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Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04
WASHINGTON PRESS
 PRAISES TIP TOES"
A Fitting Successor to Lady Be Good" Continuing q Sue
 cessfuI Run
Vin:ou Freedley of Pomfret One ef
 the Producers

The press of Washington. l.. C.. is saying many nice things about "Tin
 Toes. a musical comedy that opened recently in the National capital. The offering IS by Aarons and Freedley. Who successfully staged "I.ady Be Good, now running in Boston. Mr. treedley of Aarons and Freedlev is Nnton Freedley of Pomfret. well known in both Pomfret and Putnam. having spent his summers in pemfret since he was a boy.
 The critics of three leading news papers in Washington have treated the new offering most kindly. in fact have praised t highly, and urge the theatre going public of the capital to see the show before it leaves to open on Broadway.
 In half column review the Wash ngton Star says: Neither talent nor money has been spared in it's pre- paration. IL Is rich in setting. dane ing, comedy and music. It starts de- lightfully and continues to delight for almost three hours. Its comedy is perhaps it's outstanding reeommenda- tion. It is refreshingly new and. talk en by and large, as clean as anything offered in a similar production here this season.
 The News: The joy of this beau tifully mounted musical comedy is it's gloss, its speed, it's sheen. One knows 1t for a thoroughbred after the first is never a split sec ond's fear that anything will go wrong--that a sour note from a slip horn will upset the duleet chorous of golden wood-winds and taut strings Broadway is waiting for this baby, re- membering Lady. which mussed up 42nd Street for months"
 The Times: Washington is see ing this week the first toddling steps of q new musical comedy that prom ises to tear many a page from the cal endar before it's usefulness is done. Tip Toes can rate in Washington as a great music and dancing show if we are to adduce as standard those of two seasons past which have premier ed here. Not since Louis the i4th' has an opening week in this town borne more pronounced ear-marks of q bright and long future than Tip Toes. The advice of this column is to see 1t this week at the National A year, anyway, will pass before 1t returns.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04
PARTY TO P. H. z.
 FOOTBALL STAR

A party was given to Gordon Wins low. star quarterback of the champion Putnam High school football team last Saturday evening at the home of Dr. and Mrs. E. F. Murphy of Sun nvside Heights. The famous quarter back was presented with a sum of money and other useful gifts. includ- ing a gold football watch charm and fountain pen. Ellis Pritchard, last years P. II. s. football quarterback, and friends and and relatives of the guest of honor. were present. as well as the entire ?. II. $. football team.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04
SECOND LYCEuM NUMBER
Florence Ensworth's Program, Higi
 School Hall, Dee. 12

The program starts with the story of Betty Ransom" which, as Miss Ensworth says, is just a word picture of the sweet influence of a child and which she has chosen to call "Recoi- lections of An Old Soldier" Follow ing this are two or three short mum bers, especially for children"
 Next a story by Eben r. Rifford, when you are convuised with laughter as Jane helps her sister Maria to dis courage a would be suitor," a widow CT with several children, who has been advised to woo her by Aunt Philanda.
 ''It seems appropriate, says Miss Ensworth. "to follow this story with that familiar selection. +fhe Hindoo's Paradise Then-lest We may think "thal she looks at matters in that way" she turns the joke by reading Paul Lawrence Dunbar's Looking for Trouble
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04
BRIDGE CLUB MEETS

The bridge club of the Grove street section of the city met with Mrs. Karl T. Phillips. Monday afternoon. The prize for highest score was won by Mrs. John Moss. Refreshments were served.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04
PUTNAM NIGHT
 FOR RADIO FANS

Monday night Putnam radio fans had the second opportunity of listen ing to the Putnam radio artists whose program was broadcast from our neighboring town, Webster. The pro- gram which consisted of vocal solos, duets. quartets and orchestral mum. bers was in charge of Wallace Smith. The artists included in the program Monday night were: Miss Alice Stey- ems, soprano; Mrs. Pearl Wheaton. contralto; Miss Esther Rouse and Miss Elnora Fisher. violin and piano; Mrs Katherine Lown, pianist, Miss Lucy Ellis. soprano and Wallace Smith, bass. Several selections were also played by a Putnam orchestra. The entire program was enjoyed hy all who listened iH.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04

The Vatican has negotiated a loan of SI,500. GOO with American banks.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04
BAPTIST UNION MEETING

South Woodstock-An unusually interesting and helpful meeting is as sured at the Woodstock churches union services which is to be held with the South Woodstock Baptist church. Sunday evening, Dec 6 at T o'clock, The state secretary of the Baptist church, Rev. H. B. Sloat from Hart ford, is to be the speaker. 4 large attendance Is desired.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04

FLORENCE ENswoRTH ls a r reader you will enjoy. She is
 young lady of exceptional histronic talents, of good voice and most engaging personality. Her repertoire is large Indeed, and her work Is a real delight. You will Ike Miss Ensworth very much when she appears hers in the near future.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04

Next come two familiar poems from the pen of Edgar A. Guest. Ma and the Motor Car, and "The Best Land, 1" which. in turn. opens the way for Will bur Nesbit'a Lincoln poem, "Of the People. By the People, and For the People and then we are raised to the pinnacle of patriotic feeling through Mrs. V B. pinRman's 'HThe Young Patriot in Italian dialect. After this comes an appeal t0 our own loyalty and patriotism as we listen Co the story of Tommy Brown which leaves us with tears in our eyes and hush which we feel would be aaerilege to break.
 Many other pleasing features round out the fine program of the evening.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04
ATTENDS N. Y. MEETING

Paul Boehm of Grand View, agent of the Beaehmont Mill, Mechanics. vile. attended the annual meeting and banquet of the American Woolen and Worsted Mfg. Association which was held Dee. 2 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04
PUTNAM SETS EXAMPLE

Non-partisanshp In Local Affairs Worthy of Imitation Sentiment Throughout State In Its Favor-Enormous Increase In State Expenditues-Muncpa Elections Fa. vorabe Republican Party-Demoeras State ProIong Family Quarrel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04
The Sharpening of the Class Struggle i'm Japan

he coalition is full of elements of de-
3ay.. as on the one hand the policy
Of the government runs counter to the
interests of the middle and petty bour-
geoisie, not to mention the sharp an
tagonism of the small holders and
workers. while on the other hand it is
calling forth great bitterness on the
part of the monopolist big capitalists,
the agrarian aristocracy, the higher
officials and the mifitarists.
ONCE the earthquake, that is with
~ in the space of about eighteen
months, four governments have sue
ceeded one another in Japan (the
cabinets of Admiral Kato, Jamamoto
and Kiura), which have been wrecked
between the financial oligrachy and
the government bureaucracy on the
one hand and the. social groups of
the rest of the boutgeoisie on the
other hand
The entry into power Of the coafi-
ton government of Kato was regarded
in Japan and in other countries as in
dicating a certain era of liberalism in
the country, as means for smoothing
over thefdifferenceso between the mon
opolist bourgeoisie and the remaining
bourgeois classes, and as a means of
decreasing the revolutionary mood
among the peasants. workers and pet
ty bourgeois.
The cabinet, which on the one hand
employed and still employs, cruel re-
pressive measures against the labor
movement, the movement of the small
peasants and the ,intellectuals, who
are continually becoming more revolu-
tionary, was compelled on the other
hand to extend the franchise, to set
up the institute of agrarian inspection
in order to allay thesconstant conflicts
between the smallholding peasants
and the big LANDOWNERS ,, and to pro-
pose arbitration courts for the work
ers without, however, formally recog-
nizing the trade unions.
pUT as is to be seen from the recent
- events in Japan, these measures
have brought about results contrary
TO those which the government expect
cd. The congress of the small holders
END peasants which recently took
PLACE decided to boycott the institute
OF agrarian inspection. and meetings
and demonstrations of workers which
protested against compulsory arbitra-
IN and demanded labor legislation
aid the abolition Of exceptional laws
against dangerous IDEAS" demon.
strate the correctness of our asser-
tons. The demonstrations and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04
BY c. voITINsKY.

As a result of the situation in Jap
a an, there is to be seen general
worsening of the situation of the
working and peasant masses, as well
as of the millions of middle bourgeois
lie and of the intelligentsia.
The most characteristic feature of
the impoverishment of the peasant
masses is the influx of peasants into
the towns in quest of work, which
made itself evident during the past
year. Unemployment in the towns,
however, deprives the young peasants
Of any chance of being absorbed in
industry, and, according to the re-
ports of the Japanese chamber of COM
fnerce, there are at present in the
whole country about three million un-
employed.
The strike movement in Japan in
1924, is regarded as a record since
the time of the world war. Accord
ing to the inexact returns of the Jap
anese government, in the year 1924
there took place more than 700 strikes
involving more than 100000 workers,
whilst in the year 1919, when strike
wave set in in Japan for the first time
after the war, the number of strikes
amounted to only 497 and the num-
Der of workers involved to $4,000.
UNEMPLOYMENT among the intel
" lectuals in Japan is at present
very great, altho there are no figures
available regarding the exact number.
The economic crisis in the country
has created a political situation in
which the governing clique is fever
ishly turning from one measure to the
other in its attempts to save the sit
uation. The Japanese cabinet, with
the leader of the bourgeois-agrarian
party Kensekai, Vicomte Kato. at the
head, consists of coalition of three
parties: Sejukai, Kenesekai and Ka-
kuschin-Kurabu. The coalition gov
eminent, which was formed IN May,
1924, as a result of a political crisis
after the collapse of the strongest
party in Japan, Sejukai, which repre-
sented the interests of the financial
oligarchy, the court bureaucracy and
the big agrarians, is laboring under a
chronic crisis. The seeded section,
Sejuchonto, which has close social
connections with the above mentioned
groups, constitutes the opposition
against the government from the
right.
And in spite of the fact there exists
no organized opposition from the left
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04
Comrade MikhaiI Frunze

The story the life history Bolshevk
Guard ready for definite telling One by the outstanding
figures magnificent array passing pass
stage action they behind their passing
richest heritage bestowed upon mankind for all the ages that
o come-the proletGriam rerouton.
Comrade Mkhail Frunze those spectacular
utonare that flash upon the history period of
elemental upheava flashes upon the horizon Like his
great teacher Lenn the Boshevk wing old
Russian party he devoted himself relessy forging the
and period preceding during the revolutionary upheava
of 1905 and the dheaning reaction following the party that
mobilize and lead the proearat final victory czarism
and the bougeoe of Russia and lay the foundation for the
International whose destiny will be lead the world revolution
His life is lesson and inspiration the younger comrades
of today whom the routine and times obscure
work of the party becomes irksOme
The Old Bosheyk Guard taught revouonae the essential
lesson that without steeed the conflict with strong
MARKHAM leadership there be any revolution.
the party
it struggling make impress upon the working
powers every post assigned in the illegal
days preparation the revolution post assigned
him after the revolution with reess energy himself
and the he served with glory.
After filling party positions places
from the of the revolutionary began his military
commissioner of the of
he became military leader of the district of Jarosav,
whence he went the eastern front as commander the fourth
operating the Uras 1919 height the Koltcha
ensi he became of the whole
pieces white guard quick
he participated in onsive against other paid military adyeners
allied powers 1920 army
the forces of Baron Wange into the Black Sea- He then became
military commander of the Ukraine and Cme Other important
posts followed until he became vcepresident of the revolutionary
military council of the Union of Soviet Republics a'
His long devotion the party extending his
1904 his military achievements his sterling ability
work anywhere and under conditions circumstances imposed
him the logical leader of the army which position
achieved when COmrade Trotsky became ill.
Outside of Russia and the leading circles of the Communist
other countries of the until
he chief the army but contribution
ton big that long there recorded history mankind
the of Frunze will occupy luminous place pages
celebration eighth anniversary Bosheyik
revolution approaches will ecpsed thought
that this loyal party brilliant army
Union of Soviet Republics fell at his post while still comparatively
young
But his loss remember that the best
in which show devotion
which he his life to seize with million hands the
that he vaiant carried march the conquest
of the capitalist system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04

Progress Against Reaction

According the the todays
ons in that city of Ford despOsm progress against
Not the class struggle not the striving labor party
against the capitalist parties fight against police
functions strikes just progress against
reaction How perfectly delightful!
1t is still illuminating when learn that the Labor
supports the of the city for reelection
ports the primaries
the support the ku kux Khan These the erads progress
according the official of the Detroit Federation of Labor
Henry Ford supports the same mayor a1eeUa..
In apoogng for its vile betrayal Of labor in this election the
Labor also says "Ther actions
be fair to all elements in society,"
Mr. Dennis E. flies the editorial
column that paper AT time he claimed TO be revolutionary
and MARKHAM and today his speaks those who have
to all elements in society This rot complete negation
class struggle repeats the dull of the
phlistne apoogs capitalism Those who talk thus
know better simply unconscious apoog for capitalism
people training revolutionary
repeat such mbecies deliberate prostitution
Rather than quit the labor fa the Detroit Federation
Labor who regularly play the filthy capitalist politics
rather than work honest living Bait prefers
main the pie the drve that appears
Saturday Ercning Post Golfers and other scab sheets
Surely how choose apt quotations speaking
of this identical type he asked e what is phisne" He
answered il by the quotation:
"A phistine filled with
will his soul"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04

collisions of students meetings with
the police, as an answer to the meas
ures of the government to militarize
the nigh schools, are arousing indig
nation against the government in al
most all sections of society.
Sullen and bitter resentment has
been aroused against the government
among the working masses and the
revolutionary intellectuals by the ex-
ecution which recently took place OF a
young revolutionary named Namba,
who made an attempt upon the life
Of the crown prince.
The inequality of the development
of capitalism in Japan, which was his
torically determined by the economic
ripeness of feudalism in the country
at the moment of the revolution in
the year 1868, after the military clique
came into power, which developed in
dustty chiefly on the basis of war pro,
duction ESPECIALLY after the Japano-
Chinese war in 1895 and after the
Russo-Japanese war in 1900 appears
at present to be the chief cause of the
growth of the revolutionary tendency
in the country.
DUT the character of this develop
- ment of capitalism in Japan
showed itself especially after the
earthquake, when monopolist capital
and the ruling bureaucracy were faced
, with the proposition which had never
previously existed in the history of
the country of "rationaIzing" indus
try. The advance of the process of
the swallowing up of the little banks
by the big banks, the bankruptcy of
many middling commercial and indus
trial firms and banks, and the stimuli
taneous increase and extension of the
enormous Mizui and Mizuibischi con-
Germs are extremely characteristic
pecularities in the present economic
life of Japan.
The Introduction of male suffrage
some weeks ago was an enforced con-
cession in view of the ever increasing
hate of the mass of the people; and
in order that the working masses and
the revolutionary organizations shall
not be able to make use of even this
mutilated franchise (the law provides
that only people over 25 years and
possessing at least 1000 yen will be
able to vote, while only people over 80
can be elected), there has been intro
duced at the same time the law
against dangerous IDEAS" under
which membership of an illegal organ
ization is punishable with 10 years
years hard labor.
There exists no doubt. however,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04
What VIII We Gain From REORGANIZATION?

man fears nothing more than to be
considered stupid. Therefore the mo-
ment a worker leaves a shop - after
taking off his overalls and washing
his hands - he considers himself
not worker but'a citizen
With our present socialdemocratic
form of organization we approach the
worker after they have taken off their
overalls-and have become citizens
with rights the same as Rockefeller"
The result is that they do not listen
to us - for they have forgotten, or
are trying to forget the class struggle
When the party is reorganized on
the basis Of nuclei, we will do our work
work at the place where a worker must
be conscious that he is a wage slave.
He Is driven by the foreman of the
boss, he silently revolts against the
conditions that he must work under.
His mind is open to every kind OF sug-
gestion. 1t is the function Of the Com
munists to nourish this discomfort,
help to crystallize 1t, point the way
out, formulate the policies and lead
the struggle Against the system
For some years, the party has issued
the slogan of organizing the unor-
ganized.' II was slogan worthy of a
Communist Part& but to every party
member 1t seeeiped an insuperable
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04
Lenin and the Anthracite Strike

ers, of proclaiming martial law
and so forth In case Of the disturb +
ance Of public order, that is, in case e
of disturbance" by the serviIe class
of its servlle condition, and Of at
tempts to strike up a housewife at
titude.
T ENIN mentions America as one of
~ the countries where this aspect of
capitalist democracy mentioned above
is glaringly evident and there will be
no voices of dissent from this among
the working class.
Yet the social-reformists and liber-
ais continue to stand as fatheadedly
upon the constitutional rights" of mi
norities as tho the pages of American
history contained no record of agrees
sion against the workers and national
minorities such as the Negroes in
stead, of being filled with such Incl
dents.fpa aolrs
1--WE strive for a higher form of
democracy" say the middle class
apostles of parliamentarism. Their
expressed view is that it is because of
Lenin and the Anthracite-GAL 2
defects in the democratic structure
of American, capitalism that workers
in strikes and demonstrations, even
in election campaigns, are visited with
prison and bloodbaths from time to
time.
THESE slippery misleaders are care
4 full to speak of democracy in the
abstract and not of it's class charac-
ter-the factor which accounts for the
launching Of armies of professional
murderers upon striking workers-in-
cidents which they account for by
branding them "as perversions of
Americas democratic traditions" etc.
To all the American workers who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04

line Of reasoning suggested by the
concrete facts cited and the premise
which they acknowledge as correct.
OF all the capitalist democracies
~ America has been the most sue
cessful in maintaining popular sup
port. Nowhere is the right of fran
ehise more revered or. the catch words
Of the medicine men of the ruling
class swallowed with greater gusto.
The reason for this we will not go in
20 here. 1t is enough to say that be-
cause city, county, state and national
government are looked upon as ex-
lressions Of the popular will~that the
enlistment of armed forces against
he workers is not resented more bit
serly.
THE growth of military and semi
military organizations in America
S one of~the outstanding phenomena
If the last five years Even before
he world war the use of force
against the workers in strikes was a
commonplace To-day an all-embrac-
ing net work of patriotic, militarist,
fascist, organizations - official and
official-covers the country.
They are directed against the work
ing class as is proven in every period
of local or national crisis.
The socialists and liberals find it
hard to explain this contradiction
within the frame work of American
democracy. Generally they come to
the conclusion that corporation con-
troll" wall Street agents in govern
ment," "official corruption" or some
other phrase-mongering veil for the
class struggle is the cause.
THEY write and speak endlessly
4 against the Communists because
the latter point out that force is in