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you come clean.
Aunt Emma relenting, called
the detective to one side. 81 don't
want her locked up" she object
ed.
CAV, I amt going to lock her
up" replied the detective. I'll
Just take her down to headquar-
ters and give her a scare" Then
to Petunia, Get your things and
come on"
Petunia left the room and soon
reappeared without her apron and
wearing her hat and jacket. Her
eyes were wet and her lips were
quivering. Obediently she went
with the detective and was driven
away by him. Later he telephoned
from the police station.
"She's as stubborn as mule"
he said, "but they usually are. 1t
takes a little pressure generally
to make them own up. We have
locked her up for awhile. That
will make her come clean"
ooh no." gasped Aunt Emma,
81 don't want her locked up"
"Oh, we won't keep her shut
up long" treasured the detective
cheerily. "She is pretty scared
now, and she'll spill the truth in
a little Bit" he chuckled. "She
thinks we're going to keep her
there for life. You just leave it
to me. 1t won't be long now"
81 don't like this. / don't like it
a Bit" objected Mother. 81 just
can't believe Petunia is a thief"
"I'm sure she is thief" as
serted Aunt Emma. "Still | don't
like having her locked up. She
has always been such a willing,
accommodating girl" For the rest
of the evening the family could
not think Or talking about any
thing but the necklace and Pc
tuna.
And the necklace rather faded
into insignifcance compared to
the plight of Petunia down at
police headquarters in Jail.
Bedtime came. Father tele-
phoned police headquarters. Had
Petunia confessed? Not yet. But
no worry. She soon would.
The members of the family
went to their respective rooms.
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DEADLIEST WEAPON
Observer.

The deadliest weapon in North. Carolina is its
highways.
record, new all-time high, is being made this
year in accidents. BE.
The death toll for 1884 is looming toward the
1,000-mark -.
During the last 19 months, almost as many lives
have been host in these highway mishaps as North
Caroiinians were killed in the World war for the
same number of months.
So far this year there have been $50 deaths on
the highways, which added to the S5S killed dur
ing the preceding II months makes total of
1908 fatalities for the whole IS months.
North Carolina lost from all causes during the
1s months it's soldiers were in the World war a
total of 1,610.
Recklessness with motor cars is obviously, there
fore, running close race with war as destroyer
of human life.-Eugene S. Miller in The Charlotte
Observer. .-; -.
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o+ sufficient amount

- ~, oet q sufficient amount
of it. ;.,,;, n used
IN the new process is derived
from cod-liver oil, it is impossl-
b1e TO detect any trace Whatever
~ The oil in the bread. The only
oFect the vitamin has on the
bread is to improve its nutrition
al value. Each loaf of o Boy con-
tains 90 steenbock units OF vita.
min D, equivalent to the vltamlna
D content of 2 teaspoonfals OF
standard cod-liver oil. -"15
"The development of the pro,
cess for extracting vitamin u
from cod-hver oil makes one OF
the interesting stories of modern
science. The method was perfect.
ed by DR.. Theodore F. Fucker OF
the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Columbia University.
After years of research, he ex-
tracted and concentrated the VITA
min D in a form 1000 times more
potent in this substance than the
original oil which can easily be
| Incorporated in foods without I'M
parting a fishy taste or odor.
$50 that the new product might
be administered for the pubic
good, DR.. Fucker patented the
process and assigned his rights TO
Columbia, which has organized
special board to supervise the
| commercial application of the dis
covery. The plan for making the
new source of vitamin ID avail
able to the public is to license
diaries and bakeries to add the
concentrate to their products.
"In accepting license to use
the new process, we have assumed
a definite responsibility, as the
production and distribution or
| Boy Vitamin D bread is under
strict supervision" said Mr..
| Ward. "The bread will be regu-
larly tested, unknown to US, by
methods accepted by the Ameri-
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x, Z =: S:;]H:.IklGTON

committee expects TO bring into
the open were revealed now,
certain prospective witnesses
probably would take vacations
in parts unknown. One of the
most prominent figures in
American industry is scheduled
to go on the stand. But he
doesn't know it. yet.
T LEGITIMATE local lawyers are
- fed up with the horde of lobby.
lists who open Flaw offices" for the
purpose of using political influence
in practicing before government de-
partments. Although a lobbyist
cant represent a client in court il
he isn't a member of the bar,
there's nothing to prevent him from
masquerading as a lawyer else
where. '"'.
Nothing has been heard of the
Administrations anti.lobbyist cam,
paign for a long, time, though it did
lead to designations of several ma.
itional committeeman who are still
doing business. both in politics and
political fayors.
SPoKEsMEN in the administra-
~ tion's campaign for cheaper. cleo.
tricity are using as an object les.
son the history of rates right here
in town. ..
The Potomac Electric Power Com.
pany has been thriving under a
contract with the city to reduce
rates each year by an amount equal
to half its surplus earnings over
IN per cent of an agreed valua-
tioE. - ..,..
In eight years rates have been
cut from an initial base Of 10 cents
a kilowatt hour to 39 cents, the
company's earnings have increased
from % times its bond interest to
IL ti1nesI and the 25 cents Of every
revenue dollar available for bond
interest has risen TO 40 cents.
Copyright, 1884. NEA Service. Inch
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Petunia was interrogated She
denied emphatically that she had
seen the necklace, except on Aunt
Emma's neck. She was sure Aunt
Emma was wearing the necklace
at dinner.
Nonsense" said Aunt Emma.
"She can't fool me that way" =,
The necklace was valuable. "A
city, detective was sent for and
was told the story. :,
"Let me have talk with her,
said the detective, referring to
Petunia. "Pll get the truth out OF
her." $50,
"Now look here, you,' said the
detective roughly to Petunla, as
soon as she was called in. GIVE
me the lowdown about that neck
lace. What have you done with
it?" -,
"I haven't got>it sir. l haven't
seen it since / saw it on Miss En-
mas neck" quavered Petunia.
"Cut out the sailing" snarled
the detective. "You can't fool me.
Come across with that necklace
and be quick about it or I'll take
you down and lock you up"
Petunia protested persistently
that she did not have the necklace.
The detective bulldozed and brow
beat. He could not shake Petunia's
story. ...-.. 49,.
call right" he growled with
finality, as he got up. "Ill take
you down and lock you up until
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Use of Wood in Buildi,

Though steel may be the bni,..
material which has come ln,o =
own with the modern trend in 49,. "
lecture, wood remains the suhs,..~
upon which variety ard bean,r =.
pend. More than ever the nus,,.'
colorings. and veneers which
and heretofore unused lumha,,
played are being put to Use in =
ern architecture.
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can Medical association
advertising used to Drown, "na he
new product must be av tie
before it is used" approve!
The Carolina Baking c.
was stated, is making 0 Bo RI. a; as
min D bread available y Via.
several hundred leading ,ntousa
and restaurants in this soo s,!tOceN
no increase in price, .l,T a:
naturally production costs NJ Y:
loaf are increased by the u ~ ~
ton Of the vitamin D. BoS sad \
BOY regular bread and OOH % / O
VitaminYD. bread are AVA ~ Boy
sliced or" umliced, and t Ita'aos
loaf is readily distinguish hef
attractive Red, Blue and Wy y III
o Boy Vitamin D wrapnor 'eLor
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER

NEA Service STAFF Correspondent
WTASHINGT0N.-YUu'll find the
Wsecrets unearthed hs the Senate
committee investigating the NUM-
tions industry were worth waiting
Cor. ... ..
After a summer Of burro owing
through sales records, correspond
ence, Income tax returns, and other
papers of the merchants of DEATH"
Senator Gerald P. Nye of North
, Dakota will stage a week or two Of
hearings beginning Sept. A.. Most
of the committee members will be
here, including that grim liberal,
Senator Homer T. Bone of Wash
ington, who is on his way from the
west coast, ..
A certain elderly Greek mystery
man Of Europe" who has made
millions in mutations by fomenting
various wars, and wears the Grand
Cross of the Legion of Honor. will
enter the picture.
1t turns out that he owns a large
part of an American firm which
supplies this government and
others with one Of the most impor-
tant instruments of war.
1T seems the munitions boys con.
centrate, intensively on selling
their wares to foreign governments
and that they've had plenty of ac..
tive help from inside the Navy,
War, and State departments. Ad-
mirals, sometimes have acted as
statesmen. If not as demonstrators.
The committee has authority to
search the files of government de.
Partments as we'll as those CT pri-
vate industry. One manufacture
carefully transferred his most Sc.
oret papers from file cases to a safe
But the Investigators didn't over
look the safe. laai7r' 7ti ,i3" 5ii9I
u some OF the. things the
'"a-".H- 10 II
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United States Cen,,.

The official United States cs,...
is taken decennially. In 1914 :
population of tie United s,,,,'
was 91,972, 266; in 1920. It was n.
710,620, and IN 1890. at tbs :.
census, the United States had ~ ~
775,046 inhabitants.
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But Who Goes to Jail,

If a man burns tenement Inn.
to get the insurance on his trr,
ture, that's a crime; II he w,s.t,
the country to keep his Steam "
that's politics.
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before l went TO
dinner" she de-
clared.
The only other
person who had
been in the house
except the family
was Petunia, the
maid.
"There is no
d O u b t." said
Aunt Emma firm"
ly, "that Petunia
took that neck
lace"
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STOLEN
By WICKES WAMBOLDT.

Aunt Emma was greatly per-
turbed. Her necklace with its dia-
mond pendant had suddenly disap-
peared.
81 placed it on my dresser just
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Answers to Previous Questions
HENRY'S telegraph was an
electromagnetic affair and
was the product of more than
a years research work. A Lo-
comoblle, now an orphan car,
made the first Pixies Peak climb
over the old carriage road. It
was driven by w. B. Fefker
and c. A. Yont. The Cigar
Makers International Union
was the first to use the union
label,
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Thousands of Cattle
STARRING To Death
In Big Stockyards
(By a Worker Correspondent)

KANSAS CITY, MOI am a
World War Veteran and have been
to Washington on two bonus
marches. Now I am getting a lot
of Negro and white vets to read this
Daily Worker.
AS for things around greater KC.
under the NR.A. times are getting
bad from day to day. am getting
part time work here around ware
houses, in a part of town known as
the West Bottoms. This is extra
work unloading coal, steel, and other
heavy things, You can only make
50 or SO a week, and the price of
things has gone up so high that if
you spend this SO in food for one
person, that is, the best grade
things, you can live for about three
days.
In the big stockyards in the last
two weeks I have seen thousands Of
cattle here starving to death on
foot. Now the government is buy
ing this stock. The other day pass
ing by these stockyards I counted
% cattle that had died of starvation
in the cattle pens next to the street.
They had been left in cattle pens
with other cattle until the smell on
the street was so bad a person going
by would have to hold his hand over
his nose. These cattle were bought
by the government at a low price.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
New Deal Works Hard
To Turn Homeless Man
Into Permanent Tramp
By a Worker Correspondent

BIDDEFORD, Me.-The homeless
man is still without home. The
tramp is still tramp in the Roose-
welt Transient Camps.
And to keep you in your strata
Roosevelt has a lot of f1unkies OF
the ex-arrny captains and lieuten-
ants rank with few top sergeants
who are working in the Roosevelt
dope machine
In Portland, Me, go to the
Transient Camp. Question after
question is asked. All are foolish
Around the Shelter, as these
dumps are called, are a lot OF
fiunkies that look like the hanger
ons of the Missions and Salvation
Army rat holes.
The reading room hasn't even got
the bosses paper in it, so there is
plenty of room for the Daily
Worker, but you have to watch ol
the Hitler captains will get it ant
burn it.
The doctor gets 5000 a month fol-
looking the boys over. He dom
waste much time on them.
In the morning for breakfast
mush and only a thimblefull. Ever
Oliver Twist had enough CUTS 9
hundred years ago to kick for more
I did the same. But was cusseo
by the whole kitchen crew.
And so he doesn't, and for a
reason, as these men who have lived
on handouts and in box cars know
that the Transient Camp keeps
them tramp, the same as ever
1t is the DUTY of every class con-
scious comrade on the road to &c
into these camps and shelters and
talk to these men and be sure you
have the Daily Worker with YOU
The New Deal has not helped the
homeless man one bit.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
In THE HON. E
Too Far Afeld?
BY HELEN LUKE

A Detroit comrade, pleased with
the recent series of articles by DR..
Luttinger on lead poisoning, writes
to suggest that we confine ourselves
more strictly to subjects implied by
our column heading. She says:
"Your column is entitled In the
Home and I rarely see anything
pertaining to the home in it, rather
does your mind seem to lean toward
sociological problems. I hoped when
your column was initiated that you
were going to devote it strictly to
things pertaining to the home.
II read McCanns books and was,
thrilled by the information I re-
ceived from their perusal. They are
packed with wealth of information
that the average person never comes
in contact with. It seems to me
that you could find many things in
his books to discuss I should
like to have you elaborate upon
the lead phase of our food and
wearing apparel, Lead in baking
powderl Why? Lead in beer! Lead
In silk hose!
II know girl who was afflicted
wi5h an awful rash on her body
after having worn a cheap silk
dress. The M. D. told her the rash
was the result of having contacted
her body with that dress.
Aren't these things subjects for your
column? think so. It seems
sociological problems are taken care
Of elsewhere in the paper.
| think it is a crime for those
living on welfare and meagre allow
arlces to spend ten cents for a loaf
Of that sickly looking white bread.
There is no nourishment in it other
than the starch that it contains
and I imagine that even the starch
is rendered useless on account Of
the white flour having been bleached
to make it even more sickly look
ing, ugh.
Il think your column should be
devoted to such topics as: nourish-
ing food, the deleterious effects Of
certain preservatives and colorings
in food, how we are cheated on
weight, how to remove spots from
clothes, how to make the work
easier in the home, in fact all the
things they tell us in the capitalist
press.
7 am only one and perhaps your
column is going along all right now
Perhaps it is just what is wanted,
so please consider this as friendly
suggestion for the improvement Of
the paper"
Faithfully yours,
Mrs. Katherine D."
Another letter on somewhat SINH
lar lines arrived while ago, though
most Of the comrades who write
seem better pleased when we give
less space to strictly household sub
jects. Wen print the main part of
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Painless Childbirth

oAAAAEed AnAtAUI vi
H. NJ, Elizabeth, n. 1.-THE re-
lief Of pain during child labor is of
vital interest to all women. The
idea which is prevalent among the
masses and also a large section Of
the medical profession, that because
childbirth is a natural process one
must not interfere with the course
Of nature, is a fallacy.
Labor is not a normal function.
Thousands of women die annually
and large numbers remain invalids
due to childbirth. More than so
per cent Of women who have had
children bear the marks Of injury
and will sooner or later suffer from
them.
This is due largely to the fact
that up till recent times labor was
considered a normal, harmless func-
tion, that it was below the dignity
of-a real physician to attend wo-
man in childbirth, and that all that
labor required was an attendant
capable Of cleaning up. Doctors who
did this sort Of work were held in
contempt and, therefore, labor was
left entirely in the hands of un-
trained midwives.
OF late the medical profession has
been paying a great deal of atten-
tion to this branch Of medicine Job
stetrics), which is becoming a re-
spectacle scientific specially. Not
only are attempts being made to
overcome the damage done TO wo-
men by childbirth, but a great num-
Der of experiments are going on
to try to make labor painless. It
IS criminal to permit a woman to
go through long hours Of pain,
worry and exhaustion (ths average
labor in a first pregnancy lasts
about 18 hours without providing
relief. The damage done TO women
by childbirth and the horrible ex-
periences Of labor have frequently
left women nervous wrecks. The
ideal method to ease the pains Of
childbirth must have the following
qualities:
/. 1t must not have any harmful
effects upon the mother or child.
2. 1t must not delay the birth.
B. The mother must be relieved
of pain (analgesia) and, if possible,
not remember anything about the
labor (amnesia).
4. 1t must be simple and fool
proof so that a doctor who has not
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
90 Gents Per
W eek Relief in
.Haines City
lRy a Farmer Correspondentl

AhJ ~ Il NOt AES1sDAhANAAtl
HATNES CITY, FLA recent
survey Of this section shows starv-
ing conditions. In this city there
are approximately $50 on direct re
lief. These families average four
to the family, and their relief in
come is 80 cents per week. They
have no other income. Out of this
80 cents per week they must pay
their house rent, buy their gro
ceries, pay their water bills, pay
their doctor bills( few who get medi-
cal relief from the doctor must pay
for the prescription written out by
HIND.
The few who are working on F.E.
R.A. relief receive the total of S2.4O
per week.
The relief investigators ask uues-
tions concerning your family his
tory for years and years back, and
1t takes from one week to a month
after application for relief before
you receive any benefit. There is
very little -four or butter given away
and the relief checks do not amount
to enough to purchase groceries
with.
The FERA. workers walk two
miles to work. Recently there was
a man employed by the City Com
mission of Haines City, Fla, who
came out on relief job and beat
up one of the colored workmen. So
far we have been unable to find
out why this was done, but an
investigation is going on to deter
mine the cause of this brutality by
the City Commissioner.
The attitude of the relief officials
is that they, personally, are giving
this relief. The workers here do
not ge their checks in all cases on
time. In many cases there are
checks due workers for two or three
weeks. These workers are helpless
to protest in the face of the terror
recently started by Major Paul
Crank, Chaplain of the American
Legion Post of Orlando, Fla, and
other forms Of terror by the Ku
Klux Klan and the City Commis-
sioner throughout Orange and Polk
Counties, Fla.
Summer is the hardest part of
the year for the workers, as there
is no work in the summertime, and
cif1
work, which starts In October and
lasts five Or six months during the
winter. In the winter this work
runs from IL to 18 hours per day
at the rate of 20 cents per hour.
Sometimes this amount is as low as
Is cents per hour.
These are facts taken from state
ments of individual workers living
in Haines City, Fla.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Ginning Tax
Leaves Naught
For armer
lBv q Worker Corresnondentl


SELMA, Ala.-On the conditions
of the workers and farmers here
We see the wages of the Selma
Ala, bosses are nothing at all
They work the Negroes and whites
for something to eat and no money
The contractors use the welfare SO
as to pay low wages. They take
workers out to the highway at 81
day for 10 hours. Many of the
workers refused to go to work fol-
this kind of wages on the contracts
here.
In the bag mill the bosses work
some of the workers and lay of
some, and tell the welfare not to
give them any relief at all. The vel
fare tells the workers that the bag
mill boss tells them not to give any
of his workers food, so that he can
get them to work for low wages
The boss Of the bag mill says that
before he gave a Negro woman $12
week. He will cut this down
Most Of the workers are Negro
women in this mill.
Among the farmers the Bank
head Bill is the talk of the day
The farmers have to pay for ginning
cotton a tax of &c, and this mean;
that they do not get anything for
their work. The farmers are get
ting discontented here at this time.
and we must work fast among them
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
(By a Farmer Correspondent

CLEARFIELD COUNTY, Pa. -
Whenever we take anything to
market it is like shovelling up part
Of our farm and sending it along"
These words of Bucko County
farmer are repeated by farmers in
Clearfield County, Pa. Farming the
farms that they helped their fathers
to clear of timber, stumps, and
stones, they can't make the cost of
production. New Deal control boards
lower the farm prices and raise the
market prices.
The maximum farm price for milk
is 315 cents, the maximum market
price is IA cents.
What's to become of us?" q
farmer asks. He had inherited a
clear title to his farm, stock and
equipment. He was milking his
COWS three times a day. There was
plenty of demand for his produce,
but at state controlled prices.
Patience, instilled by political
promises, grips the farmer and he
accepts the "over production"
theory. His sons inherit this pa
tience andn join the C.C.C. camps
or labor farms run by the Federal