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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-17
Last Summer at a Picnic

7 T happened last summer at left
L wing Worlmen's Circle picnic
Workmen, "free" on Sunday; the
children, having a wonderful time
nagging the grown folks, mostly
their mothers, on Sunday-and all
in a lovely grove near brook digni-
fled by the name of river.
By and by, the sandwiches of pos
trama and salami and corned-beef,
the dill pickles, the picked tomatoes
and the two-per cent beer take the
stage and the crowd draw together
to eat, to talk to one another, and to
be addressed all together by one at
a time.
The smaller children scream, shout,
cry. The mothers pacify them with
food, with chewing gum, with any
thing.
Speeches are made. The main
talk, on the need for political
understanding, the need for or
ganizing, for learning the lessons
of the class struggle more clearly
One talks of the necessity of sending
the children to the Left Wing school,
There is one in the town of
(Connecticut), get your neighbours
children to attend-help them to
grow up class-conscious revolution
airy young workers." ETC., etc., etc.
All the speeches are made for the
men, the children. No one even men
tions the women! And little pro-
letarian grandmother, a rebel, boil
shevik, a white haired Red, begins
to "get her dander up" She asks
for "the floor" gets it, and plants
herself under a young maple tree be-
fore the knot of thirty or forty men,
women and children grouped around
"the eats"
Her English is bad but she makes
her speech in English. She flags the
men speakers, she tells them they
ignore the women Of the working
class to their peril, to the weakening
of the revolutionary movement. By
delaying the organization of the
fighting forces, she exclaims, we de-
lay the revolution. Her illustrations
bring a chuckle, but they are telling.
Take a hexemple dis year de
June books: dey yoozhule come in
June. Bot dis year dere was late
Spreeng und a vet Summer. So de
June books didn't arife till Owgustw
Men, women and older youngsters
howl with delight.
"Dunt be hippocrips," she glares
quizzically at the men. eff you dunt
vunt de wives to go to mittings, say
so. Once in two wicks shoot de hos
band stay home Wit de children? I
say, yes!"
The women shout approval. The
men, bit sheepish, expostulate with
their wives.
"Yah, yah, vimmen!" cries the
little grandmother. "Dot's de way!
Tell it to your Husbands! l go too
to a hitting. l want to loin some
ting about de void. I too want to be
a pot from de struggle"
A man in the group calls, "But
we got five children!".
"Vife! do you hear dot?" sallies
the white-haired Red, "do you hear
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the Santa Claus who provides real,
upright sons of Old Nassau with
racoon coats, boldly proclaim, in an
swer to a QUESTIONABLE, that they
have lost their faith in a personal god
since entering Princeton. But Dean
Gauss tells the world that nobody
took the QUESTIONABLE seriously.
Praise. God From Whom All Bless
ings Flow.-But there are god-fearing
men in our midst-President w. w.
Campbell of the University of Cali
fornia, ascribes the scarcity of student
suicides to the wonderful weather of
the Pacific Coast. And Untermeyer,
the poet, is going to start fund to
discourage student suicide. Maybe he
will join with President Campbell and
provide scholarships for and transport
tation to the University of California.
The Imperialist's Creed.-While you
take with a grain of salt the military
propaganda for the Citizens Military
Training Camps dished out by the Re-
cruiting Publicity Bureau remember
the military creed, as it is expounded
by James Joyce:
"They believe in rod, the scourger
almighty, creator of hell upon earth
and in Jacky Tar, the son of gun,
who was conceived of unholy boast,
born of the fighting navy, suffered
under rump and dozen, was sacri-
feed, flayed and curried, yelled like
bloody hell, the third day he arose
from the bed, steered into haven,
stitch on his beamend until further
orders whence he shall come to
drudge for living and be paid"
Mental, Moral And Physical De-
velopment."-0bserve with reference
to the c. M. T. c. drive that go To
Church Sunday will be followed by,
weekday admonitions-"be good OF
be careful, then visit the Post hos
pital for prophylactic treatment"
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dot? Tell him something; five
children ha? Veil, dey are your
children as gut as dey are mine. We
are partnership? From every four
teen nights take off one night. You
get toiteen-und l take vat Dora und
Faigl nit me, so you hafe only jake,
Molly und Rosie in de house to
mind. Coot you say vat dot / EN- a
bad partner-dot l take out too moch
from de bizness?
So l am too a somebody. Vat?
You dun't want? Veil, l take my
het, my cape und on a vet night my
oombrella und l shot de door-und
goodnight! und / leave vat Dorke
und Faigl too for det-und am
still a fair partner-und l dun't take
so much. vat from de bizness as you
take.
eyes, sisters, dots de way to fix
emil"
The men scratch their heads and
look to each other for comforting
chances, which they exchange with
good-natured smiles in the bargain.
The women, some laughing and
clapping their hands, some thrust
ing out playfully at their better Cor
ganized) halves, others shaking their
heads dolefully, give every moral
support to the speaker.
A little man, tired, pale, a tailor
Cleaning, dyeing, pressing-no air,
no light, no space) protests weakly.
"Bot de children cry: Nominal
Momma! und dey make me crazy"
Hear to dot men! The little grey
"bolshevitzki" withered him with her
scorn.
"Dey make you crazy, hah? Und
dey call: mamma! mamma! you-a
comrade, und you talk like dis, Ell?
amt you be ashamed from soch a
talk? Look your wife. Look, Com
rades, look everybody? De wife ISIS
veying aboad ninety-five puns. If
you amt very big, she ISIS yet lest
bigger like you-und you can't stend
little de children crying mammal
once in two vicks for one eveningv
"Vot? dey is used to de modder.
So dey holler Mamma? Veil, den
be NIT dem a few times und dey will
get used to de ladder und dey will
by and by holler Papa instet from
Mammal
She exhorted them to organize.
Strike while the iron was hot. Went
from woman to woman. Names, adj
dresses, friendliness, enthusiasm.
They formed a group. / don't re-
call what they named themselves.
A meeting night was chosen, a place
for the first meeting. Have they
held together? l don't know. I
haven't inquired.
The little grey mother of the
mothers and fathers of growing
children did not live in those parts.
She was a visitor. Whether those
women will have held fast to their
organization or not depends on
whether or not they had among their
number one or more from the van
guard, conscious, clear, disciplined
enough to realize that without or
ganization there is nothing and with
out constant activity, no organiza-
ton.
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Had Gift of Friendship.

"Mac's" good nature, his gift for
friendship and sympathetic observ-
alton. extended even to the least of
creatures. In the corner of his room
at the hotel was a small sack of
flour, part of his regular ration in
those earlier days, just before the
"payok," or food ration was aban-
doned, with the famine's end. This
naturally attracted the mice, and
MAC" liked to watch the little crea-
lures seampering out from their bur-
rows, and nervously attacking the
flour. One of the mice, he singled
out, for its courage and impudence.
''It doesn't care damn for me-"
he would relate. at just sits up on
it's hind legs, in the middle of the
room, curls its whiskers, and looks
me straight in the eyes. bet you
it's a shop steward of the other
mice!"
An inexhaustible capacity for en-
thusiasm was one of McManus's chief
traits. Perhaps it would be a revolu-
tionary play, at Meyerhold's Thea
tire; or visit to a Moscow factory;
or trip to Tver, to visit the military
establishment there; or a banquet
given by the metal workers of Mos
cow-they never forgot, and "Mac"
never forgot, that he was metal
worker, and old engineer! Whatever
+Lo ooooeio,, bo WOULD have Az F,.oeL
curiosity and complete enjoyment of
a boy, coupled with an understanding
Of the political significance of the
event. He worked hard in Moscow,
and, on the rare occasions of his leis-
ure, he played hard, not sparing his
frail body in the least. His health
was never very good; and, all the
time, his untiring energy and inter-
ests were burning this body of his
this body which would sometimes get
tired, despite the flogging of his will.
And so he died. The overstrained
heart gave way. He died still young,
with many more years to give to the
workers cause. He died after hav-
ing lived to see, and to rejoice in,
the general strike, the greatest
demonstration of workers solidarity
in Britain, despite its surrender by
leaders who will one day pay the price
Of their treachery. He lived to see
the party which he loved grow,
double its members in few months
and to see the great International,
at whose councils he had assisted, es-
tablished as the defense, leader and
hope Of millions of the oppressed.
He died few days after returning
frcm the first Congress of the OPP
pressed Peoples, at Brussels, where
he had heard, and greeted, the arti-
culate voice of China's rebellious
masses.
His name will be honored by thou
sands Of workers, in Britain, when
the names of those who capitulated,
during the general strike, are lost
in obloquy and contempt. He was
soldier and leader in the class strug-
gle, valiant and alert; and he was our
dear comrade.
He lies now, sleeping. We who
we're inspired by his words and ex-
ample, we who loved him as our COM
rsde, shall make his name perpetual,
ty building it into the fabric of the
British Workers Republic.
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Read The Daily Worker Every Day
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Ruthenberg thus agitaor educator and organizer
in the growing effort to carry out the appeal of Karl
Marx, workers of the World, Unite You have moth
ing to lose but your chains! You have world to gan!
Before that growing cry world capitalism trembes
it behods its doom.
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Striking Figure.

My first impression, l remember,
was that of surprise at his shortness
of stature. His face, l knew from
photographs; but had not imagined
that he was so unusually short-about
five feet, two inches, I would guess.
Yes, this detracted in no way from
the effect of decision and mastery,
when he was on a public platform.
His sincerity, and the confidence
born of assured knowledge, made
him a striking and commanding
figure, despite the deficiency in
height. During the rather difficult
congress of 1922-these were the
earlier formative days of the British
Communist Party-he showed an
easy skill in directing the delibera-
tions and preserving order.
He was "Mac" to all his friends;
and he had many friends. There was
at times something almost wistful
about this man of young middle age
and then that usefulness would be
gone, and an elfin humour would take
its place. His sensitive face reflec-
ted Immediately the swift changes of
mood and thought. And to this, add
certain quality of youth-a boyish-
ress which, one knew, would always
be with him, throughout the years.
There was the quick emotional varia-
ton, and the readiness of repartee
and wit, which perhaps were IN in
heritance from his Irish forebears.
But this quality of elfishness-
this capacity for mischievous banter
and for play-in no way appeared to
affect the keenness and steadiness of
his political reasoning. He had a
background that was invaluable: a
thorough theoretical Marxist train
ing, and practical experience of pro-
letarian life and the working class
struggle. Trained in the school of
the Socialist Labor Party,-which
gave it's best Marxist writer's and
students to the Communist Party
in Glasgow, his native town, he had
the advantage of graduating in what
was then the best school of revolu-
tionary economics in Britain.
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Preachers Son Chokes
Own Children to Death

CHICAGO, March 16. - Walter
Scholl, 33, ne'er-do-well son Of Pitts
burgh, Penna., minister, was captured
in Chicago, today and confessed
strangling to death his two children.
Vivian, s, and Donald, 6, in little
Gary, Ind, cottage a week ago today.
School told of motoring from st.
Louis were the children's foster
mother, Mrs. Margaret School had left
him Feb. ID, of renting the little cot
tage in Gary and then strangling them
when he found he had not bought
enough ether for the deed.
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Asthma Nearly Made
Him Change Climate
Got Well at home, two years ago,
and trouble never returned

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MEXICAN REBEL
CHIEF TRAPPED
Federal Troops Surround
Gomez Hiding Place.

BIZ United Press
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 15.-Three
columns of Federal troops under
Gen. Gonzalo Escohar have sur
rounded the rebel leader, Gen. Ar
nulfo Gomez, at Huatusco, state Of
Vera Cruz, and expect to take him,
dead or alive, within a very short
time, the government announced.
Hopelessly outnnmbered, Gomez
and his band of thirty-five rebels
probably will be annihilated If they
chose to fight it out.
The soldiers may save their lives
If they surrendered soon enough.
But for Gomez 1t probably will be
another matter. Unless he makes
a wholly unexpected escape, Gomez
almost certainly will face a firing
squad If he is taken alive.
The short-lived revolution cost
1,040 lives, a statement issued by
Jose Alvarez, chief Of the presiden-
tial staff, revealed. The overwhelm-
ing majority of the dead were reb-
els. Rebel prisoners totaled $40.
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CHAPTER xxxII.

Nancy was aStoniShed. Annette In
love with the mustached, middle
aged Henderson. It seemed ridicu-
louS.
"You must be mistaken" she said.
Evelyn powdered her nose and
shifted. Gail right. You watch next
time he comes around"
In spite of her professed disbelief
Nancy was curious. But SO far as
she could see in that first encounter
there was nothing between them.
He okehed Annette's slip as nom
chalantly as he did the other girls.
Nancy decided Evelyn was either
jealous or imagining things. Then
late that same afternoon she came
upon them, lost in each others
eyes. Nancy went on her way,
breathless. If they had been alone
their glance would have been a kiss.
But she said. nothing. Let them
keep their secret if they could.
When the sale was over Nancy was
permitted to stay as regular clerk,
Sues pride knew no bounds.
1T knew you could do it, old thing
Nancy was surprised at her own
satisfaction. She had given up ev-
cry idea of trying to find more con-
genial employment. Her one idea
now was to make good.
The girls were paid only small
salary, but received commission on
ALI sales over their quota. This I'M
doubtedly accounted for the interest
Nancy had observed on her first
day. It was to their advantage to
sell as much as possible.
And she herself profited so greatly
by this arrangement that she was
soon able to send a small amount to
her mother. Ananda's gratitude
more than repaid her for the sac
rifice.
Her mother also reported that
Silas was better. The doctor thought
he might be able to return to work
by the first of the year.
give months" sighed Nancy,
thinking Of the torture his mac
tivity must be.
A few days later she received a
note in a cramped, painful hand
writing. ~
Dear Daughter: never thought
the day would come when you
you would have to send me money.
But the fact that you are able to
send it makes me very proud"
It was signed 'Your Father"
Without qualifications! But what
an admission for him to make! And
not word about his suffering! Eyes
wet with tears, she sat down i'm
mediately and wrote long, cheerful
account of incidents which had
occurred at the store.
Her mother had said he simply
devoured" her letters. Read them
three or four times. She had added:
But I hope you won't have to go
on doing this kind of work."
Poor Amanda, with her twisted
sense of values. Her false concep-
tons had almost wrecked Nancy's
life. But she bore no malice. She
understood that her mother had
suffered. That every illusion she
cherished for her own advancement
had long ago been shattered.
It was only for her daughter she
cared. Not the least of Nancy's
rewards for labor was the gift Of
tolerance. A charitable insight
which had been as a closed book to
her before.
One afternoon just before closing
time she glanced up to see Richard
Adams.
Don't look at me. I'm wreck"
she said, laughing.
'Tired?" he asked sympathetical-
ly. "I'll have my car waiting for
you in the parking station back Of
the store"
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SHIP SINKS IN
HARBOR CRASH;
SEVEN MISSING
Freighter Goes Down Three
Minutes After Great Liner
Rams 1t.
Rn United .Prssa

BB United PreSS
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-The Nor
wegian freighter Besseggen sank in
New York harbor early today three
minutes afte rbeing rammed by the
French liner Paris. and several
hours later seven of the freighter's
crew were still missing.
The cause of the collision was not
known. The night was clear, hall
moon was still in the sky, and there
was not trace of fog.
The liner Paris had left the
French line pier in the North River
and was proceeding down the bay.
The freighter Besseggen, loaded with
10000 bags of sugar from Havana,
had been anchored near the Statue
of Liberty for two weeks.
All Aboard Are Asleep
Except for the watch, all aboard
the freighter were asleeep-the crew
below and the CAPTAIN and his wife
and 4-year-old child in the cabin.
Suddenly passengers aboard two
ferries running between Manhat-
tan and State Island heard a crash.
The ferries turned out of their
course and ran close to the scene
of the collision.
The crew jumped overheard. Thir-
teen of them were picked up by the
ferry boat American Legion. Eight
more were picked up by the liner
Paris,
Seven Are Missing
Capt. @Ludwick Hassell, IS, master
of the freighter, his wife and daugh-
ter we're picked up by the ferry boat
Brooklyn.
That accounted for twenty-four,
seven were missing.
The thirteen members of the crew
picked up by the ferry boat Amer
lean Legion were taken to ferry
house at South Ferry and given q
change Of clothing.
The eight aboard the Liner Paris
were taken to quarantine where
they were given warm clothing.
The captain, his wife and son,
were taken to the Staten Island
Hospital.
Delays Start for Europe
The collision occurred about 80
a. m.
Harbor officials pointed out that
the seven missing men may have
been picked up by any of the twenty
or thirty lighters and tugs which
steamed toward the scene of the &C.
cident.
The liner Paris hove to, after the
crash, launched life boats and
searchlights were played upon the
scene.
After remaining at the scene for
half an hour, the Paris steamed to
quarantine, to await an investiga-
ton Of the accident. officials of the
French line said that no estimate
of the damage to the liner had been
made, and that it's departure for
Europe had been definitely delayed.
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The SNOB
U VI D A Fl u X S T


complexion and hair. She invited
sue to accompany her.
Thanks for the big-hearted invi-
tation," Sue replied, "but I'd rather
not queer your first date"
Nancy did not insist. She really
was rather anxious to be with Rich
ard alone. To establish q definite
basis for the friendship she was
sure would develop. Mentally he
interested her more than any man
she had ever known.
He opened the door of his car
with a welcoming smile.
Call set? Where shall we go?"
"Aren't you taking me homer"
Not If you'll dine with me-"
"But I'm not dressed to 60 out
to dinner"
"You look adorable" he insisted.
"But we'll go where we can talk"
A moment later, stopping for
traffic, he said. "I've wanted to talk
to you ever since I met you. The
other night at the theater I could
have chartered through the entire
show. Why is it, do you suppose?"
IT don't know, I'm sure. Unless
you're conscious Of my appalling
ignorance" She added, IT feel as
if I could listen to you for hours
without becoming bored"
He gave her, a swift glance.
eff you mean that, it's the
sweetest thing you could say to me,
Nancy"
Nancy" just like that all for
rnalities between them were dis
carded.
Seated in a quiet corner Of the
Mandarin, she was conscious of q
peaceful content. The food was hot
And Richards conversation was as
stimulating as the delicately
favored tea.
He told her he considered honest,
conscientious labor the salvation of
a nerve-ridden world. Women par
ticularly needed it. If he had his
way every girl in the wcr,d would
have Sob"
Even your sister?"
Especially my sister," he
answered. Chloris is a darling, but
lacking in balance. She's always
gotten everything she wants. AL
ways will get it,"
Nancy wondered If this included
Eryio Na1coy,
AS if in answer to her unvoiced
question he continued, 1.-THE little
devil has a way about her. ......
You must meet her, Nancy"
Interested and curious as she was,
Nancy shrank from that meeting.
"Going back to your original state
ment," she said, stirring her tea, "if
every girl had a profession who
would keep the home fires bu-ning?"
Having children Is profession in
ITSELF" he argued seriously, land
should be regarded as such for the
first five years. After that the child
is in school and the mother should
return to her former interests.
"Some of our foremost authorities
on child welfare insist that the over
attention Of the average mother is
the greatest detriment to child de-
velopment today. We're breeding a
race of f-conscious, interpretive
neurotics."
"Big words" she smiled.
"And overworked," he admitted.
"But it's really alarming, Nancy.
Something will have to be done.
Now, in my scheme husband and
wife would continue with their
chosen work, Collaborating being a
temporary vocation only"
"And the busting, dishes, etc?"
"Done by hired labor, who, in turn,
would consider that their profess
sion"
can ideal world" she agreed
thoughtfully.
Gan impossible ideal, perhaps" he
said, laying aside his cigaret, 'but no
reform has ever been accomplished
without vision. Come on, let's
dance"
ITO Be Continued