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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12

prepared by the United states Department
OF Agriculture.)
What can be done by way or I'M
proving an unsatisfactory farm ktch-
en- at small expense is well illustrated
in the case of home in Montgomery
county, Va. Although this Kitchen
had two good-sized windows, the iron
sink was set back in a dark corner.
1t had no drain boards, in fact, no
place within reach on which to place
anything handled at the sink. As
result, the large table on one side,
which was used for the family meals,
was often in disorder because Of
dishes and other articles likely to be
needed at the next meal. A shelf
for lamps was built across the middle
Of one window, disfguring it and OBJ
securing the view. No curtains or
shades softened the glare from the
windows on hot mornings. The en-
tire kitchen was unattractive to look
at and uncomfortable to work In.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12

There was time when the gull was
slaughtered and the feathers used to
adorn milady's headgear. Their eggs
also were eaten and the young. when
saIted, made a palatable winter dish.
In the early days of wellfeet, Mass,
the gulls were captured In the gull
house and the small birds killed by
means of a frying pan and fire at
night. But the great value of the
gulls was gradually realized. They
consumed shoals of fish and other sea
animals, sometimes stranded ashore.
They continue to perform this invaIu-
able service.
Some leave shore and keep vigil be-
hind the farmers pillow. swapping up
grubs and other destructive insects.
They devour grasshoppers and locusts,
as well as field mice and other rodent
pests. Fishermen are indebted to
them, for the gulls, by their presence.
indicate where the foolish are. And,
In foggy weather, they send warning
cry to mariners and fishermen from
their breeding places In dangerous
rocks and lodges
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
The New Science

Secretary Parker Moon, Of the New
York Academy Of Political Science.
was discussing the enormous cam
paign expenditures Of certain candi-
dates.
These chaps" he said, don't seem
to understand political economy"
Then he laughed and went on:
"a boy said to his father:
"'Pop, what's political economy,
anyhow u
Political economy said the IA
Their. why, any fool ought to know
that political economy is the science
of not buyin' any more votes nor pay
in no higher for 'em than wot you
actually need"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12

Then when the waves Of anger
which had enveloped her had sub
sided Jean was simply overwhelmed
with remorse. She thought she had
suffered before, but her former misery
was nothing compared to the despair
that filled her heart as a succession OF
pictured disasters passed before her
mental vision. How could she have
been so utterly insane7 Phyllis would
be killed and Jean would be respon-
sible. Should she saddle her own pony
and ride after her? But that would
be confession. There was nothing
else she could do. 1t was quite dark
now and she stood In the doorway,
straining her eyes to see across the
sage brush, just waiting and waiting
for what, she hardly dared to think.
When, at last, she heard some one
riding toward the house she turned
cold with apprehension. 1t was Perry
Perry, holding a limp figure on the
saddle before himl Jean could scarce
ly force herself to walk down the
steps to meet him as he came toward
her with Phyllis in his arms. Her
voice was faint with terror
"Oh, Perry! She's not-kilIed?"
Perry shook his head and pushed
past her into the house Jean followed
him up the stairs and watched in ter
rified silence while he laid the un-
conscious girl on the bed Then Per-
ry dashed off for the nearest doctor
and Jean sat beside Phyllis In an
agony of suspense, sending out little
wordless prayers for the girls recov-
cry. 1t was terrible to think that,
loving Perry as she did, she was per-
haps responsible for the wrecking Of
his happiness. How could she ever
atone?
Perry and the doctor came at last.
The minutes dragged into hours while
Jean and Perry waited outside the
bedroom door. Then, when the doctor
opened the door and gave Jean a re-
assuring smile Jeans face went white
and she swayed unsteadily. Perry
looked at her surprised
why, Jean, did she mean so much
to your"
The doctor told them that Phyllis
was badly bruised, but there was
nothing serious, and left them.
Jean turned to Perry-"If you only
knew
Perry said hesitatingly: cit was
sort Of lucky that I happened along
when I did. Miss Phyllis had dis
mounted and was walking too close
to the cliff above the river"
Jeans eyes widened and she
clutched at Perry's hands.
do you mean that the horse didn't
throw her-that she fell herself?'
Then as Perry nodded she sighed,
deeply in relieved thankfulness and
went on:
Perry know now that 1 only want
you to be happy"
Perry's face lighted up, and he put
his arms quickly around her.
well, Jean, guess you know what
l need to make me happy
"But thought-that Phyllis"
Perry laughed joyously. "Why, you
little goose-do you mean to say that
you've been Jealous? And all the time
1 thought you were angry because
kissed you'll"
And so. with their second kiss, all
Of jeans blue devils faded away to
parts unknown and life took on a
roseate hue once more.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
Legion Band Lends Aid

As result of a plan formulated by
the Saltwater (Minn.) American Lee
gion band last fall, by which high
school students desiring to learn to
play band instruments could receive
instruction. high school band of 20
pieces has been formed. The work
was part Of the Legion's community
service activities.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
Auxiliary Has "Date Book"

The Rock Springs (Wyo.) auxiliary
Of the American Legion Is conducting
community date book" Dates OF
all community functions to be held by
the various organizations of the city
are listed in the book, and through
this conflicting dates can be avoided,
fnsuring better attendance at the
events Of each organization.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
AROUND THE HOUSE
GOOD COAT of tan Is as fashionable

A good coat of tan is as fashionable
as it is healthy.
A checking account at the bank
simplifies paying the family bills
Give the darning bag rest ana let
the children go bare-Iegged during hot
weather.
A tablespoonful of corn strip or a
pinch Of cream Of tartar In fudge or
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
Service Rendered by Gull Now Appreciated

There are so species Of gulls known,
20 of them found in North America.
Many Of the American species flock
In great hordes to Wellfieet bay and
ocean shores and to many ponds.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
Garrulous Spouse

Brown-It's a good rule to think
before you speak.
Jones-Yes, but fortunately 1t isn't
compulsory or my poor wife would
have brain fag.-Bosten Transcript.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12

frosting helps to keep 1t smooth and
creamy.
Unless the water supply for the
camp or picnic is known TO be pure, 1t
is safest to boil all that is needed
for drinking.
Soap, brushes, securing powder. end
other dishwashing helps are handiest
on a five-inch shelf above the kitchen
sink. Hooks under the shelf are con-
venient for hanging dish mop, dish
cloth, plate scraper, and the like.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12

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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12

frosting helps to keep it smooth and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-03
Har, Har! MIR. Lewis.

The New York World rises to applaud the action Of John L.
Lewis in gang the constitution of the United Mine Workers
of America by removing hereom the revolutionary
the coal miners entitled to the full social value of their
product This smacks of turned
around and decided that the mine workers equitable
share of their product they will have no kick coming
Who to determine the miners share of his product?
The coal the miner? If the former the miners
would be bowl Of canned vegetable soup and toohpck If the
latter it would be black diamond he sent to the surface
Under the present system neither side is in position
ry determine the distribution of the product Where the
miners strongly organized they able get
value Of their product and where they unorganzed they
obliged to accept what the boss willing grant them What
equitable in both depends the weakness strength
the miners relation the power of the coal operators they
to bargain with.
In Lewis opinion the miners have right the Mines
tho they dig all the coal that keeps the wheels of industry moving
The mines belong the operators by divine right according
labor manager Lewis
Those few words eyesore to Mr. Lewis and his
euenants for several years. but they afraid
them lest the miners stage revolt The miners has
revolutionary tradition 1t and still sdespte the treahery
Of the Lewis eadershthe iron battalion American labor
movement Lewis is determined bury that fighting ira
clifton
Lewis have the applause the capitalist press He can
well afford spend part of his $4,000 year clipping serv
But he the coal miners carrying on
the struggle to for themselves in all other
workers the full social value of the product of their under
workers than old King Canute keep back the
tides with his broom.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-03
The Threatened War on the Soviet Union

Geneva dispatch published in a New York morning news
stated that there doubt but England trying
to build ring the Soviet Union threatening with
Polish the of any Soviet assistance to the
Cantonese in repeling the British attack
This dispatch strikes at the heart of the present nterna
tional situation.
World imperialism sees in the Soviet Union constant men
ace and world Imperialism has renquished the objective
of crushing the workers and peasants government Great
Britain happens to be the leader of the mpeass in the
spracy destroy the Soviet Union AS The DAILY WORKER
has pointed out time and time again there be no peace between
the Soviet Union and world capitalism One the other
60 and written in the stars that capitaisms next
to shove off the historical checker board.
accident that fascist have arisen in
Poland and Lhuania 1t that another fascist gov
enment is being conceived in Latva Indeed the period of
cepion long past delivery near according
reliable reports from the Baltic states Great Britain
behind the Polish coup deetat behind the Lithuanian fascist
seizure of and the guiding brain behind the plot to
overthrow the compacent socialist government OF LatVa and
suppant it by black shirt dictatorship.
Great Britain has intention of renquishng her spos in
China without struggle Just she is ndugng in honeyed
speech while her steel bulldogs growing in front of Shanghai
She knows that the of the Soviet Union sympathy
revolutionary of the Chinese people struggling
throw off the yoke of the foreign brgands She knows that
people of the Soviet Union sympahise with the hundreds of
millions mperast victims who ground down beneath the
Imperialism all the Orient She that
long the Soviet Union exists there dagger pointed the
heart of world Imperialism thinks this the time
strike the blow.
We are not ndugng fanciful language This critical
The mperass have their inner conflicts they
mortal foe the Soviet Union The Soviet Union
than piece of territory It the atherland of the worlds
working class 1t the headquarters Of the world revolution
That VIII humanity curse OF slavery 1t
the beacon light that guiding the untold millions of workers.
and subject people along the road to their emancipation
The mperiaists say that Union CO.
national prOtarat that the Soviet Union must be defended
with the last drop of working class blood
The mperasts want to crush the Chinese revolution Four
hundred millions of Chinese stand in the way The mperasts
destroy the Union revolutionary
Of the world will chant the funeral dge of the bourgeo
stead
The American working class must do their share prevent
ing the Wall Street in Washington carrying
purpose the crushing of the Chinese revolution and to
strike at the Soviet Union through Canton.
Hands off China"
Hands off the Soviet Union"
Thsoe must be the slogans of American labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-03
Daily Worker Costume
Ball in Detroit Will
Install Lenin Portrait

DETROIT, Mich.-The first annual
DAILY WORKER costume ball has
been arranged in Detroit by The
DAILY WORKER Agents Confer.
ence for Saturday, Feb. IL, at 8 P,
NJ, in the newly completed Workers
Home, 1343 f. Ferry.
The DAILY WORKER Agents
Conference plans to make this an an.
nual institution in the left wing La
Dor movement in Detroit.
The huge portrait of Lenin origin.
ally unveiled at the Lenin memorial
meetings will be permanently in-
stalled in the Workers Home on this
occasion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-03

with US. 1ney nave mad 1t drilled into
their heads, by the educators, the
priests, and the lying capitalist jour
nalists and editors that man, and par
ticularly the savage, was warrior
always fighting, always killing
They have been convinced by the
poisonous propaganda of the educated
lackeys of capitalism that humanity
began its career in war. That wal
is part of human nature, that it is
bred in the bone and marrow Of man,
and therefore can never be done away
with.
This false notion that humanity
originated in war, that it originally
waded in blood and slaughter has
been put forth by Ralph Waldo Emer-
son, the philosophic representative of
the New England aristocracy. He
would have US believe that war ex-
listed in the infancy of society, that it
educates the senses, calls the will into
action, and perfects the physical con-
stitution.
In more recent times William
James, the father of Pragmatism in
accord with the swash-buckling mill
tarist, Theodore Roosevelt, has pro-
claimed that war is a law of nature.
He has further contended that we
must instill suitable habits into the
working class so that they might
never attempt to overthrow their sup
errors, the capitalists.
Is the contention Of these propa-
gandists of war based on fact, or is
it founded on falsehood? Are they
telling us the truth as to the nature
Of the Savage, or are they lying about
him?
The MARKHAM turns to the past his
tory of the human race for an an
swer. What does he find recorded in
that history?
He finds that the lowest savages
known to us-the Australians. the
Tasmaians, the Veddalis, the Punans
of Borneo, the Sakai, the Sernangs,
the Andamanese, the Eskimos, etc.
are absolutely unfamiliar with the art
of war.
The Marxist learns that these Saw
ages never go to war, tribe never
fights against tribe, we discover, and
this may be surprising to many, that
he 1.-THE Savage) lives in society of
peace, in the society that practices
the christian" virtues of brotherly
love and good will toward men. He
lives in the golden age of peace and
natural happiness.
In illustration of our contention
that man originated in society of
peace let US mention the fact that
among the Australian Savages where
war never takes place, if one tribes
man fights another, the first blood
split ends the contest. Seldom, if
ever, do they go so far as to kill each
other. The Eskimos never go to war,
and do not understand what it is, for
their language lacks the word war;.
Travellers have found it practically
impossible to make them understand
that there are people that engage in
killing and exterminating one an
other.
In fact the word Savage" does not
signify one who Stays and kills other
human beings, it doesn't mean the
warrior, but merely the hunter, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-03

Eli had been thus alternately swim
ming and sleeping. The devil had
come, with wings of flame, and
driven the good angels away, and
bound Ellis hands behind him so
that he had nearly drowned. But he
had prayed to the Lord, and the
angels had floated him to a rusty
old can, and held it while he rubbed
his bonds against the sharp edges,
and severed the bonds and was
able to swim again.
So here was the prophet, none
the worse for his adventure; and
when he had landed on the shore,
and got some clothing, here came
the reporters hot-foot--for there
have not been so many miracles in
these skeptical recent days, and
this was an indubitable one. Crowds
of people swarmed about the pro-
phet, they sang hosanuas, and
strewed his path with flowers, and
when he got back to Angel City,
you just couldn't imagine the ex-
element fifty thousand people at
the railroad station, it beat any
thing that even the greatest mcyie
stars had achieved. And when ne
out to the Tabernacle, there were
his followers falling on their knees
end weeping for joy, because the
Lard has answered their prayers
and given them back their prophet;
six times a day the vast auditori-
UNI was packed, and outside a park
was filled with people, and Ellis
mighty below was conveyed by a
dozen loud-speakers, ard men and
women fell down at the sound and
shouted praise the Lord!"
Of course there were skeptics,
people with the devil in their hearts
who refused to believe Ellis story,
and persisted in talking about a
blue-colored automobile driven by
a good-looking girl, having a heav-
lily yelled man wearing goggles in
the seat beside her. They talked
about signatures on hotel-registers,
and handwriting experts, and 9TH
er such obscenities; but all that
made no difference to the glory
shouters at the Tabernacle, which
was packed all day and night, as
never before in the history of re-
ligions. Over and over Eli would
tell his story, full of the most con-
vincing details-why, he even told
how the angels wings had swished,
and sometimes splashed water into
his face; he told the very words
the angels had spoken to him.. Said
the prophet, if God in His Omni-
potence could keep Jonah three
days in the belly of a whale, and
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
in the burning fiery furnace, why
could he not keep Eli Watkins afloat
on the sea? It is obvious that no
one could answer that.
And then came an incident which
settled the matter. completing the
glory of the Third Revelation. Elf
happened to look inside his green
bathing suit, and what should he
find but a snow-white feather! He
recognized it, of course-a proof of
his story, left there by the mercy
of the Lord! When this fresh
miracle was announced, the hosan-
mas of the faithful shook the roof;
and presently the angels feather
was mounted in glass case, ana
set up behind the place where Eli
preached, and, such was the Lords
mercy, whoever even looked upon
this relic, was instantly cured Of
all his ailments and had his sins
forgiveness, even the most deadly
sin Of fornication!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-03
MARKHAM Social Science

woodman, the man who earns his Ev-
ing by hunting the wild animals OF
the forest or the plain.
Suppose it were suggested that
far from civilization having tanned
the savage, it has made man into a
Savage, into a being who has
learned modes of violent conduct en-
tirely unknown to his forerunners,
Suppose it be suggested that, as civil
lization has developed from its most
primitive stages mankind has been
educated in cruelty as in other ways.
An argument such as this, which
seems to turn thought upside down,
to reverse our current conception of
the meaning of what we term "civi-
lization" will have to be supported
by many facts if it is to gain any
hearing. Yet 1 submit that this con-
tention is sound, and that all we know
of history goes to support it."-(W.
j. Perry, "The Growth of Civiliza-
ton"
How are we to explain the exis-
tence OF. peace, and the absence of
war, in Savagery How are we to ac-
count for the reign of peace among
our savage ancestors? Among
people who had no houses, no laws,
no chiefs, no state, who went about
naked or nearly so. Who were I'M
clean, who were unchaste, for there
was no institution as monogamy
among them?
The answer to this question is very
simple. 1t is to be found in the fact
that they held the means of produc-
tion-the land on which they hunted
and the rivers in which they fished
in common. Every hunter had the
right to hunt on the land, which was
no ones private possession. The
hunting instruments, his tools of pro-
auction, were his own, they were not
monopolized by anyone, so that he did
not find it necessary to hire himself
out IN order to make living.
The result of this material con-
dition was that society was classless:
there are no propertied or capitalist
class and no propertyless or WORKING
class. All were free and equal. men
and women alike. In savagery men
and women appropriated the fruits of
nature directly, and whatever food
was acquired was shared in COM
munistic fashion. That is to saw
when an animal was slain all the
members of the tribe-men, women.
and children, received their share.
No one ever went hungry for ac-
eording to the hospitality practised
by them, any man or woman had the
right to take some of the food of his
fellow tribesman, who may have been
more successful in the chase. So that
we see that in such society where
private property did not exist. in
which warning classes were unknown.
IN which the state, the armed power
OF the property owners, had not vet
been developed, where everyone had
the right to the food, even though he
or she may not have worked for if
himself. In such society, war could
not exist. For war is the child of
private property, of the division of
society into classes, the propertv
owners and the propertyless as we
will show in the articles that are To
follow.
(Next Article Tomorrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-03
LOvett Fort Whitman
And Sadie Van Veen
Speak in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. p
Lovett Fort Whitman, organizer Of tha
American Negro Labor Congress, and
Sadie Van 'Veen, organizer of Cleve-
land inter-racial group of workers,
will speak at mass meeting Friday,
Feb. a, at s p. NJ, at the Zion Cons
gregational Church, corner 18th and
Central Ave-, Cleveland.