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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-06-23

Scattering thundershowers to-
night and Sunday.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
The Gridiron Clubs
"Night Before Christmas"

Twas the night before Christmas when all through the land
The ballots ready, the polls fully manned
The stockings were hung by the chimney with
Because good ST. Franklin would be there.
The people snuggled all in their beds
With visions of alphabet plums in their heads:
And the dreaming of how, the next day,
They'd march to the polls for old P. w. A.
When the jingle of sleigh bells heard from afar
And swift through the night scared big White House
From out of the packages, piled high to see,
Shone the bright smiling face of the good saint F. D.
Each bulging package dollar sign wore
And down every chimney he poured them galore.
BY mantes and chairs he piled dollars thick
For he knew though devalued they'd still do the trick
Homes of good little boys, from Curey to Duffy,
And Donahey, McAdoo, Lehman and Guffey,
He hastened to reach with the gtterng stream
Before sleeping taxpayers walked from their dream.
His eyes, how they cleaned his laughter gay
AS he thought how good deeds most generally pay!
Every stocking filled ere the saint turned to go.
And the had fallen thick the snow;
And they heard him eXcairn, he flew out of sight:
Merry Christmas to al-and be you vote right"
Evening star., 1934-12-09

Those attending the Gridiron din
ner were:
The President of the United States
The Vice President of the United
States.
The Ambassador of Italy.
The Ambassador of Germany.
The Ambassador of Japan
The Ambassador of Spain
The Ambassador of Turkey.
The Ambassador of Brazil.
The Chief Justice of the United
States.
The Secretary of the Treasury.
The Secretary Of War.
The Attorney General
The Postmaster General.
The Secretary of the Interior.
The Secretary of Agriculture.
The Secretary of Commerce.
The Minister Of Greece.
The Minister of Sweden.
The Ministe~ of Norway.
The Minister of Egypt.
The Ambassador TO Brazil.
A.
Eugene G.. Adams. E. j. Adams,
1ColSC oOll, 1NCh I yin IL.
Adams, the New York Sun; Theodore
c. Afford, the Kansas City Star;
Ernest D. Anderson, the Buffalo Eve
ming News; Hale Anderson, New York;
Charles H Armitage, the Buffalo Eve
ming News; Robert B. Armstrong,
Spencer Armstrong, New York; DR..
Charles H. Arnold. Lincoln, Nebr;;
Clarence A. Aspinwall. Herbert S.
Auerbach. Salt Lake City; Harmon S.
Auguste, New York; NJ. H. Aylesworth,
New York, and James P. Aylward,
Democratic State chairman OF Mis-
souri,.
Roger w. Babson, Wellesley Hills.
Mass; Bruce Baird. Bryant Baker,
New York; Edward c. Baltz. Carlisle
Bargeron, the Washington Post; John
w. Barriger, Sd; Robert Barry, New
York; Bernard M. Baruch, New York;
Norman w. Baxter, William Preston
Beazell. Today. New York; Edward S.
Beck. the Chicago Tribune, Ned G.
Begle, New York; Charles Belknap,
Boston; Samuel w. Bell, the New
York Herald Tribune: Uric Bell,
LOulSNllle SOuIItI -JOuIIldl, 1Id E.
Bennett, Richard Berlin, New York
c. K Bergman. The Washington
Evening Star; Karl A. Bickel. the
United Press Association; Paul Block,
the Paul Block Newspapers; Rep
resentative Sol Bloom, New York;
John S. Blue, Canton. Ohio; Leslie
Blumenthal, New York; Samuel
G. Blythe, Saturday Evening Post;
Richard NJ Boeckel. Representative
Chester c. Bolton, Ohio; Samuel B.
Botsford, Buffalo; Robert P. Boylan.
Chicago; Harllee Branch. Assistant
Postmaster General; Harold Brayman,
the Philadelphia Evening Ledger;
Thomas w. Brahany, Raymond p.
Brandt. the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Capt. Taylor Branson, Frank S.
Bright, Arthur Brisbane, the New
York Journal; Representative Fred
A. Britten, Illinois: Mason Britton,
New York; Charles c. Brooks, Henry
w. Brewer, New York; Ashmun
Brown, Providence Journal; George
RothWell Brown, Washington Herald;
Harry j. Brown, Salt Lake Tribune;
Thad H. Brown, Walter A. Brown,
H. E. c. Bryant, Herbert S. Bryant,
Gene Buck. Great Neck, Long Island;
George Buckley, E. A. Buel, Walker
Evening star., 1934-12-09

to the White House they took it away
from me-"
Green asked the porter where the
train was going, anyway.
DE Prosperity Limited" answered
the porter, don't go no regular place,
gemmen. 1t jest roams around, like.
Sometimes it goes to de left and
sometimes it goes to de right, and
to de way de engineer makes up his
mind. But mostly it don't go nc
place, and don't git nowhereS De
engineer of dis train certainly am
mos Indefinite
The conductor entered at this point,
dressed as Uncle Sam.
where's We gOin' dis time, BosS?"
asked the porter Jest up on one OF
the 5idings like we done last time?
Where's de engineer takin' us dis
trip?"
Ford and Green Get Told"
Hes taking us where I tell him tc
take us, get me? I'm the guy thai
owns this railroad Get that? The
engineer works for me-
Turning to Ford and Green, he
shouted:
i Get in your hunks, you trouble
makers, and don't let me hear any
more Of your yap or I'll throw you
both off the train"
The conductor pulled a bell cord, a
locomotive whistle blew, and as the
wheels began to grind, with Ford and
Green arguing whether they would
have the train go to Dearborn or
Weirton, the conductor announced
that this trains going to Prosperity
VILE
Il certainly heard lot about that
town." said the porter in an aside,
but 1 amt never been there yet"
While this was going on Ford and
Green were in a whispered conversa-
ton in the corner AS the noise of
the moving train increased they both
crawled into section Ia together.
With a look of satisfaction, the con-
ductor shouted out joyously, Next
stop, Prosperityville," and exited, fol-
lowed by the porter shaking his head
obviously, muttering: Better get der
in a hurry, cause sumpin' tells me
does men amt goin' t. stay in de same
bunk long"
Old Guard Kidded.
The Faust skit, deriding the Re-
publican party, began lin a cellar
where a certain prominent Republican
has taken refuge" 1t exhibited Henry
P. Fletcher, Republican national
chairman, as an old man seated in a
high-backed Gothic chair behind a
table covered with a green cloth and
stacked with bottles, vials and chemi-
cal apparatus.
Mephistopheles appeared with IAN
old-age pension in my hat, and with
each vote a six-room fiat" promising
Faust that if he would make the usual
concession he would perform such
tricks with votes as he had never
known before.
We'll sell our souls for knowledge Of
the track
On which the G. o. P. can win its
power back"
responded Faust eagerly.
Fletcher Faust Signs.
The pact was concluded, Faust's
name signed with a drop of blood, the
regeneration took place, and the new
Republican voters came in dressed as
girls and dancing to the Kermesse
waltz
Your blood upon the bond has put
you on the dole" replied Mephisto-
pheles. "for when you deal with new
ideas you lose your Republican soul"
This is what often comes" an
Evening star., 1934-12-09

S. Buel, Cleveland Plain Dealer: w.
F. Bullock. the London Daily Mail;
Ellsworth Bunker, New York; Edward
B. Burling, Edward H. Butler, the
Buffalo Evening News, and Repre-
sentative Joseph w. ByrnS, Tennessee.
DR.. James A. Cahill, Louis G. Cald-
well, Arno B. Cammerer, director,
National Parks; Ward M. Canaday
Erwin D. Canham, the Christian
Science Monitor; James Carstairs,
New York; A. C. Case, Norman S.
Case, United States Communications
Commission; William R. Castle. jr.;
William M. Chadbourne, New York;
John c. Chase. Derry Village, N. H;
John F. Chester. the Associated Press;
Marquis w. Cnllds, St Louis Post
Dispatch; Arthur D. Chilgren, Chi
cago, Ill; Bowie Chapman, Norris B.
Chapman, Robert B. Choate, the Bos-
ton Herald; Raymond Clapper, Wash
ington Post; Edward B. Clark, Angelo
R. ClaS. Chicago; Senor Benjamin
Cohen, counselor, Chilean Embassy;
John S. Cohen Atlanta, Denis E Con-
nell, Joseph v Connolly the Inter
national News Service; Robert D. w.
Connor, archives of the United States;
William S. Corby, Senator James
Couzens. Michigan; Henry D. Cramp-
ton, George D. Crofts, University of
Buffalo; Leo T. Crowley. director,
Deposit Insurance Corp; William S.
Culbertson, Harry Francis Cunning
ham, J. Harry Cunningham. j. Max
son Cunningham. James NJ Curley,
Governor-e ELECT of Massachusetts,, and
Leo Curley.
Evening star., 1934-12-09

Vincent Daley. New York: Martin
L. Davey, Governor-elect of Ohio; DR.
James F. Davidson, Joseph E. Davies,
G. H Davis, Kansas City, Mo; Pres
ton Delano, Frederick L. Devereux,
New York; John Dickinson, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce; Robert Dis
erens, Detroit: Clarence Dodge, Henry
L. Doherty, New York; Gayer G.
Dominick. New York: William J.
Donaldson, jr., superintendent House
Press Gallery; James j. Dooling, New
York; Emmet G. Dougherty, Lewis w.
Douglas. Douglas, Ariz.; Brent s.
Drane, Edward J. Dunn, the Boston
Post; James Clement Dunn and
Thomas w. Dunn, Philadelphia.
George H. Earle. Governor elect of
Pennsylvania; Stephen T. Early. as
sistant secretary to the President
Fred East. Mariner S. Eccles, gov
ernor Federal Reserve Board: Wade
H. Ellis, ]. Fred Essary, Baltimore
Sun; Samuel N Evins, Atlanta:
William T. Evjue, Madison, Wis, and
John r. Ewell.
Harold F. Fabian, Salt Lake City;
John H. Fahey, chairman, Home Own
ers' Loan Corp: Warren c. Fairbanks,
the Indianapolis News, William l..
Farley. New York; William P. Feeley.
Buffalo; Carter Field, the Boston
Herald; j. F. Fitzpatrick, Salt Lake
City; Robert v. Fleming, Henry P.
Fletcher. chairman. Republican Ma
tional Committee; Mark Foote. Grand
Rapids Press; Daniel R. Forbes. Will
bur Forrest, the New York Herald
Tribune; Rudolph Forster, executive
secretary, White House. and c. de
Evening star., 1934-12-09

Robert L. O'Brien, chairman. United
States Tariff Commission; George H.
OConnor, Ambrose O'Connell and
John c. OLaughlin, Army and Navy
Journal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22

children and I also have found the
Communist Party to be the only
party that fights for our interests.
I want to appeal to all workers
to concentrate on the extreme need
of an astonishing number of school
children and to join us in our fight
for free food and clothing for the
children of the unemployed. Send
kilograms demanding appropriations
for food and clothing for this win
ter, Also, support the Unemployed
Teachers Association in its fight
against the Ives Bill, a fascist meas
ure designed to silence the protest
of teachers against the starvation
program of the administration.
One answer to their attacks must
be more and better Free Food
Fighters Clubs. And we have good
news to tell you'll A new branch
has just been organized, the Free
Food Fighters Club of Greenpoint
We invite all workers children to
our meetings on Wednesdays at 4
pm. at 46 Ten Eyck Street, Brook
Ign.
With answering loyalty in this
fight against hunger,
Comradely yours,
SYLVIA ET'TINGER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
Green's Bill
Used Against
Bill 1898
By a Worker Correspondent

QUINCY, Mass. - International
President Squibb Ca grandiloquent
title for a spluttering cracker) has
advised the members of the Granite
Cutters Union to support an A. F. of
L. bill as against the Workers I'm
employment and Social Insurance
Bill, H. r. 1898 Oundeen Bid.
The only reason he gives for this
is that it would be better to unite
on the A. F. of L. bill than divide
up among many other proposed
bills.
Squibb is woefully ignorant of the
support already given the bill known
as H. R. 1893 1t is not a question
in the mind of this labor leader
Squibb as to whether or not any or
all proposed bills other than H. R,
1898 meet the needs Of the workers
Official policy rather than rank and
file poverty dictate Squibb'S actions
1t will not be necessary for S1uibh
to read and compare H. r. 1898 with
other bills for him to change his
mind. Only show him which way
the wind is to blow and he will veel
his course to suit the most favorable
wind. This type of labor leader
changes his mind only when the
rank and file thinks and acts fol
itself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
A By Moreover ndes editor
St.


all had to agree. But we must see
to it that everybody quits working
right away and does not go on
until we get decent hours and good
food, an increase in pay and a
Christmas bonus" Whereupon
everyone dropped work and march
ed off to bed.
Santa woke up next morning
after good sleep and called for
breakfast. There was no answer.
After waiting few minutes he put
on his slippers and walked into the
workshop None was there. The
boxes were lying in one corner, the
toys in another.
What is this" yelled Santa.
where is everybody? Why aren't
you working?" he shouted at few
gnomes, who came from their bed
rooms.
ooh, we're on strike" the gnomes
answered. 1--WE demand an increase
in pay"
"What?' screamed Ssnta, "a
striker" His face grew as red as
his coat, and his whiskers stood up
like the fur of a scared cat. He
ragged and fumed and even broke
some tree ornaments, but it was
no use. The gnomes stood firm. To
make the story short, they won all
their demands and now they have
union, 1.-THE North Pole Workers
Industrial Union" affiliated with
the International Association OF
GnomeS.
Well, to tell you the truth-this
is a dream I had last night. But
the dream is not So far from truth
The workers in factories and stores
are the gnomes, and they are work
ed to death by the bosses. And
they've been fighting back by going
on strike and picketing the stores
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22

it is pretty cold here all year around
and the food-why Donder and
Bitten wouldn't even look at It'll"
"And who do we make all the toys
for?" chimed in a third one. Look
at these addresses: Master Jeffrey
Wimbledon, Park Avenue; Miss
Cynthia Aylesworth, Palm Beach,
Fla. and so on down the line-just
a bunch of spoiled brats, who have
everything they want anyway"
st hate the whole thing myself
said Mingo, but what can we do?"
There was minute of silence.
81 know what we can do" voice
piped up in the corner. Everybody
turned around and saw Pingo-a
gnome who was called the book
worm because he was so fond of
reading whenever he could find
time. you know how the reindeer
like to pick up everything in sight
to chew on. Well, last time the old
man went for a little trial ride,
Donder picked up a copy of the
Daily Worker. Santa told me to take
care of the deer when he came
back, and I pulled out couple Of
pages from the deer's mouth be-
fore it was all gone. I've been get
ting the Daily Worker since, and ]
see where. all over the world, work
ers are mistreated the way we are
and the workers fight back by going
on strike"
How can we strike" several cried
out, "the old man will throw us
out in the cold and we shall freeze
eff we all stop work he won't dare
to. He has the orders to fill. If he
should not appear this year, 1t
would be his end. AS it is, fewer
and fewer people believe in Santa
every year." said Pingo.
This was SO reasonable that they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
Politicians Attempt to
Stem Militancy of
Movement
a Mine Worker CORRESPONDENT

By a Mine Worker Correspondent
EVELETH, Minn.-With grow
ing increase in unemployment and
want on the Mesabs Iron Range,
the workers are becoming daily
more disconnected and more mil!-
tant.
Mass meetings, for the purpose OF
discussing the inadequate relief and
insufficient work, have been called
by the restless workers in two OF
the range towns; Virginia, which
had an attendance estimated at
between 5000 and 1000; Eveleth,
with about 800. Chisholm also may
have a meeting soon. At these meet
ings the workers have hoped to
better their conditions and hoped
to have some immediate action to
alleviate at least part Of their SUI
fering. But so far, political SPELL
binders have gotten control Of the
meetings, and knowing the rapid
growth of discomfort and militancy
of the workers, have used all their
demagogy to hull the workers, by
having them put their faith in res
olutions adopted at these meetings,
and leave these into their hands for
putting across.
The workers are losing faith in
the mass meetings and are demand
ing immediate action in the form
Of a demonstration en- masse, such
a demonstration that would let the
authorities know something is afoot,
and that their demands have to be
met.
With the mass lay-offs at the
mines, insufficient work on ERA,
inadequate relief, there is a wide
spread movement for economic Sc
curity by the workers for the I'm
ployment and Social Insurance Bill
(H.R. 1890 which they know will
take care Of them and their families
Immediately, and guarantee them
some source Of income every month.
A relief conference is being prepared
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
Lectures on venereal Diseases


A LECTURE on Venereal Disease,
"A Prevention, Cure and Social
Significance, will be given by DR..
Daniel Caster under the auspices
of the Medical Advisory Board on
Thursday, Dec. 27, at $3.50 p. m, at
Irving Plaza Hall, Fifteenth Street
and Irving Place. Admission is 25
cents. All proceeds go to the Daily
Worker. DR.. j. Alonzo viii discuss
the control of this problem in the
Soviet Union.
Safe Period
". X. L., Chicago, HIN the past
' year a great deal of publicity
has been given to the so-called
safe period" It is said that there
are certain days in the menstrual
cycle (the menstrual cycle is the
number of days from the begin
ming of one menstruation to the be-
ginning OF the next) during which
a woman cannot become pregnant;
also, hat there are certain other
days when woman is most likely
to become pregnant.
This idea or theory has been
called 1.-THE Rhythm of Sterility
and Fertility" (Sterility: inability
to become pregnant; Fertility;
ability to become pregnant. 1t has
been called a Rhythm because these
periods are supposed to recur at
regular intervals. Before exploding
this theory, let us see who is behind
it, who are its strongest supporters
When We look into the history of
the Catholic Church, we find that
its leaders we're often quite clever.
One of their most powerful means
for holding on to their people had
been to give in to mass demands,
at the same time convincing them
that it is through divine providence
that these demands are granted;
that through divine inspiration the
bishops and popes see Gods will.
Obviously, what they have done was
to put the cart before the horse;
instead of calling it mass demand,
they called it Gods will. The
granting of indulgences and the
confessional are two examples of
this. The most recent divine in
spiration is this rhythm of sterility
and fertility.
The demand and the need for
birth control has become universal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
Steel Trust COnspires
to Force Workers Off
the Range

mass meeting where plans would be
laid for one Of the biggest demon
STATIONS the range has ever known
or seen. This was met with approval
by the workers
The new charter amendments
that Mayor Vic ESsling helped put
across, which restricts the amounts
to be spent by various city officials,
is now stopping the issuance of re-
lief milk, which certainly is a serious
outlook to the already undernour-
ished bodies of the workers chill
dren here. This is the mayors new
est alibi that he cannot issue any
relief and he tells the relief appii-
cants that he does not want to see
them again in his office after they
have once been there to see him.
The mining companies are still
trying and fighting for further tax
cuts which will make the situation
very acute on the Iron Range. With
only one industry to depend upon,
and when that industry closes
down, the workers are forced to live
off the tax monies obtained from
the Steel Trust. And when they
withhold these monies and get tax
cuts which always decrease the
amounts upon which the workers
depend, it throws them into actual
starvation. In this way the Steel
Trust hopes to force people to leave
the range, thereby having to pay
less per capita tax. But the workers
are refusing to leave, they are de-
handing some form of a works pro-
gram, such as C.WA. and some
form of unemployment insurance.
This situation on the range has
the earmarks of giving birth to bit
ter economic struggles for security
by the workers in the near future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22

Camp gets ready to either violate
the agreement, or build the Com
pany Union, it will have these men
as the base amongst the miners
here. The company is utilizing this
emergency clause to give extra work
to others in the mine, and it's
building a definite group in the
local union of the U. M w. A. We
must prevent the building of the
Company Brotherhoods under our
noses. We can do it!
Local 1890 of the U. M w. A.
must pass a motion, that no one
shall work extra shifts, hours or
on idle days, regardless whether the
boss says it's emergency" until
they report to the local mine COM
mittee, and unless the mine COM
mittee o. ks the work. Any one
violating this rule should be penal
lied by the local union to the point
of expulsion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22

Until recently, the only people WI
abstained from using birth cont1
measures were Catholics and 9th
orthodox peoples. The majority
others have been using whateY
available means there are. In IL
past ten years many birth contr,
clinics have be en- organize
throughout the country-there al
now more than one hundred an
fifty such clinics. 1t is interestin
and significant that in the majorit
of these clinics, more than 80 ne
cent of the applicants are Catholic;
With the growing demand fc
advice, and the persistence of tn
Catholic Church in refusing to Civ
its sanction, more and more Cath
olics have been straying from TIL
fold. This has been so universe
that the church considered it i'm
peratiye to take a hand in tho
matter. Suddenly, in the time O
our greatest need, Divine Providence
has come to the assistance of man.
kind 1t enabled (sic) SCIENTIST.
to discover the rhythm of sterility
and fertility" from The Rhythm
by DR.. Late of Loyola University
a Catholic institution. No more
is birth control immoral; no mors
is it going to lead innocent girls
astray; no more is it going to break
up homes; no more does sexual in
tercourSe serve only one purpose
the creative one. Now that the
Church recognizes the demand of
the masses, all these old arguments
fly out the window. The Pope, in
spired, issues an encyclical, telling
his flock that they may consciously
decide when and When not to have
sexual intercourse. Instead of call
ing this birth control, the church
dignifles it by speaking of the
rhythm of sterility and fertility"
Now let us get on to exploding
this theory. 1t is sufficient for this
column that we discuss the practical
side of the theory and not go into
detailed scientific explanations. It
depends on two factors; l. Regular
ity of the time of ovulation (time
when the ovum is expelled from the
female sex gland and passes into
the female tube, which is connected
with the womb.
due to the length of the article
it will be necessary to conclude it
in Mondays issue.)