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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-31

lighter boat was smashed in Water
poured over the rCscucrs. For an in
slant Il seemed that they were
doomed but. clowing fcrecly at
whatever they could lay hands upon.
they checked their progress long
enough for tho castawnys to obey
DorcCH shout Of command Tho girl
flung herself into Picrce's arms. her
father followed, landing in a heap
amidships. Even as thoy jumped the
skiff was torn away and hurried on
ward by tho flood.
sam Kirby raised himself 70 his
knees and turned his nshen face to
Rouletta.
Hurt you any, kid?" he inquired.
The girl shook her head She was
very white. her teeth wero chatter
ing. her wet dress chung tightly TO
her figure.
As Kirby stepped ashore no shook
hands with tho men who had jeop.
nrdizcd their lives for him and his
daughter; in a cherries. colorless
voice no said; 1T looks TO mo like
you boys had a drink coming" From
his coat pocket he drew a bottle OF
whisky
Drink heartyr said he TITS all
that's left Of good outfitr
ITO BE Continued
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LETTER FROM MRS. JOSEPH
GRAVES HAMILTON TO
LESLIE PRESCOTT
My Dear Daughter.

My Dear Daughter.
or course. you know from KarPs
cables why have not written you
for the last month I've really had
quite n serious time with rhcumu-
tism In my right arm. I think, how
ever, It is much better now
You have heard from me thru
Kari. however every week. We were
80 glad that you had found your
pearls altho Kari said at one time he
really hoped you would never see
them again, for they had brought
nothing but annoyance dnd sorrow.
However, | told him that you would
not want TO think that some thief
had them; that II you had to dispose
Of them you would much rather give
them TO someone you love, or sell
them and give the proceeds to
charity.
know when you sec Karl you Will
be much surprised Ile has not
looked 70 wen since you were mar.
rlcd lie has gained in flesh since
We have been over here and his fncc
has lost that drawn expression 1t had
inter Allce's death have succeeded
in milking him think That he wnB not
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IL was "a hcusb place BE- echoed 10
O. demonlac din ANA b. was tr,msnd
vue sensation Co bravo IT,. for IN, boat
asa rot slide nor slip down tho descent.
e went iu "a succession OF isrrpE
leap, ii iuu,hgd aud twisted: ID rolled
and plunged as II iu a icmsntcd e.
sort to unseat i,s passengers and
scatter ns cargo
'Poicon SWUNG close n 90 the right
hapA- Wherl au eddy mccd up against
ne fiood. some one gluus "a rope from
tAe sRorv and drew The boat I'M.
Wei. never had no better
crew, cried tho pilot. What you
INK og 'im. ehr' lie smiled down
at the wbUc-lppcd oarsmcn. who
leaned forward painting and dripping
"Is- that an ~ itF' Lucky Broad
Inquired, weakly.
Noulclta nodded thoughtfully
Father is just as afraid ~ water as
Nou arc. He won't admit IL. but 1
IAN tell II has gotten on his ncrycs
and-l've had hard work 90 Keen him
from drinking
"Sayl ponr let him got started
on that Danny exclaimed. earnestly.
That would be the last touch"
Trust me l."
But Kirby himself appeared M that
moment havns returned from a yoy.
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CHATTER II.

Attic scowB larger than the Rou.
lstta had run Miles Canyon and the
rapids below in safety. perhaps none
more unweildy had ever done SO.
Royal had built his barge stoutly, to
be sure, bat OF other virtues the
craft had none.
It was journey TO ter-ify expert
enced rlver.men; doubly terrifying
was II 10 Royal and Kirby. who knew
nothing whatever Of swift water and
10 whom its perils were masnified
"a thousandfold
Kirby. by reason OF his disability,
II course. was prevented from lend
ing any active help with the boat,
lie merely stood beside Rouletta, with
the fingers Of his right hand sunk
into her shoulder his gray face
grayer than ever.
'Looki We're nearly thru" the
girl cried in his ear, after what
seemed an interminable time.
Tho bluffs ended, the narrow
throat vomIted the river out. and the
scow eailoped from shadow into pale
sunlight.
The owner Of the outfit drew n
deep breath his clutching fingers re-.
faxed their nervous hold. He saw that
Danny was trying 20 make himself
heard and he leaned forward to
catch the fellows words, when sud.
denly the impossible happened The
deck beneath his feet was Jerked
backward and he was flung TO his
knees. simultaneously there came a
crash, the sound Of rending. splinter
ing wood, and over the stern OF tho
barge poured an icy deluge that all
hut swept father and daughter away
Itouletta screamed, then she called
the name Of Royal.
The blade of Royals sweep had
been submerged at the instant Of the
collision and, asen consequence, the
force Of that rushing current had
borne il forward. cntapulting the
man on The other end overheard nB
clcanly. ~ easily ~ school-boy
maps % paper pellet from the end Of
b pencil. Bctsrc their very eyes the
ltlrbys saw their lieutenant, their
lifelong friend and scrvitOr, picked
w aud hurled into tho flood
Danny shriekod tho girl. The
voice of the roplds had changed itg
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Man-ofour.rown. Nm

Wise an-OfOurTown, I'm not
so sure"
Are you ever going to begin?"
said Mister Corn Dodger inpatient.
IT, What is tho charadc?'
Just this and nothing more,
We three a'standing in the door
answered the Wise Man. pulling the
Twins to q doorway and standing
between them so that no one could
pass.
~ don't understand" said Slow.
What Is charade and what arc
we to do2"
Look at us" said the Wise Man,
1--WE three standing in this door.
way and taking mp all the room,
mako n word, See IL You can
guess what that word is"
Crowd" guessed Contrary Mary
quickly.
MOI said the Wise Man
"Doorkocpcrr guessed Jack Horn.
or after minute
mo" said the Wise Man,
They guessed and guesscd and
they guessed, tho High links people
did-but no one could guess the
charpdc or the Wise Man,
Eve give up We give upr said
everybody by and by "Wc can't
guess your ohnradc, Mister Wise
Man what Is lt2"
'lIp, hn, hnw laughed Mister
Wise Man merrlly. IL IL ms simple
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do a stunt. I'll sweep the cobwebs
off the sky and come back In tho
sweet by and by" And she flew
away without another word.
"Humph" exclaimed Mister Corn
Dodgcr. THAT isn't what | mean,
| mean that stunts have to be done
right here whore we can see them"
II know n stunt" said the Wise
Man or our Town ITS n char.
udc."
~ cha whnt2" cried all the
High links LanderE.
"a charndo Is something you act.
But 1t means Il word Come hero,
Nancy and Nick, and III tell you
what | mean"
Just wait and see" said tho
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NNsESANQIIE

70 blame in any way, for Alice taking
her own life,
/ haven't, however succeeded in
making myself think that / was not
TO blame, because 1 know now TINT
allowed her to have her own way too
much She never thought she had
any responsibility, not even for her
self.
Time, my dear, Is a great CONSIDER,
however. All those things seem like
a horrid dream and ! am beginning
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man.
ase OF exploration. said he. There's
q good town below. l had a chance
- sell the outfit"
Going 10 do IT." Danny could not
conceal hts eascrness,
The elder man shook his gray
head Hardy I'm no pii<er."
II wish sou and Danny would take
The portage and trust the pilot 10
fun the rapids" Roulettn said.
Kirby turned his Cxpressionless
facs upon FIRST ono then the other
~ his companions "SCrvoust he
inquired Of Royal
The latter silently admitted that he
was.
Go ahead. You aud Lefty cross
ofoot
And you7
"oh. I'm going to stick
Father the girl began. but old
sam shook his head.
NO. This is my case bet. and
! m going TO watch IL
Royals weakened face puckercd
until Il resembled more than ever a
vithered apple Then I'll stick,
TOO. he declared. u never laid down
on sou yet. sam.
How about you. Lctty7
The girl smiled WHY. ! wouldn't
trust you boys out OF my sight for a
minute. Something would surely
happen"
Kirby stopped and kissed his
daughters cheek You've always
been our mascot. and you've always
brought US luck I'd SO to he'll in a
paper suit IL you were along. You're
game Kid, too. and / want you 10
10 like that, always Be a thoro.
bred. Don't weaken. no matter how
bad things break for you. This cargo
n rum is worth the best claim in
Dawson. and it'll put us on our feet
gain All want Is one more
chance. Double and duit-that's US.
This was an extraordinarily long
speech for "One-Armed' Kirby, II
showed that he was deeply in
earnest.
Double and qutt? breathed the
girl. DO you mean II, dad7''
He nodded: I'm going to leave you
leelod. / don't aim 10 take my eyes
or this barge again till she's in
Dawson"
Rouletta's face was transformed
there was a great giadness In her
cyes-a giadnes3 half obscurcd by
tears. Double and quit oh--I'ye
cream quitting often' You've
made me very happs. dad
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MS \ d c."
"Or L q II or X Y u" remarked
Doctor Foster, 81 can't see that It
is SO very simple,
DO YOU all give up?' asked the
Wise Man
Eyes, vest We give up" said
tho people OF High links Land,
what Is tho answer?"
al shah tell YOU" said the Wise.
Man,OfOur. Town, "lIisten careful
~. When we were standing in tho
doorway, Nancy and Nick aud I, we
took up all the room didn't wcY'
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q" OLIVE RIO n ERTs BARTON
NO. 1.-THE STUNT PARTY

when Mrs. Gipsy had told every.
ones fortune Mister Corn Dodgcr
called out. "Lct MS have n stunt
party"
Very we'll said tie Clown.
"rhnt suits mo But what Is a
stunt party anywnyw
"a stunt party" said Mister Corn
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Docsc, ia n party where every
person docs something"
"Then lot us begin. IN do tho
bosginE," said Old King Cole. rap.
ping on his bowl with his long
Pipe who viii bc frst2"
~ viii" said Mrs witch, "l1l
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BY SWAN
BY MARTIN
BY BLOSSER
BY TAYLOR

you certainly didr said Old King
Cole.
Tho doorway was entirely fun.
wasn't it?" asked the Wise Man.
I'm say Il was" admitted tho
Scare Grow "Even couldn't have
squeezed past"
"Then," said the Wise Man. 1T
was one door full, wasn't Il? Tho
word was 'wondcrful'r'
"Wcll, we dcclarev' exclaimed the
High links Inndcrs,
ITO BE Continucd)
CcpSt SHIT ipgS4 \, n a, Service, inc.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-19
The N. Y. Commune Pageant

The New York Commune celebration was a huge
success. Even the capitalist press admits this
For the second time this year the Communists and
their sympathizers packed Madison Square Garden,
the largest indoor arena in the United States The
Communist press and the political prisoners in the
jails of capitalism the world over divide the
receipts of the meeting.
just before the event the "bomb squado of the
New York City police got busy raided one of the
rehearsals and the Communist headquarters The
police succeeded in making themselves ridiculous
and giving much publicity to the pageant, the
Workers Communist Party and the occasion for
the celebration
Three comrades are held in $4,000 bail each for
violation of one of the innumerabe statutes Amer
lean capitalist government uses for suppression
and there is nothing ridiculous about this 1t is a
very serious situation for the comrades involved
and for the party, necesstating the raising of an
enormous sum for defense and proving that Com
munists, so far as the capitalist state is concerned
constitute distinct category of persons who are
not allowed even the usual privileges of assembling
for the most peaceful purposes.
Like the Abramoyich meetings the New York
Commune pageant has shown to thousands of work
ers the class character of the Communist Party and
the capitalist state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-19
Lame Duck Senator
Leans on Coolidge;
May Get the Gate

WASHINGTON, D. c., March IT,
Secretary of State Kellogg is not
standing up we'll under the strain of
his new job. His 6S years and indif-
ferent health are telling upon him.
He is surprising his associates in the
department by the degree of his lean
ing upon Coolidge for decisions of
every kind.
This development brings forward
once more the suggestion that the
president will have to select young
er, stronger and sure-footed chief of
the department before the year is out.
Charles Warren, sugar trust agent,
would have been that man, had he
been accepted by the senate for the
attorney generalship. Now he can
not be confirmed for any high Office.
Herbert Hoover is still smarting from
the discourtesy which he thinks the
White House has shown him in cabi-
net reorganization. Mellon is said to
be as much opposed to making Hoover
secretary Of state as is Coolidge.
There are hints that Sen. Pepper
OF Pennsylvania may be the next man
to be offered the job, II Kellogg cant
stand the pace.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-19
Vive La Commune!

fighting at the barricades. The fiend-
ish massacre of $4,000 men, women
and children in the cemetery of Pere
La Chaise, and the overthrow of the
Commune in a deluge of fire and
blood. All that, however, was for af-
forwards, as were also the indescrib-
able horrors Of the camp at Satory
the brutal treatment Of the prisoners,
the deportations to New Caledonia
and all the other infamies in which
the Versailles, indeed brought WOE
to the Vanquished."
But the defeat was in May. On the
18th of March, we celebrated, not
defeat, but a victory, the triumph
transient it is true, but none the less
glorious for all that-of the prole-
tartan revolution; when for once, for
just little while, the people had con-
quered and were masters of the stu
alton.
THEREFORE,, should the 18th of
4 March be kept, not as az day of
mourning, but as festival. The Com
mune was defeated, it is true; but in
celebrating the Inauguration we do
not celebrate it's defeat, it's failure,
but it's triumph. Even it's defeat, its
mistakes and failures have many les
sons for us. Above all things, they
teach us to be none the less ready to
seize our opportunity when it pre-
sents itself, than we're the men and
the women of the Commune; while at
the same time we show the same de-
votion as they did.
WTE must profit from their errors
w by avoiding them, and learn from
the stern consequences that befell
them not to make the mistake of be-
ing too lenient with or of trusting
too much to the word of honor or the
tender mercies Of the bourgeoisie.
The men and women of the commune
have set us a splendid example of
courage and devotion. They have
shown us how to live and work as
we'll as how to suffer and die-for a
cause. The time was not ripe. But
who would care to say that they toll
ed and suffered and died in vain?
HERE just fifty-four years later, the
IL International Communist move
ment, in its ever-spreading organiza-
ton and strength is reaping the har-
vest of the seed that was sown by
the sacrifice and the devotion of these
martyrs of 1871.
We rejoice in their triumph. We
lament their defeat; but inspired by
their noble example we re-echo with
greater certainty of ultimate victory,
their exultant cry "Vive La Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-19
BOARD SILENCES
TEACHERS and
CROWDS PUPILS
Want Pay Raise from
Rich, Not Children


The finance committee of the board
of education met yesterday afternoon
and considered the recommendation
from the superintendent of schools to
increase the salaries of teachers in the
public schools.
The Chicago Teachers Federation
denounces the attempt of Superfn-
tendent McAndrew to break up the
teachers councils, and states that
the money to raise the teachers
salaries should come from the tax
dodgers and not from the building
fund of the board of education.
Have Right to Complain.
"The record of the teachers Of Chi
cago gives them the right to resent"
says the statement, land they do
resent any attempt to pit them against
the children by making the teachers
appear willing to benefit themselves
at the expense of the children. Our
twenty-five years record of protest
against proposals of the board of edu-
cation that would injure the children
warrants the confidence of the public
and deserves it's condemnation Of any
present attempt to break up the organ
izations thru which teachers speak and
act"
1t is declared that in the face of
$19,000,000 deficit in the educational
fund and shockingly overcrowded
schools, SO billion dollars worth OF
Chicago property that is taxable has
Illegally escaped taxation. 1t is de.
clared that the board Of education is
planning to skimp on it's school build.
ings, crowding LISP children, into new
buildings meant to seat only 816 by
platooning the schools.
Increase Fire Hazards.
"All the children in the school will
be kept rotating back and forth from
classrooms to dumping places, thereby
increasing the fire and panic hazards
and danger from the spread Of con.
tagion and epidemic" said the Chicago
teachers statement. Platoon schools.
double schools, and double sessions,
larger classes, larger schools and all
other shifts and makeshifts are
shortsighted attempts to evade the
real issue. Every child of school age
is entitled to attend a middle-of-the-
day school, to occupy a seat in quiet.
uncrowded school, and to have indi-
vidual attention from adequately train
ed teachers who are free from petty
tyranny and the indignities of bureau
cratic domination"
If the tax burden were distributed
over the entire value of the taxable
property in Chicago, the present school
revenue would be doubled, it is said,
and >the tax rate could be cut down
to one-ffth of the present rate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-19
BY cATHALL RoRU.3

ENIFTY-FOUR years ago the prole-
4 tariat of Paris rose, arms in hand
in defense of their civic rights, their
right to bear the arms that they
themselves had forged, and in defense
of the republican idea against the re-
dictionary mob of Bonapartists and
royalists who sought to disarm them
and re-impose the corrupt rule of
autocracy.
1t is an oft told tale, but one that
is sadly in danger of being forgotten
in this country with our traditional
dislike of revolutionary change; our
reputation of the class war; our
bourgeois ideas and theories; and our
belief in the good intentions of the
master class.
TT was a glorious event, however,
L which should ever be borne in
mind and celebrated by the prole-
tariat Of all countries. The people of
France organized and armed their ma
tional guard for the defense of their
city against the Prussian invader.
When their rulers capitulated they
sought to deprive the national guard
of their arms. The latter resisted and
won over the troops sent to disarm
them. 1t was an insurrection, a revo-
luton. The Commune was proclaim
ed. For the first time in history the
capital city of a great country had
real working class administration.
THE public services were re-organ-
4 lied; jobbery and corruption were
rooted out; abuses suppressed, and
relief measures carried out to relieve
existing distress. Never in the his
tory of Paris was the administration
so good, the public services so eff
cient, the public order so admirable
as during the two months of the rule
of the Commune, since so execrated
and maligned by the reactionaries and
the reactionary press of the whole
world.
All the time that the work of civil
reorganization was going on there
was the military defense claiming ur-
gent attention. The Versailles royal
list and Bonapartist butchers were
gathering together their legions for
the slaughter. Around three sides of
Paris the German eagles hemmed in
the devoted revolutionists while on
the other side there gathered the
masses Of rurals and released prison
ers of war
THEN came the civil war, the fight
4 ing all along the road from Yer
sailles to Paris. The taking one by
one of the forts. The bombardment
of Paris by the Versaillese. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-19
The Rockefeller Plan

The bible-pOunding John ~ Rockefeller, Jr., was
fond of boasting of the company union plan. II
would prevent strikes Perhaps William FL
Johnston of the late G. p p A. and still of the
|. A. M. got his inspiration for his b. and O. plan
from the pious multi-nillionaire.
The following news item frim the Colorado Labor
Advocate is as good an editorial on "the success
of the plan in the mines of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron company as could be written on the question
The wages Of the coal miners Of the WaIsen dis.
trict have cut 20 per cent by the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company.
The company announces that the men asked for
the cut
Here the facts:
Four years ago the C. F. & !. asked the miners to
accept Voluntary cut in wages. They passed "peti
tions" thru the mine camps. Some miners asked"
in wages of one-thrd; others refused to task" to
have their living cut.
The mines where the men refused to "askp wage
cut WERE CLOSED DOWN. The men in the WaIsen
district remember that time
But at that time many miners left the state in
individual refusas to accept the cut that the com.
pany forced to go before the industrial board
which always orders what the c. F. & |. wants-and
ask to have the wages put back up!
This spring, labor leaders have known for weeks
the c. F. & l. planning for wage cuts. The old
tricks have been used The mines have been closed
in the rails have been taken out and the
mines apparently abandoned. 1t is the old, honey
eoatd threat: Work at our rate or starve
1t is the representation pIan" It is industrial
democracy" 1t is company unonism." ~. .o-
And the miners are heIpless!
They are not helpless but between giant corpora
tons and the labor takers they are confronted with
serious obstacles. They will break thru, however.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-19
Aid for WilIimantic Strikers

We are carrying frst-hand information of the
strike of $500 textile workers in Willimantic,
Connecticut strike that seems to be of the most
determined and best organized character occurring
In the textile industry this year. Our own cor
respondent is furnishing the news and the DAILY
WORKER is being read with interest by large
numbers of the strikers
The DAILY WORKER appears in this strike
not as mere recorder of events, but as positive
force 1t urges the program of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party and the Trade Union Educational
League, united front of all the unions and work
ers against the textile barons amagamation of the
unions into one huge industrial union, workers
and farmers government.
Neither does the DAILY WORKER and the revo-
lutionary party for which it speaks neglect the
daily needs of the workers. There is much want
and suffering among the striking textile workers,
they must have money for the relief of the families
of the strikers and to carry on their fight
Those workers and organizations that are far
from the scene of the struggle in Willimantic can
assist their fellow workers by donations of money
Sums collected for this purpose should be sent to
William Simons, z. o. Box 1873, Willimantic, Conn