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# Tales from the Fjeld/The Haunted Mill

The Haunted Mill
ONCE on a time there was a man who had a mill by the side of a force, and in the mill there was a brownie. Whether the man, as is the custom in most places, gave the brownie porridge and ale at Yule to bring grist to the mill, I can't say, but I don't think he did, for every time he turned the water on the mill, the brownie took hold of the spindle and stopped the mill, so that he couldn't grind a sack.
The man knew well enough it was all the brownie's work, and at last one evening, when he went into the mill, he took a pot full of pitch and tar, and lit a fire under it. Well! when he turned the water on the wheel, it went round awhile, but soon after it made a dead stop. So he turned, and twisted, and put his shoulder to the top of the wheel, but it was all no good. By this time the pot of pitch was boiling hot, and then he opened the trap-door which opened on to the ladder that went down into the wheel, and if he didn't see ​the brownie standing on the steps of the ladder with his jaws all a-gape, and he gaped so wide that his mouth filled up the whole trap-door.
"Did you ever see such a wide mouth?" said the brownie.
But the man was handy with his pitch. He caught up the pot and threw it, pitch and all, into the gaping jaws.
"Did you ever feel such hot pitch?"
Then the brownie let the wheel go, and yelled and howled frightfully. Since then he has been never known to stop the wheel in that mill, and there they grind in peace.
# Tales from the Fjeld/The Hare and the Heiress

The Hare and the Heiress
ONCE on a time there was a hare, who was frisking up and down under the greenwood tree.
"Oh! hurrah! hip, hip, hurrah!" he cried, and leapt and sprang, and all at once he threw a somersault and stood upon his hind-legs. Just then a fox came slouching by.
"Good day, good day," said the hare; "I'm so merry to-day, for you must know I was married this morning."
"Lucky fellow you," said the fox.
"Ah, no! not so lucky after all," said the hare, "for she was very heavy-handed, and it was an old witch I got to wife."
"Then you were an unlucky fellow," said the fox.
"Oh, not so unlucky either," said the hare, "for she was an heiress. She had a cottage of her own."
"Then you were lucky after all," said the fox.
​"No, no! not so lucky either," said the hare, "for the cottage caught fire and was burnt, and all we had with it."
"That I call downright unlucky," said the fox.
"Oh, no; not so very unlucky after all," said the hare, "for my witch of a wife was burnt along with her cottage."
# Tamil Proverbs/மௌ

மௌ.

## மௌனம் கலக நாசம்

    Silence puts an end to quarrels.

## மௌனி குடியைக் கெடுப்பான்

    A reserved woman will destroy her family.
# Tamil Proverbs/ர

ர.
# Tamil Proverbs/யு

யு.
# Tamil Proverbs/மொ

மொ.

## மொட்டைத் தலைக்கும் முழங்காலுக்கும் முடி இட்டதுபோல.

    Like joining a bald head and the knee, by tying a knot of hair.
    An impossibility.

## மொட்டைத் தலையில் பட்டம் கட்டி ஆள வந்தானோ?

    Has he come to reign with a crown on his bald head?

## மொட்டைத் தலையில் பேன் சேருமா?

    Will lice attach themselves to a bald head?

## மொட்டைத் தலையிற் பேய் வருமா?

    Will a demon come on a bald head?

## மொட்டைத் தலையிற் பேன்போல.

    Like a louse on a bald head.

## மொட்டைத் தலையன் போருக்கு அஞ்சான்.

    A bald-headed man fears not to fight.

## மொட்டைத் தலைக்கு ஒரு கொட்டுக் கூடை, மோழைத் தலைக்கு ஒரு தாற்றுக் கூடை.

    To a bald head, a cup-shaped basket, to a hornless head, a basket of goads.

## மொட்டைத் தலையன் முழு மோசக்காரன்.

    A bald-headed man is a perfect cheat.

## மொட்டைச்சிக்குத் தகுந்த மூக்கறையன்.

    A noseless man, fit for a bald woman.

## மொண்டு ஆளுகிற வீட்டில் கொண்டு ஆண்டால் நிறையுமா?

    Will an affluent household be content to live from hand to mouth?

## மொத்தைச சோற்றுக்கு மேளம் அடிக்கிறான்.

    He beats a tomtom to get a mouthful of rice.

## மொழி தப்பினவன் வழி தப்பினவன்.

    A promise breaker is in the wrong way.

## மொழி தவறாதான் வழி தவறாதான்

    He who is true to his word, swerves not from rectitude.

## மொழிவது மறுக்கின், அழிவது கருமம்.

    If one break his promise, his undertaking will fail.

## மொழிவது அற மொழி.

    Speak decisively.
# Tamil Proverbs/யா

யா.

## யாதி முற்றினால் வியாதி.

    Matured meditation ends in disease.

## யானை கறுத்தால் ஆயிரம் பொன் பெறும், பூனை கறுத்தால் என்ன பெறும்?

    A black elephant is worth a thousand gold peices, what will a black cat fetch?

## யானைக்கு அறுபது அடி, அருங் குள்ளனுக்கு எழுபது அடி.

    Sixty feet from an elephant, seventy from a dwarf.

## யானை தன் தலையிலே மண்ணை வாரிக் கொட்டிக்கொள்கிறது போல.

    As an elephant throws sand on its head.

## யானை தின்ற விளாங்கனிபோல்.

    Like a blighted wood-apple.

## யானை மிதிக்கப் பிழைப்பார்களா?

    Will they survive who have been trampled on by an elephant?

## யானைமுன்னே முயல் முக்கினதுபோல.

    As a hare strained itself before an elephant.

## யானைமுதலான பெரிய ஜெந்துக்கள் தாழ விழுந்தால் பிழைக்கா; அதுபோல, பெரியோர் கீழே விழுந்தால் தேறமாட்டார்.

    Large beasts such as elephants &c., when they fall down from a high place, live not, so are the great.

## யானையை ஆயிரம் பொன்னுக்கு வாங்கி இருப்பு அங்குசத்திற்கு ஏமாந்து நிற்பான் ஏன்?

    Having bought an elephant for a hundred pieces of gold, why hesitate to buy its iron goad?

## யானையைத் தேடக் குடத்துக்குட் கை வைத்தது போல.

    As one put his hand into a jar when he was seeking an elephant.
# Tamil Proverbs/ல

ல.
# Tamil Proverbs/லோ

லோ.
# Tamil Proverbs/மோ

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# Stopping a War/Chapter 13

13. A Frontal Attack on Imperialism
Throughout the anti-war campaign the editors of l'Humanité kept the economic aspects of the war in the foreground. On June 19 an appeal from the Communist International was printed, reviewing the economic and political situation with particular reference to the Riff War. On July 2 an appeal to French intellectuals signed by Henri Barbusse and a large number of fellow journalists denounced the war and called upon the French workers to enforce peace. On May 21, 1925, l'Humanité printed a story of the visit of Abd-el-Krim to Paris in the spring of 1923, giving names, dates, and other minute data connected with his purchasing of arms and ammunitions from French houses.
"The workers are against all European imperialism," declares l'Humanité in its issue of July 20, because "the defeat of French imperialism will signify the immediate cessation of hostilities and the saving of precious working class lives." Therefore, "the French workers hope for and wish this defeat.
"Down with the criminal Moroccan War!
"Down with French imperialism!
"Peace without phrases!"
The Republican Association of Ex-soldiers (A.R.A.C.) issued a vigorous appeal which appeared in l'Humanité May 21:
"Ex-soldiers, victims of the war, up!
"There is no money to pay pensions to the victims of the war!
"There is money, on the other hand, to support the war in Morocco. …
"The natural riches of the Riff are coveted by French imperialists.
"There lies the secret of the Moroccan expedition."
# Stopping a War/Chapter 14

14. Fraternize!
L'Humanité, July 29, 1925
Long live France, in God's name!Let the French proletariat perish!
At the beginning of the struggle l'Humanité published a front page appeal to the relatives and friends of soldiers, advising them that the Government was hiding the truth concerning the Riff War and that it was necessary for those interested in the soldiers to publish the truth, since the government would not even tell how many soldiers have been sent "to fight the war of the bankers." "They pretend beside that the soldiers are happy to take part in this war for the profit of colonial freebooters, of parliamentary speculators and of the Bangue de Paris et des Pays-Bas, of which the sole object is to wipe out a free people in order to use their rich mines. But we know that the soldiers leave, shouting 'Down with war! Peace with the Riffians!'"
The appeal concludes with the request that all letters and other information from soldiers be sent to l'Humanité. Large quantities of this material have since been published.
L'Humanité, August 13, 1925
Soldiers, I am proud of you!
​On July 1 l'Humanité printed the story of a soldier who turned to some women as he was taking his place in the train and said: "Have some children in order that the bourgeoisie may send them to the shambles at the age of twenty." On July 24 l'Humanité printed a letter in which a soldier writes: "Again we are the victims, as were our parents, we who demand nothing but peace and who have no interest in making war." In the course of this letter the writer refers to "our great national butchers, heartless and without guts."
The Central Committee of Action, in its appeal to soldiers and sailors, wrote:
"Despite the promises which were made to us in 1918, war has begun again in Morocco, and it is as horrible as that which ravaged the earth during more than four years,
"The object of this war is not to save national honor. They are sending you to die in Morocco in order that the bankers may get their hands on the rich resources of the Riff Republic, to enrich a handful of capitalists. …
"Fraternize with the Riffians,
"Stop the war in Morocco."
Two days later, on July 22, l'Humanité printed the following comment on the war:
"The workers of this country realize more and more that the Moroccan War was started by the military clique at the direction of European capitalists, in particular of French capitalists, in the person of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas.
"Why?
"Because capitalism hopes, after the defeat of the Riff people, to secure the deposits of iron and copper and the reserves of petroleum that lie in the Riff subsoil.
"That is why and that is for whom the sons of workers and of peasants are being killed in Morocco.
"It is against them, and against that, that the Riffians are defending themselves. …
"The imperative duty of the workers who would hasten the end of this criminal slaughter and who would spare the lives of our sons and of our brothers is very plain:
"Workers of France and of the Riff, fraternize!"
# Stopping a War/Chapter 15

15. Behind the Campaign—the Workers
Behind the anti-war campaign which has been prosecuted with such vigor are millions of French workers and peasants. Without this constituency the movement would have been crushed at its inception.
Before the Moroccan War began, French Communists had changed their form of organization from a political to an economic basis. Instead of being organized by districts they were organized by shops.
When it became apparent that the war would be of considerable duration two workers' congresses were arranged, one for Paris and its environs, July 4 and 5, and one for Lille and the northern districts of France, July 12. Both congresses were notably successful. Both consisted of delegates elected directly from the shops and representing the wishes of a great body of French workers. The Paris Congress seated 2,470 delegates, representing approximately 1,210,000 workers. Among these delegates 195 represented General Confederation of Labor (Amsterdam) unions, 155 were members of the French Socialist Party, and 343 were non-party or independent. Throughout the sessions of the Congress, workers from shops, factorics and offices rose to say simply and directly that what their fellow workers wanted was united labor action to smash the Moroccan War and to protect the standard of living of the French workers. Fraternal delegates from surrounding countries spoke to the Congress in the name of peace and unity. Liebaers, Secretary of the Belgian Garment Workers' Union, concluded a carefully reasoned speech by saying:
"Workers of France! You are faced with this alternative, from which there is no escape. You will either pay dearly for the error of your divided forces, and will allow still heavier chains of slavery to be riveted upon you. Or else, by Trade Union Unity, you will be able to stop the criminal war in Morocco, and then to forge the weapon which the workers need for their final emancipation."
The Paris Congress issued a statement to the workers of the cities and country of France and of the colonies, in which it asserted that "a handful of bankers, masters of the earth, masters of all Moroccan production, wish at any price to extend their ​domination over the portion of territory that Abd-el-Krim and the Moroccans have liberated from the yoke of Spanish capitalists.
"The bankers wish to conquer the Riff mines.
"The bankers wish to destroy the Riff Republic because it has become for all oppressed colonial peoples a symbol of their independence."
The Congress at Lille, one week later, was equally successful. There were 1,189 delegates representing 282,000 workers. As in the case of the Paris Conference these delegates spoke for the various Left Wing elements of French labor.
These Congresses have been described as the first Soviets of France. In one sense the description is correct. They represent neither political parties nor political ideas, but a new working class consciousness of power and responsibility.
* ↑ Workers' Weekly, July 10, 1925.
* ↑ L'Humanité, July 9, 1925.
# Stopping a War/Chapter 16

16. The Imperialists Fight Back
This description of the valiant struggle which the French workers have organized against the Moroccan campaign has been written as though radicals in France were free to speak their minds and carry on their propaganda unhampered by government interference. The case is far otherwise. By June 18
L'Humanité, September 14, 1925
Do as we do! Fraternize!
​l'Humanité was able to report 117 arrests with numerous prosecutions instituted against other comrades. These prosecutions had been instituted in cities as widely scattered as Paris, Toulouse, Nancy, Tours, Saint-Etienne, Calais, and Lyons. On July 26 l'Humanité reported three comrades imprisoned for two weeks as the result of the calling of a shop meeting.
"The Republic of bankers, bourgeois, liberals and Socialist leaders, accomplices in Moroccan propaganda, has nothing to learn from the monarchist regime of the middle ages. It allows the big legal thieves to run the roads and throws into its dungeons the sincere workers who are struggling against oppression.
"Since the 10th of July Comrades Raux, Le Troadec and Ringuit have been kept in absolute solitary confinement in the prison of Avesnes (Nord)."
Late in September, the Secretary of the Central Committee of Action estimated that there had been about 400 prosecutions and something over 100 convictions. Leaders in the big cities as well as more obscure workers had been prosecuted, but with this difference: the leaders were ordinarily given suspended sentences, while unknown workers in the smaller towns were sent to prison for as long as six months for posting up bills denouncing the war and advising the soldiers to fraternize with the Riffians.
On Monday, October 12, 1925, the Central Committee of Action called a 24-hour general strike as a protest against the Moroccan War. The strike was particularly successful in Paris where it tied up the transport service and brought tens of thousands of workers to the streets in a vigorous anti-imperialism demonstration.
# Stopping a War/Chapter 1

STOPPING A WAR
1. Another War!
French workers faced a new war in April, 1925. To be sure, it was not a first class war, but merely a military struggle with a handful of Moroccan tribesmen. Still, it was war, and the international celebrations on May Day broke in upon the French preparations for the Riff campaign.
When Northern Africa was divided among the European empires, the homeland of the Riff tribesmen fell within the Spanish "Zone." The Spaniards are indifferent colonizers. The Riffians, who are sturdily independent, after some severe fighting administered a severe defeat to the Spanish troops.
Having won his struggle against his Spanish "neighbors" Abd-el-Krim was free, during the opening months of 1925, to turn his attention to the aggressive activities of the French forces under General Lyautey.
# Stopping a War

STOPPING A WAR
The Fight of the French Workers Against the Moroccan Campaign of 1925
by SCOTT NEARING
SOCIAL SCIENCE PUBLISHERS 7 West 106th Street New York City
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BOOKS BY SCOTT NEARING
Educational Frontiers.
Dollar Diplomacy. (Collaboration with Joseph Freeman)
The American Empire.
The Next Step.
Wages in the United States.
Financing the Wage Earner's Family.
Reducing the Cost of Living.
Anthracite.
Poverty and Riches.
Social Adjustment.
Social Religion.
Woman and Social Progress. (Collaboration with Nellie Nearing)
The Super Race.
Elements of Economics.
The New Education.
Economics.
Community Civics. (Collaboration with Jessie Field)
Solution of the Child Labor Problem.
Social Sanity.
FOUR IMPORTANT PAMPHLETS BY SCOTT NEARING
Russia Turns East.
British Labor Bids for Power.
World Labor Unity.
Glimpses of the Soviet Republic.
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STOPPING A WAR
The Fight of the French Workers Against the Moroccan Campaign of 1925
by SCOTT NEARING
SOCIAL SCIENCE PUBLISHERS 7 West 106th Sreet New York City
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CONTENTS
| 1. | Another War! |
| 2. | Big Business and the Riff Offensive. |
| 3. | Food for Cannon and Food for Thought. |
| 4. | What Could the Workers Do? |
| 5. | The Committee of Action. |
| 6. | Propaganda in the Chamber of Deputies. |
| 7. | Doriot Names the Causes of the War. |
| 8. | International Complications. |
| 9. | Doriot Tells the Soldiers to Fraternize. |
| 10. | French Imperialism Gives Itself Away. |
| 11. | Set Morocco Free! |
| 12. | The Press Barrage. |
| 13. | A Frontal Attack on Imperialism. |
| 14. | Fraternize! |
| 15. | Behind the Campaign, the Workers. |
| 16. | The Imperialists Fight Back. |
| 17. | Working Class Action Against War. |
Copyright, 1926 SOCIAL SCIENCE PUBLISHERS
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# Stopping a War/Chapter 10

10. French Imperialism Gives Itself Away
Once in a long time the secrets which imperialists whisper in one another's ears are shouted from the house-tops. This happened in 1917 when the Russian revolutionists published the secret treaties found in the files of the Tsarist Government. It happened again in June, 1925, when Doriot rose in the Chamber to read a letter written by M. Vatin-Perignon, chief of Marshal Lyautey’s personal staff at Fez, to M. Pierre Lyautey, nephew of the Marshal, living in Paris.
It was one thing to have a Communist Deputy describe the objects of the war and point out its causes. It was quite another to have these facts from the headquarters of the General in command on the Riff front.
The letter was dated May 25, 1925. It is reproduced in full in the Journal Officiel for June 28. The letter asserts that the French were not surprised by the Riff attack. On the contrary, "the Marshal was so well informed and had so thoroughly foreseen what was to happen, that, from January, 1924, on (see his reports to the government) he was preparing for war." Marshal Lyautey had built a line of blockhouses north of the Ouergha. These blockhouses served the double purpose of excluding the Riffs from the rich Ouergha valley and of forcing the French prohibition against trade between the valley and the Riff. These blockhouses were constructed "in May, 1924, while Abd-el-Krim, his attention taken up by the Spaniards, could not react. … This front was established on a strategic line … without striking a blow. After May, 1924, this front was reinforced, fortified, and its communications with the base secured by a system of roads, bridges, and railways."
L'Humanité, July 15, 1925
Profit. . . . . . . .Loss!
The letter concludes with some comments on the difficulties which confront the French in view of the fact that the enemy territory, the Riff, lies within the Spanish zone.
"Either he will treat with us—but what will be the value of that for the future? Or he will continue to attack us, now on one point, now on another: which means a perpetual state of war. Or, in agreement with the other Powers, we can invade his territory, and that is a very big business (c'est une très grosse affaire.)"
M. Vatin-Pérignon concludes by stating that:
"The Marshal is entirely and fundamentally in agreement with the Government, and the latter is doing all that it can, all that it should. The duty of all good Frenchmen, who do not forget that our future in Morocco, that is to say, our future in the Mediterranean (Algeria, Tunis), is at stake, is to support the Government on this point with all their strength."
The letter created a sensation. Its author immediately resigned as chief of Lyautey's staff. No denial of its contents ever appeared and it has been generally accepted as a correct statement of French imperial policy in Morocco—a policy of deliberate aggression based on military conquest.
# Stopping a War/Chapter 11

11. "Set Morocco Free!"
Again on June 23 Doriot, speaking in the Chamber, reiterated the position of the Communist Deputies. "If we were in power we would bring an immediate end to the French occupation of the colonies." M. Renaudel interrupted with a question as to whether he had correctly heard. Doriot retorted: "We shall arrive at power by the revolution. It will be a proletarian dictatorship. We shall proclaim the independence of the colonies, Algeria, Madagascar, and all the colonies will have free choice as to their form of government."
​Never was the issue made clearer. Never were there more emphatic and categorical statements concerning the right of self-determination for small peoples.
# St. Nicholas/Volume 40/Number 9/Seeing the World

* related authors: Gertrude Alice Kay.
* sister projects: Commons category, Wikidata item.
“SEEING THE WORLD.”— DRAWN BY GERTRUDE A. KAY.
# St. Nicholas/Volume 40/Number 9/The Other Cherry-Pie

THE OTHER CHERRY-PIE
BY ANNA MAY COOPER
| This morning Grandma scolded me For a thing she thought I ’d done. She says she baked two cherry-pies, And only could find one. So she said of course I took it; I must say I don’t see Why, when anything is missing, They should always pick on me! It ‘s: “Tommy, where ’s my razor?” “Tom, you naughty child, Where did you put my scissors? You ’re enough to drive one wild!” | It ‘s only me that tracks in mud, And scatters things about; If I speak above a whisper, They all say, “Tom, don’t shout!” Well, I ‘ve run away and left them— And I won't go back no more; And then they ‘ll find that things get lost Just as they did before. And I guess that they ‘ll feel pretty mean, And maybe Mother ‘ll cry; And I think—perhaps—if I went home— I’d get that other pie! |