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The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-01
A CURIOUS CREATURE

MI OTHER PERIPATUS was talk
4E1 ing to her child. Now a perip-
atus Is a curious creature, as might
almost be imagined by her name
With such a name as that she should
not really be an ordinary creature.
II am something like worm" she
told her child, "and yet have breath
ing tubes which make me something
like an insect. have nice soft body
and am of nice color. have little
legs, which make me look something
like centipede, and like to live in
an old log. Pm not daytime crea-
ture. Night time is the time for
me and for you, too, my child. live
here, far away in this tropical sec
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-01
What's the use7

The Stalled philosopher agrees
with the fellow who says that it is bad
enough to<make blunder, but it real
" peeves one more to find out he is
so unimportant that nobody has no
ticed the blunder. 1t is like busting
a tire, swearing whole lot about 1t,
and then by looking around find there
was not a soul near to hear your
choice assortment of emphatics. Gee
whiz, heck Jimmy crickets, what's the
use? Logansport Pharos-T Tribune.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-01
ETIQUETTE CODE
FOR CAR DRIVER
Many Forget Golden Rule
While Operating Auto
Along Highways.

Good manners in motoring should
be given consideration by thousands
OF drivers who pride themselves on
their etiquette at home, in oftices and
while visiting but who forget the
Golden Rule while operating motor
vehicle, suggests David Van Setback,
vice president Of the National Safety
council, who advises:
Motorists should make allowances
for both other drivers and pedestri-
ans. The driver who splashes water
or mud on other people has a peculiar
sense of humor. Automobiles should
give proper warning, not only to 9TH
er motorists and pedestrians but even
to animals, which are valued by their
owners.
Use Horn for Safety.
The horn shouldn't be used for any
thing save safety purposes. Don't sig
nal thusIy to attract the attention of
people inside houses. Remember,
some folks sleep at all hours of the
day, some are sick or nervous and
your honking may annoy them.
Your headlights should receive the
proper attention so they won't cause
inconvenience and danger to other
people.
Brakes that squeak annoy people
living along the streets through which
you are driving. Have your brakes
tested and adjusted regularly.
Trying to steal few feet of space,
instead of remaining in the proper
position, not only annoys and incon-
veniences other folks, but is danger
GUS.
Don't try to hog the road. Other
motorists have just as much right to
our streets and highways as you.
Concentrate on your driving. Look
where you are going. Stay in line.
Eschew One-Arm Driving.
1t is poor etiquette and reckless
driving to be a "one-arm motorist.'
Save your demonstrations of affection
for a more appropriate time and place.
It is bad taste to try to f1irt while
motoring. Don't think that because
you are in an automobile you are priv
iIeged to attempt to vamp every pref
ty girl who passes your machine.
Retain your poise even if you get
into an accident. OF course, the other
fellow always is to blame. Swearing
at the other party is not only decided
ly poor etiquette but bad judgment.
Both of you may get hurt or land up
in a police cell.
Being buffer in poker game may
sometimes win the pot, but trying to
bluff the other driver into thinking
you have the right-of-way and are go
ing to beat him across the street, may
result in an accident. He, too, may
be buffer.
When riding in somebody else's car,
don't be back-seat driver. Give him
a chance to drive.
In the old days children were seen
but not heard. Give them a chance
to cross the street or they may be
neither seen nor heard.
1t is not good taste to engage in a
dispute with driver of commercial
vehicle. His vocabulary of cuss words
is often used while out driving and In
extreme cases his strong-arm methods
may result in convincing you that it
Is best to always be a gentleman.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-01

Mushrooms appear to spring up
overnight, butfthey really have a long
period Of growth underground before
they come TO light
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-01
SOMETHING TO
THINK ABOUT
FILLING THE RANKS
BY F. A. WALKER

IF IN the exuberant spirit of youth
4 you are just stepping on the
threshold of human activities,
equipped with talents which should
permit you to take leading part in
the stirring scenes, but for some rea-
son you are unable to participate, hold
your patience and bide your time.
If Opportunity does not call today,
he may knock at your door tomorrow.
TO every human comes the time of
entrance and the period Of exit. The
tide of life is ever moving.
Somebody in the waters is being cast
on the rocks; somebody is drifting out
to sea somebody is being sucked
under
The old, the worn and the incompe-
tent are being swept ruthlessIy aside
by the currents and whirlpools.
1t is the natural trend of things.
Those who occupy the high places
today, conspicuous for ability and wis
dom, must in the cosmos order of
things yield the right of way to fresh
recruits, as must the decrepit in all
the great armies of men.
Every day somewhere there is va
cancy
men and women Of sterling worth to
step up to the front and help bear the
worlds burdens
The vacant chairs and the broken
ranks must be filled
Art. science, industry and business
must move forward.
The black smoke must curl from the
factory chimney; the shuttles must
dart to and fro; the forge must ring
with steel upon steel; trains must
move and ships must sail, else the
world and the peoples Of earth would
retrograde and perish.
While waiting for Opportunity, the
thing for young men and women to
do is to improve themselves, even
though they may hold university d.
plomas, mere tickets certifying that
they have paid first-class fare on a
through train, but not designating
destinations
When the old conductor shouts: All
tickets, pleasew where will you tell
him you are going?
Are you on your way to upfift hui
mainly, or work for human good TO
10 things and not merely talk about
e.hem?
If you are willing to work, willing
TO bear the knocks and rubs, willing
to sacrifice, to love and to stand the
true test, there is place waiting for
you in the depleted ranks, where by
giving much you will receive much,
from hand and heart. aH
20 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
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Mushrooms appear to spring up
overnight, but they really have long
period Of growth underground before
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Easy to Pull Out of MudhoIe

Two blocks of wood, some short
pieces of chain, and few eyebolts
will supply you with material to build
yourself sure cure for getting stuck
in mudholes. AS shown in Fig. |, the
wood blocks are cut as large as pos
sible and yet clear the mud guards,
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Expense Systematized

A budget machine has been In
vented by Mrs Annie P. Kenny, head
of the home economics division of a
large bank in Chicago. Given the in
come and the size of a family, she can
tell instantly from her machine just
what the family may spenh for food.
clothes, rent, welfare and for lux
uries.
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and then the eyebolts are fitted at
each corner. The chains can be fitted
at one end with snap hooks. At each
revolution of the rear wheels, the
back of the car is raised up about
eight inches and moved along about
two feet, finally getting the car
clear of the mud-Popular Science
Monthly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-17
knocking Swift and Violent AnnihiIation

reports almost unanimous the opinion that the
Dictator Psud is striving form fedora
states strengthen his armed forces and that he has
hopes of again assailing Soviet Russia
Pisud free agent in this case, but is the
England today the tool of France in his
tempt years ago invade Russia Like other military and
political trying uphold totterng European capital
jsm Plsudski is for sale to the highest bidder.
England still staggering from the blow of the general strike
with grave apprehension feels the deadeng effects of industrial
paralysis mine strike continues She also bames of her
colonial ills upon the Soves Hence with Piudsk willing to be
used for vile purpose the British mperasts him.
the past all the best laid plans of the mperiaists to sub
oshek revolution have awy this attempt it
develops military adventurism, will be crushed.
If Psudsk any other depraved hirelng of Imperialism
magnes Baltic bloc other of bloc in
Europe attempt subdue the revolution in Russia he is invoking
complete destruction.
The field that bolstered Psudsks
five combined with implements Of warfare alleged to
recently furnished by British agents. dangerous soil
mpeasts The Poland and the Baltic
reached the limit of endurance and Psuds other
military advntuer tries train those the Soviets the
uionss Poland will take advantage of the situation disrupt the
loyal army pound the wheguard forces pieces with
identical howe French sevenyves and three inch guns
they would otherwise against Russia thereby turning
white Gordon red the lightning flashes Of the revolution rnd the
imperialist atmosphere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-17
The a. +. of L. Forecasts Revolution

planters and slave-owners. The repub-
lican party, in 1860, as the representa-
tives Of northern industrial capital,
represented the progressive force OF
the social structure of that time. The
northern Industrial capitalists fought
for and gained power and used that
power in support of their economic In
terests.
We are living in another period OF
social development. The capitalist so
cial system has reached its highest
point of development. Social progress
depends upon breaking the bonds with
which capitalist society letters further
social development.
Today it is the workers whose social
interests are synonymous with further
social progress. Together with their
natural allies, the farmers, they must
wrest control of the governmental
power from the hands of the capital
lists and then use that government in
support of an economic program repre-
senting their interests.
They can only hope to win control
of the government If they enter the
political arena as an independent po-
litical force-that is, organize a politi-
cal party that will represent and fight
for their class interests.
Without a recognition of this fact
and action in aid of creating political
party thru which the workers and
farmers can carry on independent po-
litical struggle, the statement OF Mr.
Vol will not greatly serve the work
ers and farmers of this country.
Mr. Vol, vice president of the
American Federation of Labor, fore
casts a political revolution, but will
the American Federation of Labor
take the first steps toward that po-
litical revolution by initiating the or
ganizing of labor party thru which
the workers and farmers can begin
their struggle for political power?
The workers and farmers of this
country should answer Mr.. VOLTS
statement by a demand upon the ex-
ecutive council of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor that it call a conven.
ton of the representatives of workers
and farmers organizations for the pur-
pose of organizing party of workers
and farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-17
BY c. e. RuTHENRERe.

COMMENTING on the agricultural
~ crisis and the movement of the
farmers against the Coolidge admins
tration, Matthew Vol, vice president
of the American Federation of Labor
has issued a statement forecasting a
political revolution in the United
States.
1t is not likely that Mr.. Vol would
issue such a statement without the
consent of President Green, and his
declaration may therefore be consid-
cred as expressing the opinion of the
leadership of the American Federation
of Labor.
The statement issued by Mr.. Vol
declares:
"The consumers and workers of the
cities and the farmers of the country
cannot longer be kept ignorant Of their
mutually of interests. Big business
is only Fastening the day of new
rearoupina of powerful economic, So
cial and political forces"
Labor anqualifiedly concurs in the
JUG mGuI VI IGSluSAG VI liz
American Federation of Labor, that
the farmers are deserving of support
even tho it should mean an apprecia-
BILE rise in the price level. Labor be-
lieves that a constructive plan of agri-
cultural relief is imperative; it holds
it will add far less to the cost of liv-
ing ultimately than will be added if
the farmers are forced to continue to
live on the fringe of bankruptcy.
"The political revolution now in the
making has only begun. It's first Skin
mishes are in the congressional halls,
followed by primary elections. Soon
the whole of our body polite will be
involved in the greatest political up
heaval. 1t will have for its Immediate
purpose agricultural relief and for its
ultimate aim the wrestling away of the
rens of federal administrative and leg
islative authority from the hands of
organized business and the placing of
this authority into the hands of the
farmers, the workers, business and
other social groups upon fair basis
of equality"
This is very important statement
coming from the leadership of the
American Federation of Labor, but it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-17
Constitution Gives
Workers Right to Be
Hoboes, Says Davis

ELwOoD, Ind, June 15.-Secretary
OF Labor James J. Davis devoted his
Flag Day address here TO an attack
on Communists.
The time, said Davis, has come
when 1--WE must consider the activi-
ties of these leaders OF Communism,
for II is they, and they alone, who
threaten TO undermine American
ideals and to destroy all that Amer
lea has stood for since the adoption
Of the constitution" He added that a
rational American hobo is "a bet
ter asset to a nation than a grumbling
and discontinued Communist"
The inference left by the honorable
secretary Of the deportation depart
ment, Is that the constitution insures
the American worker the right TO be
a hobo, hobo with American ideals
preferred.
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vast propaganda campaign have been
organized.
Invitations have been sent TO the
R. I. L. U. and the labor federation
OF America, Britain. France, Germany,
Java, Philippines, etc.
Program Of the Congress.
1. The position Of the Chinese
proletariat in the national revolution
airy movement since last year.
2. The present situation of the
nationalist government.
8. The economic and political sit
uation in China.
4. The condition of world revolu-
ton.
5. The international labor move
ment.
6. Reports Of the c. r. c. OF the
All-China Labor Federation.
z. Reports OF the Shanghai Gen
eral Labor Union.
s. Reports of the G. r.. G. Of the
Hongkong-Shameen strike committee.
o. Other reports.
10. General policies for the labor
movement.
IL. Organization problems and la.
Dor tactics.
10. Economic struggle.
10. Strike strategy.
IL. Relations between workers and
peasants.
is. Propaganda and educational
problems.
16. Principles Of labor law.
II. Unemployment problems.
IS. Cooperative movements.
10. Other proposals.
20. Elections.
81. Official declaration.
Invitations. - The following tele
grams we're despatched:
To the Red International Labor
Union
We have decided to convene the
third All China Labor congress, al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-17
Gary" The Model City"

Gary he city, by steel the windswept
sand dunes Of Lake Michigan, is a city of DEATH
Death Of course always present Gary Not day
takes toll of the lives of the workers in the STEEL
coke and chemical plants @
yesterday death held field day and at took
two score workers its bosom.
The explosion tank followed by series of
poson nearby tanks containing deadly chemicals buried the
workers in the coke department first under ang roofs ana
soaked the soaring acids and boiling tar and made death
in horrible certainty those who survived the first blast
Gary has been made famous by it's Safety First campaigns
The propagand would have believe that the
10000 in the huge plant safe as the sexton in
village churchyard
But the growing dying in the hospitals and
morgues of Gary gives the lie to them.
The Gary workers are unoganzed they organized and
struck of the steel workers 1992O they driven
back Today Gary named after of the royal family is
prncpay the steel trust with organization OF workers
which challenge its lightest edct
the trusted spies of the steel trust will ever know
the the dead yesterdays holocaust For day
the first of Chicagos capitalist press Then
rgaed to the inside to make room for the Euchar
istc Congress
It is safer to deal with the the
muad bodies of steel workers being buried under tons OF
debris stretched the cold slabs of the Gary morgue
The steel trust at present beyond the reach the steel work
rs They can no punishment the corporation
which comrades than if another planet They
guarantees that tomorrow the fate will not
overtake them.
might individuals They have not
gresham investigation They have union to take
up enforce the payment of damages to the dependents OF the
murdered workers They have no press to tell the truth about the
disaster.
But because these things that they
remain So powerful has the government of
Gary United States with which Cypress the workers.
it maintains police but the steel workers showed in
that labor movement backing tem they
could organize spite all the steel trust could do.
Gary should be signal for the American Fed
GRAFTON again throw all its strength into organza
ton drive in the steel industry.
For should be the signal for the formation
of shop bewhich be the nucleus
of extended organization
For all workers be signal of the deadly danger,
only to living but to their lives of the exist
system basic industries perpeuated only
by the neglect fundamental duty of labor unionsthe organ
cation Of the unorganized
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interests and the use Of the govern
mental power to aid the capitalists in
exploiting the workers and farmers
are so clear that even the leaders of
the A. F. of L. are compelled to rec
ognize them.
OF course, after making clear
statement of the fact that the workers
and farmers have economic interests
opposed to those of big business,
which they must fight for by wrestling
control of the government from the
capitalists, brings in business and
other social groups" for share of the
control of the government upon a
fair basis of equality" How there can
be such equality between opposing
economic classes Mr.. Vol does not
explain, because it is unexplainable.
Either the capitalist class will control
the governmental power and use it in
it's interests or the workers and farm
ers will control that power and use
it in their interests.
The Struggle for a Worker and
Farmer Government.
The workers and farmers of this
country haven't even the slightest of
a look-in so far as the government is
concerned. 1t is openly and brazenly
a class government, using it's power to
maintain and uphold system of ex-
ploitation which robs the workers and
farmers of large part of what they
produce thru their labor power and
to aid the capitalist class which profits
from that system of exploitation.
Now that the leaders of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor have recog-
nized this fact, will they draw the
logical conclusion from the existing
situation? Win they aid in organizing
the political power of the workers and
farmers so that they may effectively
use that power to wrest the reins of
government from the hands of big
business?
The statement of Matthew Woll, in
order to have any real meaning to the
exploited workers and farmers, should
have been accompanied by a clarion
call for independent political action in
support of the class interests of the
two exploited economic groups.
The periods Of control of the admin
istration at Washington, by the repub-
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lican or democratic parties, has shown
that both parties are equally the in
strument of big business in dominat-
ing the government. The federal gov
eminent was capitalist class govern
ment during the eight years of demo
cratic administration from 1912 to 1920
even as 1t was and is capitalist class
government from 1920 to 1925 under
a republican administration.
The statement of Mr.. Vol is, in ef-
feet, a declaration that the workers
and farmers have economic interests
which stand in opposition to the poll
cies pursued by this capitalist class
government, which is equally a capt.
talist class government under republi-
can or democratic administration.
Glass Struggle for Political Power.
Can the American Federation of La
Dor, in the face of such declaration,
continue to ask the workers and farm
ers to vote for candidates on the re-
publican/or democratic tickets? Can
it continue to ask the worker and
farmer voters to support the political
parties of their class enemies, from
whose hands they must wrest the con-
troll Of the government in order to be
able to improve their economic con
dition
The policy of the American Fedora
ton of Labor of asking the workers
and farmers to vote for the good
men" of the two old party tickets is
clearly an absurdity in the face of the
situation pictured by Mr.. Woll.. These
so-called good men" have no common
policy. They do not stand on any
common program. They do not sup
port an economic program in the in
terests of the workers and farmers.
The history of the United States
shows that the only way the control
of the government can be wrenched
out of the hands Of one economic
group by another is thru the economic
group which is struggling for power
organizing its strength in support of a
program representing its interests and
carrying on a class struggle for politi-
cal power.
1t is thru such class struggle that
the present capitalist class came into
power. 1t organized the republican
party in order to fight for control of
the government against the southern
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is doubtful whether the man or men
responsible for it fully realize what
they have said,to the American work
ers and farmers.
The Common Enemy.
First, there is the recognition of the
mutually of the interests of the city
workers and the farmers, and the dec
laration that big business is only
Fastening the day of a new regroup.
ing of powerful economic, social and
political forces"
There is a mutually of interest be-
tween the city workers and the farm
ers. That mutually of interest con-
sists Of the fact that both the eco
nomic classes are exploited by the
same big capitalist interests. The
city worker is compelled to fight for
higher wages and better working con-
ditions against the same capitalist
class which exploits the worker on the
land thru high railroad rates, exorbi-
tant charges for marketing of crop,
thru mortgages and other similar
forms of exploitation. The mutually
of interest between the city worker
and the farmer consists in the fact
that there is a common enemy which
both must fight in order to improve
their economic condition.
Mr.. Vol declares that sthe political
revolution now in the making has only
begun" and that this political revolu-
ton will have as its aim ''the wrestling
away of the reigns of federal admins
trative and legislative authority from
the hands of organized business and
the placing of this authority in the
hands of the farmers and the work
ers."
In these two statements we have a
clear picture Of the present situation
in this country. The workers and
farmers have a mutually of interest.
They have as a common enemy the
capitalist class. This capitalist class
uses the governmental power against
them. The goal of their struggle,
therefore, must be to wrest control
of that governmental power from the
hands of big business.
With this analysis no Communist
will quarrel. Communists have made
this analysis over and over again. The
facts in regard to the domination of
the government by the big capitalist