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New Britain herald., 1927-12-07
MRS, LLLLIENDAHL
 MAKES SLAST PLEA
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(COntinued from FlrSt Iagc) ming 10 east off his wife for another woman ?'
 Until Samuel Bark Was put on th" stand. Hedges said. h" couldn't sec how tho state planned 10 con- meet his client with the crime at all. Bark said that Beach confessed the crime in his presence.
 Calls Bark "Prcuy Slick"
 ".s far as Bark goes.' he said, "Wo will all agree that ho IS pretty slick 1Io doesn't say Beach con- fcsscI to hiu; he says il W#s 70 an apparently fictitious character, one Clyde Thompson, and that he was just standing by and listening.
 "Who is Clyde Thompson? Who is Bill Bellar. another character in Parks imaginative recital? Why hasn't the state produced them? Arc they any body at all? And if not, as it appears. how could they have held conversation on the strength of which it is being attempted 10 send q man 10 his death.'
 Hedges then attacked Barks crcdi bility as a witness. charged that the circus lariat man could scarcely write. and intimatug that Bark had liod when he called himself a law yer.
 Questions Every Answer.
 He rcal from Bark's testimony and questioned the Nrracity and good faith of practically every an- sWcr the witness gave. Tho dctonsc charges that Bark tried 10 "soll out" 10 thom for $500 before hc went to the prosecutor with his confession story.
 "Hc didn't go to the prosecutor until almost the end Of Octoher,' Hedges said. "althongh he says the confession took place. on october 1.
 "Whv did he wait" Because he was after money. Hc was trying 10 get $500 fr,m Mrs TilIiondahl's law yer. Charles Philips,
 "philips chased him out of town and then he went to tn" prosecutor. v
 Learned of Case In Papers. Hedges said that Bark's apparent familiarity with the ease was gained solely from reading about it in the papers,
 "rhat's how he knew Beach had 1 jcwclry in hook in Baltimore" he | said. mot hocausr he had heard 1 Beach say 90 to Thompson as he 1 claimed.
 This Bark has no home that VIC can finl. although he says he comes from Texas He is q Wanderer
 Park said he was at the boarding house where he says Beach went tC borrow money from him, for only q month. The son of the landlalN said Bark lived there five months ! What reason could that youth have telling anything but the truth
 Hedges next summarized tho tcsti mony experimenting Beach's alibi. Peach sat quietly beside his wife chin proppcd in one hand and h"a, :, turned away from Eor. He seemed scarcely to listen to the final ploG being made for his life and liberty.
 Mrs. Eillirndahl. on the other sid' of Mrs Beach. nibbled poppcrments gave al least seeming attention tt the proceedings.
 Time Plea Reviewed.
 "Beach could not have committed this murder even if he had wantc' to-" Hedges said. "A carpenter Wh' is man of honor in hiS communit! Las said he saw Beach at the lat Etcr's home al 12:S0. Another wit ness has told Of driving from Soutl Nincland 10 Hammonton in 4a min u;os and considering it good time. "f,vcn if Beach had made bette time and Got all tn" way 10 th' scene of the crime in ia minute
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-12
By EDWIN ROLFE.

I work for swell" magazine. 1t is
the sort of magazine that college
sophomores like to carry under
their arms while walking up Fifth
Avenue to impress casual onlookers
with their intellectually. 1t creates
the same exhibitionistic feelings in
them that the American Mercury"
does to q woman who has just pur-
chased a green dress.
Il is not a literary magazine.
Rather, would call it literarious.
There is nothing true in it, no delin-
cation based on the complexities of
life. There are only pages filled with
verbose flourishes based on the COM
plexities of word-contortions. Know
ing this, one should not take its flow
cry utterances seriously. There is
perhaps as much sincerity in it's
makeup as in the epigrams of Oscar
Wilde.
One wonders (that is, one who pos
sesses a sprinkling of intelligence
what sort of people edit the maya
zine. I often specialized, too. Chance,
however, plus a severe case of econ
omic determinism, and a money-fleec-
ing employment agency gave me an
opportunity to see them for myself
and study them. 1 procured a job in
the office of the publication. The SUBJ
sequent contact with them explained
the contents of the magazine.
DR.. Henry S. Candy is the editor.
he is a small wizened man whose
only credo is cart for arts sake" He
visits the office every now and then
to satisfy his editorial ego. Once
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-12
William ]. Burns and His Playmates.

We do not share the indignation expressed by
tons of the relative the statement by
William Burns that the also trying nfu-
ence jurors outside of the courtroom in the Fall
We submit that if anyone in the United States competent
to give expert testimony to methods employed by the govern
ment to obtain convictions it is William ]. Burns.
1t only short time history time, that
Burns part of the Of the vicious wing
of the government the secret department. In
y chief soopgeon for Wall Streets executive committee
ing the years OF Harding norma when railway hopen and
coal miners strike and ouawed by federal
on Burns have learned great as to government
methods of gathering evidence which to base prosecutions
Why all the Indignation?
Didn't the federal railroad hundreds of workers
to Jail during the WARP Didn't hundreds government
culate throughout the labor during war and did
not the base prosecutions upon their evidence?
That Doheny Sinclair FALL Daughery and others tried to
steal oil lands something that further
proof to establish. They themselves do it. they
claim is that the theft engineered in legal manner.
Neither be denied that Coolidge Theodore Roosevelt
r and other members and appoees of the Harding admnra
ton knew what going Burns who aiding officially
the big thieves under Harding trying unoffciay keep
them out of Jail under Coolidge Playmates have quarreed
Another thing certain. If Sinclair Doheny
working accused for instance of violation federal
1t is obvious that eXraga methods employed
attorneys to influence jurors in such applied with
the efficiency which prevails when labor case being
Burns oathesome enemy of the labor movement But
he function this capacity only because capitalism gors
the role of such swine protects them and them
needs them
The temporary difficulty which Burns in due to shift
fact that he and instrument Of American capitalist
eminent that he will continue to against the labor
unless labor bring to bear enough smash
the whole rotten band of SPIES thugs and agenrovocaeur
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-12
An Imperialist Challenge to Latin America

Never was there more fragrant exhibition rampant i'm
perasm than afforded by the conduct of agents Of the United
ruling Nicaragua today The rghtful tyranny
established by American armed forces the prelude to COM
pee ubugaon of that country The raVagng of Nicaragua
designed consolidate the American claims to territory COW
purpose of building second canal to make still more
formidable its military might both the Atlantic and the Pa
cc further its predatory aims in all Latin America
The military conquest by the appointment of
financial dictator person Dr. W. P Cumberland who
already established reputation for himself by acting IN
capacity Haiti another former southern republic that
was destroyed by the gunner AS far Amer
Imperialism the future of Nicaragua its vassa
settled only be reversed by driving at the invading
hordes.
financial magnates in consolidating the
victory by the marines to grant to Nicaragua the rv
ege borrowing million dollars in Wall Street to for
of the destruction wrought by the invading American forces
Nicaragua challenge to the delegates
the PanAmecan conference that in Havana
Cuba the delegates there are representatives OF the countries
from which they instead of plant tools of American i'm
perasm they will the question Of the vandalism of Wall
Street in Latin America and strive to create united drive against
its monstrous despotism.
Besides President Coolidge the political agent of Wall Street.
Dwight Morrow the House of Morgan ambassador to Mexico
will be present during the conference There will be splendid
opportunity to dramatic in one united denuncaton the predatory
designs of American Imperialism.
However, the very that Coolidge Morrow be
present evidence that the stage for their benefit When
and the Ncaraguan question there will be ready
hand low serve mercenary traitor the people Ncaa
qua who will rise and hail the mudeers of his people the
of country The puppet Diaz who
the presidential chair by American bayonet will appoint another
of his kind to pay homage to Wall Street.
% cation not under the complete domination of Wall Street
SfSI that conference Havana which
TX to the oppressed peoples Of Latin America effort
to create powerful animperialst counteroffensive.
But, after ALL in the last analysis the liberia
ton from the yoke of deposm from the
these countries themselves Nicaragua
mendous incentive for anmpeast agitation throughout all
the southern republics The inhabitants of these countries must
recognize that this not alone question for Nicaragua because
if they fail the present condition of Haiti Domingo
and Nicaragua porrays their abect
Street where their demand will be met with bloody and
ruthless suppression.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-12
By Upton Sinclair

of the ruling class in California know
about it, and most of them wish they
could do likewise.
The children of the rich run wild,
and each new batch outdoes the last.
1t takes only ten years to make a
generation now, and when you are
thirty, you are dead one. Read
Gertrude Atherton's "Black Oxen"
and see her Mortified picture of a
flapper; and then see Gertrude Ather-
ton herself suddenly abdicating her
judgment before tattooed novelist.
Maybe, after all, it isn't so bad for
fifty year old female rouee with a
title and fortune to cohabit with a
seventeen year old boy!
There are thousands of such female
rouees in our society. You can see
them in the luxurious hotels, white
haired old grandmothers dancing all
night with their backs half naked.
Here in California they have cabins in
the canyons to which they motor with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-12
AnaChrOnistic Literature

rooted at his desk, he leans back in
his desk and reads James Branch
Cabeli or Gertrude Stein. Observing
him thus, he might be a boss furrier
or a right wing union leader. (His
mustache, as matter of fact, does
resemble Sigman's). But there is
less work and more prestige in edit
ing this kind of magazine. Therefore
he edits.
There are two associate editors.
One is an old maid with a picked pro-
fessional smile. To me it seems that
she missed her natural calling when
she refused to become schoolmarm
in small Massachusetts village. All
she does is smoke cork-tipped Mela-
chrinos and open letters. The other
associate editor writes poetry when
he is not writing 1--WE are sorry, but
your poem though good, does not quite
reach our usual standard. Try us
again. etc. :. :" His greatest achieve
ment, however, is his golf game. His
desk is decorated with trophies.
The contributing editor once wrote
good novel but has since reverted
to connecting children's stories. At
the height of his novels popularity
he was photographed with pipe in
his mouth. 1t is still there. He is
never without it for fear that he will
not be recognized 1t has come to be
a part of his physiopnomy lust as his
hair or eyes.
do not wonder any more why the
magazine is so stilted and lifeless and
literarious. A group of people more
Victorian than this staff was
never assembled on any paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-12
By Fred Ellis

boys out of the high schools. Between
their visits. to the hairdressers and
the facial surgeons these up-to-date
grandmothers want something to pass
the time with, so they command au-
thors to entertain them, and the au-
thors jump, just like the hair-dressers
and the facial surgeons; the work is
so easy and the pay so princely. Thus
comes the literature of Cabell and
Van Vechten and Morand and Cocteau
and Aldous Huxley and Michael Ar
len. And it will go on to new
extremes; there are still many forms
of unnatural vice which have not been
exploited in best sellers; and if the
Boston censorship spreads over the
rest of the country, the publishers
will move to Paris, and you will see
book-fleets lowering thirty miles out
from the ports of Boston and New
York and San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
(To be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-12
ARMISTICE
1918

1918
Now desolation lies upon our faces.
"The is over!' shrek the shattered stones.
The crippes drag themselves from hidden places
Joining their voices to the common groans.
The mad men jabber and the gassed men cough
The widows and the orphans never smile,
The cannons waow in the bloody slough,
The bayonets are cleaning mile on mile
1927
On battle fields the flowers are blooming red
The crppes bear their scars and shattered bones,
The mad men jabber the gassed men are dead,
The lords still are sitting on their thrones.
The flags gaily Tapping in the breeze.
Here at the unknown soldiers lavish grave
The mutitudes in homage bend their knees.
New bitches quickly dug shall house the bravel
HENRY REICH JR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-12
Money Writes

never will work so long as they are
permitted to own the means of life of
others. They have been parasites
from the formative years of child
hood; they have had servants to wait
upon them and deprive them of ini-
tiative; and now they live, each one
a little king or queen, surrounded by
flatterers trying to get easy money
from them, studying their weak
nesses, and persuading them that
they are wonderful and great. How
many children can grow up sound and
strong in such an environment? Read
the history of princes!
The rich nourish their own glory,
and bring into being culture in their
own image. Just as an individual
prince is fawned upon by courtiers,
SO privileged class is coddled by
literature and art of snobbery, such
as l have shown in my studies of
Mrs. Humphrey Ward and Henry
James and Robert w. Chambers and
Gertrude Atherton and Booth Tark-
ington and Rupert Hughes and Elinor
Glyn and Wallace Irwin and Joseph
Hergesheimer. And what is that
swarm of tame writer's Colonel
Lorimer has gathered about him, but
the courtiers who danced attendance
on the Grand Monarque and sang his
praises? Louis, who said, ~ am the
State" went about on red-heeled
shoes and carried a jewelled staff
while Colonel Lorimer has ma
hogany desk and purring limousine
with a chauffeur in uniform, and
says, 81 am Culture" and all the choir
of authors reply, "Yea, sire" Their
fiction tells him what a wonderful
world he has built and what a mar
velous great dog he is. 81 ha' buried
many bones, tho my aging hide to
itch"
And then, the second generation,
and the Embarrassed in the purring
limousines, and waited on by lackeys
in livery. The fathers have made big
business SO perfect that it runs itself,
with only little oiling, attended to
by competent executives; the golden
flood of profits pours in, and the chill
dren have only to spend it. They have
no restraints-who shall restrain
multimillionaire Will it be the
teachers-the fawning sycophants
who have portrayed themselves in
"The Goose-step" and "The Cos
lings?" Will it be the press, which
has made the millionaires into gods,
so that when they appear on the
street their lives are endangered by
mobs of people seeking to get near
them? Will it be the police? When
q millionaire gives an order, the law
bows down and hits it's forehead on
the ground.
There is great rich newspaper
proprietor in California who was re-
Gently rumored to have shot and
killed moving picture director in
quarrel over mistress. 7 am told
on good authority that it never hap
pened; but great many people be-
lieved it, and here is the point: l
have heard scores of men discuss the
case~no radicals, but leading men of
affairs, journalists, doctors, lawyers,
merchants--and I have yet to meet
single one who did not take it as a
matter of course that such a man
would be immune to punishment The
career Of this man, a child of vast
wealth, shows all that you need to
know about hereditary privilege as
destroyer of morality. He is keeping
leading movie star as his mistress,
and featuring her in luxury plays,
and using his chain of newspapers to
exalt and glorify her. All members
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-12
The Bookleggers
Continued from, Last Issue.)
XIX

THERE are scores of other ivory
towers we might visit; there are
hundreds of packages of dellcately
perfumed excrement we might
sample, at two-fifty per package. But
enough excrement is surely as good
as a feast.
What is to be done? Some people
say put the vendors of indecent books
in jail. They are trying it in Bos-
ton-and turning the book-trade into
mail-order business. If they keep
it up they may drive it underground
entirely, like the liquor traffic. But
the problem is more difficult in the
case Of Bookkeeping, because you can
only drink liquor once, but book can
be read by hundred college boys, and
will be, if it gets enough police-adver-
Using.
Moreover, experience proves that
when you get a censor, you get fool,
and worse yet knave, pretending to
be a guardian of morality, while ac-
ting as a guardian of class greed. In
Boston they have barred elmer
Gantry" - because it offends the
clergy. We have had censorship of
moving pictures for years, and has it
ever barred elegant and luxurious
vice, or the preaching Of mammon-
worship on the screen? No, but it
barred "The Jungle" from Chicago, on
the express grounds that it injured a
leading Chicago industry. Pennysl-
vania conducts systematic political
censorship, and will not permit you to
show an employer who is unkind to
his workers. CAS- l revise these
proofs, they have just barred "The
Jungle.") In Berkeley, the home of
the University of California, they
banned Mary Pickford's "Rosita" be-
cause it showed a king of Spain who
was dissolute. The Better Films
Committee explained matters in the
Berkeley Gazette: "Plays which be-
little offices of authority are in
centives for radicalism."
As radical" I affirm the futility
of plasters on a cancer. You can
never stop the writing and selling of
depraved books, so long as you per-
nit the existence of an idle rich class,
willing to pay unlimited sums of
money for the only kind of amuse-
ment it can understand. Depraved
literature is symptom, not cause,
and has accompanied the decadence
of every great empire in history.
Read the Banquet of Trimalchio,"
by Petronius, director-general of the
imperial pleasures of Nero, and called
the "arbiter elegantiae"; here is ivory
tower art in full flower, every ele-
ment of Cabell and Van Vechten in a
story nineteen hundred years old.
They had it in Alexandrian Greece,
in Byzantium, and in Nineveh and
Babylon before that, you may be sure.
These and thousand other empires
were destroyed by the combination of
luxury at the top and poverty at the
bottom; the same combination which
is working now in America, with the
speed of a racing car as compared
with an ancient bullock-cart.
You can prove this thesis by his
tory, and also you can prove it by
psychology. Not one human being
in a thousand has the moral stamina
to do hard work when he doesn't have
to; and here are tens Of thousands of
people who have never worked, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-12

which exist by virtue of the fact they available always
for anything from perjury to murder when there is decisive
struggle progress between workers. capitalists and capitalist
government
But after ALL the only difference between Burns and
Coolidge far the Teapot Dome is concerned is that
Coolidge keeps his mouth shut about It.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-12

THE General Motors company has
l distributed S65,250,000 to its stock
holders. This action is looked on as a
challenge to Henry Ford, who is about
to launch his new model flivver. The
House of Morgan is behind General
Motors. The employees of the Ge..--
Motors company are unorganized. Sid
it is to them and not to the directors
that the lucky stockholders should give
vote of thanks.
THE Sinclair-Fall bribery investiga-
ton is making progress. There is
little likelihood that Sinclair will see
the inside of Jail on q charge Of
jury-fixing. William J. Burns may get
into some trouble but that is the
gentleman's business and he knows
how to get out of scrape as we'll as
how to get into it. The whole BUSH
ness will drag until the newspapers
stop playing it up. Money is king.
FOR two minutes yesterday the city
of New York barred it's collective
head in honor of those who died to
make the world safe for democracy.
This is according to the press. AS
matter of fact the people of the city
of New York did nothing of the kind,
but General Motors, backed by the
House of Morgan, declared an extra
dividend, and this was the best trib-
ute that could be paid to the men
who laid down their lives in the CORY
trenches of Europe in order that de-
mocracy might flourish.
IT. J. O'FLAHERTY.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-07-06
RHINOW ASSUMES
new STATE DUTIES
FORMER PROHIBITION DIREC-
TOR SWORN IN AS sUPERIN-
TENDENT OF NEW STATE DE-
PARTMENT JULY 1.

General Walter F. lRhinow was
sworn in July 1st as superintendent
Of the new state department of Grim
inal apprehension which will seek
unity among state law enforcement
forces in Minnesota to make the way
of the criminal harder and to faciIi-
tate Identification.
He conferred with Governor Chris
tianson and members of the state de-
partment of administration and fin
ance relative to salary schedules he
will draw before selecting the twelve
employees he is allowed under the law
creating the bureau passed by the
1927 legislature.
General Rhinow entered upon his
duties with enthusiasm, declaring
that he is anxious to undertake The
new work after nearly TWO years
service as northwest prohibition en-
force ment director. j He was serving
in this position while on leave of alb
sence from his duties as adjutant
general granted by the governc..
Appointment Of Colonel +. A.
Walsh. as adiutant general, was for
mally made by the governor July 1.
Colonel Walsh has been acting adj
iutant general since leave was taken
by Rhinow whose assistant he was.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-07-06

Two Company 81 officers and one
enlisted man received promotion res
Gently from Governor Christianson.
The two officers to receive the pro-
motions were LIST 1t. William Hosken
to the rank Of Captain and End 1t.
Wilbur Lamberton to the rank Of LIST
Lieutenant. Sergeant Thomas Hos
ken. Jr.. was appointed to the rank
Of second lieutenant. The three Com
pany IL" members recently receive
ed notice to report to Mankato for ex-
animation for the above mentioned
officers caused by the transfer OF
Capt. w. "A. Fraser to the Minnesota
National Guard Reserve. Word Of
the outcome of the examinations was
received June 18th with the result
that each had passed with high
grade.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-07-06
Clements

! y
Miss Agnes Jensen of Morgan
spent July Fourth with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Senius Jensen Of Sum
down.
Leo Backer recently injured his leg
on his motorcycle and is now walking
on clutches.
Bertha Bruckbauer spent Sunday
and Sunday at her parental home in
Shutdown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Becker called
on the F. C. Becker family last Sum
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. julius Raddatz have
gone to Quincy, ILL.,, where Mr.. Rad
datz is attending to business mat
tiers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo. Raddatz of
Wheaton. Mimi, motored here Satur-
dav and spent few days with his
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Macho spent
few DAYS last week at Diamond
Lake. returning Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Raddatz were
guests Sunday at the Hugo Mattke
home at Morgan.
Mrs. v. C. Hoppensperger and dau-
ghters returned from Minneapolis
where they spent the last few weeks
with friends and relatives.