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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30
RALIEtw 0FFERS
OPTICAL MIRACLE
ON GARR|CK STAGE
Chauve-Souris Success
sor Has Many Surprises
By ALFRED V. FRANKENsTEIN

By ALFRED v. FRANKENSTEIN
Balieff's second bill at the Chauve-
Souris, in it's last week at the Gar
rick theatre, is series of surprises
in stage setting. In spite Of much
music, and the much talked-of verbal
scrambles of Mr.. Balieff, the prin-
cipal appeal of the show is to the eye,
and the credit for these optical mi
racles must 60 to Soudeikine, the
stage designer. Sometimes he sur
prises us by his elaborateness, and
then again by the simplicity Of his
means.
In the sketch entitled 1.-THE Duke
Of Marlborough Goes to War" five
priests chant many verses of song,
the melody of which is a glorified
version of 1--WE Won't Go Home Till
Morning. and the action is carried on
by a series Of huge and grotesque
painted silhouettes in the background.
One number, called "The Chinese
Billikens," consists of Chinese altar,
around which sit four red billikens,
immovable, except for heads and
wrists, sneezing rhythmically, while
a glorious lady. in Louis XIV. dress,
who doesn't really belong in the pic
ture at all, dances daintily.
In the famous "Katinka" scene
color bomb explodes all over the
stage, and somewhat the same effect
is produced in the one called "The
Barber of Seville:" In this last, sew
en- characters from the popular Itali-
an opera sit in a sort of brilliantly
colored semicircle. Their bodies are
built into the scene, but the heads
and arms are their own.
An example Of Soudeikine's sim
plicity is in the setting for a Danish
dance. The stage holds only huge
dinner plate, stood on edge, showing
fishing boats painted in blue.
In few places the show falls fiat.
These are the sentimental songs,
which are little better than the hor-
rors perpetrated between pictures at
our movie palaces" relieved, per-
haps, of some of their banality by
the fact that one can not understand
the language in which they are sung.
Balieff himself sometimes actually
uses a word identifiable as English.
His principal effect lies in the way he
ends his sentences when one is ex-
pecting him to say more.
Musically, the climax of the Sec
ond bill, is in the gypsy scene. Some
forty voices join in a great, roaring,
bawling wild chorus, as the curtain
falls.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30

All of the renegades. John Spargo among
them, who ran to the shelter of capitalism
when this country went into the world
war, have been writing articles to show that
Soviet Russia and the Communist Party of
Russia have forsaken communism and gone
back to capitalism.
Now that renewed efforts are being made
to force recognition Of Soviet Russia by the
House Of Morgan government of our fair land
these same renegades are filling the capitalist
press with articles showing that Soviet Russia
has abolished private property in natural re-
sources and want to have us do the same thing.
Traitors are hard to satisfy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30
Additional Facts Uneo.
BY Daily Worker Sho1U Probe
ofFiretrap Mere White Wash

The report of the days of the investigators
from the board of education the bureau of fire
building commissioners Office gives further ground for the
charge made by the DAILY WORKER that the inspection
ing carried by these offices under the direction
of the board of education whewash
Mr. Daniel Burns the business manager said the reports
indicated that There nothing to be alarmed Nothing
startling has been uncovered All the schools visited by the
inspectors passed the inspection all right
The investigation is being carried under Mr. Burns per-
ona direction Inspectors from the of fire prevention
and the building commissioners Office have been assigned to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30
S,5OO,OOO Women at
Work in u. s. and
Mostly Poorly Paid

SYRACUSE, N. y Industrial
hygiene, social legislation, compensa.
ton work and labor education were
foremost among the issues discussed
at the Consumers league conference
here.
/ Speaking on occupational diseases,
DR.. Alice Hamilton, Harvard medical
school, dwelt upon the primitive
status of protection against industrial
diseases in America. The frequency
of lead poisoning is Is times greater
in America than in British potteries,
she said. Meanwhile" added DR..
Hamilton, "the use of dangerous sub
stances in our industries is increas-
ing"
Difficulties which confront the
American worker, seeking compensa-
ton in case Of illness or injury, were
described by Mrs. Maud Swartz, Ma
tional Women's Trade Union league.
The worker does not know the law
Often, he does not even understand
the language of the court. Mrs.
Swartz concluded by indicating mea-
sures now being undertaken to aid
women workers in legal and medical
affairs.
Miss Mary Anderson, director,
bureau, U. S. department of
labor, reported S,500,00O women at
work in the United States, and more
than 100000 Of these married. The
speaker described women's situation
in American industry as "the most
and most poorly paid"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30
High Living Costs
Hit France Hard;
People Dissatisfied

PARASITIC high cost Of living
has hit France with vengeance.
France is at the beginning of the
same economic crisis thru which the
little neutral countries had to pass
right after the world war, and which
Austria and Germany are still facing.
The best index to the dissatisfied
temper of the people is the recent
demonstration of the Paris police
men who were mercilessly dubbed
down by the soldiery.
Following the police, the civil serv-
ce and government employees of every
description are now holding a series
of protest meetings, in Paris, Lyons,
Anglers and many provincial cities.
They are urgently clamoring for bet
ter pay to meet the rising cost of
living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30
DEFENSE COUNCIL
TO TELL SENATE
LIST OF OUTRAGES
Pennsylvania Facts to
Go Before Committee

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Facts re-
garding the violation Of constitu-
tional rights of the workers by on
GERS Of various subdivisions of the
United States government will be
presented to the senate committee
on education and labor of which SEN
ator Borah is chairman.
After conference with Andrew
7. Mcnamara, president of District
Council No. 6, of International AS
ISOLATION of Machinists and chairman
of the Labor Defense and Free
Speech Council of Western Pennsyl-
vania, and Fred H. Merrick. district
organizer Workers Party of Pitts
burgh, and Jay Lovestone; Senator
Borah agreed to have the facts Of
the denial of civil liberties to the
Pittsburgh and McKeesport workers
presented to his committee when il
will open the hearings on his bill
making the violation of civil liber-
ties by an officer of the United States
government punishable by a fine Of
$4,000 and Imprisonment Of ten
years.
The Labor Defense and Free
Speech Council of Western Penn
sylvania, is now gathering all evil
dence regarding the violation of con-
stitutional rights of the workers and
is preparing to put its whole case
before the senate committee as soon
as it is called. In the meanwhile
all defense efforts will be renewed
with redoubled energies in the Pitts
burgh district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30
British Rail Tie
Up Ends Victory,
Says J. Bromley

L0NDON.-The new labor gov
eminent cleared its first hurdle thru
settlement of the national railway
strike which was reached at o'clock
this morning after an all-night con-
ference of railway hangers and union
leaders.
Premier Ramsay Macdonald learn
ed the news over the telephone be-
fore breakfast and left for Edinburg
shortly afterwards on a private visit,
obviously greatly relieved man.
j. Bromley, leader of the striking
locomotive engineers and fremen,
said after the conference broke up:
"The terms reached were most
satisfactory. The men will return to
work Immediately"
Another strike official said the
service would be back to normal by
night.
The strike lasted just eight days.
The men went out on the night of
the 10th, after negotiations failed.
The strike was timed to coincide
with wage reductions authorized by
the national wage board, to which
engineers and firemen objected.
The walkout affected some 10000
men, traffic was tied up on some lines
and ran disjointedly and spasmodic-
ally on others; there was some vio-
lenee in Scotland but no casualties:
motor lorries and airplanes were
used in great numbers to relieve the
situation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30
SWEET CHARITY

Cleveland has just finished its drive
for $4,000, 100000 for the filling of its
charity chest, to meet the needs of its
destitute citizens for the coming year.
he papers are full Of slush about the
,or, and how the "big-hearted cor
porations" are donating thousands of
dollars to relieve the suffering of
these unfortunates.
Alongside Of the story of the starv-
ing workers is the statement that the
American Steel pays an extra divi-
dend Of LID per cent on its stock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30
French LegiOIlS
Dominate Europe
But Franc Drops

PARIS-France has taken the
position formerly occupied by Ger.
many in Europe. The legions of
France are now superior in numbers
and efficiency to the armed hosts
Of the Kaiser before the fatal Au-
gust day in 1914, when the goose
step Of Wilhelm's army corps shook
Europe.
In spite of a declining birth rate,
France hopes to maintain her present
military hegemony by military ALI
ances all the way from Belgium in
Western Europe to Poland in Eastern
Europe.
The only fly in the French ONT.
ment just now is the Franc. It i:
falling steadily and while not yet a
vaudeville joke like the mark its con.
dition is serious enough to warrant
calling in the financial doctors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30
Welcome the Daily
Worker Distributed
at Public Schools

Members Of the Young Workers
League, in cooperation with The
DAILY WORKER, are distribut-
ing copies of The DAILY WORK
Err at various schools in Chicago.
Sam Green, who is in charge Of
the work for the Y. w. L., reports
that both the older children ac
the schools and their parents are
very much interested in the arti-
cles ON the schools.
In South Chicago, near the
Thorp school, Green says the par
ents to whom he gave The DAILY
WORKER praised its courage in
exposing the school conditions and
the point Of view of the articles.
Many of the people to whom lle
gave the papers asked where they
could get copies regularly so as
- be able to follow the articles
from day to day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30
Send in Your News

Tho Daily Worker urges all
members Of the party to send In
the news of their various see-
tions. Every Party Branch should
appoint its own correspondent and
make him responsible for tho news
that ought TO be sent in to The
Daily Worker. The Party Page
should be the Invest page in The
Daily Worker. Help make II go
Address all mail TO the Editor, The
Daily Worker, 1910 N. Halstsd
ST.. Chicago, III.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30
The Den of ThieUes

New York judge waxed indignant in SEN
fencing the head of one of the metropolitan
bucketing firms. This wizard of finance was
given sentence of from six months to three
years in the penitentiary Judging from our
experiences with such sentences on the sons
of the wealthy, we are sure that this will be a
maximum sentence of six months
What was the crime of this "bucketeer"?
In the judges charge we find rather inter
estlng explanation. At one juncture the Judge
explained: This mans firm operated bucket
shops, and they were dens of thievery! Pitt
able stories have been told me by customers.
some of whom have been widows who lost ali
they had. cannot overlook what has been
going on in Wall Street. / believe the place
is rotten to the core"
This is rather strange. We have always
been told that Wall Street was the sanctum
sanctorum of individual initiative, of capital
ist success, of the greatest achievements of
American enterprise. Why this complete right
about face? When does success become sim
ister?
The trouble is just this: Rabiner got caught.
If Rabiner had not been caught, his activities
would not be sinister. The Judge would not
have said word about the poor widows who
were losing every cent in their efforts to reap
to fruits of individual enterprise If Mr..
Rabiner had succeeded in escaping for num-
Der of years longer, who knows what he might
have been given the job of Secretary Of United
States Treasury. There Is nothing that sue
cseds like success-especially in Wall Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30

windows and has the most modern
system of indirect lighting.
The school ashes and garbage are
piled up in the playground next TO
one of the entrances. The club has its
garbage taken from an alley in the
rear, far away from the entrance
where the members pass. The club
has fine library; the school has
none.
The people who belong to the club
are rich, the kids who 60 to the
Moseley school are the kids of the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30

Just as helpful suggestion TO members Of
what will 60 down in history as the Teapot
cabinet" we quote the following from one OF
George AIDES Fables in Slang:
'@Onc time investig ating committee
was about to Get Something On Him for
Dallying with the Pro6tsers, but he
Deemed Fresh White Tie and made a
speech about Our Heroic Dead on Hum
dred Bsttle6elds and most everyone said
that such Thundsrous Patriot could NOT
pnesfbIy b Cros'-" - '-|-''-- - + : -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30

Now is the time for admirers of President
Coolidge to dig up his articles on the menace
Of radicalism In our schools and colleges to
prove that he could not have been connected
In any discreditsbls manner with the theft of
the naval oil reserves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30
Work Daily for eth. DaiIyrs
What Will They Do Nonf

LINCOLN, Neb.-President A. A.
Murphree Of the University Of Flor
ida, William jennings Bryan's can
didate for president, does not agree
with the commoner that principles Of
evolution should not be taught in
institutions of learning, according to
letter received by Chancellor Az
cry Of Nebraska university from
four professors at the University Of
Florida.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-The in
junction sought by the government to
restrain the New York coffee and
sugar exchange from speculative
dealings in futures which was re-
fused by the federal court in New
Yonk, was also refused by the SUI
preme court today.
In appealing to the supreme
court, the attorney general charged
that an "orgy of speculation in raw
sugar from February to April, 1923
resulted in the artificial increase in
the price of sugar from 1886 to
$5.97 per hundred pounds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30

WASHINGTON, Jan. ga bill
authorizing acceptance of the offer
for Muscle Shoals made by the Ala
bama Power company and its asso-
ciates, was introduced in the house
today by Representative Hull, Iowa,
leading opponent Of the bid for the
project made by Henry Ford.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30

Z. of N. Students
ShOW Y aLue of
Higher Education

MISSOULA, Mont. = Three Uni
versity Of Montana students today
confessed that they framed the hold
up Of the Missoula Postofiice, in which
they obtained more than $4,000, it
was announced by police, They are
Robert A. Hetter, Boston; Robert
Quackter, Butte, and Bernard A.
Quesnell, Kalispell, Mont.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-30

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Almost any one of the rooms in
the club would make two Of the
school rooms. The school has 81
teachers, the club has nearly hun
bred servants. The school has poor
Light, the club u well equipped with
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-10-24
Uncharted Rocks Are
Terror to Mariners

Uncharted rocks and islands of the
sea have mysterious ways of lodging
and befooling mapmakers Some
times they are dangerous.
One of the worst, Lamb rock, was
found about thirty years ago coming
straight up to the surface In water
200 feet deep. 1t was like cathe-
middle Of the Canadian liner lane into
the st. Lawrence river. In calm
weather its tip was 33 feet below the
surface. This is a bare margin Of
safety, but in rough weather the rock
was a lurking peril to any big ship
that might come along.
The Ayocet rock, In the southern
end of the Red sea, also stands In the
middle of the steamer lane to India.
The steamer Avocet struck 1t and sank
in 1O4 fathems. 1t looked like pure
carelessness on the part of the cap
tain.
The British vessel Flying Fish was
sent to investigate. 1t could ind no
trace of any rock. Then another ship,
the Teddington. sank at the same
place. Another British vessel went to
investigate, and 1t, too, could find moth
ing. Then a third vessel nosed about
In the vicinity for six weeks with
equal i'll success.
Finally a. NJ. s. Stork made an in
vestigation and located the rock only
three hundred yards from the place
where one of It's predecessors had an
chored. The rock was covered by a
bare fifteen feet of water at low tide
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-10-24
Bible Thoughts For This Week

SUNDAY-Fear Thou Not: for i am
with thee; be not dismayed; for / am
thy God: | will help thee; yea, will
uphold thee with the right hand of my
|rightousness.-Isaiah ALTO.
MoNDAY-Happy is He That Con.
d emneth not himself in that thing
which he alloweth.- Romans 14:22.
TUEsDAY-How Excellent is thy low
| ingkindness, o, Godi therefore the
children of men put their trust under
the shadow of thy wings They shall be
alb undantly satisfied with the fairness
| of thy house; and thou shalt make
tn EN- drink of the river of thy pleas
Iures.-Psalm 36:7.8.
WEDNESDAY, Am The Way, The
truth, and the life.-John 14.6.
THURsDAY-In The Beginning Was
the Word, and the Word was with God.
All things were made by him; and
without him was nothing made that
was made.-John 1:1,I3.
FRIDAY-Love Not The World, Meth.
er the things that are in the world. II
any man love the world, the love oil
the Father is not in him. John 2:15.
SATURDAY-Thou Shall Love The
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy strength, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind: and thy
neighbor as myself. This do and thou
shalt live.-Luke 1927. Is.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-10-24
Mongolias Wild Dogs
Fiercer Than Wolues

The Mongols believe when persons
are about to die that evil spirits en-
ter the body, according to Mr.. Roy
Chapman, leader of the American Mu-
scum Asiatic expedition
The bodies, once death has occurred,
are placed on carts, driven over the
toughest possible ground, and during
the Journey thrown off, to be deyoured
by wild dogs. These dogs are doubt
less the fercest creatures in the world.
They are indeed terrible, and were a;
constant menace to the lives Of the
members of the expedition.
No member, said Mr.. Chapman, went
out Of the camp unless armed with re-
volyer and knife. No one in Urga,
the Monaghan capital. dares to
go through the meat market at night.
They would be seized and killed with
in minute If they yentured to do so.
The members of the expedition on at
least three occasions came within an
ace Of death from these animals.
Prof. Charles J. Berky, the chief geolo-
gist, was attacked on the first occa-
sion by three dogs, and would have
been killed had he not had his revolver
handy. He killed the leading dog and
wounded the other two, but they still
leaped to the attack.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-10-24
George Meredith Ordered
All Manuscripts Burned

George Meredith placed no value
whatsoever on the manuscripts OF his
novels. Once when he said 30 to Miss
Nichol she answered teasingly that 1t
was mock modesty on his part to sar
such thing.
To this Meredith merely gave her
an instruction: to make a bonfire OF
manuscripts at the end Of the garden
"And he was set on It too,1 she
told IN.
But" she pleaded. "can't ] have
soma Of them as keepsakes?"
YES" he answered careiessly.
take whichever you like"
She selected several Of the precious
documents-single sheets on which he
had written out his short poems. Miss
Niehol led Mr.. Brooks and me down in
to the vegetable garden, and there,
black little heap Of ashes, lay al that
remained Of manuscripts worth who
knows how much Prom Forty Years
n Ny Beookahspp bx Naitas =
NGQeeE. -
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-10-24
Surveying the Seas

Plans for the most complete survey
of the ocean ever attempted have been
inaugurated by conference repre-
senting scientific branches of the Unit
ed States government and allied insti-
tutions.
One or more ships will be fitted OUT
with a complete laboratory and
equipped with the latest scientific ap
paratus for the first cruise. The sea
bottom will not only be mapped, but
the composition Of the water, it.
density, temperature, and current,
which affect the distribution Of MA
rine plant and animal life, will b,
studied at all depths.
Five-sevenths Of the surface OF thu
earth is covered by water. This waite
area can produce more food than al
the land can ever be made to yield
and one of the purposes Of the eXpedi
zion will be TO take an inventory o
such food possibilities
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-10-24
Men of Golden Pens
Made for Each Other

In the summer of 1889 Mark Twain
and Rudyard Kipling first met. Kip
ling, who had just begun to make his
name known, was touring the world.
and during the trip through the
United States they went to Elmira es-
pecially to see Mark Twain. The &C
count of the visit and interview Is
described by Mark Twain as follows:
Kipling spent couple Of hours with
me, and at the end Of that time I
had surprised him as much as he had
surprised me-and the honors were
even. I believe that he knew more
than any person had ever met be-
fore, and I knew that he knew that
knew less than any person he had
ever met before-thOugh he did not
say IT, and was not expecting that he
wouId--he is a most remarkable man
and I am the other one. Be
tween us we cover all knowledge; he
knows all that can be known, and I
know the rest"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-10-24
Farm For Rent

| desire to rent, on the shares, my
valuable farm situated one and one
half miles west of Saumsville.
The same contains sixty acres (6O) of
farming land and fifty-four acres of
Mountain land.
desire man having a practica
knowledge of fruit growing, as have
twelve az acres of orchard and lot
of small fruit.
Land is Of good quality and well Sc
in clover and alfalfa. All the out
buildings are good. Renterget new
seven ca room house.
Any person applying must give
references and should have help in his
family. Under certain conditions, I
would consider hiring by the year.
VIII furnish necessary equipment to
operate the farm. For terms apply 70
JOHN w. GOCHENOUR,
Box 66. Route 1, Maurertown, va,
Oct. 10. It.