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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-30
CINCINNATI MAN
VISITS HOLSTERS
AND LIKES THEM
Bank Executive So Favor
ably Impressed That He
Writes About 1t.

Favorable impressions of Indiana
are registered by a. NJ Hopkins,
manager of the real estate depart
ment of the Fourth and Central
Trust Company, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Hopkins writes of a recent visit
to the city and State:
Like Marco Polo. I have been on
my travels.
I yearned for snow-capped noun
tain ranges, hills, valleys, rivers,
running brooks and a few archipel-
ago; also open spaces and freedom,
but being short of time and money,
I curbed ambition and took a run
to Indianapolis.
don't think the dwellers in var
ious cities know enough about each
other. For most of us the city linn
its is the end of our world. Indian
apolis might as well be located in
Australia, for all we know about it,
and our knowledge of Louisville is
confined TO tobacco and blue grass
bellies. Why don't we mix more?
Why Are We Chesiy?
How do these people of other
cities work, and how do they play?
In each place, what is the outstand.
ing feature that so fills them with
pride? Why are they chesty Why
does a Cincinnatian declare that he
wouldn't live in Cleveland on a bet
and why does the dweller in the
shadow Of Moses Cleveland thank
the good Lord that he is not com
PEELED to live in Cincinnati?
To find out many of these things
Is to acquire education.
And so I. an outsider, had look
at Indianapolis and Indiana
Indianapolis has civic pride, plus
and with reason.
She likes herself. She is a good
advertiser.
She works hard and makes money
She plays hard and is happy.
Lew Shank is mayor. Some per
sons call him ''Hoosier Rube."
Thinking people praise him. for
the city is well run-well managed.
I saw miles OF wonderful asphalt
pavements-kept in repair. d.
Automobile regulations that really
regulate and make riding pleasant
and safe.
Traffic cops who know what they
want and how to get it. and this
without friction.
He Likes 1t
met men and women who live
and talk and think Indiana, and ]
liked it.
I saw marvellous country clubs
with the welcome sign displayed.
I travelled for miles along boule
wards and inspected municipal gol1
links, ball grounds, bathing pools
tennis courts, camping sites, all in
operation, and everywhere special at
ton had been given TO the children
There was enough happy laughter
Happiness.
I did not strike even one mile OF
what we could call a bad road.
saw sunken gardens, maintained
by the acknowledgements seeing.
The tomb of James WhitcomH
Riley, the blessed, and his gentle
spirit seems to hover over the en-
q tire State.
THE ole swimmin' hole" with {
s dozen naked. brown Imbed boys
8 making merry, just as it was Sc
4 down by Riley.
q was shown several other swim
& ming holes. all being mentioned a
the exact bathing place where tn,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-30

m Y raising $4,000 in three
Xxi services, the Little Blue
River Baptist Church,
near Sheibyville, effaced the last
of a $4,000 debt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-30

Hoosier poet secured his inspiration.
What's pool more or less among
friends?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-30

Fumes from dynamite nearly suf-
located Otie and Alva Harden,
cousins of Bloomington, who were
digging a thirty-foot well.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-30

Eugene Kerr. for years ground
keeper at Indiana University, anC
known to hundreds of students, il
dead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-30

Morris Banta, 6, Shelbyville, broke
his leg when an improvised swing
broke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-30
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

hY rIOW many people know that
IHI you are Garbons confden-
IL tial clerk?'I asked.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-30

legged frog they caught in the
Hoadley stone mill pond. Rec
ord long distance hops are ex-
pected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20

cratic convention.
But the representative of the c. E.
C. majority, in full agreement with
the policy Of that body toward Lore
during the whole past year, stands
.serenely before the convention and
before the whole party and declares:
Lore had recanted. He is now
worthy of our confidence. He surely
can be trusted with the task of car
rying out the policies of the C. l., a
task that Bedacht cannot be entrust-
ed with"
Lore has reformed!
Yes-he shows his reformed soul
in all its beauty, in an editorial pub
lished in the New York volkszeitung
Of December IL. Speaking about the
attacks of the Herriot government
against the French Communist Party
he says that the French Communists
prove that their ostensible intentions
of overthrowing the government
would not serve the interests of Mos
cow which is supposed to be direct
ing them. If the Soviet government,
as is constantly being contended by
the capitalist press, is placing great
hopes in obtaining loan from the
Herriot government, it would natural
ly do nothing to nip these hopes in
the bud, especially as the French Com
munist movement is not yet strong
enough to make an insurrectionary
movement at the present time ap-
pear hopeful"
There you have it. From the Ber-
lin international of Rocker to the
Washington international of Hughes
Coolidge, the Soviet government has
always been accused that the G. l.
is nothing but its agent; and that the
C. rs actions are directed by the
commissariat of foreign affairs of the
U. S. S. r.
Here is a member of the central
executive committee of the American
section of the Communist Information
al openly adopting and applying this
same argument to disprove any insur.
rectionary intentions of the Commun
list Party of France.
OF course, the majority Of our c.
E. C. will find that perfectly in or
der-because Lore has reformed!
But the halo of the reformed sinner
and new saint, Lore, reflects sufficient
light to bring out into relief the
loyalty" of the C. e. G. majority to
the C. l. and permit the membership
Of the Workers (Communist) Party
to pass final and decisive judgment
on it at the next convention. 3
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20
WHAT'S THE USE OF A
LEADER WITHOUT AN ARMY?

/ am with the minority.
Are we to conclude that the major
ity Of the C. E. C. are in favor Of
isolating the Workers Party or of
forming a "Holy Trinity" with the
IS. L. p. and the proletarian party.
Perhaps they are DESTROYS of turn
ing it into discussion club such as
the two last named parties are. salts
flying themselves with quoting Marx
once in while, maybe holding a de-
bate with someone occasionally. One
thing is certain and that is, If they
are Communists, they cannot be quit
ters. They must recognize that we
are not yet, by any means, enjoying
Communism, that Communism is an
end and that the Workers Party, the
Communist movement in the United
States, is a means to that end.
Comrade Manley says he has had
his fill Of farmer-labor parties. but
am located in part Of the territory
that he will be called upon to visit
in his new duties as eastern industrial
organizer, where he will find a grow
ing sentiment for such a party and
Continued on next page.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20
By THOMAS MYERscoUeH.


NOV that the line is closely drawn
IN on the C.. E. c. of the party and
the battle is to determine whether the
majority or minority thesis shall be
the guide of our immediate future ac-
tivity, we, the rank and file (pardon
the use Of trade union phraseology)
will do we'll to study the facts that
present themselves so boldly.
The majority thesis, either summed
up or boiled down, says Build the
Workers Party" The minority state
ment treated similarly means Build
the Workers Party" but reminds us
of the necessity of Reaching the
Masses" in order that we may ac-
complish that very thing. That is
my understanding of what the minor
ity means when they urge the slogan
of For mass farmer-labor party"
No one can deny, that in order to
build anything, either the Workers
Party or any other essential thing,
the material with which to build must
first be assembled and nodded to
make for stability, otherwise the
structure will crumble and fall. Hence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20
The Discussion on Party Tasks

lists did not have any intention and
did not want to become the leaders
Of labor party. At that time the
Foster-Cannon group did not argue
that farmer-labor party would be
competing party. Nor did the Com.
munist International ever think that
a labor party organized on the basis
of the organizations of the workers
with the Communists holding strate-
gic place in it could be a competing
party with Communist Party organ
lied on the basis of the individual
clear, class conscious reyolutionists.
Otherwise the Communist Interna-
tional would never have instructed us
that: 1.-THE first task of the Workers
Party is to become mass Communist
party of workers. II can fulfill this
task only by most actively participant
ing in the establishment Of a labor
party which will embrace all elements
of the working class by establishing
bond with the farmers who are at
present in state of strong fermen-
tation."
If a labor party of this sort can be
said to be a competing party today
it could as well have been said by the
Communist International and would
have been said by the Communist
International few months ago when
this decision was made. Only a me-
chanical, un-Marxian and non-Com-
4 fcf 20 ha
because the campaign for farmer
labor party is like every other cam
paign-only method to establish
leadership. The Workers Party will
not establish farmer-labor party as
the leader of the American masses,
but it tries to establish its own leader
ship over these masses by means of
such campaigns as that of ''for class
farmer-labor party"
To show how absurd this trump
card argument of the Foster Cannon
group is, it needs only to be applied
to other campaigns and other slogans.
Applying the logic of the Foster-Can-
non group to the campaign for the
relief of unemployment, the argument
could be made that such a campaign
is no good because it may bring relief
and thus spoil our chances for fur
Their developing proletarian unrest
against capitalism. Surely Foster and
Cannon are not yet ready to say this
openly. Perhaps this thought is really
in their heads and has been the basis
of their resistance to all campaigns
on unemployment proposed by the
minority members of the central ex-
ecutive committee.
+ ouestion-The Central Execu
VI tive Committee majority spokes-
men are always shrieking: Where is
the sentiment for a class farmer
labor party? Name any labor organi-
zation where there is sentiment for
such farmer-Iabor united front?
Answer-Now for some outstanding
facts showing the strong undercur-
rent of sentiment for the building of
an independent political party of the
workers and exploited farmer-a class
farmer-labor party-in the ranks of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20
A Communist Catechism
Some Questions and ANSWERS

q ouestIon-Why ask for farmer
" labor party when the masses
aren't demanding one?
Answer-This is still worse Com
munism for a party which seeks to
be the leader of the working class.
The fact that the masses--the whole
working class or a considerable por
ton thereof-are not clearly demand
ing a farmer-labor party does not
mean that the Communists should dis
card this slogan. Why does the ma
jority thesis contain the slogan, For
labor congress?" Are any masses
demanding it? Have you ever heard
a single worker in your shop. mill or
mine talk about labor congress or
even mention it? The masses know
far less about labor congress than
they know about a farmer-labor party
Ia form of political organization that
has an historical place and tradition
in the American labor movement.
The demand for a labor congress
amongst the masses is insignificant
when compared with the demand for
labor party.
"A ouestlon--Why organize party
u to compete with the Workers
Party?
Answer-0nly a few months ago
the Foster-Cannon group was so anx-
ious to form labor party that they
were begging the Mahoneys and Fitz-
patricks to become the leaders OF
such a party and we're announcing
from the housetops that the Commun-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20
A SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC AFFAIR
Continued from Page ~

Continued from Page ~
tween the socialist and the commun-
list is not merely degree Of class con-
seriousness; that the Communist Is
working class conscious, while the So
elaIist Is bourgeois class conscious.
Lore's declaration in the matter was
not an excuse but an admission of
guilt, an admission that he is not a
Communist. But Bittelman says:
. "Never mind, Lore is worthy to carry
out the Comintern policies"
Social Democrat Calls Bedacht "Mos-
cow Agent" am =
But aside from these excuses" Of
Lore, there was the atmosphere Of the
whole convention. Before the eyes
and ears of the convention specta-
tor, member of the party, one DR..
Aronson, demanded to know from Be
dacht what he gets paid from Mos
cow" While l consider it an honor
to be accused of being an agent of
Moscow in that convention, an honor
that might not be appreciated by Lore,
still, the treacherous tendencies of the
man making the accusation is obvious.
The convention did not rise as one
man to protest but calmly continued
In its rut When asked by Bedacht
whether he was sent by Abe Cahan to
ask this question, DR.. Aronson, a very
close friend of Lore, answered with
more truth than poetry, that he was
a social-democrat for fifty years.
The only excuse that the represent
alive of the G. e. C. majority at this
convention. Bittelman, can now bring
forward for the convention permitting
to go unchallenged, the behavior of
DR.. Aronson is, that Bedacht did not
appeal to the convention for redress.
l ask any comrade with common sense
and with Communist spirit why
should bring to the attention Of the
convention a crime to which the
whole convention was witness.
Every criticism of the Communist
International was greeted with ap-
plause in this convention. Lore, when
justifying his attacks on zinoviev, by
declaring that the president Of the
Comintern cannot claim the infallibil-
fly Of a pope, was acclaimed with en-
thusiasm.
Lore's Communism.
Lore's Interpretation Of Leninism
and Bolshevism as less discipline and
more democracy carried the conven-
ton with him. Almost every mani
festation of the convention was jus
tification for the judgment that It was
not Communist but soeial-demo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20

the masses.
1. At the conference OF fifty dele
gates representing approximately
10000 progressive miners in the Pitts
burgh bituminous district No. 5, Of
the United Mine Workers OF America,
held on Sept. 81, the plank "for a
farmer-labor party" was unanimously
adopted. On Oct. s, the same plank
was reaffirmed at another conference.
The industrial organizer of our party,
Comrade Foster, in Pittsburgh on Nov.
30, did not dare to blink totally this
strong demand of the miners when
he revised this plank Of the program
to read Independent political action
by the working class thru a militant
political organization Of its own"
Did Foster mean Workers Party or
farmer-labor party? Or perhaps he
meant the LaFollette party? Why
did he not say what he meant7
2. In the conference for progress
sive political action Of Massachusetts,
the minority demand for a farmer
labor party as against a fraudulent
liberal third capitalist party was
strong and clear cut. Had our central
executive committee given the party
members in Massachusetts, proper
guidance instead Of an overdose
of phrases in a tapeworn manifesto,
the party, thru this labor party slogan,
could have struck an effective blow
against LaFollettism and could have
established our leadership amongst
an increased mass of workers in the
Bay State.
8. In California our party member
ship in the trade unions is faced with
similar situation where we will be
compelled to throw away a splendid
opportunity to lock horns with the
labor takers simply because the cen
trail executive committee majority has
issued a bull against our comrades
using the farmer-labor slogan even
where there is mass demand for it.
4. In Minnesota the demand for
organization of a farmer-labor party
is so strong that even the labor fax
ers and fake progressives like Ma
honey are forced to pretend to talk
for such party and at the same time
to insist that the Communists must
be driven out of such party. Here,
the sabotaging activities of Mr.. Sin
clair, LaFollette's agent, have espec.
tally enraged many workers into insis.
tence that party of their own be or
ganized nationally.
5. At the last American Federation
Of Labor convention, despite the fact
that we failed to elect a single Com
munist or even a handful of militant
delegates, the demand for a farmer
labor party was voiced in resolutions
proposed by the Molders' Union, the
international Potters' Union and the
Stone Cutters Association.
6. A perusal of the labor press
convinces one that the demand for a
labor party is increasing in strength
and insistence. Typical of this de-
mand is the declaration to be found in
recent issues of the Upholsterers'
Journal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20
BY MAX BEDAcHT and
JAY LOvESToNE.

eve hereby begin the first of a
series of questions and answers bear
ing on the problems confronting the
party in the present controversy. We
ask every Communist to study these
questions and answers carefully.)
I ouestion-What is the purpose of
IL Communist United Front Tactics?
Answer-The objective of Commun-
list united front tactics is to separate
the working and poor farming masses
from the reactionary leadership and
to win leadership over these masses
for the Communist Party.
q ouestion-What Is a good Com
e. munist SIogan7
Answer-The Foster Cannon group
maintains that the only criterion for
the correctness of slogan is its meet
ing an existing well developed general
mass demand. The Bittelman logi-
clans yell that at present nobody de-
mands q farmer-labor party. and,
therefore, the slogan of farmer-labor
party is no good now.
This reasoning Is bad Communism.
The best criterion for slogan is not
whether it meets mass demand but
whether 1t meets a mass need. In
order to fit the requirements OF our
desire to wing working class leader
ship, our slogans must not follow
mass demands. movements, but must
precede them, crystalline them and
give articulate expression to them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-12
JUST SUPPOSE" TO BE
NEXT BILL AT MURAT

Beginning Monday night the
Murat Players will present for the
first time in this city at the Murat.
Just Suppose" a comedy by A. E.
Thomas.
George (Who may have been the
Prince Of Wales bitches" a dinner
given him by the American Sec
rotary Of State in Washington and
gees motoring through Virginia.
With him is his old Elton chum
Calverton Shipley piayed by Harold
Veimilye) who happens, to know the
Staffords Of Fairview and stops to
pay his respects.
George played by George GauD
following Shipley into the house,
meets Linda Lee Stafford and there
upon fatty refuses to motor back to
Washington, not, at least. until the
next day. II is love at first sight
with Linda Lee and her prince, and
he will gladly give up his royal job
II she will say the word
But she knows that he belongs to
his peDrle and. sends him back.
knowing that ell her life she will
remember the thrill of his hand.
clasp and be haunted by the smile
in his eyes
The COMEDY abounds in humor
and offers Gaul and the entire com
pany congeniai parts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-12
HAYNES TO SPEAK
AT ROTARY CLUB
Inventor VIII Tell Story Of
America S First Car.

Elwood Haynes Of Kokomo, inven-
tor of Americas first automobile.
viii speak at the noon luncheon of
the Indianapolis Rotary Club in the
Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel
Tuesday July IS, it was announced
today by Charles E. Rush, secretary.
Haynes topic viii be Experience in
the Development Of the Automobile. 3"
Rush said today that twenty-five
members Of the Rotary Club have
perfect attendance records for the
first six months of the calendar year
They are:
DR. Frank w. Albeit, William H
Bass. Alexander Beck, Benjamin n
Bogue, Andrew A. Brown. Irwin R.
Brown. Carl S. Cook, Harvey A
Grassland. Harry w. Dragoo, Lewis
G. Ferguson. Eugene D. Foley, J.
Harry Green. William Kissinger.
Pierce j. Landers. Oscar f. Lewis,
William Allen Moore. Chester S.
Kicker. Roy Sahm. Carl B. Shafer.
Durward Staley, Henry L. Stanger,
Frank W. Strohm, DR.. Herbert T.
Wagner, Lucius G. VIM and Albert
r. Worm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-12

very questionable, and tries to per-
suade him to give them up.
The boy refuses. however, and in
a desperate attempt 10 save him
from their evil influence she pretends
TO Join their crowd in order to be
near her brother. When he is in
nocently accused of the murder of
a Federal officer who intercepted
them while they were transporting
LIQUOR stolen from a rum ship, Rose
enlists the aid of Chief Monahan
and Bob Kane, a young attorney who
is posing as a member of the under
world crowd in order to obtain infor-
nation which will lead to their ar
rest.
After many perilous and exciting
incidents they are able to gain
MATHS freedom and expose the entire
crowd.
Warner Baxter, recently signed by
Thomas H. Ince on a three-year con-
tract, appears as Bob Kane, and Rob
ert Agnew is the weakling brother.
Others in the cast are Lucille Rick
sen, Matthew Betz, Bessie Love,
John Sainpolis and Lydia Knott. -
The Indianapolis favorites, Bob
and Gale Sherwood, with their novel
~ Singing Band. will remain at the
Circle for a second weeks engage
ment, presenting an entirely new
program.
A Circlette of News and a Circle
comedy cartoon will complete the
program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-12

Colleen Moore will be the attrac-
ton at Mister Smiths beginning
Sunday. in THE Perfect Flapper,"
in which the star has the role of
Tonlmie Lou Pember. quiet and de-
mure little debutante. whose first
party is a glorious flop because of
Tommie LOUIS reputation for being
such a brown wren" type.
When she innocently becomes in
volved in a scandal. the crowd which
had ignored her Immediately pays
her homage. and Tommie Lou de-
cides that the way TO be popular is
to ape the ways of the flappers and
keep the folks guessing about what
she was going to do next.
She meets a young attorney. Reid
Andrews, who has been employed to
extricate her from the affair in which
her name is linked with that of a
very conservative young married
man. and Tommie Lou begins her
campaign to win his affections. She
mistakenly imagines that he admires
the lazy" type of girl, only to find
that his ideal is the quiet. denure
sort.
When Tommie LOUIS dream cas-
ties topple all about her, her aunt
intervenes, and Reid and she find
happiness together
In this story Miss Moore has as
her leading man Frank Mayo, and
others in the cast are Phyllis Haver
in the role Of a jealous wife, and