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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-07-18
Bridge Game Believed
Type of Russian Whist

The origin of the game of bridge is
unknown. The game is believed to be
q modification of Russian whist, ac-
cording to a written in the. Cleveland
Plain Dealer It was first. met with in
Constantinople and Egypt about 1865,
where, It was the favorite card game
of social clubs. Before the end of the
century It had invaded the Riviera and
Paris. It made It's appearance in Lon
don about 1894, quickly superseding or
binary whist as the society game Of
cards. At first the game was known
In England AZ bridge whist
Contract bridge has been played 20
years. Americans abroad found that
players were experimenting with a
form of contract bridge. About 1915
the Whist Club of New York consid-
cred codifying the game, but decided
the time had not yet arrived to do so.
During the summer of 1925 contract
bridge became very popular in New
port and Southampton. In the fall it's
popularity spread to New York city.
and the game is now played in all
parts of the country.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-07-18
Quicksilver or Mercury
Is Derived From an Ore

Quicksilver, or mercury, is derived
from an ore that is mixture of sui
phur and mercury, called "cinnabar,'
and when very pure is brilliant YER
million. 1t was from this source that
vermilion used to be obtained. Now
adays, however, it is usually made by
heating mercury together with sulphur,
potash and water.
Mercury is called "quick" silver be-
cause 1t seems as If alive, so lively is
the way in which 1t runs about. 1t is
fluid-that is to say, molten-at tenn
peratures which render other metals
solid.
Some tribes of California Indians
have used cinnabar for red paint since
prehistoric times, frescoing their faces
and bodies with it,
To get the quicksilver from the ore it
ID necessary merely to separate it from
the sulphur with which 1t is chemically
combined, and this is accomplished by
roasting. The ore goes from the crush
er into furnace, where high heat vola-
tilizes the quicksilver, the latter being
thereupon precipitated pure in water
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-07-18
Mammoth Pies

1t has been the custom since time i'm
memorial for the people of DENLY
Vale, Yorkshire, to celebrate i'm
pOrtant occasions by making enormous
pies. In 1916 they made one that re-
CURED 81 horses to pull it. and co.
600 people each received a piece. An
other vast pie made in 1928 was cut
into 10000 large portions, each of
which was sold in aid of charity.
Other colossal dishes have been
made in various countries A pie,
IL feet across and weighing three
tons, was baked at the New Orleans
county fair, Albion, New York, in
which 125 bushels of apples, 600
pound of flour, and 500 pounds of
sugar were used. Vying with this was
an omelette of 1900 eggs, fried in
Chahalis, Washington, in 1881. 1t
eight feet wide and weighed half a
ton, and the pan was creased by at
taching slices of bacon to the feet of
girls who skated over it.-Tit-Bits
Magazine.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-07-18
Paganini's Secret

Many times we have been told that
Stradivaris varnish, the composition of
which has for so long puzzled violin
makers, has been discovered. And
many times the secret of Paganini's re-
markable powers has been revealed, or,
at least, so it has been claimed. And
yet we seem to be no nearer to these
secrets.-Montreal Herald.
The tiny city of Eisenach, GERMANY
famed for historic Wartburg cattle. il
also the place where Martin Luther 70.
tired under the pseudonym of "JunlSer
Georg" to translate the Bible info Gov.
man. a
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-07-18
COULEE CITY DISPATCH
Published Every Friday at
Goulee City, Washington
entered as second class matter at
the Postoffice at Coulee, Washing
ton, Under the Act of Congress
of March 8, 1879.
G. d. ARNOLD, Publisher
A BIG JOB

The Treasury's silver-buying pol
icy has encountered adversely.
AS the price of silver reaches
new highs, it became profitable for
persons living in some foreign
countries to melt silver coins and
seu them as bullion to the Ameri-
can government. Further, the high
price offered by this government
tneded to draw silver away from
silver standard nations, such as
China, thus imperiling their none
tary stability. Foreign protest re-
suited.
In addition, the policy led to a
great deal Of speculation abroad.
which enriched the spectators, but
did the United Sites no good.
AS a result, it seems that the
treasury will hae to make changes
in it's silver grogram-it has al
ready reduced it's buying-in or
der to prevent prices from going
higher. Various metal experts are
now supporting the proposed Dies
plan, under which the Treasury
would not buy silver in the world
market for six months or a year,
and thereafter would buy only from
nations which agreed to recipro-
cate by buying an equivalent a
mount eof our surplus commodi-
ties. The Dies plan applies only to
foreign silver! and would not effect
Treasury buying of new domestic
mined silver.
The great problem presented by
silver is to aid the mines, keep our
currency stable, and at the same
time not upset commerce and in
dustry. That is the sizeable job the
Treasury experts now face.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-07-18
IF YOUR JOB WAS AT STAKE

The private automobile driver
. has much to learn, so far as safety
is concerned, from the operator of
commercial vehicles.
From 1927 to 1884, the number
OF passenger cars registered increas
ed 71s per .cent-while the number
of such cars involved in fatal acct
dents rose SIS per cent.
By contrast, during the same
period the number of trucks in use
increased II per cent-while the
number involved in fatal accidents
rose only per cent Similar favor
able records were made by buses
and taxicabs.
The private driver is his own
boss. He can take chances, get in
accidents, and be as reckless and
incompetent as he pleases without
losing his "job"-unless the auth
critics step in. The commercial op-
orator has to drive safely-or look
for anothe calling. The reckless
and incapable driver lasts about as
long with a commercial vehicle con-
Germ as does SNOWFALL in Hades-
and the accident figures refleit that
situation accurately.
If every driver adopted the att
tude that his Job and his livelihood
depended upon his being safe and
competent the accident toll would
go into tail spin at once. As a
matter of fact, he has something
even more vital at stake whenever
he takes the wheel-his life, and
the lives of others. Thirty-fve thou
sand people died unnecessarily last
year because Of recklessly or in
competently driven automobiles
Will that happen again.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-07-18
Coincidence in Names

Probably the most remarkable coinci-
dence in names on record occurred In
shipwrecks In Menai strait, between
the island of Anglesey and N. w.
Wales, writes e. r. Raper, Marshall,
Texas, in Golfers Weekly. In 1864 a
boat with 81 passengers sank in this
channel in 1865 ship with GO and
again in 1920 ship with % sank in
the same spot. In each of the three
disasters, only one man was saved,
and in each case his name was Hugh
Williams.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-07-18
Canada Thistle Grow. Seeds

The flowers Of Canada thistle are
purple or blue in color and of the com.
pOsite type. Several seeds are pro.
duced in each flower. When the flow
ers mature the seeds are at the base
inside a cone-shaped structure. 4
silklike parachute is fastened to the
upper end of the seed and when
massed together in the cone-shaped
head forms white cottony-like mass.
The silk or parachute is carrier for
the seed. Wind will carry the seed for
miles, causing rapid spread.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-07-18
Chat, the Clown Bird

It Is said that by sharply striking
together two pebbles you can start the
chat into his tumble of sounds, the
most peculiar notes, in some respects,
Of the bird choir His antics are in
keeping with his utterances and he Is
q veritable clown of birdland. Largest
of warblers, this shy bird is olive
green above; breast and throat bright
yellow, whitish on the belly, white
eye-ring and line over the eye to the
large curved bill and stripes, on the
neck white.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-07-18
Government of CurScae

The COVER nment Of Curacao consists
OF the islands of Curacao, AiVlba. and
several lesser members of the West
Indies lying off the coast Of South
America, opposite Venezuela. Cuxacao,
notes a writer in the Chicago Tribune
the principal island of the group, was
discovered by the Spaniards in 1887,
but fell into the possession of Meth
@rland in 1884. Except for two brief
periods, 1898. and 1906 to 1914, when
1t was In the possession of Great Bri-
tain. Curacao has been 4 colonial out
,post Of Neither land,
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-07-18
Lemons for Rheumatism
Bring Joyous Relief

Want to be rid of rheumatism or neuritis
pain7 Want to feel good, years younger and
enjoy life again? Well, just try this inexpensive
and effective lemon juice mixture. Get pack
age of the REV PRESCRIPTION. Dissolve il
at home in quart of water. add the Juice of 4
lemons. A few cents a day is all it costs. If
you're not free from pain and feeling better
within two weeks you can get your money
back For sale- recommended and guarantesA
by all leading druggists Any druggist Vim -
the REV PRESc11T10o S0A
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-07-18

JsvAcvcu gUr,ucnpos. GA vz,~. ~v.r-
denser 1t runs In silvery stream and
10 put up in wrought-iron TASKS for
market. The metal has a strong affin-
ty for gold, and il used In connection
with gold mining.-Tit- Bits Magazine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
FRIDAY. JANUARY II, 1885
The ScottSboro Railing

THE brilliant victory won by the LID.
in forcing the Supreme Court to grant
review of the death verdicts in the
Scottsboro case is not going unchallenged
by the enemies of the boys defenders.
As would be expected, the capitalist
press is already giving the formula by
which the vindication of the mass policies
of the LID. is to be attacked in a new
form.
The New York Times, for example,
greets the announcement as proving that
the Supreme Court Stands forth as the
defender of that right of the humblest
citizen to the due process of law"
This, to put it bluntly, is hypocritical
boloney.
The Times knows very we'll that the
Supreme Court in it's decision acted only in
the interests of the capitalist system which
it is defending The Supreme Court acted
as it did only because it did not dare to
ignore the millions of workers all over the
world and in this country, particularly, who
have been aroused over the case by the
campaign of the LID.
The Supreme Court gives the masses
concessions only when forced to do so by
mass pressure.
The "due process of law" which The
Times claims as the bulwark of the hum
blest citizen" is only the hypocrisy of capt.
taGst law which is devoted largely to pro-
tecting capitalist profit and capitalist OPP
preston.
The Supreme Court is a defender of the
whole system of national oppression and
lynching out of which grows such hideous
frame-up as the Scottsboro case How then
can it be a defender of the boys?
Only one thing can make the Supreme
Court, as well as any other capitalist court
listen to the voice of the masses-organ-
lied mass protest, the policy of the LID.
The trick of The Times is to belittle
this mass protest just now at time when
more than ever it is the only thing that
stands between the boys and the electric
chair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Jobless Miners Hold
Firm in Relief Strike

GALLUP, NJ M, Jan. 10.-The
strike on the Federal Relief Project
that began here last week and is
being led by the Unemployed Local
of the National Miners Union, has
successfully defeated attempts by
the relief officials to get the men
to go back to work without granting
their demands for increased relief.
A committee of the strikers head
ed by j. F. Backa, chairman of the
Unemployed Local Of the National
Miners Union and Frank Williams,
secretary of the union, met with re-
lief officials to present their de-
mands for increased relief and sup
port of the Workers Bill, H. r.
2827, but refused to call the strike
off until their demands were
granted.
The strike committee has asked
that workers organizations send
resolutions of support to the strike.
to Mrs. Justin LANCER, State food
expert, Santa Fe, N. NJ, and to M.
Daniels, supervisor of welfare, and
Royal Smith, project manager Of
Federal Emergency Relief, Gallup,
New Mexico.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
LiVing Costs Still Soar

IRON the beginning of the New Deal the
Communist Party has declared that it
was scheme to increase the super-profts
of the capitalist class at the expense of
the living standards of the working class.
The Communist analysis was verified
again on Wednesday when Secretary of
Labor Perkins announced that the cost of
living had gone up 8.3 per cent during the
18-month period between June 1888, and
November, 1884 The real rise is con-
siderably higher
Not being able to conceal the increased
cost of living, the administration tries to
cover it up with the claim that the masses
have not suffered because real wages have
not fallen.
1t is easy enough, however, to show
that real wages have fallen. Even the A.
F. of L. leadership admits that thus far
the rapid increase in prices has cancelled
all the gains in the average workers in
come. "The workers dollar can buy only
about 78 cents worth of food and about
70 cents worth of clothing
And in terms of real wages his purchas-
ing power in November was three per cent
less than in March, 1888, at the lowest
point of the crisis This shows that the
New Deal cut the real wages of the work.
ers in order to increase capitalist profits
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
A Belated Admission

GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON, ex-
generaissimo of the NRA., finally adj
mits the correctness of the Communist
Party's claim that the N.R.A. is an instru-
ment for building Wall Street monopoly.
"The N.R.A. has proven to be con-
structive," the New York Times reports
him as saying, 'to highly organized in
dustry, but it has proven moribund for
smaller industries.
This is fancy way of saying that the
NR.A. has given the Wall Street monopo-
lies bigger profits by crushing small, non
monopoly business.
This is exactly what the Communist
Party said the N.R.A would do, from the
first week of it's administration in 1888.
The Communist Party was the only
voice in this country which branded the
whole Roosevelt New Deal-N R A. program
as drive to give the Wall Street monopo-
lies bigger share of the national wealth
and income at the expense of the rest of
the population.
The past two years experience has con-
hrmed this analysis a thousand times,
proving that the Communist Party, bas-
ing itself on Marxism-L eninism, the theory
of the world Communist International is
the only true guide of the working class
to understanding the development of the
crisis and the Roosevelt program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Silk Workers Election

THE election of the Plain Goods Depart
ment of the Paterson Silk Workers
Union (U.TW.l which takes place this
tomorrow, brings up the issue of whether
or not the workers will take control of
their own union.
The reactionary Keller-Lovestoneite
leadership, masquerading under the title
of 'Progressives," is fighting for its life in
these elections.
In a desperate statement issued by the
progressive group, an attempt is made
to confuse the issues by shameless lying.
They, who have been eating the heart out
of the union, have the audacity to entitle
their leaflet Save the Union" The
enemy" Keller says is the growing rank
and file movement, the militant member
ship The Lovestoneites pledge to expel
from the union former members of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, now among
the most active in its ranks. Keller car
ries out Green's expulsion policy, but not
a word of concrete criticism of Germans
treachery in the General Strike is con-
tanned in the progressive" statement
An overwhelming vote for the rank and
file slate, Saturday, similar to the victory
scored in the dyer's local last Saturday by
the rank and file dyers' slate will be the
most fitting answer to these reactionaries.
To defeat the wage-cuts and gain better
conditions, the Keller clique, which sup
ports the German machine, must be de-
feated.
Elect the rank and file slate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Thomas and CoughIin

THE radio priest, Coughlin, while calling
for fascist pogroms against the Com
munists, praised Norman Thomas as a
gentleman, who is anything but a fol-
lower of Marx" and that Norman Thomas
has the same objects in view as l have"
And the United Press reported on De-
cember 10 that Norman Thomas said:
"Coughlin is fine man, but many of his
ideas are not practical"
Two fine men. Two gentlemen who do
not follow Marx!
How does it happen that Socialist
Party leader praises typical and sinister
Wall Street fascist tool as a "ine MANI"
How does it happen that an INSCRIPTIONS
fascist demagogue praises Socialist Party
leader because he "does not follow Karl
Mark"
Is it not clear that for all their "criti-
cism" of one another they have no real
enmity for one another? When Norman
Thomas praises Coughlin he is aiding this
fascist to spread his influence
Thomas says his ideas are not 'prac-
teal" But Coughlin's ideas are only too
practical to carry out the aims of Wall
Street and fascism With this talk, Thomas
depicts man who is conscious agent of
Wall Street as a well-intentioned visionary.
Now we put this question: Does not
this help this Wall Street agent in his fas-
cist work?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
By Vern Smith

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (By MaiD
John zilich, born in Yugoslavia,
went to America and worked there
at useful labor for thirty years. He
worked in mines, smelters, and ma
chine shops and steel mills all over
the country. He felt himself mem
Der of the American working class.
He joined their unions, went on
strike with them, helped them fight
for higher wages. He did his work
well, committed no crime-except
the crime, under capitalist law, of
being class conscious worker.
But, however much he might feel
himself a part of the American
scene, in the eyes of the bosses, zil-
ich remained an alien There was
never any suggestion that he might
become part of the government.
He was not invited to sit in any
legislatures. Instead, he was forced
to lie in Jail.
zilich was arrested with other
workers in the then famous Wood
lawn Case" and charged with trea-
son against the state of Pennsylva-
MIA and the United States. Some of
the Woodlawn defendants got pris-
on sentences. Some we're deported
zilich, despite his thirty years of
building industry for the capitalists
of America, was kicked out of the
country. The only thing proved
against the Woodlawn defendants
deny a foreign worker his political
equality in this election, and it met
with instant and severe rebuke.
Neither does race interfere with
the right to vote and hold Office in
the Soviet Union. One of the en-
gineers at the First State Ball Bear
present and given the right to vote
and be nominated for office. This
is the only case so far as I know
where even an attempt was made to
held again, with the foreign workers
was possession of Communist litera
ture.
zilich came to the Soviet Union
He got a job at the new steel town
of Magnitogorsk, in tie Ural noun
tains. the town, or rather, city
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11

sincere builder of socialism, the
white workers of the Ball Bearing
Plant elected him unanimously to
the Moscow Soviet, as their deputy
and representative, without regard
to his foreign nationality.
Robinson is of West Indian birth,
but came to the U. S. A. young in
life. He had bitter struggle there
against Jim Crowism unknown in
the Soviet Union, against discrimi-
nation on the job unknown here
and terrible fight to get high
er education (Which here is the nat
ural right of any worker who
shows himself able to benefit by IT'D.
Robinson was invited to come to the
Soviet Union by Soviet Automo-
bile delegation to the Ford plant in
America. He was working then at
Ford's. He worked first at the Sta
lingrad Automobile Plant after
coming to the Soviet Union, and
was one of those selected to help
put the newly built Ball Bearing
Plant on its feet, in 1882 He has
been taking political science courses
here in night school,
A considerable number of other
foreign workers of all nstionalities
have been elected to soviets this
year in U. S. S. R., including some
other Americans: one is man
named Genat, a Hungarian by birth
but in the United States for Is
years. Ant ther is an American Finn,
Elmo Laurilo, who came to Karelia
in 1881 and works in the Petroskoi
Auto Repair Plant. Laurilo, how
ever, has taken out Soviet citizen
ship. But he could have been just
as eaSilv elected without that.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
AMERICA

right under the very of the American workers. how
these workers believe the fantastic and bood-curd-
ling yarns published in the Hearst reptile press about
life in the Soviet Union?
Consider the Hearst journalistic technique" right
here at home
Hearst reporter called upon Prof. J ohm n Wash
burne of Syracuse University. He introduced himself
as Richard Smith,, but did not say he Hearst re-
porter. He said he interested in studying govern
ment and politcs-especially the Russian experiment.
The professor recommended couple of nnocuous
given by liberal teachers at the university Next
day, accompanied by another Hearst reporter, who
described himself as craftsman" the prospective
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11

tona statements from the interview in order to make
good case. That is what Mr.. Hearst is expecting"
This is the Hearst method
This is how Hearst obtains his facts" about Com
munism in the United States.
These contemplate, Shiny methods are character
istic of Hearst journalism.
Hearst lies every day, every moment about life in
the United States
He lies about the Communist Party of the United
States and about the triumphant rule of the proetarat
in the Soviet Union.
The workers of the United States will see through
these lies and recognize Mr. Hearst as one of their most
dangerous enemes