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Evening star., 1934-09-07
No Loan for the Soviet.

| 1HcTc can no longer DC any OOuDJ
that the negotiations with the Soviet
Union concerning debts and credits
have now reached the state of almost
hopeless deadlock. Contrary to wide
spread popular belief, 1t Is not the
matter of the debts and claims due
to the Government and citizens of the
United States on which agreement
has been found impossible. Stalemate
is due to Soviet insistence upon loan
as the price" for its pledge to ac-
count for already existing obligations
running into hundreds of millions of
dollars.
President Roosevelt has fiatly re-
fused to acquiesce in the Soviet's de-
mand, which altogether comprehends
long-term loan and commercial
credits totaling more than 5000, ,0O0.-
600. With Europe already owing the
United States an aggregate of ten or
twelve billion dollars, nearly all of
which is In a state of deliberate de-
fault, the President rightly reflects
public sentiment in Withholding his
assent to proposal which would
heavily increase the amount now
standing on the debit side of Uncle
Sans ledger.
Acting Secretary Of State Moore
says that the United States has gone
the limit" in making concessions on
the material points involved in the
negotiations with the Soviet. Am
bassador Troyanovsky Is understood
to have asked for an "open credit"
or outright loan of $10O, O,0OO, 900 in
addition to 500, 900 900 in credit ia
cilities through the Import Export
Bank set up in Washington to pro-
mote trade relations with the Soviet.
The loan was to be extended at low
interest for from twenty to twenty
five years, and credit facilities were
to run concurrently. The Soviet pro-
posal provides for excess loan inter-
est at ten or twelve per cent, ne
fund created thereby to be applied
In payment Of American claims.
Under such an arrangement Amer
ican claimants would receive only
partial payment of their dues. and
the payments would depend entirely
on the interest profits" derived
from Soviet business done through
the Import-Export Bank. According
to the Associated Press. it is esti-
mated that it would take an annual
trade turnover of 100000, 900 in
credit transactions to pay of the
American claims In eighteen or twen-
ty years.
The United States has decided that
1t will not come to terms with the
Soviet Union on any such basis as
this. Moscow has apparently as
sumed its position on the theory that
American industry is SO hungry for
export trade that the Washington
Government could be unanswered
into almost any kind of q deal the
U. 8. s. r. might project. Messrs.
Stain and Ltvinon now know that,
eager as this country k to expand
its foreign market, there are limits
Of concession beyond which it is
not prepared TO 60. Moscow can
also not be blind to the fact that
recognition Of the Soviet government
was accorded last November on very
definite conditions as far as old
Russiais debts to US are concerned.
If those conditions are not or cannot
be met, the whole situation that pre-
ceded recognition might automatic
ally and logically be ripe for recon-
sideration.
Evening star., 1934-09-07

and a seething mass Of poverty
stricken wretches on the other.
1t would be simple enough to in
stitute this taxation reform. If every
voter would ask his Representative in
Congress, DO you believe in the
single tax? Will you use your in
duence In instituting this method Of
collecting revenue?" 1t would not be
very long before the people would
make heaven on earth, as far as
economic conditions are concerned,
of this-God's country.
In democracy such as we have the
people can get anything they want,
when they want 1t.
ALICE M. CAPORN.
Ninnehaha Springs, w. Va
Evening star., 1934-09-07

Dollar wheat is mentioned in the
quotations and so is silver at 16 to l.
There is an inevitable suspicion that
William Jennings Bryan's brother
Charles is not making the most of
his front-page opportunities.
Evening star., 1934-09-07

took place day and night from the
11th Of January to the 9Th Of May.
1869, at the western door Of st. Pauls
Cathedral. The object Of the lottery
was to repair the harbors Of London.
The prizes were pieces of silver plate.
Forty thousand lots were sold Of 10
granted by the King in favor Of the
Colony of Virginia, from the 29th Of
June to the goth Of July, 1914. These
prizes also were silver plate. The
first recorded instance of an English
lottery, so sponsored, with sums Of
money as capital prizes. was in 1880.
@. Where is the memorial stadium
commemorative Of the late Walter
Strong?-M. c. g.
A. The Walter A. Strong Memorial
Stadium is at Beloit College, Beloit,
Wis. The structure. which viii ac-
commodate 1000 spectators, is Of
modernistic concrete design and Is
the gift Of Mrs. Josephine Strong of
Winnetka, ILL.,, in memory Of her
husband, former Chicago Daily News
publisher and a member Of the class
of 1905 at Beloit.
@. When did the author Of Black
stones Commentaries" live?-B. B.
A. The famous English jurist, Sir
William Blackstone, was born in l723
and died in 1880. His Commentaries
are so fundamental in any study Of
English law that Blackstone" Ia
synonymous with the law.
@. How many original copies Of the
Declaration of Independence were
made?|. J. H.
A. The Library Of Congress says:
''The Declaration of Independence,
the original engroSsed document with
the original signatures, Is in the
Library of Congress. No other
origial with the signatures is known.
This document has often been re-
produced in facsimile. The only
facsimile made from the parchment
itself was made in 1898 by order Of
John Quincy Adams, Secretary of
State. Two hundred copies Of this
were printed and we're distributed by
Congress. The name of the engraver,
william j. Stone, was then removed
from the plate. but he was later per-
mitted to replace 1t. How many
were printed in the interval Ia not
known"
@. Who pays the costs Of deliver.
ing to the mints the silver that has
been called imp. NJ.
A. The Secretary Of the Treasury
Is authorized to pay all necessary
costs actually incurred. Necessary
costs shall not exceed the cost of the
most economical means of transpor.
tation practicable under the circum.
stances to the appropriate mint.
@. What is meant by baby beef?-
E. N.
A. Beef eligible to be marked baby
beef must be from good, choice or
prime animals of the beef breeds
steer or heifer, from Z to 10 months
Of age and weighing from 900 to 1900
pounds. -.
@. Is there much unemployment in
Brazil? What wage is paid to com.
mon labor?-L. j. X.
A. The Department Of Commerce
says that the unemployment situ-
alton in Brazil is much the same a.
in other countries of @ similar size.
The average wage scale for common
labor is As cents day, for skilled
labor rs cents a day.
@. How old was Representative
Dunn when he lost his eyesight?--
G.. N.
A. Matthew A. Dunn Of Pittsburgh
was newsboy In his youth. At the
age OF IL he lost the sight of his left
eye In an accident. At the age of 20,
while wrestling in the Newsboys'
Home in Pittsburgh, he lost the
vision Of his other eye.
Evening star., 1934-09-07

College professors are subject TO
SO much criticism that some of the
co-eds may be emboldened to neglect
their lessons and assert the feminine
privilege Of speaking their own minds.
Evening star., 1934-09-07

1t may be inferred that Upton Sim
clair's socialistic ideals are SO earnest
that he is willing to be practical poll
tician for awhile in the hope of pro-
noting them.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
A SuppOsitiOn.

"Some Of us Congressman are
thinkin' great deal We don't say"
said the Representative from Shuck-
vile.
Didn't know it could be done"
answered Farmer Corntossel.' "Allus
s'posed your specially was saying a
great deal you didn't think"
Evening star., 1934-09-07

When the band plays Maryland,
My Maryland" a discussion imme-
diately arises concerning the precise
significance Of the first person pos
SeSSive.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
A Useless Discussion.

(which do you prefer. money or
brains?"
There's no use TO bother about
making q choice" answered Miss
Cayenne. "a person is uncommonly
lucky not to find himself without
either"
Evening star., 1934-09-07
Spectacular.

ST suppose you regard all your dis
play of eloquence as beneficial to the
cause?"
WELL" answered Senator Sorghum,
ito be candid, that eloquence isn't so
much for the cause as for the effect"
Evening star., 1934-09-07

Crashes are SO frequent that there
may be, when the air Is Systematically
routed, a chance for useful service
by Voice of Safety in an airplane.
Evening star., 1934-09-07

Huey Long claims to have a political
organization whose power Is SUFFICIENT
to disorganize everything else.
Evening star., 1934-09-07

conspicuous success. While his huge
audience of hard-boiled newspaper
men and Republican and Democratic
politicians did not swallow, hook, line
and sinker, his E. P. I. c. plan, Sin
clair made upon everybody an i'm
preston Of great charm, disarming
candor and personal magnetism. He
was at his best when good d-humoredly
answering questions shot at him with
out notice, proving clearly that hecklers
have no terror for him. Unlike the
soap-box radical Of tradition, Sinclair
refrains from hair-tearing oratory and
confines himself to matter-of-fact
statement Of his case, argued always
in terms Of the average man. It's easy
to understand, after hearing him. how
it came that the mild-mannered au-
thor of 'The Jungle" ran rings around
his opponents in the California guber-
material primary.
Representative at Large John J.
Cochran, Democrat, of Missouri, who
was defeated in the recent senatorial
primary, has accomplished the un-
common feat Of being renominated
for the House after aspiring in vain
to make the senatorial grade. The
new thirteenth Missouri district, in
which he is now running, Is in North
st. Louis and includes the old eleventh
district, which Jack" once represented
in Washington. Cochran was named
by the District Democratic Committee
after the candidate already nomi-
mated in the primary. Joseph A. Len
non, voluntarily withdrew. In letter
Of acceptance Mr.. Cochran states
that continued membership in the
House will enable him to achieve
many of the things he hoped to do
in support Of the Roosevelt recovery
program, had he been promoted to
the Senate.
Mrs. George z. Allen. wife of the
District of Columbia Commissioner,
had a pleasant surprise ringside meet
ing with Jack Dempsey at the police
benefit boxing matches in Washing
ton the other night. When the former
heavyweight champion, who refereed
the fights, learned that Mrs. Allen is
the daughter of the late Michael
Kane, one-time well-known member
OF the District bar, Jack recalled that
he had known Mrs. Allen as a girl
Of IL, having met her at the time her
father represented Dempsey in legal
capacity at Washington.
Gov. John G. Winant OF New
Hampshire, chairman of President
Roosevelt's Textile Strike Mediation
Board, ranks as strong Republican
presidential possibility for 1896. II
the Mediation Board contrives to re-
store peace in the textile field, it may
turn out that the President did q
sporting thing in giving Gov. Winant
chance to achieve national fame
It was a strike-the Boston police
confiict-politicians recall, that made
another New England Governor, CAL
vim Coolidge, President of the United
States once upon time.
** ~
Peter Goelet Gerry, former Dem
ocratic Senator from Rhode Island,
is accounted a strong favorite to win
over Senator Felix Hebert, Republican
incumbent seeking reelection. Gerry
is an original Al Smith man, and,
though the outstanding Democrat in
the State, has had little recognition
from the Roosevelt-Farley machine
during the New Deal.
tcopvfisht. leszl
Evening star., 1934-09-07
Philos0phic Finance.

This life would bring me few regrets
If I could see its struggle out,
With cash to pay my daily debts
An not enough to fight about.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
A Suggestion of Restraint.

The man who thinks he Is more wise
Than other mortalS may be right,
But should reflect to advertise
The fact too much is impolite.
Evening star., 1934-09-07

"De man in de automobile dat's
simply tryin' to kill time," said Uncle
Eben. sis another one o desc folks
dat's liable to hit some innocent by
stander."
Evening star., 1934-09-07

Schoolboys
From the New York SUN.
What every schoolboy doesn't know;
How to pitch hks LVnwood Rowe
Evening star., 1934-09-07


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Evening star., 1934-09-07

Upton sinclair's debut before the
National Press Club this weak was q
Evening star., 1934-09-07

@. How old was Representative
Dunn when he lost his eyesight?--
G. N.
A. Matthew A. Dunn Of Pittsburgh
was newsboy In his youth. At the
age OF IL he lost the sight of his left
eye In an accident. At the age of 20,
while wrestling in the Newsboys'
Home In Pittsburgh, he lost the
vision Of his other eye.
The daily worker., 1934-12-14
CHINESE LORD
ADMITS GAINS
OF RED ARMY

HONKONG, Dec. IA severe
conflict has arisen between Nanking
and Canton, over the failure of
1000, 900 Kuomintang troops to stop
the advance of Red Army of more
than $4,000 from reaching Western
Kweichow Province, nearing It's OBJ
jective In Szechuan Province.
In a bitter telegram today to Gen
eral Pei Chung-hsi, Generalissimo
Chang Kai Shek berated the
Southern war lords in Kwangsi
Province for their failure in stop
ping the movement of the Red
Army.
Chang Kai Shek is particularly
embarrassed over the latest victo-
ries of the Red Army because he
had already published throughout
world the lying stories that the Red
Army had been decisively defeated.
1t now appears, on Chang Kai
Shek's own admission, that the Red
Army Is marching v.ctoriously to-
ward its goal in Szechuan Province,
where 1t will strengthen the Soviet
districts, increase their size, i'm
portance and fighting ability, null
lifying Markings long and bitterly
fought fifth anti Communist cam
paign.
General Pei replied that his forces
were engaged In "a single handed
battle for five days against heavy
odds" and that he was defeated by
the Red Army.
The Red Army drove back the
troops Of General Chen Chi Tang in
Kwangtung Province, m arc h e d
across Kwangtung and Human, into
Kwagnsi and Kweichow, where the
various columns converged and in
f1icted a decisive blow against Cen
eral PETS troops. They are now
speeding towards Szechuan, where
they will join forces with the Red
Armies there with the objective of
storming the leading cities in this
important province of China.
The daily worker., 1934-12-14
MOVE TO BAN
C.P.IS AIMED
AT ALL LABOR
Unity of all workers Is
Needed to Combat
Big Business

NEW YORK.-'The public call OF
the Chamber of Commerce for the
out1awing of the Communist Party
and all militant workers is aimed
against the very life Of every trade
union, every unemployed and every
working class organization, Will
liam z. Foster, national secretary of
the Trade Union Unity League, de-
clared in an interview with the
Daily Worker yesterday.
"The recommendations of the
Chamber of Commerce, the most
powerful organization of the en-
ployers which dictates government
policy" Foster declared, eff carried
into effect would mean the strang-
ling of all the elementary rights of
the workers and the destruction of
their organizations"
Foster urged an immediate united
front of all the trade unions, the
A. F. of L. members, the Socialists,
and every worker and farmer, with
the Communists, to combat these
IdSC1Sb pIDUOSdlS- I1C Sn1h AA1C
Chamber of Commerce proposes to
enact q federal sedition law which
makes six years imprisonment the
penalty for membership in a fight
ing workers organization. The G. Of
G. proposes to deport all militant
foreign born workers and set up
federal spy system to spy on the
workers. The employers organiza-
ton attacks the Soviet Union, the
workers government. The workers
press is to be abolished, and all e1e-
mentary rights taken away from
the workers, if the Chamber of
Commerce communications go
through. This report is aimed
against every member of the A. F.
of L.: against every Socialist and
every member of an unemployed
organization as well as against the
Communists"
Linked With Open Shop Drive
The proposal of the Chamber of
Commerce to- outlaw the workers
organizations, Foster continued, is
inseparably linked up with the open
shop, wage cut drive of the en-
ployers "They feel they cannot
lower the standard of living of the
American workers unless they at the
same time suppress those militant
workers who have been most active
in the fight for higher wages for
better conditions and for union
recognition.
THE report of the Chamber of
Commerce signalizes the campaign
to outlaw strikes, to reduce wages,
to smash the trade unions and en-
trench the company unions, and to
increase speed-up. These proposals
are a leaf taken bodily from Hit
1er,s book. They are definite move
for fascism.
"It is significant that these anti
working class proposals come just
after the meeting of the National
Association of Manufacturers which
laid down a so-called Recovery
program, which means an attack on
the workers living standards all
(Continued on PAGE q
The daily worker., 1934-12-14
Rally Against the Drive Ban All Civil Rights of Workers.
Speed the United Front in Fight Against War and Fascm

m the same day that Roosevelt announced his
war-mobilization set-up, the United States
Chamber of Commerce issued its provocative pro-
gram for fascist drive against the Communist
Party and all militant American labor
Why?
Because every move to new imperialist
slaughter goes hand in hand with greater attacks
on the American workers living standards on the
demand OF the unemployed for unemployment and
social insurance, and on the rights Of the trade
unions and unorganized workers to mobilize their
forces for resistance. In short, war preparations
and fascist developments go together
Because the Communist Party is the most mill
tant the most advanced fighter in the ranks of the
working masses, the employers feel that they can
proceed more quickly with their war plans with
their fascist program, if they successfully land
blow against the Communist Party.
II they can hit the spear and shield q ns
The daily worker., 1934-12-14
AN EDITO RIAL

working class, they feel confident their attack
against the rest Of the working class will be easier
will meet less organized and understanding resist
ance such as the revolutionary Party of the working
class the Communist Party, puts up and alone can
give
The employing class the rich bankers and other
parasites realize that the Communist Party knows
and understands the war program of the Wall
Street government, exposes it to the whole working
class and leads the fight against it. Hence, when
so open and drastic a war move is taken by the
hypocritical New Deal government no wonder that
the enraged bosses taking their cue from the chief
scab-herder and pro-fascist Hearst) join in the
baying of the bloodhounds against the Communist
Party.
The Roosevelt government, which has supplied
billions of profits for the war-makers, now speeds
its war program under the most shameless lying
lQgaa = "taks the profits out Of var" This /.
The daily worker., 1934-12-14
COMMUNISTS
SHOW 100
GAIN IN VOTE

NEW YORK.-The final oficial
election returns for New York State
reveal that the percentages of gains
made by the Communist Party in
New York City as compared with
the Socialist Party was equalled
throughout the state
The returns show that the Com
munist vote for Governor in 1884
was 45,87S, compared with 6,407 in
1882, gain of approximately 70
per cent, while the Socialist Party
vote for Governor was 126,580 as
compared with 102959 in 1882, a
gain of 20 per cent.
The results for the leading state
candidates were listed officially as
follows: for Governor, Israel Am
ter, Communist, 45,878; Charles Sol
onion, Socialist, l26,5S0; for Lieu
tenant Governor, Williana j. Bur-
roughs, Communist, 48, 709, and Her
man Kobbe, Socialist, 133,387; for
Comptroller, Rose WortiS, Commu-
mist, 48,577, and Fred Sander, So
cialist, 1862; for Attorney-Gen-
eral, Fred Briehl, Communist, 49,
696, and William Karlin, Socialist,
137,403; for United States Senator,
Max Bedacht, Communist, 1896,
and Norman Thomas, Socialist,
1882.
The daily worker., 1934-12-14
POWERS SEEK
TO END NAVAL
DISCUSSION

LONDON, Dec. IL. - Hopelessly
locked in the sharpest conflicts,
British, Japanese and American
imperialist representatives are seek
ing to terminate the naval conver-
sations here with as little display
as possible of their undying ennity
for each other.
The British government is seeking
to end the futile three months con-
ference before the Japanese dele
gates carry out their intention of
renouncing the Washington naval
treaty. The japanese had demand
ed naval arms equality with the
United States, in view of the gov
ernment's gigantic arms building
program. With this demand re-
fused, it declared it would call for
the end of the treaty, which would
open still greater struggle for
naval ornaments.
British imperialism, which has
been maneuvering with the Japan
ese, as against their chief competi-
tor, American Imperialism, is in a
difficult position in view of the
threatened breakdown of the Wash
ington treaty. The British trade
mission to Manchukuo, has already
announced that it will issue its re-
port favorable to japanese impe-
rialism simultaneously with the an
nouncement of the treaty renunci-
alton to cushion the shock.
The aim of the japanese dele
gates here, it is clearly pointed out,
is to attempt to sharpen the rift
between Great Britain and the
United States,
While the imperialist antagonisms
are bitterly aggravating the war
danger over the entire world, it is
made clear in Japan, that the jap
anese imperialists, faced with a
crushing arms race, and growing
discomfort in their own country
among the workers and peasants,
are doing their utmost to speed the
war against the Soviet Union as
the best solution to their difficulties
and one which will draw in their
imperialist foes.