The daily worker., 1925-06-23
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Beefy Bill Taft Totes
Nine Degrees
BY WILLIAM SlMONS
Especial to The Daily Workerl

NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 21.--
Fifteen honorary degrees were award
ed by Yale University at the com.
mencement exercises yesterday to
national celebrities" for loyal service
to the Wall Street gang. Among those
who secured the degrees were; Mas
ter of arts, Francis Cole Pratt and
Edward Stephen Harkness Lift. D.:
John MATHEWS Manly; Doctor Of
Science: Robert Andrews Millikan;
Doctor of Laws Gil. d. Ernest Mar.
tin Hopkins, John Hays Hammond,
Clifford Pinchot. Owen D. Young,
James Rockwell Sheffield
Here is the List
Pratt is vice president of the Gen.
eral Electric Co. at Schenectady, in
charge of engineering and manufac-
ture; Harkness is a director in many
important railroad companies, who has
donated millions for college buildings
out of the fortune robbed from work
ers. Manly, a professor OF, English, en-
listed during the war for five years as
captain, DECIDING cipher messages and
other documents. Mllhkan was chief
of the science and research division
of the signal corps.
Hopkins was in charge of the in
dustrial relations in the quarterma-
sters department, was assistant to the
secretary of war, the representative of
the war department on war labor
policies which tied the hands OF labor,
he is also director of the Boston and
Maine R. r. Hammond is well known
as the mining engineer who helped
open South Africa to foreign exploita.
ton, and as the chairman of the anti.
labor U. S. Coal Commission of 1922
appointed by Harding. Pinchot is of
course the politician, governor of
Pennsylvania, the fake reformer.
Owen D. Young has been chairman
of the board of directors of the Gen.
eral Electric company, and organized
and he is chairman of the board of
the Radio Corporation of America
Young, as member of the Dawes COM
mission and reparations agent, earned
Dawes praise for his efficient help in
putting the plan over on the oppres-
sed German workers.
The Hounder of Mexico
Last and not least is Sheffield, the
ambassador to Mexico, who receltly
reported to the state department on
conditions in Mexico, foiIowed by a de-
claration from the state department
that Mexico must defend the property
rights of Americans The Mexican
government is warned that. she must.
take further steps against the oil
workers in Tampico and the peasants
who desire land for themselves. The
threat of Intervention is dangled be-
fore the eyes of Mexico. The degree
awarded to Sheffield is fitting reward
for his imperialist activities.
Famous Degree Holders
Before you bow down to a handle
after ones name, think Of how many
degrees some men have whom we all
despise. William Howard Taft (In-
junction Bill has nine, Charles E.
Hughes eleven, Woodrow Wilson, ten,
Leonard Wood, car of the PHILIPPINES,
nine, Henry Cabot Lodge nine, Robert
Lansing, six, Elihu Root, sixteen, Her
bert Hoover, twenty-four, Frank o.
Lowden got degree from four col.
leges, Steel Judge Gary, three, A. Nit
chell Raids Palmer, three. Outside Of
the statesmen, college Presidents
scratch one another's backs.
Wheeler of California was honored
twelve times, Scab Defender Eliot OF
Harvard, eleven, Shanklin of Wesley.
an, eleven, Smith of Pennsylvania.
twenty, Butler Of Columbia. twenty.
five. Angel of Yale nine, Schurman
of Cornell eight (now Minister to
China). Almost every little college
president is so favored. AS to college
presidents, it means that they are fed
with honors for goose step teaching.
Whom do our capitalist colleges
honor? The Yale commencements ex.
ercises answer: Those who servs
American Imperialism