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you SAY. "NIcE, PLEASANT sMILE7'

Many pride themselves reading character the face
NsTANTANEoUsLY They say big ear means generosity,
tiny snginess goodszed strength
Of character projecting chin stands for power big lips
sensuality; thin lips, GOODNESS, etc.
Here is face that would puzzle them What would you
Of this girl with the cryptic smile good forehead smiling
eyes and nice dimples?
You would hardly think that she Rebecca Bradley
Texas coed secretary Of the newly elected Governor who held
town bank drove the officials into the safe took the
money and called them ttsaps" afterward.
Since her arrest it has been learned that she was married
secretly to Mr. Rogers and she accused of arson It
is alleged that she set fire to house another bank
thinking the banking people would get excited out and
give her an opportunity to take the banks money.
From this pleasing young face you learn that it
tirey safe to judge by appearances
However it should also be remembered that people are
largely what their environment their surroundings make them
You cannot always Judge by appearances but it
remembered that what environment makes us to
large extent.
And the environment Of these days. bootleg liquor TASKS
on the hips contempt for odfashoned convenonay and
all the rest Of not calculated produce the best results
Under different conditions possibly this young woman
might have turned be what seems to be- an inte
gent pleasing, well behaved young girl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-17
David Danced Before the Lord
WHY Object to Henry Ford's Dancing classes

Henry Ford bored and annoyed as well he might be- by
modern vrggling cinging juggling jerking Dances decided
he would try to bring back oldashOned dignfed dancing
other days
He competitions for ddlers that knew the old dances
and could call out the various steps.
And he arranged sensby and uefuy to have school chill
dren take lessons in oldfashoned dancing including the
dances with the bowling swinging your partners
arms length CNoT lHUGGING THEM AGAINST YOUR
WIsHBoNE).
And you told that some church people object to
teaching the children to dance.
Church people should be the last to decent dancing
Read the fourteenth sixth chapter of Second Samuel
AND DAVID DANCED BEFORE THE LORD WITH ALI,
HIS MIGHT: AND DAVID WAS GIRDED WITH LINEN
EPHOD."
An ephod shoulder dress Of blue purple scarlet and
fine linen interviewer with gold thread David danced in
costume that left his legs free.
And David danced with all his might The dancing that
Henry Ford advocates is mild compared with Davids which,
nevertheless, was acceptable to the Lord t*1
Ford believes in oldfashoned waltzes stately square
dances dgned mazurkas and the old oneway waltz to the
tune of The Blue Danube that makes you SO dizzy you
to sit down The modest schottische and for
wild and exceptional the hopping polka and the
grand walk-around should be sufficient
Henry Ford can bring back old Dances with angelfood
cake ice cream and coffee in place of jazz and the hip TASKS
for Heavens sake let him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-17
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
nR CHESTER STOCK, noted paeontologist of the
~ California Institute of Technology said the other day
By I. E. Powers
Evolution NOu
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE

nR. CHESTER STOCK, noted paleontologist of the
California Institute of Technology said the other day
in lecture:
The history of the evolution of to the present day
very small chapter in the history of the earhs develop
ment whole The entire evolutionary process is going
at the present time in the past and only logical
to that will continue and that modern man repre
sents only small stage the great process through the
past to the greater growth of the future
point that many people forget is that evolution is not
thing of the future and is not exclusively today but
is going Perhaps mankind Of the year three
thousand viii differ much from as we do from the
anthropoid apes
just what mankind will be in the remote future is an
interesting subject of speculation Mr. Wells has INDUCED
his inventive faculty on this point.
1t rational to suppose that may practically discard
clothing, that almost all drudgery will be performed nv
machinery, that mans memory will be trained to PRO
dgous degree and that there will be some sort Of unified
religious effort which will take place Of the presentdav
sectaran endeavors
About these and other subjects however any one Is free
to speculate The main thing to remember is that we are
now undergoing stage in evolution and that the process
has not ceased. It is simply SO slow that it seems
stationary.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-17
ONCE-OVERS
By J. J. MUNDY

Be Grateful That You Are Blessed With Health
Your husband your wife may have developed in
firmtes which make it impossible for you Ito 90 out to-
gether.
How do you accept the change in your plansf
Do you show displeasure annoyance and make little
surring remarkor do you give understanding sympathyi
Some men are sour and grouchy the baby develops ths
measles Of the contagious diseases which come
to a-househod Of children.
Not word of kindness and to the mother
who must give much in her way man must in his
Perhaps it broken arch dislocated hip or some
trouble which months Of suffering How do Won act
toward the suffererG
Scod because folks careless and continually harm
on how you are going to be able to pay the doctors b
Perhaps you are mad about because your wifes con.
hnued disability lnterferes with married life routine
you cannot attend social functions without her So Won
vent your feelings in snappy snary sarcastic words
Consider yourself fortunate that you are the One who
well and able to enjoy life
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-17

on such a line. BY means OF q new
type Of mathematics. 'tensorial
analysis" in alliance with hyper
geometry" and a, -four dimensional
universe" the principles of this
theory are worked out to the sat-
isfaction Of many mathema ticians,
who cultivate mathematics as a
pure science owing no allegiance
to mere physical facts. No one
can hope to obtain an inside view
Of the Einstein theories without
approaching them through the
mathematical processes by and
upon which they are founded. All
attempts to represent them by
physical symbols or analogies have
been pathetic failures.
An Illustration
A picturesque illustration of
what is meant by a world line,"
confined to a two-dimensional sur.
face, Is given by the English
mathematician Jeans, a leading
Einsteinian. Take a globe and
stretch straight over its surface a
thread from Panama to Ceylon.
1t will represent the shorter course
between those points, say for an
aeronaut. 1t lies in a single plane,
that of a great circle cutting
through the center OF the earth.
But draw this same line on a
Mercator chart and it will appear
as wide curve. like the orbit of
comet rounding the sun.
This is supposed to help US un.
derstand ''how Einstein was led to
suppose that gravitation could be
explained by a curvature inherent
in the continuum" (of space-time).
When we see body apparently
falling straight toward the center
of gravity it is really following,
according to Einstein, world line
in space-time.
Another approach to the Elm
stein way of viewing things Is
offered to any person who hap
pens to be in falling elevator. II
he has time to observe he will
find that his weight is all gone.
He has banished gravitation by
finding its equivalent in accelerated
motion. Therefore, gravitational
force is an illusion! But not the
bang at the bottom.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-17

that cookie. Twenty years later
he will see and want a diamond
ring but. unless he Ia a thief
he will not take 1t. Even If he
is thief, he win know that it
is wrong to take it.
That ability to judge and regu.
late his acts will have grown in
him as his bones and muscles
have grown. But the 20.year-old
moron will be quite apt to take
the ring and there will be no
difference in his mind between
taking the cookie and taking the
ring.
In the same way the moron
who at three, pulled the wings
from a fly is apt at 80 to crush
the life from little boy,
But ! know fellow that
guess you'd call a moron" you
say, "and he doesn't do any of
these terrible things. He runs
brands for our corner grocer
and he's as good natured as a
kitten. Why you ought to see
him play with the little kids on
our block. His mothers an
awfully nice lady. She brought
him up right-firm but loving
and Jimmy's crazy about her.
He's a great big fellow too
strong as mule
There you have the Village
Moron-the kindly. cheerful dumb.
bell'' that everyone likes-the
potential menace that everyone
. chnarl1 f,h
chuckling ''harmlessness" may.
turn into red ruin at the slightest
provocatjon. He has been harm.
less as a kitten" for the three
reasons that regulate all moron
conduct. First, he has learned to
fear punishment Second. he can
love. as a child loves. Third. he
hasn't wanted to do anything
that you or would call bad.
But some day that vicious i'm.
pulse Is apt to come his way.
Something will awaken the cruelty
or lust in his manchild body.
Somebody will tease or taunt him
or give him a glass of moonshine.
And then that mind which cannon
judge or regulate its acts will
be on its way. And God help the
beast or human that falls into
those ruthless hands.
What's the answer? Education
Is the answer. Education for the
public that it may appreciate the
moron menace, stop moron mar
riages and regulate moron per-
sonalities. And education for the
morons themselves that their lot
may be lightened and their danger
lessened. .
But think OF what we're al.
ready paying out for schoolsr'
cries the TAXPAYER.
What does that money weigh
beside the life of one tortured
baby7
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-17
LISTEN, WORLD!
What Is a Moron?
By ELSIE ROBINSON

A HORROR in Chicago six.
IA year-old child murdered, after
fiendish mistreatment, by a
grown man.
The mans name is Harold
Croarkin. He is a well-dressed
young man who went about with
money in his pocket and appar.
emily enjoyed unlimited freedom
although his family and acquaint-
ances knew that Harold wasn't
quite right" His defense will
be based on the obvious fact that
he is a moron
Whereupon a sickened and ont.
ragged public cries-"What's
moron. Just another new fan.
gled name to help a scoundrel
escape the moose or chair! Max.
ing monkey of the law! It's time
we cut out this damnable shilly.
shallying and did something with
fellows like that"
1t Is, indeed. high time. And the
first thing to do is to understand
the nature of these "fiends' who
are spreading Such terror amongst
us.
The term moron" is compare.
lively new, but the condition It
describes is as old as the human
mind. A moron is a person with
an undeveloped mind. Not a
mind which is forced to function
through diseased or wrecked
brain as is the case with the
feeble-minded and insane. Simply
a mind which has not reached,
and never will reach, its normal
development and so is unable to
reason or react as a fully de.
veloped mind would.
The degree of arrested devotion.
ment varies with different morons.
Some verge on simple nfindedness
and are sullen and malicious in
disposition. Some pass amiably
on their way and are merely
known as being "a little dull"
Morons have sat on thrones and
led armies. Morons have dictated
laws and bred families. And
they're still doing it. They're
still doing 1t because, unless the
moron is actively troublesome or
markedly foolish, we do not ap.
preciate the gravity of his condi-
ton. But all morons are poten-
tally dangerous.
All morons are dangerous be.
cause certain quality is lack.
ing in their minds which IS
found in the minds of normal
human beings, however dull.
Morons lack the power OF judg-
ing their own acts and regulate
ing their own acts by the laws
which govern sane men. None
of US are born with this power
but normal people develop it As
they grow. The moron doesn't
develop It. Therein lies his dan.
ger.
For example, a baby will see a
cookie and want it. He will take
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-17
The Law of GravitatiOn

Does Einstein's theory in
any way conflict with Newton's
law OF grayitation? Kindly
answer in one Of your articles,
which ] find very helpful.-H.
OH, Philadelphia"
NIEWToN'S law is that any
IN two particles Tor bodies of
matter attract each other with
force proportional to their masses
and inversely proportional to the
square of the distances between
them.
Einstein's theory affirms that
there is neither attraction nor
force concerned in grayiation.
Philosophically, the conflict be.
tween the Newtonian and the Elm.
steinian view is profound; but
within the practical range Of
human experience the conflict is
Of no. consequence, and Newton's
law retains it's validity and ap-
plicability. Astronomers continue
to employ the Newtonian math-
ematfcs in calculating the motions
of celestial bodies just as before,
and the most remote stellar
systems. as. far as they reveal
motion. show accordance with the
inverse square law of Newton.
Minute discrepancies, such as the
advance of the perihelion Of
Mercury, which have been claim
ed as combinations of Einstein's
theory, are still under investlga
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-17

ton as simply apparent de-
partures from the Newtonian law.
In the report Of the proceedings
of the American Astronomical
Society at its meeting last sam
mer you will find a paper by
Professor Charles Lane Poor. of
Columbia University. analyzing
Elnstefn's grayitation theory and
winding up with the statement
that "the Newtonian law has not
been abolished and there is
no Einsteinian law OF gravita
tion.'
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-17
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland.
ON THE GREAT DIVIDE"
Love Song Of a Modern Wife

ON "THE GREAT DIVIDE"
Love Song of a Modern Wife
Darling, do not turn away,
Though our love has run its
course;
Keep your promise made that day
Give, oh give me that divorce!
Surely, you remember how
once. you said you love me so!
Be not adamantine, now
Darling. darling, let me GO!
Though we never meet, again,
Say not that our love was dross!
With the alimony, then,
Darling, darling. come across!
JUDGING from the evidence in
ID the newspapers, most divorce
cases might be better solved If
they could be tried before a
lunacy commission.
Somehow. it sort of cheers a
wife up to discover how much
more trouble some other woman
Is having with her husband.
The modern mans sweetest
memories are of his first love, his
first car, his first .bootlegger-
and his first divorce.
Nothing so annoys a man as to
have things running so smoothly
at home that they give him no ex.
cuse for going out and looking for
consolation
Even when husband is only
"a, cross, he makes such an eff.
fective background for a woman
to drape herself on, that she hest
tates to part with him.
Alas. divorce is rapidly becom-
ing one of these modern con.
veniences which we expect to
find in every up.to-date home.
Parting with a husband Is like
parting with a tooth; you may
take an anaesthetic at the time,
but the pain and the emptiness
last a long while attsEward.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-17
By Garrett P. Serviss

EinsteIn's substitute for the at.
tractive force postulated by New.
ton as the cause of gravltation Is
an assumed inherent curvature of
space time. He supposes this
curvature to be different in the
neighborhood of massive bodies
from what is at greater distances
from them. Bodies or particles in
a "gravitational field immersed
in the "continuum" dubbed space.
time" or "time-space." move along
world lines" which represent the
shortest iath between two points
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-17
Fifty-Five Lawyers

LEGAL wrangng among the heirs the millions Of Jaw
Could has gone for long time to the accompaniment Of
yawns by the public.
But there chucke for impecunious outsiders in the
latest development Final settlement bids fair to be in
fighting their fees.
Something to scrap about incidentally It is ruored those
fees will run close to $2,000000
Riches blessing-but not when fftyfye LAWYERS 0at
af3rl Of them
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-17
QUESTIONS OF
ETIQUETTE
Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman.


Correct Acknowledgment
nEAR MRS. REECKMAN:
A few days ago received
an invitation to a church wedding
and the reception to be given
afterward, / expect to attend.
Will you kindly advise the correct
form of acknowledgment?
2. 1t is my understanding that
an invitation to the church only
would not REQUIRE a reply. Am ]
correct? nj.
This IS the form for the accept
ance:
Miss Mary Carpenter
accepts with pleasure
the kind invitation of
Mr.. and Mrs. Brides Parents)
for Wednesday. the first Of July,
at 4:30 o'clock.
Space the lines as / have indi
cated--on your very best letter
paper, in your very best hand.
writing, and with great care. In
other words, tthe Acknowledgement
OF formal invitation should be
made to look as much like the
engraved invitation as 1t 10 human.
ly possible.
2.-You are correct
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-09
329 Fur Shops Crippled by Strike
Held IncOrnnuniCadO

DUNE Editor of The DAeY WORKER the WOhouse so
capitalist this sought to isolate the revolutionary
succeed They will fail to isolate editor They will fail their attempt
with the workers all the country lille Bill Dunno jail there are thousands
of in
with him. They demand the right to contribute from their hard earned wages
fine Five Hundred Dollars which the courts imposed but also to successfully
contribution is the concrete evidence sol
arfy quickly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-09
SECRETARY DAVIS
CITES PLANS FOR
WORLD SLAUGHTER
By MICHAEL WEBB.
Especial to The DAILY WORKER)

The wholesale murderers who pre-
pared the last imperialist war, which
destroyed 20 million lives and
wrecked a continent, are once more
busy Matching plans for the next
butchery, which threatens to bring
even greater disaster to the masses
Of people the world over.
The United States is not the least
Of the capitalist powers who are
sharpening their bayonets and oiling
the motors Of their bombing planes.
Smoke-screens of peace-talk are be-
ing poured out to delude the workers
No less than two "model" peace
treaties have been published in the
past few weeks. Sweet phrases about
"world Locarno" are heard in the
press, unaccompanied by explanations
that Locarno stands for war, partic-
ularly war against the workers and
farmers republic of Soviet Russia.
America has sent those passionate
peace-lovers Hugh S. Gibson and Adj
miral Sillary Jones to the Geneva
naval conference, disguised as usual
by the fig-leaf of disarmament"
This is for public consumption. Be-
hind the smoke screens the United
States, like all the other capitalist
powers, is carefully organizing army,
navy and industry for the next
emergency"
Revelations of what we may ex-
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-09
Murdered Soviet Union
Envoy Gave Whole Life
To Revolutionary Cause

M. Woikoff, Soviet Union Min
ister to Poland who was murdered
Tuesday by a young monarchist
inspired by British propaganda,
was associated with the revolution
airy movement since early youth.
He was born at Kerch, in the
Crimea, in 1888, and was COM
PEELED to flee Russia at the age of
10 for anti-Czarist activities. After
studying at the Universities of
Paris and Geneva, he returned TO
Russia in 1917 and joined the
Communists after the October
Revolution. He was elected Food
Commissar Of the Ural District.
Woikoff was appointed Director
Of the Central Union Of Coopera-
tive Societies in 1919 and later be-
came a member of the Collegium
of the Peoples Commissariat Of
Foreign Trade. In 1924 he was
amed Minister to Poland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-09
WHITE TERROR
KILLS ANOTHER
SOVIET OFFICIAL
Murders Near Minsk
Third in Series

MOSCOW, June 8. - Murderous
plots against Soviet officials continue.
with all the earmarks of organized
monarchist terror.
The Soviet foreign office was mott
fled from Minsk tonight that Chief
Opinsky, of the white Russian secret
police, and his chauffeur were as
sassinated and two aides seriously
wounded. Meagre information states
that Opinsky and party were on the
way to Minsk from Danovitchi, near
the Polish frontier, with a suspected
Polish spy, Lieut.. JAM, who was ar
rested last night on Russian soil.
The party was riding on a motor
handcar on the railroad track when a
gang of monarchist secret agents
opened fire from ambush.
The assailants, as we'll as the spy,
escaped.
Occurring at virtually the same
hour as the Leningrad bomb outrage,
the first of its kind in seven years,
and following the assassination of
Ambassador Woikoff at Warsaw, the
Soviet officials are convinced that as
sassination plots are being Matched
outside of Russia, seeking to provoke
internal and external Soviet compli-
cations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-09
Poets Of All Shades,
But All Red, on Hand
to Help DAILY WORKER

Everybody who is anybody will
be on hand tonight to listen to the
largest collection Of Red poets ever
gathered under one roof. Armed
with pieces of their own versifica-
ton, they will be at the Labor
Temple, 14th st. and Second Ave.
at or about s p. m.
Revolutionary poems in every
tongue, and a few more, including
the Hindustani, Chinese, Hungari-
an and Japanese, not to mention
Yiddish, Russian, Italian and
English, will be read by their au-
thors. Among the poets are: Abr.
Raisin, A. B. Magil, Arturo Giovan-
it'll, Adolf Wolff, Babette Deutsch,
Eli Siegel, II. Laivik, Ho Su-shing,
Joseph Freeman, Lola Ridge, Louis
Egri, Mike Gold, Mani Leib, Max
Stengel, Simon Felshin and Seigo
Ogino.
Admission is so cents, and the
proceeds are for The DAILY
WORKER.
Not the worst part Of the pro-
gram will be a critical discussion
Of the poets and their offerings by
members of the audience. Moissaye
j. Olgin will be chairman Of what
is billed as the "first event of its
kind in history"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-09
IncO Seeks Skilled
Specialists HI ere to
Work in Soviet Union

Industrial Cooperative INCo was
organized in the U. S. for the pur-
pose of going to U. S. S. R. and manu-
featuring there electric motors, auto
mobile and tractor parts, rebuilding
industrial machinery, etc. This CO.
operative has settled in Moscow last
year and its work has been carried on
in full swing At present they need
few first class mechanics of the fol-
lowing qualifications:
specialists on bench hand work,
3 lathe-hands, good machinists.
Those who want to Join this CO.
operative should apply Immediately to
its secretary, A. Barknsky, CO Cen
trail Bureau, 100 Broadway, Room 4O2,
New York City.