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Evening star., 1927-10-23
Show Evolution Of Dreadnaught

The second stage is represented by
the Powhatan, one of the first steam
driven side-wheelers. Next comes the
original Monitor, the worlds first
ironclad, which soon evolved into
light cruiser. exemplified in the Navy
Departments models by the Chicago.
Light cruisers were quickly supple.
mented by battleships, such as the
Oregon Of Spanish.American War
fame, and these. in few years, grew
to such proportions as to be called
dreadnaughts, the North Dakota be-
ing a good example.
The North Dakota, built just 20
years ago, was scrapped under the
terms of the naval limitations pact
OF 1928, but its model remains on dis.
play near the Office of Secretary Will
bur. 1t is one of the largest in the
Navy Department, measuring 10 feet
s inches in length and ! foot s inch
es in width. Models such as this
cost from $4,000 to $4,000 and some
times take two years to build. A
New York firm has made large
number Of the models owned by the
Navy.
In addition to those mentioned,
there are many other historic vessels.
There Is the Ohio, ship of the line
which sailed in the feet commanded
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by Admiral Perry when he made his
first visit to Japan; the Hartford,
which served as Admiral Farragut's
flagship at the battle of Mobile Bay;
the battleship Maine, whose destruc-
ton precipitated the Spanish-Ameri-
can War, and the gunboat Nashville,
which fired the first gun of that war.
The reproductions of all those yes
sells have recognized historic, educa-
tional and artistic value, but the
most highly priced Of all the models
the Navy has in Washington, is one
which the public seldom discovers.
1t is likeness of the ship of the
line" Pennsylvania, which is kept in
the Navy Library on the second floor
of the building. The Pennsylvania
was an old square-rigger. launched
at Philadelphia in 1887. and destroyed
by fire when 1t fell into the hands
OF the Confederates after the nvay
yard at Norfolk was abandoned by
the Union forces in 1861.
The model was made by Comdr.
John Waters and is absolutely true
to scale. Its fidelity In this respect
amazes all who see 1t. Authorities
call 1t the 'best model OF a ship In
America" and Dwight Baum, secre.
tary Of the Ship Model Association. de-
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IT TAKES A MAN AMONG MEN 70 BAG
& GRiZZEET LIKE THIS

ing all over the place, and he wildly
grasping it. Why he was not dashed
to his death is one of those fortunate
miracles that prevent monotony from
creeping into the life of the quaran-
tine official.
Field duty with infectious diseases
Is even more dangerous. One young
and promising officer on duty in South
Carolina recently contracted sleeping
sickness. Another physician claims
that the tropics are his disease jinx.
In Mexico he has had both yellow and
typhus fever, and in Brownsville.
Tex, he contracted the virulent
dengue fever. He says the occasion
was humorous all the way-except
at the time.
On duty at Washington not so long
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down like flsherman's bobber over
big trout.
Finally, after several risky maneu.
vers, he caught the ladder, and, sway
ing against the boat at the constant
risk of having his head mashed in, he
managed to crawl aboard. Once there.
however, his thrills were by no means
over. AT dinner time (mind you, he
had to stay aboard while the young
wife let the turkey grow cold he was
chatting with an officer on the boat
when the ship gave tremendous
lurch, assuming crazy and perilous
angle. The officer was fully prepared,
being incased securely in one of the
customary built-in chairs, but our
hero was less fortunate, his chair
being loose Crash! 1t went sprawl
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seaports, next Thursday. wh the an.
nual celebration of Navy day will be
held, but those who live in the Ma
tional Capital may visit the Navy
Building at Eighteenth and B streets
md view the models displayed there.
The largest collection of these mod
els is to be found in front of the
Office of the Secretary of Navy, in the
center of the building on the second
floor. There is another big collection
directly above, on the third floor, with
smaller groups distributed along the
main corridor and one especially val
liable model in the Navy's library.
From these ships the visitor may
trace the evolution of the modern
dreadnaught. He can start with the
Bon Homme Richard. which, under
the command of John Paul Jones,
started America on Its way to being
\ sea power. Other early historic
ships in the Navy's exhibit, such as
the Constitution and the Enterprise.
belong to this first chapter Of the
storgs
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BY GEORGE PORTER.

" YASHINGTONIANS will not
n have the privilege OF in
wv specting one of Uncle Sam s
V huge men.of-war, as will
thu taaiAanfa NJ niAina xrrikla
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02
A PrOletarian Life
By MARK STONE.

TACK PATRICK woke up in his miserable room on
} East Broadway. The streaking the dirty
window pane and outside the wind whining down the
streets 1t cold out and he felt very weak But
can't be particular with three dollars in ones pocket
He'd have to get out of bed, and wait in line for
snow-shoveers job if he wanted to eat He'd have to
go out with a gang of fellows in the position
his and shovel snow ten hours day It wasn't very
pleasant prospect but what else could he do?
Jack Patrick had no relatives, no one to whom he
could turn in a pinch His father had been killed ten
years ago in the coal pits It then that he had be-
come the manstay of the family.
He wasn't very strong then either but he had to work
very hard to support the family.
Finally he broke down. His frail body couldn't stand
the damp air Of the pits the long hours, continual under
nourishment.
The doctor told him that he needed long rest. He
was run down, the doctor said
Jack Patrick couldn't afford long rest. That the
privilege of the rich Instead he left the small mining
town where he living and got job a nearby
farm Two months later ne returned to the pits where
he could earn money But he still rather
weak.
Now his mother, frail woman Of forty-seven, went
to work She toiled in laundry-and between the two
Of them they supported the family
Then came the death of his mother and sister. They
living in matchbox shack owned by the coal COM
pany. One night fire broke out in the shack and his
mother and sister burned to death Jack Patrick
escaped.
He couldn't stand the Illinois mining town now It
was saturated with blood. The coal barons had taken
his father they had murdered his mother. He
couldn't stand the town where he had lived his whole life
and he lit out He was through with mining. He
bummed east and landed job a farm outside of
New York.
In the fall when the hay had been stacked in the barns
his job He hit out for New York. the Golden
City, where jobs to be had for the asking But Jack
didn't get job.
Jack got up and waited on line for his job He was
assigned squad at 23rd street and 9th He
shovelled No gloves, his shoes all shot and Bit
ing wind whstling down the street
He had eaten meal in the last three days and he
felt weak Too weak to lift the heavy shovel clnging to
his hands.
Slowly the shovel slipped from Jack Patrick's hands
He slumped down in the snow which he had been SHOW
cling.
The foreman sent for a policeman, who called an
ambulance The young nterne with the carefully waxed
mustache, who accompanied the ambulance, found him
dead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02

At socialist, farmer and scientific
lectures, where workers assemble
(such as Cooper Union) it should be
represented.
Squads of workers to distri-
butte leaflets in subway and elevated
trains, and all places where workers
travel TO work.
3.--Large posters with glaring
headlines of immediate problems) at
all news-stands where The DAILY
WORKER is sold, and at all public
meetings Of the working class, which
should be placed in a conspicuous
place.
| believe when these suggestions
are put into operation and persist
emily continued the result win be at
least double the present influence
and circulation within short time.
MARK STONE, New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02
LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Dear Friends: I congratulate The
DAILY WORKER at having come to
New York, the centre of world i'm
perialism, and where the trade union
movement is being attacked by the
yellow bureaucracy, aided by police
and gangsters.
| have few suggestions for the
improvement and building up the cir
culation. submit these for your ex-
animation.
1.-Open-air or street meetings
should be undertaken to campaign
for The DAILY WORKER (also other
militant working class papers Of for
eign languages). At trade union
meetings The DAILY WORKER
should be sold and, if possible, de-
bated upon.
At labor councils and conventions
The DAILY WORKER should be
there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02
Bloody Struggles Of the Chilean Masses
By WILLIAM F. DUNE.

of the brutality practised during the
election, the workers coalition de-
manded that the election be annulled
and new elections held.
Strikes and demonstrations took
place and state of siege was pro-
claimed in the two provinces of An
tofogasta and O'Higgins on October
81.
The police and military fired into
the crowds of workers who were
holding huge demonstration,
wounding %. A two days protest
general strike followed in Santiago.
Since these occurrences there have
been sporadic strikes and uprisings
with the labor and revolutionary
movement developing a wider base
among the Chilean population at
about 100000.
Detailed information, is lacking
but there is little doubt that the
Ibanez dictatorship which is now ter
rorizing all opposition elements of
the population-more than 300 ar
rests and deportations of trade union
and Communist leaders and even
among the middle class groups hav-
ing been recorded to date-has the
backing of the big Observation-Disclosures
tive and foreign.
The great bulk of Chile's trade is
with the United States. Exports to
the United States total more than to
al other countries combined.
Chile in 1923 ranked second in cop
per production. The low labor cost
il enterprises supplying raw mater
ials is shown by the fact that the
Anaconda Mining Company is said
to be able to deliver copper
from it's Chilean properties in New
York at six cents per pound whereas
it claims that it cannot produce cop
per from its Montana properties at
less than IL cents per pound.
Copper and nitrate in Chile take
the place of oil in Mexico as an in
censive for imperialist penetration
and conquest and as in Mexico where
the working class is in a minority it
will be necessary for the workers,
the most decisive section of whom
support the Communist Party, to
make the closest possible alliance
with the peasantry in the struggle
against American imperialism and
its fascist puppets.
1t is necessary also that the Amer
lean working class pay more atten-
ton to the struggles Of the Latin
American labor movements and in
the present case by determined pro-
test to the Chilean dictator and the
United States government - whose
agents are fully aware of the bloody
persecution of the Chilean working
class-prevent the execution of the
leaders, the Chilean masses and stop
what is far worse--the living death
to which Ibanez would consign them
by deportation to Easter Island, g.
900 miles off the Chilean coast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02

D ULED until 1920 by combina-
IN ton of big land owners and
wealthy city elements in alliance
with the clericals, the Chilean work
ing class has been forced to travel a
bloody path since it in combination
with the middle class, elected Presi-
dent Alesandri.
Mining, producing mostly nitrates
and copper, is the principal industry
of Chile. The workers engaged in
this industry form the backbone of
the Chilean labor movement.
At a conference held April 26,
1925, there were represented dele
gates from other organized groups,
such as railroad and transport work
ers, printer, teachers, salaried work
ers, etc.
The clash between the rising Chill
can labor movement, the stronger sec
ton of which, the labor federation,
is affiliated with the Red Interna-
tional of Labor Unions, which has
some connection with farm workers,
and the old semi-feudal landlords, ma
tive capitalist and American inves-
tors represented by the powerful
Guggenheim and Anaconda Copper
Mining Company interests, produced
first the alliance with middle class
elements resulting in the election of
President Alesandri.
1avev J,.i xrroe oxrvo1Ia1 r,-11-z,.,,...4
ly by the reactionary forces, but was
returned as a result Of mass press
ure on the government. He was well
coined back by the masses in Janu-
airy, 1925.
In June of the same year a great
strike against low wages and inhu-
man living conditions occurred in the
nitrate fields. The gunner of the
companies acted with unprecedented
brutality and fired on the headquar-
ters of the unions. Before the strike
the nitrate company managers had
blacklisted and deported all active
unionists.
Labor and Communist papers
were suppressed.
Then the Aiesandri government,
which the workers had believed
friendly to them, sent troops and ar
tillery to the nitrate fields, bonn
barded the workers quarters, shoot
ing women and children indiscrim-
inately and numbering many of the
strikers after they had been made
prisoners.
A trade union commission which
investigated the massacre reported
that there had been 1000 deaths
mostly women and children.
Alesandri was forced to resign on
October /.
The workers formulated their own
program and ran their own candidate
for president.
The elections were accompanied by
terror and displays of military force
the workers candidate being given
70,608 votes as against 1859 for
the reactionary candidate. Because
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02
.BOrah Learns That Il Is
Dangerous to Challenge
Lies Of Secret Diplomats
BY ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

les are the chief stock in trade of secret diplomacy
- When pushed into the open, the secret diplomats
continue with their lies.
It is, therefore, easily understood why Secretary of
State Kellogg peddled a Not of buncombe when he was
forced to give information the senate foreign
relations committee relative to what proportion of the
holders of oil lands and concessions have complied with
the Mexican land laws which the Wall Street gov
eminent at Washington holds confiscatory.
Kellogg merely peddling a lot of diplomatic
propaganda in the form Of brazen falsehOods, in order
buwar the mperalst aggressions not only against
Mexico and Nicaragua but against all of Latn-Amerca
Kellogg has been caught in the mesh of his false
hoods Senator Borah sent little cable down to Mex
City and got the facts from President Gales. The
New York World is forced to comment:
"The discrepancies between Secretary Keloggs
port and that of President Gales are glaring."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02
Babson Wants to Know
By ROBERT DUNN.

no you signs of tendency of the capitalstic in
- terests abusing their power? "This question is be-
ing asked by the Babson Statistical Organization of We'll
lesley Hills, Mass, in QUESTIONABLE being sent to
clients all over the country.
AS the prophet of the business class Roger Babson and
his statistical staff always have their the ground
They think they hear "wave of radicalism' they
call it rumblng somewhere in the distance.
Now a wave of radicasm, Babson argues, "is always
bad for legitimate business And he continues waves
of radcaism, however, always reactions from pc
RODS when the captalisc group has taken undue ad
vantage of its power" Is that happening now? If So
Babson wants to know. For eff such bitter feeling
being fostered it should be known and, far pos
sible eliminated"
In what direction might this abuse of captastic power
become evident? Mr. Babson suggests few his
QUESTIONABLE. His queries this point run as fol-
lows among the banks? Thru the newspapers? BY
of trade associations Thru faternal organiza-
tons Thru labor leaders?".
Just what Babson has in mind when he hints at the
abuses of the captaisc interests thru labor leaders,
is not clear
Does he mean to inquire if Matthew Wol is abusing
the power o. the "capalstc interests" when he wars
the Left Wing? Does he refer to the corruption in
the high places of the United Mine Workers? Does he
refer to the labor leaders who acting as informants
to the Industrial Squad and private espionage agencies
When the questionnaires all in Babson will publish
the results of his investigation in a later bulletin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02

eel Duchamp, painter of the Nude
Descending. Staircase picture. We
wonder if Duchamp ever tried a
breakfast in Harlem.
Senators who believe that Sam
insult has shown contempt for them
should reconsider. Paying over
$l72,000 for sample is not our
idea of showing contempt for any
line of goods.
Policemen in New York do lead
the life of Riley. They raid the sex
plays which they are compelled to
watch till after they get knocked
out Of their seats with fast one.
And then this job Of guarding Gigli
from the bombers is more or less
steady.
RALPH wINSTEAD.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02
ANOTHER LITTLE VAUDEVILLE ACT FOR THE
NEW JERSEY CIRCUIT

'ean Nth long (but strictly Nordic) pre-uoar nose
'hG Jack OBren, music by Bob Dunn and e1yth,nic
assisted By Gidc GREY
I'm from the National Security League.
Shhh Shhhl
My nose is long for smelling intrigue,
Sniff Sniff
l keep shifting here and keep shifting there,
I can sniff plot in the very air,
| can tell red by the cut of his hair,
Shhh Shhh
believe in the U. S. Constitution,
Ray! Ray!
The foe am I of all that's Roosian,
Boob Boob!
Cal Coolidge is my God on earth,
The less he thinks the more Ie's worth,
His thoughts are slim, and SOS his mirth,
Ray! Rayl
thinking mans dangerous thing,
Orr! Grrr
He's sure to belong to the Red left wing,
Workers are dangerous, scientists too,
Beware of the alien, the Niger the Jew,
The Security League alone is true,
Orr! Grrr!
nation of morons is what we need,
Dumb! Dumb
A moron obeys when he's told to heed,
'Tention Tentionl
In Wall Street wars he totes a gun,
He never argues with any one,
The morons the real American,
Dumb! Dumb!
I'm from the National Security League,
Shhh! Shhhi
My nose is long for smelling intrigue,
Sniff! Sniff!
keep shifting here and keep shifting there,
l can sniff plot in the very air,
can tell red by the cut of his hair,
Shhh! Shhh!
-AIIKALI AL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02

The United States Supreme Court has declared the
Doheny oil lease fraudulent. But Doheny is still on the
outside of prison walls That is the result of having
friends inside the government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02

Since 1921 the Roumanian courts
have twice tried and sentenced to
death one Christian Georgievitch
RakovslSy, Soviet diplomat, and are
now arranging a third indictment.
AS Rakovsky has been happily alb
sent from these trying scenes we
wonder just what form of aberra-
ton this activity indicates. Can it
be called Juro-mania?
Events in and about Shanghai
should bolster up the fundamental
lists belief in the bible story of the
complete stoppage of Sun in its
course.
ITO say that the sculpture Of
Brancusi is not art is like saying
an egg is not an egg" claims Mar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02

Workers in Paris protest against the death sentence
imposed Sacco and Vanzetti. Why not in hundred
cities in the United States?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02
AL.

AdvertngOver theatrical in
which
ne appears general descriptive
line: DON JUAN HAD "IT"l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02
.FOOTNOTESss3sE4Hss
BIZ EUGENE LYONS .

A LITERARY NENU-More and more people are get
ting into the habit of reading their meals COmrade M G.
thinks that this tendency should regulated should
be sort of harmony between the the book AS
beginning she suggests the following list that GUS
toners of this column make additional SUGGESTIONS
l. Any standard anthology makes excellent reading while
eating hash.
2 If the hash is served by the Ritz Cartons read Nys-
terry De Luxe" by Rufus King.
B. For spaghetti dinner get Dorothy Parkers new vol
ume, Enough Rope"
4. With the dessert-"Little Pitchers" by lisa Glenn
s. James OneaEs book American Communism should
go well with calves brains.
6. For the average beanery: "TI Have Fine
Funeral" by Pierre La Maziere
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02

The best way for Senator Borah to split with Pres
dent Coolidge is to get out of the republican party that
boasts them BOTH
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02

Sentimental TrifN Irving
set with pearls and diamonds valued $O0 The Times
Beach recording
The watch her by her husband eopemen
ghereo was hGhy priced by her for sentimental reasons
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02


Kellogg openly con-
fesses to the pre-
dicament in which
he has been caught
by claiming he has
a chad cold" which
n e C e S i a ties his
rushing off to
Florida, where the
m ore balmy an d
quiet atmosphere is
supposed to aid in
his recuperation.
Congress will adj
Journ on Friday,
after which he can
be expected to re-
turn, Kellogg is
more nervous than
brazen in these little
matters of diplo-
matte prevarication,
so he has a very diff
ficult time of it put
ting up a brave
front.
=
Tn the meantime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02

An Authority DestnyFor
andote to the hpocrca pff coming Washington
Liberty magazine 1t makes bones Imperialism
1t makes apologies 1t right
to rob our neghbors In editorial recalls the glorious
the concluding:
and depraved moraybu it Destiny
hind the seshness of politicians Destiny busy
seventyve from the inhabitants Nicaragua Mexico ct
al will be singing the SarSpanged Banner soothing
that would return the old of
liberals the lukewam senimentaie of socaemocrats
deusons futile and funny they when
the reality
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02

Another Authority
on MARKHAM economies Even the good
VINO oeves that everything should belong the
will admit that it better to have intelligence
millions and spend the nlgenty
nothing to show for apology for the Rookie
teller accumulatons intelligence
millions is dramatically exhibited by such incident
as the Ludlow the Western Maryland strike
Business BUSINESSMAN which has
the gentleman through argues
breach OF contract for prolong artcialy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02

In the meantime,
however, the whole
bankers press and
The Washington times., 1927-12-15
Births, Marriages, Deaths

Funeral services viii be held In
the chapel at Fort Myer at 2
o'clock Monday. Interment with
full military honors will be In Arl-
tngtOn National Cemetery.
General Hall is survived by his
widow, one son, Blackburn Hall,
OF Los Angeles, Calf. and a daugh.
ter, Mrs. Percy McCay Vernon,
of Washington.
MAJOR CHARLES L. BYRNE
The body OF Major Charles L,
Byrne, SO years old. professor Of
modern languages at the Unitsd
States Military Academy at West
Point, who died Tuesday as a result
Of injuries sustained when he
plunged IS feet into stone quarry
at West Point, will be brought to
this city for burial in Arlington
Cemetery, according to his brother,
Capt. #. A. Byrne. military in
structor at Howard University.
Major Byrne was a native OF
this city and the son Of Col.
Charles b. Byrne, OF the Army
The Washington times., 1927-12-15
HARRY A. COLMAN

Funeral services for Harry A.
colman. 81. weiLknown washington
newspaper man, who died early yes
terday at his home, 5604 Fourteenth
st. N. W., will be held at his late
residence tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock.
Harry Atwood Colman was born
In Washington, August %. 1866, the
son Of Perry and Addie Dow Col.
man. He was educated in the pub
lie schools of the District and be-
gan newspaper work in 1914.
During his newspaper career he
held posts as news editor OF The