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

THERE ere two ways in which
i you can snub this petty civill-
cation: -
One is to commit suicide; the
other is to create revolution.
Life insurance companies are IN
a bad way because Of the great
number of suicides. During 1873
claims of $1,3O0,000 were paid for
people who had decided that hell
could be no worse than this capital
ist earth. This is $4,000 more
than was paid for lives lost in
automobile accidents for the same
period.
One peculiar fact looms up on the
horizon of civilizations drift. There
has been steady falling off IN the
rate of suicide since the beginning
of August, 1914. This alleged de-
crease is laid at Jhe door of the
war. It has also become a forceful
argument in favor of war.
Listen: Also weep bit:
If you want to die and go To
heaven before God decides that your
time has come, the handiest thing
in the world to have around is a
good Christian war, and then you
can 20 right into the front rank
and be almost certain of a speedy
death, accompanied by a secure
cinch on a reserved seat at the
angels concert.
That beats the clumsy rope route
all hollow, which nine times out Of
ten ends at the entrance TO the Goa
shovelers' scab gang where there II
no pay for overtime and where th'
devil Is the boss, and where the Vol
sted Act covers everything from
light wines 10 rain water, anC
where prohibition agents have haC
to go out Of business because Of {
shortage in liquids.
And here people have called wal
sinful when as a matter Of fact II
has saved thousands of well-mean
ing prospective suicides from hel
and landed them in the ranks o.
heroes that have come thru th'
beautiful valley Of slaughter ant
washed their robes and made then
white in the blood Of the slaves.
It appears of late. however, thai
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04

there is a tendency toward an IN
crease in the rate of suicides. But
that can be explained.
If people want to die and can find
no war to get killed in, what can
they do? If they cannot get the
profiteers to accommodate them by
shooting them down on the battle
field, they are simply compelled to
do the job in the less artistic man
ner, for to endure the blessings of
present prosperity showered upon us
by our benevolent capitalism seems
to be out Of the question.
Yet, you may be one of these I'M
godly blasphemers who think that if
this earth was run right it would
be a mighty nice place to live in.
You have the effrontery to deny that
poverty and hunger and slavery and
suffering and dirty tenements and
ragged clothes and child labor and
woman's cebasement and mans deg
radiation are necessary to keep a
sinful race humble before God. You
come out IN open rebellion against
our most sacred institutions You
want to eliminate the very founda-
ton of Christianity and make people
happy in this world when it will
clearly be seen that by so doing
you rob them of the humble longing
for the mansions in the sky.
You come along ARD take away
from the people the very desire to
die and give them an inspiration to
live. By doing this you steal from
the masses the thought of suicide
and openly undermine the sacred
mission Of war which has proven so
successful in claiming the loyal
slaves from self-destruction, by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04
By ALFRED KNUTSON

cattle, the banker had to be called
upon for advice and such thing as
getting loans from the banks, even
the smallest, without giving details
as to what the money was to be used
for, was absolutely unthinkable. 1t
was considered a great effrontery to
this supposedly unselfish "benefac-
tor" of the farmer if the information
asked for was not gladly and cheer
fully given.
New Viewpoint.
But what is the situation today?
Owing to the economic crisis in agri-
culture a great change has come
about in the psychology of the farmer
towards his small town dictators. To
be sure, he is still dictated to by the
same dictatorship, but what a colIos
sal difference there is in his attitude
towards his petty mastersl No longer
does he cringe and fawn at the feet
of the banker and the lawyer every
time he asks. for a flavor" He has
begun to assert his rights and indie
pendence and is convinced that he
and not the banker or the lawyers is
the useful member in society.
When it is suggested to the farmer
that the town dictatorship ought to
be composed of farmers and workers
instead of lawyers and bankers, he
mods his head approvingly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04
C. p. p. "A. Fears June IL

ITndaunted by the uncovering of McAdoo
as a tool of big capital the Conference lor
Progressive Political Action continues the
noble work of digging up Lincoln republicans
and Jeffersonian democrats and oHerlng theili
as candidates of labor following the Chicago
endorsement of McAdoo by the Union neaos
who compose the c. P. ?. A.
Its official organ, Labor" is almost terri
fed bv the possibility that the June IL con-
ference of Farmer-Labor parties and groups
to be held in St. Paul, will adopt platform
so radical that Senator LaFollette VIII De
greatly hampered in his appeal to the elec-
forate. 1T is doubtful if the c. P. P. A. would
view the June II conference with such lear
and trembling if it had a clear idea OF the
forces that are at work in this eventful
neriod It's admission that it believes that La
Toilette should be allowed to dictate plat
form for the working masses OF this country TO
support shows that despite its trade union
complexion the c.. P. p. A. is without any
real workingclass character. 1t does not want
a mass movement of workers and farmers es-
tablished in the United States for the simple
reason that sooner or later this kind of
movement would reject all middleclass leader
ship.
Labor oficialdom of the United States can
function only in a middleclass mlleu; 1t can
not lead a class political movement and IT
knows it. 1t wants quiet, respectable tlmld
movement that puts us TRUST III lawyers anu
liberal politicians with whom labor otticlaldom
feels at home and with whom it can enter into
those quiet little deals that bring so much
pleasure, and sometimes profit, to labor
leader.
The increased possibility of the success OF a
LaFolette campaign has made the {. Z. T. A
more reactionary; it scents the fieshpots and
it wants no one antagonized but the reds who,
of course do not count in its scheme OF things
It is a little hard to understand the frame
of mind of labor union officials who would
sacrifice a mass political party of workers and
farmers, carrying the struggle to American
capitalism, in the interests of any politician or
group of politicians, but this is what the
G. P. P. A. intends to do and will do unless
the advanced elements in organizations OF the
workers and farmers are on the job from now
until June II.
The number of votes cast for LaFollette will
be at best only barometer of the resentment
against the parties of capitalism. Unless this
sentiment is crystallized into functioning
organization, controlled by workers and farm
ers, so far as these two groups are concerned,
no progress will have been made.
June II is workingclass date and its de-
cisions will be those of workingclass gath
ering.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04
The Story of John Brown .

mainly. He could not fail, he
felt; success or failure would
achieve the same results. Events
proved that he was right.
Lecturing in New England.
John Brown spenS tnat winter
and spring in New England, CIV
ing occasional lectures and meet
ing all the leading men of the Abol-
ition movement, who collected
money for him, tho he did not
fully reveal his plans to anyone.
George l.. Stearns, Gerrit Smith,
the philanthropist; Frank B. San
born, the concord school master
and author; Thomas Wentworth
Higginson, brave, noble COM
mander in the Civil War, and a
charming man of letters after
ward; Theodore Parker, enc of the
greatest and most sincere Chris
tian clergymen produced in Amer
lea; Samuel G. Howe, and others
were among John Browns sup
porters. Thoreau and Emerson
he also met at various times, and
both were passionate admirers of
the stern, pure soldier of liberty.
While their Captain was gath
ering arms and money for the
raid, some # Browns men were
ouartered in a farmhouse near
Harper's Ferry, while others were
studying the region, and mapping
out routes fer the attack and the
retreat to the hills.
'Men, Get Your Gunsw
It was a cool fall night, the 10th
of October, 1859, when Captain
John Brown gave the command his
men had been impa&ently await
ing for months: ''Men, get your
guns; we will proceed to the
Ferry" Says Mr.. Willard, at
times an eloquent chronicler:
at took but a minute to bring
the horse and wagon to the door,
to place in it some pixies, fagots,
a sledge hammer ln1 "a crow bar.
The men had been in readiness
for hours; they had but to buckle
on their arms and TN ow over
their shoulders, like army blank
cts, the long gray shawls which
served some for q few brief hours
in lieu Of overcoats, and then
became their winding sheets. In
a moment more, the commander
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04

in-chief donned his old kattle-worn
Kansas cap, mounted the wagon,
and began The solemn march thru
the chill night to the bridge into
Harper's Ferry, nearly six miles
away.
Tremendous as the relief of
action was, there was no thought
of cheering or demonstration. AS
the eighteen men with John
Brown swung down the little lane
to the road from the farm house
that had been their prison for 50
many weary weeks, they babe
farewell to Captain Owen Brown,
and Privates Barclay Coppoc and
F. J. Merriam, who remained as
rear guard in charge of the arms
and supplies. The brothers Coppoc
read the future correctly, for they
embraced and parted as men do
who know they are to meet no
more on earth. The damp, lonely
night, too, added 10 the solemnity
of it all, as they passed thru it's
gloom. AS if to intensity the
sombreness, they met not living
soul on che road to question their
purpose, or to start with fright
at the sight of eighteen sold;erly
men coming two by two thru the
darkness as tho risen from the
grave.
Plans Well-Laid.
"There was not a sound but the
tramping Of the men and the
creaking CT the wagon, before
which, in accordance with a gen.
eral order, drawn up and carefully
read to all, walked Captains Cook
and Tidd, their Sharr's rifles
hung from their shoulders, their
commission, duly signed by John
Brown, and officially sealed, in
their pockets. They were detailed
to destroy the telegraph wire on
the Maryland side, and then on the
Virginian, while Captains John H.
Kagi and Aaron d. Stevens, brav-
est of the brave, were to take he
bridge wauchman and so strike
the first blow for liberty. But as
they and their comrades marched
RAPIDLY over the rough road,
Death himself moved by their
side"
ITO Be Continued Saturday,
(The Arsenal Is CaPtured.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04

This is "The Story Of John
Brown" by Michael Gold. Pub
lished by the DAILY WORKER
thru arrangement with Haldeman-
Julius Company, of Girard, Kans.
Copyrighted, 1924, by Haldeman-
Julius Company.
The Eve of the Tragedy.
r Ohm BROWN was now fifty
} nine years old, and in the last
year of his life. He had been
disciplined in a terrible school in
Kansas, hut what he was about
to attempt seemed SC mad, so
reckless, and so suicidally brave
that many men Of the South
claimed, after the attempt, that
he was but an insane man, and
many Of his conservative friends
chose to take this view of the
case, also.
Browns Program of Action.
Yet John Brown was not insane.
Coolly, nationally, like a clear
headed strategist, ne had figured
out the situation. He was an
Abolitionist, and was determined
to do anything to end the brutal
slave system. Peaceful agitation
had been going on for decades, but
the North was still apathetic, and
the South was only more infiam-
ed and settled in its ideas.
What John Brown felt was
needed now, was to make the men
of the North and the South realize
that there would be no peace in
the land while slavery endured.
What they must see was that men
like himself would rise to break
that loathsome peace. He would
go to the South, capture the
arsenal at Harper's Ferry, in Vir-
ginia, and run off all the slaves
he could find. He would take the
hills about the Ferry, and with
guerilla band move thru the coun-
tryside, making slavery shaky
institution.
If he failed, he could but lose
his life. He would at least stir
the nation on the issue of slavery,
and force men to take sides. There
was too much neutrality and 81
lence in the land on this issue,
this institution that to him was a
bloody crime against God and hui
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04

The hopeless condition of the wheat market
is of two-fold inestimable significance. For
one thing it reflects the international character
of capitalist production. Furthermore, it
shows the utter powerlessness of employing
class government manipulation in all its half
hearted attempts to alleviate the distress of
those farmers engaged in producing world
commodity.
Our wheat market is smashed. New lows
are the features of the daily wheat price
columns in the financial sheets. Every capital
list remedy has proved to be fat failure.
Tariff increase, bankers junketing trips of
investigation, and senatorial peace cruises in
President Coolidge's royal yacht on the Poto-
mac haven't helped the farmer an iota. Every
one of these quack solutions is today anathema
to the agricultural masses of the wheat belt.
Wheat is a world commodity. It's price is
not determined by the wire-pullers of the
White House but by the conditions of the world
market. Wheat is not like cream, cheese or
buttermilk which are commodities primarily
of the local market and, therefore, often fit
material for capitalist reform manipulations.
Liverpool is the center of the worlds wheat
market. Here the pulse of wheat prices is
found and controlled. The Chicago wheat pit,
more or less, echoes the noise of the wheat
dealers in Liverpool.
In the eight months since last July Amer
compared with 207, 978, 900 bushels exported
in the corresponding period of the preceding
year. The reason for this sharp drop is OBJ
vious. Canada, Australia, Argentina, and the
European countries outside of Soviet Russia
have had much larger crop available for the
world market this year. The collapse of our
domestic wheat market is brought about by
this world condition.
1t becomes plain that the salvation of the
American wheat farmer, as well as the re-
demption of every suffering producer of other
world commodities, depends on complete,
fundamental International reorganization of
the worlds system of production and ex-
change. Capitalism cannot achieve this neces-
sary, basic reorganization, because that would
mean its total oblteration in favor of Com
munist system of industry. Hence, in order to
save themselves from utter ruin, the poor
wheat farmers must pitch in their lot with
those forces of every country in the world
fighting for a thorogoing overhauling of the
present system of capitalist production and
exchange. For the farmers and producers of
basic commodities ever again to look for relief
in the fraudulent legislation measures of cap
italist government agents is the height of folly.
The source of the evil of the disaster is
international in scope. The remedy against
the distress must, therefore, be international
in scope. From day to day it becomes palmer
that there is but one way out of the present
misery for the workers and farmers of the
United States, as well as every other country
in the world That way is to line up in the
international struggle against world capitalism
against the rule by the class of world bankers
and manufacturers, led by the Communist
international.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04
Stumbling Our Civilization

letting them get killed in the proper
patriotic way.
The workers are awfully migrate
full and uppish these. days. They
turn up their noses at our pretty
civilization and snub it--some by
committing suicide and others by
starting a revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04
Help For the Dolla Family

finished reading
Tppett small helping
family will
that would be doing
this until his family is taken
should be- The least of uwho the oude-an do is
without and
small matter to most Of us-wlsm Davy. Cleveland
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04

ALTON, H., April 3.--Lawyers
here met and found they were charg-
ing as low as $40 for divorce, and
forthwith set the rate for getting
happily unmarried: $50 IL uncon.
tested, 500 up II contested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04

John Fitzpatrick sees no contradiction be-
tween the resolution of the Cook County Farmer
Labor Party urging the workers to keep away
from the democratic and republican primaries
and his action in urging the workers to support
Small. Fitzpatrick is prominent member of
the Cook County Farmer-Labor Party "The
action is perfectly logical declared Mr.. Fitz-
patrick to DAILY WORKER reporter. Any
body who can see where the logic comes in is
fully qualified for rest in the Coolidge cabinet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

(0ld. lame. and full Of booEe);
Them good old days when was ne
Is gone. Now can't make no hit.
Nobody loves me, that's a fact,
Everybody thinks I'm . little crack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04

A legion commander speaking in California
recently declared that in the years to come the
American Legion would rule this country. If
that day ever comes all roads to hell will be
jammed with human traffic, on the road to COM
parative peace in the Internal regions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04
Washington Jingles

SILENT CAL COOLIDGE,
Say IoOkit here. Harry DAuEherty
know you've got the goods on me
Now why the hell don't you resign?
II you did that 1t would be fine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04
A MILLIoNAIREs

Suppose I give . little loan.
I'm absolute sure Il won't be known.
IL amt expensive as I thot.
Oh sure the government kin be bought.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04
WILLIAM ]. BURNS

WILLIAM J. BURNS
Ito the Senate Investigation Committed {.
The Reds is the guys I INVESTIGATES;
amt no crook. I'm damn good skate.
And say cut out that foolish stuff.
You know with me you can't get rough.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04

The rest Of Marvin's talk is not
interesting. The Communists would
be mighty glad however, IL they only
had as many papers, billions Of gold
rubles and hundreds Of organizations
as Marvin says they have with which
to capture this Teapot Dome govern
ment, GUST the parasites and establish
a form Of government that would
serve the interests Of the producers
who build up the wealth of this coun-
try that is gobbled by the plumber
bund and wasted in riotous living
and in payment for services rendered
by political hangerson like Marvin.
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WANTED TO RENT
WANTED-Young girl desiring
board and room with young mar
ried couple. Modern home, close
in, Call 32C-J, l1-6-1W
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE
FORECLOSURES SALE

Notice is hereby given that that
certain mortgage executed and de-
livered by J. NJ. Berthlof and Jennie
Betthlof, his wife, Mortgagors, to
Peters and Company, a. Corpora.
ton, Mortgage, dated the 9Th day
Of November, 1918 and filed for re.
cord in the office of the Register
Of Deeds Of the County Of Burleigh,
and State. Of North Dakota on the
Both day Of November, 1918 at 2:4O
o'clock p. NJ, and recorded in Book
15l Of Mortgages. at page a42, and
assigned by written instrument to
F. B. Mcneil, dated the 11ta day
Of December, 1918 and filed for re-
cord in the office Of the Register
Of Deeds of the County of Burleigh
and State Of North Dakota on the
goth day Of December, 1918 at 900
o'clock a. NJ, and recorded in Book
ISL Of Mortgages, at page 52A will
be foreclosed by sale of the pre-
misses in said mortgage and herein
after described, at the front door
Of the Court House in the City Of
Bismarck, County of Burleigh and
State of North Dakota at the hour
of ten o'clock A. NJ, on the 26th
day Of November, 1924 to satisfy
the amount due upon said mortgage
at the date of sale. The premises
described in said mortgage and
which will be sold to satisfy the
same are described as follows: The
Southeast Quarter (SEA) of Section
Thirty Four (34) in Township One
Hundred Forty One (141) North Of
Range Seventy Six (76) West of the
Fifth Principal Meridian, Burleigh
nj
Notice Of intention to foreclose
said mortgage having been duly
served as provided by law there will
be due at the date OF sale the sum
Of Ten Hundred Forty Eight
($l04S.00) Dollars together with the
statutory attorneys fees and dis
bursements allowed by law.
Dated October 18th, 1924.
F.. B. MCNEIL,
Assignee.
f. A. RIPLEY,
Attorney for Assignee,
Mandan,. (, North Dakota.
(10-17-24.31-11-7-14-21)
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You Poor Kid, Why
Are You So Skinny?

Don't your mother know that Cod
Liver Oil will put pounds Of good
healthy flesh on your bones in just
few weeks? t
Tell her every druggist has it in
sugar coated tablet form now so that
you won't have to take the nasty,
fishytasting oil that is apt to upset
the stomach.
Tell her that McCoy's Cod Liver
Oil Tablets are chock-full of vita
mines and are the greatest flesh pro-
ducers and health builders she can
find.
One sickly, thin kid. aged 9, gain
ed II pounds in months.
She must ask and good
druggist for McCoy's Cod Liver Oil
Tablets-60 tablets, 60 cents-as
pleasant to take as candy.
"Get McCoy's, the original and
genuine Cod Liver Oil Tablet"
Finncy Drug Co., Cowan Drug Co.,
A. +. Lenhart Drug Co. Adv
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SALE OF LAND

Notice Is Hereby Given, That un-
der. authority. Of an Order of Sale
granted by tho Honorable !. G.
Davies, Judge Of the County Court
of the County of .Rurleieh, in the
State Of North Dakota, dated the
22nd day Of Oct. A. p. 1924, the un-
dersigned. the administrator Of the
estate of Windsor B. Heatun, late
of the town Of Arena in the County
of Rurleigh and State Of North Da-
kota, Deceased, will sell at private
sale to the highest bidder, for cash
Or subject 70. CONFIRMATION BY the
Judge Of said County Court, the fol-
lowing described land, to-wit:
- Lot six 90 in Block three,
(3) Original Tswnsite Of Arena
in Burieigh County. North Da-
kota.
The sale will be made on or after
the 18th day Of November A. d. 1924.
All bids must be in writing and may
be left at the office of +. F.. McCur-
dy or filed with the judge Of said
County Court; or delivered to the
undersigned personally.
L. E. HEATON,
Administrator Of the estate Of
Windsor p. HeatoH. Deceased.
4 DAted October q, 4 2. 1924.
y ..ss.'s. $50 !, 10-2t-31-1li7sl4
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MARKET y ( NEWS
4 re,Markets BY IN
Associated Press y
WHEAT RISES
BARLYT0D[AY
Fresh Upturns Made on Liv-
erpool Quotations

Chicago, Nov. Reports of UNI
favorable crop conditions, both in
Argentina and Australia, together
with much higher quotations at Liv-
erpool, led to fresh upturns here in
wheat early today. Chicago OPEN
ing prices which varied from lsc
decline to lhc advance, December
$l.47ss to $l.48 and May $1.53 to 1ac
were followed by material gains all
around.
Subsequently the market contin-
ued to rise, notwithstanding big
profit taking sales. Wheat closed
strong Fac to 31sc net higher, De-
cember $l.O5 to $1.50.s and May
$l.65h to $l.55as.