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went right up to it and touched its
chill inmohile contourS

went right up to it and touched its
chill, immobile contours.
The clap-clap of stumbling wood
en- shoes sounded with a dreadful
loudness. Sidonia drew a step
away from the cross and faced the
human sound. The, pallor of the
shift that clad her from throat to
ankles showed ghostly, for the
cloak had opened. There was a
faint scream. The clap-clap of the
clumsy shoes quickened. They slip
ped and clattered-they were try
ing to run. Gradually the noise
faded into the muffling night.
AS the frosty, lifeless silence
settled back Sidonia drew the vel
vet cloak about her. She was so
exhausted that she could have lain
down where she was, on the little
platform of the Calvary to which
a couple of steps led up. Every
thing-within, without-was black
and cold. Her feet were numb;
there was no feeling in them. But
her heart was no longer numb, and
III neT HllSeiy neI eyes pIIiilIneu
with tears. "Gervais, Gervais"
her spirit whimpered. 1t was fin
ished, everything was finished. She
put up her hands to her face and
sobbed like a child whose one toy
was broken. Nothing stirred. Moth
ing approached her. After some
time had pass.d she went down
two steps before the Calvary and
began to cross the dim space of
cobblestones upon which the
mouths of several lane-like streets
opened. In all the world there was
no place for her save her mothers
laif and that only until the hue
and cry should start, as it must
now. But the loft above the yard
pertaining to the Thieves Kitchen
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New Discoveries About Our Cave-Men Ancestors

II is clean enough now, sterilized
by the centuries, but how these I'M
ventilated, sunless caves must have
reeked in those ancient days. 1t
is said that among savage tribes,
even of today, these is a tribal
smell BY which tribe member
can be identified by other men,
bers. 1t is easy to believe that
those who inhabited one of those
caverns might become stepped in
a distinctive odor that could well
be recognized at some distance.
Psychologists of today bless the
cave-woman for her slovenly
habits, because in the clutter at her
feet she, her husband and the
children were continually losing
things which no doubt caused the
caverns to ring with prehistoric
curses. In these black pockets of
the earth, lit only by the feeble
rays of something like the Eskimo's
blubber lamp, perhaps reinforced
occasionally for a moment by the
blaze of a pine knot or of a CATO
nine-tails dipped in bear grease,
small objects once lost were likely
to be gone forever, or, rather, until
the excavator digs them up to-
day.
For quantity production, how
ever, the caves are not to be COM
pared with the open sites. At
Predmost, under the item of man.
moths, nearly 1000 backbones
have been found and their YER
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must have studied the mental proc
esses of the mammoth, who GER
tainly was no fool, until he could
think like a mammoth. 1t was not
enough to dig a pit in the great
avenues which these laundering
beasts made for themselves
through the vegetation, for they,
no doubt, watched their steps as
shrewdly as the modern elephant.
That pit had to be placed out
side of the runs" so that the
beasts would not find the trap be-
fore the drive was ready and make
a mental note to avoid it. At the
last minute it was necessary to
place an obstruction in the run,
and so locate the pit that by just
the right maneuvering of the
bowling and spear-hunting tribe,
the mammoth would be induced to
plunge from his beaten path at
just the right place to crash into
the pit before he had had time to
test its flimsy covering. This
called for high grade observation
and reasoning.
His weapons, crude though they
look, were the result of as high in
ventive genius as that of Edison or
Marconi, because ancient man had
no machine shop and nobody to
guide him. A very stupid person
can be fought the use an axe or a
knife, but it took a genius to in
vent and fashion the first axe and
bone knife.
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acteristics are brought out most
wildly in the remarkable photo
graphs of skeletons and skulls
which Professor Absolon has taken
so skillfully with his specially
mounted camera.
This means that the Predmost
man and woman of 10000 years
ago was as intelligent as we are
now. Some people confuse ignor-
ance with lack of intelligence,
which is quite a different thing.
An unintelligent person must for
ever be ignorant, because his fee
BILE brain cannot hold much knowl-
edge, even if all the college presi-
dents in the world concentrated on
trying to teach him. An intelligent
man may remain in ignorance of
certain things, such as reading and
writing, because he has not had the
opportunity to learn, but his mind
is certain to be full of other knowl-
edge gained from experience.
The Predmost man was intelli-
gent and his head was packed full
of knowledge of the day. Further
more, he had to think much more
than the man of our time, who can
get along very well, having all his
thinking done for him. The man
who took a spear and fought with
a twelve-foot bear had to think
fast and think right the first time.
The primitive hunter had to
know more about the big animals
than any hunter of today. He
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drew up her knees, for as she lay
on her side on the thin litter of
straw her naked feet had been in
contact with a broken crock where
in bundles of dried herbs were
kept. The velvet cloak was over
her. A feeble, ash-gray twilight
struggled with dusk beneath the
rafters of the loft. There was no
comfort in the fetid air for the
charcoal hearth was fireless.
The girl raised herself, drawing
her numbed feet under her. She
had slept for some hours. When,
half dead with the fatigue of de-
spair she had dragged herself up
into the loft, all had been black
and silent. But that was nothing.
She had found her bed of straw,
huddled herself in the rich cloak,
shivered, lost consciousness and
dreamed. Now it was morning.
The dim mound that was her
mother was a motionless, low hum
mock in the shadows. Neither of
the cats were visible. Charcoal
ash lay thick on the cold hearth.
Without particularly seeing any
thing Sidonia contemplated all that
there was to see, much as a per-
son in a condemned cell waking in
the grayness of his last dawn,
might regard his surroundings.
She had come to an ending.
Through spells and magic Gervais
was bound to her as though an
invisible chain stretched between
them, yet should she yield to the
passion of love she had induced in
him her arms would drag him
down from his high place in the
light of day down and down. She
must not! Because she loved him.
And presently, in any case, the.
hue and cry of the witch-hunt
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chamber, containing the skeletons
of 26 beavers. Their tragedy had
nothing to do. with man. Some
ancient flood had closed the mar
row passage by which they entered
that chamber, and the little herd
had suffocated or starved to death.
While the cave-man did not go
to the trouble of carrying into his
underground abode the bones of
mammoths and other large ami
mails, unless they had already been
made into implements or works of
art, the floors of the caverns are
often particularly rich in small
articles.
Though the covenants wife
looked rather modern and could
have been made quite presentable
with clothes of today, her personal
habits would not do at all. AS a
housekeeper, this mother of the
race is nothing to be proud of.
Evidently the broom had not been
invented, because it had not yet
occurred to the human race that
floors ought to be swept once in
a while. Everything broken or
discarded was tossed on the floor
and remained there until it disin-
tegrated or was buried under more
litter, so that the soil that the sci
enlist lifts with his spade today is
the decayed, fossilized remains of
what Mrs. Cavewoman neglected
to sweep out 10000 to 10000
years ago.
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<fC IDONIA! Sidoniap Her
name, twice uttered, was
to the girl as the cry of
the ancient Orpheus to the lost
Eurydice, the captive of Hades,
the cry of life to irrevocable death.
Her feet were not stayed, she looked
straight forward into the dark
ahead and death and night pos
sessed her heart. Behind her there
was the clatter of crossed steel;
Gervais was endeavoring to cut his
way to her through the barrier
of his fathers men. But he must
not touch her again. Never again.
She was at the turn of the gal
lery. All was black, yet not so
utterly black that she could not
take her way swiftly. She had put
out one hand that she might keep
by the wall and the tips of her
fingers brushed along the even
ness of the stone. She had no
plan, only a faith that was cold
and actual as the invisible flag
ging beneath her feet. Automatic
once more, she was borne along
without question. Her travelling
finger-tips encountered a minute
pit, the merest pockmark on the
face of the wall, and just deep
enough to receive the top of a
seeking forefinger. As at spoken
word she paused. "Press! Press"
said an unuttered voice within her,
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tebrae arranged in order like
bricks. Not all full-grown man.
moths have been disinterred, but
skeletons of the young of all ages,
babies of only few weeks, which
may have been caught alive and
kept while as pets, and even un-
born ones. From these science is
able to record the development of
the mammoth's teeth and skeleton
as accurately as of the elephant
of today. The excavator coming
upon pile of fifty mammoth back
teeth wonders what the ancient col
lector had in mind to do with his
treasure and what happened to him
that he did not do it.
The Predmost man was fine
animal, the male averaging over
six feet in height, STRAIGHTFORWARD
and well set up. Also he had Il
long, high, well-shaped head, with
room for brain fully as large as
that of the average man of to-
day. He had projecting eyebrows,
but a high forehead, a somewhat
flattened nose and large mouth
full of big stout teeth, which he
needed to stand the wear and tear
of chewing some pretty tough
foods.
The female of the species,
though much shorter, hardly aver
aging more than five feet, and
with finer features and bones,
nevertheless carried a skull almost
as large as the mans. These char
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sort of living quarters, and has
yielded hundreds of stone and bone
implements of varying degrees of
perfection, showing that it was in
habited from time to time almost
throughout the entire age. At least
the relics cover three of the main
divisions of that era, the Mouster-
ian, Aurignacian and Magdalenean.
These periods derive their names
from the localities in which the
stages of stone age culture were
first noted.
Then there is cave No. II,
which is 600 feet long and splits
into two wings with double en-
trance. Here just enough digging
has been done to prove an un-'
touched mine of ancient treasures.
Another cavern, as yet almost I'M
touched, is the Kostelik Qittle
church) and Byci Skala (bull
rocky, a huge cave in which was
found the grave of some big chief
or king.
In exploring the course of the
underground river Punkva, Prof.
Absolon found what appeared to
have once been a narrow passage,
now closed up by sand. His work
in opening up the passage was re-
warded by finding a small closed
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Discoveries like these of Profess
sor Absolon are of incalculable
practical value. BY getting an ac-
curate picture of the daily life of
our ancient ancestor we are able
to understand ourselves and learn
how to govern ourselves, which is
considered to be the greatest prob
lem confronting civilization. Three
to four thousand years ago civili-
cation was beginning in a few spots
like Egypt, but we are to-day
really that Predmost man, bathed,
shaved and covered with a paper
thin veneer of manners and civil
lied morals.
The moment there is a famine
or someone shouts Fire. at the
theatre the Predmost man, with
the momentum of 10000 years be-
hind him, breaks through. When
we thoroughly understand the man
of the Ice Age we will know how
to handle crime and prevent wars
and riots.
In the concluding chapter next
Sunday | will explain Prof. Alb
solon's interesting photographs of
the household relics recovered
from the floors of the caves and
how we are enabled to reconstruct
the family fireside scenes of our
rough but worthy ancestors of
those busy days.
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would ne raised. But they should
not take her and burn her! She
had flashing, vivid picture
thought of gloating enemy faces
of Sabine. pale and auburn and
composed; of GervaiS, restrained
by force and suffering. No! She
was not a hunted cat, a palpitating
hare! She could take her life in
her own two hands and-and fling
it away.
The heart in her young, shaken
body gave 4 throb. and then quiet
ened until it almost seemed TO
cease. Yes, death was the only
door left; she had known it last
night when the men-at-arms came
to drag her from Gervais. But
she would open it herself. This
certainly gave her feeling that
was nearly happiness. And Ger
vais loved her. A thrill shot
through her. arrowy, fire-golden.
She had pillowed his head, she had
held him between her arms. But
never again. Never. Her eyes
filled, in an instant with tears.
Brimmed. and two crawled slowly
down her face.
She got up. The ashen light
had strengthened a little. The
cobwebS. heavy with dust, that
mantlcd the rafters were plain to
see. 1t had not entered Sidonia's
mind to make an ending here, IN
the place that was her home. I'm
consciously she was quite deter
mined that even the cold flesh and
bone Of her should not be at the
mercy of her enemies eyes and
hands. She would disappear, as
though the earth beneath her g
had opened and she had II
drawn into mystery. Their, %.
sort of victory in this. But t
of her mother? When the witch
hunters came-as they must, and
soon-the big, helpless woman, alb
ject as rabbit in the face of fear.
would be flaccid prey. And
then the stake and the fired fag-
gots. No! They should not! The
beasts, Her mother was far less
to Sidonia than her tawnoy cat,
hut she was pitiful-she had al
ways the instinct to defend, to res
cue. She could not leave Lame
Lisa to the mercy of men.
Her thought roved, yet always
returned to the same Mace. for
there was only the one door, She
WIS ouite calm. she had ooro f y
hevond all ordinary sources of hoy.
ror and saw things as stark.
as the circumstance that was ar
raved AGAINST her She looked at
her hands and wondered how much
strength there was in them. 1t
should not be difficult to smother
a persop in their sleep. And if
they did not wake. there would
be no suffering at all. nor any
fear. Moving care fully she ap-
preached the dim: mounded shape
that was bedded upon rags. Then
il was that her ewes discovered
Glib. the black cat. whose fur
showed never a hair of white. He
souatted on the floor. drawn close
Nv together. with protruding furry
elbows, and his pale-grecn eyes
were fixed upon a rathole. ST.
donia. in her linen shift, stood be-
side the patchwork quilt that COW
cred her mother. She was about
to do the thing that must be done
if mems Justice was to be evaded.
She bent down and, with extreme
caution, drew the quilt a little
back.
Her mothers long, waxen face
looked up at her-yes, looked, for
the blush eyelids only partially
masked the strangely stagnant
eyes. And the jaw dropped, leav-
inn n cl;rbtly onapad ,,,o,,tb Tho
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was still home. Should she fear
to traverse the midnight ways of
the town, she who had plumbed
the EXTREMIST depths and who was
lost so utterly that even the veriest
lecher would let her be, as though
she were indeed a lost soul wan
dering the dark earth?
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But Lame Lisa's self was prob
ably fluttering at that moment in
the free air. like a silly, dazcd
little bird whose cage-door has
been left Unattached.
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ITO Be Concluded Next Sunday
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CHAPTER XVII.

<<C IDONIA! Sidoniaw Her
name, twice uttered, was
to the girl as the cry of
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THE gray half-light proclaimed
/ a heavy dawn, already we'll
established. Sidonia was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-23
He Simply Won't Quit!

oMRADE HARvITT of Toledo peculiar feowno
~ about It, and unoficiaIy
working his old
outstanding
the DAILY WORKER campaigns
we'll And the local comrades have taken him off his
read what he writes:
II will probably
always all times had the DAILY
will have another job
Office in January
II will still do what Build the DAILY WORKER.
to have Tool always handy
which keep going all Without
the DAILY WORKER and thousands of other
would be unhappy
how the class struggle
still safe from the attacks the imperalm
the workers in bondage in all the o the world"
This the fully
the working
a BUILDER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-23
SOCIAL EQUALITY FOR THE NEGRO

clare conditions in Dixie ideal-for
the Negro at least.
However, in Dixie, white men and
colored women do enjoy a peculiar
kind of social equality Many thou
sands Of mulattoes have come out of
the south within the past decade. 1t
is patent that they must have resulted
from closer social contact than the
mere passage of a white man and a
colored woman on the same side of
the street.
In its final analysis, social equality
is merely equality of opportunity
within the social order. This, under
capitalism, the Negro can never re
alize. 1t is also denied the white wage
worker. perhaps in less obvious
degree.
Black and white, you have a com
mon problem! Link up hands against
a common enemy, the capitalistic
system OF production, that dooms you
forever to life of social ostracism.
Help the rising giant Of interna-
tional Communism bury forever in a
sea Of oblivion, race prejudice. caste
prejudice, social and religious preju-
dice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-23
Tea Drinking Women
Say War is Only
National Problem

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. I'll
Speakers at the"eonference on the
cause and cure of wars" praised the
league of nations, which makes its
chief task the oppression of small
nations, and held up Theodore Roose-
welt, exponent of militarism. as a god,
at their session here. Mrs Carrie
Chapman Gait pleaded for calm,
sane and sensible investigation of the
whole thing" and quoted Roosevelt
Speakers at the conference have adj
vocated every thing from the largest
army and navy in the world to no
army and navy at all. The speak
ers have included rabbis, generals,
priests, politicians, and plain ordinary
liberals.
The conference has done nothing
constructive since its opening. Mrs.
Gait reminded the audience that the
question is national, not fanatical. /"
The speakers evidently considered it
too radical to discuss war as an inter.
national problem. The economic
causes Of war were not taken up by
the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-23
When you buy, get an "Ad''
for the DAILY WORKER.
Your Union Meeting
Fourth Thursday, Jan. %, 1925.
Name of Local and Place
}. of Meeting.

Fourth Thursday, Jan. %, 1925.
Name of Local and Place
no. of Meeting.
AmaIeamated Clothing Workers
Joint Board, Chicago, 400 s.
s4s ears sssss0 80 80 W. Washington ST.,
SIS es sI5e p' so oii {. s2nd 81.
s42 Brewery Workers, 1870 w. Wash.
s44 brewery Workers, 1870 w. WASH
asa boiler Makers. 75th and Drexel,
4so Boiler Makers, 18th ana Ashland
1871, Brewery Workers, 1900 {. z1st ST.
s Brick and Clay, Leavitt and Barry.
2o3 Brick and Clay, Chicago Heights.
So Bridge and s. l., 100 w. Washing
IS cs sH1 IT.; 11s S. Ashland Blvd.
sSf c arPsnters, f44o Emma mast ST.
asa Carpenters, South Chicago, 1867
Michigan Avenue.
500 Carpenters Ogden and kedzie.
1876 Commission Merchant Helpers, 12e
w. Randolph st.
s65 Cooks, 1855 W. Washington ST.
1898 Electrical. R. r., 54ss s. Went
7s4 Electrical, NJ, list and Cottage
IT'S Engineers, 1928 Houston Ave.
$50 Engineers, Morrison Hotel.
$50 Firemsn and Enginemsn, sfts
Commercial Avenue.
50 FiTem nM.'.,o,: and Eng ine soss
us Firemen and Enainemen, Ogden
and Taylor.
i7o1o Gas House Workers. $50 W. WASH
80 Garment Garment Workers, st1 S. Ashland
7sa Hoo &C Carriers. s14 ". Harrison St.
1s Ladies' Garment Workers, s2s w.
47s Maintenance Of Way, sis w. 6srd
ass Msehinists, RoseIand,, ii4os MIeh,.
1928 Msehinists, r. r.. 11s s. Ashland
1275s ONCE Employees Assn, 1866 w,
WashlnSton ST., $50 ?. r.. v
Painters asI district Council 1916 W.
ST. ps i1s%s 0usrs Hall, Chicago
ass PIaste ssss eo4s w. North Ave.
753 Plumbers, All s. Haisted ST..
$3.50 a. m.
so7 Printing Rcesssmsn paper .sos
sol Railway Clerks, $40 W. Washing
SIG Railway clerks. 81 e. Van sursr
sss Railway Carmen, s44s S. Ashland
s91 Railway Clerks, c. M. a ST. p. r.
r., 27o3 w. North Ave.
424 Railroad Trainrnen, 1877 NJ. Fran.
cisco Ave.
115 Sheet Metal, Ogden and Taylor.
121 Swltchmen, Ogden and Taylor SITS
" switcHmen, s2o2 s. Chicago Ave.
75s Tean.sters, Ashland and Van Buren,
742 Teamsters. s2os Houston Ave.
1f2 Upholsterers, Ogden and Taylor.
1928 Watchmen lMun.), 113 S. Ashland
17616 Warehouse Employees, 1876 W.
Washington st.
(Note-Unless otherwise stated ali
meetings are at p. mo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-23
McCormicks Squabble
Over RockefeIler's
Standard Oil Money

The Equitable trust company, which
holds the Rockefeller foundation, the
Standard Oil company of Indiana, and
each of the trust committee members
have been made defendants in a suit
filed by Harold Mccormick to recover
123,S24 shares of Standard Oil stock,
from Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCor-
mick, his former wife.
Three injunctions filed by McCor
micks lawyers would prohibit Mrs.
Mccormick from ever participating
again in the administration of the
trust fund which John d. Rockefeller
established for his grandchildren in
1917. Mccormick wishes the trust
fund to benefit Matilde 0ser, grand
daughter of Rockefeller and wife of a
Swiss riding master.
When the fund was established It
consisted of 10000 shares, but these
have been increased to 123,S24 thru
the stock dividends paid by the COM
pany.