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The Washington times., 1932-04-29
The House Shows Sense
No False Economy Stampede

the House and occasionally does rise above petty
politics has been demonstrated by its early action the So
called economy bill.
BY its action the first provisions to before it the
members showed that the majority still has its feet on the
ground and will hold to the of sanity
The country should take from this refusal OF
its Representatives accept in toto bill which would wreck
the American standard of living.
The House plainly showed its courage when the majority re-
fused adopt the amendment the legislative appropriation
bill which would have the salaries members from $4,000
to $4,000
laws should worth $4,000 year. The fact that of
salaries of all.
Similarly the American people believe that the and
women who work at humble tasks of government
worth the salaries which paid them.
The House, by amending the paycu provision Of the omnibus
bill exempt $4,000 from the salary slash instead Of the
eager $1,000 exemption proposed by the committee indicated
that will follow the wishes of the majority of the people
Before action ON bill is completed the House should kill
the whole odous proposal emanaed from the committee
effect of leaving in the the amended cut
provision be nothing than psychological The savings
which would result would be only a few million dollars.
And the psychological result would be bad
The would still go forth private employers that the
Government had cut salaries.
The exemption of 10 per cent of the Government employees
from would be emphasized by industras when
thev pointed Government condonng their short
sighted policy of slashing.
Let the continue its brave and sensible course
writing the omnibus bill into with semblance
Of reason
The Washington times., 1932-04-29

Some of the carvings upon the
well-preserved pillars are quite
similar to those found in the
ancient temples of Egypt. Fig
ureS are crowned and hold Scep-
tres in their hands. They all
have human bodies, feet, and
hands, but many have the heads
of condors.
Pottery found in the ruins Of
Tiahuanaco is believed by
archaelogists to date back at
least eight thousand years, or
more than six thousand years
before Christ. If this is correct,
they are the oldest records Of
civilization now in existence.
At the time of the building of
the Arica-La Paz railway, which
makes possible a visit by Amer
ican tourists to these interesting
"new world" ruins, a great
cemetery Of mummieS was
found. They are now part Of
the exhibits contained in the
La Paz museum. Enclosed in
baskets or bags of fiber and
mummies were buried in a sit
ting position. and are supposed
to be the remains Of the Chulpa
Indians who lived many years
before the Ineaa.
The Washington times., 1932-04-29

picture. So ELSIE ROBINSON
I'm telling you frankly that I,
for one
WISH THE SALOONS WE'RE
BACK!>
The old-fashioned, regular.
rum-Swilling saloons. I wish
they were back!
She Does Not Drink
Now get me straight before
you yell. Personally, I do not
drink. I do not believe in
drinking. I feel sorry for my
friends who do drink think
they are harming themselves.
This was not always my atti-
tude. I drank just as they do
once. I began drinking at time
of very great sorrow, anxiety
and wearinesS. I drank to es-
cape from pain and grief, and to
give myself strength and relief
which I desperately needed.
found in time that drinking
gave me neither release nor re-
lief; so I stopped it. I became
"dry."
BUT I DID NOT BECOME A
PROHIBITIONIST.
I did not become prohibition
ist because I do not think that
prohibition will ever make this
country dry. To the contrary, I
believe that prohibition is driv-
ing us deeper and deeper into
sottishnesS and crime.
When a layman says that
this country is getting wetter,
the drys invariably retort that
he doesn't know what he is
talking about. That cannot be
said of any newspaper worker.
A newspaper worker knows
what he is talking about, or
he doesn't stay a newspaper
worker.
Moreover, beside being a
newspaper worker, I grew up
in one of the wettest towns in
our American frontier. So
when it comes to the low down
on saloons-I'm telling you!
And It's straights
The Washington times., 1932-04-29
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

This country has ten times
as many saloons, and a thou
sand times more vicious saloons,
than it ever had in pre-prohibi-
ton days. Every town, every
city is spotted, Splattered and
Spiflicated with scores of speak
easies. Any man, woman or
child can get soused in those
speakeasies at any hour of the
day or night without hindrance
from the law. Frequently the
law gets soused with him. And
any person who is willing to
face facts, knows that this is
true.
A Horrible Picture
A magnificent and terrible
picture is being shown on the
films. It is called "The Wet
Parade" It shows the story Of
booze-before and after. In
case you never knew the old
fashioned saloon, that is what
it was like.
It was a vile, heartbreaking,
horrible place. The practices
in it were beastly. The conse-
uuences of it we're brutal.
AND YET WISH TT WE'RE
FOR THE OLD-FAsHIONED
SALOON, AT ITS WORST.
WASN'T ONE HUNDREDTH
PART AS HIDEOUS OR AS
DANGEROUS AS THE NEW
FASHIONED SPEAKEASY.
A saloon was a saloon in those
DAYS. and a sot was a sot.
Bad as things were, there
was a distinct line drawn be-
tween drunkards and drinking
places and respectable people
and homes. Even in the WILD
and woolly and swilling West, II
was a disgrace to have a drink
in the family. People told about
it in whispers. The family
spoke of it as indigestion
spells" s
Even the lowest dive dared
stage no such orgies as you
can witness now any night at
any roadhouse-girls OF 16,
boys of 18 reeling, gagg1ng
drunk on the f1oor-in the rest
room, in the parked automo-
bile.
Yes, I wish the awful saloons
we're back.
I know what they were. I
shudder at their memory. But
they we're better than what we
have now. There were bounds
then between decency and in
decency. There was a certain
means Of restraint. There was
that greatest check Of all
Public Opinion.
Those were shameful, swill-
ing days, but they were honest
days.
AND THOSE WHO FIRE
OUENTED SALOONS WENT
TO HE'LL.
BUT AT LEAST WE KNEW
WHERE HELL WAS, AND WE
MANAGED TO KEEP IT
WITHIN SOME BOUN IS.
Copyright, 1892, King satuRea
Syn0ao@GA 1B0A
The Washington times., 1932-04-29
WE need foreign trade
w and all we can get.

anu dill we Cdu S6C'
We need it, because, with
out it, we shall not be pros
porous again.
The policy of the Hoover
A d m i n istration, uninten-
tionally of course, but none
the less positively, ALLEVIATE
prospective and former GUS
toners.
The Grundy Tariff has
done it's worst-and it is
bad enough.
And foreign trade is not
a matter of merchants, i'm
port and export brokers,
ships and railroads.&c. has a
direct effect on unemploy-
ment.
Strangely enough we have
some startling facts bear
ing upon the subject from
Mr.. Lamont, the Secretary
of Commerce. He tells us
that
More than 100000
workers receiving more
than $1,000, 100000 in wages
were directly engaged in
producing goods for export
in 1881. Furthermore there
was probably an equal addi-
tional number employed in
directly in service activities
and in supplying the needs
of those engaged directly"
That cans 100000
workingmen dependent for
jobs on foreign trade.
And in 1881 the records
show there were only half
as many employed in pre-
pairing goods for export as
in 1929.
And this means t h a t
2,800,000 and more working
men are out of jobs today
because of the loss of for
eign markets.
Let these persons who
smugly tell us we can live
unto ourselves and prosper
without foreign trade laugh
away these figures.
The Washington times., 1932-04-29
American
Common Sense

Senator Robinson Of Ar
kansas, Democratic floor
leader. in the Senate, has
just said:
LAS one feature in the
policy of promoting amic-
able relations and stimu-
lating our foreign commerce,
I believe that prompt con-
sideration should now be
given to the establishment
of diplomatic and trade rela-
tions with Russia. Such a
course, in my opinion, does
not involve approval of the
political policies of the
Soviet republics. It means
the application of well es-
tablished principles of in
ternational law as well as
the recognition Of the sig
nificance Of export trade to
The Washington times., 1932-04-29
The Administration
Has Done Nothing

The Department of Labor
report shows that, with the
exception of Virginia, every
State in the Union is af-
fected by unemployment
from this cause. 1t is esti-
mated that in New York
alone half million out of
jobs today are jobless be-
cause of the loss of the for
eign markets.
And the Hoover Admins
tration has done nothing to
recover these lost markets.
On the contrary its policy,
Intentionally or otherwise,
tends to lose US more and
more. Its Grundy tariff act
has wrecked the foreign
trade; and, as the Depart
ment of Commerce shows,
this has deprived 100000
workingmen of jobs. We do
not believe that this figure
approaches the actual num-
Der.
And there is another part
of the policy of the Hoover
Administration which is de-
priving US of the full oppor-
tunities in the markets Of
Russia, and is needlessly
making us enemies in the
quarter from which we may
expect very little in the fu-
ture.
The refusal of the Admin
istration to follow in line
with England, France, Italy,
Germany in according recog-
milton to Russia and resum-
ing diplomatic relations with
her is destructive of our
hopes now, and in the fu-
ture, for a big share in the
trade of that country.
The Washington times., 1932-04-29
Our Trade With
Russia Is Dwindling

And it is dishonest to say
we cannot deal with the Rus
slams commercially because
they are not honest, and will
not pay their debts. Great
corporations here are eager
for their trade. In the light
of our political attitude what
a mockery - that dinner
given commercial represen-
tatives of Russia secretly af
which leading business men
of the country said the Rus
slams played the commercial
game squarely.
Now we have persisted in
a foolish policy--and all the
while our commercial and
industrial competitors in
other countries have been
assiduously cultivating Rus
sian trade. We are now
getting the effect. Our
trade with Russia is dwin-
ding; and it would be re-
markable were the Russians
to buy anything from us
that they can get from the
nations that have accepted
realities and resumed diplo-
matte relations.
By standing aloof, and
making faces, we are not in
juring the Russian expert
ment in the slightest de-
gree-and cannot. We are
merely throwing away the
vast trade opportunities of
that enormously large mar
ket.
True of today, what Of
tomorrow?
Whatever we may think
of the Russian experiment,
the fact remains that Rus
sia is being made over; that
the Five Year Plan, and all
that is behind it, is making
a more modern country, and
increasing the demands Of
the masses Of the people
there. That change at any
rate will abide. Here is a
vast domain of illimitable
possibilities, teeming with
millions, and offering tomor-
row one of the greatest mar
kets in the world.
The Washington times., 1932-04-29

life without a twinge Of
conscience.
Nearly every woman can get
a lot of consolation, by observ-
ing the flaws in some other
woman'S husband.
Marriage is becoming a real
problem to a young man, nova
days. Because it seems to be
just a choice between becoming
a rich woman'S pet, a poor
woman's meal-ticket and busi-
ness woman'S partner.
It is always easy for a woman
to turn a mans head-in an
other woman's direction.
No, Felicia-of course, meek
ing" is not immoral. But then.
neither is using a tooth-pick or
eating garlic. They're just mot
The Washington times., 1932-04-29

The kiss was probably in
vented by the first man as a
The Washington times., 1932-04-29
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

= done" by the best people," e1
cent in strict privacy.
The Washington times., 1932-04-29

OF course, I
wouldn't vote
to have the
saloons back. I"
Well I, too,
am sick of
swilling; but
I'm tired of
hearing peo-
pie make re-
m a rkS like
that. They're
not sincere,
and they are
not safe re-
marks. They
give a wrong
The Washington times., 1932-04-29

I Wish the Saloons Were Back
(ThiS newspaper is not re-
SponSible for the opinions OF
the 1Driter of the toIlo1Di7lg
article, but presents the article
solely as the expression OF her
opiniOn.-Editor.)
You hear people saying eyes,
the liquor problem is awful.
Prohibition is certainly a failure.
The Washington times., 1932-04-29
Loves White Chips

Women who wouldn't dream
of stealing an umbrella, or dis
arranging your guest-towelS,
will help themselves to your
husbands and diSarrange your
The Washington times., 1932-04-29
Diplomatic and Trade
Relations With Russia
Claude G.. BOUerS-

the problem OF unemploy-
ment, now the most acute
of all our difficulties"
No one thinks of Senator
Robinson as a Communist;
he speaks here as a states
man, applying common sense
to a practical question. He
shares the view Of great
numbers of statesmen who
are realists enough to know
that trade must not be de-
termined by the religion or
political or economic belief
of the prospective customer.
Mr.. Rainey, the Demo
cratic leader in the House,
who made an exhaustive
journey of observation in
Russia, shares the views Of
Mr.. Robinson.
Here is Democratic state
manship; better still, it is
American common sense.
We Should
Recognize Russia
1t now has been 1412 years
since the present govern
mental system was estab-
lished in Russia. During
these years no government
in the world has been more
firmly established. There is
not the most remote chance
that the Romanoffs will ever
return to the Russian throne.
The nations of the earth long
ago abandoned all thought
of changing the situation
there by force of arms. A
desperate gambler med
Napoleon once tried to con-
quer Russia by force, and it
was a melancholy journey
home.
Under all the usual rules
Of international d alings
Russia should have been ac-
corded recognition long ago.
The statesmen of Europe,
who are realists, saw it years
ago and acted on what they
saw. They acted for two
reasons - there was no SEN
sible reason for Withholding
political recognition, and
they wished to secure the
Russian trade for their coun-
tries.
To say we will not recog-
nize Russia because we are
against their form of gov
ernment is dishonest; for we
have diplomatic relations
now, and have had from the
beginning of the republic,
with nations whose political
forms are Objectionable to us.
The Washington times., 1932-04-29

done" by the best people," ex-
cept in strict privacy.
No matter how threadbare a
woman's love or her patience
may have worn, a man never
doubts that he can patch it
up," somehow, and make it
stand a little more strain.
The world is full of con-
firmed bachelors; but, in these
days, about the rarest and most
difficult thing to find is a con
firmed husband"
Platonic friendship seldom
lives long enough to ripen, be.
cause most men kill it at the
roots, by trying to Burbank it
with !, little cheap petting
The kiss was probably in
vented by the first man as a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
RUEGGS REJECT
NANKING TRIAL
Refuse to Give Replies
In Murder Court
(By Inprecorr Cab1e)

SHANGHAI, Aug. 12.-The 1arcical
trial. of Paul and Gertrude Ruegg
was resumed today in Marking be-
hind closed doors. Formal charges
have never been drawn up against
the defendants, but at the last hear
ing" which was as farcical as the
present one, the prosecutor made
vague charges of Communist activ-
tiles"
At the very beginning. Ruegg pro-
tested against the employment of
an incompetent interpreter by the
court, who had been rejected at the
first hearing. At the same time he
also renewed his demand for the
transfer of the case to Shanghai,
where at least there would be the
possibility of the defendant having
lawyers to handle the defense.
The judge at the star-chamber
hearing, having rejected Ruegg's re-
quest, the defendants refused to par
ticipate further in the mock pre-
ceedings, declining to answer all
questions and limiting themselves to
taking notes. They indicated that
they refused to participate in this
judicial farce, but reserve the right
to say the last word.
The Judge then put a series of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
Expect Big Attendance
At F. S. U. Boat Ride
on the Hudson Tonight

NEW YORK. - Hundreds of New
York workers will gather tonight in
support of Soviet Russia Today, Of
fetal organ of the Friends of the
Soviet Union, on moonlight boat
ride up the Hudson River on the S.
S. Susquehana.
The steamer will leave from Pier
II, East River, foot Of Wall Street
at p. m.
The affair will be an informal
send-of for H. w. L. Dana and other
delegates to the World Anti-War
Congress, and large number of
well-known writer's, are expected to
be present as guests of honor.
An interesting entertainment pro-
gram has been arranged including
Margaret Larkin, in program Of
cowboy songs; Negro songs by Taylor
Gordon; Russian songs by Boshka
Scherer; Chilean folk songs by Ri
cardo Cortez, and a musical concert.
Later in the evening, Paul Sweets
Carnival Serenaders will play dance
music.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13

their lmperial1St masters.
The fascist move is aimed to drown
in blood the tremendous anti-in-
perianst, anti-Kuomintang upsuge
throughout Kuomintang China. By
this move Chang and his imperial
ist masters, seek to block the spread
of the Chinese Soviet Power whose
rapid growth is uniting China and
threatening the stranglehold of the
imperiahst bandits on the Threats of
the Chinese People.
Chiangs move, which has been in
preparation for several months, is
instigated and supported by the Wall
Street imperialists. The fascist or
ganization now has 5000 members,
recruited exclusively from among the
militarists and feudal landowners.
The organization is organized apart
from the Kuomintang Party, whose
rapid disintegration and loss Of con-
hdence among the toiling masses, has
destroyed its efTectivness as a ruling
class instrument against the Chinese
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
PRINTERS VOTING
ON JOB SCALE

NEW YORK.-The New York Ty-
biographical Union ("Big Six'D has
issued a call for special meeting
tomorrow at Stuyvesant High School,
at pm. to hear a report Of the book
and job scale committee. The Off
Gals have purposely brought up the
issue of the job scale in order to
distract the attention Of the members
from the newspaper scale, which is
still not settled.
The members of the union have
rejected the proposals of the officials
and publishers to "arbitrate" the
wages. The sentiment of the men,
bership is for the unions proposed
scale-the six-hour day. five-day
week, without reduction in pay.
The Amalgamation Party is calling
a united front meeting for August 10
at 7.30 at the World Assembly Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
LOCAL AZ CLIQUE
FIGHTS JOBLESS

NEW YORK. - Gustav Wollman,
candidate of the left wing for chair
man, was elected twice at the Bry-
ant Hall meeting, Thursday night Of
600 members Of Local AZ, Millinery
Blockers. The right wing forced a
second election, and got beat again.
The left wing put up proposal
for election Of a rank and file COM
mittee of Is, to be divided into sub
committees with different tasks, and
to direct the placing of the unem-
ployed according to the following
program: Registration of the jobless;
investigation of all shops to see where
they could be placed; placing &C
cording to rotation without discrinli-
nation; no overtime and no work on
aturday until there are more jobs
in the trade; no foremen or bosses
to work at the benches; no operators
to do any blocking without a card
from the blockers' union.
Clique Against Jobless.
The right wing objected to discus
sing the unemployed problem first,
and when forced to do so, revealed
that their only proposal was that
the executive board should place
unemployed wherever possible. The
discussion lasted two hours, during
which Zaretsky threatened to expel
the whole left wing and declared the
General Executive Board would take
over the local.
Finally the right wing clique, bad
ly beaten in the discussion and afraid
of the vote, rushed the chairman,
threw table on Wollman, and beat
up j. Schechtman SO bad he had to
have six sketches taken in his head
in the hospital Burns, another vet
eran blocker, was badly beaten. The
meeting was smashed by violence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13

cents, for the benefit of the unemployed
movement in the Bronx.
The Brooklyn Section of the 1. L. D.,
will have a concert and dance at the Casa
D'Amour, 81 St, and Mermaid Avenue,
coney Island, at $50 pm.
SUNDAY
The Staten Island 1. L. D. and Icor will
have a joint picnic at Petersons Park,
3575 Victory Boulevard. Bulls Head, S. L,
at 10 am. Direction: At Myers Corner
take Travis Bus, stop at signs Road.
The International Workers Club and
Young Storm will have a hike Meet
promptly at am. at Staten Island Ferry,
New York Side. carefare 20 cents
The Workers Laboratory Theatre will
meet at pm, at 1so5h St. subway station
from where they will go to the park.
Councils No. IS, 4. 10, and AZ of the
q. C. W. C. W. will hold an outing to
Prospect Park. picnic grounds at 2 pm.
All Brooklyn workers are invited.
Unit D. Section ;, Bronx, will have a
picnic at Pelham Bay.
The Italian Workers Center of Harlem
Park.
Workers kinds who are Always Ready
News Reporters will NEE tat am, in
the Daily Worker Editorial office.
The Rumanian Workers Club will hold a
grand picnic and dance at Wetzel Park,
Second Ave. and 10th St, College Point,
Long Island.
The Sport Section of the Brighton Beach
Workers Club will have exercises at 10 am.
at East 4th st. Beach.
The East Side Workers Club will have
a dance at Coney Island workers Center
William Patterson will speak at the
Urban League. 2o2 West 135th St., at 8
pm, under the auspices of the Harlem
Negro Workers Club.
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masses.
An attempt will be made to reor-
ganize the Kuomintang Party under
the leadership of the Canton mis-
leaders as a sham opposition party
to the proposed fascist regime which
will be headed by the butcher Chang
Kai-shek
Wang Ching-wei, so-called left"
Canton leader, is already vancouver
ing in fake opposition" to Chang,
in an effort to divert the Chinese
masses from the revolutionary way
out of their sufferings and oppression
at the hands of the imperialists and
their Kuomintang lackeys. Wang
with other members of the Marking
Cabinet resigned two days ago, fol-
lowing the news of the tremendous
victory of the Chinese Red Army in
Hupeh Province, which is being fol-
lowed by a new upsurge of the anti
japanese. anti-Kuomintang m a S
movement in the big cities still IN
der Marking control.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
List of Stations for
Tag Day Collections
Today and Tomorrow

All workers, sympathi5ers and mem
bers of mass organizations are urged
by the New York State United Frnot
Committee to call today as early as
possible for carrying out the Tag
Day drive today and tomorrow for
funds to carry on the Communist
election campaign. The following are
stations:
LOWER MANHATTAN
40 Broad Street; 1872 Third Street; II Gin
ton street; 1OS East 18th street; 301 West
goth Street.
YORKVILLE AND HARLEM
$50 East Slst street; S14 East lU4th
street; "a west ll5th Street; Is west
126tb Street; West 1S5th Street.
BRONX
1882 Thied Avenue; $50 Prospect Avenue;
1857 Southern Boulevard; 2700 Bronx Park
East; 1910 Boston Road; 1853 Beekman Ave-;
BROWNSVILLE
1913 Pitkin Avenue; los Thatford Avenue;
WILLIAMSBURG
81 Graham Avenue; 10 Myrtle Avenue
226 Throop Avenue;
SOUTH E%OOKLYN
S159 Coney Island Avenue; 1878 Forty
Thi-I street: 76f Fortieth Street; 1876 Fiji
teensh Street; Twenty-first and Bath Ave
nues (Corner).