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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-04

| the paper after he has subscribed
The Lenin Drive of The DAILY
WORKER will soon come to close.
Every party member must secure at
/ least one sub in this drive. In the
New York district a special one
months subscription for so cents is
offered to non-party workers.
The nuclei must also organize the
distribution of The DAILY WORKER
in the shop among those workers who
have not yet subscribed.
The street nuclei must help to place
The DAILY WORKER on the news
stands and help in the sale, by guaran-
teeing to the dealer tho sale of a
minimum number of copies and pay
ing for them in case they are not sold.
Every street nucleus should place this
question on it's order efsbusiness.
In addition the markets where the
workers gather must be covered by
comrades every day. For example in
the city of New York there is the
mems wear, the ladies' wear, the cap
makers-and furriers' market-where
workers by the thousands gather
every day during lunch yhour. We
must develop a system where COM
rades regularly cover the markets
during lunch hour and sen the paper
Many members of the{ Young Work
ers League and of the party can in
this way make enuf to live and devote
the rest of their time to other party
work exclusively.
Bring Party Press Into Unions.
One of the means of distribution
hat we have sadly neglected is the
union local and union center. Every
party trade union fraction must elect
literature director and he in turn
must draw every party member in
that union into the distribution of
party literature. Where we have not
single member in the union, COM
rade must be designated to cover the
hall where the union meets and sell
The DAILY WORKER in or near the
hall. This must be done regularly so
that the workers will learn to know
that they can always get our litera-
ture there
Party Leadership Must Help.
The party leaders and the party
committees must see to it that the
proper attention is given to the build
ing up of the Communist press. Spe-
cial meetings not only of literature
agents but of all functionaries must
be called to consider the problems in
connection with our press. Nuclei
and subsection meetings must give
special attention to the building up
of the press.
The New York district will hold a
special meeting of allsorganizers, sec.
retaries, and agitprop directors Of all
the shop and street nuclei on Sunday,
Feb. Z, at IL a. m. at 10S E. 14th St.,
to take up the problem of the content
and distribution of the Communist
press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-04
Tacoma Holds Lenin
Memorial Meeting

TACOMA, Wash, Feb. 2-The Lenin
memorial meeting held at the Fratern-
ity Hall was addressed by A. f. Meis-
mer of Tacoma and Aaron Fisherman
of Seattle. in
Meisner spoke briefly on the neces-
sity of class solidarity Showing the at
tempts of the capitalist class to divide
the workers on the issue Of race, reli-
gioD, etc. He also attacked the lying
capitalist press. 81
Fisherman. organizer of District No.
~ Of the Workers (Communist) Party
spoke on the work Of benin, the fail
ure OF the second International and the
necessity Of building upfa strong party
of the workers in this country.
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Tacoma Will Hear
Carl Brannin Speak
on Soviet Russia

TACOMA, Wash, Feb. 2-There will
be a series of four mass meetings here
during February at thereby Hall An
mex on Sunday evenings at 8 O'Clock.
Carl Brannin, who has just returned
from Soviet Russia will speak at three
of these meetings. On Feb. 7 he will
speak on Conditions in Soviet Russia
Today" On Feb. IA How British
Workers are Facing Militant Capital
ISM" on Feb. 2S Labor Under Cap
italist Sterilization in France, Italy
and Germany" Aaron Fisherman, or
ganizer of Dist. IL of the Workers
(Communist) Party will speak at the
meeting of Feb. 81 on "The Labor
Movement in America"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-04
REORGANIZATION
is COMPLETE IN
FORT BRAGG, CAL.
Shop Nuclei in Lumber
Camps Start Work

FORT BRAGG. Cal, Feb 2--Fort
Bragg has recognized its Workers
(Communist) Party branch on a shop
nucleus basis. Here it has been a
slow process as there are less mem
bers working in the lumber mills, and
more out in the camps. 1t was impos-
sible at the reorganization meeting to
register the entire membership, which
will be accomplished within two
weeks more. Of the rs members in
the old Finnish branch, So have al
ready been registered and assigned to
their nuclei, and 10 more are expect
ed to register when they come into
town from the woods
One shop nucleus of five members
has been organized; one nucleus of
eight members in a lumber camp; a
nucleus of four members in another
lumber camp, and about ten more
woodsmen working in scattered
camps will be attached to street nue.
lei when they come into town. Thirty
members living and working in town
are organized into two street nuclei.
The Fort Bragg local is made up
entirely Of Finnish comrades. who will
meet as a language fraction monthly;
they have control of large and thriv-
ing cooperative store, with several
hundred members, a dramatic society,
and a Finnish Comrades Club.
The city executive committee has
also a youth director, who is coop
Grating with the newly organized
branch of the Young Workers Com
munist) League to build up the youth
movement. Five party members who
are within the required age limit,
under 25, have been instructed to
join the league, and all party mem
bers have pledged to send their chill
dren to the meetings Of the Young
Pioneers also just organized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-04
The Kansas Students
Conference

ready to protect the financial interests
If American capitalists whose way is
paved by the Y. M. c. A.
The only note which correspondent
to the feelings of the suppressed Gin
more than one sense) foreign students
was sounded by the representative of
The All-America Anti Imperialist
League. After presenting an analysis
of the present situation in the world
the dominating role which is being
played by American Imperialism, and
he resistance which was beginning
TO be offered by the long-suffering
,olonials, he presented three resolu-
ions: one congratulated Julio An
.onio Mella on his release and greeted
the Cuban Students League; a second
which expressed the solidarity Of
American students with the independ-
ence movements in the Philippines,
with the revolutionary students and
the uprising of China, with the Korean
nationalists, and message of greet
ings to the newly formed Japanese
labor party; and a third which called
upon the conference to take measures
to call together a united front conven-
ton of all youth organizations to
struggle against militarism and inn
perialism.
The we'll organized conference tabled
the first two resolutions and Mr.. Ted
Shultz, the genial head of the Y. M.
c. A. of Kansas University introduced
substitute for the third. The sub
stitute was a striking example of the
sham progFessiveness of the Y M.
c. A.; it was a conclusive proof of
the fact that when the "Y'' is pressed
to the wall it escapes with protests
against Imperialism in words, and
sabotage of all efforts to organize con-
solidated action to fight Imperialism.
The substitute resolution could only
"look with concern upon developing
spirit of militarism within America"
The role of the "Y", as pacifist and
jingoist by turns, was clearly demon
strated. Confronted with a proposal
for action it could offer nothing but
d uledHluSlSSS pdCAHoJ PM oSc. n
stream cannot rise above its source;
and the millions of dollars annually
contributed to the Y. M. C. A. by
Rockefeller, the McCormicks and other
magnates. dictate the policy and ac-
tions of the organization. The con-
ference in Kansas was a proof of this
fact.
Neither the American students nor
the foreigners on our shores can ex-
pect leadership or action from the
Y. M. C. A., or social sewing circles
of a higher character like the College
Cosmopolitan Clubs. 1t is only thru
determined union of all the forces
in real sincere struggle against inn
perialism and the growth of militarist
preparations, particularly in the
schools, that the American students,
together with the workers, and the
anti-imperialist forces in other coun-
tries, can fulfill their task
The All-American Anti-Imperialist
League will continue its efforts to
rally the American students, and the
foreign students here. in a real fight
against the daily growing menace Of
American imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-04
New York NJ e e citing
on Wornen's Work at
Manhattan Lyceum

NEW YORK, Feb. 2-All comrades
who are housewives and women be-
longing to International branches are
called to a meeting on Feb. s, at Man
haitian Lyceum, sc East Fourth street
at D. m.
No matter what other activities you
may have on this evening, you must
attend this meeting. This meeting has
for its purpose the organization of our
women comrades in an important field
of the party activity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-04
BY JACK sTAcHEL.


THE most powerful instrument of
L the party is its press. Yet this i'm
portant activity of the party is today
the concern of a few. The party
membership, aside from buying sub
scription irregularly, is not actively
participating in the building up of the
power and influence of our press.
Today The DAILY WORKER is the
concern of The DAILY WORKER
agents in the different cities and the
close groups Of literature agents that
they build around them. The rest of
the party membership considers it an
intrusion when at regular meetings
of nuclei, sub-sections, etc, the litera-
ture director takes a little time for
The DAILY WORKER. AS for mass
meetings, a little progress has been
made in the sense that The DAILY
WORKER receives a few minutes at
each meeting, thanks to the instruc-
ton from the central executive com
mittee. But even here the chairman
often does not consider The DAILY
WORKER announcements important
enuf and the representative of The
DAILY WORKER is kept waiting I'M
til the end of the meeting, sometimes
to make the announcements while the
audience is leaving. and at other
times going home with an apology of
the chairman that he overlooked The
DAILY WORKER"
This situation must be altered The
entire party must be made to feel that
The DAILY WORKER and the Com
munist press is the concern of
EVERY PARTY MEMBER and every
member must bear the responsibility
for the content and distribution of
The DAILY WORKER.
Content of Our Press.
Many of our comrades are con-
stantly complaining that The DAILY
WORKER and other party papers are
not interesting enuf to the workers
This at times is to some extent true
But very few of our comrades when
called upon to contribute towards
making our paper more interesting to
the workers, do their share.
The party is now undergoing a pro-
cess of reorganization on the basis OF
shop and street nuclei. This reorgan.
ization of the party is not merely an
ALLEGATION of the existing party mem
bership. Reorganization means that
the party must change its methods
of work and with it will come a
change in the composition of the
party membership and more Lenin
list theology. The new methods OF
work require that every member be
drawn into the work of the party. The
new method transfers the center OF
activity from the street into the shop
altho still recognizing the fact that
the residential sections are important
and the building up of street nuclei to
carry on within those areas syste
matte Communist work. The reor
ganization is the organizational ex
preston of the partys political line
namely to organize the masses not as
the socialist party for electoral cam
paigns only, but for the revolution
Thru the reorganization the vanguard
the party-will make its contact
with the workers, and will thus lead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-04
BY NJ. S.

BY M. S.
A short time ago conference of
foreign and American students was
held on the campus of Kansas Uni
versity. 1t was the meeting of the
fifth district of the College Cosmo-
politan Clubs, which enrolls American
students with an interest in foreign
affairs, and foreign students who are
studying in American colleges. The
fifth district of the organization COM
prises the colleges and universities of
the middle western part of the coun-
try.
The conference, which, besides its
regular delegates, was attended by a
fraternal delegate from the All-Amer-
lea Anti-Imperialist League, was typ
ical of the backwardness of the Amer
lean students, of an organization DOM
mated by the Young Mems Christian
Association, and of the.fear which is
impressed upon the minds of the pro-
gressive and revolutionary foreign
students who attend American col
leges and who know that expulsion is
the immediate result Of heretical
opinion.
Here could be found delegates
whose birthplace was one or another
of the colonies or semi-colonies of
American Imperialism: the Philip
pines, Cuba, Mexico; delegates from
hotbeds' of national revolutionary up
rising against foreign exploitation
Koreans, Chinese, Indians, Arabs and
others. And these delegates feared
to express openly the opinions which
they communicated privately, opinions
which bitterly condemned, as one of
the Mexican students did, the activi-
ties of American Imperialism below
the Rio Grande.
The first few sessions of the confer
ence were taken up with the most
amazing sort of drivel: discussions on
whether or not foreign students
should dance, or. smoke, if they should
make dates with American girls,
whether they should live in a frater-
nifty house or with an American
family. This. profound and enlighten-
ing discussion was led by a cultured
gentleman from the Y. M. G. A. who
strained himself quite successfully to
make the students forget that there
was such thing as the Y. M. c. A.
being a servile tool of American inn
perialism in the Orient and in South
America. He also. overlooked the cpl
sode in Siberia where the Y NJ c. A.
backed the counter-revolutiona ban
dts in their guerrilla warfare against
the first working class republic. His
chief worry seemed to be the making
of the foreign student socially accept
able on the campus.
The discussion led by Mr.. Ted
Shultz on the Problems Of Foreign
Students in America was as little en-
tightening as that of his predecessor
Little comfort was obtained from him
by the Filipinos whose brethren are
being murdered by American Win
chester rifles of Woods troops, nor
by the Mexicans who are being threat
ened by a new Intervention by Mr..
Kellogg, or the Chinese, whose waters
are patrolled by American gunboats
especially built for duty in China,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-04
European Aviators
Reach South America

PERNAMBUCO. Brazil. Feb. 2. ~
Commander Franco and his colleagues
who completed the first fight from
Europe to South America are over
hauling their plane and expect to hop
off from Pernambuoo for Rio Janiero
Wednesday. .-..-.-...
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-04
williamsburg Party
Members Meet Monday

BROOKLYN, N, Y, Feb. Meet
ing of Workers tcommunist) Party,
Section 8. Subsection A. will be held
on Monday, Feb 81 at 46 Ten Eyck St.,
Brooklyn, N. Y, al D. m. sharp
Every member must be present. No
excuses will be accepted for failure
to attend this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-04
Gas Cats Hotel Guests.

WILLOW SPRINGS, ILL, Feb. D.
Eight persons, overcome by coal gas,
were found unconscious in the twenty
room hotel here today when a Con
stable, summoned by persons alarmed
by their inability to get into the
tion of the victims 10 said to be
l.rious.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-04

''The Story of the Earth" and "History
Of Mankind" by Samuel Ball, every
Sunday, 1880 P. NJ 641 w. Washington
st. Every Saturday, 1921 Cottage Grove
Ave-, 7:45 p. M. Questions and discus
sion from the floor.
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Telephone Lehigh 6o22
DR.. ABRAHAM MARRIOTT
Surgeon Dentist

24e East 115th ST.. Cor. Second Ave.
NEW YORK CITY
Office Hours: to IL A NJ; 2 to p. NJ
Daily, except Friday; Sunday 9 to l p. NJ
Special Rates to w. p. Members
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
Nv Universal Serrice.

BOSTON, April IL" we can cure
criminals only by practical application
of the principles Of Christianity"
Urging his parishiOners to read an
editorial of William Randolph Hearst,
which appeared under. the above cap
ton, the Rev. Frank Fasano, pastor of
the West End Baptist church, made
an eloquent plea in his Sunday SER
mon for the reforms Mr.. Hearst urges.
The editorial he characterized as
zone Of the best expressions Of Chris
tianity of our day and the more re-
markable because it comes not from a
clergyman but from layman."
Quoting freely from the editorial,
the Rev. Fasano reiterated Mr..
Hearst's assertion that I'VE cannot
cure criminality By punishment, but
only by education and by a practi-
cal application Of the principles Of
Christianity"
DIR. Fasano supplemented the edi-
tOrial with text from Proverbs % :6:
"Train up q child in the way he should
20 and when he IS old he shall not de-
part from it,"
CRIMINALS NOT BORN.
"There is no born criminal. A man
is made a criminal by his surroundings.
Even the people who say that they
act according to conscience forget that
even conscience must be educated.
People have tried to cure criminals
by punishment. Me-. have been hanged
or electrocuted, but we are living
testimony that crime has not been ex-
terminated.
"This proves that it is not a ques-
ton of intellectual training, but the
training of the central control Of our
being. the heart. Why our very prisons
contain lawyers, doctors, men Of
science, yes, even clergymen. Does not
this prove, as Mr.. Hearst's editorial
point out. that criminals are indica-
tons Of the failure OF our educational
system? 1t is not matter of mere
education or training, but something
more than that.
CURED BY BIBLE.
81 call to your attention the case OF
Zeoli, the evangelist. He says: "They
sent me to the house of correction
and tried to correct; they didn't sue
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

The circles Of the Woman's Aux
iliary Of the First Presbyterian church
will meet during the coming week as
follows:
No. 1 with the chairman, Mrs. j.
b. Martindale, 237 West Magnolia
avenue, Monday at $50 p. m.
No. ? with the chairman, Mrs. I.
II. Dennis, 1888 West Mistletoe ave
nue. Monday at . p. m.
No. 8. Mrs. W. T. Montgomery,
chairman. with Mrs. Mike Persia, 22I
Lindell place, Tuesday at 2:30 p. m.
No. 4, Mrs. f. A. Van Buren,,
chairman, with Mrs. Thomas II. Haug,
Q3 Lewis street. Monday at p. m.
Mrs. III. NJ. Darlington, devotional
leader.
No. >, Mrs. w. W. Bondurant
chairman, with Mrs. Richard Eek
hardt, Culebra road, Monday at 8
p. m. Members of the circle will
meet at Mrs. BOndurant's, 2001 North
Flores street at . 80.
No. 6. Mrs. Joe Carnal. chairman.
win hold an all-day meeting with Mrs.
Jacob Wilbert, SD North Pine street
Monday. The meeting will begin at
10 a. IN.
No. :. Mrs. A. o. Evans, chair
man.
No. s. Mrs. J. Il. Silliman, chair
man, with Mrs. Ben Hammond, 2l5
Argyle avenue, Monday at 3 p. m.
No. 9, Mrs. J. $. Oldham, chair
man, with Mrs. +. S. Hays, Bandera
road. Mrs. ID. A. Castleberry anG
Mrs. Hays, hostesses. Mrs. Fred W.
Maule. devotional leader.
No. 10, Mrs. T. T. Campbell. chair
man. with Mrs. s. J. Chandler, 80
Sixth street, Monday at 10 a. m.
No. II, Mrs. Sandal Doerr, chair.
man, with Mrs. ]. l.. Anderson, 16C
Elizabeth road. Monday at 8 p. IN.
Mrs. +. b. Hill. devotional leader.
No. II, Mrs. l.. W. Brown, chair
man. will meet at the Protestant's
Orphans Home Monday at 1 p. m.
No. Is, Mrs. A. Y. Walton, chair
man, will meet at the Protestant
Orphans Home Monday at 1 p. m.
No. IA, Mrs. w. c. Linden, chair
man, will meet with Mrs. Franklin
Canaday, 12S North Summit avenue
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
WILLIAMS CASE
EST|MONY
COMPLETE
Argument to Be Heard in
Butler Rum Party
Suit Monday.

MARINE BASE, San Diego, Cal.
April IA mass of conflicting ties.
timony was tonight in the hands Of
members Of the court-martial board
as the trial Of Colonel Alexander vii.
liams, distinguished marine officer,
marked time pending arguments Of
counsel Monday morning.
The colonel is accused of drunken
ness the night of March 6 in the fash
ionable Hotel Del Coronado, Brig,
adler General Smedley ID. Butler pre-.
ferring the charges.
Prosecution introduced testimony OF
General Butler that Colonel Williams
was "drunk and dragged out" the no.
tel; that the general saw the accused
officer drink in the Williams home
and corroborative testimony, backing
up Butler, by several junior officers,
who claim the statements were made
of their own accord.
The principal teeth in the defense
testimony was as follows:
That the accused officer was sick"
not drunk. suffering from bladder
trouble and being treated through a
drug which, physicians testified,
caused nausea and gastric and in
tcstinal disturbances" testimony Of
Captain Clifton Gates that in his
opinion "duress" was used by Colonel
Butler in obtaining statements from
officer guests at Colonel Williams
cocktail party; contradiction by
Gates had told General Butler the
accused was "drunk"; the colonies
splendid military record of p years.
Important in the summing up of the
prosecution case in the final argument
to be made Monday by Captain Leo
Hermle, judge advocate, will be an at
tack on the effects of the drug hexyl
resorinol, used by the accused officer,
IL was learned tonight.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
EDITORIAL BY HEARST
WINS CLERIC'S PRAISE

coed. Then / was sent to the reform.
atory to be eformed. They failed. My
life was changed only when a negro
in prison he nded me the Bible
''This young man, although lacking
in culture, received the training OF
the heart. His tendencies, which were
once devoted to crime, made a round
about face, and turned in the right
direction.
THE instruction received in the
carly stages of lie will determine the
careet of a man due TO the logical sue
cassion of ideas. What will be the
child's first thought: The second will
depend on that.
How completely our penal ma.
chinery has failed is very aptly shown
by Mr.. Hearst. He says: On the
very day on which Chapman was to
be hanged for killing an officer OF
the law, another officer of the law
was killed by another criminal
OLD LAW FAILS.
1T is the business of the state to
see that everything possible be done
Cor it's citizens, that they be properly
trained and brought up in pure at.
mosphere.
'Mr. Hearst says: The law has
tried the theory of any eye for an eye
and tooth for tooth for thousands
of years as long. in fact as there has
been law, but all to no effect
I'VE know it has failed. We must
invoke the law of love, we must in
terest ourselves in our fellow man
and not pass them by because they
are inferior.
THE words of Christ were given to
us to soften us, ciyilize US, to save us
as the editorial says. / want you TO
read it. 1t is an expression Of prac-
teal Christianity and the more re-
markable. because it was written not
by a clergyman but by layman."
In concluding, DR.. Fasano reiterated
the. assertion of the editorial that our
whole penal system has broken down
because it is built on sand.
He said:
I'VE shall never succeed by build
ing on sand and guesses. History is
the teacher of life. History has shown
us that the past is a failure. Let us
build on rock. not sand"