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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-05
UNSUITABLE HOMICIDE.

Because her husband was not a
sport" and insisted upon wearing sus-
penders instead Of a belt, Mrs. Anna
Heilman, mother of six, choked the
man to death in the course OF a
quarrel during the night, following a
moonshine debaueh Of many hours.
From Hearst paper, which neglected
to unwind the anteeedents in order to
make clear whether Mrs. Hellman is
the mother of six belts or Of three pair
Of twin suspenders.
If you support your family and
your trousers,
But neglect to heed the warning
of your wife
To lay aside your President sus.
penders;
You are getting very reckless with
your life.
Though you may not be French
man or a Tartar,
And desire to be a sport you've
never felt,
Nor appreciated colors of a gar
tery
II you want to live, you better
buy a belt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-05

gether with Rakosi.
mo persecution nor torture can
prevent me from fulfilling my revolu-
tionary duty. will fight on until
the present regime Of capitalists and
landowners shall have been over
thrown.
The President. What was the pur-
pose of your work here?"
Create Legal Communist Party.
Weinberger: ITO create a legal
Communist Party IN Hungary. a party
such as exists in all civilized coun.
tries Even In Italy and in Poland,
where the Communists have been
forced 10 go underground, the Commu-
nists are able to send deputies to
parliament.
a Comrade Weinberger than eluci-
dates the mistakes which were made
in Hungary In 1919. The greatest
error was the lack of great Com
munist Party organizing the masses
Comrade Weinberger then descrlb.
ed the treason OF the social-democratic
leaders during the dictatorship.
Social Democrat.
The social democratic leaders al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-05
Dusty Dreamers
BY JIM WATERS.

There's old stunted oak In Jones street
with gnarled limbs and dusty, worm-eaten leaves
that drones languidly in the sun.
For forty years it sheltered old Rafferty,
on summer evenings after hard days work.
Now he sits there in the morning smoking his pipe
he sits there in the evening smoking his pipe,
Dreaming of the days his gnarled limbs and dusty
wrinked face quckened to the high-life
at McGinty's saloon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-05
Last Words on Evolution


immediate observation. What was the
origin of the countless species of ami
mails and plants? How can we explain
the remarkable relationships which
unite similar species into genera and
these into classes? Lime answers
the question very simply with the be-
lief in creation, relying on the gen
orally accepted Mosaic narrative:
There are as many different species
of animals and plants as there were
different forms created by God In the
beginning" The first scientific an
swer was given in 1909 by the great
French scientist, Lamsrck. He taught,
in his suggestive "Philosophle Zoo
logique," that the resemblances in
form and structure of groups Of spe-
cies are due to real affinity, and that
all organisms descend from few very
simple primitive forms Tor possibly,
from single one) These primitive
forms were developed out of lifeless
matter by spontaneous generation.
The resemblances Of related groups of
species are explained by inheritance
from common stemforms; their dis
similarities are due to adaptation to
different environments, and to variety
in the action of the modeflable organs.
The human race has arisen in the
same way, by transformation of a Sc
ries of mammal ancestors, the near
est of which are ape-like primates.
These great ideas of Lamarck, which
threw light on the whole field of or
ganic life, and were closely approached
by Goethe in his own speculations,
gave rise to the theory that we now
know as transformism, or the theory
Of evolution or descent. But the far
seeing Lamarck was-as Caspar Fried
rich Wolff had been fifty years before
half century before his time. His
theory obtained no recognition, and
was soon wholly forgotten.
It was brought into the light once
more in 1889 by the genius Of Charles
Darwin, who had been born in the
very year that the "Philosophie Zoo
logique" was published. The sub
stance and the success of his system,
which has gone by the name of OAR
winism lin the wider sense) for forty
six years, are so generally known that
/ need not dwell on them. will only
point out that the great success of
Darwin's epoch-making works is due
to two causes: firstly, to the fact that
the English scientist most ingeniously
worked up the empirical material that
had accumulated during fifty years
into systematic proof of the theory
of descent; and second, to the fact
that he gave it the support of sec
ond theory of his own, the theory of
natural selection. This theory which
gives a causal explanation of the
transformation of species, is what we
ought to call "Darwinism" in the strict
sence. We cannot go here into the
question how far this theory is just
fed, or how far It is corrected by more
recent theories, such as Weismann's
theory of germ-plasm (1S44), or De
Vriess theory OF mutations (1900).
Our concern is rather with the I'M
paralleled influence that Darwinism.
and its application to man, have had
during the last forty years on the
whole province of science; and at the
same time, with its irreconcilable op-
position to the dogmas of the churches.
ITO be continued.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-05

Note.-This article is a continual
ton of the first chapter of Ernest
Haeckers book, Last Words on
Evolution" which is now appearing
in The DAILY WORKER serially.
This chapter deals with "The Con-
troversy About Creation, Evolution
and Dogma"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-05

! neous view was generally received
that this marvelously complicated
structure existed, completely formed,
in the simple ovum, and that the va
rious organs had merely to grow and
to shape themselves Independently by
process of evolution" Cor unfolding)
before they entered into activity. An
able German scientist, Caspar Fried
rich Wolff (son of Berlin tailor,
had already shown the error OF this
"pre-formation theory" in 1853. He
had proved, in his dissertation for the
doctorate, that no trace of the later
body, of its bones, muscles, nerves,
and feathers, can be found in the hens
egg (the commonest and most conve-
nient object for study, but merely a
small round disk, consisting of two
thin superimposed layers. He had
further showed that the various or
gans are only builtlup gradually out
of these simple elements, and that we
can trace, step by step, series Of
real new growths. However. these
momentous discoveries, and the sound
theory of epigenesis" that he based
on them, were wholly ignored for fifty
years, and even rejected by the lead
ing authorities. 1t was not until Oxen
had re-discovered these important
facts at Jena (1S06), Pander has more
carefully distinguished the germinal
layers (1S1O, and finally Carl Ernst
Won Baer had happily combined OBJ
servation and reflection in his classi
cal Animal Embryology" (1S2S), that
embryology attained the rank of an
Independent science with a sound en-
pirical base.
A little later it secured a well-mer-
tied recognition in Botany also, espe-
cially owing to the efforts of Matthias
Schleiden of Jena, the distinguished
student who provided biology with a
new foundation in the cell theory
(183S). But 1t was not until the mid
die of the nineteenth century that peo-
pie generally recognized that the ovum
of the plant or animal is itself only
simple cell, and that the later tissues
and organs gradually develop from
this elementary organism" by a re-
peated cleavage of, and division of
tant step was then made of recogniz-
ing that our human organism also de-
velops from an ovum (first discovered
by Baer In 1920, in virtue OF the
same laws, and that its embryonic de-
velopment resembles that of the other
mammals, especially that of the ape.
Each of us was, at the beginning of his
existence, a simple globule of ,proto-
plasm, surrounded by a membrane,
about 1-120 of an inch in diameter,
with . 1rmer nucleus inside it. These
important embryological discoveries
confirmed the rational conception of
the human organism that had been
attained much earlier by comparative
anatomy: the conviction that the hui
man frame is built in the same way,
and develops similarly from a simple
ovum, as the body Of all other mann
mails. Even Lime had already (1735)
given man a place in the mammal
class in his famous System of Ma
ture."
Differently from these embryological
facts, which can be directly observed,
the phenomena of phylogeny 1.-THE de-
velopment of speciesD, which are need
ed to set the former in their true
light, are usually outside the range of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-05
II WILL FIGHT ON UNTIL PRESENT
REGIME is OVERTHROW" DECLARES
WEINBERGER BEFORE HORTHY JUDGE

BUDAPEST 1(By defendant
hard labor after
Hungary
Hegedus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-05
Why Comets Leave
Home.

THE function of a volcano
is to produce. It obeys, as
has been observed before, the
laws of sex, in as much as il
is the receptive, the female
principle. The ancient Aryans
Worshipped nature in the way
scientists must discover that
nature manifests itself, the
meteor as the male, the vol
cano as the female, and the
fruits of their unison being
creation. From THE Riddle
of the Earth" by Appian
Way.
The New York Times reviews the book
under the logical, II not geological head
ing Of, "The Sex Life Of the Volcano"
In part Il says:
"Mr. WGg drops the dark hint
that the eternal feminine is at
tracing the t0Gndering male. At
Gty rate the first meteor to strike
in a certain spot remains under
ground in heated state and gives
of this mysterious influence
tUhich drGtoS other meteOrs from
space to cause subsequent erHp-
tiOns.
"HOio meteorS hGUi1tg buried
themselves in the earth can re.
main hot for thousands Of years,
like the one he assumes is under
the hot springs at Bath, doesn't
bother him much. The meteor toas
e1tremrely large or perhaps er-
tremeIy hot. He takes great jon
IN observing that volcano IS
likely to derelOp other craters
near the main one. His Oton
theory is that nteteors are apt to
miss their marks and fall to one
side Of the crater they are aiming
at.
"He thinks that comets are
tremendous bodies, several times
as ldrgeiGs the moon, 10Th tails of
incandescent gases, tohereas il is
commonplace knowledge that
they're of small mass, toith tails
not trailing behind them, but
driven of by light pressure from
the SUM-"
Little Miss Muffet sat on a crater
Eating some ashes and lava,
When along came a comet and eat
down beside her
And asked her II she'd like to have.
"How dare you, Sir Comet"
Said little Miss Muffet,
"Yousnust think that I'm a volcano
That goes around shaking
And liberties taking,
And vsmping each meteor man-o."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-05
NO WONDER.

Everett Sanders, secretary 70 the pres.
dent, has been III since Friday with an
intestinal disorder.-News item.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-05
"YeIIown Press sIIent.

The "Nepszava,"' organ of the so
cial-democrats, does not make the
slightest endeavor to disprove the
charges against the social-democratic
leaders made in this trial before a
Horthy court. ..
The IS Graf Ujsag" reports that DR..
Kurt Resented, the Berlin social-dem'
cratic deputy, was granted an inter
view with Rakosi inathe presence of a
Judge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-05
WITH THE STAFF

Being Things From Here and
There Which Have Inspired
Us to Folly or Frenzy
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-05

tSee for instance. Moses and Geology.
or Harmony Of the Bible with Science"
by Samuel Kinns (SS2). In this work
the pious Biblical astronomer executes
the most Incredible and Jesuitcal ma
neuvers in order TO bring about an i'm
possible reconciliation between science
and the Biblical narrative.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-05-07

We maintain a
Resale Depart
ment at our offices
for the benefit of
local stockholders
who may wish to
sell their shares.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-02-04
Cruelty o. Practical Jokes.

That was poor sort of joke play
ed by New Yorker who inserted in
a paper an advertisement advising
that 80 ablebodied men could find
employment at certain address. The
able-b bodied men, and some whose at
tempts appear able-bodied were pa
thetic, fiocked in numbers to the
place. There they were informed by
the proprietor of the shop that their
services were not needed; that, in
fact, he had inserted no advertise
ment, says the Indianapolis Star"
Evidently some person burdened with
q peculiar sense of humor had been
responsible for sending these men on
their forlorn quest with the idea up
permost in his small mind that he
was playing good joke on the sup
posed employer. The joke, if it was
a joke, worked completely. The shop
owner was yexed and chagrined, and
the footsore men turned sadly away.
The humor of the thing will be seen
at once when it is understood that
some of these men tramped YEARLY
many blocks, only to meet rebuff,
while others, not able to walk, spent
for car fare the few pennies they had
managed to pinch together for such
an emergency. 1t meant a wasted
day for all of them. 1t meant wasted
hopes for men already, some of them.
near the shoals of despair. 1t meant
loss of faith in mankind.
It is unpleasant to think that such
jokers exist, but it is none the les
true that they are to be found here
and there, an incubus on society.
These are the persons who rock the
boat, who point the loaded gun lin
fun who pin crepe on the doors Of
the living, who anonymously insert
false marriage notices, and they are
all of them blood brothers to those
who wag the tongue of Islander. Most
OF such offenders give thoughtless-
moss as their excuse. But the real
truth is that persons who do SO offend
are wanting in the milk of human
kindness; they are of evil nature,
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-02-04
Pickpockets' Ways Vary.

AS q usual thing, pickpockets vary
their methods to suit circumstances.
Only the lower grade dips work in
pairs. These are the men who operate
on street cars, elevated stations,
platforms, and similar places where
they viii find crowds of pushed peo-
pie and have opportunity to escape if
detected. One Of the pair shoulders a
victim roughly while the other does
the work and makes a getaway, says
the Bohemian" Arrests are frequent,
but convictions rare, because the man
captured seldom has the loot. The
higher grade dips also work in such
places. The difference is that they
work in groups and choose times
when prosperous passengers will be
In the majority. During the fashiona-
BILE shopping hours and after the
theater at night are considered har-
rest times. Last winter three dips
worked a clever method in Chicago.
Garbing themselves in evening cloth
90, they mingled in fashionable
crowds in big cafes, theater exits,
ana railway stations. One of the
party was always hopelessly drunk,
and the others, apparently acting the
part of Samaritans, were hard-put
trying to keep him on his feet. With
ALI their care, however, he would
stumble occasionally and fall into
groups of ladies' and gentlemen. In
yariably the sober companions had
apologized and taken the charge away
before any one discovered the loss
OF valuables.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-02-04
Why People Are Riaht-Aanded.

The most recent explanation of
TiGht-handedness, by psychologist,
is exciting some merriment among
medical men, He supposes the human
body to have unexplained polar prop
critics, somewhat hkesthose Of mag
net, the right side being always
positive" and the left negative"
The most rational explanation
would seem to be that which ac-
counts for right and left-handedness
by the position Of the heart, The
shield would naturally be held in the
left hand to protect this vital organ,
so that the active work would fall to
the right hand.
Those who maintain that acquired
Characteristic cannot be inherited
will desire to have this expressed
somewhat differently. According to
them the positions Of spear and shield
were at first matter of individual
choice, but those who held the shield
in the right hand leaving the heart
exposed were more frequently killed
so that by natural selection the right
hand spearh0lders ultimately sur
yised and propagated their pecu
liarity.
In this case, 1t will be noticed, the
Inherited characteristic is not acQulr-
ed, but existed in the warrior at birth.
The difference may not seem worth
uuarreling about, but it measures the
whole distance Of Lamarcls,
At any rate. the hypothesis, in
whichever form it is put, seems
eminently reasonable, whereas talk
about polarity" between the fol
lowers of Darwin and those would
appear to be mostly Yerbiage,
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-02-04
How pepper Ia Prepared.

There are several so-called pepper
pants, but that under consideration
ID the black pepper (Piper nigrum) of
commerce. From the same berry
comes white pepper. This has long
been a staple product of Borneo. Not
many years ago there were 10000
Chinese in the province of Brunei
alone, most Of whom were engaged in
the production at pepper, which was
then selling at rs cents gold per
pound. 1t is now selling at about Z
cents per pound; consequently many
of the pepper gardens have been
abandoned and the production greatly
lessened, though still in the hands Of
this Chinese, the only people, perhaps,
who have the laborious patience need
ed to succeed in the culture Of the
plant, which requires great care, be-
ing subject to many enemies.
Black pepper is the entire fruit,
white pepper is the seed only, To
prepare white pepper Pick off the
spikes of berries just as they are
turning red, loosen the berries from
the stalk, collect and tie them in
bags and soak them in water 8 or 10
Gays; running water in the open sun
shine is to be preferred, because the
decomposition Of the bull on the pep
per corn is sooner accomplished
wher the hulls ere loosened the bags
are emptied into tub and the pepper
is tramped by the feet until it Is
thoroughly washed and Invested Of
the skins. when it is spread out on
mats and dried in the sun, boxed or
bagged. and sent 10 market
For black pepper. picking is made
easier than for the white. 1t is spread
in the sun to dry; as it dries the
skin turns black; it is then rubbed by
hand to separate the seed from the
stalk. Sometimes the berries are
boiled for a short time and then dried,
BY boiling the skins are tighteRed and
the color made more uniform, AS an
insecticide the Chinese gardener
mixes extract Of tuba with tobacco in
equal parts, making strong solution.
Nothing more effective has been
found. The vines are sprayed once >
week for three weeks while the fruit
is forming. AS Is obvious. the ex-
pense and labor Of spraying is no
small item. A good gardener and two
coolies can take care Of 1000 vines.
Coolies In this business, as in all
other in Borneo. are indentured at
SIS to ss6 gold per year, with board
and clcthinga.. -.A.~-sN
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-02-04
GLORIOUS PIC STICKING
An East Indian Sport Full Of Thrills
A. and Danger.

An East Indian Sport Full Of Thrills
and Danger.
! OF all sports the most exciting, the
most wildly exhiIarating, says a
writer in Baily's Magazine is surely
pig sticking. While waiting for the
heaters to come up when driving for
deer or bison or tiger the pulses gall
lop, time flies and excitement quiYers
In every nerve and muscle, but it is
nothing to the tension attendant on
the wait at the edge of the jungle for
the break of the old gray boar as he
comes out, usually in reluctant, surly
manner, and proceeds to cross the
open toward the next bit of cover.
Then the gathering UP of your reins
and the fresh grasp of your spear as
you look with straining eyes-now in
the direction of the captain of the
hunt for the signal to go, now to the
animal itself, inwardly praying that
he may not turn back into cover. And
then when the word "Ride!" is given
the mad rush, the utter inability to
see anything to stop you, the over
powering anxiety to beat every one,
be it your greatest friend or greatest
enemy, and get first spear.
Your heart is in your head. There
is nothing in the world to you but your
lanky gray monster striding away in
front and your frantic desire to run
him through. Hours are lived in mo-
ments. Your horse and you are one
animal, with but one unfulflled wish
in the world, wish you are both do
ing your very utmost to crafty.
In no other sport perhaps is there
so much real danger, yet strange to
say, accidents are really very few.
have ridden in cold blood-very care
fully over ground that and my
comrades have ridden over heller
SHELTER after pig previously, and to
say that / have been astonished is
but to describe my feelings in the
very feeblest way. How the horses
kept their footing it is impossible to
say. All know is they did.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-02-04
Trade Diseases.

Every man who works for long
time at any one Of scores OF indus
trial trades is pretty nearly sure to
contract sooner or later the bodily
disease that is connected with his oc-
cupation. Some Of these maladies are
mysterious; many are dangerous.
Bakers generally have bad teeth; the
flour dust collects in their teeth, be-
comes acid and gives to a special kind
of decay. Bakers, too, owing to their
irregular life, sleeping in the day and
working at night, and because of the
hot air and dust they breathe, are
great victims of consumption. Boiler
makers lose their hearing from the
continual racket in which they have
to labor. Those men who work around
the breweries look strong and
healthy, but the beer that they drink
ruins their liYers, and they generally
die before reaching middle age.
One of the peculiar diseases that is
but temporary in its effect and to
which man is immune after having
experienced it once is brass founders
ague." Three quarters of the new
employees OF brass foupdries exper-
lence 1t. They have severe chills and
headache, cough a great deal and
then develop a high fever; the illness
passes In day or so. 1t is caused
by the inhalation of metallic dust or
yapors Of zinc or copper.
Blacksmiths suffer from paralysis
of the entire right sides due to the
continual shock Of hammering. and
their eyes become weak from the
glare Of the fire. Professional cooks
are also subject to impairment Of the
eyesight; they have to open oven
doors continually to see how what
ever they are baking or roasting is
progressing. and the outrush of the
suppressed volume Of heated vapol
affects their eyes.
The strong fumes OF naptha are a
little less deadly than those of chloro-
form. "Naphtha intoxication" is pc
culiar to those employed in the manu-
facture Of this product and to those
who use it largely IN cleaning estab
lishments and in rubber factories
Furniture polishers can generally be
picked out in a crowd on account Of
the eczema which covers the hands,
arms and face. This Is supposed to
DO due to impure alcohol used ia thu
polishes.