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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-06
Lathers Seek Wage Increase.

office of the Builders Association of
Kansas City that the fathers union
VIII ask an increase of 81 per day
over the present rate of $40 per day
effective March !, 1926. The hosting
engineers also have notified the con
tractors of Kansas City that they will
expect a similar increase effective the
same date. Engineers are nov recejv-
Ing Sl.1212 and $1.25 per hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-06
SAVING ON PLUMBING
OFTEN POOR ECONOMY
House Builder Can Afford to Have
Only Best in Way of
Fixtures

The plumbing in a well built house
is one item on which the prospective
builder cannot expect to economic
with any great degree of success.
There is more trouble and expense
caused by defective plumbing, es-
pecially the piping, than any other
thing in a home. 1t seems that it
is always the plumbing that wears out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-06

John Pope. t" build, 4727 JAY street
northeast: s. 800.
5. kann Sons Co, to install five mo-
tors, Delaware avenue and c street
southwest; $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-06
Back to Nature.

Sweet Young Thing-You say they
make paper from those trees? That's
a funny looking tree over there
Lumberman-Yes it'll be Il comic
supplement some day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-06

Mrs. Rhoda +. Graves, only woman
member of the New York Legislature.
has been honorcd by being made
chairman of the committee on public
institutions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-13

discredit the official report of the Brit
ish Trade Union Delegation on con-
ditions in Soviet Russia. After
lot of rambling blather the sap who
writes it arrives at the remarkable
conclusion that instead of going to
Russia to get the facts first hand, the
delegation should have gone to the
contemplate counter revolutionist
Abramovitch for their information.
IF, after reading the contents of this
4 organ of Labor" any worker is
still undecided as to whether it is Big
Business broadcasting, let him turn
to the advertising section. Here he
will find his old friend the enemy
stripped of all disguise. Page after
page Of advertising, by whom? Well,
here is a partial list of the most ia
miliar ones: Standard Oil Co., Cen
eral Electric, American Telephone and
Telegraph Co., Western Electric, Util-
ity Security Co, Henry L. Doherty &
Co., Investments, Baltimore C Ohio
Railroad, Proctor and Gamble, and
dozens of others.
ENAR be it from us to disturb the
4 serenity Of those big, jovial, Ia
Dor" boys who are doing this work,
but can remember, back on the farm,
when dad used to sort out certain
hogs and move them to the fattening
pen, we kids felt mighty sorry for
them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-13

destruction of the chapel erected in expiration of
the execution of Louis XVI"
Is is known, the Commune. partly because Of
its mistakes and extreme generosity, did not sue
ce9 IN subdulng the reaction. The Communards
persisted But did they bring shame to or com
promise the proletarian cause as Martinov is
croaklng IN speaking of the possibilities of the
luture revolutionary government in Russia {?
OBVIOUSLY not. Marx wrote about it.:
Working mems Paris, with its Commune. will
DC forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger
OF new society It's martyrs are enshrined in
the great heart of the working class. It's exter-
mlnators history has already nailed to that eter-
nal plllory from which all the prayers of their
priest viii not avail to redeem them"
IL seemed to us that our little historical in
curry mas not been without its lesson. It teaches
US, before all, that the participation of the rem
of the socialist proletariat together
WIN the Electromagnetic in the revolutionary
government is wholly in principle, and in certain
circumstances q direct duty. 1t shows us further
t"e the real task which had to be fulfilled by the
commune, was above all the realization of the
democratic not the socialist. Dictatorship tho
rying out OF the minimum program And last.
this reminds us that in drawing lessons from the
Idrls commune, we should not initiate its mis-
Cahes lthey did not take the Bank of France. did
no' attack versailles, did not have clear pro-
sram, etc. }, but its successful practical steps
"nlcn hinted at the right way 1t is not neces.
sary 10 take the word "Communev from the oreat
lighters OF 1871, not repeat blindly their every
slogan, but carefully select programmatical and
practical slogans, which apply to conditions in
RUSSIA and which are now formulated in the
words, 1.-THE revolutionary democratic dictator
snip Oh the proletariat and peasants"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-13
BY John Bernard.

A RE there any workers still so guilt
"A BILE as to believe that the over
grown tapeworms who pose as Amer
lean labor leaders, and who thrive
and fatten within the body of organ
lied labor. are not the deliberate,
conscious agents Of Big Business?
If there are any such workers, they
will do well to spend an evening read
ing the February issue of the Ameri-
can Federationist. This is the official
organ Of the American Federation Of
Labor. President Wms Green is its
editor. Here are a few gems taken
from his editorials. "In making in
vestments members Of trade unions
should be on guard against non-voting
classes as well as speculative values"
This is probably good advice for fat
takers with equally fat salaries, and
will likely be needed by the wiser
ones who realize that their weaving
time is not so far distant. But the
real workers in making their "invest-
ments" must consider whether they
can derive more strength from beans
than from meat, because their wages
are usually too small to invest in both.
ITO the farmers he hands a lot Of
A blah-blash about cooperative or
ganization. He says: MANY bust
ness men and bankers realize the fun
damental value of cooperative organ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-13
The White Terror
After the Paris Commune
By Lissagaray
By Lissagaray

ORDER rules in Paris! Everywhere ruins
corpses bitter groans. The clang of the
officers sword rings impudently thru the streets
Everywhere soldiers; some exhausted by the
slaughter sleep right out the sidewalks; others
are cooking their dinner and singing songs
The Versailles emigres, those shameless mobs,
are celebrating their victory Since Wednesday
they have been flooding the boulevards See
how these gentlemen THROW themselves upon the
conveys of prisoners! See how these ladies kiss
the boots of these bloody soldiers Outside of
the coffee houses among thick crowds of women
the officers are recounting their deeds and the
others follow suit-invent the most wonderful
fairy tales One of them who has never passed
beyond the Rue Montmartre tells how he him
self shot down twelve of the defenders of Chateau
d'Eau! Ladies gaze with contemptuous curios-
lty at the corpses that litter the streets Play
fully they poke them with their parasols
CELEBRATED Paris" is handed over to the tender
mercies of the four generals. The state of siege
abolished by the Commune is again established.
The army rules Paris!
After the battles of Sunday, May %, the sew
eral thousand people made prisoners were taken
to the prison La Rocquette. The head of the
battalion stood at the entrance of the prison,
examined each prisoner from head to foot, and
doomed out, "Right! Leftr Right-that means
the death penalty. No delay; the pockets of the
condemned are Immediately emptfed; they are
stood up against the wall and shot! No delay!
Somewhere off on the side are two priests muir
muring prayers
In the period from Sunday till Monday morn
ing 1000 people were slaughtered in La Roc
quette alone The same massacre took place at
the military school, at the Pare Monseau, at the
Luxembourg ~. ~ f. luxembourg the, e4 hausted1
soldiers were no longer able to hold up their guns
and so they had to fire with their rifles pressed
hard against the bodies of their victims!! The
walls against which the condemned were MUIR
dered are covered with thick chunks of human
brain! The soldierhangmen trudge deep in
blood!
No words are wasted in these massacres! Some
OF the captured are brOt before courts-martial
with which Paris has been full since Monday
The members of these courts-martial are sitting
quite at their ease, cigars in their mouths The
examination lasts quarter of a minute S'You
took to arms? You served the Commune? Show
your handsw If the behavior of the accused is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-13

full of determination, if his face does not please
them, the "court" does not even ask his name or
profession. His case is not even entered in the
records
"He is dangerous! Now you p That is all
And till all Of the prisoners are 'disposed
Of" Sometimes thru some. capricious accident
the judgment is "Oh he is an ordinary one )"
and the prisoner is held for trial at Versailles.
There are no acquittals! The Dangerous ones
are handed over to the military and taken to the
barracks. There the gendarmes lock all gates,
divide the masses of prisoners into groups, and
fire right into them 1t often happens that some
who were only wounded would begin running
about in despair and agony The gendarmes
would then start chasing these miserable ones
and beat them down with the butts Of their
guns :.
Scenes of a similar kind were enacted at the
Polytechnic School, at the Duplex Barracks, at
the railroad stations, at the botanical gardens
and elsewhere. In Luxembourg there was little
variation. The victims of the court-martial we're
first of all thrown into long cellar resembling
a sewer to whwich air could only enter thru some
narrow cracks
The officers held their cOurt-martial on the
third floor in a room full of traitors with the
tricolOr on their sleeves, with police agents. with
privileged bourgeois As everywhere here also
there was no investigation. After the sessions
the prisoners were either returned to the cellar
VI Chey were unmeuldlely taken TO the garden.
There they shot without the least ceremony
Here also the walls reeked with human brains;
here also the soldiers walked ankle high in blood
Not all, however, had the "good fortune" to be
judged by the courts martial. Many were simply
killed in cOurtyards, the thresholds of their
houses, in the public squares Z. Bands of arm,
ed murderers roamed the streets led by savage
traitors with the tricOlOr on their sleeves The
first passer-by who didn't please these bloody
murderers was put under suspicion" and fin
ished up on the spot. Corpses blood .
grOans!
TWENTY thousand men, women and children
were slaughtered in those awful days
Thousands condemned to years of imprisonment
and deportation! Seventy thousand women. chill
dren and old men left without any support or
driven from Francei Over one hundred thousand
victims-such was the revenge of the big bour-
geOisie for the two months revolution beginning
March 49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-13
Women
BY /. sTEPANoV.

kNATN new type of relations between man and
imam that made the woman into a comrade
of HE man certainly had great effects in the work
Iof The Commune and in the defense of Paris
Women fought for the Commune with the same
deyotion as the men. The proletarian women en-
tered upon the revolutionary scene from the very
BEGINNING tthey played an important part in
saving the cannon from the Prussians.
On March IS when the attempt was made to de
prize the national guard of its artillery the
women were the first to raise the alarm The
determined fight of the women, their attack on
the soldiers, helped materially in bringing about
an outcome favorable for Paris.
Nor did the proetarian women spare them
selves in the bitter struggles of April and May
In the very heart of the battle, amidst the rain
Of bullets of the Versailles, they would rescue
o founded, they would penetrate the most
a. rOus places and thru their heroic example
Would give courage to the tired and strength to
the weak In the most, difficult moments they
never lost their usual cheerfulhess and brot MANY
a fighter back to the struggle with a hearty word
with a friendly look, with a merry Joke
Many of the women themselves fought on the
baTricades with guns in their hands or stood by
the cannon. Entire battalions of women were
organized.
in the struggle forms one of the most beautiful
chapters in the history of the Commune.
In their devotion, in their heroic Indifference
to danger and death only the youth and the chill
dren could rival the women. In the remem-
brances of those who participated in the Com
mune are indelibly recorded instance after in
stance of heroism on the part of the women, the
youth, and the children, the like of which has
never been seen.
The Versaillese realized this. And so in the
blood bath they organized in Paris, in the muir
ders that took place with on without "trial," in
4he9depqr tons and I'M THE imprisonments no
exception was made in the case of the women or
the youth.
Would it only have been possible, these bour-
geols hangmen would not have hesitated to root
out all OF prOletarian Paris with its men. women
and ch1ldren-the whole of Paris, with its new
manner of life, with its new morality with it's
new spirit that was a death-warrant for the
entire bourgeois society.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-13
The Organ of the Fat Boys

ization for farmers, and are helping
to that end" This will be very com
forting to the farmer who has been
kicked off his farm by the banker
who held the mortgage.
IN speaking of the loyalty of the
4 striking anthracite miners, he says:
1--WE honor the crusading spirit of the
miners and pledge them
support" Since Green
wrote the above the strike has come
to close and these creatures of cap
ital ran true to form. Their support
was answering, but all in the inter-
est of the operators.
FOLLOWING the editorials are va
rious articles by economists, pro-
fessors, and nondescript shysters in
which the workers are given the low
down. on such matters as interna-
tional debts, insurance, reducing the
cost Of production by the elimination
of waste and various other subjects.
Under the heading, 1.-THE Fight
- Against Monopoly" the following
drastic remedy is suggested: "The
American people need to evolve a pub
lie policy to cope with it (monopo-
listic control) in order that the under
lying population may have a sem
blance Of protection"
OF course the customary snarl at
~ the terrible reds is not missing
In this case it is a silly attempt to
Evening star., 1926-08-09
THINK IT OVER
The Glass House Age.
By William Mather LetUis,
President George Washington University.

Is the world growing worse? 'Of
course it is," exclaims the pessimist.
THE columns aof our papers are
crowded with crime news" AS a mat
ter of fact. the papers are crowded
with all kinds Of news.
There was a time when our favorite
journal gave us nothing much but
local information. Now the telegra ph
and the cable, the telephone and the
radio bring into the Office of even our
smaller dailies flood of news from
every corner of the globe. The murder
in an obscure corner of Colorado is
promptly recorded by daily in Ten
nessee. The absconding bank clerk in
Oregon finds his name in New Orleans
headlines. But Iowa now learns
promptly of scientific discovery IN
France, and Kansas has the political
thought of the British statesman at
breakfast.
1t is the age of general information.
We know what our neighbors arc do
those whom we meet face TO face.
but the inha abitants Of the far flung
isles Of the sea as we'll.
There Is an appalling amount Of
crime in the world and it is men
ace to our civilization. But the mass
of the people are still honest. law
abiding. decent-and for such, hnowl-
edge of conditions is essential. We
will never right undesirable conditions
Of which we are ignorant. There is no
truth in the old adage that what you
don't knOw won't hurt you.''
tCopyriEht. 192e)
Evening star., 1926-08-09
''Would.Be Worshipers''
An Improper Phrase

To the Editor of The Star:
In dispatch from Mexico City.
printed in The Star, July 81. occurs
the phrase, "would-be worshpers, re-
ferring to numbers of MeXicans who
were unable to enter churches in that
country owing to the large crowds
there assembled.
The expression, 'would-be Worship
ers," is not accurate. because the
writer evidently meant that due to
the mass of worshipers the great ma
jority could not reach a certain church
or place. He did not say that they
would be in the church for worship.
nor did he refer to a certain period Of
worship. but has classified group of
people as "would.be worshipers."
A reference of this character is i'm
proper comment regarding conscien-
tious people whose sacrifices to obtain
their destination We're acts of worship
in themselves. Such a title Is not
just or fair, as person does not have
to worship all the time to be a wor-
shipper, and if he had previously wor-
SHIPPED with an intention to continue.
he has qualified. and should not he
called a ''would-be Worshiper."
A man who lifts his heart to God
as a witness of his acts to his fellow
men and seeks reward on the approval
of his life is not only lettering him
self hut is d benefit to humanity and
should be protected.
r. P. s. NEWMAN.
RICHARD il LaTAGGART.
Evening star., 1926-08-09
Freak Politics in Texas.

While the ultimate result is not in
real question, the Texas governorship
fight in the Democratic party is not
yet settled, despite the large vote cast
for Attorney General Moody at the
recent primary. A revision of the re-
turns from that balloting is reported
to have shown that the leading can
didate for the nomination did not get
an actual majority over all, being short
some 1000 votes of that point. Conse
quently q run-off primary will be held
on the 2Stn Of this month.
Gov. Ferguson. before the primary,
declared that If Mr.. Moody led her by
single vote she would resign the
office and withdraw from the contest
She was led by more than 100000
votes, and after a slight delay she
announced that she would not resign
until special session of the Legisla-
ture had been held to enact certain
legislation. Now it is intimated that
she has again changed her mind and
may enter the run-off primary.
The fact that twenty-three of the
thirty-three members Of the Demo-
cratic State executive committee are
avowed Ferguson adherents may
prove to be a factor in this shifting
situation. The committee is about to
meet to arrange for the second pri-
mary ticket and to canvass the re-
turns Of the first voting. Some sug-
gestion has been made that irregu-
larities have been discovered in some
Of the campaign contributions-ap-
parently Pennsylvania and Illinois are
not enjoying a monopoly on the
"slush fund" game-and disclosures
may affect the conditions in which the
run-off occurs.
Meanwhile the country at large.
which has been much interested in
the Ferguson regime in Texas. is won.
dering just how the incumbent can
square herself for her shifts of mind
The fact that she is only a proxy
governor, and that the actual admin.
istrator Of the State is a man who has
been disqualified from holding Office
somewhat relieves her of the onus of
apparently breaking her promise.
Doubtless on her own account she
was ready to quit if Moody led her
by single vote" in the first primary.
But then the office is actually not her
own to relinquish.
Evening star., 1926-08-09
Real Live Dragons.

Alan Gotham, British aviator. has
just landed in Australia on flight
from England. He had some remark
able adventures and a tragedy marred
his flight, when his mechanic was
murdered by an Arab sniper in Meso-
potamia. He saw many strange
sights: following is an abbreviated ac-
count of one Of them: Somewhat Off
the beaten jath on Komodo Island.
not far from Australia, he saw in
captivity two live dragons, similar to
that slain by st. George. the patron
saint of England. They were about
ten feet long and had huge claws
with which they could kill animals as
largo as horses. When angered they
emitted fumes.
1t takes a close search of the map
to find Komodo Island. 1t is O. small
member Of the Sunda group, OF which
Sumatra is the largest and Java the
second in size. Bima lies somewhat to
the east of Java, and Komodo is
tucked into the strait between Bina
and Flores. 1t is in that part of the
world where strange things have hap.
pened and strange things have been
found. Just why Gotham picked this
tiny islet out for a landing in prefer
ence to larger areas is not explained.
Nor is there any explanation of why
the dragons of Komodo have not here.
tofore been noted and scientifically
classified.
It Is now definitely, up to science to
find out about the dragons of Komodo.
Mr.. Cohhams stories of his adven-
lures on previous fights have been
provocative of much interest, but this
is surely the climax. Is Komodo a
fragment Of the lost world of which
Conan Doyle has told in his narrative
about Prof. Challenger and his ex-
pedition to find the pterodactyls and
other prehistoric creatureso II so, it
Is only a crumb, unless the atlas
bellies it. 1t is surely worth visit. If
there are two dragons over there an
effort should be made to get at least
one of them for the Washington Zoo.