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Smyrna times., 1927-04-27

The wives, daughters, mothers, wild
ows and sisters of the Masonic fra
ternity of Harrington, Pennington,
Greenwood, Milford, FELTON,, Wyoming
Dover and Frederick had gala even
ing Wednesday in the New Century
Club room at Harrington, where the
grand officers of the Grand Chapter of
Delaware, order of Eastern Star, pre-
sented Kent Chapter No. Il, with
their charter and installed the follow
ing officers for the remainder of the
year: Miss Marguerite G. Cooper,
worthy matron; Randolph Graham,
worthy patron; Sarah E. Riggin, as
sociate matron; Nina L. Miller, secre-
tary; Clara M. Harrington, treasurer;
Grace G. Chason, chaplain; Lillian W
Harrington, marshall; Lula H. Potter,
organist; Eugenia B. Simpson, con
ductress; Lillian NJ. Harmstead, asso-
ciate conductress; Irene @. Wingate,
Adah; Ethel @. Raughley, Ruth; Ruth
"A. Spangler, Esther; Mary NJ Green
ly, Martha; Henrietta NJ Williams,
Eleeta; Mary H.Dolby, warden; Julius
H. Cooper, Sentinel The officers of
Kent Chapter were installed by Grand
Matron Elizabeth Leach, Of New Cas-
tie, assisted by Grand Patron Walter
w Wood, Of Hollyoak. Randolph
Graham, installed into the office OF
worthy patron of Kent Chapter, is
much interested in the welfare of the
organization. Mr.. Graham is a native
Delawarean and has been station
master for the Pennsylvania Railroad
at Houston for 80 years. He is now
i'll in the Milford Emergency Hospital
Mr.. and Mrs. Graham presented the
worthy matron with beautiful
bridge lamp.
Smyrna times., 1927-04-27
SCIENCE FINDS CRAB
OF NOCTURNAL HABIT
Ecuador Beaches Are Filled
With Strange Species.

WashingtOn.-A crab which haunts
the beaches by night and hides In the
daytime Is among the interesting spec
linens obtained by DIR. Waldo L.
Schmitt of the Smithsonian institu-
tion on eli expedition in South Amer
lea. Doctor Schmitt found the beaches
at Santa Elena. Ecuador, honey
combed with crabs of this species, the
ocypodes. In the daytime they are not
to be seen. At night they are dazzled
by flashes and can easily be picked
up.
Doctor Schmitt, who Is curator Of
marine invertebrates at the National
museum, under the Smithsonian. left
here four months ago to make a sur
Vey Of crabs, shrimps and similar
forms along the west coast of South
America. He writes that he has just
passed through the Straits Of Magel-
Ian and has arrived at Punta Arenas,
whence he will go to the Falkland Is
lands to conclude his explorations.
Scientist Travels Alone.
Doctor Schmitt is travelling alone
and packing his finds with only such
native help as can be obtained. He
has touched at many points In Ecua-
dor, Peru and Chile, conducting a sur
vey of the principal areas where
crustacsan forms are to be found in
abundance. In Ecuador Doctor
Schmitt also found specimens of the
genus upogebia, rare animals that
have never been found on the west
coast before. They are tiny shrimp
like crustacea. able to bore holes in
stone. An entirely new species of
crab, it is thought, was discovered
by Doctor Schmitt among other tiny
porcelIanids attached to sea urchins
The purpose of Doctor Schmitt's
expedition Is TO enlarge the scientific
knowledge of marine forms. There
has previously been little knowledge
of the fauna on the west coast Cf
South America. Doctor SchInltt has
been looking particularly for speci-
mems Of crabs which will help Miss
Mary J Rathbun, an associate Of the
Smithsonian institution, in making
complete her monograph on the crabs
of America. two volumes of which
have already been published He is
also sending many specimens of algae
TO William Randolph Taylor. bOtan-
iSt at the University Of Pennsylvania.
who Is making a special study in this
field. In addition, Doctor Schmitt is
considering the economic possibilities
in connection with shrimps and crabs
in the territory he is covering
Uses Dredges and Hand Nets
In collecting specimens Doctor
Schmitt uses dredges and hand nets
Because of the difficulty of getting
motor boats in the places visited he
Is able to make little use of the
dredges. Most Of the specimens are
picked up by hand Doctor Schmitt
has with him several collection chests.
fitted with bottles, and several six
teen n-gallon tanks for conveying the
specimens. Some he has shipped in
gasoline tins found along the way.
The crustacea are put in 20 per cent |
alcohol and the algae in weak solu
tion of formalin.
The trip is financed by the Walter |
Rathbone Bacon travelling scholarship, |
established at the Smithsonian institu- |
tion by Mrs Virginia Purdy Bacon. |
A valuable byproduct of the expedi- |
tion is the Strengthening of relation |
tific bodies in the countries visited.
Smyrna times., 1927-04-27

Fishermen at Rock Hall, Colchester
and Betterton are reaping harvest
from an unusually large run of shad,
the prices of which range from rs
cents to $1.25 each. Floyd Crowhart
Betterton fisherman, made an un-
usual catch Of 200 fine shad On Mon
day Of last week and there have also
been large individual catches made by
the fishermen of Rock Hall and Toll
chester. The season is proving very
profitable for the watermen, due
largely to the fact that at each Of the
fishing centers buyers from Baltimore
Philadelphia and New York, are com
peting for each days catch.
Smyrna times., 1927-04-27
New Use for Radio

Pittsburgh. Pa.-Crime prevention
has been added to the varied uses OF
radio. A highwayman in the act Of
relieving a pedestrian Of his roll heard
a loud voice from q nearby house and
ded
Smyrna times., 1927-04-27
STATE AND PENINSULA NEWS
TOLD IN. BRIEF SPICY ITEMS
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Brief News Items of People We Know
In and Around the Larger PENN
sula Towns and Communities

Among the indictments returned in
the U. S. District Court last week, was
one against Edward C. Orell, connect
ed with the postoffice at Greensboro,
Nd, for alleged Justification of ac-
counts. It is alleged that he defraud-
ed the Government of approximately
$500 in October, 1926.
Smyrna times., 1927-04-27

.i,e an electrical storm Wednesc :
Darng ingt' y which followed a day Of
b nlgn,ib lgable heat, the outside brick
sollaDlt Il the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
ieney eyyicboIson, II Milton, was struck
|. aing Alt The chimney and fire
lgnsn,sId sara demolished, shingles were
's ,,.n tbe roof and one end Of the
. !! wa vas ripped open. A young son
y :. and Mrs. Nicholson, narrowly
y :, serious injury when the plas-
S'p, Knocked off the wall Of his
Fortunately the house did not
u y fire. The Nicholson home which
Sn :. ! oompleted last fall, is one of
= nIaces of Milton, being To-
II Just outside The town On 2 hill
,s-looking the lake.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-25
Fist Of the PrOIetariat
Growing Menace to Unstable
Capitalist Rule in France
By ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL

NOTE.-Here is another article by COmrade Eng
dahl on what he saw during his three days stay in
Paris, returning to New York City from Moscow.
Engdah writes about the tomb of Jean Jaures at the
Pantheon which he visited. In the last issue he
wrote about the debate in the Chamber of Deputies
that resulted in the withdrawal of parliamentary
immunity from Marcel Cachin, editor of lHumanite.
Tomorrow Engdahl will tell about "The Red WALL"
che memorial to the 5000 workers slain during the
last week of the Paris Commune, May 21-28, 1871.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-25
(By ANDREW OMHOLT.)

WILLISTON, N. D., July "a. =
republican, from North Dakota, spoke
here last night to small crowd in the
court house. Part of his subject was
the North Dakota Missouri river d.
version project, leading the Missouri
river into Devils Lake for the purpose
of flood control in the Mississippi
Valley.
The Missouri river is the biggest
tributary to the Mississippi, and if
the waters of the Missouri can be lead
into and stored in Devils Lake it
would not only help to control the
flood but would also solve the water
problem which is serious in parts of
North Dakota, the senator said.
1t would also create a playground,
as the lake is now drying out, by rails
ing the waterlevel and make fresh
water lake out of it, he said, the peo-
pie of North Dakota spend 2-3 mil
lions of dollars every summer when
they go out to play in other states,
as there is no playground here; of
course he did not say what part of
the people had the time and money
for pleasure trips. The farmers Of
North Dakota have neither the money
or time, they have to stay home and
milk the cows and slop the hogs in
order to be able to pay interest and
taxes and high prices for everything
they buy, so the bankers and business
men who are prospecting and making
money by robbing the farmer, can
buy new cars and go out and have
good time.
The senator said, tho North Dakota
Missouri river diversion project was
not the most important problem be-
fore the people; that was the farm
problem. He quoted few statistics
as proof, $4,000 farm owners in NJ
Oak. 10 years ago, and today 10000
farm owners in the state. Their
property is valued at 100000, 900, but
there are $S2,000,00O mortgages
against it.
If the farmers are satisfied with
these kind of conditions there is some
thing the matter with them, the sena-
tor said. He thought Coolidge would
sign the McNary-Haugen Bill when it
come up in congress next fall, and
that would strengthen his chances, so
he thought Coolidge would have
chance to carry the state in 1928.
The senator did not put forth any
remedy for these terrible conditions
among the farmers, only the McNary-
Haugen Bill which he himself said is
Of little or no value.
It is not Coolidge, or Senator Nye
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-25

HOW THE COOPERATIVE NEWS" FIGHTS AGAINST
INTERVENTION In CHINA

1t is generally known that the last
congresses of the Cooperative Soci-
ETY., Belfast, May 1920 and of the
Cooperative Women's Guild New
castle, June 1920 adopted peace re-
solutions declaring that in the event
of bellicose actions a "policy of
determined resistance" soto be adopt
ed by co-operators. The manner in
which cooperative bureaucrats car
ry out this "policy of determined re-
sistance is clearly shown in the num-
bers Of "Co-operatives News" pub
iished since the beginning of the year.
At the time when British warships
and thanks were already on the way
to China the periodical published on
January LIST, eXtravagant praises of
the well-known hypocritical China
manifesto of the Baldwin Govern
ment under the lying heading peace
in China" Congratulations are of
fered to the government for this dec
laration, which reads as follows:
"The manifesto should help
to establish the belief that Bri-
tain has no malicious intent with
regard to China"
The same number announces that
the Central Committee of the Co.
operative Society has sent circular
to the affiliated consumers co-opera-
tive with the invitation
chat societies should become
associated with the League of
Nations Union, and in that way
help the League of Nations to
carry on it's good work"
At the same time the British Co.
operative Women's Guild invites it's
local organizations to support the
plans of the League of
Nations. And this as fulfillment of
the peace resolutions of last summer,
in the face of the overt bellicose ac-
lions of the British government!
On January 22nd, the cooperative
News" is no longer able to keep up
the swindle about "peace in China.
The article on China appears under
the heading "The War-C Clouds in
China" The article is from the pen
of a special contributor" who certi-
fies once more the exemplary pacifism
of the British government:
"Only extreme care on the part
of the Canton government and
the British government will
prevent a clash of arms in China,
which might, indeed, have appal-
ling results, notwithstanding the
Pacific attitude of the British
government to which reference
was made recently"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-25

The article tells it's readers that
the national-revolutionary govern
ment of Canton cannot pay its troops
and that therefore there is:
"a spirit of revolt which may re-
verse the previous victories Of
the Nationalist movement"
Coop Patriotism.
While in this manner responsible
ity for any armed collision is placed
beforehand at the door of the Ma
tionalist government, the imperialist
war-mongers are represented by the
Especial contributor" as innocent
lambs:
''The sending of warships to
protect British interests is an in
evitable measure so long as Brit
ish subjects are there under con-
ditions and for purposes sancti-
oned by agreements with previous
Chinese governments"
And once more there is friendly
warning to the Canton government
which is responsible for protection
to British subjects and their property.
On February &c, the cooperative
News" = in keeping with the official
policy of the government = already
adopts the method of covert attack
On the Soviet Union which is, so TO
speak, represented as an accomplicss
"The Cantonese no doubt have
the aid of "Red" Russian advis-
ers. Whether the Soviet govern
ment is party to that or not
is not certain, but on the other
hand, the northern forces have
the aid of "white" Russians. 1t
would be we'll for China if these
foreigners kept out of the fight
on either side"
These crafty insinuations and at
tacks on the Chinese people, which
is fighting for it's freedom, and
against the Russian Workers and
Peasants Republic - together with
prases for the "pacifism" of the
British government = are the ac-
compartment of the "Co-operative
News, to the work of the guns of
CilS DI1ClaH dIIIOLeu CIulSSISs OHe
can judge of the feelings of the mass
of rank and file co-eperators in re-
gard to this matter by the fact that
many local cooperative organizations
as already mentioned in No. of the
Coop Inform" are supporting the
anti-war campaign of the left wing.
A number of local cooperative or
CARNATIONS and particularly CO.
operative Women's Guild are affili-
ated to the Hands off China" COM
mittees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-25
The Forward Blacklists
a Poet

TO what lengths will The Jewish Daily Forward and
of it's right wing contemporaries go in their
fanatical opposition to anything and everything they
think is remotely related to Communism? The
latest brilliant attempt in that direction just brought to
light is the backlistng by The Forward of poet who
has appeared in these columns, we'll in
conservative and capitalist newspapers and maya
zines The utter Righteousness of the utmatum handed
the poet by The Forward refusing to examine any
of his work, rests the fact that the poet is not
member of the Communist Party and his work has
been unmarked by political partisanship His sole of
Tense seems to have been in writing for The DAILY
WORKER
Henry Reich, Jr the poet in question: several months
ago had contributed to The Forward and had
received the lavish of $3.50 in payment for poem
appearing In the Best of Humor" column in the Sunday
English Section of The Forward Subsequently he sub
itted another batch of manuscripts which rejected
Meanwhile, and previously he had been appearing
with considerable regularity in the columns of The
DAILY WORKER. Shortly after the return of his
ond lot of there single poem that had been
kept in hand by The Forward for time. 1t was
accompanied by the following note:
81 don't think we would care to see any more of
your stuff. You had better save your efforts and
your postage for publications that appreciate them
the Communist sheets, for example
THE FORWARD"
The poem which this note accompanied was an alto
gether innocuous one, all of those submitted
1t follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-25
10((O AND vANZ6 TT
FluST NOT DIEi!..!i

inferred in the Pantheon april A. 1911 and on July H.
of the year. the remains of Voltaire were brought
here. The building again given over to religious
purposes in 1906 but once more became pantheon"
after the july $780, revolution when the words "Aux
grands hommes la patre reconnaissance were inscribed
on the pedimen. 1t was reopened church in 1851
but finally secuarzed for the obseques of Victor Hugo
1S85) At the entrance to the crypt stands huge urn
said to contain the heart of Leon Gambeta There are
also the tobs of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Emile Zoa
of LAGRANGE, the mathematician and Marcein Berthelat
the Chemist and his wife, who died on the same day of
Rouget de Lsle, the author of "The Marsellase and
Ernest Renan with many Others including hosts of mil
tary dead from the last war
In this mixed company sleeps Jean Jaures in a mao.
nificent tomb filled with many wreahs left there by
workers organizations.
The Worker at the Chamber of Deputies and the tomb
Of Jean Jaures in the Pantheon is typical the ncreas
ngy powerful fist of the French proletarat crushing
thru and crunchpg down the capitalism that is unstable
in Frsuce.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-25

Your notes along the pages of my book
Are like black pearls upon golden string,
Or pebbles at the margin of a brook
Worn round and smooth--and suited to a sling!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-25
TO ELLA REEVE BLOOR ON HER BIRTHDAY
BY HENRY GEORGE WEISS.

By HENRY GEORGE WEISS.
The years are trampling horses
On the road of life.
We listen and hear the courses
Ring to hooved strife.
Madly the steeds go by us,
Foam-flecked and red
We take steed and we ride it
Until we're dead.
And it's, Ho for the horse and his rider
Who CALAMITY rides
For the memory of horse and of rider
Forever abides.
And the ones who must mount on the morrow
Will whisper prayer
That they make great ride, and as bravely
Spur thru to the clear.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-25
F a r Nj T. r s
SENATOR NYE In PESSIMISTIC SPEECH FAILS TO
OFFER FARMER AUDIENCE MUCH REMEDY FOR ILLS

that is at fault, it is the robber capt.
talist system that must go before any
real fsrmrelief can be had.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-25
TO A WRITER OF MARGINALIA

Your notes along the pages of my book
Are like black pearls upon a golden string,
Or pebbles at the margin of brook,
Worn round and smooth--and suited to a sling!
Just what dark and devious undercurren of politica
significance exists in this quatrain it is difficult say
The poet at any rate totally unconscious of any sucl
significance.
Upon receipt of the above rebuff from The Forward
the poet addressed the following letter to the paper
"Mr. H. Rogoff, Managing Editor,
The Jewish Daily Forward,
New York City.
My Dear Mr. Rogoff
l am in receipt of the following letter from The
Jewish Daily Forward
4 don't think we would to see any more of
your stuff You had better save your efforts and
your postage for publications that appreciate them
the Communist sheets, for example.
THE FORWARD"
Il would say that my work has appeared recently
and with regularity in twenty-five papers in
Guiding such publication The Jewish Tribune The
New Leader, The New York Herald Tribune The
Evening World, Free Verse, The Greenwich Village
Quill, The Guardian, The Voice, The Prism in such
conservative magazines The Jewish Forum, and
in forthcoming issues of Voices Contemporary Verse
and Opportunity. Also The Jewish Daily Forward
printed poem of mine in the Sunday English Sec
ton on March 81 1927.
Il have always sung of the class struggle and
much Of my poetry both in the conservative publca-
lions and the Communist paper has been concerned
strange deluson that The Jewish Daily Forward was
champion of the working class and stood for work
ing class principles.
Never before has my poetry been Disseminated
against and have been writing for publication for
fifteen years. 1t amazed that newspaper of
the supposedly high standing of The Jewish Daily
Forward would stoop to such tactics.
Trusting that you may give me some explanation
of your change in policy,
II remain
Respectfully yours
HENRY REICH, JR"
That The Forward unable to face the issue wa
by the fact that no reply has been received
full two weeks having elapsed since the above ette
was sent
The display of peevishness exhibited by the FORWARD
editor IN returning the indicates
alton which is caused by the growing disgust of an eve
increasing circle OF literary the Forwards Grim
NAL alliance with the employers, the courts the polio
and the gangster elements against the left wing worker
in the needle trades. Because Henry Reich Jr like man
other young artist, finds in The DAILY WORKER
medium for the free expression of proletaran poetry
he is backlised by the Yddsh organ of the right win
socialists and TarAmany Hail.
In its crusade against everything of progressive char
acter and against everybody who supports progressive
views in general the Forward like the cksptes of can
ltalsm in the American Federation of Labor (WoI
trayne, McGrady Green and Co.. goes farther tina,
even some of the capitalist papers, many of which hav
accepted from Henry Reich Jr because of thei
pure merit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-25

Poultry fanciers from nearly
every country in the world, in
Guiding the Kings of England,
Belgium, Spain, and the Prince
of Wales, will exhibit their prize
stock at the Worlds Poultry
Congress to be held in Ottawa,
Can, July 81 to August 4. Ed
ward Brown, above, of London,
England, is president of the Con-
gress, and DR.. j. II. Grisdalc,
below, Canadian deputy minister
of agriculture, Ottawa, is chair
man. The last Congress was held.
at Barcelona, Spain in 1924.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-10
Theatre Uplift
Demonstrated in
Seventh Heaven

Uplift in the theatre is given its
most simple demonstration by Aus
tin Strong in Seventh Heaven"
with a sewer cleaner ambitious to
become a street washer. This play
comes to the Bismarck Auditorium
Monday. If you are feeling a bit
down, here is something to buck
You up. This is evidently Mr..
Strong's object, but he doesn't
preach about it. He merely gives
you more or less divine comedy of
the Paris slums. While Chico is
willing to give God one more
chance, as he says, his faith in him.
self is strong. His engaging self
satisfaction finds expression in the
frequent assertion that he is a re-
markablc fellow. He happens also
to be fantastic fellow, q sort of
virtuous Lillium, who puts a girl in
his garnet to save her from the po-
lice, while he Sleeps out" and
through love attains the seventh
heaven Of delight.
No, there never was a French
play quite like this one. Chico
holds that it's the idea inside you
that makes you what you are, and
once he gets this into his head, he
never let's it go. He is led into the
light, as we'll as helped to a job
above the ground, by q kindly priest
who thinks God has sense Of hum