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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-16

Loud Speaker" and his earlier
Roger Boomer
"The International" aims to be a
satire upon the devious processes of
international diplomacy and t h e
world struggle for oil. Unaware,
however, of the intricacies and all the
social and economic implications of
this struggle, Lawson's play becomes
romantic and ingenious medley of
improbable situations and people, OBJ
sessed with romantic conceptions Of
the world revolution.
Curiously enough, there are no
workers participating in this world
revolution. The only "revolutionists"
in 1.-THE International" are: the young,
handsome son of millionaire oil
magnate; a neurotic adventures, sem
timental and sexually predatory;
Karneski, a Russian Bolshevik for
merly from Railway, N. j., who wan
ders about inexplicably in far-flung
Thibet; and Rubeloff, an extremely
unconvincing conception of Soviet
commissar. The millionaire's son,
David Fitch, is reminiscent of some Of
Upton Sinclair's messianic college
boys, impregnated with the dubious
philosophy of pre-war radicalism.
Undoubtedly the play is entirely too
ambitious. Wherever Lawson intro
duces the element of high-spirited
satire he is very successful. For in
stance, the scene describing finan-
cial conference in which two Ameri-
cans and one Frenchman discuss the
high aims of civilization in terms Of
oil concessions and cash is the most
effective in the play. When, how
ever, Lawson attempts to erect a
philosophic structure of world revo-
luton, he reveals the intellectual con-
fusion characteristic of most liberal
minds.
Another scene whose effectiveness
is tragic rather than satirical, is the
one in which the Negro prostitute de-
scribes how she strangled one of her
"lovers." This scene is a surprising
interlude in the predominant jazz
tempo of the play.
The sets and lighting effects are
unusually striking. Despite its num-
erous inconsistencies and irrelevances,
the play is worth seeing.
Sender Garlin.
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u. S. Prohibition in s
Years Costs $7O,000,000

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Eight
years of the National Prohibition Act,
completed today, have cost the Fed
eeral Treasury alone total of $780,
100000. Starting with appropria-
ions of S2,220,00O for the first six
months of the act, and $6,350,000 for
the fiscal year 1921, the annual out
lay for Prohibition enforcement has
now reached $35,O00,00O. Loss of
taxes derived from the manufacture
of spirits and liquors, and the con-
struction of % destroyers at cost
of S37,5O0,O00 must also be figured in
the bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-16

1.-THE MERCHANT VENICE by Shakespeare the Broad
hurst Theatre Monday night George Ars will play Shyock
and Peggy Wood Porto Others in the include Murray
Knnel Leonard Wiley, Hugh Miller David Leonard, George
Graham, Romney Brent Sydney Booth Henry More Harde
Albright, Lewis A. Seay Eleanor and Hope Cary.
"KABALE UND LIEBE" Intrigued by Friedrich
Schiller win be the Renhardt production presented by
German company the Cosmopolitan Monday night
Timing will make her first here with the players.
THE PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK" by Jerome K.
Jerome, will the Davenport Theatre 9th
day night Butler Davenport will the role Stranger
THE SILVER BOX" by John Galsworty Theatre
Tuesday night with headed by James Dale
and Haliwel Hobbies.
John FERGUSON" by Ervne special maine be-
Tuesday afternoon Masque Augustn
Duncan will play the title role.
THE DISTANT DRUM" by Vincent Lawrence open wednes-
the Hudson Theatre Cahern Mary
comb Katherine Wilson and Felix Krembs the cast
MIRRORS play by Milton Herbert Groppe opens
Forrest Theatre Wednesday night.
THE PATRIOT by Alfred Neumann its premiere at
the Majestic Theatre Thursday evening headed
by Leslie Faber Madge Titheradge, Lyn Harding
Gegud The drama deals with the life and times Of Tsar
Of Russia
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-16
ANOTHER oRPHANAGE BURNS

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. Is. -
Five girls are dead and another nine
year-old girl and two firemen are in
critical condition as a result of a
fire which little William Preno I'M
Willingly started when he struck a
match to look for toys in the closet
of ne Germantown Community
Centre. Over 100 children were at
play when the fire spread. The boy
in the custody of the Holy Rosary
Parochial School, which adjourns the
destroyed building.
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Especial To The DAILY WORKER.)
Bv T. J. O'FLAHERTY.

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 15.-Over 200
striking coal miners picketing en-
masse scattered the scab working
force of the Y. & O. mine Number 2
at Rush Run, about five miles from
Steubensville, o., Friday morning.
George Lacrosse, a striking miner,
was arrested at his home by two
deputies yesterday and charged with
melting to riot.
The Y. and o. mine, which had
been working on a fake cooperative
basis, was compelled to close. The
striking miners patrolled all roads in
the vicinity of the mine.
Want Gunmen Deputies.
Sheriff William T. Allison sent a
request to the county commissioners
for sufficient funds to maintain a
special force of deputies to protect
the scabs.
The operators are preparing fever
ishly for the opening of two of the
largest mines in the county Monday
on an open shop basis. The sheriff
stated that the mine owners had sent
several Of their gunner to him to
ce sworn in as deputies.
The Pittsburgh-Ohio Miners Relief
Committee today sent a representa-
tive to Steubepviile to keep in touch
with the situation.
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INSANE ASYLUMS
ARE OvERCROWDED
BADLY EQUIPPED

ALBANY, Jan. 15.-Overcrowding
in public insane asylums to the ex-
tent of 31.9 per cent or 10,509 pa
tients above the normal capacity is re-
vealed in statistics made public by
DR.. Frederick w. Parsons, head of the
Department of Mental Hygiene. The
population of public asylums is con-
stantly and rapidly increasing, DR..
Parsons shows, while little or no
provision has been or is being made.
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iect which thus far
has been strictly
taboo in the Ameri-
can bourgeois the
atre. Lawson is
one of the most
vital and advanced
of t h e younger
playwrights Of this
country, and h a S
already made a
number of signifi-
cant contributions
to the new Ameri-
can drama, includ-
ing professional"
"T ,oud Sneaker y
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

Dan Minturn: A Labor Novel. By
M. H. Hedges. Vanguard Press.
The Child of The Home. By DIR.
B. Liber. Vanguard Press.
Prosperity? A Symposium. Edited
by H. w. Ladder and Norman
Thomas. Vanguard Press.
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SWEAR in THUGS
AS Z BIG Ohio
Mines RE-OPEN
lContinned flom Paae Onel

tlONtiJtNeU FROM WJt Cftty
newspapers here. R. W. Henderson,
the miners attorney, was himself in
the hall when the police made their
attack on it, and aided materially in
the negotiations with the troopers
which finally resulted in calling off
the attack and bombardment Of the
hall He testifies, as do all others in
the room, that no one inside did any
shooting.
The physical evidence supports the
statement of Henderson,: bullet marks
all showing that shots entered from
without; no bullet marks outside
to show shots fired from the WIN
dows; pools of blood inside in one of
which the dead body Of Chavez lay,
indicating that he did not fall out Of
window from which he was shooting,
as the police claim.
Denies Declaration.
The attack on the parade, and af-
forwards on the hall, was made by the
police under authority of a declara-
ton of martial law, said to have been
issued by Governor Adams, the only
man with legal right to proclaim
martial law. Adams now denies that
he issued any proclamation. However,
the copy used was signed by his di-
rect representative, Lewis ~ Seherf,
head Of the state police, and by the
mayor of Walsenburg, John Pritchard.
A resolution of the city council, pro-
hibiting demonstrations was passed a
week before the shooting, and con-
tains quotations from this faxed pro-
clamation-if it was faxed.
The mayor and Scherf were directly
and personally in command Of the
troopers who did the killing Thursday,
and cannot escape responsibility for
that.
Papers See Radical Plot.
The newspapers are playing the
whole thing up as a sensational radi-
cal plot to murder the police, and are
keeping absolutely silent about the
mysterious declaration of martial
law, denied by Adams. The press
continually alludes to "inflammatory
speeches" made at meeting before
the parade, but in reality there were
no speeches on the proposed parade,
but only arguments about the indus
trial commission, and the case before
it,
It is more difficult to dodge re-
sponsibility in the Walsenburg kill
ings than it was in the Columbine
massacre, because the Columbine
murder took place before hand picked
state witnesses, far from town, and
the Walsenburg affair was in the
heart of the city, where many, miners
and non-miners, saw everything.
Not In Parade.
Evidence is coming forward to
show that the sixteen year old boy.
Salistino Martinez, who was riddled
with bullets by the state police when
they opened fire on the miners par
ade, was not either a miner nor was
he in the parade Neither was he the
man who shot and wounded state po-
liceman Maxwell w. Lordeman, as po-
lice claim. Several witnesses say
there was another boy who fired with
an automatic pistol, from or near
the sidewalk, and who was allowed to
escape by the police, his part in the
plot against the miners evidently be-
ing to get the shooting started.
Martinez was the sole support of
his grandmother, mother, and her
four other children, and they contem-
plate suit for damages for his death.
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up of wealth in America at the ex-
pense Of the rest of the world. "Our
annual income is greater than the en-
ire wealth Of most other countries,
including the sixty millions of Ger
many, the hundred and forty-three
millions of Russia. Yet, with the
world IN our debt, a score Of less
favored nations will have to pay into
oar already filled Golfers vast sums
for several generations to come"
What this means to the average
worker he shows by another COM
ment: "A mar Of the middle class
in England must work eight months
ITO support his family and four months
Of every year toward paying the ma
tional debt"
Yet in these United States, this
richest of all countries, poverty
reaches its lean fingers for hand
out wherever we go. Labor works
long hours for low wages. Hundreds
Of thousands of workers live in homes
owned by others. "Eighty-two per
cent Of the American people pay no
income tax" Eddy writes.
The lesson of Jesus is apparently
forgotten. Manufacturers, financiers,
bankers, are bent on getting all they
can out of the world. Exploitation is
he order of the day. Inevitably this
will bring about more wars which
will further wreck the social struc-
ture.
The picture appears dismal to the
good man until he spots certain in
dividuals who are in small way
shown to be regenerating society.
There is "Bill" Simpson of Passaic,
modern "St. Francis of Assist" who
gave up the pulpit to embrace life
of poverty, preaching among lumber
Jacks and railroad navvies the gospel
of love. "He became convinced that
a new spiritual and social order would
come not by change of system but by
change Of heart" Elsewhere he says,
~Ne believe that social changes
should be effected through eGuea-
tional and spiritual processes. by
constructive evolution, not by de-
structive revolution"
Eddy picks out William t. Hap
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Nine O0ey Gunner Mobilize to Attack Successful Mass Pckes Obi
LAWSON PLAY AN
INGENIOUS DRAMA
FTHE REVOLUTION

IoHN HOWARD LAWSON'S 'The
y International which opened at the
New Playwrights Theatre on Satur-
day night, is obviously an honest and
courageous attempt to treat a sub
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Of Cincinnati as examples of indus
trialists who have discovered the
path to peaceful evolution" The
question is Of course: Do all workers
have to wait for the second coming of
Jesus into the consciousness of
manufacturers before they do any
thing about their situation? Should
the soft coal miners accept peonage
in exchange for conviction that the
operators will in the end find that
they behaved naughtily?
Christianity" may be alright if
there is power to enforce it. If it is
merely taking the gaff, then it is
good only for the aggressor. In a
world not yet developed above jungle
it is hardly advisable for workers to
accept ideas of meekness. The world
is far too hard boiled and the capt.
talists far too militant for such in
diligence.
Mr.. Fddy's five points for The So
luton of world problems hinge on the
basis of religious experience. Simple
life, brotherhood, peace, redemption
OF the social order and a new dis
covery of God is the bare outline of
his recipe for a social cure. What
either of these points involves he does
not state. Neither does he tell us
bow this transformation may come
about, or who is going to superinduce
this hypnotic spell over mankind that
men may suddenly cease from their
conflicts.
I The book means well. 1t states the
problem soberly, and Christian gen
tleman would feel elevated by its SEN
timents. But Mr.. Eddy does not once
mention the aims of a labor move
ment. He does not see the world as a
conflict of exploiters and exploited
which can cease only when the work
ers tire Of shouldering the social bur-
dens. He does not see the function of
wars, nor the meaning of revolutions.
DespiteS history's ten thousand years
OF painful progress, he does not learn
anything from it.
While he states the case well, it
must be admitted that he becomes
flat when it comes to the program
for doing something about it. He
must remember that the working
class cannot wait for Christian pro-
gram, but must take definite sides in
the struggle.
ED. FALKCWSKI.
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" DRAMA 4M&

George Arliss will make his debut
in Shakespeare role playing Shy
lock in "The Merchant of Venice"
which opens at the Broadhurst The
atre tonight. Two other openings for
this evening are Max Reinhardt's
production Of "Kabale and Liebe," at
the Cosmopolitan and "The Passing
of the Third Floor Back" at the Da-
venport Theatre.
The Broadway Theatre beginning
today will include the following vau-
deville program: Larry Rich with his
II Friends; Rich and Cherie; Bobbie
Rowland & Co.; Lamont Four, and
Fulton and Mack. The feature pic
ture this week is, "The Girl from
Chicago" with Conrad Nagel, Myrna
10y and William Russell in the cast.
Vaudeville headliners at the Palace
Theatre include: Nazimova in en-
dia," new one-act drama by Edgar
Allen Woolf and Fannie Hartz
Friend, based on Katherine Mayo's
"Mother India; Taylor Holmes; Con-
rad, with Marion Eddy; Allan Rogers;
Henri Mango and Helene Beth, with
Margaret Fallienus and Jay Seller,
and Nee Wong.
A third company of Good News"
designed for Philadelphia and Boston
will go into rehearsal today. This
company is scheduled to open at the
Chestnut Street Opera House on
February 10.
"The Greenwich Village Follies"
opens Monday in Newark prior to the
showing here. The cast is headed by:
Blossom Seely and Benny Fields, DR..
Rockwell, Eddie Lambert, Jams and
Whalen and Florence Misgen. Max
Lief, a well-known newspaper writer
and his brother, DR.. Nathaniel Lief,
are writing the lyrics, and Ray Per-
kins, will do the music.
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B O O K S
Y. M. C. A. ECONOMICS

RELIGION SOCIAL JUSTICE BY Eddy
cOCIAL indignation wrapped and yearning halo the
book by the international the NJ
weahe in the png
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IL Men Charged.

TRINIDAD, Colo, Jan. 15.-Eleven
miners are on trial here charged with
assault to kill as a result of the po-
lice attack on the miners hail some
time ago, in spite Of the fact that not
a single weapon was found in the hall.
Another miner is on trial for "incit-
ing to strike" at Gunnison, under a
law by which he may be given year
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The Shubert's have acquired the
rights to 'Patricia's Diary" COM
edy by Reginald Bach, director of
''The Silent House," the new English
mystery play due here in three weeks
Mr.. Bach is now appearing in "The
Tanning of the Shrew."
Winchell Smith has written a new
comedy which John Golden will pro-
duce later. Smith and Michael Arlen
collaborated on "The Zoo," tried out
abroad and out of town.
The next production of the Labora-
tory Theatre, "The Bridal VEIL" will
be directed by Madame Anderson
Ivantzoff. This pantomime, written
by Arthur Schnitzler and with music
by Ernst Won Dohnyani, will be ready
the last of January.
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ii the penitentiary for telling men to
strike for better wages.
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Eddy picks out William t. Hap
GOOD indianapolis fruit-preserver;
Seebohm Rowntree, a manufacturer
Of York, England, and Arthur Nash
Evening star., 1927-12-09
TUTORS OF COURT
SPORT LIKE PLAN
Vote Being Taken to Decide
Whether Idea Will Rule
in All Pastimes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ HICAGO, December 9.-The
two-team foot ball agitation
in the Western Conference
~ has developed the question Of
whether the ruling applies
also to basket ball. and the court men,
tors seem keener for the two-team idea
than the gridiron coaches. A vote Is
now being taken among the athletic
directors to see whether the two-tear
rule shall apply to all sports.
Meanwhile the double header idea j,
foot ball has received belated addi
ton to it's adherents in Amos Alonzt
Stagg. the dean of Big Ten coaches, Il
the University of Chicago. Stagg a.
ready has booked Lake Forest ColleS'
for preliminary game October 3, Z
be played before the Chicago -Wyomin.
contest, and is looking for another
team to match with his reserves Sep
tember %. the day of the South Care
lima meeting.
Stagg is frankly skeptical of tn"
two-team plan except on first ana
second team basis, and only then foi
the first two Saturdays of the SCheG
ule.
Disagrees With Stagg.
George Huff, director of athletics a,
iliilOlS, illS WE'VE W tItC
discussed situation. but disagreed with
Stage on the double-header plan
There is not time in one afternoon for
two games. HUFF said, and his second
team will play three home games while
the varsity is away, with some second
team trips if games can be arranged.
Six conference schools are now
aligned in some form in the two-team
ranks. with Minnesota, Northwestern.
Purdue and Indiana still holding aloof.
Huff issued a statement to explain
Illinois position.
The furore over action by the
Western Conference faculty board. TO
my mind, is somewhat of a tempest in
n teapot" said Huffs statement. "In
my opinion the conference legislation
Is in no way revolutionary or far
reaching. 1t is simply reversion to
the old-time plan Of permitting second
teams to play games with outside in.
stitutions.
II do not think that the double.
header-at-home' suggestion has any
merit. since there would not be time
for two games in one afternoon. do
not think we will be obliged to use any
additional coaches
las to basket ball and base ball, the
conference did not extend the number
OF games permitted between confer.
ence teams, which remain IL in each
sport"
Evening star., 1927-12-09
WOULD eliminate
HOCKEY GAME TIES
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. n. Y. December O.
The perplexing problem Of tie contests
in various fields Of sport had rasied a
furore i'm hockey circles today for def
mite measures to eliminate the increas
ing number of no-decision games.
President Charles G. Clapp OF the
Canada n. American Hockey League
suggests wider net as a means of
comba ting draw contests and proposes
to present the issue to the National
Hockey League rules committee.
With a view of speeding up the
sport. changes were made before the
opening OF the current campaign call
ing for shorter stick, decrease in goal
keepers pads and the new forward
pass rule in the defensive zone.
Nevertheless. tie contests have been
as apparent as ever If not more so. In
the National Hockey League. virtually
half the games played SO far this sea
son have resulted in draws. or 42
starts. 1S have ended in no.verdicts
despite 10.minute overtime periods.
During the first quarter of the Ca
nadian-American circuit. there have
been nine tie games.
The official net Of professional
hockey Is two inches wider than those
used by the National and Canadian.
American organizations. While Presi-
dent Clapp of the latter league be.
lieves a more satisfactory contest
would develop by use Of the official
size net. President Frank Caller of the
National wheel has declined to COM
ment.
II the added two inches to the net
does not solve the situation, Clapp de-
clared he would appeal to the rules
committee for a wider goal.
Evening star., 1927-12-09
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

Such a system is in use at Wash
inRton and has been used at Congress
sional-tWo other courses where the
problem of congestion has been a
Vex3tious one during the Summer and
Fail Chevy Chase also has had a
particularly pressing starting problem
on busy days this year. partly because
Of it's large goifine membership and
partly because of the many difficulties
Of the course, which slow up play.
Chairman Thompson Of the golf com.
mittee, in common with other golf and
green's committee chairmen 1T other
clubs, has made every effort to speed
up play, but still, on fine Saturday
afternoons over the last month
round of golf became a matter of 312
or 4 hours.
Short holes pile up players behind
them on all courses and should be
spread out so as to allow the golfers
to become separated. Long holes re-
iieve congestion in some measure.
although not to any great extent, as
Congressional members know.
Part Of the congestion will be re-
Evening star., 1927-12-09

Congestion on Washington's golf
courses during the season just passed
has reached a point where it Is vir
tualiy impossible 10 crowd in a round
of golf on the short afternoons Of
Fall and Spring unless the start is
made from the first tee by O'Clock,
During October and November and
In April and May, when the days
are short and darkness falls by 5 80
o'clock. congestion on the courses
about the Capital has become par
ticulariy severe. and many golfers
who formerly played on Saturday aft.
ernoons have foregone their Saturday
golf in favor Of another day when
courses are less crowded
Nearly all the courses have been
obliged to install the specified time
starting method, first tried out at Co
lumbia three years ago and in sue
cessful operation at that course ever
since. BY this method starting times
are assigned to the players well in ad.
vance Of the day they are to play, and
this time Is held for them. IL they
fail 20 meet their appointment. they
drop down TO end of the starting line.
Evening star., 1927-12-09
Put Left Foot Down
Like Johnny Golden
By SOL METZGER.

Johnny Golden, who recently won
the northern New Jersey open, ~
a fine example of somewhat new
idea I'm golf that the wife Of a friend
OF mine recently ran counter to.
She was taking a lesson from the
professional Of the Seaview Club
aud found trouble i'm getting her
left foot back on the ground after
balancing her weight on the big
toe of that foot at the top Of her
swing. "Now what do ! do with
this left foot?" she asked. holding
her club poised at the top OF the
swing. "How do 1 get 1t back on
the ground?" Put It there right
nOw." he told her. She did and she
played better than ever that after.
noon.
Many golfers get into seemingly
awkward predicament at the top Of
their swings. They worry about