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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
By STANLEY BOONE

(Staff Writer of the Federated Press)
IT HE story of Edwin DENLY of De-
troit, defunct former secretary of
the navy, is the story Of a "joiner"
who Joined one club too many.
DENLY in Detroit has been lawyer
and banker, thru profits in those oc-
equations, a director in three auto
mobile manufacturing companies
the Hupp, the Federal, and the form
er DENLY Truck. As the father, the
late Charles DENLY, sometime U. S.
minister to China, had cigar named
after him, so the son named truck
after himself. The cigar outlasted
the truck.
But it has been thru his sopho-
moric sociability and the reputation
of his father, a prominent Indiana
politician, that Edwin DENLY for a
brief ill-starred period was able to
put his feet under the secretary's
table in the navy building.
Edwin DENLY weighed in excess of
25O pounds when he entered the ca
binet. How much he gained in that
position is not known.
His sophomore sociability has had
its expression chiefly in joining. Dem
by is one of the few men in the coun-
try who belongs to every club there is.
He has formal or fraternal con-
nections with all the veterans or
CARNATIONS formed since the Spanish
American war, in which he was a
gunner He has Masonic connections
of the most binding nature and be-
longs to a few clubs in which a de-
gree of exclusiveness is maintained
by the size of the initiation fee. Be-
sides these, he belongs to two gen.
timely snobbish organizations. He is
also a member of the proud Sons of
the American Revolution.
But perhaps he is at his joiniest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
DENLY Joined One Too Many

when gathering with the,alumni, that
group which every town has, COM
posed of all the educated men who
just can't forget college days. Dem
by is the old grad, the football player
(for he was varsity guard at the
University of Michigan), the orator
at campus pep meetings, the perpetual
sophomore who would die either for
his country or his college colors. He
may have wept because he did not
have two lives to give-one to his
country and one to his Alma Mater.
Musical comedies, back in the days
of the college and merry widows, ct
al, had their Denbys. They can still
be seen in the pictorial advertisements
of dealers in clothes for men.
Well, by proficiency of this kind,
which amounted to being seen more
often than anyone else at class re-
unions and similar rah-rah occasions,
DENLY forged ahead in the world He
could not be forgotten because he
always answered rollcall and he was
always Enthusiastically visible because
of his enormous bulk. 1t was inevi-
table that he be nominated for some
thing. Once nominated he shook
more hands than his rival in his dis
trict and so was elected to the state
house of representatives, amid great
cheers from former classmates and
fellow club members. He made Sc
many friends in Lansing that she was
sent to Washington, where he was a
congressman for two terms. 1t was
after the second term, and in connec-
ton with the ridiculous Payne-Ald-
rich tariff that he rose at a moment
of collegiate ardor and gave three
rousing cheers for Joe Cannon for
president. 1t was heroic but fatal
The Joe Cannon team was defeated
and Denby's public life was ended
until in similar mood in 1917 he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
On the Altar of Profits

An item that is never found in the annual
reports of corporations giving the profits and
dividends for the year is the item dealing with
the loss of limb and life suffered by the work
ingmen in the very process of grinding out
these profits these big dividends for the
bosses perusal of the annual statements OF
the big industrial organizations affords the
examiner a survey of the value of common
and preferred stock, but not single word
about the price paid by the workers in en-
HANGING these values for the employing class.
This is the sad state of affairs with every in
dustry operated on the capitalist basis of the
highest profits for the owners and the lowest
wages and worst possible working conditions
for the employees
The American coal diggers are the pace
makers in mining efficiency. Our miners are
the most efficient in the world. The American
miner is almost three times as productive as
his nearest competitor in mining efficiency the
British coal digger. But the American miner
suffers far more than his British comrade in
The price he pays for his efficiency, netting the
operators terrific profits and swollen dividends.
Last year, for instance, nearly four OF our
miners were killed for every million tons Of
GOAL they mined. In 1923 no less than 2,452
miners were killed digging coal and dividends
Tor their employers. Yet, the coal barons
never reckon the loss of life or the injury suf-
Jared By the minsr working for them when
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29

enlisted as a private in the U. 5.
Marine Corps. He was still the rip
roaring underclassman painting his
class numerals on the corner stone Of
the law building.
AS a private marine, overweight
thru stomach and double chin, he got
the job of making pep speeches at the
Paris Island training camp. He had
been gunner in the Spanish-Ameriean
war and he went back into fighting
togs as he has gone back to football
mass meetings in the college town Of
his youth year after year. 1t was
''Yea, team!" at Paris Island. And
he may have had something to do
with nicknaming the boys of the
Marine Corps the Devil Dogs" 1t
was daredevil name that a sophoy
more in class rush would be proud
Of being called.
DENLY undoubtedly belongs to a
number of clubs he has forgotten all
about. But he will tell you he is a
member in good standing of the De-
troit club, Detroit Athletic club,
Country club, Yondatege club, Uni
NerSlLy CIuD, huron MOuHVdlH SluDj
Lawyers club, American legion,
United Spanish War Veterans, Vet
Grams Of Foreign Wars, Sons of the
American Revolution, Rotary club,
Detroit Geological Society, Board Of
Commerce, and the Masonic order
He is president of the Geological So
ciety, vice president of the Rotary
club, and was president Of the Board
of Commerce in 1917 when he booted
and spurred himself down the street
to recruiting headquarters. That
was the best publicity stunt by poll
tician in 1917.
But he joined one club too many
1t was in Washington, where he joined
the Teapot Dome Improvement so
ciety.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
AS WE SEE IT
By T. }. o'FLAHERTY.

The number of human beings who
have come to their ends by having
vaccines and serums injected into
their systems would fill a large
graveyard, according to DR.. Royal
S. Copeland, senator from New York.
Farmers succeeded in having laws
passed protecting their cattle from
serum and vaccine fanatics but hui
man beings are not considered so
valuable with the result that they
are easy prey for every quack and
interruptions manufacturer of fake
remedies. Contaminated serums cause
lockjaw and other fatal maladies, de-
clares DR.. Copeland. Under capital
ism profit making is the prime mo
tive Of manufacturers, not concern
for the welfare of society. But we
are told this is the great incentive
to success.
There is another branch Of the Ku
Klux Khan organized in Atlanta, Ga.
1t will have its headquarters in, Kan
sas City, Mo-, e. Y. Clarke, who
called the disgruntled Klansmen to-
gether, declared at the beginning of
the session that no attempt would be
made to form a dual Khan but the
meeting ended up by forming one
just the same. He said the Khan
needed cleaning from the inside. We
want to be in some other country
when the cleaning takes place.
=
The DAILY WORKER announced
few days ago that Calvin Coolidge
was "going to talk" Perhaps he
has-talked to Daugherty, Roosevelt,
Burns and the rest of the human,
junk that threatens to sink his politi-
cal ship, but so far he has not said
anything to the public that is anxious
to know whether they have human
being for president or an Egyptian
mummy.
A British general, to-wit, Reginald
Francis Legge, won medal for dis
tinguished service in the world war.
His wife also thought he was a hero
for while. But the tinsel wore off
and she declared war on him, hostih-
ties ending in the divorce court.
| The lady examined her husband. The
husband examined the wife. Each
admitted indiscretions. The general
was guilty Of misconduct, SO was
Mrs. Legge. The general secured a
divorce. The wife alone was guilty
in the eyes Of the law. The double
standard Of morality dies slowly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
An Instructive Coincidence

Ii 1t is true that every cloud has its silver
lining, then the corollary, that every silver lin
Ing has its cloud must also be true There
IS humorous phase of the Teapot affair that
is worthy of comment, even if it is only for
the joke value in the incident
Coolidge's handpicked bipartisan oil prose
cutors, Messrs, Lowe, Duck, Pomerene and
Bank Attorney Roberts, have at last been put
on the job to plumb the wells and get some
results for the people" in the Doheny-Sinclair
holdup. And alasl These expensive lawyers
have gotten unto themselves a suite of offices
in the new Transportation building right next
door to the local headquarters of the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey.
Splendid environment, indeed We do not
ask our readers to grow oversuspicious and
conclude forthwith that there is to be close
cooperation between the governments repre-
sentatives and the Rockefeller interests. Per-
haps these servants of the people" couldn't
help themselves. If they had rented the next
least suitable office they might have landed
in the same building with the Washington
branch of the Mexican Petroleum Company,
which is a subsidiary of the Doheny Pan
American Petroleum Corporation-the lessee
of the Elk Hills Naval Reserve in California.
Or if Messrs. Pomerene and Roberts had
taken refuge across the way from this build
ing they would have fallen into the head
quarters of the many Washington watchmen
of Mr.. Doheny, the San Francisco lawyer,
George McNab or in the environs of Levi B.
Cooke, Mr.. Falls special legal representative
in Washington.
All of this may or may not be case of very
strange coincidence. The reader has his free
dom of choice. Yet, we submit that this some
what humorous side of the oil tragedy affords
at least case of instructive coincidence The
plight of the poor prosecutors shows in hui
morous way, of course, the grip that oil has
on Washington. The champions of the pub
lie" cannot even do their legal blowing in an
atmosphere which is not saturated with oil
Again we say that the fact that the housing
problem for our oil prosecutors has resolved
itself into choice between rubbing elbows
with Standard Oil or being neighbors of Do
heny oil is coincidence even more instructive
than strange.
Let us not be too cynical. All power to oil
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29

SYDNEY, New South Wales
Following on an attempt by the
state railway commissioners in New
South Wales to introduce the bonus
system in the government owned
railway and tramway workshops,
the various unions whose members
are affected, are organizing to pre-
vent the introduction Of the system.
The unions concerned in the pro-
test are the engineers, coachmak-
crs, blacksmiths, electrical trades,
boilermakers, iron workers assist
ants, moulders, and sheet metal
workers. Promises we're made by
the government on many occasions
that the employees would not be
compelled to accept the system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29

owning party here, unalded
and even hindered by foreign
finance capitalists, to over
throw the semi-progressive, So
cialistically tinged regime that
has finally emerged from the
revolutions of 1910 to 1920.
Two new elements are to be reck-
oned with. American finance capital,
which has financed so many Latin-
American and Mexican revolutions,
has been bribed for the time being
at tremendous price of about a
billion pesos, the recognition of tho
debt and the interest thereon. Even
the oil interests have been quieted in
part by concessions as to the nom
retroactivity of Article 81 Of the
Mexican constitution. In plain
words, thefts Of oil lands made from
the Mexican people before the adop-
ton of the constitution of 1917 are
to be recognized as accomplished
facts. For the moment that keeps
the oily folk quiet.
Consequently, the present counter
revolution, barring aid it received
from minor European capitalist in
terests, was home brewed affair.
Even at that, home brew has had a
marvellous kick here in the past.
When there has been no interference
on the part of foreign capital, the
struggle here has always been a sor-
did one between the political ms and
the political outs, fought out in
comic opera style without real
battles They were always short,
relatively bloodless and uniformly
successful. The professional military
class made and unmade presidents
from its own numbers. The army in
the field elevated general to power:
Here's the manner of it:
Revolutions to Order.
A division general "dis-recognizes"
the central authority in the name Of
any tomfool slogan that comes into
his head. All the other generals
telegraph their loyalty to the CEN
trail government and ask for more
arms, ammunition and money. At
the same time they telegraph to the
new leader asking him, "What's in
it for me?" All such revolutions al
ways succeed so they're only too
eager to jump, and stop only long
enough to get another shipment Of
cash from the central government
and haggle as to price. They don't
worry about social philosophy. Even
the Obregon revolution, for all its
liberal leadership, was the same
story. Guadalupe Sanchez, one Of
Carranza's best friends and whole
hearted reactionary, made the deci-
sive jump that ended the Carranza
regime. It is this same Sanchez that
raised the standard Of reactionary re-
volt in Vera Cruz for de la Huerta
in December Of 1923. 80
"All such revolutions always sue
ceed"-but this time it didn't. Gem
erals Sanchez, Estrada, Maycotte,
AguiIar, Coss, Dieguez and Castro
all jumped. But the revolution did
not succeed. One reason was the
benevolent neutrality of American
capital mentioned above. (Heaven
shield any country from having to
pay the price that was paid for that
benevolencel) The other new ele-
ment was the first signs Of the en-
trance of the Mexican workers into
the army and the military field.
Obregon's Mistakes.
Oregon, tho undoubtedly the big
Rest Mexican statesman since the
reactionary Diaz, has made many
mistakes. One Of them was the sond-
ing Of Guadalupe ssnchez 70 Vera
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
A Dirae

By PERCY BYsSHE SHELLEY.
Rough wind. that moanest loud
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind. when sullen cloud
Knells all the night long;
Bare woods. whose branches strain.
Deep caves and dreary main,
Wall, for the worlds wrongi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
Mexican Revolution Had Big
Habit of Being Successful
Until Oregon Broke the Spell
By BERTRAND. D. WOLFE


MEXICO CITY, Feb 28-Will this be the last revolution
Mexico? question that everybody asking
that the rebellion be drawing close Obre-
gon says this is the last one.
One the forces that make for revolution in
Mexico would hesitate to in that but this is prob
ably the blow attempt the part of the land
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.-The Lincoln
Cotton Mills here will be increased
from 10000 to $4,000 spindles and
an additional 50.O00-spindle mill will
be erected in a short time to fill
the orders on hand. The increase
in the number Of children availabls
as laborsrs makes this extension
possible
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29

Attorney-General Daugherty has received
some kilograms expressing confidence in his
administration, he told Chicago newspaper.
man. Contrary to general belief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29

How many Of your shop-mstss read
THE DAILY WORKER. Get enc Of
then ~ subssvibs today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
Obregon's Mistakes.

Oregon, tho undoubtedly the big
Rest Mexican statesman since the
reactionary Diaz, has made many
mistakes. One Of them was the send
ing Of Guadalupe Sanchez 70 vers
crus and the ssumissionixe - tAa'
Evening star., 1924-10-23
EX-BURGLAR CAPTURED
TRYING TO ROB STORE
Police Say Philip Davis Was Dis
covered Trying to Jimmy"
Window Early in Morning.

4 two-year sentence served in the
Federal prison in Atlanta, Ga, by
Philip Davis, alias Raymond RowleS
md also known as Harry Young, for
~obbing the Fashion Shop. Ninth and
/. streets. Oh three occasions does not
seem to have effected a reformation,
according to police of Capt. Il. W.
Brown command who ellege they
caught Davis trying to Jimmy a
rear window at d. J. kaufman S
clothing store, 1905 Pennsylvania ave-
nue., about l o'clock this morning.
Sergt. Charles c. Wise and Police
man Z. X. Shelton arrested Davis and
took two screwdrivers and a fash
light from him, the Instruments later
being identified as property taken
from the Central Auto Supply Co,
1904 Pennsylvania avenue, yesterday
morning. Other 'npplies and $50 in
lash also were taken.
Special Policeman McDermott ar
rested Davis two years ago, when, it
IS stated, he was trying to effect an
entrance to Victor Desio's jewelry
store, 1909 + street. and he was tried
for the robberies at the Fashion Shop,
where several hundred dollars worth
Of apparel wa, taken.
Because of the impaired condition
OF his health. it is stated, Davis was
given light sentence and spent most
of his time in the hospital at the
Federal prison. Davis, who gave his
3ddress as Vienna, Va, wal booked
this morning on charges of burglary
md attempted burglary. He will be
arraigned in Police Court later.
Evening star., 1924-10-23
FUNERAL OF TRENTON
VICTIMS AT ARLINGTON
Bodies of Ensign Drexler and Sea-
man Jeffery Arrive in
Washington.

Bodies Of Ensign Henry Clay Drex-
Ter and Seaman Franklin p. Jeffery.
who lost their lives in the turret ex-
plosion aboard the cruiser Trenton,
have arrived in Washington and will
be buried with military honors in
Arlington National Cemetery Fu-
neral services for Seaman Jeffery will
be held tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock, at the receiving vault. and
for Ensign DreXler at the same
place Saturday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock 1t is probable that Secre-
tary Wilbur and many high officers
of the Navy will attend both cere-
monies. Ensign Drexler was a resi-
dent of Sussex Beach, Del, and Sea-
man Jeffery liver at Lynn, Mass.
Brief funeral services for Ensign
Drexler will be held at his home to-
morrow afternoon. Services at Ar
lington will be conducted at $3.50
o'clock by Rev. DR.. Earle Wilffey of
this city and Capt. Evan W. Scott of
the ChapIains Corps, United States
Navy.
Ensign Drexler was one of the out
standing heroes of the Treton disas-
ter. his bravery having prevented a
greater loss of life on the shin, al
though he lost his life through deeds
of heroism. Ensign Drexler's father
was for many years a member of the
State Senate in Delaware.
Evening star., 1924-10-23
new TREATY is MADE
BY JAPAN AND MEXICO

Word has been received here from
Mexico City Of the conclusion Of a
treaty of amity, commerce and navi-
cation between the Republic of Mex
leo and the Empire of Japan. 1t is
clearly provided in the treaty that
the laws of prime Importance in force
in both countries, including those
affecting immigration, commerce and
the holding of land property shall
be fully respected by the high con-
tracing parties
One of the principal clauses of the
treaty provides that no claims shall
be filed for causes arising from in
surrections or civil wars, rebels or
savage tribes who may be tempo
rariIy out of the control of the re-
spective governments. 1t has also
been agreed that the contracting par
tics shall have recourse to diplo-
matte intervention only In cases of
denial of justice, failure to execute
final sentences of courts of law or,
after exhaustion of all legal means,
available for the settlement Of dis
puteS.
Prior TO the conclusion OF treaty
the Japanese government expressly
renounced all claims that it may have
had against the Mexican ,government
arising from revolutionary disturb
ances in Mexico since the year 1910
up to the date of the conclusion of
the treaty.
Evening star., 1924-10-23
RUMAN|AN ISSUES
SMO0THED HERE
Joy Returning to Bucharest
After Discussing Questions
With State Department.

Progress toward the adjustment or
nending questions between the United
states and the Rumanian government
was indicat tied today when 1t was an
uounced that Minister Jay, who has
been in Washington some time for
conferences, would leave Saturday for
MS post at Bucharest.
The announcement follows receipt
rom Bucharest of assurances that
the new Rumanian mining law, against
certain phases of which the Washing
ton Government had protested in
hehalf of American mining and oil
.oncerns doing business in Rumanta,
would be administered in such a way
IS not to handicap these companies
Another element of the adjustment
has been We'll advanced through the
making of a substantial payment by
Run1ania on a large debt owed to an
american company, and formula tion
of an agreement with another Amerl-
IAN company for satisfactory ADJUST
1nent of large claim held by it. The
state Department has not made pub
lie the names of these companies.
Since Mr. Jay returned to Washing
ton new note has been sent TO
Bucharest, but has not been made
public.
The main objection by American
mining and oil operators to the new
Pumanian mining law was based on
Il provision requiring that 81 per cent
Of the stock of such companies must
be Rumanian owned, and 20 per cent
nr the personnel of the operating
torceS must be Rumaniaps. Exception
also was taken TO certain drilling
~egulations and to 4 plan to turn
over existing pipe lines TO the gov
rrnment.
Another question pending between
the two governments has related to
reIief credits agGregating SS6.00o,Oo0
advanced to Rumania during and ju I
after the war and upon which there
is now due all of the principal and
81 900 900 in accrued interest.
1t was because of the seeming i'm
possibility of getting satisfactory
action on any of these troublesome
questions that Mr.. Jay returned to
Washington to discuss matters per-
Sonally with the State Department
The announcement that he is going
hack an Indication of the success
nf his effort to arouse the Rumanian
fore gn Office to the seriousness OF
the situation by withdrawing tenn
porarily from his post.
Evening star., 1924-10-23
CRY SCARES BURGLAR.
Voice of Sleeping Child illustrates
Robbery.

Making an outcry in her sleep, prob
ably because of slight, noise that part
ly aroused her. the nine-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs II. A. Neff, apart
ment sos, South c ifton Terrace, pre-
vented probable burglary about
O'Clock this morning.
An intruder, who had gained access
to the apartment with a duplicate key
was in the reception hall when the
child cried out and just ahoue that
time he turned on an electric light. ief;
the apartment and disappea red down
the fire escape.
Mr.. Neff, accountant in the income
tax division, Internal Revenue Bureau
and his wife were awake Iei in time
to hear the intruder taking his hasty
departure. They believe he turned on
the light in order to get out of the
apartment without tripping over furni-
ture in the reception hall.