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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-22
Soviet Spies On British

LONDON. Aug. 22.-Great Britain
has protested to Russia claiming
that the Soviet secret police are
continuously watching British
Charge d'Affaires Hodgson, making
It difficult for Russians, British,
and Americans to get in touch with
him, 1t was learned this afternoon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-22
SEEN
SWEPT BY
SHOWS
HOWELL Observatory Experts
Watch Storm WhirI Over
Face of Planet

LOWELL OBSERVATORY,
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz,, Aug. 22.-
The planet Mars is gripped by a
severe snowstorm, American sci
entists told International News
Service here today. The disturb
ance was traced. last night and
officially today by the astrono-
mers, who said a small dark speck
had been watched as it slowly
moved across Mars.
Indications today were that per-
feet weather conditions will prevail
for tonight's and Saturdays OBJ.
servation of Mars by the four
American scientists. regarded as
Marian authorities, stationed here.
Delicate instruments for measur-
ing reflected heat rays from the
planet, as well as instruments for
"close-upsH and photographs, were
in readiness.
Clear Last Night
Mars was perfectly clear last
night. the scientists said. Earth
clouds in other parts of the country
may have obscured observations
but the planet was unhidden by
any mist, furnishing clear views
the revelations Of which, pro
nounced but not startling in charac.
ter, will not be made public at this
time.
1.-THE principal feature about
Mars visit earthward at this time
is that observations are easier.
declared Doctor w. W. Coblentz, Of
the United States Bureau of Stand
ards Of Washington. who is here
for special study of the planet
I'm sorry, but nothing sensational
is anticipated through our work
this time"
An attempt will be made to de-
termine Mars mean temperature
and definitely announce that the
planet is considerably warmer thar
zero. If this is proven it will be
the first step in establishing that
there are vegetable and perhaps
other forms Of life on the planet
The following statement concern
ing the earthward swing Of tht
planet Mars. which climaxes to
night and Saturday, was writer
exclusively for International News
Service by the scientists at Lowell
observatory, long noted as the seal
of Marian studies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-22
BY KENNETH CLARK,

All this talk and excitement about
tuning-in on Mars can be set down
right now as just so much "bosh, /"
Doctor F. E. Fowle, sun and star
expert of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, declared today.
Pegging green apples at the moon,
or swimming the Atlantic ocean in
the face of a seventy mile gale; get.
ting station MARS on the radio
would be just that easy and success
full, Doctor Fowle said.
"It's nonsense; 1t simply isn't be.
ing DONE" Doctor Fowle snapped his
fingers as II the suggestion of
listening.in on Mars, for which radio
stations all over the country are TO
be silent tonight, didn't interest HIM
whatever.
There Isn't n Chance.
Although the planet Is only 49,.
500 900 miles from earth, just a
couple OF steps around the corner as
astral distances are measured, Doc.
tor Fowle advised those who are ex.
pscting a message from some Mar.
tan tonight to turn off the key on
the parlor set and go to the movies,
or take walk.
There's isn't a chance to get a
message from Mars" Doctor Fowle
said.
ut has been reported that wire.
tContinVed on Page 2, Column g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-18
The PGcifsm of LaFoIIette

The pacifsm of LaFollette, like that of Ramsay
Macdonald, is only skin deep. When subjected to
analysis, we find it is no different from the paci
fsm of j. P. Morgan, Calvin Coolidge or any other
distinguished proponent of capitalism.
LaFollette is engaged in great vote-catching
contest. Even if he had the intention of doing JUS
tice to whatever scruples he has saved after a
career in the political bawdy house at Washington,
his socialist allies would not stand for it.
''Fightin Bob" speaking in Cincinnati, made
his position quite cellar. 81 am not paci-
fist nor an advocate of peace at any price l can
conceive of conditions under which l would fight
to repel aggressive acts of any power that at
tempted to seize territory or imperil the national
life of our institutions" he declared.
This sounds familiar, does it now? Almost like
what Secretary of State Hughes would say!
"Our institutions" may be situated in the state
Of Wisconsin, in the Philippines in China. They
may be the properties of the Standard Oil com
pany in ROumania the dollars of the House of
Morgan loaned to Persia. And the "pacifst' La
Toilette would call the armed forces of the United
States to action in behalf of those constitutions
just as readily as the "pacifist' Ramsay Mcdonald
orders British airships OF bomb Indian villages
in the interests of British capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-18
Soviet Recognition

gOne Of the most vocal advocates in congress of
the recognition of Soviet Russia was Senator Will
liam E. Borah of Idaho. Tho the senator made it
quite clear that Communism was anathema to his
American conscience yet he prOfessed to hold that
the principle of self-determination was worthy of
resurrection from the grave in which it was laid
by its principal supporter, Woodrow Wilson.
But of late the Idaho orator has kept quiet on the
question of Soviet recognition While the bearded
Baptist, who runs the department of state combs
the sewers for his anti-Russian propaganda, the
mighty-vOiced senator from Idaho, on his once
favorite hobby, is as silent as Coolidge is on the
Ku Klux Khan issue.
What is the reason? On what meat have our
erstwhile valorous defenders of the "right of all
peoples to govern themselves they see fit' been
feeding, that they have grown so dumb? We have
not heard peep from Senator LaFollette since
he formed the alliance with Gompers, Vanderlip
and Spreckles.
The suspicion is growing that our gallant
Borahs LaFollettes and Co. who hurl verbal thun-
derbots at the predatory interests" have lately
been listening to their masters voice. and are
as anxious not to irritae the Wall Street boss as
is Charles Evans Hughes.
But the decision of France to recognize the
Soviet Republic may knock the padlocks off the
lips OF our progressive" senators.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-18

Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, is conduct
ing an Investigation into the campaign expendi-
lures of three capitalist parties: the republican
party, the democratic party and the LaFollette
party.
The investigation is fake. The three parties
are tarred with the same brush as far as contribu
tons are concerned. 1t is true that the big cap
italists lean toward Coolidge They know Davis
has not the ghost of chance, so they are placing
their eggs in "Silent CABS" basket.
LaFollette is just as willing to accept money
from millionaires as Coolidge is. None of them
draw the class line. What is the difference between
Vanderlip and Lamont?
In contests where the balance between the re-
publicans and democrats is fairly even, Wall
Street contributes evenly to both sides. AS far as
Wall Street is concerned, it has implicit confidence
in both of the old parties Neither does it fear
that LaFoette will interfere with its business but
it does not like the idea Of supporting a man who
has so many workers and farmers in his train.
Wall Street fears the masses. 1t fears them just
as much as Threadneedle Street fears the masses
behind the traitorous government of Ramsay Mac
Donald.
Wall Street prefers the devil it knows to the
devil it does not know so we'll. It prefers the
avowed candidates of big business to the spokes-
men of the disgruntled bourgeoisie 1t does not
like the idea Of having querulous politicians poking
their noses into its private affairs. But it can't
help it. The politicians know that the best way to
attract the attention of the money bags is to begin
by making trouble. 1t is the most successful form
of blackmail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-18

done something desperately demo
cratic, but the habit sticks and our
Industrial Worker says it is good be-
cause of the "ten generals" Unfor-
tunately, the Encyclopedia Britannica
says that, 1.-THE strategi (ten gen.
erals) acquired great power from the
fact that they were frequently re-
elected for many years together, and
so had greater experience and con-
tinuity of policy"
There is little left Of our editors
argument. However, it may be noted
what happened to this wonderful ma
ton whose culture" Of slave mas
sacres by the ephori, and whose lead
ing philosopher described the work
ers as "articulate instruments" After
the increasing democracy" under
Ephialtes and Pericles, the "discip-
Librarians" and the brute forces" of
Sparta fell upon the democratic for
ces OF human fredom," ten generals
and all, and made an end Of Athens.
Let the Encyclopedia tell why. "In
the Peloponnesian war;" it says,
(which ruined the Athenian empire,
the issue Of the conflict was deter
mined less by any intrinsic superior.
ity on the part of her enemies, than
by the blunders committed by a
people unable to carry out a consist
emit foreign policy on its own initial
i've, and served since Pericles by none
but selfish or short-sighted advisers"
The applicability of the last words to
I. w. w. editorial policy is particular
ly apt.
But demagogues need no excuse
from history for their meddlesome-
ness. They continually play upon
the sincere workers Of the I. w. w.
membership in an effort to convince
them that they are not the leaders but
the led. At least such is the threat
they postulate. Yet, in the estimation
Of the Communists, the most obscure
member of the I. w. W., who knows
the rudiments of the class struggle
and talks of them to the backward
workers, the scissorbills around him,
is leader.
These class conscious fighters of
the l. w. w. are leaders, and insofar
as the I. w. w. itself takes. direction
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-18

Of the spread of revolutionary ideas,
It is leader Of the class struggle,
it is taking the function of a revolu-
tionary political party. Unfortunate
ly or fortunately, its ranks have be.
come so filed with ordinary workers
that it no longer expresses a clear
revolutionary theology 1t is more of
union than revolutionary political
party. 1t fights for wages and not for
power. So it is fighting leaders. We
prefer, to the silly editorials Of the
present day editor Of the Industrial
Worker, the cry that rang from the
deck OF the Verona at Everett in
1916, when the armed white guard,
asking for leaders, was met with the
cry, Were all leaders" They were
in 1916, but not in 1924.
Better than anything I could say
to answer the ignoramus-cry Of
Down with leaders," put forth by
this insect-minded editor Of the Indus
trial Worker is the words OF the great
leader Lenin, who says:
"PeopIe bend every effort to con-
ceIve something extraordinary, and
In their zeal to InteIIectualize, they
become ridiculous. It is common
knowledge that the masses are div
Ided into classes; that the classes
are usually and In most cases led
by political parties; a. that poIItI-
cal parties, as general rule, are led
by more or less stable groups of the
more influential, authoritative, ex-
perIenced and Independent leaders,
elected to the most responsible POSI-
tlons. All this Is elementary. II is
simple and plain. Why then, this
whole rIgmarole, this new VoIap-
uk?" (Note: An artificial language.
n. G.
The only reason for It is, as men
toned, that under the alarmist cry
against leaders, leaders of experience,
ability and revolutionary ideas, new
leaders, leaders whose devastating
harmfulness has all but wrecked the
I. w. W., are to engage in a fight
not to hold oflce-but to direct the
theology of the L W. w. to mere job
unionism and against revolutionary
unionism. The issue is not mo
leaders" but which leaders2"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-18
Peace and Tin Soldiers

Secretary of the Navy Wilbur desires that the
airship zR3 should serve as a peace symbol be-
tween Germany and the United States. 1t is rather
easy to talk peace to a man when you have your
foot on his neck. The Dawes plan is the United
States foot on the German neck and unfortunate
y it is not the capitalist neck but the neck of the
German working class The zR-3 is warship, not
peaceship.
While Wilbur drools about peace, the chief
magistrate of the nation is presented by Rodman
Wanamaker with set of tin soldiers equipped
with aircraft which manufactured in Ger
many and brought over on the Zeppelin. Wana-
maker is millionaire department store owner
Tin soldiers and peacel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-18

Of "shall we have leaders?" but of
shall we have sincere, levelheaded,
able and revolutionary leaders, or
leaders who get out injunctions
against each other in capitalist courts,
who close the columns of our papers
to us if we disagree with their pecu.
liar ideas as to the economic faunda-
ton Of the Soviet form Of government,
or the necessity of international labor
unity, etc. In short, shall we have
good leaders or bad leaders?"
Among the other qualities Of bad
leadership which should be added to
the above. is the astounding perver-
sion of historical analogy. For in.
stance, the reference to the "ten gen.
erals" Herotodus, the only one men
tioning that such an arrangement pre-
vailed at Marathon, unfortunately for
our editor, goes on to show that only
by the violation Of this idiotic rule of
divided command was the battle
won.
Professor West in his work on the
Ancient World" referring directly to
Herodotus, says, "At first (when
threatened with Persian invasion Of
Attica) most Of the Athenians wished
to fight only behind their walls. Soon
er or later this must have resulted in
ruin. Happily, Militades, one Of the
ten generals, persuaded the command
ers to march out and attack the Per-
SLAMS at once. The result was due to
the generalship of Militades and to the
superior equipment of the Greek hop
lite" There is little indication here Of
the power Of democracy" mentioned
by our cross-eyed historian. The same
view is vouched for by the Encyclope-
dia Britannica, which says that, Mill
tades, who seems thruout to have
played a more prominent part than
his superior, the polemarch CALI
machus, drew up the Athenian army
and charged dzwn upon the enemy"
And again, "sfie Athenians, on the
recommended Of their strategus,
Militades, etc. Nowhere is it indicat-
ed that by the happy change of pulling
straws it was Militades' day to COM
mand. In fact it is clearly shown
that he commanded for at least three
consecutive days.
More, is was not out of the Athen-
ian slave-herders' great love for de
mocracy" that the "ten stategi" also
called the "ten generals" were given
to history. They were merely tribal
representatives to the central govern
ment, one strategus being elected by
each tribe, and their functions were
more than merely military, having
regard to all foreign policy, conduct.
ing religious festivals and handling
the trade in corn. Tribal jealousy of a
folk living 5000 years ago, appears as
an excuse in 1924, for decentralization
in the /. w. W., a covert argument for
the secession of the Lumber Workers.
Industrial Union from the l. w. W.
Can there be worse leadership than
this?
But even these ancient Greeks, so
exemplary in their democracy" &C
cording to the Industrial Worker,
never reached the folly of some of
the present 1. w. W., who insist that
all officials, good, bad or Indifferent.
shall be retired after twelve months
of experience in Office, and brand
new lot, bad, good or Indifferent ac-
cording the will of the gods of chance,
take control of the organization. True,
this has brought the l. w. W. little
but confusion and a sense of having
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-18
WORK OR WAGES FOR UNEMPLOYED

that goal. It is organizing and mobil-
izing the workers for a revolutionary
struggle to end the dictatorship of the
capitalists which now exists in Wash
ington and establish the rule Of the
workers and farmers.
Work and Vote for the Workers Party.
The Workers Party is carrying on
the fight for relief of the unemployed
now and the struggle to abolish the
system which causes unemployment
1t is the only party which is max
ing this fight for the workers. Cool
idge stands for the capitalist system
and if need be will use soldiers as an
answer to the demands of the unem.
ployed. Davis will fight against the
workers and for the capitalists.
LaFollette, who is asking labor sup
port, hasn't anything to say about un-
employment either in his speeches or
platform. He stands for the capital
list system which causes unemploy-
ment. He will help uphold that sys.
tenn against the demands Of the unem-
ployed.
Workersl Join the Workers Party
in the fight against unemployment and
the system which causes it.
Join the Workers Party In organ
Izlng unemployment councils to
fight for immediate relief for the un-
employed.
Vote for the Workers Party csndi-
dates, Foster and Gitlow, and demon
onstrate your demand for abolition
Of the system which Is responsible
for unemployment.
Make the bosses pay the unem-
ployed.
Abolish capitalism which causes
unemployment by creating a work.
ers' and farmers government.
Central Executive Committee, Work
ers Party OF America,
William z. Foster. Chairman.
G. e. Ruthenberg, Executive Secre.
tary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-18
UNEMPLOYMENT COUNCILS.

UNEMPLOYMENT COUNCILS.
The way to get relief for the unem-
ployed is thru unemployment councils
The workers employed and unemploy-
ed must unite to carry on struggle
for the unemployed. They must fight
as a class against the scourge from
which the workers suffer.
Send delegates from the factories,
from the trade unions, from labor pol
itical organizations, from groups of
unemployed, and organize the unem-
ployement council to make the de-
mand and carry on the struggle to
compel the capitalist bosses and the
government to pay the unemployed
wages.
Hold mass meetings, send delega-
tons to the shops and the city coun-
ellis, the state legislature and congress
to demand action to relieve the unem-
ployed.
Put an End to Unemployment.
There is only one way in which to
put an end to the frequent hard times
and the suffering it causes for millions
of workers who are unemployed. That
is by ending the system Of industry
which causes unemployment.
1t is because the industries are own.
ed by the capitalist bosses and run
for their profit that we have hard
times so frequently. 1t is the capital
list system which is responsible for
millions Of worker being without jobs.
II we want to stop the periodic curse
of unemployment we must fight
against the capitalist system. It is
the government which maintains and
holds that system. 1t is by taking the
governmental power in their own
hands-by establishing a workers and
farmers government and abolishing
the capitalist ownership of industry
that unemployment can be finally end.
ed.
The Workers Party is the only party
which is carrying on a fight to achieve
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-18
BY HARRISON GEORGE.

BY HARRISON GEORGE.
"The mountains look on Marathon,
And Marathon looks on the sea-"
But both of them look startled,
When fools write history.
We are moved to improve thus upon
Byron by reason Of the interminable
nonsense filing the editorial columns
of the Seattle Industrial Worker, in
attacks upon the theory of working
class leaders" The most recent ex-
ample, from the issue of Oct. s, writ
ten by the editor, whose modesty we
respect by permitting him to remain
unnamed, is the following distortion
of history:
''In the ancient years European
culture was threatened by imper-
ial barbarism. At Marathon the
hosts of brute, supreme power met
the democratic forces Of human
freedom. At Marathon, liberty, such
as was then developed, was so jeal-
GUS of authority that its supreme
command was divided among ten
generals, any of whom only ruled
for single day. And this power Of
democracy met the idea of efficiency
as expressed in selfish rule and so
vanquished authoritarianism that
the story rings today, and long
sought victory is called Marathon"
Aside from the rather extraordinary
Interpretation Of the Athenian slave
holders being the protagonists of "the
democratic forces of human freedom"
there are other and bewildering stu
pidities in the quotation, which is a
fair sample of the whole unintelligible
editorial. Everybody, except this be-
fuddled fool, knows that "a Mara
thon," far from being long sought
victory" is the symbol of physical en-
durance, especially in a race. We have
Marathon dances" and Marathon
races" in which athletes Of all nations
join, not because of any military sig
nifcance of Athenian spearsmen, but
because after the battle, Phidippides,
the runner, already exhausted, raced
afoot the twenty-five miles between
Marathon and Athens and fell dead.
Browning has made it the theme Of
great poem.
But when pedagogy combines with
demagogy to confused the honest
workers who read l. W. w. papers,
Stiffness has it's serious side. These
workers, busy with lodging blacklists
and getting living out of Weyer-
hauser's lumber camp foremen, have
little time to dissect the historical
distortions of an editor, who was in
tiicted upon them by committee, i'm.
bued with sense of responsibility
and impressed by gray pompadour
and precise pronunciation. These
workers are semi-weekly and gravely
informed that leaders" are threaten.
ing their democracy" their liberty"
They have none of these blessings,
but, nevertheless, the editor warns
that they are seriously endangered.
These menacing leaders" are usual
ly classified indefinitely as "politi-
clans" Many times they are disclosed
as Communists" Nearly every issue
they are connected more or less direct
ly. with Harrison George" And with
what purpose? 1t is not that, as said
by Lenin, instead of old leaders who
have a common sense viewpoint on
things, new leaders are put forth ICON
cealed under the slogan of Down with
leaders!), who prattle supernatural
nonsense and spread confusion"
So we see that it is not a question
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Phillips County herald., 1924-07-31

the rock, but il did not break was
hitting too vigorously, he said: was
expecting to accomplish with one hard
blow what 1t would take half dozen
or more to do; | wanted results i'm
mediately.
Time and patience" he said, time
and patience, and the stones finally
yield, and the piles of broken stone
grow"
| have thought of his philosophy
often since. lmpulsive youth finds II
hard to wait; If results do not come
in response to our first efforts we
grow irrltated and discouraged and
give up the task. If the construction
in the translation seems involved, If
tine experiment fails in our first at
tempt. II we do not solve the problem
or make the sale, or accomplish the
task, the first time we hit it an intel
lectual blow, we have tendency TO
throw down the hammer and say that
,be thing is too much for us. Most
of us need a little more persistence.
When | have worked with man
or a task or n problem for n long time
md have got nowhere. when dis
couragement is about to overwheln
me. | often think of he old English.
man sitting by III roadside quietly
and persistently hnmmering at the
heavy stones Time and patience.
time and patience, and the stones f.
nalIy WELD" he said. and ! take cour-
age ns l recall him. If we work long
enough at a thing, If we refuse TO give
up, we are likely TO win.
90, 1924. Western Newspaper UnionD