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The Washington times., 1927-04-29
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Copyrfght. 1927. New York
Evening Journal. Inc,
Registered D. 8. Patent offics.
DANTE
RY Dr.. FRANK cRANE

VXTHY books live for centuries is mysterious
w why people live to be ninety.
But we must accept the verdict Of time No
sensible objects the Masters he tries understand
them and if he be persistent teachable and intelligent he
usually succeeds.
Dante great in the literary world He is the
outstanding classic Of Italy, and ranks with Greek Homer
Roman Virgil English Shakespeare and German Goethe.
Consequently, mind that makes pretensions good
in letters afford to be ignorant of him.
At the time of all the forefroners he is hardest
to read; it is harder still to get interested in him.
This is for two First, he is wholly medieval
He lived world have forgotten He was deeply con-
cerned in things that to simply curious amusing
The world has moved miles and miles past his viewpoint
No one for instance anything about the conflicting
claims Of papal and temporal powers As political factor
the papacy not nowadays discussed To Dante it was
burning ISSUE
So the and jealousies of Florence and the other
states of Italy have gone into the worlds basket as
also the curious astronomical theories and theological dis
cussions in vogue at his time.
The second that his work is filled with instances
and illusions entirely unintegble to the modern reader
without the aid Of copous by the antquary And
when read the notes they are of no interest.
Yet, his Divine Comedy loaded down, as it is with old
junk retains its hold upon the mind Of cultured people
everywhere.
This is because of the intrinsic greatness Of the mans
personality No matter what writes about no matter
how outlandsh bizarre other-wordish his subject
matter he clearly, thinks nobly and expresses him
self in sincerity, his message will find the heart Of the
world
Another reason is the sheer beauty of his craftsmanship
It is doubtful if any human being has wrought so
perfectly and exqustely with words. We get but
shadow of this translation, but the original Italian is
masterpiece which, being thing of beauty must be JOY
forever.
Even those to whom italian is strange tongue must
admire the sorority and music Of the lines hears them
recited Such cadences haunt the world We cannot let
them die.
Dante, and while cannot say that got from him
any directly disable material yet more regret my
hours spent with him than regret the beautiful landscapes
have seen tho great music have heard the wise and
noble souls have met and the wondrous dreams have had
These all part of ones education Of ones equip
mept for life-and perhaps the best part
,aa CcOpyrisAt By clurs syadoa.s>
The Washington times., 1927-04-29
Tickle April

April has brought spring. Easter, the circus rubber
carnations bearing the Prince Of Wales stamp Of approval
and the Mississippi River floods
The latter, yearly occurrence promises to give
to think about this year than ever In the past fifty years
have appropriated annually millions of dollars toward
lief from the terror Of nundation in the Mississippi water
she'd
Every conceivable thing has been done bikes have been
strengthened New evees have been built The rivers
has been changed Yet Mother Nature always superior
puny man. to have way of disrupng everything
which human hands have constructed
Terror regns every spring for 1900 miles either side
the mighty waterway There is chance for permanent
sucOn in that part of the nation Hundreds Of thousands
Of Of valuable produce may at any moment be wiped
away.
Army engineers Congressional unkets and the best Of
scientists still have much to learn when it to
batting the great unknown force which controls the destiny
those who reside in our riverside States.
The Washington times., 1927-04-29
BY Garrett P. Serviss

foundations Of both meterology
and physical geography through
his delineation Of the ''isothermal
lines" and his study Of the
earth's magnetic force, Of the
laws OF storms, Of the geographic
and climatic distribution Of plants
and Of the action and inter-rela-
ton Of volcanoes.
He was the first great 'scien.
tific traveller" He had the very
broad and sound idea that the re.
suits Of scientific exploration and
discovery ought to be given to
the world in an attractive literary
form. He tried the resources Of
language to picture the scenes of
nature in such a way that the
reader might obtain from q de-
The Washington times., 1927-04-29
MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
on Che F'lue.Four Sex

On the Flus.FOur Sex
IF a woman can't be anything
i else in a mans life, she
likes to feel that she is at least
an Influence"
Romance is not entirely dead
until a husband and wife begin
calling each other my dear"
Nothing SO startles and as
tonishes a man as the discovery
that he Is emotionally interested
in a woman with whom he
thought he was just amusing
himself. .s.t
Many a man has kissed a girl
whom he had not the slightest de-
sire to kiss, simply because that
was easier than trying to think
up something clever to say to
her.
There's something about the
sight Of his wife's photograph on
a mans desk that. takes his
stenographer's heart right out of
her work.
what man cannot under
stand Is why woman insists on
putting him on a pedestal-and
then sues him for alimony when
he slips off of it.
1.-THE sleep of the just" is a
popular myth-but from our OBJ
servation, it is usually the
UNJUST who sleep sweetly until
noon, while the "Just." are down
town working for a living.
Man doesn't love woman much,
any more-at least not enough to
suffer in a hard-boiled shirt and
a swallow tail coat for her sweet
sake!
AS long as men prefer incense
to common sense, they will go
right on marrying the kind of
girl who flatters them in one
breath and asks them for money
In the next.
The ultimate test of an Ameri.
can gentleman is his ability to
divorce his wife as gracefully and
tandsrly e. he coQrtad .hsel =
The Washington times., 1927-04-29
ONCE-OVERS
By ]. J. MUNDY
Are You Disseminated?

What is the you not happy contented with
what YOU have Mrs. Married Woman2
Why are you dissatisfied all the time with what you
possessG
Is it because you cannot bear the thought that
else has more or better things than you have7
You don to admit that is plain jealousy do you
Envy is a foolish state of mind
To be sure you must have ambition
You must look forward to greater things.
But you can't enjoy really good thing when you have
1t Just because there is better the market you
silly.
Then there is the point Of having things in keeping
If you have clerks income you should expect
seaskin-it would look out of place.
your ambition is to have things to oudo your friends
your noighbors, you need to revise your spirit.
But if you want things efficient and in keeping and
an alLround general upf in circumstances work for it,
hut don't make yourself unhappy about it.
The Washington times., 1927-04-29
By ELSIE ROBINSON

cleverness and reputation. How
ever trivial it may seem to you,
that belief is q vital matter to
him, and his LIES salvation de-
ponds upon it. That is HIS ark
of the covenant. That Is the
thing for which he will fight
and struggle. That is the ladder
by which he will climb up il he
Is in the pit.
If you want to appeal to that
person you must respect that
ladder-you must respect his
faith.
But that is the hardest thing
for most of us to do. We don't
want the. erring to save them.
selves in their own way. We
want them to save themselves in
OUR way. We're so sure that
OUR way Is best!
And the second attribute to
which you must appeal is tied
up with the first. It is PRIDE.
Every person on earth has his
own particular pride. It il the
backbone of his soul. You may
feel that he has done nothing
for which he could be proud but
that is quite apart from the
question. Human pride isn't
based on the things we do. IT'S
based on the things we THINK
WE CAN DO 1T WE GET A
CHANCE. That's why pride Is
the greatest constructive force in
a life IL 1t is used rightly. Touch
a mans feridA with the right
reverence and confidence and
he'll work miracles with himself.
Bruise his pride and he'll turn
and rend you. And he'll have >
right tol
The Washington times., 1927-04-29

read nowadays, because it IL a
picture Of science In its old
fashioned dress, before 1t had en-.
tirely forgotten it's periwig. But
it is worth reading, both for its
information Ito be corrected and
extended by later discovery and
theory, and for its spirit, which
is broad and lofty in the highest
sense. 1t Is grand generaIiza.
ton Of human science as it ex.
listed up to the middle of the
nineteenth century. It il a work
as personal and unique in its
kind as "Boswelrs Johnson"
Humboldt did a great deal Of
original scientific work, but IL
has been swallowed UP in the
fame of his great book. He il
credited with having laid the
The Washington times., 1927-04-29


persons who were as dangerous az
rabid wolves but they were not
bad people. A rabid wolf isn't a
bad wolf. He is sick VOLTA
poisoned wolf. And so were the
dangerous people / have met
they were sick and poisoned
people. I have known other
people who were as mischievous
and unreliable as fleas-and as
spineless as worms. But they
were not bad. Fleas and worms
can't be blamed for their un.
pleasant characteristics. They
were born that way. So were
these people.
So before we can get together
on this conversation you'll have
to junk that word bad" for, to
me, it has no reality.
"All right-have it your own
way" says Mrs. Stayton. But
surely you'll agree that there are
most disagreeable and troublesome
people. Well. how shall we appeal
to them?"
Yes, my dear, I'll agree to that
readily. I've been both disagree
able and troublesome myself so
I'm amply equipped to give you
inside information on that breed.
How shall we appeal TO dis
agreeable and troublesome people?
As we would appeal to any
other people.
There are two attributes In
any sane person to which you
can appeal. 1t matters not
whether that person be a respect.
able citizen or q murderer. a thief,
or q Observation-Disclosures are al.
ways two things in q person to
which sou can apneAk
The Washington times., 1927-04-29
QUESTIONS OF
ETIQUETTE
mrs. Cornelius Beeckman-

y AAAA - SOA ANSAASS NS~N1A1AASA1eTo
Her Friend Pays
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ My girl friend has asked
me to go to show with her and
her boy friend. Will it be right
for me to go with them? Who
shall pay the way into the show
my girl friend, her friend, or /?
Who should pay the car fare?
o. / have gone out with my girl
friend and her friend. Was it
right for me to pay my own
fare? A FRIEND.
If the girl has asked you to 60
to the theater with her and her
man friend, doubtless the man ex-.
poets to get the tickets. He would,
/ should think, feel embarrassed il
you pay for your own ticket, or
pay your own carfare. If there
il any possibility Of this arrange.
ment-of your paying your own
way-then I should think that
you would arrange to go to the
theater with your girl friend only,
say to the matinee some day.
2. No. If you go with these
two friends the man should pay
the expense Of the party"
The Washington times., 1927-04-29

The first IL
that persons
BELIEF. Every
sane person be-
neves in some.
I thin outside
h I'm 3 elf. His
belief may be
radically differ
ent from yours.
You may cons
slider it an out
rageous or silly
or scandalous
belief ut to
him that belief
Is r e AL and
HOLY. He may
not believe in
Society nor in
Love nor in
anything tina t
seems to you
decent or beauti.
full. He m a y
merely believe in
- - H.
The Washington times., 1927-04-29
LISTEN, WORLD!

MRS. STAY
N1 TON is
having trouble
with q nephew
and she wants
to know how to
appeal to bad
people"
/ don't know,
lady.
I have never
met a bad per-
son.
In all my ex-
perience in jails
a n d in S a y e
a sy u m 8 and
hospitals an d
mining camps
a n d hop-joints
and . newspaper
lob bies a n d
70 a d h o u ses I
have never yet
met q bad per-
son.
7 havA m eft
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
HEALTH OFFICER
| imp ATIENT over
ECONOMIC EXCUSE
DIR. Harris Testifies for
48-HOur Week

"The medical man has had to meet
the economic argument against
every Recommendation he makes fol
The protection Of the health OF
women and children in industry. The
medical man grows impatient with
Ithis excuse"
SO declared DR.. Louis /. Harris
health commissioner Of New York
City, answering manufacturers
Representatives on the State Indus
trial Survey Commission who tried
70 argue against the 48-hour week
The health commissioner asserted
Iemphatically that, as a medical man
he favored the shortening of work
hours and that the 4S-hour week
legislation proposed would be "a
long step forward"
From his tens of thousands of
examinations of workers made while
chief Of the division Of industrial
hygiene and head Of the bureau Of
Ipreventable diseases for New YORK
City, Harris testified to the evil eff
fects Of fatigue. He stated he had
checked his experience with that OF
other experts in the field.
Fatigue produced by long hours a,
Iuonotonous and routine or hazardous
work brings marked mental anc
nervous results, makes workers more
susceptible to disease, affects ma
|ternity, disturbs body organs and in.
Icreases the number Of accidents
Women have biological differences
from men which make necessary their
greater protection in industry, stated
the doctor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
Foreigners" Excuse
For Police Brutality
Fails in Paper Strike

"In no recent strike outside Of Pas
sale have the police been more aggres-
sive in welding clubs and fists, more
blatant In supporting the side of the
employers" writes Harbor Allen of
the present strike Of the paper box
makers in New York City in cur
rent issue Of the Nation.
"The conservative portion Of the
public likes TO explain the increasing
violence Of the police during regent
industrial disturbances by the "revo-
lutionary" character of the strikes
and by the assertion that the strikers
are foreigners with "subversive and
un-American IDEAS" writes Allen,
continuing, "the police we are told
are justified in protecting, by violence
if necessary American property and
institutions against these dangerous
immigrants.
Unfortunately for this argument
the situation in the paper box MAX
ers strike is reversed. Most of tn
5000 workers on strike are American
born, while most Of the employers
arc foreign.
"The courageous tenacity Of the
box makers has held their ranks to-
gether through fourteen weeks with
out work in the face Of police brutal
ity and judicial severity and an al
most solid determination on the part
of the employers to break both the
strike and the union. Only physica,
collapse can prevent them from car
rying the fight through the slack sea
son to final settlement" he says.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24

NJ. Shur, so; R. Shur, 100; A.
Shur, so.
NO. 300 BY JOHN BULALKIN zoo
J. Bulatkin, LOO; Alex N. Bohm,
100.
NO. 1921 BY N. G0TKIS &
+. j. DAVIS. ........... SOC
Max Fielkum, 100; W. p, Of
Hartford, 800; Louis Epstein,
100; Albert Epstein, 100.
40. 373 BY AMALGAMATED
FOOD WORKERS LOCAL
p. Baidrian, 20; John Grim, .25;
"A. Gruber, 20; Carl Ziegler, so;
p. Goepfert, 100; A. Toders,
100; ]. Baldrian, so; Jack
Lehnerer, 100; G. Schribbe, 30;
I. Cfannerer, LOO; A. Sheffens,
100; Jos. Wolf, 100; w. Pfanth,
100; T. Hurst, 100.
NO. ID BY ALMA SCHTINEN 7.5C
Helena Toukola, 100; S. Sipola,
100; /. X, rs; Henry RENO,
100; M. Salo, .25; Anttilo, so;
Kalle Nelson, 20; M. Lamb, rs;
s. Rinnieni, .25; Hi. Sjoman, so;
Aug. Hitta, so; Fred Hellman,
80; NJ. Matran, so; Frank Wir-
tanen, %; Willo Brander, so.
NO. 1929 BY H. COOPER. !. 4.5C
H. Cooper, LOO; v. Bjang, 100:
T.. Taipalo, 100; j. v. r., so;
G. Kolstrom, so; Oscar Toffeio,
so.
NO. 2S5 BY WORKERS OF
LEBOW SHOE CO.. ....... 600
d. Body, 100; B. Suskin, so;
r. Hatzmanon, 100; Giovanni
Silverstein, 100; Giuseppe Gior-
dano, 100; Isidor CHAT, so; VIM.
Botzin, so; Dave Molk, so; e.
Dagostino, so; +. Gostinsky,
80; 4. Baroni, so; J. Debowsky,
so; DR.. Harry capcll, so; Max
Lipshitz, so.
Andrew Hrasko I.bC
NO. 1144 B YCLARA FOX. !. coo
Clara Fox, 100; Rubin Berger,
100; Abe Medvin, 100; Abe
Schneider, 100; Bertha Knplan,
100; Il. p, 100.
NO. 194s BY W. WOLF. $50
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
Labor Writer Knows by
Experience Wen Help

Those Of us who have had the ioh
OF sending out news about New
York's union strikes and struggles
feel like shouting with joy to vel
come the Daily Worker to this city.
So many times during the battles
OF the Joint Action Committee of tho
international Ladies Garment Work
ers Union, we needed to have a story
printed the next day in an English
paper and there was no workers ma
per to which we could turn. Dav
after day during the Furriers' strike
men and women were beaten and
arrested by the police, but there was
no English newspaper in which we
could tell this important story and
voice the workers protest.
| remember once calling up a New
York evening paper to report that
one OF the left-wing cloakmakers had
been attacked by the InternationaTs
gangsters, nearly beaten to death and
was in a hospital not expected to live
A man in the newspaper office said
That's not news, miss; that happens
every day. Nothing important about
that"
And so it is that the workers would
never hear of some of the bitterest
battles Of strikes and union fights IL
1t were not for the papers devoted TO
their interests. The foreign language
groups in New York have had such
papers right here. in their midst;
now an English labor paper moves
up to the front line trenches and all
OF us connected with newspaper and
labor publicity work hail its arrival
with hearty greetings and wishes for
ITS growth and prosperity.-Helen
Black, Labor Publicist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24

"oRkER on that occasion as We'll
as every time since, has answo,oa
Ihese attacks, but it must be remem-
bered that by the time the nanar
reached New York from Chicago Il
could not have as telling an effect
as an immediate reply. An imme-
alate answer is always necessary.
and IN the future the Sigmans. WolIs
and MeMahons will be dealt with IN
a manner that they deserve!
use Of The DAILY WORKER as
part of the campaign to organize
the unorganized. If The DAILY
WORKER had been published in
New York, which is only a half hour
from Passaic, the lies and fascist
statements Of the Passaic DaiJv
News and the Passaic Daily Herald
could have been Immediately and eff
fectively dealt with.
To summarize: The DAILY
WORKER published in New York
means that the struggle against tho
right wing in the trade unions can
now be more Systematically carried
out. Also that the struggle to bring
new, virile elements into the labor
movement, as in Passaic, by organ.
lzing the unorganized, can be contin-
ued with even more success than in
the past, and at the same time add
new laurels to the left wing and tba
Communists in the trade unions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
Visit of Green with
Walker in Mystery
Continued from mage
Continued from page l

hut were handed to the General Elk
eeutive Board fthe A. F. Of L. with
out letting the furriers see what they
we're reported to have said at the
hearings. The Investing Committee
had vigorously opposed the furriers'
demand for public hearings during
this investigation. Judging by the
report finally produced, Mr.. Woll APP
parently wanted to ide not only from
the public but also from his COM
mittee what went on at those SEES
sions. Mr.. VOL, knowink why the
committee was formed, knew what
he was going to find at the hearings
and evidently information about
the furriers' strike was the least of
the things he was seeking.
Ryan and Vol Disagree.
What Mr.. Ryan will report to the
District Attorney is indicated by his
statement last week to the effect that
the furriers had not given 100000
to the olice as Mr.. Vol reported, but
that they had failed to account for
that amount in connection with strike
expenditures.
This statement, as we'll as Woll's
has been proved absolutely untrue by
the published account of the Fur
riers' Joint Board officers which
gives in detail all payments made
during the strike, and for every one
Of which the Joint Board holds signed
receipts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
Daily Worker Builders
Meet Tonight

The problem of news stand circula-
ton will be the subject for discussion
at a meeting of Daily Worker Build
ers at 8 o'clock this evening, Monday
January "a, at 1o8 East 14th Street.
Discussion will be led by Bert Miller,
Samuel Krieger and L. E. Katterfeld
Now that The DAILY WORKER is
printed in New York the news stands
are the most important phase of the
work Of building the paper in this
city. Every reader of The DAILY
WORKER who has little spare time
each week to devote to this work
should be present at this meeting to
learn the details.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
HONOR ROLL

Here is partial roster of those devoted whose
ributons made possible for The DAILY WORKER to be
printed in New York The specified were received by
the New York Agency from January 7 January Over
TWO thousand Honor Rolf lists still outstanding and will be
acknowledged in future issues of The DAILY WORKER fast
received
All having lists urged to collect can as
fast they since the moving The DAILY WORKER in
wolves lot OF extra The good by York
comrades the past two weeks shows that they this
and give The DAILY WORKER good send-o in New York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
BOSSES REJECT
PLAN TO SETTLE
PAPER BOX FIGHT
Attempts Still Made to
Mediate

Following the refusal Of the paper
box manufacturers to submit to arbi-
tration Of the paper box strike by an
impartial citizens committee, DR..
Charles X. Gilbert, chairman of the
social service commission of the
Episcopal Diocese of New York, has
called second conference to discuss
the strike situation at the Bar Asso-
citation building, AZ West 44th ST.,
tomorrow evening, January. rs.
Committees Confer.
DR.. Gilbert issued the call for a
meeting Of strikers, manufacturers,
and citizens which was held on Mon
day, January 18th. Such men as
Bishop William B. Manning, DR.. 81
Parkes Cadman, r. Fulton Cutting
and Henry Goddard Leach were pres
emit, and they agreed to form COM
mittee which should listen to a COM
mittee of strikers and committee
Of manufacturers and endeavor to
reach set of terms Of settlement of
the strike which would be satisfactory
to both sides.
Employers Reject Plan.
Representatives of the union agreed
to this plan, and promised to accept
the decisions of the committee. Repre-
sentatives of the employers agreed to
bring the proposal before the manu-
facturers' association at its meeting
on January goth. Not only did the
members Of the association absolutely
refuse this offer of mediation, but
several speakers urged that the OPP
position to the strikers and their de-
mands be carried on more vigorously
than ever, and one member called for
government intervention to prevent
strikes.
Strikers Discussed.
This decision of the manufacturers
is to be presented by DR.. Gilbert to
the citizens committee tomorrow
night, and they will consider further
plans for trying to end the paper box
strike which has been in progress
since October 5th.
The strike will be discussed at the
Civic Club, IS East 10th Street, on
Wednesday night, by one of the girl
strikers; by Fred Cailoa, manager OF
the union; DR.. James Meyers, indus
trial secretary of the federal council
Of churches, and the Rev. Charles
Weber, pastor of the Church of All
Nations where strike meetings are
being held every day.
Brutalities Continue.
Attacks by the bosses hired agents
upon the strikers continue regularly
and the police in addition to affordina
an escort to scabs are helping them
unload trucks and driving them home
in the manufacturers cars. But the
strike is in fine shape and the strik-
ers are standing firm in their original
demands for living wage and better
working conditions. Funds are com.
ing in to the union from many
sources, and the paper box workers
are prepared to carry on indefinitely
the same aggressive strike they have
been conducting for so many weeks.