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Evening star., 1924-04-11
FOR SALE-HOUSES.
COntfnWed.

BRICK NEWLY Pa
pered and painted inside and out; deep lot; on
wide avenue. convenient to all cars; price.
S 500; small cash payment. balance like rent;
near 23rd and Va. ave. NV. Apply TO owner,
K. JACKSON ESTATE. Adams 47,4
or Main 1868
Evening star., 1924-04-11

-, LIf-OIl-DIb BOnU BIuE.,
l4th and New York Ave. Main 40.
TEN ACRES OF FERTILE, WE'LL LYING
Iahd, twc-thirds cleared, fronting on state
ruad IN Prince Georges county. Nd, about
Twelve miles from this city. Price only 500
Evening star., 1924-04-11
FOR SALE-HOUSES.

IS CASH. sS5 MO- STORY. r. AND B..
MI. $6. 600. No. Allegheny ave-, near Elm
ye., Takoma Park. Columbia o472-W.
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The Roosevelt Name

None of the male heirs to the Roosevelt name
appear to be endowed with the business ability
of the late Mr.. Jess Smith or the courage of
Edward Lockhart, the famous war hero and
patriot who was just killed in action-while
staging holdup.
Theodore is Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
In that capacity he has proved his right to the
first syllable in his title. There is nothing to
him but name His brother Archie, after es-
Gaping from the World War in as good condi-
ton as he entered it, was given job as Vice
President of one of Harry Sinclairs oil COM
panies. 1t happened this way. Sinclair wanted
the Teapot Dome lease. 1t belonged to the Navy.
Theodore was Assistant Secretary. DENLY was
Secretary The latter had no brains. The for
mer had less. But his fathers reputation
counted for something. So if he threw his in
huence in favor of lease to friendly oil man
it would be worth something
When Theodore asked Sinclair to give his
brother Archie job, the oil man made vice
president out of him. His function was to
wheel the baby carriage for Sinclair's wife and
take her to the movies once in a while. He
was such handy vice-president that his salary
was increased from $4,000 to $4,000 year.
Then something burst. In fact everything was
exploding. Even revolvers. 1t looked as if the
entire Coolidge cabinet would be shot before
sunrise.
The noise of the Teapot explosion scared
vice-presdent Archie Roosevelt stiff so he went
and squealed on Sinclair Then Sinclair squealed
on the Roosevelt family and said the darned lot
of them weren't worth an empty oil can. Archie
was dumbell says the oil magnate. He gave
him job out of sympathy.
The Roosevelts tried to crawl out of the Tea
pot scandal but were got while making a get
away. dumb and dishonest" is the popular
verdict on the family of the late Terrible
Teddy" exemplar of 100 per cent Americansm.
A resolution is now up in the Senate calling
on the president to demand the resignation of
Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy. The capitalist press is Mortified. "Lese
Majestic they intimate. The Ro0sevelts are
supposed to have inherited the right to public
Office. But they seem to be better qualified for
doing the chores around a penitentiary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Slippery Path to Fame

The Duplex Printing Press Company of Battle
Creek, Michigan, is sending out calendar car
rying the "office creed" of the Marion Star
owned by the late President Harding The
calendar is accompanied by an ELUSIVE eulogy
of the deceased president which is credited to
the chairman of the board of directors of the
Duplex Company and is similar in tone to the
flood of literature, halted somewhat by the
Teapot Dome exposures, that was designed to
establish a Harding cult in the United States
The eulogy ends with this ecstatic note:
A personal and somewhat intimate ac-
quaintance with him (Harding) of more
than thirty years enables the writer to tes-
tify of his own knowledge that the basic
elements of character which were the
foundation of .Harding's career were faith
and conscience with the ultimate purpose of
benefiting mankind. The achievement of
this purpose was his constant aim and the
browning glory of his life.
The glorifcation of dead rulers has been going
on for thousands Of years and the truth is
deliberately obscured for the reason that the
masses must not be allowed to know the real
nature of the individuals who represent from
time to time the interests of the privileged
minority.
Upon what frail basis the myth of Harding
as a great good man rests is shown by the fol-
lowing extract from recent article by Julian
Street:
l have been disilIusioned about many
things, but most of all am staggered by
the knowledge that every hotel bellbOy and
taxi driver in Washington knew on March
a, 1921, what l have only lately learned,
namely, that to the affairs of federal gov
eminent, the morals and methods of a cur
rupt small town council have been applied.
When Harding died the press of American
capitalism organized for him funeral BETTING
genius and hero. He was neither but the
reverse and in the light of the recent revelations
not one-tenth of which have been allowed to
reach the public-the psycho-analysts can study
the Harding funeral rites as an example of mass
over-correction and an interesting psychopathic
social phenomenon.
To be entirely successful the canonization of
Harding should have been completed before the
investigations got under way. Oil has made
his path to fame somewhat slippery even for a
spirit whose surefootedness is proverbial.
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in each case, the consent in writing
OF Lessor first had and obtained"
Lease Voids Ordinances.
By means of bitter propaganda
campaign, and by means OF much
lobbying and wire pulling, various
Tenant organizations have succeeded,
in the past three years, in getting
few feeble laws passed By the city
and state, which to a very limited ex-
tent protect the tenant from the un-
scrupulous landlord. But the CHI
CAGO REAL ESTATE BOARD HAS
|NULLIFIED THE EFFECT OF
THESE ORDINANCES BY DE-
HANDING THAT THE TENANT
WAIVE ALL PROTECTION FROM
t HESE ORDINANCES. "THE
LESSEE HEREBY WAVES all
notice Of any election made by Lessor
hereunder, demand for rent, notice
to quit, demand for possession, and
any and all notices and demands
whatsoever, OF ANY AND EVERY
NATURE, WHICH MAY AND
SHALL BE REQUIRED BY ANY
STATUTE OF THIS STATE RE-
LATING TO FORCIBLE ENTRY
AND DETAINER OR TO LAND
LORD AND TENANT OR ANY
OTHER STATUTE OR BY COM
MON LAW DURING THE TERM
OF THIS LEASE OR ANY EXTEN-
lSION THEREOF"
Lessee shall pay and discharge all
costs, expenses and attorneys fees,
which shall be incurred and expended
by Lessor in enforcing the covenants
and agreements of this lease, whether
by the institution of litigation, or IN
taking the advice of counsel, or other
wise"
Real Estate Board Controls.
In other words, the Chicago Real
Estate Board masquerading as a
benevolent and public spirited body,
claiming to further the public good,
HAS FOISTED UPON THE PUBLIC
AN ILLEGAL LEASE, IN WHICH
THE TENANT MUST AGREE TO
WAIVE ALL RIGHTS GRANTED
HIM UNDER STATE AND CITY
LAW, and if the tenant does have
the courage to bring the landlord to
justice, the Chicago Real Estate
Board has forced THE RENTER TO
AGREE TO PAY ALL LEGAL
COSTS.
I Under this lease, the Chicago Real
Estate Board, taking advantage of
the unorganized renters, has squirmed
out Of the responsibility for making
repairs, for giving heat and hot wa
ter, and in addition has forced the
tenant to sign away all the rights
grudgingly given him by law.
The Chicago Real Estate Board
realizes the value of organization.
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'The Story of John Brown .

against this infamy shat was be-
ing protected by the United States
flag. But John Brown knew that
only a bold deed could shake the
union; could make men see clearly
what slavery was.
Slavery had become SO firmly
settled into the national life that
the few thousand abolitionists
only seemed like gadfies biting
at the hide of rhinocerous. John
Brown saw that a pick-axe was
needed to draw the blood. The
pocketbooks of the slave holders
must be attacked. Slavery must
be sabotaged, and made unprofit-
able. 1t was such safe and sane
business now; it must be made
dangerous. John Brown planned
to go boldly into Virginia, with a
band of men, and start there a
large movement of runaway
slaves. When slaves were no
longer meek and submissive, when
every slave became a potential
runaway and rebel, slavery would
cease to be paying business.
Thus reasoned John Brown.
Carries OFF Slaves.
In December, 1858, with things
at last peaceful in Kansas Terri
tory, and a Free State almost
assured, John Brown made a last
stirring raid into Missouri.
Negro slave named Jim Daniels
had come to one of Browns men
with a pathetic tale. TIe and his
wife and babies were to be sold
at auction in a few weeks, and
perhaps separated forever. He
was a fine looking, intelligent mu-
latto, and he wept as he told the
story. John Brown and ten of his
men rescued Daniels little family
and carried off to freedom eleven
other slaves of the vicinity. At
early dawn the next day the cara
van of freedom set forth on its
long journey to the Northern Star
Ito Canada, where slaves were
free. 1t was a periIous and ardu-
GUS undertaking. The party had
to sleep by stealth in barns and
icy fields, with armed sentinels
posted all night. The Governor of
Missouri wired to Washington;
money rewards were offered for
Brown, armed posses were sent
searching for him, the Federal
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troops combed the state. There
were prairie snow storms, and
there were little provisions. But
the old lion brought his charges
thru to Canada.
One incident 0f the trip is
worth repeating. 1t shows what
a terror the mere name of John
Brown had become in Kansas.
At one place, the ford of a
river, Browns party learned there
was a posse of 80 armed slavery
ruf1ians waiting to capture him.
The old man did not turn back, tho
he had only % men, black and
white. He marched down on the
ruffians. "They had as good
position as 80 men could wish,'
wrote one of Browns mep, "they
could have defeated a thousand
opponents, but the closer we got
to the ford, the farther they got
from it. We found some of their
horses, for they were in such
haste to fly that some of them
mounted two on saddle, and we
gave chase and took three or four
prisoners, whom he later released.
The marshal who led them went
so fast one would think he feared
the fate of Lots wife"
Not To Be Taken BY Boys.
sold Captain Brown is not to
be taken by boys" said the Leav-
enworth Times, now Free State,
"and he invites cordially all pro-
slavery men to try their hands at
arresting him."
On March 18th the slaves were
safe in Canada, rejoicing in their
happy fortune, after having been
brought in the dead Of winter,
thru hostile country, some 1,1OO
miles in 50 days. One OF the slave
women had had six masters, and
four of the party had served six
teen owners in all. Now they
were free. And their little chill
dren were free, and would never
be whipped by Southern gentle
man or stood on the auction block
like horse or cow. The outlaw
John Brown had done what was
forbidden by the Supreme Court
and the President of the United
States; and now he was planning
greater deeds.
Ito Be Continued Friday)
(The Eve Of the Tragedy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
LeaUe 1t to the Courts

Leave it to the courts" has become the
eleventh commandment of our capitalist class.
There is no other country in the world where
the courts WELD as much governmental power
as in the United States. The courts are the
very heart of the government machinery of
oppression used by our capitalists to defend
their class interests and to crush the working
and farming masses. Whenever the employers
are in serious danger they can always count
on their courts, their intricate judicial system,
to stand by their class interests.
Several months ago Coolidge was compelled
to call upon the Federal Trade Commission to
look into the gasoline price situation. The
sacred capitalist law of supply and demand
was then being knocked into a cooked hat.
Prices of gasoline were rising swiftly, altho the
visible supply was abnormally large and the
current demand was unusually small.
Scarcely had the Federal Trade Commission
gotten on the job to explore this wilderness,
this puzzling situation, when the Supreme
Court cried Halt" and put an end to its work.
This is not an isolated case but typical,
normal example of the services rendered to
the bosses by the courts in protecting capitalist
interests against even the feeblest questioning.
In a recent tobacco case the court decreed
that the commission could not examine the
records of a corporation, unless it could tell in
advance precisely which financial papers it
wanted This, of course, was clever, but dis
honest, method of making all investigation of
capitalist profits impossible.
The capitalist dictatorial powers of the
Supreme Court and the lower courts is best
seen by the workings of our employing class
judicial system. A decade ago, Congress en-
powered the Federal Trade Commission to ex-
anime the papers and books of corporations
engaged in interstate commerce. The presi-
dents signature then made this enactment of
Congress law. Dozens upon dozens of occa-
slons, the House and Senate voted the commits
sion money to proceed with such investiga-
tions. Along comes the Supreme Court, that
collection of most mental lackeys of the en-
ploying class, and kills the law made by Con-
gress, the supposedly revered representative
of the masses. Forthwith this capitalist agency
makes its own law based upon the thin ridicu-
lous abstraction that a corporation is legal
person whose sacred rights would be violated
by such an investigation.
The pirates of old would have to learn the
Abe of pillage and cunning from our capital
Ist exploiters and their governmental protectors
OF today. Yes, Leave it to the courts" is an
excellent slogan for our bosses. 1t is exactly
for this reason that it would be suicide for the
workers and farmers to put the slightest faith
IN the capitalist judges and employing class
justice.
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waived in the lease all rights to de-
fend himself.
1t is well-known fact, both to the
tenant and the landlord, that a large
proportion of renters in Chicago, be-
cause of the high rents, keep dodgers
and roomers, subletting one or more
rooms of a four or five room fiat, in
order to meet the rent. The real
estate men have taken advantage OF
this general practice, prompted by
stern necessity, to gain another hold
on their teannts, thru another clause
inserted in most of Chicago's leases.
The procedure is to insist, in the
lease, that the tenant must get the
consent of the landlord in writing,
before he subjects the rooms. The
landlord tells the tenant this is just
a matter of form, gives his verbal
consent, and the unsuspecting tenant
goes ahead and lets his rooms. But
he has broken his lease, as the land
lord has. not given his written con-
sent, and the landlord does not hest
tate to break the lease in his turn,
using the sub-letting clause as a club
over the tenants head.
Double Crossing Landlord.
The clause which so often later
causes the renter embarrassment,
states that
"SECOND:-Said premises shall
not be occupied in whole or in part
by any person other than Lessee,
and Lessee shall not sublet the same
or any part thereof, nor assign this
lease without, in each case, the con-
sent in writing of Lessor first had and
obtained; nor permit to take place
by any act or default of himself or
any person within his control, any
transfer by operation of Law Of
Lessee's interest created hereby; nor
offer for lease or suitcase the said
premises, nor any portion thereof, by
placing notices or signs of "To Let"
Furnished Room" or "Rooms to
Rent" or any other similar sign or
notice in any place, nor by advertis-
ing the same in any newspaper or
place or manner whatsoever without,
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This is "The Story of John
Brown" by Michael Gold. Pub
lished by the DAILY WORKER
thru arrangement with Haldeman-
julius Company, of Girard, Kans.
Copyrighted, 1924, by Haldeman-
Julius Company.
The Great Plan Evolves.
MUCH more can be written Of
AVAof this Kansas period in John
Browns life; a large photography
of Robin Hood literature has
gathered about it. John Brown,
and other men like him. fastened
the solution Of the slavery ques-
ton by their firm stand in Kan
sas. If the South had been allow
ed to add Kansas to the roster of
slave states, it would have crept
further north, until perhaps there
would have been slavery up to
Canada. 1t is seary for any insti-
tuition to become permanent; man
is creature of conventions. Slav-
cry, like cannibalism among saw
ages, would have in time become
a matter-of-fact doctrine with all
America, had not the Kansas
abolitionists challenged it.
John Brown left Kansas in
1857, and made a trip thru New
England, gathering friends,
money, arms and recruits for a
new great plan that was working
in his mind.
Brown Gathers Recruits.
He saw that the aDolitionists
would be successful in making
Kansas a free state. The job was
already half done; but when it
was completed, what next? There
would still be the vast grooming
empire of slavery in the South;
there would still be five million
black folk bought and sold like
cattle; beaten, raped, murdered
as if they were lower than cattle.
The South would still be in the
saddle at the White House; the
fugitive slave law would still be
enforced; and churches, business
men, newspapers, mobs, and Unit
ed States troops, all would join
in unfolding the devils doctrine
that slavery was respectable, the
law of the land.
The Abolitionists, with their
few Journals, were ever agitating
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03

Coupled with the propaganda for the dis
continuance of the Daugherty investigation, the
fact that in all the reams of testimony before
the committee there has been not one word of
the greatest outrage perpetrated by the dis
credited attorney general-his securing of an
injunction effectively breaking the strike of
4OO,OOO underpaid railway shopmen in 1922.
The reformist and partisan nature of the
whole proceeding, partaking of the nature of
quarrel between two groups of henchmen of
big capital is effectively shown by the omission
of this outstanding incident in the whole Grim
inal career of Daugherty as a representative of
the employers and fnanciers of the United
States.
In this connection it is of further interest to
note that none of the officaldom of the railway
labor unions or of the American Federation of
Labor took advantage of the Daugherty invest
lgation to request the right to appear before the
committee or issued any public statement in
which the role Of Daugherty as strike breaker
was featured
The reason for this apparent lack of interest
IN the discrediting of Daugherty is found in the
fact that other union officials besides John L.
Lewis of the United Mine Workers intend to
support the republican party nominees.
1t is great game that is played in Wash
ington and up to their ears in the mess of cor
ruption and betrayals are the practical" men
who are the labor leaders of America
1t is little wonder that they hate venomously
the rising Farmer-Labor movement and are CO.
operating with the capitalist party politicians
to hamper it in every way. They have no wish
to see political treason placed in the same cate
CORY as scabbery.
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Real Estate Board and his own
lawyer knows just what pro-
cedure to follow to place the
tenant at a disadvantage.
The housing law has in many
cases acted as boomerang to
the favor of the landlords.
The real estate dealer has inserted
in his lease, whether it is the Number
10, which is the most widely used, or
Number z, or Number 3, several
jokers which can be used at various
times to extract more money from
the tenant.
Tenant Prosecutes Himself.
If the tenant is one day late in the
payment of rent, the landlord can in
stitute legal proceedings against his
tenant, and according to the lease the
tenant is forced to sign, he valves all
trials and defenses, and agrees to
pay the landlord whatever he asks
for legal fees. Article Fifteen Of
lease Number 10, which the Real
Estate Board declares to be "The
Best Lease" says,
''If default be made in the pay
ment of the rent hereinabove re-
served, or of any installment thereof
as herein provided, Lessee does here
by irrevocably constitute any at
torney Of any Court of Record in this
State, attorney for him and in his
name, from time to time, to waive
the issuance of process and service
thereof, to waive trial by jury, to
confess judgment in favor of Lessor,
his heirs, executors, administrators or
assigns, and against Lessee, for the
amount of rent which may be then
due, by virtue of the terms hereof, or
Of any extensions or renewals hereof,
or by virtue of any follower after the
termination hereof, and which may
be in default, as foresaid, together
with the costs of such proceedings,
and a reasonable sum, but at no time
less than Ten Dollars, for plaintiffs
attorneys fees in or about the entry
Of said judgment, and for said pur-
poses to file in said cause his cognovit
thereof, and to make an agreement in
said cognovit, or elsewhere, waving
and releasing all errors which may in
tervene in any such proceeding, and
waving and releasing all right Of
appeal and right to writ of error, and
consenting to an immediate execu-
ton upon such judgment; and Lessee
hereby confirms all that said attorney
may lawfully do by virtue hereof.
Lessons shall have a first len on
Lessee's interest hereunder, and on
Lessee's property now or hereafter
located in said premises, or else
where, to secure the payment Of all
moneys due hereunder, which lien
may be foreclosed in equity, and in
case Of any such foreclosure proceed
ing, receiver shall be appointed TO
take possession of said premises and
property and relet the premises
under order Of court"
Tenant Pays Costs.
Landlords have many times in the
past executed judgment on the ten
ant for rent which is only a few
days overdue, and then, in accor-
dance with the above clause, have
charged the tenant fifty dollars or
snoro for ccaAn tho kanant havin a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Landlords Hog Rights In
Illegal X. E. Board Lease

MEANS of the lease concocted by the Chicago Real
- Estate Board, which is used than any other
apartment house lease in the city, the sign
all his rights to the landlord. If has lived
in house for fifteen years. he is forced by the "benevo
lent Chicago Real Estate Board Lease No. Ten to MAKE
ALL HIS OWN REPAIRS. If the roof falls in, and
the tenant is injured, THE CHICAGO REAL ESTATE
BOARD FORCES THE TENANT TO REPAIR THE
ROOF HIMSELF, AND THE LANDLORD, ACCORD
ING TO THE LEASE, is EXEMPT FROM ALL CLAIM
FOR DAMAGES BY THE INJURED TENANT. Tenants
learn lesson from the Real Estate Board-they are
organized to force you into signing illegal lease
Organize, and REFUSE TO SIGN THE CHICAGO REAL
ESTATE BOARDS NUMBER TEN LEASE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
City Ordinance Passed to Aid
Tenant; Is Twisted BY Greedy
Landlords to Extort More Money

City ordinances recently passed supposed protection
the rights of the tenant have been taken advantage of by
Chcsgo landlords to cheat their tenants of additional
The average tenant knowing little about the housing
ordinances is required by law to follow strict line of pro-
cedure The landlord his part backed by the Chicago
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BURNS MUST co!
Just a Question OF Distanc

Just Question of Distance.
You say" quizzed the lawyer.
that the defendant hred three shots
at you in rapid succession? Now,
how far were you from him when
he fired?"
The fust shot, or the last one.
sah?"
why? What difference does
maker"
Bout a quatah OBJ mile, ssh.s