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New Britain herald., 1926-10-02

You can tell the difference be- tween hay fever and a cold. Hay fever doesn't last all winter.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-02

The wonder Is not how the boot leggers keep 1t up. but how their patrons keep 1t down.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-02

The gas supply won't fail soon The danger is that the material used to build filling stations will be exhausted.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-02
FactsqndFancies
 BY ROBERT CULLEN

The honeymoon is over when fancy work on longer seems neces- sary on an apron.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-02

Possibly that new motor can be run with buttermilk, but we doubt if it holds up without the addition of a little corn bread.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-02

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When the Naples building ca, comes into superior court next wee on appeal from the order of u board of adjustment that work mu not go on until the plan is amende, a number of interesting situation are likely to arise.
 One of the most unusual will | the embarrassing necessity of a ci attorney croSs-eXamining eXper who are or have been in the cit employ and disputing the clain which these individuals will be cal ed upon by the Naples interests introduce into court. Former builc ing inspector E. J. Hennessy alwa, maintained the building was pc fectly proper to be constructt in residence district ar does not violate the law. Wht Arthur N. Rutherford, the presel inspector became a deputy and W; plunged into the center of the col troversy he passively admitted tn condition to be true. The form building commissions insistence tn the remonstrants wee out of ord in their objections was taken up the present commission, and it reasonable to suppose that subpoel servers will be flying about City hs summoning persons whose judgme
 the city apparently had been willil to accept and pay for, but whiC appears to have been overruled the Naples case. The Naples matter topped in IT portance the many disputes ov construction in which city depar ments were embroiled in the pas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
BIasphemy in Massachusetts

Yesterday there began trial in the district Brockton
Massachusetts that reechos the colonial ages
speaker and editor A Bimba being tried for the "crime
basphemy 1t that vinde priest objected
scientific statement of fact that the human well afford
dispense with all ideas of 1t inerfered with the confidence
that he practices his gb Pensioners the proceeds
of which enables him live in denes Instead of arresng
holy the political lackeys the police of that bngh
city arrested the who exposed the fraud
Bimba charged with violating law of 1897 adopted
hundred years before declaration independence
responsible for the law Cotton Mater ignorant
maevOlen murderOus Clergyman who served his god
by prosecuting hanging witches Salem
nsgated the whraft prosecutions
the trials and danced with g the victims his
ange death the end the hangmans rope object
loathng and execaon the few intelligent
his is synonym of nfamy Four years
published his screeds witchaft entitled the
licences and "The Wonders of the Invisible ord' this
1897 under which Bmba is being tried today placed upon
statute books.
Against this utterly contemplate prosecution all
thinkers nfde and agnosc should rally united
the Communists and into the of
and for all the residue ignorance
the statute books by that sinister figure history
Mather.
No intelligent person believe existence god The
This persecution has the political significance every
advantage should be taken of by
alone religion but also the political shyers that have audac
such action and thru dscredng them
to despise the capitalist state itself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
The Fruits of Treachery

Tear bombs riot and other implements
for carrying of frighuness against
the miners union in the hands of police
guards in the anthracite field to be used when the
to open up the mines with scab labor
This the fruit of the rachery of the officials the
Union who aided these identical police thugs jail
the Communists who urging militant beginning
of the strike
Every great industrial struggle that the
Of the employers directed against the left wing As
vanguard eliminated the drive is launched against the
of strikers.
We do expect the labor euenants capitalist class
who aided the police against the Communists heed the
the present strike but unquesonaby rank and
file will profit thereby and join the left elements who
crush alike the agents of the bosses within and without the
Had the advise of the Communists general
by ordering out the maintenance prevailed the strike
be matter of history and would be
the working class 1t is not yet too late bring the
their knees this struggle The should
desert the mines and thereby make impossible the
mine coal for months tho they hired
purpose
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12

which the Comintern must proceed in
the present situation.
Zinoviev described the characters
tics of the present international situa
ton and pointed out that althO nc
immediate revolutionary situation ex
listed, nevertheless the worst period OF
stagnation in the revolutionary move
ment was passed and that forward
move was beginning in the European
working class movement with new
and specific characteristics.
TIME idea which still exists amongst
4 some Communists that the Com
munist movement can only develop in
times of intense industrial crises, OF
unemployment, etc, is basically false
The Russian example proves that
altho complex of several factors is
necessary for an immediate revolu-
tionary situation, by no means the
least of which is the despair of the
working masses in consequence OF
crises and poverty, nevertheless the
general development of the working
class movement, in the course OF
which new complicating factors arise,
which later lead to a transition from
the economic into the Immediately
revolutionary working class move
ment, does not absolutely demand a
definite financial and industrial crisis
1t is just in times Of prosperity when
the working class feels itself strong
and undertakes successful strikes
whilst very often great unemployment
blunts the will to struggle.
The idea that the sterilization of
capitalism leads unavoidably to the
strengthening of reformism and that
the Communist parties can only
strengthen and penetrate into the
masses at times of revolutionary ad.
vance, is incorrect. If the European
Communists suffer from these ideas
which exist amongst the European
workers and fail to recognize that it
is question Of whether we or the re-
formists shall stand at the head of the
present enlivenment of the working
class movement, if the Communist
parties in the present situation do
not penetrate into the masses, they
will fail also when it is the question
of leading a definitely revolutionary
movement. The obstinate persistehcy
of the German and Austrian social
democrats in continuing to exist is to
be explained thru the fact that they
are better able to penetrate into the
masses of the workers upon the field
of the daily struggle, than the Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
Znoviev Reports on Activities of the Russian Party
Delegation in the Communist International

and we are convinced that the Ger.
man party will go the correct way
and will overcome the remains of the
ultra-left and right crises.
MYTH regard to the crisis in the
w Czecho-Slovakian party, the solu-
tion of the question by the expulsion
Of Bubink, which was contestable, has
proved itself to be correct. Bubnik
as a political force no longer exists
and the block of the left and the GEN.
ter has proved successful. The recov-
cry of the Czecho-Slovakian party is
a fact. The tendencies in the trade
union questions, which are similar to
those in Germany, must, however, be
overcome.
Zinoviev pointed further to the
sanitation Of the Polish party where
the ultra-left Domsky tendency has
been condemned by the party and
where decisions have been passed for
keeping peace with the Communist
Party Of Germany and the whole Com
intern.
Summing up his review of the situa-
ton in the parties, Zinoviev pointed
out that in most of them, for instance
Germany, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia,
Italy and Norway, ultra-left relapses
had occurred, caused by the present
period of comparative ebb in our
struggle. The executive committee of
the Communist international has
fought these ultra-left tendencies. 1t
was no accident that since the Second
Congress the Comintern has had to
struggle first against the ultra-left and
then against the ultra-right. The in
ternational proletarian organization
supporting itself upon a victorious pro-
letarian revolution in one country and
developing it's work in other coun-
tries, has no other possibility than to
maneuver between Scyll and Chary-
bdis; first. to crush left and then a
right depression and then both. to-
gether. One depression, as Lenin al
ways stressed, creates and nourishes
its opposite. The future leaders of
the Comintern must in this connection
remain absolutely upon the basis of
Leninism. l am, said Zinoviev, very
definitely against those who declare
that at present the struggle must be
directed exclusively against the ultra
left. One must remember that in a
given country and in a given moment
the ultra-left tendency can be more
dangerous than the right tendency
and vice-versa. This is not centrism,
but the chief way of Leninism along
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
Notes of an InternatiOnGIist
A SEVERE WINTER IN GERMANY
BY JOHN PEPPER.

A NOTICEABLE sharpening of the
4 situation can now be seen in Ger
many Everything had begun to look
so pleasant, so quiet, so comfortable.
The capitalists had already begun to
believe that their mastery was assur.
ed for ever more. The social demo-
Gratis already announced that the pc
Rod of everlasting class peace was
at hand-and all at once there is
again severe winter" Hindenburg,
the monarchist president of the Ger
man republic, used these words. when
he tried, by referring to the approach
of a severe winter" to convince the
still recalcitrant portions of the Ger
man bourgeoisie of the necessity of
drawing the social-democrats into the
"big coalition"
We believe that the analysis of the
old militarist is correct. A severe
winter" has broken in Germany. The
economic crisis grows at an appalling
rate. One and a quarter million I'M
employed, several millions working
part time, thousands of bankruptcies.
thousands of factories shut down. and
this is only the beginning, the credit
and production crises stride forward
mercilessly over the existence and
life of the masses.
THIS economic crisis comedies with
parallel development of concen-
tration of capital unprecedented in
Germany, the trusts mount to the
heavens like sky-scrapers in America.
But a whole series of political crises
also runs partially parallel with the
economic crisis and crystallized them
selves to some extent as direct results
OF the economic crash. At present we
nave in Germany the Locarno crisis.
the crisis over the indemnifcation of
royalty. as. well as the general gov.
ernmental crisis.
There exists no political marty
which Is not undergoing an internal
crisis, which is not menaced by the
danger OF a split. The sharpening of
the situation becomes the cause of a
rapid and deep-going differentiation
within all Of the important parties.
ME- see the differentiation and fac.
W tional struggles in the centre
party. The tower of the centre, as
this unchanged party has been proud.
ly called for decades, is beginning TO
totter. The left wing. under the
leadership OF ex-chancellor Wirth is
waglng a systematically organized
campaign against the right wing
which is under the leadership OF
Fehrenbach. Il must not be forgotten
That the masses Of the centre. the
catholic workers, petty.bourgeoisie
and peasantry, support the left wing.
These petty-bourgeois masses are NJ.
terly dissatisfied with the capitalistic
taxation and customs policy Of the
official leadership of the centre party.
Locarno became the starting point
Of sharp differentiatig1 within the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12

ranks of the German national party.
The right wing OF this party, which
is backed by the big landowners and
part of the basic industrialists, was
for Locarno, but the petty-bourgeois
voting masses of the German national
lists, which are composed largely of
the urban-petty-bourgeois masses and
the exceptionally broad German strata
of the intelligentsia, have forced the
resignation of the German national
ministers and have compelled the
official German nationalist member
ship to vote against the pact.
WHAT of the social-democracy
w which in the last year prided it.
self on its indestructability, and
boosted that it was enlisting ever
broader masses, that it was the only,
as well as the united, party of the
German proletariat? The social
democracy is also going thru crisis.
The question of the big coalition"
the question Of the class collabora-
ton with the bourgeoisie throws, with
ever stronger force, the opposition of
the left wing against the official party
leadership
The Communist Party, thru its fight
against Locarno, has drawn to itself
the sympathies of ever greater mas
SEES. For large portions of the
social-democratic workers are also
against Locarno. The Communists
campaign on the question of the in
Identification of royalty is becoming
ever broader and has its effect not
only among the social-democratic
workers but even in the republicanly
inclined petty-bourgeoisie The recent
elections show that the masses are
beginning to desert the social demo-
cracy and that they are streaming to-
wards the Communists.
HNDENBURG is right, severe
II winter"has now set in in Ger
many. Ex-chancellor Wirth is also
right when he frankly puts the pro-
blem of how Germany can support
its working masses during this winter.
The bitterness grows, unemployed
demonstrations take place everywhere
and the conference of generals of the
Reichswehr answered the question
put by ex-Chancellor Wirth: I'VE
shall feed the workers this winter
with blue beans, with martial law"
The democratic leader, Erkelenz,
writes in the Borsen-Kurier: ut is
possible that in the course of this
WINTER there will prevail such hard
times under which our administration
may be subject to new serious dis.
orders. Pessimists even fear that we
shall have to resort to shootings."
Economic crisis, governmental
crisis, crisis within the parties, hunger
riots, martial law, warnings of the
rifles of the. Soldateska--this is the
picture Of Germany in the winter of
1926
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12

Reports from Washington indicate Coolidge demand
that this antsrke legislation which gather
ing dust for the past years. reply admnistra
ton to the demand that the executive department
coal strike.
Not much need be said such threat Every
recognizes that such legislation the ouawing unonsm
There but reply such threats and that open
government that dares attempt such The
bill is worker every basic industry lay down
mis- tools and refuse until paralysis
forces capitulation Of the government.
No other conceivable will impress the
the class character Of the Wall Street Washington
and would force the organized workers stupid
policy politics and hur them direct struggle against the
thereby teaching valuable in political
mass action which is step the road to revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12

Mr. keoggs state department has excluded from the country
Countess Catca of London South Africa lady
has reputation for seducng gentlemen of the arstoracy
she has written "a psychological depicting
conquests Perhaps kellogg effect upon cabinet
members Of such propaganda.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12

The state of Massachusetts trying Communist
of blue law against asphemy lends emphasis
that It might have been better instead the pilgrims landing
Plymouth rock the rock had landed the pilgrims
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12

The doodle governor Len Small Illinois, statement
the refusal of the reopen his million treasury
loong onny assuring the people that he will in the
past fight for their rights Is this promise a threat?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30
"MANY CASUALTIES"
IN WELSH MINE RIOT
Police Charge Crowd of Several
Hundred; Says Report-Trouble
in Parliament.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. August 30.-A press as
sociation dispatch from Pontypool. in
Monmouth County, Wales, says
many casualties resulted when
police charged a crowd of several hun
bred. after riot in which stones were
thrown by unemployed coal miners.
Parliament reassembled this after
noon for the purpose of renewing the
emergency regulations in connection
with the coal strike.
There was a good attendance. The
foreign secretary. Sir Austen Cham-
herlain. led the House in the absence
of Premier Baldwin.
Secretary JOHNSON Hicks began his
speech by stating that on the whole
the mining districts were quiet and
orderly.
He was interrupted by cries from
the Labor branches OF imported
police" referring TO the special police
employed in coal districts
Jack Jones. Labor member. was so
persistent in his interruptions that the
sneaker first warned him and then
ordered him TO leave the House.
Jones took the longest route out.
continuing such remarks as con
tenptible lot" and trying to starve
better men than yourselves. He
finally disappeared from the assembly
chamber, but was suspended for con-
tinuing his verbal attack despite the
,Deaker'S orders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30
PHONE RATE HEARING
NEXT MONTH URGED
Covell Recommends Rejection of
Company's Plea for Fur
Their Delay.

A recommendation that the Public
Utilities Commission turn down the
request of the Chesapeake and Poto-
mac Telephone Co., for postponement
of the rate hearing scheduled for Sep
TENDER Is was made to Chairman
Bell today by Maj. w. f. r. Covell,
his assistant in charge of utility
work. The commission is expected to
act on the request early this week.
Although the valuation Of tele-
phone property on which the last re-
duction in the price of residence serv-
ice was based is still pending In liti-
CATION in the District Supreme Court,
Mai. Covell does not believe the
rights of the company would be af-
fected by the holding of another hear
ing next month to determine whether
further changes in rates should be
ordered
Officials of the commission assume
that even if a hearing next month
should lead the commission to decide
on additional rate changes, they
would not take effect pending court
decision on the valuation case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30
MRS. SARAH A. FLETCHER
SUCCUMBS AT AGE OF 80

Mrs. Sarah a. Fletcher. 90 years Of
age. one of Washington oldest native
born residents. A witness of and par
ticipant in many local historic events.
died Saturday at the home of her
daughter. Mrs. NJ. Melvius Toner, 634
F. street northeast. Funeral services
were held this afternoon at the Church
Of the Nativity, Fourteenth street a nd
assachusetts avenue southeast. In
terment was in Congressional Gene
terry.
Mrs Fletcher was born in old South
east Washington and for many years
was tireless worker at Christ Epis.
copal Church. near her home on Ninth
street southeast.
During the Civil War she was ac-
tive in aiding the wounded. bringing
many injured during the Battle Of Bull
Run, or Manassas, back to her home
and nursing them to health. At the
close OF the war her home on Ninth
street southeast was used az headquar-
tiers for the review Of the troops oi
Gen. Sherman.
Mrs. Fletcher was the widow OF
William Archibald Fletcher, who was
we'll known in social and political life
of older Washington. lie was com
missioner Of the sixth ward Of the
District during the administr a tions of
Mayor Wallach and Mayor Emery.
Surviving Mrs. Fletcher are six chill
dren--Mrs. Elvie Clark. Mrs. |. r.
JOres, yrs. I. Britt. Mrs. F'ranzoni
Myers. Mrs. l.. q. Fletcher and Mrs
NJ. Melvius Toncr-as we'll as mar
grandchildren and great grandchil
dren.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30
.BALL0U TO RESUME
|. DUTIES TOMORROW
Vacation Over, Superintend-
ent Will Plan for School
Opening September 20.

DIR. Frank w. Ballou, superlntend-
emf of schools, will arrive in the city
tomorrow afternoon and Immediately
enter upon the administrative duties
incident to the opening of school. Sep
TENDER 90. DR.. BallOu has spent the
Summer at his camp in Maine. ana IL
following his usual custom OF return
ing to the Franklin School on Septem-
Der l.
One of the first matters to he set
tied by DR.. Ballou will be the appoint
ment of an art director to fill the
vacancy caused by the retirement OF
Miss Annie Wilson. This is an impor-
tant post and number of eligibles
are in the field.
Another matter which is expected to
be the subject of an early conference
between DR.. Rallou and Assistant
Superintendent of Schools Garnet G.
Wilkinson will be the reported lnten-
ton of Miss Marion T. Shadd, assis-
tant superintendent of colored schools,
to request retirement. While Miss
Shadd is out of town. it is understood
she desires to be relieved Of her post
before the new school year begins.
Miss Shadd holds the highest post
possible for a woman to obtain in the
school system, and it was won through
years of meritorious service. Before
her appointment to the Franklin
School she served as principal OF the
Lincoln School and supervising princi'
pal of the eleventh division.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30

The special gallery of World War
portraits at the National Art Gallery
in the National Museum Building has
received from an unnamed giver Il
original studies in oil by John &,
Johansen.
The collection includes portraits OF
Woodrow Wilson. Marshal Joffre
Clemenceau. Sir Douglas Haig, former
Premier Paderewski, Herbert Asqulth
and Bonar Law.
Mr.. Johansen was the painter com
missioned by the National Art Com
mittee 10 paint the canvas depicting
the signing of the Versailles treaty
June 20. 1919, which now hangs in
the national gallery and includes fig
ures Of nearly all the notable states
men and soldiers involved in the ne
gotta lions that followed the war.
Made for Larger Picture.
But in order to paint this picture
it was necessary to secure separate
sittings of most of these men. The
faces then We're copied into the IN
elusive canvas.
Mr.. JohanSen retained the first pic
tures. which served him as models for
the masterpiece. From him they were
secured by the unknown donor to add
to the inclusive collection of war char
acters now hanging in the Natlona
Gallery. For the best of these, which
formerly were hung on the grounc