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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

The furio5;s stream of auto
mobiles which we must constantly
dodge. The everlasting ringing
of telephones, blowing of horns,
pounding Of street cars, shuttle
of feet, chatter of riveting ma
chimes. The ceaseless, bewilder-
ing impact of light and color upon
our eyes.
And the intangible things-the
sense OF unrest in the air. The
sense of ruthless competition. The
steady stream of new ideas-the
swift wrecking of old convictions
and conventions. The constant
need of change and adapta
ton
All this is like the whirl of a
great fan before and about us
bewildering us, confusing us, anger
ing, frightening and torturing ~.
We cry out in our anguish that
There is no time to live!'
Those of us who can insulate
ourselves against these contacts,
or who have greater prowess or
endurance. hold on. But increas-
ing numbers of weaker or less
adaptable people are dropping off.
They are dropping off into that
black sea we call insanity. To
them it is a blissful sea. There
they find that sense of personal
Importance which was denied them
in actual life. There they found
excuses for their failures in the
imagined prosecutions of their
enemies" There too-most pitt
full of all-they find their long
sought personal contact with God
that contact which their lonely
souls have sought 81 distressfully.
What is the answer? Science alone
can answer the question for those
who have drifted away. But for
us who are still in the thick of 1t
there are still ways to end against
the danger.
Live as simply as possible.
Eliminate from your program all
unnecessary contacts with people,
spectacles or business. Don't eat
too much. Don't struggle too
much. Don't worry. Be as
much of vegetable as you can.
being a man is dangerous
business, most of us aren't Feady
for it yet. Go slow!
is also an encouragement to them.
Our courts are a disgrace to such
a great nation as ours.
Finger print registration of
aliens is a necessary step toward
dealing with our crime wave. No
honest alien should object help
ing his adopted country to COM
bat the common Ifoe-lawlessness
C. e. BROGAN,
Finger Print Expert.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01
/ NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BIZ Helen ROwIand

MO man gets cold feet" so
IN long as he has to keep them
MOVING, running after woman.
Getting husband was first a
matter OF chance. then an exact
science-now it's just a game OF
Tag! You're it,
Money never held two hearts
together. A husband and wife
can scrap just as violently over a
five hundred dollar radio as over
homemade crystal set.
It isn't the few big black lies
a man tells that deceive a woman
its all the little white and pink
ones, that are so hard to spot.
When a man feels a wave OF
remorse about to sweep over him,
he just shuts his eyes and holds
his breath, until it has passed
and he can safely come up for
air-and another plunge.
Before marriage, the Prince got
down on his knees to put on
Cinderella's slipper. After mar
riage. he probably stood out in
the hall and told her to go back
upstairs and get on her goloshes.
There is as much difference be-
tween courtesy and manners" as
there is between love.making and
'necking," or between a wood fire
and gas logs.
Marriage is the point at which
girl stops going to the exclusive
little shops for French lingerie,
and begins going to ten-cent
stores. for kitchen spoons and
egg-beaters.
Before you let yourself go, in
a love-affair, be sure that the
brakes on your heart have been
tested.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01
WORDS FROM
WISE MEN

THE sublime and ridiculous
Il are often SO nearly related
that it is difficult to class them
separately. One step below the
sublime makes the ridiculous,
and one step above the ridiculous
makes the sublime again.
Nothing is said nowadays that
has not been said before.
Terence.
We are all excited by the love
of praise and the noblest are
most influenced by glory.
Cicero.
Rumor doth double, like the
voice and echo,
The numbers of the fear'd.
Shakespeare.
The cultivation of the mind Is
kind of food applied for the
soul of man.
Cicero.
Philosophy is nothing but dis.
erection.
-Selden.
Those who seek for much are
left in the want of much. Happy
is he to whom God has given
with sparing hand, as much as
liz enough.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01
FINGER PRINT
REGISTRATION

Editor, Washington Times:
UOUR publications slogan might
Il well be America First, Last
and Always" for it champions
measures for our Nations pro-
lection. The registration of all
aliens is a measure now pending,
and should receive universal 100
per cent American support.
The registration of aliens by
fingerprints would be great
step toward the checking OF alien
smuggling. 1t would mean that
all aliens legally entering our
ports. will be registered; thus
aiding us in our fight to keep
out the undesirables. or if they
come in illegally. to help us fer
ret them out for deportation,
When an alien is deported
what is there to stop him from
changing his name and reenter-
ing the country; and 1t is done,
TOO. Fingerprint registration
would check this practice.
The view that the registering
of a person by finger prints
places such person in crimina!
class. is just very narrow
minded, moth-eaten idea, the
product of unprogressive minds.
No person refuses to sign his
name: and his finger print i'm
pressions are only his true sig
nature that does not change from
birth to death.
The fact that an alien could,
upon request, Immediately fur
nish positive Identification Gre
dentials, would be a great ben
eft to him. 1t would stamp him
as an honest law-abiding citizen,
and prove beyond a doubt that he
was doing his duty and aiding
his adopted country to keep
check on the scum that slipks
across our borders-smuggle
aliens.
AS to the cosr of such a sure
means of alien Identification, my
computations show that it should
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01
ONCE-OVERS

Don't do in public the things you cant do well.
you can't make creditabe speech, don't attempt it.
1t far betterr to decline than to make failure OF
speech.
1t Anglers you times when you realize that you have
greater fund of knowledge perhaps than most and yet
you tell what you know, in speech
These able to think before an audience-thlnk
while standng-and therefore they bring to mind what
they want to say.
When you appear before crowd and make nane state
ments those going to put low estimate
upon your gray matter
Those who know you intimately and realize that you have
more sense your public speeches would Indicate
excuse YOU but strangers will not
Don be persuaded to give public talk when you
you do ntellgently and in acceptable
voice.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01
Changing Turkey

Excitement Turkey The Peoples Paper just started
Constantinople, will print page something
heard of in the old days Women asked to write lin
simple Turkish avoiding the Arabic furbelows of the past
American newspaper might take hint, and write lin
simple American, dropping of the newspaper Eng
lish that is painful, like calling rat rodent
pig ''porcine."
The lady editor of the Turkish womans page will have
dull time in these reformed days Once she would have had
such headings these:
Cut Throat in Harem.
Ali Pasha Bids High for Blonde Circassan.
Bosphorus Bowstring Chats with Sultan Chief Eunuch
Now it will all be dull fashion hints especially
How get the fat off Fatimas hips.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01

people in every village, but they
had usually been that way from
the time they were born. But
nowadays people are perfectly
sane one week and raving the
next. Have you noticed it? Why
is it?"
Yes, I've noticed it. Anyone
who receives hundred of letters
each week, and interviews scores
of people, can hardly escape motto.
ing it, Every mail contains one or
more letters from obviously In
sane people. Sometimes these
letters are mildly foolish or vaguely
incoherent. Sometimes they are
extremely threatening in character.
Usually they come in a series;
arriving two or three day and
extending over many weeks.
months or even year until there
is an abrupt stop.
In both letters and the CONVEX
sation the same symptoms occur.
Ideas of persecution-people laugh
at them-people gossiping about
them. Auditory Authorizations
queer noises. whispers, voices that
will not permit them to sleep.
Grandiose ideas about their own
importance. Some imagine they
are NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. consider
thew are divinely commissioned to
save the world. Very many have
remarkable business schemes,
spreading over vast territories and
requiring large capital to float.
Very often both letters and con-
versations are perfectly coherent
and consistent, expressed with
ease and grace. 1t is not neces-
sary to gibber, rave or pick at
cobWebs in order to demonstrate
insanity. Some OF the most dam
gerously insane people are bril-
liant conVersatiOnalistsa and writer's,
and can present a calm controlled
demeanor which would convince
any jury of their sanity. Yet the
facts which they state in their
perfectly modulated voices will
usually be utterly untrue and
wildly fantastical. For the mind
that controls the thought has Clip
ped it's mooring and is afloat on
a black, uncharted sea.
Why is this? Why are so many
losing their hold on healthy, sane
not cost more than fifty cents
per immigrant.
1t Is very reasonable to assume
that our great national wealth
and prosperity has attracted large
numbers of irrational crimi-
nails, who can enter either legal
~ or illegally, because we have
no way of knowing them The lax
and inefficient manner of our
courts - dealing with criminals
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01
LISTEN, WORLD!

living? They are
losing their hold
because healthy.
sane living has
become too strenu-
Gus an occupa
ton. Minds which
could have COPIED
with life in 1925
cannot cope with
life In 1926.
One must do SO
much in 1926. One
must know so
much, risk so
much speed up so
much. Nor does
the pressure arise
only from the in.
dividual career;
from every side
C o m e s pressure
and stimulation.
The rush of big
crowds through
which we must
fight our way.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01

66ELSIE, aren't
IA there more
crazy people than
there ever were
before, /" writ e S
Amy. 1T seems
to me that / hear
every day Of some
one that has be-
come queer. If NOT
actually danger
Gus. Why right
in my own set
there are two wo-
men who think
everyone is per-
scouting t IA e m
and a man who
has b e o m e a
religious maniac.
m Y m o t h e +
says she can't re-
member anything
like this when she
was young. There
were always one
ar. two on q 1l
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01

MO man gets cold Zee" 50
IN long as he has to keep them
MOVING, running after a woman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01

Getting a husband was first a
matter OF chance. then an exact
science-now it's just a game Of
Tag! You're it,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01
CORRECT WAY
TO REGISTER
By Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman.
Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman-l
MRS. BEECKMAN:

By Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
l. Will you please tell me
what is the correct way for a
married couple to register in a
hotel in New York. Mr.. and
Mrs. or MIR. and wife.
M. A. NJ.
MIR. AND MRS. WILLIAM
M ALLEN, New York, is the
correct registration in the hotel
register. MIR. William Allen and
wife" is not correct.
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ What would be the proper
gift for a ten-year wedding an
niverssary? MILDRED.
THE ten-year wedding anniver-
sary is the tin wedding, and
therefore anything in tin is APP
propriate Usually the tenth
wedding anniversary is made a
merry kind of gathering, and the
gifts are more in the nature of
Jokes. And a collection of tin
presents does present a bizarre
appearance.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01

Money never held two hearts
together. A husband and wife
can scrap just as violently over a
five hundred dollar radio as over
homemade crystal set.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01

Six American soldiers volunteering in the dangerous but
exciting parachute jumping department in return for their
dollar day made interesting demonstration recently
They up from Kelly Field Texas big plane and at
given signal all six of the jumped from that plane in
less than twelve seconds. And all landed safely
This important because it proves that wear
parachute and DON'T get bewdered you be safe
thousand feet in the air. the machine catches
fire or falls
few years from now such parachute experiments will
amusngy unnecessaryas unnecessary would be
for six enlisted practice jumping with outstretched
umbrellas from moving train in it should leave
the track.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01
Rubber

Congress will investigate rubber and British control of
world supply That's harmless But Congress should
Join Frestone and others making American rubber
INDEPENDENT of the British monopoly There
territory of Mexico, just south of the
California line where rubber trees grow wild and all the
rubber needed this continent could easily be Young
men of energy no xht investigate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-04
The ZeigIer Cases

One of chapters the history of Frank harrington
suspended the Illinois Miners Union written when
Franklin county prosecutors office in bring
ing several progressive leaders of the Zer
miners framedup charges.
Of those victims of Farrngton raehey was the president
Zeger thorn in the side OF the Letter
the substrict office of the Illinois
the progressive leadership many
finally the courts resoed to with sue
Even tho Mike Sarovh who died from
bullet by khan gunman the bloody conspiracy went
thru, for the interests must be served.
Farrngtons bail for the killer Later on ne was
bitewashed charged with the crime This
was only attention from the real culprt The
authorities anxious punish anybody for the killing OF
Sarovch dead progressive
When the Labor Defense stepped In TO assist
the coal companys victims Harrington issued decree
the "dual organization" and threatened to lift the
charter identifying itself with the l. L. D. Now the
miners of Illinois the dual unonists and they VIII
have little difficulty understanding why harrington the PEABODY
servant made united Letter. the f. X f. and the
prosecution to get Henry Cobhey former president OF
Local 992 T. NJ. of A. and his associates.
Those workers free bail and unless the miners wake
nm and take appropriate they liable to to jail Now
moro than ever Illinois need the assistance of every
progressive 10 clean up after Harrington
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-04
No Arbitration Of the Garment Strike

We glad to learn that Louis Hyman of the New
York Joint Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers
Union chairman the strike committee forward with
warning the manufacturers that the attempt of Governor
Smith to force compulsory arbitration and the bosses intention to
sabotage direct dealings in conference with the backing
will not be tolerated tt.5srs
pointed yesterday the manufacturers took advantage
of the letter of the union Governor Smith, and showed that they
with only break them by
rejecting the union and appealing the force
arbitration the workers Lyman eerfes that view OF THIS
when he says AZ.
These manufacturers take this position because they inter
from letter that they disagree tOb us
every point the conferences break the oiU
compel US to refer the entire dispute to arbitration.
Human continues leaders of the Industrial
Council TO before the conference begins"
proper attitude certain that LYMAN will
supported the membership in this correction of mistake
which opened way injury the union and defeat Of its
demands.
Lyman points arbitration has been rejected time and
again by membership the right wing attempt compromise
repuded by the workers they rpudated the
right wing proposal the last convention that the union accept
arbitration in principle
the left rally the workers in defense of
the arbitration and for direct
dealing the manufacturers and obber to
remain vgant against right wing compromises and make that
taking the leadership which their support by
the and file fully jusifes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-04
The Present Prosperity.

ONCE the development of the pres
~ ent period of prosperity, we see
accompanying 1t struggles Of the
workers for higher wages and better
working conditions. The anthracite
strike, altho ending in a defeat, was
fight for increased wages and i'm
proved working conditions. The Fur
riers' strike was also based on new
demands of the workers, as is the
present strike of the New York Gar
ment workers. In Massachusetts the
shoe workers are answering capitalist
attacks by demands for higher wages.
The workers on the railroads, altho
tied up by the new Watson-Parker
bill insofar as strikes are concerned
are making demands for higher
wages.
Thus we see that at the present
time, in place of prosperity resulting
in contentment and & Indifference to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-04
Do We Believe in the Theory of Misery?

the workers was determined by the
cost Of reproducing that labor-power
under the historically developed stand
ards Of life of the workers of various
countries.
In the qualification historically de-
veloped standards of life" we have the
answer to the question posed at the
beginning of this article.
The workers do not only fight when
the capitalists seek to force down
their standard of life below q mere
subsistence, that is, below their abil-
ity to secure the barest, poorest kind
of food, clothing and shelter thru
which they can maintain themselves.
They will fight when their historically
developed standard Of life is threat
ened and when this includes the own
ership of an automobile las it does for
many American workers today, vic
trola and piano and the opportunity
to go to the movies regularly, they
will fight in order to maintain the
standard of life which includes these
things.
Furthermore, the standard OF life
of those who exploit them and gen
orally of the country in which they
live, has determining effect upon the
struggles of the workers. Boosting
about the great wealth of the United
States, immense productive power and
it's high prosperity, which is carried in
the capitalist press, does not leave the
worker untouched. Higher wealth
production and improvement Of the
position of the country as a whole,
stimulates the workers to struggle to
share in this prosperity" The
worker says to himself: If the CAPT
talists are making such great profits,
if the country is so wealthy, why
should l not improve my standard Of
life and share in this prosperity"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-04

The years of from 1915 to 1919 we're
the periods of war prosperity. EN-
ployment was more general than It
was before. The workers were need
ed. 1t was during this period that the
American Federation OF Labor had its
greatest growth in membership and in
which the greatest industrial strug-
giles in the history of this country
took place.
In 1919, the war time needs of the
capitalists were over but there was
still great industrial prosperity. We
find, during that year, that the great
steel strike took place. The half mil
lion members of the United Mine
Workers went on strike for an in
crease in wages and at the same time
the railroad workers threatened
strike, which was only averted thru
concessions, giving them higher wages.
These great struggles took place in
period when industry was working at
high rate and prosperity for the
capitalists had reached a height prev
iously unknown.
The year 1922 was again a period
Of great industrial struggles In that
year capitalist production had to a
degree pulled itself out of the deep
crisis of 192O-21. The tendency of
industry was again upward altho So
called prosperity did not yet exist.
The struggle of the United Mine
Workers in that year was defensive
struggle. But that Of the railroad
shopmen was based on a demand for
increased wages and therefore an Of
fensive struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-04
BY c. E. RurHENsERe.

THE high prosperity which Ameri
4 can industry has been enjoying
during the past year has developed
a tendency toward pessimism in some
sections of the party. The argument
is being made, that because there is
general employment in most indus
tries, the workers will not engage in
struggle against the capitalist bosses
and that under these conditions the
party cannot make Roadway in the
fight against capitalism and in build
ing its strength. ~,
Such an analysis of the present
situation in the United States and the
possibilities for building the party in
this situation is based upon the theory
that the workers will fight only in pc
RODS of increasing misery, that is,
when their wages are reduced their
hours heightened and their working
conditions and standards of life gen
orally become worse.
This theory of increasing misery
and it's relation to the workers strug-
gle does not make its appearance for
the first time. Decades ago, in the
socialist party, there was to be found
in such periods agitators, whose slo-
gan was "Wait till hard times come
and you will see the party grow" The
socialist-labor party was strongly in
tested with this theory of increasing
misery and postponed the struggles of
the workers until the pinch of CAPT
.talism became sharper.
Is this theory that the workers will
only fight under increasing misery cor
rect and do we as Communists, accept
it? This is the question which those
comrades should ask themselves who
have become infected with the idea
that because of the high rate at which
American industry is operating, we
are unable to build our party because
the workers will not engage in fights.
1t is of course true that the work
ers will fight in period of increasing
misery, but is this the only time in
which they engage in struggle?
ia
Conditions Which Compel Struggle.
TNHE fundamental answer to this
question has been given by Marx
in Capital. in Analysing the factors
which determine the value of the la
borrower of the workers. He did not
come to the conclusion that the value
of the labor-power OF. the workers was
determined by the cost of reproducing
that labor-power. He did conclude
that the value of the labor-power of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-04
Workers Struggle In Period Of
Prosperity.

LIVERY period of so-called prosper
IL ity in the cycles thru which indus
try in this country has gone, has been
accompanied by movements of work
ers for higher wages and better work
ing conditions. 1t is in these periods
that the worker has courage for strug-
giles. Jobs are plentiful. There is no
great army of unemployed. The con-
ditions for success are better.
The year 1912, for instance, was not
a period Of industrial depression, still
1t was a period of struggle in which
we had the great strikes at Lawrence,
Paterson, McKees Rocks, Akron, Me-
saba Range, etc.