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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-15
MUSSOLINI now
SEES WORKERS
power GROWING
Expect Relationships
End Within Few Days
ESPECIAL to The Daily workerj

Especial to The Daily Worker1
ROME, Nov. 14-The bloody
rule of the Fascist is drawing
near its close. The workers are
springing to arms, Fascist sup
porters are leaving the ranks Of
the Mussolini government by
the hundreds.
There is only one question to.
be settled: VIII power pass
from the hands of the Fascist
government, the open enemy Of
the workers, into the hands of
the socialists or the liberals, the
secret allies Of the oppressors,
or will the workers and peasants
themselves overthrow the entire
system and establish a govern
ment of their own?
Whatever the outcome, one thing is
certain-the end of the Mussolini
government is now a matter Of days
In last desperate effort to stem the
tide of revolt, Fascist police are max
ing wholesale arrests Of Communists,
and Of the left-wing labor leaders.
That these efforts are unavailing is
proved by the huge mass meetings
and demonstrations OF workers TAX
ing place in every city.
A small band Of Communists at
Mesagne are ready 70 resist armed
forces sent 70 destroy them in ven
geance for their raids on Fascist
headquarters.
Deputies Giolitti, Salandra and Or
lando, up to now three of the staunch-
est supporters Of the Fascist regime,
have Joined the opposition. Over half
of the deputies have boycotted the
parliament. Newspapers known as
Fascist or near-Fascist organs are
facing about and printing furious de-
nunciations of the government. An
other Fascist deputy, Cozenza, has
met his death.
Premier Mussolini is at last silent
After all his boasting that the oppo-
sition could do nothing to prevent his
continued rule, that he would -crush
any attempt at revolt as he would
crush a handful Of dead leaves" he
finds himself speechless before the
storm of fury that the past few weeks
have witnessed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-15
LABOR EDITOR
ARRESTED FOR
WRITING POEM
Verses Urged Workers
to Overthrow Capitalism,
Especial to the Daily wOrksrl

NEW YORK CITY, Nov. A.
Failing to get action against the
Countess KaroIyi, Mr.. S. STAN
wood Menken, head of the Ma
tionaI Security League, pro-
cured the arrest of John Lassen,
editor of "Uj EIore." Hungarian
Communist daily newspaper in
New York on a charge of send
ing unavailable literature thru
the mail.
Menken had originally assert
ed, without foundation, that
there was a connection between
"Ui Elore," and the countess
and In the red experts probing
Of the paper poem was found
in the issue of Oct. 5 last, writ
ten by Lassen and entitled ITO
Arms, to Arms"
II has a swing similar to the Mar
settles and calls on the workers to cap
ture and destroy capitalism, citing
Coolidge. Horthy, the Hungarian ty-
rant and other rulers as detectives Of
the proletarian attack.
Released on Ball
Two post office inspectors made the
arrest. Three other warrants were
issued for other employees OF the paper
but two were quashed. George Trittler,
business manager surrendered himself
and was freed on 81, 900 bail, by FEEDER
al Commissioner Hitchcock. His case
will be dropped, 1t is expected. Lassen
is out on $4,000 bail. He assumes full
responsibility, having, written, and
proof read the poem himself.
Attorney Joseph Brodsky is defend
ing Lassen. The language used in the
poem is that of poetic symbolism, the
defense declares, the name Of Coolidge
having been used to typify the system
for which he stands. A five year
sentence and 5000 fine is the maximum
under the postal law.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
Storing Flood Waters.

THE erratic flow of the streams Of
the intermountain desert country
of the west makes extremely difficult
the problem of engineering in that
region. These streams are charac-
terized by extraordinary fluctuations
in discharge, varying from zero TO
enormous floods, and changes occur
at irregular intervals. Owing TO
such fluctuations the constructing en-
gineers who are building large stor-
age works are forced to plan types
of structures that are not common i'll
regions where streams are more de-
pendab BILE.
Out in Nevada the government has
built remarkable dam, known as
the Lahontan, in Carson river, 10
store the floods for irrigation. Carson
river is subject to sudden floods,
which are occasionally repeated at
short intervals. The storage reser-
voir does not contain the entire flood
discharge, so that provision must be
made to take care OF the surplus.
Enormous spillways are constructed
at each end of the dam. which con-
verge toward the middle Of the river.
where a circular stilling pool Of con-
crete has been built.
In the center is a concrete amphi-
theater, into which the floods are
turned and stilled. The wide steps
Of the spfllways serve to check the
downrush OF the floods as they are
turned out of the reservoir to drop
back into the river 100 feet below.
The capacity of the spillways is 10000
cubic feet per second, or the flow Of
q big river.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
National Song Is Only Monument
To Dr.. Smith, Author Of @America
Poet Hoped Spirit of Verses Would Ever Prevail

DR. SMITH had the rare good for
tune to have been appreciated
and greatly honored while still alive;
but' as If to even up his portion with
those of other sweet singers and in
spired doers and discoverers, honors
have failed to materialize for him
since his death.
The Boston testimonial was YET
fresh in the public mind when he
passed away, and, in December, 1895,
a memorial committee was appointed
to collect subscriptions from all over
the country for the erection OF u
statue to DR.. Smith near his late
homestead and to purchase the home
itself, to be used as a national
museum.
While it is true, of course, that the
hymn itself is the best and finest me-
mortal he could have. it is to be re-
membered that he made that himself
and gave 1t to his countrymen, while
they have given him nothing more
than a passing thought.
In his will, supposed to have been
written less than tWenty-four hours
before his death, he gave, from his
modest estate, $4,000 to charity. His
last book was entitIed Poems OF
Home and Country" His character
was in keeping with his odes, for he
was "the soul of generosity and good
WILL" and beautiful to see and to
know. A few days before his death
he greeted an old friend who was
calling upon him with the naive
words, "I have been all day with
Cod The words fitted him so well
that the friend said they seemed to
him quite natural and appropriate at
the time spoken. Thus he lived and
wrought, and so "he was not, for
God took him"
Yes
Great is thy theme. U prophet ours.
And great the song thou didst invent:
But the land thy voice endowers
Sings, yet builds thee no monument.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
BY DIR. r. W. sHuFELpT..

Is not my intention to describe
here the group of massive stone
structures constituting the Cath
Ollie University of America, sltu-
ated at Brookland, as they are too
widely known to require any such
treatment. Moreover. very full de-
scriptions of this famous institution
have already appeared in the Catho-
lic University Bulletin. It's official or
gan, which is sent to the libraries of
many of our colleges and schools and
seen by a Very large constituency of
the reading public of this country as
V ell as abroad.
Upon the other hand, as far as my
knowledge carries me. there has not
appeared, up to the present time, any
very general description of q number
of the objects now on exhibition In
the museum, which occupies the en-
tire second floor of Mcmahon Hall,
one of the most imposing buildings Of
lie university group.
At this writing the collection, as
whole, consists Of many thousands of
specimens from all parts of the world.
@.Ild these are Of the most varied
character ina ginable. To describe
them fully would require more than
the lifetime of any single individual;
but brief and accurate descriptions of
special objects. published from time
10 time, will doubtless be welcomed
ley those interested in museum collec-
lions who appreciate the enormous
use they are as an educational factor
for students in every fold cf human
. activity. I
Many years ago 1 visited this mu-
scum. when the collections there were
Of no great extent; but recently. on
february Z. 1924. the desire came to
7nc to note its progress, and a visit
followed. Father r. Butin, S. NJ. it's
present curator, received me with
great courtesy and was so good as to
allow me to photograph such speci-
mems as l indicated to him: indeed
both he and his lady assistant made
every effort to facilitate what I had
planned, and freely furnished such
data and publications as would meet
the ends Of description OF certain
specimens.
Many OF the objects in this collec-
tion are of great age, such as ancient
ivories, Egyptian mummies and
vases and paintings and books so old
that their histories can now be but
surmised. The starting of the mu-
scum dates back to the founding of
the university itself-some time
toward the latter part of the last
century.
x x x x
S"THE first collection to be publicly
exhibited" Dr.. Butin tells US,
was the oriental collection of Prof.
II. Hyvernat. In 1889 a special room
Evening star., 1924-03-09
IVORY SHRINES OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH


tried to take him out of the net, be-
gan to talk and said: oh, my broth
ers, do you not know me? l am the
spirit of Haa -at-esh; let me go and
viii send to you plenty of fish for
the winter"
This effigy is painted green, black
and red"
Prior to obtaining these notes from
DR.. Butin I had made the following
comments upon this effigy in my
written description of it:
Possibly the god of the fisheries,
as that industry means so much to
the Alaskans. As among all peoples,
the "a bility to draw. carve or to sculp
correctly varies with the individual; !;
and this being the case. one must not
judge the art of any race. nation or
group of people by passing upon the
work OF any single craftsman of that
race. What species of fish it was
that this Alaskan artisan had in
mind when he carved this specimen
1t would be difficult to; say-probabiy
a salmon--but that any fish ever had
such tripartite tail as this one is
certainly not.in accord with our pres
ent knowledge OF fish anatomy"
The effigy was brought from
Alaska by the late DR.. Charles Grin
dali of Baltimore and presented to
the museum by Mrs. Grindall.
The eye is placed lateralwise. and
no attempt has been made to repro
duce the eyebrows; in other words. it
agrees with such eyes as We're de-
picted by some of the vase painters
from the earliest times down to the
close of the fourth century, B.C. The
wide, slitiike mouth and triangular
nose are of similar primitive type,
while the arms without elbows and
the legs without knees are quite as
crude as one could we'll imagine. No
attempt was made to round out the
buttocks or to carve the hips.
Whether it was intended to show
this figure in an attitude of prayer, /
am unable to say, though quite possi-
bly, such was the case. In fact, it
may be that the figure is either ex-
pressing thanks for the abundance of
fish of the season or a prayer that
there be not a scarcity OF them.
The crude facial features of this
carving are. repeated in the figure Of
the base upon which it rests; and be-
low this again is the uncut cylinder
Of the piece of wood from which the
entire .effigy was carved.
=: :: x 4.
4 MONG the more elaborate cary
ings in ivory are the various ex-
amples of portable shrines,'' of
which this collection contains sew
eral of special. value and interest.
These were doubtless used in house.
holds or carried about by persons in
the event Of travelling. The suppl
cant would set up his or her shrine
in some place where it could, as a
rule, be conveniently knelt before, and
the prayer was offered up in It's
presence. o.
Each OF several examples is of
elaborate design.@and workmanship,
and they we'll exhibit the skill and
study of correct detail on the part of
the artisan One is n figure of the
Holy Virgin. wearing an elaborate
crown of considerable massiveness
De. Butin has Informed me that
two specimens are of so-caIled
statues ouvrantes of the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries, northern
Evening star., 1924-03-09

school, one open and the other closed.
The former represents a female saint
| with crown and chalice, and it is, or
| may be, st. Barbara who is so
| represented. The other represents a
| bishop with miter and crozier, in the
| act of blessing. with the first three
fingers extended. this being the west
ern method. The crozier, with its
volute. drawn inside, is of the late
| Renaissance. Both statuettes are
painted green and red. and both evil
| IDENTIFY belong to the same school,
were probably made at the same time,
| and perhaps by the same artist. On
the inside Of the open statuette is the
scene OF the crucifixion, with the
! holy women at the foot OF the cross"
+ One of the most highly priced ivo-
, ries in this collection, displayed in a
] special glass case of its own. is that
of the Madonna and Child. This rare
piece has q height of thirty-two cent?
meters. and it was carved some time
during the fourteenth century. or per-
haps in the early part Of the fifteenth.
AS DR.. Butfn kindly points out, The
Virgins hair is seen flowing under
the veil. and the Child holds a dove
in His hand, symbol of the Holy
spirit. The hem. of the mantle is
: nrnamented with a double line and
lyeometrical designs surmounted by
trefoils. The ststuette is not painted,
and from it's great age naturally ex-
hibits fine cracks all over it. When
received, one of the hands of the Vir-
gin was broken, but at this writing
| it has been repaired. With the ex-
! ception of two broken fingers on the
right hand OF the Child, the statuette
| is in perfect condition"
Among the objects of Japanese
WORKING there are many
of them in this museums a fine
settee or broad chair. 1t was origi-
| nally the property of T. B. Basselin
of New York. AS a.Specimen of cary
| ing it is most extraordinary. aside
from the fact that it is Japanese
2, nation that has given to the world
SO many artisans in that line of work
of such supreme excellence.
There are beautiful screens, worries,
| china, paintings and so on of Jap
anese origin. Most of these are Of
great age. and do not recall having
seen any of very recent make,
In a. number of the cases in this
I museum we find small though ex-
cellent display of arms of various
nations-savage, civilized and semi
civilized. There is a. fair variety Of
small arms, both up-to-date and out
of-date examples, including muskets
and rifles. Some of the pistols and
revolvers are most curious and crude
in point of manufacture and effec-
tiveness, and this particular part of
the collection well exhibits the great
strides that have been made along
, such lines. -. .---
There is collection of Indian stone
implements donated b5s the late DR..
Walter J. Hoffman, who was the mu-
seum's first curator. In those days
| many expeditions were carried on in
| the District of Columbia and adjacent
! territories-that is to say, in Mary
| land, as at Little Falls, Piney Branch,
| Benning and York river. A very
large number of Indian spearheads,
arrow points, axheads and similar
| implements were obtained, and from
! these interesting objects DR.. Hoffman
Evening star., 1924-03-09
ny CARROLL QUINN WRIGHT.
: u. s.. Navy. Retired.

. HE dlscoverer- OF our land has
many monuments, the dis
coverer of a national song
hns rOno "Anericap 10 aI,np
Evening star., 1924-03-09

" good specimen of skull Of buf-
fa1o from our plains. as we'll as one
.of a moun4ain sheep. The value OF
such relics steadily increases as the
years go by, and yet / have seen the
time on the plains when could have
gathered up a. wagonload Of buffalo
skulls-eneugh to supply the mu-
seums Of anatomy and natural his
tory of the world.
In this museum is marvellous dis
play OF Indian material of-every de-
scription, a good part, take it, hav-
ing been sent in by Catholic mission
aries from the western plains in the
early days. The Alaskan and Eski-
mo specimens Of this description are
almost as rich and quite as interest
ing.
At one time the Rev. F. W. Kunkel,
8. S., presented to the museum the
skins Of thirty specimens OF Califor-
mia birds One was mounted Cali
fornia quaiI-but it was OH the stand
and in q very poor condition. These
birds had not been identified. so 1t
gave me pleasure to give the name Of
each one, and to repack the lot in
tray they had for them. These are
the only bird skins the museum has,
and among them found a road run
ner, a black-headed grosbeak, surf
and bun1e-headed ducks, western
rails. warblers. woodpeekers, long
billed curlews, hawks, etc.
= # Z
DRoF. H. HYvERNAT has greatly
= enriched the museums collections
through his personal generosity.
which has prompted him to add many
valuable objects from time to time.
Indeed. his oriental collection was the
first to be made accessible to the Wis
iting public, AHA It was thus that that
part Of the museum came to be called
the oriental, museum and the collec-
ton one Of biblical archaeology.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

on the ground floor of Caldwell Hall
professor for a museum of biblical
archaeology, also known as Oriental
Museum. 1t comprised eighty ORR
entail. manuscripts. about the same
number OF cuneiform tablets ranging
lle.ween 1000 and 500 &c. (the num-
par of these tablets is now 119),
about fifty Babylonian seals, oriental
coins, Greek and Roman lamps,
Egyptian statuettes and many. other
subjects very valuable for the history
of the east, ancient and modern. Prof.
1Iyvernat used his collection to illus
.trete his lectures on biblical archie
o:ogy."
I found that many Of the objects
and specimens had been sent to the
museum by Catholic missionaries
serving in foreign lands; but, unfor-
tunately, few of these donations car
ried any history with them. can
easily understand how this happened,
Rs I met with similar experiences
when collecting Indian and Zunian
specimens among those tribes, while
Serving OIL tue lTOHlIcT QuEIHS tu6
latter seventies. However, histories
of American Indian relics are far
more easily obtained than would, for
instance, be the history Of an ivory
saint cut in the north of France in
the fourteenth century.
We may now pass to the con-
sideration of such of the specimens
as i carefully examined and Of which
I made photographs. One is a totem
post from Alaska, carved in wood
by an Alaskan native, and has a
height of thirty-seven and a half
centimeters. Upon examination there
was found a note in its base, the
text Of which, as kindly furnished
by DR. Butin, reads as follows:
"Haa-at-esh was a very great man
among his tribe, who always did good
and helped the hungry One day he
was found dead in his hut. They
burned his body and buried his ashes.
When the, salmon season came the
tribe went out to fish; after fish
ing the whole day and not having any
luck they caught one salmon Of
great size, Who, when the Indians
Evening star., 1924-03-09

unique series OF costumes. The mod
els are neatly arranged in rows in q
tall, upright case, with glass doors
upon either side. r. r.
Cases of somewhat different style,
containing numerous shelves conven-
lent distances apart, serve to exhibit
the truly beautiful collection of shells
to be found in this museum. They are
from all parts Of the world. as the
East and West Indies and the orient.
Many are rare and extremely useful
to the student of general conchology.
Most tastefully arranged and DIS
played are the coins and medals. while
some of those of this country are
very interesting and instructive his
torically.
THE Lindesmith collection is refer
l. red to in the Catholic University
Bulletin for March. 1913 tvol. xxiv,
No. 8, pp. AZ, 43), in the following
words: "In December, 1898, valua-
BILE and interesting collection of Army
and Indian relics was presented to
the university by the Rev. L. W .Linde-
smith, formerly chaplain. United
States Army, and now chaplain of St.
AIMS Asylum of Cleveland. Ohio.
This collection had been gathered by
the donor while he was stationed at
Fort Keogh, Mont, during the Sioux
war, shortly. after the Custer mas
sacre. 1t contains the. camp trunk of
Gen. G. A. Custer. several rifles and
bayonets-relics of the massacre,
which were afterward recaptured by
the American troops-a great number
of army implements, swords, spurs.
bits, shackles. etc. used during. the
Sitting Bull campaign; over 100
specimens of Sioux and Cheyenne
weapons, ornaments, saddles, beaded
work, medicine sticks. etc. and, final
ly, several objects used formerly by
frontiersmen. Father Lindesmith has
written out a full description and his
tory of most of these specimens on a
large tag fastened to each object.
These descriptions present q vivid
picture of the garrison and officers at
Fort Keogh. of the. life at the post
traders store and of the habits and
peculiarities Of the Indians who con.
tributed to the collection
Wear the Custer collection is a fair
Evening star., 1924-03-09
Acres of Skylights.
TN the great terminal station of Il

IN the great terminal station of the
Pennsylvania lines in New York
there are $4,000 square feet Of sky
lights entering into the roof con-
struction. Not a single grain Of putty
has been used to render II water
proof.
Nearly every known shape Of SIX!
light was employed in its construc-
ton, and some idea may be gained OF
the care the work involved when IL
Is considered that the specifications
prohibited the use of curved glass.
each light lying in g. plane different
from that of it's adjoining light, in
volving the use of irregular shapes IN
surface and Dimensions
These skylights are made from
rolled steel bars. glass, copper and
brass without the use of any pack
ing or filling substances, and, al
though the system had never been
used prior to its adoption by the
architects, the decade OF subjecton
to extremes OF temperature and heavy
rainfall has demonstrated its ability
to Withstand any weather conditions!
Evening star., 1924-03-09

speaks Of himself as "one who court
ed the muse partly for personal salts
faction, but chiefly from an earnest
desire to promote patriotic sentiment
and Christian living as he had OPP
portunity."
On April 8, 1895. a great testi-
monial benefit was given the author
of America" in Music Hail., Boston.
sponsored by seventy-five Of the most
prominent men of Boston and vicin-
ity and by a large number of
prominent women. In the afternoon
the great hall was filled. mostly by
the school children, who sang
America" and at both sessions
afternoon and evening-Dr. Smith
gave the history of the great song.
relating the circumstances under
which it came to be- written--sixty-
three years before.
| He stated that he had not purposed
| creating any such thing as a national
hymn when, in his room at Andover,
in 1882, he caught the inspiration
and wrote hastily on a scrap OF
paper he found at hand the ode
which has been called America"
1.-The anthem Of the free He added:
II did not know that 1 had done
So"
1t fell into the appreciative hands
Of his friend. Lowell Mason. who
soon afterward incorporated it into
a program for the celebration OF
July OF that year. which was held
in Park Street Church, Boston. This
was. Of course. the first time the
song was used. and It is a memorable
date in patriotic history.
DR.. Smith lived to hear it sung in
many languages all around the
world, and to see it translated into
every tongue spoken in the United
States. He said:
when It was composed I was pro-
foundly impressed with the neces-
sary relation between love Of God
and love Of country. I pray that the
spirit of these simple verses may be
the spirit Of the people evermore."
The simple verses" as the author
calls them, caught the fancy and the
civic sense Of the people at once.
Like all great things, 1t was simple
and it's greatness and beauty had to
be discovered by the masses before
the modest author realized what he
had been given to do. In those
earlier days Holmes. in his reunion
poem. said:
"And there's q nice younsster Of excellent pith;
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
But he shouted song for the brave and the
free
Just read on his medal. My Country, 'Tis Of
Tbao1