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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-02
Another Myth Fades

The myth, widely spread by the 100 per cent
American societies, that the foreign7born popula-
ton is responsible for most of the crime is badly
shattered by the report of the warden of the Cook
county Jail for 1924.
Out of H. S4 persons incarcerated in the Cook
county Jail during the year, 9553 were nativeborn
Of the balance 1853 had been in this country over
five years and can therefore be classified as Amer
icanized Only 257 Of the total number had been
in America less than five years.
1t is thus seen that Americans are in fact su-
perior to the foreign-born even in the field Of
crime We submit the above data to the Ku Klux
Klan and Secretary of Labor Davis with the com
ment that Chicago and Cook county has as large
percentage of foreignborn as any city outside of
New York and is therefore as good a location as
could have been picked to demonstrate the innate
moral superiority of the native-born American.
This type has, however, failed his boosters in a
disgraceful manner.
Long may the flag of 100 per cent American
waye-in the Cook county Jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-02
Explaining the Donkey Disaster

The other day the senate witnessed clash be-
tween Senators Bruce, of Maryland, and Pat Har-
rison, of Mississippi, the of the over
whelming defeat suffered by the democratic party
in the recent elections The two stalwart democrats
we're at odds as to who was deserving of most of
the blame for the disaster that befell the donkey
party.
There is a very instructive side to this contro-
versy. Pat Harrison, who served as the democratic
spellbinder in the New York convention, denounced
Bruce for lining up with the republicans on sundry
senate questions. The Maryland senator retorted
rather sharply that the democratic party as now
organized and managed had "discarded its ancient
American ideals"
In a measure both senator's were right III their
explanation of the democratic disaster. Undoubt-
edy acts of the type performed by Bruce helped
bring about the republican victory. Likewise the
confused policy of the democratic solons dominat-
ing the party went long way towards insuring
its defeat in November. Bruce was of course, cor
rect when he stated that it is the Negro exploited
and oppressed by the southern aristocracy, that
keeps the south solid for the democratic party.
II is the tyranny of the southern capitalists and
land owners over the great Negro masses that is
the source of the democratic party strength in the
southern tier of states
But neither senator really touched on the vital
fact of the matter is that the democratic party to-
day no longer represents homogeneity, organic
unity of class interests In the democratic fold
there still found certain sections of the petty
bourgeoisie who at times challenge most often
seessy of course the upper crust of the capitalist
class. Besides even in the ranks of the upper crust
of capital in the democratic party there is a CON
hict of sectional interests which is economic in
foundation
Facing this strifetorn party was the unified,
strongly centralized, splendidly financed repub-
lican party 1t is true both parties Loyalty represent
the interests of big capital but in the democratic
party the handling of small capital interests now
and then represents itself serious problem
IL is for this that sooner rather than later
the democratic party with its present confused
policy, with its vacillaton and weakness, will have
to turn over a leaf make its exit from Amer
lean politics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-02
Send in that new "sub" todayI
The $4,000 Peace Maker

Viscount Cecil is the British gentleman" who
was rewarded $4,000 for his services in behalf
of peace
This same gentleman" has just delivered an
address at a dinner concentrating the sixty
eighth anniversary of the day on which Woodrow
Wilson was born. The theme of Cecls address
was a laudation of the leauge of nations as force
for international peace.
The speechmaker, the speech, the occasion for
the address and the atmosphere pervadng the
whole situation indicate very clearly the character
of capitalist peacemakers. The league of nations
is travesty and mockery on its very name. 1t
has been serving only as agency of powerful
imperialist interests to crush the weaker, the
economically underdeveloped countries. The last
peacemakng effort of the league of nations was
brought to light in all its brutal ugliness by the
Egyptian incident
Nor was it out of place for such high capitalist
peacemaker to show his wares at such an occasion.
The commemOratiOn of the birthday of Wood
row Wilson, one of the dynamic forces of the great
imperialist war, in which so many millions lost
their lives is certainly fitting time for bringing
into the public eye those capitalist lackeys posing
as angels of peace.
Cecil is as much peacemaker as Woodrow
Wilson was. Cecil thinks of world peace in the
terms of British imperialist supremacy. Woodrow
Wilson thought of world peace in the terms of
American imperialist supremacy. They both held
the view that world peace was very desirable when
enforced by the power of their respective national
capitalist cliques
These are the capitalist peacemakers. Every
employing class peacemaker is only an imperialist
agent masking behind meaningless distractions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-02

Communism. They are blinded
to the truth by the lies with
which their heads have been
filled; by the schools when they
were children; by the churches
all the time and by the news
papers when they grow up. But
its our job as Communists to
use every method we can to
show up these lies.
We Juniors of course under
stand the capitalists game. So
we Juniors will pave the way
for understanding for all work.
ers.
We Juniors are against war
but we know as long as capital
ism exists there will be wars
whether we like them or not.
We know that since there are
two classes, those who work
and those who rob, we must
wipe out the robber class.
We know that then there will
be no more wars.
That is why the Communist
revolution is entirely different
from capitalist wars.
In the Communist revolution
one worker will not fight
another worker, his friend, but
all workers will fight their big
gest enemy, the capitalists.
1t will not be a war to gain
money for capitalists but a war
to gain freedom for the whole
working class, the farmers and
workers.
After the revolution the work.
ers and farmers will build their
own government, workers
and farmers government.
There will gradually develop
the Communist society based on
one class, the producing class
everyone will live by working
no one will live BY robbing.
III
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-02

Continuous Rains Brighten Londoners
LONDON, Jan. Riverside inhabi-
tants continued their flight before the
rising waters of the Thames and other
rivers of England today. A week OF
almost continuous rains has resulted
in record high water stages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-02
MILLIONAIRE BOOTLEG KILLER
SAVES NECK BY INJECTING RACE
PREJUDICE AND ABU SING NEGROES

ST. LOUIS Mo, jan Negroes
him. prejudice Molows
jury
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-28
LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN
PRESCOTT TO MAMIE KELLER,
CONTINUED

l took you in, Mamie, more per-
haps because l was lonesome and
filled with self-pity than because you
said you were hungry. l don't need
to tell you at this time that l am 4
very selfish animal.
Do you remember now we sour
ricd around and found something to
eat? That was the beginning.
From being poor little sick kit
ten, you became a gorgeous, playful
purring, sleek parlor cat.
From the first, Mamie, you were
my exhaust. | only went to the
apartment | took for you when
was drunk or tired-when ! was in
state of silly self-pity. You were
amusing. told you the truth about
myself. told you | was a rotte.
and that some day would leave
you and go back to being respecta-
Bile. I'm sending you my check fol
five thousand dollars and this i:
goodby.
would feel more of cad than
do, but you do not love me any more
than | love you. We were derelict
ships. ] have been picked up as
salvage and hope | am being towec
into the port of decent men again
Don't try to write me or see me
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-28
Use Of"Useless'' knowledge
By Chester H. R0well

Blessed they that seek useless knowledge For
they shall lengthen the life and exat the spirit of
If you go far in that you get outside the
universe, far down the scale of life to study the
parasites of vermin, you the limits of the "use
less.".
Yet the American Association for the Advancement of
Science has just divided it's award between the two
who did just this
Dr. Edwin Hubble of Mt. Wilson measured the two1near
est nebuae One of them 100000 and the other 100000
light years away-more than 5000 million times 1000 mil
lion miles.
Dr. L. R. Cleveland of John Hopkins has been studying
the parasitic protocol which live in the ntesnes of white
ants.
Great heas have little feas upon their backs
to bite 'em;
And these in turn have lesser heas, and so ad
nfnitum."
What is the "use'? Well DR.. Cleveland found out how
to kill his PROTOCOL without killing the ants.
The method will not work with human beings but it is
the first step toward finding others which may.
Then shall know how to make the ropc healthy and
nhabtabe by civilized men.
Dr. bubbles nebulae the two nearest When he has
measured few more establish average standard of
size and brightness he estimate the distances the
from their apparent brightness.
Then shall have expanded our competition of the uni
trilion times. ~ .
In that universe say be as insignificant Dr. Cleve
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-28
NOW FOR A FEW GOOD LAWS!
(NeW York WOrldD

William Tyler Page. clerk Of the
house of representatives, addresses
a vigorous protest do that branch
of congress. Members. he says,
are using their bookcases for
screens in their offices, and moths
get underneath and ruin all the
carpets
1t is, no doubt, high time for ac
ton. First we need a law. Moth
ing is done nowadays in Washing
ton and little doubt outside OF
Washington without law There
ought to be at least one law pro-
Viding jail terms for members OF
the house who move their book
cases around the room, and prob
ably another law forbidding moths
to hatch their young in United
States government carpets. There
will need, OF course, to- be few
preliminary Investigations before
these laws are passed, and party
of fifty congressman might we'll he
sent, at government expense ami
as an officially created congression-
al commission on lepidoptera. to
visit London, Paris. Rome and
Brussels to discover what precau-
tons other national legislatures
take for the protection of their
carpets. TO he. sure, it might be
difficult to avert a five months de-
bate in the capitol itself as to
whether it is the HeliOthis Rhexiae
or the Hemaris Thysbe which does
all the damage; hut provided there
Is no filibuster on that point, and
the bloc of Alabama mississippi
can be prevailed upon not to turn
over the whole controversy, cap
itOl included. to Henry Ford, in the
end we might have ham a dozen
laws requiring at least another
thonsa nd public servants to en-
force them.
or course, congressman might
listen to what Mr.. Page has to say,
look at their rugs and push their
bookcases back into whatever
grooves providence first placed
them. But that would avert the
necessity of all this legislation.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-28
In New York

New York, Feb. 2s-This city is
an immense museum of human
curios. The pageant of clowns,
tragedians, gargoyles and Mosques
moves INCREASINGLY. Stop at the side
of the road and watch them pass
Occasionally you'll find smile in
the spectacle, but more often it will
be tear.
There's Subway Joe who lives day
upon day in the gloomy recesses OF
the subway, occasionally riding from
one end of the line to the other, but
usually Sinking around several OF
the Brooklyn stations, sleeping on
newspapers at night and eating pea
nuts and confections for meals. The
last time the police took him in
charge he said he had not been out
of the subway for four weeks.
And there's the man who rides to
the opera every week on the seat
with the chauffeur, although he
owns fine home and his wife and
daughter move about in high society
He would rather sit with the chauf
feur and have someone to talk t.
than sit alone in the big car.
They call him Jesus, man who
is to be seen in the Forties, just of
Fifth Avenue. He is man of great
learning. Yet he never wears new
suit, always taking the cast-off gar
ments of another. He wears beart
and long hair such as the Inner.
gave to Jesus. The last time l saw
him was on bitter cold day ant
his heels showed red through hi.
shabby shoes.
Sam is the only name / know TO,
him. He is little man with a high
forehead and gentle manners. With
dustpan and brush he goes aboA
the lobby of one of the biggest no.
tells, cleaning up rubbish. And l dn
told that his investments are Sc
great that he had to engage an ex.
pert accountant to help him make
out his income tax.
Joseph Brown, on old Indian fight.
err, has been selling keyrings along
Park Row for rs years. Re is we'll.
off enough to rest until he dies, but
he prefers the sidewalks and the
crowds and the hum of life about
him.
Up in the Dyckman street section
near the Hudson there is a turreted
house that looks like q feudal castle
In it there lives bent, little old
lady who wears rustling silk dresses
of the style of 1880. Each evening
in fair weather she sits on bal
cony. little needing the throng that
pssses. IT IL told that She thinks OF
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-28
MANDAN NEWS
URGES BEET RAISING

The matter of raising sugar beets
in the Missouri Slope section of
North Dakota is being given careful
consideration by the directors Of the
Mandan Commercial club. C. e.
Milheuser, manager of the Holly Su-
gar Company of Sidney, Mont, has
been in the city and was very much
impressed with the possibility of
growing sugar beets on the Missouri
and Heart River bottom lands.
An effort is to be made to secure
one hundred acres of sugar beets
from growers on Missouri river bot
tom lands this year. The acreage
will be gradually increased until ten
thousand acres of land have been
sown in sugars beets. When that
stage has been reached Mr.. Milheu-
ser intimated that the Holly Sugar
company or any sugar, company now
doing business in sthe Northwest
would be glad to come in and put in
a factory that would cost in the
neighborhood of one and quarter
million dollars.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-28
Urge Observance
National Music
Week Thru State

Grand Forks, N. D., Feb. 2S.-Ob-
servance of National Music week by
various musical organizations in CT
ties throughout North Dakota is urg-
ed by Mrs. j. A. Poppler of this city,
state chairman in charge of the OBJ
servance, in letters to presidents of
the various clubs. She urges that
observance of the week, May to 8,
be taken up in a systematic way in
the different localities.
Grand Forks has set aside a week
to devote to music for the past sew
eral years by sponsoring the annual
music festivals here and it is thus
one of the pioneers in the movement
in the state although it has not al
ways observed the exact dates pres
cribed by the national federation of
music clubs.
While few other cities in the
state have formerly observed the oc-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-28

We are now sailing in totally diff
ferent directions.
JACK.
Telephone Message From Mamie
Keller to the Office of John
Alden Prescott
II would like to speak to Mr.. Pres
colt.
you say Mr.. Prescott is not in
the office. When will he be in?
You don't know? Please let me
talk to someone who does know. |
would like to speak to his secretary.
rs this Mr.. Prescotts secretary
Twill you please let me speak to
Mr.. Prescott?
"Oh. you say he is not. in town
When Wi he be back?
You are not sure.
"No, I'll not leave message for
him. III call him up
Have you any idea where he will
be the middle of next week p 1t is
| quite important.
"Oh, at Atlantic City at the Tray
more Hotel? Thank you. will
write him there.
"You are sure that he will be
there by Wednesday,? l want him
to get the letter without fail.
THANK you. If do not catch
him there | will call him up at his
| office the last of the week.
mo, it isn't necessary for me to
leave my name"
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-28
DETERMINING" EDUCATION

colossal and gratuous task He that he will
seek "de-bunk education RE strong for Mother Goose
rhymes stimulant of child imagination and memory.
So convinced he that Mother Goose still has place in the
nursery curriculum that he has "hred half and will
stage debate the Mother Goose issue which has
stirred up quite storm among the Gotham educators. He
believes that Mrs Wnifred Sckvie StOner child educator
is all wrong She has attacked nursery rhymes danger
children. probe has been started into the sO-caed
'oyzer and other child education cults to get at the actual
truth Some 400 letters have been dispatched to educators
throughout the nation in the drive to deblnk education
Since advent of the radio kind will drill
your children in the ancient rhymes of the nursery They
viii sandwich them in between the bedtime story and the
crossword puzzle 1t is going to be harder than to
conquer Mother Goose and the old fashioned fairy tale
they have become popular with the kddes who
listen in during the chdren's hour.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-28

casion AN effort will he made this
year, according to Mrs. Poppler, to
make the movement more general.
Representative of musical organi-
cations in Grand Forks as we'll as
other clubs and organizations in the
city will be requested to cooperate
in the local observance.
An impressive picture of dem
ocratic movement that is helping to
create a musical America is given
with the publication of the History
of National Music Week" This book
is the first comprehensive summing
up Of the movement which has spread
with remarkable rapidity in the first
year Of it's naturalization. The au-
thor is c. NJ. Remaaine, secretary of
the National Music Week committee.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-28
: FABLES ON HEALTH
BUTTER SUBSTITUTES

When butter prices cause folk to
change to butter substitutes, con-
tanning less of buffers valuable ele-
ment, vitamin A. there should be a
plentiful supply of leafy vegetables,
eggs and milk added to the diet.
Substitutes are valuable energy
foods, and many families use them
to the exclusion of butter. Butter.
itself, contains large amount of
energy.
A tablespoon of butter gives two
and half times as much energy as
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-28

certain items, in certain amounts,
due to certain causes, all ascertain
able.
There are men who can find out
the truth about these items, if that
is what they are set to do.
If they are interested pafties, or
hired by interested parties, nobody
will believe them, even when they
are right.
There should be some investiga-
ton whose motives and good faith
could not be questioned, and whose
figures, therefore, could be analysed
automatically, instead of morally
and emotionally
If Mr.. Wyer's report has not sat
isfied critics of its good faith, some
body should make another.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-28
THOSE "SOULLESS CORPORATIONS"

The soap box orator with the expansive mouth and glib
tongue delights to expatiae upon the stony hearted
poraons but oratorcal flights always based upon
facts In report compiled recently by the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation it is disclosed that $358SO3 in pensions have
been paid to former employees These pensions averaged
$36 month.
the end of 1924 this corporation had 1916 active pen
soners the list Pensioners services average about
thirty years but of them have than fifty
years of service with the corporation
This merely the pension experience of corporation
There many engaged in welfare work among their
employees Insurance and health benefits supplement the pen
sion arrangement. Many employee learns his first lesson
in thrift through association designed to promote
frugaty old age nnuies. Not all the activities of
great corporation devoted to grinding out dollars and
grinding down humans
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-28
ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

Mister Peg Leg, the fairy peddler
man, had almost enough money to
buy himself new leg, but not quite.
But nobody cared. He didn't care
and the Twins didn't care, and no.
body cared, because they were all
having fine time and it was lot
Of fun to go around selling things.
One day they came to the placa
where the Bunnies lived. Nobody
was at home but Mrs. Bunny herself
and she answered the door.
"How do You do" she said. you'll
have to excuse the way l look. |
haven't had time to fix up since
dressed this morning and know !
am sight"
what keeps you SO busy, Mrs.
Bunny?" asked Nancy. "Is it be-
cause you have so many in your
family to work for?"
partly" said Mrs. Bunny setting
chairs for her visitors. "But not al
together. The Cottontails are here
from the other side of Ripple Creek
so they can go to school, and ! have
all my own children, but that isn't
the trouble. like big families"
"Then what is the trouble?" asked
Mister Peg Leg kindly.
Food" said Mrs. Bunny. 81 just
cook all the time and yet / cannot
get up a meal they will eat. They
just sit down to the table and pick,
and if l do say it, as shouldn't,
cook meals fit for king and they
just sit and wiggle their noses."s
Don't they ever get hungry
asked Nick.
"Not now" sighed Mrs. Bunny.
Gin the winter they nearly ate the
flowers of the tablecloth. But since
IT'S been nice weather it hiss been
the other way. Every day and every
day and every day they Just come in
and sniffle."
Suddenly she cried out eag' lly,
"Say, Mister Peg Leg, you dom. rap
pen to have a magic kettle, do you ?
If you just had magic kettle that
would cook extra good things to eat.
/ wouldn't have any more trouble
I'd pay you almost anything for it."
Mister Peg Leg was silent min
ute, then he said, "No, l don't have
a magic kettle, Mrs. Bunny. Your
own kettles have as much magic in
them as any can sell you. Indeed
you don't need any special kind Of
kettle at all to cook i'm. What would
do you more good than all the kettles
in the world is roll Of chicken wire.
eff you'll buy a roll Of chicken
wire. I'll guarantee to get your chill
dren's appetites back for you in no
time"
"Chicken-wire!" cried Mrs. Bunny
"Chicken- wire!" cried the Twins
who were as much amazed as she
was. "What has chicken wire got to
do with appetites ?"
Mister Peg Leg smiled mysteri-
Gus smile. "Lots!" he answered
"Everything indeed"
"Then I'll take roll" said Mrs
Bunny. But what shall l do with
it?"
"Just leave that to me-" said the
fairy peddler man.
"Come with me, Children" said he
when they had left.
And where do you suppose he led
the Twins?
To Farmer Greenway's sass-patch
garden.
Nancy and Nick were very curious
as the little peddler man stopped and
looked around and then suddenly he
began to shake and laugh.
"Just as thought" said he.
ITO Be COntinued)
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