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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-12-06

tions such advantages as may BIZ
possible through an agreement. 1t Ii
said that Norman H. Davis, the head
OF the American delegation. has beer
given authority to discuss the mat
ter insofar as 1t relates to a join
flimitation OF navies to avoid any
naval rivalry. A clause would prob
ably enable either power to In
crease naval strength Ii Japan EN-
banks upon any ambitious attempt tt
create a much larger navy.
Following a speech delivered by
George N. Peek, special tariff ad
wiser to the President, Secretary Of
State Cordell Hull found 1t advisable
to reiterate the policy this govern
ment will pursue In its campaign to
remove tariff distractions through
trade agreements. Mr.. Peek had
urged that we adopt a "two-column
tariff and bargain for business In
quotas, now so much In vogue In 9TH
err countries.
MIR. Hull laid down the flat prop
osition that the most favored nation
treatment lin its unconditional FORM
will be the basis OF the twelve trade
agreements now underway. He does
no. believe that much Is to be gained
by removing a temporary trade bar
rier or by swapping commodities or
by bargaining for the purchase OF
coffee or crude rubber In exchange
for the sale of tires or other com
modities. Rather, he insists that
there be a broad program of tariff
reciprocity and other countries give
the United States as good treatment
as may be accorded to any other ma
ton. On our side he proposes to
grant the same treatment to all In
the American market.
Another apparent conflict between
governmental leaders developed
when Secretary Ickes, in charge OF
the WA, intimated that low cost
housing was impossible through pri
rate capital at the very time when
Mr.. Moffett, OF the Federal Housing
Administration was talking about
the wide use of private capital for
this purpose and the general IDEA
was going around that the govern.
ment would get out of the way II the
FILA could get going. After much
speculation. a conference In the
White House between the two men,
at which the telephone to Warm
Springs. Ga, was used, resulted In
what was called an accord, and q
statement which said that no ICON
flict or overlapping exists" How
eve some conflict seems inevitable
* both officials pursue their courses,
and no indication OF doing anything
else has appeared.
The R. f. c. will be given an ex-
tension of life when Congress meets
In order that 1t will not expire In
January. The agency has been re-
paid more than two and a quarter
billion dollars OF the four and a halt
billions 1t has loaned, outside OF ad-
vances to government agencies and
for relief. A book profit of about
$50. 600, 900 exists because 1t gets
funds from the Treasury at 3 per
cent and passes them out at 4 to 6
per cent. IN the long run officials
expect the huge lending machine to
break even. There Is now available
to legitimate borrowers, including
banks, railroads, insurance co1npan-
les, credit agencies and financial In
situations, more than d billion dol
1orn
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-12-06
NO DiscORD DEVELOPS
HuLL'S TARIFF POLICY
APPARENT CONFLICT
RFc TO BE RENEWED

Word from Warm Springs, Ca,
where the President enjoyed his
Thanksgiving dinner with patients
at the infantile paralysis foundation,
Is that the routine Federal budget
for the next fiscal year will be bal
anced and emergency expenditures
held to as low a figure as possible.
How this Is to be, done remains to
be seen when Congress gets going In
January and faces the various de-
mands for more spending and the
payment OF the bonus.
discord have gone g%limmering In the
light OF recent ~utteTances by re
sponsible statesmen In both coun-
tries. Sir John Simon, British For.
eign Secretary, denied rumors that
Great Britain and Japan had talked
together without consulting the Am
erican delegates. Premier Baldwin
declared his government attached
the highest value to close friendship
and cooperation between the two
English speaking countries. In Wash
ington Secretary Hull replied to both
by paying tribute to the flair, CO
operative attitude of the English
and to say that the American gov
eminent intellectually recipro-
Gates the Prime Minister'S utter
ance.
While there has been no official
proposal Of q common front against
Japan, 1t is known that British Of
ficials have suggested the possibility
Of understanding between the United
States and Great Britain, which
would seek to obtain for the two ma
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-12-06

There's not a one OF you business
men who read this would not see the
handwriting on the wall, should
such a process OF fallacy be carried
into actual practice by all the people
OF this community. You know what
1t would a You know it would
soon bring the d~isintegration OF the
entire social structure on which our
community Is built. Business would
fail. Many people would be thrown
out OF employment. Professional
men would have to seek elsewhere
for suitable locations. Taxes would
.lot be paid. Schools would 50 down,
modern city benefits would soon
lose their effectiveness, churches
would lose their means OF subsist-
ence. Instead of a thriving com
immunity with splendid schools, a fine
hospital with highly trained attend
ants and the best medical and sur
gical attention that skilled doctors
can offer, we would find a school sys-
tenn OF mediocre type, In keeping
with the taxes paid to maintain 1t,
our hospital would be closed. our
nurses out OF jobs, and our doctors
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-12-06
Shop at Home

There are fifteen more shopping days before
Christmas. Make these remaining shopping days
sixteen shopping days in Sheridan county" In other
words, shop at home" This is one sure way of help
ing this city and other towns in the community back
to prosperity.
We realize what a powerful lure the big city
shops and stores have for the buying public. We real
lie, also, that money spent outside of the county does
not benefit our towns or community and deprives our
own merchants OF their rightful business. Loyalty to
your home merchants should be the watchword during
these trying days. Our business men carry the brunt
OF the taxes, and are the heaviest contributors to all
civic enterprises. Shop In Sheridan county and help
your own friends and %neighbors, your town and com
nnnity.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-12-06
"A Father s Duty

What would you do II your son came home wound
ed and you found out that he had shot a police Of
ficer?-
We hope you would follow the example of Russell
OLaughlin OF ST. Paul, MINI, who summoned the pol
Ice and surrendered his son. 1t certainly was a hard
thing for the father to-do, but, In the long run, the
wisest.
The boy, only Is, held up a couple to get So and
shot the policeman In a gunfight that followed. His
life may be ruined by his attitude toward the punish
ment that awaits him but If he has come OF the fine
stuff that Is In his father he will likely come through
and, when released, redeem his life.
Anyway, sympathy goes to his parent. who MUIR
murs, T hope no other father ever has to do what /
did"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
LABORATORY
and SHOP B. David Ramsey

They can be employed as a means
Of signalling between vessels in
enemy waters, or in detecting
enemy submarines.
A SOVIET INCUBATOR
A Soviet scientist, N. A. Mesh.
cheryakoY. has produced an inn
proved incubator which reproduces
closely the conditions under which a
hen matches her eggs. The present
incubators keep the temperature
uniform and hatch only from so
to SIS per cent of the eggs. In the
natural" incubator, the upper and
lower sides Of the eggs are kept al
different temperatures. The differ
ence varies from two to seven de-
grees oentigrade, depending upon
the kind Of fowl and the time Of
incubation.
There is periodic aeration and
cooling. reproducing the periods
when the hen leaves of the eggs
for exercise, feeding and relaxation.
The new method was tested at the
Poultry Breeding and Research In
stitute. It increased the percentage
Of hatchings up to rs and 70 per
cent Of the eggs. With ostrich eggs
a record Of 100 per cent Matching
was obtained. In the case of caviar
eggs, the results only touched TAT
per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Stiff Pay Cut Is Xmas Gift
For NY. Library Employees

Strained faces and furtive whisp-
erS are the order of the day at the
New York Public Library, where
many employees have Just been
given a long awaited Christmas
gift" in the form Of stiff paycut
and where the rest of the workers
are awaiting similar treatment.
For several years the fact that
there had been no cut at the library
had been used as an excuse for
speed up and various forms of reo-
ression, but, with the advent of
Harry Lydenburg as director in
place of DR.. Anderson, resigned,
rumors Of "shake-up" became rife.
Now these rumors have become
realities.
Lydenburg has a reputation for
kowtowing to the millionaire di-
rectors of the lihrary-he recently
received a gift of $4,000 from the
estate Of the late Mr.. Ledyard.
trustee. He is a penny pincher and
utterly devoid of the milk of human
kindness. A pay cut just before
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

Christmas is his idea of humor.
This reduction in salaries isn't
general but is administered individ-
ually with a certain amount Of sec
recy and is not supposed to be talked
about. 1t doesn't make any diff
ference that some of the persons
cut are highly skilled; that many Of
them are making little more than
500 month and devoting con-
siderable portions of this munifcent
stipend to helping needy members
Of their families.
The carefully closed payroll of the
library makes it impossible to have
any fair scheme Of salaries and al
lows the preservation of a policy of
hiring new people at any price for
which they will work. c. w. A.
workers also are being used to form
wedge for forcing down wages.
Where will the axe chop next and
when will librarians get wise to
themselves. forget that the library
is such refined place to work"
and organize?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

year they work eight hours. Each
worker is set a certain norm. This
norm or average amount of work
is called the labor day. A good
worker may telescope three or four
labor days into days work. The
average wage is 225 rubles month
plus IS Kilograms of vegetables per
day. The vegetables may be bar
tered off or sold in the open market.
UdarnikS, the best workers, make
300 rubles month. The board of
directors, elected by the collectivists,
get ATS rubles. Wages are paid every
two weeks. Many of the farmers
have money in the savings bank
The emigre banker has been lis
tening carefully. He asks what rate
per cent do the Soviet banks give.
The agronomist says 10 per cent
and IL per cent. The emigre banker
says nothing. His mouth seems to
be stopped again with red earth.
The collective farmers who have
their own houses, chickens, and
COWS, pay taxes. Those farmers who
have voluntarily given up their
houses and live completely the COM
munal life are exempt from taxa
ton. All the farmers send their
children to the nursery, to the two
kindergartens holding $50 children.
The farmers see a movie always
the night before every rest day. How
many American farmers can not
rec movies because they are too far
from town or because the town
movies have been shut down, due
to the crisis. For International
Youth Day, besides their display in
Moscow, the collective farmers
worked on another profile of Stain
in flowers. The model was drawn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

Romberg, Conductor Composer;
Byron Warner. Tenor; Helen Mar
shall. Soprano; william Lyon Phelps,
Narrator
WOR-Organ Recital
wJz-contemporary American world
in Painting-cecil secrest and Ju-
liam Eos
wABC-Roxy Revue; Concert orches-
ira: Mixed Chorus; soloists
s:2O-wJz-Grace Hayes. Songs
-WOR-Dance Orchestra
WJZ-Olsen Orchestra
45-wABC-Mary CORTLAND. Songs;
Armbruster Orchestra; Male Quartet
o-WEAF-virginia Rea, Soprano;
Scrappy Lambert and Billy Hillpot,
Songs; Shilkret Orchestra
WOR-Hillbilly Music
wJz-Radio City Party, With John
B. Kennedy: Black Orchestra
wABC-Grete stueckgold, Soprano
e30-wEAF-The Gibson Family-MusicL
Comedy, With Conrad Thibault,
Baritone; Lois Bennett Soprano
WOR-Dance Orchestra
WJz-National Barn Dance
wABC-Himber Orchestra
00-WOR-Richardson Orchestra
wABC-Concert Band, Edward
rAnna, Conductor
:3o-wEAF-Cugat, Goodman and Mural
Orche-tras until 1870 A. M
WoR-Wintz Orchestra
wJZ-Kemp Orchestra
wABC--variety Musicale
II :00-w OR-News Bulletins
WJz-Dorsey Orchestra
WABC-MichauX Congregation
II 30-wJZ-Dance Music (Also WOR,
wABc, WMCAl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
NEW PAMPHLETS

"The Advance of the United
Front"--a Documentary Account,
with an introduction by Alex
Bittelman-5 cents.
can American Boy in the So
Wet Union" by Harry Eisman-
10 cents.
"The U.S.S.R. and the League
of Nations" by M. Litvinoff-3
cents.
Fighting tn Live" by DR..
Harry F. Wards cents.
"Who Wan S War. 0y A. A.
Heller-3 cents.
Culture in Two Worlds" by N.
Bukharin-5 cents.
These pamphlets can be pur-
chased at all workers bookshops,
or from Workers Library Pub
fishers, P. o. Box 148, sta. D,
New York City. Order a guam
tity for your organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

companies better openings to strike.
Farmers of such submarginal farms
are now being helped in greater
numbers to other farm land, to sub
Sistence homesteads where with
Roosevelt's help they will not be
able to market their produce, where
they will be cut out of the market,
where they will be rock chained by
loans which will take generations
to pay off, where they will be
helped towards peasantry" by
being encouraged to be self-suffi-
cient: make your own soap, get
caught in the old spinning wheels.
On the Soviet farm new methods of
farming, new machinery are turning
"submarginal" land into rich land.
The collective grows 20 kinds of
vegetables. Because of early seed
ing it has been able to grow melons.
never grown before so far north,
melons which Moscow can't get
enough of. zanyetan points to a
pumpkin which will weigh at least
gu Kilograms when ripe. 1t lies belly
up, like boulder spilled in the sun.
The farm has one tractor, so horses,
so buildings, rs lighthouses, $1,000
glass frames. There are If much
room houses. The collective has
been able to make record growths
of 4 Kilograms of mushrooms per
square meter. Every hot-house is
300 square meters. There are also
about dozen hives. The bees are
used to cross-fertilize the cucum-
bers. They give lis a little honey
directly too" says the soft-spoken
chairman with smile.
Money in the Savings Bank
The collective farmers work ten
hours man during sowing and
harvesting seasons. The rest of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
sUPERsoNIC SOUNDS

Human beings are able to hear
/ noises due 10 vibrations in the air
up to 1900 vibrations per second.
Beyond that limit sounds are in
audible to us. Until recently there
we're no techniques for studying
these inaudible phenomena which
are called supersonic sounds. But
now the Crofts Laboratory at Har-
ward University has perfected
methods for detecting these sounds
and determining their pitch.
In the current issue Of the Har-
ward Alumni Bulletin there is an
interesting discussion Of work with
supersonic sounds which is Of great
interest to biologists who have often
wondered whether birds, animals
and insects produce sounds above
the range of our hearing. The ex-
perimentors use Rochelle crystals
which have wide range Of re-
Spouse to these phenomena.
A Rochelle salt is put into a
parabolic horn that is directed at
sound. When the vibrations
strike it, an electrical vibration is
developed which is then amplifled.
This latter is then combined with
a vibration of a different fire.
quency. The superimposition pro-
duces an audible sound in a loud
+ speaker that is hooked up with
the apparatus.
The sound detector is so sensitive
that it is able to pick up the song
of a cricket two hundred yards
away. It is these cricket noises
that are the main subject Of the
research at the laboratory. They
work with a small, dark brown
cricket called Wimpy, who is only
about one-third as long as the more
vulgar house cricket. Wimpy sings
with a frequency of 8,000-11 900 vi
! brations per second in comparison
with the $500 vibrations per Sec
ond of the house cricket Wimpy
is pretty much of a coloratura,
yelping unbroken trills, sometimes
keeping up his theme song for five
minutes.
The Harvard scientists report
that insect sounds are not pro-
duced vocally, but are caused by
the friction of one part of the
insects body against another, by
vibrations of the diaphragm and
by tapping its body upon some OBJ
ject. Only the male Winpy sings"
The female Wimpy is forced to lis
ten to his love song.
Wimpy woos his mate by singing
long trills. After a long love song
Wimpy performs sort of Wigman
dance. The female replies by going
through the back-and- forth steps
Of Rumba dancer. The investi-
gators failed to give further de-
tails.
Besides studying insects and
birds, the investigators have discov-
cred large number Of supersonic
sounds, such as the vibrations of
leaves blown about by the wind, the
noises produced by air jets, the
rubbing of hands or clothing, noises
made by burning match, and the
! ticking of watch at distance Of
/ three hundred feet.
The techniques employed in the
study have important practical ap-
plications in the production and de-
lection Of sounds made under water
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Gertrude STEIN is A
PALILALIA

According to the Journal of the
American Medical Association, Ger
trude STEMS writing seems TO be
the result of stream of conscious
ness of a woman without a past"
After characterizing her in this
Rutzlputzlian fashion, the journal
goes on to analyze her condition.
Those familiar with such SYM
toms as automatic writing, palilalia,
preservation and refrigeration are
inclined to wonder whether or not
the literary abnormalities in which
Miss Stein INDUCES represent COR
related distortions of the intellect"
Having reduced her from veg
etable to a brazil nut, the journal
in ruthless fashion continues.
This spontaneous automatic writ
ing by Miss Stein is that Of a Sec
ond personality split off from her
conscious self, and unfortunately
a personality without any back
ground, intellectual opinions or
emotions"
Slightly mad
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
THICKENS ARTERIES

DR.. Alan R. Moritz, of Western
Reserve University, has found that
it is high blood pressure which
causes thickening Of the arteries
and not the other way round as
some investigators believe. He
studied seventy-two individuals and
on the basis of laborious micro
scopic tests hit upon this conclu-
sion. He commended at the National
Academy Of Sciences that his
theory will enable researches into
the causes Of blood pressure to be
conducted with better precision,
once it is known that the thicken-
ing Of artery walls is the effect Of
high blood pressure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
New Pamphlet on Last
DAYS of Tsar Nicholas

Execution Of the Romanoffs was a
defensive measure in critical stage
of the October Revolution, P. M.
Bykov shows in pamphlet, The
Last Days Of Tsar Nicholas"
The author fought in the 1917
Revolution and was chairman Of the
Soviet in Ekaterinburg where the
royal counter-revolutionaries were
executed. Andrew Rothstein writes
historical introduction. The PAM
phlet is published by international.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Stalin's Foundations
Must Be Popularized
Widely, Says CP Leader
BY H. M. WICKS
Agit- Prop Director. Communist
Party. District 3 (PhiladeIphia)

Now that there has been published
an edition of 100000 copies of
Stains foundations of Leninism, "
to sell at 10 cents each, it is the
duty Of every Party member and
sympathizer to see that this inval-
liable work of revolutionary theory
and practice is widely popularized.
Let us hope that this laudable
act of the publishers will be followed
by large popular editions of all the
writings of Lenin and Stain. Such
a policy will tremendously aid in
equipping the revolutionary van
guard with effective fighting weapons
to smash back the capitalist Of
fensive and launch the working
class counter offensive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Members of Collective
Help Set Prices
for Products

Ben Field recently returned
from a study Of conditions in the
U.S.S.R. He attended the Writ
ers Congress and visited many
cOllectives. He contributed to
Pravda, KOlkhoznik, The Literary
Gazette, and is American CORE
spOndent for the Soviet Peasants
Gazette and the French Voice of
the Peasant" This is the first of
four articles dealing with life
among the farmers and peasants
Of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

OO-wEAF-Religion in the News
wOR-sports Resume-Ford Prick
wJz-John Herrick, Baritone
wABC-Advice to Fathers-sketch
7:I5-WEAF-variety Musicale
WOR-Maverick Jin--Stietch
wJZ-King Orchestra
7:30-wABC-Ghost Hunting by Micro
phone-Dr. Z, E. Free
T:45-WOR-Jack Arthur. Baritone
wJz-Pickens Sisters. Songs
wABC-Needed Reforms in Criminal
WABC-Needed Reforms in Criminal
observation-disclosures Pound, Dean
Harvard Law School
o0-wEAF-Concert Orchestra, Sigmund
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

WHAT the hell" asks j. A. Easton, from California,
" is poor musician going to do when he is a Boil
shevik in thought and sympathy and dumb director
puts the of Life of the Gar by Gnka his stand
for him to play?
"You know what all of those bootlickers did when
they this glored with
the idea of raising themselves position of emnence in old Russia
In other words they rosued their art Glnka such bad
melody criticized
the in which he subdnsted and prosued his art to
favor and what thought
Beethoven his period revolutionary
Bosek but who conflict with the
of his time When he the Fifth
he planned to dedicate to Napoleon
advenrer but he raising hell with the various monarches
This led Beethoven believe that Napoleon trying
monarchial establish so-caed
democracy When Napoleon himself Beethoven dis
appointed and furious turned against him withdrew the dedica
ton Beethoven reyoutonist
He boocker for royalty like most of the musicians
other artists of his time He defiant and suen and
his
to the Kings and the Of that political
ripe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
T U n N G. IN

Prof. Henry Wadsworth Longfel-
low Dana will speak Sunday, Dec.
IS, 7;45 pm. over Station WIXAL,
6O40 kc., on Contemporary Ameri-
can Drama.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
LITTLE LEFTY ASKS

What Pioneer troop is going to
do what 75-J, Two. did when they
kollected 1910 for Peanuts and me?
They did it with nikkels and PEN
MES
Malament ...........S Is
Charles & Sonia Lerman. 1880
Previously received ...... 507.S7
Total to date .S520.62
Del will present a beautiful colcred
portrait of his cartoon characters
svery day to the highest contributor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
A Predicament

A PTedIcamenL
WELL Mike-here predicamen in hell play
Life of the clarifying Of the abominabe
pressors in all history thus insulting intelligence and
tung emotions? What would do? If played this
music better than the prostitute artist Gnka
booicked for the Gar played untrue to beliefs
which than skin deep If played it siding with
the against Lennwh the
lists against the Hbeaors and Notwithstanding with old
against New Russia. What would do, Mike?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
DISDAINS TO RETIRE

Having achieved its quota, Lab
and Shop FORCES ahead toward
higher goals. Ramsey is trying
hard to raise at least $3.50, and
that's not so far off, judging by
todav's total