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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-11-01

Coming to the office of sheriff
with little experience as a peace Of
ficer Lew" Adrean has made, ad-
mitted by all, one of the best sher-
ifs Morgan county has ever had.
From the day of his induction into
office, L. B. Adrean started in to do
his full duty, and throughout Nor
gan county, every township can
bring forth witnesses by the hun
dred as to the prompt efficiency of
this among Ohio's foremost peace
officers. No night has been too dark
and no day too tempestuous to
cause Lew Adrean to neglect the
call of duty. His conduct of the Of
fee of sheriff has been marked by
ability and bravery. tempered with
tion of his duties. His administra-
tion of the law, working with the
Office of Prosecutor Riecker. has
been a smooth working legal ma
chine which has brought safety to
both individuals and property any
where in the county. There hasn't
been a hen squawk under violating
and unauthorized hands since Lew
Adrean went into office that the
sheriff has not been on the trail at
once. Due to the above qualifica-
tions and his general ability, we
should put Lew Adrean back in the
sheriff's office for the next two
years. (Pol. Adv.)
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-11-01

2, 1920. To this union we're born
eight children: C. o. White of Me-
Connelsville; Arminta Porter of
Canton, O.; Clyde C. White, Zanes-
vile, O.; Earle b. White of Omro,
Wis; Forest w. White. New Con-
cord, O., and Lillian Suites, Blue
Rock. o. Two daughters, LOWE
Susan and Mamie, are deceased.
Ten grandchildren also survive. In
early life Mr.. White became mem
ber of the Salem M. P. church, later
transferring his membership to I'm
ion Hill M. p. church, and later to
McConnelsville M. P. church He
was the last of his fathers family
of six children. On the 4th day of
February. 1865, while not quite 16
years of age, he enlisted in Co. F,
32nd O. v. L., as soldier in the
Union army that fought TO a sue
cessful conclusion the great Civil
war All his life was spent in Nor
gan county. except the period of his
military service, one summer in
Kansas and about six years on a
farm in MuslIingum county. where
he resided from about 1907 until
the fall of 1913, when he retired
from active farm life and came to
McConnelsville, where he had since
resided. He has been a busy. hard
Working man. For perhaps 20 years
of earlier manhood he supplement-
ed his farming, by becoming one OF
the threshing crew with the john
son brothers, whose operations
along that line were extensive for
many years throughout the eastern
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-11-01

for the kitchen. and bedding for the
rest room soon. Miss Mildred Tor
bert resumed her school work at
Union Hill, Monday. Ernest Norris
lost a valuable Jersey cow last
week. Miss Elsie Walton of Zanes-
vile spent last week with her cou-
sin Miss Mabel Maxwell. ID. l..
Maxwell and family, Harley Max
well and family and Mrs. Nora Max
we'll attended the golden wedding
celebration Sunday, Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clell Maxwell of Moxahala. Alfred
Henry and family spent Sunday
with relatives at Duncan Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. C. Edgell called on
friends, at Sayre, Sunday afternoon.
p. T. A. program for Nov. g. Mu-
sic, orchestra; business session;
community singing; recitation,
Bernice Weaver; dialogue music,
orchestra; discussion, The influence
of the American home on the youth
of today, Wayne Bankes. Temple
Lawrence Torbert and
Mabel Campbell; song, Mildred Nell
son; recitation, Tommy Ogg; mu-
sic, orchestra; lunch.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-11-01

Farm In his Scotch attire who gave
number of songs, which were
much enjoyed. Several large f1ocks
Of wild geese were seen Sunday, go-
ing south. b. J. Appleman and
family of Bloomfield were Sunday
guests at Lyle Martins. The
have had foot lights installed on
the stage at the school auditorium.
also a piano light, and are planning
to get an oil stove and more dishes
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-11-01
ReinerSyiiin

While MIR. and Mrs. VIM. Lovert
and daughter Mrs. Mildred Malster
of Lowell were on their way to
Caldwell last Friday afternoon to
attend the funeral service of the
formers sisterin-law, Mrs. Estella
Lovett they sustained severe, in
juries when their car was in a col
lision with truck on state route
78, north of Hackney. II. HI. Kelby
was the driver of their car. The car
was badly demolished. The Lovetts
Glenn Berkheimer expect to move
were taken back to their home at
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-11-01

William III. White. son of Charles
and Margaret White, was born
March l, 1S49, near Luke Chute, in
Morgan county, Ohio, and died in
McConnelsville, o., Oct. 25. 1884.
aged IS years. seven months and "a
days. On the 3Oth day of January,
1878, he was married to Elizabeth
Kuntz, who departed this life March
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-11-01
Triadelphia

Aca Edgell and son Clyde who
spent last week with relatives here,
returned to their home at Wallace,
w. Va, Sunday. The Democratic
rally held here last Wednesday
night was we'll attended. Robert
Secrest was principal speaker. A
number of other candidates were
present, also Mr.. Christie Of Rose
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16

New York City.
Editor, Daily Worker:
Acceptance of the participation Of
Father Devinc and his followers in
a united front demonstration
against war and fascism on August
was not only correct" as has been
pointed out in an editorial of the
Daily Worker, it is also-and this is
Important manifestation of the
overcoming of sectarianism.
Participation in united front ac-
lions against war and fascism is our
criterion of the sincerity of the
parties involved. While our approach
to Father Devine and his followers,
in the already mentioned editorial,
as whole is correct, a serious mis-
take has been made and must be-
called to the attention of our Party
members in the interest CT unity.
The writer states, while carrying
such strange and foolish placards ;
Tin reference to Father Deyine Is
God" etc), they join with Com
munists and other militants in 81
struggle against war and fascism. .
Such strong words strange and
foolish" should have been omitted
in an article dealing with our ap-
proach as Communists to potential
allies, because to us nothing is
strange.
ALBERT LORENz.
signature authorize6.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
PART il.
BY SID BENSON

There are many instances in
Birmingham showing the ability OF
the Party to take hold of the stu
alton and conduct mass work
among the key masses.
While there was steady growth
in dues payments and in recruit
ing, and both are growing, although
not yet at the figure of before May
Day, there was also growth in
the understanding of the Party
members, especially of the local
leaders, and a tightening up of the
lower organizations. At the same
time there grew more initiative
among the comrades. who began
by themselves to move in the di. &C.
ton Of the trade unions. In the
period of the past two weeks alone
We can count great gains, steps
which mark the highest peak we
have yet reached in actually get
ting inside of the trade unions of
the A. F. of L. in the key indus
tries.
On their own initiative the COM
radeS in BeSsemer brought up H.R
1903 on the floor of local of the
Mill, Mine and Smelter Union with
a membership OF 1000. The local
went on record as officially endors-
ing it. At the same time the COM
rades proposed unemployed com
mittees to be elected for the pur-
pose of securing immediate relief,
and are now engaged in gaining
relief for the unemployed ore min
ers who make up this local. The
Women's Auxiliary of this local,
with some hundreds of members,
endorsed the Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill the very next week.
AS a result of these actions we
have gained the leadership in the
Women's Auxiliary, and are en-
trenched in very strong position
in the local itself. In the settle
ment of the strike of the Raimund
ore miners of the Republic Steel
Corp. the old black-listed strikers
were denied the right to vote in
the general voting. Our comrades,
together with the workers, drew no
resolution which was refused the
floor by the bureaucrats. The re-
suit is sharp growth of our
strength among the miners, and
great basis for struggle for the
leadership of the local. In the same
territory a Negro woman comrade
organized nine white women into
branch of the LID. These white
women are wives of ore miners of
the Muscoda Tel. ore mine and
are the key to real united action
in this concentration point where
we have many Negro Party mem.
bers.
In another territory of the T.CI.
the ore miners recently sold out AZ
Ishkooda refused to go into the
mine one night as protest agains9
the docking of one of our Negro
comrades for 30 days in connection
with the beating of scab during
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
Only Board
For Cherry
p ickers
Fifty Come Out with
$l2.72, Which They
Pay To Go Home

By An Agricultural Worker Core
spondent
RACINE, Wis., am writing the
rest of my experience in Reynolds
Cherryland Orchards.
The workers in the factory were
receiving the big sum of 80 cents
per hour and the pickers also re-
ceived the big sum of five cents per
pail, which was supposed to be a
four-quart pail. Mr.. Abner j.
Dahlstron1, of Racine, who went
through the expense of transport
ing us from Racine to Sturgeon
Bay. Wisconsin. received nothing
for his trouble because the pick
ars did not have any money to give
aim. Out Of 50 people the sum of
s12.T2 was the total amount over
and above the board. which we had
to use for transportation to go
home.
I understand that Martins Or
chards were under the same condi-
ton as Reynolds orchards. Here
the pickers we're paid four cents
for four-qusrt pals. The bottoms
we're bumped and the tops heaped.
Really it was five quarts they had
to pick to get paid for four. Then
they had to be weighed, too. Pick
ers had to stand in line, and those
on the tail end would lose about
enough time for what it takes to
fill another pail, but that didn't
make any difference to Martins
At this place they have company
stores and they charge as high as
10 cents for a pound of oatmeal in
bulk. The relief pays little over
a cent a pound for this same oat-
meal. Other articles were sold on
the same profit sharing plan for
the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
PARTY LIFE
C.P. Birmingham Conducts
Mass York in Key Industries
Correct Mass York, Concentration, Is Winning
Masses to Revolutionary Line of Party

the strike. In the same territory
it happened that an LID. comrads
died. The Party and LID. decided
to utilize this as a means of break
ing into the open. A mass funeral
was organized, and our comrades
spoke at the cemetery for hours to
hundreds of workers, mainly T.C.I,
ore miners, on the full program Of
the Party.
There are also some very good
developments among the coal min.
ers outside of Birmingham. This
Moss Mccormick Mines, out on
strike because the operators failed
to carry out the miserable agree
ment, struck over the heads OF
Mitch and the takers at the head
of the UNIV. OF A. These militant
miners have refused to go back in
spite of specific instructions from
Mitch, the president of the local
there, one saying on receipt of
Mitch's letter that he thought he
would go to Birmingham and slap
Bill Mitch. There are few miners
there very close to the Party, and
the possibility exists for this local
to be won for conscious rank and
file leadership.
From one Of the sore spots IN
the Alabama coal fields, Walker
County, miner came to Bkming.
ham to ask how they could take
rank and file control. He showed
how Mitch was putting his OK. on
the strikebreaking of the DeBarde-
leben Coal Corp. by getting ready
to grant a charter to the scabs in
the mine, while the locked-out min
ers are also in local of the U. M.
w. of A. In Mobile there is a fer
ment among the longshore work.
ers, the boilermakers of the ship
building industry against tbs
strikebreaking racketeers of the A.
F. of L., and big urge for q rank
and file movement.
The effects of the Bankhead Bill
are deepening the unrest among
bllC S%loA CAOppSlS anu U6IldIb
farmers. The Share Choppers Union
now has an estimated membership
of 5000, and the influence of the
union is growing with especial
rapidity among the white CHOPPERS
and tenants, who are more and
more displaying their hatred of the
starvation policies of the govern
ment and landlords.
All in all, despite certain weak
nesses which have not as yet been
overcome, there Is decided swing
of the whole Party in the Birming-
ham District towards mass work,
towards concentration on the KEY
mills and mines of the Tel,
swing which can already reco. d
some very important successes and
which shows clearly that with ths
proper work the Party can becoms
a mass Party in short time, and
in spite of the savage police terror
break out more and more into tins
open, and win the leadership of the
great struggles looming in the inn
mediate coming period.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
ANTI-LYNCHING BILLS

piece Of that traitOrous leader
ship. Its editor and publisher,
Mr.. Ysnn, Is part OF the national
government which has established
and endorsed sub human wage
differentials under the N. r. A.
against Negro workers; has jim
crowed Negroes in the House and
Senate restaurants at Washing
ton. and is busy "ploHghing uG-
der" Negro and white poor farm
ers.
Recent brutal lynchings have
aroused widespread mass indigna-
ton. The Costigan- Wagner bill
is put forward at this period to
foster the illusion that the lynch
rulers will themselves put an end
to the lynch terror by which they
maintain their plumber rule over
the Negro msjorities in the BLACK
Belt" territories. 1t is designed to
smash the mass fight, organized
and led by the Communist Party,
against lynching and the eco
nOmic and social system out of
which lynching grows and thrives.
In sharp contrast is the Bill for
Negro Rights and the Suppression
OF Lynching, drawn up by the
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, with its clear-cut defini-
ton of lynching and mobs and its
provision for the death sentence
against the lynchers. This defini-
ton and provision are both care
fully omitted from the Costigan-
Wagner Bill, thus leaving the
lynch rulers free to use the bill,
il passed, against those very
forces which are fighting against
lynching.
1t is not correct that the iden-
tity of the lynchers is never
known. The League of Struggle
for Negro Rights. the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the
Daily Worker have time and
again exposed the identity of
leaders of lynch mobs, including
state and county officials. In the
George Armwood Iynching on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland, the
I. L. D. and the Daily Worker
confronted the county and State
authorities with the names of the
leaders of the mob which muir
dered Armwood. AS a result of
mass protest, several Of these
leaders were arrested but were
Immediately released-exonerated
by the lynch courts! Governor
Richie and the county authoEi-
ties refused to prosecute the
known lynchers!
In several other lynchings dur
ing the last two years, the leaders
of the mob were known, some
even admitting their guilt. Yet
in every case, as the correspon-
dent points out, the verdict was
death at the hands of parties
unknown" On the other hand,
the full force of the government
is modified against the rack
eteering kidnsppers Of rich men.
The mass fight of Negro and
white teilers and sympathizers Is
the only force that can stop
lynching. But that fight, to be
effective, must be directed against
the lynch courts and officials,
against the whole rotten capital
ist system which breeds lynching,
mas unemployment, misery, fas-
cist terror AND inperialist war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
IN THE HOME
CAPITALIST PROPAGANDA
By HELEN LUKE

the curtain of the future, if YOU
will, and tell what it portends. Lei
the prophets say, if they can"
Pure jingoism. Our rulers have
shown clearly enough that they
don't care whether we live or die
except that they want us for cheap
abor and cannon fodder. Let us
answer all such jingoism with in
creased organization against war.
Greet our returning delegation to
the Paris Anti-War Congress at the
pier today and afterwards to help
to build the great proletarian anti
war trent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
Demand Probe into
KILN g of Negro
Youth in Birmingham
BY a Worker Correspondent

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. IA
Birmingham workers are demand
ing an investigation into the killing
of Roy Jones, 21-year old Negro
youth, by p. B. McMurrian, white
business man, Of 1918 31st Ave. N.
While McMurrian and his wife
claim that Jones is unknown to
them and YVES shot down as an in
truder seeking to burglarize their
home, several persons are ready to
testify that they saw Jones two
days in succession with McMurrian
in the latter's Ford truck. workers
here believe Jones was working for
McMurrian and was murdered when
he demanded his wages.
Meanwhile. the police have eager
ly accepted McMurrian's story and
are referring to Jones as a long
sought burglar who is alleged tn
have entered homes in the North
Birmingham section in the past few
months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
ShdrecroPpers from,
3 Counties attend
Trucks Bring More Than $50 Members of Union.
Pioneers, Y. c. L. and Party

is doing (By comrade from there)
q. Why like the Young Com
muniSt League CA Lee County Y
c. L. member and a girl Y. C. L
msmber).
5. What Camp Hill unit is doing
6. Why we organize the children
(By the Tallapoosa Pioneer or
ganizer).
z. Why we Pioneers must be ac-
tive (By a Pioneer.
Song: Arise You Workers.
8. The Women Must Play Their
Part CA woman Sharecroppers'
Union leader.
9. The Communist Party and a
Summary (By Communist organ
izer).
Singing the International.
The comrades cay they felt much
more like working when they got
back to their different places be-
cause they had learned a let, also
expressed their thoughts that we
should have more meetings like this
one so the comrades can learn and
get acquainted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
ANTI-WAR MEETING HELD IN DADEVIILE ALABAMA
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

plexions. Since compilations can
not be changed, it is obvious that
Comrade Light-skin must spend less
time exposed to the sun than Com
rade Dark skin in order to avoid
getting sun-burned severely.
Now, the reason We uncover our
selves to the sun is to acquire a
healthy tan, and it is well to know
that the tan is produced by the pig
ment cells in the skin. These cells
are stimulated to activity by alb
sorbing sun rays, but they take a
few days to produce enough color
for a tan. They cannot be rushed
by burning the skin. 1t is suffi-
Gent to stimulate them by grad
ual exposure to the sun rays. Thus
general rule in taking sun baths
is that it is well to start with about
Is minutes exposure of the body
the first day and increasing Is
minutes daily thereafter until tan.
Once tanned, the skin can be ex-
posed to the sun for hours without
in-effect. Also. it is only when
YOU are tanned that you derive any
tonic benefit from the suns rays,
for then the body absorbs the ultra
violet rays into substances in The
skin which converts them into
Vitamin D, then pass into the blood
stream. carrying freshly made Vita
min D to all the tissues. The
method Of gradually increasing ex-
posture in acquiring a tan must be
used even if one uses Oil or grease
on the skin. The oil prevents burn
ing from the infra-red rays (hot
invisible rays of the sun, but does
not prevent ultraviolet rays from
penetrating, and overriding exposure
to ultraviolet rays gives severe
painful burns, which develop from
II to "a hours after the exposure.
TO Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
Bv J Worker CORRESPONDENT

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-After hav-
ing bad weather for nearly two
weeks even up to Aug. l, our meet
ing at Dadeville was a big success.
Between $50 and 2T5 or more at
tended from Tallapoosa, Chambers
and Lee Counties. The Lee County
comrades hired truck and brought
it packed full Of youth with only
two adults, the driver and lady.
Two carloads of adults attended
from Lee County, however. Three
loads from Chambers and the other
from Tallapoosa.
Everything was late but was car
ried out. We had the ball game
but we did not have the harp con-
tests because we did not have the
time.
The program was as follows:
l. Opening songs: Alabama"
CWe shall not be moved and SOL
idarity" (The Farmers have learned
their lesson.
2. History of August 1 1.-TWO COM
rades, one man. one woman.
8. What Lower Camp Hill Unit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16

The tremendous solicitude now
being evinced by the bourgeoisie
over the health of American
mothers and infants pans out to
have practical ruling -class pur-
pose behind it, quite in line with the
intensifying patriotic jingoism of
the daily papers and the increasing
military displays and armament
building.
What's behind the campaign, for
example, launched by the Pictorial
Review, to bring down maternity
and infant mortality rates?
BY describing last month the
record low in such death rates
achieved in the fine Polytechnic Hos
pital of New York, the P. R.
proved" that the mothers can be
saved" $50 they could, if they had
dough enough to demand" medi-
cal attention Of the high Polytechnic
standard, but they'll never have it
under capitalisn.)
Prefacing its second article of the
seTies, called 5000 Soviet Babies
a Day." the Pictorial Review SAYS:
THE 4. rate g. in this country
(meaning the U.S.A0 is appalling.
An average of IS mothers in every
10000 die in connection with child
birth. while So out of every 1000
children die under one yea of age. =
(Statisticians, incidentally, do not
seem to include still births in fix
ing the infant mortality rate.)
The big publishers act as the
mouthpiece of the ruling class. ana
plainly, the cold cnills are chasing
each other right merrily up and
down the spine of the ruling class
al the thought of those daily 1900
(and more) new future Commu-
nists, who are being well fed and
cared for; the dark and dastardiy
purpose OF such csre being, insinu-
atss the article. TO give Them the
nerves and muscles of iron and
steel demanded by Lenin.7
The tract, which does give inter-
e5.ing and broad information
(sprinkled throughout with Drops
of poisonous capitalistic insinua-
tions) on the Soviet creche, insur-
ance, medical, and other systems
benefting the mothers and chill
dren, makes some bad breaks" For
instance, this boomerang betraying
the genuine capitalist estimate Of
expenditures for the welfare Of
proletsrian mothers and children:
Why all this philanthropy? Has
materialigtic, atheistic Russia sud-
denly gone litslc soft in the
head?" [Ou- emphasis, and in the
following passage also.-HL.l
The article by implication de-
plores the villainous activities OF
Communists here and in the Soviet
Union, and suggests that ito many
of the Western nations" the
Thought of 100000 more SIavs
every year must be disturbing, to
say the least" That our rulers
wouldn't think of trying to implant
in us any such nationalistic fears"
is clearly brought out by some lines
in the final paragraphs.
Is this not danger signal? Here
we see Russia bending every enc. gy
to save the babies. raise them with
steel nerves and iron muscles.
stepped in Communism. We see
America with rapidly falling birth
rate and disgraceful death rate
of mothers in childbirth. Rel back