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The broad ax., 1927-01-01
Cardinal Hays Complains:

Cardinal Hays of New York says
that the American stage is sex
smeared." Well, what about it: Isn't
everything smeared with sex: For
instance, take the covers Of our mag
azines, the offices OF many business
men, the church including the pulpit
schools and every other activity in our
national life. What does the good
cardinal expect US to do? 1t may be
that some OF the smear has bad odor
and in need OF moral deodorant, but
sex is the strongest Of the instincts
next to that Of nutrition. Perhaps the
good cardinal would like for us all to
become nuns and priests. But would
that rid the world of the sex smear" !?
The broad ax., 1927-01-01
FIT. DEARBORN ELKS TO
ENTERTAIN

The 1927 Marching Club and Fit
Dearborn Lodge No. ~, Elks, will
hold open house and cabaret party
Friday evening, Dec 3lst, New Years
eve, in their beautiful club rooms at
1920 Grand boulevard, at which time
their many members and friends wiz
be highly entertained. Reservations
are in order. j. B. Deveaux, president;
Jas. c. Martin, exalted ruler; Arthur
J. White, chairman; Harry J. Brown,
secretary; Col. John r. Marshall
Robert L. Potts, Drs. w. H. Davis,
Geo. w. Lacey, Geo. w. Thornton
NJ. T. Bailey, chairman Of publicity;
Thos. H. Jackson, Edgar /. Walker
T. J. Poyer, David Bishop, c. T.
Hume, John "A. Yeatman and many
other prominent Elks will be on hand
to welcome their many friends to say
farewell to the old year and 70 wei
come the New Year. The Christmas
ball, given by the Marching Club at
the million dollar west side auditorium
was a great success and the othcer'
and members are elated.
The broad ax., 1927-01-01
Member City Council from the 32nd Ward who wihe
all of his friends the high compliments of the holiday


the East. He told Of many encoun.
tiers with the Indians on his way west
When asked how he accounts ior
his long life and good health he said.
We'll, | take a good drink OF good
whiskey each morning; | have smoked
and chewed since a small Boy | never
get drunk. | never work too hard N
fact, | never overdo anything. People
cut their lives short by OVERRIDING
things. They rush here and there
They eat too much, they drink 10
much, some work too much. but few
do that. They just live too fast"
The broad ax., 1927-01-01
ROBERT r. CHURCH SUED ON
A $4,000 NOTE PAST DUE
preston News Service)

Memphis, Tenn, Dec 30-Suit to
collect a $1,000 promissory note made
on July 10. 1926, and due Nov. /, 1926,
was filed in Chancery Court here We'd
nesday by attorneys for the Bank Of
Commerce and Trust Company against
Robert R. Church, the maker, and
Anna S. Church, the endorser.
The broad ax., 1927-01-01
FOUR WOMEN AND SMALL
BOY RESCUED IN APART
MENT FIRE
preston News Service)

Washington, d. O., Dec. 31.-Four
women and little boy were taken
down a ladder to safety early Thurs
day when fire cut off their escape from
the second floor Of an apartment house
at 249 Florida avenue.
The rescued were: Mrs. Helen
Jones, aged 20; Hugh Jones, aged s.;
Mrs. Margaret Bachelor, 80 years old;
Mrs. Elizabeth Dyson, So years old;
and Miss Emily Dyson, aged q. Fire
men soon got the flames under con-
troll. The damage was estimated at
about $4,000.
The broad ax., 1927-01-01
COMMENT AND OTHER LINE NEWS
ITEMS WHICH MAKE HIGHLY IN
TERESTING READING FOR THE
HOLIDAY SEASON.

Henry Cook, Mr. and Mrs. All
Thomas, Mrs. Bowling, Mr.. Ralph An
derson, Miss Dorothy Scurlock and
Mr.. Charles Stewart, Jr. On depart
ing from the beautiful decorated fes-
tive board the guests were assembled
around the Christmas tree and pres
ents were presented.
Mrs. Marguerite Ingrams has had
quite a bit Of trouble with Santa Claus,
for many friends not knowing, sent
her remembrances as Miss Marguerite
Stratford But between her week old
marriage and the merry season she
could not be much happier.
The Imps Social Club entertained
the cream OF Chicago society Wednes-
day evening at their Christmas Ball,
which was given at the Vincennes
hotel
The young men of the Maroon Club
will again step forth and entertain their
company and friends New Years eve
at the home OF Mr. Leonard Ball,
1872 Vincennes Avenue. Mrs. Louis
Armstrong will see to it that their
dancing toes will be tripping to some
OF the popular airs.
Many Of the young married men re-
ceived from the yet single friends,
Combination key-Hole Finder and
Atomizer, which is absolutely guaran-
teed to find any key hole no matter
how dark, and at the same time
throws throughout the room a magic
powder which renders the maddest
wife in the world, harmless. If you
haven't friend who has presented you
with one any nearby dealer will be
glad to supply you. Special offer to
big Butter and Egg Men.
The broad ax., 1927-01-01
GOES TO NASHVILLE

Mrs. Alberta Keeble, SIS f. +2nd
place, was called to Nashville, Tenn.
Christmas eve on account of the death
Of her father, J. W. LYDIA, who passed
away Christmas eve morning after
many months Of illness. Mr.. LYDIA
was an old citizen of Nashville and
was proprietor OF barber shop for
many years.
The broad ax., 1927-01-01
Standard Gauge

The standard gauge in Europe IL
not the same as in the United States
and Canada feet 81 inches. But 1t
is in Great Britain, France, Germany,
Austria, Holland, Belgium, Denmark.
Hungary, Italy, Switzerland Sweden,
European Turkey, and some other
places. Russia favors five feet; Spain
and Portugal 5 feet 6 inches.
The broad ax., 1927-01-01
MEETING OF THE RED CAPS
LITERARY CLUB

Sunday afternoon, January 2, at 4;30
p. m, the Red Caps Literary Club
will hold their meeting at their club
house, 5000 S. Michigan avenue
The principal speaker will be Prof.
Samuel Ball, author and lecturer. He
will be introduced by Mr.. A. L. Isabel,
president of the Negro Labor Con
gress.
The broad ax., 1927-01-01
THIS WEEK
By Ernest Rice Mckinney
preston News Service)
Those B. & o. Conductors:

The conductors Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad recently got into a dis
pute with the road and the matter was
laid before board Of arbiters, in New
York for adjustment. Mr.. Sheppard
representing the conductors-after tell
ing long and heart rending story OF
the hardships of the men for whom he
spoke. ended up one sob with the fol
lowing: He (the conductor) has to
be a diplomat and a pugilist; in fact,
some Of our men in the southern terri
tory are officers Of the law and wear
star. They use their authority, almost
entirely perhaps, in arresting drunken
Negroes, but they have to be prepared
to protect the public in every conceiv-
able manner, and they do that to this
day" There you have it kind friend.
These most ordinary and half intelli-
gent white men need more money be-
cause they have an excruciatingly pam
ful job keeping order among drunken
Negroes on southern trains This is
where they use their pugilism. | pre-
sumo the diplomacy is left for the
drunken whites.
The broad ax., 1927-01-01
GETS $7,333.33 DAMAGES
preston News Service)

(PrestOn News ServlCe)
St. Clairsville, O., Dec. 3l.-A mo-
torist is entitled to one-half OF the
road while repairing tire. The Ohio
courts 50 ruled in awarding the estate
OF Rev. Stewart S Cochrane %,333.53
from Charles McCay, Of Steubenville,
whose auto struck Rev Cochrane
while he was changing tires on his
automobile along the highway.
The broad ax., 1927-01-01
BOY SCOUT NEWS
Scout Exposition and Merit Badge
Show

A Scout Merit Badge Exhibit will
be staged February 3rd, 4th and 5th,
1927, at the Armory, 10th street and
Michigan avenue. There will be
booths exhibiting every merit badge
in scouting. A few Of our troops will
be given the privilege Of manning
booth. Mr.. Ted Shearer of our cen
trail Office, who has general charge OF
the exhibit, will get in touch with the
troops who are to man our booths
Board of Review
The Board of Review for the Doug
las Division will be held the second
Friday OF each month hereafter. The
next meeting in January will be the
18th, at 7:30 p. m. This Board Of Re
view will be the last one before the
awarding OF the Binga Bank Trophy.
The meeting place is the Douglas
Division Headquarters, 3201 Wabash
avenue
Scout Leaders Training Course
The Douglas Division of the Chi
cago Council will conduct a scout
leaders training course beginning Feb
ruary End, 1927. The course will be
every Wednesday night for eight
weeks, lasting from seven until nine
O'Clock. The course will be open to
SCoutmasters, assistant scoutmasters,
junior assistant scoutmasters, senior
patrol leaders and all who are inter
ested in work with boys We expect
to have an overflow attendance
Swimming Swimming
Glad tidings for the Christmas sea-
son for scouts Of the Douglas Division.
AT last we have swimming privileges
and first class swimming instructor
in the person OF Mr.. Foster R.
Branch. All second class scouts inter
ested in passing their swimming tests
get in touch with the Douglas Divi-
sion headquarters, Michigan 1927 and
we will give you the details.
Mr.. James E. West Will Speak
On January 18th, Mr.. James T.
West will speak at the Chicago XII
wants Club III the Bal Tabrin Room Of
the Hotel Sherman at 1915 noon. All
scoutmasters and scout leaders invited
The broad ax., 1927-01-01
Plea for Sleep

Abolish sleep, as suggested. and de-
strOy the only few hours man lives
above reproach.-TOledO Blade.
The broad ax., 1927-01-01

Mrs. Hannibal r. Scurlock, Sr., en-
tertained a few friends at their An
nual Christmas Dinner, Christmas
dav. Among those present were: Mr..
and Mrs. Hannibal Scurlock, Jr., Mr..
and Mrs. Frances E. Cook, Jr., MIR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-23
BY WIN. PICKENS.

a vote of the House of Commons
was taken to decide the validity or
invalidity of some written prayers.
IL the devil had full charge of re-
igion, he never could have brought
it to worse mockery than that A
prayer book voted on by politicians,
most of whom never pray. If it had
passed" it would then have been sent
on to the king for his ratifying sig
nature. Just where does God come
into the matter anyway? A prayer
is to be all right if it gets a majority
vote in the House of Commons; all
wrong if it does not. That is exactly
what comes of uniting church and
state-rof mixing politics with pray
eps. When politics and prayers are
mixed, the mixture is one hundred per
cent politics.
Ruin q Years Labor
This prayer book, a revised ritual
which cost the church leaders 81 years
Of work, was "voted down" by the
house, in favor of the old prayer book
of the 18th century It is reported
that the aged Archbishop Of Canter-
bury, "Primate of England" sat in
the galleries while this travesty was
being enacted, and went, Right be-
hind him, according to his own theory,
the devil must have sat, and laughed.
It seems that this revised prayer
book had tried to straddle the differ
ences between Professionalism and
Catholicism in the Church of England,
by including both kinds of prayers:
some prayers that would please the
more Protestant or Cromwellian
wing, and some that would BE- pleas
ing to the more Catholic or Papal
wing. Of course, God was not to be
asked anything about it: the prayers
must be made to please men. And
when men differ so widely, this diff
ference must reflect itself in COM
promising prayer book.
STYLES In Religion.
To speak seriously one can see at
a glance that this is a fight between
the extreme Protestant forces and the
extreme Catholic forces inside of the
estate church" But that. or some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-23
DeVine Finds Good
Labor Party Trend

SHENANDOAH, Pa, Dec. Is (By
MaiD When definite work for the
formation of a Labor Party is in
augurated in this area, progress will
be very rapid, reports Pat Devine,
field organizer of the Workers Com
munist) Party who is now touring the
Pennsylvania district. ''The Labor
Party is the only basis for securing
a mass movement here" he stated.
A miners newspaper will be pub
lished very soon by the pitmen of
the adjacent mines. Meanwhile a
drive for The DAILY WORKER sub
scriptions was started by Devine.
Preparations for classes in the funda-
mentals of Communism and in Eng
fish were also made under the direc-
ton of the visiting field organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-23

playing the Game"
Bruce Reynolds New
Comedy at the Ritz of
Conventional Pattern

playing the Came" Bruce
Reynolds new comedy-drama at the
Ritz Theatre has a strong second act
surrounded by a first and third act
that are much weaker
The plot concerns a wealthy idler
who becomes so drunk on his wedding
night that he marries the wrong girl.
The rest of the play shows what hap
pens as a result of this action.
The first act is devoted to the
wedding; the second act the best of
the three, shows husband and wife
living together and the third act, in
the manner Of the old fashioned melo-
drama finds the Williams in Jail and
everything going fine.
While the play is of usual conven-
tional pattern, being dotted with an
occasional shocking remarks, the act
ing is more than adequate and places
the play in higher category than it
would find itself otherwise.
Irene Homer as Rose Donahue, "the
lady of the evening"" who ropes the
millionaire into matrinony when he
is drunk, gives capital performance
Joan Blair as Madge, one of Roses
cronies does her utmost to bolster up
the plot. The rich mans son is well
played by Martin Burton.
In short, capable group of actors
and actresses obtain the utmost out
of a play which is slender, and in the
main highly improbable.
1t is the sort of thing the readers of
the tabloid press might like. That is
its only hope of becoming a success.
S, A. p.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-23
american Umi0mist Discovers
Soviet Russia Teaches Skill

animation in both the physical and
psychical laboratory are sent to the
io-chemical department, where after
analysis and coordination, definite
conclusion is arrived at regarding this
particular workers ability to learn to
perform the work required by the
trade he desires to learn.
Laboratory.
The bio-chemical laboratory also
carries on investigations and expert
mentations with occupational diseases,
such as lead poisoning among paint
ers. Animals are used for some ex-
periments. l asked ifl some of the
workers resented being put through
such experiments and examinations.
I was informed that they did not,
since they knew the purpose of the
examination was for their own being,
and not for the purpose of making
profits.
The laboratory is also carrying on
experiments with the functional per-
Torrance of the worker under differ
ent conditions. One group of workers,
learning locksmithing, must do fill
ing operation. They start at a given
time, file continuously for certain
period, then rest in a required posi-
ton for few moments. This process
is repeated under different conditions,
different speeds and lengths Of time.
Then the workers are given exam
nations, including blood-tests, which
are examined in the bio-chemical lab
oratory. The purpose of these tests
is not to find out how much worker
can stand before becoming an eco
nomic liability, but to find the best
the worker can accomplish the desired
results, and yet leave the worker fit
to enjoy the results of his efforts.
There are many chemical labora-
tories among the large industries of
America. The sole object of the chem
zeal departments of American indus
tries is to discover new methods of
treating steel or to make some i'm
provement in products, for profit-in-
creasing production, for increasing the
interest of the capitalist owners of
the industries. Not one of the chem
zeal laboratories of American plants
is interested in improving the condi-
ton of the worker for the workers
sake. In American industries, science
is interested in improving products
for profit. In the Workers Republic,
science is interested in improving the
conditions of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-23

Moscow, Nov. "a, 1927 (By Mail.)
In my visit to the Labor Institute
this afternoon, received very inter-
esting and valuable information. The
Labor Institute is connected with the
Labor Exchange, which is part of the
social insurance department of the
Soviet Union.
The Labor Exchange is a place
where the unemployed register for
jobs. If there are no jobs, the worker
gets unemployment benefits. Some
CT these workers are selected to at
tend the Labor Institute, where they
are taught a trade useful to the work.
er and to the heavy industries.
Skill Acquired.
At the Labor Institute, it is claim
ed that man or woman can be train
ed to become a good toolmaker or
mechanic, or a good worker in what
ever trade he prefers, in period from
four to six months. I questioned this
time claim. Then I was shown the
methods employed to train the work
crs. Now | am convinced that they
can do here what they claim in train
ing mechanics in limited period of
time. But I am also convinced that
it could only be done in Socialist Rus
STA.
They have appliances to hold the
workers arm, leaving only the wrist
free, to practise the wrist motion
with the hammer. Then the worker
puts his arm into another appliance
which holds his arm above the elbow
Thus, under instruction, he practises
the arm motions of a hammer.
Teach Filing.
Filing straight is taught in some
what the same manner. At first, the
worker practises with a long, file
shaped tool, also mechanically guided.
Then he files a small, flat piece of
steel, which is connected with an in
dicator to register any deviation from
a straight line.~ have seen the work
ers at work, and the work turned out
by them, and to me they seemed as
competent as the average mechanic
in the United States.
Another interesting feature of the
Labor Institute is the physical and
physic examination and the bio-chem-
zeal analysis of all candidates for jobs.
Any man or woman between the ages
of seventeen and forty-five applying
at the Labor Exchange for job, is
sent to the Labor Institute for an
examination. The results of the ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-23
THAYER WILL Be
FUN PROVOKER AT
DEFENSE BAZAAR
Good Program Ready
for Detroit Affair

DETROIT, Dec 22.-Local Detroit
of the International Labor Defense is
arranging a Christmas Prisoners
Masked Ball and Bazaar Monday,
December 26 at the New Workers
Home, 1343 f. Ferry Ave.
The Women's Branch of the LID,
dressed as European peasants, will
serve the thirsty "tea drinkers" with
Chat in their Tea Garden. The
Lithuanian Branch will run a mar
riage booth, where everyone will be
able to marry and re-marry the zap
pies of their eyes" as many times as
they wish. The future will be di-
vulged by Hindu fortune-tellers.
The Tom Mooney Branch has
erected a jail where reds and labor
agitators will be confined and SEN
fenced by Judge Thayer. Also, ar
ticles sent by the prisoners them
selves will be sold and ratified off.
Governor Fuller, alias Peter Bond,
Judge Thayer, all the Facisti, Rus
sian Comsomols, fiery Bolsheviks
with long hair and mustachos and
knives in their mouths, gypsies,
dancers. and everyone will be there
in costume.
The proceeds Of this affair will go
toward the Christmas present of S25
to each class war prisoner, $50 to
each family, and S. to each child.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-23
Western Trade Head
Hits Coolidge Slam

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22-Malcolm
Stewart, replying as chairman of the
Middle West Foreign Trade Commit
tee, attacked President Coolidge's re-
cent criticisms of the Shipping Board
in which the latter suggested that the
Board too often yields to pressure to
protect private interests.
Stewards interests being naturally
those that Coolidge referred to as
'private"-he is chairman of the Gin
cinnati Chamber of Commerce-he
questions the right of the president
% direct the policies of the Shipping
Board which, he asserted, is independ-
mt of the executive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-23
Politics and Prayers IN
Church Fight IN England

thing just like that, is inevitable in
a state church.
A religion "by vote of the major
ity" cannot possibly suit everybody.
People differ about their religious no.
tions more than about their head
dress. What prayer book could suit
both slave and master? Both black
and white in Mississippi? Such a
prayer book would have to be so gen.
eralized and emasculated as to lose
all definiteness and all specific APP
peal. Who could have made prayer
book that both Englishmen and Ger
mans could have used when fighting
each other in the World War? Even
the bourgeois God would have found
it hard to interpret the meanings OF
any such prayer book
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-23
JOSEPH SZIGETI PLAYS AT
WASHINGTON IRVING HIGH
SCHOOL TONIGHT

The second concert of the Peoples
Symphony Artists course for stu
dents and workers, will be given to-
night at Washington Irving High
School. Joseph Szigeti, violinist, will
give the following program: Concerto
No. 5 in A major, Mozart; Sonata in
G minor Devils TrilD, Corelli; Loure
and Gavotte in E, Bach; Caprice in
E. Paganini, Suite after Themes by
Pergolesi (Pulcinella Suite), Stravin-
sky; Chant de Roxane, Szymanowski-
Kochanski; Spanish Dance, De Falla-
Kreisler.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-23
Introducing the Workers
Library
By BERTRAM d. WOLFE.

By BERTRAM d. WOLFE.
over eighty years ago one of the
greatest of human thinkers de-
clared
Theory too becomes a material
force as soon as it grasps weapons"
The theories which he was then
only beginning to elaborate have since
taken hold of millions of working
men and women thruout the world
and have become a material force by
grasping weapons in 184S, 1870, 1905
and 1917. In 1917 MARKHAM theory
became victorious force in the revo-
luton described and commemorated
in this pamphlet"
WITHOUT the sufficient spread of
!" working class theory there can be
no powerful working class move
ment. The numerical and theological
weakness of the American labor
movement is an eloquent proof of
this. Our capitalist class, the most
powerful in the world, carries on a
most intensive propaganda which
penetrates into the ranks of the
working class, confusing, demoraliz-
ing, destroying. Endless tons of pa
per and printers ink pour forth from
giant presses to sow confusion in the
minds of the workers.
Consequently, the American labor
movement has an incredibly short
memory. 1t forgets today what it
learned yesterday thru costly exper-
fences and bitter struggles. 1t for
gets what the masters of press and
school would have it forget and re-
members largely only what the mas
ter class would have it remember
The giant presses pour out tons of
falsified theory and misinformation
Intellectual shoddy and adulterated
mental food are sold to the workers
just as shoddy cloth and adulterated
body food are sold to them.
| WITHOUT the sufficient spread of
" working class theory there can be
no powerful working class movement
This cannot be repeated too often
Only by the building of working class
schools, thu development of work
ing. clasa press and the printing anc
wide di, ribution of working class
literature can working class theory
become the property of the mass OF
American workers. Only if the les.
sons of experience are supplemented
by the spread of working class theory
can the American labor movement
learn all there is to learn from its
daily struggles. Only thus can i
wrest from it's defeats the Theoretical
lessons that lay the basis for vic
tories. Only thus can it learn from
victories in minor skirmishes the les
sons that lead to victories inc deci
sive engagements.
Only thru the development of it,
own press and literature and theor,
can the American working elias
lengthen its painfully short memor,
that within generation forgets sucl
heroes as William Sylvis and within
a decade such heroic struggles as tn
Seattle General Strike or the mutin,
of the American troops sent 10 Arch