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The Washington times., 1924-05-27
EX-KLAN CHIEF
SUFFERSFQR
MUSIC
E. Y. Clarke, Waiting on Sen.
ate Call, Had to Leave Banjo
and Drum Home

e. Y. Clarke, deposed imperial
wizard of the Ku Klux Khan,
fidgetted today. waiting. for the
Senate's Peddy.Mayfield Senatorial
contest committee to decide when
he can leave washington and get
back to Atlanta and his banjo and
trap drum.
Clarke made one of the mistakes
of his life when he answered q
subpoena to come here to testify
and did not bring his travelling
photograph along as usual. Hes
been without tonic music nearly q
week and the strain began telling
on him today.
I'm very musical" Clarke said.
MY house in Atlanta IL full Of
musical instruments" IF
81 have a piano and q banjo and
a guitar. play the trap drum.
too. Usually when i travel l take
"a portable monograph and twenty
five records along and play them in
drawing room. ] have to take q
drawing room because Of the other
passengers y,
''Many's' the time / have sat up
until two in the morning playing
my guitar. ] play classic music
and jazz, too, but mostly jazz"
Are you a composer
"Well, I've never written any
music, but 1 often play for an hour
and make it up as 1 go along
Clarke had to cool his syncopated
heels again today in the Capitol and
be content with humming snatches
of song to himself, because the
committee was still undecided
whether he ought to be allowed to
testify.
Clarke pleaded guilty last March
in Houston, Tex, to white slave
charge and was fined 5000.
Counsel for George E. B. Peddy.
the contestant, wants him to testify
about khan expenditures, but coun.
sci for Senator Earle B. Mayfield
oppose it. contending that the Texas
courts reject the testimony Of q
| witness convicted Of a felony.
The Washington times., 1924-05-27
ANKLES BACK IN
. Styles, PARIS
DEGREES
Short Skirts Will Be Worn
This Fall, Fashion Die
tators Declare

NEW YORK. May 27.-Shimmer-
ing shanks will again be exposed
to view next fall IL the style
creators in Paris are successful in
putting over with American manu-
facturers the new short skirt spon.
| sOred in the French capital.
And because history repeats itself,
1t looks very much as IL the grace
ful curves Of feminine calves will
again attract the attention of man.
kind. Authority for the prediction
in vested in the dictator of the
American dress industry, David N.
Mosessohn, executive chairman Of
the Associated Dress Industries OF
America. in New York.
According to MIR. Mosnssol1n,
manufacturers of dresses who have
been abroad are returning with
models which carry the mode of
fashion back few seasons. 1t is
easy to recall the days, in recent
history, when there was no debate
about whether a woman's lower
extremities formed a pair Of con-
vex or concave arcs-or in the
vernacular, whether she was bow
legged or knock.kneed.
Just when everybody, even the
more modest sisters abiding far
from the white lights of Broadway.
had accepted the knee length skirt
as a joy forever. Paris said,
Enough Of that-we must change
the style-use more material to
stimulate the mill business and
compel a complete change Of ward
| robe. in the entire world. The
long skirt is the thing now" Ana
1t went over because Paris said it
had to. Now Paris apparently
thinks the women of the country
have been wearing long skirts long
enough, and, it is time to retreat
and take them up a few inches.
1t Is an edict. Paris dictates.
And the last word Is short skirts.
How short? 1t looks as IL about
twelve to fourteen inches from the
ground would about meet the style
order. At the present time eight
to ten inches is the accepted length.
Manufacturers are now working
on their fall models. Retailers will
be in the market in June and July
to place their orders. The women
OF the land will have an oppor-
tunity to see for themselves just
how Tar they will have to protrude
beyond ana below the hem of the
dress skirt.
The Washington times., 1924-05-27
OPEN
SESSIONS IN
VIRGINIA
Christian Church Delegates
Hear Work Of campbelIs for
Religious Liberty Praised

HARRISoNBURG, Va. May 27.--
The torty.ninth annual convention
OF the Disciples Of Christ uf vir-
GINA was opened for q three days
session. here last night. and from
present indications 1t bids tair to
be the largest In many. years,
/ Already q large number Of the
299 churches In the State, with q
membership Of 36,167, are repre-.
scented, and it Is expected that many
others have delegates ON hand for
business sessions, which begin this
The Reverend c. B. Reynolds
pastor OF the First Christian
Church. Lynchburg, is president
and qfter addresses Of welcome and
respOnEe$. he introduced the Rev
erend b. Il. Smith, .of the First
Christian Church. Norfolk. who de-
livered the convention sermon.
Mr.. Smiths subject was ",The
Life and Work Of Alexander Camp
TIE traced the history OF the
Campbell family from County
Antrim, Ireland. to America, and ii
the religious conditions If the
frontier, now western PennSylvaHia
He recalled the intense sectarIanisrn
and the plea that grew out OF II
tor Christian union, which was ad,
vocated by Alexander Campbell and
hts father. Thomas Campbell.
The method Of union was to re
turn to the Bible alone as tlIs~only
authority in religion, with the
motto: Where the Scriptures
| speak we speak. where the Scrip
lures are silent we are silent -
Mr.. Smith traced the great de
velopment in Christian liberty as
the result Of the Campbellian move
ment. He showed Mr.. Campbell az
one Of the greatest preachers Of his
I'day, the author of fifty.six volumes
the founder and president VI Beth.
any College, and the religious leader
/ OF the people known as the Disci
Piles Of Christ, the Christian Church
now having 1850, 900 members, with
$500 ministers and 1900 churches
| 1t was historic review, not Only
Of Mr.. Campbell, but also a com
parison Of his work with that OF
Luther, Calvin, and Wesley, the
great religious leaders with whom
he assigned Alexander Campbell as
a peer.
The Washington times., 1924-05-27
DAVIS DOOMED
By MISSOURI
DELEGATES
Former Governor Gardner
Favored As Running Mate
on Democratic Ticket
BY JACK CEJNAR,

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. May 27.-A
move TO line up Mlssouri's thirty:
six delegates to the Democratic
national convention for John w.
Davis Of West Virginia and New
York, with former Governor Fred
erick ID. Garner as Davis running
mate for the vice presidency. has
been started by Gardner's friends
and. according to their statements,
Is making considerable progress.
The effort to link Davis and
Gardner together follows alleged
threats made by some anti.McA doc
members of the delegation that
they would refuse to obey the unit
rule instructions imposed by the
recent State convention at Spring
field, Mo. Joseph B. Shannon.
Kansas City Democratic leader. and
others who are opposed to McAdoo,
are understood to have declared
they would endeavor to have the
delegation vote to discard the unit
rule as soon as the Missourians
reach New York.
The State convention resolutions
permit the delegation to ..bolisn the
unit rule by majority vote when
ever 1t sees fit.
The Washington times., 1924-05-27
'SENA TE VOTES
! PUBL|C|TYF0R
"A CIT IS
Measure Passes Without OPP
position as Rider to
Postal Bill
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON,
International News service.

AsASSA ssesN-AphAA9bs
Congress was on its way today
to erect an effective barrier
against corrupt political expendi-
lures in the approaching Presi-
dental election.
A measure, providing for COM
pulsory publicity Of all political
contributions at ten-day intervals
throughout the coming campaign,
with drastic penalties for eva
sions, already has passed the
Senate as a "rider" on the postal
pay bill, which in turn will be
passed today. The bill will then
go to the House, where its final
enactment is assured by Congress
sional leaders.
The publicity provision is prob
ably the, most radical Legislation
passed by the Senate within a
decade. The proposal itself has
been before Congress for the last
six years, ever since the Newberry
case. Its enactment came as a
complete surprise to administration
leaders, but they offered not a
single objection.
The measure was sponsored by
Senator Borah Rep) Of Idaho, but
bore amendments offered by both
Republican and Democratic leaders.
Before it was enacted by the Sem
ate, every faction gave 1t implicit
endorsement. A similar reception
was expected in the House.
Under it's far-reaching provisions,
the measure will effectively block
a repetition of the 1929 slushf fund
scandal which was generally
credited with having changed the
expected result of the Republican
convention in Chicago. During its
enactment, the Chicago pre-conven-
ton money plots" were freely
aired in the Senate. and different
party leaders declared they believed
The Washington times., 1924-05-27

= r. ( as
the Borah plan would stop ali such
scandals in the future. e.
Widest publicity will be given
every political contribution under
the measures ample terms. First,
Y VIII apply 70 all local, State and
natlonai committees Of all the par.
uaI or organization which In. any way
attempts to influence public opinion
In an election Or help, either to elect
or defeat a candidate for Conrress
or Federal office. including the
Presidency.
In its extraordinary effectiveness.
the measure also applies ia ali or.
ganiZations Endorsing or opposing
any political issue. This would In.
clude the apti-proh ibition associa.
lions. the Anti.SalOon' League and
its allied organizations and All COM
mittees or bOdies-even chambers Of
commerce which take part In any
campaign or election, whether for
OF, against q candidate or issue.
The publicity returns must in.
clude- not only the amount OF the
contribution but the name and adj
dress of the contributor as well and
the name of the solicitor who OBJ
tanned the fund. These reports must
first be published every ten days and
filed with, the Secretary of the Sen
ate and the Clerk Of the House.
Heavy penalties are provided foI
every violation of the publicity fea-
ture. Fines of $1,000 with years
Imprisonment, are imposed. In
cases of a committee violating the
order, every member of the com
Inittee would be subjected to the
fine and imprisonment.
This is the surest remedy we
have ever had against the corrupt
use of money in an election" was
Boraf's comment.
The Washington times., 1924-05-27
WOMEN SCORE
IN BRITISH NET TOURNEY

LONDON, May 27.-American
women scored three impressive vic
tories in the opening round Of the
Middlesex tournament today over
English opponents.
Mrs. Molla b. Mallory, former
American champion, defeated Mrs.
Morrison, 6.2, 6-2; Miss Edith Sig
Quincy defeated Mrs. A. o. AK
worthy, So, So, and Miss Elizabeth
Ryan, who has been living in Eng
land for several years, won from
Mrs, Reckitt, 60. 81,
The Washington times., 1924-05-27
Move Made to Free
Man President
Pardoned

An application for leave to
tile q petition with the Supreme
Court Of the United States for
release from the Chicago house
OF correction of Phillip Cross
man, Chicago saloOnkeeper,
committed for one year for con-
tempt Of court in q prohibition
case, was filed yesterday. with
the court. Accompanying the
application was the. petition.
It set forth that Grossman
bad been pardoned BY President
Coolidge from service of inn
cisiOn of the Judges.
The Washington times., 1924-05-27
Italians Held; Hoped
to Enter U. Sans
Passport

LONDON, May 27.-Seventy-
four Italians, who declared they
had embarked at Marseilles
upon the promise they would
be taken to the United States
without passports, were arrest
ed on board q Greek steamship
ct Antwerp, said q dispatch
from that city today. Is.
The captain Of the ship told
police the Italians organized .
tnutiny and tried TO get rid Of
The affair will be ipvesti-
gated by the American authors
ties.
The Washington times., 1924-05-27
Torpedo Blast Hurts Several

VIENNA. May 27.-Severai per-
sons were reported injured by an
explosion upon an Italian torpedo
boat in the Danube near Linz today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-09
Another "BIoc des Gauches"

The united front now being set up between
William Randolph Hearst, Robert Nj. LaFollette,
Eugene Debs, the c. 2. p. A., and fragments OF
former farmer-labor parties is the most entertain
ing political potpourri that has been concocted in
years. 1t is unlike any combination ever seen be
fore in this country, and the closest comparison
we can think of off hand from Europe is the bloc
des gauches that is supposed to have put Herriot
into the premiership of France.
Such a comparison is of course, only super
fetal one. But the many points of likeness are
Illuminating, and should assist the workers to
come to realistic understanding of just how little
they may look for from such combination, even
should it be victorious
A combination of renegade socialists, capitalist
yellow journalists, and trade union bureaucrats,
forming united front with all the disseminated
small bankers, DOCTORS lawyers, dentists, preach
ers. merchants, and Qast but not least) movie
show proprietors is attempting to take political
leadership in this country The failure OF this
roulash. that includes William Hale Thompson,
former mayor Of Chicago and notorious booder,
along with the social-upft ladies and Socialist
partyites is written in its social composition even
more than in it's absence of program, its refusal
to organize party, and its apparent incapacities
The American "bloc of the left" will prove to be
bloc des gducherics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-09
Famine Scares

The wish is father to the thot of the capitalist
papers who published stories of new famine IN
Soviet Russia. When there was real famine In
the Volga region, the result of an unprecedented
drought the pluto press did everything possible to
prevent the workers of this country from coming
to the aid of the starving workers OF Russia The
backbone of that famine broken after splen-
did example of solidarity on the part of the work
ers of the world. Today, when there is no famine
in Russia the capitalist press creates one in its
attempt to discredit the Soviet regime.
Since the great famine overcome, the Soviet
Republic has made giant strides toward prosper
ity Production on the land and in the factories
has increased tremendously. There is still room
for Improvement, thanks to the heritage OF in
efficiency left by the Cars regime and the hostl-
ity of the capitalist world. But steady progress
is assured. The workers and peasants get more
of the product of their labor than they ever got
before and they are masters of their own destiny.
The progress made by the workers in Russia is
having the effect of making the workers IN other
countries more Disseminated with the capitalist
system. There is a growing desire to do away
with that system and begin the reconstruction Of
society on communist basis. To kill this senti-
ment, the capitalist press publishes lies about
conditions in the Soviet Republic Famines Muir
ders Chaos. They feed their readers on yarns
supplied sometimes by paid liars who get their
local color in the dives of the European capital
lists sometimes the fairy tales are written In the
editorial rooms of the capitalist papers and given
a Riga Geneva, Hengsfors or London dateline.
The Chicago Tribune is the champion anti-So-
Wet liar of the United States. It's lies are not
even carefully concocted. Again it spreads yarns
about q Russian famine A drought in part OF
the volga region was seized upon by these jour
nalist buzzards to manufacture another famine
scare
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-09
Sanitariunl Socialism

Socialism is sick. 1t has been sick for long
time but now the death rattle is in its throat
From Section g. Article 2, of the 1912 to the 1924
convention at Cleveland where delegates who rep
resent nobody are unravelling the last threads of
the bond once uniting the party with the workers.
is twelve year story of surrender to petit bour-
geois politics.
The one redeeming element was the honorable,
though pacifst, resistance to war on the part OF
the revolutionary left wing, as particularly sym
bolized by Debs. We except the war record of
Berger and his like whose opposition neither
humanitarian nor proletarian, but nationalistic.
The studied attitude of sanity pacifsm Debs
has taken since his release was but sign either
of illness that ravaged his body or more insidious
sickness that affected his ideas with the doctrines
of the petty bourgeoisie. The great leader who
once advised the coal miners to buy rifles and
every local to keep machine gun against COM
pany gunner and murderOus militia, who went to
prison a self-proclaimed "Bolshevik," issued from
prison an ILL., old man proclaiming nonresistance
second only to the collapsed and discredited
Ghandi.
We submit that this signalized surrender to
the theology of the petit bOurgeoise. The workers
loved and followed the Debs that was. They have
rejected and will reject the Debs that wishes to
substitute Christ for Marx, humanitarian sweet
ness and light for class and the reality of the
struggle. And the evaporation of the soul of the
old Debs, in even pace with decline of his physi-
cal powers, is marked with the concurrent surren-
der of the socialist party to the theology and prac
teal politics" of the petty bourgeoisie.
1t has remained for the Debs, whom the
workers do not understand, himself to set the seal
of his shaking hand the latest surrender OF the
socialists to the middle class '76ers In telegram
to the S. p. convention he advised surrender to La
Toilette by the socialists running no candidate
against him, pathetically adding that "but, above
ALL keep the red flag flying" Morris Hillquit is
given the job of draping the red flag around La
Toilette! Victor Berger is allotted the task OF
planting the crimson standard of proletarian re-
volt atop the barricades where Hillquit and his
bankers and small business men, led by LaFOllette
and Hearst, are going 'to fight like tigersw Debs
is sick, indeed. But the socialist party is even
worse, it is an unburied corpse. Why delay the
funeral?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-09
LEAVING ST. PAUL FLAT"

(From the Farmer-Labor Advocate,
official organ of the Farmer-Labor
federation Of Minnesota.)
THE Daily Star the other day, wind
l ing up it's sizzling accounts of the
June II convention, and evidently be-
lieving it was delivering the blow that
would bust the whole works into a
shower of red sparks, said:
William Hard and a group of east
ern political writer's left the St. Paul
third party convention fiat today, !.
declaring it was no longer worthy of
their attention"
1t is a sort Of habitual eastern"
feeling that nothing out west is
worthy" of the "east's" attention, but
this is matter Of smiles to the west
erner, not of tears. If any of the
group Of jaded newspapermen who got
weary yawning over the facts, and
even their own lurid tales about the
convention, made that statement, he
was simply voicing the crude pro-
vincialism Of his section.
1t reminds us OF the story of one of
7arnum's second-rate performers down
in Arkansas. This celebrity, stranded
by cheap show, sought employment
of Barnum, and the great ringmaster
gave him chance with his stunt, but
finding that the performer could not
live up to Barnum standards, he was
eleased-that is, fired.
MIR. Barnum," said the discharged
stuntmaker, with profound dignity,
"Mr. Barnum, do you realize what this
means? It means that | am going to
leave Barnum's circus out here in Ar
kansas. fiat on its back"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-09
Blind Leaders of the MuddIed Classes

to dodge his st. Paul speech, was that
he tried to tell Wall Street how to
finance the war. McAdoo lays claim
to the same notoriety having been
secretary OF the treasury. But neither
fought the war as bankers war, not
even as pacifists.
McAdoo and LaFollette are as alike
as two peas in the pod of helpless,
wavering, don't-know-where-w go
ing middle class politics, the class
that is caught between the millstones
of the masses Of workers and farmers,
on the one side, and the big exploiters
on the other.
There is no better proof of the polit-
ical bankruptcy of this muddled class
under the present social system than
the promises of splits both at New
York City and Cleveland.
This class has no common interest.
William Jennings Bryan once caught
it with speech and got the presiden-
tial nomination in 1896. He was then
more radical than LaFollette is now.
But Bryan is now one of the walking
jokes in Madison Square Garden,
hooted and jeered. Murphy, who
might have dictated, is dead, and
Brennan's rule has failed. McAdoo's
efforts to arouse the Roosevelt fervor
Of 1912 fails dismally. The middle
class is without leader or program.
LaFollette is not the Messiah. His
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-09

after the presidency was purchased
for Harding by Jake Hamon, the pre-
sident employed Means to investigate
the secretary of the Treasury, Andrew
Mellon. Harding wanted to get the
goods on Andy and perhaps hold him
for ransom. But Mellon, had flock
of stoolpigeons and apparently he was
investigating Harding and the two
sets of finks collided. The Harding
attempt to land Mellon the first time
fell fiat, so when Andy was on his
guard Means went at him again and
succeeded in catching him in his wine
cellar.
While Harding was trying to get the
goods on his secretary of the treasury,
the two were the closest friends. But
that is the way capitalists and their
lackeys treat each other. There is no
honor among them. They have no
confidence or trust in each other. They
are always ready to knife each other
politically at the first opportunity. But
while Harding and Mellon and their
kind can fight each other and remain
friends their lickspittles, the fellows
who do the dirty work are liable to get
hurt. Means got badly bruised. He
testified before the Daugherty invest
igation that Mellon was the biggest
bootlegger in America. He delivered
himself of similar load of informa-
ton in the New York courts recently,
but he is on his way to Atlanta, I'M
less Democratic president is elected
and Means is pardoned as a reward
for spilling the beans on the Republic
ans. The end would justify the means
in the eyes of every good Democrat.
We are told by one of the many
committees connected with the Demo
cratic bedlam in Madison Square gar
den that several Democratic mothers
were holding up the naming of their
new born babies in order to fasten the
cognomen of the successful Demo
cratic candidate on them for the rest
of their lives. From all appearances,
if the doting mothers persist in their
intentions the babies may be dark
horses before the present deadlock is
broken, unless the Democratic Party
is decently inferred in the meantime
as menace to public health.
William Randolph Hearst has not
yet come out for William Gibbs Nc
Adoo, but his Good Man Friday,
Arthur Brisbane loads his column with
judicious boosts for the Ku Klux favor.
lite. Hearst is more of liability than
an asset to presidential aspirant. He
fought Smith when Dudley Field
Malone ran for Governor of New
York on the Farmer-Labor Party
ticket, but two days before the polling
took place, he switched to Smith
praised him as vigorously as he hat
previously condemned him, but Smitl
lost and governor Miller, the Repub
lican won the victory. 1t pays /.
have Hearst as an enemy.