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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02
FARM|NGTON
Funeral of E. Harry Cooling

The funeral of F. Harry Cooling
was held at the home Dn Perham
street Sunday morning at IL o'clock.
Rev. J. p. Barrett officiating. Alpha
Lodge, K. of P, performed its beauti-
full burial service at the grave in
Riverside cemetery, and members of
the order served as bearers. There
were many flowers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02

The Rebekah Aid will hold a pub
lio whist party Wednesday evening,
Novemb Der 8. in I. o. o. F. hall. The
hostesses will be Lillian Jarvis, Ad-
die Wright, Louise Wright and Lou
WadlAgh,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02
AUGUSTA LOCALS
Telephone Your Locals to 1877

The Augusta China Club will meet
with Mrs. John Thompson on Quinn
by street today. The meeting will
start promptly at 10 o'clock and will
be an all day session.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02
Mrs. ViIes to be Guest at Banquet of
,Rebecca Emery Chapter

Mrs. Viles has received an invita-
ton to be the guest of honor at
banquet to be held at Angellmere,
Portland Road, by the Rebecca
Emery Chapter, Biddeford. After
the banquet the regular business and
program meeting will be held.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02
Tha Installation

The installation of the officers
elect Of the Kennebec Lodge No. 251,
N. E. o. p, will take place this eve
ming in G. A r. Hall with Past Su-
PRIME Warden Harry Manser of Au-
burn as installing officer A supper
will be served at $40.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02
Letters From Mrs. Magma to State
Regent

In a letter to the State Regent,
Mrs. Magma, National Chairman,
Finance Committee, Constitution
Hall, asks that Mrs. Viles please
convey the information to the Maine
Daughters that the money raised for
chairs in Constitution Hall should
be sent, as soon as such is raised, to
the state treasurer, Mrs. Edna
Hutchins, Corinna, who will in turn
send 1t to the treasurer General By
SO doing, the work of the National
Committee will be greatly expedited.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02
NORTH AUGUSTA

Miss Dorothy Ballard entertained
the girls In the Stone school at Hal
IoWeen party Saturday night. Elsie
Wlngood Alice Ballard and Mildred
Grover acted as ghosts dressed in sheet
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02

The Pythian Home Club of Pyth-
ian Sisters will meet with Mrs. Hen
~ Cooper, 3 Patterson street. Tues
day evening, November 2, at 7.30
o'clock. All members please attend
and come prepared to sew.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02
UNITY

WEST-Charles Fowle: 4
Edgerley have returned tn-I
ing trip, bringing a deer W
Mr.. and Mrs. John WI
in Freedom to attend The 4
their uncle, Willis Waning
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02

Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Maxwell and
family of Wilton. were Sunday
guests of Mrs. W. E. Cooley and
daughters Of North Belfast avenue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02

Past Masters night will be observed
at the regular meeting of North Au-
gusta Grange this evening. A supper
viii be served at 7S0 O'Clock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02

There will be miscellaneous en-
tertainment given by the Philathea
Bible class at the vestry of the Green
Street Methodist church this even
ing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02

jones of Winthrop. A.,.,
dinner was served at tbs - !.
the morning service.
Wallace WEIGH brougb. !.
deer as the result q 70
last week at Shirley.
Miss Mary Wingats u.,s
land on Thursday Of Iss, !
Mrs. Charles Sanborr y.
in the neighborhood agt s.
Miss Frances Collin. :
friend Miss Margaret Ca,
EFT, Mass, passed III. ~
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred C. Vs..
had been passing a sSo-
their summer home. Vs..
Montciair, n. j., On Friisy
Miss Mary Murray ret1rs
day from having ATTENDED i,
ers' convention at Psngr
NORTH-A circle vas u
home Of Mrs. Nancy Fsrrs,
evening with a large atts;r
Leroy Cottle went i,
Sunday.
Mrs. Abbie Jennings, vii
misfortune 10 fall down ~,
weeks ago is on the gan.
Mrs. Willis Tryon viii i,
son, Willis, Jr., Of Enfel /
visiting her mother, I'll
Farnham.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02

A meeting of the Nash Parent
Teacher ASS citation will be held at
the school building Wednesday even
ing. There will be an entertainment
and refreshments. A large atten-
dance is desired
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02

The Philathea Glass of the Green
street NJ. E. church will give an en-
tertainment Tuesday evening. Home
made candy will be on sale. Admis-
sion Csc. oct30d3t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02
LOCAL NOTICE

No! Katherine Gray is not NOV
ing from her up stairs Dress Shop,
1888 Water ST., over Downing's Store.
Tel, NO. Nov2-S-5-6
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02
Funeral Of Mrs. Hannah S. Russell

Funeral OF MRS. Hannah >. husseii
Never were there so many flowers
in the Methodist church, never so
many at a funeral in Pennington, as
at the funeral of Mrs. Hannah Simp-
son Russell, which took place at the
church Saturday morning at II
o'clock, and was largely attended
Her only son, H. Leroy Simpson,
sales manager of the United Drug
when he was in Florida, and made
remarkably quick trip from the far
south, reaching here Friday night
The funeral was conducted by Rev.
D. P. Policy, pastor of the church,
and burial was in Riverside ceme-
terry. The bearers were Mrs. Rus
sells grandsons, and other of the
younger near relatives. She was a
member of the Methodist church, the
Order Of the Eastern Star, and the
Ladies of the G. A. r.
At a meeting of The Idlers Friday
afternoon at the home Of Mrs. Maud
G. Gray, a delightful time was had,
with bridge, Mrs. c. S. Waite win
ming the first prize, and the consol-
alton going to Mrs. j. w. Nichols.
Delicious tea and other refreshments
were served.
Mrs. l.. E McIntire, Mrs. E. l.
Smith, Mrs. D. W. Swift. Mrs. Lester
Starbird. John B. Fellows were
hostesses at the last meeting of the
Willing Workers of the Baptist
church, when a lot of work was &C
complished and a delightful time was
enjoyed.
Ralph NJ. Coombs of Leiston was
in town on business Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02

Mrs. Colby Has Arrived in China
Word has been received from Mrs.
Forrest A. Colby of Bingham. form
err Librarian, that she with her
daughter, Lena and grand daughter.
have arrived safely in Tientsin,
China, after a most interesting trip.
They are now visiting Mrs. Colbys
daughter. Florence. who is now Mrs.
NJ. A. Mitchell
State Regent of Colorado a Maine
Woman; Also State Regent Of
Minnesota has Summer Home in
Maine.
1t will be of interest to the Maine
Daughters to learn that Mrs, Her
bert A. Black (nee Miss Bertha
Lawrence of Augusta) is now serv-
ing most efficiently as State Regent
of Colorado. AS a girl. she lived in
the house now the residence Of
Judge William r. Pattangall. The
Lawrence family was one OF the
most prominent at the time they liv-
ed in Augusta. Mrs. w. J. Jameson,
State Regent of Minnesota, has her
summer home at Warren, Me-. her
husband having been a Maine boy.
Mrs. Jameson lives in St Paul, being
a prominent society lady Of that city
as we'll as most active in D. a. R.
work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02
Activities In Several Chapters Of
Maine Daughters Of Revolution
Mrs. Colby Has Arrived in China

ance with the lines advocated by the
National Society.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02

A most attractive Year Book has
been received from Miss Alice A
Varney, Regent of the Colonel Dunn
mer Sewall Chapter, Bath, which
shows an interesting and historical
porgram to be carried out in accord
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02
State Conference in Portland in
March

It will be Of interest to Maine
Daughters, that Mrs. Viles is al
ready making preparations for the
Annual Conference. and comforting
with the Elizabeth WadsWorth Chap
ter which is to be the hostess for
this meeting. The business sessions
will be held in the State Street
Church. Portland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-17

taking their bread away from them.
How ridiculous it sounds when the Of
ficials have the CUTS to come out with
a statement that the state police are
not used to break strikes, when on
every hand you can point out con-
crete instances where they are doing
it!
Then we come to a quotation where
it says that "Under Pinehot coal and
iron police must be licensed" Which
is true. Now they have become H.
eensed strike-breakers, authorized and
legalized by the state of Pennsylvania
to beat and slug strikers and work
ers. Is this something that the off,
Gals think that Pinchot should be
proud Of?
Then we come to the most con-
temptible lie of the whole advertise
ment. The following is how 1t reads:
"Pinchot has been a lifelong cham
pion in the promotion Of humanitarian
legislation" 1t is impossible to find
out under what heading the sedition
law falls. whether 1t falls under hui
manitarian or some other kind of leg
islation. But when Pinchot was run
ming for governorship one of the
things that he promised labor was
that the sedition law OF this state
would be repealed. The sedition law.
as all workers know. is the most con-
temptible means Of suppressing mill
tant workers OF this state who dare
to raise their heads and fight against
their exploiters. Mo- only did Pin
chot fail to repeal the sedition law, but
he did not even bring it up before the
Legislature in any form. He also stood
by and saw militant workers being
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-17

prosecuted and convicted under this
law.
In view of the above facts, the rank
and file of the United Mine Workers
have only one way out of the betrayal
and that is by categorically repudiat-
ing the endorsement of Pinchot and
demanding that labor party in this
state be built, with working class can
didates only. This must be done by
immediate action thru the local
unions.
The miners also must demand i'm
mediately that Goal Facts" be turned
into militant fighting working-ciass
paper In behalf of the coal miners in
this district and all the coal miners
in general and not as a political in
strument for the officials who want to
use 1t for their own personal ambi-
tons and aspirations, but that II must
be used to fight against the 1917 scale
and against the other coal operators in
this district. It must be used TO
arouse the workers of this state to
help to maintain the wages and the
union In this territory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-17
Anti-Labor Politics by the Miners Union Officia

cite coal miners in slavery for five
years by getting them signed to a
five-year agreement which hardly at
lows the miners to move.
In spite of the fact that the battle
against the 1917 scale means life and
death to the United Mine Workers in
this district, the wonderful document
of endorsement of Pinchot which the
district officials put out with the help
of Philip Murray, international vice.
president, does not say how Pinchot
helped the miners in their battle
against the 1917 scale which the Pitts
burg Coal company is trying to put
into effect. Not how Pinchot served
the mine workers against the opera
tors, but how he served "the common
interest of all the peopIe"-which is
a polite way of saying that Pinchot
served the interests of the coal opera
tors and is supposed to have served
the mine workers at the same time.
We know which side really got the
service"
After reading further on you come
to the following quotations: "Under
Pinchot the state police no longer
serve as a strike-breaking agency"
1t seems that the officials Of the union
forgot that in this district the state
police are blenu used today against
the miners and that they were used
to arrest and prosecute workers, espe-
cially during the years OF 1924-25. The
state police have assisted the opera
tors to break the strike OF the coal
miners, not only in District 5 but In
District also. During the anthracite
strike the coal miners were intimi-
dated merely because they wanted to
stop some scabs from working and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-17
BY GEORGE PAPcUN.

THE second issue of the Goal Facts"
L is out. It is a paper issued in the
name Of the United Mine Workers OF
America of District under the direct
supervision of the officials of the dis
trict. It seems the paper was put out
to help fight the 1917 scale in this dis
trict.
It would be a very good thing for
the miners OF District If this paper,
Goal Facts" would be made a real
fighting organ of the coal miners of
this district, and II the miners
themselves would be allowed to
write for it on their conditions and
struggles in the coal mines. But it
seems that the officials have turned it
into their own instrument, 30 that
they will be able to use it in promoting
their own personal political ambitions
and aspirations. The miners must de-
mand that it be made their organ, for
the miners are the ones that support
II with their own hard-earned money.
Let us take, for instance. the second
issue on page 8. We find a whole
page devoted to political advertise
ment which is headed by the following
title: "The Peoples Choice" 1t goes
on TO say what fine governor Pin
chot is. It also tells the miners and
workers in general what Pinchot did
In the anthracite coal strike OF 1923
and 1925. II tells about the good work
that he has done.
Yes, the coal miners should look
over Pinchot's record and find out how
ne helped John l.. Lewis to betray the
coal miners, especially in 1926, where
he actually helped to put the anthra-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-17

IenBe mechanism" TO shield Mselt
against the "inferiority complex" as
a compensation" for the hidden feel
ing. MIR. Martin. much as he wishes
to conceal his sympathy and loyalty
to the capitalist class, is unable to do
it. He juggles with the psychoanaly-
tic Technology showing how skill
fully he can stand on his hind legs
before his masters who finance the
public forums. According to this psy-
choanalytic theory the mere posses
sion of ideals is already dangerous
sign that something is wrong with the
social group, wrong psychically.
At the first time after its seizure of
power, according to the ''psycholo-
gist," the mob is still in ectasy, but
the ecstasy soon vanishes, and there
begins tyranny in the name of those
ideals. The behavior of the crowd
always recalls the behavior of a
lunatic or of one obsessed by paran-
ola Ga paranoiac suffers from the
mania of granduer and persecution);
with this difference, however, that
what paranoiac would like to do but
is afraid of, the mob executes, that is,
it is seeking it's victim and finds it.
The revolutionary clique when seiz-
ing power, always act under the illu-
sion that it is "the" people and that
its leaders are men of principles.
While the revolutionary leaders have
the power they suppress even their
own crowd in the name Of ideals, by
calling it dictatorship (as the rule of
Cromwell, Robespierre, Lenin). (From
this comparison is to be seen both
how fair and how deep this psychol-
ogy quack isl When the passions,
however, subside, when the revolu-
tionary beast is driven into the cage,
only then is it possible for sane and
practical leaders to rule.
The revolutionary leader-a crowd
man-speaks the language of the mob
and is possessed Of the same insan.
ity. Flattering the people, he thinks
of his own power and advantages
Himself belonging to the ruling class,
the, leader unable to obtain power
there, due to his inferior intellect
(that is, the leader is suffering from
the same completes of grandeur
and "inferiority complex"), he finds
outlet for his selfish motives in the
revolutionary crowd. For the sake OF
his own power he sheds blood. but he
finds justification for his criminal
tendencies in the ideal of equality,
and therefore leads a scared wal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-17

ooA loduH the man 1--WE may remind
Mr.. Martin that both Plato and Kant
Emphasized It greatly. that whole
some sociability puts up barriers,
creates laws, compels to suppress the
beastly inclinations. The "psycholo-
gist" says that in the crowd the indi-
vidual behaves like an unclaimed
beast which, seeking a victim, finds
1t soon. 1t attacks the ruling class
and ascribes to it crimes of which the
latter is mot guilty" AS a maniac
the mob is under the morbid impress
sion that the ruling class or party per
.secutes it. It sees in all the laws of
the nations legislature conspiracies
against itself and defends itself
against an imaginary enemy.
Before the crowd was portrayed as
too much rationalizing, now as one
which does not refiect-an example of
the doctors own confused thinking.
But what an innocence and naivete!
The masses without any grounds "im-
agine" that the laws contain conspir-
acies against them! And against
whom are economic and political laws
aimed? Are labor injunctions also
fancies Of a demented mentality? Are
there no class interests in the life OF
the community? And if there are
are not certain laws devised against
the oppressed class? A president OF
a big public forum knows better the
affairs of a capitalist nation, but he
only thinks that he speaks to imbec
lies and anything he says goes.
The crowd, says the psychologist
being the product of hatred, begins tc
suffer with a mania of granduer, think
ing that it is its mission to liberate the
world from evil. Every revolutionary
mob is obsessed with Messianism; and
it's programs are at all times and cir
cumstances identical. There is nc
difference between the believer In
brotherhood" and equality" and the
believer in the Second Advent" (Ot
course one can learn the difference
between messianism and socialism
which are as far apart as a life in the
hereafter and life on this earth. Il one
does not foam at his mouth wher
speaking of revolution as the Cooper
Union president does.
says that the revolutionary
A'A class "unconsciously" feeling tha
it is inferior to the ruling class, puts
up abstract ideals on its banner in or
der to prove its superiority. that il
reality such idealism is only a ode
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-17
Psychology of Revolution

against the parasites" and for NIB
erty."
The mob has no respect for lead
era but only for principles-is the ter
rible accusation OF Mr.. Martin. Grant
Ing that it is true, what may be In
ferred from It? That the revolution
airy masses are not as demented as he
depicts them; for II the leaders do not
represent properly the principles
thanks to which they assembled 30
power, they are either told to go, or
deserve punishment for betrayal; that
is, the leaders are not accounted as
idols who are to be worshipped under
all circumstances, but may only be ac-
claimed and admired when they serve
the people, not themselves. Indeed,
very practical and sane, tho such san
ity may not be to the liking Of the
capitalist lackeys.
OUCH is the diagnosis of the psy-
- chology doctor. And what are the
remedies Of the social psychoanaiyst,
for psyshoanalyst must offer some
remedy against the social diseases:
to cease being a crowd man, that is
to develop an individualistic feeling;
to go on the path of reforms (that ia
to leave the practical" legislation to
wise men like the prominent" educa-
tor is and his like); to refrain from
dictatorship, for dictatorship means a
delusion of the demented, humiliation
Of personality, the death of the genius
etc. Underneath the psychologist"
we behold the defender OF '1aw and
order" in the disguise of a scientist,
not a new figure, but his language is
new.
OF course our psychologist approves
OF defensive warfare for the sake Of
the nation. But why is national in
terest" less abstract than "class in
terest"? Sacrifices are required both
by revolutionary upheaval and a
war, in one case it is sign of insan-
ity, in the other-of great wisdom and
:. idealism.
The attempt to straight-jacket the
revolutionary masses is an old device,
the only new method being the psy-
Geological paraphernalia Of such
pseudo scientific wiseacres as the fol-
lower Of psychoanalysis and progma-
tism is. 1t is characteristic that the
Behavior Of Crowds" takes up such
prominent place on the shelves OF the
public libraries. It only proves that
the bourgeois psychologist as well as
the chief librarian runs the errands Of
the chamber of commerce.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-17
BY D. KVITKo.
(EECOND ARTICLE)

The fret article Of this series
appeared IN the Saturday Mega
sine Supplement Of The DAILY
WORKER on April s, under
the subtitle of" Psyhco-GmaIy-
to PerUersion Of Mass ActiU-
tty." In this, the second W'ti-
Gle, the author continues to dis
cuss the vielos Of Mr.. f. d. Nor
tin, chairman of the Cooper
Union Forums (Net0 York;
t0ho, the author says, passes as
a Keen observer of mass psy-
chOIogy."
An Attempt to Strait-Iacket RevoIu-
tlonary Activity.
MR.. MARTIN, like the biblical Ba.
AVA laam, comes to curse the "crowd,"
but instead Involuntary praises 1t
sometimes. For instance, he CLASH
1ies mass thinking with the category
of Platonic or Kantian thinking, for
Platonism and Kantianism mean to
him naturalization and abstract re-
Election. According to Mr.. Martin the
mob rebels in the name of principles
and in the name of ideals. The ideals
of brotherhood" equality" and
freedom" are distractions which have
nothing to do with reality. (there is
where he links the crowd with Platon-
ism).
The crowd logic Is a fatal logic
leading to death. The actions of the
mob are actions of lunatics which are
to function only in the realm of
''ideas" or CONGRATULATIONS" It's
principles and ideals are only screens,
-justifications for inner criminal in
clinations, suppressed" IN normal
life. Mr.. Martin gives himself away
by showing that principles and ideals
are not necessary and that his un.
principled principles are those of a
philiBtine who Is content with social
life as 1t IS and who is afraid of any
change. For the oppressed masses
to reconcile with slavery is sane but
the ideals of freedom" and equal
ity" are decentralization" and Sub
limations" of criminal tendencies! He
is against 'rationalism" but for "prag-
matte" thinking. A poor service to
pragmatic thinking he does!
He says that in individual life rea-
New Britain herald., 1926-05-03

this summer will contribute their gate receipts to Matty memorials. one at Lewisburg, Pa, where he spent his first days and became a figure in the athletic history Of his college, and the other at Saranac Lake, \. Y, where the hero Of all the kids met the end with a smile.
 The New York Giants. for whom Matty pitched sensationaIy for years, will devote the receipts from an exhibition with the Washington Senators at the Polo Grounds July : to the memorial at Buckneu. The other benefit contest will be played by the Boston Braves and Giants at Braves field. Boston, on May $ and the receipts will go to the Saranac Lake project.
 Magnates from both major leagues make up the memorial com mittea and Commissioner Landis the honorary chairman.