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Evening star., 1928-05-17
80 GERMAN DRUGGISTS
DUE IN D. C. SATURDAY
Retail Association Will Entertain
Visitors, Who Are Touring
United States.

Thirty German druggists, who are
making an inspection tour OF this
country. are due to arrive in Washing
ton shortly after noon Saturday. They
win be entertained by the District Of
Columbia Retail Druggists Association.
On their arrival at the Burlington
Hotel, Representatives of the local drug
gist association viii take them in charge.
The principal public buildings OF Wash
ington viii be visited. TheySwin also
go to Mount Vernon.
In the evening, a banquet in their
honor is to be held in the Congressional
Library. Paul Pearson, president of the
Retail Druggists Association, win de-
liver an address Of welcome.
The tour Of the country Is for che
purpose of studying American methods.
They win leave Washington Sunday
morning.
Evening star., 1928-05-17
$4,000 PAY HOMAGE.
Ashes of 1874 Brazilians Who Died
During War Reburied.

RIO DE JANEIRO, May II R.-
Striking homage was paid yesterday to
the ashes of 124 members Of the Bra
zilian navy who died of influenza in an
epidemic at Dakar, Senegal, during the
World War. Fifty thousand persons
lined q. 2-mile route over which the
cortege passed to the cemetery.
Evening star., 1928-05-17
SOCIETY HOLDS BANQUET.
Philodemic Debaters Observe 9Sth
Anniversary of Founding.

The ninety-eighth anniversary of the
founding of the Philodemic Debating
Society of Georgetown College was OBJ
served with a banquet at the Hamilton
Hotel Tuesday night.
Admiral w. S. Benson of the Ship
ping Board was the principal speaker,
and Rev. John j. Toohey. S. j.. moder-
ator of the society, was toastmaster.
Edward F. Cavanaugf. jr., is the newly
elected president of the Philodemic for
Evening star., 1928-05-17
Boy browns in Lake.

BREvARD, n. c., May II CP)-Clay-
ton Maxwell, 15-year-old son OF a
prominent Transyivania County farmer.
was drowned yesterday afternoon In
Evening star., 1928-05-17

the coming year, and Thomas ]. Nc
Clusky the retiring president.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-23
Our Communist Nominating Convention

The selection of it's candidate for
president-a liberal preacher alien to
Marxism and the proletarian move
ment, a sanctimonious Sunday face
for the weekday takers who control
the organization-was only the logical
outcome of the -proletarian orien-
tation of the socialist party,
The Communist Party, which is
the panty of the working class, will
steer a Numerically opposite course.
Our nominating convention will rep
resent the national gathering place
end concentration point of the labor
militants. It will resound with the
slogans of the class struggle ard pro-
claim the irreconcilable fight against
the capitalist order. 1t will declare
solidarity with the embattled work
eTs and oppressed nationalities and
races on every sector of the fight
against American imperialism.
From this line of policy it naturally
follows chat the presidential nominees
of the party will be selected from the
standpoint Of their representation of
the class struggle program of the con-
vention. Just as the socialist party,
! openly adopting platform of liberal
reformism, chose a candidate whose
milk-and-water political character
syrlbolizes that apostasy, so will the
Communist Party select candidates
who represent and sympolize the class
struggle and the militant workers.
The nominating convention which
witnesses the unfolding of the ban
ner of Communism in the forthcoming
presidential campaign will be ar event
of historic significance for our party
and for the entire proletarian move
ment Of America. More than that
it will be q signal to the entire world
and particularly to those countries
and territories under the bondage OF
American imperialism, that a force
is arising within its own borders which
openly challenges its power and which
will eventually overthrow it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-23
One More Trust-Retail Chain Stores Form Merger

railroad building were its earliest ex-
pressions. Then came the organiza-
ton of the Standard Oil Co. in 1870.
From that year until 1901, when the
U. S. Steel Corp. was organized, most
of the important producing groups in
the United States were trustified to
a greater or less degree.
Development of Trusts.
Retailing remained in the hands of
small business men until after the
Spanish-American war of 1898. The
great impetus toward chain store or
ganization came with the war of
1917. This latest announcement of
department store consolidation is in
line with the vigorous policy of CEN
tralizing retail business pursued by
American financial interests the past
rs or 80 years.
classification took place first in the
basic industries. Great OUTLAWS of
capital were involved. The technical
organization of railroads, steel mills
and mass-production factories made
competition by small rivals virtual
impossibility. Then the monopolists
turned their attention to retailing.
Here the problem was more diff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-23

cult. A retail shop could be started
with a few hundred dollars and a
small line of credit. Hundreds Of
thousands were in existence. The re-
tail dealer was willing to work from
breakfast until late at night, or 7
days week, and at miserable in
come. This competition was hard to
meet.
Economists held that in such fields
small enterprises would continue as
in most European countries.
Monopoly Capitalism.
Nothing of the kind happened. In
stead of the growth, side by side, of
small shops and worker cooperatives,
on the European model, American re-
tail trade went steadily to chain-store
enterprises. Mail order houses, a
unique American institution, proved
immensely profitable; chain stores
penetrated the grocery trade, the
meat trade, the drug trade, the cigar
trade, the candy trade; great con-
solicitation broke into the baking in
dustry and virtually absorbed it.
Merchandising went the way of other
industries in the United States-the
way of trustification
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-23

| Capitalism cannot maintain peace
and prosperity. Poverty, unemploy-
ment and war are it's offspring, and
struggle against capitalism is the
workers law of life.
! The period Of the beginning of a
new wave of these struggles and OF
the agglomeration of forces making
for their extension is the period also
when the bankruptcy of all reform
list movements, parties and cliques,
which deny the class struggle, has
become most manifest, The Com
munist Party alone charts the course
of the workers through the complex
struggles of today and outlines the
program and slogans for their CO.
ordination and further development
This is the great task which all the
circumstances of the present moment
assign to the national nominating con-
vention of our Party which convenes
on May 25.
Must Unity Workers Struggles.
The struggles noted above, and
others also, which have arisen out of
the irreconcilable contradictions of
monopolist capitalism, are taking
place on various fronts The great
task now. in the presidential election
year of 1928, is to unity and co-ordi
nate these scattered and sporadic
fights, to give them clearer poht-
ical direction and to weld them to-
gether into general. national strug-
gle against the whole American i'm
perialist regime.
From this arises the great signif-
icance and Importance of the nomina-
tion convention of our Party This
convention will be the single national
center Of resistance to reaction and
the only guiding light for the conduct
and development of the workers fight
on all fronts and on a national scale.
Our nominating convention will not
create Illusions. We know the linli-
tations Of parliamentary activity We
know the power of capitalism will not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-23

be overthrow by a resolution in con-
gress. But we also know the great
value of election campaigns as a
means Of revolutionary propaganda
and mobilization. A Communist re-
mains Communist whether he is the
organizer of strike, soldier in the
army CT representative in congress.
Communist representatives in the
capitalist congress-and they will be
there in spite of all, make no mistake
about twill use their positions with
powerful effect to mobilize the work
ers for mass struggles outside. Lenin
taught US this and Liebknecht and
others have exemplified it.
1t is from the revolutionary stand
point that we emphasize the over
shadowing import of the nominating
convention which will mark the open
ing of our 1928 election campaign.
Convention To Be Turning
Point.
This convention must and will sig
nalize turning point in the develop
ment of our Party. We must make
the break there, definitely and finally,
with all ham-stringing prejudices and
tendencies toward passivity in the
field of parliamentary election activ-
ity. The Party must emerge from
the convention more clearly and dis
tinctly than before as national poht-
zeal party IN all respects which chal-
lenges capitalism and it's reformist
agents on every field of the class
struggle. including the elections.
The socialist party which long ago
abandoned the class struggle as a
guiding principle in practice has, at
its recent convention, also given up
the pretense of even formal adherence
to it, which it was compelled to make
in Debs' time. 1t has turned it's face
away from the proletariat and made
its appeal in the squeaky voice of
liberal rcformisn to the middle class
remnants of the disintegrated LaFol-
lette movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-23
By JAMES p. CANNON.

1928 is year Of ferment in capt.
alist America out of which will come
changes of profound character. Con-
currently with the collapse of 'per-
manent prosperity" and with the
growth of unemployment, the revolt
of the industrial workers grows apace,
Ferment and the beginning of change
these are the clearest signs to be
read in the Kaleidoscope march of
events of the year we are living in.
Industrial peace has gone the way
of prosperity" and with it has de-
parted al the semblances of validity
of those theories and doctrines which
were designed by the apologists OF
capitalism to "supplant' the class
struggle. The great strike of the
coal miners bears eloquent testimony
to the inability of capitalism to
maintain industrial peace and order
as well as to the inexhaustible re-
sources of the working class.
New Wave of Strikes.
The new strikes of the textile work.
ers of New Bedford and the oil work
ers Of New Jersey represent the be-
ginning of a Wholesale extension Of
the strike weapon which will smash
the class-collaboration schemes like
eggshells and hurl them into the
scrap heap of history.
The strikes, big and significant as
they are, represent only the begin
ming of a new wave of unavoidable
struggles Of the American workers
which will lead to a decisive change
in all class relationships and raise
the consciousness of the workers to
new and higher level The unrest
of the farmers and the stubborn fight
Of the Nicaraguan people represent
further proof of the shaly founda-
ton of American Imperialism and of
the progressive development Of coun-
ter-forces which will aid in it's I'M
doing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-23

How were the centralized merchan-
dising agencies able to meet the COM
petition of the small trader working
his 16-hour day?
% The big chains got large
amounts of credit on liberal terms.
(2) They bought for cash in large
quantities.
(3) They sold for cash and thus
avoided slow accounts and bad debts.
"a They utilized modern book
keeping.
(5) They hired and trained store
managers whose work was outlined
and routined until to use Frederick
w. Taylor's phrase, sit could be
handled by trained gorilla
The United States has been called
the classical land of capitalism. Ger
tainly capitalist concentration has
gone on with surprising rapidity and
it is evidently destined to cover every
important field of American economic
enterprise. The department store in
dustry is the latest in long line of
instances where competitive capital
ism has given way to monopoly CAPT
talism--another step on the road 10
a cooperative commonwealth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-23
BY SCOTT NEARING.

NEW YORK bankers and merchants
Az announce a retail store chain with
capital of $500 100000. The chain
will take over department stores and
other merchandising enterprises
throughout the United States.
The president of the new system
says that large chains of department
stores are inevitable; that 115 mil
lion people in the United States ode
pend upon the retail stores for the
commodities necessary for their daily
life and comfort; hence there is no
reason why an association of depart
ment store owners cannot establish an
economic organization that will rival
General Motors or U. S. Steel as a
unit of capitalist power. The new
president adds pious wish that the
department store will not drive the
independent retail dealer out of bust
ness.
American capitalism entered its
monopoly phase Immediately after
the civil war. Canal building and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-23
Lazarus to Dues

You aOere born to the purple and cannot help
That lie Ia the gutter-so-
The system that grindS you did not make,
Nor did yo@ ordajn nsy noe.
Before your fathers father and mine
The seed aCas sOa0R zoe reap;
And 1T isn't your fault, at all, you say,
Whether laugh or weep.
Age, and knoa0 yo@ speak the truth,
But korken the truth tell;
Though it isn't your fault, and 1t isn't mine
That live IN a pauper'S hell,
Yet the hate that springs from the noe haze
Shall harry you to your grace,
And you shall feel, though yom'Ue ne0er earned
The aUrath of your fathers slave!
HENRY GEORGE WEISS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-23
THREE DIE IN FIRE

NEW ALBANY, Miss, May o.
Three daughters of ]. S. Ownes, edi-
tor of the New Albany Gazette, were
burned to death, while Mr.. and Mrs.
Owens narrowly escaped with their
lives as their home was swept by fire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-23
Negro Lynched Outside
Of Courthouse in Texas

CENTER, Tex, May 22.-The
American citizenry of this town yes
terday showed their respect for legal
forms by removing Negro, Evans,
from the Jail here and lynching him
just outside the courthouse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-23
hANdOuTs

WITH the approach Of the presiden-
!" tial elections, the democrats are
hiring the usual flock of bright young
journalists to expose G. o. p. cOrrup-
ton. The republicans have hired
equally bright young journalists to
expose Tammany corruption.
In commenting on the recent crop
of books exposing the wholesale loot
ing of the city and state treasures
by the Pure and Perfect knights of
Saint Tammany, Judge Olvany, head
of the organization, makes no attempt
to refute the charges. His only de-
Tense is that the other guys are just
as bad.
Judge Olvany is right. But 50 are
the other guys.
THE widespread Development of
4 ignorance among the police pop
1lGtion of CleVeIand together 1oith
ne1o passion for savety devices can
be learned from the following item.
Safety Director E. W. Barry had
been assigned to forestGU the cal
an1ity threatened Cleveland By the.
presentation, IN play form, Of Elmer
Gant4.y, the ToveL IN a0hich Sinclair
LeUis photographed an American
preacher amusing himself, IN the
sprightly qOGy of the clergy, by
reading the bible and seduci11g tOonu-
en-. At the hearing called to decide
the fate of play Safety Director
Barry proved himself a true police
man and frightened the lives of has
hearers By the following scittillat-
ing remark:
"Has this guy GGntry ever been
tried and comUicted2"
pROOF of the infallibility of British
justice is bringing distinct com
fort to the legal performers of Scot
land and England. Sometime ago
Marion Gilchrist, woman of 83, was
murdered in Glasgow. The police,
having power to arrest anybody in
the city of Glasgow, went out and did
their duty by picking up certain
Oscar Slater, whom they didn't like
anyway. Oscar thought it was joke.
He had never even met the Gilchrist
woman and was certain he had never
killed anybody. He was tried for muir
der. 1t was a warm day, the rush
season in the courts, so the judge
and his hired help decided to call
Slater guilty and close up shop for
the day. This they did. Oscar was
sentenced to hang. Mass protest fol-
lowed. The courts decided kindness
was wisdom and remembered them
selves to Oscar by giving him life
Imprisonment. He has been in Jail
since. The British courts have now
decided that Slater was innocent and
have promised to give him new trial
gratis. This is understood to mean
release. 1t is great relief to Oscar
Slater, who has been in the rather
uncomfortable Glasgow Jail for Is
years, to know that British justice is
inevitable and may catch UP to man
just five minutes before he dies. He
may now step out into capitalist
Britain, free man, with permission
to carve out career for himself In
the ranks of the unemployed.
Poem composed in a moment Of
ecstacy while passing the Forward
Building in an airplane and getting
birds'-eye view of it's editors thru
the windows.
The little pigeons
perched on stools
riveted into banana peels
are all the colors
of the rainbow,
red and green and blue and yellow.
mauve and tan and black and yellow,
purple and orange and white and
yellow,
but mostly
Yellow.
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indianapolis theaters today offer:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-18
new MINISTERS
ARE Received
Examinations Are Held by
PreSbytery Here.

Receptions and examinations of
new ministers were held by the In
dianapolis Presbytery Thursday eve
ming at the First Presbyterian
Church.
The Rev. Wilbur Dierking, of Lo-
gansport, Ind, formally was re-
ceived and plans made for his in
stallation as pastor of the Green
wood Presbyterian Church.
Charles Scoville Wishard of the
First Presbyterian Church, who has
been a student at Williams College,
Princeton University and the Uni
versity of Edinburgh, Scotland, was
received as a candidate. He was
examined, licensed and his ordina-
ton set for Thursday.
Ordination of John w. Miller,
licentiate, formerly of Logansport,
was held and installation of the
Rev. Perry o. Daniels, pastor of the
Clayton Presbyterian Church, into
the Indianapolis Presbytery planned.
Elmer VanLare, Martinsville, Ind,
will be received also.
The Rev. William H. Kendall, Me-
mortal Presbyterian Church pastor,
was appointed chairman of the COM
nlittee on examination. Elder Berk-
ley w. Duck, Second Presbyterian
Church, was chosen treasurer of the
national missions committee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-18
GRAVEL PIT
Park Board PonderS Citi-
zen'S Petition.

Park board members today con-
sidered a emonstrance against open
ing of a gravel pit south of White
River Blvd. at Belmont Ave, in the
vicinity of School GO.
A delegation of parents contended
the gravel pit would be unsightly
and hazard to children.
Four public hearings will be held
next Thursday:
Petition for $4,000 auto sales
room at Washington st. and Brook
vile Rd., by A. j. Louth.
Amendment of permit to build
storeroom at College Ave. and Thir-
ty-Eighth ST., to allow construction
Of apartment.
Monahan Construction Company,
ten story apartment at 1925 N. Me-
ridian st.
Vanderbilt Realty Company petit
ton for building to house exclusive
shops at Thirty Eighth and Meri-
dian SITS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-18
Have You Ever
Thought Of This?

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health precaution is perfect elm
ination. Constipation not only af-
fects your health, temper and good
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-18

John Bakeless, managing editor
in letter has given me the right
to print the selection of O'Brien as
it appears in Forum Magazine.
O'Brien's fifteen best list is as fol-
lows:
"Benito Cereno" by Herman Mel
ville-Because O'Brian regards this
IS the hoblest short story in Amer
lean literature.
ETHAN Brand" by Nathaniel
observation-disclosures here we have
Hawthorne at his moment of great
est perception"
1.-THE Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar
Allan Poe-Because "it has faultless
integrity, ETC."
1.-THE Turn of the Screw" by
Henry James-Because "of the au-
thor's fidelity to what he knew"
1.-THE Three Strangers" by Thomas
IIardy-Becauso This is a god's-eye
View of human nature"
youth" by Joseph Conrad-Be-
cause "There can be no doubt that
cur test of substance warrants our
choice of this story from all others
that Conrad wrote"
Gel Ombu" by w. H. Hudson
Because "of its perfect fusion of
profound substance with incompar-
able form
1.-THE Phantom 'Rickshaw' by
Rudyard Kipling-Because here we
Lave here "Kiplings incompatible
technique, etc."
"The Fly" by Katherine Mans
f'eld-Because "it has a cry in it
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which has never been stilled from
age to age"
can Episode of the Reign of Ter
ror" by Honore de Because
II have found it difficult to select
Balzac's finest story"
"Mateo Falcone" by Prosper Meri-
mee-Because this is the the most
primitive story of all those I have
selected"
"A Simple Heart" by Gustave
Flaubert-Because this story is the
greatest act of faith made by any
story teller I knew, ETC."
1.-TWO Friends" by Guy de Maui
passant-Because ''the technical
form of the story is, of course, SUI
perb, ETC."
1.-THE Black Monk" by Anton
Because of many reasons,
chiefly because Of the spiritual tenn
pc.
Lazarus" by Andreyev-Because
probably worldly wisdom is de-
clared bankrupt, ETC."
The oldest story from the point of
authorship is "Mateo Falcone"
which was written in 1929 and the
most modern story is 1.-THE Fly"
which was written in 1928.
This selection is really more i'm
portant when the individual asks
himself-How many have 1 read?
So I believe it is time for most
of us to get busysand read the f1f-
teen finest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-18

east Side, West Side" at English's;
"The Jest" at Keith'S; all comedy
bill at the Lyric; double movie bill
at the Ohio; 1.-THE Jazz Singer" at
the Apollo; Eddie Pardo at the Cir
Gle; Charlie Davis at the Indiana;
movies at the Colonial; my Best
Girl" at the Fountain Square;
Drums of Love" at the Palace, and,
burleSQue at the Mutual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-18
TEACH AUTO METHODS
Visiting Factories Part of Instruc-
ton in Many Schools.

AutomotIve manufacturing meth
DDS are forming part of the edu-
cational instruction in many
schools today. Where automobile
factories are available pupils are
taken to them to see how large fac
tories employ efficiency methods.
During the present season several
hundred pupils, both grade and
high school. have inspected Olds-
mobile factories at Lansing, Mich.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-18
TRYING TO FIND THE
BEST SHORT STORIES.
Edward j. O'Brien Makes His Selection of the Fifteen
Finest Short Stories That Have Ever Been
Given to the Reading Public.
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN.
NOR some time leaders

TOR some time leaders the literary trying
Il the best short
Now Edward OBrien annually
beet short stories of those
finest short stories
This
in New York under the article title