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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
Government Waters the Watercd
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The Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration, which was supposed TO
abolish the depression by making
work, gave the railroads almost S.
millions in March alone, making its
"loans" to the railroads, many Of
them in receivership, over three hun
bred million dollars. Almost all Of
this money has gone right back to
the bankers for bond interest and
the payment Of maturing obligations
S62000,000 more from increased
freight rates increasing the price Of
necessities for the workers. has found
its way into the same pockets. The
new bill will add another $500 mil
ion owed the government by the
roads, through the repeal Of the
RecaptWe clause. But this is not
enough. The billion and half taken
in payrolls in the past three years
is not enough. The roads want an
other quarter Of a billion dollars
year. They expect to get it through
additional wage cuts and the drop
ping of at least another 100000 men
under the contemplated elimination
of duplicating facilities and the
prevention of all svoidsble expenses
under the rail car.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08

drive against the masses throughout
the last three years of the crisis. 1t
fights for the interests of the manu-
featuring and commercial interests
of the country. 1t has always fought
every attempt of the workers to i'm
prove their living conditions.
1t found nothing in Rooseyelts
speech about National planning"
and increased wages wherever pos
sible" that was against the interests
OF the capitalist manufacturers and
industrialists 1t approved Roose-
velts program.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22
Is There a Santa Claus?

We take pleasure in answering at once and
thus prominently the communication below,
expressing at the same time our great gratih-
cation that its faithful author is numbered
among the friends of the Sun:
Dear Editor-I am eight years old.
Some of my little friends say there is
no Santa Claus.
Papa says: eff you see it in the Sun
It's So"
Please tell me the truth; "is there
VIRGINIA o'HANLoN.
Virginia, your little friends are wrong.
They have been affected by the skepticism of
a skeptical age. They think that nothing can
be which is not comprehensive by their little
minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be
mems or little childrens, are little. In this
great universe of ours is a mere insect,
an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the
boundless world about him, as measured by
the intelligence capable of grasping the whole
of truth and knowledge
Yes, Virginia, there is Santa Claus. He
exists as certainly as love and generosity and
devotion exist, and you know that they
abound and give to your life its highest beauty
and JOY. Alasl how dreary would be the world
if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as
drear as if there were no Virginias. There
would be no child-like faith then, no poetry,
no romance to make tolerable this existence.
We should have no enjoyment, except in sense
and sight The eternal light with which child
hood fills the world would be extinguished
Not believe in Santa Claus? You might as
well not believe in fairiesi You might get
your papa to hire men to watch in all the
chimneys ON Christmas Eve to catch Santa
Claus, but even if they did not see Santa
Claus coming down, what would that prove?
Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign
that there is no Santa Claus. The most real
things in the world are those that neither
children nor men can see. Did you ever see
fairies dancing on the lawn? OF course not,
but that's no proof that they are not there.
Nobody can conceive or imagine all the won
ders there are unseen and unseeable in the
world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and
see what makes the noise inside, but there is
veil covering the unseen world which not
the strongest man, nor even the united
strength of all the strongest men that ever
lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, po-
etry, love, romance, can push aside that cur
tain and view and picture the supernal beauty
and glory beyond. Is it all real? All, Virginia,
in all this world there is nothing else real and
abiding.
No Santa Claus? Thank Godl he lives for
ever. A thousand years from now, Virginia,
nay, ten times ten thousand years from now
he will continue to make glad the heart Of
childhood.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22

Christmas 1t was ON September 81, 1897, that
the Sun printed the editorial in reply to the
childish scrawl which is reproduced above
Not only did this editorial become a Christ
mas classic but the little Virginia O'Hanlon,
who once wanted her faith in Santa Claus re-
assured, became something of a legendary per-
son and some have doubted, even as she once
doubted, that there ever was such a person.
For the reinsurance Of those, 1t may be said
that there not only was such girl but that she
is still living. The little Virginia O'Hanlon of
1897 is Mrs. Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas of to-
day, school teacher In New York, 3 widow
and the mother Of a daughter Laura Virginia,
who, It Is needless to say, believes that sthere
is a Santa Claus"
g by Western Newspaper UnisaL
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control plans for wheat, cotton, hogs,
tobacco and other commodities placed
In operation, and said:
"The record of the past six months
would have been impossible without
the continued cooperation of Mr..
Peek. 1t is absolutely untrue that he
obstructed progress"
With Mr.. Peek moved to a new
post, officials associated with him
were considering plans for extensive
revision of the methods of handling
marketing agreements in the AAA.
1t has been virtually decided to scrap
the two main divisions, crop control
and processing and marketing.
a GR1CULTURAL leaders from all
= over the land gathered in Chicago
for the annual convention of the Amer
lean Farm Bureau federation, and gave
their full support and approval to the
farm relief policies of the President.
Edward A. O'Neal. president of the
federation. called the federal farm ad-
justment act the Magma Charta of
agriculture" saying that ..at last farm
ers have the machinery and the power
TO obtain fair share of the consum-
er's dollar" For forty years. he said
the farmer has been getting less and
less Of this dollar, but by use of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22

full powers of the agricultural adj
1ustment administration, he declared,
this trend can be turned the other way.
From Mr.. Roosevelt came a letter
full of optimism which was read to the
delegates. The President who is a
member of the New York state farm
bureau, expressed appreciation for the
federation's support and outlined the
first effects Of federal money getting
into the hands of people who need it,"
yet he cautioned farmers and others
to guard against letting rise in farm
income tempt us to forget the realities
of supply and demand"
Secretary Wallace and Mr.. Peek
both were on the list of speakers and
were well received.
/ Attest of the farm relief expert
~ ments. a S350,0O0,OOO campaign to
control the production of corn and
hogs by paying federal bounties to the
producers, was launched by Secretary
Wallace. The money will be raised by
processing taxes which the consumer
will pay and will go to farmers who sign
agreements to reduce their average of
corn and production of hogs in 1884.
Benefit payments on corn, under the
program, will be at the rate of 80
cents a bushel for each bushel the
farmer agrees to withhold from pro-
duction in 1884. The payment will be
based on the average yield of the
contracted acreage during the previous
tive-year period. One-half the payment
will be made to the farmer as soon
as his contract has been approved,
the other half when he has fulfilled
the terms of the agreement.
In return for the farmers agree
ment to curtail hog production the
government will pay So head on 70
per cent of the average number Of
hogs marketed or to be marketed from
filters narrowed by the producers
sows in the last two years.
XNILLIAM G. BULLITT, ambassa-
w dor to Russia, was received in
Moscow in a manner entirely unpre-
cedented since the establishment of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22

the Soviet re gi m e.
Other ENJOYS on ar
rival at the capital
have been accorded
little or no attention
until they have pre-
sented their creden-
tials; but Mr.. Bullitt
was greeted with ex-
traordinary enth u ST.
asm by officials and
populace alike. When
he crossed the Rus
sian frontier at Ne
pnrQlonn hn uuoS in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22

a close friend of Mr..
Peek, he sided with
Secretary w all a C e
and Assistant Secre-
tary Tugwell in the
dispute. However. he
defended Mr.. Peek
a g a in st assertions
that the latter's pres
ence In the admins
tration had delayed
prosecution of the
crop control program.
He p0intod m tho
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22

and he speedily found
the way to settle it.
Mr.. Peek was persuad-
ed to resign as agri-
cultural adjustment
administrator and a
new position m u c b
more to his liking was
devised for him. He
was called a special
assistant TO the Presi-
dent and named to
head a temporary COM
AlA ILL 80
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22


ommend permanent machinery for CO.
ordination of government efforts to
expand foreign trade.
The committee also will include the
members of the two departmental
committees, the inter-departmental adj
visory board on reciprocal treaties, In
ter-departmental trade policy commit
tees, and such other individuals as
Peek may select.
In a formal statement the White
House said: 1.-THE report of the COM
mittee and final action is expected
within two weeks"
1t continued: George Peek, agri-
cultural adjustment administrator,
having completed the organization
period of the AAA, is designated to
head this committee as special as
sistant to the President on American
trade policy"
The new organization ito correlate
the internal adjustment OF production
with such effective foreign purchas-
ing power as may be developed by
reciprocal tarifrs, barter, and other in
ternational arrangements" will be
headed by Mr.. Peek when it is COM
pleted
The administration expects to bring
about modification of some most-fa-
vored nation treaties so as to make
possible special treatment of liquor i'm
ports from countries agreeing to take
more of this country's surplus farm
products. This is not regarded as a
great difficulty to Mr.. Peek, as it is a
favorite theme with him that trade
amounts to swapping my jack-knife
for your marbles"
Trade, to him, whether on a do
nestle or international basis. is just
what the word signifies, and he says
that in its transaction 1--WE sometimes
have to sleep with people we don't like
and sometimes with those we like
He is quoted as remarking to an
aide of the prospective liquor deals |:
''Sure, We'll take their liquor If we
can pay them with butter and pork
and other stuff"
Mr.. Peek has long felt that agri-
culture has been neglected in its pos
sibilities for export, contending that
too much emphasis has been placed
during the last 10 years on the ex-
portation of industrial products.
ECRETARY WALLACE and his
~ more radical associates in the De-
partment of Agriculture won victory
in the transfer of Mr.. Peek, but they
also suffered rebuff. for in compos-
ing the difficulties the President trans
ferred from the AAA to the NRA the
grocery and several other food codes
which were among the things that
Wallace and Peek could not agree
upon. The latter had opposed various
radical provisions in those codes, and
these have been mostly eliminated by
the MIRA, or at least modified.
However, the main point of differ
ence between the two men was the eff
fectiveness of marketing agreements
in the agricultural relief program.
This was questioned by Wallace in a
recent press conference and he sug-
gested the major necessity in farm re-
lief was strict restriction of crop pro-
duction. Peek had emphasized mar
keting agreements rather than crop
control methods. while Tugwell and
other liberals had taken the opposite
position.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Controversy With Secretary Wallace Forces Peek Into
New Job-Education Begun In CCC Camps
Bulit's Extraordinary Reception in Russia.
By EDWARD w. PICKARD

y GORGE PERKS controversy with
~ Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace
and his assistant, Professor Tugwell,
was put up to President Roosevelt
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22

CHESTER DAVIS. who was slated to
succeed Mr.. Peek as administra-
tor of the AAA, has been in charge of
the crop control section. Though long
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

/, HAT is christmas classic?
1t is a piece of writing or a picture,
! associated with Christmas, of which
people are so fond that they never
grow tired of reading it or seeing IL
again and again, no matter how many
! times before they have read it or
/. seen 1t.
kEho hi.4h oe cHla...4 AZ. .--z.-L ,..a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22


stalled in a sumptuous private car
provided by the government and in
this he Travelled to Moscow. On his
arrival at Alexandrovsky station he
was met by cheering crowds and was
formally presented to Alexander A.
Troyanovsky. who is coming to Wash
ington as Russian ambassador, and to
Alexis Neuman. vice director of the
Soviet press department.
The new ENJOYS first official act
was to pay a formal call upon For
eign Minister Maxim Litvinov, with
whom he remained half hour.
He was installed in the National
hotel, which thus became a temporary
American embassy, and atop the build
ing the Star-Spangled Banner was
raised, flying thus for the first time
In Soviet Russia.
Mr.. Bullitt himself and his nine
year-old daughter occupy an elaborate
three-room apartment which last sum-
mer was tenanted by Col. and Mrs.
Charles A. Lindbergh. The suite re-
Gently was refurnished with valuable
antique furniture and priceless OBJ
jects of art.
. OBERT FECHNER, director Of
~ emergency conservation work, an
nounced that great program for edu-
cation of the 100000 men in the civil
ian conservation corps had been ap-
proved by the President and was be-
ing put into effect Immediately. Edu-
catiOnal advisers to the number of
1,465 are being placed in the forest
work camps and an individual pro-
gram of instruction for each camp is
being developed. To considerable
extent the advisers are drawn from
lists of unemployed teachers that have
been submitted to DR.. George f. Zook,
federal commissioner Of education, by
state directors of education.
"It is the hope of the President"
Mr.. Fechner said, that the education
al program, by emphasizing forestry,
agriculture and like subjects. will as
sist the men in readjusting themselves
to new mode of living-to country
life instead of city life-and to assist
them in improving themselves educa-
tionally and vocationally.
"a great number of the young men
In these camps arrived at working age
. at a time when there were no jobs.
Many of them had meager educational
advantages. We propose to give these
men chance at an education and to
furnish them vocational guidance
which will aid them to earn living"
The opportunity for education will
be offered to ali members Of the corps.
but participation in the courses of in
struction will not be mandatory.
The available working hours on for
estry projects-40 hours per week
will not be disturbed The plan is to
utilize hours other than normal work
ing periods and periods of inclement
weather for purposes of instruction.
General and vocational subjects will
be offered. although most of the in
struction will be of an informal ma
|. ture.
Four government departments-In-
terror, War. Labor and Agriculture
will cooperate In establishing and op.
Grating the new educational system.
The nine major-generals commanding
corps areas will be charged with the
responsibility for carrying out the pro-
gram.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22

XNILLIAM G. BULLITT, ambassa-
w dor to Russia, was received in
Moscow in a manner entirely unpre-
cedented since the establishment of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22
ERNEST T. WEIR of Pittsburgh.

ERNEST T. WEIR Of Pittsburgh.
- chairman of the Weirton Steel
company, has defied the federal labor
board and fatty refused to abide by
the rules 1t announced to guide an
election of employees representatives
for collective bargaining. In letter
to Senator r. d. Wagner. chairman Of
the board. Mr.. Weir said:
1--WE must consider any arrange
ments with you terminated and the
election will proceed in accordance
with the rules adopted by the en-
ployees' organization"
Informed later that Chairman Wag-
ner had announced the board would
enforce its agreement to supervise the
election at the Weirton and Clarks-
burg, w. Va. and Steubenville, Ohio,
plants, Weir reiterated my letter
stands"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-22

M EMBERS or the senate finance
lN1 and house ways and means COM
mittee in joint session received the adj
ministration's liquor tax program
which includes the strongly opposed
levy of $3.50 gallon on distilled spir-
it's. Alcohol Administrator Choate
and other officials were called before
the committees as witnesses, and Act
ing Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
THAI was summoned to discuss the
projected general revision of the In
come tax and other revenue laws.
The administrations liquor program
also includes sharing of the revenue
with the states to avert duplication Of
gallonage imposts, and authority for
the President to negotiate reciprocal
trade agreements with foreign liquor
exporting countries.
1t proposes that states entering into
agreements with the federal govern
ment not to impose special liquor
levies shall receive 20 per cent of the
revenue gathered on the federal levy.
G. lsss. Western Newspaper Unio.-
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ed States. not alone in the mid
dlewestern states where most 0!
the corn and hogs are produced.
Under the terms Of the approx
ed contract, the signing produc
er must agree to reduce corn
acreage in 1884 to not less than
90 per cent under the average
acreage planted to corn during
the two year periou from Decem
Der I. 1881, TO December |, 1888;
to reduce in 1884 the nun Der OF
hog litters farrowed and the
number Of hogs produced for
market from these litters to %
per cent under the average for
the same period; not to use con
tracted areas except for planting
permanent pasture, for soli-lm
The border vidette., 1933-12-16
LYNCHER WILL GET PARDON

San Jose, Dec. 13 With a
promise of pardon for the defen
dant from Governor Rolph, eu
thorities here today pushed
plans to prosecute Anthony
Cataldi, 18, on a charge of violat
lpg the state lynching law for
participation in the mob which
hung the kidnaper-slayers OF
of Brooke Hart.
Cataldi was arrested here yes
terday on information furnished
by A. l.. Wirin and Ellis O.
Jones. representatives Of the
Civil Liberties Union which de
manded prosecution of the mob
leaders.
10 furnishing the Information
which led to Cataldi's arrest
Wirin and Jones produced news
paper photographs and state
ments credited to the youth in
dicating be was one of the lead.
ers of the mob which stormed
the county Jail here and seized
Thomas Thurmond and John
Holmes. These two were hang
ed from trees ia st. James park
The border vidette., 1933-12-16
SETTLEMENT OF u. s, MEXICO
CLAIMS TRIED

Washington. Dec. 13.-Settle.
% ants Of American Mexican
claims, troublesome issue that
has dragged along since Civil
war days, was the subject of
special study concluded today by
experts in the state department,
whereafter attempts for an en-
bloc settlement reverted to
Mexico City for further negotia
ton.
Claims dating back to 1868 are
included in the billion dollar de
mands made By Mexicans and
Americans, W h i ch the late
Ambassador Dwight w. Morrow
attempted TO adjudicate with a
lump sum settlement. arrived at
on some percentage basis of the
difference between American
claims agains. Mexico, and Mex
lean claims against the United
States.
Recent reports from Mexico
City said Ambassador Josephus
Daniels had made progress to
ward tho lump sum settlement.
Mexican Ambassador Fernando
Gonzales Roa left Washington
three months ago to enter the
Mexico City discussions, and the
latest word is be may not return
until the negotiations either sue
ceed or fell.
The state department is being
represented at Mexico City by
the American embassy.
American claims against Mex
leo total nearly 81, 900. 900
Mexican counter claims approx
innate $300,O0O,O0O. General and
special claims commissions have
wrestled with these figures for
a dacade and have made little
progress. Less than five per
cent of the claims have been
studied thus far.