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The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-02-12
Music IL Swinging

The northern races are coming into
their own in music. Music has swung
into the fields Of the less effete races
in recent years. With this I asso-
ciate the increased use of wind in
struments, as opposed to strings.
These are able to portray the wilder
ness, the primitive spirit and also the
lonely musings of shepherds, the
grandeur Of the Himalayas. Nobody
would think today of describing a
mountain in string tone, but a bass
oboe solo could do 1t very impress
sively.-Percy Granger, in Musical
America.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-02-12
II. w. L. and the Telephone

It seems that Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow inaugurated the voice
with-a-smile campaign in connection
with telephone operators. No better
proof can be had than the line In "A
Psalm of Life" in which we read,
"Tell me not In mournful numbers"
And as for waiting for number. the
following is given in 1.-THE Courtship
of Miles Standish": "Till some ques-
tioning voice dissolves the spell Of
silence" Does it not speak for It.
self?
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-02-12
Royal Ear Wiggler

Empress Marie Louise, second wife
Of Napoleon l, used to shake her
ears through some nervous effort, be-
lieving the practice would drive away
wrinkles and make her beautiful.
Zone Of the greatest pleasures Of
the imperial evenings is to watch the
empress turn her ears" wrote Nine
d'Abrantes, one Of her ladies Of
honor. "This faculty is very extraor-
binary and ! believe she Is the only
person who possesses It,"
Marie Louise often shook her ears
to amuse her friends, but Napoleon
disliked the practice and 1t is said
he slapped his imperial spouse sew
eral times for doing it.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-02-12
Pupils Taught Poisoning

Both boys and girls are taught the
poison arts in the jungle schools, and
at the conclusion of each school it is
customary to experiment on some
member Of the class. At the boys
school the victim usually Is some un-
ruly member of the class. At the
girls school, it is some iconoclastic
maiden who has dared voice criticism
Of the tribal marriage customs. In case
a child dies at either school, its
parents are not apprised Of the fact
until after the close of the school,
when the fetish doctor breaks white
bowl in front of their hut.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-02-12
Odd Butterfly

Perhaps one of the most remarkable
Instances of camouflage Is that Of the
Green Hairstreak" butterfly. The
upper surface Of the wings are black
ish-brown; the undersides an intensely
vivid leaf-green.
A butterfly invariably folds the
wings close upwards when resting.
Consequently the green hairstreak,
conspicuous enough among the hedges.
has only to alight upon a green leaf
for his green undersurface to render
him instantly invisible.-Nature Mag
aZine.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-02-12
Order Was Placed

The teacher of the kindergarten
Sunday school class was asking each
member If there was a little brother
or sister at home who might soon be
eligible for admission to the class. One
little boy. as he heard the proud re-
sponses of the children in front Of
him, felt that he was. rapidly losing
caste.
mo, ma'am," he admitted reluctant
ly, then added In sudden desperation,
But we're going TO get one"
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Kneu What He Wanted

A society woman recently was CIV
ing an elaborate dinner party. which
she permitted her small son Freddie
to attend. The hostess sat at the
head Of the table. and Freddie sat
near the foot. All went well until
the dessert course was reached. De-
Gliding to ask maternal advice before
partaking Of the sweet Freddie called
Justify to the amusement Of all ex-
cept his mother: "Hey. NON, may !
have hunk and a gob?"
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Tender Spot

An old bachelor who was very bald,
fell in love with a pretty widow,
whose late husbands name was Robin.
One evening the bachelor dropped
in to have a cup of tea with the
widow. After tea was over, she COM
menced to sing "Robin Adair."
The bachelor picked up his hat.
Madame" he said, "even If your
husband did have hair, it's no fault
Of mine that / haven't"
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Old-Fashisned Mothers

She looks to the affairs of her house
hold and she cherishes her babies. She
sings, and her songs are the joy-hymns
of the mother heart; she cuddles her
babies as mothers have done since
the beginning; and she is proud Of her
kicking, Growing --latest" though she
loves them all alike. She doesn't mind
the plying jeers of the unfortunate
class of her sisters who fail to see In
the home the divinest temple of peace
and happiness that has been ordained
by God.-Jackson (Texas) News
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China Once "Cathay"

Cathay was the name for China
which Marco Polo brought back with
him from his travels in the Orient.
1t is supposed to have been derived
by him from the Khitah or Khitan. a
tribe of medieval conquerors Of north
ern China. The term was long ap-
piled by Europeans to the Far East
in general. The only language in
which it survives as the customary
name for China is the Russian, where
1t has the form Khitai.
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Audrey's Opinion

Little Audrey sazed in rapt fasci-
nation at a contortionist in a vaude-
vile show.
Mamma" she laughingly said to
her mother, "That man has no more
bones than a plate Of ice cream"
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"Hold Monday, Feb. 21, for an
other M. w. G. club serial dance at
the Oxford Ballroom"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Detroit Cooperative
To Speak English and
Deal in FOOd-Stuffs

DETROIT, Oct. Incorporation in
Detroit will take long step forward
on Wednesday, October 26, when a
cooperative association for the retail
of groceries, meats, and general mer-
chandise will be organized at the Fin
nish Hall, 1869 14th St., Near Nc
Graw) by Detroit workers.
Several cooperative organizations
exist in Detroit at present, but all
are organizations on language basis
and only one, an Italian cooperative,
handles groceries.
The new organization will be known
as the "Workers Cooperative Asso-
citation" and will have an Interna-
tional and American character.
All who are interested in the Co
operative movement should attend
this meeting and join as charter
members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
DESTITUTE HORDE
OF chill DREN IN
Philippine ISLES
American FathersLeave.
Native Families

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.-The de-
plorable condition of thousands Of
destitute children in the Philippines
was outlined today by a government
committee appointed last summer. The
committee consisted of former Sena-
tor j. w. Wadsworth, Sophie Irene
Loeb, president, and Mrs. Oliver Har-
riman, vice-president, of the Child
Welfare Committee of America.
The report presented to the presi-
dent showed that there are thousands
of children of unmixed blood in pow
erty and distress.
Besides there are $4,000 children of
American fathers and native mothers
in the Philippines who are in dire
distress, the American father having
in most cases deserted:
The report suggested that in order
| to give home life to these children, by
keeping the home together when the
breadwinner is removed, the Philip
pine legislature enact a law to pro-
vide home care for dependent children
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
1Olution and Counter-Revolution in Mexico

sault only to be bartered away In the
hour of apparent triumph.
AS matter of fact the Calles-Obr9-
gon regime has only two possible
courses open to it: either it must
make it's peace with American i'm
perialism Tin which case it could no
longer claim to represent the reVolu-
tom. DC it must throw its efforts in
the direction of chatting a national
sccio-political structure independent
cf imperialism and capable of devel-
oping a constructive national economy
in spite of it.
THE workers and peasants repre-
L sent the only classes in Mexico
upon which such program could base
itself Any policy which does not base
itself frankly on these classes, in al
lance with the petty-bourgeois and
ether sympathetic elements cannot
pretend to be charting safe course
for the Mexican revolution.
President Gales has never faced
this issue squarely, despite his eIab-
crate national reconstruction pro-
gram"-in which, after all, the inter-
ests of the workers and peasants are
RELOCATED to the background. There
was even something lacking in the
way in which he met the Gomez-Ser-
rano rebellion 1t is true that he acted
with promptness and decision III null
! lifying the conference.-the on the
battlefield but he did not explain the
nter-revolutionary issues to the
people. Up to the present moment he
has given out no proclamation of any
lind, much less a direct appeal to
/ the workers and peasants. In this sense
the present situation represents a step
backward from the atmosphere Of the
'red-battalion" days,
Obregon will not swing the PEN
dulum back the other way.
The Communist Party of Mexico
must be on the alert for every pcs
sible shift in the center of gravity of
t h revolutionary regime,
(such as that from Gales to Oregon,
who is now the real head of the gov
ernment). While supporting the gov
eminent in every progressive stand
against rebellion, the Party must not
hesitate to point out the internal dan
gers of the situation and to oppose
every step away from the worker
peasant base of the revolution. The
Party must press for effective guar
antees on the part of the workers and
peasants as the only safeguard of the
united anti-imperialist front.
Friends of the Mexican revolution
in this country must watch every move
of American Imperialism, remember
ing that Mexico constitutes the his
toric point of focus for the clash of
forces inherent in the application of
Monroe-Doctrine policy to Latin
: America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Third German Workers
Delegation to U. S. S. r.

An extensive campaign is now in
progress in Germany for the sending
of a third workers delegation to the
u. S. S. R.
The delegation is being organized
under the slogans: Struggle against
imperialist war" and "Fraternal unity
Of the working class of Germany end
the Soviet Union"
Collections of signatures are being
made all over Germany to greetings
which are to be sent to the workers
of the U. S. S. R. for the occasion of
the Tenth Anniversary Of the October
Revolution. Everyone who signs the
greetings also contributes ten pfen-
ming to cover the travelling expenses
of the delegation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
By MANUEL GOMEZ.

MEXICO is heart-breaker for the
III U. S. capitalist press. Cartoonists
and editorial writer's long ago deyel-
oped the not too ingenious habit OF
picturing the republic to the south
as a Gland of pulque and perpetual
revolution" with the bedraggled MeXi-
can poems ever willing to engage in
revolution" for no other apparent
reason than that they were born that
way. The failure of the present
Gomez-Serrano outburst against the
Gales government has dealt serious
blow to this conception. Repeating,
still more decisively, the 1924 de-
bacle of the adventure in armed reac-
ton led by Adolfo de la Huerta, the
fadeout of Generals Arnulfo Gomez
and Francisco Serrano indicates once
more that while the Mexican masses
have participated in revolution they
cannot be modified for counter-revo-
luton
The Mexican masses refused 10 take
up arms under the leadership Of Cen
eral Gomez, Just as they had refused
to take up arms for de Ia Huerta. De
la Huerta at least had been able to
count on the support of considerable
sections of the army. Gomez and Ser
rano found themselves almost alone.
Whatever clements sympathized with
the movement were awed into inaction
by the stolid resistance OF the decisive
factors of the social structure of
Mexican society. Long awaited, the
crisis was past before most people
realized it had arrived. The Gomez
Serrano affair will be known in MeXi-
can history as the uprising that never
got started.
Gomez and Se1rano were the first
acknowledgement rebel leaders
since the days of Victoriano Huerta
to appeal for support without making
any pretense of labor or peasant orr
entation They We're the first ones
since the overthrow of Dia2 to openly
court the favor of Wall Street anc
Washington. These two circumstance;
are not coincidental. They show thai
the national revolution in Mexico il
now insparable from the agrarian rev
olution and the leadership Of the work
ers, while the classes opposing tht
labor-peasant demands have deserted
the national revolution ana gone owe.
to American imperialism. Instinctiv,
realization of this fact rallied man!
eois-bureaucratic elements -
Catholic tho they were-to the de
tense of the status quo and contribu
ted to the quick defeat of the counter
revolution. Some of these element
win desert the national revolution to
morrow, as the Mexican class struggl
becomes sharper, but for the tim
being they have bowed to the logi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Mere Fact That Porto
Rican Is Innocent Not
Enough to Release Him

BOSTON, Oct. 21.-United States
Circuit Court of Appeals this after
noon took under advisement the case
Of Capalino Figueroa, who languishes
in the jail at Colonia Tuno Guayama,
Porto Rico for the murder of &C.
ferino Colon, a crime for which an
other man stands confessed.
The case of Figueroa has been
through all the state and federal
courts of Porto Rico since 1923 when
the defendent was found guilty of the
Staying on plantation.
Demanding justice on the grounds
of his constitutional rights, Figueroa
has refused a pardon by the governor
Of Porto Rico. Mere innocence means
little to the American judiciary.
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it was with this understanding that
all the elements listed above supported
him.
In estimating the extent of the set
back received by the reaction it is 3
mistake to consider the Mexican
conference.-the as something con-
fined to Mexico, without relation to
the policy of Washington and Wall
Street. American imperialism is the
most persistent enemy that the Mexi-
can revolution has to face. One must
see the Gomez-Serrano affair in per-
spective, showing its connection with
whole series of events including not
only the Catholic and anti-labor Gar
ticle 1881 struggles, but the land-and-
oil laws controversy as well.
Too much is made of the differences
between the Wall Street oil men and
the Wall Street bankers with regard
to Mexican policy. 1t was after all
President Coolidge who appointed as
successive ambassadors to Mexico both
James R. Sheffield ("the agent of the
oil interests') and Dwight w. Nor
row, of the firm of ]. P. Morgan. The
change does not indicate that Amer
lean imperialism has abandoned either
| the direct or the indirect {subsidizing
CT ccunter-revolution, etc. method OF
aggression against Mexico. 1t is not
too much to say that the counter
revolutionary danger would not exist
at all if it were not for that aggres,
sion.
Certainly the House of Morgan, il
which Ambassador Morrow was {
partner up to the moment of his ap
pointment, looked with favor upon the
recent outbreak in Mexico. Certainly
further disturbances will help to make
Mr.. Morrow's job in Mexico City cas-
Ter. 1t is plain that armed counter
revolution could not hope to succeed
in its objective at the present time
given the fact that the United States
government is not prepared to adop
a program of military invasion. Blu
the menace of rebel movements is i;
club which Ambassador Morrow cal
WELD effectively to drive hard bar
gain with President-apparent Oregon
Oregon had the House of Morgan
to deal with once before, during hi
first term as president of Mexico. I
was not until he satisfied the Morgan
debt demands thru the Lamont-de i
Huerta agreement that the Unite,
States government recognized his re
gime.
1t should be borne in mind tina
.. Obregon represents the right wing o
the present regime in Mexico. Unles
the Mexican masses are on the aler
! they may find that they themselve
are in the very trap set for them b
Wall Street. They may find that es
sential conquests of the revolutio
have been defended against armed as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
u. S. Government Sinks
Roots Into Argentine

WASHINGTON, Oct 81. = The
American government is planning to
spend at least 100000 in the pur-
chase or construction of an embassy
at Buenos Aires.
The fierce competition for Argen-
tine trade and the growing indications
that the state department regards
Latin-America as U. s. protectorate
are given as reasons by observers
here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

THE Comez-Serrano rising was not
just a chance thrust. For nearly
two years the reactionary elements
in Mexican society have been feeling
their way toward such movement,
not without foreign stimulation. The
defiant Catholicism of last year pro-
vided a rallying banner. General
Gomez, who had achieved notoriety in
Tamaulipas by acting as a. labor-hat-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

when I was in Mexico. From the mo-
ment that Gomez declared his candi-
dacy for president all doubt vanished.
lie could not hope under any conceiv-
able circumstances to receive enough
votes to elect him as against Oregon.
1t was plain that his electoral cam
paign was merely an initial stage in
what was to be a carefully-planned
revolt of nationwide proportions. And
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Fails In Channel Swim.

LONDON, Oct 21-Miss Mercedes
Gleitze, London typist, failed today to
repeat her performance of a few
weeks ago in swimming the English
Channel, according to a wireless dis
patch to the Evening News from an
aeroplane over the channel.
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Spanish Monopoly Will
Use Oil From the USSR

MADRID, Oct. 21.-An oil monop-
ely has been awarded to thirty-siX
banks by the Spanish government, it
was announced today.
The monopoly is merely a market
ing monopoly. Oil will be provided
from Soviet and Roumanian wells in
addition to American wells not con-
trolled by the Standard OIL Company.
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ing instrument of the U. S. oil in
terests, and in Vera Cruz by assault
ing the peasant leagues on behalf of
the landowners organization known
as the "Sindicato de Agricultores,"
was looked to as a prospective mill
tary leader of the movement which
events had been preparing. His loyal
ty to the Gales regime was questioned
on all sides as far back as May, 1926,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

THE counter-revolutionary elements
4 in the Mexican situation are:
1.-The landed aristOcracy, which
has been against the revolution
from the beginning.
2.-The upper bourgeoisie, which
generally speaking supported the
movement against Porfirio Diaz but
which deserted the revolution dur
ing and after the rise of Carranza.
S.-The Catholic Church, which in
the present situation represents the
interests of the above classes but
which has roots in all classes of
Mexican society.
4.-Sections of the army.
5.-American imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Bok's Prize Man Dead.

BERKELEY, Cal, Oct. 81. - DR..
Charles H. Livermore, winner of the
Box peace prize, for which he was
awarded 100000, was dead here to-
day. He collapsed yesterday while
speaking before the Women's Alliance
Of the Unitarian Club.
Livermore's article resulted in free
charges of collision between himself
and the Box committee. His winning
thesis was a rather stale argument
for the League of Nations.
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of the united anti-imperialist front.
Others, in leading places, have remain
ed with the revolution to betray 1t,
but they too have served temporar-
lily useful purpose. As to the great
mass of workers and peasants, their
faith in and devotion to the revolu-
ton remains mistaken.
GENERAL SERRANO is dead and
u General Gomez is fleeing for his
life thru the state of Vera Cruz, where
the entire worker and peasant popu-
lation is ready to rise like hostile
wall against him as soon as he should
come down out of the mountains with
the handful of followers that still
clings to him. The Gales government
is more firmly intrenched than ever.
General Aware Obregon, referred to
in the newspapers as Gales candidate,
now stands unopposed in the coming
presidential election The solid f0un-
cation of the Mexican revolution,
which has stood strong now in the
face of two major counter-revolution-
airy assaults in four years, is estab-
lished.
The danger is that we may be SC
impressed with the demonstrated
strength of the Mexican revolution
as to ignore it's inherent weaknesses
and thus fail to see the perils exist
ing in the present situation.
Excessive jubilation would be some
what premature. One crisis does MOI
make an epoch, The counter-revolu
ton is defeated but it is far from
/ being dead. General Gomez might fol
! low General Serrano to the grave
without in any way solving the es
sential problem. Deficient as it ap
pears, and is today, in mobolizabI
support, the CONFERENCE.-The repre-
sents potent forces, capable of con
tinuing the struggle all the NOR
fiercely on new basis, employing
the utmost elasticity in tactics, en-
joying financial means equal to an
emergency,
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Evening star., 1927-11-11
RUBBER UNCHANGED.

NEW YORK, November IL (SpeciaD.
Crude rubber. smoked ribbed sheets,
remained unchanged at today's noon
quotation of 3612. This compares with
81 month ago and AIS year ago.
Evening star., 1927-11-11
COTTON ADVANCES
IN Y'STRAD|NG
Cold Forecast for Southwest
and Steady Cables Are
BuIIiSh Factors.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, November 10.-The
cotton market opened firm today at an
advance of 13 to p points on covering.
combined with trade and commission
house buying, probably based on rela'
lively steady cables and prospects for
a cold wave in the Southwest.
January sold up to 1852 and May to
1898. but realizing and Southern SELL
ing checked the advance and caused
reactions of 10 or IS points from the
best in early trading. Business was
less active. but a fair trade demand
was reported on the setback and there
were reports from the South that hold.
erS of spot cotton were showing little
disposition to sell at the decline.
Private cables reported that Bonn
bay buying and trade calling in Liv-
erpool had been supplied by liquida.
ton. and that buyers of cotton cloths
in Manchester We're disinclined to OPP
crate freely, owing to expectations of
lower prices.
After easing off to 1914 for Jan
uafy, or within 2 points of yester-
days closing quotation, the market
steadied up on renewed covering by
recent sellers and continued trade
buying. Offerings We're comparatively
light. The rally extended to 1911 for
January. active months showing net
advances Of about q to 80 points at
midday.
Evening star., 1927-11-11
STEEL ADVANCED.

NEW YORK, November II R'.-
Illinois Steel Co., subsidiary of United
States Steel Corporation, advanced
prices of bars. shapes and plates 81
IA ton, to Sl.90 ton. Chicago. Inland
Steel met the advance.