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Evening star., 1926-10-11

I'm democracy the mass of the people are given
/ to imitation of the few The few in America are
i the idle rich who in their search for new sensa-
tons, Aamboyantly place themselves not only above
the law but outside the moral code that society has
evolved for its own discipline and salvation
What once were secrets held inviolate are today
openly discussed; habits of life once surreptitiously
INDUCED today boasted Of customs that have their
roots in the safety of society boldly being dis
placed by code that justihes anything you can get
away with"
Whence came this amazing change in our manners
and CUSTOMS no one knows One declares it to be
the direct result of the unbalancg of society by the
Great War; another traces its origin to the posses
eion of more wealth, almost overnight, on the part
of vastly more people than ever before.
And no one is better placed to produce actual evil
dence Of the change than Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Of
the internationally famous Family Court OF Denver.
A tolerant man, an understanding man, but, more
than all else brave man. he is presenting that evi
dence-and his conclusons-under the startling title,
The Moral Revolt in the frankest series OF articles
that have ever appeared in magazine.
Case after case from his own Court, related in all
Evening star., 1926-10-11

Owen Johnson, the most brilliant
of our novelists, an active OBJ
server and dramatist Of society,
paints in his great novel, "Chil-
dTen Of Divorce" q picture Of
conditions As they are in high
society that are terrifying in their
implication.
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To the Wall of the Communards in 1926

the main battery of the Federals in
1871. 1t was the attempt by Generals
Lecomte and Clement Thomas, the
military tools of Theirs, that aroused
the Partisan masses against the dan
ger of the shameful capitulation to
Bismarck and renewed attempt to re-
store the monarchy.
1t was on this very street, now so
solemnly paraded by workers reading
IL Humanite," the Rochechouart and
Clignancourt Delta, all the way down
to Place Clichy for about two miles,
that the women of the Commune held
the boulevards against the Versailles
soldiers, incensed to revenge by CALI
fet and the little, fat Theirs.
THE parade was set for the after
4 noon. "L'Humanite" for that day
was devoted to the Commune, its sig
nificance for the world proletariat; the
present disastrous policy of the French
imperialists, and the growing danger
of an American Dawes plan in France.
The franc was steadily falling, and
Peret, BRANDS comical minister OF
finance at the time, was repeating his
monograph record: 1.-THE fall of the
franc is not justified by the actual
economic condition Of the country.
Have confidence IN the government"
But the franc followed Comrade
Cachin's prediction, that is, down
ward, and with it was going the stand
ards of the already underfed and con-
sumption-ridden French workers.
There were several letters in the
paper from veterans of the Commune.
These old class warriors had fought
on the barricades, had lived thru the
blood bath OF the Commune, the ter
rible massacre afterwards. the failure
Of the French socialists in 1914, and
the success of the Russian revolution
the establishment OF workers gov
eminent that had learned from the
mistakes of the revolution of 1871.
The streetcar to Pere Lachaise now
traycrses practically the invasion of
workers Paris by Gallifet. All along
the way here. where workers now
hurry along with their red flags, the
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been revoked in 16S5-this caricature
consisted of "a hideous faces gro
tesquely similar to the ministers and
courtiers of Louis. In England the
bourgeoisie was frequently caricatured
by the artists of the aristocracy. One
OF these caricatures representing 1.-THE
High Court of Justice, or divers
Slaughter House," is especially clever
and memorable. In ITO in. the noto-
rious proceedings against DR.. Sachev-
erell caricature became a salient
weapon. 1t was at this time that the
word "caricature" came into common
use. (the word deriving itself from the
Italian "caricare," meaning to load or
charge, and hence in English trans
lated into an exaggeration). Hogarth,
Gillray, Thomas, Rowlandson, Isaac
Cruikshank, Temniel, Maurier and
Keene are the most famous caricatur-
lists that fourished on English soil
Hogarth and Cruishank were the lead
ers Of the bourgeois satirists in their
effort to use caricature for the moral
ends of the bourgeoisie. In America
Thomas Mast was the famous political
cartoonist. Defending the republican
party during the Civil War and attack
ing Tammany afterwards, Mast was
important in making the cartoon pop
ular in the United States. Puck, Judge
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Communards drenched with their
blood. These very streets were their
battlefelds. Every few blocks was
the scene OF barricade, and every
barricade the scene of a heroic strug-
gle, and then a massacre. The fight
ing (and with it the slaughter of the
Communards) intensified as the terri
tory held by the revolutionists thinned.
We reach Belleville now. This is a
workers. district. We are not far from
the party trade union headquarters
More and more workers now walk to-
ward 1.-THE Wall" In 1871 several
hundred, ragged and blood-bespattered
workers also hurried toward the wall.
1t was here in Belleville that in 1871
the bitterest fighting took place. This
is the doorstep of the final catastro-
phe. The workers here erected ire
mendous barricade. The cannons
belched and shrieked endlessly. The
Versailles troops were harrassed and
enraged. why doesn't this damn
ordure surronderH The Communards
were outnumbered, beaten, fatigued
and with not hope of success. Their
ranks dwindled, dwindled. One man
remained on this barricade. He did
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-10
Proletarian Cartoons

Minors depletion OF the workers
driven to the abattoirs of labor by the
snakish whip of the capitalist cavalry
man (The laboratory has a rhythmic
flow of line and a symmetry Of organ
ization that mark it as a strong and
significant production. Another of
Minors, "The Exodus from Dixie" in
which the great migrations of the Ne
groes from southern to northern lati-
tudes are interpreted in their relation.
ship to the ku klux khan and lynching
programs, Is scarcely less effective.
There are many others that stand out
as striking, sturdy achievements, par
ticularly Buried Alive" by Ellis, "A
Sacrifice to Greed" by Juanita Prevail
and "The Evolution of the American
Peasant by Robert Minor. Altogether
the collection is a valuable contribu-
ton to the proletarian art that is
slowly growing up in this country.
Such collection as Red Cartoons
is, after all, development in the car
toon genre that has come only after
numerous evolutions in its substance.
The word cartoon is derived from the
Italian "cartone," which means paste
board, and the real cartoon, according
to its original character, is a large pic
ture in fresco, oil or tapestry. 1t
serves as the model of the finished
work. The word cartoon was not en-
ployed until 1S43, when a large exhi-
bition of real cartoons was held in
Westminster Hall, from which selec-
ton was to be made of designs for the
decoration in the fresco of the new
houses of parliament. What are now
known as cartoons were originally
called earicatures. Political carica-
ture naturally did not develop until
after printing was invented and rapid
circulation of material could be
realized. 1t is interesting to note the
growth Of the genre. The earliest car
feature Tor as today called cartoon) is
a French engraving that dates back to
1899, in which Louis XII is depicted
playing cards with the Doge of Venice
and the Swiss ruler, while the other
rulers of Europe are forced to look on.
In the 18th century caricatures multi
piled. One of the most amusing and
yet at the same time sbittersis that
inspired by the Professionals who fed to
England after the Edict of Nantes had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-10
BY V. F. cALvERToN.

CARTOONS have become a part of
- contemporary civilization. They
have developed into form OF COM
ment and criticism that is essential to
our culture. They represent kind
Of snapshot logic that often is sharper
than words and more effective than
argument. A philosophy is captured
in flash of lines or scorned with a
single gesture. In short, cartoons
speak language that is direct, pithy
and dramatic.
While cartoons may not be able to
instruct in dialectics, they are able to
excite and persuade the emotions. In
these days of modern psychology the
Importance of the emotions in forming
judgments and confirming conclusions
has been amply demonstrated. Car
: toons have an immediate effect upon
the emotional process. They can by
their directness of presentation agi-
tate, propagandize and inspire. They
give emotional tonus to intellectual at
titudes. They. give spirit to logic, rea-
son to tactics.
In dealing with Red Cartoons DAILY
Worker Publishing Co.-$100) one is
Immediately impressed with the i'm
portance OF subject matter as well as
with the skillfulness of line and in
genuity of conception. Here are pro-
letarian cartoons, conceived in the
spirit of the class struggle and de-
voted to the definite purpose of class
propaganda. Despite the canine ulu-
lations of the bourgeois critics, the
artistic clarity and forcefulness of
these cartoons do not suffer as a con
sequence. On the other hand, the
animus that motivated their creation
seems to have infused them with emo
ton molten in intensity and magnifi-
cent in sweep. The titleless one by
Fred Ellis (The DAILY WORKER of
Jan. rs, 1924 which projects the fig
ure of worker, his body bound by
the inextricable ropes of oppression,
his suffering face thrown toward the
impotent heavens, is an exquisite and
excellent flash of work. Robert
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and then Life followed with cartoons
as one of their central attractions. 1t
was Life magazine that, for instance,
discovered the work OF Charles Dana
Gibson.
In England Max Beerbohm chalked
a change in the attitude of the car
toonist. Beerbohm was the Sinclair
Lewis of cartoonery. Instead OF play
ing up the bourgeoisie as had his pre-
decessors, in particular Hogarth and
Cruishank, he satired it. But Beer
bohm's caricatures had more of fun
than earnestness about them, more of
mischievous contempt than of deep ha-
tired. The proletarian cartoonist is a
new figure to emerge. In the attitude
OF the radical cartoonists of today
there is firm-set realization that the
time for playful piquancies is past, and
that pictorial satire and exposure must
be undertaken in profound serious
ness. Red Cartoons bears out this
fact with unequivocal emphasis. The
absurdities and injustices of class
.strangled society must not be twisted
into form evocative of laughter, but
revealed with candor productive of
hatred.
And so Red Cartoons satirizes with
purpose that is as social as it is sig
nificant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-10
BY HARRY CANNES.

ON the last Sunday in May, in COM
~ memoration of the closing, bloody
week of the Paris Commune (the
armed uprising of the Paris workers
in 1871 against the rule of the French
capitalists) the French revolutionary
workers march thru Pere Lachaise
cemetery and before the Wall of the
Federals proclaim their lasting and
growing determination to carry to a
successful end the struggle here SO
valiantly lost. The 1926 parade to the
Wall organized by the French Commu-
mist Party was held during the days of
a tense economic and political crisis,
and particularly in the midst of a bit
ter campaign against fascism.
Two Communist Party members,
Clerc and Bernardon, were on trial for
the killing of three fascist in a street
the French imitators OF Mussolinis
blood-be-drenched black shirts. The
-erdict was to be rendered the next day
Turnout its long duration the proceed
ings against the French comrades was
the most closely followed event of the
day. 1t was a court battle between
Communism and fascism, with fas-
cism, gun in hand. standing on the
court steps, ready to retaliate in the
Matteoti fashion at the least nod from
Taittinger, the French Duce.
For several weeks before the day
set for the parade the party issued
the slogan, ITO the Wall" as a dem
onstration against fascism and the
BRAND government which was system
atically selling the French proletariat
to the American bankers.
Sunday morning wherever you went
in Paris were hundreds OF workers
walking along the streets with out
spread "L'Humanite," the Communist
Party organ, exhibiting It's black head
limo: Celebrate the Commune: To
the Wall, Comrades!" The circulation
OF "L'HumanHe," already 100000, was
considerably increased that day.
lived just one block from Mont
martre heights, where was stationed
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not surrender. He retreated in the
midst of the smoke and CRIME into
the shambles of the tottering build
ings, symbol of the workers revo-
luton, retreating but unbeaten.
We near Pere Lachaise. The streets
are choked with workers and, above
all, is sea of red flags. This GENE
terry is the final battle-ground of the
Commune. Here the last few Commu-
nards retreated and behind the tomb
stones of Frances illustrious dead
gave ground inch by inch until the
end of the cemetery was reached.
There was no time lost by the Yer
sailles troops. The few remaining
Communards were placed against the
wall, that is now SO profusely decked
with red flags, and summarily shot.
But before they died their voices
were raised in piercing cry that has
not died: "Vive La Commune!" On
this Sunday that cry sounded louder
than ever before. Seventy-fve thou
sand Partisan workers, under the lead
ership Of the Communist Party, re-
peated the cry: 'viye La Communei"
That was not all. The Commune had
erred and lost, but the Russian revo-
luton had succeeded and to the cry
of 'Vive La Commune" was added
Long Live Soviet Russia" Long
Live the Communist International"
-FOUR hours the party units. the
u trade unions and unorganized
workers paraded past the Wall OF the
Communards. Standing in the very
spot on which their comrades had
exerted their last efforts on behalf OF
the Commune, few grey-haired vet
Grams greeted this new party. the new
red youth that perpetuated the spirit
of the Commune.
The execution OF the small group OF
workers before the Wall was the fin
ishing touch to the massacre OF $4,000
Communards. Theirs chuckled in the
thought that Socialism was dead for
all time now" But this day $4,000
revolutionists demonstrated their con-
secration 10 Soviet Paris.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-10

The author of this review is editor of
the Modern Quarterly and author Of the
noted book on American literature en- :
Titled The Newer Spirit.
Evening star., 1926-05-16

Saturday evening in honor of Miss
I'inke.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Gibhon Of
Jacksonville, Fla. were guests for
the week of their brother and sister
in-law. Mr.. and Mrs. \. d. Respass
on Duke street.
Mrs. Benjamin Mathew Barol left
Friday TO visit relatives i'll I}irming
ham, Ala.
Mr.. J. Earl Ross is back from a
visit to his parents. Mr.. and Mrs
Tenton Ross. in Bluemont. Va
Miss Virginia Cochran CT Char
loitesville is the guest of her aunt
Miss Cora Cochran. on Prince street.
The weekly bridge-luncheon was
given at the Belle Haven Country
Club Tuesday. Among those who en-
tertained guests were Mrs. Frank NJ.
billiard. Mrs. Jean Carter Ba>-ly. Mrs.
Malcolm +. Madden. Mrs. Harry ~.
Kirk, Mrs. Anna r. Wickes and Miss
Inez Moore. Miss Moore had ut her
table her house guest, Mrs. Fred Bel
Of t'airmont. W. Va. Mrs. Cameron
Wemyss and Miss Roberta Schneider.
Mrs. Harry Beverly entertained AT
tea Wednesday afternoon in honor OF
Mrs William jennings
Evening star., 1926-05-16
Illustrated Lecture on
Wild Flowers Announced

Mrs. William II. HERON will be the
hostess at the club tea of the Amer
lean Association of University Wom
en- Monday afternoon. She will have
with her as guest of honor Mrs
Charles -. Nalcott. wife of the Sec
retarE oi the Smithsonian Institute
who will give q talk on wild Flow
CPS" This address will be illustrated
by lantern slides from Mrs. WalCott 5
new book on wild flowers.
Saturday at I3:30 O'Clock Lieut.. Col
IT, Edmund Bulls Of the general staff
L. s A. win he the honor guest
at a luncheon OF the American Asso
citation of University Women. and will
speak on "BOrneo: 41 Days From
Broadway" Mrs. \. +. Dannemiller
will be the hostess. and will preside
at the luncheon. That evening the
University Club Players will present
three playlets at the clubhouse
Lady Anne" a. phantasy by Doris
IIalman; THE Crystal Gazer" and
''Pierrot of the Miuut.'
Evening star., 1926-05-16
ALEXANDRIA SOCIETY

Mrs. Beverley Munford Boyd with
her small daughter. Sarah Tayloe
Boyd. of Abingdon, Va, is the guest of
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward IL.
kemper, in Rosemont. Miss Charlotte
kemper had as her guests over the
week end Miss Marcia Eberline and
Miss Helen Franks OF Joplin, Mo,
and Miss Imogene Marston OF Balti-
more. Miss kemper entertained at
cards Saturday evening in honor of
her visitors when the others playing
were Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Lindsay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert V. Bryan. Mr..
and Mrs. Gardner l.. Boothe, I'd; Mr..
and Mira. Carroll w. Ashby. Rev. ard
Mrs. Francis A. Cox. Mrs. Beverley
Boyd, Miss Nancy Wattles. Miss
Elizabeth Warwick. Miss Margaret
Warwick, Miss Josephine Gregg, Miss
Dorothy Morton, Mr.. Beaudric How
ell, Mr.. Richard Acton, Mr.. Richard
Ross, Mr.. Davis Jackson, Mr. Cecil G..
Brown. Mr.. Carroll Pierce, jr., and
Mr. Edwin Pierce.
Mrs. Ferguson Beach Bryan and
her small daughter, Anne Cabell
Bryan. have arrived from Panama
and are the guests Of her parents.
Mai. and Mrs. Charles Elicit Cabell
on South St Asaph street. Lieut.
Bryan will Join, his family early III
June and they will then go to Anna
polls where he has been ordered for
duty.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Steward
Bryan. who have been visiting the
formers mother and sister, Mrs
George Bryan and Miss Elizabeth
Bryan, in IVY, Va, were guests last
week of Capt. and Mrs. Charles Nj.
n lf,i,, tTN n
street en- route To their homes In
New York City.
Mrs. W, &. Webb Of Philadelphia
is visiting her sister. Mrs. Waiter
Roberts, on Duke street.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles l.. OutCalt
have announced the engagement or
their daughter. Helen Louise. TO Mr..
Walter Cameron Roberts, son OF Mrs.
Walter Roberts Of Alexandria.
Mrs. s Russell Smith. Miss George
Wager and Miss Katherine Jennings
have returned to their homes in t'ul-
pepel. after n visit to Mrs. Smith 8
son-in-law and daughter. City Man
ager and Mrs. Paul S. Morton.
Mr.. Leigh Ribble Of the Episcopal
High school spent the week end with
his parents, Dr. and Mrs. G. w. Rib
bic. in Halifax. Va.
Atf. anu MIS- Lester wax
worth and their children are back
from a visit to the formers parents,
Mr. and Mrs Charles Van Niddles-
worth. in Asbury Park. Mr.. Van Mid
dIesworth spent several days in New
York City last week.
Mrs. LeavenWorth Willis Of Tampa
Fla. is the guest Of her brother-in-
law and sister. Mr. and Mrs. L. A.
Eidhammel, at their home. 500 Prince
street.
Mr.. and Mrs Warren NJ. Woolf and
their guest. Miss Elizabeth Grub of
Front Royal, motored to Cumberland.
Md. and spent the week end with
friends.
Mr.. Edward NJ Green Of Rappahan n
mock County has been a guest for a
week OF his son-in-law and daughter,
Mir. and Mrs. charles Willoughby
X ing. on North Washington street.
Mrs. Charles Edward Potts OF Rich
mond has left for her home after a
vsi1 10 Mr.. and Mrs. Charles {. Car
TN on North Washington street.
Miss Hazel Morris OF Washington
Evening star., 1926-05-16

Mrs George T.. Pickett entertained
her bridge club Tuesday afternoon 81
her home on Prince street
Mr. Edgar Warfield and Mr.. T.. e.
Graham. accompanied by the latter
CranddauGh Miss Sarah Brawner
of Washir gton. will leave tomorrow
10 attend the Confederate reunion 81
Birmingham. Ala.
Miss Rachel Derrendeciier and Miss
Myrtle Han of Roston are the guests
of Mr. ard Mrs. Ralph Remington.
Mrs. Randall Cation. Mrs. Nerna
Reed Mrs. Mary Troth. Miss Lucv
Brown U'hler Miss Margaret Ger
nnond. Miss Eddie D!cl<ert. Miss fynda
Carver Miss Mary More and Miss
Pearl SchWarzlnann went 10 Char
lottesville Thursday 10 attend thr
anniversary banquet Of the Business
ard Professional Women 5 club.
Evening star., 1926-05-16

Richmond was the guest 0f Mrs. Beck
last week.
Mrs. Robert Douglas Keyser or
Luray, Va, was the honor guest for
whom Miss Alys Lee Harding enter
tanned at tea Friday afternoon at her
home on Duke street
Mrs. J. NJ. Jacobs has returned
from visit to relatives In Culpeper.
Miss Lula Bohannon Of Criglersville.
Va. is visiting her aunt. Mrs. b. +.
Skinner.
Mrs. a. j. pohl and Mrs. Everett
Pohl, accompanied by Lieut.. Herman
II. Pohl of Fort Humphreys, spent
last week end III Annapolis. where
they visited Midshipnian Jack Pohl.
Miss Flora Merrick of Syracuse, y.
T., is the guest of Mrs. Eugene
Reynolds.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry HANDLER. ac-
companied by Mrs. Dora Goldstein.
Mr.. Joseph Goldstein and Mr.. Ruben
Goldstein Of Danville. Va, left We'd
neSday by motoor 80 visit friends in
New York and Boston.
Miss Louise F'inke spent the week
end as the guest of Miss Kathryn
Lockwood in Baltimore. Miss Lock
wood entertained at Il small dance
Evening star., 1926-05-16
To Officially Attend
Confederate Reunion

MIR. and Mrs. Jesse Anthony leave
today for the reunion of Confederate
Veterans and Sons of Confederate
Veterans in Birmingham. Mr.. An
thony being member of the Gen
ersl Executive Council of the Sons
and Mrs. Anthony chaperone for The
District Of Columbia Brigade of Vet
Grams. They will remain over to at
tend the appreciation ball given by
The Stone Mountain Confederate Me.
mortal Association in Atlanta on the
oath in honor of the sponsors selected
hr the association TO represent the
various Southern States.
Evening star., 1926-05-16
Mrs. Harrington S Guests
Mount Holvoke Alumnae

Mrs. Frederic T.. harrington will
entertain the members of the Mount
Holyoke Alumnae Association at the
Chevy Chase School. Connecticut
avenue. ChaVN Chase. Md. Saturday,
May - The annual business meet
ing viii be held ar II O'Clock noon,
with luncheon served at !. Accept
ances should he sent TO Mrs. Earring
ton. Following the luncheon The
guests will go TO the Mount Vernon
Seminary on Nebra ska avenue. where
They will lie the guests of Miss Jean
Cole and the faculty of the seminary
at an organ recital 10y Prof. William
Churchill Hammond. Mus. ID. Of
Mount Iioiyolle college. which viii I've
given at , o'clock. The recital. which
is in honor OF the allmnae and for
mer students, viii be held in the
Eliza beth SonerS Chapel
Evening star., 1926-05-16

-
| Wells Margaret Jones, Virginia and
| Constance Gillunl. Lillian Dove, Viola
Gator. Mary Simpson. Evelyn Suth-
! ard Thelma Tigert, Gladys Jones,
Alvin Anderson, Elton Tigert. Thomas
Simpson, Russell Gillum, Lawrence
! Toonlbs, Charles Petty ana William
! Cfillum.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Knight spent
! the week end at Colonial Beach.
| MI Charles Simpson has returned
from O visit TO his brother and sister
| in-law. Mn and Mrs. Harvey Simp-
son, in Manassas.
! Mrs. John Castleman has left Tor
! her home in Leesbure after a visit 10
Mr.. and Mrs. David y. Rust.
/ Mr.. and Mrs Victor #. Browne, jr.,
Went to Norfolk last week to visit the
/ formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Y. II.
Browne.
. Miss Margaret Ebbardt has return
! ed from visit 10 her aunt, Mrs W.
ii. Spencer. i'm Manassas
! NJ and Mrs. Harvey Wade have
returned from Clearwater. Fla. where
! they spent slE months.
Miss Eliza beth Schneider and Mr.
Robert ". Schneider. ir.. have re-
turned from visit to their brother
! in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs John
! Taylor Lewis, jr in Richmond
/ Mrs. John Beck is at home after
| spendin. several months in Char
lottesville. Miss Annie Bradley Of