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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11
CHARITY DENIES
AID TO STARVING
DENVER FAMILY
Tell Him to "Come
Back Monday"


To The DAILY WORKER: In a
recent issue of the DAILY WORK
Err, your article, "Charittes Head
Lauds Workers Housing Probe" /
wish could think they were sim
cere, but / don't. Here in Denver
it would mean that the Associated
Charities were using workers probes
into housing conditions for Conn
munity Chest propaganda to get
money for their own selfish use and
afford fat positions for few favor
ties among their own dishonest
clique.
Work Monday-Starve Saturday
/ notice they are careful how
they spend their money on the in
dividual'
Here is, an example. About seven
blocks from where | live a Mexican
with wife and little girl moved into
a house, paid a months rent and
had food supply to last one day. He
had not penny until he could get
some work. The lady next door is
a widow depending for her living on
whatever work she can get now and
then. While the man was looking
for work the two women got ac-
quainted, and the widow learned Of
their desperate need. She advised
the woman to go with her to the
county and apply for aid until her
husband could get work, and she
herself went with her. The lady in
charge of the City and County of
Denver Office said: "Come back
Monday"-this was Saturday land
I'll see if l can't find some work for
your husband"
"But,' the widow said, "they
haven't anything in the house to eat
have had nothing to eat all day."
"Tell your husband to come down
Monday morning and we'll see about
some work for him"
Work and Pray-Live On Hay.
They next went to the Salvation
Army-it was afternoon.
The lady said, Eve don't give
anything out after o'clock"
"But they have got nothing in
the house to eat, have had nothing
to eat today The widow per-
sisted.
1--WE don't give anything out after
2 o'clock"
The man went to the City and
County Office Monday to see about
work. There was none, the woman
said, "Come back tomorrow" but
she didn't offer him anything to
eat.
If they had been left to the
mercies of the organized charity
would that man have been able to
take a job when he found one? Oh,
yes, they are indeed very careful
about giving aid to the individual
who needs help.
ELSIEPHENE MERRIAM,
Denver, Col.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11
Sue for Right to
Fight Fascism in
Pennsylvania TOUn

NEW YORK. April 10.-Chief
Burgess Walter Kozlowski, Mt. Car
mel, Pa, is threatened with court
action in a letter sent by the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union here an
nouncing that the union viii hold a
test meeting for free speech in his
town. Kozlowski co-operated with
Mussolini adherents in Mt. Carmel
to prevent an anti-fascisti meeting,
March 26. Governor Clifford Pinchot
is also receiving protest from the
union.
The mayor of Wilkes-Barre re.
Gently interfered with a meeting of
citizens to praise one foreign pre-
mier (Lenin), the union points out,
and now another Pennsylvania
mayor stops meeting TO criticize
another foreign premier. Mussoljni.
Both meetings were within tie con-
stitutional rights of the citizens.
Suit for false arrest against the
San Francisco police department
has been filed in federal court by
the California attorney OF the Civil
Liberties Union The suit is part
of the unions campaign TO stop the
lawless persecution of radicals. and
IS on behalf Of George Qunlivan,
secretary, Marine Transport Work
ers' Union. LawIess raids against
the Transport Workers have been
carried out by the San Francisco
police at the instigat'on of the
Shipowners' Association. IL IL
charged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11
War on Var" Is
SeditiOn if Put
On Soldiers Grave

PARIS, April 10.-"War on War
is seditious when placed as a motto
unon monument to soldiers who
fell in the world war, according to
the French courts.
In one Of the communes Of the
Department Of Yonne, the city
fathers. with the approval Of the
population, voted to have he in
scription War on War (Guerre
contre la guerre) Placed upon the
soldiers monument. The police orr
dered the motto removed. The town
council voted unanimously to paw no
attention TO the order.
Thereupon the mayor was arrest
ed and fined. besides being ordered
Co remove the inscription.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11
TecIinic
And Ecstasy Mark
Carl FLeSch Violin
BY ALFRED '. FRANKENsTEIN.

By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN.
Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist,
was soloist with the Chicago Sym
phony Orchestra at the regular con-
cert in Orchestra Hill last Friday
and Saturday. His choice of music
for performance fell upon the Beet
hoven concerto, and his choice was
a wise one. Flesch is middle
aged man, and he plays with a fine
classic Interpretation. thorcly Ger
man, with beautiful tone and inn
peccable technic. So the classic
German violin concerto of Beet
hoven was the very work Flesch
was best fitted to play
Poem of Ecstasy"
Scriabin's "Poem of Ecstacy" was
also played. Scriabin was a mystic,
and expressed a metaphysical mys-
ticisrn in music. The work played
on this occasion takes as thesis the
idea that all the experience of life
is vast and compelling ecstasy of
action. The music is as big as the
thesis. 1t rises to great climaxes,
there are moments of great stress
and pain. and moments of intense
and thrilling JOY.
The Rhenish symphony Of Robert
Schumann, arranged for modern or
chestra by Frederick Stock. took no
the first part Of the program. Stock
did more than re-orchestrate the
work, he reyivifed it, and recast it
in new and more beautiful mold
The symphony has no definite pic
torial meaning. attic the fourth
movement is intended to describe
the Cologne cathedral All thru the
five movements breathes festival
atmosphere. in fact, the finale SYM
nhony is the poem of ecstasy of a
less mystical and far saddar mar.
Weber's overture to "Abu Has
san," clever little prelude to a
clever little opera, opened the pro-
gram.
Next week Fannie Bloomfield
Zeisler, Chicago pianist, will be the
soloist. playing a concerto by Mos
kowski. The Beethoven seventh
symphony, the symphonic poem,
"The Dying Swan" by perinelio,
new to Chicago, and the overture
"Cockaigne," by Edward Elgar,
compose the rest of the program.
IMPEACH COOLIDGEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11
Var as He'll Exposed
By Private Peat in
Cleveland Speech

CLEVELAND, April 10.-"Pri-
vate Peat" revealed was as it Is to
q large group of Cleveland business
men, containing a number Of dis
tinguished war profteers. The
Canadian declared: "Our newspa-
pers and even our school books are
saturated with praise for military
glory, and are largely silent as to
the cost and criminality Of it. We
who served know war has four ele-
ments: tears, filth, wooden crosses,
and degenerating influence" de-
clared the soldier author. "The
pupils today are learning that it IS
glorious, chivalrous and honorable"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11
new YORK PRINTERS
GET THE NEWS FROM
THE DAILY WORKER

News Of the wage negotiations
in the Newspaper printing indus
try in New York City was carried
to the workers FIRST in the DAILY
WORKER. In one newspaper COM
posing room, especially, that of
Pulitzer's New York World, copies
of the DAILY WORKER, carrying
the news of the negotiations, were
posted on the workers bulletin
board, with other trade union mat
ter. The same was probably true
in other Offices. The newspaper
printers know where to get the
truth about their fight with the big
publishers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11

proved themselves renegades to the
principles they have at various
times professed to uphold.
Despotism Rampant.
At this meeting gag rule was en-
forced to the limit. With the ex-
ception of a few members who
voiced objections to the actions Of
the officials, effective speakers for
the opposition were denied the floor.
Rouse in one case refusing to rec
ognize a member on the pretext that
the colder" members should be
heard from. It is needless to note
that had the member been on
Rouse's side he would have easily
got the floor. 1t was clear in this
case that the ramshackle steam
roller feared wreck and dared not
attempt to meet the argument of
the member who was refused the
floor.
Several members were clamoring
for the floor when Rouse gave the
gavel to Howard and turned the
meeting into minstrel show with
the President of Big Six and the
Acting President of the !. 4. U. in
dulging in mutual admiration per-
formance-Rouse eulogizing How
ard and Howard later returning the
compliment.
Fear Rank and File.
While engaged in this delectable
performance they both tried to i'm
press upon the membership the no.
ton that great victory had been
won. To achieve their aim they
both became third rate sophists
Sophistry consists in parading
one plausible argument to the ex-
clusion of all others. In this case
the arguments of Rouse were not
even plausible, but downright silly.
The burden of his apology for leav-
ing the membership in the lurch
thru Juggling the scale of wages
and hours and imposing gag rule
upon them in the form Of prepared
motions was to the effect that since
this is presidential election year"
we were lucky to get anything and
that as the result Of the Washington
scandals in government times were
bound to get worse. Such infan-
tile twaddle would disgrace a high
school boy, but it was put forth by
Rouse with all the vehemence Of I'M
disputable fact. The two and a
half year contract was praised as
an act of craftsmanship.
The very argument of Rouse to
the effect that we were approaching
hard times is an argument in favor
of shorter hours, but he dared not
draw the logical differences from
these arguments. In face of a
crisis, hours of labor should be
shortened in order to take care of
the unemployed. A mere ANA
teur in the realm of politics and
economics, this clown at the head
of Big Six, dared not invite critic
ism Of his betrayal of the trust
placed in him by the membership.
What's Their Idea.
The one reason why lcng-term
contracts are frowned upoE by in
telligent members is because the
cost Of living constantly fiuctuates.
Since the war no one can anticipate
the movement of prices from one
year to the next, say nothing of
period of two and half years-a
quarter Of decade. Simultaneous
with the rise Of the cost of living
all world currency is depreciating
rapidly; sometimes a steady decline
for period of time, then a spas
modic downward plunge, with oc-
casionally slight recovery here
and there. But the general trend
is downward. Who knows but that
our dollar Will keen decininn no n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11
Endorse st. Paul
Convention and
LGFOIIette, Too

ST. LOUIS, Mo, April ia
resolution indorsing the presidential
candidacy If Robert NJ. LaFol.ette
was passed unanimously at a meet
ing Of the Missouri National Pro-
gressive league. About 400 per-
sons attended. It was voted to
send delegates to the national con-
vention in st. Paul. June n. The
board Of directors is instructed to
call state convention for a state
ticket. Sheridan Carlisle, former. v
with the Farmer-Labor party in
Missouri, is chairman of the league.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11
Hard Winter In St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, April 10.-The St.
Louis municipal lodging house has
sclosed for the season. More than
100000 homeless and destitute were
housed from Nov. l to April /, as
, compared with 10000 during the
same period last season. When the
institution opens next fall the giving
Of free meals will be abandoned. It
is claimed that the free meals habit
has too widely advertised the "hotel.n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11
Democracy or Despotism---A
FeW Reflections Upon the
New York Newspaper Scale

NEW YORK CITY, April 10.-For brazen despotism the
in which the scale imposed the
of big Six stands without parallel in all the
annals of trade union history unless dig the odorferous
record of Mr. George L. Berry
AS between the autocracy of Berry that of those
ponsbe for the present scale there nothing The
difference that Berry openly auns his dictatorship
the Freshmen while Leon H. Rouse president big Six
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11

INDIANAPOLIS. April 10. - De-
nouncing Governor Warren T. Me-
GRAY as man who had "juggIed
public funds and betrayed the public
trust" Eph Inman, special prose
cutor, today opened argument for the
state in the trial of McCray on
charges Of embezzling Sl55,00 Of
the funds Of the state board Of agri-
culture
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-03
TNTEREsTED IN COvERNMENT

1t seems that the voters of this community
and this, state are taking a more alert and
Intelligent interest in the merits of various
candidates for public office than has been
the case in the past. Formerly the candi-
dates went about discussing those subjects
they desired to discuss and avoiding those
81 which they wished to keep silence. The
suetences took what was given them and
we're more often moved by considerations of
elbauence than by those of merit.
Times now have changed. The candidates
find audiences restless under oratory and
willing to listen only to pertinent discussion
q practical policies. In fact, the audiences
tkemselves select the subjects and PROFOUND
fbern in the form of questions of direct and
N{ten disconcerting nature. Some candidates
have sought to rebel against this procedure
They are the ones whom the voters would
3 ~ veil to neglect on election day. The peo-
SlR have a right to know the sentiments of
aee who desire to handle the public money
ass administer the public affairs. They will
"a fully justified in rejecting not only those
Ac fail to give satisfactory answers but
also those who answer reluctantly and I'M
eiously.
are in an era when the influence of
public administration of affairs upon the
Es8ernl prosperity and progress is very strong
and intimate. When public affairs are well
admjniatered the whole community prospers
81 expsnded measure accordingly. When pub
lse Affairs are poorly administered. then the
public welfare and the private business alike
saffer The time is at hand when only the
Heet executive and financial talent as we'll
as administrative vision are to be trusted
with the functions of government. no matter
how small may be the unit to be governed.
The affairs of Jefferson county have now
Reached q magnitude which was attained by
few states three or four decades ago. The
people are beginning to realize that and to
axe commensurate concern in the qualifica-
tioAs Of those who present themselves for
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-03

by spirit, which might have developed to
achieve scnsF great public service, had the
lad saved himself In the performance of d
noble deco When a child in defiance Of
danger Voluntarily sacrifices his life to res
cue a cordpanion, il is a source of regret
that he is INIT spared for leadership among
men to stamp his Impress upon the character
and achievement of his day ~,
The American has justly earned the dis
tinctiQn which attaches to initiative and .un.
selfish service in the Performance of duty,
especially In times of emergency. Whatever
may be said of his training for special serv-
ice, when the need for action comes, his spirit
and his purpose are the inspiration for
worthwhile achievement. Where there's a
will there's way" finds expression in the
many deeds of valor and selfsacrifice which
have marked the American youth. The lit
tie boy is but one among many lads of this
country who, under the inspiration of duty,
think only of the noble results to be at
tanned,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-03
THE COURTHOUSE QUESTION

Proposals to sell the present county court
house site and erect an adequate admins
tration building on the site purchased some
time ago, without the necessity for a bond
issue may appeal to the imagination .of some.
The trouble is that it is not founded on
facts and viii not work out. There is a
debtson the present courthouse property. If
It were sold for the highest price which
nenbers of the board have suggested that it
might bring on the market of today, the
kr4nsAction would occur at a sacrifice of
more than million dollars Not less than
an additional million and a half dollars
would be needed to construct an adequate
administration building. Thus a bond issue,
Or its more costly equivalent, county war
rants, would be required. Contention that
new administration building to meet the
cubic needs can be constructed on the pro-
coked new site without a bond issue, is to
ignore the facts, however attractively can
dldates for, office may paint it as a cam
paign picture.
The question of a new county administra-
fion building, the site, cost and means of
.financing the project, are matters to be de-
ksFmined by vote of the people. AS yet, how
eyer, they have nothing definite as respects
plans and purposes to vote on. The board
uf revenue has presented no plan. In the
absence of one, the voters would have moth
ing definite to guide them. While every
body admits that a new administration build
ing is needed, public opinion can express it
self only on a concrete plan such as has
not yet been presented. Until a compre-
hensive plan is presented, there can be no
intelligent vote on the project.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-03
HERorsM AN AMERICAN TRAIT

wat IL known and admired as 1.-The
American Spirit" finds recognition among
pkner ways, through awards by the Carnegie
karo fund commission for deeds of heroism
and vslor in rescuing those in distress. Five
* the seventeen recipients of medals recently
a&arded lost their lives in the performance
81 noble deeds. Dependents of those who
died 10 efforts to save others were granted
pensions aggregating thirteen hundred and
eighty dollars annually.
touching announcement in connection
with the awards was that among the heroes
visa a thiFteen-y ear-old schoolboy who lost
hfe lie while trying to rescue another lad
fr6m drowning. That is heroism prompted
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-03
PRACTICAL RECIPROCITY

Noting a situation and drawing lesson
that is applicable in many communities, The
Gadsden Journal asks, why Not Invest in
Gadsden:" and adds:
1t is an old, old saying that "the grass
in the other pasture always looks
greener.' This is true in nothing more
than In tendency to invest money in
outside concerns. Gadsden citizens see
thousands of dollars flowing from this
cry INTO the Golfers of corporations 10.
Gated in other cities, in return for stock
and bonds. And Gadsden money is helm
ing to build other communities. The
journal has no quarrel with those who
are sending their money away. The
money Is theirs, and they have a perfect
right to do with it as they please. But
the point is that if that money were put
10 WORK IN Gadsden. it would bring
greater returns. Not only would there
be dividends from the plants and busi
nesses which could be operated here nv
locally owned corporations but these
new industries would bring increased
population. increased pay rolls and in
creased business
This suggestion finds application. not only
in Gadsden, but in many other Alabama com
munities, some of whose citizens make a
practice of freely investing their savings tc
enrich distant sections. It might be no less
discoursging than informing to know how
much money made in the Birmingham dis
trict. largely through opportunities which til;
district offers. goes into securities of remot,
enterprises. This money. judiciously invested
in local enterprises. would be equally a.
profitable directly and indirectly to the in
vestors The principle of home trading il
aenecialIv wise and nroner when values re
ceived are at least equal to those available
elsewhere Alabama communities offer man,
attractive investments. The more these ar,
ignored by those who draw their substance
from these communities aud send it. aEay Il
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-03
The Right Word
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. !.
BY cURrlS N1cHOLsoN

W0m6aa--A4ady'---Ee naaie ~
j. w. NJ. Of New York discusses the words
woman and lady. He asks, (Which of these
two words ia the correct word to use in
designating the highest type of female?"
]. w. NJ continues, Some people under
stand the three words with their meanings
to be as follows Female, birth; woman
legal authority, years of discretion; lady,
education and refinement.
Can you say, "a drunken ladyy 1t ap'
pears that a lady may drink to excess and
still have the mannerisms of d lady.
IF sculptor made a statue of female
with all the worlds highest standards, virtue
refinement, education. which would be the
correct word as symbolism of feminism p
The word female so used is in bad taste.
Woman Cfrom the Anglo-Saxon wife and
mani is used generally in distinguishing her
sex The word lady should never be used
when one il rnsrely expressing the idea Of a
person, of the female sex. Lady iss.a term
that implies refinement and culture and is
used to discriminate between two types Of
women. One would hardly call a drunken
woman lady. ~
'gTly to Remember "
To o. X. Kitchel, Chicago: The expression
''Try and remember. which you found In
this column, was a deliberate error. 1t was
changed the following day to ''Try to re-
member
Yesterdays Error
Wrong: He spoke a. you would have
Right: He speAs as yeu would have
spoken.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-03
If Dreams Come True
Laura Helena Brewer in Arkansas Gazettel

Laura Helena Brewer in Arkansas Gazette)
If dreams come true, sweetheart-if dreams
come true
At morn, at noon, at twilight's fall, with
you
I'll work, OF play, I'll laugh, or weep. or
sing, ~
My fancy following yours like homing
birds awning.
Each echo in your heart in mine an answer
ing
If dreams come true, sweetheart--if dreams
come true.
If dreams come true, sweetheart--if dreams
come true,
Will suns forever shine and skies be blue
All, no. For night will come and clouds
draw down their pail,
And thunders crash around us, torrents
fall;
And yet--with you-my hand in yours
'Tis all
Twill need to make Us happy, dear when
dreams come true.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-03
FOR MORE CROSSING BEACoNs

i Appropriation of three thousand dollars by
{ He city commission to install twelve more
kaffic beacons at downtown corners in the
,,<sfness district wuld be a wise and eco
shaical Investment. Since the public has
Msrvn hearty spirit of cooperation in OBJ
stn nee of the beacon signals, accidents have
been Reduced, traffic is much more orderly,
dangers have been largely decreased and
much time Ii saved. There is general ap-
proyal Of the beacon system because it has
been highly effective both in reducing danger
and in improving traffic. There are other
more or less congested corners in the bust
mess district which it were well to equip
with this system. The saving of few lives,
reduction of danger and improvement in
traffic constitute generous returns on the
Investment. For large and growing city
like Birmingham the proposed cost is small
AZ compared with results. The city commits
sion can well afford to make the appropria-
ton in the interests of the public welfare.