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Evening star., 1934-09-30

Since the first blast the construction
work progressed without difdculty ex-
cept in 1929. when floods caused de-
lay. A change was made that year,
however, from the use of cyclopean
masonry-huge blocks without mortar
as commonly practiced in the United
States-to cement concrete construc-
ton.
Modern, planned villages and towns
have sprung up above the dam to re-
place those inundated by the artificial
lake, while below the vast concrete
structure an area of 80 acres has been
formed into two parks. which have
been named for Lady Beatrix, wife of
Sir George Stanley.
The 88-mile canal, with its connect
ed distributory system, will take care
of the disposal of regular supplies of
water to the farm lands in the region.
To supply electric power to Madras,
four pipes of feet diameter have
been constructed to carry the flow
that will turn great new turbines.
Ranked as the largest solid gravity
dam in the world, the Mettur project
is, however, exceeded as an irrigation
work by several Indian developments.
The largest single irrigation project
ever undertaken in India Is the Suk-
kur scheme on the River Indus In
Sind, which was formally opened in
January, 1882.
It cost more than three times as
much as the Mettur project and pro-
vides a perennial supply of water to
an area of 5,175,000 acres, or nearly
equivalent to the area Of Massachu-
sets.
Another monster irrigation project
is the Sutlej Valley scheme in Punjab,
irrigating more than 100000 acres.
Evening star., 1934-09-30
Japanese Domination Resented
By People of Northern China
Copyright, 1934.)

There are upward of 100000
Chinese in Manchukuo. Most of
them are emigrants or descendants
Of emigrants from North China-not
Central and Southern China. They
have many economic and family ties
with this section. Consequently, we
and they really need rail and postal
traffic between us. Money, for ex-
ample, has to be sent back and forth.
Innumerable factors make 1t more
than inconvenient to have no regular,
reliable means of communication
LAS for the lack of Chinese Gus
toms houses to pass on Manchukuo
goods, it obviously is disadvantageous
to China because it means a loss of
customs revenue which We ought to
have. Moreover, the absence of Gus
toms houses deprives us of any re-
liable means of checking on incoming
goods and preventing shipment of
contraband, including opium, to North
China"
Technical means are being explored
with the hope that rail, postal and
customs intercourse can be established
in manners which will not imply de
facto recognition of Manchukuo. The
possible rail solution most discussed
so far Is a scheme to set up a private
company which will run trains to and
from Manchukuo, instead of having
the Chinese government rail system
directly connected with the traffic.
How to settle the customs and postal
problems would appear to be more
difficult. As regards mail, recognition
and acceptance of Manchukuo stamps
on letters from north of the wall
would be bitter pill. Hence atten-
tion is being given to pla. whereby
mail from Manchukuo might be re-
ceived unstamped but marked postage
due; in other words, the postage to
be paid in China.
Copyright. 1934s
Evening star., 1934-09-30
Spain Mourns Ia Dead
In Years Bull Fights

MADRD-This has been the most
tragic year in modern times for the
Spanish national spectacle of bull
fights. Fourteen deaths have given
authority to the Spanish adage that
bull fighting is spectacle Of sun
shine, beauty, valor and DEATH"
Felipe Sassone. a widely known
writer, stated in recent article: THE
bull fight cannot me defended on moral
grounds; it cannot be attacked ar
tistically."
That approaches the Spanish atti-
tude toward the fiesta brava." 1t is
considered a dangerous and dramatic
spectacle. Reviews of bull fights are
not included in sports news, but along
side art, theatrical and musical criti-
cisms.
Jeselito, one Of the greatest bull
fighters in history, was killed in May,
1920. Critics attributed the large num-
Der Of deaths In May to the fact that
it was the beginning Of the season
and the fighters were taking too many
chances trying to achieve fame.
Evening star., 1934-09-30

those who suffer that opens our
pocketbook, it is what is coming to be
more and more a settled national con-
viction that we must see to 1t that
ours is a strong. clean people tuned
to useful activities by its sense OF
physical well being. If we are to have
this We must have all the varieties
of institutions which prevent and cure
physical troubles. If your washwoman
is going to have baby you want to
know that in your community there Is
a maternity ward for her. II Johnny
around the corner is too crippled to
walk you want to be sure there Is
treatment available to make of him
self-supporting citizen. 1t Is only
through these agencies which we
ought and want to help support that
We can discharge our individual re-
sponsibility of making sure that
Johnny and the washwoman will get
help in their time of need.
Nurses, Too.
Health means more than hospitals.
1t means nurses-and most of the
nurses who care for us when sick,
if we do not belong 10 that small
group of people in the United States
who have money enough to pay Tor
special nurses, are supported by pri-
yate contributions. Take q God-sent
agency like the Visiting Nurse Service
of the Henry Street Settlement in New
York City, which In heat and cold,
night or day, sends trained nurses
from tenement to tenement to DO
what they can to ease the tides OF pain
which surge through these places.
Can the citizens of New York afford
to let it's work slow up for lack Oh
funds? Can any community afford 10
let its sick go without nursing. not
only because of human sympathy but
because of what soundness Of mind
and body, particularly among the
poor, means to the sanity and safety
of the community? Yet Government
nursing has actually been decreased
by per cent at the very moment
when private nursing organizations
have to take on 81 per cent more OF
this free service.
High in importance among these
human service agencies stand those
that guard the family. Idle to argue
in these United States that the FAM
lily Is not the most important unit in
our social system, the last thing the
majority will give up, whatever the
rebellious tell you. If we could an
alyze the forces which held us together
through recent tormented years we
should no doubt find that the strong
est Of all has been the family. But in
thousands of cases it could not have
been preserved, such were the attacks
of unemployment, illness, discourage
ment, with their demoralizing effects,
if it had not been for privately sup
Evening star., 1934-09-30
Huge Dam in India Will Irrigate
Area Equal to the Size of Delaware

METTUR, India P).-Nine years
after the first blast was fired, a mon
ster dam impounding 90, SOC, ,O00, 900
here to irrigate an area equal to the
size Of Delaware.
The largest project Of its kind in
Southern India and one of the largest
in the whole of India, the dam has
been named for Sir George Stanley,
Governor General of Madras and
brother of England's racing peer, Lord
Derby.
Besides the DAM. which has been
built across the River Cauvery, the
vast new work includes an 88-mile
canal and distributory system and
hydroelectric plant designed to de-
velop $4,000 horsepower.
The dam itself is 176 feet high from
the river bed to top level, consists of
54,690,000 cubic feet of masonry and
stores up water in an artificial lake
covering an area of nearly 60 square
miles.
Below it lies the Cauvery Delta,
which it will protect from the damage
OF high flood discharges and which 1t
will serve With regular flow of water
equally in wet and dry seasons.
Constructed at cost of $4,000, 900
by the government, the system will ir-
rigate an area of 1901 900 acres, 301, :
900 Of which has up to now been un-
irrigated.
The added area of 3O1 900 acres will
produce an estimated 100000 tons of
rice annually, rice being the main crop
of this region though cotton and
groundnut are also produced.
The Cauvery, on which the dam is
situated, rises in the Western Chats
and flows into the Bay of Bengal. Its
ordinary flow has been subject to ex-
traordinary fluctuations which led to
crop failures and famine.
It reached its highest flood In 1924,
q few months after the dam project
had been approved by the Legislative
Council of Madras, as a result Of
which the plans were revised and q
higher dam built than was originally
intended.
Evening star., 1934-09-30

ported agencies with their host Of
trained social workers
Take the case of Mary B. -,
Scrub Lady No. u was her official
title on the books Of the office build
ing where for years she had spent her
nights on her knees cleaning floors.
One night the watchman found her
unconscious. He hurried her to the
city hospital. where she was pro-
nounced worn out'-"a very sick
woman" Half conscious, Mary kept
up a muttering about "the children +"
The nurse knew what to do. She called
a social worker. Two days later the
children were placed. Four months
later, when Mary came out, that So
cial worker-now Mary's friend and
patron saint-had place for her bet
ter fitted to her strength as caretaker
OF a small apartment house. Here she
still lives, her children going through
school. promising well for the future
family saved from crumbling
We can't spare such service in our
communities. Nor can we let those
activities which serve as auxiliaries to
family upbuilding suffer. Think what
1t means for the boys and girls Of a
family crowded into a tiny apartment
to be able to escape to club rooms
where there are classes, gymnasia,
workshops, music. sports.
Perhaps you say your taxes have
doubled, quadrupled; your private
obligations have greatly increased
while the time
sional returns are halved or more :;
and since this is so you cannot this
year give the IS, $40 or $25 you have
usually given to keep up such clubs.
You know the youngsters need them.
You know that without them street
gangs, unhealthy associations, will
claim them. You know what it would
do for their mothers, watching them
slip down into evil ways, to have such
upbuilding refugees. But not this year.
If it's got to be done. let the Govern
ment do it with all those millions it's
collecting.
Facing the Facts.
We can't get out that way If we
face the case. The Government won't
and can't take the place of those who
through the years have built up these
agencies We know to be so necessary
in making this the kind Of country we
want. Better to give up something we
think We need. It Is not only for the
sake of the bodies and minds Of the
young We make the sacrifice; it Is for
our own souls sake.
And here comes into this gigantic
and confused problem of the compare
tive value of public and private charity
profoundly significant fact-the fact
that taxpaying for relief has no spirit
ual value for him who pays. How is it
possible that it should have? The tax
collector gathers up the money. We
Evening star., 1934-09-30

most important speeches. Amanuenses
and private secretaries of prominent
men, lawyers, ETC., are paid by the
year; they make all the way from
$500 to $4,000 annually. George Al
fred Townsend, the newspaper cor
respondent, dictates his letters to his
secretary, who writes them out for
the press. Many of these amanuenses
in Washington are ladies, some making
very pretty salaries. Miss Sprague,
the sister Of the authoress of THE
Earnest Trifer," who was once a
shorthand writer here, is now, I am
told, making $4,000 a year by prac-
ticing her trade in New York. Mrs.
Palmer Of Utica makes $4,000 year
and Miss Jennie Balestine of Roches-
ter makes 5000.
Evening star., 1934-09-30

PEIPING, China.-There is no ques-
ton that North China generally, and
more particularly its thinking classes,
resent domination by Japan. They
dislike still more the prospect that
this domination may be increased in
the near future.
A small minority composed of Man
chu residents and die-hard extreme
monarchiSts doubtless would welcome
subjection of the Peiping -Tientsin re-
gion to the "rule" of that erstwhile
unhappy resident of the Forbidden
City, now Emperor Kang Teh of ia
the Manchus and die-hard monarch
lists are not typical.
The Japanese like to argue that
the north is not so unfriendly to the
new state as are Central and South
China. A more accurate statement
of popular sentiment. as explained
to this correspondent by Chinese and
sympathetic foreigners long resident
here, may be expressed something like
this:
THE people of the north are not so
excitable as those farther south. They
keep calmer in critical times. There
fore there Is not 50 much hot tslk
about Japan here as in the south.
Further, the north is less excited
at this moment, for it has been living
constantly with the japanese menace
to a much greater extent than has
the south. It is used to Japanese
troop maneuvers and Japanese mill
tary agents. Why should it go into
Mysteries now just because this Is a
time of special tension?
Look at 1t Differently.
1T Is quite true that we look upon
the present demands of Japan for es-
tablishment of rail, postal and customs
intercourse between Manchukuo and
our area in somewhat different light
than do our fellow countrymen else
where. We are more inclined to make
concessions on these points than seems
to be the case In the central provinces
and at Canton. Fortunately, there are
good reasons for believing that gov
ernment heads at Marking understand
IAlC ACdlltACo Va tllC oAtudtlOll 1lld d1 z
going to move for agreements. We
hope so, and here are some Of our
reasons:
I'm the first place, If China elects
to take last-ditch stand against the
Japanese demands, as Cantonese poll
ticians would seem to desire, we will
be the ones to take the punishment.
It is all very well for people in other
areas to shout defiance. But If an
angry Japan decides to move armies
into North China because China hasn't
come to terms, there won't be any
Cantonese army here to protect us.
The proud talk we hear from the
south and central provinces will not
do us any good when the cudgel falls
on us.
1T may be that nothing can be
done to prevent q great increase in
Japanese domination here. But, tax
ing the cold realities into considera-
ton, we are not inclined needlessly
to increase the danger.
Evening star., 1934-09-30
Long in Discovery.
ON the Palm Beach Post.

From the Palm Beach Post.
Bernard Baruch pens the fact that
the World War was not profitable.
That facts been lying around for IS
years waiting for somebody to dis.
cover II.
Evening star., 1934-09-30
HOWLOBBYISTS WORKED
DURING THE EIGHTIES
Washington Swarmed With Lobbying
Groups so Years Ago Whose Methods
We're Much Like Those of Today.

This is the t,penty-Second OF
series of l0eekly articles on interest
ing persons and events in the Ma
tional Capital during the sos, by
Frank G. Carpenter, iDorld famous
author and trdDeler. The merit
CHAPTER in the series 1Otll be pub
hshed merit Sunday in The Star.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Wages Drop Behind
Initiation Prices.
Senators Predict
init Roosevelt Gold
Bill viii Strike
Workers
DAILY Worker washington Bureau

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. Is
Senate diehards who see bane for
certain propertied classes as well as
for wage earners in the Roosevelt
imitation program claimed virtually
all of today's debate on the program
which is still certain Of enactment
without substantial modification.
1t is possible, though not probable,
that the bill will go through toinor-
row. 1t was attacked throughout to-
day on constitutional grounds. Sen
ators Barbour and Kean Of New
Jersey, Austin of Vermont, and Hast
ings of Delaware, all Republicans,
berated its proposal for government
seizure of Federal Reserve Banks
gold. Senator Hastings, Delaware
Republican, incidentally referred to
its promise to the working classes;
'The social results Of this bill are
hideous-we shall later see the cruel
effect of stimulated and sustained
speculation by wiser citizens whose
plumber comes from the ignorant
and the poor"
HASTINGS asserted that the bill
concentrates wealth instead of difus-
ing it," and that it will ultimately
impoverish the whole people"
Gas wages and salaries rise more
slowly than prices" he added,
"sne1e cIas-es will suffer in favor
of equity holders Of stock"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
NRA Machinery Is
War Preparation,
Says U. S. Official
Assistant War Secretary
Admits Military Aims
of New Deal

WASHINGTON, Jan. IS. - RooSe-
velt's N. r. A. agencies are definitely
war organization measures, Harry H.
Woodring, assistant secretary of war,
said today in an address before a
women's patriotic conference on ma
tional defense.
The N. R. A. apparatus closely
parallels the war departments blue
prints for conscripting labor and dis
tributing war production orders, he
said.
The National Labor Board, estab-
lished to smash strikes; the Civilian
Conservation Camps, where nearly
half a million boys are given military
training, the c. W. A. by which prep
aration projects are put through at
minimum wages, and all the other
agencies of the New Deal" which
The Daily Worker has exposed as
parts of a war program since the
inception of the N. r. A. are precisely
the kind of agencies the War Depart
ment planned for, said Woodring.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Rally for Defense
ofU.S.S.R. at F.S.U.
Convention TOnieI-.
700 Delegates Gather for.
3-Day Meet at New
Star Casino

NEW YORK. the danger OF
an attack on the Soviet Union
sharper than ever before, delegates
from 25 states will meet here tonight
in the opening session of the first
national convention Of the Friends
of the Soviet Union.
The convention opens tonight with
a mass meeting to welcome the more
than TOO delegates, at New Star Ca
sino, 10th st. and Park Ave. Among
the speakers are C. A. Hathaway,
Herbert Goldfrank, Mother Bloor, o.
G. Crawford Socialist Of Erie, Pa;
Justine Wise Tulin, william M.
Leader, DR.. Reuben Young, Fred
Biedenkapp, Bonchi Friedman, E.
Ishigaki and others.
Tomorrow morning and afternoon
the delegates will organize, hear and
discuss the reports of the secretary
of the F. S. U. and Of the workers
delegation to the Soviet Union,
which recently returned.
Tomorrow night, at a gala affair
in the same hall, Nina Tarasova,
Russian singer; Toney Kraber and
Bobbie Lewis, well-known Broadway
players, and others, will entertain.
On Sunday morning, Corliss La
mont will speak to the delegation on
Recognition, and After" His talk
will be broadcast over a nationwide
radio hook-up, in New York through
station WIZ. Sunday afternoon,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
PmchOt's Troops Shoot
At anthracite PicketS;
Men Defy hJrtnctions
5000 at Mass Meeting
State Troops Assault
Children, Women
BY DAN Singer

by Special wire to Daily WOrkert
WILKES BARRE, Pa, Jan. Is
State Troopers and City police shot
at pickets at the South Wilkes-Barre
Colliery, today, where the pickets
we're out in masses. Twelve women
were among the two patroi wagon
loads of strikers that were taken to
the Wilkes-Barre police station.
The miners are preparing for a
mass meeting at Hubert Park to
protest against the arrests. A fight
started when one Of the strike
breakers, attempting to go to work,
struck one of the women pickets in
the face. Other women came to her
rescue and the strike breaker will
not go to work for some days.
Pinchot's Troops Assault Children
Mass anger and resentment is
growing against the brutality of
Governor Pinchot's State Troop
ers, sent by him TO break the strike
of the miners, while his wife pre-
tends to bewaiI the low wages paid
to striking laundry workers. The
miners ask why don't she come into
the State where her husband is
Governor and stop the State
Troopers from beating up children
and women.
At Plymouth, Pa, State Troopers
brutally beat a school boy of IL
breaking his legs.
DEFY Injunction
Last night 5000 miners gathered
in mass meeting at Plymouth
where Maloney told the miners that
the injunction amounted to moth
ing, but he was against any mass
action to smash same. But the
miners think different.
This morning at the Luzerne
County Court House 1900 ininef;
packed the Court room and cor
Iidors protesting against the injunc-
ton that was being applied for by
the Glen Alden Coal Company.
More miners are out on strike to-
day than at any time since the
starting of the strike, is the state
ment by President Maloney. He
promised that some definite word
will come from Washington, leaving
the inference that another Commits
sion is going to be sent in. He
wants to end the strike by compul-
sorry arbitration.
Mass meetings of the miners anc
regular local meetings resolutions
are being passed demanding further
mass violation Of the injunction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
$500 CWS Workers
Protest Pay Cuts
To Send Delegation to
Washington

NEW YORK.-Twenty-five hum
bred c. w. A. white collar workers
(C.W.S0 demonstrated Wednesday at
the state C.W.A. offices against the
wage cuts and abandonment OF the
c. w. A., and voted to send their
delegates to H. L. Hopkins, federal
relief administrator, to demand that
their wage cuts be rescinded and the
G. w. A. program be enlarged. The
state C. w. A. board although ac-
knowledging its sympathy with the
workers, refused to take any steps
that the workers demanded.
The state C. w. A. authorities
passed the buck to Washington, and
evaded their responsibility for the
wage cuts and lay-offs in New York.
C. D. Osborne, member of the state
c. w. A. board, stated that he fully
agreed with the workers that the
millions spent for war might be used
for the continuance of the C.W.A.,
but continued to place all response
bility on Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
By ED RoLFE

NEW YORK.-ThoSe who have
been reading the Daily Worker for
the past seven years were not sur
prised at the gruesome details Of
conditions existing in the New York
Penitentiary at Welfare Island, as
revealed in the well-calculated and
spectacular publicity raid engineered
by the LaGuardia Fusion machine on
Wednesday.
AS detail after new detail was dis
closed in scare-headlines Of the local
capitalist press Carefully invited to
the proceedings by LaGuardia), II
was recalled that as far back as 1927
the Daily Worker published a series
of articles by Bill Dunno, who was
railroaded to 80 days in the Tombs
in an attempt to deal death blow
to the paper. After he had completed
serving his sentence, Dunno dashed
into the corrupt and degenerate ad-
lninistration of the city penal system
in a brilliant series Of articles ex-
posing the very conditions-and
more!-which the Fusion government
is now cautiously and piecemeal
bringing to the surface.
Exposures Continued
DUNES revelations were followed
up consistently and brought to
peak again in 1880 and 1881 wher
william q. Foster, Robert Minor, l
Amtsr and Harry RAYMOND were re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Cleveland JObless.
C.W.A. Hold Meet
Endorse Natl JobIess
Convention

CLEVELAND. Ohio, Jan. Is
C.W-A. and unemployed workers here
In Joint conference laid out a pro-
gram Of action for jobs or relief. and
for support of the National Conven-
ton Against Unemployment to be
held IN Washington Feb. 3, 4 and 5.
A countrywide mass send-off meet
ing for the delegates to the National
Convention will be held Thurs, FEB.
l, at 8 pm, at Moose Hall, 1000 Wal
nut st.
On Feb. 5th at pm, Cleveland
workers will hold a mass demon
stration at the city hall, demanding
that the city officials endorse the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill, and provide adequate relief to
the $4,000 unemployed of Cleveland
A C.W.A. workers conference will
be held on Feb. II at 2 pm, at 1897
Payne Ave.