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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
THE CIGARETTE GIRL
By Shirley Seifert
Sadie Took
Neve-:he

you want an education?" said the
fat, pink man.
| YES" said Sadie, please"
But, oh it was hard work! Three
nights week Sadie went to school
to receive instruction in algebra, physi.
ology, English composition and litera
| ture and history. One subject was as
deep and difficult as another, anyhow.
| At least the long examples in algebra
kept her awake. All her desires and
aims wouldn't make "Ivanhoe" easy
reading. Short things. poetry, she
stood well; but the noveliStS were
her bane-then her inspiration. With
the "end' of the first dull volume in
fine print without pictures a saving
sense Of virtue entered Sadie. A con-
seriousness of intellect terminating.
like something forced under glass.
give got it," said Sadie. IT be-
lieve I've got it. 1 feel-different.
She was different. Her whole life
cut herself adrift from old associa-
lions. When the license record of
her marriage appeared in the papers
she told buzzing friends and acquaint-
ances an evasive story about "fella'
she'd met during the war. When the
friends threatened to press their curl
osity more closely she moved to an
other boarding house without warning.
What the change of address began.
her fierce application to school carried
on. Her old friends didn't frequent
libraries They didn't shed sick, baf-
fled tears because Of what that old
English teacher said with red and
blue pencils on compositions that they
we're ashamed to hand in in the first
place. They didn't lie awake at night
naming the tired bones in their bodies
because a fat. pink man said every
thing went to make up a, real educa-
ton, even physiology. All these mad
things Sadie did.
She went to dancing school con.
Quoted by Mrs. Anton. Esthetic
dancing. That would be the kind"
he would recognize. All, well, she
would be highbrow in her dancing,
too! So she enrolled with this Mrs.
Anton, who was Of the city's best and
most popular, but who had special
classes and rates for business girls"
Sadie arranged to dance there in
boomers Tuesdays and Thursdays at
$50 pm.
At Mrs. Anton's there were some
statuettes Of almost intangible grace
Sadie thought she would pick the most
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08

beautiful of these images and never
stop till she was like it. But that
seemed a. long way to go. So, wisely.
she sought less perfect intermediate
models. Surveying Mrs. Anton's star
pupils, she fixed on girl named
Edith. She overheard Mrs. Anton re-
mark that she wished her more gifted
professional pupils would only copy
Edith's looks and manners.
Except for that remark Sadie might
not have noticed this Edith. She was
a tall, slim girl, not nearly so spec
tacular as others. She was quiet, but
not dumb with concentration like
Sadie. Her quiet was pride, a queer
thing called reserve. She wore her
hair perfectly straight and slick and
never touched rouge to her skin,
which was a lovely milky white when
your attention was called to it.
Sadie put away her rouge box. She
| put away gay beads and tinSel and
furbelows. She dressed herself in dull
fannels and twills with buttons COW
cred to match and collars and cuffs.
She would have grown her hair long
and worn it slick over her ears ex-
cept for the discrimination of g. hair
dresser. She persuaded her to keep
it short and cultivate its natural, aoft
puff. And so on and on.
Finally there came day in the
warm Spring when Sadie Newton
stood before a mirror in the apart
ment of the hotel where she had been
living and said to the very beautiful
girl reflection there:
"Oh, dear, l wish he could see me
now-just once:'
Said it without rancor, for rancor
had gone-gone with the old turbu-
lence and roughness and undisciplined
desires Of the unmolded Sadie New
ton. She couldn't have told when she
had ceased hating him, when he had
stepped back to his place on the dream
platform where she had first visioned
him. Perhaps that happened mystic
riously when he died. OF course. he
had died, and quite properly she had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
Nevertheless.

After all, she had picked up the money
which he had thrown at her. Why?
With only a vague rush Of desire to
show him. To show him what? But
what fool she was to care when it
made no difference to him what she
did. Hadn't she always wanted to be
rich? Now she was. And she'd call a
taxi and go buy a fur coat.
She arose from her bench. AS she
did so. the stone fountain changed
suddenly into a long. thin man with
hollow dark eyes and a hateful smile,
sending her out Of the door. A lawyer
man had given her some kind of identi-
fication papers for a bank where she
could get her money. So the wedding
was over.
Now go and blow it all in at once
if you like" Wythe had said YEARLY.
'ThereIl be the same sum waiting
next year"
Before those hooking eyes, that de-
spising smile, vanished the fur coat
and the taxi.
1.-THE way he looked at men said
Sadie-using a phrase that became o
would his kind of girl do?"
His kind of girl would read books,
play the piano elegantly.
Ills hiiu VI Shl "ouiuH lOOh dl
my kind of litrachure"' walled Sadie
"Oh must I go to school-now?"
X y X X
IT came to that. She chose night
l. school because there was less
probing into backgrounds and rea-
sons-and night school represented
driving ambition.
You see," she said to a fat man
with a pink face and very little hair,
who seemed to be boss, II want to
learn how to talk and write and read
and things like that. Litrachure and
other things. too. So you know what
other folks are talking about. Just
go to school. like as IL you hadn't
stopped"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08

II ~,
4 Il curator OF mpllusks of the
United States National Mu-
scum, will spend the major portion Of
the next six or eight weeks on the
Atlantic Oceans bed near Tortugas Is
land, off the coast of Florida.
DIR. Bartsch, who studies and pho
tographs undersea life. spends por-
ton of each year on the Dry Tortugas
filming the gorgeous colored life forms
of the sea-that most mysterious
world of all worlds. 1t is an adven-
furious experience that takes nerve,
quick Wit, quick eyes and quick
hands.
The Dry Tortugas Is an ideal spot
for faunal study. 1t lies we'll south
and Summer fingers there the year
round. Its waters are warm and
clear and shallow: and it is in shallow
waters that the richest sea animal
life is to be found.
1.-The chief purpose of taking these
pictures" declares DIR. Bartsch, lis to
call the attention of the public in
general, and the young people in par
ticular, to the wonderful beauty and
diversity of marine life and the ease
with which it may be studied
In these coastal studies information
on sea organisms in relation to en-
vironment is gathered. In a museum
one gets an inadequate picture OF
mollusks and fishes. But a camera
on the ocean bed catches these weird
and grotesque forms Of nature in their
native haunts. An imperishable rec
ord of their lives is thus written and
the museum knowledge Of their lives
is thus rounded out.
The striking characteristic of the
c mo
seasons roll in cycles there. Winter
Is everlasting. Endless night glooms
over every path. Cycles of life come
, and go, supported by the ceaseless
drifting down Of organisms, millions
Of microscopic size, from the upper to
the lower levels of the ocean. each
feeding the other in the eternal sill
ence that rules over ALL
| The life above water is different
from that below. Even as the vegeta-
ton that covers the mountain side
changes with the changing altitude,
SO with the depths that reach down
! from the shore line into the caverns
of the sea. Life along the shore is
| not the same as that five fathoms
down and 10. 20 and 80 fathoms see
still other differences.
| DIR. Bartsch goes only off shore.
! He rarely goes lower than IS or 80
feet below the surface of the water.
In the launch which he uses are two
other men; one to man 1t. the other
/ TO look after his air pump. To Off
set the GOODNESS of the water. DIR.
| Bartsch covers his body with olive
/ oil Coated in this preparation. he is
! able to stay under water for as long
/ as five and half hours at & time.
+ The pictures taken by DIR. Bartsch
! civ ~
citation and life. One sees the in
habitants of the undersea world at
their meals: one observes the hours
at which they feed and on what they
! dine: one glimpses their social re-
| lationship. and. above all is permitted
! to study their reaction toward thslr
greatest enemy-man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08

thought of him vaguely as at a great
distance, seated in some kind Of large
armchair. looking at her with his
creepy, black eyes. And today she
wanted to thank him for noticing her,
even in the way he had.
Because she was at another turn
ing point now. The afternoon before
she had been called out to Mrs. An
tons to meet NJ. and Nine. Binet, who
headed a troupe Of dancers on the best
vaudeville circuit in the country.
They were planning a tour Of South
America now, and one Of their
dancers, newly married, refused to
leave the United States. So they had
come to their good friend. Nine. An
ton. And Mrs. Anton had offered the
chance to Sadie.
THAT day the lawyer called her.
While she was pulling a pretty
tan silk hat over her bright hair
the telephone rang. She jumped, be.
cause few calls came to her. She
had made no friends except the pink
faced teacher and Mrs. Anton.
Would she be able to stop at the
lawyers office some time that day?
In his office the lawyer told Sadie
that "ke" wasn't dead. He was go,
ing to live a long time just like any
other man. DIR. Loring had recon-
mended him to the care of physician
on the coast. When this other doctor
saw him. knowing he had been SEN
fenced to death, he had wanted to
try an experimental operation; and
Clement Wythe, being an expert
mental personals Sadie ought to
know-had consented. The operation
had been miraculously successful.
The hero of Sadie's dreams was a
we'll man. She had not now a spirit
benefactor; she had husband. Him,
Sadie's heart contracted, expanded in
fearful way. but the lawyer put
out a cruel hand and squeezed it back
into a tight lump.
And So" he said, clearing his
throat. MIR. Wythe is anxious to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08

BY JOHN FRAZIER.
T IT'S body covered with olive oil
and his head encased in a
helmet, DIR. Paul Bartsch,
4 l. curator OF mpllusks of the
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papers. You will be perfectly free
afterward. L am going away alone
this afternoon-to die as comfortably
as possible in California. The only
difference to you will be that you will
have an income OF ten thousand dol
lars a year for the rest Of your life. 3"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-16
Passaic Leader VIII Elk
plain Tactics

Thursday, Dec. 16, is the date of
the Chicago lecture of Albert Weis-
bord, the leader Of the Passaic strike.
His subject will be 1.-THE Passaic
Strike and What 1T Means to the
American Workers." The meeting has
already created great interest among
the workers and tickets are being
sold in advance The admission is
25c. The meeting will be held at the
Mirror Hall, 1885 N. Western Ave.
To Explain Tactics.
Albert Weisbord is expected parti-
cularly to bring cut the methods pur-
sued in so successfully organizing the
textile workers. Hitherto, very little
organization has existed in this field
and the Passaic example shows that
organization work can be done when
given the proper leadership Not only
that, but the Passaic strike stands
out in the labor history as one of the
best battles fought by the workers.
An example which will be an inspira-
ton for the future.
Just how this was possible in the
very heart Of the stronghold Of the
textile trusts. Albert 1Eeisbord will ex-
plain In his lecture here Thursday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-16
BIG BUSINESS
BACKING FIGHT
ON GAS TREATY
Senators Follow Orders
of Manufacturers
sy LAURENCE TODD.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-Wads.
worth of New York, Reed Of Penn
sylvania and Bingham of Connecticut
were the three republican senators
who opened the attack on the Geneva
treaty outlawing the use Of poison gas
and bacteria in war, when that meas
ure came before the senate for rati-
fication.
Wadsworth is chairman of the com
mittee on military affairs, and has
strong fascist tendencies. Iced OF
Pennsylvania is spokesman for Secre-
tary MELONS industrial group and was
an officer in the world war. Bling
ham, likewise, held job in the war,
and is establishing himself as a hard
boiled business imperialist.
The pending treaty is being resisted
in the United States by the chemical
manufacturers and the officers in the
chemical warfare service, who have
induced the American Legion to re-
verse its previous attitude and oppose
the treaty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-16
TOWN AROUSED
over TACTICS
OF FOUNDRY co,

EAST BRIDGEWATER, Mass, Dec.
14-Public feeling here is running
high against the Old Colony Foundry
company following the fight between
members of the Iron Workers union
and scab employees, started by hired
gangsters, and resulting in the serious
injury of one striker and the arrest
by company-controlled police of fifteen
others. The city's populace is lining
up with the union workers because OF
the tactics used by the company
against the workers. The company
locked out the unionists when they
refused to accept proposed wage de-
crease of from rs to so per cent re-
Gently posted.
Some fifty guards, including seven
deputy sheriffs, patrolmen sent from
Brockton and state officers, were
placed around the company plant fol-
lowing the fight.
Charles L. Nutter, president OF the
company, is also member of the city
council, and is using his official posi-
ton to attempt to break the strike.
Strikebreakers had been imported
from nearby cities, but they we're
hastily shipped out Of town by the
company following the clash, because
OF the anti-scab sentiment in the city.
The city council, urged on by Nut
ter, appealed to the governor to send
troops to the scene ito protect the city
against violence" but the governor ig.
nored the request.
An injunction has been issued by
Judge Dillon OF superior court in
Brockton against plcketlng, but the in.
junction is ignored by the workers.
The foundry employed about 80
workers. The lockout has been in ef-
feet since Nov. "a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-16
Cities Where Weisbord
Is Scheduled to Speak

The following is the schedule Of
Albert Weisbord's speaking tour:
Kenosha, Wis, Wednesday, Dec. IS,
German-American Hall, 665 Grand
avenue.
Chicago, Ill.,, Thursday, Dec. 16,
Mirror Hall, Western and Division.
Gary, Ind, Saturday, Dec. 10.
Milwaukee, Wis, Sunday, Dec. 49,,
Freie Gemeinde Hall, 9th and Walnut
streets.
ST. Paul, Monday, Dec. 20, Labor
Temple, 416 NJ. Franklin ST.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Tuesday, Dec.
II, Unitarian Church, 9th and La
Sale.
Superior, Wis, Wednesday, Dec. %,
Tower Hall, corner Tower and 18th.
Duluth, Mimi, Thursday, Dec. %,
Liberty Hall, % Ave. North and su-
perior SITS.
Fargo, N. D., Dec. 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-16
Cambridge Teachers
Urged to Join Union

BOSTON, Dec. 14.-Arguments for
Cambridge women teachers to join
the American Federation of Teachers,
affiliated with the American Fedora
ton of Labor, were advanced by John
Van vaerenwyck, president of the
Massachusetts State Federation of La
Dor. in an open discussion held by
the teachers on the ACCESSIBILITY of
their unionizing.
The women teachers have been vic
tins of salary schedule that gives
men teachers a much higher rate for
the same work.
Two Harvard professors, John
Brewer Of the education department
and Thomas N. Garner of economics.
urged the teachers 10 affiliate with
professional associations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-16
LONDON PRESS ALARMED
| BY WAR CLOUDS IN NEAR
| EAST AND FRENCH BORDER

LONDON, Dec. 14.-Wsr clouds
were prominently discussed In to-
days Issue OF the Westminster Ca
zette.
This newspaper carried a Con-
stantlnople dispatch stating that the
Turks are building ships, adopting
the automatic rifle, establishing mo-
bile coast artillery and preparing to
take steps to counterfeit the italian
pact with Albania.
A Paris Dispatch declared that
two bsttallons Of "Bfue Devlls' have
been sent TO the French Rivera
from Lorraine to reinforce the
Frsneo-Itallan frontier guards.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-16
WEISDORDy,SCORES
SOUTH BEND, Ind,
OFFICIALS
Try to Break Up His
Meeting There

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. IA
meeting arranged here for Albert
Weisbord, well-known leader of the
Passatc strike, was broken up thru
the action of President Gustav Jena
OF the Central Labor Union, who pre-
vailed upon the directors of Union
ball not to permit the meeting to be
held.
After taking the deposit for the
meeting, the union officials, at the
last moment, declared that the meet
ing could not be held. The crowd
that came for the meeting was duly
indignant and went to another hall,
where an enthusiastic meeting was
held.
Assails Officials.
The labor officials action was
scored by Weisbord in his speech and
he was cheered when he told his
audience that the officials could, by
starting a drive to organize the large
body of unorganized auto workers in
this city, render far greater service
to labor than by breaking up meetings
of leaders who had demonstrated their
ability to advance unionism by &C.
tually leading the struggles of the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-16
DEvER DECL Ares
STREET CAR FARE
MUST Be RAISED

Those who are backing Mayor
Dever for a second term have received
a Jolt when 1t was pointed out that
the mayor has already put himself on
record as favoring an increase in
street car fares.
The record lies in the proceedings
of the Barr committee Of the state
legislature in its hearing conducted at
the Palmer House on Nov. 20.
Absolutely" He Says.
When Senator John Daily asked
Mayor Dever If a raise in fares was
necessary, the reply was: Absolute
ly, absolutely" The mayor went on
record as saying that, to provide for
amortization Of the capital account
OF the lines, an increase in fare was
necessary. He said: we are doing
something inherently dishonest when
we do not add to the fare something
for the retirement of the capital in
debtedness."
The mayors supporters had hoped
that he might slide thru the election
or at least the primary fight while still
juggling the traction problem in the
air and thus not arouse any strong
opposition from aggrieyed factions.
See Vote Chances Drop.
Now, it is gleefully pointed out by
his opponents, he has not improved
his political chances by limiting to the
strap-hanger that he must pay more
than cents for the opportunity to
grab at strap.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-16

was no fear of war with japan when
the plot to get the oil leases was en-
gendered by Doheny. "This was bust
ness" he said. mot patriotism"
In reviewing the evidence Of the
little black bag" Roberts said: Do
heny, partner In the bank OF Blair
& Co. could have telephoned that
bank and had an order sent to the
Riggs bank in Washington to nay
Fall the 100000. But this was not
done. The money could have been
traced. He sent for his son to de.
liver the money, so that no one but
his own blood would know. 1t was
concealed because both men knew
that II the transaction became public
they would be ruined. What would
you say II ] sent cash to a Judge be-
fore whom was trying a case?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-16
New York Times Does
Not Eulogize Defenders.
of Workers. Interests
BY j. LOUIS ENooAHL.

ing the supply we'll below the de-
mand in order to extort as big
profits as possible. This was the
game that Steinhardt played sue
cessfully for years. He made money.
The New York Times glories in
money-making and so it lauds Stein
hardt on the occasion of his death.
Among the millions who started
out just like Steinhardt, upon their
arrival in this country, were the
two workers from Italy, Nicola
Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
They also slept on park benches,
wandered the streets, starved and
hunted jobs. They finally establish
ed themselves, but not as budding
capitalists, but as members Of the
working class, fighting the cause of
labor. The success of Sacco and
Vanzetti, in the struggle that they
followed, can best be measured by
the vicious bitterness with which
The Times and its class hates them,
going to the extreme of using its
power in an effort to put them to
death. The Times regrets the death
of Steinhardt. 1t would glory in the
double murder of Sacco and Van
zetti, because it knows that as
working class fighters Sacco and
Vanzetti have been as successful in
their sphere as Steinhardt proved
to be as a capitalist class proflteer.
Sacco and Vanzetti did not try
to teach the impossible escape Of
the workers from the terrors of cap
italism thru becoming capitalists.
They taught the workers to organ.
ize and achieve their common eman-
cipation thru the abolition of cap
italism. That was their crime.
Millions of workers thruout the
United States are organizing and
building their power. They are
fighting their battles more and more
intelligently, according to the know
ledge gained thru many bitter ex-
periences.
This is true in New York City as
everywhere else. Only in New York
the workers display greater desire
for unity; keener class spirit in
waging the struggle, against which
the New York Times fights emerge
tically, enlisting all possible allies.
A concrete instance of this is to
be found today in the valiant strug-
gle of the New York membership
Of the International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union. standing
solid and militant for the triumph
of organized labor. Against this
membership imbued with the spirit
of the class struggle, there is array
ed not only the exploiters and their
press, of which The Times is typi-
cal. but also the labor oficialdom
and its press. with the Steinhardt
mental twist that seeks an escape
from capitalism without the aboli-
tion, but rather thru accepting and
collaborating with the capitalist So
cial order. Thus The Times pours
encomiums upon the heads of the
Sigmans, the Beckermans, the Hill
mans and the Cahans, just as it
eulogizes the dead millionaire fruit
merchant, all defenders of the same
profit system.
But they are all helpless indeed
against rising labor, struggling up
ward as a mass and determined to
win en- masse.
The class line is being drawn
sharper and clearer. American la
Dor is learning how to fight.