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The daily worker., 1926-08-21

FTNHE question Of giving the Philip
pine Islands complete, absolute
and unconditional Independence is
again becoming a burning and urgent
question for the American working
class. This issue is now forced to the
forefront not alone by the Filipinos,
who are categoric in their demand for
independence, but particularly by the
American rubber manufacturers and
Coolidge's government.
Why did Carmi Thompson go to the
Philippines? What is the nature of
his mission?
A month ago there were still doubts
about it in the minds of some. Now
there can be none. Car1ni Thompson
went to the Philippines for the rub
Der magnates of the United States.
He is there TO make the Philippine
Islands safe for large scale plantation
of rubber. He is there to bring about
complete, absolute and unconditional
subjugation of the Philippine Islands
to the American imperialists.
1t is part Of the big bloody game
played by American capital to secure
monopolistic control over sources OF
raw material. 1t is part and parcel
Of the powerful urge OF American i'm
perialisn to subjugate the world to its
control and domination.
What does Thompson's mission hold
forth for the Philippine masses?
Brutal exploitation on rubber planta-
Aens. Starvation wages. Long hours
OF labor. Speed-up and squceze-out
systems that are life killing. The
establishment OF veritable prison for
millions Of Filipino men. women and
children.
All this for the greater glory and
super-prohts of Firestone and his like.
And what docs this perspective
carry to the American working class!
A larger army and larger navy.
More appropriations for the military.
And eventually permanent Ameri-
can army OF occupation in the Philip
pine Islands to protect" the invest
The daily worker., 1926-08-21

TN Mexico the preachers have gone
- on strike, not for niger wages but
because they do not like the new re-
strictions put upon preachers and
churches by Mexican law.
When preachers strike, what does
it mean? No more salvation? At
least no more baptizings, no mora
wlne-and-bread feasts, fewer prayers,
no more sermons, no church mar.
riages and no more collections"
Perhaps the road to heaven will be
closed and the way to hell packed.
Let's see did the Christ ever stop
preaching when he found the laws
unfavorable to him? Render unto
Caesar the things that are Caesars"
Turn the other cheek" What is the
logic of preachers strike? If Mex
lean laws are wrong, does not Mex
leo need more preaching and more
prayers? Evidently these preachers
of Mexico have more faith in strikes
than they have in prayers. Isn't it
funny for them to say in Mexico: BE
cause we believe you are wrong, we
will not give you any more religion
until you get right" AS if doctor
should say: Because your are sick.
you shall have no more medicine until
you get WE'LL"
Humility" No sir: defiance is
what preachers use in Mexico.
If these Catholic preachers will get
all other denominations to go on
strike at the same time, and close
tight the highway to heaven, they
may have some chance of winning. A
little while ago the subway employees
in New York struck, but they forgot
The daily worker., 1926-08-21
Carmi Thompson's Mission

ments of American capital and to
crush mercilessly every manifestation
of dissatisfaction or protest on the
part of the Filipinos masses.
The Filipino masses demand that
they be given immediate, complete, alb
solute and unconditional independ-
ence. In doing so they are demand
ing what is their inalienabie right TO
determine as nation. and of their
free will, what government they will
owe allegiance to. They have decided
time and again that they want to be
let alone by the United States and
do their own governing. But the
American capitalists will not let go
unless forced by a determined strug-
gle Of the Filipino masses backed by
the workers and poor farmers of the
United States.
In the face Of the present attempt,
thru the mission Of Carmi Thompson,
to enslave still further the Philippine
Islands, it devolves upon American la
Dor, In its own interests as well as
In the interests of the exploited
masses thruout the world, to say
clearly and unmistakably that we de-
mand that the Filipinos be given i'm
mediate, complete, absolute and uncon-
ditional independence.
Alex BitteIman.
The daily worker., 1926-08-21
Preachers Go On Strike
By William Pickens.

to get the elevated railway employees
and the taxi drivers to go out at the
same time. These catholics may have
some chance to win out, if they can
get the Methodists and Baptists to
shut down their heayen-bound trains,
the Presbyterians and Episcopalians
to stop operating their taxi lines, and
the Holy Rollers to park their fliv-
yers at the some time. But so long as
these competing roads keep open,
what earthly or heavenly good will It
do simply to shut down the Catholic
lines to glory? If they get us stirred
up, we may organize a religious revo-
luton, institute some interdenomina.
tional soviets, set up communism of
the church and operate our own lines
to heaven,-and to all other terminal
points.
The daily worker., 1926-08-21
RUMORS FROM
ROUMANIA.
Especial Gable from the
Associated PreVaricators)

BUCHAREST, Aug. 2o.-It is reliably
reported from unconfirmed sources that
mutiny and revolution have broken out
against the red triumvirate in Moscow.
Mutinous red cavalry ride thru the
streets Of kiev with eighteen heads Of
Rykoff on their lances. At later meet
inq at the Kremiin, Rykoff demanded
that Trotsky commit hari-kari, but Zino-
viev shot Stain for having given kam-
neneV poisoned prunes. In his dying mo-
ments Stain ordered ZinoVieV deported
both to the Caucasus and the urais at
the same time, and was then imprisoned
in both Petrograd and Moscow before
the loyal troops from VladiVostock ar
rived to exile the triumVirate to lrkutsk.
n. G,
The daily worker., 1926-08-21
In the Next Issue

The Railroad In Fiction, by v. F.
calverton. This will be the second
article Of the series on Labor and
Literature. The first article appears
in this issue.
Americas Peasant Pioneer, by Harry
Cannes.
Russia in 1926, by Jessiea Smith.
With original pictures and illustra-
tions.
And many other features.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
SCHOOL NOTES
Debate


 The debate subjects chosen for the American Literature class have all been discussed. The questions were. Resolved, That the assoeiat- ed students of the Wrangell High School should issue a school paper. !" That the town of Wrangell should bond itself for a new school build ing That dances in the school gym should be stopped during the basketball season" and That 1t is better for the students to go to the States for high school work than to take it in Wrangell.'
 The first debate took place last Thursday. Fred Cunningham and Harold Ottesen, affirmative, and Laura Roaming and Virginia To- zier. negative. On Friday the sec ond question was discussed, Ray mond Wheeler and Lennie Eng strom. affirmative. and James Wa ters and Carl Jensen, negative. Monday, Ernest Bailey and James Wheeler took the affirmative, Erma Grant and Dorothy Johnson taking the negative. The fourth debate was on Tuesday, Irene Tozier and Gertrude Carlstrom, affirmative, and Wilfred Gartley, negative.
 Of the first three debates the af- firmative was the winner. In the last one, no decision was made.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
GROUND IS BROKEN
 FOR BRYAN MEMORIAL

DAYTON, Tenn. - The dream of Williams Jennings Bryan that per- manent memorial might rise on the spot where he staged his last battle for fundamentalism and that it might continue to further the cause he so vigorously sponsored took ac- tual form when ground was broken here for the first unit of the Bryan Memorial University before more than ten thousand people and amid a village decorated and festooned for the occasion. The Governor turned the first shovelful of earth and in an address. accepting the property in behalf of the Bryan Memorial As- sociation, eulogized the great Com moner and pleaded for more Chris tian men and women teachers, that there may be no conflict between science and religion in education.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
BUSTER KEATON AT WRANGELL THEATRE
 SATURDAY EVENING

Wesley Sornberger. manager of the Wrangell Theatre, has most generously offered the net pro- ceeds of the two shows at his thea ter next Saturday evening, to the fire truck fund. MT. Sornberger has chosen for his feature, the Met ro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, "Go West" starring Buster Keaton in q hilarious comedy, his best yet.
 Following Greeleys advice to Co West, Buster, the tenderest tenderfoot alive, hops a freight train and eventually lands out in the wide-open spaces where cows are COWS. Finding a discarded pair of chaps and spurs, he gets a job tending thousand head of cattle, although he knows nothing about cows and less about horses.
 Buster takes a stone out of cows foot and the bovine, Brown Eyes, becomes his best pal. Bus ter has troubles of his own, and his efforts to ride the range, play nurse maid to the steers and milk the COWS, form one hilarious adventure after another.
 Then the ranch-owner decides to sell his cattle and, in spite of Bus ters pleas, Brown Eyes is loaded aboard the train with the rest. How to save her! Buster solves tho 1 problem by opening the car door in the big-city railroad yard, but the whole herd follows Brown Eyes out in wild stampede through tht 1 streets.
 How he recaptures the raging animals single-handed, and leads them back in triumph, while Brown Eyes is saved, makes a riotously funny and exciting climax to Kea 1 tons great comedy.
 In addition to Buster, there vii be two reel Westerny "The Knockout Man" and International News Two shows. 6:30 and 8:30. Admission 50 and 25 cents.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
HOPE CHEST WELL FILLED
 WITH BEAUTIFUL GIFTS
 GIVEN AWAY TONIGHT

The hope chest that is 70 be giy= en away by ,he Wrangen Unit of the Merlin Elmer Palmer Post. No. 6. at the Legions Armistiee dance tonight, has been practically com pleted and is on display in a win dew at the Campbell Brothers store. where it is attracting much atten ton. The chest itself. which Was donated by Campbell Brothers, is Of genuine fragrant red cedar hand rubbed to a dull finish. The metal trim is of copper with frosted satin finish and Iaequered to prevent furnishing.
 The ladies of the Unit have do= mated the articles with which th5 chest is filled The linens are beau tffully hand embroidered and each article is most pleasing and desir# able to the feminine heart. Should some bachelor prove to be the lucky person tonight. il is safe to say his days of baehelorhood will end right speedily. Following is a list of the articles which are now in the chest and which will probably be aug mented by further donations before the evening:
 1 Linen Scarf
 1 Glass Boudoir Set 1 Set Shoe Trees and Powder Puff Pairs Pillow Slips Pairs Silk Garters Set Silver Salt and Peppers and
 Tea Mat.
 1 Linen Breakfast Set Pair Glass Candlestieks 1 Suit Silk Underwear l Embroidered Bureau Scarf 1 Crochet Bath Towel and Wash
 Cloth
 3 Luncheon Sets Combination Shoe Trees and Gar
 ters
 Box Bath Powder Pair Silk Stockings ? Silk Vests
 White Linen Guest Towels Embroidered Linen Guest Towels 1 Linen, Table Runner 1 Flower Bowl
 1 Pair step-ins
 1 Boudoir Lamp
 1 silk B0udoir Pillow Linen Guest Towel Crochet Bor-
 der
 Mrs. John Campbell. although not a member of the Unit has do mated a card worth $2.50 in trade at Campbells' Peek-In Shop.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
CHOOSING A COLLEGE FOR
 YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS

The following is an extract from news item appearing in a recent issue of the Seattle Times:
 More than $500 students enroll at the University of Washington. With more students than it has had fin it's history. the University of Washington is ready to begin it's sixty-fifth year.
 Literally showed under by an unprecedented enrolment which has crowded classes to capacity and forced hundreds of students to take whatever courses they could get the faculty nevertheless has made shifts to take care of congestion, and scheduled classes will begin at a. m. Adjustment of classes, bet ter to fit the inadequate classroom space will be made later.
 The enrolment of last autumn taxed University facilities severely. and the extra hundreds this fall have caused a difficult problem. met for the most part only in make shift fashion. Forty-siX new classe have been opened where absolutely necessary, but this move merely complicates further the problem Of finding sufficient classrooms and of fitting the salaries of the extra instructors required into a budget already closely pruned d..........
 While the University of Washing ton was opening it's siXty-fifth year with more students than it can properly accommodate, the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines opened it's fifth year with a modest attendance. Glasses are numbered in groups of five or ten rather than in groups of hundreds. It offers education on the retail plan rather than the wholesale. The faculty of the Alaska College is carefully selected. The institution has not the stately buildings and well grouped campus, for it's very youth has demanded that all of it's money be invested in seryiceable buildings housing new and moderl laboratory equipment. This equip ment compares fayorably with that available to students in the larger Universities and the individual stu dent has far more equipment at his command than he would find in 2 larger University.
 At the Alaska College each stu. dent is required to participate in student activities. Many of our prominent national leaders are the product of small Colleges where their latent talents for leadership were awakened by the stimuli O. necessity.
 This year students from Ketchi- kan, Juneau, Valdez, Cordova, Sew ard and An horage are attending the Alaska College. Within the next two years fully half of the graduates of Alaskan High Schools will turn from the congested Col leges of the States to take advan- tage of the unusual opportunities of fered by our Alaska Colleges healthy vigorous young institution which is winning recognition for the high type of Collegiate work it is offering.
 These are thoughts which merit the attention of parents of the young men and women of Alaska when the time comes for choosing a college.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
ACCUSED NURDERESS
 VISIRLY SHAKEN IN COURT

sOMERVILLE. N. J. - Mrs. Hall, widow of the slain Rev. Edward ". Hall, who with her brothers, Willie and Henry, is accused of murdering Dr. Hall and his choir singer and and affinity, Mrs. Mills, was visibly shaken as her letters to her brother Henry were read incoHrt. The mis- sives, written after her arrest and before Henry was taken into custody had been seized by the prosecutor. They rebuked Henry for his seeming lack of interest in the case and praised their eccentric brother Will lie, now on trial.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
LIBRARY REPORT

A number of children's books were donated to the library by Mrs J. c. Grant recently and are finding a ready circulation among the young readers of the community During October 221 books and 90 magazines were loaned and the receipts were $11, according to the report of the librarian given at the Civic Club meeting held last Saturday. This week being Children's Book Week, he club decided to ask the cooper ation. of the school in its observ- ance.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
CARD PARTY POSTPONED

The card party announced by the Guild to take place Saturday even ing in connection with the fancy work sale has been postponed on ac- count of the Fire Truck Benefit which will be given that night Guild members donating refresh ments for the evening are hereby notified that they will not be need ed. The sale will be held in the afternoon upstairs at Redmen Hall as scheduled, beginning at 2:30, and the public is cordially invited Refreshments will be served.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
NEWS FROM THE
 OUTSIDE WORLD
SEATTLE BUSINESS MEN
 GOING AFTER TRADE
 IN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

sEATTIE=A delegation of sez attIe business men will visit the Hawaiian Islands next February The friD is planned primarily for business purposes. Ii is expected tbat the entire capacity of the S.S E1slias vii be required to ae= e1mmudate the party The Hawaiian Islands age spending q hundred mil lion dollars on the mainland each year and less than one-tenth of this amount is coming 10 Puget Sound Los Angeles and San Francisco are sending two or three delegations 3 year 10 the Islands and they are getting the business
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
ORDINANCE NO. 64

An ordinance fixing water rates to consumers of water supplied from the municipal water works of the Town of Wrangell. and for other purposes.
 The Common Council of the Town of Wrangell does erdain as fol- lows:
 Section 1 The schedule of month ly water rates to consumers of water supplied from the municipal water works of the Town of WrangeIl shall be as follows:
 All dwelling houses of three
 rooms or more .........$2 25 All dwelling houses of two
 rooms or less ........ l. 50 Rooming houses =. $3. % to 10 % Restaurants ........ UV Barber shops and beauty par
 lors, minimum rate .... 2. 90 Apartment houses -
 Each apartment lwith bath 2.25 Each apartment twithont
 bath) .....=........#...'=. Lou Section 2. In order that the pub lie may be more fully advised there is incorporated in this ordinance the amendment to the water ordinance passed by the Town Council in 1920 which provides that
 The owners of property on whish water service is rendered are liable for the payment of water rent h cases where the tenants in rented houses fail to pay water rent the landlords will be held responsible md su aIaims shal become 2 lie on the property until paid.
 Section 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
 Section 1 This ordinance shall take effect December 1, 1926.
 Section 5. This ordinance shall be published in two successive publica- tions of the Wrangell Sentinel, a weekly newspaper published in the English language within the Town of Wrangell and of general circula- tion. Passed and approved this 9th day of November, 1926.
 J. G. GRANT, Attest Mayor
 J. W. PRITCHETT,
 Town Clerk.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
Territorial Exams AbOlished

MT. AxeI Rasmussen. Superln= tendent of the Wrangell schools, received a letter from Lester D.. Henderson, Commissioner of Edu= cation, stating that the regular eighth grade Territorial examina- tfons will not be given at the close of the present school year. Also, no Territorial examinations will be given for eighth grade U. s. His tory which will be completed at the end of the first semester and geog= raphy and hygiene which will be completed by seventh grade stu dents at the end of the year.
 Promotions from the eighth grade to the High School will be deter mined entirely on teachers esti- mate of pupils and by examinations given by the teacher.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
WRANGELL GARDENS
 ARE STILL IN BLOOM

Wrangell churches were deeorat- ed last Sunday with cut flowers
 rom Wrangell gardens, not The autumn flowers only. but regular summer flowers like pansies, sweet peas. gladioH and dahlias. W. D 5rant has three rose bushes in his yard in bloom this eleventh day of November, with a number of rose buds coming on. One of the bushes began blooming early in the season 1t is not a large bush, but to date Mr. Grant says there have been over 75 roses cut from it.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
Wilson Resigns

Miss Gordo Wilson. who has been superintendent of the Wran= gell Genenral Hospital since its opening last April, resigned her po= sition recently and left on the Princess Mary last Thursday for her home in Prince Rupert Miss Helen Teller has been made super intendent. Two other nurses and possibly a third, will arrive soon for duty at the hospital
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
Vaudeville and Movies

Arrangements have been made with s. Cunningham whereby the Starland Theatre will be the scene Friday evening, December Srd, of a vaudeville and movie entertain ment under the auspices of the r. T. A. Further announcement will be made later.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
MUssOLINI AP0L0GIZEs
 FOR ANTI-FRENCH ATTACKS

ROME. Nov. 10.-Premier Mus soiini has formally written an apol- ogy to the French Envoy for at taeks by Fascist on the Frenea consulate al Bengaoi Reports from Paris state that the foreign office has accepted the apologies. and de elared the incident closed
 4 packed assembly In the pres enee of Mussolini cited death to all piotters against the life of the Pre- mier and royalty, and also busted from seats members of all opposi tion parties.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
HOSPITAL NOTES

Several residents of Klawack ar rived in town a few days ago on the Isabel R. The purpose of the trip was to bring In the following pa tients for the Wrangell General Hospital: Benjamin PeratoYieh and Mr. and Mrs Bob Roberts.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
Opposition Dangerous

ROME = Opposition to Dictator Mussolini is more dangerous than e.#z- under the newly enacted law under which even foreign newspa- per correspondents can be punished for criticism of his regime.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
Aid For Salvation Army

H. D. Kyle, local agent for the Standard Oil Company, received check this week for one hundred dollars, a contribution from the "soulless corporation" to the local corps of the Salvation Army.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11

H. D. Kyle, local agent for the Standard Oil Company, has been granted a leave of absence for sey- eral weeks. He left on the Alaska for Seattle where he will be joined by Mrs. Kyle and their two ehil- dren. The family will drive from Seattle to Los Angeles where they will visit with Is. Kyle's mother.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
SPIRITUALISTS PLAN
 HINT FOR HOUDINIS SPIRIT

LONDON - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other leading Spiritual ists plan to hunt for the spirit of the late Harry Houdini, American ma gician who was a foe to mediums. Before his death Houdini had guar anteed to forfeit $10,000 to any medium whose so-called spiritualis- tic manifestations he could not duplicate and prove them fakes.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11

George w. Bell who arrived here recently from Puget Sound, was ar raigned before U S. Commissioner Thomas last week on a charge of violating Section 15 of the Alaska Bone Dry Law He was sentenced to serve so days in jail and pay a fine of $60 In default of the pay ment of the fine he will serve an extra 30 days in jail.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
ONE TIME RICH ALASKAN
 TAKES IN WASHING NOW

COUPON. Cal. = Mother Woods, who carried the news across Alaska that a great gold strike had been made on the spot which soon be- came Nome, wants to take in wash ing that she may eat. Mrs. c. w. Chase, as Mother Woods is known, left the North with fifty-six thou sand dollars in her money belt.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
Raskethan

Competition will soon begin m basketball Besides a big eXhibi- ton game with the Town Team which is being proposed for Friday, the twelfth, several challenges have been sent to nearby towns. The team hopes that the Petersburg High will accept the first challenge with a game about Thanksgiving. A week of hard practice will put the local high in excellent trim.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11
c. M. Archbold. Forest Rl

O. M. Archbold, Forest Ranger arrived the first of the week on the Weepoose, Captain Thompson in command The Weepoose is taking the place of the Ranger while she is being overhauled MT. Arch bold is spending the week in this vicinity laying out timbered areas for cutting. He will go from her to Ketchikan.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11

SAN SALVADOR, Salvador, Nov. 10.-Adyiees stated that fifty-seyer persons have perished from molten lava in Matazano Canyon. The lava, coming from Zaleo Volcano. flowed in a stream four hundred yards wide and spread over large area. Inhabitants of neighboring villages fled fearing 8 renewal O. eruptions.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-11

MANILA, Nov. 10.-One hundred and thiry bodies have been recover ed in the towns of Ratangas and Bauan and seven persons are still missing following Saturdays ty- phoon. Some dealers estimate that five percent of the worlds output of coconut has been destroyed.