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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-28

of school in Porto Rico it cannot be
supposed that all will keep out of
mischief II also there are several
thousand destitute and uncared for
waifs-etc" (p. 27). Thus two years
after the Porto Rican "bezprezhorni"
problem received official recognition
in government reports it finally man
aged to reach the point where "offi-
cial interest had been aroused" The
day after the Bolshevik revolution
the first homeless children were al
ready living better than ever before
in their lives in the palaces of the
erstwhile nobility.
Russia Suffered Most
Secondly, in four years of imperial
list war, Russia, as is we'll known, lost
far more men than any of the other
powers Entente or Allies. To this
must be added the frightful losses of
the five years of military interven-
ton and civil war when the Russian
workers had to fight the conscript
armies of the whole capitalist world.
Those killed number 100000; those
incapacitated 100000! Picture to
yourself-if in 1919 every second man
in the U. S.-from 20 to 55!-had
been killed or wounded-then you will
realize the losses in man power Rus
STA suffered.
White Guards Kill Parents
The extent to which the young Sow
let Republic was disturbed in it's sore
ly needed work of industrial construc-
ton can be seen from the fact that
100000 men still had to be kept
under arms in the red armies at the
end Of 1920 (They have now been
reduced to a local militia army Of
little more than one-tenth that num-
ber).
At that time, whilethe whole vast
country was being ravaged from end
to end by the armies of the White
generals and by their imperialist al
lies under fourteen flags (including
the Stars and Stripes despite the fact
that no war was ever declared against
the Russian people,, the children who
escaped the White massacres and pro-
groms swelled the hordes of homeless
and helpless children to staggering
proportions.
Unprecedented Drought
Thirdly, came the most terrible
famine in the history of Russia. Due
to an unprecended drought the whole
Volga valley, the great granary Of
the country, shrivelled into sterility
Col. Paxten Hibben reported that q
million people were starving. That is
just about one-half the total urban
population of the U. S. Allow would
things look in America if every Sec
ond inhabitant in each of the 2787
cities, towns and villages were starv-
ing to death? And what would be the
after effects if the people of all
but one of the states west of the
Mississippi had been visited by such
catastrophe? In January, 1922, ii
was stated in the American press
that $50 far all foreign relief organ
izations are supplying food to about
100000 children; but these consti-
tute only 209o of the total number Of
starving children" The famine was
eventually overcome, and then fol-
lowed long grim struggle with It's
after-effects, in the closing chapters
of which are to be included the more
than 100000 children which are still
being provided for in homes and COM
munes, and the possible 125,000 still
to be won over to these or similar
social arrangements.
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Replies to ScissorbiIl

Editor, Daily Worker would like to meet Mr..
Scssorbi and give him piece of my mind If it were
not for ignoramuses like Mr.. Scissorbill Communism
would thrive readily who favors bosses
when he only receives eighteen dollars week is fool
wonder how he manages to live that salary. Most
probably he lives the propaganda that the bosses hand
out and for eighteen dollars he works like mule.
Mr. Scissorbil of the best brains belong to the
Communists and the true meaning of Communism has
not gone through your thick head yet. If had less
fools like you and intelligent like that damn
red" this world would be a better place to live in.
am Against the bosses-A STUDENT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-28
My Country IT'S Of Thee
BIZ NAT KAPLAN.

Hymns OF Hate
1t gives me pain
Until I'm giddy
To hear parents call
Their offspring kiddie.
Chicago Tribune.
It affects me so
I'm almost flighty
To hear girl say:
"Nightie, nightie."
FLORIDA Times Union.
The guy | hate
Is that loathsome baby
Who ends spiel
With: 81 don't mean maybe!"
Rainbow
What with the "yellow-peril," the
"red menace" and the ubiquitous top
ic of blue laws, that sage body, con-
gress, will soon buzz with colorful
conversation.
Referee and Humorist
Heard Nick Longworth, speaker Of
the house, at the recent banquet of
the Cartoonists Of America. He is a
born humorist-and, more to the
point, he has to be. Likely enough,
he will start the next session with,
MAY the best man win, and no hit
ting in the clinches!"
II
Say 1t Amt So.
Two Of our friends, one a congress-
man, and the other, a colyumist,
threaten to quit and go to work.
The Shanghai Gesture
To those who had referred to them,
simply and contemptuously, as "the
heather Chinee," our friends are
now thumbing their noses in gen.
eral westerly direction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-28

Roll in the Subs For The DAILY
WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-28
Referee and Humorist
Say 1t Amt So!

Two Of our friends, one a congress-
man, and the other, a colyumist,
threaten to quit and go to work.
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acquiescence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19

the portrayal of the brothers and sis
ters of the machine, of the toilers of
the soil-the children of the future.
Most of the talk about proletarian
theatre is kosher pork. You can't
have such a theatre until you have a
place where you can do as you like;
where you are not hampered by too
much or too little money; where there
is no Tammany Hall union (which
makes no distinction between Shubert
and, say, the Habima, and is ready to
strangle you because it hasn't for
gotten the days when it labored IS
hours a day.; where your audience is
not composed of dilletantes and "hold-
your--breath mesdames." The work.
er, if he wants, can force the policy of
newspapers, concerts, political plat
forms, and the theatre. The reason
why he has not done it up to now is
a mystery.
The New Playwrights Theatre is
composed of people who have taken
part in the labor movement in various
capacities. If up to now their plays
have not been thoroughly proletarian,
the blame is not all theirs. The
theatres, directors, and actors of the
old school have made it a point to
slash, tear, and recast our thoughts
and themes on the ground that
propaganda isn't art" In my first
long play, produced at the Province
town Theatre last year, had priest
represented as a cardboard figure
through whose mouth a voice drawls
in meaningless singsong Faith,
sacrifice, sim" In the production this
cardboard figure became flesh-and-
blood Shepherd of the Lord whose love
for humanity knew no bounds and
who spoke his platitudes as if they
had come red hot from my own mouth.
Irony certainly is clever trickster.
We want working class audiences to
mould our policy, direct our efforts,
signalize its disapproval when we do
something that does not belong" and
help us when we miss our step. Then
they can claim us as their own, as we
sincerely hope our theatre can claim
them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19
By EN- 10 BASSHE.

Several years ago happened to be
in Gary, Indiana, and went to thea
trical performance given by group
of workers for a fund to establish a
library. The program consisted of
Synge's "Rides to the Sea-" Chekoff's
EThe Boor," Polish and Russian folk
dances, and finally mass Rotations of
poems by Shelley and Joe Hill. The
audience stood up and joined in these.
AS they left the hall, they kept on
singing, and at night one could hear
them still humming the music they
had heard during the day. Audiences
like that are rare.
In this miserable and damnable
town l saw enough of the proletarisn
theatre to give me an idea of what it
will be when the worker decides that
he has supported Hollywood and
Broadway long enough. l can visual
ize a theatre where the worker will
portray his own tragedies, laugh at
his own foibles, vanquish his enemies
and traducers, and glory in his
achievements and his future.
But to say that he can do all this
alone, discarding the dreams and
plans of those artists who for years
have been part of his struggle, his
defeats, and his victories, would be
like undermining the foundation be-
fore the house is up.
There is a union of dictatorship to-
day: the Mass and the Machine. They
go hand in hand. The rhythm is one.
If you believe in fidelity, you must
portray both as one. The proletarian
theatre will be first to make use of
this character" 1t will create new
types, new dances, new songs-the
machine motif running through it all.
1t will ask such artists as Louis LOGO
wick to bring his dreams of engines,
of sewing machines, of tenement
houses upon the stage. 1t viii order
from Bill Chopper his collection of
mad mankind to dance and make gay
the passing of the day. 1t will insist
that the playwright forget the i'm
potent middle class, the perfumed so
cial register, and devote his talents to
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The New Plays


CARDBOARD LOVER" will be presented by Gilbert Miller
A. H. Woods Monday evening at the Empire Theatre with
Eagels This comedy is by Jacques Deva and
Valerie Wyngate and p G.. Wodehouse. The
porting Howard Wyngate Stanley
Arthur Lewis Terrence Nell Ernest Stalard Charles
Esdale and Henry Vincent.
TUESDAY
Dnghams production, will Tuesday
night the New Amsterdam The book and lyrics by Otto
Kamar and Ruby by Jerome Kerne. The
Walter Catlett Richard (Skeets
Gallagher Joseph Saney Ivy Sawyer, Kathryn Martini Joe
Barrie Oliver and Paul Whiteman and his band
SPIDER play by Fulton Ourler and Lowell Brenano,
will Tuesday evening" Chann 46h Street Theatre under
the of Sam H. Harris and Albert Lewis The
Holiday Eleanor Griffith, Pris
ella Knowles, Lyten and FAINT and Mack and La Rue.
WEDNESDAY
CROWN PRINCE" by Joe Atkins from the Hungarian Of
will Wednesday night the
presented by l. English
The headed Sydney
Marry Ellis includes Henry Stephenson Ferdinand
Gotschalk, Strozz, Jerome Lawe Dennis Ceugh and
Arthur Bowyer.
&. THURSDAY
"SAvAGES UNDER THE SKIN" drama by Harry
Proctor will next Thursday night at the Green
Village Theatre presented by Carl Reed Louis Cahern
Sheffield and William b. Mack lead the cast.
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Untel States Russia when he
a. Tough still good from SO he has Travelled large
written
play the PrOvincetOwn Play
folk drama
playing the New Paywrgh SIND Street Theatre of which he
S One d the five directors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19
BROADWAY BRIEFS

"The Brothers Karamazov" will
continue at the Guild Theatre for
two more weeks and will then be re-
placed by S. N. Bohrman's "The
Second Man." "The Brothers Kara
mazov" will play its final week be-
ginning March 18th. "The Second
Man" will alternate with "Pyg-
malion" at the Guild Theatre.
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phi Theatre, Philadelphia, starting
Monday in the "The Riddle Woman"
and "Magda," in both of which
dramas she has been touring to the
Pacific coast and back.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19

The Treasurer's Club of America
will give its thirty-eighth annual
benefit at the Hudson Theatre Sun
day evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19

Prior to her spring engagement
in New York, Bertha Kalich will
play brief engagement at the Adel-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19

George S. Brooks, co-author with
Walter B. Lister of "Spread Eagle"
will shortly be represented on Broad
way by another plan, drama en-
titled "For Two Cents"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-13
FARM BUREAU MEET
~ TO ATTRACT MANY
Speakers Will Discuss Present
Farm Problems at St. Paul
Meeting January Is to 20.

Problems of farm management will
occupy delegates at the annual con-
vention of the Minnesota Farm
Bureau Federation in st. Paul, jan
uary Is, 10 and 20.
G. w. Pugsley, president of the
South Dakota State College of Agri-
culture and formerly an assistant
secretary of agriculture, will be one
of the leading speakers expected to
throw new light on the prob
lens of the farmer. Another talk
along this line will be given by L.
e. Tenny, of the Bureau of Agricul-
tural Econimics in the Department of
Agriculture at Washington, D. C.
Naturally the Great Lakes-St. Law
renee Tidewater project will receive
considerable attention during the
session. w. L. Harding, former gov
ernor of Iowa and now president of
the Tidewater Association, will be the
speaker at the annual banquet to be
held at the st. Francis Hotel on the
evening of January 10th.
An unusually strong program has
been worked out for the annual meet
ing, and officers of the federation ex-
pect large attendance from all Sec
lions of the state.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-13
SEAWAY COMMISSION
ASKS EARLY ACTION

Farmers of Minnesota now are one
step nearer the goal for which they
have been striving-an outlet to the
sea by way of the st. Lawrence.
The United States St. Lawrence
Commission, headed by Herbert Hoo
yer, has submitted to President Coo
lidge report recommending the pro-
ject and urging that negotiations be
started at once with Canada looking
toward construction of the shipway.
The commission pointed out in it's
report that construction of the ship
way from the Great Lakes to the sea
lis imperative both for the relief and
for the future development of a vast
area in the interior of the continent"
AS the joint board of engineers de-
cided, the commission told the presi-
dent that the shipway should be con-
structed on the St. Lawrence route
If suitable agreement can be made
with Canada for the joint undertake
ing. Plans are being made to in
itiate these negotiations as soon as
possible, and friends of the project
hope soon to see them underway.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-13

WASHINGTON Letter
By " CDaley
L ASSOCIATION SPECIAL

Washington, Jan. 12.-Although
there are certain groups straining
their ears in an effort to detect wars
alarms, the average official in Wash
ington is not unduly excited over the
Latin-American or Chinese situations
Impartial study of the World War
has shown beyond dispute that many
peoples were misled and deceived by
propaganda, so that every precaution
is taken by responsible authorities to
avoid the unloosening of war. No
body doubts the usefulness of pro-
paganda as attested in the presence
of earnest workers, for disarmament
and armament, who are in Washing
ton these days preaching their par
ticular doctrines. However, Inter
national affairs, no matter how del
icate, cannot keep the United States
Senate from its housekeeping activ-
tiles; that is, passing upon the moral
qualifications of it's members.
1t is difficult to get up the real
facts but rumors eminate from ap-
parent authentic sources. For in
stance, you will hear that the State
Departments interest in Nicaraguan
and Mexican affairs was timed to
coincide with the fleet maneuvering
in the caribbean Sea. The idea, if
you are willing to believe one author
ity, is to attract nationwide attention
to the Navy and influence public opin-
ion to the end that the preparedness
issue may become dominant On the
other hand, you will learn from other
sources, equally as sincere, that this
government must win its point in
Latin-American politics, in order to
insure the preservation of the Monroe
Doctrine. 1t is also said that COM
munistic forces are endeavoring to
obtain a stronghold in our neighbor-
ing republics so that the American
Government will be embarrassed in in
ternational affairs. No matter where
you go you will find the tangled webb
of intrigue, although no real tension
is manifested. Unless there is some
marked change in sentiment this
country will not hear martial music
or the hoof beats of "the Four Horse
men of the apocalypse, as wars af-
termath is commonly remembered.
Aside from Investigations in the
State Departments propaganda, and
demand in some quarters for the res
ignation of Secretary of State kellogg,
Congress turns it's attention to do
nestle affairs. There has been a
sporadic debate on the prohibition is
troversy over alcoholic denaturants
revived the question of moral respon-
sibility on the part of the Govern
ment. The House Members have
taken advantage of the lull in their
schedules to pass scores of bridge
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-13

bills or measures of Importance to
their congressional districts. Sew
eral appropriation bills are due with
in the next few days, and we are
assured of early passage in the House.
In the Senate the political situation
is entirely different
1t is apparent that Senators intend
to have a moral regeneration. A
special reception committee, which
was formed several weeks ago, is still
awaiting the arrival of Mr.. Frank
Smith, Senate-designate from the
State of Illinois. Everything is in
readiness for the bouncing act or the
expulsion of Mr.. Smith from the Sen
ate Chamber before he can be seated
by parliamentary trick.
According to one important Sena-
tor, the Senate is becoming disgrunt-
led at the prevailing opinion as the
report that ''the United States Senate
is Millionaire Club. This. belief
arises from the fact that at least a
score of Senators are known to be
rich in worldly goods. The enor-
nous expenditures for office as re-
vealed in the primary campaign in
vestigations show that it costs money
to occupy seat in the upper Cham
Der. 1t is true that some Senators
depend entirely upon their salaries
and are proud of the fact that they
have no other source of income. 1t
is also understood that some of the
rich Senators spend more than twice
their salary in keeping up appear
ances, socially and politically. One
of the foremost Members of that body
is so hard-pressed financially that in
accepting Invitations to speak at pub
lie gatherings outside of Washington
requests his expenses and honorarium
or fee.
Inquiries show that fifty investi-
cations are underway, either in the
Senate or the House. Some of the
inquiries are in the nature of political
.ssast mortems, while others deal with
appointments of the Administration.
With the craze for investigation
growing, it is a difficult matter for
the President to appoint a man to
high office who will be considered
eligible by the Senate. There are
several vacancies, which ordinarily
would have been filled weeks ago, but
those suitable for the place are often
reluctant to have their personal lives
scrutinized by political enemies be-
fore their appointments are confirmed.
The investigations will consume a
considerable portion of the seven
weeks remaining before the adjourn
ment of Congress, which otherwise
would have been proftably devoted
to constructive affairs.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-13
PINE COUNTY FARM
BUREAU ACTIVITIES
By w. F. HAMMARGREN
. County Agent.
Pine County Scores Again.

Pine county again scored in a
National Contest when Muriel Ziegler
of Hinckley, president of the Boys
and Girls Club organization of Pine
county,, won seventh place with her
jar of canned chicken. This is quite
an honor for a girl to win, consider
ing that competition was from all
over the United States.
Wherever the boys and girls in this
county have been in competition the
past year they have come through
in fine shape. Muriel just adds an
other honor for Pine county in the
Boys and Girls Clubs.
Good Herd Records.
John Golf of the Hinckley-Sand-
stone Cow Testing Association, leads
this association with the highest herd
average for 1926. His herd of nine
COWS averaged 1922 pounds butterfat
for the year. Closely behind Mr..
Golf comes Nels Lundbeck, of the
Windemere Cow Testing Association.
Mr. Lundbeck had the highest pro-
ducing herd, averaging 415.1 pounds
butterfat.
Some interesting figures can be
gotten through Cow Testing Associa-
ton work. 1t is the only real way
of finding out just what your herd
produces. Wedding out the poor COWS
and giving the good cows a chance.
The average production per cow in
Minnesota is listed at 100 pounds of
fat. The two above named farmers
are way above the average class.
No farmer knows what class he be-
longs to unless he keeps accurate
record of the production of his herd.
Cow testing associations help keep
your records.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-13
SANDSTONE DWELLING
DESTROYED BY FIRE
While Out of Town the Gilbert
HOff Family Lose Their Home.
Fire Department Also Called
for Chimney Blaze.

The fire department was called out
to extinguish chimney fire at the
home of Perry Knox Saturday eve
ming at 1880 o'clock. The blaze had
died down when the department ar
rived with the equipment and no
water was turned on.
Monday morning at 2:3O o'clock the
the siren alarm again sounded when
blaze was discovered in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Hoff who
with their two children were visiting
friends at Minneapolis at the time,
having left home on Saturday. Neigh
bors discovered the fire emerging
through the roof and immedi ately
turned in the alarm. The fire had
gained considerable Roadway before
the department arrived and was not
brought under control until the home
and contents were almost a total loss.
The structure was frame building
of the bungalow type and was owned
by Mr.. Hoff who sustained very
heavy loss as the building and con-
tents were only partly covered by in
surance. His loss also included a
large stock of Watkins remedies, he
being local agent for that company.
Mr.. Hoff carried no insurance on
those goods.
The local high school basket ball
team was completely lost on the ar
mory floor at Pine City Friday eve
nj hu hn hi oh
school team of that place by score
of % to 8, the Sandstone quint max
ing only one field goal. The Sandstone
boys, feel confident however, that
they can give them much stronger OPP
position on the local floor when they
meet for another contest on the 25th
of February. Two games will be
played here Friday evening when the
sophomore girls will play the seniors
and the high school boys will play
Hinckley. These will no doubt be
very good games and should be of
interest to the large number of fans.
Calvin, the infant son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Nielsen, died at the home
of his parents at 200 o'clock Wednes-
day afternoon. Calvin Emery Mel
sen attained the age of months and
% days and seemed to be enjoying
good health until few days before
he died. He had constant and tender
care by the sorrow stricken mother
who survives. He is also survived
by his father and brother, Maurice,
aged 5. Funeral arrangements have
not yet been made.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-13
Community Church, Sandstone.

In the morning at 1920 the pastor
will preach, taking for his theme:
1.-THE Mind of Christ" The text: Let
this Mind be in You Which was also
in Christ Jesus" philippians 2:5
At 1870 a. m. the Sunday school
will meet. In the evening at 700
O'Clock the Christian Endeavor SER
vice. The necktie social has been
postponed until the 28th.
At 500 p. m. the service is evangel-
istic. The object of this evening SER
vice is to lead to decision for Christ
Last Sunday evening the church was
well filled and we have reason to be-
lieve that there are those who will
come out on the Lords side.
Thursday night the Ladies Aid is
giving a real home-like supper.
The Missionary Society meets at
the home of Mrs. Barstow next We'd
nesday afternoon.
Sunday evening, Jan. %, is a spe-
cial service. Fireside talk. Scene:
"My Old Kentucky Home" Our church
is reaching out in all directions to
help folks for Christ. Have we yet
helped you?
o. Suver.