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35. Captured.
81. Freeze.
SO. Slurs over.
Al. Rabbit community.
45. Break violently.
as. Extinct bird.
As. Speed.
40 Challenge.
so. Arrived (abbr.).
81. God of Love.
So. German river.
So. Asiatic bovine.
54. Slight depression.
!. Journey.
.. Assistant.
3. Deer Of Europe pluraD.
4. Definite.
5. Was afraid.
s. Remnant.
Z. Looked narrowly.
8. Feminene name.
Q. Leave out.
10. Small rodents.
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Sarah Surprises Herself.

- ARAH ELLIOT started slightly
as her visitor stated her errand.
L can't have a child here"
~ she said firmly. Il don't know
nnrfhincr about children eS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
The Farm Bloc and Progressive" Leadership
Futile and Dangerous.

The veto of the McNary Haugen farm relief bill and the
passage of the McFadden banking bill reveals the uty of the
farm bloc.
The farm bloc senators and congressman combined with the
banking interests put the McFadden bill which Coolidge
signed. The farm relief bill got the
The what they wanted They in position
to squeeze farmers little harder than before and in addition
this their agents the house and senate having voted for
bill they knew Coolidge would e can now avoid the wrath OF
the followers the bloc Their record the matter is clear
but the farmers still denied relief.
The farm bloc senator's congressman enthusiastic
opponents of the onparsan policy So the officials of the
American Federation of Labor Workers and farmers told
continuously that good purpose be served by leaving the
old parties and forming party of their The farm bloc is
always pointed shining example of the that
be exered in by udous of the processes of the
primary law
The good men," the friends the workers farmers
that have Washington from the middle west and
northwest not only have been unable enact real beneficiary
legislation for the but their recent attempt in this drec
o the alliance with the bankers without guarantees has given
life the leadership of such enemies of the farmers and
esenatves of the banking interests Dawes and Lowden
that Cooidges of the farm relief
bill antagonzes large sections of the farming population but
the time it demorazes the farm bloc following 1t makes
possible the continuation of the oog the farmer that
has been the principle activity of the capitalist politicians of the
middle fifty The farm bloc leaders cannot
responsibility for this situation They made support of the farm
relief bill test of loyalty to the farmers and since the alliance
with the banking interests Lowden and Dawes position
to just egtmatey farmers friends Broohart
We disregard course the tremendous pres
the farm relief bill the principal factor in determining
the attitude Dawes it
true that they seized the opportunity weaken the farm bloc by
dung its policy with their and appearing champions of
the farmers.
definitely presidential candi-
dates They entered the the moment the Coolidge statement
stacking the farm relief bill was made public.
They have out-maneuvered the farm bloc leaders
it is precisely this element, together with A. F. of L.
ocadom which attacks the advocates of labor party sim
practical Futile and dangerous the leadership of the farm
bloc and the soaed progresves playing into the hands of
the enemies of the
The whole history of the farm relief legislation with its
final tragic farce of the bankerarmer alliance and
the Lowdens and Dawes influence is of the most
powerful arguments yet delivered for party of farmers and
workers.
and the elections the least important the
exposure bloc o-caed progressive
leaders whose historical role that of keeping the
farmers workers the camp of their enemieprisoners
of American capitalism's two big political parties
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
VIII
To- SnslAir

Morning came, and they went
back to the hospital room. Moth
ing was changed. Paul still lay,
breathing hoarsely; and Ruth sat
in chair by the bedside, her eyes
fixed upon him, her hands clasped
tightly. She was whittier, that was
all, and her lips were quiyering,
never still. The hospital nurse
begged her to lie down and rest,
but she shook her head. No, she
was used to watching the sick;
she was a nurse too. The other
answered that all nurses slept
when they could; but no, please
Ruth wanted to stay right there.
The surgeon came again. There
was nothing he could do, time
would have to tell. Bunny took
him aside and asked what were
the chances. Impossible to say.
If Paul were going to get we'll,
he would return to consciousness.
If he were going to die, there
might be a meningitis, or perhaps
a blood clot on the brain.
Rachel said the family ought to
be notified. So Bunny sent a tele-
gram to Abel Watkins at Paradise,
telling him to engage an auto and
bring the family at Bunny's ex-
pense. He debated whether it was
his duty to telegraph Eli, and de-
cided not to. Old Mr.. Watkins
might do it, but Bunny would be
guided by what Paul would have
wished. Then he got the morning
papers, and read their exultant ac-
count of the nights events: the
reds had been taught a much-need-
ed lesson, and law and order were
safe at the harbor.
It was the morning Of election
day: the elimination Of campaign
that had been like long nightmare
to Bunny. Senator LaFollette had
been running, with the backing of
the Socialists, and the great issue
had been the oil steals; the indicted
exposers of the crime against the
criminals in power. At first the
exposers had really made some
Roadway, the people seemed to care.
But the enemy was only waiting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28

for the time to strike. In the last
three weeks of the campaign he
turned loose his reserves, and it
was like a vast cloud of hornets
the sky black with a swarm Of
singing, burning, poisoning lies
1t was the money of Vernon Ros-
coe and the oil men, Of course:
plus the money of the bankers and
the power interests and the great
protected manufacturers, all those
who had something to gain by the
purchase of government, or some
thing to lose by failure to purchase.
Another fifty million dollar cam
paign; and in every village and
hamlet, in every precinct of every
city and town, there was a commit
tee for the distribution of terror.
The great central factories where
it was manufactured were in Wash
ington and New York, and the pro-
duct was shipped out wholesale, all
over the land, and circulated by
every agency - newspapers and
leaflets, mass meetings, parades,
bands, red fire and torchlights, the
radio and the moving picture screen.
If LaFollette, the red destroyer,
were elected, business would be
smashed, the workers would be job
less; therefore vote for that strong
silent statesman, that great, wise,
undetermined friend of the plain
people known as Cautious Cal"
And now, while Paul Watkins lay
gasping out his life, there was a
snowstorm of ballots falling over
the land, nearly a thousand every
second. The will Of the plain people
was being made known.
Ito Be Continued).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
Negro Rotary Club
Formed by Whites
To Fight the ANLC
(By Worker Correspondent.

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 27.-Wed-
nesday, Feb. %, 1927 saw the forma-
ton of "Civico" club among the To-
cal Negro middle class elements. The
installation was attended by numer-
Gus white business men, bankers, poll
ticians, preachers and such like "per-
sons of Importance"
These latter lauded the establish
nent of "Civico," the first organiza-
ton of its kind in this city and prom
ised then, support. Officers were
elected from the petit bourgeois ele-
ments present.
The formation of this club should
not be lightly passed over. The pres
ence of several of the most prominent
white capitalists and their politicians
indicates that they are aware Of the
Importance of having their agents
among the Negroes to effectively
stifle any protest against the outrages
Of Bourbonism.
Another factor, no doubt, is the
presence of local of the American
Negro Labor Congress in this city
which arouses the hate of both the
white and black exploiters.
The Negro workers must not give
any support to this treacherous
"Civico" gang, but build up their own
Independent power through the A. N.
l.. G. and the unions to which they
have access, building up unions where
such are not in existence.
Under no circumstances can they
leave their fate to the middle class,
that only seeks to betray the men,
bers of it's own race in order to win
an approving smile from the white
bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
Ramsay Macdonald Explains Why and
How the Miners We're Betrayed
WHAT is that Macdonald say.

WHAT is that Macdonald says
w here?
Simply that having tried and failed
to get the miners to agree to a wage
cut and finding that the government
whose activities Macdonald naively
describes as purely partisan" (did
he expect the government to support
the miners !? )--was the real enemy
and must be fought as such, the Gem
eral Council called off the strike and
left the miners in the lurch.
(2) Macdonald was against both
kinds of a struggle-militant action
to prevent wage cut and a general
political struggle against British CAPT
talism.
But" says Macdonald, "the Cen
eral Council kept its head, and having
done its best as legitimate industrial
power declined to form itself into an
illegitimate constitutional power and
called the strike off"
IT is "best" consisted in trying,
4 with the aid of the government,
to force the miners to agree to wage
cut.
1t is quite plain that Macdonald has
succeeded only in proving the correct
ness of Communist criticism of the
leadership Of the General Council.
That leadership was both afraid and
unwilling to head a struggle against
British government-the only possible
way by which the labor movement
could have won.
I T is well to state here that Mac
1 Donald devotes long paragraph
to abuse of Arthur Cook, the miners
secretary and the only prominent
labor official who fought through to
the end but finds no time to explain
why the desertion of the miners in
May was followed by a consistent re-
fusal by labor officialdom to place
an embargo on foreign coal-an ac-
ton which could have saved the min
ers from as bad defeat as they suf-
fered.
THERE is every reason to believe
L that MacDonald's article will be
hailed in socialist circles as restrained
and reasonable. He is coming here
Easter week and the New Leader is
already creating atmosphere. We
have for instance in the same issue
of the New Leader in which the Mac
Donald article appears an apprecisl
ton of him by one Kritzer who has
just returned from England where he
attended a meeting at which Mac
Donald spoke. The New Leader
makes Kritzer say:
There is still no one to compare in
ability with Ramsay Macdonald
Mr.. MacDonald's address
was constructive, statesmanlike and
responsible, while the others, he said,
delivered merely ordinary propaganda
speeches"
Responsible Macdonald may be, but
not to the British workers.-B. d.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
uD AMsAY MACDONALD Reveals

VII AMSA1 MACDONALD Reveals
N Why Strike Was Called Off" is
the headline in the New Leader over
an article by the same person.
The article is a weak and uncon-
vincing apology for calling off the
general strike and deserving the
miners. What the miners thought
about the policy which Macdonald de-
tends is best shown by the fact that
in the recent Trade Union Congress
conference which considered the whole
question, they voted solidly against
the official report, casting 100000
votes.
! TWO facts stand out in the Mac
i Donald article:
"a That the General Council, over
the protest Of the miners executive,
agreed with the government on a
wage cut.
This is what Macdonald says:
"These terms were the best that in
the opinion of the General Council
could be secured UNDER THE EX-
ISTING ECONOMIC AND POLITI-
CAL CIRCUMSTANCES The
council considered that wages could
not be saved for the time being how
ever long the strike was to last"
Emphasis mine.)
III F the general strike was not
1 called to change the existing
economic and political circumstances
what was its purpose?
Macdonald explains this when be
speaks of the theory of the general
strike:
"This policy never received the
wholehearted support of all the lead
ers who saw that by extending the
line of battle you weakened it rather
than strengthened it and that by
bringing new issues into fight you
run the danger of confusing it rather
than clarifying it."
The majority of the General Council
was opposed to the strike. This we
can gather from MacDonald's state
ment. But these leaders felt that
they could not oppose the general
strike in the face of the mass pres
sure for action in support of the
miners. They did, however, maneuver
with the government to prevent the
strike developing its full strength and
thereby changing any of the "circum-
stances" of which Macdonald speaks.
LIE continues:
A1"Mainly by the PURELY PAR
TISAN action of the government, the
general strike at the end of the first
week was being forced into constitu-
tional channels, and had the general
council agreed with the miners lead
ers and continued the strike after its
industrial effectiveness was ended by
the rejection of the Samuel Memoran-
dun by the miners, the strike would
HAVE CHANGED ITS CHARAC-
TER AND HAVE BECOME PURE
LY POLITICAL" Emphasis mine. }
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28

thing that doesn't first start you;
obviously only mud or money can do
that.
Death as a Critic of Life.
THAT there is something in the
i idea of suicides as a sign of So
cial decay is shown throughout his
tory. Look at the Age Of Napoleon
and Metternich and you find a whole
trail of suicides and early deaths
among its best young men Shelley
and Keats and Byron, Novalis and
Kleist and Buechner, Leopard and
Bellini and Gribojedof and Pushkin-
all of them died young, some by their
own hand, and most Of them unnGtur-
ely, while numbers Of others went
insane. Look at Russia after the
first revolution in 1905 and you find
student suicides there.
THERE'S no getting around it;
4 either fight has to be put on to
make life generally worth living, or
death will cop the round. People
may not all be conscious of this de-
bate, like Tolstoi, who often put away
his pistol for fear he might be tempt
ed too strongly, but the debate goes
on. The Great Explainers kid them.
selves out Of it BY turning to religion
or education or psychoanalysis or
business success Of cynical criticism,
and others Ky going to booze or the
movies. No use. Some child. more
honest than they are, goes straight
to his own death, and shows them up
for fools.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
By DOUGLAS P. HASKELL
Editor, The New Student.

EulIOIs L ne NEW kobuuCnls
THE score of suicides among stu
1 dents since the Christmas vaca-
ton have succeeded in doing one
thing; they have managed to make
fools Of the living. Hardly had their
tragic Dance of Death got fairly I'M
der way than there began also, led
by the eminent clergy, the circus Of
the living clowns, the Great Explain
ers. Every Authority" had an ex-
PLANTATION; and he delivered it like
the Clown Grimaldi, very, very seri-
ously.
An eminent rabbi pronounced these
deaths to be the elimination of the
movement toward "self-expression."
A famous psycho-analyst declared
them due to "the desire to hurt"
The leader Of a modern school of
psychology found the fault to lie in
Christianity, the killing of curiosity
by the radio, too much booze and
automobile riding, and not enough
playing of pirate, cowboy or miner.
THE divines laid it all to modern
L philosophy and psychology"
A most important sociologist
thought the reason was "cowardice'
and put in a good word for Christian
ity as a stopper.
The president OF large university
offered "a materlalistic conception Of
the universe"
The editors of most digrified un-
dergraduate pape' called it under
education"
On the contrary said Il newspaper
riding professor in New York, there
was too much edncat.or; too much
~inquiring mind" without enough "in-
hibitions."
An expert on mental hygiene in
cluded in his formula Ear increase in
freedom of speech and action, an inor-
dinate desire for speed and thrills,
disregard for law ard order, the di-
vided home, and the continued breed
ing of the nervously unfit"
Somebody mentioned war .l,ys-
terra"
a ND in such fashion every clown in
"A the show got out his own favori.e
little bubble and blew it very hard,
either putting it up or exploding it,
very, very seriously; and if all OF
them were talking the truth, there
Is only one thing sure for you and
me; there are plenty of reasons why
anyone should commit suicide.
The Facts"
THE facts about the suicides, as
i printed in the newspapers, don't
point toward any single explanation
any more than do the authorities.
Through all the reporting there runs
the inability to measure death with
words. Blanche Cabathuler was sup
posed TO have killed herself after be-
ing scolded at he dinner table, no
more than that. Rugby Vile was not
concerned with a simple scolding but
spoke about life as a whole: Every
thing is dark and worthless. have
found life barren and futile" If
Rugby Vile thought he hated life, j.
Morgan Derr was simply tired Of it:
81 have experienced all life has to
offer and am better dead" is what
he wrote. Cassels w. Noe at the
University Of Wisconsin cheerfully
announced he wanted to find out
how things were over there"--he
seemed to have no fear about it. But
one Of the girls destroyed her life,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
World Too Tough for
Worker; He Leaves 81
For Gas But Fails

The world is too tough for me or
else | am too tough for the world y
wrote Edmund Sentenne, of Elm
hurst, Long Island yesterday Just
before he tried to commit suicide by
inhaling gas.
The attempt was made in the
home Of friend and Sentenne left
a dollar lying on a table to pay for
the gas he used in ending his life.
He was found unconscious, but alive
and taken to Bellevue Hospital
where he is in a serious condition.
Read The Daily Worker Every Day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
The "Student Suicides" Z

supposedly, because she was afraid
to face her parents with her poor
grades!
In all of this, maybe the reporters
were kidding the public, and maybe
The youngsters were kidding them
selves.
OF course some of the psychia-
trists and physicians found these peo-
pie simply abnormal. But since any
body who commits suicide can never
be called anything except "abnor-
NAL" that doesn't help explain very
much.
The Medical Side.
THE reasons for the large number
L of deaths might be personal rea-
sons or they might lie in some social
cause. On the personal side, the
medical authorities were all sure of
one thing: it's hell to be young.
every virile adolescent is a poten-
tial suicide" said DR.. Louis l. Bisch,
of the New York Polytechnic Medical
School. Any adolescent feels that
nobody understands him, and can
easily get to pity himself. Youth is
the time of sex battles and also the
time when the notions of guilt" and
''inferiority' first enter the mind.
Let a youngster in this state of mind
read about other suicides that sound
heroic in the press, and the sugges-
ton comes strongly to him to do the
same. "Then there is snowy exit
with pitiable letters left be''inl or
the stressing of reason for the act
that of itself is relatively unimpor-
tant."
The Social Side.
WI HAT had social conditions 20 do
w with these deaths? A good deal
could be said about that, and very
little proved, unless you are a Great
Explainer. One thing nobody seems
tc have noticed: none Of these young
sters seems to have been busy at
work. None of them was doing any
thing-yet-that seemed important
and indispensable. The pre- medics
came nearest to being connected witch
the notion of work and responsibility
and Importance. TIE rest were all
in the unreal world of school where
nothing really matters.
There was no purpose in lie for
them to get very much het up about.
Business? The prospect of dog-cat-
dog has little appeal to any college
sophomore who knows that business
is not very much more. Service to
the State THAT means telling mean
lies in the national interest" of
blackguards.s To be bishop is to
hire sob-sisters to hand out the pub
licity bunk that will build a cathe-
dral. Would you be a big college
president? Then learn the trick of
saying anything at all to get the
mazuma, and spending it on any ere
search" that won't keep you from
getting more.
A S in the Europe of Metternich,
Athere is in America very little call
for the glamorous notions that make
life interesting during student years.
Revolution and idealism and senti-
ment in college are dead, while there
is nothing economic for most college
students to fight for in even a mean
ly, selfish way.
To be hero, as every student
wants to be, to step out of himself,
is forbidden not only by the perfect
civilization Of Mr.. Babbitt, but even
by modern psychology" This SD
ence proves that you can't start any