The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1924, Page 3

Tuesday, February 19, 1924 DE LA HUERTA’S LAST HOPE LIES IN ESTRADA'S ARMY Fascisti Forces May Cut Railroad Lines By BERTRAM D. WOLFE (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 18.—Hxactly two months after de la Huerta and his associates raised the standard of revolt in Vera Cruz, they abandoned the city and fled by sea to the Yuca- tan peninsula. They will make their last stand where they can easily cross the bor- der into Guatemala. But this by no means indicates the end of the tebei lion, for the strongest of the two re- volting contingents, that of Enrique Estrada on the western front has not been beaten decisively, However, the bettle for Esperanza station on the Mexico City-Vera Cruz line was very important. The rebels were completely routed. They tried to reform for the defense of Cordoba, but after a day and a night of fight- ing retreated again. | Cordoba is the last mountainous place between the capital and Vera Cruz, the last place where numbers do not count for much, the last possible ambuseade ground, e Mountain Campaign. This terminates the mountain cam- paign in which the superior num- bers of the federals were partially compensated by the rebels’ superior | 594 knowledge of the difficult territory. From Cordoba to the sea, ground is comparatively level. Open country fighting means victory for the larger force. That is why the rebels aban- doned Vera Cruz, several hundred miles away, when the federals took Cordoba, The financial importance of Vera Cruz to the government is incal. culable. The government owes its employes here 49-odd days of pay, but with thé opening of the country’s principal custom house and export center all that will change. The battle on fhe other front be- tween Obregon, who is personally leading his forces, and Estrada is not a battle—it is a race. Esttada, with his superior knowledge of his own territory, is racing northward at full speed, trying to give the enemy the slip and thus circle over to the rail- road lines that connect the capital with Laredo and El Paso. To cut these lines only for a few days would be to cut off supplies and injure the prestige of the central government. Obregon Commandeers Jitneys. The rebels are’ at no time far from the great railroad lines. But the federals are still nearer and thus far have been able to keep between them and the rails, without being able to pet close enough to force a battle, ‘n order to increase his speed in the race, Obregon has command vast numbers of cannons (jitney busses) in the capital and is transporting his troops in them, The executive committee of the central labor council of Colombia has expressed sympathy with the Obre- gon government in the present re- bellion. i See Breadline, as South Carolina -Men Lose Jobs By JACK METTE (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press) CHARLESTON, 8. ©., Feb, 18— Conditions continue to grow worse here as hundreds of workmen arte laid off. The United States navy yard, which normally employs about 500, has cut its foree down to nearly 150 men, Other large industries are following suit, among them being Standard Oil, which is running far below capacity, Hundreds of workmen, failing to find work here, aré leaving the city. Many of them go to northern indus- trial centers, ignorant of conditions there. The railroads have been tak- ing on a few men for the fertilizer season which was big tery to ae Feb, 1, but so far very little ferti has been shipped. Despite a recent government re- port + unemployment in South Carolina is on the wane, many citi- tens here predict a breadline thortly {f conditions do not improve. Amalgamation means strength! - Minneapolis Labor of Minnesota. finds the same story, inade- quate housing, inadequate teachers’ salaries and inade- quate revenues. The tremendous increase in dollar expenditure for public education since prewar days has nevertheless een insufficient to keep pace with rising prices. The country has been ready to ineréase its expenditure for manufacture more rapidly than for the production of educated citizens. Conditions Getting Worse. Swift’s figures show that consid- ered as a whole the average child in attendance on public schools in 1920 was not as well provided for as the average child in the prewar period. In 1918 the country spent approxi- mately $522,000,000 for its schools; in 1918, $763,000,000; in 1920, $1,086,- 000,000 and in 1922 (estimated, $1,- 526,000,000. But based on the decline in the dollar’s worth the country acutally spent $84,000,000 less on publie schools in 1918 than in 1913 ay $4,000,000 less in 1920 than in “The inadequacy of the expenditure in 1918 and 1920 becomes even more evident,” Swift says, “when we dis- cover that there were nearly 2,000,000 more children in average daily at- tendance in the public schools in 1918 than in 1918 and more than 2,500,000 more in 1920 than in 1913.” The following, table shows the in- crease in the number of children in average daily attendance on public schools in the United States ana the total expenditures for this purpose since 1890. Attendance. Expenditure. 1890 . + 8,153,635 $140,506,715 1900 .. 0,632,772 214,964,618 1910 2,827,307 426,250,434 1913 3,510,648 534,058,580 1918 .. 5,548,914 763,678,089 rae 16,248,997 1,039,385,055 Between 1913:and 1920 the annual Sree per child increased from $39.50 to $64 or by 62 per cent. Dur- ing the same period the cost of living was increasing by more than 100 per cent, Using such figures, according to Swift, scientific students are answer- ing the cry that public education has exceeded all legitimate bounds and must be curtailed. He declares that school facilities must not be léssened but immeasurably increased. Basing his conclusion on a first hand study of nearly one-third of the United States he says that thete is not a State in the union that is not finan- cially able to place adequate educa- tional facilities within the reach of every school child and to maintain a complete free system of public edu- cation from the kindergarten to the university. Want Cogs, Not Thinkers, Swift might have pointed out that the present public school system developed along side of modern com- mercialism and the factory system to provide workers with just enough education to become intelligent cogs in the machine. In spite of all the idealism which has been cast around it there has been’ no strong move- ment to extend education beyond the bounds necessary to develop an ade- quate supply of mechanics, cierni and technicians. And the reaction against the present public school ex- penditure o: year has come from the highest fin- ancial circles. Pe: it means that the development of automatic ma- chinery has gone so far that the need for intelligent human cogs is decreas- ing rather than increasing, As the country goes on toward highly or- geninad mass production under the jomination of absentee owners who govern thru trained technicians the aag ier against popular education may increase. A mere mechanical man is less likely to organize inde- pendently and declare a strike. A thousand new members wanted for the “I-want-to-make-THE DAILY. DAILY WORKER grew” cube Mobilizes to Fight Anti-Foreign Born Laws ‘The MINNEAPOLIS" Minn. Feb. "i8.-~The Council for Pro- tection of Foreign-Born Workers was started a systematic campaign organizations of Minneapolis against the laws now nized here and e labor and other to arouse ending before Congress, directed at the enslavement of the foreign- born workers. ‘The Council has adopted a resolution which is also being sent to all other organizations for endorsement, which states that by the anti-foreign born Pmt “the employers hope to cow into submission by th threat of deportation and sepa- ration from their families, the foreign-born workers, who are the majority in such basic in- dustries as mining, textiles, leather and meat pens: and thus prevent their being organized unions and go- ing out on strike,” and calls upon all organizations of workers to unite to fight the antisforeign born CLEVELAND, 0., Feb, 18.—Rep- rosentatives of sixty-three Jewish organizations in this city met here thig week and formed a division of the Ldengeen re gesagt Ph } workers w 8 Aghting are in and come to the United States. a workers organizations wit coh ctnera foe the ect ee ba cate wi Less and Leas For Education, Is Policy of Industrial Lords, Who | Want Workers To Be Mere Cogs ! By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press Industrial Editor) An industrial order in the United States which sets a higher value on increase in manufactures than on providing adequate educational facilities for its children is revealed in the U. 8. bureau of education report by Professor F. H. Swift, University Swift finds the inequalities in educational opportunity glaring and ominous. In nearly every section of the cduntry he HOUSING BILL PUZZLES NEW YORK SOLONS; May Need Philadelphia Lawyer to Interpret It (Special to The Daily Worker) ALBANY, N, Y., Feb, 18—The housing bill which was passed by the state legislature and is now awaiting the signature of the gov- ernor to make it law, leaves grave doubts in the minds of many assem- blymen whether or not it applies to New York City. The language of the bill, which continues the present rent laws till June, 1926, is vague and many persons believe that it will be declared to be unconstitutional jwhen brought into court. All efforts of senators who wanted to amend the bill so as to make it apply specifically to New York city were defeated when debate was cut off and the bill put to a vote. The bill is so jumbled that it would be impossibe for a court to hold that part of the law was constitutional and others were not. May Step on Hylan Corns, In addition to not being clear about its application to New York city the bill may run counter to the Home Rule Amendment by specify. ing it applied to certain cities only. The bill is so mixed, bungled, and jumbled that it will do nothing for the poor tenants of New York city who are hardest hit by the housing over $1,000,000,000 a} 4 shortage, high rents and unsanitary conditions. Princeton “Profs” V iew Censorship Barring Everything (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb, 18.—It was too raw for ’em, and the faculty of Princeton University have adopted resolutions of protest. It’s a bill for censoring history and this is the gist of it: “No history or textbook or ref- erence book shall be adopted for use or be used in any of the public and private schools located in the state of New Jersey, which ignores, omits, discounts or in any manner belittles, falsifies, misrépresents, distorts, doubts or denies the events leading up to the American Declaration of Independence or those conducted with the War for Independence or any other War in which the country has been engaged, or which tgnores, omits, ete., ete, the deeds of the noted American patriots. . .. “The Princeton faculty protests that nearly every one (the “nearly” is pleasantly conservative) made mistakes and this bill would prevent the use in New Jersey’s public and private schools of statements made by Washington, Jef- ferson, Lincoln—yes, and Roosevelt. The opinions of our Presidents of their contemporaries could not be juoted.” Oh, say, the professors in effect, “Oh, this is just too much.” acaba onenitnan Huertista Uprising in Mexico Cost the Federals 8 Millions Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 18—Tt has cost the Mexican government approx- imately $8,000, and some 2; men ie put down the de Huerta uprising. While There is a wide div 6 of opinion as to the drain the Fascisti counter-revolution on na- tional resources, it generally is esti- mated by experts that actual cash expenditures have appro: ted 14,- 000,000 pesos ($7,000,000) plus a paper indebtedness, contracted di- rectly as a consequence of the coun- or taubbeact approximating $1,000,- These figures do not take into account the loss of revenue result- ing from ie en et ic Oruz an er ir ensuing ry A lotr of the funds collected + Chicago Russians Plan Big Affair for the Novy Mir March 23, afternoon and ag at Schoenhofen’s Ha! “| ler, 8 oe bureau, who THE DAILY WORKER Page Thre S.DAKOTAF.-L.P, |Petroit Party Members Issue CAN'T WAIT FOR THE 6. P,P. A. Urges Support of May 30 St. Paul Conference (Special to The Daily Worker! siouxk FALLS, 8. D., Feb. 18.— The South Dakota Farmer-Labor Leader, edited by Tom Ayres, Farm- er-Labor candidate for United States Senator, in South Dakota, declares in 4n editorial in its Feb, 20th issue that the farmers and workers are going shead in building for their own Farmer-Labor Party, in spite of the all for the July 4th gathering at Cleveland, issued by the conference or progressive political action. The editoriat is headed, “We Can- not Wait for You,” and urges that workers afd farmers send their dele- rey to the St. Paul conference, on lay 80th. Itsreads as follows: We Cannot Wait For You. “The Conference for Progressive Political Action which met at St. Louis last week, decided to hold a national convention at Cleveland, Ohio, on July 4th, next to decide whether it would engage in a new political party enterprise, “The inference, from the proceed- ings reported thru the press, is that if some person satisfactory to the six- teen standard railroad brotherhoods is nominated by one of the old par- ties, no new party candidate will be chosen. New party activity will be entertained only if a candidate on one of the old party tickets is nom- inated who is particularly objection- able to the railroad brotherhoods, “This may be all right for the brotherhoods, but there are others in- | terested in polities and these others will have something to say about the | matter. 5 “Mr. McAdoo may be satisfactory to the brotherhoods, notwithstandin his oil smear, but Mr. MeAdoo will not be agreeable to the farmers and other workers. The same may be said of Governor Smith of New York. “The voters in the United States who have made the mark in politics are the fellows who began the or- ganization of the Non-Partisan League in the Northwestern states, without consulting anybody but their own people. These voters are re- sponsible for Shipstead, Frazier, Ladd, Dill, Wheeler and Howell, The foundation for the election of these members of congress was laid before the railroad brother- hoods, thought it necessary for them to engage in politics. When they did in they helped mightily, and it is fe hoped that they will look at the resent situation in no narrow and Jelfish light. f Whatever they may conclude to do, however, the farmers and other work- ers are going to have a farmer-labor party, to which the brotherhoods will be welcome when they get ready to enter. On to St. Paul, May 30th!” Workers’ Education Is and Must Be Class Education KATONAH, N. Y., Feb. 18.— “Workers’ education is, and must be, class education, and its highest func- | tion is the emancipation of the class it serves,” is the conclusion of the leading editorial, in the current Brookwood Revi published by Brookwood labor college here. . The Review explains its attitude by say- ing, “The employers may rant against talking in terms of classes. But let the workers consider the conditions of their lives, let them consider their submission to the whims of those who control their means of livelihood, let them consider the great gulf’ fixed between their own lives at the best and the lives of the parasites of modern society, and they can do nothing else but think in terms of classes.” Workers’ Education. Peg pee ali hoo Py oe val of interest in workers education is reported by Spencer Mil- sags Workers’ Education is returned here after a tour of the country. Miller says that the state federa- tions of labor in Pennsylania, Colo- rado, California, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming, mn and other states either have, or to have, permanent state edu- cational directors who cooperate with the Workers’ Educational Bureau. Many international unions have arrangements with the bureau for ing books and pamphlets, and or courses and other educa activities for their mem- ip, according to Miller. Baldwin Clips Payroll, BLPHIA, Feb. 18,—De- Pcie ant ed ei pep hed year, 3 sales a 3 $162700,000, Baldwin Loco: ™ works will work on a 25, per a here eaelezing only 7,000 men. eteen twenty-three was the best year in its history, with the exception of 1918, which was a war year. Shares reached their highest at a ukee and As! Aves., Gra: of a share. Afte: onatomped ra given by the tone a7 per ecnt dividend, poo local Russian Workers | seven will be added to the i Bae Testaleas Aid Society for the it of their Russian daily— on the inside congrat- ‘The Novy Mir. ulate the company, while on the out- Every Party organization in Chi-| side the for a re- Staite ale ah wt a em ahs bis wel econ eit and Kettle, Eh sas wah cuesl toigthene top tetas ieeees slice: writes Soa RG a ut al Y anoth- Wabi testis tener Stunner ores * A ‘ Johnson, | Challenge to their Chicago Comrades in Daily Sub Drive The Workers Party of Detroit has challenged the Workers | Party of Chicago to a contest t That is part of the answer of the business office of the DAILY WORKER about the method Owens used to get $65 worth of subs for the DAILY WORKER in a week. The rest of the Detroit method consists in organization. There has been organized in Detroit a “Boost Our Press Club,” which makes it its business to get subs to the DAILY WORKER. The drive for subserib- ers will go on till March 15th and then Detroit will give a banquet at the House of the Masses to their sub-getters. The branch of the party which gets the largest number of subs during the drive will be pre- sented with a silk banner with the emblem of the party and the name of the branch on it, Bill Dunne, joint editor of the DAILY WORKER, will be the main speaker at this din- ner and will present the banner to the hard working branch. Branches and individuals are both considered tmembers of the “Boost Our Press Club.” For every sub se- cured and forwafded to the DAILY WORKER thru the Detroit district office will count a certain number of points. Subscriptions from members of the Workers Party will count one point for every §1 and subs from non-party members will count three points for every $1. The individual who gets the great- est number of points will be given |$10 in gold at the March 16th dinner, the second highest will receive $5 in gold. The five next highest will each get a book of their own selection. |The worker in each branch of the |party who gets the largest number of points will also be given a book that they are privileged to select themselves. The second and third highest com- rades in each branch will each be given a free ticket to the dinner. William Reynolds now leads the DAILY WORKER boosters in De- troit with 200 points. J. Ferris is second with 166 points and a lot of determination. Next in order are D. Treschak, 141, O. Hanesiu, 101, M. Rapp, 88. It is easily seen that Edgar Owens’ method of getting subs DAILY WORKER consists in getting a bunch of live sib boosters on the job and encouraging them. For several weeks he has had the business office of the DAILY WORK- ER under the impression that hé was doing all the work himself. “Without waiting to see if Chicago accepts, our challenge on DAILY WORKER subscriptions, we in De- troit will consider that the race is on,” writes Owens. “Tell those peo- ple around 166 West Washington St., to get busy if they don’t want to be disgraced. We mean business here.” New York Workers Party Develops the Membership Drive (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—-In the short period of its existence the Workers Party has proven itself to be a real living revolutionary organi- zation participating in every struggle of the workers, educating and or- ganizing the American working class for the final overthrow of the capital- ist system of exploitation and the in- ‘auguration of a sane system of society. Every working man who would not be a lackey of the present social or- der must become a member of the Workers Party and help free himself and his class from wage slavery by abolishing the wage system. A special membership drive meet- ing has been arranged for Thursday, Casino, 142 Second Ave., where prom- inent speakers will tell of the work of the Workers Party and explain why every worker should be a Communist and join the Workers Party. Every class conscious worker in this vicinity must attend this meeting. Working Class Women Open Fight in New York Against Rents (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK Cy, b. 18.—The United Council of Workingclass Women will open the campaign against high rents and better housing facilities at a concert and mass meet- ing, Wednesday, March 5th, 8 p. m., at Park Palace, 110th street and Sth avenue. M) Working class women from various women’s organizations will greet the united fight against high rents. Change of Managers. ROCHESTER, Feb. 18.—Hymarr Blumberg is ¢x to assume temporary charge of the Joint board of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers here, due to the resignation of Morris Kolchin, The manufacturers are expected to file a demand for # change in the ex- isting seale. While no definite step has taken, it is understood to be imminent, Fight Over Cohen. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—An ex- tended fight over the nomination of Walter L. Cohen, negro, to be comp- troller of customs at New Orleans, developed in an executive session of the Senate today. for the} Feb, 14, at 8 p. m., at Stuyvesant | ¢,; 0 see which district can get the most subscribers for the DAILY WORKER by March 15th. of Edgar Owens to th LABOR PRISONE ARE EAGER FOR DAILY WORKER “Last Issue Worn Out,” Says Correspondent “T have seen the first issue of the DAILY WORKER and have been sighing ever since to see the other issues,’ writes a class war prisoner. “The issue I saw was not all there because the other labor prisoners here had worn it out almost, before I saw it. Is there ho way we can receive it regularly here?” The DAILY WORKER business of- fice has been receiving dozens of such letters from almost every prison in the country. One prisoner in California writes that twenty men will read the DAILY WORKER if it is sent there, The business office has finally worked out a plan whereby political and class war prisoners qwill recetve the DAILY WORKER regularly, if the other readers of the paper will help. Here is the plan. If any teader of the DAILY WORKER will send $3 and the name of a political prisoner to whom he Wishes to have the paper sent we will send it for one year. That is just dividing the cost between the readers and the business office of the DAILY WORKER. Because we wart to have the DAILY WORKER reach as many prisoners as possible we are anxious to send it to as many different pris- ons &s possible. If you don’t know any political prisoner to whom you particularly want the paper sent, send us $3 and we will see that one political prisoner is put on the mail- ing list and at least five others will be given a chance to keep in touch with what is happening outside. We have a complete list of all the political and class war prisoners in the country and we know they will all be glad to see the DAILY WORKER and know that there are a few workers on the outside who still remember them. Postal Wage Is $1,000 Shy; Raise Asked by Meeting Two thousand postal service em- ployes demand a raise in wages for the postoffice staffs thruout the coun- try at a mass meeting held in a church building at the corner of 38d street and Indiana avenue Sunday. ate contained in the Kelly-Edge bill. Clerks and carriers now receive a minimum of $1,400 and a maximum of $1,800 a year. They want a $2,000 minimum and a $2,400 maximum, with a provision authorizing pay- ment of $2,500 to some special clerks and $2,600 to others. Solomon Cohen, president of the Chicago union of the National Ped- eration of Post Office Clerks, stated that more than 300,000 postal em- ployees would receive the increases if the measure was passed by con- | gress. The average pay of the postoffice Lo hae said Cohen, is now about $1, under the amount indicated by labor bureau statistics as neces- saty to preserve a decent standard of living. There are approximately 9,500 postal employees in the Chicago dis- ict, The Truth About Russia. Anna Louise Strong, noted author and poetess, will lecture on the above subject Saturday evening, March 1, in the Russian Technical School, 1902 W. Division St. at 7:80 o'clock. Mise Strong is just returned from Soviet Russia, where she has been engaged during the past two years as a staff correspondent of the Fed- erated Press, Want Farmer-Labor C tion. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 18.-~ A bid for the Farmer-Labor state con- vention is made by Glencoe, Minn. Both Mayor A. W. Kreuger and H. W. Weckworth, president of the Glon- coe Community club have written F. A. Pike, chairman of the state central committee of the party urging the city’s facilitigs as a convention city. The proposals for the increases | Ohio Farmers Dead Broke IFRENCH FRANC | FALLING IN SPITI OFM. POINCARI 'Y|Premier’s Plan Doe: Not Halt Panic (Special to The Daily Worker) | PARIS, Feb. 18.—The French fran collapsed to a record low today, fall ing to 23.07 to the dollar shortl; before noon. When the bourse opened, amic scenes of tremendous excitement anc activity in foreign exchanges anc securities, the franc was within ter centimes of its previous low mark of 23.20. | Passes the Record Low. Within a few minutes, further de. cline was in evidence and at 11:30 | while traders struggled frantically ir the corridors and on the steps o! the bourse, the franc passed its rec ord low and went to 23.07. The pound was at 9! i The new decline came in the face of Premier Poincare’s strong pre gram for strengthening of nationa) finances and was attributed in part to opposition to the program. The Socialists, in a meeting yes, terday, condemned the 20 per ¢ent increase in taxes before it bevame effective and outlined a series of measures of their own to rehabilitate the franc. Senator Loucheur, leading indus- trialist and the man who fas tried several times to solve the reparations question by direct negotiations with Hugo Stinnes and other German in. dustrial leaders, addressed a meet. ing of the republican federation at Cambrai, pleading for drastic meas. ures to uphold the franc, Loucheur Has Hopes, A new fall can be prevented by the government, Loucheur believed, favoring the appeal to French hold- ers of thirty billion francs in for- eign securities from whom he_ be- lieved it is possible to obtain at least five billion francs for action in the leading exchange markets of the world, In event the appeal does not bring results, Loucheur said, “the govern. ment could apply coercive measures, “Moreover, it is certain that there are at least two billion frances gold hidden in France. The government should force disgorgement of this fund for use in defense of the franc, ** *@ The New York Money Market. NEW YORK, Feb. 18—French frane closed at a new record low in the foreign exchange market after slumping all day. The final quotation was 0414 off 0022, Sitanbiog dames? closed at 42; lire 0428% off 0005; (Belgian francs 0856% off 0017% marks 4,650,000,000,000,000 to the dollar; Yokohama yen 45.125; Rus- sian chernovetz 4.68. Hesselberg Got Of Easy. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 18.—Held guilty of violation: of a city ordinance which requires a certain minimum temperature in rented dwellings, Max Hesselbert, a landlord, received a gentle slap on the wrist in city court and was fined $5. According to Mrs. Clara Depew, the complain- ing tenant, she complained to Hes- selberg “50 to 100 times” of the badly heated condition of her apart- ment but to no avail. City health inspectors testified they found the temperature as low as 45 degrees in the apattment on va- rious Visits. The city ordinance re- | quires a minimum heat of 70 degrees during the day and 60 at night. In imposing sentence the judge ex- pressed the opinion that Hesselberg deserved a fine of $100 for freezing his tenant. Long Live “The Daily” Chicago, Ill., Feb. 11, 1924. To the DAILY WORKER: Reading our DAILY WORKER, the Children’s Communist Column, the very fice stories that makes me more lively and gives me more education. I don’t know how to thank our comrades for giving us such a great DAILY WORK- ER. I give my stories over to the school children but they would like to have the funny jokes and that would make us children a little hap- ier. I hope Comrades, that you success in his great work, long live THE DAILY, long live the Third In- will carry thru our wish. Wishing our DAILY WORKER a ternational—ETHEL JAFFER. The committee of Laborites chosen to reduce the King’s household ex- penses— Could cut down on doctor bills by teaching the Prince of Wales to fall on his head, TOLEDO, 0., Feb, 17——Farmers east of the Mississippi are as hard up as their western brethren, In Ohio where diversified farming ’ recom- 3 fol mended by President Coolidge, is the sell his stock to keep alive until the Scores of farmers near here are rule, the average farmer reed to next crop is harvested. selling, The country papers are full of advertisements like the following taken from one of them: HAY AND STOCK SALE Tuesday, Jan. 29, 1924" 2 fresh; 50 tons of Terms: 6 to 10 monthy at 80 Pigs and shoats; 8 sows and pigs; 3 mileh cows, hay, mostly alfalfa % on bankable note; 3% off for cash The farmer who inserted this ad has a well-lecated watered farm with has been on the land all his life and fair crops last season. He says: “We have had less than $10 in cash in ten weeks. The farmers cannot pe dg will mature w! other’s stuff except thru these sales and by giving notes to each ben the next crop falls a t hove not a Got wntty tira the Labor Portr! 1$S‘acig' as alta” TENT than #8 for over a znanand, f eaprasy ey 4