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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
SHOCKER NOT TO
 BECOME YANKEE
McGraw Says Terry Will Remain
 With Giants

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-Statements by Managers McGraw of the Giants and Huggins of the Yankees on their return from Europe and Hartford, re- spectively, indicate that Bill Terry will remain Giant for another year at least and that Urban Shocker will not wear the uniform of the Tanks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
SCHAEFER LEADS CHAMPION HOPPE

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5.-Jake 2Schaefer continued today to increase his z lead over Willie Hoppe, 1S.2 balk line billiard champion. At the end of the ieventh block of special 3,200 point
 hatch here today, the total count was : |Schaefer, 2,S00; Hoppe, 2,641. Schae- Der made the high run of the after boon with 100, while the champions Ibigh was 80.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
DIES FRON TNmIRY

MONT CLAIR, N. J., Dec. 5.-Alan Fitch, IF, Montclair High school foot ball player, died last night at the re- suit of compound fracture of the left leg, which he received while making a flying tackle in a game with East Or ange High on November 1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
BOXERS IN SHAPE

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec. b. Mickey Walker, worlds welterweight shampion, and Jock Malone, one of the best of the middleweights, who are to box here Monday night, went through lheir training work here-yesterday aft Prnoon and both appear to be fit to itart. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
MAY MAKE LONG TRIP

URBANA, H., Dec. 5.-Champaign High school may journey to Cisco, Texas, for an interesectional game with the champions of that state on New Years Day. Cisco plays in the finals for the championship of Texas tomor- TOW.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
SEWANEE TEAM
 HAS BIG MENU
Plays Crimson Tide In Birming
 ham On Oct. IF

SEWANEE, Tenn, Dec. 5.-The fol- lowing football schedule for the seeson of 1925 has been announced by Sewanee athletic authorities.
 September 26, Bryson at Sewanee. October 10, Texas Aggies at Dallas. October IF, Alabama at Birmingham. October 24, Kentuck State at Lexing- ton.
 October 31, Chattanooga at Chat tanooga. ..9 .,
 November ', Pending.
 November 14, Tulane at New Orleans.
 November 26, Vanderbilt at Nash vile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
MARYLAND BEATS VIRGINIA

COLLEGE PARK, Md, Dec. D. University of Maryland defeated Uni versity of Virginia in a spirited bas- ketban game by score of 24 to IS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-02
"A Fit Defender

1t the American workers need any further
proof of the moral turpitude of ex-attorney
general Harry M. Daugherty, and his eminent
unfitness for holding any public Office higher
than superintendent of a public convenience
station, they are referred to the March 31st
issue Of the Herald and Examiner of Chicago
William Randolph Hearst, the champion
journalistic prostitute of America, if not of the
world, has written over his own signature
lengthy editorial scoring the committee which
is investigating Daugherty and his deeds, de-
claring that to date they have not produced
any evidence of an discriminating character
against the ex-attorney general and charging
that the attack on him is due to the alleged
fact that he was friend of the people" and
not corporation lawyer.
The readers Of the American mess have
long ago ceased to place any credence in the
declarations of William Randolph Hearst.
They are interested in his defense of Daugh-
erty only to the extent of having their curiosity
aroused over the secret back of the yellow
journalists defense Of the notorious CRATER
and strikebreaker
Not so very long ago It was whispered
around the Capitol that the publisher and Mr.
Daugherty were bitter enemies. One of Mr..
Hearsts champion muckrakers was put to
work 'Igetting the goods" on the then attorney
general. AS the story goes Arthur Brisbane,
0OOO
ton, had a conference with Mr.. Daugherty and
the expose, partly set up in type, was killed
and never appeared.
What is the deal between Hearst and
Daugherty? Mr.. Hearst has extensive inter-
ests in Mexico. Did he secure the aid of the
Department of Justice in rivetting the chains
of bondage on the Mexican poems?
Mr.. Hearst saw nothing heinous in Daugh-
erty's strikebreaking activities. He saw moth
ing heinous in his setting the machinery of his
spy agency in motion to smash up the shop
mems strike. There was nothing offensive to
the sensitive nostrils of Hearst in Daugherty's
association with the scourings of the under
world, the CRATER Jess Smith, the immoral
debaucher Jake Hamon, and the hundreds of
others who lowered around the Capitol since
he got into office, like buzzards around
battlefield.
William Randolph Hearst is very fitting
defender for the disgraced ex-attorney gen
eral Much tho we despise Daugherty we
cannot help extending our condolences to him
for his new-found friend. To have lost COM
paratively companion like the burglars
fence" Jess Smith only to be obliged to lean
on William Randolph Hearst is a punishment
that would melt the heart of even plundered
bootlegger.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-02

paint, plastering, plumbing, pipes, fix
lures, kitchen ranges, globes and
glassware, and appurtenances thereto
IN said demised premises in a clean,
slightly and healthy condition, and
in good repairs, all according to the
statutes and ordinances in such cases
made and provided, and the directions
of public officers duly authorized, all
at his own expense.
Under this clause, if tenant has
lived for 10 or more years in the
same house, he must still make and
pay for all repairs. This clause is
frequently enforced by landlords
when plaster falls off the walls, when,
due to age, the ceilings fall in, or
when the plumbing wears out.
If thru the inveterate neglect Of
the landlord, the house has become a
danger to the tenant, and if, thru
an accident caused by this neglect the
tenant is injured, the tenant, in this
widely used lease, is forced to agree
that the landlord is in no way
responsible. Lessor shall not be
liable TO Lessee for any damage or
injury to him or his property oe-
casioned by the failure of the lessor
Candlord) to keep said places in re-
pairs" says article seven Of the most
frequently used apartment lease in
the city. "Nor shall the Lessor be
liable for any injury done or oc-
casioned by wind, or by or from any
defect in plumbing, or electric wiring,
gas pipes, water pipes, or from broken
stairs, porches, ratings, or walks nor
for any damage from water, ice or
snow bearing upon or coming thru
the roof nor for any damage caused
from any act Of negligence, or omis-
sion of eo-tenants or other persons or
Of the lessons agents or Of the lessor
himself, all claims for any such dam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-02
The Booze Secretary

Andrew w. Mellon, Secretary of the Treas
ury and one of the wealthiest men in the
United States, is charged with getting a share
of the graft of several unsavory bootlegging
deals thru his power to grant permits for
liquor removals, under the Volstead Act, the
enforcement of which the Treasury Depart
ment is charged with.
Several witnesses testifying before the COM
mittee to investigate Harry M. Daugherty,
stated that Mellon owns a big distillery in
Pittsburgh and that one of the first big pieces
of graft that came the way of the new booze
aristocracy had its origin in the whiSkey fac
tory of our very respectable Secretary of the
Treasury.
1t is an axiom that crooks never trust each
other. 1t is not surprising, therefore, to learn
that shortly after Mellon accepted his present
post, President Harding sent a corps of spies
on his trail to get the goods on him. They
failed the first time. Mellon slipped thru the
lines The second time, the sleuths got on his
track, they nabbed him. Harding kept the
goods" in his safe, no doubt, for use, in an
emergency. The workers and farmers of the
country did not know anything about this until
CASTOR B. Means delivered the goods" on the
witness stand in Washington.
The capitalists who run this country were
quite disturbed over the exposure of Mellon as
common booze-running CRATER. It hurt the
ulSHlJy OI IHe ONCE. Fancy man who had
charge of the nations money being mixed up
in booze peddling Violating the rules he act
ually made himself, for few hundred thou
sand dollars or few millions! This was strik-
ing pretty near the roots of capitalist govern
ment. 1t must be stopped. The workers would
lose confidence in the Responsibility" of their
rulers.
After Daugherty was handed his hat and
told to take his burglars tools along with him,
Mellon was slated for the skids. But imme-
diately the capitalist press, democrat and re-
publican, began to lay down a heavy barrage
behind the Booze Secretary of the Treasury.
Cartoonists and hack writer's were called into
play and it looks as if millionaire Melons
dough will choke off the moral indignation of
the democratic snipers.
After all this reign of terror against the
republican grafters could be carried so far
that it might threaten the existence of both
capitalist parties. A united front of capitalists
to save Mellon is being formed The men who
own this country do not like to see their polit-
zeal lap dogs in Washington getting out of
hand. It spoils their game SO they are now
cracking their whips over the heads of the
noisy democrats and goading the frightened
republicans into more aggressive attitude.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-02

which are often taken advan-
tage of by the lessor, not only
to dodge his own responsibility,
but to cheat the lessee of
money in addition to his legiti-
mate rent.
The city has no uniform lease. and
there is no Rent Commission which
would, in some measure, force the
landlords to use a fair lease form.
On the other hand, the landlord gets
up all the leases. There is a mass
Of matter printed in small type in
all Chicago's leases which the tenant
finds impossible to understand unless
he takes the lease to a lawyer, which
he generally cannot afford to do.
The prospective tenant is told that
It is merely a matter of form, and
in most cases signs the lease, only to
find later that he has absolutely no
rights, and the landlord can and does
take advantage Of him in countless
ways.
Numerous Complaints.
Numerous complaints come to the
United Charities and other welfare
groups every month that the landlord
is breaking the city ordinances by re-
fusing to keep the plumbing, or the
walls and ceilings in repair. These
agencies examine the tenants lease
and because they find in a majority
Of cases, the following quoted para
graph, they can not only do nothing
to force the landlord to act, but they
find that, according to city law, the
tenant must make and pay for his
own repairs.
The majority Of the leases to
apartments and fats in Chicago in
clude a paragraph declaring; lessee
shall keep the said premises and the
walls, ceilings, floors, woodwork,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-02
Tribune Begs Lady'S
Pardon for Calling
Her Working Woman
CBy The Federated Press,

A horrible stain on the character
of real lady has been hastily re-
moved by that most chivalrous Of
character assassins, the Chicago
Tribune. The assassination in this
instance was unintentional and the
lady's reputation was revived few
days later by formal printed apol-
ogy She was not radical and was
therefore entitled to decent consid-
Grafton.
The moral lapse unintentionally
attributed to the gentlewoman was
not the familiar fieshy one to which
even our toniest ladies are suscept-
IDLE. 1t was apparently far worse.
II was a downright denial of aris-
tocracy, of gentility, Of our democ-
racy's highest social standards.
The Trib had called her q "gov-
erness," basely implying that she
had earned her living by her own
efforts, drawing a beggarly wage in
exchange for actual service instead
Of clipping it from gilt-edged bonds.
The Federated Press viii do what
IL can TO rectify the Trib's mistake
by reprinting the apology which APP
peared in the Tribune Of March 81:
Mrs. Williams was highly
educated woman and instructed
her daughter Mary and some of
her young friends in Latin and
the higher studies. She took up
this work because she was left
lonely after the death OF the
three younger children OF the
family. She did not at any time
act as a hired governess.
Nothing vulgar, you see-own
daughter and some friends-the
higher studies--above all, not at
any tipe common Tired governess.
Dear no.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-02

ages being hereby expressly waived
by lessee"
Will Not Furnish Heat.
Another clause in the lease con-
cocted by the Chicago Real Estate
Board which is frequently taken ad-
vantage of by the landlord to de-
crease his expenses, seems rather
harmless, but it is really an agree
ment of the tenant, if the landlord
fails to furnish heat, that hN must
furnish his own heat for an apart
ment rented as a heated apartment.
Lessor shall not be held liable for
any injury or damage whatsoever
which may arise or accrue from his
failure to furnish cold or hot water,
regardless of the cause of such fail
ure, all claims for such injury or DAM
age hereby being expressly waived by
lessee"
The Tenants League of Chicago
and several charity organizations
have in their files numerous records
of tenants, who, renting a fiat as
heated flat, have been forced, by the
above clause to pay out an additional
ten or twenty dollars a month to heat
the apartment themselves.
1t might be asked, "Why does a
tenant in sane state of mind sign
away all his rights, and agree to take
all responsibility himself?" The an
swer is that ninety-two per cent of
the people of Chicago, if they want to
live in the city at all, are forced to
sign the above lease or one just az
bad or worse.
The Chicago Real Estate Board,
which has just come before the peo-
pie of the city in a benevolent, al
truistic guise, with an "Own your own
home" exhibit at the Coliseum, abb
solutely controls the leasing of all the
apartments and flats in Chicago.
Must Leave improvements.
II you rent q home in Chicago at
all, you must agree in addition to
the above, to leave all improvements
you have made on your apartment at
the disposal Of the landlord, OF. IL he
desires TO move the improvements,
such as locks, doors, cupboards,
shelves, partitions, bathroom fixtures,
lighting fixtures, "The Lessor Gland
lord) may remove and store same,
and lessee agrees TO pay for removal
and storage of same"
In the next article we shall further
expose the sharp practices Of land
lords, bordering on the illegal, which
grow directly out Of the INSCRIPTIONS
leases which the tenants Of Chicago
must sign, or else leave the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-02
Hoover Exposed

That Herbert Hoover now Secretary of
Commerce in the Coolidge cabinet, while head
of the American Relief Administration, which
had several millions of dollars at its disposal
intended for the starving people of Russia
during the period of the great famine in 1919,
diverted a million dollars from that fund to the
notorious brigand and counter-revolutionist
Admiral Kolchak, for the purpose of creating
civil war in Russia is the startling testimony
given by Captain H. L. Scaife, former Depart
ment of Justice agent, before the senate COM
mittee investigating Daugherty, in Washington.
When Hoover was appointed director of the
American Relief Administration, the Commun-
lists pointed out that Hoover would do the very
thing he has now been charged with by gov
eminent agent, who is not a Communist or a
radical of any school. The Communists pointed
to Mr.. Hoover's record in Hungary where, his
agent Gregory, a Hoover tool, used the funds
of the relief Organization to overthrow the
Soviet Republic under Bella Kun and place the
dictator Admiral Horthy in power. The blood
thirsty admiral murdered thousands of work
ers and the blood of every mothers son of
them is on the head Of Herbert Hoover.
So Hoover tried the same game in Russia
The Communists warned the American work
ers that behind the cloak of humanitarianism,
with which the designs of the American cap
ltalists were hidden, was the sinister intention
to advantage of the frightful calamity
which visited the workers of Russia, to sabo-
tage their government and turn the country
over to the tender mercies of the Czarist gen
eral who would consent to sell its resources to
the American plunderers for whom Hoover
was acting.
The American workers, to their eternal glory
he said, needed the warning of the Commun-
lists and sent hundreds of thousands of dollars
TO the Russian workers without any conditions,
TO save millions of Russian workers and peas
ants from lingering death by hunger and,
more important still, to save the revolution
Thanks to the aid of the workers of all
lands the Soviet Government was able to
foil Mr.. Hoover's plots, and the workers of
this country feel proud that thru the Friends
of Soviet Russia they did their share in saving
the Workers Republic in its most critical hour
Now, the entire country knows what the
Communists knew four years ago. Hoover is
charged with crime compared to which the
direliction of Fall is trivial He misappropri-
ated at least one million dollars of the fund
consigned to his care for the relief of distress
He attempted to overthrow a government with
which the people of the United States were at
peace, which they were in fact saving from
the curse of famine. Crimes greater than these
no man could commit
Hoover's crime is but another example of
the treachery of capitalist governments and
their unrelenting determination to crush the
rule of the workers. This further proof should
increase the determination of the workers and
exploited farmers of America to get rid of the
capitalist class and establish Soviet govern
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-02

pace TO place, and fighting in
many battles.
With only nine men he fought
off a troop of twenty-three South
erners at the 'battle of Black
jack" and forced them to sur
render. In August, $50 men -4nov-
on Osawatomie. john Brown
gathered about forty men to re-
sist the Southerners, and a hot
battle was fought, in which, of
course, Brown had to retreat. The
town was thoroly wiped out, and
also granted Southern rights"
There were many other skir-
mishers; the name of Captain
John Brown, old Brown of Osa-
watomie, became q legend in
Kansas. He became a sort Of
Pancho Villa figure TO the South;
a hundred times he was reported
dead or captured; hundred times
he was blamed for wild deeds he
had never done.
Here are two contemporary
pictures of John Borwn in the
field. The first is written by Aug
ust Bondi, brave and able young
Austrian Jew, who put himself
under Browns leadership after
the Pottawatomie affair:
eve stayed here up to the
morning of Sunday, June LIST, and
during those few days / fully sue
ceeded in understanding the exalt-
ed character of my old friend,
John Brown. He exhibited at all
times the most affectionate care
for each of us. He also attended
to the cooking. Ne had two
meals daily, consisting of bread,
baked in skillets; this was washed
down with creek water, mixed with
little ginger and a spoon Of
molasses to each pint. Neverthe-
less, we kept in excellent spirits;
we considered ourselves as one
family, allied to one another by
the consciousness that it was our
duty to undergo all these priva-
tons for the good cause. We were
determined to share any danger
with one another, that victory or
death might find us together; and
we were united, as a band of
brothers, by the love and affection
toward the man who with tender
words and wise counsel, in the
depth of the wilderness Of Ottawa
creek, prepared a handful of
young men for the work of laying
the foundation of free common
wealth.
His Philosophy.
"His words have ever remained
firmly engraved in nay mind.
Many and various were the in
structions he gave during the
days of our compulsory leisure in
this camp. He expressed himself
to us that we should never allow
ourselves to be tempted by any
consideration to acknowledge laws
and institutions to exist if our
conscience and reason condemned
them.
"He admonished us not to care
whether a majority, no matter
how large, opposed our principles
and opinions. The largest major
tiles were sometimes only organ
lied mobs, whose howlings never
changed black to white or night
into day. A minority convinced of
its rights, based On moral prin-
ciples, would, under republican
government, sooner or later be-
come the majority"
The other description is that
of William A. Phillips, then a cor
respondent of the New York Trib-
une, and later a Colonel in the
Civil War. Brown, still an out
law, was on his way to Topeka,
to be on hand at whatever crisis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-02
''The Story of John Brown

might arise at the opening of the
legislature elected by the Free
State settlers. Phillips met him
on the way.
Prophet of New Day.
His account is important, for it
shows that John Brown saw much
farther than his own times. He
knew that there we're many other
things wrong with the social sys-
tenn in America besides slavery.
There are plain indications here,
as in other accounts, that John
Brown was one Of those early
American Socialists, such as Hor-
ace Greeley, Albert Brisbane,
father of arthur Brisbane, Bron-
son Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson
and others, who felt that the abol-
ition of slavery was only the first
step toward free America. Wen
deli Phillips, for instance, one Of
this abolitlonist band, became
after the Civil War one of the
leading champions Of the rights
of workingmen in their battle
against the capitalists.
But here is Colonel Phillips
giving his charming picture, in
the Atlantic Monthly for Deem
Der, 1879, of that night ride and
the conversation he had with
Brown as they lay bivouacking in
the open beneath the stars:
"He seemed as little disposed to
sleep as | was, and we talked; or
rather, he did, for / said little.
l found that he was a thoro as
tronomer; he pointed out the diff
ferent consultations and their
movements. Now, he said, 1t
is midnight as he pointed to the
finger marks of his great clock in
the sky. The whispering Of the
wind in the prairies was full of
voices to him, and the stars as
they shone in the ornament of
God seemed to inspire him. How
admirable is the symmetry of the
heavens; how grand and beautiful!
Everything moves in sublime har-
mony in the government of God.
Not so with us poor creatures. If
one star is more brilliant than
others, it is continually shooting
In some erratic way into space
"He criticized both parties in
Kansas. Of the pro-slavery men
he said that slavery besotted
everything, and made men more
brutal and coarse; nor did the
Free State men escape his sharp
censure. He said we had many
true and noble men, but too many
broken down politicians from the
older states, who would rather
pass resolutions than act, and who
criticized all who did real work.
Did Not Trust Politicians.
"a professional politician, he
went on, you could never trust;
for even if he had convictions, he
was always ready to sacrifice his
principles for his advantage.
Zone of the most interesting
things in Captain Browns con-
versation that night, and one that
marked him as a thinker, was his
treatment of our forms of social
and political life. He thought
society ought to be reorganized
on a less selfish basis; for while
material interests gained by COM
petition for bread, men and women
lost much by it. He condemned
the sale of land as a chattel, and
thought there was an infinite num-
Der of wrongs to right before So
ciety would be what it should be,
but that in our country slavery
was the sum of all villainies, and
its abolition the first essential
work"
Ito Be Continued Thursday.)
The Great Plan Evolves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-02

This is "The Story of John
Brown" by Michael Gold. Pub
lished by the DAILY WORKER
thru arrangement with Haldeman-
Julius Company, of Girard, Kans.
Copyrighted, 1924, by HaldemSn-
julius Company.