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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17

struggling and struggling hoi poloi,
the unskilled and uncivilized army of
derelicts." The one per cent is "indi-
visible, and therefore a compelling
force that will slowly but surely as
sert ITSELF" The one per centers, no
doubt, are the Mencken-Nath -Hecht-
Bodenheim-Jack Jones-Wentworth ct
al crowd who preen their feathers in
print as the intelIigenzla of the coun-
try. Some Of the gang conceal their
idealism more ingenuously than Mr..
Wentworth with sarcastic cynicism.
Haymarket Riot.
Anyone interested in the spiritual
life of young man will find the "Edu-
cation of Ernest Wilmerding" the re-
cord of an adolescent idealist's
growth. The part of the book that
holds anything for the rest of us is
the section dealing with the Haymar-
ket riots Of 1886 here in Chicago. Mr..
Wentworth draws a graphic and fair
ly accurate picture of the events. But
for that matter, Floyd Dell has excel
lent factual account in volume 2 of
Chicago: It's History and It's Bull
ders" (1912, S. ]. Clarke Publishing
co.. in the chapter: Socialism and
Americanism in Chicago"
The poetry of Mr. Wentworth pleads
guilty to that fault, described Il be-
lieve) by Max Eastman in 'The En-
joyment Of Poetry" of genuine emo
ton expressed in ordinary words. The
very essence of poetry is the peculiar
ly apt selection of sounds which con-
vey the meaning.-When the oldest
phrases are used to voice the emo
ton, no matter how strong and sim
cere the feeling is, no poem is born.
shedding tears, no matter how
copiously, does not reveal the poig-
nancy of regret or grief.
1.-THE Spirit of the Lower North
Side" is the other play in the volume
of verse. 1t brings together hume
rous well-known characters, including
Jim Larkin, the ''Sirfesser," and some
of the Dill Picklers, each selling forth
his vision.
Mr.. Wentworth has well chosen the
name Ernest" for his mirrored self.
He is tolerant and generously sympa.
thetic with the slightly superior at
titude those qualities IMPLY and
would never fail to fight for our civil
liberties. If his writing does not have
the ring of common speech, IL is be-
cause Mr. Wentworth has lived in the
world of music and art and culture
and has seen life thru others vision.
His sincere devotion to idealism is
evident in his support of hopeful
young artistic ventures in Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17
by private armies of gunner, upon
the workers.

by private armies of gunner, upon
the workers.
Mr.. Walker goes as far back as
the historical conflict of Couer
d'Alene and Calumet. He gives us
short, but detailed narratives illus
irrational Of the complete subordina-
ton of the American judiciary to the
plans of the capitalists.
The material is drawn from various
sources, all of which are acknowledge
ed by the compiler. At the present
time, with Mooney and Billings still
in prison, and with hundreds of work
ing men in the penitentiaries of Cali
fornia, and other states, convicted
under the infamous Criminal Syndi-
calist Acts, 1t is well that we should
have the opportunity for this COM
prehensiye view of the workings of
the Iron Heel in the free republic"
of the United States.
CHARLES ASHLEIGH.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17

The usual calm and dispassionate Wall Street
Journal has managed to work itself up to pitch
Of excitement and irritation over what it charges
to be a deliberate Misrepresentation or an unfor-
tunate misunderstanding Of recent article in its
columns by Guy Walker calling for an American
Mussolini.
1t so happens that the DAILY WORKER was
one of the few newspapers that took up this chal,
lenge of the reactionary capitalist interests and
flung it back in their teeth with an admonition to
the workers and poor farmers to get on the job
and teach the exploiters their long overdue and
much-deserved lesson.
In its heated reply the noted oracle of American
finance and industrial capital denies that Walk
er's article could honestly have been construed
for an appeal for a march of American Black
shirts Washington. 1t is not our task to en-
ploy a seismograph to measure the tremors of
Fascist intentions in the brain of Mr.. Walker
who, judging from the character of his book, 'The
Things That Are Caesars" is afflicted with
marked tendency towards brain-storms. When
Mr.. Walker declared, "Surely there is somewhere
in America a Mussolini to lead the American
Blackshirts to Washington" we assumed he meant
business.
But now the conclusion of the poignant defense
of the Wall Street Journal is even more enlight
ening and important. This celebrated organ of
the biggest capitalists goes Mr.. Walker leagues
better. Since the Wall Street journal is inter
nationally recognized authorized spoles
man for the business interests, assume that
it also means business when it says in its reply
to the attack on Walker: "By all means give us
fortyeight Mussolinis, and let us pray that we
have in Washington forty-ninth now leading the
people in the direction of sanity and savings"
This is plain talk from a source that is not ac-
customed to mincing words. 1t is an appeal to
the hired gangster and black elements of the CAPT
talist class to be ready to leap at the throats of
the workers and poor farmers as the Fascist have
done in Spain, Italy and Germany. The American
working masses believe that to be forewarned is
to be forearmed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17
A BRITISH EXPOSURE OF
AMERICAN OPPRESSION.

Bloody American Capitalism, It's
Murder Of Labour; BY Joe Walker.
With foreword by w. 7. coIyer. The
Socialist and Labour Press. Re-
formers 5ookshop, 1903 kIrkgate,
Bradford, and from Author. Price, Six
pence.
This booklet should receive a wide
circulation among British workers. It
presents a picture OF conditions in
the United States, which, IL they were
not thoroly authenticated, would
hardly be credited by readers in
Great Britain. The pamphlet is a col
lection OF articles contributed by the
author TO the Yorkshire Factory
Times. and contains vivid accounts of
the violent attacks made. by the arm
cd forces OF the United States and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17
Our Quiuering Progressiues

Reports emanating from Washington indicate
a further retreat and surrender by the so-called
progressive senators of republican and democratic
stripe After conference with the new Attorney
General Stone, such self-stylec energetic insur-
gents as Wheeler and Brookhart are reported to
have expressed satisfaction and kind words for
the successor to Harry NJ. Daugherty."
This news does surprise We have for some
time watched the antics Of the Borahs, the Wheel
ers, the Brookharts and the LaFolettes in turning
their backs at the decisive moment on the very
proposals they have initiated themselves. AS a
spokesman for the class interests of the small
owners, Senator Borah championed the cause Of
Soviet Russian recognition until he felt that fur
Their pressure in this direction on his part might
"embarass" the Coolidge Administration, the
mouthpiece of the biggest financial and industrial
interests of the country. Hence, the Borah com
mittee on Russian relations was allowed by Borah
himself to die thru atrophy
Wheeler and Brookhart, as spokesman of prac-
tcally the same economic class interests, fol
lowing precisely the same policy of wretched re-
treat pursued by Borah and so characteristic of
their class in all decisive class conflicts Their
present hesitation and wavering in the inyestiga-
ton of the department Of justice are only the pre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17
One Leisure Hour

From early morning to noon the
factory is hive of industry. ,ach
whirring machine has an overalled
attendant Everyone is busy. The
eagle-eyed foreman sees to that.
A sharp order from him is enough:
no dreamers are tolerated here. Ev-
cry worker attends his machine 50
closely that he begins to look like
part Of it.
Then the drab-clad machine men
brighten up. Some glance at watches,
others whistle. It is nearing the
meal hour; for one hour they can be
their own master-free to study some
thing brighter than the machines.
After their meal, which occupies a
quarter OF their hour, they settle
down to well-earned rest. Some get
together and discuss the latest news,
others select a seat, preferably under
a window, whore the light can shine
on their papers and books.
The long rows OF glistening ma
chimes look strangely quiet-dead and
useless without the guiding hand OF
man. The place is so still that one
can even hear the birds outside-a
rare change from the harsh sound Of
machinery.
Then long, shrilll whistle pierces
the silence. The machines are start
ed. The workers brief respite is
over. W. r., in the London Daily
Herald
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17
Pinchot's ProgressiUism

Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, another idol
of the progressively has shaken hands with Presi-
dent Coolidge and in the interest of harmony with
in the republican party has put the sacred ikon
of progressivism back in the cabinet until a
greater emergency arises.
1t is upon a rather weak foundation that the
progressive reputation of Governor Clifford Pin
chot rests. He is a survival of the Bull Moose
movement and has been carrying on the Roosevelt
tradition-whatever that is.
In Pennsylvania he is for strict enforcement
of the prohibition law but if there is any wetter
territory than his home state, it lies outside the
territorial confines of the United States; en-
courages the mitarzation of police forces ostensi-
bly, for this reason so he has not abolished the
state constabulary. He poses a friend of labor
but Jacob Dolla, steel striker, has been in Jail
since 1919-railroaded on framed-up evidence
and Israel Bankenstein Of the Workers Party is
serving long sentence for violation of the crimi-
nal syndicalism law. Pinchot has vigorously de-
nounced the persecution of individuals for their
political beliefs and labor activities but these
workers are still in Jail.
The liberal doctrine has no place for the class
struggle but by keeping carefully away from issues
that really matter the Pnchot type admits its hos
tility to the working class movement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17
A LIBERALS HOPE
Two Book Reviews
BY ESTHER LOWELL

The Education of Ernest Wilmer
ding (s2.oo).
The Valley of Emma and Other
Poems and Modern Plays ($2.5o).
BY Edward Chichester Wentworth.
(Covici-McGee Coz
Coue's flare flashed thru this coun-
try and was forgotten, leaving its de-
voices as much in the dark as ever.
But it must have been during the
brightest period of the French Bar
NUNS influence that Edward Chiches-
ter Wentworth wrote his autobiogra-
phical novel 1.-THE Education of Ernest
Wilmerding."
In the Epilogue Of the book Ernest
is at his century mark, 1859, and re-
views the changes society has gone
thru before achieving the near-mille-
mum of that year. He recalls how the
people Of America got wise to psy-
chology as result of the war propa-
ganda of 1914 which turned a peace
full nation to warning. "And so, when
things got little nearer to the break
ing point the slogan went out from
mouth to mouth: Every day in every
way we are little nearer the revo-
luton and in this way multitudes
commenced to believe it as a posi-
bility."
Why on earth hasn't Mr.. Went
worth started his endless chain Of
Every day in Every way" or perhaps
he has and lot of us are still missing
links.
Usual Liberal Hokum.
Mr.. Wentworth has the usual Libe.
raj hope in the sole regenerating in
fluence of ideas. He looks for a quiet
change in human nature; human sell
fishness wearing itself out. He is the
idealist, opposed to the materialist
| who argues that physical conditions,
economic and Industrial, control
thought. The materialist tells the
idealist that human nature will not
change until the material conditions
determining 1t are different.
In the play "The Growing Dawn
included in the volume of verse, Mr.
Wentworth has one of his characters
divide society into the one per cent
against the ninety and nine. The lat.
ter is composed of four groups: the
patricians, noble army of social mil
lionares;" the bourgeois, "selfmade
people," the proletariat; and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17
Canary Birds?

A high-spirited editor, commenting
on the statement in so-called well
fare report that family OF FIVE can
live on $3.50 week, asks: "A family
of FIVE whatY--America Labor Lee
gislation Review.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17

Bobby" said the teacher sternly,
do you know that you have broken
eighth commandment by stealing
James's apple?"
~Well," explained Bobby, IL might
just as we'll break the eighth and
have the apple as break the 10th and
only covet t."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17

No May Day celebration will be complete in the
United States without the distribution Of bundle
Of this years May Day issue of the DAILY
WORKER. viii you make your May Day celebra-
ton complete?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17

The new Thaw Developments in Philadelphia
courtroom disclose very completely the lie of
parasite under American capitalism. How do you
like it?
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How many of your shop-mates read
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The Poor Fish says he can't under
stand why so many working people
are for the recognition OF Soviet Rus
STA when everyone knows that the
Soviets have no respect for property
rights.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-06-12

Monday afternoon of this week in
honor of Miss Alice Quigley of Min
neapolis and Mrs. z. j. Webster of
Warsaw, N. Y, who are guests in
the city: Mesdames J. p. Hansen, n.
I. Austin, H. Halverson, Alex jamie
son, John Whitson and L. L. Kells.
Dainty refreshments followed the at
ternoon's card game.
~
THURSDAY EVENING OF LAST
week Mrs. D. B. Caughren was host
ess at her Pine street home at a
shower given for her niece, Miss
Grace Lockead. The invited guests
We're: Mrs. Davies, the Misses Sfgurd
and Anna Anderson, Misses Nellie
and Grace Pangburn, Mrs. Charles
Pendroy and Miss Dolly Smith.
MISS RITA BoRGMANN WAS
hostess to the following guests at a
l 100 o'clock luncheon Thursday af-
ternoon of last week: The Misses
Octavia MacNamara, Rahma Weis-
ner, and Janette Dahlem.
MRS. J. P. HANSEN ENTER
tanned at two tables of Bridge at
her home on Birch street Wednesday
afternoon in honor of Miss Ruth
Norton of Chicago who is guest of
her sister, Mrs. L. P. Krebs.
a.
MESDAMES j. B. STRICKER
and l.. p. Krebs are entertaining this
Thursday afternoon at three tables OF
Bridge, at the home of the former in
Brooklyn.
MRS. H. T. AUSTIN WAS HOST.
ess at three tables of Bridge Satur-
day afternoon in honor of Miss Alice
Quigley who has been her guest fol-
the past week. A very dainty lunch
was served at $50.
THERE WILL BE A REGULAR
meeting of Naomi Chapter, o. E. S.
at the Masonic Temple next Tuesday
evening at 500 o'clock. All officers
are requested to be present.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-06-12
Many Players Are Shy On
Etiquette On Golf Links
Chapter on Proper Department by
Expert is Causing Some Conster-
nation Among Enthusiasts

Sank Centre has a number of
folks pretty badly smitten with the
golf bug. Most of the players make
an attempt to be courteous on. the
links, but they have some shortcom-
ings. The following, under a New
York date, will be of particular in
terest to local golfers:
"New York, June Harry Cross,
in a chapter on golf, says that a
tendency to disregard the etiquette
of golf is causing some consterna-
ton in Canada, and the Royal Cana
dian Golf association has sent a cir
cular letter to all clubs urging play
ers to pay greater attention to the
rules and unwritten law of the gamt.
While it shouldn't be necessary to
call players attention to his de-
pertinent, the rapid growth of the
game among players who know lit
tie or nothing about its traditions
makes it necessary.
"The rule of golf which is most
commonly violated is the one which
permits match coming up to play
through when looking for a lost ball.
This means simple enough thing to
do, and yet on every course there are
players who refuse other players this
privilege unless they insist on it.
Golf is different from other games,
for if it is going to be played at all
it should be played right.
1t isn't game where a player can
take advantage of the rules on tech
nicalities. Correct and incorrect
methods on the course are clearly
defined. The player is his own ref
cree and umpire. Observation of the
unwritten code is entirely a per-
sonal matter. Each player should
have consideration for every other
player. 49,
ence between a driver and a putter
knows that he should always replace
the turf he digs up in the operation
of making shot. 1t is nevertheless
true that numerous pieces of turf are
never replaced unless some one hap
pens to- be watching the plowing-up
process Some of the players who
fail to replace the. turf ought to
| think of their own front lawns.
The usual run of golfers observe
the rules and are pleasant people to
meet on the course. The others are
much in the minority, but one does
run across them. They crowd you
from behind and hold you up when
they are ahead. They often fail to
shout a warning before you are out
of distance.
The type of golfer the Canadian
association is trying to reach with
its circular letter is the player who
gives his ball kick when it is in a
bad lie. He is also the golfer who
can improve his score wonderfully
with the aid of a pencil. He never
holes out his short puts unless re-
quested to do so. He isn't a sports
man at heart and golf is no game fol-
him.
Golf is a silent game. 1t should
not be necessary to tell player not
to talk or make noise while an
other player is making a stroke. Yet
there are some players who save all
their conversation until they get to
the golf club. The circular letter
sent out by the Canadian organiza-
ton could be sent to golf clubs all
over the United States without doing
any harm"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-06-12
q|llkle's

Embracing in it's story many sit
uations of dramatic power and thrill
Children of jazz" new Paramount
picture featuring Theodore Kosloff,
Ricardo Cortez, Robert Cain and
Eileen Percy, will be the feature at
traction at the Caughren theatre
Saturday June IA.
The story deals with the jazz exis-
tence of Babs Weston, daughter of a
financier, who becomes engaged to
three men simultaneously. Richard
Forestall, son Of man who main
tains the social ideals and customs
of the folk of the 1905, is devoted
to her, but when he hears of her
escapades, he denounces and quits
her.
Subsequently, Babs is induced to
take a trip in hydroplane with
two of her admirers and the machine
is wrecked in a storm off an island.
The quartette is rescued with diff
Guilty and they find Forestall on the
island with his father and servants
Forestall is skipper of a schooner,
the crew of which mutinies and many
dramatic scenes follows. 1t is
through, these that the jazz-loving
men and women find themselves, the
climax of the picture being excep-
tionally strong and filled with novel
| ty.
n
A picture with a wide range OF
scene and story of great human in
terest is ellis Chilren's Children
Sam Woods Paramount screen yer.
sion of Arthur Trains successful
novel which will be shown at the
Caughren theatre Sunday and Mon
day June 1916.
The cast is an extraordinary one
and among the featured players are
Bebe Daniels, Dorothy MackaiIl,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-06-12
PAGE FIVE

James Rennie and George Fawcett..
The principal supporting players in
clude Mahlon Hamilton, Warner
GLAND, John Davidson and Joe
Burke.
The story, which deals with the
foibles of modern society life, high
finance, and parental neglect of chill
dren, gives wide range for sympa-
thetic and picturesque treatment.
Scenes in the picture range from
Wall street to the Denver freight
yards with many others, including
Long Island homes, English man
sions, Broadway cafes, subways,
elevated roads, beaches, Greenwich
Village, and Long Island hunting
lodges. Director Wood asserts that
the picture gives more complete
view of New York City and its life
as background for the gripping
story than any production ever
filmed.
A literary person with passion
for figures has estimated that fully
ten million books dealing with Alaska
have been sold. Two names head the
list of best sellers of Alaska novels.
They are Rex Beach and Jack Lon
don.
Rex Beach's novel, "The Spoilers"
according to the figures, is the most
popular novel ever written about the
far north. Its sales have run to the
half million mark. Numerous edi-
tions have been printed. 1t is even
now selling as well as the average
novel, and it has been nearly twenty
years since it was published.
Interest in the book was revived
| by the announcement that it was be-
ing filmed on an elaborate scale by
Jesse D. Hampton at the Goldwyn
Studios. When it was screened some
years ago it was the first big Ameri-
can picture. The new version has an
all-star cast, headed by Milton Stills,
Barbara Bedford, Ann @. Nilsson and
Noah Berry. 1t will be the attrac-
ton at the Caughren Theatre Thurs
day and Friday June 1920.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-06-12
J SOUND AMERICANISM

This from Judge Oscar Hallam
rings true and is worthy of careful
consideration. Read it:
In recent years there have been
many assaults on the Constitution of
the United States. The charge is
made that it fosters privilege and
favors the rich against the poor. The
charge is false. The Constitution
was framed by high-minded men of
patriotic purposes. 1t was designed
to carry: out the principles stated in
the Declaration of Independence of
July a, 17F6, that all men are Great
ed equal and that government derives
its just powers from the consent of
the governed. Under it, we have
prospered as no nation in the world
has ever prospered; under it, the
poor boy, whether native or immi-
grant, can rise to the highest station.
Under it the American people can
get the kind of government and the
kind of laws they want.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-06-12
Congregational Church
Cecil s. Sparkes. Pastor
Sank Centre M. e. Church
S. S. Wyand, Pastor.

The following is a full and com
plete schedule of preachers and ap-
pointments for the church during the
pastors absence on his trip east and
south. May we urge all our good
friends to be present as much as pos
sible to hear these good men and
their fine messages.
June 15-10:30 A. M; Rev. L.
E. Gallagher; 500 P. M. Rev. J. L.
Parish.
June 22-10:3O A. NJ, Prof. E. A.
Williams; 500 P. M, Rev. VIM. j.
Medland.
June 29-10:30 A. M, Rev. J..
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G: Craig; 500 P. M, Rev. Raymond
Mattock.
July 6-10:30 A. M, Rev. L. E !.
Gallagher; 500 P. M. Bible Glass
Men.
The prayer meetings will go on
as usual on Wednesday night under
good leaders.
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to Birch Lake where they enjoyed a
picnic breakfast. Those enjoying
this delightful affair besides the host
ess and guest of honor were: The
Misses MERGED Bishop, Alma Fors-
berg, Janette Dahlem, and Octavia
MacNamara.
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THE CHURCHES

ST. Paul's Catholic Church
Rev. Anthony ART, Pastor
Sunday-Low Mass at 500 a. m.
High Mass at 1000 a. m, Vespers at
z 80 p. m.
r.
Episcopal Church
Reginald A. Crickmer, Rector
Morning service 1890 a. M.
Church school II :45 a. m.
Evening service 500 p. m.
Second Sunday of each month.
D
Our Lady of the Angels Church
Rev. John A. Fearon, Pastor
Sunday-Early Mass at 8 100 a. m.
High Mass, sermon and Benediction
at 1000 a. m.