davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Seward daily gateway., 1924-06-14

MT. and Mrs. J. ". Gucker Jeff today for Fairbanks.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-06-14

Martin Lanning is decking the Fourth avenue bridge.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-06-14

Sid Old, member of the topo- graphical survey, lost valuable Chesapeake dog yesterday, valued at 3200 presumably from poison.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-06-14

Dr. Metallic, Barnett and Andrews left on the Virginia this morning for Nuka Bay, to look over their mining properties.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-06-14

Mrs. w. Flynn was a Seward visi- tor from Mile 20.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-06-14

Wellman HolDrook of the Forestry Service was in town over night
 J. Deiahide, of the Bureau of Nine. is in town.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-06-14

H. s. Balderston left on today's train for Anchorage.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-06-14
Local Happenings of Week

! AAOIdA AAappC1-
 Monday
 Ira McCord, oldtimer from the Val alez country, passed through Seward recently on his way to Mccarthy to take charge of construction for the A. R. c.
 Anton Eide, Road Commission sup erintendent for this district, returned Saturday night from brief trip to Anchorage.
 F. E. Leslie, foreman of Section One, Alaska Railroad, returned from Anchorage Saturday night, where he has been in the government hospital. MT. Leslie has sufficiently recovered to be on the job again.
 Roadmaster George Colwell, spent the week end in town.
 The San Juan Packing Company is very busy these days, being worked to capacity handling all the halibut they are receiving from fishing yes sels. The Superior arrived in port this morning with twenty thousand pounds of halibut for the firm. In ad-
 H. G. Abercrombie, assistant to Dr. | Beeson in the government hospital, was a week end visitor in Seward. |
 NJ. c. Rugg, of the Cudahy Pack inS Co.,, arrived in town yesterday.
 w. G. Knox, representing the Den ison Tag Co.,, is in town
 Miss Suzanne Ramon was Seward passenger on the steamer Yukon sail ing Saturday for Seward.
 Dr. H. c. Randle and wife and Miss Lois Randle of Nulato, were Seward visitors over Sunday. E. NJ. Policy, tax collector for the Territory, is a Seward visitor.
 R. E. Murphy, fo the Dupont Pow der Co.,, was an arrival in Seward from the interior.
 E. B. Mozee, of the Anchorage | Board of Education was d guest at tie Van Glider.
 H. N. Evans, of kanatak, is in town a guest of the Hotel Van Gil. der.
 F. J. Sommers, territorial engineeT arrived in town on the last boat.
 Mrs, r. c. Gentsch, of Spokane, mother of H. Centsch, who lives in Anchorage, arrived on the Alaska. diticn to these choice fish they also have choice amount on sockeye sal mon on ice. Foreman Matt Nicholich reports the Alaska taking 229 boxes of fish on her trip south today.
 Billy Butler, Special Agent for the Alaska Railroad, was weekend wis itor in town, leaving on the north bound train this morning.
 Miss Helen Balderston, daughter of MT. and Mrs. H. s .Balderson of An chorage, arrived on the Alaska Sun day night. She was met in Seward by her father and mother, leaving today for her home in Anchorage.
 Henry Frost returned this morning to Kenai Lake to resume work with the Forestry Service, where is is look ing over timber and power sites.
 There were nine coaches on the train northbound this morning, quite num- Der of passengers leaving for the in terior
 z. J. Loussac, well known Anchor age druggist, was a passenger on the Alaska after spending the past two months in the states on a combined business and pleasure trip. He left this morning for his home.
 Mrs. Billie Harrington of Anchor age, left on the Alaska for the States 10 take a course in nursing.
 Mike J. Sullivan, tie inspector Of the Alaska railroad registered over night at the Van Glider.
 Mrs. r. Lena and Grace Gran
Seward daily gateway., 1924-06-14

Tom Dyer recently bought new Ford touring car through Charles Lechner, Agent. MT. Dyer works for the local Standard Oil plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-08

OF the matter IS that Victor Berger
was bitterly opposed to the st. Louis
Manifesto, threatened to write his
own manifesto and fell in line only
when he found that his position had
no support in the St. Louis Conven-
ton. 1t may be worth while recalling,
too, that Boudin's resolution intro
duced in the same convention, was re-
garded by the Left Wing delegates
who dominated that convention,
whether he intended it to be so or not,
as pro-ally statement, which they
rejected for a clear-cut declaration in
opposition to the war, which no one
could misunderstood.
Let us return to the main question,
however. Boudin sees it thus: Victor
Berger is for LaFollette; C. E. Ruth
enberg is for LaFollette; thus there
is a united front of the fright" and
cleft" By the method of throwing
the question into the terms of indi-
viduals Boudin may give the uneriti-
cal reader the impression of the cor
rectness of his statements, but that
is hardly MARKHAM method of MAX
ing a point. We shall try to make
clear the fundamental differences
which Boudin obscures thru this
method.
Victor Berger is unquestionably for
LaFollette Victor Berger is for the
individual LaFollette because LaFol-
lettee fayors certain measures of re-
form also favored by Victor Berger.
Victor Berger, and probably also the
Socialist Party, are for "Third
Party" which LaFollette will lead be-
cause the policies of such a party
would undoubtedly be the petty bour-
geoisie reform measures which are
the policies of the Socialist Party.
Victor Berger and the Socialist Party
can identify themselves with LaFol-
lette because fundamentally there is
no difference between them. LaFol-
lette and the "Third Party" represent
the realization of the Socialist hopes.
He is their Ramsay Macdonald.
This is not the road to the prole-
tartan revolution, Boudin would say
If he is still Marxist, which one
may doubt from his comment "His-
tory A La Mode" in the same article
in which he criticizes the Workers
Party. The working class can only
win its emancipation thru a revolu-
tionary political struggle thru which
it becomes the ruling class, he would
argue. Since the Workers Party is
in a United Front with Berger and
the Socialists on the question of La
Toilette and the 'Third Party" it is
guilty of the same opportunism which
characterized The Socialist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-08

German capitalism had developed
more completely however. and the
war-crisis merely FASTENED its matur-
alton. The events of the last few
years in Germany therefore probably
point the way that will be followed
when matured capitalist countries
race a life and death crisis.
What is that way? Here are two
answers written by men supposed to
be upholders Of the present order.
"The Germany of today Is q
huge economic organization that
is not functioning," writes Prof.
E. M. Patterson, Professor of Eco
Monies in the University of Penn
sylvania. "The problem is not one
of shortage of labor or Of fixed
capital and dearth of raw mate
rails, while all production is car
ried ON at such costs that COMPETE
ton with other countries in the
world market is in many lines en-
tirely impossible at present. The
result is widespread unemployment
and suffering. "-(New York Eve
ming Post, Jan. 10, 1924.)
Professor Patterson sees an eco
nomic organization that will not work
Ia machine that has failed to live
up to the anticipations of those who
built it. Far more emphatic is the
summary of DR.. Frederick l.. Hoff-
man, Consulting Statistician of the
Prudential Life Insurance Co. and
Dean of the Advanced Department
of the Babson Institute. Professor
Patterson is disturbed.
DR.. Hoffman is appalled,.
'sThe situation in Germany to-
day is as tragic as il Is ineompre-
hensible. II goes without saying
that the rich are growing richer
while the poor are growing poor
err. There is frightful and dis
gushing contrast of ruthless extra
-xsgsnce and sordid poverty. Pro-
portionateIy, the rich and parasitic
element is probably more numerous
today than previous to the war. The
once wealthy and highly educated
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-08

Thus, for the Marxist for whom
Marxism is a mere formula, the
case would be complete against the
Workers Party.
But is that all that there is to the
present situation in the United
States? Let US see whether Marxism
does not offer US something more
than what is contained in this sterile
formula.
1t was Marx who wrote that the
bourgeOisie was not zone reactionary
mass" There are divisions and con-
fiict of interests within the bour-
geoisie. Particularly there is a deep
going conflict of interest between the
petty bourgeoisie and the capitalist
class. What, for instance, does the
present struggle in Congress over the
Mellon tax plan represent but strug-
gle whether the petty bourgeoisie or
the big capitalists shall bear the bur-
den of taxation resulting from the
huge expenditures during the war and
its aftermath?
The conflicts within the capitalist
class, between the big capitalists and
the petty bourgeoisie, and between
the capitalist class and the working
class have all been intensified in this
country since the end of the war. This
intensification of the economic con-
fiict has its expression politically.
The two old parties have both been
dominated by the capitalist class, yet
they have had as their supporters
capitalists, petty bourgeoisie, work
ers and farmers. What we are wit
Messing at the present time in the
"Third Party" movement and the
Farmer-Lsbor Party movement is
capitalization of political parties rep
resenting the petty bourgeoisie and
the workers and exploited farmers re-
spectively-the birth of the political
consciousness of these classes. At the
present time the petty bourgeoisie
''Third Party" and the working class
Farmer-Labor Party movements are
inextricably intermixed; LaFollette
and the 'sThird Party" has the sup
port of both movements.
Is there nothing of interest to q
revolutionary MARKHAM party in these
developments? Is it Of no Importance
from the standpoint of the proletar-
ian revolution that the centralized
power which had the support of capt.
talists, petty bourgeoisie and workers
alike is breaking up? Is it of no inn
portance to the proletarian revolution
that a petty bourgeoisie "Third Party
is being created, which will array it.
self in opposition to the ruling CAPT
talist power? Is it of no importance
that within and alongside of this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-08

MO better illustration of the wide
gulf between the formal, sterile
acceptance of MARKHAM principles
in words, and the use of those princi-
Piles as guide in formulating policies
for party engaged in leading the
workers in the class struggle against
capitalism, can be found than that
which appears in an article by Louis
B. Boudin in the February issue of
the American Labor Monthly.
Boudin has acquired reputation
as Marxist. He has written a book
on "The Theoretical System of Karl
Marx" which the writer confesses to
have studied as part of his MARKHAM
education something over a decade
ago. Like Kautsky, Boudin knows
the principles which Marx developed
from his study of history and analy-
sis Of capitalist society. Undoubtedly
he could make brilliant theoretical
presentation of these principles. But
when Kautsky and Boudin stand be-
side the seething ocean Of our present
day social order, in which the waves
of conflicting class interests dash
&AgAACl anu anu VI Cdh III kICaJ
torrents as they meet, their MARKHAM
theories remain sterile intellectual
formulas which they are unable to
apply to this seething ocean of social
forces and thus formulate the guild
ing policies which carry the working
class movement to its goal thru these
stormy waters. Because of this in
tellectual twist the Russian Revolu-
ton was for Boudin 'sthe tragedy"
and for Kautsky something much
worse.
Boudin's Inability to carry MARKHAM
principles into the field of actual class
struggle is expressed in comment on
the policy in relation to the develop
ment of ''Third Party" in the Unit
ed States, presented by the Central
Executive Committee Of the Workers
Party to the convention Of the party
in December. To Boudin this ap-
pears as 'tThe United Front-Berger
and Ruthenberg. For him there is
no difference between the reformism
Of Victor Berger and the Socialist
Party and the Revolutionary Marxism
Of the Workers Party, because for the
moment there is agreement between
the two policies in striving for, what
is in appearance, the same end.
In passing it is worth while cor
recting Boudin's historical recollec-
tons. He states that Ruthenberg and
Berger have formed United Front
before-at the st. Louis Convention
Of the Socialist Party in favor Of the
manifesto against the war. The fact
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-08
Marx in Words and Action ng G z KuTHEznEza

Third Party" movement there is the
tendency for the creation of a mass
working class party?
For the Marxist for whom Marxism
IS more than an interesting theoretical
formula these movements are Of the
most vital significance, for it is the
very essence Of Marxism that it is
thru this capitalization of the class
struggle in political struggles, thru
the weakening of the ruling capitalist
power in this process, that the way is
opened for the victory Of the work
ing class.
Shall we stand aside while this
process goes on and in splendid isola-
ton protect our revolutionary virgin
ity? Is that our role as revolution
airy MARKHAM party-a Communist
Party?
We answer a thousand time no. To
do so is to hold ourselves aloof from
the development of the revolution it
self. We must enter into this move
ment. We must play our part in it.
We must throw all our strength into
Fastening the capitalization Of the
petty bourgeoisie ''Third Party" and
at the same time Of the mass Farmer
Labor Party.
We will not be deferred from car
rying out these tactics by the fact that
seemingly we are working in a united
front with Victor Berger and the So
cialists. We know that while the So
cialist support Of a "Third Party" is
an expression Of opportunism, that
our tactics are revolutionary Marxism
because we are aiming at different
goal.
The Workers Party is not for La
Toilette as an individual The Work
ers Party is not for the measures
which LaFollette the individual ia
vors, not for the measures which a
LaFollette "Third Party" may favor.
The Workers Party tells the workers
and farmers frankly that neither the
measures which LaFollette favors nor
the measures which a LaFollette
Party will advocate, will open the
road for their escape from the ex-
ploitation and oppression Of CAPT
talism.
But the birth Of "Third Party"
win weaken the centralized capitalist
power. 1t will place the petty bour-
geoisie definitely in opposition to that
centralized power. That is an event
of great revolutionary Importance.
The Workers Party is ready to throw
all its strength into the balance to
bring about this situation.
Boudin may know Marxism in
words. But the Workers Party is APP
plying Marxism in action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-08
Capitalism Offers No Choice

middle class has been forced to the
wall. All the old time investments
and savings have gone for nothing.
All Of the life insurance in force
previous to 1921 has lapsed. All
pension funds, including those of
the Government, are bankrupt, and
the pensions are of no intrinsic
value. Paper money Of enormous
denominations has become ridicu-
lous. Incredible confusion reigns
everywhere, and prices for articles
or services of real value are pre-
posterous, and often higher than
in the United States and Europe"
1.-THE Economic World" Jan. IL,
1924, page 41.)
Complete Descriptions.
These two descriptions are almost
complete-idle men, idle land, idle
machinery, mounting wealth, deep
ening poverty, the destruction Of the
middle class, the degradation of the
worker, misery and chaos. This is
exactly what Marx and his follow
ers said would happen when a capt.
talist society ripened, and in almost
their words. Neither Professor Pat
terson nor DIR. Hoffman are Marxists.
Both would repudiate the suggestion.
But both of them, surveying the con-
ditions of economic life in a dying
capitalist system, picture, in MARKHAM
terms the form of the catastrophe.
No Hope in Capitalism.
What will happen to society that
treads the path of capitalism? Class
war, international war, disaster, desc
lation. The inhabitants Of the capt.
talist world cannot choose between
capitalist prosperity and soviet hard
ship. Capitalism will bring elsewhere,
what it has brought to Germany
terror and want
The people Of the capitalist coun-
tries face simple choice: capitalist
hardship, with the despair of a dying
order; soviet hardship with the hope
Of a new world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-08

He burned himself out
To feed a larger fame;
And now his ashen body
Lies within the Kremlin walls
Soon to pass to naught.
We bow our heads in sorrow
That our leaders gone.
But Lenin is not dead.
He lives in the heart of great Russia;
In the heart Of the lowly Hindu;
In the workers Of France and Ger
many;
In al The workers and peasants
And all the exploited Of the earth,
He lives.
He carried the wounds of martyr,
And suffered the shame of an out
cast.
He was hated like hound Of hell
BY all the FLUTES thruout the world.
But Lenin held within the depths Of
his brain,
The mighty pillory which rocked
The whole network of capitalism,
And on this rock he built his dream
Which is marching on triumphantly;
While all about, capitalism
Falls to ruin.
All hall To the Workers Republic,
The work he loved SO well.
Lenin is not dead,
His monument lives, forever.
EARL ALTVATER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-08
By SCOTT NEARING

Changes in the ways of making a
living cause misery and suffering.
The time must come when such al
terations in the economic structure
can be effected without the terrible
upsets that now accompany them, but
while one class holds special privi-
leges, it will almost inevitably resent
changes which threaten to destroy its
vested interests. Under present cir
cumstances, important changes in
economic life invariably involve very
heavy losses.
During the past few years Russia
has been held up as horrible exam
pie of the Soviet idea. "See how the
Russians have suffered" cry the
critics. "Do you want to try COM
munism and pay the same price?
Can't you be content to let well
enough alone?"
No Freedom of Choice.
Such remarks presuppose that the
world Is free to choose between capt.
talist prosperity and Soviet hardship.
Consequently, the argument finds
general favor at this present moment
it is true for the United States. Ten
years ago it would have also been
true of Germany, but meanwhile
German capitalism has ripened and
rotted. AS between Russia and Ger
many the choice is Soviet hardship
with hope, or capitalist hardship with
despair.
During the past half century Karl
Marx and his followers have insisted
that the capitalist system would ripen
and rot, and that from it would drop
the seeds of a new social order.
Germany and Russia.
The Russian revolution came be-
fore Russian capitalism had ripened
completely on prematurely by the
failure of the Russian bureaucracy
during the war. This made the task of
the revolutionists doubly difficult,
since they were compelled to trans
form and to build at the same time.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-05-24
IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
Lesson
tBy REV. p. b. FITzwATER, ID. Teacher
of English Bible in the Moody Bible instr
tute of Chicago.)
20. 1924, Western Newspaper Union)
Lesson for May 25
JEREMIAH AND THE BABYLONlAN
CRISIS
LESSON TEXT-Jer.. &c.

GOLDEN TEXT-"Amend your ways
and your doings, and obey the voice of
the Lord your God."-Jer. 26:i3.
PRIMARY ToPIC-God Saves a Brave
Prophet.
JUNIOR TOPIC-The Story of a
Brave Prophet.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC-Standing Bravely for the Right.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
IC-Jeremiah's Message to His People.
l.. Jeremiah's Solemn Warning to
Judah wv. I'D.
The Lord commanded him to stand
in Il conspicuous place In the Temple
and proclaim the judgment which vas
about to fall upon them because OF
their sins. The object was to provoke
them to repentance ". 81. If they
would not repent, God would make
the Temple as Shiloh ". 81. Just as
Shiloh was once the dwelling place
of the Lord and now fallen into decay
and abandoned, so will it be with the
Temple. jeremiah was sent to speak
the words which the Lord had told
him and not to diminish Il word.
II. Jeremiah on Trial wv. SID.
l. Cause of Arrest ". 81. 1t was
for faithfully speaking all the Lord
had commanded. The n who speaks
boldly what God commands shall be
opposed. The time-serYer and self
seeker will not stand for such Il min
lstry. The Isaiahs and Jeremiahs
must suffer.
.. The Charge ivy. S, %. 1t was a
capital crime. They said, Thou shalt
surely die" His guilt according to
their charge was twofold: ID Pre-
tending to speak for God; 60 Speak
ing against the temple and the city.
According to their charge he was
guilty of blasphemy and sacrilege.
The one who prophesied without
Gods command was to be punished
by death (Deut. 1920. Blasphemy
was also punished by death (Lev.
. :16). Both Jesus and Stephen were
accused of blespuemy.
3. The Princes Sit in Judgment wv.
1O,11). When the excitement reached
the ears of the princes they came to
Judge Of the merits of the case. Mat
ters of state were not entirely in the
hands of the priests and elders, but
were partly controlled by members of
the royal family.
Concluded on page ~
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-01-03
sKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS

Miss Doris Tobey, a teacher in
North Scituate. MAJ. departed Tues
day after spending $he holiday recess
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Tobey on Bridge street.
Hector Chabot returned to his
studies at Boston University, Tues
day after spending the Christmas va
cation with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Chabot on Winter street.
Miss Freda Harris, who is pursuing
post graduate work at Radcliffe, re-
turned yesterday after spending few
days with her parents, Mr., and Mrs.
Elmer E. Harris on Turner Ave.
Everett Burke of the U. S. Reg
ular army and stationed at Fort Will
liams returned to that place yester-
day morning after being here to visit
for several days with Mrs. Burke.
The Ladies' Social Circle of the M.
E. Church met yesterday afternoon
for their regular semi-monthly meet
ing with Mrs. Lena +. Cleveland on
Pleasant, street. The president, Mrs.
Lillian B. Smith presided and routine
business was transacted. The ladies
enjoyed a social hour after the bust
ness meeting.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-01-03
.IACKMAN

Prin. Drisko with his wife and baby
drove to Bangor with their car De-
cember goth and returned Friday. Mr..
Drisko reports good roads for the
time of year.
Mrs. James Murtha and Mrs. Au-
gustus Bouchard spent few days in
Portland recently.
Miss Doris Sands Is receiving sur
gical treatment at the Sherbrooke
Hospital She was accompanied by
her mother, Mrs. James Sands and
her aunt, Mrs. s. f. Holden.
During the Christmas holidays and
the heavy mails occasioned thereby
the service in the post Office was rem
dered in very creditable manner by
the postmistress and regular assist
ant.
Rudolph Quay and F. Drisko had
radios installed this week.
Christmas cheer was in evidence on
every hand the past week. The
stores were unusually attractive and
many homes weref decorated. The
residence of DR.. and Mrs. ]. NJ
Boothby was especially attractive be-
ing decorated with evergreens, Prin-
cess pine and ferns gathered from
the woods. The ferns were as fresh
and green as in midsummer.
Jos. Quay of Holeb was business
caller in town Thursday.
Miss Elsie Mckinney. who has been
spending Christmas with her parents
MIR. and Mrs. H. P. Mckinney, has
returned to Boston,
Mrs. Frost H. Williams is passing a
few days in Skowhegan on business.
Miss Norma Mcdonald is enjoying
trip to New York, where she Is the
guest of Mrs. 2. C. Oseland. She
will also visit friends In Portsmouth
N. H., Portland, Maine, and The
Forks, Maine. before her return.
At the close of an impressive SER