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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-04
ROOSEVELT DELEGATES
ROCHESTER MEMORIAL.

Colonial Theodore Roosevelt stopped
off at Rochester July q as guest of
William T. Mccoy Legion post, and
dedicated Soldiers Field, part OF the
Rochester park system, which will
provide wide variety OF athletic and
amusement facilities Led by the
Legion drum corps, parade WIS
staged from down town TO huge
grand stand erected at Soldiers Field.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-04
Dawes Escapes Unhurt in Wreck

Memphis, Tenn.-One man was
killed and two others seriously In
jured when the locomotive of a spe
cial train bearing Vice President
Charles G. Dawes and his party
plunged through a trestle on the Va
zpp and mississippi Valley railroad
near Head, Miss. The vice president
was asleep in his berth and was not
awakened by the accident
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-04

when we got married" said a
Pine county lady at a recent social
gathering my husband said that ne
had determined, as ii was an equal
partnership, the only right thing TO
do was to give me half of all he
earned" ''And how has it worked
out" breathlessly asked the other Ia
dies. well, j think he owes me
somewheres between $4,000 and S10,
600 by this time" she replied.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-04
30 OD Greet lindy at Syracuse

Syracuse-Cheering and sweltering
thousands lined the route of Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh,s motor ride
from the Syracuse airport across the
city, to Archbold stadium, Syracuse
university. where 10000 persons had
gathered for the official welcome 10
the transatlantic fiier.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-04
Flames Sweep Refuuee Quarter

Athens-The whole refugee guar
ter In Athens, containing about 500
huts, burned. The terror of the ref
ugees was Understandable 1t is impos.
sible TO tell the number of victims,
but it is believed TO be large. More
than 1000 persons are without shel.
ter.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-04
Father of 81 Asks Pension

Moscuw-Andrew JukDff, a 49,
year-old resident of Tnmsk province
In Siberia, has come 10 Moscow TO
pruve To bureaucrats that he is EMIT
led 10 an old age pension. He has %
children, the oldest Of whom lis 30 and
teaches a school at Omsk.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-04
Blaze Sweeps Tia Juana.

San Diego, Ca1ff-Fire that swept
twD entire blocks In Tia Juana. Mexf-
co. caused an estimated loss OF $500,
600. The fire WIS reported TO have
started I'm pile of rubbish behind the
San Diego saloon.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-04
Auree to Cut Oil outnut

Tulsa, Okla-Operators of the
Seminole field reached an agreement
to curtailment order in the field and
agreed To consider plan OF prorating
production, Ray Collins, umpire of the
field, announced.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-04
pry's Paw Boosts Protest.s

Washington - Prohibition admins
traitors are well paid and should mot
ne given salary increases, the Assp-
citation Against the Prohibition Amenti-
ment declared.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-04

Reading, Pa.-Richarn G. Lincoln
third cousin of Abraham Lincoln and
the leader OF the family OF Linco1ns
I'm this section. is dead. He was 81
years nld.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25

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AT THE NEW NDS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
Civilian" American Army Officers in Nicaragua.

Two dispatches challenge attentonone associated
wire from Managua Nicaragua the other from the Herald
named:
L. Fierce fighting going Terra Azu not far from
uy Muy between Liberal and Conservative forces the CIVIL
IAN avators Lee Mason and William Brooks who attached
to the Conservatives, reported tonight
2) The firing of several blocks of buildings in Chinandega
by MAJOR William Brooks and MAJOR Lee Mason American
serving with the Daz army in Nicaragua charged
protest submitted the state department today by Dr. s.
Vaca agent for the Sacasa government here.
Who has given permission for these Civilian" American
army officers fly Nicaragua homes and bravey bomb the
helpless inhabitants The state department? The depart
ment? Kellogg? Coolidge?
If Ncaraguan worker farmer enraged by the sight
of his burning home and the shattered fragments of his kindred
puncures Of these American citizens with weaimed rifle
shot this will Immediately become monstrous atrocity ustyng
the most extreme measures by the American forces
In this the Latin Americans taught understand
that American citizenship high and holy thing Every bomb
offering to the American god of business and bombing
Latin American cities therefore holy rite.
We hope peasant with Mauser has little luck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25

but rather education that will develop
active, militant participants in the
struggles of the workers. A class
education that will develop class lead
crs. That is the purpose and aim Of
the educational activity which is be-
ing carried on.
The Young Pioneer League has a
big task before it at present. A task
of educating the large masses of
workers children who are found in
other organizations and winning them
ever for active participation in the
struggles of the working class. For
this task we will depend upon the
adult workers to cooperate with us.
The children of militant trade union
lists belong in the Young Pioneer
League or they will otherwise become
our enemy.
The Pioneer Ruthenberg Enrolment
Drive should inspire you to send your
child to the only working class re-
evolutionary children's organization of
the world, THE YOUNG PIONEER
LEAGUE.
Let us pave the way, fellow work.
ers! Let us save the children of the
working class from the capitalists!
Read The Daily Worker Every Day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
Naturalization Boss
Likes to Have Fascist
Thugs as Citizens

WASHINGTON (FP).-Raymond
F. Crist, commissioner of naturaliza-
ton in the U. S. Department of
Labor, has expressed the view that
Italian Fascists are just the sort Of
material from which to make Ameri-
can citizens.
Crist was asked his opinion Of the
argument Of DR.. Chas. Fama, of the
Anti-Eascist League, that men who
had sworn implicit obedience to
Mussolini, as members of the Fascist
organization, after they came to the
United States, were not in good faith
when they swore Allegiance to the
United States government.
The naturalization commissioner
said he saw no objection to Fascists
indeed, he thought they were just the
sort of men needed here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
Why Communist Children's Movement?

working class organization to be free
from propaganda, and play neutral
role must arouse suspicion. Agreeing
that society is divided into two dis
tinct camps; the working class and
the capitalist class, and that these
two classes continually fighting each
other like two armies at war, is it pos
sible for such thing as neutral to
exist? Although the Pioneer Youth
may claim to be neutral, they are
obviously collaborating with other
bourgeois organizations.
In order to counterfeit and fight
The propaganda Of both these organi-
cations, the Pioneer Youth and the
Boy and Girl Scouts, and to arouse
class consciousness among the children
Of the working class, making them
realize the true conditions that pre-
vail, and finally rally them to the
cause of the proletariat in its strug-
gle for emancipation-there is in ex-
istence the Young Pioneer League of
America, the children's section Of the
Communist movement.
The Young Pioneer League is based
on the active participation Of it's mem
bers in the class struggle. The main
sphere Of activity is centered around
the school where the minds Of the
children are daily being poisoned with
the propaganda Of the nature Of the
boy and girl scouts in addition to the
incorrect interpretations given to the
children on the current events as well
as historical facts-all tending to
serve as capitalist propaganda in the
schools. In cases of strikes, as in
passaic, the teachers are the spokes-
men Of the capitalist class in pro-
pagandizing against the workers who
are fighting for a living wage, a
strong union, and better conditions,
The Young Pioneer League carries on
propaganda thru the issuance Of leaf
lets and bulletins in the schools, en-
Tightening the children on what is go
ing on and giving working class
Interpretation TO these incidents as
well as exposing the conditions in the
schools. The Pioneers are participat-
ing in these activities of the workers
in general and in the interests Of the
working class children in particular.
Although educational activity is car
ried on quite extensively within the
Young Pioneer League, the first prin-
ciple in education is thru active par
ticipation in the struggle. It is not
education for the sak- Of edv@~-n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
By EVA STONE.

With the intensification of the
class struggle, we will find that the
children's movement will be playing
a more distinct and significant role.
The Boy and Girl Scouts is an in
ternational children's organization Of
the bourgeoisie. It's composition is
mostly Of working class parentage. On
first observation, the scouts are a
sport organization which is interested
in developing the children physically.
Give them enough physical training
and out-of-door sports so that they
might grow up to be healthy and
happy men and women. If men,
bers of the scouts would be questioned
on the purpose of the organization
such would be the answer. Let us ask
what is there beneath the surface Z?
What is the one aim of the scouts
movement? The capitalists support
the Boy and Girl Scouts movement
both financially and morally. 1t is
thru the propaganda Of the scouts
that the children are imbued with the
spirit of loyalty, patriotism and devo-
ton to the ruling class--the bosses.
This is what the capitalists get in
return for their support. And last,
hut not least, scout propaganda will
prepare staunch defenders of and
fighters for capitalism, and will turn
cut the future anti-labor agitators
and strike-brcakers. The scouts pic
ture life to the child as meaning no
more than that with which they come
in contact with on hikes or at camps.
In other words, they picture life as
being full of happiness, JOY, beauty
and plenty Of opportunity. For these
children no class struggle exists, and
no misery can be found. In short, the
boy and girl scouts is an organiza-
ton TO train fighters for the defense
Of the bourgeoisie.
On the other hand, there is the
Pioneer Youth. An educational club
and camp organization Of workers
children, sponsored by many trade
unions and leading educators. This is
according TO the last conference of
The Pioneer Youth which was held on
March End, 1927. Altho the Pioneer
Youth call themselves an organiza-
ton Of workers children, at the same
time being sponsored by trade unions
they also claim to be free from
isms' and propaganda" Do you mean
trade union "ism" by that also? This
seems quite contradictory. For a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
few HOMELESS CHILDREN in THE
SOVIET union, THORO SURVEY SHOWS

( expression of "10O@" American jour
nalism.
Real Figures Lower.
/ The Moscow dispatch by a CORE
spondent stationed here, H. R. Knick-
erbocker, puts the figure at 125,O00
which is approximately correct, altho
many well-informed people insist that
even this is much too high because of
the duplication involved in the esti-
mates. These children do not stay in
one place but shift with the seasons,
spending the summer at Caucasian
and Crimean centres and the winter in
the larger towns, and they are es-
timated in both cases at the peak.
Made out Of whole is the story that
"in Moscow alone $4,000 homeless
children are registered" and implying
that there are facilities for only 2410
Of them in public institutions.
As matter of fact no such number
are registered anywhere. There are a
total of 1872 institutions under the su-
pervision of the Moscow Department
of Education, and in them 25,74S chill
dren are cared for. Not more than
from 500 to 1000 are outside of these
homes and schools in Moscow and in
Leningrad the census showed only $50
entirely homeless. This is not because
"the homes are full to the overflow
ing" as Mr.. Knickerboeker writes, but
because these left-overs are of foot
loose vagabond type that can be and
are being won over only one by one
through the application of highly in
teresting social methods, which / shall
describe later
Many Sent to Parents.
From October 1925 to October 1926
total Of TAO homeless children have
been reclaimed from Moscow's streets,
of which $500 were sent back to par
ents or-relatives and 2640 were put
into institutions; S0% are transients
from other towns. These youngsters
who are left are not "6 and 7-year-old
bandits" as the Hearst press puts it
61.8b of the footloose children who
took advantage Of the excellent Chill
dren's Night Shelter in Moscow from
May, 1925, to January, 1926, were Ia
years Of age and 3O.6% between Ia
and 16, according to an article by DR..
Footer in the organ of the Society of
Children's Friends" May, 1926. Nor
are they bandits" at all, and they are
not treated as such even though their
method Of getting a living does trans
gress the law somewhat. They are
children who, as result of conditions
beyond their control, have lost their
social roots, and the Workers and
Peasants Republic is sparing neither
effort nor funds TO reclaim them and
give them an opportunity of taking
their rightful place in the proletarian
productive process.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
The DisintegratiOn Of the Socialist Party

pany in which he finds himself at
present, and the S. P. leaders also
may land there soon.
NOW suppose the party of radicals"
~ is built and the name "comrade"
is omitted, what shall the name Of
the party be? For "Mr" Russell
(comrade it was in the old foolish"
days. advises also to change the
name of the party. "For the rest of
this generation" says he, "the very
word socialist will be hateful in the
ears Of Americans" The reason we
know already. The socialist party as
ISOLATED once with the "wild-eyed"
Russians, and on its guilty conscience
lies the "St. Louis platform of 1917"
Now we have the plan of a party
which shud drop the name socialist"
and "comrade". A question no less
serious arises, who should be the
leaders of the party? Mr. Russell
thus answers the question: Select
young Americans for leaders
Gently but firmly put into the dis
card the leaders that were respon-
sible for the catastrophe folly of the
st. Louis platform Who are
not useful to you in your present sit
uation. What you want is somebody
that understands the American psy-
chology. Give up the idea
of reforming the world in a swoop
and bringing in complete new So
cial order overnight. There are some
things that don't happen in this
world. This is one of them. Besides,
how far will you get with the Amer
lean voter if you start out by assur-
ing him that everything in this coun-
try is perfectly putrid, but you know
how it can all be changed and made
lovely? He will merely move toward
the nearest patrol box to have you
run in for the psychopathic
Progress in this world is made step
at a time
IT is curious that this wiseacre
teaches the socialist party leaders
to take zone step at a time" and to
write the platforms in straight out
old-fashioned American, and don't re-
quire everybody that reads them to
understand perfectly what Marx
meant in the fourteenth chapter of
'Das KapitaP ,"
Mr.. Russell is certainly courageous
besides being wise. To write in the
socialist party press, and to advise its
leaders, who. offered him the columns
Of the paper, to expel themselves, re-
quires nerve. But what is most anus
ing is to charge the socialist party
leaders in having demanded of their
readers a perfect knowledge of
Marks Capital. If this terrible
charge were true, there would not
have been so many ignoramuses in
the socialist party. Everybody knows,
with the exception of Mr.. Russell,
perhaps, that the theoretical level of
the socialist party membership was
never high enough to boast of; and
here-the poor socialist party leader
ship with all the charges against it.
self, is handed one of which it is GER
tainly innocent. The fact that Mr..
Russell himself still hiccoughs from
the large portion of "Das Capital" he
swallowed simply shows that he could
never digest the material, and the
fault lies not with the socialist party
but with his own stomach.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
Custom Tailors Plan.
Membership Drive

Arrangements for an important
membership drive will be made at a
meeting Of Local /, Custom Tailors
Of New York, at the Bohemian Hall,
321 East 73rd street, Monday even
ing.
The membership of the local has
increased considerably in the last few
months, and active members hope to
make the local more militant and
effective than it has hitherto been.
An interesting program has been
provided for Mondays meeting. All
tailors, in or out Of the union, are
Urged to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
" DRAMA IN
Bloodless Revolt
'Inheritors" is an essay on the vanishing pioneer
freedom of America
Reviewed by HARBoR ALLEN.

Reviewed by HAhBOR ALLEN.
THERE is a great play to be writ
4 ten about the old American pio-
neer spirit which drove men out to
topple over forests and conquer a
continent. Such a play must be writ
ten in white heat, with turmoil and
battle and epic grandeur 1t must
come out of some fierce, rugged mind
like a giant Welding or colossal
dynamo.
In "Inheritors" Cat the Civic Rep
ertory Theatre) Susan Glaspell at
tempted to write play about pioneer
love of freedom. She was not equal
to the task. She had glow, but it was
the glow Of lamp rather than of a
furnace. She chips at cameo in
stead Of striking at an iron cast.
She offers refinement instead of
grandeur. She has beautiful
thoughts" and exalted language"
and inspiration" instead of clash
and battle and blood.
Her pioneers are loveable, gentle,
tired people who have dropped their
hoes and guns to talk. Their grand
children who in 1920 fight for the
old, lost freedom, do it sitting in a
library. The play behind Miss Glas-
pelPs "Inheritors" somehow never
reaches the visible stage. 1t gets lost
in the wings. 1t takes place in the
intervals between the acts. Before
you are only people talking, talking,
interminable talking. They talk about
how they feel, what they think, what
their grandfathers thought, what
they wish would happen, what has
happened, and what will happen
They walk in, they sit, they rise, they
go out. Actually nothing happens.
The pity of it is that so much might
In Act l you have old Silas Morton
dreaming of the college he will found
on the hill above the pioneer settle
ment. 1t will be his gift to the I'M
born children of the new country,
this light on the hill; his way of ex-
pressing love for the land, of passing
on the vision he has caught from his
learned neighbor, Felix Fejevary, the
revolutionary refugee from Hungary.
Forty years later, in act II, Nor
ton college is a Babbitt factory on
hill. 1t pays lip homage to its
pioneer founder; meanwhile begging
money from reactionary legislators.
It's students are anxious to squeeze
out the Gays" and get the right
sort" It's conscientious DIRECTORS
have been sent to Jail. It's Hindu
students, clamoring for Indian free
dom, are heckled by the sons of the
pioneers, arrested, beaten. It's radi-
cal professors are muzzled with the
threat of dismissal. The light on the
hill is pretty well burned out.
Only Madeline, granddaughter of
old Silas and old Felix, still feels the
pioneer fire. But there is no longer
room for the old free spirit; and in
the end she too is carted off to a
cell. What a play this might have
madel What scene could have been
written about the skirmish on the
campus, the Hindu boy laundering
against England, the students jeer-
ing, the police jerking the speaker
down, Madeline beating them with
her tennis racket! Instead, all you
have is broken racket and tedious
recital. Granted, the Greeks did it
too. But this isn't Greece, and the
talky, intellectual drama has had its
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25

CUPPOSE now that the party has
y done away with the names $50
cialist" and ''comrade", has ousted its
old leaders and stopped feeding it's
members on scientific socialism,
would that purging be enough to be
eligible for a new party? Here is
what he says: "You will never adj
vance by sitting down to make faces
at the American Federation of La
Dor. That organization may be scien-
tifically all wrong, but you will notice
that it trundles right along and
keeps up its membership while your
own has just about disappeared. The
best thing you can do is to support
the Federation and trot along with
it. 1t is blame sight nearer to the
mind and will of the American work
er than you are or are likely to be
Get a hold upon it's coat
tall"
MIR. RUSSELL surely judges the
:" party by what it used to be in
1917, or else he would not speak of
the socialist party's policy of mon
the A. +. of l.. Or it is possible that
the socialist partys policy of mon
interference" with the A. f. of l.,
is taken by Russell as making faces ?
Is it possible that such "keen" psy-
chologist, as he is, failed to see that
the socialist party leaders are not
only far from criticizing the A. F.
of L. policies but are actually very
useful in helping it's leaders in their
war upon the left wing? That the
socialist party leaders of member
ship which "has just about disappear
ed" wish to hang on to the A. F. of
l.. coat tails is an open secret, and
his advice to "Forget all about the
Third International and the Thirty
third and all between" only shows
that Russells data is antiquated.
THE Russells are too tedious and
they would interest us very little,
indeed, unless as an example of peo-
pie who turn traitors at the first
gust of revolutionary wind. What is
interesting is the psychology of the
Oneals who offered these gentlemen
the socialist party paper to abuse the
party. What induced Mr.. 0neal to
publish such advice as to do away
with the last vestiges of socialism
Not the novelty of criticism. The So
cialist party has been previously
criticized from the right far more
ably.
The reason must be sought else
where. The socialist party and the
editor of the "New Leader" are much
nearer to the American" conception
of Russell, that is the borrowed A. F.
of L. program, than Russell to the
old socialist ideology If the social
list party cannot play the leading role
in the A. F. of L. it can and tries to
hang on to its coat tail land the A.
F. of L. knows how to reward its
friends). Some useful services it can
certainly render in the fight upon the
Communists. Russell, consequently
does not reproach the socialist party
of today but of yesterday, and his
advice to throw off the misnomer $50
cialist" is quite in accord with the
spirit dominating now within the So
cialist party. That of the socialist
party only its name remains, which is
misnomer, we shall see from our
further analysis of the New Lead
or" symposium.