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q new shape emerged. For the mo-
ment he forgot the maelstrom that
surged outside his office door-the
humdrum of bargaining in the great
lavish floors of the department store.
The girl, who was one of those who
bargained. bargained her wits against
the purses of housewives; bargained
the simmer of her hair and the
brown of her eyes and the curve of
her lips against the world, of which
the crowds out there were a symbol,
became a flower, a delicate, exquisite
blossom that some irreVerent hot
house trader had painted into mon
strous gorgeousness for the jaded
taste of fools.
The "Old Man" forgetting for the
moment the fluctuations in the price
of Manchester cotton and the seasons
demand for Highland plaids. pictured
her as a rhododendron suddenly be-
wildered by a beam Of sunlight break
ing through u mist.
And then Joanna looked up at him.
Doubts and confusion had gone from
her face. 1t was lit with the taunting
smile of one who had solved a. riddle.
Somebody needs a doctor! Who's
crazy, you or 1?'
Graydon shook his head. IT'S all
very real, Joanna! You came in to
me, a while ago, little lady of very
small estate. When you go out again
you will be veritable princess in a.
kingdom of money
Joanna crumpled back in her chair.
She brushed her forehead with the
back Of hand.
please, Mr.. Graydon," she pleaded,
Don't make a fool of me-"
The earneStneSs, the seriousness
of the man who confronted her puz-
zled her. and sent her fioundering for
other words. lie pointed to the paper
she still held in her hand.
Read 1t aloud" he said perhaps
the sound of it will help you"
After she had murmured her per-
sistent doubt, 1T says it's from a
bank" she obeyed him, mechanical lily:
And 1t says" she began: 1--WE
have the good fortune to notify you
that there has been placed on de-
posit with this institution, to your
credit, the sum of 81 100000 in cash
and securities, subject to your per-
sonal check and such other DISPOSE
ton as you may wish to make of
these funds.
"'NVe beg to say, here, that this de-
posit has been made by a patron of
this institution who has not confided
10 us the source of your funds noh. the
motives which have assembled them
for YOU. We have not considered it
necessary to inquire into these mat
ter1. because of the identity OF the
depositor, nor as to his reasons for
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the injunction upon us not to disclose
his identity to YOU
The girl faltered, and looked again
at Graydon. who was watching her
| intently. The frown still wcinkled
| in her brow. Her eyes still CROPPED.
You see?" she argued desperately:
Il told you-somebody's loose that
ought to be in a hospital"
Graydon pointed to the paper
shaking in her trembling fingers. She
read for him the closing paragraph:
1--WE are sending you, through your
employer, your bank book with an
entry of your account. We are given
to understand that Mr.. Graydon will
amplify certain remarks included
above. We trust"
Her voice droned off through the
perfunctory assurances OF advice ana
assistance. When she raised her
eyes Graydon had dropped into his
chair, across the table from her. She
looked at him blankiy.
Graydon spoke deliberately, choos
ing his words, as if conscious of his
need to penetrate the understanding
of the girl, whose mind struggled
against a portent that overwhelmed
her.
You may accept each sentence
with complete confidence" he said.
THE money is there, ready for you.
Downstairs, at the curb. my own car
is waiting to take you and your bank
book to the bank. There you will
sign your name, just a scratch or the
pen, and the rest
He paused, and his fingers again
played with the jade paper weight.
In that slight pause Joanna-the
Joanna whose PHILOSOPHERS were fruits
of many wisdoms-thought she saw
the thing that for the time had been
driven from her thoughts.
She was right, after all. Only, 1t
hadn't come in the way she expected.
A pretty little play. with all its elabo-
rate stage setting. A million dollars.
A new kind of gesture made by some
idiot who thought she wouldn't be
wise" in time. A million dollars.
then, "the rest And the pompous
gift Of money recalled as laughingly
as it had been craftily given.
Ridiculous.
Joanna dropped the letter to the
floor and rose. Her lips set into a
line that was out Of place against
their penciled contours.
Now you're getting at 1t. Mr..
Graydonn' she exclaimed. II thought
Evening star., 1925-11-16
The Strange. Tragic, Romantic
Adventures of the Flapper You Know
By H.L.GATES

faced Graydon again and cried out to
him:
But what am I do to with the
money!"
The man answered in the even.
curiously convincing manner that SO
completely baffled her: THAT Is one
of the questions 1 may not answer.
I shall be eager to know what your
decisions will be-
The secretary would have COM
forted the girl; would have taken her
arm and led her out into the store
and to the street, but Graydon stayed
her with Il motion of his hand. as If
whatever Joanna was to face she
must face it alone. Joanna CROPPED
her way across the office and the re-
ception room. The secretary held
open for her the outer door. For a
moment she leaned against it. Before
her eyes the busy people who hurried
through the pasSagewayS between
the partitions of the cubbyholes on
the "office floor" seemed to be swim
mers in a whirlpool. She felt that
Graydon had followed her and was
standing close. Without turning she
asked, her voice rising barely above
a whisper:
Which way do l go?"
A long IlTne aIleTWdIQ, Wnen
Joanna of the skirts too short and
lips too red and tongue too pert had
become a Golden Girl around whom
q vortex ragged, she remembered
Graydons reply to her whispered ap
peal:
Il wish that I might show you.
my dear; but it is every girls burden
to choose for herself. And as each one
of you makes your choice the world
becomes better or worse. You may
go either to the right--or to the left"
When the door closed behind the
girl who had been Miss Twenty
seven of the silks" Graydon asked
the secretary to get for him, on the
telephone. the bank whose letter
Joanna had wonderingly carried
away in Ter hands. Ask that have
Mr. Eggleston. He is expecting q call
from me-" - -
The telephone conversation was
brief. Graydon seemed only to wish
that his friend, the closest Of the
friends of his elderly years. should
know that she" was on her way
to the bank; that she" would be
there in a few minutes.
At the other end of the wire
Andrew Eggleston, a gray man who
Evening star., 1925-11-16
CHAPTER III.
Into the Kingdom of Money.

For a long time Graydon silently
looked down upon the girl who had
swayed into the chair. She, too, was
silent, motionless. The letter he had
given her with the small leather
bound book shook in her hand. She
held it before her, an arm resting
across her knees. Her eyes stared
at the typed lines. Now and again
she closed her lids tightly, shook her
head ever so little, and parted her
lids again, as if the words on the
paper blurred before the fascination
of her gaze and she had Strengthened
them out by shaking the confusion
out of her brain.
Once she let her hand droop, and
kept her eyes closed for what might
have been half minute. Then, with
a suddenness that seemed as if she
were clutching at a shadow that she
didn't want to fade, she brought the
paper closer and read each line again,
in frantic haste.
AS Graydon watched her the wrath
of something very tender and inef-
fable lowered about his lips. Out of
the eccentric pattern of the exagger-
ated type she represented, the exces-
sively obtrusive daughter Of today"
Evening star., 1925-11-16
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Better than Soda

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For fifty years genuine "PhlIips
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bottles, any drug store.
Evening star., 1925-11-16

might have been nodded from the
same pattern that had shaped Gray
don except that the lines of his face
were sterner, the lights of his eyes
spasmodic, would have had his friend
say more. He was unhappy with
his own curiosity. Andrew Eggleston,
chairman of the board of the great
banking institution, and himself one
of the worlds richest men, was totally
unfamiliar with a sense of curiosity
about the private emotions of one
of his banks patrons. Yet he wanted
to know how "she" had received the
news that "she' suddenly had be-
come possessor Of the not inconse-
quential sum of S1,000,000. He at
Evening star., 1925-11-16
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Evening star., 1925-11-16
SNNOPSISIOANNA.

Joanna Miss Twenty-seven of the silk
counter" described as Joanna of the skirts
too short and the lips too red and the
tongue too pert" suddenly is summoned to
the private office of Graydon. owner of the
great department store in which she is EN-
ployed. The summons is delivered by Mr..
Good Morning" the silk counter name for
Hardness. the important buyer. whom the
girls, ridicule. but fear, Joanna bewil.
that she is to be dismissed for some un-
known offense. c9nceals her concern and
ence of the august "Old Man whom few
of the employees have ever seen. Graydon
receives her kindly and questions her to
her family and friends She assures him
she has neither not counting her dancing
boys. who are light in the head az they
try to he on their feet. She forgets to tell
him of John. schoolboy wooer. who still
is her devoted admirer. She thinks Graydon
10 merely amusing himself with her. and is
antagonstic to him. SuNeniy he hands her
a little leather bound book and a letter,
addressed to her in care of the store. When
she reads the first paragraph Joanna sways
and would have fallen If Graydon had not
caught her and gently settled her in chair.
Evening star., 1925-11-16
To AVOID COLDS THIS WINTER
DO as your Doctor says

Keep your body warm. No
matter what outer clothing
you wear, it is essential that
you wear warm, we'll fitting
underwear underwear that
will not only absorb perspira-
ton, but will keep your body
from being chilled.
1t is no longer necessary to
shiver through the long win
ter months in order to be
stylishly dressed.
Styles have changed in un-
derwear as we'll as in outer
wear, and today, underwear
is made to conform to the
styles of the outer garments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-31
The Pittsburgh SeditiOn Cases

The sedion against the Communist defendants
Pittsburgh have been brought life after years Two
probably prompt the authorities in renewing these prosecutions
arising out Of a May Day celebration two years ago.
The the activity the Communists the allied
industries and among the coal miners the second the general
disposition shown press such particularly against foreign
born workers. evidenced by the revival of deportation drives
Pittsburgh without the Communists fairly peaceful That
there other determined working group that
lead the struggle against the steel trust it's
they decided the method Of
The Pennsylvania sedon law vicious than Of
similar laws in other states because of another which
makes it compulsory for judges sentence offenders
than oneha Of the maximum Pittsburgh
this that the victims will minimum Of something
like ten years in the penitentary.
The defense of comrades in Pennsylvania will be heavy
burden party but such work
tasks The savage sentences these comrades they
convicted make absolutely that the party respond
quickly and generously to all calls in their behalf
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-31
French Communists on the Job

French Communists have shown to the world the world
today includes hundreds millions colonial
what the Communist parties and the Communist international
the mperialist yoke.
The Communist deputies withdrawal
Of all French from Morocco the immediate ending
impea They defended the right possession
Of their country called upon the French troops
for the French imperaists.
The socialists raised their yellow banner They
dpored the Of the regretted the sacrifice Of lives did
and said nothing behalf the coona whom govern
is numbering that retain its control Of northern Africa
African possessions.
In France shown the application of the united
of the Communists in sharp the betrayal
peoples by the socialists It Is united front from below
the advanced section the working op
pressed millions value
Of this demonstration Of solidarity will be clearly
colonial liberation movements gather momentum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-31
A MARKHAM Criticism of Art and Science

8. crltlque Of American Criticism.
THIS, to me. is the most delicious
\ chapter in the book. The pompous
windhag bourgeois critics who write
for the American Mercury, The Ma
ton, the Dial. ct al, are here handed
some Of the solidest wallops they have
ever received. Nothing personal or
petty-just clear scientific analysis,
crueller with its lancet-thrust than
any club.
H. L. Mencken, the newspaper
Neitzchean, a college boys dream of
supremacy, is disposed of as neatly
and completely as even the most ar
dent enemy of his brand Of near-beer
supermanliness could wish. The con-
clusion reads:
(tVET Mr.. Mencken is representa-
= tive of our present generation.
He is representative of an era that
precedes collapse. His verbal antics
and Inconsistencies of logic vividly re-
fleet the chaotic indecision and con-
tradiction of our time-and nation
Our mind is still afflicted with dubiety
and myopia. It revolts against bour-
geois ethics, but not against bourgeois
economics. 1t is feverish and irene
tic, insurrectionary of mood, but with
out knowledge Of direction. 1t is con-
tent with superficial remonstrance. It
realizes deficiencies but prefers to
laugh at them-not to lessen or elimi-
nate them. And so Mr.. Mencken
thrivesl"
8. Morals and DetermInism.
A shrewd and scholarly study, from
the Communist-Marxian viewpoint Of
this tangled central theme of most
classic philosophy.
z. The Great Man Illusion.
A fine bit OF original thinking.
8. The Rise Of Objective Psychology.
What has happened in economics,
is happening in the less established
science of psychology. The material
list viewpoint is unlocking many
riddle here.
9. The 0uantitatlve Conception.
A study in scientific method, and
how it has begun to affect all modern
thought.
10. The Trend of Modern Psychology.
Another assault on the philosophic
idealists, who so long have obscured
confused and corrupted the young
thinkers who might have helped in
the social struggle.
TEN essays in all; not a well-round-
= ed book, but collection Of scatter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-31

A YOUNG scholar, rs years old, v.
"A F. Calverton by name, has Just
published a book Of essays, 1.-THE
Newer Spirit" The sensation that at
tends a new novel by Sinclair Lewis
or a harlequinade by H. L. Mencken,
has not followed Calverton's book. 1t
has received long and. puzzled reviews
in many capitalist papers, but the
young intellectuals" who speak for
bourgeois America today have not
made any great fuss over Calverton.
Why should they7 The young intellec-
tuals who half-believed that czardom
would last forever did not make much
Of fuss when Plechanoff wrote the
first book of MARKHAM assays in Rus
STA. Russia today realizes, however,
that Plechanoff was the intellectual
forefather of the ideas behind the
Russian revolution.
LIS book. to the best of my knowl-
L L edge, is the first serious attempt
in this country to apply the touch
stone Of MARKHAM Interpretation to
every phase Of human thought. We
have had a few MARKHAM propagan-
dists and economic theorists in Anne
RIGA, Daniel De Leon first Of all, but
Calverton seems the first to have
reached out into domains hitherto
considered sacred to the cultured col
lege bred bourgeoisie. He has not al
lowed himself to be confined to eco
Monies and history alone; Marxism is
key to the riddle OF all human
thought, Ss~>
Imagine q MARKHAM bringing his
stern eye and steely technique of
criticism into the muddled and trou-
bled worlds Of psychology, anthropo-
logy, literature, art, ethics, esthetics,
science in general. Here, for many
years, the college professors have
felt themselves safe from revolution
airy thought; and American Marxians,
hitherto, have not had the holiness,
the desire or the equipment to chal-
lenge the bourgeois professors in
their own fields. Calverton, follow
ing In the footsteps of the European
and Russian giants OF Marxism, walks
fearlessly into the bourgeois temples,
however, and with cool, dispassion-
ate, and almost dull determination
proceeds to smash idol after idol.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-31
AMUNDSEN MAY
Be EXPLORING,
BELIEF OF AIDS
Not to Search for Pole
Filler for Week

OSLO, Norway, May 2s.-Continued
fair weather in the Polar zone and
the knowledge that Captain Road
Amundsen expected to make more ex
tensive observations at the Pole than
was at first believed served to allay
the fears that have been expressed as
to his safety.
Latest dispatches from Spitzbergen
where Amundsen and his companions
hoped off on their daring aerial dash
to the Pole last Thursday stated that
members of his base party did not
favor starting any search for the
missing explorer until at least two
weeks have elapsed.
Amundsen's instructions, according
to Lieut.. Horgen, a member OF the
party still at Spitzbergen, were that
If he has not heard from him for four
teen days, the steamer Hobby was to
go eastward and the steamer Farm,
westward along the ice barrier. If a
six-week search produced no result,
the ships were to return on the pre-.
sumption that Amundsen was direct
ing his course to Cape Columbia, ap.
proximately $50 miles north of Green.
land.
These instructions indicated that
Amundsen started out on his spec.
tacular dash with the firm intention
of making observations that would re.
quire considerable time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-31
SYMBOLISM TO
BE SPOUTED BY
SCOPES DEFENSE
VIII Not Dare Expose
Nonsense In Bible

DAYTON, Tenn, May 29.-The re-
port here that Rev. George Craig
Stewart of Evanston, pastor of the
fashionable st. Luke's episcopal
parish and a trustee of Northwestern
University, may be called as a witness
for the defense of John Scopes, adds
further proof to the statement that
the defense will not deny the truth of
the bible.
The attorney defending the right
of Scopes to teach evolution in the
public schools of the state, despite
the state anti-evolution law, will try
to reconcile the statements of Darwin
with the statements of the bible. They
will not be bold enough to state plain
ly that the bible is a mixture of his
tory and fantastic fairy tales, but will
call on Stewart and others to declare
that the bible may be interpreted
"symbolically" to include the theory
of evolution.
DR.. Stewart claims that the bible is
spiritual and cannot be contradicted
by physical science.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-31
VOL SPEAKS IN DEFENSE OF CAPITAL

ment, namely the Sherman antitrust
law.
Bring On Your Economic Power"
1t transpires as grim humor that
after the meeting VOLTS chairman
Brother Collins and Brother Fitz-
gerald were pinched for violation of
the antitrust law and that Brother
Woll must resort to this dispised
political action to free his Economic"
agents.
Harmony and order" were invoked
much as the chamber of commerce
invokes law and order and obviously
against the same militancy which dis
turbs the tranquility of the Rabbits
in both camps. The only disturbing"
note was sounded by Frank X. Martel,
president Of the Detroit Federation of
Labor who spoke of the bosses "driv-
ing slaves" Brother Woll and others
had used the more euphemistic term,
wage earners."
An organization committee was
selected consisting Of VIM. Collins,
chairman; Brothers Coach, Mccoy,
Loughead, Fitzgerald, Martel and
Bait. The meetings are to be held
the End and 4th Wednesdays of each
month. An enlarged organization COM
mittee consisting of three members
from each local union will participate
in these bi-weekly meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-31

THE very titles offhik essays reveal
L the important and far-reaching
tasks this young MARKHAM critic has
set for himself:
I. The Sociological Criticism Of
Llterature.
In this essay Calverton proves how
mystic and mushy most American
literary criticism is. 1t is based on
within and class prejudices. Calver-
ton gives q miniature history Of liter
ature, and shows how it has in every
age reflected the life OF the predomin-
ant class. AS the proletariat rises to
power, it ia also becoming the theme
for fiction and art, he says.
2. Sherwood Anderson, . study In
Sociological Criticism.
In this rather lengthy essay Cal
verton analyses the work of one Of the
best Of modern fietionists in America,
and shows the proletarian coming to
consciousness in some OF Anderson's
stories. He also shows the social
sources OF Sherwood Anderson's many
defects-his adolescent mysticism, his
peasant-like fear OF machinery and
large cities. A searching MARKHAM
study-one Of the first ever attempt
ed in this field in America.
8. The Tmpermanency Of EsthetIc
Values.
THIS essay is very cool and scien-
4 tic demolition of all the the the
cries of the artfor-art-sakers. The
favorite illusion of artists is that tho
all other values In life are inconstant,
and change with the centuries, art
has certain values that are immortal
Calverton destroys this obsession.
4. ProIetarIan Art.
1.-THE proletarian motif have intro
duced new psychological element in
to art" this essay begins. 1t traces
the rise of the proletarian minded
writer's in America. It should have
been the longest and most important
essay in the book, but Calverton has
been rather weak here. Perhaps one
needs a full book to cover this sub
ject. should like to see a critic
like Calverton discuss the youngest
proletarian writers, those whose work
appears in only the revolutionary jour
nals-and who have not yet publish
ed books. 1t is in such work that a
critic creates and inspires new
world, also proves his ability to pick
for the future.