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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-30
In Defense of Our Government

IDIGHT here l want to say defend
~ that grand old man, Mr.. DENLY,
as 1 do Albert FAN, Daugherty, Jess
Smith, Col. House, Harry Sinclair,
Henry Ford, Doheny, McAdoo, The
Chicago Post and Albuquerque Press
and Denver Rocky Mt. News and all
them other members Of the govern
ment. say it is a shame to attack
them surreptiously and seditiously by
all them charges before commissions
illegally organized, and which have
no power to force witnesses to answer
questions. Roxie Stinson oughter to
be in Jail by rights, and I'd put her
there, if l hadn't lost my constable
badge to a poker sharp from Daugh-
erty's shack last mite. say Daugherty
never shot Jess Smith; it was Silent
Cal, who shot him on account of a
woman, just as any Ku Kluxer has a
right to do, to protect the honor of
our wives, and darters, and school
children, and old maid school teachers.
With me it is liberty or oath; and I'll
take mine straight, without any seller,
pleze.
The next charge is that Daugherty
is hi jacker, and beats his way on
the freights between his shack in
Washington Court House, and the
House on K St., with the Green Shud-
ders. Also that he and Burns carry
theirs about in satchels, just like Al
bert Fall. say it is all democratic
lie; if you don't believe me, ask Burns
himself, or any other smart man in
the employ of Wall St., Morgan, Rock
Teller, CASTOR Means, Mclean, or The
Nation Magazine. Ask the Smart Set
tiers themselves; One Eyed Nathan, or
Booze Nosed Mencken; they knows
everything and then some. Or if you
can't reach 'em, ask ]. Bascom Slemp,
that pure eyed son of a biscuit eater,
who goes to Florida where the sub
poenaes won't reach him, and takes
his salt with his employers, Daugh-
erty, Burns, and Mclean, and then
like coward he is, runs back to his
paw in Washington, d. c., and coughs
it all up. Such fellers ought to be
shot. and that's why we got the Koo
Kluckers in this country, and their
mite gowns at 81 each, half price to
women and children. Morons? I'll
say they arel All of 'em, who are
agin wearing 'em. in bed or out! {. :.
1t makes me tired. Sometimes think
I'll 60 out of politics entirely with all
this complainin' going about our free
institutions, and "a mites. I'm agin
unmasking too, you can put that down
in your note book. How'd we hev hung
Frank Little without masks? Or cut
on the privates of Wesley Everest?
Or broke up the strike at Herrin?
Sum people is that unreasonable they
would have this government run by in
fants and sissies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-30
BY ROBIN ERNEST DUNBAR.

6y nO6iN EnNE0t GOtt9fAns
TSHERE are so many attacks on our
government these days by irres-
ponsible people, lunatics, cranks,
harum-scarums, l. w. WIS, socialists,
bolsheviks, foreigners, communists,
and anarchists and other ill-natured
elements, including those opposed to
the American Legion and Ku Klux
Khan, American Fascist, Black Shirts,
etc., that l do as 100 per cent Amer
lean and husband of d. A. R. and ex-
Justice of the Peace and candidate to
the Detective Service of VIM. H.
Burns, that grand old man of Repub-
licanism, Democracy and Junkerism,
rise in my righteous indignation and
come to the rescue of our sacred in
situations, including the right to buy
and sell oil on the market, to drink a
medicinal quantity of liquor and to
acquire wealth by supporting our hier-
ups.
Let us take up some of the more Of
fensive charges by these pro-Germans
and pacifists, and sift them to the bot
tom:
l. That our president should not be
quite so much in hoe or in particeps
criminis as we say in the justice
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-03

Every animal has other animal that attacks and
fights it, Every political party has political party that
seeks to destroy it. Often the destroyer the cousin Of the
destroyed.
The thresher attacks his big cousin the right whale
The radical labor party in England doing all that can
to embarass worry and destroy it's cousin the big labor party
now in charge of the British Empire with Comrade Macdon-
add changed to 1.-THE Right Honorable William Ramsay Mac
donald, Prime Minister Of Great Britain
The radical abortes demand that India get Home Rule
the right to govern herself That demand to embar
the labor government theoretically is But
India not able to govern herself for five thousand
before England took charge submitting during that period
to less bloody raahs and invaders from every
direction how would she govern herself?
Three hundred million vegetarian water drinking Asiatics
in whose literature the word liberty nowhere appears could
not suddenly start governing themselves
Gandh well meaning dreamer, would solve the problem
by letting the Of India back to the hand
running Engands cotton manufacturers But what about the
Indian women each Of whom would out her eyesoht
fingers and life weaving shirts by hand noble husband
and his flock Of children?
Mohammedans in India hate and despse certain of their
fellow citizens because the latter eat pork which Mohamme
dams consider uncean The Hndoos depise the Mohamme
dams because they eat that sacred in Hndoo eyes
The Engishman eats BOTH pigs AND rules about
as well as can be expected.
you want to govern OTHERS the first thing to ret
rid Of narrow mind Asatcs that legally marry girls nine
years DID, and force those girls to burn themselves alive when
their aged husband dies probably not quite ready for
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called upon to share, ungelfishly,
my evening paper-which / find
myself lost without.
I have always thought the say
ing, "A crank should never 90 in
crowd" was good logic and
quite a wise decision for the
crank and especially for the
crowd. Well, I was obliged this
particular evening to ride a street
car. q crowded street car at that,
and thankful that there were such
things as street cars since I was
too tired to walk. My one
thought was to reach home and
spend the rest Of the evening with
My Little Lady, my pipe and
newspaper. Boarding a north
bound car, I almost wished 1 had
walked. After being pushed and
jostled for the first fifteen min
uteS l finally succeeded in locat.
ing floor space on which to stand
on my own feet for the next If
teen or twenty minutes, by which
time the car had deposited at the
various stops enough people to
allow all those still aboard to be
seated.
I sat for some time giving
everyone the once over. which is
q very bad but amusing habit /
possess, and in which I indulge
especially when I am too tired to
read the paper, which isn't often.
After observing nearly everyone
I came to the conclusion that
everyone on that car must be
pretty tired, as they looked about
as grouchy as I felt, with the
exception Of one small face. One
little fellow with q mop Of curly
hair and two large, bright eyes
no, nothing tired about him, and
he wasn't grouchy, either. You
could see that II you looked at
him, which most Of the grouches
were not inclined to do. The little
fellow seemed to be quite elated
over the ride and happy, too, as
he had a smile for everyone. I
didn't notice where they boarded
the car, but 1 did notice that very
soon they were due to leave 1t,
as the little fellow was becoming
rather excited and kept looking
out of the window for their stop.
All Of a sudden he exclaimed at
the top Of his voice, Indifferent,
probably unconscious, Of anyone
around him: Mother, there is
the other car" and everyone
turned to look at the little fellow.
He first looked out Of the window,
and then the car on which we
were riding seemed as though 1t
was not going to stop, having
passed the corner. His eyes be.
came very large and first fright.
ened look, then q look Of defiance,
which he directed at the back Of
the motorman, he raised his voice
to it's highest pitch and screamed;
"Whoa-whoa there!' and every.
one laughed.
The fact was the car stop was
in the middle OF the block and
thayS tha httla hog ana hin
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-03
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Great POETRY.

HAS the flavor of egosm for any writer to declare
that such and such the book Of the year that
this play is the best Of the that any work of
art surpasses all others.
What the writer means is that is what he thinks.
The decision of what is best is always matter of taste
No has right magisteriay to pronounce that blue is
better color than red that blondes preter than
brunetes that the color Of violet pleasant than that
Of lilac that Republicans honest Democrats
by the token that novel better than another
What preparing the readers mind for my decara-
ton that in poem The Debt by Katherine Lee Bates
in recent issue Of the Atlantic Monthly there the
finest two lines that have been composed by any author
in the last ten years All Of which simply that
think So
These two lines are as follows:
because the years are few, must be glad;
Because the silence is near sing:''
At first glance there does to be much disturbing
in this phrase contains long words, curious
far-fetched images.
But somehow when friend of mine repeated these two
lines to and heard thine for the first time, had that
sensation that not often in lifetime, the
sensation that Keats describes that he had on reading
Chapman Homer
'Then felt like watcher of the skies
When a planet swims into his ken"
Afterward got copy of the magazine and read the
whole poem There twenty flour lines in it and
they do not all to these two but that could
hardly be expected No poem book play contains
than two peeks Of flashing genius few indeed
that much The two lines refer to to to have
touch OF inspiration truly divine They worthy
panlons to those amazing words OF WORDSWORTH
But she is in her grave and oh
The difference to me-"
have hardly been able to utter this Wordsworhian
WlCnOuC crOW0ng 1t illustrates what
strange and elusive thing real poetry is
consist entirely in sort of scent from another world
some half flutter of a spirits wings.
You will notice how utterly simple and commonplace the
words in both the quotation from Wordsworth in
these others of Katherine Lee Bates sometimes think
that the and ordinary the medium Of our
expression the more likely we are to touch submty.
This phrase to which am referring read it aloud
Because the years few 1 must be glad;
Because the silence is near, 1 sng;''
and observe the smooth felicity of the sylabe how per-
fec they the very best argument for courage and
cheer the argument Of the brevty of fe golden
privilege Of the present. the thought that expressed
in Stevenson's declaration:
For the true happiness of mankind is arrive but
to travel"
Strangely enough the logic that is used by the
wasrel when he cries, Eat drink and be merry for
morrow we die and made for beastiaty is
also the for purest love- highest eneavor
and our noblest joy.
Let us omit gesture of affection words of kindness
and sympathy no indulgence in the pleasures of noble
Because the years few, 1 must be glad;
Because the silence is near 1 sing"
CYP NV ThA
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mother, had to transfer at the
corner, and the other car was
the one they had to board, he
was afraid they would miss 1t and
used the only means he knew of
to stop the car he was riding on.
The car stopped just as he gave
his orders and he and his mother
left the car, the little fellow all
unconscious Of the smiling faces
he left behind and the smiles he
was responsible for.
But the grouches were laugh
ing, laughing with their mouths
open, real laughter, and I, for.
getting my headache. turned to
the man next to me and said:
There Is a case Of absolute in.
difference to public opinion" and
then l looked around and saw in
stead Of grouchy looking people a
car OF laughing ones. Everyone
was looking at someone else and
smiling and laughing together.
There were no more grouches on
that car. Everyone seemed to
forget that they had been tired.
When / alighted at my corner l
had said Goodnight" to the man
next to me and l entered my
front door with a smile on my
race. When 1 discovered had
left my paper on the car smiled
and went to the corner to buy
another. Then at the dinner table
told My Little Lady about it
and she laughed and I laughed
some more.
Finding myself in a very con.
genial humor we called up some
friends and invited them over for
q card game which proved to be
pretty lively as everyone was in a
good humor, especially after l
again related the occurrence on
the street car, which My Little
Lady insisted that I do. After all,
isn't 1t queer how such a small
thing can make so many people,
tired grouchy people, laugh? Such
q small thing as a tiny boy and
Whoa, whoa, there!'
M. A. HUTCHINSON.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-03

and you didn't want anyone to
talk to you. Most Of all have
you ever been so ill.humored that
when the fellow next to you on
q street car looks over your arm
at your newspaper and tries to
read everything on both pages
before you turn to the next and
II he misses anything wears a
disappointed look until something
else catches his eye? Have you
felt as though you wanted to
hand him the paper 90 read hY
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-03

And pronto she stopped being Queen Star, Cleo
para and became exasperatng human being who
keeps an appointment me who makes the most foolish
suggestions about your business and gets into she
can't have her way. WE'LL, WHAT DID YOU Elk
PECTH If had engaged you to fill queen role
how would you if they showed anitors mop your
hand You rewarded her sks and sassess with American
Beauties before you married Naturally she considered
them a valuable asset.
YOU GOT WHAT YOU ASKED FOR, BILL! I'll
admit the result is exasperang But you mend mat
by stomng around and being sorry for yourself This
much your fault hers You've cheated and dis
appointed her much she's disappointed you Teach
her what really needs from his wife, Make her see
that wfe greatest charm lies in her cooperation not in
her complexion Help her to that the rewards of
Partner far greater than those of pet And be little
humble while you're doing it. For remember ths-YOU GOT
HER INTO THIS DEAL UNDER FALSE PRETENCES
Copyright. Syndicate. 1nc)
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Here is one of the most
Human" Communications NtGt
has come to our attention in O.
long time. 1t is aOeU aOorth read
Eng.
Editor, The Washington Times:
n T IL queer how such a small
thing can change ones feel
u ings and give them q
brighter outlook on life, even for
only a day. or half q day-per.
haps Cor an hour.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-03

and disappoint and bamboozle And likewise know
now men rrltate and disappoint and bambooze women
This latter hunk Of valuable information Of which hus
bands stand badly in need The husband who reads this
article won't stand in need Of it when he has finished
Let's go! AON
In the first place I'm going tell you some of the things
you feel about Mary which dared tell her your
self, THAT WOMAN ALMOST DRIVES YOU TO DRINK!
And yet you realize that she adores YOU But look how she
simply never keeps appointment time-how she insists
on ringing you up at the office and asking you to by the
steak on the way homehow she will fill the house with her
TOOL friends and then snub good old Jim and his wife when
you ask them uphow she when you try to talk shop
and then complains because you'd rather read vour
howBut you know the rest Lfes lust one hecuva thine
after another the best Of it. Women CAM help it. That's
the way they were made, poor things!
You needn't squirm and chew your cigar Bill Yon know
perfectly well I've gotten your number Come clean now
PaLha is the way you feel about Mary ism it, Sure 4
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himself - exclusively and turn
upon him a most contemptuous
look as though your opinion of
him wasn't much?
Well that's the exact way I felt,
and inconsistent as Il may seem
/ am not usually ill.natured nor
have I ever been described az
having a nasty disposition. But
then do not have the pleasure
OF riding on a crowded street car
often. preferring to walk most of
the TINA. consequently am not
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-03

The other evening I was re-
turning home from the office,
where I had put in quite a siren.
uouS day, the effects Of which
threw me into rather a grouchy
mood. was more than grouchy.
/ had q headache which I thought
about and which got worse the
more thought about It. l was
In one Of those moods when, we'll
have you ever felt az though you
had n grudee against everyone:
JON didnf want % talk 60 anyone
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-03
The DOry

TUE fish known as the dory
Il has a method all it's own when
1t comes to catching other fish.
Its mouth resembles a powerful
spring and shoots out like har.
pooh to seize a smaller fish. The
dory creeps up on its prey like a
cat sneaking UP on a bird, spend
ing a great amount Of time to get
within striking distance. So care.
fully concealed are its movements
that the hunted fish rarely escapes.
As soon az II gets within range
the dory's long mouth shoots out
and seizes the victim.
(CapyrAght. 1924, King Features
qWRaica1al xmal
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-03
LISTEN, WORLD!

IN going to talk to you straight from the
shoulder, Brother. It is my firm inten-
u ton to give you lively ten minutes.
You may not like what I am going to say.
The chances are strong that you won't. But
you'll listen to me with respect. You'll lis
ten to me with respect because your man.
intelligence will tell you that here's woman
who knows what she's talking about. In fact,
you'll probably be so impressed with my
sense that you'll promptly conclude that I'm
not a woman at all, but man.
Such is the quaint conceit of men when
ever they read any female remarks which
sound as if they emanated from something
save banana fritter. Don't delude yourself.
I'm woman. And know women. But 1
also know men. I know how women irritate
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-03
By ELSIE ROBINSON

is! Well, HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT
OF MARY'S SIDE OF IT. Remember how
you acted during your engaged daysY Was
anything too good for that dear little girlG
I'll say it wasn't. She was your Queen, your
Star, your Cleopatra.
You worshipped each hayward trait, each
pretty inconsistency. When she wept you
groveled, when she sullzed you hooked your
watch to buy opera tickets. And what
picture you painted of your future together.
She was to sit on the golden throne of your
heart and inspire you to deeds of superhuman
valor Your years were to be spent in smooth
ing each pebble from her path. By such
alluring promises did you persuade her to
invest in your little matrimonial scheme.
Then Won vvnre married
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-03
Self=GOVernment for India?
She Has Not Had 1t in 5000 Years.

Every animal has other animal that attacks and
fights it. Every political party has political party that
seeks to destroy it. Often the destroyer the cousin of the
destroyed
Evening star., 1924-12-01
Circus Lures Parents.

Adele Prinz and her husband, Aiois,
OF Vienna have been brought into
court on a charge of abandoning &
their baby in order to see the circus.
They admitted the charge. Mrs.
frinz. suspecting her husband. was
going to the circus without her,
wheeled the baby to the entrance and
waited, ticket in hand. When he ap-
peared she showed the buggy and in
fant at him and disappeared in the
crowd. Unmoved, the husband left
the baby and buggy where it stopped
and followed the crowd inside. Po-
lice did the rest.
The easymark doesn't know how
easy he In until some salesman Of
worthless stock or bonds has his
money.
Evening star., 1924-12-01
Ban Christmas Fireworks.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.


RICHMOND, Va, December l.
CHIEF Jordan Of the Police Department
has issued orders banning the use of
fireworks and the building of bon
fires in the streets here Christmas
For several years persons have been
opening stores a mile from the city
limits and selling fireworks. The
order of the police forbids the bring
ing Of the explosives to the city.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-11-17
Swedish-American Trade
Increases on Both Sides

STOCKHOLM. Nov. 17-Ameri.
can imports to Sweden have iii
creased from about 10 per ee..t Of
the ceuntry's total before tn, war
to % per cent for 1928. The 1923
imports amounted to 213,7G0,00
crowns.
Among the largest imports from
the United States are automobiles
which last year amounted to about
23.000.000 crowns lin value. whilu
petrol and tires imported repre-
scnfed twice that sum.
The Swedish exports to the Uni
ed States have also increased from
about 4 per cent of the total Swed-
ish exports In 1913 to II per cent
last year. amounting to 12S,000,0 900
crowns, Paper, she principal item
of export 20 the United States, is
now weight times as much as ex-
ported in 1913.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-11-17
Women Unite demanding
New Laws to Cover Divorce

HAMBURG. Nov. 17.-Nine hun
dred thousand German women, com
prising the membership of the Ma
tional Association of Women's clubs
have appealed to the Reichstag for
modification os the German mar
riage and divorce laws The petit
tion especially asks a modification
of the clause of the divorce law
which provides that insanity shall
be ground for divorce only after
it has continued for three years
during the marriage. and has been
pronounced incurable by experts.
Divorce on the ground of "mu-
tual agreement or "insuperable
aversion" is also advocated by the
clubwomen in cases where a cou-
pie has been married for five years
and has lived apart for two years.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-11-17

LOS ANGELES, Cal Nov. H.
Practically the entire flow OF the
Los Angeles aqueduct. the city's
chief source OF water for domestic
and industrial use. was diverted
into the Owens river near Los
Angeles, abou. 200 miles north, by
a raiding party of 60 men who
stormed the aqueduct guards yes
terday and threw open the Ala
bama waste gates.
The raiders held the gates open
all last night and left the aqueduct
this morning.
Yesterday the raiders defied the
sheriff of Inyo County. The Sher'
iff appealed to the Governor for
troops but the Governor replied
the trouble would blow over with
out troops.
Los Angeles is in no immediate
danger of a water famine as a sup
ply for 80 days is stored between
the Alabama waste gates and the
city mains.
The Alaska daily empire., 1924-11-17
TRAINMEN ON
ALASKA R. R.
MAY STRIKE
Wage Adjustment Must Be
Made or All Operatives
Will Quit Positions.

SEATTLE, Nov Il. Charles
Balshir, representative of the Bro
therhood of Alaska, arrived here
on the steamer Yukon and has de-
parted for Washington to give Sec
retary of Interior Work an ulti-
matum that unless the wage scale
is adjusted and equal that paid
engineers, fircmen, trainmen and
telegraphers in the States, the AL
aska Railroad workers will quit
their posts.
The union officials at Anchor
age state Noel w. Smith, Secre
tary Works special representative
failed to make wage adjustment
on orders of Work before he left
there.