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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24
LETTER FROM BEATRICE SUM
MFRS TO LESLIE PRESCOTT

Dear Leslie am sorry how
trite and cold those words seem -
you know. however. dear friend. that
the same words spoken by different
people take on entirely different
meanings.
When ! say am sorry Il means
that sorrow and sympathizs with
you with all my heart. You have
6esn In my thoughts ever since | 70.
csived sally's letter.
You have had much grief lately IN
the deaths Of your father and sister
Perhaps the greatest grief OF all n
the thought that ono must 20 on iiv.
ing the same old life. doing the aame
old things. even thinking the same
old thoughts. when ones heart ig
desolate.
found this out myself. dear. when
/ lost my father and mother in that
automobile accident many years ago.
| almost resented when thought
outside my grief crept into my brain
and finally I realized that the only
way to live on was to try and ellml.
nato grief as soon a. possible. This
may sound very hard. but II IL tho
only way.
Sally sent me some clippings from
the papers saying that you and your
mother were going to Atlantic City
FOR a little while and that after that
fou might como out here. That
would be glorious and l am sure It
would do you good. You would love
II out here in our sleepy little town
Of Hollywood.
/ expect that sentence will make
even you emile.
II Is sleepy old town, dear. not.
withstanding everybody outside OF
Los Angeles seems to think Il a
noisy, roaring gateway TO he'll. The
trouble Is that the world and his wife
think they know we'll all tho picture
people they sec on tho screen. They
are interested enough In them not
only TO read. but to gossip about
them, and every little bit Of scandal
Is caught up blithely and flung from
lip to lip. growing more and more
exaggerated each time II is dexter.
ously caught and flung out again.
Most Of the motion picture actors
and actresses have Just M much prl.
vacy as Irving Cobb's famous gold.
fish. sometimes wonder II those
who roll the gossip Of their fuyorlte
actors and actresses under their
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24

That was five months ago ENrB
thing has gone 80 wonderfully
smooth since, and all my fears were
laid az rest Re got into a different
Inc o. work absolutely away from
all Of the old environment. aud I
have known where and with whom
ne has spent every minute ~ hls
time when not with me ! have
found out since that he "Ea7 drunk
ON the time" before ! knew him.
Ny information came thru various
sources and set in fp,ts ~ that hr
has seemed 90 10 ahls 10 hold q po
rition Ia preference 20 others and
10 set a larger wage than men night
beside him AZ bis uwn work
lie n very good 70 me Ilo could
not - better always kind and con.
Hiderais ana courteous. bat be has
broken bis promise. Last Saturday
he was 20 meet me. and when he
came 10 was half drunk Not only
that. hut 10 hia htory ~ 10 how Il
came about, I could $50 that he lied.
thinking would not know the az
ference
care FOR him very much one
cannot help bot care when he .s 20
kind and seems ~ true, and lhls
has nearly broken my heart II u
not tho fact 81 tho ll'tls dr.aks but
that hs broke hiH promise and then
He'd.
was brought up in the o'd.faFh,
Toned way when "a auHkarj was
called by no other name. ia spite
o. this day and our wonderful anti
prohibition iaw enforcement 90 and
when 70 n common knowledge that
nine ont o. Cen men drink and get
drunk and ! UuEHi 20 bv used 90
the .Isa. I find. Instead iHHt I al.
here 20 ms early teachings
hbg0 laughed az tho man with
a little too much treating Il ns The
average person does n1wadsys.
thinking n funny I find u Is FAR
from funny" when applied 70 my
own life
I had been really 70 happy. and
now Il seems al ended had kind
OF planned that ws Nigh, bc mar
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24
Man Wounded by
Chinese Is Here

Wounded fiye times by the rifles
Of party Of Chinese river pirates.
Charles Bgrnhnrdt, marine engineer
on tho Standard Oh tanker Mci,nn.
arrived here for medical treatment
aboard the Admiral Oriental liner
President Jackson Tuesday Hc will
return 10 tho Orient after hospital
aiteni ,on hero and "a conference with
pfcaiirts Ia The East
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24
Youngblood Goes to
Pen for LIS Years

William n. YounEblood Tuesday
night was sent 10 Walla Walla 10
begin l-i5.yoar sentence for re-
celving stolen automobiles and sell.
ing them He pleaded guilty. be.
fore Judge A. W. Frater Tuesday
afternoon. after he had been i'm.
pIlcated by ]. P. Mccain. 2i.year
old self.confessed auto thief Nc.
Cam admitted stealing eight cars
and selling them TO Youngblood. He
got similar term a week ago.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24

Tho figures reveal that over
tho country az whole tho
number Of divorces granted
during tho year increased very
little. " any. the ratio to the
number Of marriages remaining
practically the same.
In Cleveland. however. there
WAS q considerable Increase In
divorce. Marriages in tho county
Tor tho year were 1879, com.
pared 10 1885 last year while
divorces jumped from G0ss 20
5.25s.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24
RECEIVER ASKED
Trustee OF Davis Car Co.
B0ndhOlderS Sues

Appointment OF n receiver wac
asked late Tuesday Doc umt filed
by Robert u Hrft trustee ~ tHr
recently organized Davis Car Co.
hanhHulaem n H an automobile
manufacturing organization. with
haiquartsu near Georgetown.
Hrott charging that the company
has failed 10 pas Interest on "a $50.
900 bond issue, asks Judgment f1r
$3.50 tbe amount u bonds af,
legged actually Issued. $500 attorney
fees and SLg7Z75 interest Hr g.
REPRESENTED b. Attorney james On
san.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24

r.rd in 'He rprnE. and now DO not
know
Re made me a solemn promise
and broke twill ho b. capable %
doing the same thing aEliuf lie
bad hIl or my confidence and now
DO has none. Tor ! can never trust
him again he thinks sf could
'r0Hl" me and I would never know.
Can amy woman ever h5 f1plsIT
. where can th-y get such mistaken
lIrlaT
have fald him that n vs mar
rlrd and DO went back 20 that VIC
would have 90 separate. HT ! would
never live with "a man who drank,
. aud BE- promised again How much
good is such "a promEs7 Can n man
who has h-ru BFuHkari ever keep
Hum.ssF Ur apparently seems 90
think a great deal q mr=hnt which
ivan weigh tHs most when weighed
lu fhn lallnee-drlnk OF mr7
made one mistaken marriage
which ended IN the divorce c0urtf
. / DO not want 10 make another re
. Is never 0lHtfrpergus when drink.
lnE lie h even more Kind and
courteous, II anything. oven 90 the
smallest detail To does not Fsam
20 forget 70 stand al tho table until
. I am SEATED. aH an example But
Ehat should I DO with tho futureT
VIII sou print this and ask for
the experiences u others 10 help
advise me- Thank YOU n T.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24
TO Be RENAMED
Mayor 10 Reappoint Board
OF Public Works

Declaring that the present board
of public works ~ Tho beet any
Seattle mayor ever had. and / want
20 keep h Intact, Mayor Brown
Tuesday HiFnlncd BATS intention 20
rrlppuintlnF CLARK johnson. utlll.
urs superintendent. December 81.
along with vs. u HlrFhuff, streets
and sewers superintendent, and
George H. Russell. water depart
ment head.
j. u Blackwell who has been
stryinE since December 81. 1898,
without formal rclpp1Intmcnt MISC
win be named 10 succeed himself
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24
VICTIM is DEAD
SuCCumbs to Injuries; Hit
by Street Car

Carroll Green, q. Of 400 Maple
Leaf place. victim Of n street car
accident at Dexter ave. and Ward ST.,
Monday night, died in tho city hos.
pitnl lnte Tuesday afternoon. Green
had been repairing the gas line OF
his friends automobile md stepped
into tho path Of tho street car. re.
ceivinE a fractured skull.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24
Bond Firms Hold
Annual Banouets

Employees OF Blyth. Wltter & Co.,
brokers. were guests Tuesday evening
OF tie firm at an annual banquet at
the Olympic. About 80 attended. Tho
toastmaster was II. y. Morton and
Manse Griffith, Northwest manager.
was a speaker. At the same hotel the
bond firm Of John u. Price g. Co. also
gave it's annual dinner.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24
Hoge Party Is Back
From European Trip

James D, H0ge. seattle capitalist,
and party Of relatives. have 70.
turned from European tour. Those
in tho party included Mrs. Hogc and
Mr.. and Mrs. J G. Sullivan. son.in.
law and daughter Of the Hogeg. The
trip included French hattloficlds,
England. Italy and Switzerland.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24
DISF|GURED.
| WITH P|MPLES /
Were Red and Hard. Itched and
Burned, Healed by Cuticura.

/ was troubled with pinpl.t
and blaekhesds on my face. II.
Pimples were red and hard bI no
very large. They were In bloiches
land itched and burned causing NJ
to scratch. a, night lost ny sleep
and my face was dishgured,
| began using cuticura Soap
and ointmen, and they helped u.
and after using four cakes Of cut-
eura Soap and TWO boxes o! cuicur
ointmen; was completely healed :"
Signedl Miss Ruby Clark, r. 4,
Blackfoo,. Idaho.
Cutieurs Soap. Oinsmsn, and
Taleum promote and maintain skin
purity, skin comfort and skii
health. The Soap TO eleanss and
purity, the Ointment to soo,he and
heal, the Talcum TO powder.
E.zp.st Tr,s ~ MAI Actress: "cztiss-s tAss'.
htsrist. Dspt r. Ns,e<z -, N,n" Sd svxT'
| wbere Soap sSs- 0.Etns1i 3 ard Sc ILca-SS
Try our nsw Shsvins Stick.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24
OyERCOATs IN TROPICS

IIONDON-.A consignment OF over
coats sent from London to Union.
town, Scotland straycd down to
Uniontown, South Africa, where bar.
flod postal nuthorItlc8 distributed
them for a nominal fec TO the nj.
tlyes
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24
Ne let 90 Johnny Sceeps broom and dired head fret i
rs black depths.

run, called Nancy. We. -.
snifchsr Snatch"
~ last they popped out c. Il.
chimney into O great stove. Bar =.
FIRE was out luckily. and tisy era.
out between the EatiuFs.
And there they were. IN u. =
Makers shop.
10 Re Continued
ErarrrsHHF 1874 ~ q g..
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24
Farewell Dinner
for Vet Manager

l., G. Jessoph, veterans bureau dis.
trict manager. vino icavcg soon for
Washington. d. c., where he will en-
ter the main bureau offices. was
given a farewell dinner b. rs cm.
ployes Of the local offices at the
olympic hotel Tuesday night.
An HlIigat1t go yelling bag was pre-
scented TO Joseph.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24

ny Dear Miss Grey You wIu be
glad 10 know that We wsra nUla %
secure a baby Rrriaz" Tor tie
young woman, about whom ! wrote
sou December s. We are very
grateful 10 you Dor helping US
n hy any chance you have fur
Their offers ot baby carriages ws
have one or two young couples who
arc equally In need ~ them.
Cordially yours,
SOCIAL WELFARE LEAGUE,
FL lot4s76.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24
Navy Yard Workers
Get Pay Increase

BREMERTON. Dec. "a Navy
yard workers have been granted a
wage Increase, ranging from TO 8
cents an hour, as Christmas gift.
The news was received hero yesler.
day, II affects 81 different crafts
out Of 26f employed at tho yard.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-24
The Tangle

story .metioa. revealed Pat.
The daily worker., 1924-11-15
THE RED SOLDIERS MANUAL

ploiters again subjugate the workers
and peasants.
4. The principal aim of the Red
Army is to secure the independence
and freedom Of the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics, to safeguard them
against all possible encroachments of
the outside capitalist world, so that
the workers and peasants may remain
undisturbed in the pursuit of their
peaceful occupations and in their work
of building up socialist society. The
ideas of conquest and of enslavement
of other nations are alien to the
Soviet government. The Soviet gov
ernment is striving to preserve peace
by all possible means.
5. All the bourgeois classes and
their governments, monarchist as
well as republican are hostile to the
first government of workers and peas
ants who have overthrown their op-
pressors and have taken away from
them the means of oppression. During
the first years of the revolution the
bourgeois of the entire world has
supported with money, munitions and
armies the Russian White Guards, /. e..
the armed bands of the Russian land
lords and capitalists. Only the
heroic struggle of the Red Army has
presented the world bourgeoisie from
stihiag the Workers Republic. During
a period of six years the leading cap
italist governments persistently refus-
ed to recognize the Soviet Republic in
the hope of overthrowing it. Only the
The daily worker., 1924-11-15

stability and perseverance Of the
Workers and Peasants Republic and
of its army, and also the support of
the revolutionary workers of the en-
tire world, have compelled the bour-
geoisie of several countries to
recognize our government and to enter
into economic and diplomatic rela-
tions with us.
G.. However, even after they recog-
nized us the hostility of the exploiters
to the Workers and Peasants Republic
did not cease nor weaken, but as
sumed other, more subtle forms. At
the first opportunity the bourgeiosie
will again make attempts to attack us.
The working class of the capitalist
countries, being unarmed, may not be
able with its own forces to prevent
the bourgeoisie from attacking us. We
must therefore be prepared with
armed force to assist the workers of
the entire world in their struggle
against the rapacious, bloody inten-
tions Of the bourgeoisie. There is
no higher task in the history of man.
kind than that which fate has assign
ed to the first workers and peasants
army, the champion Of the cause Of
the oppressed.
Military Technique and Militant
Morale
Z. Capitalism is creating all the
time new implements of destruction,
more perfected, more cruel machines
for killing. In order not to fall again
into serfdom, in order not to become
a colony. the Union of Soviets must
The daily worker., 1924-11-15
ByL. TrOtsky

continually improve its armaments.
The growth of industry. especially Of
war industry, the development of
transportation are the most important
factors in the strength of the Red
Army.
8. Alongside with the development
Of the old branches of military tech
nique and with the constant perfection
of firearms, the foremost place in
modern warfare is occupied by mill
tary aviation and war chemistry. Side
by side with the development of high
explosives, poisonous gases are gain
ing greater and greater Importance.
The Soviet government, with the
friendly cooperation Of the workers, is
doing and will also in the future do
its best to make the Red Army an ef-
fective means Of defense by perfecting
the technical equipment of the army,
developing a strong air fleet and en-
couraging the invention of powerful
war chemicals.
8. However, military technique
alone is not the only deciding factor
in war. War machines, just as ma
chimes in industry require men for
their operation. The capitalist coun-
tries have a superior technique, be-
cause they are richer. However.
after the experience OF the late inn
periaiist war which left the laboring
masses Of all countries destitute and
disillusioned, the bourgeoisie of those
countries can no longer be certain of
the loyalty Of the soldiers drafted
Continued on next page.)
The daily worker., 1924-11-15

Aims and Structure of the Red Army
1. The Red Army is an armed
force intended for the defense OF the
interests of the toilers against the as
saults and violence on the part of the
oppressors and exploiters. The Red
Army will continue to exist as long as
there remain in the world monarchies
or bourgeois republics. Only the final
victory Of the toilers Of Europe and
then of the entire world will forever
secure peace among the nations and
will make unnecessary the existence OF
armies Of any kind.
2. The Red Army is composed Of
workers and working peasants who do
not exploit the labor OF others.
Bourgeois, nepmen, rich peasants as
well as corrupted elements from
among the workers are not admitted
into the ranks of the Red Army. In
order that the Red Army may preserve
under all circumstances its unshak-
able devotion to the cause of the
working class it must remain an un-
alloyed part of the working class.
3. The bourgeois elements of mill
tary age are called only into the nom
combatant service and remain un-
armed all the time. In a Soviet Re-
public the privilege of carrying arms
belongs to the toilers only. The ex-
ploiters have no access to arms, so
that they may not take possession of
them and with the aid Of foreign ex-
The daily worker., 1924-11-15

ed them was: Is is possible to make
the child class conscious without at
the same time depriving him Of the
joyful innocence Of youth?
Socialist Sunday Schools" Fail
The fact that this Joyful innocence
of youth" was being taken from the
children by every hour Of class room
teaching was not considered; and the
good old social-democrats forthwith
cut the Gordian knot with the estab-
lishment Of socialist Sunday schools,
which neither made the children re-
bells nor kept them youthful. 1t did,
however, leave them in joyful inno-
cence Of the class struggle.
The adult leader of the school would
discipline the children as sternly as
the average old hatchet face in the
public school. The curriculum con-
sisted either Of painfully "simpIifed
discourses on theoretical subjects or
else of lectures on the brotherhood
Of man, peace on earth and the hor-
rors of class strife. In the Sunday
schools the child was never made a
rebel. He left it with a vague feel
ing of the necessity of brotherhood
and an admonition on the wisdom oi
joining the socialist party when he
came of age. They were never tolC
| to-
stick mental pin il
I this
"The warfare Of the classes ism
honey or molasses;
"And you'll need a sharper weapon
than kissl"
The training of the children in thu
young Communist groups is based ol
an entirely different principle. Th'
junior groups are not intended to Civ
the workers children liberal" edu
cation, with a so-called broad-minded
tolerant view of things Not at al
They are formed for the purpose @
making working class, revolutionar
fighters out of the children, teachin
them to regard all things from tn
point Of view of the working clasi
The aim Of the Communist children
groups is to make the proletaria
child a participant in the clasa- strll
-4uset Not merely one who understand
, what the class struggle is all abou
not one who can repeat a few wei
, learned revolutionary phrases, bl
, one who forms as definite and impor
ant part of the working class chi
dren as the adult Communist doe
! among the adult workers.
? The achievement of this state of a
fairs is no mean task. It require
more of the group leader than it doe
of the child.
Communist Leadership.
) In the simplest manner does tn
l leader of a junior group train the chi
: dren in the elements of the elias
The daily worker., 1924-11-15

NOTE:-This is the first Of series
Of three articles to be published in
.Ae magazine section on the Com
munist children's movement. In the
two articles to follow, Comrade
Shachtman will write on The Group
Leader, Teacher Of the Future, and
The New Relations Between Old and
Young.-Editor.
LOW many Of the adult Commu-
| | nists in this country know Of the
existence Of an organized movement
of revolutionary working class chill
dren, numbering almost 5000, formed
into regular units, school fractions,
city central committeess and having
their own national organ?
Of those few that are aware Of this
movement, am willing to wager that
an even smaller percentage have come
into closer contact with it than having
listened to one of these Communist
children recite revolutionary poem
at a mass meeting to the tune OF muir
INJURED: "How sweet! How cute!"
And yet the formation, activity and
education Of these 5000 members o.
the junior groups Of the Young Work
ers' League is one Of the most inter
esting examples of Communist peda
gogy and organization, a completion O
the revolutionary principle that th'
workers are exploited, in one form o.
another, from their childhood; that /
is therefore, imperative that they b
organized and trained for the strug
giles of the day and the morrow.
Train Wage Slaves.
The keen bourgeoisie, unlike its pre-
decessors, has realized almost fror
the beginning Of it's rule, the import
ance of gaining the youth, for its ow
purposes, of course. Besides tn
steady flow of poison it administer
to the children in the public schools
it has conscientiously subsidized O.
ganizations like the Boy and Gil
Scouts, numerous young peoples rel
gious leagues, and social and spol
clubs. The purpose Of the sum tot;
of these institutions has been to max
efficient wage slaves out of the worl
ers' children, to believe firmly in tn
eternity of that which is, and to hay
a holy horror and hatred towards an
radical movement. Based on the ol
Jesuit principle of controlling the ed
cation Of child up to a certain ag
the success of the bourgeoisie he
been capped with big measure {
success.
Socialists always recognized I'll
necessity of counteracting the inf
ence of capitalist education upon pr
letarian children, and various way
and means we're devised to accomplis
this. The problem that then confron
The daily worker., 1924-11-15
Keeping Them Young and Red : gy 1Ia1 shsdtnaa

numerous instances where children
are subjected to the brutal tyranny of
corporal punishment, the children are
shown how to carry on mass strug-
gle for it's abolition, for the establish
ment of children's councils for the
regulation of discipline.
Learn Thru Struggle.
In all of these activities, which
bring the child into conflict with some
institution of capitalist society, the
child is educated in the spirit of an
active soldier in the army of the work
ers, fighting in the class struggle.
Thru this personal participation in
the fight, the child learns more of the
sway of the dictatorship of the bour-
geoisie, of the existence Of classes, OF
the necessity of revolutionary organ
ization-than he would in hundred
lectures. In the Communist children's
groups, the working class child pre-
pares himself for the sharper strug-
giles, first in the Communist youth or
ganization and finally in the Commu-
mist Party.
In struggle there is life and youth.
It is in the struggle that the children
are enabled to become revolutionists
without foregoing their youth" Their
minds are not stultified with hard
and fast dogma; they are not burden
ed with the necessity of repeating
high-sounding revolutionary phrases;
they are not cramped or hampered by
the existence of their older leader,
Who, far from imposing himself or his
discipline upon them. far from being
their obvious instructor, seeks as
much as possible to obliterate himself
from any prominence, to permit the
children to work out their own reac-
tions to the phenomena of the class
struggle, to educate themselves to
the ideal Of service to their class un-
der capitalism and to the community
under Communism.
For Service to Working Class.
Their very games, while chosen and
cowpnsed for the purpose of strength
ae class solidarity and ideas
lildren, are used to Give s-.--
- s4sS ArSe
: nay Go ssthe combination of reality and
Imagination that keeps the spirit of
youth in the class struggle. In these
games, in their dramatics and socials,
the aim is always to remove the men,
tai servitude imposed upon them in
| school, to free them from the choking
influence of discipline and the oblitera-
tion of the individual child in favor
Of the manufacture of goslings; to in
culcate in the child the essence of
free childhood: service to his class in
order that he may be able to serve
the community; the emancipation of
humanity in order to accomplish the
} emancipation of the individual; work,
play and study in the spirit of the
e struggle!