invalid brother, Lawrence, his face
pitted from a mild attack Of smallpox
At the brothers death shortly after
ward he was intrusted with the man.
agement of Mount Vernon, and he sue
ceeded Lawrence also as one of the
four adjutantS general of the Colony
An early Winter was bowling about
the mountain peaks that frown upon
Cumberland when Washington started
a Journey to the French headquarters
at Fort LIE Boeuf, not far from the
present Erie, Pa. His Indian-straight
figure had shot up to feet 2 or 8
inches. A giant in structure and
strength, he stood in number IS shoes,
at sight of which Lafayette was to ex-
claim that they were the biggest he had
ever seen on man. Of like hugeness
were his hands. in which he could bend
a horseshoe, and he could never get his
big knuckles into ready-made gloves.
Battles Bitter Winds.
with gun in hand and pack at
back. in which were my papers and
provisions" Washington made the re-
turn journey in the depths of Winter,
by canoe and raft, afoot and horse
back, battling bitter winds, plunging
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

through snow drifts, pelted with rain
and sleet. swimming icy torrents. cross
ing frozen rivers, and in the midst Of
always suspicious and sometimes hostile
red men.
After 10 weeks and a journey of
more than 1000 miles, the unresting
envoy was back in Williamsburg, and
he wrote in a day 7000-word report
of what he had seen and heard among
Indians and French, with shrewd esti-
mates of military forces and equipment.
In his simple, graphic narrative we
see the moving figures in that frontier
drama of long ago; hear an officer of
Louis XIV telling the Indians they did
not own as much of the soil OF their
fathers as he had under his fingernails,
and swearing by the Deity, as he tells
Washington himself, that France would
hold the Ohio against England by right
of the discovery of one La Sale go
years ago"
The story was rushed into print at
Williamsburg and soon was running on
the press in London. The 2l-year-old
colonial was the herald of the Seven
Years War, which was to shake three
continents.
Copyright. 1882 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
BY JAMES MORGAN.

CUMBERLAND Md, March 4 tN.A.
NA.).-In this hilly city of the Upper
Potomac we stand beside the path OF
Washington and look off to the Mar
rows, his first gateway to fame.
1t is the old National road, that
pioneer United States highway which
climbs on a wide, smooth bed over the
greatest mountain range this side of
the Rockies.
But there was only packhOrse trail
the November day in 1853 when youth
with a party of six turned his back
on this last outpost of civilization TO
plunge into the savage Businesses of the
Alleghanies.
He was to take the same path again
and again and remain forever vivid
figure in the background Of Cumber-
land. when it was called Wills Creek,
and a cabin associated with him is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
RETAILERS TO HEAR
SENATOR HASTINGS
Legislator Will Be Principal
Speaker at Annual Dinner Dance
of Hardware Group.

Senator Daniel o. Hastings of Della
ware will be the principal speaker Mon
day night at the annual dinner dance
of the Retail Hardware Association In
the Lee House.
Another talk will be made by Ernest
Johannsen, former president of tire At
lantic Seaboard Hardware Association
The program also will include a vaude-
vile performance by company led by
Miss Edith Reed. About Is prizes will
be awarded to the guests. There has
been a heavy demand for tickets, par
ticularly from out-of-town manufac-
turers.
Leon E. Wedding has been named
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

chairman Of the Entertainment Com
mittee. Other members include Alex ].
Berlin, Marc NJ. Faronoff, w. W.
Adamson, F. Tracy Campbell, Samuel
Blunt. j. A. Lewis, W. A. Church, Will
liam L. Swormstedt, James Waxter, Ed
ward Cooper, F. A. Weaver. George B.
Stevens, A. ]. Bohannon and H. A
Marsden.
Mr. Berlin was elected president at a
recent meeting. Other officers chosen
included Mr.. Stevens, Mr.. Wedding
and Mr.. Adamson, vice presidents; Mr..
Weaver, secretary, and Mr.. Campbell,
financial secretary and treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
Along Washington's Path
Old National Road at Cumberland, Nd Recalled
as First Presidents Original Gateway to Fame;
Start of Historic Errdnd.

treasured in the pretty Riverside Park
of the city.
Washington was on such an Grand
as perhaps no other man of his years
had ever had to do. The land-hungry
aristocracy Of Virginia and the French
traders from Canada were claimants
to the great Valley Of the Ohio, and
the Virginians had sent him to warn
off their rivals. Probably they really
were hoping for just what Washington
fetched them A defiant reply, which
set London and Paris by the ears and
finally brought Britain to the defense
Of her ColOnists.
One messenger had twice started, but
had crumpled under the daring task,
when young Washington was chosen.
Why? Look about YOU and can you
imagine any lad Of 81 within your ac-
quaintance being intrusted with such
an important. hazardous and delicate
mission? Here we are plainly made
aware that we are dealing with some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

Bristol is claiming 1t is one of the few
cities of England having two ancient
inns. one dating from 1241 and the
other being described in a document of
1850 as apparently a very ancient
hostelry."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
WILL DELIVER ADDRESS
Electrical Engineers Institute Head
Will Speak Tuesday.

DR.. G. E. Skinner win be the prin-
oipal speaker at q meeting Of the
American Institute OF Electrical Engi-
neers Tuesday night at O'Clock in the
Potomac Electric Power Co. auditorium,
Tenth and E streets. DR. Skinner, who
is president OF the institute, win discuss
The Electrical Industry Today" Pre-
ceding the meeting dinner will be
held at the Raleigh Hotel at 6 o'clock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

Promoters Of the new government
supported National Academy of Film
Acting, in Rome, Italy. say it will have
more than 800 students at the start.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

Wholesale commodity prices in France
have dropped 18 per cent in the last
year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-06
The Orphan Jones
Decision

few weeks after the partial victory in the
Case the worngass record another important victory
Mass pressure the lynch courts of the rul-
their murderou plans to legally noe me %
boys has likewise forced the Maryland Co OF
Appeal action of the lower court and to grant e" w IN
of Yue Lee Orphan jones'.
m Lee was sentenced Maryland courts to hang in
Of the which American capitalism mas ever
attempted the Negro and the wong-class because Lee
resented being rich white farmer when the
latter was murdered together family bootleg feud Lee was
and framedup by the ponce Inc courts ana m
of Maryland him the most elementary rights SUCH
attorney for his defense He was finally Taioaed
trial at which Negroes were carefully e&cudeo
the jury
NAACP carried out in Maryland its
role hangmen to the bosses Soon after his arrest he B
more attorney of the declaring that Orphan
probably guilty This was never repudad by TINS organ
The workers Negro and challenge of the
lynch protest meetings denounced the frame
IN of Yu Lee and supported Defense its
fight demand that the courts recognize the attorneys
provided by the LID for Lee and accepted by Lee l
unconditional release of this victim of lynch justice
The present partial victory the revolutionary policy
of mass pressure They have been compelled
the They have not freed
but submitting him to new trial in pretense
paray this pretense they vancouver
vigilance the in the attempt to carry through
the lynch verdict &
The mep of Yu Lee is measure of the murderous oppression
against the Eastern
followed his arrest deliberately organized
farmers attempt to ndate the thousands OF Negro
agricultural labor slavery Shore
Baltimore labor agencies robbed the
meager pay they promised workers
frcmed-up and ralroaded to death in this manner
of Importance today when seven of the
Young scotboro boys
tal victory in both cases must serve as 1urner impetus 70 spread anI
deie veent for the sosoro boys and Yue
against of the bosses The struggle for
liberation Negroes oppression which lies the base
the whole vicious system Of lynch law
workers against legaisc illusions in the fair
Justice" of the lynch courts.
- No faith in the bosses Only power
the immediate unconditional freedom Of Yue
Lee the scosboro boys and other victims of boss class rue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-06
BY CYRIL BRIGGS.

WE MUST ourselves take up the
W fight against the Communists"
With this brazen declaration the
imperialist press in China greetS
the complete collapse of the fourth
Communist Suppression cam
paign--the fourth major attempt Of
the Marking butchers to re-enslaye
the efnsneipated toling masses in
the Soviet Districts Of China.
This is the policy of bloody in
tervention of all the imperialist
bandits against the Chinese Revo-
luton. This policy of armed in
reference in Chinese affairs, of
looting and partitioning of China
has been translated into action by
Japan in her invasion and seizure
Of Manchuria. 1t is being carried
out by the United States, England
and France in their naval inter-
vention at Annoy against the vic
torious 18th Chinese Red Army in
Fukien Province. This is the policy
voiced by the guns of the U. s.
gunboat oahu" when on June 9th
it attacked, near Taipantze 1000
miles up China's Yangtze RiverD
body Of 1000 rebellious Marking
troops who were marching to join
the workers and peasants Red Ar
mics fighting for the emancipa-
ton Of China.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-06

that even il France is vanquished
by another imperialist country, in
ternational enmity is not ended.
He adds that this emnity will again
lead to a blood-bath, as it always
was and always will be If -.
IF the whole mass of European
workers do not clearly perceive in
what criminal circle the capital
lists have enclosed them-the will
of tiny handful of people inspired
by a morbid greed to enrich them
selves out of the blood of the work.
ing people,
Pointing out hoy the capitalists
SOW hatred in the World and there
by poison the proletariat, Cork
shows how naive, to put it mildly,
some German workers and allegedly
some Communists" were in voting
for Hitler, if they really did, out of
hatred toward France.
Bosses Hate U.S.S.R. Leadership.
The great working class writer
then indicates the main object of
the particularly savage hatred of
the capitalists in Europe and in
America. The Soviet Union--he
says-is the object of this hatred
the country where capitalism has
been abolished and where the work
ers and peasants, under the leader
ship Of the Party of Lsnin, are the
complete masters"
For Is years-he continues
"the Party of Lenin has shown the
capitalists what power and talent
lie hidden in the proletarian masses;
and the capitalists themselves are
beginning to see that the working
classes are governing the country
Esy&N-' %s,asydN icLls
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-06

incomparably better and more in
diligently than they. With ! this
recognition, however, the hatred Of
the bourgeoisie increases against
the Socialist state. The anarchic
laws of competition do not per-
NIT the robbers and exploiters of
labor power to unite in order to
deal a common. blow against the
advance guard Of The world prole-
tariat. Nevertheless the. Industrial
bandits are uninterruptedly en-
deayoring to organize for an attack
on the Soviet Union, just as they
are trying to call forth a hostile
attitude to- the Soviet Union among
the workers and intellectuals."
Prepare Last Decisive Fight.
Recalling the lies and calumnies
circulated by the capitalists in an
effort to discredit the Soviet Union
in the eyes of the workers, and ex-
posing them as lnaneuvers designed
to keep the workers from fighting
in defense Of the Socialist Father
land, Cork says:
1.-THE international mutual aid of
the workers must bear not only an
economic, but also a political char
acter. In any case 1t must not
find expression In such a tolerant
attitude toward international ad-
venturers as the Russian emigrants
are, who are prepared to do any
thing in return for Judas fee"
After denouncing the activities Of
Kerensh in Paris, he speaks briefly
of the role Of English workers in
regard to the imperialist policy of
the British capitalists
1T is quite clear how great the
role of the working class can be in
regard to the question Of disarma-
ment.' he concludes. 1T is of
greater Importance, however, that
the proletariat realizes that 1t must
prepare with its reason and its
hands for the last decisive fight.
the fight Tor rule over the whole
world"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-06
Seeking an Abb for Bank
Crashes


y epdemcs earthquakes
the Communists blamed the organization of unemployed
taking the leadership the
the capitalist system the capitalists indeed correct although here
that spontaneous movements arise without he
activities the need aggressive
leadership to the everyday struggles of the workers
crashing
This
editorial
bound fall
working
advantage
conditions reacionry
working Oakland Michigan attempting
bankrupt the one bank left in Pontiac
say only S nonsense
the whispering
destroy the pillars Of the banking system the United Statesp We
the trumpet calls Of Joshua causing the walls Of Jericho
strongholds capitalism
insolvency that
capitalist world the their insolvency Not
a
deepening crisis and the anarchy the system which the
Detroit Free Press has hailed the of Gibraltar the
bankholders
simply trying bad bi for the deuc
the integrity Of
that this applies the Detroit
supporters
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-06
WET PLANKS AND THEIR
BUILDERS

As TO the magic formula--beeg
equals bread-we don't have to
theorize about its workings There
is legal beer in practically every
capitalist country, and if you cone
suit the latest statistics on uneni-
ployment in Europe you will SEQ
how we'll off the workers are under
legal beer. There is much beer
and more starvation in Germany,
there is plenty of hard ticker and
harder mass-misery in England.
and for that matter there is half
million speakeasies (more or less)
in the United States selling boozs
and beer to those who can afford to
buy it. But that did not get you o
job, did it?
The Socialists anticipated the
wishes of the bosses by adopting .
wet plank. The Republicans, too.
have made an attempt to pickle the
crisis in alcohol, and the Democrats
have built their starvation platform
on the dizzy foundation of booze
bath. Talk about a wet plank, it
really should be called wet
blanket, intended to smother the
fighting spirit of the starving
masses against starvation.
The only party with clear-cut-
stand on prohibition is the Commu-.
mist Party. Our stand is against
the present vicious prohibition law.
At the same time we are against
alcoholism, which can be wiped out
completely only through eleyating
the cultural level of the masses
through the overthrow of capital
ism. The issue in the present cleo
ton campaign is not the sinking
prohibition froth, but bread for the
masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-06
Worsening Conditions in the
Southern Textile Mills
BY Labor Research Association

BY Labor Research Association
4 SURVEY of % cotton textile
a workers in typical North Gallo
lima plants by representatives of
the Labor Research Association
shows that conditions are growing
continually worse in those mills as
in the northern cotton plants. The
survey shows the workers are re-
ceiving wages far below the
amounts required for minimum
health and decency budget"
Here are some the facts un-
covered in the survey which was
made last fall and covered workers
such as weavers, loom fixers, card
grinders, doffers, spec der tenders,
in Marion, Hickory, valdese, Colds
boro. Durham and Spindale, North
Carolina.
Employment and Wages
Those workers fortunate enough
to have any employment at all are
rarely employed full time. They
average only four days week and
their work extends over only eight
or nine months of the year. Wages
for full-time average from e to
$13 q week, or still lower as more
recent reports show. The average
yearly income for those who had
full-time work during the whole
year was about $3.50. In 1882 even
full-time work for those few work.
erS lucky enough to have it will
bring much less. due to recent wage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-06
Defense of China is
Defense of U. S.
Masses


The fight against armed inter-
vention in China, against the
lootihg and partition Of China, is
fight against the institution of
coolie wages in the United States,
against the wage slashing policy
initiated and supported by the U.
S. Hunger Government, against
the vicious attacks on the living
standard of the American mas
ses.
The defense of the Chinese people
and the Chinese Soviet Districts
is the defense of American work
ing class against hunger and war
policy of the Wall Street bosses,
against the criminal drive for
armed intervention against the
Soviet Union and its triumphant
Socialist construction.
Workers of America! Rally to
the defense of your class inter
ests against the vicious offensive
of the bosses! Defend the Chi
nese people. Defend the Soviet
Union! Stop the production and
shipment of arms against the
Chinese People and the Soviet
Union. Demand all war funds
for the unemployed! Intensity
the figh. against hunger and war,
for bread and security, for i'm
mediate relief and unemployment
insurance paid at the expense of
the bosses and their government!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-06
BY ENBEE

by ENDEE
THERE is way of getting dippy
on beer without drinking it. All
you have to do is to take the word
of the Democrats that beer can
easily be turned into bread and
that the crisis of capitalism can be
drowned dead in a stein of beer.
There is quite a "kick" in this
frothy theory which creates the
illusion that the way out of the
crisis lies through the brewery.
You are going to get lot of this
froth in the coming election cam
paign. 1t will be offered to you
as guarantee of your personal
liberty" it will be served up to you
with balanced budget on the side,
and the chiefs of the A. F. of L. will
peddle it as sure fire unemployment
relief. There is no harm in swal-
lowing a glass of beer now and
s4iCAAJ bdV pAlC WOlhOAo HllO WILL
swallow this foanny nonsense about
salvation via the brewery will find
themselves drugged into helpless
ness against capitalist starvation
to the great exhilaration of all
capitalists.
The recipe of turning beer into
bread is quite simple; two millions.
of workers engaged in the beer in
dustry will supply enough buying
power to make the wheels of all
industry go round, and everybody
will get job and chance to buy
both beer and bread. Amt it just
grand?
1t is, or it means to be-for the
capitalists. Right now capitalism
is in dire need of noisy issue" to
drown out the rumblings of fifteen
million empty stomachs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-06

,uLb. ttt.4#
Practically all of the wages earned
must be paid to the company for
fuel, rent, food, clothing and, In
some cases, even for insurance. De-
auctions for all of these purposes
are made from the pay envelopes,
while scrip money is also used in
some plants, and finance companies
charge an extortionate rate Of in
terest for small loans.
Hours of Work
The 1l-hour day is the standard
for both day and night wo rkers in
these southern mills. Each worker
interviewed complained of the long
hours and the resulting fatigue.
"The hours are SO long, have no
time for anything but work and
Sleep said one worker
Although small basins, usually
filthy and unsanitary, are available
for washing, no hot water is allowed
in any of the factories where these
workers are employed.
Eca'th Of Families
Half the workers in.c,y.. svy~d
reported cages CT rellacra which
had attacked Themselves, tiaa'f
wives, their children or their
mothers. Many workers are i'll in
bed for almost a month at a
stretch. The lack of the bare neces-
stiles like make 1t impossible to
continue working for any, length e
time without getting sick
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-06
BY 1. AMTER

cINCE November, 1929, when VIM.
y Green made the agreement with
Hoover of no strikes, and Hoover
promised no wage-cuts, there have
been systematic wage-cuts through
out the country. Faced with the
breaking of the promise by Hoover,
Green, Vol and company came
forward with the theory that it is
necessary for the workers to accept
wage-cuts, as this would mean the
basis for a revival of industrial
prosperity. This has been the posi-
ton of the bosses Of Wall Street
and of Hoover. This has been par
ticularly emphasized by the build
ing contractors. Though the Of
fetal wage scale was not reduced
until this year, nevertheless the
workers who had a scale of 1920
day were happy and lucky if they
got jobs at IS, S. and ST day,
and then only worked one or two
days a week.
Despite the fact that the real
wage scale of the building trades
workers of the country was one
half of the official scale, building
construction has declined month
after month, and, in the state of
New York, during the month of
May, was 95 per cent below the
month of April
Wages On Starvation Level.
Wages have been reduced to
starvation level. 1t is not only in
Kentucky and Tennessee, where the
miner practically starves when he is
working, but even in industries in
the North, textile, ETC., girls and
women work SO hours week for
as low as $235 a week. However,
this has failed quite naturally to
increase production. On the con-
trary, together with the declining
wages, there has been a decline in
production. This does not mean
that the profits of the corporations
have diminished. 1t is true that
more than 3,400 bank crashes took
place in the year 1881. These, to-
gether with the large number of
business failures, comprised mainly