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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-18

the new ones. She sat herself down
and practiced for eight years, to see
if it was possible for a woman with
no trace of inspiration to fool all the
critics and editors. Her success is
one more demonstration of the fact
that if you have money and social
prestige, you can get away with muir
der in America.
Reading her stuff in the magazines,
1 would find myself exclaiming,
"This woman must live in a junk
shopi" Chinese vases and Japanese
prints, Arabian shawls and Persian
carpets, pearls from Ceylon and ivory
from Africa-all these things are the
regulation stuff of poets, but with
Amy they became the whole of exist
ence; her poetry is a tumble of met
aphors and illusions, to articles of
merchandise. After she died, and her
biographers and friends conducted US
into her home, we were able to I'M
derstand; she had made the mansion
into a curio shop, full of exotic wares,
and these and her library and her
garden made up her world. 1t was
an elaborate and expensive garden,
and comprised the whole of nature to
this sick and frustrated woman; sup
plying her with a thousand images
while she sat on summer days, lift
ing manfully at her literary boot
straps. Alas, that the muse does not
recognize social position, nor even
willpower and grit! AS Swinburne
puts it:
Yea, though we sang as angels in
her ear,
She would not hear!
The lady-Cham of New England
letters travelled in state and attended
poetry conventions, and wrote critical
articles, assigning poetical rank to
her social interiors. Also she dis
tributed checks substituting magazines
and invited poets and editors to visit
her. Poor devils of young writer's,
trying to survive in our chaos of
greed, would go away singing graft
tude, and editors would shiver with
awe to find themselves inside Low
ell mansion; so, year by year, the
bubble of Amy's reputation swelled.
Since she didn't have to put either
rhyme or reason into what she wrote.
it was possible for her to turn out
vast quantity of copy, and for years
to monopolize the poetical output of
our highbrow magazines.
l submit this chapter to a friend
who is on the inside" of the mag
azine world. He says, yes, there can
be no doubt that Amy Lowell bought
her literary position. But you have
to know how to do it; her money was
not enough, it took also her mansion
and her name. My friend reminds
me of an elderly gentleman by the
name of Frederick Tanning Aver.
who inherited great fortune and
wanted to be known as a poet. he
tried the method Of newspaper and
magazine advertising, and spent a
small fortune, and succeeded in sell
ling only few copies of his book.
You see, the poetry was too easy to
understand, and also the money had
come from sarsaparilla, which connot
be taken POLITICALLY. Says my cynical
friend: eff that old gentleman had
made his money out of good Scotch,
and had known how to distribute
carload, he might easily have become
the Amy Lowell of New York"
(To Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-18
By Upton Sinclair

taken from a presumable poem en-
titled Attitude Under an Elm Tree"
which appeared on the front page of
the Literary Review" of the New
York Evening Post, one of the half
dozen great capitalist organs which
determine what you and l and the
rest of America shall consider cul-
ture.
You were yelled at the jousting, you
remember,
Which enables me to imagine you
without let or hindrance from
the rigidness of fact;
A condition not unproductive of
charm if viewed philosophically.
Besides, your window gives upon a
walled garden,
Which 1 can by no means enter with
out dismounting from my maple
red charger,
And this l will not do,
Particularly as the garden belongs in
dubitably to your ancestors.
Read that over several times-a
score of times, as l have done. Can
you find one trace of beauty or
charm? Can you find one melodious
or pleasing sound? There was more
to the poem, but the rest would not
help you. The Attitude Under an
Elm Tree" is merely the attitude of
Amy Lowell standing on her head,
because that was the only way she
could get anyone to look at her.
How could such a phenomenon have
come to be? How could woman with
scant trace of singing gift, with very
few thoughts of consequence to other
human beings, have become the great
lady-Cham of the world of tea-party
poets, the founder of a school, or
more accurately of a church, before
whose altar the leisure class choir
bumped it's forehead? l have lived
for the past twelve years in the wilds
of the west, where the only art centre
is Hollywood, so l do not attend the
poetical tea-parties and gather the
gossip of the salons. 1t wasn't until
| went to Boston five years ago, to
get material for "The Goose-step,"
that | came to realize who that lady
Cham of poetry was, and how her
reputation had been made. She was
the sister of that able lawyer whom
the Lee-Higginson banking interests
have selected to convert Harvard Uni
versity into a training school for
trike-breakers; she was a Lowell.
and l, in my naive innocence, had
failed to connect her poetical lucubra-
tions with those famous lines which
celebrate Boston as the land of the
bean and the cod, where the Cabots
speak only to Lowells, and the Low
ellis speak only to God.
Amy spoke to God, and He told
her that since she was personally I'M
beautiful and stout, and partly Grip
pied as result of an accident, she must
find some other way of being distin-
guished than as leader of the smart
set. He told her that to smoke big
black cigars and swear volubly was
not enough, because nowadays so
many smart ladies are doing the
same; the thing for Amy was to be
a poet, and the founder of a cult.
Thus Amy's God, who had led her
out of the house of bondage, and pre-
sented her with an income derived
from the labor of some hundreds of
mill-slaves in the town which bears
her honored name. And Amy, having
centuries of pride and dominance be-
hind her, set out to conquer a new
world. She had huge mansion to
live in, full of all the old books, and
her mill-slaves enabled her to buy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-18

THE police department of Bethlehem
Pa, has rather novel method Of
paying its way. On Saturdays it puts
in a few hours arresting people on
vague charges of disorderly conduct
Inmates of bawdy houses are ar
rested, fined and turned loose again
This activity nets the department,
about $4,000 a year. We subpoi1
that this is mighty good wav q,
keeping a police department going.
pICHARD BEATTY MELLON. Of
Al Pittsburgh brother of candy" GU,
secretary of the treasury, erected J.,
100000 pavilion in which the recep
ton to his daughter, the supper and
the ball that followed her wedding
were held. The wedding gifts were
estimated to cost more than half
million. At the same time thousand,
of coal miners in the Pittsburgh dis,
trict and their families are starving
The Melons are heavily interested il
coal.
GOVERNOR Fisher of Pennsylvani,
. will give careful study to the COM
plants of misuse of power made b,
delegation of labor leaders headed
by William Green, that called on thu
governor. According to press reports
the main object of the labor leader
is to obtain ga better spirit of under
standing between the men on strike
the employees and the police agencies
Of the state government" The Goa
operators have little cause to worr,
as long as their slaves are led b.
leaders who beg instead of demand.
Lha,ml MellonjI-
IT. ]. O'FLAHERTY
New Britain herald., 1927-10-12
GIFT NIGHT TONIGHT

Tonight many of New Blitain's live wire mer- chants will usher in Gift Night at The Capitol Theater The stores whose announcements ap- pear on this page are awarding gifts to all those present at the theater tonight. Be on hand. You will have an enjoyable evening.
Smyrna times., 1927-02-02

of moving the great commerce
of 1926 as we used, but 20 years
ago, cost to producerS, shippers
and consumers would be $50 per
cent greater, and because of
shortage Of cars and lack of ia
cilities, much Of it would still be
unmoved in the warehouses OF
rotting in the fields.
Just as our farmers met the
situation by using modern meth
DDS and machinery, so our rail
roads met it by providing addi-
tional facilities, including larger
engines and cars to haul more
tonnage per train.
Had primitive methods been
used in cultivation and transpor-
tation Of our crops and COM
merce in 1926, our condition de-
spite our boundless resources,
would not be unlike that of
China or Russia where modern
methods are neither used nor
understood and where both pro-
ductivity and transportation are
alike still in the primitive stage.
As a people we have had the
good sense to avail of the
achievements Of inventive gen
ius, and have progressed and
prospered as have no other peo-
pie in the world.
Smyrna times., 1927-02-02
THE SMYRNA Times
SMYRNA. DELAWARE ;.
Founded Ly Robert d. Hoffecker. July .. 1893
Editor and Proprietor until Feb. 10. 1907
Published Every Wednesday Afternoon, by
ROBERT d. HOFFECKER. Proprietor.

ADVERTISEMENTS-Th Smyrna Times is
the business medium not only for the town
Il represents. but for the outlying district Of
which it is the centre, embracing the towns
of Clayton. Kenton, Cheswold' townsend
Ieipsic. &c. A rate of so cents per inch an
insertion charged for transient advertising.
Season or yearly display advertising rates
quoted on application. For Sale. For Rent
Lost and Found advertisements occupying
one inch space or less. minimum charge
of so cents per insertion. Public Sale ad-
vertisements 75 cents per inch first inser-
ton and so cents per inch for each sub
seouent insertion. Locals and Reading No
tices. Is cents per line per issue.
THE SMYRNA TIMES is an independent pa
per devoted to the welfare of the town it
represents and the State Of which it is
part. 1t also gives the items of Importance
of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Smyrna times., 1927-02-02

cred contrary to the law. Without
hearing any further witnesses Attor-
ney Terry notified the court that he
believed he had made out sufficient
case for them to take whatever action
ton they saw fit against the three
members of the board, Messrs Cooper,
Moore and Hughes, and that he would
not produce any further witnesses or
look into any other cases which might
be found on the assessment books.
Messrs. Hughes. Satterfeld and Hut
ton representing the three members of
the board asked for an adjournment
Smyrna times., 1927-02-02
ASSESSMENT BOARD ACCUSED

Witnesses Say Their Assessments in
Kent Were Changed Contrary to Law
The investigation by G. L. Terry,
Jr., attorney for the Kent County
Levy Court, at the instigation of the
court over week ago, into the affairs
Of the Kent County Board of Assess
ment as to a violation of the law un-
der which they are working. in the
raising or lowering Of assessments
after posted notices had been filed,
was resumed in Dover Friday, there
being five property owners heard,
three Of whom, it was shown, had had
their assessments raised and two low
Smyrna times., 1927-02-02

Had our farmers employed the
same methods Of sowing and
harvesting 1926 wheat as were
used 100 years ago, it would
have required the labor Of our
lis million people for 9 months,
and the labor Of so million peo-
pie in addition. BY modern meth
ods, the great crop was sowed
and harvested by 8 or A million
farmers in a few months.
Statistics also show that had
cur railroads used some methods
Smyrna times., 1927-02-02

Yesterday marked a most i'm
portant epoch in the history Of
the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal. The work Of removing
the locks at Delaware City, st.
Georges and Chesapeake City to
make it a sea level waterway,
connecting the Delaware River
with the head-waters of the
Chesapeake bay, was inaugural
ed. The century old locks are
now passe. This transformation
means the realization of a dream
of the past century. From the
conception Of the canal project,
the desire Of its promoters was
for a sea level route its entire
length. But the engineering diff
ficulties then were almost unsur-
mountable, especially with the
amount of construction capital
that was considered available.
And so the cheaper plan Of a
canal with locks was entered
upon, and as such it was COM
pleted and put in operation.
"The canal had an interesting
and at times complicated career"
says the Every Evening, ZEN
countering various vicissitudes,
but it was prosperous from the
first, even to the extent of with
standing the shock Of a financial
defalcation Of considerable mag
nitude for such an enterprise. 1t
demonstrated its usefulness
from the first, and during our
Civil War was valuable adjunct
in military transportation, be-
sides affording facilities for do
mestic commerce between the
northern and southern sections
of the country. But always the
idea Of eventual conversion into
a sea level waterway was upper
most, and also the project Of
having it taken over and operat-
ed by the Federal government.
And now both projects have
come to pass. The canal is now
one Of the administrative agen-
cies Of the national administra-
ton, and there is no reason to
doubt, in view of the extensive
improvements already introduc.
ed, that it has field Of great
usefulness to fill. Let us hope
all the arrangements under way
for the important conversion
will be successfully consummat
ed. With this result, our Ches
apeake and Delaware Canal vii
at last become a sea level water
way, connecting two of the mos
important arteries Of commerc
and navigation along the Allan
tic coast"
Smyrna times., 1927-02-02
FOR SALE

so Brood Sows and bred gifts for
sale. 25O-lb. gifts with litters, $500.
Cheaper than buying grades or scrubs
for feeders. 20O-lb grade gifts bred
to farrow in March and April, $4,000.
25O-lb. purebred bred gifts, $50 to $50.
Prices advance SIS per head Feb. 1st,
and March 1st. Come and see them
or | will deliver anywhere in Kent
County on approval.
Telephone-Smyrna IA R 4.
STANLEY SHORT
CHESWOLD DELAWARE
Smyrna times., 1927-02-02

until next Friday when they would
present their case in defense of the
accusations of Irregularities, The re-
quest was granted.
Smyrna times., 1927-02-02

Subscription price. s1.5O per year. strictly in
advance.
Entered at the Post Office at Smyrna, Della
ware as Second Glass matter.
Evening star., 1927-04-23
CHAPTER XLII.
The Macuuerade.

Richard and John arrived almost
simultaneously, and with sigh of re-
lief Sally noticed that they seemed
quite congenial Tonight Richard
wanted to forget serious things. He
felt gay-reckless.
Sally's eyes, fastened on his face,
were adoring. How wonderful he
looked as a sheik. The bigness of him
and the arrogance of his features!
Even the spoiled lines around his
mouth made the costume perfect for
him.
They were very gay. They drank
champagne out of water glasses and
made foolish toasts. Sally forgot about
her. appearance and the fact that she
looked naughty. There was a gay
diablerie about her tonight that Rich
ard had never seen before. She didn't
look the same, either. She looked eX-
actly the type she was supposed to
representa- naughty little apache girl.
He put out his arm and drew her to
him. In spite of the fact that his
touch never failed to thrill her, she
didn't quite like it tonight. Her head
was spinning and she was uncomfort-
ably aware of the fact that John Rigby
and Myra were sitting close together.
She didn't want her own affair with
Richard put on the same basis as
Myra's with John Rigby. Myra was
flirting, but her own was true ro-
nance! Richard had asked her to be
his wifei Not only that, but last night
she had promised to marry him.
Evening star., 1927-04-23
SPRINCTIME
BY d. @. PEATTIE.
Gill Over the Ground.

Along last March, almost at the time
when naples and alders burst into
bloom, noticed three little lawn flow
ers in the grass around the Monu-
ment that We're almost rivals for the
title of first Spring flower. These
three, the white chickweed, the blue
Veronica or speedwell and the deep
crimson gill-over-the.groun are so in
conspicuous that one fastening on
errands of Importance would never
see them; indeed, only person who
walks habitually with bent head, like
myself, would see them.
My posture is not due to grief or
age nor to any oblivion OF the sights
overhead, the sky and clouds and
birds. 1t has become natural to me
from a desire not to miss the smallest
weed blossom or moss tuft. Did I not
walk thus / would not have seen these
three little wanderers from the Old
World that made such dainty bright
pattern on the carpet of the lawn.
OF those three little plants the
quaintest in charm, to me, is gill-over-
the-ground, with its tiny bugle-shaped
flowers which proclaim it of the mint
family and it's dark green leaves. like
ivy. That 1t has been beloved of 9TH
ers is shown in the number of it's COM
mon names-alWays an index of a IA
miliar plant. For this plant are re-
corded such titles as marry me e-quick,
kiss-me-at- -the-gate, alehoof, cat's-foot,
haymaids and creeping Charlie.
Evening star., 1927-04-23
DEDTTTNTE CTODTES BY THORNTON
DED AVIL - Il OAelLlO ". BURGESS

nest near here. / don't sec why You
can't nest here if they do.
'They are smaller than T." replied
Longlegs. "They are not likely TO
be bothered as j am. Besides. told
you the other day how those two
legged creatures called men try to
shoot me with terrible guns. If ]
should nest down here, they would be
sure to find my nest and probably
Farmer Browns Boy wouldn'tsst'
said Peter stOutly.
True enough, true enough" replied
Longlegs. 81 know Farmer Browns
Boy wouldn't, but there are others who
would and Farmer Browns Boy
wouldn't be able to stop them. No.
Peter. L must go on just as Mr.. and
Mrs. Quack have had to go on. I'm
going to catch one more fish and then
I'm off"
Il hope that fish doesn't come along
for a long time" said Peter but he
said it to himself You see. he really
felt bad at the thought of parting with
Longlegs, for they had become very
good friends.
Peters wish came true. 1t was a
long time before a fish came within
reach of that long bill; and when it
did come within reach, most unusual
thing happened. LonElegs missed it.
1t made him feel quite out of sorts.
He was of a mind to start anyway.
But he knew that it would be some
time before he would be where he
could fish again. So he wisely waited
After time another fish came within
reach and this time Longlegs didn't
miss. He stretched up his neck and
gulped that fish down. 1t was a long
neck that fish had to go down. Yes,
sir, it was a long neck that fish had 10
go down. When at last it was down
LOnglegs turned to Peter. "Good-by,
Peter" said he. And hardly waitingfor
Peter to say good-by. Longlegs spread
his great wings, folded his long neck
back until his head rested between his
shoulders, and with his long legs trail
ing behind him like a tail, flew slowly
and heavily away.
II hope nothing will happen 10 Trn.~
sighed Peter.
(Copyright 1927
Evening star., 1927-04-23

Nyrd Warren and Sally Bates, t1Co
sisters of lcidely different temperG-
mentS. decide to take q long sea trip.
Tom Bates hates the idea Of losing
Sally. aud she breads IeGUiHg him.
MyrG doesn't care Tery much gChdt
her husband thinks, but he l0Ues her.
Paris, together 1Cith MyrG's influence.
changes Sally. on the ship that is to
take them to South America she falls
desperately in lore 1Citb q Ur. Richard
Alden, and he 1Citb Her.--MYrG urgeS
Sally to take q definite step, largely
because Richard is enormously rich.
she herself is interested IN Nr.
John Ri0bY. a man that Sally and
Richard both dislike. The ship stops
at Rio and goes on to BHeHoS Aires.
Richard is getting off there. Tlc0
nights before they arrive. the pas
sengerS hare masquerade ball. That
afternoon Sally notices q change in
MyrG, and that night before dinner
MUrG tells her that John RigbD is
sending champagne do1Cn to the
StGteroom. she asks SGllD to inUite
Richard to join them, and Sally re-
luctGntly agrees.
Evening star., 1927-04-23
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

Pop was smoking and thinking and
/ sed, Hay pop, us fellows was tawk-
ing about getting UP club today,
we was tawking about getting up n
kind of athaletic club and were going
to have punching bags and indian
clubs and dumbells and everything.
it's going to be a CRATE club all rite.
1t sounds good, ware you going to
have it? pop sed
We're going to have it down one
of the fellows cellers, ] sed, and pop
sed. o, are you, which fellow?
Well. that's the main thing we was
tawking about. / sed. Puds SimplSins
offered to have it down his cellar, and
he sed he'd be aloud to all rite, only
his cellar is all time leeking and tho
ferst think we knew "a lot of water
would spoil all our things and maybe
get our feet wet and give us all colds
he'd be aloud to all rite but 1t
woudent be eny fun down there,
sed
| suppose not, pop sed. and / sed.
Glasses Magee would he aloud to have
it down his, only the gas leaks down
there sometimes and we wouldent all
wunt to be affiliated by gas while we
was down there enjoying ourselfs,
but he'd be aloud to. his father and
mother wouldent have eny objection
| sed.
Very generous Of them. pop sed. and
I sed Sam Cross sed he'd he aloud
to have it down his. his father and
mother would leeve him all rite. but
their all a time getting coal put in
their cellar and all our things would
be covered with coal dust and maybe
it might even get in our eyes. maybe,
but he'd be aloud to, its not ques.
ton of not being aloud to, SO then
they asked me about having II aGwn
my celler and / told them / thaWl
l could.
Then you made slight miscalcula-
ton, because the only differents be.
tween their cellars and yours is
that they would be aloud to but their
cellars are all rong, while your celler
is all rite but you wouldent be aloud
to in a hundred years. pop sed.
Proving there probably wont be eny
club.
Evening star., 1927-04-23

cream and powder seem to rub off at
once. (4) My forehead breaks out IN
tiny pimples. How can remedy this?
B. N.
Answer am glad to help you, my
dear. Cd The redness is caused by the
blood showing through the skin. Thls
condition results when the skin is
unusually thin or when the circula-
ton is sluggish or when the hands are
kept in hot water much Of the time.
If YOU are a housewife the last men,
toned cause is likely to be at the
root of your trouble; If you are under
weight and do not take enough out
door exercise, the second cause may
be responsible for the redness. In
treating any condition it is Of course
necessary to diagnose the cause first.
AS you can see for yourself, external
applications cannot really cure this
redness, but simple hand lotion will
help keep the skin soft and will bleach
the skin to some extent. After wash
ing your hands at bedtime, massage
them for about five minutes, rinse in
cold water, dry and rub in q little
of the following: One ounce glycerin,
one ounce fine powdered boraX. You
will find other good recipes for hand
lotions in my leaf1et on Care of the
Hands," Please send a stamped, self
| addressed envelope for it. (2) To make
a good neck bleach, cover two table
spoonfuls of oatmeal with hot water.
Let it stand a few minutes, then pour
| off the liquor. Add to this a half
teaspoon Of tincture Of benzoin and